The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1849.

a remand of eight calendar months from the date of
his vesting order, at the suit of the complaining credi-
tors, for contracting their debts without reasonable
expectation of payment. Tbis judgment would keep
the insolvent about six months longer in prison, and
it was to be hoped would teach him in future to avoid
such ways as would lead to this court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A butcher, named Tunnage, was summoned before
the Lord Mayor by Mr. Fisher, Inspector of Meat
of the City of London, for having exposed for sale a
quantity of beef which was not fit to be eaten by
human beings.
The complainant—At nine o'clock on Saturday
night I walked into the shop of Joseph Gardner, No.
53, Aldgate High •street, and saw two quarters of
beef hanging upon a nail there, and seized them as
unfit for human food. I saw the defendant, who
admitted that they belonged to him, and said he had
purchased them of a wholesale butcher in White-
chapel. I then took them to the greenyard, and
brought them to the Mansion-house on Monday, and
received an order from the magistrate to destroy them,
which I accordingly have done. The defendant rents
the front of the shop of Mr. Gardner, and was selling
on that night, and the Whitechapel butcher said he
had sold the meat to him for 4d. per stone. It was
in a high state of inflammation, and had probably an-

ticipated the knife.
The defendant said he had purchased the meat in
broad day, in the open market, for dogs' and cats'
meat, and not for human food.
Mr. Fisher—lt was hanging along with other
meat, and Whitechapel market is not a place for the
sale of dogs' meat.
The defendant said he was in the habit of selling
an immense quantity of stale tongues, bullocks' hearts,
and other parts of the animal for dogs' meat.
Mr. Fisher—lt is my duty to seize. all exposed
meat which is unfit for human food.
The LORD MAYOR Certainly. I fine the de-
fendant 20s. and costs.
Mr. Fisher—These men seem to think that the
inside of the shop is not the open market, and that
they can do whatever they please within doors with
impunity. It would be of service to them probably,
and I am sure it would be serviceable to the public,
if they were convinced of the contrary.
The LORD MAYOR—Bring all here whom you find
acting as if they entertained that foolish opinion.
Charles Lowland, a young fellow who was five
years ago taken as an apprentice into the house of
Messrs. Causton and Jones, printers and stationers, of
47, East Cheap, was brought up in the custody of
Haddington the officer, charged with having robbed
his employers, whose practice it has been to take
lads into their employment without fee as apprentices.
Mr. Causton had for some time observed deficien-
cies in the till, and proceeded towards the detection of
the thief upon the advice of the officer, who one day
went into the shop, and purchased two reams of paper
for 165., which he paid for in a half•sovereign, two
half crowns, and a shilling, all of which he had
marked. The prisoner's duty was to pay over all he
received into the hands of the clerk, and of that money
he had paid over only 103. Subsequently the marked
money was found in his pocket.
It is believed that his plunder, of which he had laid
aside a considerable sum for future comforts, must
have amounted to between 4001. and 600/.

The prisoner gave &confused, unintelligible account
of the manner in which he became possessed of the
marked money, and nas committed for trial.

Mr. Nelson deposed, that about a fortnight ago the
prisoner entered his service, and up to the preceding
evening nothing occurred to cause himself or his
daughter to complain of her conduct. About four
o'clock on the evening before his daughter, on find-
ing the coal-cellar filled with smoke, gave an alarm,
and on his (witness's), with some difficulty, making
his way through the dense smoke into the cellar, he
found a box in which shavings, wood, and turf were
in flames. The latter had reached the flooring, and
ignited the joists, and had the fire not been disco-
vered so opportunely, and extinguished so promptly,
the house and those adjoining must have been de-
stroyed. Supposing, however, that it might have
occurred by accident, by the prisoner being in the
cellar with a candle, end a spark falling into the box,
he did not say anything to her, but allowed her to at-
tend to her business as usual. At about 6 o'clock,while
at tea in the drawing-room, something was heard to
fall on the landing-place of the next floor resembling
a candlestick, and, on going out to see what was the
matter, he found the whole of the lobby of the upper
part of the house in flames. By a good supply of
water he was enabled, after much exertion, to subdue
the flames ; and then discovered that the fire had
evidently been caused by a light having been applied
to some silk and other dresses hanging up there, and
all of which, to the amount of 151., had been destroyed.
lie subsequently found that the prisoner had also set
fire to the curtains to the bed in which she slept, and
which were completely destroyed.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Did the .114 mes from those curtains
extend to anything else ? Mr. Nelson—No, Sir ;
they seemed to have exhausted themselves on con-
suming the bed-curtains.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Is there any part of the building,
the flooring, or pictures burnt? Mr. Nelson—Oh,
yes ; the joists in the cellar are much burnt, and the
bannisters and flooring of the top landing are also
much injured.
_ _

Mr. ELLIOTT—Did you see the prisoner at the
time the upper landing, as you have stated, was on
fire ? Mr. Nelson—l did ,not, Sir; she absented
herself for about a quarter of an hour, or, at least,
she was not to be seen for that time, when her ser-
vices were much required to carry up water to extin-
guish the flames.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Has she said anything to you about
either fire? Mr. Nelson—Ne, she has not; but I
understand that she has to the policeman. In con-
clusion he (witness) said, that bad it not been for the
alarm caused by the slight noise resembling the fall
of a candlestick, the room, and perhaps the whole
house in which it was placed, must have been
destroyed. Fire or ten minutes more would have
given the flames such an ascendancy, that it would
have been impossible for him Ito subdue them, or pre-
vent their spreading all over the house.
The constable who took the prisoner said that at
the station-house the prisoner was asked why she did
it, and her reply was that she did not like to be out
as a servant, ant she did it to get home again.
The prisoner, after receiving the usual caution from
the magistrate, said the thing was quite accidental.
She was remanded to a future day.
HAMMERSMITH.
On Thursday just before the close of the court, a
young man named Edward Davis was brought
before Mr. Beadon, in the custody of Inspector
Drake, V division, on numerous charges of burglary
and robbery.
Inspector Drake said, he had no doubt the magis-
trate would remember that on Monday last a middle-
aged woman named Anne Perkins was charged before
him with having been concerned in a robbery that had
been committed on the premises of Mr. Salmon, the
landlord of the King's Arms public-house, Fulham-
road, Little Chelsea, on the 19th instant. The evi-
dence against her was, that she had pledged on the
morning of the 20th instant, the day following the
night of the robbery, at the shop of Mr. Wolsten-
hohne, a pawnbroker in Liquorpond-street, Gray's
Inn road, a lady's paletot, a green velvet scarf, a blue
scarf, and a gown for 155., all of which were identi-
fied by Mr. Salmon as aving formed a portion of
the property stolen. On that evidence the prisoner
was remanded until Saturday next. From informa-
tion which he had subsequrn'ly received, he had
ascertained that the robbery in question had been
committed by the prisoner at the bar, whom he had
that day succeeded in apprehending, after much in-
quiry. He had also ascertained that the prisoner had
been likewise concerned in several daring burglaries
recently committed in the neighbourhood of Battersea.
If the prisoner were remanded for a day, he should be
prepared with the necessary witnesses to prove four
clear cases of burglary against him as well as the above
robbery.
Mr. BEADOS said, that as the principal charges
against the prisoner had occurred in the county of
Surrey, he thought the cases had better be taken at
the Wandsworth court than on this side of the water.
The inspector had therefore better bring him up the next
morning before him (Mr. Beadon), when he would
either go into the cases or remand him to a future day.
Yesterday the inspector informed the magistrate
that on the previous day the prisoner Davis was
removed from the court to Milman's-row, Chelsea,
station of the division, for safe custody until his re-
moval in the morning to the Wandsworth police-
court, but he was sorry to say that shortly after he
had been placed in one of the cells of that station,
and left alone for a few minutes, on his being again
visited, it was discovered that he had committed sui-
cide by hanging himself, and, although the body was
still quite warm, and a surgeon was immediately in
attendance, life was quite extinct.
Mr. BMADON said it was to be regretted that the
matter bad terminated in the manner it bad, but of
course it could not be further proceeded into.
An order was then made for the discharge of the
female prisoner, who would have been admitted as a
witness in the case.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fer
the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of December, 1849.
ISSUE DEPAZTXENT.

Notes Issued.— .... 30,284,630

Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 16,007,563
Silver bullion • • • • • • 277,077

£30,284,630

I X 30,284,630
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
r, 1849.
oZPAZTIIII24T.

Dated the 27th day of Decembei

2.14NX1X0 D
Z.
Proprietors' capital . • 14,553,000
Rest •••-••• • • • • • • • 3,114,159
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts)" 10,263,704
Other deposits • . • • 9,486,680
Sven day and other

i Government secnri-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 14,350,850
Other securities .• • 10,860,565
Notes •••• • • •• 12,451,220
Gold and silver coin.. 796,012

Ws" :. •••••• •• • • 1,069,234

£38,468,677

38,488,677
MARSTLILL, Chief Cashier.
1849.

Dated the 27th day of Deeeml

GRINTON PIER.--TO protect this pier from the
mud and sand which were gradually accumulating
around it, the Duke of Buccleugh has found it neces-
sary to construct a breakwater on the western side, at
a cost of about 70,0001. We understand that a similar
breakwater will have to be erected on the eastern side,
involving a similar outlay of 70,0001. These outlays
were, or course, never contemplated, and the necessity
for them is a cause of considerable regret.—North British
Mail. _ _

A GANG OF BURGLARS.—Soon after twelve o'cock
on Friday night, four men went to the farm-house of
Mr. Taverner, who resides between Moreton and Fyfield,
and having awoke the occupants of the house, requested
an audience with Mr. Taverner, stating that they were
members of the constabulary, and wanted to speak to
him. Mr. Taverner, however, suspecting them to be in
pursuit of a very different object to that represented,
fetched his gun and advised them to retire peaceably, or
threatened to fire upon them. At first they only ridi-
culed him, and seemed beat upon effecting an entrance;
but at the first discharge the miscreants thought it beat
to decamp. The same party then proceeded to the
house of Mr. Smith. of Moreton, and three of them
having laid in ambush, one of them aroused the inmates,
imploring their assistance, and stating that his horse had
fallen down in the road ; the son of Mr. Smith having
opened the door, four men with their faces covered with
black crape rushed in, demanding money. Seeing that
ho must be overpowered by numbers. Mr. Smith, who
is an aged man, offered no resistance, and the burglars
ransacked the room, taking from the hutch a A/. note of
the Essex Bank, with about 3/. in gold and silver; they
also took away a silver watch, a hat, some bread and
meat, and effected their escape. There is no doubt that
these men form members of a gang of desperadoes who
have been the terror of the neighbourhood for a long
time.—Essez Standard.
THE MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL Assocranow.—
A meeting of the directors of the above association was
hAI on Thursday, at the offices, York Hotel-building,
when Mr. James Aspinall Turner, President of the
Association, occupied the chair. Mr. Leone Levi, Hone.
rary Secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
attended to explain his views on the expediency of
amalgamating this association with the Chamber of
Commerce, and co. operating with the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce to obtain from Parliament an Act to establish
in all commercial towns tribunals of commerce, to be
composed of commercial men, with a legal judge as pre-
sident, permanently sitting to decide all cases of com-
mercial disputes. Mr. Levi also suggested the propriety
of adopting some mode whereby the President of the
Board of Trade would be enabled to obtain the constant
assistance of mercantile mea in the formation of all
enactments affecting our trade and commerce. A long
discussion ensued, and the subject was ultimately ad-
journed for future consideration.
Oa Saturday last a four-oared punt left the shore
for the purpose of putting a man on board a vessel
bound up, having accomplished which they were return-
ing by the west side of the jetty, when a heavy seastruck
the boat, and upset it. With difficulty the men gained
a footing on the rock, and were immediately assisted in
without further damage than a soaking.—Kentish
Observer. _ _

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial•office, for the Governors of the North
American Colonies,

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY.

A !general meeting of this company ;was held
yesterday, at their offices, New Broad-street, City ; J.
Ruddell Todd, Esq., Chairman, presiding.
Mr. DAVID M'LAREN, the manager, read a supple-
mentary report of the society's operations from Oct. 31,
1848, to April 30, 1849, in which the directors stated
that the expectation which they had repeatedly ex-
pressed of increased income from their rent rolls had
been fully realised. The addition to their rental,
secured during these six months, was as follows :
Increase to the annual rental of the town property,
281/. 125.; ditto port buildings, 313/. ; ditto country
lands, 9161. 175.; the increase in the net receipts of
the wharf during the same period amounts to
2661. 6s. ld., making a total of 1,7771. 15s. ld. By
dispatches to the 24th August, information had
been received from the Colonial Manager of further
leases effected during the preceding four months, as
follows :—Of country lands, 3,009 acres, annual
rental (being nearly ss. 81 per acre, average),
851/. 14s. ; of town lands, rather less than four
acres, for 21 years, thiefly on building leases,
1791. 10s. Od.; of port lands, of small rear allot-
ments, 131. Bs. 01. ; total, 1,0441. 12s. Od.
During the six months from October, 1848, to April,
1849, only two country sections had been sold,
yielding a surplus beyond the valuation in last in-
ventory of 2501. The sales of the town acres had been
confined to portions of those of which part had been
previously sold, excepting two acres in North Adelaide,
which realised 1001. above the inventory rates.
There was reason to believe that by this time opera-
tions had commenced for forming a railroad from
Adelaide to the Port, and, as the terminus was likely
to be on their land, in the rear of the extended wharf,
their property there would become still more valuable.
Some very advantageous sales of small allotments, had
in consequence been made, at a rate rather exceeding
2,0001. per acre. Fortunately they had upwards of a
hundred acres there, with a continuous line of frontage
to the harbour, upwards of a mile long. A steam
tug was in active employment at Port Adelaide, and
machinery and drawings fur a dredging vessel had
been sent, for which the Colonial Government pro-
vided the funds. These measures should greatly
benefit the harbour, and afford facilities for the con-
tinued improvement of their property. The portion
of last year's clip of wool, which was sold after the
annual meeting, did not bring quite so good prices
as that sold in May. The net proceeds of the wool
amounted to 5,662/. ls., as against 3,6241.65..71 of the
preceding year. The market had decidedly improved,
and the prospects for next year are very encouraging.
The sales of sheep, and value of those killed for ra-
tions during the six months preceding the 30th April
last, amount to 1,232/. 7s. 2d. The mining opera-
tions of the company continued to be carried on, to
a very limited extent, and on the most cautious prin-
ciples. The board had repeatedly advised their agent
that it would be more agreeable to them if they could
succeed in granting sets of these mineral lands to
those who would work them with spirit-, judgment,
and perseverance, and pay them a fair royalty
—than working them on the company's account.
Messrs. Thomas have erected smelting works at Ran-
mantoo, agreeably to which all their ores fur two y ears
were to be smelted by them, and returned to them in
copper. This would give a value to low ores, which
could not have paid freight and charges to England.
A quantity of ore had been sold to a smelting com-
pany in Van Diemen's Land, and previously to the
18th April there had been delivered to them 25 tons,
at 121. 13s. per ton. The directors had studiously
avoided exciting sanguine expectations as to the
probable produce of their mineral lands, and they
thought it necessary to caution the shareholders
against attaching undue importance to it. Gol I had
been found in several parts of the company's land.
A scientific practical mine surveyor of high character
had shown them specimens cf the gold, and stated
that he should consider himself remunerated for
superintending such workings with one fifth part of
the net profits derived therefrom. This information
was transmitted to the board by Mr. Giles so recently
as on the Ist August last. Emigration still steadily
continued both of the labouring classes and of those
possessed of capital. Increased facilities (much called
for by the colonists) will have been afforded ere this,
for legitimate banking business, by the establishment
in Adelaide of a branch of the Union Bank of Aus-
tralia. Upon the whole the board congratulated the
proprietors on the steadily increasing revenue of the
company, their favourable prospects, and the rapid
progress which the colony had made in all the elements
of a general and most substantial prosperity.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the-
report, said it was almost unnecessary for him to
mike any observations, as they had endeavoured, and
be hoped with a tolerable degree of success, to supply
the shareholders with information up to the latest
period. The conveyance of dispatches was now
rather difficult and tedious, but by means of overland
intercourse their information was within a period of
three months. The report would show that they
were progressing as rapidly and fairly to that
system of things whieh would exclude everything of
a doubtful or speculative nature. The rise in the
price of wool would enable them to get rid of their

flocks without loss ; and they expected that they
would soon be in a position to have applied to the
mines the industry, capital, and activity of others,
instead of working the minerals themselves.
Mr. ',Amnia cordially seconded the resolution,
thinking that the directors had done everything to
promote the interests of the company.
Mr. MILLER said he was gratified to see that the
income of the company had increased by 2,0001., but
he was anxious to know how much bad altogether
been expended in their mining operations.
The CHAIRMAN replied that the total amount, in-
cluding everything connected with the mines since
they commenced working in December, 1845, was
31,000/., but there was to be set against this, 8,8001.
which was received by sales of ores in this country,
and also 8,9001., the estimated increased value of the
land ; and he thought there was a very good prospect
of recovering the remainder by royalties or by fur-
ther sales of ores.

After a short discussion the reportlwas agreed to
and ordered to be printed. s _ _

Mr. MILLER moved a resolution to the effect that,
in consequence of the great risk and uncertainty
attending mining operations, the meeting was of
opinion that it was inexpedient to employ the funds
of the association in working or preparing their
mineral property.
The motion was seconded by Mr. WATSON.
The CHAIRMAN said there was no one more against
mining operations than he was, and the directors had
already done what this resolution expressed, for they
had given positive instructions that no more of the
company's capital should be employed in mines which
would not pay a profit.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
and the meeting separated.

The weekly meeting of the above society was held in
the committee-rooms, on Sunday, the 22d—Mr.
Kickham in the chair. Several members were en-
rolled. The rent to be paid for the rooms was de-
termined, and the treasurer handed money to the
secretary to pay the debts of the society. Some of
the members of the committee handed in returns of
the agricultural produce of their respective townlands,
and the number of inhabitants in each ; the census of
the parish will be soon completed, and we fear that
the decrease both in the produce and people of the
parish will be startling.—Tipperary Free Press.
TsE FUNDS.—The Three per Cent. Consols, 96k;
ditto for opening, 013 i I; Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Stock, 961 i; Patriotic Insurance Company, 7;
Wicklow Copper Mine, 9i; Great Southern and Western
Railway, 30; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 54

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28, 1849.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
James Burrowes to be Colonial Chaplain for her
Majesty's settlements in the Gambia.
ller Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the
R :v. Reginal Robert Bradley to be Colonial Chaplain
for her Majesty's forte and settlements on the Gold Coast.

T. Wyatt, Oxford-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea,
builder, 2s. 2d., on Saturday, Dec. 29, and three subse-
quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street.
J. L. Norton, Birmingham, stationer and printseller,
2s. Bd., on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at
the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
J. Harper, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Walsall,
Tipton, and Bilston, Staffordshire, mercer and draper,
5P., and 4s. sed., on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 8,
or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, ay
the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall •street._ _
_

R. Knight, Albert-place, Mitcham-road, Surrey,
eetist(ivietualler and timber dealer, Jan. 26, at ehiven

—C. W. De Bernardy, Salisbury-square, bill broker,
money scrivener, and commission agent, Jan. 21, at one
—S. Leggatt, Nor 'via, innkeeper, Jan. 9, at half• past
eleven—R. Harris, Northtmpton, carpenter, Jan. 19, at
eleven—J. 0. Culyer, Edmonton, gasfitter, contractor,
and engineer, Jan. 24, at eleven—J. C. has, Norwich,
haberdasher, Jan. 18, at twelve.
In the Country.

W. Bates, Tithby, Nottingham, horse dealer, Jan. 25,
at ten, at the Court, Nottingham—R. E. Saxton, Crich,
Derbyshire, jeweller, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court, Not-
tingham—J. Smith, New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, whar:
finger, coal dealer and auctioneer, Jan, 25, at ten, at the
Court, Nottingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED. _ _

T. T. Clarke, Sunderland, baker, after 21 days from
Dec. 20—S. A. 11. qt, Cullum-street, Fenchurch-street,
trwrehant.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Morse and D. Price, Cork- stre..t, Burlington-
gardens, tailors—W. Figgins, J. Hidden, and J. W.
Lots, Manchester, ale and porter dealers—R. G. llig
gins, and A. H. Godbv, Newport, Shropshire, surgeons
—C. Egg and ii. Egg, Piccadilly, gunmakers—T. Haigh
and D. Hodgkins, Liverpool, general town carriers—R.
Furneaux and C. Furleaux, Brixhain, Devonshire, ship
builders—T. P. Teale and J. Teale, Leeds, surgeons—
T. Druce and W. I)ruce, Swan walk, Chelsea, coal and
timber-merchants—R. Stanton and N. Gosling, Lancas-
ter, drapers—ll. Waithman and P. C. Beckie, Old
Broad-street, City, silk-brokers—J. Band and J. Ridg-
way, Woolley-bridr, Derbyshire, corn and provision
dealers—C. Lange and E. Kroll, Leicester-street,
Leicester-square, hotel. keepers.