The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital ... ... • . f. 67,900,000 00
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 00
Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 390,496,200 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 25,371,625 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) 1,189,937 75
Account-current with Treasury creditor 34,945,997 12

Various accounts current
Ditto in branches ..
Bills payable at sight ...
Ditto at branches ••• ••• •••
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... ... ...
... 7,134 522 74
Ditto a the Bank payable by branches.. 4,257,809 00
Dividends payable
.... . .
...236,375 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 205,202 4
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,163,310 35
Ditto branch banks ..• —.—. 1,621,284 00
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 246,109 85
Ditto in branch banks ... ••• ... 460,661 00
Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 349,919 91

... 92,036,239 48
... 29,623,818 00
4,753,800 00
1,092,112 00

f. 705,418,673 49
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France,
D'ARG OUT.

H.t..ILBURGII FUNDS, MAT 1.

Hanoverian New Lcian, 5 per Cent:....
Ditto, 3% per Cent. • •
Bank Shares •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • •
Prussian 5 per Cent. • • • • .. • • • • • •• • • 101• X 101 y 4
Russian Certificate..................
Anglo-Russian Loan - • .. • • • . • • • • • • • • 102 101
Hamburgh Certificate, 5 per Cent .... 96
Russian 4 per Cent...................
3d and 4th Series, Hope and Co. ••.. • • 91
Ditto Stieglitz ........ •••• • • • • 82
Belgian Loan. 2% per Cent............ 45%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 65% 65
Ditto, in 1001. shares • • .... 65% 65
Anglo-Swedish Loan .. • • •••• • • .. 96%
Ditto, Transport Loan • • . • • • ........
Norwegian Loan, 1848 ••••• • • • • •• • • 9734
Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••••• • • • • • •. 11
Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland ••••• . • • • • 23% 23%
Ditto, 1816.... .. •• •• • •• • • - •
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch ActuaiDebt, 234 per Cent. ••• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent.
National Bank Shares • •
American, 6 per Cent. ....•.. •..• • • .
RAILWAYS.

Bills. Money.
10.1 i

Hamb. Bergd.
Ditto,.Priority Shares •••• •• • • */*.jz
91%
Berlin and Hamburg ........
...... -
Ditto, Priority Share; • •
Cologne and Minden • • •• •• 7.,
Ditto, Priority Shares (2:3 76
Mecklenburg .• • • • • • • • • • • • •
Altona and Kiel .••• • . • •
(;luckstadt •• ••••••• • • • • -

31
89 'L

Itendsburg.. • • •• •• •• •• " •
Ilameatie Steam Company

' ..... ••• •• 02

EXCHANGES ON I.- NEON.

Ilarnbuß•h, May 1 • ...• 94,‘
Ditto, Two months ..• •• • • • • ;,•,. T. 13
Christiana, Ayr. 8/7threa-tnonths• • 4 82

Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their
agent at Savanilla:--Stiviiiira is now a port of entry.
Vessels are allowed to come direct.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MAT 16.—Lord Stanley's Irish. allies—the
landlords—are beginning to fear that their hopes and
expectations are doomed to disappointment. It is said
that letters have reached London from an influential
personage, to the effect, that maugre all the opposi-
tion of Lord Stanley and the Noble Protectionists,
the Navigation taws Bill will be carried by a small
majority. This will be " a heavy blow" to the Irish
landlords, who have been speculating on the chances
of a change of rulers, to save them from the penalties
of their manifold " sins and wickedness."
PROGRESS OF DESTITUTION.

The accounts from the provinces are so revolting,
and appear so incredible, that I am almost ashamed
to transcribe them. For instance, G. E. Btu ke, J.P ,
late Chairman of the Moyculem Hospital, writing to
the Central Board of Health, states that the mortality
within the last month is more than frightful. On
Sunday last, in about four hours, I saw
twelve burials ; on Monday there were eight, and
yesterday, I saw within two hours, no less than seven
rude coffins conveyed to the grave-yards, on carts
drawn by horses which were scarcely able to drag
their burdens. A few days ago my attention was
attracted by the noise of pigs contending for their
prey, to an out-house in this village ; I went in, and
found to my horror, the brutes fighting for a meal
of the remains of a poor lad, of about fifteen years
of age.
I know of six people to have been lying dead at
the same time last week in one small village, and to
have been left unburied until the pure air of God
was tainted by the decomposition of their remains,
because the relatives of the unfortunate victims could
not procure coffins for them, as they had not been
recipients of the relief." I have known a mother
who had entered the poorhouse, or, as it should, under
present management, be more properly called the
"pest-house" of this union, with her husband and four
children, to have been turned out in a state of disease
after having seen her four children lying dead, to have
been carted about from place to place, refused ad-
mittance into any hospital, and left to die on the
public roads; and why was this ? Because her poor
husband fled the " house" in despair at the loss of his
children, and preferred death from starvation outside
to cruel treatment and certain death within.
In Skibbereen the scenes of last summer are re-
peated with additional horrors. At the village of
Bally macaw, near Skibbereen, three inquests were
held in the course of the week, and in each case the
verdict was, " Died from want of food." In one case,
that of a man named M'Donnell, Dr. Cooke, the
medical attendant, stated that he examined the body
of the deceased, and could scarcely find out his stomach
in consequence of the want of food in it; he bad not
the slightest doubt on his mind that the man had died
from starvation.

Constable Michael O'Connor visited the house of
the deceased the morning of his death, and found
him stretched on a heap of dung, with more than
half the roof off the wretched cabin in which he lay.
EXTRAORDINAHY CASH OF FORGEF.Y.—Consider-
able sensation was created yesterday in legal circles,
in consequence of a discovery which took place in
the early part of the morning. From what has
transpired it appears that a native of England,
who has been a resident of this city for
years, and who belonged to a branch of the
legal profession, in which he enjoyed both reputation
and business, got married some time since to a lady of
great respectability, who had a fortune of about
1,2001. This sum, it appears, was invested in trus-
tees for the benefit of the lady, and lodged in
Government security, so as not to be drawn
save by the trustees. Some days since the
gentleman alluded to presented himself at the
bank, produced two separate powers of attorney,
for nearly 600/. each—both purporting to be wit-
nessed by clergymen, and on these documents he
received the money, with which he disappeared.
His absence for a day or so created no suspicion, but
its continuance caused some uneasiness ; and yester-
day, on inquiry, the whole case became exposed. The
gentleman who committed this alleged forgery has
left wife, house, home, and friends. It is stated that
the trustees expect to be able to recover the sum from
the bank, inasmuch as the power of attorney was not
genuine. We believe an active search is being made
for the absent gentleman. Several of the detective
corps, and some of the metropolitan police stationed
at the Rock, near which his country residence was
situated, are said to be on his track. _ _

FLIGHT OF A PUBLIC OFFICER —The Under-
Sheriff of Mayor has disappeared, taking with him
large sums of money, the pruduce of sales under exe-
cution. The High Sheriff will be the sufferer.
VALENTIA HAanotra.—The Colleen oge, a hired
cutter, is now lying in Cove, with Captain Wolf,
R.N., on board. It is supposed that the gallant officer
is going on an exploring expedition to Valentia Har-
bour, with the view of ascertaining its fitness for a
packet station. . .

MORE EJECTMENTS.—The Cork Examiner states,
"that from 90 to 100 ejectments, including a greater
number of families, have been served on the Midle-
ton estate since it came into the possession of the

present owner, a Miss Rushbrook, who; by the way,
is not connected with the fAmily of the late Viscount
Midleton. Under the new proprietor, the tenantry
confidently looked forward to a reduction in their
rents, which are stated to be 25 per cent. higher than
on any contiguous property ; but in this expectation
they have been disappointed."
RUMOURED REFORMS AMONG CROWN SOLICITORS
AND CLERKS OF THE PEACE.—It is rumoured that
the offices of the circuit and local Crown Solicitor-
ships on the Home and Connaught Circuits are to be
immediately consolidated, and that the local solicitor
of each county is to attend and do the duties of the
assize court. This will cause a saving on these two
districts of about 3,0001. a year. It is also rumoured

that the offices of Clerk Of the Peace and of the

Crown of each county in Ireland are to be consoli-
dated. This will effect an additional saving of about
12,0001. The latter change has been long in contem-
plation. The Clerk of the Peace, it is supposed, will
be the officer retained to do the duties.--Freeman's
Journal.
CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—We had again a good
demand for oats, which met with a small advance.
Wheat, on the contrary, was dull, and hardly brought
Tuesday's prices. Indian corn in fair demand at
former currency. Baker's flour lower by Is per cwt.
White wheat 23s to 26s 6d; red wheat 22s to 245;
barley 135 to 17s 6d ; oats Ils 6d to 13s 6d ; oatmeal
per cwt 12s to 13s 6d; M'Cann's meal 143; second
flour 14s to 17s; Indian corn 31s to 365; Indian
cornmeal 8s Gd. .

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Mu 7.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
This morning Mr:Baron Alderson sat in the Exche-
quer Chamber to take motions, as it was the last day
but one of term, by way of " easement" to the full Court.

DROWN V. YARDLEY.

In this case an action had been brought against the
defendant for the seduction of the plaintiff's niece, one
Mary Ann Brown, which was tried before the Lord
Chief Baron at the Guildford Assizes of the last sum-
mer, upon which occasion the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff, with damages for 2001. In the course of
last Michaelmas Term, Mr. Lash obtained a rule for a
new trial, on the ground of a misdirection on the part of
the Learned Judge, in telling the jury that they might
take into their consideration the future maintenance
of the child of which Mary Ann Brown had been deli-
vered, as well as the alleged breach of promise which
had been made by the defendant when they were
discussing the question of damages. After this rule
had been obtained, and whilst it was pending, a nego-
tiation was opened and carried on between the respec-
tive attorneys, of which the object was to effect a settle-
ment of the matter by a private arrangement. A gen-
tleman of the name of May acted as the representative
of Mary Ann Brown. In the progress of the matter it
appeared that this gentleman bad been consulted in the
first instance in reterence to the adoption of proceedings
for a breach of promise of marriage which it had been
intended to' institute against the defendant by Miss
Brown, when he advised that no such action should be
commenced, seeing that the gentleman was not of age
when he made the alleged promise, and consequently
that an action would not lie against him. In the course
of the negotiation it was proposed to settle an annuity
upon the plaintiff's niece for the support of the child,
and it was to constitute a portion of the terms of ar-
rangement that Mary Ann Brown should waive her right
to affiliate the child to the defendant. Prior to the ar-
rangements, however, being brought to a termination,
the young lady took out a summons to bring the defend-
ant before the magistrates at Maidenhead, in Berks, with
a view to the obtainment of an order of affiliation, and
thereby altogether repudiating the acts of negotiation of
Mr. May, which acts, she asserted before the justices,
had been undertaken without her sanction. Upon this,
the proofs having been satisfactorily established, an
order of affiliation was made upon the defendant. The
defendant thereupon applied, under the altered state of
the facts, for a rule to have the rule for the new teal
made absolute. It further appeared that an action had
been brought by the defendant against Mr. May for the
recovery of 941., n hich he had paid to bim upon the
faith of his representation that he was acting under the
authority of Mary Ann Brown. In his affidavit Mr.
May how excused himself upon the ground that he had
had an express authority from the plaintiff to enter into
these proposed arrangements, and that he had had no
reason to suppose but that her niece, Mary Ann Brown,
was a consenting party also.
Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Prentice, and Mr. C. Pollock
now showed cause egainst the rule.

Mr. Lush and Mr. H. A. Simon were beard in sup-
port of the rule, contending that the defendant bad a
clear right to be placed in the same situation as that in
which he had stood prior to the attainment of the order
of affiliaticu.

Mr. Baron ALDEBSON said that in his opinion the de-
fendant in this case had been very hardly dealt by. The
offer he had made was a very fair offer, and very rya-
sonabl... He had no doubt but that Mr. May bad becn
deceived by thn young woman, and be, therefore, could
not see that that gentleman was personally to blame. It
was quite clear that after what had taken place the de-
fendant was entitled to be relieved from the effect of

this verdict, and it was equally clear that the plaintiff
cnuit pay the costs of the present application,
The rule was, therefore. made absolute.

BAIL COURT, May 7,

(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice COLE?.IDGE.)

JEWISH DISABILITIES.

On the Learned Judge taking his seat this morning,
a number of barriateri, principally members of the
Middle Temple, who had been called to the bar of that
inn on Saturday last, attended to take the usuid oaths,
and to subscribe the roll.

Amon.. the members was Mr. Salomons, Alderman of
the city of London.
Upon his name being called, Mr. Salomons demurred
to taking the oath of abjuration, 'in consequen‘.3e of the
concluding words of the oath, upon the true faith of a
Christian," and wished to sign the roll without taking
that oath. A communication of this objection being
made by the Clerk of the Crown to the Learned Judge
on the bench, a conference with his Lordship ensued,
which was concluded by
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE expressing an opinion that
he was incompetent to alter the usual form. The
Learned Judge, however, suggested that Mr. Salomons
might take the opinion of the full. Court upon the point.
Mr. Salomons acquiesced, and subsequently appeared
in the Court of Queen's Bench; but au important case
being under hearing, no opportunity was afforded him
of moving the court.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

Thomas Evershed and Robert Russell surrendered to
be tried upon an indictment for misdemeanour.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Crouch defended.
. .

The prosecutor in this case was a dissenting minister,
named Stubbs, and the offence alleged to have been coat-
mittk d by the defendants was, that they had unlawfully
conspired together to harass and annoy the prosecutor
hy putting in a distress fur rent under a fictitious claim
of right to the chapel in which the prosecutor preached,
in Hope-street, Bethnal-green, and other property in the
same neighbourhood.
The case occupied the attention of the Court a con-
siderable time, and the evidence went to show that the
defendant. Evershed, who bad been appointed trade
assignee under the insolvency of a person named Hardy,
appeared to have acted under the colour of right con-
ferred upon him by that position, and that he employed
the other defendant, who was a broker, to act for him
in making the distress ; but there was nothir'e to show
that the latter had any knowledge with regard to the
actual rights of the parties. The prosecutor, it ap-
peared, had no interest whatever in the property, and
his only object was to protect himself from the annoy-
ance of having bis chapel continually distraincd upon.
The REC 'EDER, at the close of the case for the prose-
cution; said, that, without expressing any opinion upon
the subject of the title to the property in vestion, it
appeared to him that there was no evidence of any
guilty knowledge on the part of Bussell, and if the jury
entertained the same opinion the charge of conspiracy
could not be supported, at it was necessary that two per-
sons at least should be shown to have conspired in order
to make out that charge.
The jury said they did not think there was any evi-
dence to show a knowledge on the part of Bussell that
there was anything illegal in the transaction.
The RECORDER then directed the jury to Acquit both
the defendants.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. BuLLccx.)

Merria Rusk, a miserable sickly looking woman, was
indicted for concealing the birth of her illegitimate
child.

It appeared that the prisoner, in March last, whilst in
the service of a lady named Scott, living in Gloucester-
street, Regent's-park, was delivered of a stillborn child,
which had only reached the sixth month of gestation.
She had carried the body from the house and thrown it
into the Regent's-canal, where it was found by the
police, to whom she admitted having thrown it there.
The prisoner, in her defence, said, she did not know
she had been guilty of any crime.
The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to
one mouth's imprisonment in Newgate.
Edward Price and Jams Trotman were indicted for
stealing a cash-box containing 371. in gold, notes, and
silver, and also two small bags, containing copper coin,
the property of Martha Fife, in her dwelling-house.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine de-
fended.

The fat's proved were these.—The prosecutrix, a
widow, keeps the Queen Victoria public-house, Earl-
street, Kensington. On the night of the 26th of March,
just previously to closing, she put the money in the cash
box, and placed that with tho bag containing the copper
in a desk in the bar-parlour; when a quarrel taking place
in the tap-room, she went in there, leaving the prisoners
at the bar, and on her return they were gone, and the
cashbox and bag. The prisoners, who were her near
neighbours, were taken into custody the next morning ;
and the circumstance of their not having been home all
night, and behaving somewhat suspiciously when seen by
the police, seethed to be the chief evidence from which
they were inferred to be guilty. Another circum-
stance to establish the guilt of Trotman was, that
the empty cashbox was found on the top of
a cowshed adjoining his mother's premises, where
he lived, and the wall of the garden seemed as
though some one had very recently clambered over it
in the direction of where the cashbox was found. A
circumstance, however, was proved to show that some
one else must have had a hand iu the robbery, namely,
that the bag with the copper was found in a place where
it must have been put subsequently to the prisoner's ap-
prehension.
In cross-examination it was elicited that some one
else might have committed the robbery.
Mr. BALLAICTINE having made a powerful appeal to
the jury, they, after a short deliberation, Acquitted
the prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Charles Higgins was brought before Mr. Brough-
ton, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct
at 11, Upper Montague-street, Montague-square; ho
was also charged on a warrant obtained against him by
his wife, the daughter of Sir Paul Joddrell, of Portland-
place, with having threatened to " do for her," in conse-
quence of which said threat she was in fear of her life,
and, therefore claimed protection at the hands of the
magistrate.

A great deal of evidence was gone into, and it was
shown that defendant was some years ago received as a
guest at Sir P. Joddrelrs house, and that he ingratiated
himself into the good graces of his daughter, with whom
he ran away, and a marriage took place between them
at Whitechapel Church. Sir Paul and her Ladyship
were averse to the match, and neither of them had since
been upon friendly terms with defendant, who had as-
saulted his wife violently on the 26th ult., but she did
not then press the charge against him; he had since
abused her, and threatened her in the terms before al-
luded to, and she was fearful that he would do her some
injury; he had unfortunately given himself up to habits
of intemperance, and she had in more than one instance
been assaulted by him; for the last assault he was brought
before this Court, but as she had no eish to punish him,
as he had promised not to molsst her any more, he was
discharged on paying ss. for being drunk.
Mr. Idnouormos now ordered him to find bail, him-
self in 401., and two sureties in 401. each (with 24 hours'
notice) for his keeping the peace for six months.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A middle-aged woman named Mary Bird was charged
before Mr. Arnold with stealing a female infant, the
daughter of a master shoemaker named Clayton, living
in Three Colts. court, Finsbury.
The evidence of the child's sister, 10 years of age,
was, that she was sent out by her mother in the evening
to give the child an airing, and that while returning
home through Sun-street, the prisoner, who was a
stranger, came up, and after caressing the infant for some
time took it out of her arms, and Lifer% d the girl a penny
to buy it a cake. The girl refuse d the money and de-
manded the child back, upon which the prisoner walked
hastily cff with it, pursued by the sister through several
courts, until she abruptly turned into a mean-looking
house, where the girl overtook her, and the prisoner then
promised to give her the infant if she went to the top of
the house. The girl did as directed, bat finding the
place very dark and that the prisoner did not follow her
she became frightened and hastened down again, when
she found t'.:e prisoner passing with the child into a
back yard, and upon her re-demanding- the infant's
restoration, the prisoner turned sharply round upon
her, and forcing her back along the passage, thrust
her into the street, and closed the door upon her. The
girl then commenced screaming for ber sister, and several
inhabitants having been alarmed by her cries at last
came to her assistance, and, having forced in the door,
were just in time to seize the prisoner as she was escap-
ing through an outlet at the back into an adjoining
court. The prisoner on being detected boldly declared
the infant was hers and refused to give it up; but, as the
child screamed very much from the violence with which
the prisoner squeezed it, they forced it from her and sent
fur a constable. The prisoner then commenced a furious
attack upon her detainers, one of whom she severely bit
in the arm, and resisted so violently that it was not until
she had been strapped down at full length upon a
stretcher that they could get her to the station.
This evidence was corroborated by the testimony of a
married woman named Lawson, and the prisoner, on
being called on for her defence, denied all knowledge of
anything that had occurred, pleading drunkenness as an
excuse. This, however, was positively contradicted by
the constable, who stated that she appeared to be per-
fectly sober at the time, and it having been proved that
the prisoner was actually in the act of stripping the in
feet at the time sho was detected by the neighbours, she
was ordered to be committed for the completion of the
evidence.

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WESTMINSTER.
George Revers, a man about forty years of ago, was
charged with inflicting several wounds upon his wife
while in bed with a knife.
The prisoner, on being asked whether he wished to
say anything in reply to the charge, replied " I decline
saying anything at present."
He was committed to the Central
*Criminal Court for
trial.

CLERKENWELL.
William Jackson, aged sixty, was again placed at the
bar before Mr. Combo for further examination, charged
at the instance of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras
parish with a burglary at St. Pancras Workhouse, and
stealing twenty sovereigns and 155 L in silver money.
The parish authori.ies were in attendance, and con-
siderable interest was manifested in a crowded court.
Mr. Prendergast, the barrister, attt ruled for the pro-
secution, and Mr. lluddlestone for the prisoner.
The prisoner, who was in a very delicate state of
health, waa brought from prisoirin a cabriokt. and being,
supported into court aas allowed to sit upon a chair,
with his injured leg placed in an horizontal inmition, and,
appeared to suffer great pain.
The case was, after a lengthmed examination of
evidence, adjourned fora week.