The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Bannister Falkner and Bentham Fabian, mer-
chants, Broad-street, City, to surrender, Dec. 1, at
eleven, and Jan. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall street;
Peddell, Cheapside.
Robert Flatman, grocer, Saxmundham, Suffolk, Nov.
26, at eleven, and Jan. 7, at half past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan' official assignee, Birchin-
lane, Cornhill ; Jay, Bucklersbury; Jay, Norwich.
William Speller, plumber, Upper Berkeley street
West, Middlesex, Nov. 30, at one, and Jan. 4, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee;
Wood and Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.
John Edwards, corn merchant, Upper Stamford-street,
Blackfriars, Surrey, Nov. 30, at half-past eleven, and
Dec. 27, at half-past twele, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham. official assignee, Coleman-street ; Kearsey and
Co., 13ucklersbury, London.
Henry Mares, sculptor, Kensal-green, Nov. 30, at half-
past twelve, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; WDuff, Castle-street,
Holborn.

Charles Stevenson, builder, Howley-place, Padding-
ton, Nov. 30 and Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-
chambers ; Shuttleworth, Gray's Inn.
James Waters, baker, Great Wilde-street, Lincoln's
Inn, Nov. 30, at half-past one, and Jan. 4; at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, offieial assignee ; May,
Princes-street, Spitalfields.
Edmund Henry Abbott and Henry Nottingham, shawl
warehousemen,
Aldermanbury, City, Nov. 30, 'at one,
and Jan. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Reed,
Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside.
John Shadwell Lucas, hosier, Aldermanbury, City,
Nov. 30, at two, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Goddard and
Eyre, Wood-street, Cheapside.
Thomas Walker, apothecary, Abingdon, Dec. 2, at
eleven, and Dec. 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Sandom,
Duke-street, London-bridge.
William Reeve and Richard Reeve, upholsterers,
Nov. 30, at two, and Dec. 21, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-
place, Old Jewry; Rolle and Edmonds, South square,
Gray's Inn.
John Davies, plumber and glazier, Mrnchester, Nov.
29, and Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court. Putt, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory,
Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford row, London;
Hampson and Son, Manchester.
Elizabeth Mooney, upholsterer, Wallasey, Chester,
Dec. 7 and 28, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Temple;johu
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Turner, official assignee, LirPrpool: Miine and Co.,
Court.S 0r . 3O
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Bthii(ly,lll%heerapdo,oCi Cheshire,
official assignee, Liverpool 01' Old
Jewry, London ; Evans and Son, Liverpool,;

David Black Sorley, broker, Liverpool, Dec. 1 and 24,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Humphreys and Co., Gray's
Inn, London ; H. and J. Forshaw, Liverpool.
John Nash, coachmaker, Taunton, Somersetshire,
Dec. 1 and 30, at one, at Exeter District Court. Hirt-
zel, official assignee, Exeter; Trenchard, Taunton • Ter-
rell, Exeter; Whitaker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.

Juhn Wetherell, publican, Manchester, Dec. 4 and 23,
at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee, Manchester ; Gregory, Faulkner,
Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London ; Welsh,
Manchester.

Henry Leathern, slater, Liverpool, Dec. 2 and 17, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official
assignee, Liverpool; Cornthwaito and Co., Old Jewry-
chambers; Pemberton, Liverpool.
Francis Marshall, chemist, Sunderland, Nov. 29, at
half past ten, and Dec. 31, at one, at the Newcastle.
upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Wright, Sunderland; Maples,
Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry.
Joseph Widdoson Welborne, silk mercer, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly, Nov. 30, at twelve, and Dec. 21, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, cfficial
assignee, Old Jewry ; Mardon and Pritchard, Christ-
church. chambers, Newgate-street.
Richard Parry and Jonathan Roberts, joiners, Li, er.
pool, Nov. 29 and Dec. 22, at eleven, at the Liveri 00l
District Court. Caz2nove, official assignee, Liverp ol;
Oliver, Old Jewry, London; Evans and Son, Liverp 01.
Thomas Clarke, baker, Bristol, Nov. 30, and I ec.
30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller
official assignee, Bristol ; Barker and Co. Bristol.
May Osmund Alonzo Durant, surgeon, BurbaLe,
Leicestershire, Nov. 29, and Dec. 20, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assig-
nee, Birmingham; Jarvis, Hinclkley; Reece, Birming-
ham.

Richard Lynex, wire worker, Birmingham.
PRTCE.,OF SUGAR. _

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending November 16,
1847, is 225. 9d. per cwt.

HYDROPHOBIA IN CATTLE.—On the 29th ult. a
large ox, belonging to M. Delbotal, a farmer, at Luxeuil
(Haute Saone) died in a dreadful state of madness. The
first symptoms appeared on the 23d, and on the 24th a
veterinary surgeon was called in, who at once recognised
the nature of the disease. The animal was immediately
placed apart from all others, and, after suffering the
most frightful tortures, expired in the afternoon
of the sixth day from the first attack. On in-
quiry it appeared that the ox had been bitten about six
eeks before by a rabid dog belonging to a gamekeeper.
It is said that the dog had bitten other cattle in the
environs.

MIA LE FISHERY.—The Alexander, Sturrock,
arrived here on Friday from Davis' Straits, having three
fish, reckoned to yield about fifteen tuns of oil. Ac-
counts were received here on Monday, stating that our
only whaler now out (the Advice, Cramond) was at
Stromness on the 6th inst., with three fish, thirty tuns
—Dundee Advertiser.

A Royal Ordonnance, published in the Moniteur,
orders the emancipation of 218 blacks in the different
colonies of France.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CITY SMALL DEB I'S' COURT, .Nov. 18.
ELECTION AFFAIRS.-ROLFE V. C. PEARSON, ESQ THE

M.P. FOR LAMBETH.

Mr. Charles Pearson, the Hon. Member for Lam-
beth, Was summoned before Mr. Bullock, the Judge
of the City Small Debts' Court, by —Rolfe, for the
payment of three guineas, for three days' perform-
ance of the duties of canvasser at the late election for
the borough of Lambeth.

The claim was resisted, upon the ground that the
plaintiff had not been engaged to perform the duties
of canvasser, but merely the duties of messenger, for
the performance of which latter duties the usual
amount of remuneration given to persons so employed
had been offered to him.

Mr. Rolfe attended with Mr. Taylor, as his wit-
ness, who stated that the plaintiff had actually can-
vassed for Mr. Pearson, and was therefore entitled to
be paid for that service, and that he (witness) had
made several ineffectual applications for payment of
the demand.

It appeared in evidence that Mr. Rolfe owed
money to Mr. Taylor, and that such deht operated
in making Mr. Taylor urgent for the payment of the

money.

Mr. Rolfe produced several letters from Members
of Parliament, addressed to him in the affable terms
of " Dear Sir," and subscribed, " Yours faithfully
and truly," for whom he had canvassed, and who
had promised to provide him with employment of a
public nature.
The defendant made an able address, and produced
two letters from Mr. Rolfe, in one of which that gen-
tleman supplicated not only employment, but his
(the Hon. Member's) interest at the Treasury, and in
the other there appeared to be an insinuation that the
interest of Mr. Pearson would be injured if the de-
mand was not complied with. He denounced the
application of the plaintiff, and stated what was well
known to all who were interested in the election that
he had from the commencement repudiated the ser-
vices of paid canvassers as services which he did not
require, and he certainly did not, in offering himself
to the constituency of Lambeth, want Mr. Rolfe to
puff him off, having considered that the recommenda-
tion of twenty-seven years' public service was of itself
sufficient without the additional eclat arising from that
gentleman's patronage. The plaintiff, who had been
engaged by Mr. Barham, who officiated for him (Mr.
Pearson) had been offered the amount in which mes-
sengers were considered entitled for the period during
which he bad acted in that capacity.
The Judge decided that the plaintiff was not en-
titled, inasmuch as the claim was for canvassing, and
it appeared from the, evidence that he had been merely
employed as a messenger, for his services, in which
character payment had been tendered to him.
Nonsuited.

By the direction of Mr. Pearson the sum of 1 d. was
then handed over to the plaintiff, as remuneration for
his services as a messenger.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Edward Sadler, a thick-set powerful fellow, was
charged with the following violent and unprovoked
assault upon a young woman named Sarah Rice, the
right side of whose face was very much swollen and
discoloured from recent cuts and contusions.
The complainant stated, that while conversing with
a friend at a public-house in Paul-street, Finsbury,
on the preceding evening, the prisoner, who was an
entire stranger to her until that moment, suddenly
came out of the tap-room, in which he had evidently
been drinking, and, without a word or a look from
herself to induce it, rushed at and struck her re-
peated violent blows in rapid succession in the face,
one of which so severely lacerated her eye that her
dress was soaked, and she was almost blinded by the
blood which poured from it. Several persons present,
amongst whom was the landlord, immediately inter-
fered for her proteetion and seized the prisoner, who
wanted to renew his ill treatment of her, but they
held him until the arrival of a constable, into whose
custody he was given, while the witness was con-
veyed in a state approaching insensibility to the house
of a neighbouring surgeon, by whom her injuries
were dressed,
Mr. Houghton, the landlord of the house, and Mr.
Vox, a watchmaker, confirmed the complainant's tes-
timony in every particular, and described the attack
as one of the most brutal and unprovoked they had
ever witnessed.
When called upon for his defence, 'the prisoner said
that he had been drinking so freely that he scarcely
knew what he was about at the time, but he perfectly
recollected that the woman had insulted and annoyed
him by some exasperating observations, and that he
had retaliated in consequence,
This was positively contradicted both by the com-
plainant and her witnesses, who both expressed them-
selves as being totally at a loss to account for the
outrage upon the young woman, who was standing
perfectly quiet, and did not appear even to know that
the prisoner was there.
Mr. IlimAttu, said, that It was evident the pri-
soner's conduct was wholly unjustified by anything
that had taken place, and as it appeared to have been
induced by the supposition that, because the com-
plainant belonged to a class that was both unhappy
and friendless, he might indulge his savage disposi-
tion to the fullest extent against her with impunity,
he should teach him that as long as such women
conducted themselves with quietness and propriety,
they were as much entitled to the protection of the
law as any one else. He should therefore order him
to pay the highest amount of penalty he could impose
upon him, namely, 51., and in default of so doing he
must stand committed to the House of Correction for
two months.
The prisoner was unable to pay the fine, and was
carried away in the van.
LAMBETH.
Richard Day, who has been in custody for some
days on a charge of being concerned with John Mar-
son and others in carrying on an extensive system of
swindling, was again placed at the bar, before Mr,
Norton, for further examination.
Mr. Robert Cockburn, a stonemason of Marlbo-
rough-street, Chelsea, deposed to having cashed two
cheques, drawn and signed by the prisoner, for John
Marion, who had been tried and convicted at the last
Old Bailey sessions. After the cheques had been re-
fused at the banker's, there being no effects there to
meet them, witness saw the prisoner, who said he
could not take them up then, but that as soon as he
could turn himself round he would. The prisoner
also said that he had been ruined by Marson, but at
the same time admitted he had received 21. of the
money obtained on the cheques from him.
Sergeant Goff, who apprehended the prisoner, here
said that he had been to Mr. Doulton, the potter in
Lambeth, to request his attendance, but he expressed
a great disinclination to do so, observing that he had
had such trouble and annoyance in 'attending for a
whole week at the Old Bailey to give evidence against

Marston, that he did not wish to have anything more
to do in the matter.

A gentleman present here remarked that t was
personally aware that Mr. Doulton had, owing to
the want of some proper system, been kept hanging
about the Old Bailey as a witness in the case of Mar-
son, and had heard him express his thorough disgust
of the annoyance.

Mr. NORTON observed that it was much to be re-
gretted that prosecutors and witnesses were put to
such extreme inconvenience, but still personal conve•
nience could not, in a case of this magnitude, be per-
mitted to defeat the ends of justice, and he should,
therefore, be under the necessity of compelling the
attendance of Mr. Doulton.

A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the prisoner,
submitted that if even Mr. Doulton had been in
attendance, there was nothing in his case that would
criminally reach the prisoner. All Day had done
was merely partially to guarantee the payment of
some goods supplied by Mr. Doulton to Marson,
which guarantee was not as yet discharged. Again,
as regarded the cheques produced, he apprehended no
case of fraud as respected them could be made or
established against his client, who had merely over-
drawn his account at his banker's, a circumstance not
unusual in the present time.
Mr. NORTON—What ! not an offence to draw 30,
40, or 50 cheques on a banker after his deposit is
exhausted ?

Solicitor—l can swear that the prisoner had an
account at his banker's, and that he has a balance
there still.

Sergeant Goff here remarked, that the balance to
the prisoner's credit was as., and since that balance
had been struck, bills and cheques to a considerable
amount had been presented at his banker's.
The solicitor said the prisoner had had a legacy left
him, but had been made the dupe of Marson and other
designing persons, by whom he had been deprived of
almost every shilling of it.
Mr. NORTON thought, that after hearing a letter,
found upon the prisoner, and in his own handwriting,
read, he would change his opinion.
The Learned MAGISTRATE then read the following
letter, which bore no direction : _

" Nov. 3.

" Sir,—l waited at the Flower-pot on Saturday
last from 12 to 3 o'clock, but did not see either you
or Mr. N., and not having the means of satisfying the
coffeehouse-keeper I had no alternative but seeking
another abode, which I did by coining home at all
risks, lam still there and safe at present. I hope
our friend M. has some prospects before him, and that
he will soon be out of his pre-sent little difficulties. I
wish much to see him on various subjects ; pray tell
him so. Are we likely to do anything together ?
This loss of time is loss of money also, and murdering
all our fortunes. I must look out for something else,
if not gone into soon, both for the means of living and
and also a better place of concealment, for Marson is
still in Horsemonger-lane, and will be until next
session, and perhaps longer, until they can take some
more of his gang. I understand they want nine or
ten in all. He has been going the whole hog, and
now wants cash enough (you see) to procure a
solicitor. Bad management, I think. Perhaps you
will see --, and come over to me afterwards, either
with or without him, and let me know a little how
matters stand. Suspense at such a time is horrible.
" Waiting some information, I am, dear sir,
yours, &c., RICHARD DAY."
Sergeant Goff was again put into the witness-box,
and having stated, in reply to a question, that on a
future day he would be prepared with three or four
other cases against the prisoner, he was remanded.
THAMES.

William Rowland, a broker's man, was brought
before Mr. Ballantine, on rrmand, charged with
stealing a quantity of household furniture, bedding,
and linen, the property of Mr. James Dent, a
licensed victualler.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who is now residing in York-terrace, York-road,
Lambeth, had entered into an agreement with a
person named Nicholls, on the 14th of last July, to
rent the Prince of Wales public-house, in New
Gravel lane, Shadwell. A few days afterwards he
sent in a great quantity of household furniture for
the use of himself and family, and on the 18th of
August he went over the house with an inventory,
and his goods were then all safe. The prisoner was
originally put in possession of the house by Mr. Dew,
an auctionneer, of King 'William-street, and Mr.
Nicholls continued him in possession after Mr. Dent
had deposited his goods in the house, which is a new
one, and has not yet been licensed by the magistrates.
Nicholls subsequently failed to complete his agree-
ment with Mr. Dent, who was never able to get the
key from him. On the 10th instant the prosecutor,
becoming alarmed for the safety of his property,
forced his way in at one of the windows, and, to his
great surprise, discovered that a great quantity of the
furniture was missing, including six chairs, a table,
fire irons, seven blankets, a bed, a hearth rug, and
three counterpanes. On Friday last he met with
the prisoner at the William the Fourth public-house,
in King William-street, and asked him what he had
done with his property? The prisoner stoutly denied
at first that anything had been removed, but he
afterwards said if they were gone they could only
have been removed by Nicholls. Mr. Dent then
gave the prisoner into the custody of Dunham, a
police. constable, 57 F, who traced the whole of the
property to various pawnbrokers in the eastern part
of the metropolis, who received it in pledge from a
woman named Catherine Rumsey, who was employed
by the prisoner on numerous occasions to pawn the
goods as he stole them from the Prince of \Vales. He
represented to her that the property was his own, and
she pawned the various articles in the name of Ann
Lings. The prisoner, on being asked for the dupli-
cates relating to the property, said he had given them
all to Nicholls.

The prisoner, in his defence, endeavoured to make
it appear that the goods in the house had been sold
to Nicholls, on whom he threw all the odium of the
transaction ; and he asked Mr. Dew if he had not told
him that Mr. Dent sold the goods to Nicholls.
Mr. Dew, in reply, said he merely intimated that if
Mr. Dent declined to complete the agreement with
Nicholls the goods would become forfeited.
The prisoner said it was Nicholls who removed it;
he had control over it.

Mr. BALLANTINE—TeII a jury that, if you like. I
shall commit you to take your trial for the felony,
.lamed Leonard, an Irish ballast-getter, a remark-
ably big and powerful man, was brought before Mr.
Ballantine, charged with assaulting Eliza Martin.
The prosecutrix, a middle-aged woman, whose
face bore marks of some puni4nnent, said she was a
servant at the Turk's Head public-house in Wapping.
On Monday night the prisoner was in the tap-room,
and as she was entering it with a pint of porter, the
prisoner rose from his seat, and, without any provo-
cation, struck her a tremendous blow on the nose, and
then seized her and threw her on the floor. He fell
upon her and tore her gown off, and then dragged her
to the fire-place, and threw her under the grate,
where he left her in an insensible condition,

Daniel Richley was in the Turk's Head, and de-
scribed, the as, cult in the same terms, adding, that
Mrs. Martin bled profusely from the nose, and that
she was a very quiet civil woman.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that the prisoner was a per-
fect ruffian, and fined him 31., and in default of pay-
ment to be imprisoned for one month.
A boy, named Jean Vandengen, employed on board
the Dutch steam-ship Batavier, from Rotterdam, was
charged with having 31bs. of contraband tobacco and
cigars concealed in his chest on board.
The defendant was fined 20s. for smuggling tobacco
last weel, but this did not deter him from risking a
second adventure, and, upon the arrival of the ship,
his berth was overhauled, and several bundles of cigars
and tobacco were found in his chest, which he at once
admitted belonged to him.
Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 405., and
warned him that if he was caught a third time it was
very probable the Commissioners of Customs would
proceed against him by information, for a penalty of
1001.

We are sorry to have to place upon record another
of those melancholy events—the loss of life upon Dud-
don Sands, which are or such frequent occurrence upon
that dangerous estuary. It appears that Mr. W. Pestle-
thwaite, manager of the Winna End Slate Quarry, in
Kirby, left home with a view of going to Millom on busi-
ness, and as the crossing of the sailers was an almost daily
occurrence with him, he preferred that courst to going
round, though the flow of fresh water upon the satdel
from the late heavy rains, was unusually great. On the
same morning a carrier from Millom attempted to cross,
but he soon discovered that the sands were flooded to
such a depth as to completely cut off all hopes of his
getting to the opposite side, and he therefore turned back
before it was too late. Mr. Postlethwaite, however, was
less fortunate. It appears that Mr. P. was seen upon the
sands by two fishermen named Bell, but they were at toe
great a distance to render any assistance, but had it been
otherwise it is more than probable that their exertions
would have been unavailing owing to the depth and im-
petuosity with which the fresh water was rushing down
to the sea. From the sudden disappearance of Mr. P.
andhishorse there seems to be no doubt but both were
precipitated
depth of riot 1-4:sswrithaonnetaof those dangerous breaks, a
t v feet, causedo
sbey, thet fluopopdeerd.
state of the river. The horse presei...., 4„
most, and made its way to the side of the Sark._ op which
.1,,
it had entered and was at Beckside again, Mr. Yob,.
thwaite's residence, within an hour after it had left, with
the saddle under its belly. This circumstance gave rise
to fearful apprehensions; and after the tide had receded
search was made but in vain, until Wednesday morning,
when the corpse of the unfortunate gentleman was dis-
covered on the Cumberland side of the sands, near Hot
Barrow. The unfortunate deceased was in the full
vigour of life-32 years of age—and connected with a
family of the highest respectability lung resident ,n
Kirkby Ireleth, amongst whom he had lived cince his
childhood, held in the highest esteem by a large and nu-
merous circle of f'r'iends.—Cumberland Pooptz.t.
Lieutenant Coates and Major Hay embarked on
Wednesday morning at Blackvvi til, on board the mail
ateam-chip Giraffe, for Rottordszo: '