The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

god ddidianned. Willkun mamas:el to Lester Into keens-1
amnion to ems up for jaddatent whoa railed upon, the
Caudillo's being that, If be omitted the eremites within a
moth, lie would not be ode& upon.—the elefendast QM
be had paid his rent to Newton, who Wm a kind of a land-
lord between him and Greenwood. Who, therefore, wee be
to give possession to 7—Mr. Ballantine NM. to Mr. Grain-
wood, who would rink an action from Neal&

POLICE.—yasTuDAY. ;
WOll.l3lflP-ST BEBT.—Awoe it mous Ele•gisine.!—Mr.
N. Les, proprietor of the Esaridard Theatre, accompanied
by Mr. Heritage, his solicitor, and *sesta members of the
theatrical profession, sttended to request the assistance of
Mr. Hammftl. For nearly • twelvemonth last anonymous
letters, written in various disguised hands, and couched in
°been, and scurrilous language, had been addressed by post
to Mrs. Lee, and the principal members of the company. In
some of these a direct threat had been held out agaiest the
life of the principal tragedian, and also assailing the chief
actress of the establishment, whose character and conduct
were irreproachable, with infamous imputations. Not setts-
' fled with the penetration of this lady, her secret slanderer
had addressed letters to the principal of the flrm, L which
her father had held a responsible situation for thirty
years, stigmatising the latter as • returned trans-
port,' sad slandering the whole of his family. In; the
hope of stopping the annoyance, directions had been given
that no more of these letters should be taken in ; but this
precaution proved wholly futile, as the writer then sent them
under cover to various tradesmen in the neighbourhood, to
be forwarded to the persons to whom they were addressed.
Some of the female members of the company had been so
painfully affected by the imtutations cast upon them
that they had threatened to resign their situations. Many
of the subsequent letters threatened similar communicatiens
' teen the town and country rranagen, so ueffectuelly to pre-
elude them from obtaining other engsgementa.—Hr. Ham-
mitt inquired whether the applicant was aware if they had
emanated from &discharged servant or personal enemy of those
1 to whom the letters had been written t—hfr. Lee replied that
the whole of his company, who had been a long time in his ser-
vioe, were unconscious of having given the slightest offence to
Parsee, to render themselves the sbjects of such inveterate
mid persevering malignity.—Mr. Hammin expressed his re-
gret that he had no means of assisting the applicant until
be had succeeded in discovering the unknown author of
such a monstrous course of persecution, but assured them
that in that event, he should issue an immediate warrant fur
his apprehension, and deal with him with the utmost severity
of the law.
BBNEYOLINC3.—The following further donations have
been received by the magistrate for the relief of Mrs. Char-
lotte Thomson EL W. A," 61. ;" B. W.," 10s. ; Mrs.
Henry Forteseue, of Beckenham, IL ; Miss Campbell, of
Dewlish, 11. ; and • hitter of credit open Messrs Coutts, the
bankers, for 11., from "J. W.," one half to be applied to
Mrs. Thomson and the remainder for a poor widow, named
Margaret Ives. The following sums have also been con-
tributed for the poor-box :—The half of a Si. note, 28,818,
from ".1. It. ;" 21. per Messrs. Henke and Farquhar, from
"F. H.," and 31. from " A. J."
SOUTHWARK.—Dgergears Riot BY FEBALE
Pau-
pins.—Seven healthy-looking young females were charged
with threatening to murder the master of Bermondsey work-
loom—One of the Porten said that the prisoners had been
broeght.up from their infancy in that place. Th, y had been
placed in differeut situations, but so violent was their con-
duct, that no person would keep them. They were in fact
• terror to all the inmates, and everything had been done by
the guardians to reform them. On Sunday morning they
refused to attend divine service, and during its performance
they sang obscene songs, and used such horrible language as
to frighten the old infirm paupers in the next ward. After
the service the chaplain conversed with them, but they
treated him in a disgusting manner, which led the officer. to
lace them under restraint. That morning they were re-
lased, and in passing the lobby they brake two hundred
and fifty penes of elem. When remonstrated with,
three of them took from under their • germents
open knives, and flourishing them over their heads,
threatened to stab the master or murder any person that
dared attack them. Fortunately a police-eonstable was on
the spot, and with hie assistance they were all secured, and
the knives taken from the three ringleaders.—The prisoners
here exclaimed, in a riotous manner, "Yin, we will rip the
master open, if we get hung for it. He is a tyrant, and
ought to be murdered."---Mr. Cottiogham informed the
porter of the workhouse that it was a case of too serious a
nature for him to dispose of. He was in possession of no
power sufficient to restrain them. It was necessary that they
should be sent to • higher tribunal, where they would receive
such punishment as would render them seusiele et their
disgraceful behaviour. Ile (the worthy magistrate) directed
the porter to inform the guardians of his determination, and
request them to attend before him to-morrow, as he should
remand the prisoners for such attendance.

MONEY MARKET.

TUEIDAT EVZNING.

The funds have sustained a rather decided cheek to-
day in their upward progress. Consols opened some-
what weak at 88,1, but recovered to, and were done
at, 891 for moue)! and account, with apparently a
strong market The news subsequently published in
second editions of the morning papers of the insurrec-
tion in Sicily, and the growing spirit of discontent in
Paris with the government, shook the confidence of
speculators, however, who began to entertain mere
serious misgivings as to the result upon the general
peace of these coutiaued demoustratiots of oppressed
and deceived populations against the rulers by whom
so long misgoverned. Speculators for the fall took
courage proportionately, and Censols for time were
sold freely, so that prices were reduced to 881, leav-
ing off eventually 881 to fer account, and 881 to
for money. This is the first time for several days theta
continuation has been made between present transfer
and time. Reduced Threes, 881 ; Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 894. Exchequer Bills, 275. to 30s.
premium. India Bonds, 20s. to 235. premium. Bank
Stock, 198 to 200. India Stock, 237 to 9. Long
Annuities, 8 15-16 to 9.
The transactions in the foreign market were of
small importance, but prices on the whole were a
shade better. Brazilian were done at 83, quoted 81
to 83. Mexican, 18 to 1. Spaniah Fives, 201 to 1;
the Threes, 301 to 1. Portuguese, 253 to 61. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Ceuta., 531 to 41 ; the Fours,
831 to 1.
Foreign exchange was generally rather lower
to-day, except on Hamburg, the rates on which were
quoted higher. On Amsterdam, the negotiations were
12.41 to 51; on Rotterdam, 12.5 to 1 • on Antwi
26 to 26.5; on Hamburg, 13.141 to 151 on Frank-
fort, 123 to 1 ; on Paris, 25.90 to 95 ; on Vienna,
10.18 to 20 ; on Leghorn, 31.20 to 25 ; on Naples,
39 to 1 ; on Madrid, 461 to 1 ; all at 3 months. Oa
Lisbon, at 60 days, 511 to 1.
The Hamburg mail to-day with dates to the 22nd
inst advises of a fair market there for colonial pro-
ducts, which, however, was probably owing, in part
at least, to the near approach of the period when in-
ternal as well as external navigation would be im-
peded or closed by the ice. Exchange, remained
without material alteration ; bills on Amsterdatnecarce
and in demand; money easy. The failure of M. Krug,
a merchant at Lubeck, was reported, by which a
house at Altona would suffer some loss, but the affair
was altogether inconsiderable. Intelligence had just
been received at Hamburg of the stoppage of Messrs.
Ilelaunay of Havre, but it was nut supposed that the
trade of Hamburg would be much affected by the
event.
The creditors of Messrs. Plitt and Co. were to meet
at St. Petersburg on the 16th of this mouth, so that
within a few days, perhaps, more detailed accounts
may be received of the nature of the extraordinary
misappropriation of the funds of the Salamander Fire
Insurance Company, with which M. Plitt, one of the
directors authorised by the government, stands
charged to the enormous amount, as said, of 100,0001.
The creditors will then learn also how far it may be
correct that the government had seized, and meant to
appropriate, all the available assets to the discharge
of the claim of that company upon M. Plitt. The
liabilities of the house in the whole are stated at
300,0001. It is understood that a deceased broker, at
St. Petersburg, has been discovered to have been a
party to the malversatioue in the affairs of the insu-
rance company.
The ineeung of the creditors of Messrs. Von Haber
and Co. was appointed, it appears, for the 23rd inst.,
at Carlaruhe. The Baden Chambers were still in
deliberation as to the extent of the support to be ren-
dered to the industrial establishments of which that
house was the head.
The following statement, prepared and condensed
from multiplied official returns, will be found to pre-
sent an intelligible view of the note circulation of the
United Kingdom, and of the coin and bullion held by
the banks indicated, both positively at the date of the
accounts lest made up, and comparatively with re-
-- for corresponding periods.

turns
Thi, aggregate average note circulation of the
United Kingdom, according to the returns last collec-
tively completed for all the banks of issue, stood for
the four weeks ending Jan. 1, 1848, as follows : •1
Bank ot.ofFl. 611,936,781
Private ......... ..... 3,028.223 i
lota
Irian blahs 0,196,116
ketch banks 3,34019
Total eimulation or weekly average Z 32,132,01
&turas for the foar-werlamellag Dee. 4...
Derresee, Jas. 1 62,172,677
The decrease was thus composed:—Bank of Eng-
land lees by 1,318,508/. ; private banks less br
169,8271.; joint-stock banks leas by 166,5491. ; Irish
banks leas by 126,6251.; Scotch banks less by
391,1681.
The fixed issues of the private banks being now