The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Frederick Paten, • captain in the Royal Navy was
with committing a violent aseault on Mr. Fredrick
cli.f.V a merchant of Lombard-stress, in one of the car-
riages on the North Kent Railway at the London Terminus.
The prosecutor stated—l live at Erith. On Saturday I
had ben with three ladies and flee children to the Crystal
Palace. At 10 minutes to six we returned to the London-
bridge Terminus, and got into a second class compartment
in the North Kent line to go to Erith. As soon ere we were
all seated the prisoner came to the compartment, and was
about to get in. I told him there were already nine reams
in, and he had better go to another carriage. He, however,
insisted on coining in, and threw himself rudely against me,
saying that there was no time to go elsewhere, as the train
was about to start. I told him there were eight
minutes to spire, and there wee room for him in the
other compartments. The prisoner than car
and he gave me a blow with his double pushedc agn.lolllll/2
making it bleed. The lady sitting nor me got up and threw
herself between us, to prevent Ida repeating the blow and
on his getting out of the carriage I gave him into cuetody.
Captain Potten—l deny, air, a great portion of what the
complaintant hr stated. wanted to go to &rood by that
train, and the porter told me that it was about to start. I
followed him up the line, and seeing room for one prom in
the comportment in which the complainant was sitting I
got in. There were besides the latter four children and
three ladies, therefore there was plenty of room. As I was
getting in, one of the latter said I had better get into another
carriage. I said, " You bad better allow me in rather than
some brute," and then I sat down. Tha oomplainant said I
was very rude. I said I was not ; when the complainant
said that it was false, end that I was no gentleman. I pulled
his errs, I admit that ; but I dry having struck him.
Complainant—l never uttered the word false, neither did I
say that you were no gentleman. All I said was, that you
acted rudely.
Mr. Btuehem—Was he sober?

Complainant—Ha was apparently.
Captain Paten (with some warmth)—l never wu drunk
in my life.
Complainant—l have witusems to call, air, MI to his rude-
ness and committing the unprovoked meat& on me.
Selina Holt woe then called. She said—l was in the com-
parmorat with Mr. Lambs. Thee were also two other ladles
and five children, whinnied it; but Mill, at the same time,
according to the regulstiona, there sou room for one person.
When the defendant cams up he brood his way in, although
I, as well es Yr. Lambe, remossted him to go to another
oompartment. Hs mid, or he eat down—" If you wool have
in. you may hen a lints." Kr. Lambe requested him to
go to another cards" as It wanted eight minutes to the
starting time. Item alloweetkm took place, and then he
struck Mr. Lambs on the mem My friend flaw to his as-
Menace, and as soon as &fondant got ant he was given into
custody.
Mr. Bonham—Now were you not desirous of having that
comportment to youreekvem
Miss Holt—l deal know that. Once wan a family party,
and the defendant could me that. _ _ _

ZaptailD'otten-Had I knows: that, I would have walked
the whole way to Chabot sooner than have got in.
Mr. Bonham—Woe not Mr. Labs annoyed at this gm•
Heenan Ong in?
Ni,. Holt—l don't know that be was.

iii7Bu;amxi=iiii7othiTlATobTs;y something to him
about " false, untrue, and his not being agenUemsu r
Mies Bolt—l did not hear each words. lam positive Mr.
Lambe did not give him the "lie." I merely heard Mr.
Lambe say " you are excessively rude."
Mr. Buroham—What did he do to be rude t There was
room in the compartment, and he had a right to take the
vacant neat. Can you tell me what he did to be excessively
rude?

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-11ne Holt—He forced his way In after Mr. Lamb told
Lim there wee no room. _

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Mr. liarcham—But there wee room, according to your
own eooount ; therefore hie getting In and seating himself
wee not rade.

Emir Goddard yam next mdled by Mr. Lambe. She wad—
i heard tba complainant tell ddandent to go to =other car-
riage, sa we were all one party. Defendant said, " You had
better have me than a brute, as lam a gentleman." He
then puahed himself in rudely, and mined Mr. Lambe by the

Mr. Burnham—What did you consider his rudeness?
Witness—Taking his seat altar being told to go to anothar
tocarriage.
Mr. Burnham, to dailsedant—Have you any witnesses

•Gptain Potter—l hove not, air. I admit pulling the Omn-
trani' e noes ear oohing nee of cdonaive epithets to me,
did not etr'dto

51.;.BareiaM--It;trikes me that there is a little fault on
both aide,. Mr. Lambe and his party get into one of the
compartmente of the railway, which they want all to them-
velvet., although it was apparent that there was room for
another person, and because Captain Potter gets in and in-
sists on filling the vacant apace, Mr. Lambe gets annoyed.
That led to some unpleasant alteration between them, and
the defendant being provoked by some words made use of by
Mr. Limbe he committed the immult complained of. Captain
Pottle admits palling the other's nose, bat I rant see that
awe wee anything in the whole of his conduct mond,*
rude ; therefore, I think that the justice of the ease
will be met by the defendant paying a fine of 6s. fee the
assault.
_ . . .

Captain Paten paid the fine and was dismissed from
custody.
• A 11I1VDTLI

Sarah Bennett, a dissipated:looking middle-aged woman,
wee charged with dangerously injuring her daughter, Mary,
a girl of 16 years. The dahter is at present lying in the
infirmary of Camberwell wthouae, with very littleixle of
on recovery, end Saturday Mr. Norton took her de don,
which wee to the effect that the had been suffering rota M-
oppets% end went to lie down en the bed, but her mother, who
wee timy and wanted to lie down herself, turned bar off the
bed, and ;nada her lie down on the floor. Her father, on
coming home, was angry at this, end struck her mother in
the eye, and was going to beat her, when she (the daughter)
interfered to prevent it, and was following her father out of
the room, when her mother gave her a violent push, which
mused her to fall with her head against the stairs. She had
been ill for a fortnight before this, and directly afterwards
felt violent pain, and became much worse. Her mother, the
mid, when she bd a quarrel with her father, was always
spiteful towards her. She got drank about once a fortnight,
and was then like a road woman. Her mother had pushed
her downstairs purposely.
The primmer was remanded.
HAMMERSMITH.
Thomson Bin, John Jackson sad Wtilians Brown, privates
in the Grenadier Guards, stationed at Kensington&nook',
were charged with sesaulting the police.
Some ladies complained to a policeman cm duty at Kandar
ton-gors that the prisoners were insulting twig ens
met. The policeman billowed them, when Juion
him in the moatli. On the policeman obtaining the amid-
and of a brother constable, and proceeding to the guard-
house, the prisoners drew up in a line before them, and
attacked them with their belts in a most savage rower.
Jerboa was heard to thrombin Brown that if he did not take
off his belt be would serve hint the same as the polio*. The
constables exhibited in court the marks of great violence
about the head and face. .

fie; gam; Dickens, dills same company, gave the pri-
soners a good obaractar.
Itics and Jackson said they bad been drinking.
Brown said he did not strike the polka.
Brown was load 65., or, in delimit, sentenced to five days'
imprisonment; the Mho, prisoners were sentioced to be
imprisoned each for 21 days, with hard labour.

1141110116

MR CORN TRADE.
(Pros the Nark-laws Express)

The eventful year 1E47 is now numbered with the pest,
but its records must remain important. The nation wee
beginning to mover from the effects of ea exhausting
with Ramie, when Persian intrigue round its energies,
end the Shah was speedily brought to terms. Canton next
appeared defiant, and • force deemed sulcant was on its
way to the Chinese waters. But the terrible Indian mutiny
braking out, the troops were diverted for mare urgent pur-
poses; and after mix months' endurance eni herein efforts,
English supremacy has been re-aseerted. Them emits
IlteM infinimmid the peke of grain, although, had the
struggle been protracted, • famine in India must have laid
upon Britain. In commercial matter, • crisis of unorampled
severity hail been passed, commencing with the Unitstilkalise,
end involving many drat-raft hews here in ruin. Cos-
mires in Germany, too, booms manly's" ; but the OWN if the
year witne•sed a rapid aurae d amemiamat,with missiatiry
ems in prospect. The wheat Wads sammenniti with an
average id 695. Bd. per qr., mad a dal bashese in EOM&
samples, in coasequenee al the paseelly demp sins Ls
with"' the harvest at 11168 wan benerl. This deldeney Una
made up by en tiassually large and however,portation lissa
America in line eamildies. The lessee, involved by
this over tees export from the United &Men esionguently

'reduced supplies ; end our own Mocks were running so short
on the eve of harvest that the averages by July 20 reached
63e. 10d.. after having declined to 635. per qr. at the end of
April. The season had been dry and threatening to all spring
corn, and was followed by • long continuance of tropical
heat, which led to an abundant wheat mop, not only in this
country but all over Europe, with a fair yield in the
United States. As a consequence prices gave way about
105. per qr., the averages in the middle of November
falling to 635. 11d. The liberty to export was then given to
France. This gave a further blow to prices, especially sit
occurred during the financial crisis, and brought the rates PI
Dec. 14 to 48s. 3d., from which they slightly rallied, but
the last average was 475. 6d. per qr. Comparing recent
events with theme of 1847, we cannot but note the mach
better condition of the corn trade. The fact that all unto-
ward circurostaners combined only brought the averages down
Bs. fkl. per qr. in the last six weeks, leads to the conclusion
that prices may recover a more remunerative range OA the
mason advances. In support of such an opinion we may
look to with returning confidence the falling off of French
supplies from their tumatisfactory result, the probable closing
of the Baltic and canal navigation in America, and especially
to the fact that the surplus crop of 1867 will only leave the
world in preemie@ of its usual stores at the next harvest.

FOREIGN GAMIN.
(From .11kIts Weekly Measenyer.)

The rapidly improving state of the money market in Ilam.
berg gives a hops of the corn trade being resumed ; although
the meson is so far adorned shipments cannot be extenaire
until spring. The value of wheat is not now so depressed,
and a few lots may come off by the steamers so long u these
vowels can leave the port, but these oolleolively will only
be to a limited extent. The Baltic post. may be considered
se closed, and business at an tad for the present. The
Dutch markets have been interfered with by the holidays
usually kept more strictly in Holland, and prices are
nominally unaltered.
In Fusee the tendency has been down for both wheat and
dour, so taw orders coming out from England for either
article, end the shipments making are mostly on French so-
wont, pointing to very little profit to the importer. A law
shipments continue to be made from the Black Br porta,
but without much encouragement in the present prospects,
end generally a lose has followed such businers for the past
two months.

In the United States the receipts from the interior have
been better, but there is no activity in the export &mend,
and beyond the quantity of weak at sea, not much more
can he expected until spring. The present value here end
at the outporta would about bring home the importer with-
out much lose, but there is no profit commensurate with the
anxiety of such business, and until more margin takes place
orders will not go out from this country, and the Americana
will consequently have all the supplies from the interior for
their own consumption during the winter months.

LONDON WIRILT DOM
Impanel
Ilwas—Wat Win 1,1291
111narttlas. —.bass
8.9961 ad Nair tee 13.10
Parma
TerelEe pkp 15.100
001172—8. P.... amt. 01
0171 ca plus 860
Soda pkg. 00
Ooom—B. P. ..... begs 379
101

31,-.14z L
PLOW& ISA
13 100 TAO
104,000 123,063
133,000 176,000
IMO; 101,000
40.41:0
11l 1100
40,00
7,700 7,300
1.7; 1,307
11,000
1,803 310
11,700

TALLOW.—The tallow market has bean firm during the
peat week, with a daily tendency to improved rates. To-day
the market leaven off very fine, still looking upwards. From
Petersburg the advioes by telegraph tmention an advance in
the exchange to 861; the price of tallow for August delivery
was 163 To. with 10 down. Speculatively we have to ante
the deliveries of contracts for January and March on
the let. These were not so large as had been anticipated,
and it is probably to this circumstance that we may attnbute
the genera firmness of the market; end so much tallow
being consequently held in strong hands, the trade demand
can only be supplied with difficulty. We close to-day .
Bpi, 63e. 9d.; January and March, 63e. 6d.; March only,
buyers ; October and December, 61s. Id. ; tallow
&IL; skins, 435. 10d., 49a.; town tallow, 63e., net cash. We
gi=palm oil, 405.; cocoa-nut oil, Cochin, 43e.; ditto,
00, 405.; South American tallow, 63a. to 63a. 6d. Ala-
beef, 62a. 6d. is 635.; sheep, 63e. 9d.—(Prom the Cir-
cular of Messrs. Smith and Charles, dated Monday Evening.)

COTTON.—Ltritnroot., luc. 4.—The market has
closed with excitement, and prices of all kinds, except Egyp-
tian and Sea Islands, are Id. per lb. dearer than bud week.
The Wes to-day hare been estimated at 15,000 balsa,
3,000 onlrculation. comprising 200 Perna= and Mann-
ham at .to 61d. ; 600 Bahia, at 61d. to std. ;_ 300
Islands, at el. to 81d. •, 2,000 Burst, at 3d. to sid• gdF
p-
Bea at 13d. to 14d. per lb. Imports sinew Thursday
15,000 bake.

CATTLE.—Lrrnsuroot, JAN. 4.—The number of stock at
market to-da_y was Urge, and the demand was of an improved
character. Bast of good quality was in fair demand, and
radioed eniumeed pmts., whilst mutton was =changed In
value, but in better request than last week. Beef, ad. to
Bid.; mutton, Sid. to 7d.

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