The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1841.

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The LORD MAYOR asked whether it was not the prac-
tice of the shopkeepers in that- vicinity to keep their
shops closed at a certain time en market days,. on account
of the probability that bullocks would just as soon walk
into a shop as into a stable or shambles ?
Mr. Lethbury said that those who knew any thing of
the vagaries that entered a bullock's head, generally
exercised that very commendable vigilance. He had
been nearly fifty years an inhabitant of Whitechapel, and
he had seen bullocks in very extraordinary situations.
They often took it into their heads to walk up narrow
flights of stairs, and when all attempts to get them down
failed, they turned about, unwieldy as they were, and
moved down stairs, doing no harm, but just spitting
round upon those who felt alarm. Some years ago, one
of the bullocks in Newgate-market took a fancy to exa-
mine Alderman Crowder's printing-office, and up stairs
he trudged to the top of the house, to the terror of the
poor old compositors ; but when he saw what a fright he
caused, he turned round, and performing a very uncere-
monious office amongst the type, bundled down again to
their great relief.—(Laughter.)
The defendant said that Mr. Isaacs at first stated that
the damage done was to the amount of no more than 31.,
and for his part he did not believe that the bullock had
done any at all, for he walked in as quietly as if the
shop was his own home, and if he dirtied the place a
bit, every one " knowed" that bullocks' dirt was clean
dirt.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Hoblersaid it was altogether out of the question
that a bullock, however quiet and manageable, could pay
a visit to a shop of polished mahogany furniture without
doing mischief.
The LORD MAYOR—I am sure that Mr. Lethbury will
pay any fair demand for damage.
Mr. Lethbury--Certainly, my Lord. I shall, al-
though the bullock that called to see the gentleman's
family did not belong to me. The fact is, I don't think
the drover could pay all the attention that was necessary
to the beasts, for he had to take care of a great curiosity
at the time—a thorough-bred Leicester sheep, five years
old, with fire legs and eight feet, and weighing 197
pounds, which I have now at home, and which plays
about as if it had no incumbrance whatever.
The salesman and broker then retired and compro-
mised the matter.
THE TREADMILL APPLIED IN CASES OF ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE.—A woman, who had some months ago been
brought up on a charge of having attempted to destroy
herself by walking into the Thames, was charged before
Sir Peter Laurie for disorderly conduct, which he did
not think it necessary to punish, as she had been locked
up in the Compter all night.
Sir P. LAURIE said he considered it to be his duty to
say a few words upon the course which he had adopted
with respect to persons who made attempts, or pretended
to make attempts, upon their own lives. The attempts,
or pretended attempts, to commit suicide, had for some
time been greatly on the increase, and in the months
of September and October five individuals had been
charged at the Mansion-house, and twenty-five had
been charged at Guildhall, tinder circumstances
of the kind. At the beginning of November,
under the impression that so revolting an offence
should be checked by a little wholesome severity,
he sent a man from the Mansion-house to Bridewell to
be kept at hard labour for having cut himself in the neck
on account of poverty and idleness, and a day or two
after he committed a woman for the felony of attempting
self-destruction, to the Central Criminal Court. The
example he thus set was followed by Sir Chapman Mar-
shall, who committed a man for trial for attempting to
drown himself. The two latter persons pleaded guilty,
and the Recorder, as it was the first offence either was
known to have committed, sentenced each to no more
than 14 days' imprisonment. Now the effect of this mode
of treating the class of persons to whom he alluded was
admirable. From the moment the City Magistrates
showed a determination to punish attempts to commit
suicide as other felonies were punished, the mania ceased
altogether, and not one charge had been made in the City
during the gloomy month of November and the miserable
days of December which had already passed away.
Mr. Nobler observed, that several desperate impostors
had made money by the experiment of tumbling into
the Thames. The infliction of imprisonment and hard
labour for the offence would certainly check the practice
as far as pretenders were concerned, whatever efThet it
might have on those who seriously wished to get rid of
life. The result, for the last four or six weeks, cer-
tainly showed that the great majority of those who
were charged were impostors.
Sir P. LAURIE—The Judges and the Recorder highly
approve of the plan of treating the sort of delusion, of
which I have spoken, and I shall certainly follow it up.
Every man and woman brought before me for jumping,
or trying to jump into the river, shall most positively
walk off to Newgate ; and I am very much mistaken if
the Judges do not henceforward inflict upon such of-
fenders very heavy punishments.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO
THE COLLECTION OF THE CUSTOMS' RE-
VENUES.
The Members of this Commission have arrived in
Liverpool, and will begin their cxamination of witnesses
this day, at the Custem-house. The following are the
names of the Commissioners, Lord Granville Somerset,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Honour-
able 11. Bingham Baring, eldest son of Lord Ashbur-
ton, and Alexander Pringle, Esq., M.P., Commis-
sioners of the Treasury. We understand that the diffe-
rentmercantile and shipping associations have appointed
deputations to wait upon the Commissioners, for the
purpose of pointing out to them the alterations which
they consider desirable in the mode of collecting the
revenue in this port, and if any private individuals have
any suggestions to make, it would be well that they
should take this opportunity of hying them before the
Commissioners.—Livcrpod Times.

INCREASE OF CHIME IN THE
COUNTRY.
(From the Liverpool Times.)
Our readers must have been struck with the alarming
frequency of late of crime of a very daring character.
Scarcely a week passes without the record of some act of
atrocity, perpetrated by gangs more or less numerous, in
different parts of the adjoining districts. It is, therefore,
not without some surprise that we find reports gaining
strength of an intention to suppress a large body of
force cha►;ged with the protection of life and property.
There is a peculiarity attending most of the recent out-
rages, which calls for the most serious deliberation before
such a step should be taken. The audacious burglaries and
attempts to rob and murder, which we have had to notice
from time to time, have, for the most part, been per-
petrated in the more lonely and unfrequented neighbour-
hoods, by men who issue from the densely-populated
towns, where the practised skill and efficiency of the
police present dangerous obstacles to their enterprises,
and who then, choosing their point of attack, fall upon
the lonely farm-house, or the passenger in solitary roads.
By reference to another column, it will be seen that
the desperate attack upon the house of an aged
farmer, at Myerscough, was the concerted scheme of a
notorious gang from Preston. It will be seen, too,
that a burglary, though of less serious aspect, has
been committed at Cadishead, by a gang from
Hyde, near Stockport, another at Bro:ul Green,
by a gang from Liverpool, and other acts
of rapine and violence, concocted and executed
by parties from Liverpool, Chester, and other towns
rv►ln be in the recollection or our readers. The case.

may be very dill'erent in the purely agricultu-
ral counties, but to diminish the defences ag-ailist crime,
where crime is so frequently engendered, by want and.
the contiguity of similar depravity, in thickly populated
towns, is a matter of very serious import, and calls for. a
very careful survey of the probable consequences.

A Jos, " FOR. A DUCAT !"—Mr. Bodkin,
M.P. for Rt4hester, had an interview nith Sir James
Graham, at the Home-office, on Saturday.—Court Cir-
cular. Bodkin is a rat, and is therefore sure to find fa-
vour with " brother" Graham.
THE LATE EXPEDITION TO SYRIA:—We
are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great
Marlborough-street, has this day published the " Narra-
tive of the Late Expedition to Syria, under the com-
mand of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., compris-
ing an account of the Capture of Gebail, Tripoli, and
Syra, the Storming of Sidon, Battle of Cailar Meidan,
Bombardment and Capture of St. Jean D'Acre, &c.," by
W. P. Hunter., Esq. ; 2 vols. smallBvo., with portraits of
Admiral Stopford, Commodore Napier, and other illus-
trations, price 21s. bound. Mr. Colbur.i has also pub-
lished, this day, " Memorials of the Great Civil War in
England, from 1646 to 1652," edited from original
letters in the Bodleian Library, of Charles the First,
Charles the Second, Queen Henrietta, Prince Rupert,
Prince Maurice, Prince Charles Lodovic, Duke of York,
Henry Earl of Clarendon, Archbishop Sancroft, Marquis
of Worcester, Earl of Derby, Oliver Cromwell, Sir
Thomas Fairfax, Major-General Monk, Major-General
Skeppon, Colonel Ireton, Admiral Blake, and numerous
other eminent persons, by„ the Rev. Henry Cary, M.A.,
2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BY THE QUEEN--A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands pro-
rogued to Tuesday the twenty-first day of this instant
December ; We, with the advice of our Privy Council,
do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament
shall be further prorogued, on the said twenty-first day
of this instant, December, to Thursday. the
third day of February next ; and we hare
given order to our Chancellor of that part of our
United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a
Commission for proroguing the same accordingly ; and
we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare
our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament
Shall, on the said Thumlay, the 3d day of February
next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers
urgent and important affairs : and the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required
and commanded to give their attendance accordingly,
at Westminster, on the said Thursday, the third day of
February next..
Given at Our Court at Windsor, this tenth day of
December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year
of Our reign. GOD save the QUEEN.
BY THE QUEEN-A PROCLAMATION,
In order to the Electing a Peer of Scotland.
VliromA, R.—Whereas Thomas Earl of Elgin was
dilly elected and returned to be one of the sixteen
Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Peers in the
present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and is since deceased ; in order
to the electing another Peer of Scotland to sit in his
room, we do, by the advice of our Privy Council
issue forth this our Royal Proclamation, strictly
charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland
to assemble and meet at Holyrood-house, and Edin-
burgh., on Wednesday the nineteenth day of January
next ensuing, between the hours of twelve and two
in the afternoon, to nominate and choose another Peer
of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers in
this present Parliament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of the said
Thomas Earl of Elgin, deceased, by open election and
plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present,
and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies
being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly
signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and
proxy being qualified according to law), and the Lord
Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the
Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his
name, are hereby respectively required to attend such
meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to
be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes ;
and, immediately after such election made and duly ex-
amined, to certify the name of the Peer so elected, and to
sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers
the electors, and return such certificate into our high Court
of Chancery of Great Britain ; and we strictly charge and
command that this our Royal Proclamation be duly pub-
lished at the Market-cross at Edinburgh, and in all the
county towns of Scotland, -twenty-five days at least be-
fore the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the
said Peers to proceed on such election.
Given at Our Court at Windsor. the tenth day of De-
cember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year of Our
• reign. GOD save the QUEEN. ,
At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December,
1841, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.—Whereas by the Tate Act of . Unifor-
mity, which establisheth the Liturgy, and enacts,
that no form or order of Common Prayer be openly
used other than what is prescribed or appointed to be
used in and by the said Book, it is notwithstanding pro-
vided, that in all those Prayers, Litanies,. and Collects
which do anywise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal
Progeny, the names be altered and changed from time
to time, and fitted to the present occasion, according to
direction 'of lawful authority : her Majesty was pleased
this day in Council to declare her Royal will and plea-
sure, that in all the Prayers, Litanies, and Collects for
the Royal Family, the words " The Prince of Wales "
be inserted immediately after the words " The Prince
Albert."

And her Majesty (loth strictly charge and command,
that no edition of the Common Prayer be from henceforth
printed but with this amendment; and that in the meantime,
till copies of such editiiiiOnay be had, all Parsons, Vicars,
and Curates, within this' realm do (for the preventing of
mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such Prayers
in their Church Books, according to the foregoing direc-
tions: And for the better notice hereof; that this Order be
forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several
parishes ; and that the Right Reverend the Bishops do
take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly.
WM. L. BATHURST.
At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December,
1841, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council,—her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
the Right Honourable James Archibald Lord Wharn-
cliffe, the Lord President of the Council, to be Lord
Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the west riding of
the county of York, his Lordship this day took the usual
Oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the
Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.
[The following article should have appeared in the
Gazette of October 15, 1841 :—]
DOWNING-STREET OCT. 14, 1841.

The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint
Captains Edward Belcher, William Warren, Harry Eyres,
and Charles Anstruther Barlow, of the Royal Navy, to
be Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Atkins
Hamerton, of the Honourable East India Company's
Service, to be her Majesty's Consul in the dominions of
the Itnaum of Muscat.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Francis Wylie to the church and parish of Elgin, in the
presbytery of Elgin and county of Moray, vacant by the
transportation of the Rev. Alexander Walker to the
church of Urquhart.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Ovington
Ord, of Middlesborough, in the county of York, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 10.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Lyon Foster, of
Hertford, in the county of Hertford, Gent., to be a Master Ex-
traordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WAR OFFICE, DEC. 14; 1841.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons.—Lieut. J. Yorke to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Owen, who retires ;
Cornet W. B. Barttelot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Yorke; T. Thoroton, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice
Barttelot, Dec. 14.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—s Surgeon D. Murray,
M.D., from the 13th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice W. R. Rogers,
who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 14.
7th Regiment of Font—Lieut. 'l'. St. Vincent H. C. Trou-
bridge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bernal, who retires,
Dec. 14.
Bth Foot—Ensign W. Bayly to be Adjutant, vice Holmes,
promoted, Dec. 14.
13th Foot.—W. F. Pounsett, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Scott, promoted; Assistant. Surgeon J. Robertson,
M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Murray, appointed to the 10th
Light Dragoons; 'l'. G. Scot, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Robertson, Dec. 14. •
28th Foot—Lieut. H. H. Lake, from the 31st Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice T. Bunbury, who retires upon half-pay of the
54th Foot, Dee. 14.
31st Foot—Lieut. J. L. Wilton, from half-pay of the 54th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lake, appointed to the 28th Foot,
Dec. 14. • •
46th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. A. D. M'Bean, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cowen, promoted to be
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 14.
92t1 Foot—Lieut. J. Cox to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Bayly, who retires ; Ensign .r. C. Gordon to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Cox ; C. Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice J. C. Gordon, Dee. 14.
•NI West India Regiment—J. C. M'Pherson, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purehase,"vice Clarke, deceased, Dec. 14.
BliEVET.—Lieut.-Colonel W. flay, on half-pay Unattached,
to be Colonel in the Army; Captain W. Fothergill, of the 50th
Foot, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 11.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain E. F. Grant
to be Adjutant, vice Dupuis, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
April 14.
Corpi of Royal Engineers—Second-Lieutenant 11. Burnaby
to be First-Lieutenant, vice Durnford, promoted, Dec. 7.
Commission by the Governor and Captain of the Isle of Wight.
H. P. Gordon, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 25.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland.
Sir G. Musgrave, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 4.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmoreland.
Sir Geo. Musgrave, Bart,.' to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 4.
Counnissiou Liy the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire Militia—William Iluntly Campbell, Esq., to
be Captain, July I.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry—William Briscoe, Gent., to
be Cornet, vice Icon:, resigned, Dec. 9.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
.Sherwood Rangerr—Clumber Troop—G. H. Vernon,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice E. Unwin, deceased.
Mansfield Troop—E. Wright, Gent., to be Cornet, vice C.
Colvile, promoted.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
FRANCIS SHERWIN, dentist, Bruton-street, Berkeley-
square.

BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM M'EVOY and JOSEPH JOHNSON, stone
masons, Harrow-road, to surrender Dec. 23, at twelve, and
Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Ba-
singhall-strect, official assignee ; Turner, Percy-street, Bed-
ford-square.
HENRY CASTLE, ship-owner, Lucas-street, Bother-
lithe, Dec. 24, at twelve, and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, offi-
cial assignee ; Haslam and Bischoff, Copthall-court, Throg-
morton-street.

WILLIAM
MOWBRAY POTTS, grocer, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, Jan. 7 and 25, at one, at the Bankrupt Cominis-
sion-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Galswortliy and Nichols,
Cook's-court, Lincoln's lon, London; Dove, Neweastle-upon-
Tyne.
GEORGE SHAW, grocer, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Dec. 22,
at eleven, at the Sessions-house, Wakefield, and Jan. 25, at
twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Laurence and
Taylor, Old Fish-street, Doetors'-commons, London; Haxby
and Scholey, Wakefield.
WM. BALLINGER, baker, Swansea, Dee. 21 and Jan.
25, at eleven, at the Castle hotel, Swansea. Williams and
David, Swansea.
BENONI FISHER, ironmonger, Walsall, Staffordshire,
Dec. 28 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Swan Hotel, Wolver-
hampton. Philpot and Son, Southampton-street, Blooms-
bury, London ; James, Walsall ; Wheates and Staniforth,
Sheffield.

JAMES TRUBSHAW, jun., iron-founder, Stafford, Dec.
31, and Jan. 25, at one, at the George Inn, Stafford. White
and Eyre, Bedford-row, London; Foster, Wolverhampton.
JAMES WELDON, feather merchant, Bell's-buildings,
Salisbury-square, Dee. 24, and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the
Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster. Michael, Red Lion-
square, London; Bird and Saunders, or Talbot, Kidderminster.
RICE WILLIAMS, woollen draper, Pwllheli, Carnarvon-
shire, Dec. 29 and Jan.. 25, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Wetherall, Temple
London ; Mawson, Manchester.
ISAAC TAYLOR• and URIAH TAYLOR, clothiers,
Meltham, Almondbury, Yorkshire, Dec. 30 at two, and Jan.
25 at ten, at the Pack Horse Inn, Huddersfield. Battle,

Fisher, and Sudlow, aancery-lane, London ; Stephenson,
Floyd, and Booth, Holmtirth.
THOMAS PEAK PEARSON, grocer, Liverpool, Dec.
28 and Jun. 25, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Vincent and Sherwood, Inner-Temple, London ; Littledale and
Bardsweil, Liverpool.
ROBERT SANDS, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Dcc.
27 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Hotel,
Nottingham. Perry, Smith, and Perry, Nottingham; Austen
and Hobson, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, London.
ROGER II ASLAM, cotton-spinner, Little Bolton, Lan-
cashire, Dec. 24, at one, and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Com-
missioner's•rooms, Bolton-le-Moors. Morris, Allen, and Simp-
son. Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn ; Glover, Bolton-le-Moors.
WILLIAM KEEP, tailor, Northumberland-street, Strand,
Dec. 21, at one, and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
uptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Parken and
Webster, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
WILLIAM SMITH BATSON, JOHN WILSON, and
JOHN LANGHORN, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dec.
22 and Jan. 25, at ten, at the King's Arms Inn, BerivieN-
upon-Tweed ; Weddell, Berwick-upon-Tweed ;
Pringle, and Manisty, King's-road, Bedford-row, London.
ROBERT DRAKE, engraver, Bristol, Dec. 28 and Jan.
25, at tar s, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol ; Surr, Lombard-
street, 1;4.. ion; Whittington and Castle, Bristol.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
G. Pouiad, licensed victualler, Dalston, Jan. 6, at twelve.

T. Brettcll. printer, Rupert-street, Haymarket, Dec. 30, at
twelve—l?. tThild, attorney-at-law, Cannon-street, City, Jan.
5, at two—W. Scoons, innkeeper, Maidstone, Jan. 5, at twelve
—T. 'lrks, sen., tallow melter, Chelsea, Jan. 5, at eleven.
In the Country.
E. Tyler, ironmaster, Birehhills, Staffordshire, Jan. 11, at
one, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton—T. Syers, tailor,
Liverpool, Jan. 10, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool
—E. Cooper, E. P. Cooper, B. Cooper, and J. A . Cooper,
clothiers, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Feb. 9, at four, at the White
Hart Inn, Chippenham—G. Taylor, hosier, Leicester, Jan. 5,
at thvee, at the Castle of Leicester-'-R. Caldecott, draper,
Chester, Jan. 8, at e'even, at the Royal Hotel, Chester—B.
W. Browne, cooper, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Jan. 4, at one, at the
King's Head Inn, Beccles—J. and. W. H. Hamilton, calico
printers, Manchester, Jan. 6, at ten, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—C. and W. Sydebotham, ship smiths, Li
verpool, Jan. 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.