The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-18 00:00:00

ATG Sl7 NI AUGUST 18, 1847.

Charles Lewis, tin plate manufacturer, Stangate-street,
Lambeth, Aug. 27, at eleven, and Oct. 4, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Bir-:
chin-lane, Cornhill ; Lloyd, Milk-street, Cheapside.
Thomas Smith, timber merchant, Bristol, August 31,
at twelve, and September 28, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Ma-
ples and Co., Old Jewry ; Salmon, Bristol.
William Wain, stationer, Manchester, August 27, and
Sept. 17, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Char-
lotte-street, Bedford-sqiiare ; Goolden, Manchester.
Joseph Trewick, jun., draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Aug. 25, at half-past ten, and Sept. 28, at one, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court ; Wakley, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Chisholme, Hall, and
Gibson ; LincOln's Inn-fields ; Harle, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Robert Gisburne, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Aug. 31, at half-past ten, and Sept. 30. at half-past
twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tv ne ; Ingledew,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Williamson and Hill, Great
James-street, Bedford-row, London.
William East Holmes and William Butcher, coach
builders, Lichfield, Aug. 31 and Sept. 18, at twelve, at
the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Gem and Dooker, Birmingham.
John Yates. victualler, Redditch, Worcestershire,-
Aug. 31, and Sept 18, at twelve, at the Birmingham
District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham;
Powell, Birmingham. .
Richard Parkes, wine merchant, Birmingham, Aug.
28 and Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, officialassignee, Birmingham; Mot-
teram and Knowles, Birmingham.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-streQt.

G. Sharp and S. Sharp, Commercial-road, Lambeth,
stonemasons, Sept. 7p at eleven.—Y. Howard, Hingham,
Norfolk, wine merchant, Sept. 7, at half-past eleven—
J. Currie and L. E. aeignette, Mincing;Use, City, mer-
chants, Sept.. ,7, at twelve—C. Bolan' Strand, licensed
victualler, Sept. 7, ac one—Mary Swalwell, Kensington
Gravel-pits, schoolmistress, Sept. 7, at half-past twelve
—E. Keeler, Canterbury, glass dealer, Sept. 8. at one—
J. Furby and R. Stockton, Sackville-street, Piccadilly,
tailors, Sept. 16, at half-past twelve—J. Metford, jun.,
Southampton, ironmonger, Sept. 18, at two—A. Dun-
can and C. Duncan, Tokenhouse yard, City, merchants,
Sept. 16, at twelve—W. Hayward, Ashford, Kent,
butcher, Sept. 22, at half-past eleven—R. J. Jones, Ba-
singstoke, Hampshire, tailor, Sept. 22, at half-past one
B. Marshall, High Holborn, tallow melter, Sept. 23, at
half-past twelve—D. Heard, sen., Barking, Essex, smack
owner, Sept. 30, at one.
In the Country.
T. Wright, Derby, cheese factor, at the Court, Not-
tingham, Sept. 24, at twelve—P. Curless, Wigan, Lan-
cashire, tea dealer, at the Court, Liverpool, Sept. 10, at
eleven—T. C. W. Pierce and G. Homan, Manchester,
merchants, at the Court, Manchester, Sept. 10, at twelve.
CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Palfrey, sen , Tysson-place, Kingsland-road,
builder, Sept. 8, at one—E. Hills, St. Mary's-road,
Peckham, charcoal burner, Sept. 9, at one—W. Leather,
London-wall, warehouseman, Sept. 10, at eleven—W.
W. Bonney, Knightsbridge, wine merchant, Sept. 9, at
eleven—E. Keeler, Canterbury, dealer in glass, Sept. 8,
at one.

In the country.
J. Sugden, Bradford, Yorkshire, butcher, Sept. 11, at
eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. England, Bath, grocer,
Sept. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—F. Stamp,
Kingston-upon-Hull, stockbroker, Sept. 8, at eleven, at
the Court, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Hughe, Toxteth-
park, Liverpool, joiner and builder, Sept. 7, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—E. Andrews, Manchester, fus-
tian manufacturer, Sept. 13, at twelve, at the dourt,
Manchester—A. Machin, Manchester, grocer, Sept. 9, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester —T. W. Berry,
Hougton-green, Manchester, agent, Sept. 8, at twelve, at
the Court, Manchester—T. Hutchins, Hulme, Manches-
ter, coach proprietor, Sept. 8, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester.

At the Court of Review, Sept. 7.
J. Shea, Aldernsanbury, woollen warehouseman—W.
H. Noyes, Longparish, Hampshire, relieving officer—J.
Chappel, Huns et, Yorkshire, earthenware manufacturer
—W. J. Geach, St. Columb Major, Cornwall, auction-
neer--E. J
E. Jones, Jun., 'Watling-street, and Pickford Mills,
Herefordshire, paper manufacturer —G. F. Howe,
Chester- place, Kennington, merchant —R. Walker,
Beddgelert, Merionethshire, quarryman—J. L. Bourdon
and P. J. Menzies, Finch-street, Whitechapel, sugar re-
finers—J. Tranter, jun., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, timber
merchant —J. Parker, Clapham, corndealer —C. H.
Perry, Liverpool, baker and flour dealer—T. Herbert,
Brynmaur, Brecon, grocer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Margaret Milne and G. Norris, Rochdale, Lancashire,
firinters—W. Holiday and J. Holiday, Kendal, West-
morland, carpenters and joiners—W. Barber, T. Howse,
and W. H. Davis, St. Paul's Churchyatt, woollen ware-
housemen—J. R. Ray and C. Ray, Clare,Suffolk, millers
—J. B. Williamson and R. H. Parkinson, Manchester and
Preston, muslin-manufacturers—J. Furnevall, A. Ash-
worth, and It. Bradbury, Haslingden, Lancashire, iron-
founders—T. Stevenson, jun., T. H. Stevenson, and D.
Stafford (so far as regards D. Stafford), Nottingham, en-
gravers—Eleanor Brayshaw and B. Brayshaw, York,
grocers—F. Rosenberg and J. Malam, Kingston•upon-
Hull, civil engineers—J. Haworth and J. Barnes.
Church, Lancashire, manufacturing chemists—Hannah
Jackson and J. Johnson, Todd's Nook, Newcastle- upon-
Tyne, flint glass manufacturers—R. Bray and J. Pool,
Preston, Lancashire, provision dealers—J. Wilkinson
and E. G. Lister, Huddersfield, manufacturers and mer-
chants—S. Palmer and J. Palmer, Mark-lane, City,
flour-factors—D. Pinkess and J. H. Eden, Liverpool,
painters—W. Ratcliff and J. Clough, Aspley, Yorkshire,
roasters and vendors of chicory—J. P. Simpson, T.
Wight, and W. White, Bishopwearmouth, Durham,
rope-manufacturers—W. Thomas, J. Thomas, and R.
R. Thomas (so far as regards W. Thomas), Haworth,
Yorkshire, wine, spirit, and hop-merchants—W. Trower,
J. Brigden, and J. Maas, Southwark, hop and seed
merchants.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Charles Peterson. Chale, Isle of Wight.
William Lloyd, Kingsland-road, hatter.
William Beardwell, Nayland, Suffolk, carpenter and

builder.
Thomas Furmston, Beaver, Kent.
William James Durant Ready, Charlotte-street, Upper
Kennington-lane, Vauxhall.
William Claydon, jun., Stebbing, Essex, police constable,
Henry Heel, jun., Ware, Hertfordshire, labourer.
James Palmer, Duke-street, West Smithfield, tailor.
John Tallent, Norwich, publican.
John Heritage, Canterbury.
Ann Leopard, Leadenball-street, City.
John Wilson, Liverpool, baker.
William Hardcastle. Chester, teacher of mathematics.
Robert ,
Bullock Parton, machine-maker.

PRICE SD.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Our reports of the proceedings in the
courts of criminal jurisdiction throughout the country
have for some time past presented a frightful cata-
logue of atrocities, evincing: a spirit- of savage bru-
tality as alarming as it is unaccountable. 'The in-
crease of education has brought no . diminution of
those barbarous outrages on the person thdt might natu-
rally have been referred to a state of ignorance, and
the humane tendency of modern legislation, or rather
of modern jurisdiction, has experienced no encourage-
ment. Murder and- manslaughter, under some of
their most appalling forms, have occupied the tribunals
during the last few weeks, and while in many cases
justice has totally failed, in others the punishment the
law has inflicted has been undeniably. inadequate to
the enormity of the offences. • During the two first
days of the present week our paper centained- a 4uo-
cession of trials and investigatiphs relating to eeveral
acts of cold ; blooded ferocity committed in different part s
of the country by persons of unequal stations in life
and" various degrees of intelligence. It is evident,
therefore, that the brutality and bloodthirstiness that
seem to prevail are limited to no single class, and
confined within no_ particular locality.. Though the
Learned Judge who passed sentence in one of the
recent stabbing cases at Liverpool 'commented on -the
brutal mode of -conducting quarrels for which the
county in which he sat is notoridusi he was scarcely
justified in the special application of his censure,
when nearly every county in which assizes have
been held has beetidiAgraced by some such event as
the one that had occasioned his indignant observa-
tions. At the opening of the session of the Central
Criminal Court on Monday, the Recorder alluded
to the very great increase of offences against the
person, and the inadectry of the law as at pre-
sent administered to repress them. Five charges
! of murder and three of manslaughter stood for trial
in the present session, and even while the Re-
corder was delivering his charge to the grand jury
four of the police magistrates of the metropolis were
engaged at their respective courts in hearing cases of
stabbing, cutting, and wounding, and outrageous vio-
lence.. There were three committals to Newgate
during the day on precisely such charges as those in
which the Recorder had noticed a very great increase,
and for the repression of which he had declared the
law ill-adapted since it had been made more merciful.
We can scarcely wonder that those wretches whom
nothing but the dread of punishment can restrain
from crime should give full indulgence to their vio-
lent passions, when it seems to be the policy of the
criminal tribunals to aid the escape of guilt, or on its
conviction show towards it the most extreme lenity.
Our paper of Monday contains a mass of intelli-
gence from the Northern and Western Circuits, in
which the abuses we have frequently complained of
are strikingly exhibited. Of all the cases recorded,
however, perhaps, the most remarkable is the sentence
of 18 months' imprisonment upon a brute who, after
having seduced a poor girl, had caused her death
by breaking three of her ribs in an attack of the
most cowardly and savage description. She had
felt a conviction of the fatal consequence of the
injury at the moment of its infliction, hut she had
patiently borne her sufferings without complaining
of her cruel assailant, in the vain hope that he
would marry her. Finding herself heartlessly de-
serted by the man who had ruined her reputa-
tion, sacrificed her happiness, and then by his
brutal ill-treatment given her her death-blow, she
at length revealed the cause of her approaching
dissolution, and a post mortem examination, with
other evidence, confirmed her statement. All this
was proved to the satisfaction of the jury, who found
a verdict of manslaughter. Surely if the crime
amounted only to the minor offence, there could be
no doubt of its being a very aggravated form of the
lesser delinquency, and consequently deserving exem-
plary punishment. What, then, must be the surprise
of the public at finding a sentence of eighteen months'
imprisonment attached to an outrage of the most vio-
lent and heartless kind, unprovoked by anything but
a natural remonstrance on the part of a poor victim
of seduction against the desertion with which her
assailant had threatened her. After such- instances
as this of the working of the criminal law, we cannot
feel surprised at the remark of the Recorder of
London, that offences against the person are greatly
on the increase, and that the tendency of the Execu-
tive, as well as of legislation, to what is called hu-
manity is filling our criminal records with details of
atrocity which only lose a portion of their horrible
effect from the frequent, q their. occurrence.
CHRONICLE.--The proceedine-s at the official
declaration of the North Warwickshire poll are well
calculated, we think, to convey a wholesome admoni-
tion to the people of Birmingham. Everything was
said that needed to be said, by way of pointing the
moral of the day's business. There was, to be sure,
no gross incivility displayed towards the vanquished
traders and artizans of the metropolis of the midland
county. Mr. Spooner's Noble Friend and proposer
did not judge it expedient to give a second edition of
his sneer at " the hardware village." The squires
were victorious, and could afford to be polite. In
fact, there seemed a disposition rather to patronise
Birmingham, as a respectable enough sort of place,
after all. The " hardware village; now that it has
got itself properly represented by a i air of Protec-
tionist and No-Popery statesmen, has shot up
into a "large manufacturing borough ;" and we
dare say, if Birmingham should be found to behave
well under the infliction, it might come in time
to be the object of Lord John Scott's especial admira-
tion. We cannot say, however, that any solicitude
was shown to disguise from the offended amour propre
of Birmingham the shameful truth, that some two
hundred thonsand people are without a voice potential
in the representation of the district which derives its
wealth and importance from their inventive and
never-tiring industry. The fact was very well
brought out. Birmingham was sufficiently reminded
of its impotence and nullity in the politics of its own
county. The people of Birmingham are not per-
mitted to forget that Messrs. Newdegate and Spooner
are their representatives. As regards the latter gen-
tleman in particular, the event which has made the
rejected of Birmingham the representative of the
county that owes nearly all its worth to Birming-
ham industry and intelligence, is pointedly de-
scribed as the " union of the agricultural and
manufacturing interests." We are given to un-
derstand, in fact, that Birmingham has in a
manner made the amende honorable to Protection,
No Popery, and the squires, for its late disrespectful
treatment of their candidate. We cannot think that
this lesson will be thrown away. The people of Bir-
mingham will not, we trust, commit the error of con-
founding the proximate and casual with the ultimate
and essential cause of this mortifying occurrence.
The immediate occasion of Messrs. Newdegate and
Spooner's success was, not improbably, the apathy
with which (after the retirement of Mr. Bracebridge)
the contest was regarded by several influential Liberal
electors—an apathy induced by certain discouraging
doubts, whether the name of Leigh could be safely
regarded as identified with Liberal and Free-trade
principles. As it is entirely with reference to the
future that we now notice the subject, we refrain
from inquiring how far those doubts were justified
by the circumstances of the case. What we are
anxious to impress on North Warwickshire in general,
and the industrial capital of North Warwickshire 14
particular, is, that the real cause of this humiliating
result lies much deeper than in any doubts, founded
or unfounded, as to the political earnestness
and heartiness of Lord Leigh's son and heir. Atterltehc-e;
toral district baying such a town as Biri.ninghuair_i f
centre of its spcial and political vitality g
ssitility, ren-
ht to be
in a position that could never, bytiiiiiniyn
o P°dependent on
der its Parliamentary
the rumoured or actual'. eppooruietsi cet
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Northconduct of a
Warwick-
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man in a neighbouring
to
Liberalhave
and it its choice
Free-
ought, like SouthLtalncnaoswhirn,e,
of the best, and the be
trade candidates that the ranks of public life afford.
The Liberals and Free-tradershtnatotfosubcehunadedrislthriectnaes.
North Warwickshire ohug
cessity of helping out t: eir intrinsic -electoral
political who are
weak-
ness with the make-weight of' family and aristocratic
Youthful scions of nobanledfawmiilloiesse,
influence.
scarcely out of their minority,
principles and conduct must be, to a great extent, a
mere matter of interference from the known or sup-
posed politics of their sires, are not, we presume to
'think, fit and proper candidates for first-class manu-
facturing counties. If North Warwickshire occu-
pied the political position which Birmingham ought
to give it, the event of an electoral contest could never
be in the remotest way influenced by rumours, true
or false, as to the use that a candidate's relatives are
elsewhere making of theirw o er as landlords.
ADVERTISER.--When medical men, and men
of science in general, are most desirous to correct
what we would compendiously term, though perhaps
erroneously, the sanitary evils of our towns, it is not
very pleasant to find clergymen opposing the move-
ment for suppressing burials in crowded neighbour-
hoods. We cannot doubt that they perfectly under-
stand all the points of the small question, which
arises upon it—and to what conclusiOn are , aye to
come, if it be not that they prefer their own peen;
niary interests to the health and lives of the people •
We make no general accusation against the clergy,
but it is really a fact, that the chief difficulty about
this matter arises from metropolitan incumbents. The