The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

LAW IN rELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. it
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN R 1 8. PAILICER.

This bankrupt, a ribbon. manufacturer, ,of Co-
ventry, now applied to pass his last examination.
It appeared by the statement of the solicitor to the
assignees, that the fiat was issued as far back as the
year 1839. at which period the bankrupt proceeded
abroad, taking with him some money, which, how-
ever, was brought back for the benefit of the credi-
tors. The case had remained silent from 1830 until
about one month ago, when, upon the proposition of
the bankrupt, the creditors assented to
.a composition
of 2s. 6(i. in the pound, and to have the fiat super-
seded. The case now came before the Court in pur-
Silence of an order of the Court of Review, but the
great difficulty was as to form, it being proposed that
the last examination should be passed without filing a
balance-sheet.

His HoNova said that he would not pass an exa-
mination without a balance-sheet, and would not make
-anY precedent in a single case.
fhe solicitor for the bankrupt said that two divi-
dends had already been paid, and a balance. sheet was
useless •

His HONOUR inquired if the bankrupt intended to
apply for his certificate ?
The solicitor for the bankrupt replied that he did.
HiS HONOUR observed That e balance-sheet must be
filed, in order to induce him to say that the bankrupt
had made a full and true disclosure. Under all the
circumstances, the case must be adjourned for the
balance-sheet to be filed.

-Adjourned accordingly.
IN RE SARAH CRALONER.
This was a meeting for choice of assignees in the
:
terraee. The debts are about
who was a milliner, of Charles-
-71.
The bankrupt was examined at some length, and
Charles-
street, taorsoee t
and tlhyi seasbstsabenotksu rrlun3pet
1.,
stated that she had given her daughter money to the
extent of about 2001. to buy articles of stock, instead
of doing which, it was alleged that she appropriated
ittoohterownuse, and expended it in buying opera
and her tickets to see Jenny Lind, which she (the
daughter) had given away. There was also a dress,
wh
of Po which
the daughter represented to be for a young
lady Portland-place, but the witness never receiv...l
anything for it. Its value was stated to be 60guineas.
His HoNouit adjourned the case for further inquiry

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THAM ES.
A lad named John Ji lliott, belonging to the ship
Helen, in the London Dock, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with stealing three gallons of
brandy.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was
stopped on Saturday evening by a gate-keeper, named
Cornwall, as he was leaving the dock, and two bottles,
each containing a pint and a half of brandy, were
found concealed under his waistcoat. On being
questioned he said he took the brandy out of the
captain's cabin. He was given over to the custody
of Sayre, a dock-constable, and he stated that he
effected an entrance to the cabin through the bulk-
head. Sayre very soon ascertained this statement
was false. The bulkhead and the cabin had not been
disturbed, hut on searching the prisoner's bed-place,
on the larboard side of the halt deck, he found two
more bottles of brandy. The prisoner then confessed
he had plundered the cargo ; and Sayre, upon going
into the hold, discovered that a hogshead of brandy
had been very recently broached. _The officer gauged
the cask and took a sample from it, which corre-
sponded in quality aril colour with the brandy in the
four bottles. The deficiency in the cask amounted to
three gallons. •
Mr. William Galsworth, the master of the. Helen,
' said the vessel, which belonged to Bristol, where
the.owners resided, was on the point of sailing. He
gave the lad a good character, and said he had been
'apprenticed thiee years, and sailed in the ship all that
time. If the Magistrate would overtook it he would
take the lad to sea again. This. was the first time he
had heard of any dishonesty on the part of the lad.
Mr. YARDLEY said he could not by any possibility
lobk over such a serious robbery as the prisoner had
committed. It was an extremely bad case; and it'
he was to allow the prisoner to escape without punish-
ment, he should be holding out an encouragement to
crime. In consideration that the ship was going to
sail immediately, and that it would be very inconve.
nient to detain the captain on shore, he would deal
with the case summarily. He was scarcely justified,c
however, in not sending the case for trial. The of-
fence Was one punishable by transportation. To pass
it over would be trifling with justice. The object of
punishment was to deter others from committing
felonies. He should convict the prisoner of a misde-
meanour, in having unlawful possession of the two
bthoettlteisouosfesborf candoyrfroeucntidon.upon him, and impose the full
penalty awarded by law for such an offence, which
was two months' imprisonment and hard labour in

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STRANGE VISITORS.—On Saturday afternoon, as
the ostler of the Queen's Head Inn, Bishop Auckland,
was sweeping the front of the inn, he found what he
called " a great ugly fly," which proved to be a very
year at Ifunwiek colliery, near Bishop Auckland. It
There was one taken about this time last
15 supposed to have come to this country in the egg, or
pupa state, in an orange
chest, or by the importation
of some other fruit, and to have come to a state of
matui ity.
It is now in the possession of Mr. Joseph
Duff, shoemaker. Several locusts have been caught in
this neighbourhood ; one in a corn field in Ryhope-lace
last week.—Sunderland Herald.
ATPLICATION oy THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO
LocoxonvEs.—A line of electric telegraph is in active
preparation along the railway from Vienna to Prague.
As soon as it is completed, every locomotive engine is to
be furnished with a small electric apparatus, by aid of
which and by that of a wire, which can, at pleasure, -be
put into communication with that of the railway, the
train can announce to every station, far cr near, the 1
6eliti IS may have learnt an the rod,