The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Frederick George Wilson, draper, Pangbourne, Berk•
shire, to surrender April 21, at one, and May 18, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Peddell,
Chmpside.
William Henry Mackey, attorney, Southampton,
April 15, and May 13, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings;
Walker, Lombard-street.

Mary Deacon, of the firm of Mack and Company car-
rier, Norwich, April 14, a; one, and May 20, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee,
Coleman-street-buildings ; Wilkinson and Basch,
Nicholas-lane, London. _ _ _

Thomas Symes, scrivener, Bridgwater, Somersetshire,
April 20 and May 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hernaman, officigl asdgnce, Exeter ; Messrs.
Trevor, Bridgwater; Messrs. Holme and Co., New-iun,
London; Stogdon, Exeter.
John Cartwright, iron founder, Shrewsbury, April 14,
and May 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Smith, Wolverhampton; Smith, Birmingham.
James Bryan Wa-d, cheese factor, Birmingham,
April 17 and May 15, at eleven, at the _Birmingham
District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham;
:Lem, Stafford; James, Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

J. B. Orap, clerk to a wine me chant, West-square,
St. George's-road, Southwark—first div. of 3s. 2d. in
the pound, on Monday, April 12, and two following
Mondays, at the office of Mr. Garman, Birchin-lane, City.
J. E. Green, appraiser, %Vhitecross-street, Crippleg;ite
—second div. of 3s. in the pound, on Monday, April 12,
and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Carman,
Birchin-lane, City.
A. Yeatman and A Lunn, chemists, Fore-street, City

—third div. of lid. in the pound, on Monday, April 1
and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Cannan,
Birchin-lane, City.
A. Yeatman, chemist, Fore-street, City—second div.
of 24d. in the pound, on Monday, April 12, and two
following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-
lane, City.
Mann, chemist, Huntingdon—first div. of 53. in the
pound, on Saturday, April 3, and two following Satur-
days, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's•place,
Old Jewry.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy-. Basinghall- street.
W. Gilpin, army clothier, Villiers-street, Strand,
April 27, at eleven—J. Johnson, grocer, Chelmsford,
April 27, at eleven—J. Bickerton, hat manufacturer,
Castle-street, Southwark, April 27, at half•past twelve
—C. Ashby, tailor, Bishops Stanford, April 28, at two
—J. Knights, cattle dealer, Great Melton and Thur.
garton, Norfolk, April 27, at one—H. J. Carr, Lieu-
tenant, R.N., Bradvvell near the Sea, Norfolk, April 29,
at eleven—J. A. Willson, baker, Old-road, Stepney,
April 29, at eleven—W. 11. Benfield, publican, Bedford-
bury, King-street, Covent-garden, April 29, at eleven.
In the Country.
P. A. Hannaford, bookseller, Exeter, April 29, at one,
at the Exeter District Court—J. Prior, tailor, Saint
Blazey, Cornwall, April 29, at one, at the Exeter Dis-
trict Court—J. I. B. Wright, druggist, Liverpool,
April 30, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—W.
Bickerton, timber merchant, Hull, April 28, at ten, at
the Town-hall, Hull—R. Buckeridge, clerk, Castle
Church Staffordshire, May 4, at twelve.
• CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary on the day herein mentioned.
J. S. Flaxman, tailor, Ludgate-street, City, April 28
—E. Axford, milliner, St. John's-wood terrace, April 27
—F. Hatch, iron-plate worker, St. John's square,Clerken-
well, April 28—H. Leonard, ironmonger, Cheltenham,
May 4—J. Hall, innkeeper, Carlisle, April 29—J. W.
Hance, architectural ornament manufacturer, Liverpool,
April 27—J. Bailey, builder, Stalybridge, Cheshire,
April 29—J. Hudson, lace manufacturer, Nottingham,
April 27—J. T. K. Sloan, tavern keeper, Manchester,
April 27—J. Taylor, rope manufacturer, Manchester,
April 27—A. Thorn, oilman, High Holborn, April 27
W. Cleversley, floor-cloth manufacturer, Old Kent-road,
April 27.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Anning and J. Deane, millers, Axminster, Devon-
shire—W. Jackson and T. Wood, wood-screw manufac-
turers, Darlaston Staffordshire—H. Kenyon and J.
Poyser, glue manufacturers, West Leigh, Lancashire—
R. Cana and B. Moulton, appraisers, Woodbridge, Suf-
folk—E. Hall 6, M. H. Steinthal, L. Steinthal, and T.
Hertz, Manchester (so far as regards T. Hertz)—W.
R•dgway, E. J. Ridgway, and L. J. Abington, earthen-
ware manufacturers, Hanley, Staffordshire—ll. Oppen-
heim, jun., and S. Oppenheim, Mansell-street, White
chapel--S. Cary and R. Leonard, jun., attorneys, Bristol
—S. Woodhouse, T. Ward, and J. Priest, warehouse-
men, Manchester—W. Jackson and H. Collier, comb
manufacturers, Sheffield—J. R. Symons, G. T. Symons,
and S. T. Middle' on, grocers, Newlyn East, Cornwall—.
IL and T. Ililditch, grocers, Shrewsbury—W. Theak-
stone and 11. Umpleby, surgeons, Bedale—H. Clark and
J. Contecin, lithographers, Pancras lane, City—S.
Thornely and J. Dod, tailors, Liverpool—R. and J.
Davison, builders, Manchester—W. B. Hills and R. W.
Alldridge, provision merchants, Rood-lane, City—W.
Dicker and G. Meek, lithographers, Crane-court, Fleet-
street—W. T. I'robyn and J. Sloper, jun., curriers,
Pontypool, Monmouthshire—S. Diggle, W. Tuer, W.
Hodgson, and R. Hall, ironfounders, Bury, Lancashire
(so far as regards S. Diggle)—G. Thornton, B. Gimson,
and J. Gimson, pressed cotton reel manufacturers, Lei-
cester—G. Martin and E. Cade, linendrapers, Exeter—
J. Barns and R. Smy, brickmakers, Bristol—E. Shrigley
and J. Williamson, painters, Lancaster—E. Hollins, C.
Veltrnann, and H..;;Marsland, cotton manufacturers,
Manchester—T. Sperrings, S. Sperrings, W. Sperrings,
G. Sperrings, J. Bennett, and H. Milsom, stone guar-
riers, Frenchay, Gloucestershire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Henderson Robertson and Company, manufac-
turers, Dunfermline, April 14 and 30, at two, at the
chambers of Mr. Ronaldson, Dunfermline.
Alexander Robson, surgeon, Dumfries, April 12 and
May li, at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Gordon
and Whitelaw, Dumfries.
William Stewart Donnan, draper, Whithorn, April 12
and May 3, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Black,
Wigtown.
Fairley and Thomson, ironmongers, Glasgow, April 12
and May 3, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Gourlay,
Glasgow.
Robert Thomson and Company, copper merchants,
Glasgow, April 12 and May 3, at two, at the chambers
of Mr. ourley, Glasgow.
Thomas Wallace, wright, Edinburgh, April 12 and
May 3, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Dunn, Edinburgh,
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-DVERTISEMENT.]—THE GAME-LAW NOVEL.--
ThC very distinguished success of Mr. Carew's novel,
" The Poacher's Wife," has arisen not merely from the
undoubted genius it displays, nor from its thrilling inci-
dents, its breathless situations, its pathos, its mirth, nor
its dramatic force of individual character—but because
it illustrates a great principle, and exposes one of the
most glaring abases yet remaining of civilised England—
namely, the game-laws—which have done more to de
moralise the peasantry, than any other offspring of an-
cient feudal tyranny. The Court Journal, in its review
of the work, says, " Truth stares us in the face at every
fresh page we open, and we shudder as we close th 9
volumes, because we feel that, as it is in the power of
the country to destroy such frightful sources of crime,
every man is accessory to their existence. The Weekly
Dispatch observes, that " the author has manifested as
much good feeling in exposing the evil effects of the
game-laws by means of a ta!e, as the great commenta-
tor, Blackstone, did when he denounced them with his
legal philosophy."
AFFECTING DEATHS OF Two FEMALES (MOTHER
AND DAUGHTER) AT INVERNESS SUPPOSED FROM
STARVATION.—We learn that two females, of the name
=eerie
of Logan, residing at the Shore of Inverness, are re-
ported to have died last week from actual starvation.
We believe they were, at one time, in comfortable cir-
curestance,—the knowledge of which, in addition to their
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both found dead in one bed.—Ross-shire ildoertisser.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 6.
Both courts were occupied to-day in dispo,ing of the
remaining common jury causes, none of which possessed
any feature of interest to justify a report.

DOYLE AND WIFE V. TARN.
This was a special jury cause, tried on Monday before
the Lord Chief Justice. The action was brought to
recover damages for the false imprisonment of the plain-
tiff's wife.

Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Edwin James for the defendant.

The circumstances under which the alleged false im-
prisonment arose were these appeared that the de-
ff•ndant is a linendraper, and the plaintqf and his wife
went to his shop and ordered a quantity of goods, which
were to be paid for on the Monday following. When,
however, tho foreman went to receive payment,•the par-
ties could not be found, and the plaintiff's wife, being
afterwards met accidentally, was given into custody ;
but it appeared that the charge was dismissed by the
pelice-magistrate, and the present action was brought to
recover damages for the imprisonment she had thus, as
it was alleged, wrongfully sustained.
Mr. E. JAMES, for the defendant, characterised the
action as a most :themeless and improper one to have
been brought, and said he was satisfied the jury would
consider the lowest coin of the realm a sufficient com-
pensation for the damage that had been sustained.
The jary found for tho plaintiffs—Damages, id.

OXFORD CHIC UIT.-111onmoziii, April 5.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice AiIAuLE.)
Hannah Thomas, a young woman, about 23 years of
age, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegiti-
mate child, James Thomas.

Mr. Rickards and Sir Thomas Phillips appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke for the defence.
The prisoner became an inmate of the Usk workhouse
i❑ December, and continued there till March, when she
was delivered of the child in question. She appeared
kind and attentive to it, and it was a fine healthy child.
On the 20th March it became unwell. On the next day
it died, and on the following day ape., t mortem examina-
tion was made, by which it was discovered that death
had been caused by the use of diluted sulphuric acid.
The peculiarities of the case were, that there was very
little of the acid in the stomach; that the mouth was
altogether untouched by it, though the parts of the
throat, gullet, &c., between the lower part of the mouth
and the stomach, were severely corroded and inflamed,
as if the liquid had been put into the child's throat on a
spoon, without touching the mouth, and the poor child
had, as soon as, it felt the pain, attempted to throw up
the offensive matter, and so prevented much of it from
reaching the stomach. There had been a bottle of diluted
sulphuric acid lying for days before the child was taken
ill in the kitchen of the workhouse, and the prisoner had
access to it, and had heard of its poisonous qualities;
and a woman who had left some in a cup on the 20th of
March, after having washed the heads of some children
who were afflicted with ringworm, on returning again
and looking for it found that all the liquid was gone,
and the rag with which she had washed ihein left, and
some spots from sulphuric acid were found on the child's
cap and face. The principal question raised on tae trial
was, whetht r the appearance's on the body of the child
could be accounted for by natural causes.
The verdict was Not Guilty.
This closed the business of these assizes. It was not
over before three o'clock. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee had
risen soon after two.

Gloucester, April 5.
Mr. Sergeant Gazelee opened the commission here this
evening at six o'clock. Business commences at an early
hour to-morrow,

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 5.
JURIES.—It is high time that some alteration should
be made with respect to summoning juries. At present
it would seem that juries are sel7cterl from the most
ignorant
miclass in the community, and while we are oh-
tanginformation as to the state of education of
prisoners, it would not be very improper to extend
our inquiries to the jury box ; and we question very
much whether the prisoners would not beat the jury in
point of learning. From the present modo of select-
ingjuries it would seem that the mhiclle men get elf
quite free. The special juries are taken from the aris-
tocracy of a county, and the petty juries are composed
o f little farmers and small shopkeepers, whose attention
is never by any chance riveted to one object for snore
than 10 minutes at a time, and whose minds, therefore,
areincapable of underst sliding a matter lasting over as
many hours.! !Another thing is, that keeping these men
from their homes for a week in an expensive assize
town is a great cruelty upon them, both as regards their
absence from home and th.l outlay to which they are
subjected. We can new give an illustration of the men-
tal capacity ef a jury. At Bodatin a jury found a pri-
soner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Mr.
Justice Williams wished to know their re ason for the
recommendation. The jury replied that 11 were for
finding the man guilty, but one was for acquitting Isim
and so they recommended the prisoner to mercy. To-
day a prosecutor, in giving his evidence, said, that the
Court had misunderstood something that his servant (a
previous witness) had said. A juror wished to know
how the prosecutor was aware of what Isis servant had
said. The prosecutor replied, that he heard him give
his evidence. The juror then appealed to the Judge to
know whether this was legal. Mr. Justice Cresswell
told him it was perfectly legal. It was his wish that
witnesses should always be out of court; but there was
no accommodation for them, and they were subjected to
much inconvenience if they were without the court. In
another instance a jury found a man guilty of forgery,
but not with an intention to defraud.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL
Thomas Perral was indicted for killing and slaying
William Holland by throwing a stone at him, thereby
causing a compound fracture of the skull, of which he
lingered and died; and Henry Brake, George Chant, and
William Frampton for aiding and assisting him.
Mr. Moody was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Edwards for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 7th of September sever al per-
sons
belonging to the two villages of Odcombe and
West Coker, being members of a friendly society, dined
together at a public•house. They remained drinking
for some hours, and, as is too commonly the case on such
occasions, there was a quarrel between the two sets of
villagers, and the West Coker men had the worst of it.
The deceased belonged to that party. They left the
house, and were proceeding on their way home, when
the prisoners and others of the Odcombe party came
after them and attacked them with stones. Perrall
threw one stone which knocked the deceased down; he
rallied, but
w
was taken home, and medical aid was procured. The
skull was found to be fractured. Another medicalas
per-
formed. man
m
fwoar s callede
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After
rand h the operation
e decea s
ed o
apparently
trepanning
he afterwards grew worse, and died on the 26th of Sep •
tember. The medical men were of opinion that the
death was occasioned by a blow from some blunt instru-
ment or stone. An abscess had formed on the brain after
the operation.
Iu the cross-examination of the malice! witnesses, the
question set up on the trial of Lieut. Pym at Winchester
was sought to be raised—namely, that the operation
was the immediate cause of the death, and not the injury
by the stone; that although that injury might eventually
have occasioned the death, yet that the death was has-
tened by the operation.
Some discussion took place upon this, and, for the
prosecution, Mr. Justice Erie's dictum on Lieut. Pyrn's
trial was relied on. The prisoner's counsel, however,
would not say that the wound was not a mortal wound.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL observed, that it was admitted
the wound was mortal, and that the deceased might have
died in a month, but that be had died in ss than a week
in consequence of the operation. The wound being
mortal, if that which was done by the surgeon was what
he considered right to be adopted, there would be no
question raised upon that point.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the
prisoners.
Mr. Justice CRESSIVELL said the prisoners bad already
been in prison six months; he therefore sentenced them
to be imprisoned for one month.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 5.
HOWDEN V. STANDISH.
This was an action against the late sheriff of the
county of Lancaster, to recover the amount of a debt due
to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller, against
whom process had been sued out, the officer having, as
was alleged, failed through his own negligence in exe-
cuting the warrant.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Atherton
for the defendant.

Professor Keller, as he was called, was, it appeared,
the manager of, and principal performer in, a group of
artistes who in the course of the last year repreieuted, in
various parts of the country, subjects taken from the
antique and celebrated paintings, the figures, male and
female, being arranged on a pedestal which turned round,
so as to exhibit the composition to the spectators in all
its different points of view. Mr. Keller was a powerful
man, with large beard and mustache, and possessing a
singular command over the muscles of the forearm, by
the movement of which he beat time to the music.
The professor, however,
unfortunately had got into
debt, his performances 'in London not having been
very successful. He came down to Birmingham, and
thence to Liverpool, where he was engaged to per.
form at a theatre erected in the Zoological Gar-
dens. The plaintiff (Mr. Bowden) was a creditor, to
whom the " professor"' owed something better (or
worse) than 1001., and,
in the hope of enforcing the
payment of his money, had followed Mr. Keller. to Li-
verpool. A writ bad been sued out, and, under a judge's
.order, the plaintiff was empowered to hold Mr. Keller to
bail, on the ground of his
being about to leave the coun-
try. The warrants reached the hands of the officer, a
Law-
ton, in the company
person of the name of Lawton, on Wednesday, the,Sth
of July. On that very evening, Mr. Keller was to per-
form at the theatre in thegardens, and thither Mr.
Howden pointed out Keller, *who was exhibiting studies
from the ancient statues, ad personated Cain in a group
of " Cain and Abel." Mr. Howden, with little reverence
for the. ideal, saw nothing n Cain or the antique statues
but his simple debtor, Mr. Keller, and pressed Mr.. Law-
tonof Mr ',Lowden, repaired. klr.
. strongly at once to
First. Homicide, or the Apollo, or the Dying Gladiator,
as might be most convenient. Mr. Mr. Lawton,
.however,
executn her
".albeit unused," seemed to have been restrained by a
Majesty's writ on the
the danger of the chef, kind of superstitious ttwe from anything so profane—to
say nothing of the fact that the stage was some six feet
two above the ground, and that the troupe were aware of
ther with the. advantage of being able to leave the. aggres-
sors, in a twinkling, in the dark amid the labyrinths of the
scenes, should. a seizure be attempted., Mr. Lawton, there-
fore, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim as he
f; and prepared for resistance, toge-
ther
the gardens. Accordin l after the performance was
over they waited for this purpose between the gardens
and tho hotel
adjoining, at which Mr. Keller was staying.
In due time a hat, cloak, beard, and mustache, which

could belong to no one but that gentleman made their
app?arAnce, and their identity was corroborated by the
fact, that on the arm of the figure that bore them leaned,
beyond all doubt, Mrs. Keller. The officer intimated
in the usual way his desire for a further acquaintance
with Mr. Keller. Mrs. Keller wept, presented the pro-
fessor with some money—a matter, she was aware, ne-
cessary to one's comfortable existence in a lock-up—and
Mr. Keller, after a hurried embrace to his child, was
snatched away in the clutches of the law. On arriving,
however, at his place of durance, the "caption" pro-
ceeded to disembarrass himself of his beard and mous-
tache, and appeared in a new character, as Frederick
lluson, a German artiste—a member of the troupe.
Again, on the Friday following, an attempt was made
to seize the professor. He again made his appearance
cn the stage, the house being densely crowded ; again,
a muffled, bearded figure (this time more stealthily) was
seen hurrying from the garden ; again the officer made
iris seizure, the person being actually pointed out by the
plaintiff himself, and again it was found that Mr. Keller
had rung the changes on his pursuers, the person seized
being one Goodman, and not the professor. The pro-
lessor himself remained in hiding for some weeks,
having sacrificed on the altar of liberty his beard and
moustache, and thus thrown the officers off the scent.
He afterwards left Liverpool with his company, and
proceeded direct to Ostend.
_ _

For the defendant it was contended that the officer
had used his very best exertions under the circumstances
to effect a seizure, and evidence was called to show that
it was by the express direction of Mr. Lowden himself
that no attempt was made to arrest Keller on the stage
an attempt which, it was urged, must necessarily have
been unsuccessful, and would probably have resulted in
a terrific uproar.

A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff.
An action on a promissory note concluded the bulinm
of the assiz,s,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. Bampton, a coal-dealer in Brackley-street,
Golden-lane, attended on summons before Aldermen
Hooper and Wood, to answer the complaint of Edward
Kimpton, a porter to Messrs. Christie And Manson, the
auctioneers, for detaining a chest of drawers delivered to
him and his sister by mistake.
The complainant stated, that Mr. Bampton's sister
was a purchaser of lots at a recent sale, and the defendant
attended with her to clear them. A chest of drawers
was delivered by mistake, she not having purchased any
mahogany chest of drawers. They were missed next
morning, and one of the porters remembered that she
inquired for the keys of them. As a ruse, a porter was
sent to ascertain whethei she had them, by taking a
bunch of keys, and offering to see if one of them was
the proper key. She immediately said she had sent them
to her brother's, in Brackley-street. The man went to
the defendant, who said, what he had he should keep ;
and he would produce nothing.
William Wells, a porter, deposed to assisting in load-
ing and putting the chest of drawers in the van in which
the defendant and his sister removed their purchases.
He also assisted in unloading the van at her house in
Great IVarner-street, Clerkenwell, and in putting this
chest of drawers into the van again, that the defendant
might take them home to Golden lane.

The clearing note, enumeratingtlTO lots the defen-
dant's sister had paid for, was put in, to show that she
had not purchased the chest of drawers.
The defendant said he had no doubt his sister had
paid for what she had. Ile had lent his sister money,
and she had transferred goods to Fim in payment.
What he bought he had a right to sell, but he did not
admit that he had now or ever had the said drawers.

The Plagiestrates concurred in making an order that
he shoted restore the property forthwith.
He retired, intimating that he did not mean to submit
to their order.