The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1868.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-MILS DAL)

but um. of no use. a.; he f:mnd that Ire was 'dill follow.sl
I.y them. flu the day the occurrenco took place he said
t. at he left his residence at Hackney and went into the
ity, and he foursl that lee erns being followed by
two men. Ile then went to the west and yet he
a-as still followed by thew two men and he
went into a public-home, and culled for a bottle
of ginger beer, thinking the men would not follow him,
bet they came in, and he broke n glum thinking that be
I tumid be taken into vu ;testy, and that ho should avoid
wreecurors. Atter ho had been placed in the cell.
hawser, he found that he wits in a worm potaian than
beton:. we the men wore in the cell with him, and they
threatened to shoot him, and be appeared to have com-
mitted the nrt imputed in him under the impreaninn that
he wire pmteeting himself from the violeu.:e to which he
was e apeam d.
11r. Jurtiov Blackburn asked Mr. Gibeon if he had any
cease., to itOOht that the prisoner really entertained the
dein:ion that he rererred to.

FAat'ITY COURT,
(Belot e Vite-Chaucellor $Az U. Dlalin3.)

IN 111 X PERUVIAN RAILWAY COMPANY EX P %ET/. VALLI&

'lltie was a motion upon an adjournsd summons from
chambers, fur the purptao of removing the name of Mr.
from the hat to contriltubtries in tho winding-up of
the tomptiuy. The company was formed to May, Mi./. and
on :loth of the month ar. %Vents applied tor foil share..
but it wet: alleged that no notice or allotment was ever
I eceived by huts, and no tannutunitadion was matte
on ihe stilqiNt until utter the order for the
in April. 1857. when he ree-ived the
111.13:11 notice to .bow reuse why he should not
Ist p;:1:141 uu the list of contributories. It appe.trol
that ti. re was all al mugetueut bctweeu the company and
the itiletnintonal Contrail Company, by wide!' tree tarter
:wised to take all the shim, of the former. and :o pay
ovt r the full amotust of the nominal capital id 3,319,01h.P.,
and that in per:mance of that arnitagernent fir drew one
elitelue for 11 ',WO/. and :mother for 92,0004, which
chtpes woe handed titer to the Peruvian Itailway Com-
patty, w ho endorsed them end handed them heck to the C.)n-
-t Company. who eaneelle.l them. Mr. Wallets statement
was that he tippled for tint shares through Mr. Joh:,
l'h keting, rade ay contractor, upon that gentleman's
aN•larallte that it was a good thing, and that nu money
would be required. it appeared that when Mr. Wallis
applied for the shares, a deposit of If. per share was paid
ha him by Mr. Pickenng, who was connected with
the international Conttact Company, but tiO shares only
were allotted, and a further sum of 24 per
share bring payable on allotment. making altogether DSO/.
upon the tiO shuns, there remained to be returned to Mr.
%sante In/. A receipt for tide sum was sent to bun by
Mr. Pickering. which he had at tint signed, but recalled
on the tullowing day, unit his signature was torn oft.
Mr. Cole anu Mr. Ince appeared for Mr. Wallis, and
Mr. litesse and Mr. ILekcwich for the oMcial liquidator.
The Vital-Chancellor said it was plain Mr. Wallis knew
of the allotment in August, lOdo, yet took uo step to re-
pudiateu: the shares till the order to wind up had
made. The fact was, Mr. Wallis had constituted
Mr. Pickering his agent, not only to apply for the shamus
but Otto to accept the allotment fur him; and therefore
the delivery of the allotment letter to Mr. Pickering was
the saute in effect as if it bad been addressed to Mr.
Wallis. He was of oMnion that the name of Mr. Wallis
was properly on the li4 and the present application must
be disrumeed. with coats.

1k! r. Gib on replied rertainlv not. He believ vl that the
pti.stuxr really entert.aued the Maple-Won that he referred
to. He :uldeil that he hail of emirs, nn means of knowing
whether the prisoner had been followed about by any
pereous or not.
Mr. Jl,StiPe Bind:burn inlidreil of the prisoner whether
he wished to say anything, er to put auy question+ to the
mug. on of the rt.'.
Th. in n calm, ealkeled tone, replied—For
the last nine months mares have lawn laid for me, and I
have been followed. everywhere I went, by men
who wietwil to deet my me. I have cam,' wit-
and shown them the rwm who were fol-
lowing me about, and who hid threatened to
shoot me, end hod warned me that I Arnold
come to a bad end. I believe it is through
jeolueey, or wine soar ur other, that the e pemone have
barn acting in this manner, but their conduct bat almost
drove me beside myself—almost to madness.
Mr. Justice lilitektmin then explained to the Jury the
nature of the inquiry, and after a very brief deliberation
they expressed their opinion that the prisoner wax of un-
-1.11111141 mind and unfit to plead. The learned Judge, upon
this, ordered the prisoner to be detained in safe custody
during her Majesty's pleasure.
(Before Baron Pigott.)
CHADOR 01 CHILD KURDS/L.

Aphelia haridam, 23, an unmarried woman of revert-
able appearance, was indicted for the wilful murder of
William Davidson, her illegitimate child, 11 months old.
Mr. Langford prosecuted, and the prisoner wax defended
by Mr. Bibton.
The facts of the case wore very short and they will
be fresh in the recollection of the public. The prisoner
had been a domestic servant, cud it appeared that
in the beginning of Msy ahe had placed the child in
question in the charge of a woman named Stoke',
who resided at Chelsea, and she was to pay her three-
and--i:pcace a week for taking care of it. After
the child had been with the woman a short time,
it aped that Mrs. Stokes told the prisoner that the
child could not walk, and that it was a great deal of
trouble, and she must have more money for taking care of
it. On the 2Uth of May, a few days. after Mrs. Stokes had
made this communication to the ,the latter went to
herhouar in the evening, and told or that she had gots place
where there were other children,and that she had pennuision
to have her child with her, and expressed her intention
to take it away at once. The child was at this time
undressed, arid, although it was a wet night, the
prisoner expreJscil a desire to take it away in that
state; but Mrs. Stokes refused to allow her to do
so, and put on the child's clothes, and the prisoner
then went out with it. The child was never again seen
alive, but about 6 o'clock on the morning of the thid of
May, a gardener named Alexander Clammy, who was
employed in the grounds belonging to Park-house, Fulham,"
found a parcel lying on the path, and upon
open g_ it he discovered the dead body of
a thud, wrapped up in cloth and paper, and
this turned out to be the child of Use prisoner she had
taken away from the woman Stokes a day or two before.
The surgeon who was called in to examine the child found
that all the organs were healthy, and he had no doubt that
death had been occasioned by suffocation from the
'learner in which the child had been enveloped in the
parcel. The dead body was perfectly naked when rt was dis-
covered, and it appeared that on the 2lat of May the
prisoner took the clothes it bad worn to a woman MIAMI
Biddieomb, and asked her to wash them for her,
saying at the same time that they were not
dirty, but she thought it better that they should
be washed. The medical gentlemen who was examined
stilted that the child was sown up so tightly in the cloth,
which was very thick and strong, that the nose was
pressed against the face, and mucus was coming from the
mouth and nose, and this had no doubt, m his opinion,
occasioned suffocation and death, and he said he could ace
nothing to indicate that the death bad been occasioned by
injuriee received from a fall.
Mr. Ribton addressed the jury at some length on behalf
of the prisoner. Before he muuncuaed he put a question
to Mr. Gilman, the surgeon of the gaol, in answer to which
he stated that the unhappy prisoner was at the present
time in the family way, and within a very few weeks of
her confinement. Ile then proceeded to remark upon the
melancholy and painful nature of the case, and he argued
that it was not at all improbable that the child might
have been accidentally suffocated while she was carrying
it along. . . . . .

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Sittings in Banco.—(lieforo Lord Chief Justice &mill and
Justices Ryles end Smith.)
mum r. TM! CHTIRCWwARDENS 01, BUNDRRIAND.

This matter came before the court upon a case stated
for the opinion of the judges, and which was iramed
for the purpose of obtaining a deci.Uon as to the construction
to to pieced upon the iatiug chiuseof the newEeform Act.
The Solicitor-Oesteral, a few days ago, applied to the
court to obtain priority of bearing, upon the ground that the
case was one of importance, and that public. interests would
Do much forwarded by au early decision. The court, how-
ever, on that occasion held that they could not give pre-
coda:we over all other cases which stood before it in the
paper, and therefore they declined to grunt the application.
Mr. Menial, Q.V., this morning made a similar appli-
(alien. He, mid that the question was whether the parish
officers were to rate the owners or the occupiers in caves
where houses were let in lodgings. In one parish in Sun-
derland there wore 4,000 lodgers on the rate-book and
10,600 in the whole borough. It was toned impossible to
collect the rates from these lodgers, and there were now
no less than 800 summonses for rates. Beyond that ques-
tion of rating there was that of registration, and the over-
seers were at a loss to know how they were to make up
the list of voters. The question affected not only Sunder-
land, but all the large towns in the kingdom; and he
believed that different courses of proceedings had been
adopted in different parts of the country.
the Lord Chief Justice said that he did not ilea how the
court could transact its business upon the principle of
taking the costs, in the order of their importance. The
proper course would be for the parties interested to take
the best legal opinion they could get and act upon it until
a decision could he obtained. This course had to he pur-
sued eometimes in even more important matters affecting
the question of peace or war.
'lke Solicitor-tlencrul said that what was so much de-
sired was to obtain the decision of this court to guide the
principle upon which the registration of voters should take
place in the autumn. As she • the importance of the
mutter, he might mention that he heard that in Lam-
beth alone there were 7,000 summonses fur rates, and a
similar state of things extended over a great part of the
country. A determination of the question would save vast
expense in summonses for rates, m registration awaits,
an most likely in parliamentary election inquiries.
The judge* consulted, and afterwards the Lord Chief
Justice said that as the case came forward under very
peculiar circumstances, the parties zciFht bring it on as a

-motion on some occasion. convenient Co themselves before
the end of term.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
KOPKIWS V. JAXISV.

Dr. Spinkg, Q.C., and Mr. Lord, for the plaintiff; Mr.
Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwick, for the defendant.

This wee an interest suit, the plaintiff praying that
letters of administration might he granted to her de Louis
non; and the defendant denying that she was a re-
lation of the intestate. This person was William
Hugheis who lived some years ago in London.
At his death, administration was taken out by
David Thomas, who claimed to be his cousin German,
and who had died leaving a portion of the estate unad-
ministered. The plaintiff was his sister, Mary Hopkins,
but her claim was resisted by Thomas James, a cousin-
gerruan once removed, who now alleged that Thomas and his
vevenoreightbrothersandsisterswere all illegitimate. The
cm.o, therefore, turned on the question whether the parents
of the plaintiff were married? The proceedings were
of a somewhat protracted nature, but devoid of the
smallest public interest. The marriage register was
not forthcoming • but it was suggested that con-
sidering the mode in which registers were kept
a century ago, nothing could be inferred from that
cimumstanee. It was also represented that the Thomases
were plow persons of the Methodist persuasion, and there-
fore the last persona in the world to be suspected of eon-
eithinage. On the other side there was some evidence of
persons having remonstrated with Thomas for not marry-
ing the woman he lived with.
(The ca.e was not concluded when our report left.]

Baron Pigott haring summed up, the jury found tho
prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and she was sentenced to
ten years penal servitude.

POLICE COURTS.--(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ifaig &tree, a paoatitute, and Jam Seas. a billiard
marker, were charged before Mr. Knox with dealing from
the person of Mr. Wooms (Thunder Bonargee, barrister,
of ho. 6, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, a pocket book con-
taining two sovereigns and six postage stamps.
Mr. Bonargce (who atlinned as a Quaker) said that about
half-past 12 that morning he was passing up Prince's-
street, Leicester-square, when he sew the primeness and an-
other female standing together on the pavement. The
female prisoner asked him to give her some drink, and put
her arms round him and began dancing, and hurriedly
left him and directly afterwards he missed his pocket-
book, and saw the female tumid it to the male. prisoner.
On going after the female prisoner, the male prisoner in-
tercepted him. Ho called " Polioe," and the prisoners
were taken into custody. The pocket-book lay upon the
ground.
The magistrate remanded the prisoners.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&
MARK-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
Coastwise, as well as by rail, the receipt, of wheat, fresh
up this morning, were tufting. in all descriptions sales
progressed slowly ; but Monday's advance in the quota-
tions was supported.
The supply of foreign wheat was seasonably extensive.
Not much animation was apparent in the deuianiL Prices,
however, ruled firm.
Fleeting cargoes of wheat were firmly held. Maize
and most other article., afloat were dull.
With barley the market was scantily supplied. The
trade was quiet on former terms.
Malt moved off slowly at late currencies.
Fine ems found buyers at full quotations, but heated
and inferior produce was easier to purchase.
Beans were dull on former terms.
Fens were neglected, at late rates.
No change took ',line in the value of 114/111, the cleinatul
for whrch was inactive.
For seeds, as well as cakes, the inquiry was heavy.
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN, &e., INTO LONDON BY WATER
nus WEEK.

- - —— Whno..—/J-arU y. al.& Uals. Dour.
qrs• qrs. qrs. qrs. bristIO
ak.
Earir-h Er Fectehl 000 10 910 ... S
Iri,tl I'll)
f oatigs I ...
9640 9470 ... woo 100
iiio
,- -
Total . . ' 9640 0160 970 10180' ... i 610

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(BY TELEOIL&PN.)
(TROY 017 N OWN COARZSPONDRNT.)
The market rather better. Sales about 8,000 bales.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Tiu• market is steady. Town tallow. 41s. 3d. ; Peters-
burg Y.C., on the spot, 434. 6d. ; June, 435. 6d. ; Outober
to December, 43e. ed. to 9d. ; December, 43a. 9d. to 44%
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
NNW*. Pattenden and Smith report trade quiet, quota-
tions remaining unchanged.

COAL MARKET.— (THIS DAY.)
Walls End Bleu Main, 16e. 3d. ; Wattle End Framwoll-
gate, Ids. tid. Wa/bo End Wharnelitle, 15e. &I. Walk
End Heugh Hall, 17s. 9d. ; Walls End Huddle.; Hartley,
lea. M.; Holywell, 15a. ; West Hartley, 16e. 6d. —Shape at
market, 41 ; at aea, 3.

M. Taine was nnuried at Paris on Monday to
Mdlle. Benuelle in the Foreign Missions Mural. MM.
Henan, Vacherot, Cl,. Edmoud, Berthelot, and many
other celebrities iu literature, art, and science, were
present.

A panorunin of the Isthmus of Suez, represent-
ing the works executed by the company of M. F. deLeseeps,
has been brought out in Paris. Before the public were
admitted, M. de Isomer, invited the members of the press
to the panorama, and intimated to them that "it was but
the beginning of the voyage which the company was
going to organise next year."
Gnemsey }faces are flied for the Bth ancr9th
of July.

PRINCE NAPOLEON'S JOURNEY.--The 1144Ppen-
rfsber lir* amp that Prince Napoleon win prolong his
stay at Vienna until Saturday next. During the week he
is to make an excursion as far as Prague.

TIIK 1,1:7:7iS 11.11.7 i POINIERIES.

FXTRAORDINARY PROCEL►DISGii AT THE
CENTRAL CHD4OTAT, OOURT. -(THTS DAY.)

7ho trial of Mr. Edgck•y for conspiring, with other p.+r-
eon•, to defraud the Lewis Thinking Company of m me than
100,00 W., was apecially fixed for trial to-day, and at the
eating of the court the drfcrndant was called upon to
surrender. _

lir. F. It. Lewis applied. on the part of the defendnnt,
that the ease should he p..tponed. on the ground that
Mr. Edgeley was very ill. and quite unable to attend.
He only asked that the ease might stand over to the next
day.

kr. Poland said that the ease was specially lilted to he
talon to-day, and all the witnene, for the prosecution
were in attendance. The came had already stood over for
gluey umuths, and enormous exmaime had haen incurred.
He urged. therefore, that the trial ought to peewee{
Baron Pigott laid that before he ahoul consent to a
further postponement, he should certainly require an affi-
davit as to the condition of the defendant. He added
that all he would do watt to allow the application to stand
neer fur n short time to afford an opportunity for an ern-
davit to he prepared. and if that was not a straightforwanl
one, he should certainly direct a warrant to he issued for
the apprehension of the defendant.
In the course of the day the defendant appeared in
court, and, at the conclusion of the case that was under
ineatigutiun, Mr. Lewis reimwed his application for a
poktponement of the trial to the following day.
Baron Pigott said it appeared to him that the proceed-
ing was a very extraordinary one. It was represented to
him earlier in the day that the defendant was so ill that it
w:l3 impossible fur him to attend, and he was informal
that he wan now in court. He could not see why the
trial should not at awe proceed.
Mr. Poland mill that his learned leader, Mr. Giffard,
Q.C., was not present, and be had uo objection to the
trial being postponed to the following day.
Baron Pigott inquired of Mr. Lewis whether lie thought
it probable that the defendant would he well enough to
appear to-morrow and tako his trial.
Dlr. F. H. Lewis said he was quite unable to answer
the question. (A laugh.)
After wine further diaeumion, the learned judge fixed
the trial peremptorily for to-morrow morning, at 10
o'clock.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.

The markets for public securities remain flat, and
prices have experienced a fresh reduction. The
advices from abroad are considered less satisfactory,
while the influx of gold to the Bank of England
has greatly diminished. A further considerable
total, however, is expected to be taken
to that establishment, there being little or
no demand for bullion for exportation.
Consols are still offered, and exhibit a fresh re-
duction of to per cent. The Three per
Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents.
arc lower. Railway stocks have declined
in several cases, though not to any im-
portant extent. As regards foreign bonds, the most
noteworthy change is a fall of per cent. in
Italian of 1861, upon the announcement from
Florence that the income-tax will be applied
to all scrip of the debt, whether held by
Italians or foreigners. Otiomon Bank shares have
receded, the dividend just announced having dis-
appointed some of the speculators for a rise.
The applications for discount are still upon a
very moderate scale, and transactions are reported
in bills at 11 per cent., or I below the Bank
1,01111.7141,11.

Consuls are quoted 943 to 3, ex div., for money,
94 to 95, ex div., for the account (July 9), and
the Throe per Cents. Reduced and New Three
per Cents., 943 to 3.
Home railway stocks are fiat, the transac-
tions consisting mostly of sales. London
and North Western, Great Western, Mid-
land, South Eastern, and Lancashire and
Yorkshire have declined 3 to 3 per cent., while
London, Chatham, and Dover has improved 1.
Subjoined are the prices : —Caledonian, 741 to 734 ;
London and North Western, 1163 to I ;
Great Western, 533 to 3: Midland, 1063
to 3 ; London and South Western, 9.24
to 931 ; Great Eastern, 353 to 1, ; Brighton, 521
to j ; South Eastern, 753 to 761, ex deb.; Metro-
politan, 1103 to 3 ; Great Northern, 103 to 3 ;
ditto A, 963 to 3 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
203 to 3; Lanosshire and Yorkshire, 129; to 3 ;
York and North Midland, 94 to 3 ; Berwick, 1033
to 104 ; and North British, 333 to 34.
Foreign stocks show an unfavourable tendency.
Italian Bonds of 1861 are steady, and have fallen
2 per oent., the present price being 313 to 3. RIM-,
mien of 1866 are quoted 883 to 3, showing
a decline of 1; Brazilian of 1863, 77 to
3, being 3 lower ; Spanish of 1887, 37; to
3—a reduction of 3. Chilian of 1867, 953 to 96 ;
Egyptian of 1864, 81 to 82 ; Mexican, 163
to 3 ; Greek, 14 to 3 ; Peruvian of 1865, 873 to 88 ;
Orel Vitabek,Bo to 3—a rise of „; Turkish of 1838,
823 to 631 ; ditto of 1862, 641 to 651 ; and ditto
of 1865, 383 to 3.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock is quoted 114;
to 115; the Four, 1041 to 103, being 3 per cent.
lower ; the Bonds, 308. to 358. prem. ; and the
Debentures, 105 to 1. Exchequer Bills have im-
proved Is., viz., to 15s. to 19e. prem. Bank Stock,
247 to 249.

In the market for bank shares, Imperial Otto-
man have declined 2s. 6d. to 55., the present
price being 1 to 14 prem. ; London and West-
minster, 711 to ; London and County, .121 to 1;
Union of London, 344 to 331 ; Anglo-Austrian,
Zbl to 3 prom ; London and Brazilian, 30 to 25
dis. ; and Consolidated, Ito prem.

The amount of business in miscellaneous shares
is limited, but Hudson's Bay are 2a. 6d. higher, at
161 to a. National Discount, 8 to 1 prem. ;
General Credit, 21 to 21 dia. ; Credit Foncier,
31 to 1 per share; International Financial, 11
to 11 dis. ; London, 21 to 19 dis. ; Egyptian
Trading, 5 to 4i dia. ; Telegraph Construction,
141 to 4 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cont. Pre-
ference, 41 to 31 ; and Anglo-American, 221 to 4.
United States 5-20 Bonds have receded 1
per cent.— viz., 721 to 73. Erie Rail-
way shares are at 454 to 461; Illinois Central,
101 to 1, being 1 per cent. better; Atlantic
and Great Western Debentures, 29 to ; and the
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 33 to 1.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The Stock markets are rather firmer. Console
have risen k per cent. for money, viz.
to 941 to 93, but are unaltered for
the account, at 941 to 93. The Three per
Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. are
higher, the present price being 941 to 1.
The variations in railways comprise an ad-
vance of 1 in Great Western and Great Northern
A, and a reduction of k in Great Eastern, South
Eastern, and London, Chatham, and Dover. Foreign
bonds are inquired for; and Italian of 1881, Peru-
vian of 1863, Spanish of 1867, and Turkish of 186.1
have improved 1 to 1.

FOUR O'CLOCK.

Consols are in recres , and exhibit a fresh rise
of per cent., viz., to 94 for money, and 84 to
for the account.

Railway stocks have advanced to # per cent.
since half-past 1 o'clock. Metropolitan, 110 i to
; Brighton, 52,i to 1 ; South Eastern, 781 to ;
Midland. 1001, to 1074 ; Caledonian, 74} to 731 ;
London and North Western, 1161 to 1; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1291 to 1 ; and Great Western,
53a to A.

The foreign stock market is also firm, and prices
have risen per cent. in several cwws. Italian of
1861, 411 to 42 ; Orel, 79/ to 801; Nicholni,
to 1 ; New Spanish, 37/ to 381 ; and Turkish of
1864, 38; to

No bullion operations have occurred at the Bank
to-day.