The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-20 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

JUNE 20, IM9,

if he were appointed, to which he replied that he had i Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Vallack,
bound himself to pay 751. a year for the money he had Derby.
been compelled to raise to meet the defalcations of his i George Hinchcliffe, cloth mara.trazturer, Chapel-
father, and that he could riot; upon which the Ccmmis- town, Yorkshire, July 5 and 27, at eleven, at the Leeds
sioners agreed to accept 301. a year. District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ;
.11r. WHATELY replied, and dwelt upon the improba- Gregory and Co., Bedford-row ; Pickup, Bradtord ;
bility of the defendant's ignorance of the terms of the Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
bond to pay the 301. a year. It was altogether irapro• William Ellis, printer, Liverpool, July 2 and 23,
bable that the Commissioners were aware of its existence, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
and but for a technicality he should have called several official assignee, Liverpool; Maples and Co., Old Jewry;
of the Commissioners to show that this was so, and that Greene, Liverpool.
no such conversation as that referred to by the witness Thomas Caesar Croasdale, grocer, Oswaldtwisle, Len-
Russellhad taken place. cubit e, June 29 and July 20, at twelve, at the Manchester
_

Mr. Justice' ERLE held that the Commissioners had
not been guilty of any &Aid or misrepresentation. The
bond was not made with them or with their consent, but
with a private party for a priwite purpose.
The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict
for the amount claimed.

aitrict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester;
May hp-w. Carey - stt aet, Lincoln's-inn; Halsall, Middleton.
Joh❑ Johnson, banker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 6,
at eleven, and 24, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne; Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlny, Deptors'-
co;

immons; Griffith and Crighton, Neweastle-uponyne.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
E. J. Coates and J. Hiilard, Bread street, Cheapside,
Manchester, Liverpool, and New York, merchants, July
10, at twelve—E. Gibson, bt. Albans, banker, July 10,
at two.

LAMBETH —(111-11s DAY.)
ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—A )curg
with esn infant in her arms, named Louisa Lloyd, was
placed at the bar charged with stealing a pulse contain-
ing ten sovereigns from the person of Mr. W. Butcher
residing at Peckham.
The complainant stated that last night he
was passed along the Kent-road, when he met
the prisoner, and accompanied her into Surrey-square.
He had not been there more than five minutes before be
missed his purse containing the money, which w.is in his
!eft hand pocket safe a few minutes bei,re. The pri-
soner, upon being taxed with the robbery, ran away,
and while so doing fell down and cut the left side of her
face.

In the Country.
J. Hall, Sbrevvsbury, timber merchant, at the Court,
Birmingham, July 11, at twelve.
PAY atENT OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Bourne, Norton in-the-Moors, Staffordshire. prin-
ter, second dividend of id., on Wednesday, June 20. and
evi.ry subsequent alternate Wednesday, between eleven
and three. at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham.
T. llebblewhite, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchant,
third dividend of 7-16 d., on Thursday, June 21, or any
subsequent alternate Thursday, between eleven and two,
at the ffice of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
T. W. Martin, Oxford, tailor and draper, third divi-
&lid of 9d., on Saturday next, and three subsequent
Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Groom, Abchurch-lane. _ _ _

Police-constable M 206, hearing the cries of " Stop
thief," caught the prisoner, and afterwards found the
money upon the spot where he stopped her.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in her defence,
was committed for trial.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

_
T. Bromley, Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury, grocer,
ls. 6d., on Saturday next, and three subsequent Satur-
days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane. _ -

The market may be concisely described as exhibiting,
on the whole, much steadiness in prices, along with a
very perceptible want of animation, and an amount of
business by no means large. We need not enter much
into particulars. It appears, however, that, although
the operations in various widths of shirting, in mado-
pollams, in printers, and in certain other light
and medium fabrics, are not extensive, this is
evidently owing quite as much to an indisposition
-on the part of manutacturers to receive contracts, as of
merchants to give them. In executing what orders
they have, the latter find the former, not only with-
out stock, but under engagements for some weeks
forward ; and it is with difficulty they succeed in
supplying their present needs. Under these cir-
cumstances, prices do not indeed rise, but they
are decidedly firm. On the other hand, al-
though recent purchases have somewhat reduced the
stocks of stout domestics and T cloths, these articles
s

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES,
At the Court Basinghall•street.
E. Hammond, Kingston and Rotherhithe, oil-crusher,
July 10, at hull-past twelve—Ann Anderson, Clare-
court, Drury•lane, tavern keeper, July 10, at one—C.
Smith, Enfield, wine and spirit merchant, July 11, at
t w elve—J. Gurney, Lambeth-walk, brewer, July 11, at
two.

In the Country.
W. B. Hankins, Lugwardive, Herefordshire, cattle,
sheep, end corn dealer. July 11, at twelve, at the Court,
Birmingham—W. W. Batchelor, Worcester, woollen
draper and tailor, July 11, at twelve, at the Court, Bir.
mitigham.

At the Court of Review, July 10.
J. D. Verley, Liverpool, watchmaker—A. W. Hare,
Bartlett's-buildings, and Swan Chambers, Lad-lane, and
Highgate, brush manufacturer—J. Chatterton, jun.,
Derby, lead merchant—R. Redman and E. Redman,
Mark-lane, wharfingers—G. Golding, Liverpool, builder
—C. Currie, Bowling-street, Westmininster, smith and
engineer—T . Pearson. Blandford-street, Portman square,
butterman—T. Oceleshed, and C. Cummins, Liverpool,
comniission agents—C. N. Cartwright, Leicester, dresser
and spinner— R. Bullock, Kidderminster, corn factor—
F. G. Ilabord, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchant.

hang heavily upon the market, and, if not lower,
are certainly stationary in valUe. Certain kinds of
T's and domestics are, however, scarce, and in fair
request. Yarns are nut marked by the same degree
of firmness as goods. The continental houses are
doing very little; and the India and China user,
chants are proceeding with much caution in their
transactions. Spinners for home manufacture are rather
indifferent about selling; while, at the same time, the
consumers stow a backwardness to pay the advance
latterly demanded. Oa the whole, restticted as is the
extent of business, there is a giud deal of st, tidiness in
prices, and it is only in exceptional instances that any
concession is made.

PAR I'NERSH lI'S DISSOLVED.
J. Murray and G. t.'‘'cbolfielg, Liverpool, merchants—
G. Laidler and J. Laidler, Yarm, Yorkshire, butchers=
M. Coate. and L. Cooke, Hurst Mount, Ashton-undcr-
Lyne, cotton skinners—J. Wood and W. Rawlinson,
Mare•court, Milk street, City, wine merchants—P. J.
Triquair, J. DA, and T. Vthitehouse, Bank idle, coal
merchants (so far as regards T. Whitehoute)S. Brown,
E. Gordon, and W. Dunn, Gravel-lane, Southwark,
patent metallic cask manufacturers—J. Noakes and W.
Goldern, Boreham St. V% artling, Sussex, drapers and
grocers—T. Trimby and J. Trimby, Bow-lane, Cheap-
side, paper hangers—D. H. Dale and T. Fletcher, Skip-
ton Rock, Yorkshire, contractors—Elizabeth Buruard
and I. Burnard, Theobald's-road, St. George-the Mar-
tyr, irontuongeri—R. Poole and E. Poole, Ilulme, Lan-
cashire, corn and flour dealers—W. Edwards, R. Law-
rence, and Mary Nicholas, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gas
manufacturers.

ROCHDALE, MoNDAY.—The improvement in the de-
mand for flannels last Monday has been fully maintained
to-day. The wool market remains dull, wiih little or no
change in prices.
HUDDERSFIELD, TuEsrtAY,Not much business is
tloirg for the home trade, either in the warehouses or
Cloth Hall, which may probably be accounted for by it
being the near approach of the general season tcr stock-
taking by wholesale houses. Orders to some extent atilt
remain to be completed; and a fair business is doing in
goods adapted for the American and continental markets.
St, veral foreign buyers are in the town.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There was rather more in-
quiry for some descriptions of goods in the Piece Hall
to-day; and there is, we understand, Somewhat more
doing iu the warehouses; but the trade is ter trom being
active, and there is no improvement in prices. The
spinners continue to be well employed, and the queta-
ti:•ns for yarns are fully sustained. But little wool is
changing hands, and prices are still drooping.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Although the transactions at our
Cloth Halls these last few weeks have not heen of much
note, we may nevertheless state that the general busi-
ness done to order, sod at the warehouses, is of a

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Thomas Weaver, Bath, surveyor.
John Yeoman, Wanstrow, Somersetshire, annatto and
corn eh &cr.
Harriett Parsons, Bath, greengrocer.
John Frederick Henry Robert Woodward, Bath,surgeon.
John Spencer Raby, jun., Bootle, near Liverpool,

architect.
William Robinson, Fairclough, Liverpool, painter.
Mary Bryan, Liverpool, provision defiler.
Charles Brittain, Kirkdale, near Liverpool, land surveyor.
Thomas Foulkes, Liverpool, shopman.
Joseph Melnuish, Swansea, licensed victualler.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
S. Harlot, Leith, dealer in fruit, to meet within Ho.
bertson's 'C(,ffee•rooms, Edinhurgh„June 23 and July
14, at eleven.
W. Wilson, Edinburgh, merchant, to meet within
Dowell's rooms, Edinburgh, June 22 and July 13, at two.
W. bl• Ewen, Crieff, ironmonger, to meet within Mori-
son's Royal Hotel, Crieff, June 23 and July 21, at
twelve.

most satisfactory character. Stocks of low and
middle qualities of cloth have been much reduced
in the manufacturers' hands—tsany an order is still
in the course of execution, and it is gratifying to add
that some of these are for markets which have been
forbidden ground for us during the last six years,
owing to the prejudices entertained in favour of
continental cloth. These are encouraging signs
for our manufacturers, of whom it is but just to

say, that they strained every nerve to maintain a
competition in neutral markets, and who, were it not for
the enormous advance in wool at the last German fairs,

would reap the advantage due to their cfforta without
any difficulty ; but we apprehend a serious check to this
tendtlicy may be expected from the high prices which
they will have to insist on, when the new and dearer
wools come into work.

G. Young and J. Young, Glasgow and Kilmarnock,
calico-printers, to meet within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow,
June 23 and July 14, at twelve.
R. Neilson, K 1 irnie, Ayrshire, miner, to meet within
the George Hotel, Kilmarnock, June 23 and July 21,

at one.
D. Campbell, Kilehoman, Nay, grazier, to meet within
the Argyll nott,l, Inverary, June 25 and July 24, at une.

FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.-011
Monday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of the
borough of Finsbury was held in Sadler's Wells Theatre,
for the purpose of supporting the views and objects
of the Metropolitan Parliamentary and Financial Re-
form Association; Sir Joshua Walmaley, M.P., in the
chair. Before entering upon the business of the
evening, letters from several gentlemen, apologising
for their unavoidable absence, were read. Amongst
the names were those of Messrs. W. J. Fox, E. Mien,
C. Lushington, T. Wakley, and T. Duncombe, who in
his note enclosed a cheque for 101. to be applied to the
purposes of the associatton. The chairman, in his ad-
dress to the meeting, referred to the great inequality in-
the present system of representation, both as regarded
the numbers of people and the amount of property
represented. These evils could only be met by an ex-
tension of the suffrage to every adult male who paid
anything towards the poor-rates, by a more Equal ep-
por:ionment of the electoral districts, and also by the
abolition of the property qualification. In addition to
these it was the conviction of the members of the asso-
ciation that the principle of the ballot and triennial
Parliaments were esssentially necessary to that which
it was their object to attain—a full, free, and fair re-
prosentation of the people in Parliament. Mr. G.
Thompson, M.P., proposed the first re,o!ution, as
follows: --" That the absence of a really representative
House of Commons, the preponderance of class
legislation, the unequal pressure of taxation, the general
extravagance of the public expenditure, and the conse•
quences of these evils, engendering discontent and threa-
tening disorders fatal to the political and social pros-
perity of this empire, render the combination of the
middle and working classes, for the attainment of the
reform advocated by he Metropolitan Parlia-
mentary and Financial Reform Association, a
matter of momentous importance to the State." Mr.
Thompson, after stating that Mr. Wakley was so much
osed as to be unable to attend without danger to
his life, proceeded to call to the remembrance of the
meeting all the reforms which had been carried since the
great one of Catholic Emancipation, and advocated
the system of peaceful agitation as a weapon which
the higher powers had always been unable to
cope with, and which was the only means by
which they could at present attain their end.
Mr. Thompson referred to the disturbances on the
Continent, and the fact that the English people had not
followed the example set them of warring against their
own Government, as a proof that they deserved the ex-
tension of the suffrage that they asked. They did Rot
set k to sap the foundations of the throne, nor to do
anything to disturb the most Illustrious Lady in the
land (Lnthuoicsatiu chanting, which lasted tor some
time) nor did they wish to disturb the House
of Lords.—(A storm of yells and hisses.) They sought
simply a fair representation of the people, and that they
would obtain whether the reform came sooner or later.
—(Cheers.) Mr. Burney seconded this resolution,
which was carried nem. con.; and others of a similar
tendency were propos( d and carried, several gentlemen
addressing the meeting in support of them. The meet-
ing, which was a very crowded one, the theatre being
filled in every part, separated at a late hour, after a vote
of thanks to the chairman.
A. coroner's inquest was held at Coventry on
Thursday last, on the body of Mr. William Wombwell,
a nephew of the proprietor of the ceiebrated traTiln
menagerie. On the afternoon of the previ.onn Sunday
tshe booth,
the deceased and two keepers were sitting
ownhee no f twoth elephantsthem
m compartment
den and pricked
began to fight. Deceased went into
knife which he had in his
tnimal struck him with
an whoo
pen were in the
par of rho abdomen and
one of its tusks in the lower
lie was released immediately'
inflicted a serious wound,
hand, upon which the infuriate a
with
lingereduntil
des but Tuesday
by one of his cotnrathessne "
evening, when he died. Verdict, Accidental death.--
Aris's Birmingham Gazette.