The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1847.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Before Mr. Serjesnt Adams.
ASSAULT ON A SHERIFF** OFFICER.—W. Pearaon sur-
rendered upon an indictment for an assault upon William
Danielle, a sheriff's officer. The particulars of this ease
have already appeared in our paper. The jury declared
the defendant Guilty, and he was fined 101.
ASSAULT UPON HER MAJ MTV'S " KNACKER...—
Michael Leary was indicted for an vault upon John
Atchelor.—The prosecutor, " knacker" to the Queen, had
backed a dog to worry 100 rata in seven minutes, by a wager
of 71. to 51., and the match took place in Short's-gardens,
Drury-lane. When the dog had completed the task a dis-
pute arose—the beaten party contending that it had
not devoured the vermin within the given time, and con-
tested the right of the prosecutor to the laurels. It was un-
decided by the referee, and the stakes were not given up,
and no bets were paid over. The defendant bad a wager of
Se. pending on the result, and being dissatisfied he tried to
rob the prosecutor of some money. Hearing his son shout
for assistatioe, prosecutor ran up, when he found the defend-
ant wrangling about the match, and, en interfering,
the defendant struck him a tremendous blow on the
forehead with a life-preserver, which inflicted a dangerous
cut, depriving the prosecutor of seooibility.—The court
sentenced the prisoner to four months' imprisonment, and
on his liberation to enter into recognisance, to keep the
peace for sit months.

POLICEYIGITERDAY._

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OUlLDHALL.—Broaste.—Yesterday John Harper, for
merly of the Bow-street patrol, was finally examined before
Mr. Alderman Moon, charged with bigamy.—Jonathan
Root, clerk of Spitalfields church, produced the register con-
taining the entry of the marriage of the prisoner to Caroline
Christmas, on the 6th of August, 1826. The witnesses to the
marriage, the parish clerk and sexton, were both dead.—Mr.
Christmas, an eating-house keeper, io Brick-lane, stated, he
was the brother of Caroline Christmas, and he identified
her signature to the register. They lived together for three
years at his house, and then separated, the wife renaming
to her mother's, where she died. Witness attended her
funeral about five years ago. The prisoner knew where she
was.—The Rev. Andrew Nugee, the curate of St. Mary, Lam-
beth, produced the register of marriage containing the re-
Card of the marriage of the prisoner with Elizabeth Muddell
on the 23rd September. 1837. Harper was described as a
bachelor.—Elizabeth Maddell identified the prisoner as the
person to whom she was so married. She and the prisoner
separated at the end of two years and three months. They
did not part by consent. She bad no property before she
was married. The prisoner did not take away any property
when he left her. She heard be had a wife living after she
bad been married about three years, but took no steps in
, consequence until he came to demand bee a few nights since.
She should not have disturbed him if he had not annoyed
her.—Mr. Alderman moon said a clear ease had been made
out, and he should send the prisoner to trial.
DETENTION OP A BLOODHOUND.—Mr. Haihersett, a par-
liamentary agent, was summoned for detaining a fine blood.
hound, which had been stolen from Mr. Iverson, of
Peckham-grove. It appeared that the deg was missed on
the 25th of September, and two months after was found in
the poeeasion of a manufacturer of illicit spirits at Holloway,
by Coleby Atkinson Davis, a revenue officer. White he was
watching the premises he saw the dog removed by a man
whom be knew to have been charged with felony, sad in
seizing for penalties he captured the dog, and it was sold
with other property for the benefit of the Crown. Mr. Bather-
sett purchased the dog at the sale. Mr. Ald. Moon asked Mr.
Iverson how he knew the dog had been stolen and had not
strayed? Mr.lverson said he believed sobecause the r 1.4 knew
his way home, and it was one of six valuable don, which had
been stolen from him. It could not happen that so many
dogs would stray. It must be known to the dogsteslers that
he kept choice dogs. This dog was worth 201.—Mr. Swan,
the solicitor for the defendant, submitted that a purchase at
a sale by the crown must surely confer a good title. There
was no pretence for saying that his client knew the dog was
stolen, nor, indeed, was there sufficient proof that the dog
was stolen.—Mr. Aldermao Moon put some further questions
on the latter point, and being satisfied the dog was stolen,
he ordered it to be restored to Mr. Invenon. He entirely
acquitted Mr. Hathersett of supposing the dog to have been
stolen.—Mr. Swan thanked him for this expression of his
opinion respecting his client, and said be should now apply to
the crown far repayment of the purchase money.
Be:envie:mt.—A donation to the poor-box of Si. from
the" Tallow Chandlers' Company' "and of 21. from " A. 8.,"
was received. Mr. Sadler, of Pimlieo, paid in 11. he had
received from a " Well wisher " to Irvine (since. deceased),
and two half-crowns left for the old nun by ladies.
SOUTHWARK.-as
AMU WOONDIIIO.—Henry
Hill was re-examined, charged with assaulting and wound-
ing a young man named Hardaway by stabbing him in the
body with an iron skewer. Hardaway indicated that he was
labouring nader extreme illness from the effects of the
wound, and when he was called upon to give evidence, said
he should decline prosecuting the prisoner, who was a friend
of his, as he was satisfied that he did not stab him inten-
tionally—be (complainant) felt that be had been the aggressor
himself in the first instance and tcazed the man, otherwise the
accident would not have occurred. Mr. Cottingham said that
he could not allow so serious a case to be compromised in that
way—that it was only a matter of mere chance the complain-
ant escaped with his life, and even at present from his appear-
ance that day in court it was impossible ea yet to pronounce
how it was likely to terminate. But under all the circum-
stances he should remand the prisoner and would strongly
recommend complainant's immediate return to the hospital
to place himself under medical care.—A policeman was then
directed to accompany the sufferer to the hospital.
CLERKENWELL.--FORGaRY. John Prince was
charged by Messrs. Haines and Co., wholesale silversmiths,
No. 16, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, with having fraudu-
lently obtained three silver snuff-boxes value 111. 155.,
through uttering a forged request note.' The prisoner is
meet respectably connected, his father being a highly respect
able tradesman at Hammersmith. On the 30th of Dec. he
presented a note, purporting to have been written by his
father, requesting to have the property, which was delivered
to him. lie bad silo obtained property under similar circum-
stances from a Mr. Delelme. The officers apprehended him
yesterday morning, at three o'clock, at a night-house in the
neighbourhood of Covent-garden,where he was lavishing his
money in profligate company. lie said be was glad he
was taken, as it would save him from being hanged.
The prisoner had deserted his wife and two children, who
were in Tottenham workhouse, and a warrant was taken out
by the pariah OSOBTs.—Mr. Greenwood decided on commit-
ting him on that charge, but remanded him in order that
other charges might be brought against him.
CHARGR OP BTARRINO.—John Wright was charged with
having stabbed John Darling, a labourer. The prisoner and
the Injured man quarrelled at a coffee-shop in Islington, end
fought together when the latter received three stabs in the
body, and was ;Wen to the hoepital. Judd, 385 N, took the
prisoner into custody. Darling was in so dangerous a
state as not to be able to attend to give evidence.—The case
was remanded.
WORBHIP-STREET.—Moatt POLICE AGORLESION.—
Eliot Berm was charged with disorderly conduct, and
=intgboas polio, is the discharge of their duty. Mice-
stated that, while on daty in Well-street,
Wldledtapel, on the night, he saw the prisoner
and another woman toldpresidingewing • party of men, and smiling
them with begone of a most offensive description. He
oinked them te Enid sad leave the street, on which the
tMere=t7re se, awl red eel aliiisteut and ins.ultlegr
lawny towards Ida, Moat be Lori it usimory to take her
into wmtody. Mom earl open he h defsace, the pri-
mmer denied the drew, willak she 4111111101. beded, been fabri-
cated by the ommable te mesa himself teem the CORN-
guesses of his own scandelans condast towards her. She
was proceeding, she said, in the et' another women,
towards Lome through an street in the White-
dempakmag. down which they tamed to avoid Gene
drunkest tarn, whaled stay fandleitheni, whites net
the peliesema, a( whom bit/sired
alte alto iffkit4me.
The policeman answered th a most
sod they were battening on, when he =ldaTd;,
seizing hold of the witness, forced her ems Ammo down a
dark turning, where, in spite of her resistance, and calls for
1110HR111101.5, he treated her with goose lasnopriety. She, how-
ever, owing to the interference of her Mend, succeeded in
escaping front him, and after telling her assailant that she
should report his conduct to his inspector, she was proceed-
ing to the station-house for that purpose, when the constable
again overtook her, and declaring, that if she went there at
all, she should go as his prisoner, instantly seized her by the
arm, and conveyed be: away in custody. The prisoner
added that the young weenie who was with her at the
time, • sad whom die had not NM since the occurrence,
would be able, if site WWII premn4 le tally confirm every-
thing she bad stated.--Seriseat- Welnim, who received the
casielemerd tbe bench that the yawn woman bed made
the same iMdit when die was brought to the
and that her waded while then was per.
brake and donnas. The constable Ana", ea being
visaeds thoe=temixevee
sada tat
aiwcostradistiosst,n t:c,
far the primes I=6lll Wag able to
confirm what she bad resettol. es dm entry, bad
gone away when be fired thrird be saw
notWieg mom of be, after.—Mr. Amick& assertaised
that le winless was in attendants, in bow Or primmer,
said that be alt bawd to give araissoe te the sworn testi-
mony rides eansiable, to peedelase to the priener'e =sup-
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to was es
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waft Ora hear aileron' inthridisa having been made be
the empgistede that the yoga MOINE ef 11111111 the prisoner
badminton was the In ienee,tite Owner was replased
at the bar, Mil them=
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been forced down the mart by the rotatable, she hastened to
her assistance, and found that she had been thrown to the
ground by the policeman, with whom she was violently
struggling, endeavouring to release herself from his grasp,
and that the constable, upon her interference, called her an
opprobrious epithet, and desisted from further violence.
e and thernsoner then got into the street, and were in-
quiring of a man the way to the station-house, to lay a
complaint against the constable, %hen the latter ran up and
instantly took the prisoner into custody, but offered after-
wards to let her go if she would say nothing about what
had happened. The prisoner, however, persisted in her de-
termination, and the constable thereupon carried her off to
' the station-house, followed by the witness, who endeavoured
to obtain entrance, to give testimony in her favour, hut
was not admitted, and had not since seen the prisoner, until
she entered the court—The officer Amos was again interro-
gated by the megistrate upon the fresh evidence,
mad, as before, denied that there was a particle
et truth in it, or that the witness had followed
then at all, after the prisoner was in custody.
—Serjeant Coleman, however, in answer to the magistrate,
here intimated that while he was taking the charge, he was
bid, by the officer on reserve duty, that a woman who had
been in the prisoner's company, was then waiting outside.—
Mr. Arnold, upon thia,said, that after giving the most ample
consideration to the case, he felt hound to state that he be-
-1 lieved every word of the prisoner's statement, and that it
was most fortunate for the ends of justice that the witness
Reeve, who could not have had the slightest communication
with the prisoner in the interim, had tome voluntarily for-
ward and so fully confirmed her account of the transaction.
He felt highly gratified at the opportunity thus afforded him
of recalling tbo wholly undeserved sentence he had been
induced to pronounce upon the positive testimony of the
policeman, and, without offering any ob.ervatinns upon that
person's conduct, which was not then under adjudication, he
should order the woman to be immediately discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Cganne or FORGERY.
Jonathan R. Wellington, formerly of the 39th regiment,
was charged by Mr. Hudson, tobacconist, Oxford-street,
with baring defrauded him of 101. by means of a fraudulent
cheque. Mr. Hudson stated that the prisoner had an
account with him for some time, and that on Wednesday
evening l: :et he came into his shop, and saying it was
too late to go to his ■gent, offered to settle his account, pro-
vided he would cash him an order on Mr. Macgregor, his
alleged agent. Prosecutor consented ; and he gave the
prisoner 101., being the difference between the cheque
and the account. He sent yesterday morning to Mr.
Macgregor's office, and was informed that the drawer
of the cheque had no effects there. He informed the
police of the affair, and Inspector When, of the C
took the prisoner into custody at the Colonnade Hotel.—
Mr. Macgregor said he had no acquaintance with the
prisoner, nor had the prisoner any money in his hands.—
The prisoner said he expected remittances from Ireland, and
he thought he should have bad money to place in Mr. Mac-
gregor's hands in sufficient time to meet his cheque.—Mr.
Hardwick said the intention of fraud appeared to be per-
fectly clear, and as the evidence was complete the prisoner
must be sent for trial.

MONEY MARKET.
THURSDAY Eninsco.

The reports so confidently circulated for the last
day or two of a further movement upwards in the Bank rate
of interest, which was to he determined at the weekly meet-
ing of the board to-day, have not been verified by the event.
The rate remains in shire quo for the present, as, indeed,
was anticipated in quarters likely to be informed. The effect
of a change in the direction reported would probably have
told rather heavily on Consols, as speculators for the fall, it
is said, were prepared to resume their operations in suck a case,
and counted confidently on realisiag their sales al9O. Shortly
before the close of business, prices, which till then had not va-
ried, were, however, disturbed from another cause. Some
considerable sales were suddenly made by parties supposed
to be acting for the Hebrew interest out of doors, It was
loon afterwards rumoured that au express bad been received
from Paris announcing the dismissal or withdrawal of M.
Guizot from the ministry, with the accompaniment of • fall
in the French funds. Consols declined upon the sales to 901
for money, and 901 to 1 for account, and so they left off. It
seems strange that, on an event apparently so favour-
able to the restoration of • friendly understanding
between France and England as the retirement, suppos-
ing it to be the case, of the minister who was
the cause of its interruption, the funds should be
adversely affected. Speculators and jobbers would, how-
ever, attach more importance perhaps to the fact of prices
coming lower from Paris, as rumoured, than to the minis-
terial imbroglios there. Reduced Threes were 901 to 1;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 924 to ; Exchequer-bills,
6s. to 9s. premium; India Bonds, 101. to 15s. premium;
Long Annuities, 9 7-16 to 916; Bank Stock, 203 to 4;
India Stock, 250 to 1.
The market for foreign securities exhibited the same in-
activity as before. Some business was done in Mexican,
which established a further fall in prices. The bonds
are now quoted 211 to 21 only, but it may be
doubted whether any considerable quantity could be
disposed of at those rates, low ',they are. Large amounts
of the stock are known to be held in Holland, where the
prices are at present rather better supported, hut should any
material improvement take place here parcels of the stock
would doubtless find their way from Amsterdam to this
market. Spanish Fives were quoted 241 to 4, the Three.,
341 to 1. Private advice, from Madrid represent that the
new ministry of tke Duke of Sotomayor was not expected to
hang together long, and their successors were even designated
by report. Portuguese 3-5 to 6. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
cents. 58 to 4, the Fours 92 to 1. Brazilian 85 to 7.
ANGLIN FUNDS.
loot Stock.** t Iwlla Bowie, tpaol. ,
to
3 per Cs. Bed. Moe, 101 I OW l I 0•••••• Ow swot. est l ir
3pm Ct. Oar*. laas.,lol •4 I I E•dretow HID.. LOON, 134,, 9
* New per CCAmite I 031 Ditto, SON., e
ye,, ...Um. 0. Lee/ AMU., es. Stli Jas. NS, • 940
($lO.O 5.1$ I Do. Rauh,o
PORZION
• pre Oral manila &Me., 63
Do. moll, $0 II
• per Ct. Nesieso, 1040,25 II
pee Ct- POMIII4. H4/0., a.

male.
3 per CL Peaskb Pam Dls., 12
Indereelty.47
3 per Ci. /peals. DM., oil 1
, I per Ct. Dutch Oretteratee, 124
.icesumeart AND STOCKS APROAD.
AIMI.V. Yes. e.—Dstelt Att. debt Tero.sed.a.Kalt gra Orrtte..3B, Sid ;
Three per Ont. prat,3 Pour per Cr...v.lld.Prod., Terre-
Uolf 1.74, M. Nm. comp., 172 d, 171. Mot Dolls Loll.
174.
1724;173. Spur*, Neer Flreper Casts , 104,10 ; Thor per Cads, a, W.
isehaagre ea Leedom, 11.17 ; twesseetbs, 11.17. Os Hameln, IS .4; two
month., 15.37.
HAN.O., rm. 11.—Les1rtaa rive per Orel.: 107; Dealt 1/Wer,
Remise Tee per Cent. Meal.,l•4* , Do. Ontlacates, 104,104;
sad 404 flerks,l6e . Do. Hope and Co., 07; Do. Strie.s. are... 11
New et.. per Caste. tri, 17: Do. Thrd• 111. COM, 1, D... .
Ten3-sad.a.Kan per Coss., 17. Deals. IEOO Low NI. Penis. ft-
damps : St.Peursbunr,Jus. throe I. .1 1-11 ; 10 ill
Illsemm, T.D. 10 —Lcea et 1/14, Nei billy MO ; INC DeOr.
Itad .uar per CesL, Old bills, Pe morays Da. lOW bilis, MI wow ;
Do. 1114. Twori.4.• Malt per Oista.,4llll bi1",411 wry ; City Lee.. 1122;
100 DRY. @pubs. Fire per Caste., KO ; Roe 0te.:1744 01.•
to li-IS Wl+ E.O.M. 0. UN., at .4ht. 10, IS Ulla
7100”, Fn. s.—Pi. per Cleats. 3000.11 ICS ; rear per 0W4..101 ;
Tame Pm C 0... 72: Mat, IMO.