The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-20 00:00:00

THE EXPR7iSS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1847.

POLICE.-YESTERDAL

GUILDHALL.—ROBBEUY AND ALLEGED FORGERY.—
Joseph Alexander was charged with felony. The cue was
heard on Wednesday, when there being evidence only to re-
mand the prisoner, it was thought advisable not to publish
(for the sake of the enda of justice) what took place on that
day. The prisoner was a teacher of languages, and was en-
gaged to instruct a Mr. Samuel Alexander in one of them,
but in consequence of missing various sums of money when
he visited him four half-crowns were placed on the mantel-
iece marked, and Mr. Alexander (the prosecutor) having
left the room for about 10 minutes found that the prisoner
bad left, and one of the marked half-crowns bad been taken
from the mantel-piece. He followed the prisoner, and in
Chiswellstreet gave him into custody. When the policeman
asked him if he had half-a-crown about him ho replied in the
negative, but on being searched the missing half-crown wan
found in his pocket.On being broughtbefore Sir P. Laurie he
stoutllenied the accusation and asserted that the prosecutor
owed him 81. This the prosecutor on his oath denied; sad
other witnesses being examiaed, Sir Peter Laurie was
about to send them before the Chief Rabbi, when the
constable intimated that it was possible the prisoner might be
connected with the forgery committed on Messrs. Fuller's
Bank at the latter end of last year, and for which, a person
named Keep was now awaiting his trial at the Old Bailey,
and in whose pocket wee found,' banking-book, which had
been obtained from Smith and Payne's, about two hours
before his (Scrip's) apprehension by means of a forged order.
The prisoner with the greatest vehemence protested
his innocence, saying that it was through a con-
spiracy of the Jews that he was placed in his present
position ; but on being questioned by Sir Peter
Laurie, he at last admitted that he had been
in the receipt of money from the Polish Refugee Society ;
that he had been in 1838 committed to Newgate by Sir P.
Laurie to take his trial for some deception which he had
practised towards a female, but he declined to answer any
question respecting any indictment that was or might he
instituted against him. lie was then remanded.—Mr.
Clarkson now attended to preeecute in Mr. Samuel Alex-
ander's case, but said that as be understood there were more
serious charges against the prisoner he would not pro-
end at present unless the Alderman thought it ne-
cessary.—Alderman Hunter thought it would be better
to take sufficient evidence to justify • remand re-
specting thou suspicions to which Mr. Clarkson had
alluded. Police-constable Edwards, 139, was then examined
and stated that on the 6th of last month the prisoner gave
him information respecting a man named Nicholu Keep,
who was committed from that evert, charged with commit-
ting a forgery on Messrs. Fuller's, the bankers in Moorgate-
street, for 5001. He at first beckoned him, and instantly Kerp
ran away from him. The prisoner said, " Run after him and
take him." Witness ran and stopped Kerp. The prisoner
came up with a tall man, whose name he believed to be
Brown. and said, " I give these two into custody for forgery
upon Mr. Fuller's, and Meson. Smith and Payne's banks."
He (the prisoner) said to the two men, " I have got you
now; I have been looking for you a long time—for
these three months past; and now I will stick to you."
Witness took them towards the station-house. While going
along, the prisoner and the tall man conversed together as far
as Coleman-street in a foreign language, when the latter sud-
denly said, " he has got no charge against me," and Alexan-
der (the prisoner) also said, " I have no charge against him."
Witness requested them to accompany him to the station,
which the tall man consented to do, but on the way than
managed to decamp. On their arrival at the station*,
charge was refused to be taken, unless the prisoner dated
specifically the nature of the charge, which he would not
until all parties went to Messrs. Fuller's, and then he gave
such particular information respecting the forgery for the
5001., that it resulted in Kerp's committal for trial.
From information he (the policeman) had, he had no doubt,
if time were given, he should have sufficient evidence to im-
plicate the prisoner in several forgeries.—Alderman Hunter
then remanded the prisoner for a week.—A placard was
afterwards shown, by. which it appeared that 201. reward
was offered for the prisoner's apprehension and conviction,
for being concerned in some robbery of law papers. In that
poster he was described as going ender the names of Joseph
Jacobi, Joseph Yacoboski, Itaki Haight, Joseph Brown, and
Abram Itehi. It also appeared that he had suffered six
months imprisonment for stealing • watch five years ago;
that he was placed in the pillory at Guernsey for forgery,
and had been several time* in Newgate.

MARLBOROUGH•STRT.PiATE Rosseat.

William Key was charged with haring stolen a quantity of
plate from the residence of Charles fdillett, Req., of No. 12„
Upper Brook-street. James Holmes, the butler, said he had
jest come down from family prayers, and on going into the
pantry he caught the prisoner in the act of placing some
articles of plate in his soot-bag. Witness immediately
malard him, and a police constable being called in he was given
late custody. In the prisoners's waistcoat pocket several silver '
spoons were found. In his rot bag were found a silver tea-pot,
milk jug, tea-spoons, decanter stands, and a waiter. On the
floor were a dozen of silver forks. The prisoner had made
his way into the house by the area, breaking a pane of glass
in the kitchen door, and through the aperture removing the
bolts. He was fully committed.
MARYLEBONE.--Faten CXEQUES.—Richard Graves
and James Green were reexamined, charged with having
obtained goods and money from tradesmen by means of false
cheques. flume particulars connected with the cede have al-
Tory appeared, and it will be remembered that venoms trades-
men had been doped to a considerable extent, owing to their
having 'old goods to Graves, who paid for the Caine with
worthlees cheques, and received the difference in cash.
Policeman Thompson, through whose exertions the prisoners
were captured, now brought forward evidence of a most
conclusive nature, with regard to the cheques being in the
handwritig of the prisoner Green. It was also shown that
goods purchased by means of the false cheques alluded to
had bsen pawned by Graves shortly after they were obtained.
The prisoners were, upon several charges, sent for trial.
LAMBETH. ALLEGED ASSAULT ON • SNERIFes
OFFICER TWo YEARS Aoo.—Mr. Paid Rogers, artist, was
charted with cutting and wounding Henry Joseph Spicer,
upwards of two years ago, for which offence he stands in-
dicted at the Old Bailey. The prisoner surrendered himself
at this court on Thursday evening, when he declared to Mr.
Norton, that the charge preferred against him was grossly
untrue, and the result of a conspiracy to destroy him-
self and his family. Two of his sons he said had been ay).
prebended and tried upen the same indictment; but he
being deprived of the evidence of his sons, and not having
the means at the time of feting counsel to defend him, kept
out of the way rather than risk the consequences. Being
thus unable to go amongst his friends and patrons, be was
compelled to pledge his paintings for a nominal aunt, or else
force their sale amongst persons totally incapable of appreci-
ating their value, so that what be got for his labours
was quite insufficient to maintain himself and his family,
Beatles thia,'hia continued confinement in his painting room.
and the dread of getting into the open air, lest he should be
apprehended when ill-prepared to meet the charge, had
such an effect upon his health and spirits as to nearly unfit
him for doing anything, and his family being af that moment
in the most abject state of distress, and actually wanting the
common necessaries of life, he had made up his mind to
surrender his own person and meet the charge, in the hope
that something might be done for his family. Mr. Norton
told him that upon his own confession he stood indicted
upon a criminal charge ; he was bound to detain him, and
directed that he should he kept in custody at the station
during the night. He (Mr. Norton,) also directed one of the
summoning officers to go at once to his residence, and if he
found the fa.nily in the state the prisoner had described, at
once to relieve them. Yesterday, the prosecutor, Henry
Joseph Spicer, who described himself as a broker, residing at
Chelsea, attended, and upon being sworn, depordthr about
two years ago he received instructions from the landlord of the
prisoner to levy an execution on his goods for three years' rent,
and having sent his man to ring at the door one morning, at
eight o'clock, it was opened by the prisoner, and he got in.
He told the prisoner what he came for, and requested him
to see and settle with the landlord, but himself and his sons
endeavoured to push hint out. His man by this time came
to his assistance, and was pushing him into the house when
one of the prisoner's sons struck him with a bludgeon and
knocked him down senseless. The prisoner and his eons
thee set about maltreating him, and while he was standing
at one of the front room windows calling out murder, one
of the sons called to some person down stairs to bring up the
Turkish knife. A younger son brought a knife with a long
blade, sharp at the point, but the pfisoner said. " Oh, you
must not use that; give it to me," and the knife was not
used in any way. While he was making his way down
Rafe, however, the prisoner struck him a desperate blow
with a Mick, which felled him to the floor, and this was the
last time he recollected seeing him. On his (witness) re-
covering from the severe effects of the last blow, be begged
for mercy from the sons, but one of them struck him
with an iron bar, and threw him over a wall into the
garden adjoining, where he lay insensible for a length
of time. He subsequently made application to Hammersmith
police court, and obtained warrants against the prisoner and
his two sons, and the two latter, having been lately tried at
' the Old Bailey. were sentenced to two months' imprison-
, ment each ..The prisoner declared that the statement of
• Spicer was a falsehood, but he knew at the same time that the
magistrate could not do less than commit him to be tried on
the indictment, a copy of which had bean produced —l3s
was remanded to a future day.—Saunders, the officer, said
be bad visited the prisoner's family on the night before, r
directed, and found them in the greatest possible want in a
• far as clothing and the necessaries of life were concerned.
Their landlady, to whom they owed 241. for furnished
' lodgings, was present, and the prisoner's wife would also
have attended-but she had not milicient clothes to appear in.
—The landlady here stood forward, and said she had ob-
' served nothing objectionable in their conduct, but they were
truly unfortunate, and she could not find it in her beast to
turn them out.—Mr. Norton lauded her humanity, sad gave
her a sovereign to supply their immediate and main
aemenities.

MONEY MARKET.
. FRIDAY Byname.

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The extraordinary intelligence of a money transac-
tion between the Russian government and the Bank of
France, in which the Autocrat appeared for the Brat time in
the character of a money-,ender, having always hitherto
been a money borrower, made a sensation, as might natu-
rally be expected, on the stock exchange. Consols, already
in the course of improvement yesterday, advanced soon after
bonnets opened to t9l for account, which was equal to 1 per

cent. advance upon the averages of the rates yesterday.
They fluctuated subsequently as sellers came forward tempted
to realise profits on lower priced purchases, and as specula-
tors for the fall again resumed courage to operate. The
latter had been so alarmed previously by the unexpected
I rise, and the appanntly. vigorous tone of the market, that in
the haste to buy in their open accounts, and guard against •
call for delivery of stock not held, and when wanted not to
be bad without a great sacrifice of price. Still, they contri-
buted in no smell degree to raise the market against them-
selves. At the close of business, the sales, however, pre-
vailed to such an extent as to depress consols to 89 to 1
for money, and 891 to 1 for account, which were etill an im-
provement equal to I per cent. on the last advanced prices
of yesterday, after the regular hours of business had
closed. The market may be reported therefore as upon
the whole in a better state, or, it may be, in pro-
gress Consols scrip was 4 discount to par. Exchequer
bills were Is. to se. premium. India bonds, 61, to 7.. pre-
mium. Long Annuities 9 to 9 1-16 ex-dividend. Some
bargains were done in Theer cents. from 891 to
dend for the opening. Bank broker sold about 20,0001.
more stock on account of the savings banks. We hays an
improvement in the quotations of some of the foreign stocks,
but with transactions es rare sa ever. Spanish Fives were
called nominally better at 23 to 4 ; the Threes, at 341 to 1.
Portuguese at 33 to 5. Mexican at 211 to 2. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. were really better atthe
Fours at 914 to 2, because business could be done at those
prices to a fair amount.
Foreign exchange was generally higher to-day. On Am-
sterdam the rates wrei 12.2 to 21; on Rotterdam, 12.21 to
1; on Antwerp, 26.70 to 75 • on Hamburg, 13.9 to 4 ; on
Frankfort, 1201 to I ; on Paris, 26.65 to 70 ; on Vienna, 10
to 10.1 • on Leghorn, 30.10 to 124: on N aples, 401 to 1 ;
on Madrid, 361 to 1--all at three months. On Lisbon, at
60 days, 534.
The speculations about the money and stock
transaction betwixt the Russian government and
the Bank of France have been as various as might
be expected in the case of so singular an event. As
the case i s put in the Mortitsisr Partstert, the Emperor of
Russia appears personally in the character of a money.
lender, putting out his surplus funds at usance. But sa
honesty, like charity, should begin at home, and imperial
like private persons should pay their own debts before they
undertake to accommodate their neighbours, the natural
inquiry is why the autocratic debtor should prefer to lay
out money abroad, returning lee than 4 per cent, intermit,
when he could have been better employed in buying up
his own bond debts at home or elsewhere, upon which he is
bound to pay 5 per cent. interest at east on average, as
computed from the terms on which those debts were coa-
-1 traded.
Political objects are attributed to this extraordinary
operation, and it is by no means improbable that they may
be no stringers to it. It has, however, been assumed, and
commercial calculations have been brought in proof, tbatthe
great objects in view were to enable the Bank of France to
Provide for its debt of forty millions of francs to the Bank of
England, when arriving at maturity, through a proems
which should at the same time enable the commerce of En-
gland to balance its account of direct exchanges with Russia,
which, as is well known, if balanced directly must 'lwo,a
require a large export from hence of metallic values. The
assumption is, that these adverse exchanges are, and
have usually been balanced in this direct course.
The assumption is altogether fallacious. They have
been balanced indirectly, in various ways, such as
by imports into Russia (Amman, coffees, and other colonial
products, in British shipping from the places of growth, to
sa y nothing of British trade with the coasts of the Black Ses,
which are the highways of communication with Persia, dos
So that, in fact, upon balance, it is quite probable that as
much gold has come here from Russia, if not more, than has
been sent from hence to Russia. Could the figures be given
for the last ten years, the balance of gold paid and received
would probably be in favour of this country.
It may be that the Russian government, with gold in
store, may not only
.have desired from political motives,
to conciliate opinion in France, but also may have been
moved to the investment in question by the very
heavy loss sustained through the failure of the late
house of Harman and Co., for so many years its London
banking agents. The loss by that failure is understood to
have been about 400,0001., the whole of which arose out of
remittances of gold consigned from Russia to the care of the
house, subject to draft, or order, or for sale. The disgust
occasioned by this loss may not impossibly have induced the
Emperor of Russia to become his own banker, and to place
his funds in securities which, besides that they wary interest,
are always realisable at will with more or less of lees or pro-
fit. We must wait for further explanations, and more cir-
cumstantial details however, before any decisive opinion can
be formed of the more precise nature and objects of this
ransaction. _ .

BAWL OP /1149LAND.-leceere be the Week balm M. IL
Notee bated sst4T.: Par

01,718M°

rnpritton• costal
Met 3,M1,211
PaWk Depaits(incledlag
EXClelplft, Pa e. Bank.,
C944.7lssionersofltat9l.
Debt, albd Div. Minnow 11,716,161
04114, Deposits 9,131,117
11eve54•7•94 oilier Bale 791,461

Govemeset Debt 511011,101
Other Retwithee
Gerd Coin atd Bulb=
Silver Bullion
I L 24,7.6.146

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GaternucatSeemities(Sa
elating Dead W•lght
Ane.ity) 211,14,0711
Otter Beeitritke
Notes
Gold sad River Coln 441,14

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(Rawls for Aoct .1161 I IP 11
Greeds .trir.l pm *3 Aka pm
its. BUM. 1.0001..16..1 I 6
Ditto, LOOO, 3 6
Ditto, Small, 1 1 1 pm.
FUNDS.
11 per Orst. Belgian lama, EL. II
Ina. 31
31 per Coot. DattA Bzebaag• 13
DAD., 634
I per Oent. Dutch Oettaißates,
STOCKS ABROAD.
Per Accent.