The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

THAMES.

An important conviction under the 11th section of the
Act Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 116, "for the protection
of seamen entering on board merchant ships," took place
at this Court.

The Act gives very extensive powers to magistrates
which have been very often exercised in a beneficial
manner for mariners, but not to so great an extent as on
this occasion:—A well-dressed man named Peter Built,
about 40 years of age, who was formerly mate of a ship,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing
a 201. Bank of England note belonging to Henry Lloyd,
a seaman.

The prosecutor is a native of Aberdeen, where he had
formerly known the prisoner. In the early part of last
week,. Lloyd was paid off at Whitehaven, from the ship
Acasto, of Aberdeen, after:a successful voyage to Callao,
and other places, for guano. On Thursday afternoon
the prosecutor and six shipmates arrived in London by-
the railway, for the purpose of embarking on: board
the City of London steam -ship, which was to sail on
Saturday morning for Scotland. The prosecutor and the
prisoner accidentally met on the Aberdeen-wharf, and
the recognition was a joyful one on both sides. The
prosecutor asked Raitt if he could recommend him and
his shipmates to a lodging for a couple of nights,
until the steamer sailed. The prisoner assured the
sailors he would take them to a safe harbour, where
they would have a snug berth and good treatment,
and accompanied them all to a lodging-house, 2, Smith's-
court, Wapping. Soon after the men were housed the
prisoner warned Lloyd that a good many land sharks
were about, and advised him to be very careful of his
money. Lloyd said he had made a good voyage, and
among other moneys had a 20/. Bank of England note.
The prisoner said-he would take care of it for him until
the steamer sailed, and the unsuspecting sailor de-
livered it to his countryman, never dreaming that any
advantage would be taken of him. The prisoner depo-
sited the note in a small box in the presence of Lloyd
and his landlady, and after locking it placed it in a
drawer. On Saturday morning, shortly before the
steamer sailed for Aberdeen, Lloyd asked for his note,
and the prisoner unlocked the box in which the note
had been deposited, and expressed the greatest astonish-
ment on finding it empty. He said the note was gone,
that he had been robbed of it, and that Lloyd must put
up with the loss. The prosecutor, however, would not
do so quietly, and gave the prisoner into the custody of
Shain, a Thames Police constable. That officer gave a
very bad account of the prisoner, and said he had been
leading a very dissipated life, and cohabited with a
woman of loose character at a house in Smith's-place,
opposite the one where the sailors had been lodging. No
one could obtain access to the box where the note was
deplsited.

Mr. YARDLEY asked the prisoner what he had done
with the 201. note?

The prisoner said he left the note in a box, and it
had been stolen. He could not say what had become
of it.

Mr. YARDLEY did not believe a word the prisoner
had said, and had no doubt whatever he had appro-
priated the 201. note to his own use. If the prisoner did
not at once restore the note to the sailor he would
punish him severely.
The prisoner said he could not give up the note.
Mr. YARDLEY said he should enforce the provisions of
the Act for the protection of merchant seamen, which he
considered was a very useful one, and he made an order
on the prisoner to restore the 201. note he had illegally
detained, and to pay in addition a penalty of 10/ ; and,
in default of doing so, to be imprisoned in the House of
Correction for six calendar months, and kept to hard
labour. He considered this was a very bad case, and de-
served the mua.imum punishment awarded by the Act of
Parliament.
The prisoner said he could not pay the money, and was
forthwith committed to the House of Correction.
Charles Cloake, a labourer in the employ of the East
evidence Company,
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Gladwell, a constable, who took him into custody, and
upon searching him found, in a bag tied round his loins
with a bit of string, and under his clothes, 241bs. of raw
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from the dock.
The prisoner, in defence, said he committed the rob-
bery through distress. His wages were only 1.55. per
week, and he had to pay 43. per week for his ready-
furnished apartments, and Is. per week in liquidation of
a debt he had contracted, leaving only 10s. for the sup-
port of himself and family.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.

CRUEL TREATMENT OF A SER-

VANT WM. BY HER MISTRESS.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.—An inquest was hold
last evening at the Lamb, Vere-street, Clare-market,
before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, on the body of Mary
Ann Campbell, aged fourteen, who, it was alleged, died
from the ill usage she received from her mistress, Mrs.
Ann Levy, fruiterer, of. North-row, Covent-garden.
Ann Campbell, of No. 19, New Church-court, said
that the deceased, her daughter, had been in the servic
of Mrs. Levy in Covent-garden, for the last eleven weeks
On Wednesday, Dec. 16, Mrs. Hughes, who keeps the
shop next to Mrs. Levy, came and told witness that the
deceased was being dreadfully beaten by her mistress,
and to interfere immediately if she would not have her
killed. Witness went, and found the deceased in the
shop screaming; she asked what was the matter, when
the deceased answered that her mistress had been kicking
her in the back, and that while she was scrubbing the
floor she (her mistress) had put her head under the grate,
and burnt her forehead. She showed witness the ashes
still on her hair. Witness went up stairs to Mrs. Levy,
and asked what the girl had done to deserve such punish-
ment; and the reply was, that she (deceased) would
not clean the place, and that she had not been treated
bad enough. As her mistress promised not to beat her
again, she went away, leaving the deceased, but at
twelve o'clock that night she ran home to witness, and
immediately upon entering the room fell down in a fit.
After recovering a little she vomited a large clot of blood
the sine of her hand. Her back and shoulders were quite
red and black with bruises. Deceased remained in bed
for several days following, attended by Mr. Brooks, the
King's
surgeon, and on Wednesday last was taken to
King's College Hospital, in which she died the next day.
Mrs. Eleanor Hughes, fruiterer, said she resided next
door to the deceased, in Covent-garden. On Wednesday
fortnight she heard the d( ceased cry out, " Oh, don't
beat me," and
" Oh, don't burn me," and at the same
time heard Mrs. Levymake use of the most horrible
language.
Mr. Walter Gill, house physician of King's College
Hospital, said the deceased was admitted on Wednesday
last. He found a yellowish mark upon her back, the
said
should be wasb
effect of a bruise. She was then too weak to allow of
an examination, and kept gradually sinking until the
next day, when at one o'clock she died. No post mortem
examination had been made.
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SIGNS 07 INCREASING CIVILISATION.—Drinking
less wine—subscribing for a monument to Shaksi eare—
admiring the cuts, but cutting the jokes of Punch, and
visiting the Establishment of the Messrs. Ross and Sons,
of Bishopsgate-street, and selecting from their New In-
ventions, articles for the Toilet, as Byron says—
" To keep you beautiful or leave you neat."
SUDDEN DEATIL—On Sunday morning an old
man, named Fisher, suddenly fell down in Kensington
Church during the performance of early service. He
was conveyed to the ve:try•room, where it was ascer-
tained immediately that life was extinct.

Name of Company.

Amount
of
Share.

Paid.

Alliance /Init. and For.
Ditto Marine...
• •
British Commercial
neriel,Med. Sr. Gen .Life
county ..............
row n
Eagle ......
Eng. & Scot. Law • •
European Life •
Freemasons'
Guardian ............
Imperial Fire • .
Imperial Lite . • • •
Indemnity Marine....
.aw Lite— ........
..egal and General Life
,andon Fire ........
ondon Ship
marine.. ...........
ed. Invlid& Gen. Life
National Lean Fund..
National Life....
Palladium Life
Plicenix ••• ..
Protector Life.... ...
Provident Life • .
Rock Life............
Royal Exchange
Sun Fire..
Ditto Life .........
Universal Life ..

31. 10s
6 per cent.
61. per cent,
13s. 6d. pr sh.
7s. per share
51. per cent.

£ s. d.
500 () 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0

10s.
Gs.
51. per cent.
5% per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
61. anti bonus

Stock.
)00 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0

125.
I/. sh. & bs

X s. d.
50 0 0
11 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
4 0 0
2 0 0
All paid.
3 0 0

1/. ss.

36 10 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
5 13 1
10 0 0
2 0 0
12 10 0
12 10 0
15 0 0
2 0 0
2 10 0
5 0 0
2 0 0

10s.
10s.
St. per cent.
44/. per ct .
51. per cent.
81. per cent.
51. per cent.
3/. p. ct. & bs.
Si. per cent.
11. ss.
45.
5/. per cent.
6/. 10s.
1/. Cs.
1044 e. pr cnt

20 0 0
tOO 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

1 0 0
10 0 0
0 10 0

Price

100 0

6 15 0

_
5 l'ixd

136
4814

8
21. Is
195

245. 6d

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICEC.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ a. d
Bank of Scotland t 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 176
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 160
j
British Linen Company Si. par cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank ... • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167
National Bank ...... • . 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14/.los
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 91
Western Bank .... .• • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 841 A
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7%
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 8s
Eastern Bank.. ... • -5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 12
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41.11 s
Edhib.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 71.2 s
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 78
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 255. 9d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1414
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd• • Si. her cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
North British Incur 5% 1. pr cent. 1200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur G/. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 1814
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 78%
Ditto, IA Shares 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 194
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 694
Glasgw &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 161%
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssernce.l bl. per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 10 0 9
CANALS.
we; Dividendl
j
.;
Price. per Price.
1 Annum.' -
Companies. 0 per
Names of ~, .., Dividend Names of
A Companies. A
Annum.
,/
- -
X, I £
Ashtn & Olith 97.51.55. p c - Monmouthsh 100 Si. -
Ashby-d-la-Z 113, 41. .- slntgoinrysh 100 51. -
Barnsley •• .• 160 121. - Macclesfield. 100 - -
Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath •.. • • • 100 171. -
Brknk&Abrg 150, 51. - Nottingham. 150 121. -
Cromford .. • • 100; 141. - Peak Forest. '7B 31. 75
Dudley .• • ... 100, 4/. - Regent's .. • • 33 11. ss. 20%
Derby ••• .• ,100 61. - Rochdale .... 85 4/. -
Ellsmre&Chsll33l 4/. b 5 Shropshire.. 125 V. -
E:ewash -1100 32/. - Somrset Coal 150 7/. 10s. -
Forth & Clyd I 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. -
GrandJunctn 100 71. 83 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. -
(.rand Union 100' 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Glamorgnsh ~172 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 201. 315
141str&Brkly 'OO - - Strtfrd on Av 79 1/. 108. -
Glrantham .. 150, 12/. - Severn and 1
Eluddergield., 57 - - Wye Rail. 5 26 1/. Bs. -
Kennt & Avu, 39 7s. 6d. 54 Trnt & Mr-1
Lancaster...; 47, I/. 103. - sey, 4 5h..5 50 30/. -
Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 52214 Thams &Med 19 - -
Leicester .... 140: 10/. 105 Worcstr 8/
78 2/. 43
Leicstr &Nth, 83' 41. 52 Birming.
Loughborogh j 142; 70/. - Wilts & Bits 67 11. -

DOCZ.S.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. I Share.
X s. d. X s. d.
ommercial . •• .• • 31, per cent. Stock. 80
:ast and West India.,, 6/. pr cent. Stock.
:ast Country 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 , 21

X s. d. X s. d.
Commercial • • ••. • • 31. per cent. Stock.
East and Wiast India... 6/. pr cent. Stock.
East Country 11. per sh. 100 0 0
I mdon ...... • • .•• • • 5/. pr cent. Stock.
%.'t.Katharine •• .. 5 per cent. Stock.
Southampton • • ...... i V. per cent. 50 0 0

Name of Company.

WATER-11170 ILES .

Dividend Amount
per I of

Annum.

50 0 0

Share.

Paid.

East L0nd0n..........

£ s. d.
81, 100 0 0

Price,

Grand Junction .. •• .. ' 31. 10s.
Kent•... •• •. •• •• •• 21. 10s.