The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

PAR TNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Jenkinson and H. Brown, coal proprietors, Pemberton,
Lancashire—S. Serle and J. Carrington, brick manufacturers,
Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire—S. Knowles, S. Brun-
skill, and J. E. Norman, brewers, Exeter—R. and G. Keene,
millers, Foleshill, Warwickshire—J. Briggs and W. Scul-
thorpe, attorneys, Leicester—E. H. Phillips, and S. B.
Wearing linendrapers, Bristol—C. Clark, F. A. Clark, and
H. Clark, lead merchants, Hammersmith—S. Hinchliff
and J. Bywater, copper plate printers, Manchester—C. Par-
ratt and J. Jolly, meat salesmen, Leadentiall-market—J. and
P. Horden, mercers, Stamford—J. J. J. Sudlow, J. J. J.
Sudlow, jun., A. Sudlow, and J. S. Torr, attorneys, Chan-
( so far as regards A. Sudlow)—.l. Collins and W.
R. Critchley, vinegar makers, Liverpool—H. Clark, W.
M'Niell, and W. S. Johnson, lamp manufacturers, St. Mar- '
tin's lane (so tar as regards H. Clark)—R. and G. Reece,
surgeons. Cardiff. Glamorganshire—ll. Gould and S. Makant,
commission agents, Manchester—J. Winn and C. Smith,
brick makers, Bramham, Yorkshire—D. Paton and E. M.
Roberta, cotton brokers, Liverpool—W. Watson and A. H.
Marks, wine merchants, Craven-street, Strand—W. iiowitt,
J. Saunders, and E. Turrell, proprietors of " The People's
Journal" (so far as regards W. Howitt)—G. Corns and A.
Deakin, printers, Birmingham—J. Steele and H. Hand.,
watch makers, Oxford—W. A. Thomson and J. M'Clellan4,
New York—T. Inglesent and W. Wolstenholme, brick
makers, Salford, Lancashire—W. Tubb, G. Penton, and J.
Russell, brewers, Prospect-place, St. George's-road, South-
wark (so far as regards J. Russell)—G. and S. Birks,
builders, Great Crosby, Lancashire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Boyi and Company, spirit dealers, Greenock, 3fay 21
and June 11, at twelve, at the office of Messrs. Dunlop and
Neill, Greenock.
11. Rule, merchant, Bainsford. near Falkirk, May 21 and
June 11, at twelve, at the New Court •room, Falkirk.
_ _

11. W. Goodair, hatter, Inverness, May 26 and June 16, at
two, at the chambers of Mr. Campbell, Inverness.
James Loudon, cabinet maker, Kilwinning, May 21 and
June 23, at twelve, at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Irvine.
John Campbell, draper, Edinburgh, May 24 and June 14,
at two, at the chambers of Mr. Nisbet, Edinburgh.
John Calwell, manufacturer, Paisley, May 24 and June 14,
at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Reid and Henderson,
Paisley.
Alexander M'Grigor and Company, upholsterers, Glasgow
May 24 and June 11, at one, at the Crow Hotel, Glasgow.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are—Caledonian. New,
dis.—Great Western, Quarters, p.—Litto, Fifths, 454
p.—Ditto, New. 2% p.—Midland, 1141,,,2—Ditt0,New,..2%
p.—Ditto, New, 1!. lls. 3d.—Newcastle and Berwick, New,
2% p.—North British, Extension, 14; p.—North Stafford-
shire, 1-)i, p.—York and Newcastle, New, 4 p.
MANCHESTER, MAY 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 1 7-16 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, 2—Birmingham and Dudley, 4% p.—Blackburn,
Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials, 7/4 p.—East Lancashire (late
B. and P.), New (scrip), 3-16 dis.—Fleetwood, Preston, and
West Riding, 1% dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 14, c. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares
(late Extension), IA dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 84—Manchester and Southampton, 29.1. 6d
North Staffordshire, 11,4 p.—North-Western, 1 13-16:dis..
Oldham Alliance, 5-16 c. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover
No. 3, 1 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 5-16—York and Newcastle, Pre-
ference, 2%.

N'arno of Company.

Dividend
per

Annum.

•nstralasia • • • • • • • • • •
Briuh north American
;orninercial of London
jolonial . • •..••• . • • •
Londn arid Westminstr
London Joint-Stock . • •
Metropolitan . • . • • • • • •
Provincial of I reland • •

Ditto, New.........
National of Ireland ..
Nat. Provnelal of Eng.
Ditto,
Colon of Australia....
Union of L0nd0n.....

Amount
of
Share.

X i. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
M:1 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

51. per Cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
GI. per cent.
61. per cent.

Sl. per cent.
81. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
5/. per cent.

Paid. Price
s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0 i
25 0 0
40 0 0
10 0 0 ,
7 10 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
20 0 0
35 0 0 ,
10 0 0
25 0 0 24
10 0 0 12

Narnes of
Companies.

Dividend
I per
Annum.!

Names of
Companies.

DlTidal&
per

Annum.

Price.

Ashtn& Oldhl
Ashby-d-la-Z1
Barnsley • ...

97 51.Ss. p c
113, 41.
160 121.

Nfonmouthsh!
Mntgomrysli
Macclesfield.
Neath • • • • • •
Nottingham.
Peak Forest.
Regent's • • • •
Rochdale ..
Shropshire •
,Somrset Coal!

33asingstoke..
I:rkiik&Abrg

jromlbrd...:
Du llec
berby
Ellsinre&Chs;

100 -
150 j 5/.

'lOO 141.
1100 4/,
100 61.
133' 41.

E:ewa,h •• • !1001 321.
Forth &Clyd.lool 41.
GrantlJunetn;lool 61.
l;rand Union'loo: 11. 10s.
Glanlorgnsh.'l72: 13.7,41.
14istr 100:
.Irar.thant .. 150 121.
Huddersfield. 57,
Kennt & Avu 39: 7s. 6d.
Lancaster... 471 11. 10s.
Leeds& Livrp 100, 341.
Leicester.... 140, 101.
Leicstr &Nth 83 41.
Loughborogh[l42 701.

Do.Lk Fd St
Stffrd &Wore,
Shrewsbury..l
Stourbridge..
Strttid on A v
Severn and
Wye Rail. j
Trnt & 31r-
sey • • .
Thanis &Med II
Worcstr &
Birming.
• Wilts & Brksl

11. 45.

71. 10s.
61. p. c.
281.
15/.
201.
11. 10s.
11. Bs.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X a. d. X s. d.
Albion .....• •••. . • • 31. 101. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto ......6!. .• 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas ... .. .. ..... .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14
British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
i llericl,Med.& Gen. Life ' 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 22
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
liagle • • •
Eng.& Scot. Law •• .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
European Life ...... 5% per cent. 20 0 0 ; All paid. -
Freemasons' .•• • • .... 51. per cent. 29 0 0 3 0 0
~:obe - 128
Guardian ...... •.. . . • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 4734
Imperial Fire .. -•• . . 6/. and benus,soo 0 0 50 0 0 220
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1434
Vildemnity Marine.... 11. sh.& bs. 100 0 0 513 1 -
Law Life.... • ...... IL ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
!egal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
.andon Fire ........ 10a. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
London Ship •.•.• . • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
Marine .. - ...... .... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 9
Med. Invlid&.Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 60 0 0 20 0 251,
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0
National Life • -
Vanadium Life • .....
9hcenix - - -
"rotector Life •• • •
'rovident Life ••• • • • -
lock Life •••••• • • • • • • 43. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
toyal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 180
San Fire • - • • .• • .• .• - - -
Ditto Life . • • . • - - -
Universal Life • • -
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--------. ----.
.£ a. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 163
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200
Commercial Bank • • - 100 0 0 159
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 131.13 e
Union Bank of Scotland 7141. pr cent. - 50 0 0 903,
Western Bank •• - • - 50 0 0 81
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 634
Clydesdale Bank •• • • - lO 0 0 12‘
Eastern Bank• •• • • - 10 0 0 111 143
Caledonian Bank - 210 0 41. 9s
Edinble Glasgow Bank 61. per etrt. - 5 0 0 et. 10s
City of Glasgow Bank . M. per cent. - 10 0 0 121.12 s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 225. Od
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1234
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
gorth British Insur. • . 5561. pr cent.l2oo 0 0 10 0 0 27
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Incur. 6/. per cant. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6934
Ditto, 34 Shares •- . 78.6 d. p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 16
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 283
Glasgur & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6134
clasgw&Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18
Glsgw& Ganikirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee& Arbroth Ran. 6!. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
standard LifeAssernce.l N. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 10 0 9

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend Amount
per of I Paid.
Annum. Share.

Z is. d.
100 0 0
41 13 4

►OO 0 0

PriCO.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
John Freer, 28, William Martin, 25, and Henry East,
20, all described as labourers, were indicted fur stealing
a number of packages, containing a large quantity of
property, consisting of mousselines de laine, shawls,
cloth, ribbons, gloves, and other articles, described as
being of the value of 700/, the property of Messrs.
Weaver and Co., who represent the firm of Crowley and
Co., carriers ; and Samuel Freer, 27, John Cherry, 28,
Joseph Taylor, 27, Joel Taylor (who surrendered), and
Charles Austin, 37, dealer, were indicted for feloniously
receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone conducted the
prosecution ; the prisoners were defended by Messrs.
Clarkson, Payne, Horne, Doane, O'Brien, and Hurry.
This case occupied the Court the whole of the day,
and was not concluded until a late hour. The robbery
in question appeared to have been committed in a very
daring manner. It appeared that on Easter Sunday, the
4th of April, Messrs. Crowley sent a van laden with
goods to the station of the North-Western Railway at
Camden-town, which were to have been dispatct,ed the
next morning into the country. The van was placed in
the station yard, and it was discovered that during the
night the covering had been taken off and a great quan-
tity of property stolen.
The railway constable was called to prove the fact of
the van and its contents being safe about two o'clock in
the morning ; and, in answer to a question put by the
Learned Judge, he said that he was the only constable
whose duty it was to watch the property at the station
during the night. Although the premises were so ex-
tensive that it took him an hour to go over them, there
being nine different lines of rails and sometimes as many
as a hundred trucks laden with goods in different parts
of the station.

Joseph Page, a lad 19 years old, who had been com-
mitted to give evidence, arid who was brought from the
gaol for that purpose, was examined, and upon the
statements made by him the case against all the pri-
soners, with the exception of the two Taylors, mainly
rested. He gave a circumstantial account of the rob-
bery and the manner in which it was committed. Ac-
cording to his evidence, he was walking in the fields
near Chalk-farm on Easter Sunday, when he saw the
prisoners East and John Freer, and they asked him to
go up with them to the railway station, the next morn-
ing and get some goods out, and he said that he at
once consented to do so. Freer at the time said,
that as it was Easter Sunday the men would be all out
getting drunk, and therefore would not be at work
so early in the morning, and this would give
them a good chance. They made an appointment for
the evening to meet together, and they were joined in
the course of the day by the prisoner Martin. About
three o'clock in the morning Martin, John Freer, East,
and himself went to the railway station at Camden-town
and he said they saw several persons about, but no one
took any notice of them. The van was standing outside,
and Freer wished to know whether it contained "up" or
"down" goods, and he explained the " down" goods were
usually the most valuable, as they consisted of silks,
drapery, and valuable articles, whereas the "up" goods
were mostly hardware, and other "Brummagem" and
Sheffield manufactures. Upon ascertaining that the van
contained " down" goods they immediately proceeded to
ransack it, and having obtained a horse and cart from the
premises of a carrier close by they conveyed away the
packages and bales containing the property mentioned
in the indictment.. The witness said that on the follow-
ing Tuesday he went to a beer-shop at Peckham, kept
by the prisoner Samuel Freer ; and he then heard that
all the property was concealed in the cellar, and East
said that he had some one coming to purchase it.
While he was there the prisoner Austin came in,
accompanied by two Jews, and they went down
into the, cellar, where he saw the boxes and packages
opened ; and after the Jews had examined all the
articles they offered 501. for them, but eventually they
agreed to give 51. more, and it was arranged that they
were to come at six o'clock the same evening and take
part of the goods away. They came at the time ap-
pointed, bringing with them a chaise cart, and after they
were gone the prisoner East said they had got some of
the goods and had paid 201. on account, and they were
to come on the following day and take the rest of the
goods and pay the remaining 35/. On the following
Friday he again saw the prisoner East, when he told him
the men had not fetched away the rest of the things,
and that Samuel Freer was afraid that his house would
be searched and the property discovered, and witness
then told him that he knew a man who would take them
away; and on the following morning he went to Cherry,
who is a carman, and upon his seeing him he said
that Cherry called out, " Holloa, ba'n't somebody had
a 'go in,' or ' a haul,' up your way?" and he told him
there had been such a thing, and they wanted
his horse and cart to fetch some of the things away.
He said, that after this Cherry, himself, and East,
went over to Peckham with Cherry's horse and cart,
and when they got there East gave him 2/. to enable
him to make his master's books straight, he having
expended some of the money that had been paid to him
by his master's customers; and he went away, leaving
Cherry and East with the cart at Peckham. lie was
taken into custody, it appeared, the same day that this
happened; and on the next morning he said he made a
full statement of all he knew regarding the transaction.
These were the principal points of the evidence against
the prisoners whose names have been mentioned in the
above narrative; and with regard to the two Taylors, it
was shown that, soon after the robbery was committed,
a cart which contained a portion of the stolen property
was discovered upon the premises occupied by them;
and in a pigstye upon the same premises there were
found some other articles, which were also identified. In
addition to these facts, it appeared that some articles
were taken from the house of Samucl Freer, which it
was attempted to be shown had formed part of the stolen
property, but the evidence as to their identity was by no
means c, nclusive.
In order to confirm the evidence of the accomplice,
witnesses were called to show that he was really in com-
pany with them at the places he described prior to the
commission of the robbery, and also that an address
card that had been upon one of the boxes was found in
East's possession when he was taken into custody. It
also appeared that upon the premises of Samuel Freer
being searched a large quantity of wood was found
broken up into small pieces, and it appeared evident that
this wood consisted of the fragments of boxes that had
been used to pack up the stolen property.
The jury acquitted Joel Taylor, and found all the
other prisoners Guilty.
The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that the pri-
soners had been convicted of a very bold and alarming
depredation, and he felt it his duty to order John Freer,
Martin, East, Cherry, Joseph Taylor, and Austin, to be
transported for seven years. The other prisoner. Samuel
Freer, appeared to have been actuated by a derire to
screen his brother, and he did not appear to have had any
share in the plunder; and on those grounds the Court
felt justified in passing upan him a sentence of one year's
imprisonment, with hard labour.
OBTAINING PROPERTY UNDEP. FAISE PRETENCES.—Joseph
aarkson, aged 31, and IV. E. Schotlander, aged 34, described
as agents, were indicted for unlawfully obtaining, under false
pretences, twenty-two dozen cocoa-nut mats, arid other arti-
cles, value 106/., the property of Edward Mar and another,
with a view to cheat them of the same.
The prisoners were acquitted.
There was nothing else before the Court this morning of
the least interest.
The session terminated early to-day.

NEW COURT, May 17.
(Before the Commox SERGEANT.)
James M'Lean and Charles Gardner were indicted for
a misdemeanour in having obtained money by false pre-
tences.—Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution.
This was a prosecution instituted by the Commis-
sioners for Emigration under the following circum-
stances :—lt appeared that a number of poor Germans
arrived in London at the latter end of April for the pur-
pose of emigrating to New York, and they took up their
abode at a public house kept by a person named Ire-
land, in Gravel-lane. The prisoner M•Lean intrec-
duced himself to them as a shipping agent, and repre-
sented the other prisoner, who accompanied him, as
Captain Gardner, of the barque Recovery, which
was lying in the Surrey Canal Dock, and he under-
took to convey the poor people to New York for 51.
each. Some of the Germans went on board the vessel
to see the accommodations, and the prisoners said that
everything should be made comfortable for them, and
that the vessel should be ready to sail by the 6th of
May, and if she was not they would pay each person
who took a passage 2s. per day for every day the ship
was delayed. Upon the faith of these representations it
appeared that nine of the unfortunate persons were in-
duced to give the prisoner Gardner 11. each as part
payment of their passage money, and it turned out that
the story told by the prisoners was merely a scheme to
defraud the poor people of their money, and that,
although M'Lean had made some proposition to the
owner of the vessel with regard to chartering her, he
refused to entertain it, and declined to enter into any
agreement whatever with him. It was also proved that
instead of being a shipping agent, as he represented him-
self, the prisoner M'Lean, in point of fact, was a journey..
man baker.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both the
prisoners.
The COMMON SERGEANT, after observing that the
conduct of the prisoners had been most base and cruel
in defrauding unfortunate persons in the position of those
poor emigrants, sentenced them to be transported for
seven years.