The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

NATAL PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, Aug. 23.
Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds 'arising from the Russian schooner
Volga, captured on the 19th June, 1854, by her Majesty's
ships Miranda and Eurydice.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
Mend unliquidated against the said proceeds are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
• and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said court.
• Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little
delay as possible, to transmit the same. accompanied
by the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the
Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House."
• Due notice will be given, by future advertisenients in
' the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective classes
, will be announced.

•
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-House, August 23.
Notice iv hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
. that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of pi oceeds arising from the undermentioned prizes,
captured on the 24th Aug., 1851, by her Majesty's ship
Miranda :

Russian brigantine Dwina.
Schooner Bogmoja Nadeschda.
•
Agents or other persons haviqg any just and legal de-
- inand,unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
• to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
' gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
and paid under the sanction of the judge of the said court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
belonging to any captor, are requested with as little delay
as' possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
`docnnients, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
`ACcountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house.

• Dne notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
-amount of an individual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.

`33oParttneut of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Notice' Admiralty,- Svmerset-bouse, Aug. 23.
•that .-z hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
preparations are now making for the intended distri-
-bution of premeds arising from the undermentioned prizes,
,captured‘on the 17th April, 1854, by her Majesty's ship
Conflict:;Burmanprize Carl Magnus, ditto Catherine
,Charlotte, Industre, John. •
Agents er other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
-quired to transmit the particular, of any.such demand to
the Registrar of the, High Court of Admiralty, in order
:that the same Way De examined, taxed, and allowed by
that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.
Agents and all other persona holding Powers of attorney,
prize ardere, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
.af
which they
may birlegally entitled to claim the share be-
*longing' to any captor, are requested, with as little delay as
Possille, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents; to-the Prize Branch of the Department of the
." Accountant-Gener I of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
louse."
louse."
t,
hDue notice will be given, by future, advertisements in
e London Gazette of the date proposed for the cum-
lnencement of distribution: and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's
share in the respective classes 1
mill be announced.'

• Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy.
• Admiralty, tiomerset-Tionse, Aug, 23.
- Notice is hereby given, to all persons
interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-

ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE.

bution of proceeds arising from the Nyverdal, captured
on the 18th June, 1851, by her Majesty's ships Conflict
and Crnizer. Our columns (says the Manchester Guardian)
have re-
Agents or other persons having any just and legal do- .
ctly contained several advertisement. for a .wife ; and
the particulars of any such demand to
wand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit of some of these certein wags in Rochdale have taken
a
the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty,
iin order advantage to play off some very successful hoaxes on the
that the same may be examined, taxed, allowed by advertisers, One of these would-be Benedicks, in con-
that officer, and paid under the sanction of the judge of sequence of a correspondence with a Mi-s " Lavinia,"
the said court. j proceeded the other day to Tweedale's Hotel, Rochdale,
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney, in the hope of meeting the fair one who had so kindly
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue responded to his pressing invitation to give him an inter-
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little de- view ;but, though he displayed the tokens previously
agreed upon no " Lavinia " met his expectant gaze.
Illy as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the His disappointment, however, was somewhat lessened
usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department
of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, by a young gentleman greeting him by name, and intro-
Somerset House." ducing himself as a brother of the young lady, for whose
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in absence he proceeded to apologise. Another gentleman
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the corn- entered, who was introduced as a second brother of
meeeement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the "Lavinia ;" and he was speedily followed by a third, a
amount of an individual's share in the respective classes fourth, and so on, till the candidate for matrimony might
will be announced.
have exclaimed with Macbeth-7--
A fourth ! Start eyes !
What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom !
Another yet t A seventh ! I'll see no more.
Suffice it, that, before all the fifty brothers of Lavinia
had been introduced, the advertiser became rather pain-
fully sensible of the fact that he hail been most vexa-
tiously duped. One of the brothers, stepping upon a
chair, read aloud, amidst much laughter, ail the corres-
pondence which had passed between the gentleman and
the "lovely young Lavinia." The advertiser, though
said to be an extensive vinegar manufacturer, manifested
no acidity on the occasion ' • on the contrary, he frankly
acknowledged that he had been taken in, and threw
down a sovereign to be spent by the extensive brother-
hood. He added that he had that morning, at the Vic-
toria Railway station, Manchester, met the seventeenth
lady who had replied to his advertisement, and there
were others with whom lee-had not yet had the pleasure
of an interview ; but it was his intention, when he had
seen them all, to select theYine he most approved, and
honourably to marry her. The gentleman was then al-
lowed to retire, amidst the laughter, mingled with ap-
plause, of the fraternity of fifty ! Another advertise-
ment was answered in the name of Miss "Annie Wcod-
ville • " some correspondence ensued as to marriage and
its relative duties ; but the " lady " having ventured to
suggest an interview in Rochdale, the advertiser took
alarm, and wrote to her, acknowledging the kind atten-
tion shown to him, but intimating that he was in the
habit of rising too early in a .morning to be induced to
pay a visit to Rochdale. Another adventure proved
more successful. All the preliminaries in the case having
been satisfactorily settled, an arrangement was made for
the advertiser to meet the lady whe.had favourably re-
sponded to his appeal. Here is the literal copy of his
letter, accepting the invitation to an interview :
" Manchester, the 31st of August, 1855.—Dear Wo-
man,—l received yours at the Guardian office of the
20th, to which I reply how that I will meet you, at the
Rochdale station at 12 of the o'clock, on Thursday next,
ensuing the date hereof.—N.B. You may recogeise me,
with a piece of writing paper something like your note,
carrying it in my right hand, hanging it down at full
length of the aim, by my side.—From L. 98.—J KAY."
On the receipt of this interesting illiterate epistle, a
female servant at one of the hotels in Rochdale was in-
duced to personate Mr. J. K.'s fair correspondent, and
after a brief interview at the Rochdale railway station,
where he appeared making the signal described, he con-
sented to accompany the lady to Tweedale's Hotel.—the
head quarters, it would seem, for these tender meetings.
On arriving there he was received by a number of gen-
tlemen assembled, with such marks of attention as soon
convinced him that he was caught in a snare nrrnatrimo-
nial, and he became very desirous to retire, but his
friends were reluctant to lose his agreeable company so
soon. The bellman was sent round the town with the fol-
lowing announcement: " On view, agentleman in want of
a wife. May be seen at No. 3, Tweedale's Hotel." This
brought a large accession-Of admiring friends, and One nt
the company having adroitly, and unperceived by Mr. 5.
Kay, stuck a white war or cockade on the front of bis
hat, he was readily distinguished, and received his
complement of undivided attention. Visitors flocked
into the room in rapid succession, each in turn being in-
troduced by a master of the ceremonies to the gentle-
man who had advertised for a wife. This continued till
it was too much for the endurance of Mr. J. Kay ; he
became ill, wept, and implored permission to depart ;
and at length, after having been detained several hours,
he was allowed to go, on paying for a bottle of wine to
solace his tormentors. A few more such denouem,ents,
and who would advertise for a wife

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, Aug. 23.
Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Danish schooner
Themis, captured on the 25th June, 1854, by her Majesty's
ship Cruiser.

Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the
registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that
the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that
officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the
said Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the sham
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay
as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house.

Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an in.livilual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.

BANKRUPTS.
George Sato Bayley, commission agent, Crown-court,
Philpot-lane, to surrender, Sept, 5, at eleven, and Oct. 8,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Reed, Ironmonger-lane.
Joseph Miller, fishmonger, Piccadilly, Sept. 5, at one,
and Oct. 12, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Reed,
Ironmonger-lane.

,
John Wise, coal merchant, Bournemouth, Hants, Sept.
4 and Oct. 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basinghall-atreet; Chapple, Great
Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons.
Ellis Cutlan, cabinet maker, Newport, Sept. 10 and
Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Nash, Bristol.
Robert Wall, saddler, Piccadilly, Sept. 11, at twelve,
and Oct. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Rt.
wards, official assignee, Sambrook-Court; itobinson, Half
moon-street, Piccadilly.
_ _ _

Edward Firmin Ellis, stockbroker, Hendon, Middlesex,
Sept. 12, at twelve, Oct. 12, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Murray, London-street, Fenchurch-street.
Thomas Edward Shales, linen draper, Brighton, Sept.
11 anti Oct. 2, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Ashurst, Son, and Morris,
Old Jewry.
Edward Roberts, licensed victualler, Stretford, Lanca-
shire, Sept. 7 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Atherton,
Manchester.

Samuel Jennings the younger, carver and gilder, Dos-
well-street, Sept. 11, at half-past ..two, and Oct. 6, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee,
Alderuianbury ; Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house,
London.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Skinner, builkler,lGlasgow ; to meet at Brown
and Macindoe's Rooms, Vincent street, Glasgow.
Alex. Morton, manufacturer, Kilmarnock, Sept. 7, at
one, within the Black Bull Hotel, Kilmarnock.
David Smith, merchant, Leith, Sept. 6, at one, within
the New Ship Hotel, Shore, Leith.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— This DAY.
Amsterdam .. ........ 11 16% Gibraltar .. . 1
...
Ditto, three months .. 11 1814 Leghorn .. •• • .
.. 30
Rotterdam ............ 11 1,14 Genoa
.... 25 4714
Antwerp .............: 25 •• 2 li, , Milan ...............•
Brussels ........
Hamburgh
Altona .. .. .. —., .. .... , Palermo .... ...... .. 13254
Paris •••• • • • • ... •••• • . .. 25 15 f Messina ... ••• 132%
Ditto, three months .. 25 40 I Lisbon ..
Marseilles .............' 25 40 ,1 Oporto ...........• •• •• 5314
I Rio Janeiro ...... •• —..
Bourde4ux .. • • ... .....
Frankfort-on M sine • ... 118% Buenos Ayres..... •.. —
Berlin .. .. ...... .... !New York, 60 days' sight
Vienna ............ .. —ll 37 !Philadelphia ..........
Trieste........ •• •• .... 1138 I
i PRICES or 1117LIICN, PER oz.
Petersburg ............ 3514 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ........... .... 50% ; Portugal Gold Coin
Cadiz ..........
Barcelona ............ ! New Dollars ..... - 0 0 0
Seville ...... ........._ I Sliver in bars ...... 0 5 1

MARK ET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, 4/ 03 to 6/ ; new
ditto, 41 lOs to 5/ 12s; old et0v....,, 4/ lOs to 6/ 15s ; new
ditto, 4/ 10s to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s Od to 1/ 83 Od per
loafl, Trade rather dull.

- .
CIIMBEALAND.—OId meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 6/ 6s : new
ditto 4/ Rs to 5/ 15s; old clover, 4, lOs to 6/ 12s ; and new
into, 4/ 12s to 6l Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 103 per loao.
A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 4' 5s to 6' 03 new
ditto, 4/ lOs to 5/ 15s ; old etov , 4/ lOs to 71 Os ; new
ditto, 4/ 15s to 61 8s; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 8i per loud
Trade steady.

TBE SUN, LON DON, TUESDAY P. V Lot AUGUST 28 lBB3.
--SHARE MARKETS.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

•
LAMBETH.—Joha Knight. driver of the hackney
cab, No. 783, appeared before Mr. Elliott, to answer to
a summons taken out against him by Carteret John
William Ellis, Esq , of 4, Thurlow-place, Norwood, for
using abusive and insulting language to him against the
statute.

•I nAILWAIt,

Mr. Ellis, who described himself as a magistrate, de-
posed that on the 21st inst. the defendant drove him
from Catherine-street, Strand, to Stock well, and de-
manded 2.. as his fire. Witness told him he was a ma-
gistrate, and knew what the fare was, and he sh•)uld not
give him more. He then gave him ls. 6d., but the de-
fendant still insisted on the 25., and showed his book
of fares, and certainly offered to go to the station-
house. He again told him he was a magistrate, upon
which he said that all magistrates were against cabmen,
and that he did not believe him to be a magistrate.
These observations he considered not only exceed-
ingly impertinent to himself, but a calumny on jus-
tice, and he told the defendant at the time that he should
punish him for his abuse and insult.

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In cross-examination by Mr. Russell, for the defendant,
it was elicited that the defendant had on the preceding
Saturday summoned the complainant to this court for
the fare claimed and withhel,l, and obtained a decision
in his favour. The complainant also admitted that he
called the defendant a liar. The foreman of defendant's
employer gave him a most excellent character.
Mr. Elliott said that the complainant, had himself
made use of expressions such as he should not expect fr,,m
hie', and of so provoking a character as to take the case
out of the statute, and it was then-fore dismissed.
George Warren, a potman at the Grosvenor Arms
publichouse, on Peckham Rye, was charged with inde-
cently assaulting and attempting to rob Miss Maria Mur-
rell, a young lady on a visit with her fri mds in Peckham-.
The prosecutrix, a w.ll-dressed and good-looking
young woman, deposed that about 11 o'clock on the pre-
ceding night she got out of an omnibus, as she thought,
near to the residence of her sister, with whom she was
stopping ; but rot knowing the neighbourhood she lost
her way, and got into a gentleman's garden, where she
sat for some time on a seat. On leaving she met two men,
the prisoner and another, and asked them the way to
Well Cottages. The prisoner said they were not far off,
and offered to show her the may. He then gave a can
which he carried to his friend, and walked with her un-
til they reached a piece of waste ground, and then she
felt his hand in her pocket. She instantly caught hold
of the bottom part of her pcket, but in the struggle he
tore away several of the gathers of her frock and petti-
coat, but she still retained possession of her purse. The
prisoner at this place became very rude to her, pulled
her about a good deal, and commi.ted an indecent assault
on her, though she endeavoured to prevent him as much
as possible. She endeavoured to get away, and asked
the prisoner to allow her to go, but he kept hold of her,
and she was so frightened that she could not call out.
Mr. Elliott—You say he indecently assaulted you.
What did he do ?

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Cheshire Junet
Do.- Chesil. & Birk.:
trod £25 Cons
Do., £2o. .....
Myth & Tyna origins
£25 (issd. at £45:
Bristol and Exeter

Caledonian • 1,,
Carmarthen and Car
digan
Chester & Holyhead
eiork and Bandon
Cork, Black, & Pm.>
C)rnwall

50 all
l 0 all
?,0 16
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50 45
all

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Dundee PerthdrAb,
<leen Junction

Miss Murrell—He put his hands up my petticoats.
I ran away from him once, hut he followed me, and
pulled my cape off. I kept his hands away as weir as I
could, and he tore my petticoat. I here missed my pa-
rasol, and went hack to the gentleman's garden where
I had left it. The prisoner followed me, but stopped at
the gate, and soon after I saw a policeman, to whom I
spoke, It might at that time he one o'clock.
Police Constable George Walton, 181 P, said that
about a quarter to one on that morning he saw the pro-
secutrix and prisoner together, and the former, address-
ing him, asked if he knew where she could get a he 1.
She was crying at the time, and (he witness) told her
she bad better go home, as it would not be easy to get
a bed at that late hour. She said she wanted to get
away from the prisoner, who, she was afraid, would
go home with her if she went there, and therefore
she did not like to go. Witness then t.,1.1 th. pri-
soner to go about his business, and he did so, and
when he was gone the prosecutrix told him (witness)
that the man had very much ill-treated her, and at-
tempte s to rob her of her pur=e. He in consequence fol-
lowed the prisoner, and took him into custody,
The prisoner denied attempting to rob the lady, but if
he had done anything else he hoped the lady would for-
give him, as he was a married man with a wife and two
children.

Mr. Elliott expressed much surprise that the prosecu-
trix had not called out or appealed to some person or
persons for assistance before, and given the prisoner into
custody, and ultimately remanded the accused.

SOUTHWARK.—John Dudley and Ann Dudley, his
wife, were charged with unlawfully selling gin to Mary
Ann Cooper, at No. 10, Flint-street, Southwark.
Mary Ann Cooper said that she and her husband lived
at 5, Union-street, Borough. The previous night, about
a quarter to 12 she went nut with a decanter to purchase
some gin, but she found the public houses closed. She
consequently asked a person where she could purchase
some gin, when that party told her she would he sure
to get some in Friar-street or Flint-street. She then
went up the latter street, and saw the female prisoner
standing at the door of No. 10. The prisoner immedi-
ately asked her to walk in, and then took a bottle from
a cupboard, and emptied a quantity of gin into witness's
decanter. She wanted some inure, but the prisoner had
no more in the bottle, and witness then handed seven-
pence-halfpenny for it, and went away. She had not
gone many yards betore she met a constable, who stop-
ped her, and they both returned to the house, when both
prisoners were given into- custody. The witness here
said she did not pay for the gin, neither did the female
ask for any money, but she put the sevenpenee-half-
penny in the band of a child sbe had in her arms. She
had known the prisoners some time as neighbour?, and
she considered that the gin was only given to her as an
a7.commodation.

Mr. Seeker said he had no donbt that the case was
fully proved against the female ; therefore he should fine
her 251. or three months, and the man must be dis-
charged.

SPORTING, INTEL bIOISNUE.,

TATTEP.SALL'S.-:ViONDAY.

Very little betting—the attention of the subscribers,
who mustered numerously, being chiefly occupied with
the York accounts. Many balance sheets, however, re-
main uncleared, for "money came slowly in."
The whole of the betting which came under notice may
be thus briefly described :

BT. LEGER.
5 to 2 to various sums, and 200 to Ino taken about ?-00
Rifleman-4 to 1 and 7to 2 (the higher quo4-ati u being
in hundreds) taken about Lord of the Isles-7 to 2 100
offered against Oulston-12 to 1, to 350/., and 10 t) 1, 05
to 175/., taken about Grmlulus E.urienq-600 to 50
about 111archioness—and 40 to 1, to a pony or two, about too
Herald.

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
375 to 25 taken about Midsummer.
CESAREWITCH.
40 to 1 each apt Balrownie, Shoreham, Goorkah, and
The Kaffir, taken-50 to 1 each arrst AlonarquQ, Mus-
covite, Mortimer (by Alarm), and Calarnus, taken.

DERBY.
1,000 to 100 apt Fly-by-Night (taken).

RADCLIFFE RACES.—MONDAY.
The Stand Plate. One mile.

Romeo
Salmon
Vanessa

2 [OO
3 100
00

Seven tan.
Two-year-old Stakes. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. J. Osborne's Alfred, by Birilcatcher
Mr. G. J. Newt,,n'm Kitty, by Beiram or Nutwith
'2O
Two ran. Won easily.
Wilton Cup. Two miles and a distance. ;0
Yorkshire Grey . 1 to
Bracey
3 20
Pbosnix
Cardsharper

Four ran.

EGHAM RA
Weights for the Betting Stl
quz.rteri

CES.—AuG 30.
End Plate of 60 sous. Three-
of a mile.

Age st lb
Noisette 5 8 7
Wait-a• While
Falcon
Victory (h b) 6 8 2
Gnssip
Tom Burke
Pyrois 4 7 121
Alfred the Great 6 7 10
To bolsk

Age st lb
Banßtea,fl
Duke of Lancaster 4 7 7
Brown Brandy
Gay 3 6 11
Freckle
Van Brakel
Haunch of Veni-

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Swaicliffe

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Si. 100
20 AD
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this day.

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