The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-08 00:00:00

POLICE: SATURDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.—FORGEBY or ♦ DIVIDENT) 'WAR.
RANT.—G. PAipps wu re.examined charged with forging a
dividend warrant on the Bank of England. The former evi-
dence having been read over, the prisoner wu committed for
trial.

WORSHIP.STREET.—PAsetwo A tannin CHEQUE.
—C. Nicholson, a genteel•looking young man, was charged
with attempting to pass a stolen cheque. On the 21st of
August last, a Mr. Hazeltine, engineer, Stratford, Essex,
drew a cheque for 71. to. oa Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Co.,
Lombard street, in favour of a Mr. Welt West passed the
cheque to a third party, who trauferred it to a publican
named Crittenden. Crittenden's house was broken open the
same night, and amongst other things the cheque in question
was abstracted. Payment was stopped at the bank, and the
cheque wu presented on the afternoon of Friday, the sth
inst., when the prisoner who presented it was given into
custody. Ha was remanded till Thursday neat.

CLEHICENWELL.—A DANGEROUS WIFE.—E. For-
rester was charged with threatening to murder her husband
and children.—The complainant stated that his business as
a hawker occasionally kept him from home several days, and
in his absence his children were deprived, not only of food,
but of their clothes; the latter articles being invariably
pawned or sold by her to obtain drink. On the previous
evening hie landlord put him on his guard, telling him that
his wife wu threatening to " finish" him that night. He
entered his abode between 12 and 1 o'clock at night, and
was instantly attacked by the defendant, who, after uttering
some infamous language, drew from her pocket a sharp-
pointed knife, and plunged it at him. He stepped asise,
thereby avoiding her aim, and seized her arms from behind.
A fortnight before, she said she would put three inches of
steel into him. She once set fire to his bed while he was
asleep, and he was then saved by his child, who saw her do
it; and very recently one of his children warned him not
to go to sleep, as his wife had a knife in bed with her.—Mr.
Tyrwhitt held her to bail for three months.
Ma. LIORRY, visa BARRDITHR, came before Mr. Tyrwhitt
in reference to a charge preferred against H. M. Flannigan
for having, as was alleged, obtained 10s. 6d. from a Mrs.
Denny to fee counsel to advocate her son.—The substance
of Mr. Horry's address was, that he WAS in attendance in
another court, and on his arrival at the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell-green, it was intimated to him that the woman
Denny's son required counsel, but beyond that be had re-
ceived no fee and no instruction, and, consequently, was nut
in a position to defend the prisoner. His name was mixed
up in the examination of Flannigan, and he was therefore
anxious to give this explanation to the magistrate.—Mr.
Tyrwhitt said there was no imputation cast on the learned
gentleman. The charge in question he heard, and found
that he could not interfere, therefore be recommended Mrs.
Denny to apply for a remedy to the County Court.
WESTMINSTER.—THE MURDER AND ROBBERY OF
MR. IS IBLLCUAMBIIIO.—G. M'ltiOy and T. Doyle were re-ex-
amined charged with being concerned in the robbery and
murder of Mr. Bellehamhers, on the I lth of October.—Mr.
Burrell said I understand this case is in the same state as it
was on the former examination. There are reasons still
why a further remand should take place without going into
the case. I conceive lam fully justified in that course. I
have evidence already taken sufficient for strong suspicion on
the prisoners. I have it also upon oath that there will be
further evidence given which will render it necessary to
commit the prisoners eventually for trial, and there are im-
portant reasons why that evidence should not be given at
present. The next sessions of the Central Criminal Court do
not commence until the 22nd inst., and, therefore, if the
prisoners are to be committed for trial, it becomes merely a
question now as to which prison they are to be committed
to. I therefore remand tae prisoners till Thursday next.—
Mr. Sinus (for Doyle) :said It is my anxious wish that
everything should be done to further the ends of justice, and,
confiding in the innocence of Doyle, I make no objection to
the remand.

SOUTH W A RK.—CHARGE OF FR VDCLENTLY OTITAIN-
ING Hors.—J. Chittenden, was finally examined. charged
with obtaining seven pockets of hops, valued at 33/., from
Mr. Robert Collins, hop-factor; and also with forging a
delivery order for the same.—Mr. Collins said that he had
known the prisoner some years as a commercial traveller,
and on the ith October he came to him, and told him he had
a customer for some hops. mentioning Messrs. Haynes and
Co. as the purchasers. Witness, knowing them, gave him
samples, and on the oth be returned, saying that those gentle-
men would purchase seven pockets at a certain price, to be
paid in a month. The hops were lying at a wharf at Pad-
dington, and prosecutor gave him an order for seven pockets
to be delivered to Messrs. Haynes and Co. Ile had since
ascertained that the prisoner had no order, from those gen-
tlemen, and that be had forged their name at the back of
the delivery order and obtained the hops, which he had else-
where disposed of.— hlr. Nash, the w har finger at Paddington,
said that he delivered the hops to a carman filmed Bailey, at
the order of Mr. Collins, backed by the signature of Messrs.
Haynes, who said they never bad any transaction with the
prisoner, except in purchasing one pocket of hops, which
was paid for on delivery.—Mr. Bailey, carman, said that the
prisoner hired him to remove seven pockets of haps from the
wharf at Paddington. He received the order now produced
from the prisoner. After he had received the hops one
pocket was taken to Messrs. Haynes, two to Bovill's ware-
house, and the remainder to the warehouse belonging to
the South-Eastern Railway Company.—The hops were all
found at the places described, and identified by Mr. Collins
and Mr. Nash, when the magistrate committed the prisoner
for trial. _ .

" Ositr A LARK."—W. IV Miami, a costermonger, was
charged with cruelty to a cat, by tying fireworks on its tail
and body, and throwing it into the shop of Mr. Peckstock,
chemist, of Bond-street, Bermondsey. Mr. Peckstock said
that on the previous evening he heard loud reports of fire-
works in his front shop, which was soon filled with smoke,
and on going in he found a cat running about with fire-
works attached to all parts of its body. When the fireworks
were extinguished the poor animal sass in a frightful state,
the whole of the hair being burnt off the body. The danger
was very great, as had he not been in the place the whole of
his shop must have been consumed, from the combustible
matter of which the drugs were composed. He heard the
prisoner say " Give me the cat, and I will chuck it in," and
in a minute afterwards the animal was thrown into the shop
all on fire. Witness had been warned on the previous day
that the prisoner and his associates intended to " throw the
devil" into his shop. The prisoner owned being
.on the
spot and laughing, but denied having thrown the animal in.
Two lads said the prisoner did not throw the cat into the
shop. A boy named Hopkins tied the crackers to the cat
and lighted them at a greengrocer's close by, and the cat ran
into the shop.—Prisoner: It was only done; for • lark, in
commemoration of Guy Fawkes day.—Mr. Becker said it
was a very dangerous lark, and one which would be visited
by a heavy punishment on the offenders. lie should adjourn
the case until Thursday.
THAMES.—ROBBEXT ON A RAILWAY. J. Wiggins, a
labourer, wee charged with stealing 7.51b5. of grease, the pro.
perty of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. The
previous morning the prisoner was met a short distance from
the North Woolwich Railway by a man named Hillary, with
whom he was acquainted, and he informed him that he bad
been taking the fat from the carriages on the line, and con-
cealed it among the reeds in the Plaistow marshes. He pro-
posed to Hillary to divide the spoil, but he would have
nothing to do with the transaction, and the prisoner then
left him, went among the reeds, and deposited a quantity of
fat in • bag. Soon after, Hillary met a police-constable, and
communicated to him what he had heard and seen. The
constable went in pursuit of the prisoner, and saw him with
a bag on his shoulders. He followed him to Robin Hood-
lane, Poplar, and saw h:m enter the shop of • marine store
dealer. The constable followed after him, and saw him about
to place a bag containing fat in a scale. The policeman asked
him where he obtained it, and, after many evasive answers,
he said he picked it up among the reeds in the marshes.—
Mr. Owen, a storekeeper, employed on the Eastern Coua-
tics Railway, said the fat had been removed from the boxes
over the axles of 49 carriages and trucks on the North Wool-
wich line, on Friday night. The fat used for lubricating the
axle-trees of trucks and carriages was precisely similar to that
taken from the prisoner.—lt. Rogers stated that he greased
49 carriages and trucks on Friday night, and on the follow-
ing morning he discovered that the whole of it had been
scraped out of the boxes. The removal of the fat when the
axles became hot might have been productive of serious mis-
chief —The prisoner, in defence, said he found the whole of
the fat among the reeds.—Mr. Ballantine committed him for
trial.
WOOLWICH.—Tree Murixit Act.—Considerable diffi-
culty has arisen in the administration of justice at the
various police-courts, but mote particularly that of Wool-
wich, in consequence of the occurrence of a clause in the
Mutiny Act which provides that no " soldier shall be taken
away from his duty, by virtue of any warrant of any magis-
trate, for the non-support of his wife or children." In a
large garrison town like Woolwich summonses are continu-
ally heard against soldiers for the non-support of their ille-
gitimate children, and in nearly every case, although an order
is made, the men refuse to pay, under the knowledge that no
subsequent steps can be taken against them. A case re-
cently occurred at this office, which shows how completely
the magistrates are paralysed in their attempts to discharge
their duty by the operation of this clause. A gunner of the
Royal Artillery, named George Thompson, was summoned
for the non-maintenance of his illegitimate child, and an order
for the payment of 2s. 6d. a week was made by Mr. Traill.
The soldier declared that he would not pay the amount, and
defied the magistrate to compel hiss to pay, or to commit
him to prison. Mr. Traill made a representation of the facts
to his commanding officer, and on Thursday a serjeant waited
upon the magistrate, to inform him that the commanding
officir had sent for the man, and advised him to comply with
the order, which, however, he refused to do. Mr. Trail
expressed his opinion that it was unmanly on the part of a
soldier to avail himself of a legal quibble to evade an obliga-
tion of this kind ; but if he did not comply with the order,
he should represent the case t. the War-office authorities,
with the view of requesting their interference to compel the
men to comply with these orders. A very considerable ad-
dition is made to the poor rates of Woolwich, in consequence
of the burdens thus entailed upon the parish.

MONEY MARKET.

SAT VEDAT EVENING.

The funds may be said to have gone all one way
to-day. From the opening of the market until the
close the rise was gradual and almost unin-
terrupted. The first business in Consols was done
at 834 money, and tki!, time. The highest prices
realised during the day were 834 money, and 83.,1
time. The closing prices were 831 to money, and
831 to time. It was altogether, therefore, a fair
weather day for the funds, and for parties acting upon
opinions in favour of a rise in values. It would,
however, be something singular if no reverses should
arrive to disturb this smooth course of affairs. The
transactions, although not so active or extensive
as on some previous occasions in the week, were
nevertheless sufficiently important The steady rise
in prices was doubtless materially promoted by the
known improvement in general money affairs,
if not in some small degree in commercial also,
and by the ascertained incorrectness of those reports
respecting riotous disturbances in Liverpool and Man-
chester which were so freely circulated yesterday.
Reduced Threes were 82 to Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 834 to Exchequer Bills, 16e. to 12s.
premium. Bank Stock, 185 to 7. India Stock, 228
to 230. Long Annuities, 81 to India Bonds, 235.
to 20s. discount. _ _

Some business was done in foreign stocks, bat it
amounted to little more than isolated bargains in
some of them. Mexican were done at 15i, and were
called sellers at 16. The low position of this stock is
attracting attention, and complaints aro making by

the bend fide holders of the conduct of the agents act-
ing here for the contractors or coneoetore of the last
equivocal loan conversion, in not distributing the
funds in hand, or placing them in the Bank of Eng-
land. The subject, however, cannot be entered upon
here conveniently, but on a future occasion will be
referred to. Meantime it will behove the Spanish
American committee to remember the mission with
which they are invested, and the duties they have to
discharge towards their constituency.
Brazilian were called 76 to 8. Russian, 104 to G.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 to 4 ; the
Fours, 81} to 23. Belgian, 88 to 9. A bargain in
French Five per Cent. Rentes was done at 115 f. 25c.,
at exchange 25f. 80c. Spanish Fives, 161 to ;
the Threes, 273 to 8. Portuguese, 20 to 2.
The commercial accounts from Manchester and the
' neighbourhood do not come favourable this morning.
Failures were gaining among the smaller class of
cotton spinners and manufacturers. The stoppage
announced yesterday of the great spinning and manu-
facturing concern of Messrs. Moreland and Co., of
Stockport and Manchester, can scarcely fail, even if
they speedily resume, their assets being deemed more
than ample, to occasion much loss and inconvenience
to numerous parties, and still more to prejudice gene-
ral credit. Besides his large spinning and power
loom mills at Stockport, Mr. Marslaad is understood
to be the proprietor of the water works for supply.
ing that town with water, in the construction of which
a considerable capital was expended, and is said to
have been rewarded with a handsome income. It
must therefore constitnte a valuable item of property,
although in these times not readily to be made avail-
able for raising funds upon.
It will be seen, by our report of a meeting at the
Royal Bank of Liverpool, on Saturday, that that bank
is to resume. Of the preference shares, 500 were
subscribed for within an hour. Our report of the
currency meeting at Birmingham will also be read
with interest

From St. Petersburg, on the 22nd ult., it is stated
that, with the authorisation of the emperor, the value
of 8,678,369 silver roubles, as well in gold coin as in
silver bars, was transported on the 19th into the
reserve vaults of the fortress St. Peter and Paul, being
the amount accumulated in the vaults of the despatch
office of imperial credit notes. Tke funds (metallic)
of the credit notes of the empire actually deposited in
the castle vaults of St. Peter and Paul amounted, com-
prising the capital above-mentioned as carried there,
to the value of 115,678,593 silver roubles, say in ster-
ling 18,074,8301.
It was reported at Frankfort on the 2nd inst. that
two commissioners had arrived there on a mission to
negotiate a loan for three millions of francs with the
house of Rothschild, in the name of the Swiss diet.
Little credit was, however, attached to the rumour.
The Rothschilds must have more than one solid reason
for declining such a negotiation. The management
of the forthcoming French loan for ten millions titer-
ling, supposing it adjudicated to the combined list of
which they shall be the head, with the Austrian loan
of last year still undispoaed of by the co-operating
contracting capitalists, and not yet all paid up, must
alone find them and others sufficient employment,
both of funds and time, in the present difficult cir-
cumstances of money and commercial affairs, A ith the
derangement of credit here, and more or less so every-
where else.

The following statement, prepared and condensed
from various official returns, will be found to present
an intelligible view of the note circulation of the
United Kingdom, and of the coin end bullion held by
the banks indicated, both positively at the date of the
accounts last made up, and comparatively with returns
for corresponding periods.
The aggregate average note circulation of the
United Kingdom, according to the returns last col-
lectively completed for all the banks of issue, stood,
for the four weeks ending the 9th of October, as
follows :

Bank of England C18,340,a32
l'rivate Banks 4,331,728
Joint Stock

tre U.nks

1E333:613

Scotch Bake 1,939,976
Total circulation on weekly acersge
Id. for the four 'reeks coda* Sept. 11
Increase Oct. 9 £9l3• 313

The increase was thus composed. For the Bank of
England 238,244/. For the private banks, 132,5201.
For the joint stock banks, 13:3,013/. For the Irish
banks, 307,303/. For the Scotch banks, 62,431.
The fixed issues of the private banks being
4.909,4441., it follows they were below the amount
667,716/.

The fixed issues of the joint stock banks being
3,418,2711., it follows they were below the amount
310,980!.
The fixed issues of the Irish banks being 6,351,1941.,
it follows they were below the amount 998,8811., with
specie in hand to cover issues for 1,517,7121. more.
The fixed issues of the Scotch banks being
3,837,2091., it follows they were above the amount
472,7871., but with coin in hand to cover the excess,
and 636,061/. beyond.
The average of coin and bullion held by the Bank
of England during the four weeks ending the 9th ult.
was 8,639,3121.; decrease on the returns of Sept. 11,
404,014/.

The average of specie held by the Irish banks
during the same term was 1,317,712/.; decrease on the
September return 14,5101.
The average of specie held by the Scotch banks
during the same term was 1,108,828!. ; increase on
the September return 11,0421.
The returns of the Abingdon Bank of Knapp and
Co., and the lloniton Bank of Flood and Co., are
omitted in the returns of circulation for the week
ending October 9.
The yearly comparison shows the following differ-
ences in the circulation :

Bank of England, I. 191,912,063
Private banks, WY .... 333,137
Joint Stock, lola
Irish banks, len
Scotch tunls, Its

TAM circulation on nverer. Oet. 9,1947
The coin and bullion yearly comparison stands
thus:

II ink of England, lcPc 67,3278 I
Scotch and Iri,.h hanks 726,G;0
TRIM coin and bullion, Oct. 9,1647
From this exhibit it results that the note circula-
tion o' the United Kingdom bad suffered s diminu-
tion of nearly one-eighth on the 9th of October last,
as compared with its amount on the 10th of October,
1846, and that the specie and bullion in the hands of
the banks had diminished by nearly one-half.

ENGLISH -FUND&-
'tank Stock, 185 7 IndLA 80nd..., under ri.nDO. 30
3 per et. Rod. Anne.. 8112! Comets for Acct., MP 3I tI t
3.lf;3"pteez Ct. AZ1r.0P:.8314.4211.3 3131 I 97 1: lb 24"
1,
13
Lung nor.. esp. Jan. 5, 1841U.8/ I Ditto /500, 1511 14 dl..
Wain Stotie, Ditto Small, 2 dlr. 3 pin.
TORSION. FUNDS.
. - • . • --•

per Ct. DrusilLln Tl.nd;, 77--- 3 per5....6....8p0nhth Bonds, 26j
51or Ct. 31csktaa. IM6. ILI 4 Do.. Acct. Nos. 16 201
5 per D 5 Portugume Bowl.. 76 2.4 wr CO. Venesuels Bonds. 34j
4 per Ct. Portturucoc 11.5.. 204 5 pee Ct. Freud: Mentos, 115 f. 25c.
5 per Ct. Dual. Bonds, 1522, L St, Ex., 25(.80e.
10411 44 pee Ct. Belgian illuuk. Es. 231..
5 per C't. Speal‘b Bonds, Sly. from 89 5
Nov., 1840, 15j 4 per Ct. Dutch CerUficateu 811 i 1
Do., 1.5.4ve Hoods, 31