The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS.

(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
An A:nount, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and
Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur-
day, the 3d day of November, 1849: Average
PRIVATE BANKS. amount.
Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 14,063
Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,454
Aylsham 'Bank, Aylsham—R. and G Copeman 5,521
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Riekford
and aunt
BAldock Bank and Baldock and Bigslesivade
Ba'dock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 25,209
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 12,301
Basingstoke and Odiha-u Bank, Basingstoke--
Seymour, Lamb, arid Co 15,235
Be If ord Bank, Bedford-1. Barnard
Bedford and Bedfordshire Bang, Bedford—

Trapp, Halfhead, and Co.
Bowdley Bank, Bawdley—Nichols, Baker, and
Crane
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
Bank, Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. ••••
Birrninghani Bank, Birmingham—Attec is,
Spooner, and Co 21,573
Birminghana and Warwickshire Bank, Birming-
ha —J. T.. Moilliett, and Sons . . 12,993
m-
Blandiord Bank, Blandford—Bastard anu Oak. 8,033
Bolton Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 64,103
Boston f3ank, Boston—Gee and Co 13.123
tridgx Act- Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. Sealey 5,639
Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 33,786
Brost)icy and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,175
Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett,
Parrott, and Co.
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow-
Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 69,735
'Dan kiry Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 27,364
Ban'unry Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 32,655
l>ati-, City Bank, Bath—Moger and S.rn
Bc(Fordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 32,132
Eilrininghain Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and
31,039
TAw!di
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—ll.
A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,393
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and C 0... 63,435
Bridport Bank, 13ridport —S. and W. B. Gundry
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West,
and Borrer
Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington—
ITardin, Smith, and Co 11,272
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Ed flan:ls—
:T. Worlledge and Co.
Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Bronis-
grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rafford, Biggs,
and Co. 11,357
Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mort!ock and
Sons
Carn!;ridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam-
bri:ig,e—Messrs. Forsters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—flammond and

6,551

2,005

Cinnarthen Bank, Cirmarthen-113rris and

Sons
Chert3ey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste ..
Colchester Bank, Colchester—lloand, Green,

29,483

and Co.
Colchester and Essex Bank, Witharn and Essex
Bank, and liadleigh Bank, SutTolk, Colchester
Bawtree, and Co
Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co
Covontry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood-

14,582
2,660

14,612

cock
City Hank, EKeter—lAilflrd and Co
Craven Bank, Settl—Birkhooks an(' Co.
Baqk, Chriitchnrch—Tic:), Welsh,

31,294
34,530

and Co
Cti-liT Bank, Cardirl—Towgood an -I Co
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon-
month Old Bank, MonTncuth Bank, Brecon
Bank, and ROSS and HereFordshire
Chepstow—Bronsage, Snead, and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans
Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co.
Derby Oki'. Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co_
Devizes and Wiltshire Bauk, Devizes—Hughes.
Locke, and Co
Din Rank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co
Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew,

6,340
17,125
72,517

and Co.
Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster—

__ • __
Cook and Co.
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-
on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Baekhouse, & Co
Devonport Bank, Devonport—liodge and Nor-
--

man
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank,
Dorehester—Williams and Co.
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins,Foster,

n,nd Co.
East Riding Bzuk, Beverley—Bower,

and Co.
Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank,

•
Chelmsford—Sparrow, and Co.
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co
Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk-

hack. and Co.
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantag,e, Far-
rinTion—Barnes and Medley
Farnham Ilvak, Farnham—Messrs. Knight.
Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co
Godaiming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and

6,986

8,162
12,211
36,232

24,920

10,599
9,876

56,285

72,024

10,020

43,780

99,2'24

51,439

40,019
7,559

20,471

4,846
11,404
4,681

5,6.57

Keen ...................
Grantham Bank, Grantham —liewney and King
Guildford Bank, Guildford—Menrs. Haydon 10,120
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co 39,114
Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder,
and Co. 25,572
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—
Matthews and Co.
Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams
and Co 14,525
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull
—Smith, Brothers, and Co.
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don—Rust and Veasey
Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 4,515
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead—
Smith, and Whittingstall •• 19,101
Honitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. —
Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Kitchen—Sharpies
and Co. .............
nereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and it_rchenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan,
'Hoskins, and Co 21,048
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co.
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexanders and Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,
and Mercer
Kinston and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J.
Davies and Co ••
Killghton Blnk Knighton-3. Davies and Co. 4,355
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough—Terry and Co
Kondal Bank, ICendal Wakefield, Crewdson,
and C 0.........
Kettering Bank, Kettering—aotth and Sons., 8,095
Lino lad Staffordshire Rink, Lane End—C
11,,,,rv,:y and Son
L`30(13 Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co 52,979
Leads Trnion Bank, Leeds—W.Williarns, Brown,

and C ).
Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and
congleton Bank,Leek—Fowier,Gaunt, and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 25,760
Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 29,825
.147,;hFelil Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 21,013
Lincoin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 83,485
Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando-
very —David Jones and Co.
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle-
tons and Cradock
Lyrnington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St
Barbe .........
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
—Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jarvis and Co.
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst
and Co
M an nin gtree Bank,Manningtree —Nunn and Co
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank,
and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner
and Pinckney
Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank
Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 7,705
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and
Williams 7,780
Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 12,469
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial
Bank, Abergavenny=-Baileys and Co 27,257
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank,
and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth
—Bromage and Snead . 11,717
Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport
W. Williams and Sons B,lOO
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 25,068
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, S leaford—Haudley, Peacock,
and Co .. ........
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 49
,245
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham: 21,034
mond. and Son ........
Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and 21,739
Dyson
Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and
If ud sons ......................................
.... ... 48,930
Norwich and Norfolk Bank, .
neys and Birkbeck
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 7,948
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and
Co
Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and
C 0... ...................................
New Strum Bank, Sarum Everett, and
Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 27,320
Oswegtry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os-
woßtty- Droxon and Co 11,301
Oxford`sank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 9,060
OY.ford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons,
and Co. ••
Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
'kV :.!!s and Sevenoaks Bank, T •
onori„ge—.
ee hi ng and r,ons,
Oxfordshire Witney BaLk, Witney—Clinoh,
and Co 9.4

36,554

6,440

3,143

13,565
4,964

61,959

4,015

23,076

31,750

8,603

Average Amount.
Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 39,558
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and. C 0... 9,229
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter-
borough—Mpt,srs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson

and White
Peranrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Stmonas and Co 28,206
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 29,585
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,640
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 9,639
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 11,534
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,106
Rye Bank, Itye—Pomfret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co 9,383
Ross (ild Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Alla‘.,r_y 3,921
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and 22,190
Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
a . 29,713
and Co
Sittingbourne an.l Milton Bank, Sittingbourno
—Valiance and Son 4,149
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Pearce 12,995
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 13,204
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story —
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie —
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and

5,381

King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,935
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 9,520
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,448
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. . , 31,571
Stourbridge Old Bud:, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewabury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beek, Downward, and Co. 22,453
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 23,627
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and

Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and

PECULIAR FIBRE OF COTTON.
The following interesting facts are taken from the
recently published proceedings of the Philosophical
Slciety. Mr. Walter Crum, F.R.S., is the gentle-
man who contributes the paper :
In the month of May last, Mr. Thomson, of
Primrose, received from Mr. Daniel Kcechlin, of
Mulhahsen, some specimens of purple ground printed
calico, each of them containing a portion of cotton
which was white, although subjected to the same
treatment by which the rest of the cloth, and even
the threads which crossed the white one, was uni-
formly dyed. The white part of the thread was
usually thicker than the rest, and little more than a
quarter of an inch long. The whole fabric had been
thorougly ;bleached before printing, so that it con-
tained no grease or other impurity that could resist
the colouring matter.
White specks like these are not unknown or un-
dreaded among the printers of calicoes in this country.
Mr. Kcechlin mentions that the cotton of which they
are formed is known by the name of coton mort, and
here also it is called dead cotton. Mr. Kmblin has
been the first, I believe, to suggest that it may consist
of unripe cotton, and that its fibre may be solid,
wanting the hollow of the more perfect fibre. He
adds, that if such should prove to be the case, its be-
haviour with colouring matters may affect materially
the question of the mechanical or chemical nature of
the union of cotton with dye. Mr. Thomson did me
the honour to transmit me the specimens for exami-
nation.

The ordinary cotton fibre, it will be remembered,
,s described by Mr. Thomson, in the memoir where'
As form was first made known, as a tube, originally
cylindrical, but which collapses in dying. It has
then the appearance of two small tubes joined toge-
ther, so that a transverse section of the filament re-
sembles in some degree a figure of 8. Until full
maturity, the cylinder is distended with water, in
which bubbles of air are often distinguishable.
On placing a few of the fibres of the coton niort
under the microscope, I found them to consist of very
thin and remarkably transparent blades, some of which
are marked or spotted, while others are so clear as to
be almost invisible, except at the edges. These fibres
are readily distinguished from those of ordinary cot-
ton by their perfect flatness, without the vestige of a
cavity, even at the sides, and by their uniform a-s
well as well as great transparency. They are often
broader, too, than the usual fibre, and they show
numerous folds, both longitudinal and transverse, but
they are never twisted into the cork-screw form of the
ordinary fibre.
It occurred to me that cotton of this description
might be detected among the wool as it is imported.
I searched accordingly for any portions that had a
different appearance from the rest, and having col-
lected and examined them, I found one sort whose
filaments had exactly the appearance, under the
microscope, of the coton mort in the pattern of Mr.
7'9" Kceehlin. _

It occurs in the form of a mall matted

tuft of a shining silky lustre, and usually contains
in its centre the fragment of a seed, or perhaps
an abortive seed. It consists of short fibres,
having little tenacity. Specimens of it are found
in abundance among the motes or hard portions,
called droppings, rejected by the picking machine in
the preparation for spinning. Small tufts of it, how-
ever, do occasionally pass the sifting process of the
picking machine, and then, their fibres being too short
to be teazed out in the carding engine, or drawn into
threads in the subsequent operations of cotton
spinning, remain as minute lumps upon the threads of
better wool.

Although the microscopic appearance of the fibre
in question is that of a flat single blade, the
cellular character of the tissue scarcely ad-
mits of such a formation. We must rather suppose
that, like the healthy unripe cotton fibre, it was origi-
nally an elongated cell or tube filled with liquid—that
the seed around which it began to grow had died soon
after its formation, while the fibres which closed it
were yet soft and pliable, and that the flattening, and
perhaps growing together of the sides of the tube was
occasioned by the pressure from the increasing crop
of cotton attached to the numerous other seeds con-
fined in the same pod.
To explain the bearing of this peculiar structure
upon the question, whether cotton wool and colour-
ing matters form together a true chemical compound,
or held together by a merely mechanical compound,
I must quote a, passage from a memoir on this subject
which I read to the Philosophical Society six years
ago, and refer to the memoir itself for additional
illustrations :

"In many of the operations of dyeing and calico
printing, the mineral basis of the colour is applied to
the cotton in a state of solution in a volatile acid.
This solution is allowed to dry upon the cloth, and
in a short time the salt is decomposed, just as it would
be, in similar circumstances, without the intervention
of cotton. During the decomposition of the salt its
acid escapes, and the metallic oxide adheres to the
fibre so closely as to resist the action of water applied
to it with some violence. In this way does acetate
of alumina act; and nearly in the same manner,
acetate of iron. The action here can only be me-
chanical on the part of the cotton, and the adherence,
as I shall endeavour to show, confined in the interior

of the tubes of which wool consist, or of the invisible

passages which lead to it. The metallic oxide per-
meates these tubes in a state of solution, and it is
only when its salt is there decomposed, and the oxide
precipitated and reduced to an insoluble powder,
that it is prevented from returning through the fine
filter in which it is then enclosed.

" When the piece of cotton, which in this view
consists of bags lined inside with a metallic oxide, is
subsequently died with madder or logwood, and
becomes thereby red or black, the action is purely
one of chemical attraction between the mineral in
the cloth and the organic matter in the dye ♦essel,
which together form the red or black compound that
results, and there is no peculiarity of a chemical
nature from the mineral constituent being previously
connected with the cotton."
To produce the purple dye of Mr. Koachlin's pat-
tern, the cloth has first to be impregnated with iron.
For this purpose it is made to imbibe a weak solu-
tion of proto-acetate of iron, and afterwards dried.
By exposure to the air for some days the salt is de-
composed. Its acetic acid evaporates, and the oxide
of iron, then become peroxide, remains in the fibre.
The cloth Is afterwards subjected to severe washings
in hot and cold water, but its iron is not

removed, and the question is, how is it re-
tained in connexion with the cotton ? Me-
chanically, as I maintain, and probably in the
interior or its hollow fibre, hich it entered in a state
of solution and within which it was precipitated.
Others, as I have already stated, are of opinion, after
Bergman, that the combination is a chemical one ;
and so fully is that, carried out by my friend Pro-
fessor Runge, of Oranienburg, in his ingenious and
excellent work on the chemistry of dyeing, that
he assumes coloured cottons to be combinations of
what he calls cottonic acid with the various bases in

definite, and even in multiple proportions. Thus, a
very pale shade of buff from oxide of iron, is called
percottonate of iron ; another is called bicottonate of
iron, and still deeper shades, cottonate and bisac cot-
tonate of iron.

But the new fibre, by the same treatment, is in-
capable of retaining the iron mordant, and yet both
fibres have the same chemical composition and the
same ultimate structure. The only difference is that
one is shaped into tubes or bags capable of holding
all matters which are insoluble in water, that is, all
bodies that can be caught upon a filter, while the
other is possessed of no such inclosure.
I take this opportunity, in reply to a review of

my first memoir on this- subject, by M. Persoz,
in his remarkable work, " Traite de l'impres-
sion des Tissus," of explaining that I at-
tribute to attraction of surface those cases of
dyeing where pure cotton, by mere immersion, is
enabled to decompose the solid matters in solution,
and to withdraw them from the solvent. Such is
the case with the solution of deoxidised indigo in
lime—with the blumbite of lime—with the various
salts of tin, and many other solutions. Cotton, as I
have stated, acts in these cases like charcoal and other
porous bodies, and I have seen no reason to confine the
attraction in question to the internal surface of the
cotton fibre.
But I have not ranked the aluminous mordant
among the class of bodies so attracted, because cotton,
when immersed in a solution of acetate of alumina,
has not the power of separating its basis. That solu-
tion must be applied to cotton and dried in it, and
then the alumina only adheres, or loses the power of
being washed away, in proportion as the acetic acid
is removed by evaporation. I could see here no che-
mical decomposition effected by the cotton wool, for
the same salt may be decomposed by evaporation in a
glass vessel. In this case I have represented the
alumina as being held in the interior of the fibre, just
as sand may be held in a bag whose instertices are
too narrow to allow its particles to pass.
M. Persoz has remarked, however, that by evapo-
rating a solution of acetate of alumina in a glass
vessel, we do not so thoroughly decompose it as by
drying the same substance upon calico. This I have
also observed ; and although I have been accustomed
to ascribe the difference to the more extensive division
and exposure of the salt upon cotton, I have no
proof, and shall not deny that the presence of cotton
at a particular stage of the evaporation may accele-
rate the decomposition of the salt, and that its fibres
may thus attract a portion of alumina over their
wholo surface. If this modification of the view
had given be correct, the action of the coton »tort
proves at least that colouring matter adhering (Jutside
is not so permanent as that which is held w' chin the
fibre of the mature cotton.

Neither view gives any countenance tiz the chemical

theory. Porous bodies are well known to attract,
and even to decompose, without chemically combining
with the substances they precipitate. Accordingly,
none of the oxides are changed either in colour or in
chemical character, by their union with cotton. The

hydrated oxide of copper, for example, precipitated
upon calico, becomes carbonate, or arsenite, when
exposed to carbonic or arsenious acid. The protoxide
of iron changes speedily in the air into the red ses-
quioxide, and that again may be cenverted into Prus-
sian blue, or into a black or purple lake—every new
compound, if it only be insoluble, adhering firmly to
the wool.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 15.
(Before Dr. LUSUINGTON.)
The Court sat for a short time and disposed of
assignations, after which it adjourned until to-morrow
(this day) to hear causes.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS" COURT, Nov. 15.
In consequence of this day being appointed for a
general thanksgiving, the Chief Commissioner and
Mr. Commissioner Phillips sat only pro formii, and
adjourned the cases until to•morrow (this day).
Mr. Commissioner Law, on entering his court
this morning, said, he had no intention to keep any-
body from going t ) church, and therefore he should
adjourn tha protection cases till to-morrow, and would
take the only prisoner's_case on the list at half past
two o'clock.

At the above-mentioned hour his Honour pro-
ceeded to hear the case of

MELCHOR LOPEZ.

Thi; insolvent had been a cigar importer, and had
had large dealings with many of the principal tobacco
houses at the llavannah. He was unopposed.
The insolvent said, he returned from the West
Indies, in March, 1846, shortly after which he
entered into partnership with Bernardo Shen, a cousin
of the Right Honourable R. L. Sheil, M.P., which
partnership continued until the latter end of 1846,
when Mr. Shtil ceased to attend the office, having
accepted, without insolvent's knowledge, two bills
for 5001. each in the joint name of the firm, the
proceeds of which he kept to himself. The insolvent
attributed his failure to the depression of the tobacco
trade during the last two or three years, and said, that
if he had managed to struggle cn until now, he would
have been enabled to retrieve all his losses, us the mar-
ket bad become very active.
After minutely examining into the statements in the
schedule Mr. Commissioner Law ordered the insol.
vent to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

On Wednesday Jonas Machin, a young man bear-
ing the appearance of decayed respectability, and
who described himself as a merchant's clerk out of
employment, was placed at the bar before Mr. Ar-
nold, charged with the following robbery at the house
of Mr. Neale, a coffee-house-keeper in Old-street-road.
It appeared from the evidence that repeated COM-
plaints had been lodged lately at the various station-
houses by the owners of taverns and coffee-houses in
the district of a man answering the prisoner's descrip-
tion, who had been in the habit of favouring them with
nightly visits, and in each instance carrying off what-
ever portions of their property he could most easily
lay his hands on. On the preceding evening he called
at the prosecutor's and hired a bed for the night, for
which he paid in advance, and retired to rest immedi•
ately. He did not again make his appearance till ten
o'clock the next morning, when, without speaking to
any one, he was observed to leave the house in a
surreptitious kind of manner, and, his conduct having
excited the suspicions of the waiter that he had been
guilty of some dishonesty, he hastened up into the
apartment the prisoner had slept in to see that his
master's property was safe, and on examining the
bed, found that bath the sheets had been stolen off it.
He immediately started in pursuit of the accused,
whom he overtook at some distance from the pre-
mises and accused of the robbery, which prisoner
stoutly denied ; but upon telling him that he felt
satisfied no one else could have taken the property,
as the articles had been seen safe just before he en-
tered the bedroom, and he should therefore insist
upon his accompanying him back to the house for the
purpose of being searched, the prisoner then acknow-
ledged that he had stolen them and bagged hard to be
forgiven. The waiter, however, led him back to the
house, and, a constable being sent for, the prisoner was
searched, and both the missing sheets were discovered
secreted about his person.
Rogers, the constable who took him, stated that upon
searching the prisoner's pockets he also found nume-
rous pawnbrokers' duplicates for articles of such a de-
scription as would be most likely to be taken from
houses of the same kind as in the present case, and he
therefore requested that the accused might be re-
manded, as he felt confident, if the particulars gained
publicity, that numerous other charges would be forth-
coming against him.
The prisoner, who seemed much depressed, and de-
clined offering any defence, was therefore ordered to
be committed till that day week.