The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ocr. 2.
John Henry Temple Torrens Browne, a young man
holding the situation of a clerk in the Slave Compen-
sation Office, applied for his discharge.
The insolvent had been an officer in the Spanish
army, and having a claim on the Government two of his
creditors applied to the Court for the assigneeship, as
they thought Spanish affairs were now looking brighter.
He had also a salary of 1201. a year from his situation
in the Foreign Office. The detaining creditor applied
to the Court that a small portion of the salary be set
aide for the benefit of the creditors, the insolvent being
an unmarried man.

Commissioner REYNOLDS asked the insolvent what
amount he was willing to set aside for the benefit of his
creditors?

The Insolvent-201. a year. I have already offered
that sum.

Commissioner REYNOLDS—WeII, that is a very fair
offer.

The COURT then stated that they would not appoint
an assignee, but the officer of the Court would receive
the money, and pay it to the creditors, for they found
that assignees sometimes neglected their duties and be-
came bankrupt, or the money was swallowed up in
attorneys' bills.
The case was then adjourned, in order that a creditor
might be served. The insolvent was out on bail.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-STREET.

FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING MEDICAL CERTIFI-
CATES.—A medical gentleman, named Roycroft, ap-
plied yesterday to the Chief Clerk at Bow-street, to
obtain his advice under the following circumstances :
About a month since an advertisement appeared in the
Lancet for a medical attendant to a Dispensary in the
country, and requiring certificates and testimonials, to
be left for Mr. Thomas, at the Lancet office. Mr.
Roycroft, and three or four other medical gentlemen
left their testimonials, which were taken away by a per-
son culling himself Mr.
.Thomas, who produced a letter
from Dr. Ingleby, of Birmingham, authorizing him to
receive the testimonials. This letter, it has since been
discovered, is a forgery. The applicant further stated
that Mr. Wakley, the Editor of the Lancet, had kindly
undertaken to use every exertion for the recovery of the
certificates, and had promised to insert an advertisement
in the Lancet to that effect.

Mr. Burnaby told the applicant that the offence did
not come within that class which might be published in
the Hue and Cry, but recommended him, in the event
of his not recovering his certificates, to make an affidavit
before the Magistrates, which he was satisfied would
induce the Medical Board at the Surgeons' and Apothe-
caries' Hall to renew the certificates.

The applicant having thanked Mr. Burnaby, then
withdrew.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE NEW POLICE ACT—ASSAULTING THE Po-
LlCE.—Thomas a respectable tradesman, re-
siding in the neighbourhood, was placed at the bar on
the following charge :
Police-constable No. 72, C division, stated that at
about half-past one yesterday morning, while on duty
in Regent-street, he observed the defendant and two
other persons of respectable appev.rance, walking on the
footway pavement, and insulting and pushing against
any persons they happened to meet with. He desired
them to pass quietly on, when they all three commenced
assaulting him in a brutal manner, threw him down with
great violence, and while on the ground kicked
him several times about the head, face, and body. His
hat fell off in the scuffle, and the defendant gave him a
most violent kick on the top of-his head, which lacerated
the scalp quite through to the bone of the skull, and be
was obliged to obtain surgical assistance. He, however,
contrived to secure the defendant, but his companions
effected their escape. The defendant pleaded intoxi-
cation, and said he was very sorry for his misconduct.
Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate—l am bound to
protect officers in the proper discharge of their duties to
the public. The assault was wanton and unprovoked,
and I fine you 405., and in default of payment you will
be committed for one month.

The defendant was locked up until he could send home
for the money.
John Houghton, a man of respectable appearance,
was fined 10e. for wlntonly ringing the door bell of
No. 9, Peter-street, Soho, at half-past one o'clock yes-
terday morning.
Mr. DYER said the Magistrates were determined to
put an end to this silly and annoying practice.
James Temple, who is known as an occasional
preacher at a conventicle in the neighbourhood, and
.vho was primly dressed in black, was tined ss. for being
found drunk in Rupert street, and incapable of taking
care of himself, at balf•past two yesterday morning.
Mary Tunstell, a respectable married woman, was
fined 10s. for being found drunk in the street, at twelve
o'clock on Tuesday night, and using insulting language at
the station-house.

The defendant said she had no money, and she well
knew her husband would not pay it for her.
She was committed for three days.

HAT TON-GARD EN.

ASSAULTING A BROKER.—.I. Hader, his wife, his
son, and his daughter, and lff. Bar, a bird fancier,
were placed at the bar, charged with violently as-
,;aulting and ejecting two broker's men from the pre-
tnises of Hader.

It appeared from the evidence that the landlord
of Hader, who was in arrears for rent, had placed
a broker in possession of his goods, and that last
night the defendant Bar, for whom Hader was making
some bird-cages, came to Hader's house, having been
sent for to get away the bird-cages, and, according to
:he broker's account, Bar, who is a first-rate pugilist,
joined with the prisoners in a violent attack on the
)roker, who called for the assistance of the police, and
they were all taken into custody.
The prisoners said they were all drinking together,
and that what was done was merely in joke.
Mr. COMBE ordered each of the prisoners to pay a
fine of ten shillings, or in default be imprisoned ten days.
OUTRAGEOUS AND COWARDLY ASSAULT.—Robert
Banks, a respectable looking young mats, who de-
scribed himself as an undertaker, was charged with as-
a.alting Bridget Shecan.

The prosecutrix stated that, as she was passing down
Litee Coram-street, on Tuesday afternoon about four
o'clock, the prisoner, who was intoxicated, accosted her,
and jostled her ; that, on remonstrating with him, he
commenced abusing her on account of her country, and
then struck her to the ground with a blow of his fist.
Inspector Campbell, who was passing by at the time
in plain clothes, witnessed the whole transaction, and
took the prisoner into custody as he was about to
repeat the blow.
The prisoner said he was very sorry, but the prose-
cutrix bad abused him violently. _ .

The Inspector said she was well-known in the neigh.
bourhood as an honest and virtuous woman.

Mr. COMBE commented very severely on the pri-
soner's atrocious conduct, and sentenced him to pay a
fine of 31., or to be imprisoned three munths.
SHOPLIFTING.—Mary Guy, .1 most respectable look-
ing woman, was plaoed at the bar, remanded from
*Tuesday, on a charge of stealing several quantities of
riband, and two yards and a half of silk, the property
of George Evans, a linen draper, residing at 149 and
.15t1, Tottenham-court-road.

James Creighton Nelson is shopman to Mr. Evans.
On Monday the prisoner came into the shop, and wit-
ness served her with some calico. She asked to see
some riband. He showed her some, and observed her
secrete the riband produced. Told the foreman of it.
On attempting to quit the shop, she was taken into the
counting-house mid accused, and she gave up the riband.
W. H. Drover knows the prisoner, as a customer at
Mr. Evans's shop, where he is an assistant. About
three weeks ago was serving her with some silk, on
which occasion he miss:A the remnant produced, which
was found by the policeman at the prisoner's lodgings.
He mentioned the circumstance at the time it occurred,
in order to put others in the shop on their guard, but did
not like to accuse the prisoner, as she was a respectable
person.
Mr. Thomas Tomkinson is a pianoforte maker. Pri
goner has lived on his premises for 21 years with her
husband, who is in his employ ; has trusted her confi-
dentially, and has the greatest confidence in her honesty.
The prisoner, who seemed dreadfully affected, begged
for mercy, as it was her first offence.
Mr. G. Evans, the owner of the shop, on being bound
over to prosecute, said that he wished not to prosecute,
as it would put him to great inconvenience.
Mr. COMBE—Is that the only reason ? I have heard
something else. Mr. Evans—That is my only reason.
Mr. COMBE---I believe you have received two papers ?
Mr. Evans—Yes, I have. •
Mr. ComBE---I will not allude more particularly to
it unless you are desirous of my doing so ; but you
must give up those papers to the Inspector, and the
whole of that transaction must be considered at an end.
Mr. Evans then promised to give up the documents
to Inspector Campbell, and was bound over to prosecute.
Tile prisoner was then fully committed for trial.

UNION-HALL.
ROBBERY AT MESSRS. BARCLAY'S, THE BREWERS.--
The three men, Reece, Magrath, and Jones, who were
charged on 'Monday with robbing Messrs. Barclays, of
thirteen gallons of beer, were placed in the dock yester-
ddy, shortly after one o'clock.
Mr. HUMPHRIES, on the' part of the Messrs.
Barclay, stated that he had no further evidence to offer,
and after a short conversrtiou between Mr. CLARKSON
and the prosecutors,
Mr. TRAILL fully committed them for trial.

BRIGHTON RAIL WA Y.—Notwitstanding the
repeated depression in the Money Market, we hear
that the shareholders of this railway have responded to
the call just made on them in a very prompt manner.
Railway Magazine.
So bountiful has been the supply of herrings,
that at Scarborough they have been sold at 6s. per
thousand. One yaul brought in 90,000 herrings.

IMPROVED PRISON DISCIPLINE.

Our townsman, Mr. Cromhie, pointed to a man,
on Saturday week, standing behind a drove of
cattle, who for three successive years was much
oftener within than without the Dumfries gaol.
Under the old system he was tolerably well fed, with
nothing to do ; and this mode of life, with liberty to
loiter about in the court-yard, he preferred vastly to
lawful industry. The prison to him was a perfect
palace, and the moment one period of incarceration
expired, he contrived to commit another petty theft,
as the readiest means of getting back to his old quar-
ters. From his connection with the Town Council,
Mr. C. and the cattle driver were old acquaintances;
and beingcurious to know whether hispreviously bad
habits had improved, he questioned him jocularly on
the occasion mentioned—" I am glad to see you so
well employed ; you are decenter looking than I
ever saw you, and that comes of keeping your
hands clean, and your feet out of the heart of Buc-
cleuch-street. It is well when people mend, and
turn over a new leaf in the hook of life." "As to
that," said the man, " I'm no very sure ; but as
for my auld howf up bye, I've nae wish to be there
again. The gaol was ance a snug eneuch bit ; we got
our meat brawly, ate had naething to do except amuse
oorsel's ; but everything is changed noo. The new
gaoler's a perfect deevil, an' the place a wee hell,
compared to what it was afore. Every ane maun
work at something or ither, women as weel as
men, an' gif ye wunna do that, ye get nae meat.
Some stood out an' got a look o' their dinner, for
a smell and sicht was a', if nae wark was dune ; but
the sulks sune leave a hungry man, an' the auld
sneck drawer kens ow'r weel that the surest way to
mak' the hands eident is to blockade the belly.
He's a perfect tyrant, an' pits on sic looks, an's say
yaul an' supple, that they're a' feared to meddle wi'
him. In place o' the reckettin' o' the gude auld
times, yell no hear a moose cheepin' noo. For
the maist part there waur thirty-five o' us ; but they
tell me there's only twal prisoners Loo; an' I
dinna wonder—for wha wad stay wi' yon saucy
deevil that can get awa' frae him, an' his looms
for weavers, stalls for shoemakers, shears and lap-
hoards for tailors, musl►ns to he sewed, oakum to
be teased, stanes to be broken for roads, an' a' the
rest o't. If the gaol's to be painted, ootside or in,
or aught else that's wrang putten richt, the prisoners
maun do it themsel's, and no the toon's tradesmen
as afore. I ken something o' sodgering, but o' a'
the corporals or sergeants I ever forgathered wi', by
far the maist curnstary js that dour deevil M'Far-
lane. Ae day twa poachers cam' in that the offi-
cers had grippet, and as the coast happened to be
gey clear, the chaps took it into their heads that
they had naething to do but knock him doon,
and gang their wa's oot again. Baith, therefore,
I=-A drive at the same time ; but my faith they little
keut their customer—for in place o' couping owre
hirnsel', he gaed ane a bash wi' the right hand,
air' took the tither wi' the left, and had them baith
sprawling like cats at his feet, before ye could weel
say Jack Robison. Sooner than leeve under his
roof, I'd beg my bread frae door to door, as I'll
maybe hae to do yet, when the nowt trade fails me.
But onything afore the Dumfries Gaol, as ling at
least's M'Farlane's yonder ! His verra name
sometimes mak's me stunner ; an' it maun be a
cursed place that Highlan's if a the men in't be
like him."

ADVANTAGES OF MIGRATIONS OF ANI-
mALs.—If we give Phis subject of the migration of
animals due consideration, and reflect what would be
the consequence if no animals ever changed their
quarters, we shall find abundant reasons for thankful-
ness to the Almighty Father of the universe, for the
care he has taken of his whole family, and
of his creature man in particular, consulting
not only his sustentation and the gratification of his
palate by multiplying and varying his food,
but also that of his other senses, by the beauty, mo-
tions, and music of the animals that are his summer
or winter visitors ; did the nightingale forsake our
groves, the swallow our houses and gardens, the cod-
fish, mackerel, salmon, and herring our seas, and all
the other animals that occasionally visit us,
.their
several haunts, how vast would be the abstraction from
the pleasure and comfort of our lives ! By means of
'here migrations, the profits and enjoyments derivable
froM the animal creation are also more equally divided,
at one season visiting the south, and enlivening their
winter, and at another adding to the vernal and summer
delights of the inhabitant of the less genial regions of
tae north, and making up to him for the privations of
winter. Had the Creator so willed, all these animals
might have been organized so as not to require
I a warmer or colder climate for the breeding or
rearing of their young ; but his will was, that some
of his best gifts should thus oscillate, as it were,
between two paints, that the benefit they conferred
!night be more widely distributed, 'and not become the
sole property of the inhabitants of one climate. Tnus
the swallotv gladdens the sight both of the Briton and
the African ; and the herring visits the coasts, arid the
salmon the rivers, of every r pion of the globe. What
can more strongly mark design, and the intention of
an all-powerful, all-wise, and beneficent Being, than
that such a variety of animals should be so organized
end circumstanced as to be directed annually, by some
pressing want, to seek distant climates, and alter a
certain period, to return again to their former quar-
ters ; and that this instinct should be productive of so
much good to mankind, and at the same time be neces-
,:ary, under its present circumstances, for the preserve-
tien or propagation of the species of these several ani-
mals !—Kirby on the Habits and Instincts (If Ani»ials.

ARREST OF ARMS.—For some months back
many ships from this, as well as from other ports, in-
tended for foreign voyages, have been in the habit of
shipping a sufficient quantity of arms to protect the
vessels against any piratical attack which might be
made upon them during the voyage. Accordingly,
a number of arms, consisting of guns and pikes, was on
Thursday forenoon last sent from the shop of Mr.
Greener, gun.tnaker, to the shop of Mr. Snowdon,
ship-chandler, on the Quay, being for the ship Agricola,
and for the purpose above specified. The boys in
charge of the arms were directed to put them on board
of the Swan steam-boat, where other stores belonging
to the same vessel were, in order to their being con-
veyed down the river, and the boys proceeded to de-
liver them as directed. Between Mr. Snowdon's shop
and the Lead Stairs, where the steam-boat was lying,
they were taken into custody, both arms and boys, by
polic:man, and by the airection, as he stated, of Mr.
Alderman Potter ; under this direction the officer was
obliged to act, notwithstanding the remonstrances and
explanation which the boys made. To the police-station
they were taken, and Mr. Greener was sent to state for
what use and purpose the arms were intended, which he
did satisfactorily, and after a great deal of delay, which
might have been of some consequence, as it was expected
the ship was ready for sea, the arms were conveyed to
their destination.—Tyne Mercury.
THE CONFESSIONS OF A MILKMAID.
" What a great deal of milk there must be sent into
Manchester in the course of a year," said Ito Mary one
morning, as I was passing her at the door. Two or three
carts, laden with cans of milk, were passing along the
street at the time, and it was this gave rise to the ob-
servation. " And water too, mestur," said Mary, looking
rather archly, as though she knew something about the
matter. "Do you think then, that they water the milk
much in this part of the country, Mary ?" I inquired.
" Aye," observed Mary," there be cheating in all trades
but our'n, as they say, but I used to think our mestur
at Eccles were a pretty good 'un at it, too. I should
think that when I was milkmaid there, the milk the
cows gave was somewhere about sixty cans a day ; and
to carry this milk to market, in Manchester, we en!-
ployed two men. Now every farthing of these men s
wages were paid out of the water." " Then they
could not have had very good wages, I should
think," said I, interrupting her story. " Nay, nay,"
continued Mary, " not so bad for farmers' servants,
either. Ten quarts of water every morning, and six
every evening, at threepence a-quart, comes to a good
deal of money in the week." " Then you put more
to it in the morning than in the evening, did you,
Mary ?" " Why yes, mestur," she replied, " because
the cows would give more in the morning than in the
evening, for we began milking at three in the afternoon
while the milking in the morning did not commence till
five. I shell never forget," continued Mary, lau4hing hear-
tily, " what a man said to me one morning, who came to
live servant with us. He were a droll chap, and used
to say some funny things to us girls. Polly,' says he
to me, Polly, which o' all the cows i' the dairy dost
thou think gives most railk ?' That there red un,'
says I, to be sure. Nay, nay, Poll,' says he, that
there black un' wi' one urn (horn), at the back door.
That were th' pump, wi' one handle, you know,' said
Mary, fearing I should not understand the allusion,
and she again laughed heartily at the joke. " But
how," I asked, " if they obtained threepence a quart
for it in Manchester, Mary, did the retailer make his
profit by it ?" "Oh " said she, " by putting more
water to it, happen." " Well," I could not help ob-
serving, "it must be sad stuff by the time it reaches
the consumer's hands." " Sky blue, I reckon," added
Mary, casting her weather-eye up at the fine azure above
as."—.Manchester chronicle.

CHILD STRIPPING.--on Saturday afternoon a
child about four years of age was enticed away from
Balmanno-street.by a woman, and stripped of its entire
clothing except its over-all and cap, and left exposed
to the inclemency of the weather in this destitute state.
The child was found by the police in WFarlane-street,
Gallowgate, and taken to the office, where ho was got
by his parents.—Glasgow Chronicle.