The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1848.

tudem any magma should require an additional rent., and heel
returned front Liverpool to the new berm*. at Preston.
Oa Friday_ cent, the 7th blatant (the Bth was the day at
Int named), above 180 officers, members of the United Service Club,
wdl give a grand banquet to Viscount Hardin" on his return from
India. The Duke of Wellington sod Priam ADAM will both be pre-
sent on the cemasiom

foliclWe
My Lord,—Thete appeared in :fries Birmingham Gazette of the
Mlth inst. the following announcement
"It affords us sincere grattficition to learn that the Rev. James
Prince Lee, M.A., the learned nod indefatigable head master of King
Edward's School in this town, is to be the new bishop of liunehester,
so eminence to which he is justly entitled.
°Believing that it is intended that James Prince Lee shall be the
new Bishop of Manchester, I feel bound, in duty to the church, to
warn your lordship in the most solemn manner that James I'rinee
Lee Is morally disqualified for the eStee of a bishop in the church of
'I respectfully request you also to receive this my protest against
any steps being, taken towards admitting Janie* Prince Lee to the
episcopate, until he shall have satisfactorily cleared hitrirlf of the
charges that now lie against him undisprovni, of having been guilty
of lying, drunkennws, and malignity.
.• I also desire respectfully to maitre you that 1 am ready, whenever
called upon by proper authority, to substantiate the charges I hsve
made against James Prince Lee.—l have the honour to be, my lord,
your lordship's most humble servant. " Ttionss Ourrkamok.
" 16, Cannon-street. Birmingham, Oct. 29, 1147.
"To the —, Sc."
Witness was present at a meeting held at the Public-
office, Birmingham, on the Bth of March, at which the
defendant spoke with reference to the Bishop of Manchester.
He took notes of the defendant's speech in part only, but
was careful not to write anything which defendant did not
say. His instructions were to take only such parts of
the speech as those whirls referred to the present trial.
The defendant submitted that any evidence with refer-
ence to what he Ind stated at the meeting on the Bth of
March was irrelevant, inasmuch as they were not in the
informations.
The Chief Justice observed that the motive by which the
defendant was actuated was a material consideration in the
present inquiry, and, consequently, anything he might have
said precedent or subsequent to the publication of the
imputed libel was admissible.
A discussion here ensued as to whether or not parts or
the whole of the pamphlets in which the libels appeared
should be read. It was ultimately arranged that those parts
only which were in the information should at present be read,
and that the defendant should use what other portions he ,
pleased in the course of his defence.
The reading of the libels having been concluded,
The Lord Bishop of Manchester was called, and examined
by Mr. Humfrey. In the year 1834 I was appointed head
muter of the Birmingham Free Grammar School ; before
that I bad been one of the masters of the school at Rugby.
At the time I was appointed to the Birmingham School there
were several candidates. The selection fell upon three gen-
tlemen, and I was elected.
Mr. Humfrey: Did your lordship canvass for the appoint-
ment.
The Bishop of Manchester : That is a difficult question
to answer. At the time of tho election it was requested that
no intercourse should take place between the candidates and
the governors; but when reduced to three I received a
letter from the secretary, requesting that I should call upon
the governors, and I did so. That was all the canvass I
ever made, and' the other two gentlemen did the same. On
going to Birmingham I took an interest in its institutions,
and in January, 1842, I was elected a member of the Blue.
coat School ; and, in conjunction with Captain Tindal, I
made a 'marching scrutiny into the affairs of that institu-
tion. The clergy of St. l'hilip's were generally considered
the clergy of ,he school. Mr. Foster was master of the school
when I first visited it, and I frequently came in contact with
him. I recollect on Sunday the 14th of January, 1844, Mr.
Foster came to me, between five and six in the afternoon, and
requested me to attend a boy. who was very ill, and supposed
to be dying. I declined doing so, on the ground that it
would be better that one of the curates of St. Philip's church
should be called. Mr. Foster went away and returned. Me
said ha bad been unable to find a curate, and repeated his
request that I would attend the boy. I accordingly went.
hln. Lee accompanied me. I had dined at home. I sew
the hey in the sock room. Two or three women were
in the room. To the best of my recollection, I read a portion
of the service for the Visitation of the Sick, and &fee-
wends prayed with the boy. Mrs. Lee remained in the
committee-room while I went up stairs. It was a part of
the duty of the master of the school at that time to address
he boys on the Sunday evening. I introduced the subject
of addressing the children; and, from hesitation on the part
of Mr. Foster, I proposed to address the boys myself. I
addressed the boys on the gospel of the day. There were,
besides the children present, the master, mistress,
four male teachers, two female teachers, and Mrs. Lee.
I had 1,0 church duty in Birmingham. I was perfectly
I sober. I recollect officiating at Bishop Ryder's church in
the summer of 1845. Mr. Collinson, the incumbent, was
abroad from domestic affliction, and Mr. Moore, the curate,
was unwell. 1 read prayers in the morning. In the even-
ing I found Mr. Moore in the vestry. I convened with
him for some time before the service commenced. Mr. Le d-
sun and another clergyman came in while I was there. I
I read the prayers. 1 was at that time quite sober. I was
not aware of any peculiarity occuring in the service with
respect to the churching of women. I never, upon this, or
any other occasion, performed Divine service when I wan
not sober. Amongst other public institutions of Birming-
ham, I was connected with the General Hospital. I recol-
lect two elections for surgeons at which Mr. Gutteridge was
&candidate. I recollect a meeting of the governors of the
hospital, at which certain charges made by Mr. 'Gutte-
ridge against Mr. Hodgson, one of the surgeons, and Dr.
Blikiston were brought forward. There was a large at-
tendance. That against Dr. Blakiston was for administer-
ing an over-dose of pruissie acid. The charge against Mr.
Hodgson was for an alleged want of skill in tying up an
anisy of the arm. Mr. Suckling moved for the apoointment
of a committee to inquire into these charges ; when I pro-
jew.4, as an amendment, that Mr. Gntteridge and Mr. Led.
'am should be called upon to substantiate the charges. My
amendmen. was carried by a large majority.
[The bishop was under examination when this report left
Warwick. The trial, in all probability, will last two or
three days.]

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Gtoucesven, APRIL 3.
Crimes Cot ar.—Before Mr. Justice Creswell.
ATrEMPT TO Rua AND MURDER.— W. Smith Was ar-
raigned f,r having, at Bodelington, near Cheltenham, shot
at an old woman, named Ann Farley, with iuteat to murder
her. Before the trial commenced the prisoner expressed •
wish to have a shoemaker on the jury, but as there was not
one in court his request could hot be complied with.—Mr.
Skinner appeared as counsel for the prosecution.— Ann
Farley deposed that she attends Cheltenham market to fait
buVer. On Wednesday, the lst of March last, she went to
Cheltenham, and on her return called at the house of a Mr.
Ursdell, at Uckington, and during the time ske wee there
Ishe observed the prisoner pass several time*. At about six
o'clock she re-entered her cart and proceeded towards home.
When she had reached some poplar trees, at about a mile
distant from a place called " the Ashes," she observed the pri-
soner on a heap of stones by the read side. lie immediately
approached, pistol in hand, and demanded her money. She
ieplied that she had none. Re thea tired in her face. and
nstantly made off.—Robert Alder, a coal-merchant living

rating, and wounding a vein, from which causes the patient in Cheltenham, stated on oath that on the day named he was
died ; and Dr. Blakiston was sold to have caused the death of I coming from the direction of Lea towards Cheltenham, end
a person by administering over doses of prussic acid. The when near The Ashes" tre met the prisoner, whom he lc-
newspapers and publications of the day teemed with these I coated, and passed on. This was about a quarter-past six In
falsehoods; end at length the governors of the hospital, at the evening. Witness and prisoner had formerly carried out
the instance of the prosecutor, called upon Mr. Outteridge coal together.—Philip Price deposed that about the some
and Mr. Ledeam to substantiate these charges. For this time he was walking in the direction of Pin Elm, and
purpose they were invited to attend a meeting of the go- heard the report of • pistol and eome.hing whin past him
lemon. At that meeting. Messrs Outteridge and Ledsam like a bullet. He proceeded onwards, and came up with
attended ; but, after considerable discussion, they declined the old woman, w'ho was insentible, and whose face was
to prove before the governors the charges they had made. bleeding. William lianbidge, superintendent of the
From about this time Mr. Outteridge commenced his attacks police at Cheltenham, deposed to receiving information
upon Dr. Lee, and, by public speeches in the Town-hall oof the offence the evening a was committed. On
Birmingham, and published pamphleta, he was constantly the following evening be was walking in High•street, Chet
slandering the character of that distinguished gentleman. tenham, when he saw the prisoner before hint, and 'came-
The learned gentleman gave a long and minute account ot diately arrested him. On rearchieg him witness found two
the various modes in which the defendant had traduced and pistols loaded, and • bullet mould. The following morning
attempted to destroy the reputation of the Bishop of Man- witness took the shoes from the prisoner's feet and compared
cheater. These imputed libels have already been repeated them with a number of footmarks in the vicinity of the
ad nauseam in the public press. The three prominent place where the offence was committed, and he found that
charges brought by the defendant against the prosecutor they exactly c corresponded.
were, that on one occasion he attended the death-bed of a This VIU the case for the prosecution, and the prisoner en-
boy at the Blue-coat &hoc', when in a state of reeling tared upon his defence, during which he accused the police
drunkenness ; and, on • second occasion, performed stationed at Cheltenham of the worst practices in attempting
divine service at Bishop Hyder's church, when to obtain evidence, and contended that the witness Philip
ho was also in a state of intoxication. The third Price must either have been the offender or an accomplice
charge was wilfully falsifying the report of certain pro- in th
transportation.e traneaction.—Verdict, Guilly.--Sentence, twenty
ceedings which occurred at the General Hospital. These yews'
libels appeared in a letter to Lord Calthorpe, and other
documents, When the letter to Lord Celthorpc appeared,
Dr. Lee felt deeply hurt, and he consulted his friends as to
the course which he ought to pursue, when he was told that
his conduct and character were too well known to require
any vindication against such attacks, and that he
ought to treat such slanders, and the parties from
whom they proceeded, with the contempt they merited.
Dr.ctober last it pleased her Majesty to anpoint
O Lee to the bishopric of Manchester, and then Mr.
Outteridge renewed with increased energy his attacks upon
the character of the bishop. He addressed letters to all the
bishops and ministers of state, as well so to the clergy of
the diocese of Manchester, in which he offered to prove all
that he had ever said or written affecting the reputation of
Dr. Lee. It was evident that now forbearance was no
longer justifiable, and that it became the duty of the rev.
prelate to adopt immediate steps for the vindication of his
character. He might have proceeded by an action for
damages That, however, might have been deemed a mer-
cenary proceeding, and it was thought the fairest towards
the defendant himself to apply for a criminal information.
Under that proceeding it was competent for him to swear to
his belief of the charges he had made ; be had not dared to
do that, and the rule was made absolute. He (the learned
counsel) would place Dr. Lee, aye, and Mrs. Lee, in the
witness-box, and the defendant would then have the oppor-
tunity of submitting them to a searching cross examination.
He was doubtful whether the defendant could call • wi-
ne,s; but if he should merely content himself with a repe-
tition of the calumnies with which he now stood charged,
he would be taught that such offences would not be allowed
to go unpunished. The learned counsel, in opening the
case, spoke for upwards of three hours and a half.
Mr. Le Mayor, of the Branch Bank of England, and Mr.
Vicar proved the purchase of the several paint hlets con-
taining imputed libels upon the Bishop of Manchester, at
the residences of the defi ndaut in the Crescent and in
Cannon-street, Birmingham.
Mr. Joseph Goodwin, shorthand writer, proved the
signature of the defendant Gutteridge to the two following
letters:
To the Miters respectively of the Public Press, especially in London
and the Diocese of Manchester.
Bir,—.l beg permi..ion through your columns to lay before your
readers the copy of a letter I have felt it my duty to address to the
Whops and erthhishopc of the church of England, and to the chief
ministers of the crown, on the suhject of the unfitnessof James
Prince Lee, the present howl master of King Edward's School at
liirmingham, for the office of bishop.
I beg leave also to inform the magistrates, clergy, and other in
habitants of the 411. c. re of Manchrher, that I am ready, it they dt sire
it, to come personally among them, and mate publicly the reasons
why they should promptly and strenuously, and by all lawful means,
resod the imposition of James Prtnee Lee upon them FLA a bishop.—l
ern, sir, your most obedient servant, THWIAS Gerrauturoc.
To the Editor of, &c.
Tne second letter, addressed to Lord Caltherpe, was as

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
The April sessions of the above court commenc,,d yesterday,
before the Recorder and the usual City authorities. There
are 205isoners for trial at the present session, which
is
rather 1e than the asnal average. The Recorder eisposed
of a few cases of larceny, but none of them possessed any
feature of interest.

POLICE.-YrATERDAT.
WORSHIP-STREBT.—HIMINVAT ROSIERT.— Thomas
Bailey, well known to the police, was charged with having
been concerned, with two other men not in custody, in
assaulting and robbing Mr. Henry Haynes, a brasofounder,
in Chapman-street, St. George's-in-the-Feat.—The prose-
cutor was passing through Wentworth sweet, Whitechapel,
on,his way home, at a late hour on the preceding night,
when the prisoner and two other men suddenly rushed out I
from a dark passage, and one of them instantly struck him a
stunning blow between the eyes, which caused the blood to 11,
gush from his none, and felled him to the ground. Before i
he bad time to recover himself they all threw themselves
at
upon him, and commenced rifling his pockets, from which they
extracted all the loose silver he bad about him, and darted t
off in different directions. His cries of " murder" arrested
the attentioa of police-constable Fowler, who was hastening
to his assistance, when he saw the prisoner, who lead been walk- t,
ing rapidly from that direction, enter a low lodging. house in 3
the neighbourhood, to which he immediately conducted the 3
prosecutor ; and upon making their way into an upper room
they found the prisoner in the act of changing hit dress, and 1
having been instant 3, recognised by the prosecutor as one of
the thiev. she was taken into custody. There were several
beds in the room, occupied by characters of the worst de-
scription, and in one of which the prisoner declared that he
had been sleeping: but upon turning down the clothes
another man was diecovsred cronching beneath them, with
his boots and all his clothes on, and the prosecutor expressed
his belief that he also was one of the rubbers, although he
was unable positively to identify him. Upon searching the
prisoner some money was found upon him corresponding
with part of that taken from the nrosecutor, and also a silk
handk, rchief, with the initials "H. R.," which the officer
entertained no doubt was the produce of another robbery.—
The prisoner positively denied all kno 'ledge of the rubbery, L
but it was too conclusively established to admit of any
doubt, and Mr. Mammal ordered him to be fully committed
to Newest° for trial.
MARYLEISON B.—CIO:710X TO WOOD-ENGRAVEIIS.—
J. Thompson *MS broueht before Mr. Broughton, charged
with having damaged a seat in the Regent's Park. Oa the
previous day Benjamin Trayte, one of the park keepers, saw S
the prisoner cutting with a knife his initials on a seat, end
he took him into custody.—The prisoner, on being asked by I
the magistrate what he had to say, replied that it was his ;
first offence, and promised not to do the like again. He •
thought he was not doing any harm, as the seat was cut in ,
the same way from beginning to end.—Mr. Broughton gave
him to understand that if he had a propensity for engraving
upon wood he should pursue his calling elsewhere, and in-
flicted upon him a penalty of lOs., in default of payment one
week's imprisonment.
LAMBETH.—Toe Riot Itoeneittee.—G. Male, G.
Lowers, 11. Brown, R. Archer, A. Finley, S. Morgan, J.
Burden, J. IVilliams, G. Smith, T. Smeed, H. Barley, H.
Davies, J. Bennett, G. Payne, T. Henlett, S. Minim J.
Taylor, T. IValker, W. Bridden, B. Prophet, D. A. Daffy,
T. Horsey, J. Delmore, R. Webster, and 11. Bate were
finally examined before Mr. Elliott, and fully committed to
take their trial at the present session holden at the Central
Criminal Court, for breaking into the shop of Mr. Gray, the
pawnbroker in Southaaripton-street, Camberwell, and those
of ten other tradesmen in the same neighbourhood, and
plundering them of considerable property. On the appll
tion of Mr. Games, their solicitor, the prisoners Burden and
Webster were admitted to bail.
THAM ES. —THX CABI OP MR. PoLLEt.—In addition to
the subscriptions already announced in the Daily Amos for
the use of Charles Pellet sad his family, 21. 10s. was re-
ceived on Saturday, besides a sovereign from a gentleman
and 10s. from" O. H. L."

MONEY MARKET.
MONDAY EwENING.
The disposition to sell still prevails among specu-
lators, and appears to be held in some sort of check
only by the difficulty, not apprehended only but real,
of finding stock for delivery when wanted, for money
stock remains but little more accessible than before.
The dealings to-day were somewhat more active
than on Saturday, but the market had a heavy ap-
pearance. Console fluctuated between 80i and 801,
leaving off 801 to 4 for money and account. Exche-
quer Bills, 335. to 365. premium. India Bonds, 16s.
to 208. premium. Bank Stock for account, 190 to 2.
India Stock, 230 to 2.
The advices received from Amsterdam this morn-
ing represent the stock market there as in a most
depressed state, with prices almost daily in decline.
Dutch stocks were little inquired after here, and no
business indeed may be said to have been done in
them to-day. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were
widely quoted at 34 to 7 ; the Fours, 54 to 7.
Belgian ''our-and-a-Half :per Cents. were called 50
to GO. Spanish Fives, 10 to 11 ; the Threes, 18
to 19; Passive, 21 to 3. Portuguese, 13 to 15.
Mexican, 15 to 1. Brazilian, 60 to sex dividend.
Russian, 72 to 6.
By the returns of the Bank of France made up to
the 30th ult., received to-day, the fact comes
confirmed of the loan for 50 millions of francs
to the government—a forced loan, of course, in the
circumstances. The supply was afforded opportunely,
and not one day before it was needed. Fur the mo-
ment it makes a respectable addition to the credit of
the treasury account with the Bank, although, ac-
cording to accounts, a considerable breach was soon
made in the fund so reinforced. On the very day this
loan was agreed for, and carried to account, the ba-
lance in bank at the disposal of the government was
reduced to less than nine millions of francs, say at most
350,0001., a sum ludicrously small as a state fund,
and which, at the present profuse rate of its expendi-
ture, could scarcely have enabled the government to
carry on and:pay its way fur a week forward. Unless
the receipts of taxes come liberally in aid, and
promptly, it is evident that resources mast
shortly become more scarce and difficult, and that the
government will be placed in a fix. With industry
and credit both equally disorganised, insolvency may
chance to arrive before M. Louis Blanc can have
laid the foundation of his national workshops for
reorganising the one, or more clear-sighted and deter-
mined M. Gamier Pages can have possessed himself
of the means for retrieving the other. Desperate
extremities may be resorted to, but unlimited issues
of inconvertible and already depreciated paper money,,
which would be the facile recourse, would have no
chance in these days of a life one-tenth as long as
that of the assignats of a former period.
Advices from Rio Janeiro, by the Antelope
steamer at Liverpool, of the 31st of January, state
exchange on England firm at 271 d. to 28d., and Six
per Cent. stock 874 to 88.
stiOt.tsu FUNDS.
3 prf Ct. Copy A 111.1., 61 301 t 1 I India Bonds under ELVA SO
New 5 per Cent. Anna, 101 Dank Stock for Acct. 150
Long Anna., 30 years, Esp. Jan. 5, Consols, for PS I *
Btu. st Etch. tills, A ,PA, 3d.. 33 S p.
India Stock, 1190 Ditto, LSO, 3d
Ditto Bonds, iloco,
FOREIGN FUNDS.
6 per CL Ms., on en dlr. 6 permsent. Bastian Bonds, 110,
Ditto New, 1443.63 X 75 2
1 per Ct. Grenada Mi., Def.. 24 1 6 r0:..1. Mar, Bonds, Um from
tta A'ect, tip% 17.'16} 111 5 Ditto Acct.:April 17, 105
Bon 14 5 per Ct. Stainish Passim 21
4Drzczt.,74ltre - 3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, le} 18
EXCHANGES AND sTOCKS ABROAD.
Bonus Hawn Hawn 31.—St. Maul& SM. Three' nd-wllalf per Gnaw,
6.54 644 ; Pomeranian Bond,, 071; Prawian Bank Shares. i Fried.
rich. d'ar, 174. Discunt. 44 to 61 per mot. Exchanges London.
; klainturg..looour bourix was men
mare unfavourable tbar, ymierday, In c.ocqueoce of the information
that several manufacturing homes bad suspended liniment. and the de-
Mit,. in the funds still commum. The bank has raised the ilii.counta of
Lombardy to 6 per mu t.
Tag LIVEKPOOL BANKINu l.UMPANT.—Yesterday after-
noon the adjourned annual meeting of the shareholders in
this concern was held in Liverpool. A report from the two
proprietors appointed at the last meeting to investigate the
accounts wee submitted, and a very stormy discussion en.
sued. The character of the management was, we believe,
strongly impugned ; but, as reporters were excluded from
the meeting, we are unable to furnish details.

RAILWAY NEWS.
French shares were almost the .the exception yes-
terday to a generally depressed market, and of them
it can only be said that prices were supported, with-
out any noticeable improvement otherwise. English
lines were all ofrei:r.g, and might be purchased at
lower rates.