The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, it

LONDON GAZETTE-FRIDAY

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
R. Field, varnish-manufacturer, Plummer's-row, White-
chapel, August 2, at half-past twelve—J. Rice, saddler, Wodd-
bridge, Suffolk, August 2, at half-past one—W. Mason, axle-
' tree-maker, Margaret-street. Cavendish-square, at half-past
eleven—J. R. Stringer, wholesale clothier, Houndsditch, Lon-
don, August 5, at half-past one—J. Wicks, warehouseman,
Basinghall-stroet, London, August 5, at twelve—ll. Perkins,
ironmonger, Lisson-grove North, Middlesex, August 5, at half-
past twelve.
In the Country.
J. Chalk, timber dealer, Brighton, August 20, at twelve, at
the Town-hall, Brighton—J. Cunnington, sen., and J. Cun-
nington, jun., ironmongers, Spalding, Lincolnshire, August 3,
at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Spalding—E. Clarke, buil-
der, Leamington-priors, Warwickshire, August 8, at two, at
the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington-priors—B. Spearman,gro-
cer, Birmingham, July 23, at two, at the New loyal Hotel,
Birmingham—J. B. Carruthers, bookseller, Bristol, August 7,
at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol.
CERTIFICATES.7-AunusT 2.

A. Miller, carver and gilder, Thayer-street, Manchester•
square—W. Dawes, bookseller, Tavistock-street, Covent-gar.
den—T. B. Carruthers, wholesale cheesemonger, Dowgate.
hill, London

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
P. Ingram and G. Bush, jun., sugar-brokers—D. Clarke
and A. Wardley, grocers, Islington—E. Ford and G.
Green, brewers, Fulham—R. Marren and R. Stent, wool-
staplers, Bermondsey-street—J. Amsden and .1. Clark, sur-
geons—J. Man and E. H. Lenthall, wine-merchants, Strand
—B. and C. T. Bowring, merchants, Liverpool--W. Rawson
and G. Shelton, hosiers, Manchester—W. and A. Tate, bakers,
Drury-lane—C. Child and H. R. Mortimer, underwriters Lon-
don—J. Braby, J. Braby, jun., and J. Braby, wheelwrights,
Lambeth (as far as regards J. Braby, sen.)—W. Fielden, J.
Entwisle, and W. Townley, sen., merchants, City—W. Fiel-
den, J. Entwisle, W. Townley, sen., and W. Townley, jun.,
merchants, Hamburg—T. C. Kempson and B. Shipway, sta-
tioners, Birmingham—W. Forrester and J. Agnew, brush ma-
nufacturers, Paisley.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JOHN KING and CO., silk-mercers, Glasgow, July 17,
and August 1, at twelve, at the Black Ball Hotel,- Glasgow.
JOHN CRAIG, manufacturer, Leith, July 17, and August
2, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.

STATIITICS OF THE LONDON AND BIR-
NIINCHIA3I RAlLWAY.—Thirteen miles of the Railway are
laid level—fifty- two at an inclination varying from one
foot to fourteen feet in a mile--and forty-seven at incli-
nations varying between fourteen and sixteen feet per mile.
The greate;t difference of level between any two parts of
the line is three hundred and eight feet; the gradients
change forty-four miles. The longest continued length
of level rails is about four miles ; the greatest extent of
any gradient is seven miles and a half; but there is an in-
clination in one direction, varying from one gradient to
another, measuring fourteen miles. From London to Bir-
mingham fifty-five miles ascend, forty-four descend, and
thirteen are level. The land occupied by the railway and
stations may be estimated at nearly two thousand acres.
On Wednesday last a negro was " Lynched"
by riding the rail, and receiving thirty-nine lashes for mar-
rying- a white woman, at Hagersburg. On the same night,
an actor, named Lowe, while performing with Madame
Celeste, at Louisville, in the French Spy, accidentally
stabbed himself with a bayonet, and died in a few minutes
on the stage.—Philadelphia Letter in the Chronicle.
Our town was visited on Sunday by a tremendous
storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by hail and
rain. The hail was very heavy, and did great damage.
The fine range of hot- houses and pine and melon pits in the
Arundel Castle Gardens, suffered severely, upwards of
5.000 squares being broken. The hail-stones were of
an unusually large size, and extremely rugged.—Brighton
Guardian.
CHURCH RATES AND LAW EXPENSES.—In
the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterday the case of an
insolvent named John Michael Dill was mentioned. He
bad lived at B,th, and refused to pay a Church-rate of
93. 4d. The Churchwarden of St. Michaels sued him for
the amount, and in obtaining judgment had been put to
781. expenses. He then came to London, and was taken
on a small debt. It was alleged that the execution was a
friendly one, and the detaining creditor was required to
attend. Yesterday was appointed for the purpose, but
neither the debtor nor the creditor appeared. The former
was gone out of custody, which Mr. Cooke, who appeared
for the churchwardens, said he expected would happen.
The man had been in prison some months, and took no be-
nefit. The case was struck out of the list.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A very lamentable ac-
cident occurred on the farm of Mr. Wells at the top of the
Hanley-road, Hornsey, on Thursday evening. A number of
labourers in the employ of Mr. Wells were stacking some new
bay, and five of them were engaged on a stack, which was
nearly completed, when some ladies and gentlemen casually
coming up to the spot, these men set up a cheer, the meaning
of which was that they wished to have something given them
to drink. The sudden shout of the men startled the horses
in a hay cart standing close to the foot of the ladder, which it
ran against and broke, and threw all the men to the ground.
One was injured in the head so severely that he has been
speechless ever since, and two others received such injuries
of the spine as to render them unable to stand. The three
men were removed without delay in a cart to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, where they now lie in a very precarious
condition.
SHEEP STEALlNG.—Everywhere we find evi-
dence condemnatory of the Corn-laws. Even at this sea
son of the year, when agricultural labourers' earnings are
comparatively ample, sheep-stealing, we see by the country
papers, prevails to an alarming extent. Were the devil
himself a law-maker, it is natural enough to suppose that
that personage would enact just such a criminal code fur
limiting the supply of food, and increasing the commission
of crime, as our blindly avaricious landowners so perti-
naciously stick to under the title of Corn-laws.
THE CARRINGTON MURDER.--It will be re-
collected by the inhabitants of Ncttingham, that a most
dreadful murder was committed at Carrington, about three
years since. The murder was perpetrated on Sunday, Oct.
the 9th. 1836, on the body of the unfortunate William
Renshaw, by being mortally stabbed. The horrid deed
was committed by William Terry, alias Bustler, of Day-
brook, near Nottingham, who, it will be also recollected,
made his escape over a hedge six feet high, and eluded
being captured by the constables. Aithough the
indefatigable exertions of the police and civil authorities
to trace out the offender, proved abortive for nearly
three years, notwithstanding a large reward has been ad-
vertised for his immediate apprehension, he was taken into
custody on Tuesday last, by the constables of Litton, near
Tideswell, in the following singular manner. It appears
that Terry had been drinking in a beer-shop with some
of the frame-work knitters of the place, and excavators
employed on the Midland Counties Railway. Some of
them getting very much intoxicated, a quarrel took place.
Terry offended one of the railroad men, and a scuffle
cnsused. Terry's name was mentioned in conversa-
tion, and he was immediately identified and acknow •
ledged to be the murderer of the unfortunate Renshaw.
The news soon spread about that it was Terry.
The constable of the parish and the surrounding neigh-
bourhood soon got the scent, and they immediately went
to the beer-shop, and after a short resistance he was cap-
tured, ironed, and conveyed to
he
; front thence by the
railway to Nottingham; where stands committed on the
coroner's warrant to the county goal for trial at the ensuing
assizes, w Lich commence on the 18th inst. Terry was a
dreaded character in the neighbourhood in which he re-
sided.—Nottingham Herald.
RIOTS IN BOLOGNA.—A Bologna correspon-
dent, writing on the 2d inst., states that in consequence
of the disputes which have recently occurred there between
the inhabitants and the Swiss garrison, the Penal Govern-
merit has decided on re-establishing the corps of Pontifical
a
volu'lt f
e erosr Icoa ,Aleodo uniformst h e
Centurions,
d n arms
for that purpose.
and has already con-
tractedMlSS MARTINEAU HOAXED SY THE YAN-
KEEs._When I was at Boston a gentleman of my ac-
quaintance brought me Miss Martineau's work, and was ex-
cessively delighted when he pointed out to me two pages
of fallacies, which he had told her vtith a grave face, and
which she had duly recorded end printed.— apt. Mar
ryatt'.l Diary in America."—[ A very gentlemanly ac
quaintance, indeed ]

THE WOOLWICH MURDER:—
The police force
have come forward to aid the subscription now makin, on
behalf of the widow and family of the late unfortunate 73er-
geant Major Shepherd. The force have succeeded in col-

le: ring up wards of 501., and are still using great exertions
to raise the amount to a more considerable sum. This
conduct on the part of the police force cannot fail to
heighten that feeling of harmony which has hitherto ex-
isted between them and the military.

TIrE BIGOTS.—The enemies of religious free-
dom are active in proportion to their illiberality. Ad-
dresses, we hear, are about being manufactured in several
places, thanking the Archbishop of Canterbury for the
part be has played, and for his attempt to prevent the dif-
fusion of knowledge amongst the ignorant and uneducated.

—.-. -•-•
EPPING WOOL FAlR.—This fair took place
on Friday last, and the result must be gratifying to the
gentlemen who have taken an active part in its establish-
scent. The attendance of the gentry and farmers was
larger than at the last fair,
and the buyers present were
Messrs. Elkington, Chaplin, Hale, Bell, Orem, Meredith,
and Archer. The average price for ewes was 151 d., and
for togs 180. ; 4.900 fleeces were disposed of in the course
of the day, though but little business was done before the
dinner.

RAILWAY EXPRESSES.-011 Friday last we
were enabled (in consequence of the dispatch eIF cted in
the transmission of the information by railway), to give,
in a second edition of the Chelmsford Chronicle, published
that evening, an account of proceedings relative to the
Chartists, which took place at half-past eight o'clock in
the morning of the same day at Birmingham, a distance
of upwards of 140 miles,—Chelmsford Chronicle.
An alarming incident, the result of which might
have been the destruction of great part of Shrewsbury,
occurred in the Castle Foregate last week. A great quasi-
tity of gunpowder was brought up the canal from Lanca-
shire (destined chiefly, we'believe, for the lead-mines in
our vicinity), and landed at Messrs. Tilston's wharf,
near the Gas Works. Whilst the waggon which was
to convey the powder from the wharf was being
baded, a chimney in the neighbourhood tcok fire,
and the burning soot falling on one of the canvass
wrappers in which barrels of gunpowder are usually en-
closed, set it on fire, and it began to burn fiercely. The
workmen around immediately ran off, all save one brave
sfromtohne the
barrel, and throwing the
fellow, the waggoner, who seeing the imminence of the
danger,r
pile of gunpowder,
o
barrel itself into the canal, rescued the town, or great part
tore the i courageously burningca canvass va s leaped
of it, from becoming a heap of ruins, there being nearly a
ton of gunpowder on the waggon when the wrapper took
fire !—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

I On Sunday, the 23d ult., the brig William and
Jane, of Yarmouth, coal laden, put into the port of Scar.
borough, for the purpose of leaving on shore the mate,
who was in a dangerous state of health, supposed to have
originated in consequence of having put on a damp shirt
r a short time previously. We regret to add that he died
en the 26th. —Hull Observer.

Y 15, 1839.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO CSE.

EXTENSIVE PLUNDER OF A WAREDOUSE.— ThOMGIS Cole-
gate, 11, ithers Colegate, his brother, and Joseph Robinson,
and another person, were brought before the Lord Mayor
by policeman Parish (No. 45), and policeman (No. 2),
charged under the following circumstances:—
Mr. Hodgson, of No. 92, Watling-street, merchant,
stated that Thomas Colegate and Joseph Robinson were in
his employment, as warehousemen, and in consequence of
information which he had received from one of the partners
of the hewe he caused them to be apprehended. Upon
telling them he had been assured that they had taken goods
from the house without having entered them in the book,
they confessed that they had stolen a great quantity, and
they gave him a I)ng, list of goods which they acknow-
ledged they had stolen from the warehouse. He ascer-
tained that Thomas Culegate and Robinson had a partner-
ship concern in a tally-shop, kept by the prisoner whose
name was not mentioned, and who was waiter at a public-
house. He Irid every reason to believe that the tally-shop
had been supplied with goods stolen from the warehouse
since the year 1837, and that he had been robbed to an
enormous extent. Besides the goods produced in the
justice-room, there was at the station-house a large cart-
load.

Mr. Bozon and Mr. Wontner attended for the prisoners,
and asked whether the complainant had not held out a pro-
mise to Thomas Colegate and Robinson, provided they
would confess ? Mr. Hodgson—l told them it might be
Letter for them if they would tell everything.
Mr. BOZON-Have they not been in the habit of pur
chasing goods from you ? Mr. Hodgsop.--Whenever they
wanted an)thing for themselves and families they had li-
berty to take them at first cost, and they occasionally had
a piece of goods, but not at all to any extent.
James Stevens, porter to Mr. Hodgson, stated that en
abe 7th of June, thirty yards of cotton cord were cut off by
bins by order of Mr. Thus. Colegate, and taken to the
house of a tailor. Witness, upon looking at the day-book,
found that there was no entry of the goods. On June 4th,
Mr. Robinson took a piece of calico and a piece of lawn,
and directed witness to take them to a house in Newgate
Market. These articles were not entered in the day-book.
Parish, the policeman, produced a quantity of goods
which he said ha found at Colegate's house. While be
was at tile house the prisoner who was waiter at the public-
house entered, having heard that Colegate and Robinson
were in custody, and said that he was a partner in the
property on the premises, and that ho had advanced the
money for the purchase of the goods. Withers Colegate
(a mere lad) had been apprehended because he had taken
to the house of the tailor alluded to some of the goods be-
lieved to have been sto!en.

The employer of the waiter here stepped forward and
said that the prisoner was as trustworthy a man as any lie
bad ever me: with, and that he was ready to bail him to
any amount.

The LORD MAYOR immediately consented to take the
bail.

Policeman No. 2 stated that he was present when Mr.
Hodgßm charged Thomas Colegate and Robinson with
having robbed him. Robinson immediately wrote down a
list of the goods he admitted he had stolen. Mr. Hodg-
son, in addressing Thomas Colegate, said, "Thomas, I am
ashamed of w hat you have done. You ought to have been
the last person to have robbed me. If you were in diffi-
culty, and wanted 101 or 201, I would have lent it to you
sooner than 3ou should rob me." Thomas Colegate then
took a book out of his pocket and made out a list, and
handed it to Mr. Hodgson.
The three prisoners, Thomas Colegate, Withers Cole-
gate, and Joseph Robinson, were then remanded.

GUILDIIALL.

Mr. Strange, the bookseller in Paternoster-row, attended
to answer the complaint of Lawrence Turner, of Red Lion
Wharf, Thames street, and to show why he refused to let
him have books at the customary price.
The complainant said he had purchased certain periodi
cals at Mr. Strange's shop at the trade price for several
rnonth, but on the last recurrence of the publishing day,
Mr. Strange, after serving him, and taking up half a sove-
reign he had tendered in payment, asked him fur his
ticket. Complainant admitted he had none, but reminded
him that he had purchased books there for fifteen months
constantly, and he purchased them to sell again,
which made him a bookseller. Mr. Strange said
he could not consider him one of the trade, and he
must take the books at the full price. Complain-
ant refused to take them at that rate, and required his
money to be returned, but that Mr. Strange obstinately
refused to comply with this, and this was the point to be
determined by the Magistrate.

Mr. Strange said a bookseller was one who kept a shop
for the a:de of books, and to such the Secretary to the
Bo,ksellers' Association granted tickets to enable them
to buy at the publishers at a lower price than the public.
The complainant was not a bookseller, but one of the pub-
lic, who had been imposing on him for several months
by mixing with and assuming the manner of the trade.
Several persons were practising this trick, in which the)
succeeded, through putting down the exact wholesale price,
and taking several publications at one time. Having called
for certain publications, and tendered payment, the sale
was complete, and the complainant was bound to take them
at the regular price, as one of the public.
Sir P. LAURI& thought otherwise. If the complainant had
been served forrnonths at a reduced price, and had no inten-
tion of paying a greater, he had a clear right to refuse to tt.ke
them at a higher price, and Mr. Strange ought not to take
any advantage of money being laid upon his counter. To
force a person, by trick, to pay more than he was willing to
pay was discreditable:-

Mr. Strange said, the complainant not being in the
trade, he felt that he had been tricked by him of his profits.
If he were knowingly to serve one of the public at the
trade price, he should himself be struck off the list of book-
sellers entitled to huy at the reduced rate. He certainly
would not return the complainant's money.
Sir PETER LAURIE said, if he were Mr. Strange he
should return the money, but it seemed he could not instil
into Mr. Strange's mind his notions of what was creditable
or honourable. He asked complainant what he was.
Complainant said he was clerk at a coal-wharf, but
booksel!ing was not a patent trade. Any one might and
did set up in it. At many barbers' shops you might get a
shave for a p9nny and a periodical for three half-pence,
and course these barbers were supplied at the booksellers'
price.

- A Journeyman Bookbinder said the Booksellers' Asso-
ciation acted very oppressively. He, as a bookbinder and
Livery man of the Stationers' Company, could not get a
book for his own use at the trade price in any shop in
Paternoster-row.

Mr. Strange denied that any such severity was enforced.
A journeyman printer or bookbinder was always treated
as one of the trade when he could be identified from the
host of impostors who were preying on the booksellers.
The Complainant said nobody paid the full price at any
shop in Paternoster-row.

lqr. Strange said that was a very great mistake. Every
body was reqtfied to produce the Association's ticket.

The Complainant stated that Sir Peter basing expressed
pis opinion that to take advantage of his putting money on
.he coeuter was dishonourable, he would now agree to take
,he books at the full price, and avoid Mr. Strange's shop in
'uturo.

Si: PETER LAURIE observed it was a case in which be
could not make any order on Mr. Strange, but he repeated
the opinion he had given.
The Complainant received his books, and the parties
retired.