The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-15 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCISE.--(THIS DAY.)

(Before sir JONN 310KTLOCK, the lion. BERKELEY PAGCT, and HART
Das ES, Esq.)

EXTENSIVS ADULTERATION OP BRP.R.

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terating his beer; thereby imposing upon the public to a serious extent.
The penalties sued for amounted to 5001. Bullen and Austin, excise-
officers, deposed that from information they had received, that the de-
fendant 117 d been in the habit of adulterating his malt liquors to a very
considerable extent, they, in December last, went to his house and ex-
amined
his cellar. On the head of oue of the puncheons they
found
the remains of a solution of treacle, salt and water,
which bad evidently been poured into the vessel, and upon
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the head of another puncheon, they found a cars containing half a
gallon of the same solution. They inquired for the defendant, but his
wife stated that he was not at home. The officers added, that they
mediately sent for Mr. Golding Bird, the General Examining Surveyor
of Excise.
Mr. Bird stated, that upon his going to the house he tasted the beer
on draught, and found it very inferior ; he was quite certain that it had
been greatly adulterated ; it was very thin, and tasted strongly of treacle

and salt. He waited a short time, and Mr. West came in ; and upon
witness telling him that he had bee❑ adulterating his beer, he said,
" You are quite right : I always have done so, or how could I tell it
for 3d. par pot?" He also said that the officers had come toa quick
upon him ; the solution contained in the can was intended for another
puncheon. The defendent showed witness a pail in which he said he
always mixed the solution.

The COURT gave Judgment against the defendant in the mitigated
penalty of 501.

The other public business of the Court was of no public interest.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

James Robinson,. a tailor, aged 29, was committed to prison, in de.
fault of sureties for his future good behaviour, on a charge of attempt-
ing to commit a rap 2 on Jessie Hendry, a girl of tender years.
Hanley, an engineer, was charged with assaulting Thomas
Trinder, a baker, last night, in the Strand, without any provocation ; and
Charles Hodge was charged with attempting to rescue him from the
constable, when on the way to the station .house.

Mr. Mtrisnum, ordered Hodge to pay a lin2 of 20a., or be sent to
prison for three weolig, and his companion to b discharged.

WORSHIP STREET-(THIS DAY.)

Doo STEALING.— James King and Thomas Rookes, two well known
dog stealers, were charged before Mr. Codd with stealing a fancy
Blenheim spaniel, the property of Mr. Gibson, the Magistrate, of Tot-
tenham,

The prisoners wore ordered to pay a fine of 2.03. each over and above
the value of the dog, and were committed for two months in default.
A young fellow, named George Galloway, was committed to the
House of Correction for twenty-one days, for brutally treating and kick.
ing a young girl with whom he cohabited, and desperately resisting the
policeman who took hint into custody.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

French and Ostend mails, ship letters from Demerara and New-
foundland, Mauritius 28th of October, an Cape of Good Hope 2d De-
cember, have arrived this morning.
We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of yester-
day's date, bringing the Dutch prices, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 14 ;
and the Five per Cents., 104.
The New York packet ship of the 24th ult., the Sheffield, has ar-
rived, bringing the confirmation of the evacuation of Navy bland by
the rebels, and the British having taken possession of it, where the
British flag is now flying. It is stated in the American papers that
the Rebels have retreated to an island below Fort Malden, which is at
the extremity of Lake Erie, from whence we have no doubt they will
soon be routed.

There is also a report that disturbances have taken place near
Toronto, where some skirmishing took place between the Royalists and
disaffected ; but not much credit is given to the above on dit.
Not much business was doing at New York in the exchanges, owing
to the scarcity of money. Bills were 109 IA ; Mercantile Bills, 109 ;
the Exchange is lower than per last arrival, which was 110.
By the Chilian papers received it appears that the situation of Santa
Cruz in Peru was critical ; and it was reported that the Chilian expedi-
tion had arrived at Islai, and a part hart proceeded to the port of
Couiga, where some troops were landed on the 26th September, and the
place taken possession of.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, FEB. 14.—Wind moderate.—Came down from the
River and sailed the Catherine, Elizabeth, for St. Vincent's; Ellen,
Murphy, for Trinidad; Dale Park, Sorel!, and the West Indian, Simp-
son, both for Jamaica; Henry Porcher, Harty, for South Australia ;
Arnoi, Seals, for Cadiz; Haidee, Herbert, for Africa.
Poarsuourtr, FEB. 14.—Wind E. to S.S., fine —Arrived the Hope,
Bundy, from London.-011' port, the Hamilton, Ross, from the Mauri-
tius, for London, sailed Oct. tl9; Cape, Dec. 2 ; Ascension, De.•. 21 ;
outside Table Bay saw the Augustus, Keir, going in with loss of fore-
mast head ; off St. Helena, spoke the Francis from the Mauritius for
London.—Sailed the Napoleon, Childs, for the coast of Africa.

COWES, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Georgina, Brown, from Charleston;
off-port, the Oronoko, from St. Thomas.

POOLE, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Ann, Williams, from Newfiundland.
DARTMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Orange Branch, from St.
Michael's.-011:.port, the Schelde, Van Dyke, from Batavia—sailed from
St. Helena, Dec. 28 ; Frederick, from Odessa.
LIVERPOOL, Feu. 14.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Botley-
wood, from St. Michael's; Redbreast, Millard, from Kertch ; Superb,
from St. Petersbuildi ; Ameril:an, from New. Orleans. Off-port, the
Rapids, from Bombay ; Westmorland, from the Maui itius ; Emigrant,
from Savannah ; Troy, from Charleston ; Talbot, from New York ;
Diana, from Bahia; Convivial; from Marseires.—Sailed the Nightingale,
for Demerara; Paragon, for Pernambuco; Buzzard, for Africa; Sir F.
Burton, for Demerara; and the William Hill, for Leghorn.
PLYMOUTH, Fea. 14.—Wind E.—Arrived the Sir J. Beresford, from
Singapore ; Nicholas, Witzen, from Surinam; Jabez, Airth, from
Odessa; Phenomena, from Batavia; Bride, Porter, from the Mau-
ritius; Hercules, Nielson, from Lisbon. Sailed the Sophia, 'Stacey,
from Nantes. Spoken with, her Majesty's ship Pique, lat. 45, lon. 20,
by the Columbia, from Cork for Halifax, with the 93d Regiment on
board, all well.

FALMOUTM, FEB. 13.—Wind E.S.E. to El, strong breezes,—Artived

the Astrea, Palmer, from Kertch. • Off port the Claremont, Moxey,
from Demerara—out 55 days, and experienced very bad weather..
Spoken with, the Baik, Abercrombie, from Liverpool for Charleston, on
the 2d inst., in lat. 46.30 N., lon. 2:3.10 W., by the Claremont.
JERSEY, FEB. I2.—Arrived the Ariehat, Le Brun, from Cadiz.
BRISTOL, FEB. 13.—Arrived the Ino, Whelan from Calcutta.
GLOUCESTER, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Velocity, Clark, from Odessa.

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Duumm, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Henry, Lyme, front Leghorn.
Corm, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Brisk, Artia, Smyrna. Off port the
Adelaide, from Halifax.

The Game], Francis, arrivell at Falmouth on the 13th reb, from
Waterford; fell in with, on the II th inst., four leagues south of Scilly,
the brig Providenc.i, of Beaumaris, abandoned, mainmast gone, and a
reefed top-sail set on the stump, and a fore top=sail clewed down ; appa.
rently light loaded.

The Columbia, Thornton, from Bombay to London was abandoned
on the 28th ultimo, with three feet water in the hold, lost rudder, &c.
crew, passengers and part of specie saved.

The Byron, of Belfast, was passed on the sth instant, in latitude 49,
longitude 26, dismasted and abandoned. .

Tho Wisbeach, Cooper, from Kilrush, put into Falmouth, part of
cargo thrown over, &c., bound to London.

The Don, Snowden, from New York, put into Falmouth very leaky,
bound to London.

The Trusty, Stephens, bound to London, has put back to Guernsey,
leaky.
The Triumph, Kirkoven, from Batavia, off St Helen's, leaky.
The Barniouth, of Bannouth, is on shore at Skerries.
The Ki9g William, L'edlington, from Sunderland, put into Scar-
borough, leaky, having struck on Sunderland Bar, bound to Lisbon.

Sir Frederick Trench has published in a separate
sheet the letter he has addressed to the Morning Herald,
vindicating himself from the aspersions of that Journal in re-
lation to the Adelaide Fund. Our readers will probably re-
collect that on June I, 1837, a ball was given at the Opera
House, the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the re-
lief of the Spitalfields weavers. The Committee of Gentle-
men who got up the ball resolved as the best means of dispos-
sing of its proceeds, that the sum of 3,7681., which it produced,
after paying all expenses, " should be applied as the founda-
tion of a fund to be called Queen Adelaide's Provident Fund,
for the relief of the operatives connected with Spitalfields
silk weaving, by loom or otherwise." It was further re-
solved that " it was not expedient then to distribute among the
weavers, as they were in full employment, any sum beyond the
3001. placed in the hands of the Lord Mayor." At the time
these resolutions were highly approved of by the weavers,
but recent distress seems to have made them wish to get at
once hold cf the fund, or part of it, and has induced them,
according to Sir Frederick's statement, to assail him by se-
veral absurd and contradictory falsehoods. Without taking
the trouble to read through the whole of Sir Frederick's
vindication, we can readily believe that his exertions in behalf
of the weavers have been dictated by the purest and best
motives, and that as a trustee of the Adelaide Fund, he only
carried into execution the resolutions of the Committee. Into
the wisdom of constituting such a fund it is not our present
business to inquire, but as the project, when it was first
formed, was gratefully acquiesced in, it is not honourable
now to assail Sir Frederick Trench. We speak quit impar-
tially, for Sir Frederick, by his concluding observations, takes
care to remind us that his political opinions are diametrically
opposite to our own.
[ADVERTISENIENT.] —The Weather Almanaek
bubble bas burst ; it says not a word of " frost" from the Ist
to the 17th, yet it has froz en hard on the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, sth,
6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, so that Mur-
phy has been quite wrong eleven days already this month.
The " mild temperature" previous to the 9th, and the return
of cold that day, were plainly foretold (it being mentioned
that the thermometer " would fall 8 or 10 degrees"), in Lieut.
Morrison's Meteorological Almanack, sold by Sherwood and
Co., who have now all the demand for weather wisdom.

ell twat A POLYG 0 N.—WC have been favoured by
Mr. Mordan, the celebrated mechanist, with a view of this ad-
dition to our domestic arts. l'he Chromapolygon, which will
he early submitted to the public, consists of geometrical paper
figures, which are susceptible of multiplied combinations ad
infinititm, thus forming a realisation of the innumerable and
ever varied objects and colours on the kaleidoscope. As a
mean of portraying patterns for Manchester and other manu-
factures, the superior decoration of the mansion or palaces its
utility will be evident. By a judicious employment of the va-
rious shades of colour the perspective of solid geometrical fi-
gures may be produced, and thus an outline of the science. of
solid geometry be insensibly acquired. As a source of bril-
liant ornament it may be applied to the decoration of albums,
portfolios, th e-screens, and other tasteful or bizarre objects,
suitable to the tables and boudoirs of the opulent.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS OF TIIE HOUSEIIOLD
INFANTRY.—Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the various
battalions of :he Household Infantry commenced the follow-
kg military movements, viz.:—The ‘)d battalion of Grenadier
Guards marched from out of the Wellington New Barracks,
St. James's Park, to St. George's Barrack's, Charing-cross ;
the 3d battalion, from Windsor Barracks, to Portman-street
Barracks, (the Ist battalion remains in Dublin). Coldstream
Guards—the Ist battalion, from St. George's Barracks, to
Windsor Barracks ; 2d battalion from St. John's Wood Bar-
racks, the Magazine in Hyde-park, and Kensington Barracks,
to the Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park. Scotch Fuzi-
leers-Ist battalion from the Tower of London, to Wellington
Barracks; 2d battalion, from Portman-street, to St. John's
Wood Barracks. the Magazine in Hyde Park, and Kensington.
The battalions ordered for Canada, and which were to have
marched for embarkation on the 16th instant, received counter
orders not to march for six weeks.
Mrs. Fry is now at Paris, engaged in visiting all
the prisons of that capital.— Temps.
LORD STANLEY.—We have reason to believe
that the paragraph which has appeared resp, c ing the state
of his Lordship's health contains much exaggeration. We
understand from a gentleman who was at Knowsley on Sa-
turday, that Lord Stanley was not quite well, having injured
himself whilst out shooting, but that he was recovering, after
having had a slight surgical operation pea, med. Our in.
formant sass that his Lordship's illness was not considered at
all serious at Knowsley. —Manchester Guardian.
The Hon. Henry 'Wellesley, Secretary of Legation
at Stutgard, left Grosvenor-street on Tuesday with despatches
for Sir George Shee, our Minister at the Court of the King
of Wurtemberg.

The new-writ moved by Mr. Holmes yesterday
morning, for Blidgn6rth, was in the room of Henry flanbury
Trac-, Esq., who has accepted the stewardship of the Chil-
tern Hundreds.

The Archbishop of Cashel, and the Lords Bibhop
of Derry, Kildare, and Meath, are the Irish representative
prelates for the present Session ; but their Lordships have,
we believe, not yet taken the oaths and their !eats.
The new Commander-in-Chief in New South
Wales, Major-General Sir Maurice O'Connell, K.C. H., is a
cousin, and not brother of the Member for Dublin. He is to
command the troops in the colony, the new Governor holding
rink in the army as a captain of engineers.

THE ONE-SHELL PATTERN SILVER SPO-64,Ni

AND FORKS,
The neatness and elegance of which have now a very general prefer-
ence, are charged 7s. 3d. per oz., at
T. COX SAVORY'S, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
. (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street.)
The following are the usual Weights:---
oz. s. d. X s• a.
12 Shell Pattern Table Spoons ... 3O at 7 3 10 17., 15
12 Ditto Dessert ditto 2O at 7 3 7 ,-) 0
12 Ditto Table Forks '3O at 7 3 10 17 ` ,), "
12 Ditto Dessert ditto 2O at 7 3 7 5 .
2 Ditto Gravy Spoons
1 Ditto Soup Ladle ... 10 at 7 3 312 6„
4 Ditto Sauce
4 Ditto Salt (gilt and strong) 1 1 0
1 Fish Knife 2 12
12 Tea Spoons
1 l'air Sugar Tongs 0 16 0
The Plain Fiddle Pattern, of the same weights as the above, are
offered one penny per oz. cheaper.
A Pamphlet may be had Gratis, containing a detailed List and.
Drawings of the various Patterns of Silver Spoons and Forks, Sa-
ver Tea and Coffee Services, Plated Ware, Watches, Clocks, &c.
The Show Rooms contain a large variety of patterns of Plate,
Plated Goods, and every article requisite to complete a Service.
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DIED.
On the 2d inst., Elizabeth Mary, u,„Cred 9 ; and, on the 7th inst.,
Anne Catherine, daughters of Mr. Homewood, of Utton Court,
Tunstall, Kent.
On the 10th inst., in Redcross. square, Cripplegate, Mr. Francis
Hobson, aged 39.
On the 10th inst., at Grosvenor-house, Brighton, Ilarriot, wife
cf the Rev. Dr. Ilogarth:
On the 10th inst., at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, M:.rgaret, wife
of Captain John Davern, aged 38.
On the 12th inst., Mr. William Steer, of Chiswell-street, Fins-
bury, aged 61.
On
ithe7t,haginQsat.i2a.t Hastings, Henry, son of Clarkson Stanfield,
Esq., t.A.
On the 4th inst. in Bond-street, Fred. Hollond, Esq., aged 35.
On the sth of December, on the voyage from Sierra Leone, the
Hon. George R. A. Clements, fourth son of the Earl of Leitrim,
Lieutenant commanding her Majesty's' brig " Harpy," aged '26.
On the 9th inst., in Connaught-square, the Hon. Mrs. Stopforl

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