The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE. Nov. 6.

BREVEL—Captain R,ehard Johns, of the Royal Ma
rives, to be Afajor in the Army, Oct. 19.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 1.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major- Gen.Jumes Arm-
strong to bo Col.-Commandant, vice Maj.-Gen. Munro, de-
ceased; Second Captain the Hon. George Talbot Dove-
roux to bo Adjutant, vice Buchanan, promoted, Oct. 17;
Second Captain Roquier John Cannon to be Adjutant,
vice Mundy, who resigns the Adjutancy or ly, Aug. 25;
Second Captain Arthur George Burrows to be Adjutant,
vice Gilbert, promoted, Sept. 18, 1848.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Southampton.
North Rants Militia—Richard Henry Fitzroy Somer
set, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Oct. 31.
BANKRUPTS.

Hugh Biers, builder, Edgeware-road, to surrender.

Joii:ph Jackson, builder, Birmingham.
Thomas Ross, jun., braid manufacturer, Burton Joyce,
Nottinghamshire.
Nathan Wigglesworth, flax dresser, Leeds.
Robert Brierley, innkeeper, Rochdale, Lancashire.
Elizabeth Harris Rader, pawnbroker, Birmingham.
Wolf liyarns, hardwareman, Por►.sea.
William Hardyman Colyer and Francis Webster,
brewers, Milbauk.
William Harding, dealer and chapman, Crawford-
street, Moryle bone.
Samuel Nlulli-no, ironmonger, Cheapside.
Josiah Charter, grocer, Griuistone, Norfolk.
Charles Davis, importer of leeches, Frederick-place,
Newington, Surrey.
Luke Davy and Job Davy, builders, New North-road,
}lox ton.

GLOUCESTER, Nov. s.—Arrd. Ocean Queen, Walker,
Miramichi; Bellona, Thompson, Quebec.
SCARBOROUGH ROADS, Nov. 3.—Arrd. her Majesty's
ship Enterprise, Ross, Polar Seas ; her Majesty's ship
Investigator, Bird, ditto.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
iVORSHIP-STREET.
A middle aged man, named Robert Carson, late

book-beeper the service of Messrs. Thomas and
John Robinson, extensive silk-manufacturcrs in Fort-
street, Spitalfi:llds, was placed at the bar, charged,
firstly, with stealing various sums of money, in the
whole amounting to about 125/. ' • secondly, with
stealing a piece of velvet, ten yards and a half in
length, value 31.; and thirdly, upon suspicion of
having stolen 1201 b. weight of undyed silk, of the
value of 150/. the property of his employers.
Mr. Thomas Robinson stated that the prisoner had
been in the service of their firm for a considerable
period, and it formed part of his duties to pay their
wages to the weavers and workmen in their employ.
The utmost confidence was reposed in him by himself
and partners, and not the slightest suspicion was en-
tertained of his integrity until a few days ago, when
an accidental discovery was made of some irregulari-
ties in his accounts, in consequence of which the pri-
soner's books were subjected to a close scrutiny, and
the result of this was such as could leave no doubt
whatever that he had been robbing them for a long
time past, and to a very serious extent. There was a
general practice amongst firms in the trade to advance
each Saturday morning, a portion of the money to
which weavers of both sexes would be entitled on
the completion of the work they had in their looms,
which enabled the poor people to support their fami-
lies in the interval, and it was the prisoner's business
when he paid these amounts to post them to the re-
spective weavers' accounts and charge them against
the house. It was discovered upon examination,
however, in a great number of cases, that although
he had entered the sums in his cash bouk

as though he had paid them, he had not
posted them against the workmen, which must
have sooner led to his detection, and in a great
many instances it was found that moneys he had
charged the firm with as having been received by
their servants had never been paid at all. He was
then prepared to go into two cases of that description,
out of at least 200 such that he could establish against
the prisoner, in support of the first charge, if neces-
sary, and the reason for making the third charge
against him was this :—ln consequence of the pri-
soner's abstraction of the money the partners felt
anxious lest their loss should be greater than it then
appeared, and the stock upon the premises was there-
fore inspected, when upon examining the room in
which the undyed silk was deposited it was found that
no less than 1201 b. weight of it had disappeared,
which could not possibly have been used in the busi-
ness, and as no one but himself and the prisoner bad
access to that part of the warehouse, it was impossible
to account for its going but upon the supposition that
the prisoner had taken it.
Sergeant Teakie stated, that upon the prosecutors
discovering the prisoner's falsification of his books to
conceal the course he had pursued, he was employed
to investigate the matter, and on the disappearance
of the raw silk being ascertained, it was also found
that the 10i yards of velvet which formed the sub-
ject of the second charge had likewise gone. The
velvet had been cut off a piece, and on the prisoner
being asked if he knew anything about it, he posi-
tively denied all knowledge of the velvet, but the
errand-boy entered at the time the prisoner was being
questioned, and going straight to some boxes deposited
in one of the corners, drew the velvet from beneath
the undermost box, and challenged the accused with
having secreted it there. The prisoner at once ac-
knowledged that he had done so, and at the same
time confessed that he had intended to send it off ti
Derby, to which town he had sent other pieces of
silk upon previous occasions, but though he likewise
acknowledged to him that he had malversated his
employers' money, he strenuously denied that he was
at all aware of the means by which the large quan
tity of unwrought silk that had been stolen had dis-
appeared.
Two witnesses, named Hall and Gammon, work-
men in the prosecutor's service, were next examined,
and proved that no such sums as 2/. and 11., entered
in the prisoner's books, as having been paid to them
on account of his employers on the 14th and 22d of
September last, had ever been received by them, and
the sergeant having asked for a remand to enable him
to establish other cases against the accused, the pri •
soner, who appeared very desponding, but offered no
observations in answer to any of the charges, was
remanded till that day week.
Mr. Thomas Kimbell, a watchmaker and jeweller
in Tottenham-court-road, wheee first examination
appeared in our paper of Friday last, was brought up
for final hearing on Saturday, charged with felo-
niously intermarrying with one Mary Anne Batts,
his first wife, Elizabeth Kimbell, being then and still
alive. _ _

The charge, which developed an extraordinary case
of mistaken identity, was preferred at the instance of
the first wife, who stated that she had been obliged
to seek relief from the parish in consequence of being
discarded by her husband in favour of another woman,
and that having since obtained incontestible evidence
that he was actually married to this person, she was
determined to press the charge against him and pro-
secute him to the utmost.
A certificate of the first marriage having been put
in, proving that it had been solemnized at Crediton,
in Devonshire, Sept. 16, 1840, Mary Wreford, the
wife's sister, proved that she was a subscribing witness
to it, and the evidence as to the alleged second mar-
riage was then gone into. In support of this Robert
Carter, sexton of St. Mary's, Norton- folgate, was
called, and stated that he was present at the marriage
of the prisoner to one Sarah Anne Batts, which took
place at the above church on the 29th of November,
1847, when the prisoner was married in the name of
Thomas James Kimbell ; and although his voice
appeared slightly altered, and his whiskers were not
now quite so full as upon that occasion, he felt per-
fectly satisfied that he was the same person.
Mr. Sidney, solicitor for the defenee, said he was
instructed to give a total denial to the charge, which
had solely originated in the exasperated feelings of
the prisoner's wife, from whom he had been obliged
to effect a separation in consequence of repeated acts
of misconduct on her part; and to prove the remark-
able mistake which had been made in the identity of
his client, he had then in attendance the very persons
who were actually married upon the last occasion
referred to.
A young man named Thomas James Kimbell, an
optician in Hatton-garden, was then called, and proved
that he was married at St. Mary's, Norton-folgate,
on the day in question, to his wife, Sarah Anne Batts,
who was now present, and produced the certificate to
that effect he received at the time. The sexton Carter
was a subscribing witness, and Carter had also acted
in the same capacity at the subsequent marriage of
his wife's bridesmaid, at which the witness likewise
attended.
Carter was thereupon recalled, to see if he had any
recollection of the last witness, and after closely scru-
tinising him, said that though he could not charge his
memory with the particular occasion, he had certainly
seen him somewhere.
The young woman who had also been mistaken for
Sarah Ann Bstts, otherwise Mrs. Kimbell, and who
stated that she merely lived with the prisoner in the
capacity of shopwoman, was next called, and com-
pletely negatived the fact that she had been married
to the prisoner, and this was also confirmed in some
measure by the sexton himself, who acknowledged
that he had never seen her before in his life.
The MAGisTaa.TE said that after the evidence he
bad now heard he considered the case had been com-
pletely answered, and he should, therefore, order the
prisoner to be at once liberated.
Mr. Sidney thereupon said, that as the charge
against his client had obtained extensive publicity
through the newspapers, he trusted that an equal
publicity would be given by the representatives of the
press to the thoroug exculpation he had been enabled
to give. His client was a highly respectable trades-
man, and a charge of so flagrant a nature, without its
satisfactory refutation, was calculated to be of very
serious prejudice to him. The prisoner also com-
plained of the annoyance and injustice he had been
groundlessly subjected to, and expressed his intention
not to let the matter rest where it did.

ST. NICOLA' KIRCIIF, HAMBURGII.—OIIr readers
are probably aware that the church of St. Nicholas,
being one of the three churches either wholly or partially
destroyed by the great fire of Hamhurgh in 1842, is now
being rebuilt on a scale both of dimension and decors
ration, nearly equalling many of the ancient cathedrah.
The work, like its ancient predecessors, proceeds slowly
end gradually as funds permit, but the eastern portions
have now attained nearly to the full elevation of the
aisles. The work, though under the direction of an
English architect, Mr. Scott, is carried out exclusively
by German contractors and workmen, and has been
superintended from its commencement by Mr. Mortimer,
an excellent and talented English clerk of the works'
who on 22d ult., while exansininr one of the springers
of the groining which was inaccurately worked, was
precipitated nearly 50 feet into the crypt of the church,
and killed on the spot. The committee for the church,
as a last tribute of respect and gratitude, gave him such
a funeral as is usual among their most distinguished
citizens. The workmen wished to attend en masse, but
were advised not to do so on account of the jealousy of
the Prussian military at any large concourse of people.
About sixty of them, however, afterwards went to the
grave, and deposited upon it a rich and costly. garland of
evergreens and eilk, on which was the following inscrip.
tion:—" To Mortimer, their master builder, from the
sorrowing stonemasons of St. Nicholas's Church." We
have inserted the above particulars from a feeling that
while such obituaries are usually accorded to persons of
higher stations, it is hardly just to deny them to those
who in humbler positions have evinced an amount of
talent, zeal, and uncompromising devotion to their
duties cduully doservin7 commemorati,m
The Rev. George Harlow, M.A., of Balliol
has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of the
chapel of St. Andrew, Plymouth. Patron, the Vicar
of St. Andrew's. Value, 1151.
The Rev. E. A. I)ayman, ED., late Fellow and
Tutor of Exeter College, and Rector ofk Shillingstone,
has been appointed Rural Dean in the deanery of
Whitelwrch, Dorset.

CANALS.
Names of .44 Dividend Names of
Dividend
w
Companies. A per
Price. companies. A num. Prim
j
v: Annum. se
r- - ---
X
Ashtn & Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. -
Barnsley.. • • 160, 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 109 161. 340
lirknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 185
Birmingham 35 41. 88 Peak Forest. 78 131. 188. 70
Coventry.. •. 100 251. 210 Regent's •• •. 33 I/. 2s. 18
Derby ••• .. 109, Cl. 63 Rochdale .. •. 85 , 41. 50%
Ellsmre&Chs 133' 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130
Erewash • 1001 321, - Do.LkEdSt 1216/.p. c. -
GrandJunctn 100, 51. - Stffrd &Wore 140 281 409
Grand Surrey 100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 1' -
Grand Link's 100, 1/. 10s. 24 Stourbridg... 145 201. 300
Grantham • • 150 - - ISevern andl 21. Os. -
Kennt & Aviil 39 7s. 6d. 51 Wye Rail. j 26
Leeds& Livrpi 100 301. 325 Warwick&l
100 41. 63
Leicester .... 1401 Si. 63% j
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 45 Warwick& 1
100 31. 43
Lon4hbotogh 142 701. 650 Napton..
Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &"j „,s, 31.
41
Mntgornrysla 100 - Birming.j '
MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts Sc Brks -14 s. 10
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share. li -
X
s. d. N. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 205
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank •• •••• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 163
Eastern Bank .. ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 8%
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 533
Exehangeßnk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 20%
isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 614 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
North of Scotlandßank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.03
North British Bank
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 125
union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85
Western Bault • . •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
kberleen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 a 2
B. Accord. Lileand Fire 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 lOs Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. pet cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life CI. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 78
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18%
East of Scotland Life lO 0. 0 015 0 98.0 d•
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
llercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
twur. Co. of Scetlnd•• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 -
Lite Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 7;
Mercantile Life .. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 ,3s. 3d.
National Fire and Life 5/. per cont. 10 0 0 1 0 0 203.6 d
North British Insur. 5141. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 i 23%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 00 I -
Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union Insrnee. GU /. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 219.6 d
Stan.lat d Life •• •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ; 14 s
I.IISCELLANZOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. a. d. X. a. d.
Australian Agrieulturl 1/. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint ll. 4a. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. 2 10 0
Canada ... • • .... Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. -
City Navigation .... - - 90
Comp. C ppr 2471178 Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen.. Revers. & Invest. sp. c. bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry si. pr cent. 100 0 0
,100 0 0 103
Gen.SteaniNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 25
London Institution .• • - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution •• • • 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam• ••• Cl 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 49
South Australian .•• • • 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17
Van Dieman's Land., 100 0 0 23 0 0 2

COURSE OF EXCH./
1tn5teratun..........12 314

Ditto, rt sight • • .... 12 1.3 i
Rotterdam 12 3),',
Antwerp. 25 80
ELtroburgh —MM. 13 14%
Altana
Paris, 3 days'sight . 25 55
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 75
'arsenics • • .• • • •• 25 77%
. 25 77
Yrankfort on Mains.... 122►4
Petersinugh, Sil.Rble 3i1%
iterlin.... • • ...... • • • •
Vienna, effec. ...... 10 58
Trieete, ditto.... .... 11 0
gadtid •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 40%
Cadiz 49%
Bilbao.. • • .• .. • • • •• • a
HarstelOna • • •

NGE.--(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn ........ •••• •• 31 14
denoa •• ••••••• • • • • • •• N5O
Allan ................
Venice . .. • .
Maples .... • • ...... 40%
peroz ........ 1214
121Messina
Lisbon.. 63%
)norto . • ••..•.• • • • • • 53%
ltio Janeiro• • ...... • •
linenos Ayres ......
Yew York, 21 days'slght
Philadelphia .... • • ....

PUICKB OF BULLION, YES OZ.
Fore!gn Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .....• 0 4 19
ISilver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

110 NV CARDINALS ENCOUR AG E RAILWAYS.—The
Papal Triumvirate have decided that the railway to
Naples is a useless scheme, " tending to inundate Rome
wiEk worseless foreigners;" they have, therefore, defini-
tively suspended the works, and thereby thrown thou-
sands out of employment.—Railway Times of Saturday.
Men speak too much about the world. Each one
of us hero, let the world go how it will, and be victorious
or not victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead?
The world's bring saved, will not save us; nor the
world's being lost, destroy us. We should look to our-
selves; there is great merit here in the "duty of stay-
ing at hoarse."—Eliza Cook's Journal.
HOLYHEAD, Nov. s.—Wind W.N.W,, heavy gale.—
Arrd. Sarah Fleming, Saws, Honduras fur Glasgow,
with sails split.
BRISTOL, Nov. s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Renfrew-
bhire, Neill, Quebec.