The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
F. H. Bourquin, watch manufacturer, Northampton-street,
Clerkenwell, April 16, at one—S. DL. Latham, baker, Dover,
April 16, at one.

In the Country.
G. Johnson, merchant, Liverpool, April 20, at twelve, at
he Liverpool District Court—A. Huddle ton, farmer, Bram-

, ham, Yorkshire, April 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District
I Court—ll. J. E. Safrran, cloth merchant, Iluddersfield,
April 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—F. Want,
rag merchant, Batley, Yorkshire, April 22, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court—R. Evans, April 22, at twelve, at the
Liverdool District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Johnson, grocer, Chelmsford, April 16—J. B. Elworthy,
draper, Bridgewater, Somersetshire. April 16—G. M. Mason,
potato dealer, Whitechapel- road, April 16—C. M. Browne,
schoolmaster, Newchurch, Isle of Wight, April 16—J. Gil-
liam, jeweller, Frith-street, Soho-square, April 17—J. Well-
man, wine merchant, Birkenhead, Cheshire, April 16—J.
D. Parry, share broker, Manchester, April 19—G. Mosely,
innkeeper, Bakewell, Derbyshire, April 16—C. Sneezum,
licensed victualler, Old-street, April 16—S. Page, currier,
Nottingham, April 16—R. Mann, chemist, Huntingdon,
April 16—J. P. Moore, chemist, Plymouth, April 16—W.
Everton, turner, Bunhill-row, St. Luke's—J. Dredge, hotel
keeper, Liverpool, April 16—S. G. Burton, gas manufacturer,
Sidmouth, April 16—F. Clark, jewel-case maker, George-
street, Adelphi, April 16.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
S. Whitchurch and S. Whitchurch, jun., wine merchants,
Speenhamland, Berkshire—D. R. Clarke and S. C. Tennant-,
Havana—C. 13rocklehurst, J. Lowe, and R. Walsh, cotton
spinners, Heaton Norris, Lancashire—J. Murray and A.
Carson, tea dealers, Nantwich, Cheshire—G. R. Wales and
W. Ellis, auctioneers—W. bunt, A. Morris, F. Clarke, and
W. Stones, lacemen, Manchester—W. Brown, J. Shipley,
F. A. Hamilton, J. M. Priestman, J. Brown, S. Brown, S.
Nicholson, and W. E. Bowen, Liverpool (so far as regards J.
M. Priestman )—W. Cameron, D. Bowdin, W. Werry, T.
Jones, 0. Thomas, B. Gribble, P. Floyd, A. Fleming, and
T. Millican, grocers, lilverston, Lancashire—T. and H.
Burton, Aldersgate-street—G. Glover, jun., and J. K. Suter,
warehouse keepers, Liverpool—G. C. and E. Smith, drapers,
Blockley, Worcestershire--R. Gething and G. W. Jones,
Newport, Monmouthshire—J. and W. B. Barnes, clothiers,
St. John-street, Clerkenwell—W. and E. Watkins, shoe-
manufacturers, Thornton-street, Horsleydown—W. Brewster
and B. T, Seabrook, surgeons, Brighton—G. Coward, W.
Green, jun., W. Taylor, and M. Taylor, slate merchants, In-
gleton, Yorkshire (so far as regards W. and M. Tavlor)—J.
Posnett and J. Thomas, stone masons, Lower Tranmere,
Cheshire—J. and R. Readdy, coopers, Backchurch-lane,
St. George in the East—J. Evans, T. Casson, and R. Mitchell,
coach builders, Liverpool (so far as regards T. Casson)—J.
Turton, G. Turton, and W. Turton, manufacturers of fancy
goods, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire—ll. Thompson, sen., and H.
Thompson, jun., grocers, Framlingham, SutToll—P. Cheadle,
M. Cheadle, J. Wilson, and J. Windram, farmers, Coventry
—T. T. Smith and G. J. Steer, stock brokers, Old Broad-
street, City—M. A. Gladstone, A. Hannay, and J. M. Glad-
stone, sail makers, Liverpool (so far as regards A. Hannay)—
A. and J. Wilson, carpenters, Back-road, St. George in the
East—G. and R. W. Fuller, auctioneers—H. Broadwood,
R. C. Mundell, W. Huggins, E. Huggins, and T. C. Broad-
wood, brewers, Broad-street, Golden-square (so far as re-
gards R. C. Mundell and T. C. Broadwood)—D. Manser and
I'. Jenner, attorneys, Rye, Sussex.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William M'Culloch, cheese merchant, Greenock, April I
and 26, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock.
James Anderson Dobbie, laceman, Glasgow, March 29 and
April 19, at one, at the office of Mr. Adam, Glasgow.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending March 23,
1847, is 325. 1131 d. per cwt.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
ROME CIRCUIT.—Lewes, March 26.
The commission for the county of Sussex was opened
on Monday, but in consequence of the state of the
business in Kent it was found necessary to postpone the
commencement of the Sussex assize business to Thurs-
day morning, when both courts were opened. On the
civil side there are only fourteen causes, several of which
were put down as undefended, and four of them are
special jury canses. The number of prisoners for trial
is somewhat greater than usual, there being forty-nine
on the calendar.
CROWN COURT.—(Before the Lonn CHIEF JUSTICE.)
Edwin Rickman, a farmer, near Hailshana, was in-
dicted for feloniously uttering a bill of exchange for
2001., with intent to defraud the London and County
Bank.

Mr. Russell Gurney and Mr. Johnson prosecuted, and
Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was very respectably
connected in the county, and carried on the business of
a farmer to a large extent at Hails-ham. lle kept an
account with the London and County Branch Bank at
Lewes, and the bank had discounted bills to a con-
siderable amount for him. In the month of November
last year, a bill for 300/., drawn by the prisoner,
and which purported to bear the acceptance of a Mr.
Thomas Barton, the brother-in-law of the prisoner,
and a man of considerable :property, living at Ben-
hill, became due, and the prisoner wished to have it
renewed, but the manager of the bank declined to renew
the bill to the full amount, but offered to take a fresh
bill for 200/., accepted by Mr. Barton, if the balance was
paid in cash. The prisoner consented to the arrange-
ment, and a bill for 2001. was drawn, which the prisoner
took away for the purpose of getting the acceptance of
his brother-in-law, as he represented, and a few days
afterwards he sent the bill back to the bank apparently
accepted by Mr. Barton, with cheques and other securi-
ties to the amount of 5001. When the bill became due
it was dishonoured, and the acceptance, upon inquiry
being made, turned out to be a forgery. The prisoner
appeared to have borne a very high character for integ-
rity up to this° transaction, and it would seem that he
had involved himself in difficulties by experiments in
farming, and had also recently suffered much mental
distress by the loss of his wife.

Mr. CL-ARKSON made a very feeling and enegetic ad-
dress to the jury, but the evidence was of too conclusive
a character to allow of any hope of a favourable result to
the prisoner.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and sentence
was deferred.

0 RTHERN Clf?CUlT—Liverpool, March 25.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLrE.)
Mr. Baron Rolfe was engaged for the greater part of
the morning in trying undefended causes, and two or
three causes, after being partly heard, were referred.
The business came to a stand still at half-past three in
the afternoon from parties not being prepared to go on.
The causes in the list were called over in their order,
and no one being ready to go on, his Lordship proceeded
to try some of the prisoners.
There are 132 causes in the list, viz., 32 for the
Salford, and 100 for the West Derby Hundred. Among
these there are twelve special jury causes ; and one in-
dictment, the Queen v. Selby and others.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
John Miller, 34, was charged with having, on the 26th
of January last, at Warrington, feloniously stolen a mare,
the property of Isaac Henshall.
The prisoner had pleaded guilty to another charge,
that of stealing a number of American clocks, the pro-
perty of his master.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to be transported for
fifteen years.

Wjthem Bannister, aged 15, was charged with having,
at Heaton Norris, feloniously set tire to a quantity of
cotton, belonging to James Leece and others, the cotton
being then in progross of manufacture.
Mr. Monk appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Grainger for the defence.
The prisoner had been employed in the throstle room
of Messrs. Leece and Company before the time of the
alleged offence. David Inglis, another lad in prosecu-
tors' employ, while engaged at work in their factory,
perceived the prisoner standing at the door of what is
called the carding room, and on coming into the lobby,
he saw him fling a lighted match into the carding room,
and then run up a flight of stairs. Inglis went into
the carding room, and there found some cotton, in a
carding machine near the door, on fire. By the as-
sistance of a man, who immediately came, the fire
was soon put out. It appeared further, that the
prisoner on his way to the factory that morning had
spoken to some other boys going to the some work,
saying, " Well, we are going to this happy hole again;"
adding, that he wished the mill might burn down
before night. One of the boys said that would be u
pity, as it would throw so many hands out of employ,
but the prisoner said he did not care if it did. Ile
said there was no cotton on the ground, and one of
the boys replied that there was a load under the gate
way. But the prisoner said that was nothing for such a
mill as that. Seeing, however, several more loads
waiting there, he observed, " Well, I suppose we must
set on."

It was further shown that, at about the time when the
fire must have been set, another boy, who could not be
identified, was seen to run from the door of the room
where the fire was, and to run up the stairs.
His LORDSEIIP here stopped the case, observing that
although all the witnesses for the prosecution might have
stated what they believed to be true, the case depended on
evidence of personal identity, and that sort of evidence
was of a kind in which witnesses were peculiarly liable to
make mistakes. With respect to the words attributed to
the prisoner, such loose expressions were entitled to but
little weight.—Acquitted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
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OBTAINING CHARITY BY FRAUDULENT REPRESENTA-
TIONS.—Morris Lotez, a Pole, aged eighteen, in the
attire of a female, was put to the bar, charged with
having solicited charity at the Synagogue in Duke's-
place on Thursday, twice as a male and once as a female.
The prisoner, who could not speak a word of the Eng-
lish language, had, as might well be imagined, a great
number of Jewish followers to the justice-room.
Mr. Oppenheim, secretary to the Jewish Synagogue,
stated, that as the Feast of the Passover was approach.
ing, he had been, on Thursday, occupied in delivering
Passover bread to the poor of that persuasion, butween
600 and 700 of whom received relief, and amongst those
persons who presented themselves was the prisoner,
who appeared at first dressed like a man, and was handed
a ticket for 71b. of bread, the customary allowance to a
single man. Soon afterwards a porion, also in the dress
of a man, presented himself as a claimant, and one of
the men in attendance at the Synagogue called at-
tention to him, as au individual who had been
served before. As witness was not certain of the
fact, it was determined that the applicant should
have the benefit of the doubt, and a ticket
for 71b. of bread was accordingly delivered to
him, the man in attendance at the Synagogue
being positive that he was the identical party who had
been served previously. In the latter part of the evening
the prisoner at the bar appeared in the bonnet, shawl,
and gown with which he was covered at that moment,
and said he had a husband and two children, the one
two, the other four years old. Witness upon that repre-
sentation delivered to him a ticket for twenty pounds of
bread, believing that it was correct, and the prisoner left
the room, but upon going to the outer gate was
recog-
nised by one of the porters, who handed him in, and
said, " Here is a man you have relieved twice as
and once as a woman." There was then not the
e la man,
question as to the prisoner's identity with the three
claimants upon the charity, and he was delivered into
the hands of a policeman.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he say anything upon being
detected? Mr, Oppenhei He begged to be allowed to

go off, and did not deny that he had been inipoving upon.
the charity. As it is our practice to give indiscriminately
to poor applicants of the Jewish religion, we are, na
doubt, immensely imposed upon, and us considerably
more is to be dispensed, we dread still greater imposi-
tion, unless your Lordship will make an example of this
person.
The LORD Mlron—lf lie happened to be a strict Jew,
and to hare required the bread, would you have dis-
pensed it to him? Mr. Oppenheim—Certainly.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Lotez, what have you
to say in answer to this charge of disgraceful imposi-
tion?

The prisoner put on a crying face.
The Loup MAYOR—Have you got any friends in the
crowd behind you?
The prisoner turned round, and several Jews who
were standing close to the dock fell back amidst
much laughter, evidently terrified at the idea of being
claimed as an acquaintance. He shook his head.
With the assistance of a gentleman who acted as in-
terpreter, the Lord Mayor learned that the prisontr was
no Jew at all, but a Protestant; that he had applied
ut the Synagogue before, and baring reel R ith a repulse,
he determined to be even with the officials, and accord-
ingly adopted that mode of revenge.
Some persons present recognised the prisoner as the
associate of a set of bad fellows in the neighbourhood of
Wentworth-street.
The LORD MAYOR—For the protection of charitable
institutions like the one which has been thus thr, e
times imposed upon by the prisoner, twice as a man, and
once most disgracefully in the dress of a woman, I sen-
tence him to imprisonment and hard labour for three
months as a rogue and a vagabond, for endeavouring
to procure charitable contributions under a fraudulent
pretence.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— William Wynn and
Louisa Higgins were brought up for further examination,
charged with having committed the following highway
robbery on Marshall Jones, a carpenter, living at No. 8,
Blackhorse-yard, Oxford-street.
The complainant, who exhibited marks of the violence
he had sustained, said he was walking homewards on Mon.
day, about one o'clock in the morning, when he was sud-
denly surrounded and hustled by several persons. Th
female prisoner threw her arms around him, and the male
prisoner thrust his hand into his (complainant's) pocket.
He struggled with Wynn, and was thrown down on the
pavement. The parties then left him, and witness tried
to rise, but before he could regain his feet the prisoner
Wynn came back and kicked him violently on
the head, with the remark, " You , I know
you have some money." The kick was sufficiently
vi•lazi to deprive witness of his senses for
a short time. A police-constable came up on hearing
his cries, and he told him what had occurred. Witness
afterwards went to a house with the police, and there
found the two prisoners, whom he immediately recog-
nised as the persons who had been the most active in
robbing and ill-treating him. Witness had about 11. 14s.
in one of his pockets, which escaped the notice of the
prisoners. Witness recollected having been at the Land
of Mischief public house, where his boother lodged, just
before the attack on him, and in front of the bar there,
was the prisoner in company with some other men.
Witness recollected that he pulled out his money when
in the public-house, in the presence of the prisoner and
his companions. It was apparently this money which led
to the attack on him. The pocket in which he had
placed the money was not ransacked, but a pocket in
which he had some keys was torn from his coat, and it
was afterwards picked up near where he was kicked.
The constables proved finding the witness as described,
and taking the prisoners into custody.
The male prisoner said he was not the individual who
had committed the offence. He had not been in the
Land of Mischief public-house that night, nor had been
in the woman's company at all.
One of the constables said he saw the prisoner and the
woman come out of a public-house together just beforo
the occurrence. •
Mr. HanDwicK said he should commit both prisoners,
but it would be advisable to get some additional evi-
dence.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—We understand the Admi-
ralty have awarded annuities to two of the daughters of
the late Lieutenant W. P. Green, R.N.; and that the
same boon will be conferred upon the eldest daughter of
the deceased veteran.
his Excellency Lord Howden, the newly-appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the River Plate, and suite, arrived at Gosport this
afternoon, by the express train on the South-Western
Railway, and put up at Pettet's Railway Hotel, where
his Lordship dines and sleeps this evening. The suite
and personal baggage of his Lordship have been em-
barked at Spithead in the Rattler steam-sloop, Com-
mander Moorman, the vessel appointed for his Lordship's
mission, which will sail to-morrow it is expected.
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-in-
Chief, accompanied by his Flag-Captain, Milne, and Mr.
G. B. B. Collier, Flag-Lieutenant, paid an official visit
this morning, at half-past eleven, to the Saltnrander
steam .sloop, whose crew had been previously mustered
and inspected by Captain Milne. The Admit al was
received with manned yards by the crew of the vessel
(the band of the Victory on the poop playing the usual
salute as he passed to and from her), and the other
ceremonies incidental to official visits. John Barton, the
marine recently condemned to suffer death for a viola-
tion of the 22d article of war, in abusing and striking
whilst in the execution of his duty his superior officer
on the quarter-deck of the Salamander, was then sent
for, having been previously brought aboard from the
Victory in custody of the Provost-marshal and a guard
of It:laxities. The Admiral having ordered every one in
the ship to be called aft en the quarter-deck, and all
being a•seinbled, Captain Milne read an official letter
from the Lords of the Admiralty, stating that the Earl
of Auckland, First Lord, having laid the case of the con.
demned John Barton before her Majesty, it was the
Royal command that the sentence of death passed upon
him (.John Barton) by c urt-martial, be commuted to
transportation for seven years. Sir Charles then ad.
dressed the culprit in a very feeling and impressive
manner, enlarging on the enormity of his offence, the
necessity for its suppression and punishment, &c., and
hoped the prisoner would show by his future conduct
his gratitude for the mercy the Queen had been gra-
ciously pleased to extend to him in consideration of his
former good character. The Gallant Admiral took oc-
casion to admonish the crew generally against similar
conduct, animadverting on its dangerous tendency and
the necessity for preserving rigidly proper order and
subordination, concluding with these words:—" The
strength of the navy consists in discipline." The pri-
soner was then taken back to the Victory, where he
will remain until disposed of by the Secretary of State
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Milne, was got all
atoll- again yesterday, having been very smartly newly-
rigged in the basin, the short time occupied in doing
which reflects great credit upon the officers and ship's
company. She will be docked on the Fairy coming out,
and be quickly refitted for sea-going service.
Contracts were taken yesterday at the Royal Clarence
Victualling Establishment, Gosport, for 1,000 quarters
of barley, at 48s. sd. and 48s. Bd. per quarter, and 1,000
sacks of biscuit-meal at 50s. 9d. The establishment is
in work all day to keep up a supply for the navy, and all
night for the " relief service."

The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir Thomas Talbot, was paid
off this afternoon all standing. Her sails are unbent,
topgallant-masts struck, and as much of her runnitio•
rigging and stores returned as could be dispensed with.
She will be docked without delay, and refitted with all
dispatch for the relief service. We were led into an
error about a fortnight since in commenting upon the
fact of Captain Thompson having brought home two
freights in succession from the Pacific. Sir Thomas
was sent home with the first involuntarily, being ordered
home with important dispatches; the freight did not
amount to more than 1,000,000 dollars; the one just
brought home only amounted to 60,000 dollars in specie,
and was, therefore, anything but adequate to the loss
sustained by Sir Thomas by the America bringing, home
freight out of her turn. which fact has deranged all the
intentions of the Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific,
and greatly disappointed those officers who expected to
benefit by the usual train of the proceedings on that
station. Sir Thomas Thompson, although a baronet, is
not a rich man, as might be supposed ; quite the con-
trary, and has a right to expect restitution of that of
which he has been unjustly deprived.
PLYMouTH, MARCH 2:,.—Her Majesty's sloop Mari-
ner, 12, Commander Mathison, returned yesterday
morning with loss of jibboom, bowsprit sprung, stern-
boat stove in, and ship leaky. She was bound to Ascen-
sion and the coast of Africa, and put back to this port
some weeks since, damaged under similar circumstances.
After being refitted she left again on the 13th instant,
and will now require a thorough repair. The Mariner
is overmasted and sparred; she consequently rolls
heavily, and in stormy weather always incurs damage.
The emigration barque Belle Alliance, Captain Van•
del berg, which put back on the 23d, after reaching 17
deg. 30 min. W., carried away her maintopmast and
mizyn, sprung her mainmast, and damaged her rigging,
and will now require a complete refit. She was bound
to Adelaide, and has about 240 emigrants on boare.

ROYAL ARSENAL.—The works in this great naval
and military depot, at Woolwich, are carried on at present
with great vigour, the number of guns of modern construe.
Lion to replace those previously mounted on the variousillalueer.gt:
for-
tifications at home and abroad in the colonial possessi.
this country being considerable; and the additional numbers()f
of large pieces of ordnance for the new fortifications at home
stations has required a 'number of workmen tioeacoam them within the time they were ordered to be readyr for use.
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making ship and gun carriages, and carriageslng
and carriage fer field ordnance. The works inittiht,hsetbea
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. the horses are now em-
ployed in the open air in carting. timber and moving large
pieces of ordnance to and from te proof butt and to the de-
partments where the various works are carried on to make
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driverso of the Royal Artillery for the
work in the Royal Arsenal, and upwards of 100 men of the
Royal Artillery* are daily employed in assisting to unload the
timber from the barges which convey it by canal from
Yorkshire.
SUDDEN DEATH AT THE TOWER.—A young man,
named Houghton, while on Thursday engaged in the works
going on at the Tower, was seized with a tit and fell to the
ground. lie was immediately conveyed to the regimental
hospital, and was attended by the surgeon, but death ensued
almost immediately. The body now awaits an inquest at the
canteen.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE FOR 1847.—The Wesleyan
Methodist Conference will be held in Liverpool this year, in
June or July. The meetings will take place, as on former
abtythweeßslreuynasnwiraieknCishtearpself,ro Moss-
street, soterceaesti,oannsdolwailisi
parts of the kingdom. To some of the Conference meetings
bemi similar
attendedkind,
the ministers belonging to that denomination only are ad-
mitted; to others the public generally are adrai,s,kible.

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