The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVIWNG, MAY 8, 1867.

in, Ind swept away all he had. On the benlerrpt's behalf
it was alleged that he expected Davis and Son would still
further assist him; but this was improbable in the ex-
treme. The only extenuating circumstance was the ex-
treme imprudence of the creditor, who had neglected to
make due inquiry. Doubtless this was a case where the
bankrupt ought to go to prison; but there were great diffi-
culties attending such a course, owing to a late decision
of the Lords Justices to hear the evidence of the party
inculpated, without hearing any answer to it. However
the court would put on record a full statement of the facts
of the case, and would sentence the bankrupt to six
months' imprisonment in Whitecross-street prison.
Ihi the application of Mr. Griffiths, for the hankrupt,
his Honour consented to stay the execution of the warrant
for a week.

IN RE T. T. SOI 031oN.

The bankrupt was a merchant of Lower Thames•street,
and elsewhere. The accounts, prepared by Messrs. Dubois
Newstead, show debts of 9,KM., against assets and
property held na security returned at about GASP.
tJn the application of Mr. lAwrance, for the assignees,
an adjournment wan ordered, the accounts having been
only just tiled.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.

(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)

Stephot Samar( Wales, a respectable-looking man, stir.
rendered to take his trial upon a charge of having
feloniously and unlawfully art fire to his dwelling-house
with intent to injure and also with intent to defraud the
Western Insurance Company.
Serjeant liallantine was specially engaged with Mr.
F. 11. Lewis to conduct the prosecution. Mr. ItiLfun and
3lr. Montagu Williams were for the defence.
The evidence in support of the charge was, as is usual in
such cues, entirely or a circumstantial character, and some
of the testimony that was adduced was of a very extra-
ordinary character. The prisoner carried on business as
a dealer in unredeemed pledges, at No. 27, Prince of
IVales's-creacent, Haverstock-hill ; and in November,
last year, he effected an assurance with the Western
Fire-orrice, for 9:10f. and at that the stock and
furniture .li.l not appear to be at all over insured.
The fire took place about half-past l 2 o'clock at
night, on the 21st of January. When the fire brigade
were sent to the premises' they forced open the back-door
and at this time they observed that the tire was burning
under the counter, and appeared to be of on unimportant
character, but just as they were about to enter the shop,
a violent explosion took place, and the premises were in an
instant tilled with smoke and vapour, and the brigade-man
who was in the back room was nearly suffocated, and at
the same moment there was a strong smell of tar. The
tire seemed to have been got under without much trouble,
and the first thing that was observed was that the stock
had very much diminished, anti that the furniture was of
very scanty character, the whole of the property
in the house being apparently not worth more than
DI/. The assistance of Dr. Odling and some
other eminent chemists was obtained to investigate the
matter, and the result they appeared to have arrived at
was that the explosion was occasioned by oil tar, a most
inflammable substance, and they expressed an opinion
that when the explosion took place, in consequence of
theextenial coldness of the atmosphere—the fire having oc-
curred upon one of the coldest nights of the late inclement
winter—the vapour was forced back and had entrusted the
walls and the floors allover the house with an ingredient re-
sembling black paint. When the fire brigade men first
went into the house they observed this extraordinary
appearance of the walla, and at first the belief
was entertained that they hail been painted, but subse-
quent examination and investigation of the nature of the
materials led to the result above stated being arrived at.
The prisoner seemed to have accounted for the smell of tar
by stating that a quantity of oil-cloth had been consumed.
The prisoner and his wife appeared to have been the
only members of the family in the house at the time the
tire occurred, and when the alarm was given they were found,
it was said, at the back of the prernises,fully dressed, and the
bed they usually occupied was found turned down, and
ready for use, but did not seem to have been occupied. In
addition to this it appeared that a coil of rope was found
at the top of the house, and a ladder was also in the back
yard, and preparations seemed to have beea made to enable
parties to make their escape from the house in case of an
emergency. It was also alleged that when the prisoner was
seen first, after the alarm had been given, he was carrying
a tin box, and almost the only article contained in this
box was the policy of insurance.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and it
was likely to occupy the whole of the day, as it was stated
that there were a number of witnesses to be examined for
the defence.

(Before the iteoorder.)
Epitcettt OF MOTH.

Joseph Later Sntittie, 31, law clerk, was arraigned on an
indictment charging him with forging the real to two
queen's Bench writs of subpoena, with intent to defraud
one Henry Fox. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and also to
two other indictments varying the form of the charge.
Mr. Poland (with whom was Mr. Houston) appeared for
the prosecution, which he stated had been instituted by
the Treasury with a view to check certain irregular prac-
tices carried on by persons in the position of the prisoner.
It seemed that the prisoner met with the prosecutor at a
pablichouse in the Borough, and undertook to pen two
writs of subpoena for witnesses in an action brought
by Fox amunst • person, and for that purpose
gave the prisoner (at his request) two sums of 4 ps. and
of 2a. They went together to the writ-office in the
Temple, into which the prisoner entered alone, but after
some time came out again, and handed two documents
purporting to be genuine subpoenas to the prosecutor, who
went away to serve them' but discovered before doing so
that they were both false and forged. The forgery con-
sisted of taking the impression of the seal on a genuine
writ on to other writs before the ink was dry.
Mr. Straight, who appeared for the prisoner, urged in
mitigation his previous good character and the fact that
he had been out of a situation for the last six months, and
that his wife and young family were at the time almost in
• state of starvation.

The Recorder observed that the prisoner had com-
mitted an aggravated system of fraud, and sentenced him
to be imprisoned with hard labour for 18 calendar months.

NINGLLAR CASE OF UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING.
JAn Damian, a powerful young man, described as a
sailor, was indicted for feloniously wounding Elisabeth
Westbury, an elderly woman, with intent to do her griev-
ous bodily harm.
Mr. Daly prosecuted, and the evidence disclosed that on
the' 24th April last, she was passing along North-street, Com-
mercial-road East, when she saw the prisoner and her son
engaged in a tight, and that she rushed to the release of her
son, when the prisoner got herfore finger into his mouth and
bit it so severely as to fracture the bone in two places. She
had been under the doctor's care ever since. It further
appeared that the son of the prosecutrix during the con-
flict had been bitten by the prisoner not only on the hand
but also on the left shoulder through his coat.
The prisoner, in his defence, pleaded intoxication, and
that he had been set upon by two men before he made any
resistance.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the minor offence
of unlawfully wounding, and
The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Aaidetant Judge.)

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MONEY MAREET.-(THIS DAY.)

On o'OLociz.

In the Stock Exchange to-day attention is partly
directed to preparations for the monthly settle-
ment in the English funds, and the amount of
general business is somewhat small. The supply
of stock is not large, and the rate for continuing
transactions to the 6th of June account is slightly
below 2 per cent. per annum. Notwithstanding the
absence of activity, the markets are firm, and the
variations in prices are mostly in an upward direc-
tion, the impression still being that the difficulties
abroad will be settled by the Conference. The
advance in Consols does not exceed 1-16 per
cont., but some of the railways, including Great
Northern A, and London, Brighton, and South
Coast, are 1 better. Foreign stocks have riven
00 4.

The demand for money to-day is not active,
although a large amount of miscellaneous paper has
just arrived at maturity. The general quotation is
3 per cent., but some transactions have taken place
at 21. The charge in the Stock Exchange for loans
from day to day, on English government securities,
is 2 per cent.

Consols are now quoted 911 to I for money
and to-morrow's settlement, and 91k to g for
the 6th of Juno. The Three per Cents. Reduced
and New Three per Cents. are without change, at
891 to g. Exchequer Bills show steadiness, at 20s.
to 255. prem. The India Five per Cent. stock is
firm, at nog to g.
The foreign stock market is moderatelyactivc, and
a rise of 1 to 1 per cent. has occurred in Turkish of
1865, Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates,
and Italian of 1861. Turkish Bonds of 1865 are
quoted 28i to 29/ ; Greek, 13/ to g ; Spanish
Passive, 20 to # ; ditto Certificates, 13 to I ; Italian
of 1861, 48g toe ; Mexican, 151 to 16.

Bank shares are inanimate. Union of London
and Alliance are without variation, at 38.1 to 39i
and 11 to 10 dis., respectively, but Imperial
Ottoman exhibit a reduction at to t dis.

Financial and miscellaneous aharea are unaltered.

International Financial are quoted 21 to 2
dia. ; London Financial, 231 to 22} dia. ; General
Credit, 2/ to P dis.; Credit Fonder, 61 to P, die. ;
National Discount, 7 to prem.; and Hudson's
Bay, 16 to I.

American securities and Atlantic Cable shares are
without change of importance. The 5-20 Bonds
arc quoted 71 to i; Erie Railway shares, 411 top;
Illinois Central, 74} to 75 ; Anglo-American, 18/
to 19, and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Pre-
ference, 41 to 5.
The twentieth half-yearly dividend, at the rate
of 10s. per cent., on the debt of Ecuador, which
became due ou the let of November, 1865, will be
paid at the office of the Ecuatorian Commission of
Agency on the 21st instant.
A meeting of the Lambeth Waterworks Com-
pany will be held on the 28th inst., to receive the
report from the directors and to declare a dividend.
HALF-PAST THESE O'CLOCK.

Consols are i per cent. better than at 1 o'clock,
the present quotations being 911 to for money,
and 91g to # for tho account.
About 4,0001. in gold has been sent into the
Bank, and 4,0001. withdrawn.
About 5,000/. in American eagles was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterda for the Continent.
The City of Baltimore, front New York, has
brought 62,000/. in specie.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
steady. The only alteration worth mentioning was
a further decline in the rates on Vienna and Trieste,
a movement which results from the gradual returnof
political confidence. The usual list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.181 to 11.19; ditto, short,
11.161 to 11.171; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.184 to 11.19 ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.371 to 25.421; Brussels, 3 months,
25.371 to 25.421; Hamburg and Alton*, 3 months, 13.81 to
13.9; Berlin, Cologne, &a. 3 months, 6.241 to 6.121 ,•
St. Petersburg. 3 months, 304, to 301; Paris, short, 23.10
tw:25.221 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.323 to 25.371; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.321 to 25.374; Prankfort.on.the-Maine,
3 mouths, 1194 to 1195 ; Vienna, 3 months, 13.30 to
13.40 ; Trieste, 3 months, 13.30 to 13.40 ; Madrid, 3
months, 484 to 481; Santander, 3 months, 484 to 481; Cadiz,
3 months, 494 to 49; Seville, 3 mouths, 494 to 49; Malaga,
3 months, 48A to 484; Valencia, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Bar.
oelona, 3 months, 49 to 484 ; Bil6oa, 3 months, 481 to
484 ; Sermonise, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Lnhorn, 3
months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Genoa, 3 months, 27.80 to
27.90 ; Naples, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Palermo, 3
months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Messina, 3 months, 27.80 to
27.90; Lisbon, 90 days' date, 524 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 dap.'
date, 521 to 52.

The report of the directors of the Brighton
Railway Company, has been received with a
feeling of relief, not so much that it puts any
really improved complexion upon the com-
pany's affairs, but because it seems to indicate
that no further disclosures of a nature calculated to
alarm the shareholders remain to be made. By
those in the best position to form an opinion
as to the real state of the company's
affairs, however, a hope is expressed that the
proprietors will not suffer themselves to be ren-
dered passive by official statements of this sort,
which, in reality, scarcely touch the main causes
of the company's embarrassments. Enough has
been disclosed to show what railway boards, in the
plenitude of their power, can do, and too often
actually accomplish, and it is felt that the time has
arrived when railway proprietors, without wasting
time and energy in vituperation of directors on
account of the past, must exert themselves with a
view to bring about radical and healthy reforms.
The assertion has been ventured upon that the
Brighton shareholders are morally bound to carry
out the engagements entered into by their directors,
but before this can be conceded it must
be shown that the board have acted within their
powers. The whole of the details of the bargains
entered into in respect of the projected new lines
ought to be gone into closely, and the proprietors
will do well to make a point, at the meeting
to-morrow, of ascertaining from Colonel Bart-
telot, what is his opinion of these trans-
actions, and whether the adoption of the engage-
ments referred to will tend to the advantage of the
company, or tc the relief of past members of the
board at the cost of the general interests. To search-
ing questions of this nature the new chairman may
well be trusted to give explicit and honourable an-
swers. This is not a time when shareholders must be
lulled into supineness ; and, though we should be
the last to attempt to hurry them into aimless an-
tagonism towards their existing boards—a course
which ought, indeed, to be denounced as both un-
practical and injurious to their best interests—it is
yet essential, at a time when the credit of five
hundred millions of property is at stake, that the
truth, and the whole truth, should be extorted.
This requirement, in the case of the Brighton
Company, it rests with the new chairman to satisfy.
A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation and
Canal Company is called for the 28th inst., for the
ordinary business, and "for authorising and giving
consent to the conversion of the 50,000 shares in
the present guranteed capital of 1,000,0001., and
numbered from 1 to 50,000 (both inclusive), into
one general capital stock, to be called the Guaran-
teed Stock of the Madras Irrigation and Canal
Company."
The last accounts from Brazil state that the re-
ceipts of the San Paulo Railway were daily in-
creasing, and that the traffic is likely soon to be
much in excess of the capacity of the rolling stock
at present on the line. Additional engines, &c., it
is said, are consequently to be sent out with all
possible despatch.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and waterworks shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange list of last evening :
Insurance—London, 44;; London and Provincial Marine,
11, 7-16 ; Marine, 9tl; North British and Mercantile, 131;
Ocean Marine, 19; Rock Life, 71; Thames and Merw
Marine (Limited), 4,j, 5 ; Universal Marine (Limited), 2.!.
Gas Light and Coke—Bombay (Limited), 4i, i ; City of

Moscow Cu, Ifs • Commercial, 32 ; Imperial Continental,
94i; Me:, 26.
Docks—London and St. Katharine, Debenture stock, 88.
Waterworks—Fad London, 108; Grand Junction, 731,
21, 31.

The annexed memorandum is from the London
Stock and Share Company (Limited) :

" The directors of the London Stock and Share COM.
pany (Limited) present their oonsplinserge to the City
Editor of the E Ypres.; and will feel obliged if he will
state that Mr. Joseph Aapiaail has ceased to be connected
with the London Stock and Share Company (Limited).'•
At to-day's auction, bbares in the Agra Bank (Si. paid)
sold at 21. 15s. ; Agricultural Hotel (101. paid), at 2/. 1244. ;
British Slate Company (Ml. paid), at 21s. ; Bedford Pan-
technicon (71. paid), at It tis. is it. 16e. ; Berka and
Hunts Extension Railway (101. paid), at it. Ga. to H. 17s. ;
China Steam and Labnan Coal (131.10 x. paid), at 12c ;
Confederate States Loan, at 5/. 12s. Gd. ; Copiapo Exten-
sion Railway (101 paid), at Is, to Ga. ; Dagenham Docks
(4/. paid), at 105. • European Assurance (10m. lid. paid),
at 4a. Sd. ; Cuildhall Taverns (101. paid), at 41. to It. Is. ;
Hercules Insurance (2/. paid), at 10s. 641 ; Imperial Land
of Marseilles Debentures of SW., at 61. 15a. to 81. ; Inter-
national Hotel (5/. paid), at 10s. ; Laugham Hotel (101.
paid), at 3/. 10s. ; London and County Land and Building
(2/. paid), at 6s. to 7s. ; Chatham and Dover Preference
B stock (Metropolitan Extension), at 291 per cent ; New
Devon Consols (111. 10s. paid), at M. per share ; Novara
and Like Orta Railway (10/. paid), at 21. Gd. . • ditto,
bonds, at 2/. per cent. ; R. Laxey Mining Company
(4/. paid), at 73. ; Vale of Heath Railway (61. paid), at 245.
It is notified that Mr. Edmund Pullein (late of
the firm of Messrs. Harding, Pullein, Whinney,
and (ribbons) and Mr. John Everitt, of Allhallows
Chambers, Lombard-street, have entered intopart-
nership, for the purpose of carrying on business as
accountants ; but not in connexion with Mr. Eve-
ritt's existing businessof money broker and bankers
agent, which will be carried on separately, as be-
fore, under the firm of Everitt, Lucas, and bo. The
new firm will be Pullein, Everitt, and Co.: the
offices being at Allhallows Chambers.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 20th
inst. for the supply of 100,0001 be. of tobacco.

TUESDAY EVISING.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 to 1, both
for money and next Thursday's settlement, opened
this morning at the same quotation, and after
touching 914 " buyers," closed at 911. For the
Gth of June the last price was 911. The Three
per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents.
were quoted at 3 o'clock 891 to if. The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 911, 1, 4 ; ditto, for account,
91, 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891, 4 ; New
Three per Cents., 891, 1,1, 1; ditto 'Two-and-a-
Half per Cents.,724; Bank Stock, 253 ; India Stock,
2181 ; ditto Five per Cent., 1101,1 ; ditto Four
per Cent., 944, 5, 41 ; ditto Five per Cent.
"enfaced" rupee paper, 1021, ; ditto Five-and-a-
Half per Cent., 1071 ; ditto Five per Cent. Deben-
tures, 1031 ; ditto Bonds, 48s. 525. prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was firm, with a
better demand.