The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-13 00:00:00

POLICE.-YRJ3TEIWAY.

MANSION-H OUSR.—Erremilvn ROBBIRY.—H.
Albert and H. Howard were charged with having plundered
the 'warehouse of Meats. Wood and Co., warehousemen to
W•etling•street, of carpeting. The prisoner Albert had been
is the einploymeut of the prosecutors, and it was stated that
within but a very few WI ells robberies had been effected in
the establishment to the amount of upwards of 5001.—The
Lord Mayor was occupied for a coati ierable time in hearing
the very complicated evident., and the prisoners were or-
deredto be brought up on Monday in order to be committed
for sag. _

BINITOLIINCL—The Lord Mayor requested that the do-
nation of 201. to the poor boa might t e acknowledged in the
Mo. together with his warm thanks to " T. and S."
. GUILDHALL --CHEMISTS' Asst —Mr. Hooper,
chemist and drupes', Loadon-lnidge, appeared under the
following circumstances:—On Monday last, as reported in
this paper of Tuesday, Mr. M'Dougell, surgeon, reads an
application to the shun,• alderman for his advice, and stated
teat, having a patient placed under his care, he considered it
n to give a double dose of medicine of a sedative eha-
racecetra e prescription of which he wrote, directing that it
shouli be taken at bedtime. It was sent to Mr.
Hooper's, and one of the assistants, indeed of wing
camphorated water and henbane, made the mix-
cure up of henbane, opium, and spirits; and
had it been taken, his patient would have been killed.
The assistant sad* a further mists ke, by writing
on the bottle the wired " Mixtute" instead of " The draught,
to be taken at bedtime," in consequence s f which it was not
taken. Oa calling twice he could not see Mr. Hooper, and
the sesistants treated the affair with levity, saying that it
was only • mistake."—Mr. Wire attended, and said that
Mr. Hooper, who was present, appeared, not to defend the
summon., but to clear his own character. An explanation
of the facts of the ease bad been given to Mr. M'Dougell,
and he was perfectly satisfied ; but, as a report of the ap-
plication had appeared in the newspapers, it was necessary
that an explanation should be as publicly given. Mr.
Hooper's mode of conducting business was this—that, if he
should not happen to be at home to melte up a prescription,
his assistants were not to do so, but send it to a neighbouring
chemist. In Oil. instance one of them had departed from
that rule, and it was with deep regret that Mr. Hooper
telt obliged to say so. However, he had taken pre-
cautions 'hat such a mistake should not occur again.
With respect to Mr. M'Dougell having called twice
and been toll that Mr. Hooper was not within, that gentle-
man was perfectly ignorant of the whole affair until he
received the amnions ; and he had *very reason
to believe that on each occasion the assistant had
denied him for the pi.rpose of screening himself.—
Mr. M'Dougell said he was quite satisfied with the ezplana
tion. His only object in summoning Mr. Hooper was on
public grounds, and to further the object for which the me-
dial profession generally were exerting themeless, and that
was to compel chemists and druggists, and their assistant., to
undergo an examination. It was true that a Pharmaceutical
Society existed which hail a great number of members, but
the great fault was that they had no act of parliament, and
therefore examinations were not compulsory —The Chief
Clerk intimated to the alderman that the assistant was
already dismissed from Mr. Hooper's service —S r 0 Carroll
said the public were much indebted to Mr. M'Dougell tor
calling the magistrate's attention to so serious a subject
where the lives of so many were at the mercy of such per-
sons. Mr. Hooper he thought had given a very satisfactory
explanation thetugh his legal adviser, and therefore the
summon. was dismissed.
BOW-STREET.—Ten CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGY-
Nan.—The Rev. H. C. Seller, of Send, near Guildford, who
was on Wednesday committed from this court for trial for an
moult upon Samuel Cooper, a private of the Fusilier
Guards, was admitted to bail by Mr. Jardine, himself iu
6001., and two sureties in 2601. each, 48 hours' naive of
bail having been given.
WORSHIP-STREET —Bmezvotawcz —The following
contributions, in addition to those already acknowledged,
have been received on behalf of Mr. Smith and his distressed
family :—" M. H.," 10s. ; anonymous 10s ; "R. bi.," a
Post-offioe order for 61.; a lady, by cheque upon Messrs.
Coutts, 21 ; " T. C.," 10s. ; " H. R , 'in postage stamps, 6. ;
" J. 8.." 11. ; " J. C ," 21 ; the half of a 101 note from " C.
A De S.;" "1 8," It.; "C. J.," 11.; "J. S G. " 11. ;
" F. H ," 10s.; " E P., in postage stamps, 2m 6d ;
10s. ; and '• A. 8.," It —Mr. Arnold also announced his re-
ceipt of a letter enclosing the balfof a 61. note, under the sig
nature " Delta," in aid of the poor-box, with an intimation
that the remaining moiety should be (overdid upon seeing
an acknowledgment of the first in the morning papers.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DISTITUTION. On
Tuesday last, the Mendicity Society's officer brought before
Mr. Hardwick a tall, emaciated lad, who had been found
begging about the streets. The lad, who was evidently
!welly able to stand from exhaustion, stated that his name
was C. A. Mackensie, son of the late Capt. Cherie* Macken-
zie, of the 60th Regiment of Native Madras Infantry. He
hod been placed at a school in Madras by his father,
where he had been taught a great many of the n Mire
dialects His father died in 1843, leaving him entirely desti-
tute. He was advised by some friend. to make his way to
England, where he would stand a chance, through his fa-
ther's connexions, of getting into employment ; and having
no other means of reaching this country, he worked out his
passage. About three months ago he arrived in England,
and made his way to London. He was unable to procure
employment, and few the last two months be had b.en wan
dieing about the streets in a starving state, sleeting in out-
houses and el eds.—Mr. Hardwick ordered the lad some pre-
sent assistance and requested the officers to take him to St.
George's workhouse, until the truth of hie story could be
inquired into —Yesterday, the officer said, from the inqui-
ries which he had made, he had reason to believe that the
lad's story was correct. lie had made inquiries of Messrs.
Grindley and Co., Etat India agents of St. Martin's-,laoe,
and they had written a letter to say that Copt Mackie:le
died in 1843, but that if he left a son. that son would be
entitled to a pension of 601. a year, unless the money hail
teen anticipated for the sou's outfit. As the lad was still
very weak tram protracted privation, Mr Hardwick directed
that he should he taken back to the workheuse, until he
was an far recovered as to be able, with a little assistance, to
shift for himself. Tee officer was desired to continue his
inquiries.
lizzavoenwers.-11. from J. H. S. S., from Edinburgh,
received
LAMBETH.—Bm. DISCOUNTING —On Thursday even-
ing, a respectable looking man, whoee name did not
transpire, applied for a summons against a person who un-
lawfully detained two bill. of exchange for 251. each, with
which he had been entrusted by him (the applies t), for
the purpose of getting discounted. His name wis N. rden.
He represented himself to be a lawyer's clerk, but resided
and virriedon the double business of s fruiterer and tobacco-
nist, in the Westminster-bridge read, Lambeth. The two bills
applicant had transmitted to Norden about a fortnight since,
but he still retained possession of them, and refused to give
thorn up. There had been no engagement or terms entered
into in writing that the bills would be returned within a
given time, in the event of his (N ,rden's) failing to effect
their disc runt —Mr. Seeker said, that under such circum-
stances he had no jurisdiction to interfere. In the first
place, the amount of tf.e bills exceeded that to
which the Police Act limited his authority; and in the second I
place, the absence of any written agreement for the return of
the bills in the event he had stated, prevented the case being
brought withinthe provisions of the Backer's Act, by which
the detention of bills in the place of a written agrs'ment
constituted a felony. The applicant said he had received a
letter from Norden by post, to the effect that therein he en-
closed cash, 371., as part of the discount of the two hills,
but instead of any cash being covered by the letter it
merely contained four slips of paper, to give it when sealed
the apt -earance of containing an enclosure, and two farthings.
lie had been at the General Post-office, and the subject had
been investigated by Mr. Peacock and other authorities, who
said that if the 1 -iler had contained the cash stated, say one
51. and throe 101. notes, and two sovereigns, making the 371.,
its weight would have required four if not six postage,
stamps; so that they were positive that it had never con-
tained the money stated, as, if it had, it would net have
passed the Post-office with two stamps only.—Mr. Seeker
said that the state of fees, even if proved, would not give
him power to Waver,. The applicant had voluntarily
parted with his property without any specified terms in
writing, and It was not competent for him to c invert an act
of his own into a felony in another party. The applicant's
only reniedy.was to bring an action against Norden for
money had and received to his, the applicant's use.—The
applicant thanked his worship and left the court.

BOUTHWARIC.-1111•11011 OF ATTEMPTING TO DE-
FRAUD TER NORTN•WRITRIIN RAILWAY COMPANY.—
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, accompanied by the solicitor and
other gentlemen connected with the London and North-
Western Railway Company, attended for the purpose of
making application for warrants against a man and a
woman for conspiring to commit a fraud actual the com-
pany. Mr. Clarksou elated that, in Octorsr, en application
was made to the company for remuneration by two persons
who represented that in coming up use York in a second-
class carriage a eollisioa occurred at Leiithton Buzzard on the
sth of July previously, is consequence of which they received
most serious injuries. The man It was alleged having
sustained a hurt on the chest, which produced hemorrhage
from the lungs, and the female, who was described as being
enceinte at the period in question, having had • miscarriage
and otherwise suffered severely from the effento of the acci-
dent. The parties having laid their cue before tie directors,
suspicions were entertained that their statements were con-
cocted for the purpose of defrauding the company, who Te-
fused to grant remuneration without it was satisfactorily proved
that the parties had sustained the injuries they represented.
In accordance, therefore, with this intention the company
caused • rigid inquiry to be nude into the circumstances, the
result of which was a discovery that the whole scheme had be en
eoncested by the parties for the sole purpose of deraudine
the company ; that no accident at all had occurred to them,
and he would prove, by incontestable evidence, that the fee
male who it was alleged had sustained such serious injuries,
W net loess in the train at all. They (tbe partite) had
dem WWI Writs againet the company, and their claim for
etimpematies fee the alleged injury was 301. each. Two
witnesses Mani that, on the day on which the and-
, dent was dialed to have occurred. the female was
at home at a era bogus fa her usual state of
health, A maw , Hassan said that he went, by
aborion of tbe sad North Western Company,
sa obi of Odder, pp ara,,stain the nature of the in-
Jelleeseseined by Ibe maim ..as sew tie female, sad on

being admitted to bee apartment he found her in bed, and
she attributed her Binges to the accident she said the met
with in the train, Witness here an interview with tae man,
who described himself as her brother, and who averted that
he was in the same eerrege with her, and ',sat be was
thrown with such violence from one side to the other of the
carriesa that it produced haemorrhage of an alarming
nature, from the effects of which be adtled that he was
still suffering. Mr. Clarkson sta,ed that he should, on
the examination of the parties produce a witness, whom the
amused had employed to substantiate their statements of the
*Deed accidents. That this wittier would state that he
was induced to act so be 'Ad by the part.e., although he
knew nothing of the accident, and that be did it under an
erroneous notion, concede ng et the tine that it was a mere
matter of form required by the company.—Warrants were
granted.

MONEY MARKET.

FRIDAY EVZNING.

The inaction of the Bank yesterday would seem to
have been construed favourably on the Stock Ex-
change, for Consols improved upon it to-day. The
importation of some portion of the dividends into the
house, to undergo the process of conversion into Con-
sole or other stocks, may very probably, however, have
had something to do with the greater firmness and
improvement in prices, and such would appear more
likely to be the cue, seeing that Exchequer Bills,
usually selected by preference for investments in the
first instance by the recipients of dividends, tem-
porarily or otherwise, have been neglected, and have
In consequence declined. Console ruled at 891 on tull
average all day, and left off 891 to 2 ex dividend,
both for money and the opening. ()pinion in the
house ran in favour of a more decided enhancement
of prices still, but it is evident that it could only be
substantially grounded on the expectation that some
very large proportion of the dividends receivable,
being the surplus over the requirements of the an-
nuitants for ether uses, must assuredly come forward
:or reinvestment. Besides the dividends on Console
and other government and public securities now in
course of payment, which may be roughly esti-
mated perhaps at nearly eight millions,
some two or three millions more of dividends
are now also in course of disbursement, and so adding
to the superabundance of money in the market, and
the di.tresi, for so it may be called, of discount houses
and bankers, or say the moneyed interest, who already
are hard pressed to put their funds to profitable
usance. With all these specious grounds for the
repioion in favour of advancing values in the funds,
the drawback is left out of eight of possible adverse
affairs both monetary and political abroad, and, more-
over, of the increasing absorption of floating unem-
ployed capital by the pr'spering extension of com-
mercial and manufacturing industry at home. As
commerce and industry continue to progress, mire
money accommodation will be required, and
that can well be afforded to be paid for at
rates so remunerating as to interfere materially
with that recourse to the funds, which, in times
of stagnant trade and distrust, is of common occur-
rence. Capital will, moreover, in such case come
gradually to be invested, and so rendered in a sense
immovable, in industrial undertakings.
Reduced Threes left oft 894 to a. Three-and-a-
Half per Cents., 814 to 90. Long Annuities, 8 11-16
to 1. Exchequer Bills, 40s. to 445. prem. India
Bonds, 431. W 455. prem. Bank Stock, 189 to 191.
Fancy foreign non dividend, and doubtful dividend,
paying stocks were still on the rise to-day. Mexican,
25;, to a. Venezuela, 19 to 21. Buenos Ayres, 27
to 9. New Granada, 16 to 4. The nondescript stock,
Guatemala, 30. Ecuador, 3to 1. Brazilian, one of
the solid stocks, 75 to 7. Chilian, 87 to 9. Spanish
Fives, 14 to 1; the Threes, 27 tot; ; Passive, 31 to 4.
Portuguese, 254 to 64. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. were better at 481 to 91 ; the Fours, 76 to 7.
Belgian, 75 to 7. Russian, 102 to 4.
Foreign exchange was with little variation to-day
from last post, and without much business.
The Bank of England averages fur the week end-
ing the 6th instant, give, as compared with those of
the week preceding, the following results
Circulation true ........£14,231,740
Qrailation active 17,249,690
Petite deposits 6,419,043
Other deposits ...
Government securities
In Banking Department 597
Other seeurities 10,525,470
Coin sad Yanks
Seven day sad other bills 1,012,717
The Ited 3,400,713
The notes in reserve at 10,985,0501., showed a di-
minution of 111,9101.
It is reported that the Rothechilds of Frankfort
and of this city have actually undertaken the pro-
pared Austrian loan fur 80 millions of &mine, and
have largely remitted from hence in payment of the
first instalment, nearly all in silver. And this :n ad-
dition to the loan of four millions of florins to tke
Bank of Vienna. These operations cannot fail to dis-
turb the natural course of the foreign exchanges.
The chairman and deputy-chairman of the Spanish
American Committee have not yet offered any expla-
nation in the Peruvian affair, and how it occarred
that they should have mentioned to some partied, and
not to the committee or the bondholders, the proposi-
tions of the Peruvian envoy.
BASIC ENGLANLi.—Accoce r for the Meek ending Jan. 4,164;.
rwm IMPASCIIIIST.
Notes Usual ...... ....126,254,740 I Ooverninent £11,015,100
Other seminal. .
001.1 Coto nail Bullion 13,724,4;7
Silver Bullion ........
.C24,2,14,1:4u

128.734.740
BARZIMO Sal
!rope/tore (knead 4fa4,[et3hou
3,400,713
Publio Unclad
liacheq, Sal. l
COMMA. ~f at=
Debt, aLe hay. nada) 8,419.0{5
Other Ikl,Wta ..... 8,414,703
neran-day annals' Bilk 1.011,717
1:36,290,179
ENGLISH
Bank Stork, 189} PI
3 per tn. Ita.•l ALLUS., rill
3 per Ca (Nem Anne.. ant f 4
New 34 per in. Acme.. UK 4 SO 8144
Long Annuities. exp. Jan. 6, WU,
11 lb 4
India itton.lP, .£l.OO, 43 6
Ditto, ands £l,OOO, 45 2

r

-tiZien;;;;e•rgt Securities
Soclud. Iliad Weight
Atuniltri
Other Seo.ulties
Notes ........
Gold tad Sliver Coin

Jin. 11.180.

536.%0
L. MARSHALL. Ctdef theater ~172
raxr.s.
South Sao Old Annuities 376
Ditto Now Ant.him, MI
womb. for Acct.. tmj V 6
Itachequerlilll44.l.tou.24ti,March.
44 4U
Ditto..S.soo, 2)11.. March, 42
:id., Match. 42
FUNDS.
G pm &mt. Peruvian Donde, Aoct.,
Jun. Itl, 111 04
4 per Lt. Purtugut.' 'Sonde. 24
6 tam CL termieh Nde., DI.. from
Now., 1840,14*
3 pm Lt. :14111,11 Bonds, Acct.,
Jan.l6. 27t # .
24 per Cl. Veuezuols Doody, 196
M tow CL Dutch Each.. 12 Clull.,
494
4 pa Cott Dutch CerUllcatcc, 77

FOREIGN
5 pig Ct. itrwrilian •Mt
IHtio Small, 66
6 per Ct. Ditto New Bond", 16M
rod RP,
Ditto New, 1843, GS
6 par }a Ayres Bomb, 268
78
81 war Ct. Equador Bomb; 31
8
1 pa. CL Grenada Donde, 1611 16
Ditto, Deferred, 3t
1 per Ct. Guatemah Bond., 36
6 per Gent. flezialo, 1646, 268 1 i I