The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-15 00:00:00

Dublin Castle, Jan. 6.

Hie Majesty has been pleased, by letters patent under
the Great Seal of Ireland, to appoint his Grace Charles
Duke of Richmond to he Postmaster-General of Ireland,
in the room of the Earl of Rosse.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Kent.
East Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
A. Heartley, Gent. to be Adjutant, with eonstint pay;
the Rev. C. Chisholm, Clerk, to be Chaplain, both dated
Dec. 29.

Tunbridge Wells Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.
George Charles Earl of Breeknoek to be Captain ; A.
Akers, Gent., to be Lieutenant; R. Blencowe, Gent., to
be Cornet, Jan. 8.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

John Voules, New Windsor, Berkshire, coal-merchant

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

John Taylor, Carlisle, wine-merchant.
William Leeson, Jun., Nottingham, wine-merchan►.
Edward Harrold, Wolverhampton, cotton-spinner.
BANKRUPTS.

Robert Evennett, South Bank, Regent's Park, coal-
merchant, to surrender Jan. 21, 2S, and Feb. 25, at eleven,
at the Court of Commissioners. Howard, Norfolk-street,
Strand.

Edward Harnett, Union Wharf, Wapping-wall, coal-
merchant, Jan. 25, 28, and Feb. 25, at ten, at the Court
of Commissioners. Baddeley, Leman-street, Goodman's-
fields.

George and Charles Earle, Great St. Thomas Apostle,
wine-merchants, Jan. IS, at one, 28, and Feb. 25, at
two, at the Court of Commissioners. Piercy and Oakley,
Three Crown-squire, Southwark.
George Road ley Siwkin, Redeross-street, grocer, Jan.
21, 28, at one, and Feb. 25, at twelve, at the Court of
Commissioners. Halley, Furnival's Inn, Holborn.
William Field, Brighton, carpenter, Jan. 25, at two,
28, and Feb. 25, at three, at the Court of Commissioners.
Patten and Smith. Hatton-garden, London.
John Elliott, Holloway, carpenter, Jun. 21, at ten,
Feb. 4, at eleven, and 25, at twelve, nt the Court of
Commissioners. Pocock, Bartholomew-close, London.
Thomas Chandler, Bow-lane, Cheapside, carpenter, Jan.
IS, 25, at twelve, and Feb. 25, at one, at the Court of
Commissioners. Payne and Leachman, Aldermanborv.
Thomas Lee, Liverpool, cotton-dealer, Feb. 1,2, and
25, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Dean,
Palsgraves-place, Temple-bar, London; Gregory, Liverpool.
George Smith, jun., North Shields, Northumberland,
master-mariner, Feb. 7,8, and 25, at eleven, at the George
Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Lowrey and Willins, Pin-
ner's-hall-court, Broad-street, London ; Lowrey, North
Shields.

John Chapman, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, ironmonger,
Jan. 25, 26, and Feb. 25, at twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel,
Birmingham. Sinscox, Birmingham ; Watson, Wisbech.
William Mills, Greenwich, limn-draper, Jan. 21, at
one, 28, and Feb. 25, at elnen, at the Court of Com-
missioners. Street and Gilbert, Brabant-court, Phi!pot-
lane.

William Harris, Bristol, silk-mercer, Feb. I, 2, at one,
and 25, at ten, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Bridges
and Mason, Red Lion-square, London ; Hare and Little,
Bristol.

DIVIDENDS.
J. Penning, Holles-street, Ca;endish-square, cabinet-
maker and upholsterer, Feb. 1, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners—T. Fulton, 'Change-alley, insurance-
broker, Feb. 4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—
W. A. South, lligh-street, Southwark, chemist, Feb. 4,
at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—E. A. Waugh,
Ironmonger-lane, cloth-factor, Feb. 4, at three, at the
Court of Commissioners—G. Swire, Norfolk-street,
Strand, bookseller, Feb. 4, at three, at the Court of Com-
' missioners—B. Bellamy, Wood-street, Clerkenwell, car-
penter, Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners
Harris, Graeechurch-street, auctioneer, Feb. 4, at
twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Hurst and J.
0. Robinson, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, booksellers, Feb.
4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—G. Priestnall,
Stockport, Cheshite, silk-spinner, Feb. 7, at one, at the
York Hotel, Manchester—C. C. Daniell, Norwich, frocer,
Feb. 4, at six, at the Norwich Hotel, Norwich—J. East-
all, Portsmouth, vintner, Feb. 7, at two, at the Fountain
Inn, Portsmouth—A. Wright, Louth, Lincolnshire, cur-
rier, Feb, 7, at three, at the Crown and Woolpaeks Inn,
T. and J. Smith, York, drapers, Feb. 5, at
ten, at the York Hotel, Manchester.

- CERTIFICATES, FEB. 4.
Tadinan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, perfurner—T. Gib-
bon, Marchinont-street, linen-draper—R. Dare!), Grove,
Great Guildford.atreet, Southwark, bra,,s.founder—W.
Packinan, Lodgatc-hill, tavern-keeper—11. C. A. IV)

Pengree, Princes-street, Lambeth, ironmonger—F. Knapp,
Cramborne, Cornwall, victuallcr—C. Humphries, Bi-
.llopsgate-street, linen-draper.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
M. Me and F. Ott, :Crosby-square—N. and J. Slee,
Bermondoey,leatber-dressers—j. and W. Gunner, Tower-
stairs, lightermen—J. Shelton and S. Morris, Tottenham-
court-road, linen-drapers—J. Hardy and J. Pogson,
Stockport, woollen-drapers—W. Neale and W. Anderson,
Tooley-street, Southwark, chemists—J. Hoyle and G.
Hoyle, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers—S.
Taylor and M. A. Hemming, Shipston-upon-Steur,
Worcestershire, boarding .school-keepers—F. and G. Keene,
Crown-court, Broad-street, wine-merchants.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY,

Yesterday being appointed for the further hearing
of a simmlar charge of felony, at Lambeth-street Po-
lice-office, which was partly investigated on Wed-
nesday last, the office was crowded with persons
anxious to hear its result.

At one o'clock the accused, Mary Harwood, was
placed within the bar before Messrs. IlArtnwtcx and
WYATT, and was attended by Mr. *Wooler, as her
solicitor, while Mr. Townsend, the vestry clerk of
St. George's in the East, attended on the parts of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, the prosecutors.
Previous to the case being entered on, Mr.
Townsend observed, that insinuations had gone
abroad most injurious to the character of his clients;
and he therefore was prepared with a number of
respectable witnesses, who would prove these insi-
nuations to be perfectly groundless, and to be mere
malicous falsehoods.

Mr. HARDWICK asked the accused if she still per-
sisted in the story she had told the previous day
about her visiting Mrs. Thomas at the Portugal
Hotel, while absent from her husband ?

The prisoner replied that she did, as she had only
spoken the truth. It was a fact that she had paid
three different visits to Mrs. Thomas, two by day
and one by night, while she stopped at the Portugal,
and besides she paid the bill of 21 18s., which she
had incurred there, to one of the chambermaids,
after she had left it.

In reply to a question from Mr. Townsend, the
prisoner said that she got a bill or receipt for the
money, which she paid, and gave it to Mr. Thomas.
Mr. Townsend here called Mr. Chandler, the
proprietor of the Portugal Hotel, in Fleet-street,
who stated, that in consequence of an application
made to him, he had minutely looked over his books,
md could find no entry for the last six months for
2/. 18s. Besides he was conscious that Mrs. Thomas
was never an inmate of his house, nor had he ever
before that morning seen her. He was convinced
that if she lived there he must have known her. He
had never, to his knowledge, seen the prisoner be-
fore Wednesday evening, when she calleml at the
hotel, in the company of an officer.
Elizabeth Smith, the principal chambermaid at
time Portugal, deposed that to the best of her know-
ledge Mr. Thomas had not for two years and a half,
while she lived there, stopped at that hotel.
The Magistrates here expressed themselves, satis-
fied with the utter fallacy of the accusation against
the character of Mrs. Thomas ; but Mr. To wnsend
requested that they would indulge him, by permit-
ting him to call several other witnesses who were in
attendance, in order that all doubt on the subject
might be set at rest, as reports had got into the
newspavrs which were most hurl' 1 to the feelings
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, and he hoped that their
refutation would be as widely promulgated as the
origitxal charge-was. --:------
The Magistrates, under these circumstances, gave
their assmar, and Mr. Townsend called David Jones,
who stated that he had been shopman to Mr.
Thomas for the last seven years, and during that
time Mrs. Thomas had not even for one day been
absent from the house. Two female servants deposed
to time same facts, and were positive that Mrs. Thomas
bad not slept from home for eight or nine months.
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Mr. Hopkev, a very respectable surgeon, stated
that he had been the medical attendant of Mr.
Thomas and his family for some years ; he had fre-
quent opportunities of witnessing the termson which
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas lived, and lie could say that
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Several other respectable witnesses, friends, ac-
quaintances, and neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. Thoma,,
spoke in the highest terms of commendation of their
characters, and gave it as their opinion, from their
own knowledge of Mrs. Thomas, that the accusation
was most cruel and unjust, and had not the slightest
foundation in truth.

Mr. Stulfiell, a magistrate for Middlesex, who
was on the bench, said that though he resided in
the same neighbourhood with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas,
he did not know any thing of them of his own
knowledge, but since the publicity was given to the
present cahsee ,
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;thie:thine insinuation offered against the moral charac-
ter of Mrs. Thomas was qui e false.
The Rev. Mr. Roach, the curate of the parish,
was present and to bear testimony to the
exemplary charac!er of Mr, and Abs. Thomas, but
the Magistrates thought it unnecessary pursuing- the
exa initiation further, as they felt perfectly satisfied
on the subje:q.

Mr. HARDISI,ft, addiess,ng the prisoner, said that
the accusatica which she had made on a former day,
against the character of Mrs. Thomas, had been so
satisfactorily rebutted, that it must be considered as
groundless, and asked her if she wished to offer any
thing in explanation.
Alf. Wooler observed, that under the circum-
stances it would, he thought, be better for the case
to proceed in the ordinary course.
The depositions of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were
then taken. Both swore that the prisoner had,
while in their service as nurserymaid, and not, as she
stated on the previous day, as a visiter of their house,
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a tippet, and other articles belonging to
withoutlu their sanction. Some articles pledged
prisoner were produced and identified by
The necessary witnesses were then bound over,
and the prisoner fully committed to Newgate for
trial.
Mrs. Thomas.'

NOVEL STRIKE.—On Sunday last, the
church-going people of the ancient village of Blackrod,
were much alarmed at not hearing the usual admonitory
peal, which was wont to remind them that it was time to
attend their hebdomadal devotions ; upon enquiry it was
ascertained that the ringers had struck for an advance of
wages, and had expressed their determination not to per-
' form their usual duties until their demands should be com-
plied with __Blanchester Times.
The embarrassments of' the great house of
LAFITTE and Co., of Paris, have been a leading topic
with the commercial letters, and the subject of general
conversation on 'Change. One thing alone is certain,—
that the affairs of the house are being wound up, and that
the Minister is about to retire from any further share in it.
The result of such liquidation is necessarily a matter of
uncertainty, and on that head the statements so far differ,
that while some estimate the fortune which will remain to
the Minister
at 500,000/., others declare the excess not
likely to equal the tenth part of that sum; or even express
doubt whether there will be any surplus at all. The busi-
ness of the house will, it is supposed, go on as usual,
though it is out of the question that it can ever regain its
former eminence in the commercial world.— Times.

IRELAND.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)

DUBLIN, JAN. 11.
YOU will perceive by the Dublin Papers, that the
Lord Lieutenant has been again put to a proclama-
tion, and that Mr. O'Connell has published another
letter. It is needless, I believe, to invite your
readers' attention to both. Neither is it necessary
for me to direct yours to Lord Anglesea's answer to
the College address particularly.
The political breakfasts are stopped for the pre-
sent. But we shall have political dinners. One
assembles to-night.
True bills have been found against Mr. Steele for
an alleged libel against the editor of the Evening
Packet. It is apprehended that this gentleman is
also in jeopardy for a speech he caused to be printed
and distributed about the streets.

I am sorry to communicate an account of a me.
lancholy accident which happened yesterday on the
Shannon, near Castle Conntil. Lady Massey, with
a servant and two boatmen, were crossing the river
to Sir Hugh Massey's, on the opposite side, when,
in consegnence of the fog, the boat was carried down
the Falls of Donass, and all on board perished.
Sir John Byng remains as Commander of the
Forces.

The tribute to Mr. O'Connell is expected to nei
more than 30,0001.

DUBLIN, JAN. 12.
I regret to have to state that the machine-break-
ing system has at length commenced in this country.
—Last night a numerous mob, composed chiefly of
paper-makers, armed with pistols, clubs, and ether
weapons, assembled round the extensive paper-mills
of Mr. Michael Macdonnell, within a few miles of
this city, and having succeeded in obtaining an en-
trance, destroyed the machinery, and nearly de-
molished the premises.

As soon as an account of this outrage reached
town, information regarding it was communicated at
the Castle, and an investigation is now in progress
at Arran-quay Police-office, where a law-agent on
the part of the Government is in attendance. There
are several paper-mills in the neighbourhood of Mr.
Macdonnell's, and well-grounded apprehensions are
entertained that, if strong precautions be not
speedily adopted, they will also be destroyed.