The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

IF A OANO OF COINERS

.AT GLASGOW,

Far some time peg (says tie; North Bn'tials 3feil)
the shopkeepen throatiest alsegeot, but more portent eV
time to the eastern 'Wilkie, have ben very larch annoyed
by the immense nnisber et li.re tenet pleas that have got
tato eireelatim. 11te spurious coins, which ue teemed of a
mennation of bean, lead, and a small poetics oi copper, are
no Well earmuff that, but or the weight, and a alight tinge
of Armin's% shoal them, they are exceedingly difficult to
detect. Simpletons have, in conorquenee, bun entirtained
that there was an extortive tainuterture of them carried on
semtmhzre about Glasgow ; but, till Saturday Mat, the po-
lite remained in iguanas: of tits whereabows, The whole
circturistanms connected with the discovery and aprrehen•
aien of the mule. sin M rusher' ere somewhat curious.
About six o'clo7k en Saturlay aftersorm a cor.rtible,
votache I to the ellton district of polite. was passed, in
Si-,-street, by two ruths, who arp.ared actions to avoid
late trupion. Tisk demeanour emitted the snopieions of
the amble, who, at observing that one of the lads had
something apparently concealed is a baadk raster ender the
lap iof h hurri d after th..rn with the view of ov-r
haulms them. They, hostev.r, Moti.ing that they were
rum, t, tied, oue of them, in La anxiety to effect his escs;,,,
till-iv/mg away a sancta c stead In the handkerchief.
The c notable still tellowtd them, and, after a short rwo,

llPPreheader. the latter party ; but hie companion sue- tided,
fee the time being, in making his wipe. The contents of
the handkerchief were found to eltruit of a number et bad
petty pierce, as to wide], however, the fellow refit*. d to
give any ace,unt witivevir. The requisi's in urination
woe fortunately soon obteried from a different nutria.
The youth who node his cusps had been seen reusing
away by sumo chiPtec, rho followed his cove • and
having trued him to a house in East lieu-street, deltas,
Infouned the police there of whet they had seen, and when
the legitive had taken refuge. }toeing been conducted to
the house whisk the lad seared, the policeman demanded
admittance, bet wee refused. Teo ft,SiVand of a party of
constables wawa obtained ; and attempts again nr.de to
get into the domicile ; bat they were steadily resisted—the
parties inside very coolly informing the pol.ce, in answer to
their demand for admittance, that they would be the death
of any Coe that dared to CIVIS the threshold. TM SI threats
the inmates eadeavoured to give a col.ur to, be burning on
the d tor a smell quantity of loos gurpowder. This bluster
however, had no effer. on the police, who intimated to those
Wale dist, it the doer was nut instantly opened it
would be toned. bush erreurdinary proceedings could
net take plea without occasioning some eacitement in
the n' iehbour-owl. The report that a gene of cousin had
been thie,vered soon spread, and the s;reet in a short time
bream. alorut imp Inaba from the crowd that had gathered
to watch the proccAings. Entreaty sad warning haring
had no effect tit on the parties inside, whoa object in
refusing admittance to the pollee was truly tioujeetered to be
from • rewire to gain time tor the destruction o: all the kw
plemeots of their uolawled occupation, It wee at length se-
solved to I the the door, which was accomplished without
lea .eb ‘...lleulty. The ',dice Bushed in, but found the inme..es
fully prepared far them, one with an ase, another with a
heavy hemmer, and a third with a poker; anti the females
of the party! of whom these were two, elk wielding lethal
weapon.. Nee were their Weals of resistance idle. N)
'Omar hat one of the coutablee watered the apartment than
a stroke was aimed at him wi.h the axe, whim took partial
effect on his forehead, and might have Millard mortal in-
jury, bat that the deareedieg blow was to some extent ate:-
eepted by a sewed officer, who observed the dagger in time.
Another of the police wee also struck with the hammer; and
the resistance might have bees effectual, bed nut the con-
stable., drawly their heavy batons, need them with Guth
vigour, that Ake coiner. were goon overpowered, though
set before one sad all of them had been severely pousished.
• number of the citizens al-o took part in the struggle,
and lent efficient assistance to the polite. On the bola,
being searched, there was 1021211 a considerabie number
of spurious penny pieces, epparentiv fresh out of the
Isosid, bet the gang had unproved the brief interval
daring width the police were kept ou side, by deetrepag
as well as they could the mould, 1i;,,, and metal employed
in the nefarious process. Enough, however, remain.,
irrespective of the coins themselves, to prove clearly the
nature of the operation is which the inmates bad bees
engaged wheedle:peered. Tsars were found the fregueents of
the would, beet is a large sae of the composition metal
employed in the formulas el the spurious smogs. Esti.
mating the peonies that WIMP pet at the et indeed mane, they
amounted to It 9. Idd , besides about two shilling: worth
afterwaads found in the house of one of the female prilollen.
The whole parties were then conveyed to the Calton !'chee-
ses, escorted by en imnieume crowd, who minded moot
unionism:ally their delight at the capture of such a gang
of determined aiictieete. That their operations have
bees earned on to the onions lois of litany patties in
tessiams, is evident from the ciscumstana that one shop.
keeper alone in Calton has more than thirty ahilhnea
weak of bad pennies on his hoods, which lave recently
lime Into his puteession in the Mal of trade. The whole
of the prisoners impiie.ted belong to Belfast, from which,
set away wake lace, one of the females arrived. The
head of he *sag is en elderly man, named M'Ewao.
This individual m:de a most, desperate resistance to the
coven, and even after he was overpowered, eintinaal to
keel sad etrugg's as beg u he could. Another of the
party is a son of the preceding; and they all appear to
be related to each other throll,h intermarrime. It is a
fortuaate matter that the retreat of the lawsuits hea been
sliscovered, for their operations appear to have bete con-
ducted with great skill and stersiy. They will be remitted
to the shear.

CULTIVATION Of FuilN 1111 HIGHLAND..—
.pie ponaltial board of Urepiltaet appointed a irounittee for
the poen of considering the eapedsecey sad prasticability
al latrataetag the caPivatioa aad atasalacture of hinap sad
lu, sad other subjects of industrial eiap:oyaseat for the
people et Oles•lftqatuirt sad Olearaoristos. They have
merged feuarably upoa the whim% stating that they ue
foiled that the soil sad disuse of the diarist an
piea-
bey wall Warted to assasotal seldvaiisa aflasop