The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-18 00:00:00

THE DIIPILIN AUCTION.

The following are only afew very short extracts from
the Dublin Press In respect to Mr. George Robins's first
appearance in the Irish capital,

FERMENT AMONG THE KNIGHTS Or THt HAMMER.
" Sampson, When bearing off great Gaza's gate,
Was proud, no doubt, to carry such a weight ;
Hercules cleansing the Augeln mangers,
Of course could scoff at labours and at datigers ;
But Robins far surpasses both in power,
J-lc'd knock down half a town in half an hour."—Anon.
The übiquitoti; George Robins--the rival of Sir Boyle
Roche's bird, " in the regard" of being in two places at
once—who, while we deem him "going, going," is actually
"gone"—the concentrated essence of magnificent hyperbole
has arrived in town, to offer for competition the Coolishall
and Glenmore estates, which be will praise with " the taste
of a painter, and the enthusiasm of a poet," and appraise
with the tact and genius of a Robins ! We understand
that the Dublin auctioneers--a " nice lot"—are plotting to
give their monarch a regular " knock down" in Morrisson's
best style. There is, in fact, a " public competition"
among them as to who will be " the highest and best
bidder" to the symposiack fund. Albeit unconnected with
the trade—hem !—profession, we mean, George—verily we
will be present, armed with a patent feck, to rival George
in his favourite pastime—taking notes.—Evening Mail.
SALE OF ESTATES IN IRELAND.---Mr. George Robins,
the celebrated London auctioneer, attended at Morrisson's
Great Rooms yesterday, to sell the Coolishall and Glen-
more estates, county Waterford, the property of George
W. Jackson, Esq. Curiosity attracted an immense
number of persons to see this best bepraised of general
vendors. On mounting the table, he gave what is called an
" exordium," this being his first appearance on any stage
in Ireland. He lamented the loss he had in not having his
tongue tipped with a little of the brogue, but as he pro-
ceeded in his harangue he proved to every one present that
he did not want one bit of the blarney. He began the sale
with Lot 2, which he said was an Irish mode of doing
business, commencing at the wrong end. This lot was
knocked down at 6,450/. Lot No. I, at 8,4501. Mr.
Robins seems to be an agreeable talkative man of the world,
and one who appears to have some estimate of his own va-
lue. Many of our Dublin auctioneers attended to take a
lesson, and joined in the good humoured sallies which ema-
nated from their London brother of the hammer.—Saunders'
News Letter.
SALE OF tho COOLISHALL AND GLENMORE, OR EAST
BALLYGAWLEY ESTATES.—The übiquitous George Ro-
bins sold, this day, at Morrisson's Groat Rooms, in two lots,
the Coolishall and Glenmore estates, county of Waterford,
for some time advertised in the Packet, at the very high
price 'of 15,3001. The lot marked No. 2, Glenmore,
otherwise East Ballygawley, was first sold ; it fetched
6,4501. ; and the lot marked No. 1, Coolishall, fetched
8,850/. The attendance was as numerous as it was respect-
able, certainly not less than 500 were in the room, includ-
ing much of the wealth and respectability of Dublin. The
purchasers were Messrs. Bruce and Symes, the stock-
brokers, who, it was understood, acted as trustees for
some great unknown. There were not as many knights of
the hammer present as had been expected, but those who
did attend must have been amply compensated, by the wit
and eloquence of the Prince of Auctioneers, for the first
time devoted to his short essay. He kept the room, all
through, in the most perfect good humour—it has been
quite an event in our city.—Evening Packet.
SALE OF ESTATES BY MR. GEORGE ROBINS.—Mr.
Symes, the stock-broker, was the purchaser of both the
estates put up to auction this day, at Morrisson's, by the
celebrated George Robins, The Coolishall estate brought
6,450/. ; the Glenmore, otherwise East Ballygawlly, 8,8501.
—Dublin Post.

EXTRAORDINARY SWINDLING.
(From the Birmingham Gazette.)

Friday a fashionably-attired and respectable looking young
man, who gave his name as Henry Palmer, was brought
up for examination before Richard Spooner and Francis
Lloyd, Esqrs., charged with uttering certain fictitious bills
of exchange, purporting to be drawn by Abrams and Com-
pany, of the " Sheerness and Quaenborough Bank," and by
the Flintshire District Banking Company," upon the
London and Westminster Banks, such banking establish-
ments not being supposed to exist. These bills were made
payable to John Pearson and others, some of them being
endorsed " Mark Vernon." The prisoner had tendered and
discounted several of the bills at the Birmingham Banking
Company, the Commercial Bank of England, the Town
and District, the Birmingham Borough, and the National
Provincial Banks. Representatives from these establish-
ments were in consequence in attendance, and considerable
interest was excited to hear the investigation, apprehensions
being entertained that a wholesale system of fraud must
have been but too successfully practised here and else-
where. The prisoner, who is a remarkably shrewd man,
and evidently well acquainted with banking transactions,
insisted upon all the notes being good, and urged the ma-
nagers of the London and Westminster, and the Chelten-
ham and Gloucester Banks, to ascertain whether the notes
were genuine or not, offering to pay the expenses that would
be necessarily incurred, in order that he might be (as he
expressed himself he most assuredly should be) released
from his unpleasant and painful situation. The magistrates
asked the prisoner for the residence of the parties who en-
dorsed the bills ; but he declined giving an answer on the
ground that he did not wish to disclose his connections, and
he also refused to give any distinct account of his arrival
and stay in the town.
Several witnesses were examined, and the Magistrates,
after a long examination of the managers of the various
banks he had favoured with his discounts, and others, con-
sidered the circumstance of his offering two bills invariably,
one of each sort, to so many houses, and his taking such
bills as might assist him in passing away larger amounts
before they became due elsewhere, together with the fact
of both the Flintshire Bank bills and the Sheerness Bank
bills being drawn upon a bank which is precluded by law
from accepting bills from the country, sufficiently strong
to justify them in remanding him till Monday, when
Mr. E. Lloyd would have returned from London, whithei
he would go that night, and Mr. Smith, a clerk in the
Banking Company, would also have returned from Chel-
tenham, furnished with particulars of the bilk and the par-
ties drawing them, it being understood that in the event
of these gentlemen returning on the Saturday, the pro-
ceedings should be immediately resumed. In the interim,
however, Mr. Gilbart, the principal manager of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, accidentally passed through
Birmingham on Saturday, and waited upon one of the ma-
gistrates (Mr. F. Lloyd) ; and we believe, from what has
transpired, that an extraordinary c.rposc of a deep and
well-laid scheme to levy contributions to a fearful amount
upon the banks will be made this day at the public office.

REGISTRATION REFORM.—The glorious uncer-
tainty of the Registration process is going forward with
confusion more confounding than usual. The Barristers all
over England are asserting the vulgar right of speaking
their own minds and maintainining their own individual
opinions in spite of any body ; but the worst of it is, that
these Barristers who have all one business to perform, have so
many opinions as to what that business is, that a great part
of it is left entirely undone, while another part is done in
the most slovenly manner imaginable. Such is the intelli-
gibility of the law, and the shrewdness of its interpreters.—
Coventry Herald.
THE NEW HOUSES• OF PARLIAMENT.—The
preparations for commencing the River embankment wall
of the new Senate-house arc already far advanced. The
space between Westminster Abbey and St. Stephen's
Chapel, fronting to the water, is covered over with timber
and workshops, so as to have the appearance of a carpen-
ter's yard. About 100 piles have been driven into the bed
of the River, in a double row, at a distance of about fifty
yards from the existing embankment wall. The water
space between is covered with rafts of squared logs well
lashed together, and which workmen are now employed in
sinking and making secure against the sides of the piles, so
as to form a capacious and secure cofferdam, within which.
the new walls may be solidly based. The cofferdam will
extend the entire length of the intended Houses of Parlia-
ment, will project fifty yards into the bed of the River, and
will perhaps be the most capacious ever formed in the
Thames. From not being exposed to so violent an action
of the tide, it will in proportion be of more easy and less
expensive construction than were the cofferdams within
which the piers of London-bridge had their foundations
laid. 'The progress of the works has already made it-ne.
cessary to block three arches of Westminster-bridge on the
Middlesex side, for doing which the requisite authority of
the Lord Mayor was obtained. The River embankment
will be of stone, and will require a very deep, broad, and
well-secured foundation, as upon it will be reared the main
wall of the projected Houses of Parliament.
On Sunday morning last, two young men of the
names of Green and Sidebottom, went into the house of a
neighbour and requested the loan of a gun during the day.
He refused, and remonstrated with them on the impro-
priety of shooting on the Sabbath. Shortly after he left
the house when the young men took the gun. A slight
scuffle ensued as to who was to carry .it, On seeing this,
a young man, of the name of Benjamin Hobson, went up
to the parties and strove to appease them. While thus
engaged, the gun went off, and the whole of the charge
lodged in his head ;he was killed on the spot. What makes
the circumstance still more distressing is, that his mother
was standing • near and witnessed the whole transaction.
The effect was such as to cause mental aberration, in which
deplorable state she still continues. The young men were
not aware that the gun was loaded.— York Courant.
No less than seven horses were stolen from the town
of Sherborne, Dorset, and the immediate neighbourhood,
in the night of Friday the 6th inst.