The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1867.

assault and an assault with intent to do grevious bodily
harm• After some further consideration, during which
the words •qualify it" wars heard from some members
of the jury, the foreman was asked if the jury had con-
sidered their verdict.

Foreman—Yen, we find him guilty of en aggravated
assault.

Williams -Then, gentlemen, I must address you.
I will not accept that verdict. I have been betrayed in
this case, the same as I always am in this court.
The jury again consulted, and finally agreed to find him
Geifts on certain counts in the indictment, which were
equivalent to common assaults on four different persons.
Thomas Moran was then indicted for assaulting and
beating Dennis White, and also with attempting to stab
John Healey.
Mr. Itibton again prosecuted.
The jury acquitted the prisoner, as it appeared that he
was first assaulted by White, although whilst attempting
to strike White's father.

Brown was then called up for judgment, and the judge
laid that he had committed four separate and serious
assaults, besides attempting to use the knife, bad he suc-
ceeded in which he would have been sentenced to penal
servitude. The sentence of the court was that he should
receive three months' imprisonment for each assault,
making in all 12 months' imprisonment.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL
.14ERIOUH.AHAAULT BY A CHILD.

Sown Ca/nu, • child only 12 years of age, was placed at
the bar before Alderman Cotton, charged with wounding
• married woman named Men Connor by striking her on
the head with a chopper, and inflicting grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. Ring appeared for the defendant.
Kra. Connor, who appeared in • very weak condition
from the effects of the wound, and whose head was enve-
loped in surgical bandages, mid that she lived at No. fi,
Apollo-court, Fleet-street, and that the defendant lived at
No. 5. There had been some disturbance in the court,
and she went to bring in her little girl, when she saw the
defendant about to strike her child with a chopper ; she
pulled her child away, and received the blow on her own
head which was meant for her little girl. She immediately
lost her senses, and was at once taken to the hospital.
The witness was in so weak a condition that Mr. Ring
was unable to put her under a cross-examination, and
Alderman Cotton ordered her to be taken immediately in
a cab to the hospital.
Two other witnesses were examined, from whose evi-
dence it appeared that the defendant was chopping wood
at her own door, and standing by her side were two more
girls. Iles. Connor's child, came up the court and
the two girls urged the defendant to beat her; the
child ran into No. 2 for protection and was followed
by the defendant and the other girls. The defendant
threw wood at the complainant's child, and she threw
back sand, which she had in her apron, at them.
Mrs. Connor, finding the position her child was in, ran
down to protect her, and when she got into the passage of
No. 2, the defendant threw the chopper at her, and in-
dicted the injury of which she complained.
The witnesses were cross-examined at considerable
length, and some discrepancy appeared in the details of
their evidence, at the conclusion of which the case was
adjourned, and on the application of Mr. Ring the defen-
dant was admitted to bail on the father's recogniaances for
her to appear.

WORSHIP-STREET.
PORSIMONO BAD /Id CAT. —OOlll ITTAL TO PRI RON.

Charles Geary, a licensed slaughterman, carrying on
business in Essex-street, Whitechapel, answered a
111111111101111 preferred against him by the sanitary autho-
rity of that parish for having in hi possession, and
for the purpose of dressing for human foal for male, a cer-
tain quantity of meat, namely beef, the same being unfit
for consumption.
The prosecution was conducted under theNnisanoesße-
moral Act amended for 1865, whereby a penalty is em-
powered not exceeding 20/., or at the discretion of the
magistrate an imprisonment of three month. without the
option of any fine.
Mr. John Burroughs stated that on the 15th inst. he
saw the defendant on the premises mentioned dress-
ing • bullock. There was an abscess on the
hind part of the animal, and matter was pouring from it.
The horns of the animal had been just cut off, and cor-
ruption was flowing from those parts also. He pointed
all this out to defendant, who replied, " I shall dress it ;
it is good and sound, and belongs to Mr.
Raymond, of WhiteobapeL" He refused to let
witness remove it, it was therefore seized, brought to this
court and condemned by Mr. Ellison, the magistrate, and
the present process obtained against the slaughterer.
Dr. Thomas Barris., the district surgeon, deposed to
having seen the meet in question ; it was totally unfit for
human food, and bad been since destroyed.
Mr. Hopwood, &butcher in Newgate-market, called for
the defence, must have somewhat disappointed that side,
as he declared that he knew nothing whatever of the beast;
and George Raymond declared that the animal he had
driven was quite sound and could walk.
The authorities begged the magistrate to send the de-
fendant to prison. He bad been three times convicted in
penalties of RW. and Si;. and they were always ready,
moreover they always would be, for he (defendant) did not
sully funds.ti
indignantly and at length remarked on this
and much offences—a beast one mass of corruption, being
dressed for the food of man. Not any fine would be
inflicted, but instead an imprisonment of three months.
Defendant was astonished.

WESTMINSTER.
TAM IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION
.01, JCIITTCZ.

...
Inspector Horton, of the B division, stated to the
magistrate that Julia Grantham, of 4s, Taohbrook-street,
was charged on the Brampton pollee-sheet with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of herself. She was
subsequently bailed ; but was not now present, it being
stated that illness prevented her attendance, which Mr.
Dickenson, a medical gentleman, was now present to prove.
Dr. Dickenson said he had just left her, and she cer-
tainly was not in a fit state to attend before the
magistrate.
Mr. Arnold—What is she?

Dr. Dickenson—She is a lady.
Mr. Arnold—A real lady, or—
A gentleman who accompanied Dr. Dickenson—She is
really a real lady, and cannot attend, as stated.
Mr. Arnold—As she is really a real l►dy I must see her
here. I can't let a person off who is drunk and incapable
because she has the good fortune to be a real lady. She
must appear here the same as any person of low degree.
Inspector Horton—She was brought to the station by a
cabman who did not know what to do with her. He had
taken her up at the Victoria railway to drive her to Bramp-
ton when be found her lying at the bottom of the cab.
Mr. Arnold—Had you any doubt of her condition when
you saw her ?
Inspector Horton—Not the least.
Mr. Arnold—Was she drunk ?
Inspector Horton—Clearly drunk and incapable of
taking care of herself.
Mr. Arnold—There is no reason because this woman
is in a better condition of life that she should not attend
here like any other person. I shall extend the recog-
nisancesuntil she is able to attend.
Extended formally till Tuesday.

The Manchester Guardian states that Mr. Mit-
chell, who was for many years the proprietor of the Ship-
ping Gauttc, and has identified himself actively in several
important public enterprises connected with the mercan-
tile marine, is about to receive the honour of knighthood,
" as a recognition by the government of his benevolent
and intelligent activity as a friend of the seafaring
classes."

A curious report was made by the Mayor of Man-
chester to the General Purposes Committee yesterday.
It appears that the Belgians who are visiting that city
narrowly essaped finding themselves in Manchester with-
out anybody to welcome them on the part of the munici-
pality. The mayor was ill in bed, the town clerk was in
London, and it was only in consequence of two members
of the local committee calling at the town-hall on Monday
morning that a dinner was hastily prepared for the visi-
tors who were then on their way hither. The mayor
complains that the committee gave him no notice of the
expected arrival of the Belgians.
A general meeting of the schoolmasters of the
Austrian empire is to be held at Vienna on Sept. 6. The
first question it will have to study is the following :—" Is
primary instruction in Austria what it ought to be ; and
if not, what are the measures that should be taken to reor-
ganise it?"

Madame Ristori itas left Paris, where she has
been studying the r6le of Marie• Antoinette. Two days
past she visited the chapel and the cell in the Concierzerie
where the ill-fated Austrian lady was immured.

We read in Gatignani :—"Blondin has been com-
pelled to break his engagement at Asnieres from causes
not very creditable to his rivals. On closely inspecting
his rope the other day, he discovered that it had been sawn
asunder, so that one fibre only remained, which his weight
would have broken. But for the timely discovery this
diabolical attempt would have succeeded."

Since 1836 there have been established through-
out the world 160,000 miles of telegraph lines, comprising
400,000 miles of wire, and working through 14,000 stations.
The total length of submarine cables laid is 19,923 miles.

It is a curious fact, says an Australian paper,
that all the fighting nations of ancient times have died out
or fallen into remarkable desuetude. They seem to have
been consumed by their fierce internal passions.
Some of the most fertile parts of Honduras are
filling up with emigrants from the southern states, who
are purchasing lands and engaging in the cultivation of
the sugar-cane.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin appeared at the bar in his
official costume, and handed in a petition from the Dor-
ponition of Dublin, praying the house to take into con-
sideration the wants of the Roman catholic population of
Ireland in respect to collegiate and university education.

H. V. Extreme.
W. zi iii,. -- -, Iw. Z.
-I- 1:
Nairn 29.69 61 IL ' 3 LILL 0 OM
Aberdeen 29.64 51 N.K. I I N.I. 0
Leith 50.61601 L 6 N.L it 0.10
Ardroman 20.6162 N.B. 6 L To 010
Greencastle 29.5651 N.H. 6 Pt N.C. ro 0.
Valentin 20.7154 N. 3 N. W. ro 0.14
- -
.. 29.6261 8.8.8 2 2 8. 0 0.21 1
iirdTeadd 2056 55 B.W. 4 6 8.8. W. co 4
PIMZIIUCO 29.7666 N.W. 1 6 W.LW. a , 0.60, 2
Breed 29.76 63 W.N.W. 2 6 'LW. re 10.08 4
Lorfent 29.7660 W. 2 4 W.S.W. 0 (003 3
Rochefort 29.8461 S.W. 1 1 B.W. b 7l 1
Plymouth 20.7519 W.S.W. 1 8 W.B.W. cb ' 2
Weymouth — - -
Portsmouth 29.72 61 W. 6 8 &W. c 4
London 8.7060 W. 3 4 B.W. rcb 0.63 -
Yarmouth. 29.67 61 W. 312 B.W. ci—l2
Scarborough we 28 w.e.w. 2 2 8. tb 0.44 2
Shields
Helder — I- - -I -

REMARK&
The pressure of the atmosphere has Increased since yesterday ;
It Is greatest on thesouth-west coasts, where it Is now decreasing.
Winds are variable and moderate. Rain has fallen in places, and
thunder is reported from Scarborough.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

thra o'OLooK.

The stock markets are again dull, with a farther
relapse in prices, as well in the funds as in railw.iy
stocks and some other securities. The accounts of
the state of the crops from all parts of the country
are favourable, and there is no confirmation of the
warlike rumours that me prevailing on the Conti-
nent, except such as are as indefinite and unsup-
ported as the rumours themselves. A certain sense
of uneasiness has, however, been created by them
which has led many persons not only to close their
accounts, but to reverse their operations by selling
instead of buying. No great importance is, how-
ever, to be attached to the speculative operations
of the morning.
The discount market is unaltered. The terms in
Lombard-street remain at 11 to 2 per cent, for the
best bills, while at the Bank this morning business
is simply wit. Advances on the Stock Exchange
are quoted at 11 per cent.

Consols are dull at 941 to 1 for m"ney, and at
941 to g for amount, while Reduced and New
Three per Cents. are quoted at 931 to e.
Indian Five per Cent. stock is steady at 1111
to 1111.

The foreign market is without any important
change and rather dull. Mexican Bonds are
lower at 14 to Turkish Bonds of 1852 are still
quoted at 57 to and those of 1865 at 30„ to 1.
Greek, 14 to 1!. No change has taken place in
Spanish, Passives being quoted at 211 to 22, and
Certificates at 16a to ;I. Italian, 1861, 48i to 491.
Railways are nearly all dull, with tendencies to
depression. In some cases a fall has been
established of 1. London and North Western
stock are quoted 1111 to 112; Great Western, 411
to 1 ; Midland, 1131 to 114 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 12711 to j ; Great Northern, 111 to 113 ;
ditto A, 111 to / ; Great Eastern, 261, to ;
South Eastern, 631 to ; Caledonian, 107/ to 109 ;
York and North Midland, 901: to 91 ; Berwick,
99 to 100 ; North British, 27 to 28; London
and South Western, 75 to 77 ; 7.llett,,pontan,
120 to / ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
161 to 1 ; and London, Brighton, and South
Coast, 501 to 1.
_ _

United States 5-20 Bonds are a shade firmer
at 72$ to ; ; Erie Raiload, 47t to 2 ; Illinois Cen-
tral, 76; to
The finance companies generally remain at yes-
terday's quotations, dull and perfectly inactive.
The first ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the New City Club Company (Limited),
was held to-day at the Club House, George-yard,
Lombard-street. The directors, in their report,
congratulate tho members on the successful working
of the club since its opening on the Ist June, 1866,
and the unprecedented position it had attained in
so short a period. The report was unanimously
adopted, after which the meeting was made special,
and a resolution was passed authorising the ap-
pointment of a committee of 20 members to assist
the directors in the management of the general
concerns of the club.

In quarters where the true muses of the evils
now besetting railway finance are rightly appre-
ciated much satisfaction is expressed at the an-
nouncement that the committee of the House of
Lords have decided against the principle of creating
railway pre-preference stock. This decision may at
least be accounted as one benefit arising from the
present collapse of this great interest. Had the
pre-preference principle been sanctioned by the
legislature all confidence in railway property would
have been at an end. For example, how would
bankers have been justified in lending money even
upon specially secured railway stock, when
they could have no confidence that its privileges
would not be overridden by a subsequent creation 1
An act conferring the power of overriding existing
mortgages upon land would scarcely have been a
more outrageous proceeding, and would certainly
not have involved a greater degree of self-stulti6•
cation on the part of the legislature. Railway
proprietors of all classes may therefore be congra-
tulated upon yesterday's decision of the Lords com-
mittee, because it is essentially a conservative one,
and is calculated, while interfering with the rights
of no class of investors, to donne the relative posi-
tions of all. Holders will now be consoled with the
assurance that if, through mismanagement, their
property should unfortunately be plunged into
difficulty, parliament will not make the
confusion worse confounded by sanction-
ing confiscation of previously acquired rights.
To say truth, however, a belief has all along
prevailed that these pre-preference proposals
would be rejected, and to this conviction is doubt-
less to be attributed in no small degree the per-
sistent unwillingness of the public to sell railway
stocks, in spite of the numerous instances of
mismanagement and jobbery which have been pre-
sented on every side. The jobbing element must
be eliminated from railway boards, and a better
system of management must be substituted. All
this will come in time, though perhaps not until
after much loss and suffering.

The amount of gold bought by the Bank yester-
day was 29,0001.
The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de
Paris, from New York, arrived yesterday at Brest
with 204 passengers and 637,000 dole. in specie.
The directors of the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway Company have announced a
dividend at the rate of 1 per cent. annum against
2 per cent. per annum for the corresponding period
of 1866. The balance brought into the account is
12,9001., and the amount carried forward 3,0001.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 4611. over the correspond-
ing period of last year, an I the Brighton an increase
of 4,6681.
The annual general meeting of the shareholders
of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company
(Limited) was held yesterday. The accounts showed
that the balance remaining at the disposal of the
directors was 5,7841. lis. 7d., out of which 5,000/.
was appropriated to the payment of a dividend for
the half-year of ss. per share, equal to 10 per cent
per annum, and the remainder, 7841. 17s. 7d., was
carried forward to next account. The report was
unanimously adopted, and the retiring directors
and auditors were re-elected.

At a meeting of shareholders in the Socite•
Financibred'Egypte, held yesterday in London, the
report, already agreed to at the meeting of Paris
shareholders on the 29th of June, was adopted.

The following is the report of the directors of
the City Discount Company (Limited), to be pre-
sented at the general meeting on the lit August :
The directors are happy to be able again to report the
satisfactory progress of the company, and they bare much
pleasure in laying before the shareholders a statement of
the company's affairs, in the annexed balance-sheet, made
up to the 30th June last, and duly audited. The direc-
tors recommend that, out of the balance of 4,14.'40.11e. Sd.,
a sum of 5001. be written off preliminary expenses ; a divi-
dend of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, or
3s. a share, be declared, and the balance, amounting to
1,4961.165. Sd., be mulled forward to the next account.
The traffic receipts on the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway for the last week in June
were 92,504 dots., against 111,762 dols. in
the corresponding period last year, showing a
decrease of 19,258 dols. The total receipts for the
month of June were 380,796 dols., against 474,441
dole. in the same month of 1666, exhibiting a
decrease of 93,645 dols.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway rf
Canada for the week ending the 6th inst. were
21,8531. sterling, being 3,351/. less than last year.

$

we are roq uested p, state that Mr. William
McAndrew, of the firm of Wm. McAndrew and
Sona, has joined the board of the London Bank of
Mexico and South America (Limited).
A general meeting of the East London Railway
Company in called for the ith August.
At yesterday's sale at the "Open Stock Exchange
(Limited)" the following prices were realised :

London and County Joni, 10s. to llt 3d.; Ceylon Coffee
Rotates, 4a. 3.1.; Egyptian Loan, 1864, 82; Turkish !iv*
per Cents., 181.5, 34.4 to j ; Improved Land of Manillas
Bonds, 1870. sf. 55.; ditto. 1871, 5/. to 54 ; ditto, 876,
4f. 15..; Royal Swedish Railway, 2s. ; Tewkesbury and
Malvern Railway, sa. ; thimtal Inland Steam, 44.;
Spanish Certificates, 9-16; Agra and llastormases Busk,
t;/. 2s. 6d.

TVESDAT ETENIG.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 344 to # fee
the Bth of August, opened this morning at the
same quotation, and closed at 94} to #, both. for
money and the account. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, foe
money, 94, }, I, ; ditto, for account, 94khiL
Three per Cents. Reduced, 93k, ;.; ; New
per Cents., 93i, g, ; India Five per Cant. Stock,
111 g, a, ; ditto Four per Cent., 991 ; ditto Five-
and-a-Half per Cent. '• eufaced" rupee ',paper, 108;
ditto Five per Cent. Debentures, 105 A.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was firm.
Foreign stocks were dull, and the tendency of
prices was slightly unfavourable. Turkish Five
per Cents. of 1165 declined } to a per cent.;
Greek, } ; Portuguese, } ; and Italian of 1861, I.
Other stocks closed the same as yesterday.

MINE&-(THIS DAY.)

ONs o'Clata.

Business, as well as prices, in the mining share
market is little more than nominal, and, as usual
under such circumstances, the tendency is down-
wards. No variations of importance have, how-
ever, been established. Beyond a statement of
this condition there is nothing to report.
In British mines Prince of Wales are quoted Is.
lower, the price being 545. to 565. ; North Crofty,
lower, at 3/ to 5 ; Great iror, 165 to 174 ; Gren-
ville, 15s. to 20s. ; East Grenville, 11 to 2 ; North
Retallack, 35 to 45 ; Beton, 110 to 115; East
Lovell, 611 to 7 ; West Chiverton, 66 to 68 ;
Chiverton. 7 to 5 ; Chiverton Moor, 55 to I ;
North Tresker'oy, 17s. 6d. to 29e. ; Clifford 74
to 5.
In the foreign market Del Rey are 1 lower than
at noon 3-esterlay, the quotation being 56 to 58;
Don Pedro, :A to
.1 prem. ; Anglo Brazilian to 5
m prem. ; Pestara, jto ; prem. Anglo-Italian,
4to 2 ; Chontales, ato prem. ; Port
Phillip, 5 to U, ; being 5 lower ; United Mexican,
1/ to 2; Rosso Grande, 7-18 to 9-16.
It was mentioned in the Express of yestertiab
that the committee of the Mining Exchange had
ordered the shares of the Roasa Grande Mining
Company to be quoted in the official list. The
statement should have been that the committee of
the Stock Exchange had ordered the shares to be
so quoted. The Mining Exchange do not issue an
official list.

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