The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-03 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

On Thursday Joseph Sheers, the Secretary to the
I Shoemakers' Trades Union, was brought up in custody,
charged with having, by intimidation, forced a shoemaker
in the employ of Messrs. Homan and Herne, No. 26, Skin-
ner-street, shoe-manufacturers, to desert from his hiring.
Mr. Homan stated that, for several days past, his pre-
mises had been beset by a doz-n men, who were paid .td.
per hour out of a tra,le fund, to watch his premises con-
tinually, and deter men from doing any work for them.
Sometimes they used persuasion only, sometimes intimi-
dation and violence. One day last week a party rushed
into his lobby, and tore up the benches placed for the ac-
commodation of persons bringing in or taking out work,
vrry much alarming several females who were waiting.
Otte of them fainted. The object of the journeymen
was not to advance wages, hut to control the firm in
the mode of conducting their business. The men
sought to prevent then from making a certain descrip-
tion of goods they had not been in the habit of making.
They were large exporters, and employed a great many
hands in making best women's shoes at IR. 4d. and Is. per
pair, but they purchased ready-made and inferior descrip-
tions to the extent of ten times the quantity. They lately
determined to make for themselves a portion of this inferior
description, giving 10d. a pair, with the view chiefly of
forming a sort of probation class, from which the hands for
best work should be selected. The men met, discussed
the mater, and brought to the firm a written resolution,
that they would not take such inferior work, except the
materials were of a certain quality therein defined. The
firm replied that they must be left to determine wha' sort
of materials they would have made up, but were willing
that in one of the materials there should be a visible dif-
ference from the superior goods. The men, however,
would have nothing but their own terms, and immediately
struck.
The prisoner said he had conversed civilly with the
:omplainant without using any intimidation whatever.
The MAGISTRATES having consulted were of opinion the
intimidation had been made out, and they adjudged the
prisoner to hard labour on the tread-mill for three month..
The full penalty of the law would be inflicted in all such
cases of molestation and intimiiati-,n of workmen.
The prisoner said he should like to have legal advice.
Mr. Alderman LaiNsoe replied be could not yield to
that now the case had been concluded.
The prisoner was committed.

MR. PLUMER WARD'S NEW NOVEL.—The
unusual interest excited by the announcement of Mr.
Ware's " De Cliff,rd, or the Constant Man," is at length
gratified, and the work proves, like all the previous produc-
tions of its writer, full of the highest species of interest
that can belong to fictions of this nature, the interest of
which apt iugs from the actual life of the scenes and the
action represented. Through the medium of an intensely
exciting plat, this accomplished writer places before us a
series of pictures so siffeulsrly true to nature, and so indi-
vilualized as to have all the air of portraits, and to create
the impression that they must have been drawn from ac-
tual observation ; and as several of the leading ones among
them occupy prominent ald precise positions in public
life at the commencenneat of the present century, it is al-
most impossible to avoid tracing in them, or fancying we
trace, likenesses of some of the celebrated men of that pe-
riod. Who can read, for instince, the admirable sketches
of Lord Castleton, the Marquis of Rochfort, Lord Felix,
Lord Albany, &c., without feeling that tney are not "of
imagination all compact." In this punt of view, as well
as to its interest as a lire story, "De Cliff ird" is likely
to rival its celebrated predecessors from the same pen.
THE LIFE OF PETRA RCM, BY THOMAS
CAMPBELL. —We may assert with confidence, that there
are very few even among well-informed persons, who
know anything more of Petrarch than as a poet and as
the adorer of Laura. They are not aware that this poet
of
love for all times and all nations, was also a statesman
who lived and corresponded with the greatest men of his
amissions; who
wthaast liter
r tune
owe
ehs
ioorfit a:Jo
odiplomatic
s
for the pains which he took to preserve the andeut classic
writers, and to ene esrage a taste for the study of their
works. Those who would wish to make themselves ac-
quainted with Petrarch's history and merits, will learn with
interest that the celebrated author of " The Pleasures
of Hopo" has just completed a Life of him, in which,
with the feeling of a genuine poet he will doubtless do
full justice to the character of that eminent man in all its
bearings.
THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.--The
month of March, now near a close, has been the finest
experienced rai eo es
atmosphere
ei
rne
as
the Highlands for at
flreoams t
5t
ow ednetgy. years,
The
hal all the warmth and clearness cof.
May, with the thermometer ranging
deg.
facili-
tate all kinds of agricultural operati sow
ing
may operations. The oat sow
The effect of this fine weather has been t o
may be considered as finished, a considerable breadth ofg
barley laid down, and in some places a good deal of the
provender is plentiful. Indeed, the turnipsa
fallow-break cross ploughed. Stock thrivelsreweeoll
well, and
that they can scarcely be consumed,
.7getoobsseeervde.
that generally about this town they are
the
usual
Vegetation is at least five weeks in advance of 1
ru nnnd'i
average of years. This may be seen from our gardens;
but it is still more visible in the country, where thehedge
rows are already in leaf. The tadpole has been seen in
ponds in Rossahire ten days ! since On bill farms the
deer-hair (a valuable species of grass, of which sheep
and cattle are fond) is seldom eatable before the middle
of May ; but it will this season be ready next week.
Since the above was written, we have received the follow-
ing from Caithness :—" Spring has been uncommonly
fine, without a vestige of frost all this month, and vege-
tation as forward as in May. Most of the oats are sown,
and things are generally in advance. Stock are in high
order."—lnverness Courier.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER LEA.—
Two Livss Losr.—Thursday forenoon an inquest was
held before Mr. Baker, at the Ekst India Dock Tavern,
East Ind
a-road, Blackwell, on the bodies of James
Epthorp and Win. Noel, aged 20 and 21. shipwrights,
who were drowned in the River Lea on Sunday. Verdict,
" Accidentally drowned."

93d Foot—Lieut. J. A. Russell to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Gordon, who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign D.
Seton, to he Lieutenant, vice Russell ; R. H. H. Keightley,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Seton, April 2.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant J. Richardson, from the Ist
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.—Captain L. Brown,of the sth Regiment of Bom-
bay Native Infantry, to be Major in the Army, in the East
Indies only; Brevet-Major T. G. Higgins, of the Royal Ar-
tillery, to be Lieutenant- Colonel in the is rmy, April 2.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—T. L. Belcher, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Apothecary G. Allman, appointed
to the 82d Foot, Feb. 26.

MFMORANDUM.—The appointment of Surgeon Campbell,
from the 93d Foot, to be Surgeon of the 62d Foot, and the pro-
motion of Assistant-Surgeon Stewart, of the 10th Light Dra-
goons, to be Surgeon in the 934 Foot, as stated in the Gazette
of the sth March, 1841, have been cancelled.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 30.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Quartermaster-Sergeant J.
S. Forbes to be Quartermaster, vice Gates, placed on the Re-
tired List, March 24.

kly Liabilities and Assets of the
sth of January to the 30th of
, published pursuant to the Act,

Quarterly Average of the Wee
Bank of England, from the
March, 1841, both inclusive,
3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES, ASSETS.
Circulation .......£16,537,000 Securities ... £22,328,900
Deposits ... 7,212 000 Bullion . 4,339,000

£23,749,000
Downing-street, April 1,1!

£26,667,000

The following places have been duly registered for solemniz-
ng mirriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wil-
iam IV., euap. 8.5 :
The Independent Chnpel, Wincantnn, Semersetsbire.
The Baptist Chapel, Chenies, Buckinghamshire.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
THOMAS GARLICK, carpenter, Greenwich.
BANKUPTCIEs ENLARGED.

WILLIAM FORSTER, grocer, l'hilp,t-lane, City, from
April 9, to April 22., at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
EDWIN MARRIOTT and JOsIAII MARRIOTT,
drapers, Northampton, to April 13, at one, at the Angel Inn,
Northampton.
BAN KRUPCV SUPERSEDED.

WILLIAM RICHARD KENIP, grocer, East Cheap, City.

BANKRUPTS.

RICHARD CASS, grocer, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire,
to surrender April 16, at two, and May 14, at eleven, at the
Guildhall, York. Hawkins, Bloxam, and Stocker, New Bos-
well-court, Lincoln's Inn, London ; Hirst, Boroughbridge.
ROBERT MORICE and RICHARD KESTIN, bakerS,
Great Trinity-lane, Bread-street, Cheapside, April 13, at half-
past twelve, and May 14, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, Coptha'l-buildings, official assignee ;
Phipps, Weavers'-hall, Basinghall-street.
CHARLES TAPP, coach maker, Wigmore-street, :11ary-
lebone, April 8 and May 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Bur-
goyne and Thrupp, Oxford-street.
JOHN RAYNES HAYWARD, money scrivener, Chap-
manslade, Wiltshire, April 10, and May 14, at twelve, at the
Bath Arms Inn, Warminster. Hardy, Cursitor-street, Chan-
cery-lane. London ; Miller, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire.
WILLIAM LONERG AN, merchant, King Wiliam-street,
ity, April 16. at twelve, and May 14, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Clarke, Broad-street-square, official
assignee; Kirkman, King William street.
ALPHEUS HARRIS, wool broker, Dursley, Glouce,ter-
shire, April 9 and May 14, at one, at the 011 Bell Inn, Durs-
ley. Coe, Queen-street-place, London; Bishop, Dursley,
Gloucestershire.

JOHN WATTS, cement manufacturer, We inesbury, Staf-
fordshire, April 14 and May 14, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel,
Wolverhampton. Hunt, Wednesbury ; Miller, Sackville-street,
Piccadilly. London.
WILLIAM SOUTH, licensed victualler, Laurel Tree,
Brick-lane, Spitalfields. April 13, at eleven, and May 14, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,
Finsbury-square; Lacey, Bow-lane, Cheapside.
JAMES HENDERSON, general shopkeeper, Glamorgan,
April 13, and May 14, at ten, at the Mackworth Arms Inn,
Sw'nsea. Clarke and 'Metcalf, Lincoln's Inn-field, London ;
Hall, Bristol.

THOMAS STYAN and WILLIAM STYAN, brokers,
Great Tower-street, London, April 16, at two, and May 14, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official as,ignee ;
Freslatields, New Bank-buildings.
RICHARD GLEADIIILL HOLDEN and RICHARD
YOUNG CLA ItKE, warehousemen, Bread-street, London,
April 13, at one, and May 14, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basi,ghall-street ; Wood
and Ellis, Corbet-court, Gracechureh-street.

JOHN BYNG, sen., hop-merchant, Kegworth, Leicester-
shire, April 15, at eleven, and May 14, at two, at the King's
Ilead Inn, Loughborough. Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jack-
son, Bedford-row, London ; Stone and Paget, Leicester.
JAMES SOPER, broker, Mark-lane, London, April 13
and May 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lacking-
ton, Colernin-street-buildingi, official assignee ; Bolton and
Merriman, Austin-friars.

HENRY HA WKSWORTH, edge tool manufacturer,
Sheffield, April 12 and May 14, at twelve, at the Town-hall,
Sheffield. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, Lon-
don ; Smith and Wightmrn, Sheffield.
JOHN WILLERTON, wool buyer, Swines-head, Lincoln-
shire, April 15, at two, and May 14, at twelve, at the Red
Lion Inn, Boston. Bell. Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Church-
yard, London ; Henry Marshall, Boston,
JOHN 13YNG, Jun., common-brewer, Kegvrorth, Leicester-
shire, April 15, at eleven, and .‘lay 14, at two, at the King's
Head Inn, Loughborough. John and Marcus finish, Castle
Honington, Leicestershire; Mr. Scott, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba-inghall-street.
W. and J. Smith, cabinet makers, Hatton-garden, April 23,
at half-past one —J. Green, nail factor, No. 10 Wharf, City-
road, April 23, at eleven—A. Colvin, W. Ainslie, B. D.
Colvin, T. Anderson, and D. Ain3lie, merchants, Calcutta,
April 23, at twelve—S. B. Holder, Manchester warehouse-
man, Bread-street, Choapsitle, April 27, at twelve—J. Mallet,
printer, Wardour .street, Soho, April 27, at one—W. Mason,
axletree manufacturer, Margaret-greet, Cavendish-square,
April 23, at twelve—J. S. Smallfield, bookseller, Newgate-
street, April 22, at twelve—G. C. Yeld, iron merchant,
Market-street, Edgeware-road, April 23, at half-past eleven—
W. Smith, stationer, Bartlett's-passage, Fetter-lane, April 22,
at eleven—J. Stedwell, butcher, Richmond, April 23, at two
—M. Hyslop, merchant, Tokenhouse- yard, May 10, at
twelve—G. Richards and T. Manwaring, linen drapers,
Bridge road, Lambeth, April 26, at two—N. and S. Tuftnell,
tallow chandlers, York-street, Middlesex Hospital, April 26,
at half-past ten.

R. Drewry, banker, InpetnhreitChrnct7m.
berland, April 26, at
twelve, at the Crown Hotel,
Penrith —G. Spry, surgeon,
Bath, May 5, at twelve,
Tills, Ben. merchant,
at the Commereial-rooms, Bath—W.
Mistley, Essex, April 23, at eleven, at
the Castle I
nn, Colchester—L. ester—L. Lumh, paper hanging manu-
facturer, Kim/3ton
George Inn,
Izit„s-tupon-Hull, April 23, at eleven, at the
Leeds, May 14,
at
noina-eupon-Hull—J. Teale, cabinet maker,
—J. Burton, plumber, nine, the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds
Commissioners'-rooms A;.nchester, April 30, at ten, at the
anchester—W. deal,,r, Greenacres Mo'nGreenwood, c ern
rside, the Commissioners'-rooms M Lancashire, April 23, at ten, at
sion agent, Mancheste ' an chester —J. Griffith, r, April 2-atcommis-
sioners'-rooms, Manchester—J. Robinson,, eleven, at the Commis-
upon-Hull, April 24, at elarß scriverrir, Kingston-
Kingston-upon-Hull—S. Lowe, en, at the Kingston Hotel,
rninster, April 26, at ten, at the
carpet manufact,.rer, Kidder-
ck Horse Inn, Kidder-
minster—T. Nash, grocer, Sulhamste
April 24, at two, at the Broad Fuel Banister, Berkshire,
Sumner, builder, Reading, April 24, at twelve,Reading—J. W.
at the George
Inn, Reading—G. Hannam, victualler, Manchester,
at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Aeisater, April 26,
Clark, draper, Market Rases, Lincolnshire, nehester—A.
__,
__ April 23, at
twelve, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Lincoln—W. Welch, draper,
Norwich, April 26, at half-past two, at the Royal Ho .
Norwich—J. Wilson, co:nmission agent, Manchester; A riltel-
at ten, at the Commissoners'-rooms, MancheAter—J, pPot",
and W. Maude, calico printers, Blackburn, Lancashire, Aprilter
26, at eleven, at the Commissioners -rooms, Manchester,

CERTIFICATES—APRIL Z.
R. Melling and J. Melling, coachmakers, Chorlton-nP on
Medlock, Manchester—T. A. Curtis, merchant, Tokenho
yard—C. G. Holdforth and J. Bald, commission mer-
chants, Liverpool—J. and J. Norfolk, stuff dyers, Woodhouse
Carr, Leeds-31. Worthington, innkeeper, Ulveraton, 'Anna-

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 2, 1841.
2d Regiment of Dragoons -Major J. F. S. Clarke to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice 'Wyndham, who re-
tires; Captlin G. Hobart to be Major, by purchase, vice
Clarke ; Lieut. T. W. Trafford to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Hobart ; Cornet M. W. V. Millbank to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Trafford ; C. Pilgrim, Gent. to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Millbank, April 2.
3,1 Regt. of Light Dragoons—Lieut. F. Knowles, from the
11th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Bradshaw, who
exchanges, April 2.
11th Regt. of Light Dragoons—Lieut. H. H. Bradshaw,
from tt.e 3d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant ;vice Knowles,
who exchanges; Cornet C. K. K. Tynte to be Adjutant, vice
Knowles, who resigns the Adjutancy only, April 2.
6th Regt. of Foot—Lieut. C. D. Allen, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Bonamy, who retires upon lull-pay,
April 2.
11th Foot—Lieut. E. Supple, from half-pay of the 10th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Boyd, appointed Adjutant ; En-
sign S. F. Jacson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Supple,
who retires ; W. Dashwood, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase,
vice Jacson, April 2.
24th Foot—G. W. Draper, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Spring, promoted in the 83d Foot, April 2.
27th Foot—Lieut. R. S. C. Neynoe to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Sleator, who retires; Ensign E. N. Molesworth to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Neynoe ; A. Dalzell, Gent,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Molesworth, April 2.
30th Foot—A. Lowry, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Grylls, who retires, April 2.
36th Foot—Lieut. L. Rothe to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Ashmore, promoted; Ensign W. W. Abbott to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Rothe ; R. Lloyd, Gent., to be En-
sign. by purchase, vice Abbott, April 2.
37th Foot—Captain B. V. Layard, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice G. B. Whalley, who exchanges,
April 2.

44th Foot—Ensign W. C. MoVan to he Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Smith, who retires ; H. H. J. Massy, Gent.
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mollan, April 2.
46th Foot—Lieutenant W. Child to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Hanicock, who retires u;,on full-pay ; Ensign
D. Fyffe to be Lieutenant, vice Child, April 2.
56th Foot—Lieutenant W. Telf ird to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Arthure, who retires upon full-pay; Ensign L.
C. Conran to be Lieutenant, vice Telford ; J. Farrar, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Conran.
62d Foot—R. Douglas, Gent., to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Grant, who resigns ; Assistant-Surgeon, W.
Stewart, from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice
Dempster, appointed to the 17th Light Dragoons, March 5.
63d Foot—Lkut. G. B. Pratt to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Fry, who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign W. J.
Hutchins to be Lieutenant, vice Pratt ; W. F. Lowrey, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Hutchins, April 2.
66th Foot—Lieut. J. ilohnston to be Captain, without put.-
chaee, vice Bailey, who retiree upon full pay ; En,ign H. L.
G. Scott to be Lieutenant, vice Johnston ; H. L. Siunderson,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Scott, April 2.
77th Foot—Lieutenant W. Galway to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Mason, who retires upon full-pay ; Ensign R.
Bailie, to be Lieutenant, vice Galway ; C. T. Dumaresq,
Gent. to be Ensign, vice Baillie, April 2.
82d Foot—Captain J. T. Quill, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain without purchase, vice Pinckney, who retires
upon full-pay, April 2; Ensign T. Lambert to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Abbott, deceased, Feb. 12 ; Lieut. D.
A. Curtayne, from 4th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Passley, who retires upon full-pay ;M. White, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Lambert, April 2 ; Apothecary to the Forces
G. Allman to be Surgeon, vice Pope, deceased, Feb. 26.
83d Foot—Brevet-Major %V. H. Law, to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Crofton, who retires upon full-pay ;
Lieutenant J. Rayson to be Captain, vice Law ; Ensign 'r.
Spring, from, the 24th Foot, to be a Lieutenant, vice Rayson,
April 2.
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