The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES.

Last night the annual meeting of the subscribers
to this excellent institution w.asleld at the Mechanics'
Institution, Southampton-buildings, for the purpose
of receiving the report of the committee, and for other
business. Alr. Lawrence Thompson presided. A
letter was read from Mr. Elihu Burritt, apologising
for his absence ; and apologies were also received from
Mr. Richard Taylor, &c.
Mr. DARICIN, the secretary, read the repor,t of the
committee. It commenced by congratulating the
meeting on the fact that, during the last year, the
great object had been accomplished of laying the
foundation-stone of the institution ; and that although
only three months had elapsed since the first stone was
laid by Lord Mahon, they had the pleasure of inform-
ing them that great progress had been made with the
building, and that the erection was going on in the
most substantial manner. The report then went on to
state the anxiety of the committee that the meeting would
decide upon the necessary qualifications of candidates
for the asylum, and concluded by calling attention to
the financial statement. The details of this part of
the report having been read, the Secretary said that
although the accounts had not been fully made up,
he could state that the gross amount of the donations
and subscriptions received would reach to about
2,6201., and that the various expenses and charges in-
curred for the building amounted to 2,1121, leaving
about 500/. of a balance to meet the engagements
which they had to discharge. The report concluded
by appealing Strongly to the friends of the institution
for their continued support.
Mr. DREW moved the adoption of the report, ob-
serving that the almshouses would not be of much
use unless they were endowed, and in order to effect
that important object all their exertions should be
now directed.

Mr. MURRAY had great pleasure in seconding the
motion, which was then agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then called attention to the rules
fur regulating the admission of candidates to the
almshouses, which had been proposed by the Com-
mittee.

After some alterations they were agreed to.
The business then terminated.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PORTRAIT GALLERY, DRAY-
TON ArANOR.--It is about twenty years since Sir Robert
Peel took down the old house at Drayton Manor, occu-
pied by his father, and built the present mansion,
from the designs of Sir Robert Smirke, on a sire
closely adjoining the previous building. It is a
Tisdrangular stone mansion, in the Elizabethan
style, of very considerable extent, but without
an ostentatious display of architecture, either internally
or externally. The taste and fondness for the fine arts,
which form so marked and agreeable a feature in Sir
,bert's character, exhibit themselves plainly at
this residence. A large corridor, or gallery, in the
centre of the building, has its walls entirely covered
with fine, works of art, as well as almost every avail-
able space on the staircase and elsewhere ; and to
his high credit be it said, that almost every plc
lure at Drayton Manor is by some artist of the pre-
sent day. Sir Robert's collection of pictures having far
outgrown the means at his disposal for suitably hanging
them, a gallery was erected in 1846, from the de-
signs and under the able direction of Mr. Sydney
Smirke, A.K.A. It forms a wing appended to the
north-west angle of the mansion, and extends west-
ward about 100 feet. It is built of a fine grained mag-
nesian limestone, and is designed in the style of English
Renaissance, so as to harmonise with the rest of the
building. The exterior is embellished with colossal
statues of Rubens, Vandyke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and
Sir T. Lawrence. The gallery within is 90 feet long by
22 feet wide, and 21 feet high, being subdivided into
three compartments by columns and pilasters of Italian
and German marbles. The parque flooring and all
the wood fittings are of wainscot and walnut
tree. The walls aro painted of a strong neutral
green colour. The ceiling is coved, and elaborately
ornamented with corbels and pendants, &c. The pic-
tures are lighted by skylights in the flat central part of
the ceiling. It does not come within the scope of these
pages to enter into any description of the pictures
which enrich the walls of this unique gallery ; suf-
fice 'it to say that they almost entirely consist or
portraits of Sir Robert's contemporaries, eminent
either as statesmen or as ram of science or litera-
ture, and comprise some of the chefs d'auvre of Reynolds
and Lawrence. When we take into consideration the
high merit of these pictures as works of art, the distin-
guished eminence of the persons they represent, and the
brilliant character of the individual who has taken
delight in paying this homage to contemporary genius,
we cannot but regard the gallery at Drayton Manor
with the deepest interest.—Buildings and Monuments.
On Tuesday last, the children attending the Lan-
casterian Schools, accompanied by their parents and
friends, had their annual railway excursion. For several
years the teachers have annually invited the parents and
friends of the children to spend a day with them in the
Country. On previous occasions the trip has been to
Wentworth, Wortley, or Wharncliffe ; this year to Work-
sop. The special train, consisting of nearly 40 carriages I
drawn by three engines, and containing about 1,500 pas •
stingers, left the station at Sheffield about ten o'clock in
the morning, and reached
Arrivedithaut accident, its destina-
tion in about an hour.
at
enjoy Worksop, the party
soon spread themselves in v directions. The chil-
dren had permission to themselves in the Manor
number
Park, but by far the greaterspent the day in
visiting the mansions and parka. in theneighbourhood.
The day was one of almost unalloyed enomeemnotr; the
lowering clouds which hung threatening i h
bad speedily been dispelled, and 8,01 in all his
powernaln4
majesty flung a glory o'er the f age ur nature, and though
we heard many expr, ssions of fittigue as we returned,
we do nut remember ;.:wring one of dissatisfaction at
having spent the day in the "garden of Nottingham.
shire." The arrangements on the part of the railway
company were admirable, and the kindness, care, and
solicitude for the Alerofort of the passengers on the part
of Mr. Binney, the superintendent of the Sheffield,sta.
tion, deserve special and grateful .mention.—Shegield
Times.
BELGIAN HOSISES.—A vessel has arrived at the
Branswick-whart, Blackwell, from the port of Ostend,
having a cargo consisting entirely of horses, of Belgian
produce.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 11.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE DAVID ALLAN.
The bankrupt, described as of Coleman-street, .
linen-merchant, and who was connected with the
General Maritime Assurance Company, came up to
pass his last examination, supported by Mr. Lowrance,
and unopposed.
The balance-sheet, commencing December, 1845,
and ending July, 1849, showed the following re-
sults :
Debtor—To creditors, 13,2561.; creditors holding
security, 14,363/. ; capital, 1,052/. ; profits, 6,503/.
Creditor —By good debts, 1,2031. ; doubtful,
3,0681.; property, 7,0411.; property in the hands
of creditors, 10,487/. ; losses, 3,380/. ; bad debts,
371. ; trade expenses, 7,7891. ; domestic ditto,
2,175/. ; debts considered irrecoverable, Dec. 10,
1845, 3,8741.
Amongst the creditors holding security were Messrs.
Glyn and Co., the bankers, to the extent of 2,1941.;
the trustees of the late Mrs. Allan, to the amount of
6,616/. ; and the executors of W. Knapp, for 2,650 L,
being the sum advanced, with the exception of 501. for
interest, in 1816.
The Bank of England appeared as debtors to the
estate in the sum of 8/. 163. 10d. ; as did also the
London and South-Western Railway for 13/. 10s. Bd.
;The bankrupt had lost 261. upon the purchase and re-
sale of twenty-five shares in -the Oxford and Wor-
cester Railway ; 201. on forty Direct London
and Manchester Railway Shares; and 260/. upon
twenty shares in the General Maratime Assurance
Company.

After the usual interrogatories had been gone
through, the bankrupt was declared to have passed
his last examination.

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Sept.

(Before THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a Bench of Ma-
gistrates.)
THE FRAIL FAIR ONE AND THE BENEDICT.—
Ann Scott, 25, a fashionably-dressed young woman,
was indicted for stealing a silver watch and chain
from the person of William Truscott.
Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
The proaecutor, a dapper little man of rather
conseqllential appearance, said tbat he lived at No.
4, Dean-street, Tooley-street, Southwark, and that
about two o'clock on the morning of the 14th
of August, he was proceeding along the Bo-
rough towards home, a little the worse
for liquor, and as he was passing Sntd-
George s Church, the prisoner accosted m
asked him to treat her. He refused to do so,
hold of
her he was going home, when she took of
Mermaid-court she suddenly snatched
arm and walked with him some di
his
When
from near
him and ran away. He immediately pursued her,
and called out
"Stop thief," and as she was running
away a policeman caught hold of her and found the
watch in her right hand.
In cross-examination, witness said he had a wife
and six children, and he told the former he had been
robbed, but did not say by a female.
Alfred West, police-constable 60 M, said that he
saw the prisoner and the prosecutor walking together
for some time. He was drunk, and suspecting that
something was intended, he watched them into Mer-
maid.court. The prisoner suddenly ran out, and
hearing "Stop thief;" he stopped her, and Sergeant
Brandtord came up and took the watch from her
right hand. She said that/ the watch was her pro•
perty.
In defence, Mr. CHARNOCE addressed the bench.
The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the jury found
her Guilty.

• The COuur said that such robberies had become so
frequent that some example must be made; he should
therefore sentence her to twelve months' hard labour
at Brixton.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George Stanley Mann, the keeper of one of the
numerous eating-houses in Bucklersbury, was sum-
moned before the Lord Mayor, by Mr. Price, clerk
to a stockbroker, under the following circum•

stances:—
. Mr. Charles Price, who is a young man of gentle-
manlike appearance and address, made a statement,
of which the following is the substance :
The complainant, on the sth of September, dined
at the defendant's house, and received amongst change
for a half-sovereign a bad sixpence from him. Tne
complainant pointed out the spurious money to the
defendant, who, however, thought proper merely to
it, and walk away. The complainant then
bent the sixpence, and again called the attention of
the landlord to it, whereupon the latter threw down
another sixpence, and began to curse and abuse his
customer without measure. The complainant walked
out of the house, spoke to a policeman, who accom-
panied him back and asked the defendant to make an
apology for such gross language in the presence of
the officer. So reasonable a demand, instead of being
complied with, had the effect of provoking the land-
lord not only to the use of worse language, but to the
• exercise of personal violence. To the astonishment
of gentlemen who were in the other parts of the
room the defendant struck Mr. Price with his double
fist on the back of the neck, and pushed him out of
the house.
Mr Joseph Hare, a merchant, who was at a distant
part of the dining•room when this remarkable scene
took place, described the surprise and confusion caused
by the brutal violence of the pepon charged ; and the
policeman who accompanied the complainant into the
house, when the latter sought the satisfaction of an
apology, stated that the gentleman did not retaliate a
word of the insolent abuse which had been heaped
upon him.
The defendant, who employed a solicitor upon the
occasion, denied that he had struck the defendant, and
stated that he had been exasperated by what he con-
sidered to be an imputation upon his character by the
complainant, as if he were capable of the offence of
uttering bad money.
The LORD MAYOR—I certainly consider the case a
very gross one, which it is impossible not to take
serious notice of.
The defendant here begged leave to apologise to
the complainant, and implored that allowance might
be made for such a departure from his usual course of
conduct.
The LORD Mivon—My decided impression is that
I ought to send the case to the sessions.
The defendant most earnestly entreated that his
Lordship would adjudicate upon the question, and said
he was ready to pay any penalty which the Bench
might be disposed to inflict.
The LORD MAYOR (the complainant having made
no objection to the proposal for a prompt adjudication)
said—Well, as I perceive that you are really sorry for
your conduct, and as you make an apology, which the
gentleman seems willing to accept, I fine you the sum
df 21. and costs.
The defendant paid the penalty and departed, appa-
rently well satisfied with the result.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday, a carman, named Mark Grover, of No.
4, Valentine place, Blackfriars-road, was charged
before Mr. Alderman Lawrence with having violently
assaulted two men under the following circum-
stances :

Lewis Hammond, of No, 4, William-street, Ken-
nington, said that about two o'clock the previous
afternoon he was driving his omnibus in Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, and was about passing the
defendant, who was driving a horse and cart between
him and the rank of cabs, but in consequence of one
of them being rather out of the line, he saw there
was not room, and therefore called to the driver of the
cart to pull his horse nearer to the pavement. Instead
of doing so, he caught hold of the horse's head, and
pushed him against the omnibus, evidently with the
intention of causing a collision, but he did not succeed.
On passing he gave the cart-horse a slight touch with
the whip, to make it move on one side, when the pri-
soner commenced giving him a severe horsewhipping.
He leaped off the omnibus, and was savagely attacked
by the prisoner, who, using the butt-end of his whip,
gave him a tremendous blow over the head, which
felled him to the ground, and he was conveyed in an
insensible state to the nearest surgeon's, where he had
his wounds dressed.
Alderman LAWRENCE—How far was the prisoner
from the edge of the pavement ? Hammond—From
two to three feet.
Alderman LAWRENCE asked for the medical cer-
tificate.
Samuel Kelt, the officer, here handed it up. It was
as follows :
" I hereby certify that Lewis Hammond is seriously
injured, the scalp bruised and cut, and the temporal
artery divided.

" CHARLES HOLDENS, Surgeon.
" 13, New Bridge-street, Sept. 11, 1849."
Nicholas Curass, the conductor, corroborated the
above evidence, and added that on his attempting to
interfere, the prisoner gave him a very heavy blow,
cutting through his hat and inflicting a severe wound
on the crown of his head.

A letter was handed to the Alderman from the pri-
soner's master, Mr. P. Wood, of the Surrey saw-mills,
wha gave him an excellent character.

Alderman LAWRENCE —Well, prisoner, what have
you to say in defence ?
Grover—Why I was not more than half a foot from
the kerbstone. When the complainant called out I
' pulled the horse on the pavement, and as soon as he
had got a little way passed he whipped my horse and
I whipped him.
Alderman LAWRENCE-But what do You say tc,
using butt-end-of the whip?
I Groyer—why he was coming to strike me, and I
used the whip as I did to prevent him. _
Alderman LAWRENCE said that whatever the omni.
bus driver did to the prisoner's horse, nothing could
justify him in using the butt-end of his whip, and
breaking the heads of two men. He should, there.

fore, fine him 40s. for the assaults, or one month's
imprisonment, and he hoped it would be a caution to
him in future.

The money not being forthcoming, he was con-
veyed to prison; but at a later period of the day his
wife appeared with it, and she was directed to take it
to the Giltspur-street Compter, where her husband
was. _ _

THE BITER BIT. A well-known young thief,
named John Wheeler, was charged with attempting
to steal a pocket•handkerchief.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. George
Spooner, of 28, King-street, Smithfield, that he had
lost several pocket-handkerchiefs lately, and he there-
fore made up his mind to see if he could not detect
the depredator on his pocket. He accordingly took
the precaution of pinning his handkerchief to his
pocket, and on coming out of the Red Lion public-
house he waited for an instant at the door, when he
suddenly felt a tug at his pocket, and on turning
sharply round he saw the prisoner with the handker-
chief in his hand, although it was still pinned to the
pocket. He then gave the prisoner into custody.
Wheeler, in defence, said he knew nothing of the
handkerchief. He merely pushed against the gen-
tleman, and was given into custody.
Alderman LAWRENCE, not believing him, sentenced
him to three months' hard labour in the House of
Correction.