The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

THE CASE OF MR. GORHAId AND THE

BISHOP OF EXETER.

DEATH OF LORD CoLVILLE (OF CULRO39).
This nobleman expired on Saturday at his residence iu Porte
land•place. L rd Colville was born in 1788, and is broiler
of the late General Sir Charles Colville, whe enmuried d
at the citron of Cambray, and uncle of the Viscouct
Nowry and Morns. He entered the navy 12 h D e., 1775,
as captain's setvar.t. on hoard the Isis, 50, and attained the
rank of reareadmirsl the 12th Aug., 1819; become a vice-ad-
miral 22nd July, 1830 ; and a full admiral 23rd Nov ,1841.
His lordship was elected. in 1818, one of the Representative
Peen of Scotland, and lately held the appointment of extr -
Lord in Waiting to His Royal Highness Prince Albert. He
is therm It d in the family honours by Chum's John, sou of
the late Sir Charles Colville, formerly a captain in the 11th
Hussars.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN.—Lest night,
a man named Blackmon made an attempt to murder a :at
plice (Meer, of the name of Henri Mathews, NJ. 213, and,
from the nature of the injury. the poor fellow's death ie
expected. The wife of Blackmon) was taken into
custody for some die rdrrly conduct in the tory
port of the evening by the wounded officer. About
10 o'clock Blackmon. was seen waking about the Old
Bailey, and he addressed himself to a tradesman who was'
standing at the door, and remarked that his wife bed b, ea
locked up by the police, and hr would do tor them and be I
Ntwigata in a few days About half past 11 o'clock the un-
fortunate constable Mathews was about walaing over the
croaks' at the top of th.. Oct Bailey, opposite St 9- pulehre's
Charon, when the ruffian came to bun, and suddenly ex-
claimed, " You are the (snow who tok my wile i
do
custody," and thrust a short breadknife into the officer's
&Amon. Having withdrawn the weapo , the tufa ,n
brandished it over big held, as if to inflict furber
injury, when the wounded man succeeded in stunning
the fellow by hitting him one blow over the head. The
cocstslll.... then fell exhau-fed to the ground, and,
other officers omit., up, he was removed to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital. The prisoner underwent an examination
at the Ouildhall thin afternoon beton Alderman Challis, mad
was remanded.
ALARMING FIRE AT ROLLS CHAMBERS.—On Pap
Mutat. night, about half-past tight o'clock, a fin, which
cans. d considerable damage, althouch of froth duration,
broke out in the premises termed Rolls Chambers, situate at
80, Chancery-lane. The premises, which had a frontage in
C•cncery-lane (the ground floor being templed as the
I Patent Journal Odle.), extended harswerds npu tads of 150
feet into Chancery-c iurt, and from the fact of the houses in
Carey-street, and numerous other builAnAs abutting upon
the one on fire, a fearful comfier/ration was expected. With
tie exception of tt e front shop before alluded to, the who's
of the upper floors were occupied by gentlemen connect. d
with the law, chambers, and although most of the apart-
ments have escaped the actim of the fire, the water thrown
be the engines into the flames hat penetrred every mom,
sad dune, spnarently, .n ineakulable amount of misehiet.
It spnean fr m irgutrie a instituted during the time the fire
was burning that a., the period above at eta some artun -
's
who were standing in Chancery-court, paccivid an
usual glare of light in the second floor of the chambers,
looking into Carey-street. TLi' at coos s &stied tan
he
parties that a fire wee on the eve of breaking d
nut, m
l wi
ng's
alarm elm forthwith given in the real way, an Po-
and , i gins sent for. Before the firemen arrived the firm s
had brek.n throueh the window* of that part of the pre.
ir• Chaneery-court, and had trended into the epee:-
*ants in Chancery-lane. Fiery of water having be. n
Boon obtained, the engines were set to work, the h -se being
conveyed up the 'toile sea of the premises on fire, and also
up Chancery-court, and by that means the firemen weis
enebled t • ercomposs the flames at every point, and Inoure
half-rs. nine o'r I ek, lees than r i.e tedir fr,-m the time at.
outhte,it commenced, the coofi -aration was entirely soo-
dued. The damage done by fire is confined to the defliter-
tion .f several chambers on the upper part ef the bottng,
end the lower floors are severely ethlaged by water. As to
the crigin of the fire nothing that can be d. pended upo-.
could be learned, neither could it be reertained r the
premises were insured or not.
BEVTAL CASE OP CUTTINO AND MAIM:v6 AT
TnottPlintexxx.—Greet `outconsternatreveiled duraig th•
night of Monday at Thorpe Heell•y, /menet' c•el • •.
well•founded report that a miner, name: John Butterwm th,
f Tforpe, allow fin. miles from. Re herhato, had be n
dr.adtully lacerated near his throat Min a kni e in a most
cow .relly and brutal ms-ner, by a labourer n•.m. d George
Cowper, near the Ball public house, at Risley tollebsr. The
ruffian was samad by the wound-el man, end in c
at the above puolie-house till the &trivet cf an officer, by
whom he was conveyed to Rotherham Gml on I:needre A
final examination took place before the magistrates on Wed-
needey_last, sad Cowper wee fully committed to York Castle
Yoe Ws!.

In consequence of an announcement made in a
weekly paper that the Master of the Rolls, Lord Langdale,
would this morning deliver the judgment of the judicial com-
mittee of the privy council, a great number of porous at-
tended at the Privy Council Chamber enzious to hear the
result of the appeal from the decision of Sir Herbert Jsuner
Fuse in this important cases. They were, however, disap-
pointe4, as the judicial eonsusittee did not sit to-day, and
tt,ere is no likelihood of the jegment being proaestnoed be-
fore Ike sad at January or the beginning of February.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

MAMLEOROUGS STREET.
BIIIIIIZZLIIMINT ST • CLllll.. T. Eagles was charged
with esalseuling upwards of 681. belonging to kis employer, II
Mr. J. Mogen, tobernealst, Ox ord street.
The promouter stated that the prisoner was employed by
him as clerk and collector. It was also his duty to take
ceders and collect /a all moneys due to the establishmeat,
and the utmost 000filinee was reposed in him up to the Bth
lest , when he absented himself Iron, hie employment. Not
appearing the following day, witness made inquiry, and found
defaletattons in the prisoner's aceouute to the amount of 581.
Witness saw nothing mere of the prisoner until the 10th
inst., when he met him in the Kieg's-road, Chelsea and
taxed him with robbing him. The prisoner expressed his
sorrow, and begged to have a private interview with prom-
gator, when ao doubt all would be made right. Wittier
accordingly made an appointment with the prisoner to meat
him the next night. The prisoner cams at the time
appointed, and sated witness to convert the m tiny
in questi 'sr into • debt, promising to pay one pound
per week. Witrtres refused, bet told the prisoner Uhe
mull find good end substantial security for the payment, he
(witness) would consider erout employing him again. The
prisoner then left the house, and, in constellation of further
defamations bevies been discos, red, proeicutor gave intor-
mains to the pedice, who apprehended him on Saturday
night. The prosecutor wind, it the peignoir were re-
maaded. brieg several other charges mansion him.
Mr. liardwick remanded the prison 4 until Thursday
neat.
BeteovoLosinn.—The ma.istrate r quested our reporter
to acknowledge the receipt of If 14e., being the punted, of
• sixpenny subecriptieo for the retitle( the casual poor, col-
t !mod by Master Charles Co.,k, of 144. 8, ulifford.striet,
o Boad•strett. From the o.lderaiths' Company 201 (luau I).
. and from "E. C." • bank-nuts for 51., to be app Sid to the
• same purpose.

MONEY MARKET.
SATUSDAY ETZNING.
The stock market has been very qMet, but steady,
to-day ; and although the amount of business done in
the English funds was exceedingly small, the im-
provement of 1, at which they opened, was fully sue-
tained throughout the all.. Corneas were fi-st called
961 to 1 for the January account, ex dividend, at
which they remained firm, without the slightest
variation, to the close. The Three per Cent. Re inced
marked 961 and k. The New Three arid-a-Quarter
per Cents. opened at 974, then rase to L, and were
next done at 97,1. the last lei*.
Exchequer Bills of all grades were dote at 555. at d
57e. prem. Long Anruni-s, 30 years, 1859, marked
81. Bank Stock, 2031 end 203. India Bonds, 90s.
prem.
The dealings in foreign securities were very unim-
portant, and periented no feature wo thy of notice.
Toe last price fur Mexican was 29 and for Russian,
1091. The tranaaeions reported are : Brazilian
Bonds at 89 : ditto, Sm 11, at 88. Buenos Ayres, fur
account, at 451. Equador at 31. Grenada Deferred
at 31. Mexican (ex January coupon), for account,
at 291, 281, tand 29. Poi tuguese Five per Cents.
at 83 ; ditto, Four per Cents ,at 361. Russian at
1101 and 1091. Spanish Five per Cent Active for
account at 19 and 181; the Passive Bonds at 31;
the Three per Cerits. for ay.taint at 381. Two-and-
a-lialf per Cent. Dutch at 56.
The abundance of morel continues, and the
mereet remains in the same easy state, with se treely
a y variation as to the value of money "on call," or
the rates of discount.
Thu ollowing is a statement from official sources
of the amount of the precious metals exported from
London during the week ending the 15 h ins .:
Silver coin: to Witte dam, 14,000 oz. Silver bars:
to Rotterdam, 56,91:0 oz. ; to Dunkirk, 135,000 oz-;
to Belgium, 17,80 Ute. Making a total export of
223,700 oz. of bile. r.
The following are the extreme prices at which
Consols and Exchequer Balls were negotiated each
day during the week:
HPriesighest W
Peest Chiang
ke. Prise.
Mondays-Carrots for opening (ha 16, ea
din.)
Tuesditto
Wednesday D
Ditto• MI to
Thursday Ditto
Friday MUG •••••••*. 1:64 . 98 to
Saturday Ditto
Exchequer Bills. Ms Sea last west
£l,OOO Mehra Meta Bliblate Lowest.
Monday
Tuesday s4s. pea ... Ills gm. ... 139Cria. ... ass. en.
Wednesday Ma pas ... Us. pos. -. has pm.... Sea. pm.
Thursday
Friday s7s. pia .. Ma. psn. ... Ms. gas .. Ma. pa
Saturday
Joint-steck bank shares have not attracted much
attention during the week. The transactions consist
of the following : Bank of Australasia (paid 401.) at
241; Commercial of London (paid 20/.), at 21 and I ;
National Provincial of England (paid 35/.) at 381 ;
Union of London (paid 101.) al 121.
Dock shares have exchanged hands at the follow-
ing tette : Commercial Dock at 80; East Country at
21 ; London, at 119 ; St. Katharine, at 80.
The railway share-market has experienced another
week of depr.seion, nor does there appear the least
sign of a reaction in lay quarter. Tie traffic returns
for the present week ate on the sggrtgate 3/ per
mile less than thee were for the corresponding period
last year. This circumstance has had its influence on
the market, and the ci, sing prices of to-day are lower
than they were last Selby nearly every line in
the kingdom, the Roll and y and South Eastern
excepted.
The following is our list of the extreme prices at
i whichbin ness was done in shares during the week
:
Highest Lowest
Paid. Price. Pres.
50 Aberdeen
20 Birmingham and Oxford Junctioe
((with aguaran•co
92 knitted and Exeter
30 Caledonim lll
ns Chunks 4
10 Edinburgh and Glasgow
20 Kee 1 . roe
NGreat Northern .... .......... ...... ...... 7i
100 Great North of England MO
100 Great Western 3Bl .... ... . . 228
571
Si) ull and Selby 971
H
50 Lineage and Carlisle ............. ........ 49
93 lancet*, and Yorkshire
50 Leeds and Bradford ...............SiO • 99
:11 London and black sal:
100 Lo: den, Brighton, and South Coast- 74 .........
..-...." 71
100 London and North Western .. - .
50 London and South Nesters . .. SI
100 Midi coil
100 Norfolk .
2.5 North British .. ......... ........ ....
171 North Staffordshire a
3 Scottish Central
331 South Eastern
41 South Wale lll
45 Wilts, Somerset, sod WoyerwM. 92
23 York, Newcastle. and Bereriek l7l
".0 Yore and North midland
The following caileuheirms show the rate per cent.
par annum 3ielded by the vs, Sous securities cited at
the average t f the prices which ruled this day.
Where the asterisk (•) is placed, it is to be understood
that the share rate of dividend is less the income tax.
It will be perceived that we adopt the rate of dividend
declared for the last halt-year :a the basis of our cal-
culation:
Three per Cent. Consols (shut),
961 yield per oast. ZS 2 3
Throe per Oat. Beduced...aerage pees
ThressandasQuarter per Cents ......... ri 3 6 8
..
Bank meek (de. 7 percent. perkoneei) PP $9 0
ludia Stock (shut).
Szelsequer Mlle (ant. 11d. per day) ...... Ms. pm. ~
Eastern Counties fils.•(dir. aper oh. of
907.. equal to 1 per cent per ens.)... f
Oren Warms (dlr. at the rate of 4
......hir.per cent. per.daniriembfre) ..... ...u. ..i......)..;. 58
SG
;dividend 4 per cent.) ..................
Levine and booth W,-esan (div. at
the rate of II per cent. per ann.).- 90
been and Brighton. (de. 29.. Per
lOU Kock for the ball ear. equal to
21. las. per cent. per ann.)
Leedom at Noels Weer*. (de. at the
nito of 7 pe sent. per arm.) llO
Miami (de. at the rate sf 3 per cent
par ass.)
South Eases, £lO sb., ( die. 6 Per
cent.)
York and North Midland div. sus.
To*, Somas* aid Berwick (Shr..
anartals)

2 4 44
2 17 16

6 17 11

6 11 111
6 4 4

$ 13 5
II 7 3i
9901
7 13 10