The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 29, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGECE,--This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE PEARSON.-EXTENSIVE FAILURE OF A MERCHANT.

THE AMERICAN WAR.

This bankrupt, Zachariah Charles Pearson, of Nicholas-
lane, Lombard-street, and of Kingston-upon-Hull, traded
under the style of Z. C, Pearson & Co. He was a mer-
chant trading to all parts of the world, and large ship-
owner. The failure is one of the largest which has been
brought into the Court for many years, the debit side of
the account showing figures to the extent of £645,000, and
the deficit, according to the bankrupt's own showing,
amounts to the very large sum of £212,574. The case was
last before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd in July last, when
it was adjourned until this day, the assignees in the mean-
while using strenuous exertions to realize the estate, a
large portion of which consisted of vessels and freight,
which had been seized by the American (Federal) Govern-
ment as contrahmd of war.
In the first page of the balance-sheet it is stated that the
bankrupt has a claim on the Federal Government of £87,692,
on the Confederate Government for £99,000, and on the
Italian Government £7,500.

The claims of unsecured creditors are £115,330; of cre.

d;tors holding security, £147,461; liabilities, £68,490;
liabilities on bills payable, £12,336; creditors to be paid in
full, £1,355 ; good and doubtful debts, £6,581; property
given up to assignees, £24,355; property in the hands of
creditors, £320 015; leaving the deficiency, as above stated,
of X 212,574. The capital was stated to be on the 10th July,
1858, £20,145; drawing account, £12,414 ; trade expenses,
£15,781; losses, £198,6.6; profits, £65,861.

. . ,
During a portion of the time Mr. James Coleman was a
partner in the firm, and retired in July, 1860, receiving
£4,000.

The ship losses are on ships and cargoes sold to the Con-
federate Government, who refused to fulfil their contract,
and the capture by the officers of the Federal Government
of sundry ships—viz , the Patras, with freight and cargo,
£15,378 ; Stettin, ditto, £19,810; Circassian, ditto, £35,000;
Empress, £3,003; tondona, £14,714; in all £87,962. The
steamship Orrell was chartered in 1860 by Garibaldi to
take passengers from Genoa to Messina, and a clause was
inserted that if the passengers took forcible posses-
sion of the vessel in the harbour of Genoa, the
charterer was to pay the owner £3,000. The passengers
took possession of the vessel in the harbour of Genoa,
and £5,000 became; due by Garibaldi, whose liabilities have
been adopted by the Italian Government, who have ad-
mitted their liability, and made an offer of compromise,
£5,000; sundry expenses in prosecuting claim, £2,500; the
losses on steam ships are thus summed up—eight ships
loot at sea, £24,276; on six sold, £11,620; and one built
in the Thames. £13,192; on six captured by the Federal
cruisers, £34,223; ou ten mortgaged to creditors, £63,461 ;
making in all with a sloop and yacht, £146,827. The losses
in 1859 were £33; in 1860, £7,495 ; in 1861, £16,624; in
1E62, £122,673 ; in all, £146,827.
The case was appointed for 11. but not called up to one
o'clock. It is expected it will be adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DISTURBANCE AT THE LONDON PAVILION.-Mr.
Henry Hornby, of No. 1, Eversfield-terrace, Daiston, and
Mr. Raymond Darby, riding-master, Holland-park Riding
School, was charged as follows :
Sergeant Henry Allen, 20 C, said that at a quarter past
eleven last night he was called into the London Pavilion,
where the defendants were making a great disturbance, one
of them being engaged in fighting with a person. The ee-
fendants were given into custody by one of the proprietors,
CM. Loibl), and, they were taken to the Vine•street station,
but on promi:ing not to return to the place, M. Leibl did
not press the charge, and they were allowed to go. The
defendants, forgetting their promise, went back to the
London Pavilion and got up a disturbance at the door. He
(the sergeant) moved them away, and on getting to Scott's
the defendants went in, but, being very drunk, were speedily
ejected without being served. The defendants then re-
turned to the London Pavilion and created a disturbance,
and he took them into custody.
One of the defendants said that a remark was made about
his companion at the London Pavilion, and then he was
struck on the nosy. They were taken to the station, but
the charge was not pressed, and why they went back was to
get his hat, which he lost in the melee.

Mr. Knox said the fact was the defendants got drunk
last night and made fools of themselves. If they had be-
longed to the class of costermongcrs he should have fined
them 5s each, but as they belonged to a more decent rank
he should fine them lOs each, and, would advise them not
to make such fools of themselves again.

THAMES.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A POOR NEEDLEWOMAN.—Ann
Andrews, a wretched and half-starved looking woman,
aged 23 years, and described as a needlewoman, of No. 6,
Limehouse-causeway, was brought before Mr. Partridge)
charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing
herself into the City Canal at Millwall, Poplar, at one
o'clock this morning.

John Somers, a police-constable, No. 372 K, stated that
the prisoner walked over the bridge at Millwall, went down
the side of the lock, and before he could stop her, plunged
into the water. The lock was 25 feet in depth, and she
must have been drowned if a bargeman had not answered
his cries for help, and brought a barge and long staff with
a stout iron hook at the end of it, with which he got the
woman out of the water. She was quits unconscious, and
five minutes elapsed before she exhibited any signs of life.
Sho had been very ill all night.
The prisoner said she was very sorry for what she had
done.

Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner to the Clerkenwell
House of Detention for a week, and said the chaplain would
give her good advice while she was there.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WITH OXALIC AClD,—Mary Ann
Duck, a woman of the town, who had been in custody a
week, was brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge,
charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a
pennyworth of oxalic acid, which she purchased at the shop
of Mr. George Croucher, a chemist and druggist, No. 220,
High-street, Shadwell.
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, • ___.
Mr. Croucher said he had been in the practice of selling
the stuff knowa. 613 sugar of lead to the prostitutes of Rat-
cliff-highway and Shadwell. He had sold sugar of lead to
the prisoner before. A pennywcrth would not destroy the
life of an adult. The women made lotions of the poison
for outward applications.
Mr. Partridge said he had received a letter, of which the
following is copy, from the chaplain of the House of Deten-
tion in relation to this case:—

" House of Detention, October 29, 1863.
"Dear Sir,—Allow me to suggest that it might be ad-
visable to recommend the poor girl, Mary Ann Duck, for
admission into the workhouse for a time, in the event of her
discharge. I had thought of a reformatory institution, but
she is not at present in a state of health to allow of her ad-
mittance. Sho seems to be in a rather better state of mind,
and promises to make no further attempt on her own life.
—Believe me yours very truly,
" GEORQE JEPSON, Chaplain.
"To William Partridge, Esq., Thames Police-court."
Mr. Partridge hoped the unfortunate woman would make
no more attempts on her life, and directed Police-sergeant
Dillon, No. 19 K, to convey the prisoner to the workhouse
of St..George-in-the-East.

U.S, Feeling and " Quasi-Envoys,"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.

• New York, Oct. 17,1863.
SIR,—In consequence of the persistent declara-
tions made by certain persons in England—for in-
stance, Mr. Forster, M.P., and gentlemen who go
over from this country in the capacity of, what
are called here, " quasi-envoys" of the Washington
Government, at anti-slavery meetings, and so forth
—upon, as they allege, the general good feeling
towards our nation and people whick exists in the
Northern States of America, I desire, with you:
leave, to offer some remarks to your readers.
In ordinary times nothing could be further from
my wishes than to intrude any abstract opinions of
mine upon " national feeling," believing that that
shows itself more clearly in the long run by acts and
deeds than by descriptions. However, when certain
parties and cliques in England—whether through
ignorance or prejudice, or from political motives, or
for considerations—give dogmatic opinions to my
countrymen, which I know, from practical observa-
tion and experience, to be false, it appears to me,
under the circumstances, that, if I were to withhold
my humble but now very experienced opinion on
the "state of feeling" referred to, the reticence
would be a shirking of foe duty or moral responsi-
bility which belongs to every British man—viz,,
to do whatever within him rests, that his nation
shall not be injured through his countrymen being
deceived, or allowing themselves to be deceived,
upon subjects of national or, perhaps more strictly,
it should be said, international importance.
Without its being necessary to enter into theo-
retical disquisitions, for which I have no apti-
tude, and probably your readers no special wish—
it will be admitted that now-a-days the general
sentiments or " feeling" of the ruling portion of any
great commercial nation, be it a republic or an
empire, are of considerable practical importance to
us. hTherefore it is important for us to know—as
correctly as such things can be known—how the
ruling or (as they are called and call themselves in
the United States) the "prominent politicians," of
Lhe Northern States feel towards Great Britain and
the British.

My opinions on this subject inter alia were ex •
pressed—no doubt insufficiently, but earnestly and
plainly—in The Sun of 2d April, 1862, that is, now
nearly eighteen months since, thus:—
.a6rly No doubt we wish—as the British generally
wish—well to Amer:cans generally, and we know
for the material interests of both countries, especi-
ally for those of the United States, that peace and
amity is the best policy. We all, therefore, would
wish that amongst every class, at least amongst
those who are known as the 'prominent' of all
classes in the Northern States, a malignant, perse-
vering, unexplained antipathy did not exist, but all
oar so far as I am aware, do not alter the
fact
that wishes,at it is."

The additional experience of nearly a year and a
enables me to assert that not
n
the above is a correct view of an
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but that any rational man, who
has had reasonable opportunities to see, hear, and
read realities during the last three years, in the
Northern section of the States, and would arrive at
a different conclusion, must found it on wishes or
prejudicial imaginations, and net on palpable, de-
monstrable facts.

It would not be in any way difficult to
show how certain persons, described as " quasi-
Thurlow Weed, Rev. Mr.
Cile
W. Beecher, and certain of
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K.
Mr.
eall. gof " different denomlaations,' have
spoken f
Great Britain and the British" to their
congregation
"people" here before they went
to speak
of "peace and unity" in the old country—
and how they, on their return, try every means that
se o‘'
and
"political sermons," " orations," and pamphlets can
effect, to stir up additional ill-will and bitterness
against that "old country." I wish my country-
men to know realities, and not to be misled by an
system of deception here, and in Eng-
laud
. _am, sir, your obedient servant,
A BRITISH TRAVELLER.
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