The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, lB4B.

Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's
place, Old Jewry ; Nicholson and Parker, Litne-street,
Leadenhall-street.

John Dillon, ironmonger, Hereford, Sept. 19 and Oct.
24, at half-past ten, at the Birminghum District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham: Gwillico, Here-
ford; Suckling, Birmingham.
John Croudson, money scrivener, Out 11 and 25, at
the Manchester District Court. Fraser, (Stich' as-ignee,
Manchester ; Hilton, Wigun ; Gregory, Faulkner, Gre-
gory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London.
Thomas Rowell, merchant, Hartlepool, Durham, Sept.
27, and Oct. 24, at one, at the Newcastle District Court.
Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle; Turnbull, Hartle-
pool: Forster, Newcastle.
William Wallace and George Dormand (and not
George Dormond, as advertised in last Gazette), Sept.
13, at twelve, and Oct. 13, at two, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, London ;
Brunton or Cooper, Sunderland.
Christopher Green, coal merchant, Beckford-row,
Walworth-road, Sept. 20, at two, and Oct. 24, at half-
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, A bchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Messrs.
Baddeley, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields.
John Yates, jun., corn factor, Colwich, Staffordshire,
Sept. 21, and Oct. 31, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. W hitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Crabb, Rugeley; Smith, Birmingham.

POST-OFFICE NOTIC/L—The following notice has
been issued by command of the Postmaster-General:—
The sub-post town heretofore called " Lane End," in
the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the county of Stae-
ford, will in future be designated Longton. Postmasters,
&c., will make the necessary alteration in any official
list in which the name may appear.
A FAMILY POISONED EY EATING PRESERVED
SLOES.—On of those incidents which awaken a degree
of interest and show by what simple methods life may
be taken, has just occurred in the village of Eastry, a few
miles from this city. Tuesday week being the birthday
of a child belonging to George Lawrence, shoemaker, of
Eastry, the children of the family were treated to some
aloes, which had been preserved in sugar since last au-
tumn, and of which Lawrence himself, his wife, his wile's
sister and brother partook, all of whom shortly after-
wards became very sick, vomited much, and were violently
purged, in which state they continued some time, totally
one another, and it ended in the
d aossfisttng
the children, 'which took place the fol-
lionewcaatipnhab of e
onegTlhoufrsday. The other two children were also
greatly enfeebled, but the adults did not experience the
ill effects so much. The remainder of the aloes were
consequently thrown away, and the bottle broken. At
an inquest held on the deceased on Friday, by Mr. De-
lasaux, evidence to the above effect was given, as well as
by Mr. Leggett, surgeon, who stated that on being called
in to the family, he found them in the condition de-
scribed, and that the deceased in particular was vomiting
and purged, his extremities being cold. He ordered him,
as well as the other children and the remaing four per-
sons, some brandy and water, with a little laudauum,
from which they all obtained relief, exceptin4 the de-
ceased, who eventually died. And his belief was that
the child died from eating the sloes while in a state
of fermentation. In accordance with these particulars,
the jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." De-
csased was five years of age. • Very fortunately two
bottles of aloes which Lawrence had given to other mem-
bers of his family bad net been touched, or probably
they would have been attended by the Eke unpleasant, it
not disastrous resultF.—Kentish Observer.
The utmost activity prevails among the Pruszian
vessels in the harbour at North Shields, as they are
preparing to return to their own country, after a de-
tention of several months in consequence of the Danish
war.

We are pleased to learn that the tin works at Aber-
earn are to be resumed immediately.—Monmouilahire
Merlin.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Benjamin Sinclair, of 29, Gerrard- street,
Islington, was summoned before Mr. Alderman
Challis, for unlawfully refusing to pay the sum of
2s. 6d:for himself and four others, under the follow-
ing circumstances :
lIIMem Freeman, of No. 1, York-terrace, Barns-
bury Park, conductor to one of Mr. Smith's omni-
buses, running from Islington to Kennington gate,
stated that the defendant and four other parties
entered his omnibus at the Elephant and Castle, and
rode as far as the Post-office. On their alighting he
demanded his proper fare of sixpence each, which
Mr. Sinclair refused giving, on the ground that it
was only a threepenny ride, and therefore he was not
entitled to any more. Witness told him that he must
pay the sixpence each, but the defendant would not
pay his demand, although he pointed to the price
inside the carriage, in consequence of which he was
compelled to take the present proceedings.
The chief clerk asked complainant if he had the fare
properly painted inside the omnibus ? Freeman re-
plied that the fare 6d. was painted inside, black
upon white ground, underneath the number of the
conveyance.
The chief clerk wished to know whether the wit-
ness was in the habit of taking one or two kinds of
fares? Freeman said their regular fare was Gd., but
in the course of the day they sometimes run that dis-
tance for 3d.
The chief clerk asked if the 3d. fare was marked
up also ? The conductor replied that it was not.
The chief clerk then intimated to the Alderman
that the complainant by that admission had violated
the Act of Parliament, and had rendered himself
liable to a fine of 205., for not having a list of fares
exhibited.
Mr. Sinclair said the fact was the complainant de-
manded 33., and not 23. 6d., as he had stated, there
being a party of six.
Alderman CHALLIS asked if there was a printed
placard outside the omnibus ? Freeman replied that
at that time there was not.
Alderman CHALLIS asked the defendant what he had
to say.
Mr. Sinclair replied that he tendered what he con-
sidered the usual fare of 3d. each to the conductor,
but he declined taking it, and asserted that he had a
right to charge the 6d. each. Considering he was
being imposed upon, as he had often ridden by the
same omnibus that distance for 3d. he refused to pay.
In fact, although there might be the fare Gd. painted
up inside, they ran from the Post-office to Barnsbury-
park for 4d., and they, according to what had already
transpired, would be entitled to charge 6d. He,
therefore, did not see why they should attempt to
make him pay 6d., when he knew they were in the
constant habit of running the same distance for half
the amount.

Alderman CHALLIS observed, that whatever fare
was painted inside it was lawful for the conductor to
demand, but he could not take more. He might,
however, if he chose, take less ; but to render that
taking legal a table of fares ought to be exhibited, for,
on complainant's own showing, he was in the habit of
taking passengers both for Sd. and 6d., the latter
being the only fare painted up. The law laid it dis-
tinctly down that where there was only one fare, that
should be the only legal one; but where there were
more, then a list of fares should be kept for every
person's inspection. He (the Alderman) thought the
present practice a most undesirable one.
The chief clerk thought it was rather unfair to
the public to represent-the outside fare to be only 3d.,
which implied a specific contract, and then to turn
round and charge the inside one of 6d.
The proprietor said that the fare of 6d. was not
only painted inside the omnibus, but also on the door
outside.

Alderman CHALLIS—Do you mean to say that you
do not sometimes charge two fares ? Proprietor—
We sometimes do.

Alderman CHALLIS—And you have no table of
fares? Proprietor—We have not; only the 6J.
painted as I before said.
Alderman CHALLIS—Then according to law you
ought to have had, and the summons is therefore dis-
missed.

Conductor—But what am I to do for the fare
which has not been paid, and my loss of time ?
Alderman CRALus—I can't help that; you must
recover how you think proper.
All parties then left the court, the complainant evi-
dently not at all pleased at the result.

BOW-STREET.
Emma Beaumont, Jane Fitzgerald, and Thomas Fry,
were placed at the bar for re-examination, charged
with being concerned in the incendiary fire at the
European Coffee-house 53, Long- acre.
Mr. Clarkson attended for the insurance company.
The statements of Josech Bagster, a porter in
Covent-garden market, who used to lodge in the
house, and was an accomplice in the matter, were
published in our report of the first examination. He
had given information to the insurance office a week
after the fire, because the prisoner Beaumont refused
to give him some money which he was to have for
retaining the secret. From his evidence it appeared
that Beaumont and Fry went to Cremorne-gardens,
by previous arrangement, so as to be away from the
fire when it happened, and that the servant, Fitz-
gerald, set fire to the house in their absence, having
been promised 201. for her trouble. A previous night
had been agreed upon for the fire, and witness was
expected to do it while Miss Beaumont and Fry were
at the Haymarket ; but instead of firing the premises
the witness went into the house and took possession of
31., which had been left upon the mantel-piece, upon
the understanding that he was to do so, and then left
London with a friend, in order to have proof, as he
said, that he had no concern in the fire, if Beaumont
should do it herself uon returning home. This wit-
ness deposed
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Mr. W. B. Storr, of the firm of Debenham and
Storr, of King-street, Covent garden, deposed that he
was the auctioneer and assessor of the Westminster
Fire-office' in King-street. The prisoner Beaumont
was insured in that office for 4001. He produced the ,
claim which she had made in respect of property
alleged to have been destroyed by the fire, for which s
she claimed 2724 16s. On the Monday after the fire,

which took place on Friday, August• 25, the prisoner
Jane Fitzgerald called at his office, and made the fol-
lowing statement to him, without being in any way
intimidated or influenced to communicate the circum-
stances. She said (and witness took it down in
writing) as follows :—I heard Miss Beaumont say to
Bagster that she would give him 201. if he would set
fire to the house. She said she was much in debt,
and owed three quarters' rent to her landlord, and as
he would not grant her a lease of the house, she
meant to injure it. Accordingly, she kept sending me
out with ber clothes to pledge. This was about last
Saturday fortnight; but other things were taken
about three weeks before that. She told me that
she meant to take the tickets and the money to Mrs.
Robinson, shoemaker, in Oxford-street. On last
Thursday week (August 24) a young man called on
Miss Beaumont, to take her to the Haymarket
Theatre. She had agreed with Bagster for him to
set fire to the house, and left 31. upon the dresser for
him. She said she would not give the money into
Ihgster's hands, in case she should be put to her oath
if she ever gave him any money. Bagster arid I were
left in the house alone. I was washing up the cups
and saucers. Bagster took up the money and said he
would not do such a thing as fire the place for 501.,
and he then went away, saying he should go into the
country before she could pull him up for the money.
In the course of that day I had heard Miss Beaumont
and her young man (Fry) talking about the fire.
He told her to get three shillings' worth of powder,
and put it in some greasy paper, and it would blow
the roof up. Miss Beaumont returned half-an-hour
after Bagster had gone, and her young man came
next morning to breakfast. I tuld her how Bagster
had served her about the fire, and she was all day
talking to the young man about the fire, and settling
how it should be done. She promised to give him
201., and said that when they got the insurance-
money they would go to Australia, and that I might
go with them, if I liked, as her servant ; or if not, she
would give me some money. I said I was never
bribed to do such a thing. She sent me out for a
threepenny stamp, and they wrote on something,
which they told me was, " By the God above, this
secret is not to be revealed by either of us." She
signed this paper, and made me put a cross to it for
my name. After this, I was frightened, and went
away to my cousin's, and did not return to Long-acre
till half-past four. Miss Beaumont went out and
bought a pair of boots and brought them to me, say-
ing that she was going that night to Cremorne-gar-
dens with her young man, and would not return till
one o'clock. She said I had better go to bed after
the shop was shut, and when she came home she
would ring double. When I was at tea Mrs. Robin-
son came in, and she, Miss Beaumont, and the young
man (Fry) were up stairs together an hour and a half.
When Mrs. Robinson went away, she took three or
four nice books off a shelf with her, saying, that it
was a pity such nice books should be destroyed. I
said, do you know that my mistress is going to do
such a thing? She said that she never was so much
astonished as she was the other day, when, in return
ing home, she found that Miss Beaumont had left a
large parcel at her house, containing duplicates,
money, and clothes. The parcel also contained two
51. notes, gold and silver, and the policy. Mrs. Robin-
son left Long-acre about nine o'clock. Before Miss
Beaumont left she gave me strict orders to put the
kettle over the gas, and leave the boilers over the fire.
I did 23 she told me; and at a quarter to 11 I went
to bed, not thinking that Miss B. had set any trap
for me. At about 12 I was awoke by the ringing
and knocking of the police. My room was
full of smoke, and I got up the steps of
the cock- loft. I could not get any further,
and Mr. Tucker, the butcher, sent two of his
young men. I had only try nightgown and cap on at
the time, but I slipped on my gown afterwards.
After leaving Mr. Tucker's I went to Miss Beau-
mont's brother, in King-street, Seven-dials. Miss
Beaumont and the young man came there about one
or two o'clock in the morning. The next day she
wished me to keep with her, and say anything she
wished me to say about the clothes, money, and other
things, and she would give me 201. Bagster took
my box on the Tuesday before the fire. I slept at
Mrs. Moore's, 2, Bell-court, Gray's Inn-lane, four
nights running (from Saturday), and on Wednesday
night I slept at my cousin's, Dan Fitzgerald, at
Lower Deptford. Miss Beaumont's sister (Mrs.
Mathews) brought me a pair of shoes. Mrs.
Mathews wanted her sister and me to go into fur-
nished lodgings over the water, but I refused, and
said I would still lodge at Mrs. Moore's, where I
still am. Miss Beaumont gave me two portraits, a
file of bills, and some other things to take care of
for her.
A woman named Williams, who lived in the house
where Fitzgerald slept after the fire, stated that this
prisoner spoke to her of the fire. She said that she
was the only person who knew the cause of the fire,
and she had a hand in it. She brought some wearing
apparel with her to her friend, Mrs. Moore's, who
occupied the neat room. There were eighteen articles,
and she said they belonged to a young man named
Bagster, who had been asked in church to both Miss
Beaumont and herself; to the one at the Waterloo-
road Church, and to the other at St. Pancras. She
said she felt very miserable, and should have poisoned
herself if Bagster had not prevented her. As it was,
she felt inclined to make a hole in the water. Miss
Beaumont called upon witness after the fire, to see if
some boxes of hers had been brought there, which was
not the case.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson stated that she resided at
385, Oxford-street, and her husband was a shoemaker.
Had known the prisoner Beaumont and her family
many years. She called on the prisoner, at the
coffee-house in Long-acre, on the morning of the
fire (Friday). Beaumont said to her, in course of
conversation, " we are going to have a fire here to-
night;" but witness not thinking she alluded to any-
thing in particular, took no notice of the observation.
After she had gone up stairs the servant (Fitzgerald)
said to her, "Did you hear what missus said about the
fire ?" and then told her what was going to be done.
She (Fitzgerald) stated that she had promised to fire
the place that night. Witness told her that she hoped
she would do no such a thing, and said, that if she
did she (witness) would give information of it to the
insurance office. Fitzgerald then said, her mistress
had left 401. and a lot of duplicates at her house that
morning.

Cross-examined by Fitzgerald—I admit that I took
away three books, but not for the purpose of saving
them from the fire, for I did not think any ona would
be so wicked.

Mr. Pugh, the agent to the landlord of the house,
proved that the prisoner Beaumont would owe three
quarters' rent at the ensuing Michaelmas. He had
frequently applied to her for what was owing, but in
vain. About a year or two ago she inquired if she
could not have a lease of the premises ; but they
had no power to grant one—the property being in
trust.

There was abundant testimony in addition to the
above, confirmatory of the facts disclosed by Bagster,
but owing to the lateness of the hour it was deter-
mined that the rest of the depositions should be taken
on another day.
Charles Farr, Thomas Biddle, and Phillips
were charged with stealing a quantity of beer, the
property of their employers, Messrs. Meux and Co.,
the extensive brewers.

Mr. Humphries appeared for the prosecutors.
Mr. H. B. Jenkins stated that he was the store-
house clerk of Messrs. Meux and Co., the brewers.
The prisoners were in their service until Saturday
last as draymen. On that morning witness gave the
prisoner Farr certain directions relative to loading
the drays, after which the prisoners carried some beer
to Gunshot-wharf, the quantity ordered being one
barrel and two kilderkins. Having reason to believe
that two extra barrels were placed upon the van or
dray, witness followed them to Gunshot-wharf, where
he ascertained that the above quantity and no more,
had been delivered there. He met Farr and Biddle,
and asked the former what had been done with
the two barrels which they loaded at the end
of the van ; but they denied all knowledge of them,
upon which he gave them into custody.
Further evidence having been given relative to the
barrels, which a witness had seen placed upon the dray,
and also implicating Phillips in a similar transaction
on a previous day, the prisoners were remanded for
further examination.
WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Thomas Mitchel, of Great Peter•street, West-
minster, was summoned for having neglected to dis-
continue a nuisance caused by the exercise of his
calling as a fat-melter, &c., after having had notice
to do so from the parish authorities.

The defendant lad been summoned about a fort-
night ago for a like offence, and convicted by Mr.
Burrell in five 20s. penalties, upon the evidence of
some tradesmen in the immediate neighbourhood,
who deposed to most offensive smells proceeding from
the premises, caused by boiling of kitchen stuff, &c.,
which were detrimental to the health of those in the
vicinity.
Mr. J. Walmsley yesterday appeared on behalf of
the St. John's Paving Board, and Mr. Prendergast
for the defendant.

After several objections had been taken by the
Learned Advocate for the defendant, and met by Mr.
Walmsley,
Three tradesmen in the immediate vicinity of
defendant's premises one of whom had given
evidence on the former complaints—proved that the
same offensive odours proceeded from defendant's
premises as before. One of the witnesses stated that
his family had suffered much illness, and attributed
it. to the defendant's operations. The witnesses spoke
distinctly to the 28th of August as one of the days
on which they complained of the nuisance.
Mr. Prendergast, in the course of a very length-
ened address on behalf of his client, contended that,
although the law very properly gave the magistrate
a power to order the removal of dung, offal, or other
noxious matter, in or near any public it
place, was

never intended to be made applicable to a case of this
description. It was absurd to suppose that the Le-
gislature gave to a magistrate such a power as to
enable him to prohibit a man carrying on his
trade. Had it been so intended, the mention
of particular trades of a somewhat offensive
character would have been mentioned in
the statute. It was well known that such
businesses as that of fat-melters, bone-boilers, and
other like occupations, .from which smells of a not
very pleasant nature arose, were necessary for the
public convenience, and it was quite obvious that the
Legislature had not been disposed to interfere with
those carrying on such necessary pursuits, as the late
Building Act had specially provided for their con-
tinuance for the next thirty years, from and after its
passing, by stating that no building should be erected
within a reasonoble distance of them. In this case,
the witnesses stated that they had occupied these
houses but seven years, while defendant had been
carrying on his business for upwards of ten, by which
it was quite clear that they had gone to that of which
they complained : it had not come to them. It' then,
as he held, it unquestionably appeared that the
Legislature had considered that these businesses—
unpleasant to a certain extent as they might be—
were to be carried on, he submitted with great confi•
deuce that the question war, whether the proprietors
so conducted them as not to be guilty of a voluntary
nuisance.

Mr. BURRELL observed that the question for him to
determine was, whether the odour arising from de-
fendant's premises was highly offensive. He had
nothing to do with its being voluntary.
Mr. Prendergast said he was in a condition to
prove that no accumulation of matter of any descrip-
tion that might be offensive to the public had been
suffered to remain. If that was prohibited which was
essential to carrying on the business of a fat-melter,
it was in effect doing away with the business alto-
gether.

Mr. BURRELL observed that it was immaterial how
the business was carried on, the question simply was,
was it highly offensive to the public.
Mr. Prendergast said that the summons charged
his client with having neglected to remove the offen-
sive matter &c., of which notice had bean given, and
he Could distinctly prove by witnesses in attendance
that it had baen removed.

The inspector of nuisances observed that it was re-
moved and renewed daily.
Mr. BURRELL held that it was clearly a continuance
of the nuisance, in which view he was opposed by
Mr. Prendergast.

Mr. Prendergast contended, that although the
odour arising from fat melting might be unpleasant,
it was not injurious to public health.
Mr. BURRELL considered, as on the former occa-
sions, that the elite had been clearly made out, and
convicted in the penalty of 20s. for the offence on
the 28th. As the Learned Barrister differed with
him materially in his view of the case, he was happy
to say he had an appeal, which would afford him
an opportunity of advancing his arguments in an-
other court.

Defendant's solicitor stated that his client had in-
timated his intention of appealing against the other
five convictions, and intended to do so upon the
whole, but wished to know whether the opposite
party intended to lay fresh complaints until the
merits of the matter had been determined upon in
another court.

Mr. Walmsley said that two months were allowed
to give notice of the appeal, :which was an anomaly.
The parish authorities had only one object in view—
the preservation of the public health. He then inti-
mated that if defendant continued his calling so as to
be again offensive to his neighbours, and detrimental
to the health of those in the vicinity, that it would be
his duty to take further proceedings.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Charles Henry Took, a journeyman carpenter, was
brought before Mr. Arnold, charged with having
assaulted and obstructed William Arthur, a signal.
man at the Mile end sation of the Eastern Counties
Railway, in the execution of his duty.
The complainant stated, that between eight and
nine o'clock on the preceding evening the prisoner
and another man obtained two tickets at the above
station to proceed in a second-class carriage to the
Shoreditch terminus, but immediately afterwards they
got int) a first-class carriage, and, as both of them
were excited, witness ordered them, at the request of
the other passengers, to get out, which the prisoner
refused to do, and he was compelled to use the neces-
sary force to eject him. The prisoner instantly
assailed him with the most opprobrious epithets, and,
grasping the handle of the carriage as it was moving
off, expressed his determination to cling to it, if it
cost him his life. He succeeded with some
difficulty in dislodging him from his perilous position,
and persuaded him to proceed to the booking-office
and receive back his money, which was at once re-
funded ; but he still persisted in his refusal to leave
the place, and after again assailing the witness with
the most scurrilous language, seized him by the collar
and attempted to throw him down a flight of steps
into the street. The attack was so sudden and violent
that he was flung down several of the steps, when his
descent was fortunately stopped by a brother officer,
who caught hold of his collar and saved him being
precipitated to the bottom. Witness dispatched one
of the porters for a policeman, aad was hastening
back to the platform to turn on the red light, as a
signal to the next train, which was advancing rapidly
in the same direction, that the last had just passed the
station, when the prisoner again seized and held him
fast, and but for the timely interposition of a stranger
on the platform, who, seeing his position and aware
of the danger, instantly ran forward and turned the
light, a collision must in all probability have taken
place, and several lives have been sacrificed.
A porter named Cole confirmed the last witness's
evidence, and stated that but for his interference when
the signal-man was hurled down the steps, be would
certainly have been seriously injured.
In answer to the charge, the defendant said he had
no recollection of having acted in the manner de-
scribed ; he hoped the magistrate would be merciful
towards him, as he had a wife and large family de-
pendent upon his labours.
Mr. ARNOLD animadverted upon the outrageous
conduct of the prisoner, which might have caused a
serious accident, attended with the most calamitous
results ' • but as he was evidently a hardworking man,
and did not appear to have acted from premeditation,
he should impose upon him the mitigated penalty of
203., or commit him in default for fourteen days to
the House of Correction.

ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF CONVICTS FROM

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belonging to that ship, having previously broken into a
store cabin, and changed their convict dress for clothes
reserved for prisoners when their term of transportation
expires. They steered for Portchester, and on their
passage thither filed off the small iron rings which en-
circled their legs. On their landinc, at Porcheater they
gave the boat in charge of a boy, and with a promise to
remunerate him with 6d. on their return in half an hour,
but, of course, the boy saw no more of them. As soon as
their escape was discovered on board the hulk, intelli-
gence was conveyed in all directions, and other prompt
steps taken, with a view to their recapture. Four of
them were retaken on Friday, near Droxford, by a party
of keepers from the York, assisted by the police. When
first accosted, the fellows showed some symptoms of re-
sistance, when a keeper drew his cutlass and slightly
wounded one of them on the knee, when they all four
surrendered, and were brought back to the York the
same evening. Two men, sitting under a hedge, eating
turnips, were seen by a gentleman, between Worthy
and Avington, on Friday afternoon, and these, no doubt,
are the two still at large. The names of the six convicts
are as follows :—Robert Knight, alias Thomas Haren,
Samuel Bridge, James Skyranniclr, George Jefferson
Thomas Natt, and George Holder, the last mentioned
was convicted at the Portsmouth sessions last year of a
burglary at Southsea, and sentenced to 14 years'trans-
porta ion. Ile is one of the two who are not yet recap-
tured.
STOPPAGE OF POST• OFFICE COMMUNICATION IN
THE HEBRIDES.—The embargo on the postal communi-
cation between the Dunvegan, in Skye, and Lochmaddy,
in North Uist, still continues. There is some prospect,
we hear, of an early arrangement; but in the meantime
the inhabitants in the Wt stern Islands, and their friends
on the mainland, are subjected to the greatest inconve-
nienca and loss. A corresi ondent writes us as follows
from North Our packet matters are still in
state quo. The owner of the packet, poor man, unable
to sell his vessel, keeps hanging on. The vessel has
made two trips during the last three weeks, thus bring-
kg us Live mails at one time, and four at another; and
we avail ourselves of every opportunity we can get to
of o
send away letters. This may do, theusgahftberady enough
l
in summer; but what will become
if no arrangement is made? The _
should we call at the Dunvegan post-officworset oforforutrilsolttehars:
we can't get them, unless we undertake
jetttfh.resetxoptehnosepoasntd
trouble of carrying the whole country post-
office at Lochmaddy, and even then we are told that it
a basnudr d
they be con-
ceived?wl
is not to every one that the Dunvegan postmaster will
deliver mails.hetheTp.
st o-uifiCance takeanyt ohinugr more
letters,
not send them to Lochmaddy, nor will they deliver them
at Dunvegan. The whole communication is stopped
until the post-office can brii.g Colonel Gordon and Lord
Macdonald to pay their shares of the expense of the
packet. The entire population—some 17,000 or 20,000
—with their friends, must wait until this mighty matter
be adjusted! Truly, the post-office authorities carry
matters with a high hand.—lnverness Courier.
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BANK OF FRANCE.
The Moniteur of Saturday pu,dishes the followivg
return of the situation of the Bank on Thuraiay more
ning, Sept. 7, 1848:

ASSETS.

... f. 120,893,006 9
92,712,831 0'
496,883 6

Cash in coin and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills over due
••• ••• •••
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
18,717.713 r. 37c. are from branches
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coins and ingots... ...
Ditto on French public securities ...
Ditto by branch banks... ...
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor...
Advance to the State on the lean of
50,000,000 f.
••• ••• •••
Stock forming reserve
••• •••
Rentes, disposable funds
... •••
Inves,ments of the new branch banks in
the public funds
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property and branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns ..
Bills Protested in the Bank ...
Ditto in the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches
Miscellaneous ..
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds

LIABILITIES.

1 3721 6447
0996
4911 2560:.
9358
9021
3961 96r5;
1,340.903 01
50,000,000 00

25,000,000 00
10,000,000 00
33,902,413 62

12,806,741 SO
4,000,000 00
2,521,754 00
200,000 00

230,000 00
... 17,622,540 28
9,448,525 00
253,959 07
202,303 00
1,032,141 2r
6,997,270 00

E 642,701,918 23

f. 67,900,000 00
• 23,350,000 00
10,000,000 00
... 2,90,750 14
• 4,000,000 00
... 315,348 500 00
▪ 67,648,025 00
748,121 00
• 38,654,212 11
79,497,306 52
24,772,294 00
2,912,800 00
1,982,721 00

Capital ...
Ditto of the new Branch Banks
Reserve fund ...
Ditto of the branch banks ...
Reserve- immobili ere
Notes to bearer, in circulation ...
Ditto of the branch banks ...
Ditto to order (post-bills) ...
Account-current with Treasury
Various accounts current ...
Ditto in branches ••• •••
Receipts payable at sight ...
Ditto at branches ••• ••• •••
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ...
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches..
Dividends payable ...
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ...
Discounts, interests, and expense
...
Ditto branch bank
Re discounts of the last six months ...
Ditto in branch banks
Miscellaneous ...

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank,
__

4,860,807 01
2,285,711 00
872,365 75,
1,101,814 04
1,124,519 70'
1,361,985 00
422,932 27
641,216 0°
235,837 0

f. 642,701,918 23

D'ARG OUT.

The metallic reserve has egain increased four million'
in the Paris Bank, and four and a half in the branch
establishments. The amount of bills becoming due it
declined in an exceedingly large propor: ion, being nUi
less than 17 millions in all, 12 in Paris, and five in the
departments. The bills protested at Paris are 00
million less than the preceding week, but remain in Or
departments about the same as they were. The notes to
circulation have diminished six millions; and the Woo°
current of the treasury amounts to about 38i million*,
or 26 millions more than last week. This 'increase le
probably owing to another instalment of the loan of 150
millions being paid by the Bank, though the return'
make no allusion to the matter. The whole amount of
the metallic reserve is now 213 millions to 373 million'
of notes in circulation.

WESTMINSTER WORKING MEN'S

EMIGRATION CLUB.
Yesterday evening a crowded public meeting of tbs
labouring classes, the majority of whom were respec,
able looking mechanics, was held at the Working Mee
Institute, Pear. street, Strutton-ground, one of theines•
densely inhabited and most wretched parts of Wel4•
minster, for the purposa of receiving the report of t
committee appointed to inquire into the practicability °'
forming an emigration club tor the working classes.
Mr. Aitchison, a gentleman who has taken great in:
terest in the Rugged Schools, and in other benevolent
schemes for the advancement of the labouring poor,
voted to the chair.
The CRAlnmax opened the proceedings by obsersil
that the subjt.ct of emigration had of late years attract`
a large share of the attention of the philanthropic; lied
he rejoiced to think that its benefits might shortly be e'
tended to the over-crowded population of Wes's:lingo!'
—(Cheers.) It was only necessary for him to explel°
that a short time ago a lecture was delivered in that tom
upon the subject of emigration, which had led to the
appointment of a committee in order to consider the pro"
priety of organizing an emigration club. The committer
had met several times, and he was now prepared to Alb'
mit their report to the meeting.—(Cheers.) The Chaff'
man then proceeded to read a lengthy report. . R pro'
posed that a club should be formed, to consist-of an ato
limited number of members, and to be connected with the
Society for the Promotion of Colonization—that the sub'
scribers should pay 9d. per week per share, and Is. entry;
and that the election of members for emigration shOula
ake place every three months, and should be decided bl
lot. It was calculated that, with the proposed subscripdonr
the society would be enabled to send out at least 100
members in four years.—(Cheers.) These were the
main features of the plan ; but of course there wed
various points of detail, to which it was not necessvl
to allude.

Mr. STANFORD moved "That the report be acloptedma
a club immediately formed, based on the resolution,/
agreed to by the committee." The speaker entered a
considerable length into the vexata questio of a surplus
population, contending that to that surplus, 61.1 d
the ruinous competition which it entailed, Si!:
present low rate of wages and general distress
the mother country were to be attributed. Ha
saw, from the returns of the trades unions, that there
were 200,000 working men in London, of whom Oro"
third were in employment, one-third in only partial ew:
ployment, pawning their clothes and partly dependant,
on charity, and the remining third wholly relying ern
charity. He then alluded to the rate of wages in our
Australian colonies, and to the small proportion of .the
population of the soil, and concluded by contrastinggthe
advantages to be derived from a well-organised emi rV
tion club with the visionary projects held out by She
Chartists and their land scheme.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BRAT seconded the resolution, and it was agreed
to nem. con.
On the motion of Mr. SLAYNEY, seconded by -W.
JAMES, a committee was then formed for the puipose of
carrying out the ends which the club had in view; and,
after the transaction of some other business not of
interesting character to the public at large, the meeting
separated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGS.—An improved feeling has manifested
itself in our market to-day, and prices are rather highir'
The sales are—Birker.head, Lancashire, and Cheshire June'
tion, 811. Shares, 91. 6s. 3d. dis —Caledonian, Preference, I
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Ai sinche,ster
Leeds), Fifths, 234 dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Exten.
sion), 11 die.—Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury)?
14% dis.—London and North Western, 111%
New Quarters, dis.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln"
shire, 101. Preference, 9% dis.—Midland Stock, 86 X. d•—;
Ditto, New Halves, 83/4 dis.—Ditto (Birmingham and
Derby), 62 dis.—North Staffordshire, 4% dis.—Shrewsbury
and Chester, 10/. Preference, 12% —South-Eastern sit
Dover. No. 4, Thirds, 6% c.—York, Newcastle, and Berssio'
(G. N. E. Purchase), par.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 9.
STOCK Excaamix.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanes'
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9 die. ex int.—Caledoniall•
Preference, 1-16 die.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, 321. Shares,
10 dis.—London and North-Western (M. and B.), Quar
ters, 3/1 n. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Prete'
rence, 9% —Ditto (Grimsby Dock), 14 dia.— Ditto (Sheffield
and Lincolnshire), 1214 dis. —North Staffordshire, 471,
South•Eastem and Dover, No. 4,6% c.
BIRMINGHAM, Sam. 11.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.— The sales are—North Staffordshire,
965. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6%dis.-"
Ditto (B), 83a. sd. dis.
YORK, SEPT. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day wt.
as follows:—Great Nurthern, 61. 143.—North British, 'third*
388.—Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 7s.—York, Newcastle, and vtr.
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 8/. Is. 3d.—York and North
Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 271,4 ex dir.

BIRTHS.
At Kingsbridge, Devon, the lady of John J. Lloyd, E*'
of a son.

On the 7th inst., at Fulham, Mrs. C. Walpole, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Liverpool, the lady of A. S. Gladstone►
Esq., of a daughter.
On the ath inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. John Matthew, of
A son.

the Bth inst., at Acton, Middlesex, the lady of W.
P. Urquhart, Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Elm Cottage, Southsea, Portsmouth►
the wife of Lieut. Hodgkinson, H. M. S. Blenheim, of a son•
On the 9th hist., at Brunswick-square, the wife of Henri
Roberts, Esq., of a eon.

MARRIED.
On the 7th inst., at St. Luke's, Cheetham-hill, Thomas
Sale, Esq., Captain in the Bengal Engineers, to Maria, second
daughter of G. Ravenhill, Esq., of Blanchester.
On the 7th inst., at St. Martin's, Stamford, Major Wood'
rooffe, of Hampstead, late of the Bengal Artillery, W Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Arnold, of the former place.
On the 7th inst., at Leamington, R. H. Haviland, Esq..
H. M. 62d Regiment, to Charlotte Langstaff, eldest daughter,
of J. Langstaff, Esq., of Cambridge-square, late President 01
the Medical Board, Calcutta.
On the 9th inst.., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Mr. Richard
Limpus, organist to the Philanthropic Society, to Tabiths
Ann, the eldest daughter of E. Gilbert, Esq., of her Majesty's
Ordnance-office, Tower.
On the 9th inst., at New Brentford, Mr. J. Rivett, of Strat-
ford, Essex, to Sophia, widow of the late Mr. J. J.;Taylert
of the same place.

On the 6th inst., at Rugby, the Rev. W. Birch, rector Of
Glenfield, Leicestershire, aged 81.
On the 7th inst., at Clifton, Marianne Baily, the wife of
W J. Evans, M.D.
On the 7th inst., at Twickenham, Caroline, the youngest
daughter of Matthew Cotton, Esq.
On the Bth inst., at Herringfieet-hall, Suffolk, John 1
Leathes, Esq.
On the Bth inst., at Bernard-street, Russell-square, Martha
Justice, aged 63, widow and relict of I'. Justice, Esq., late of
Appleford, Berks.
On the 9th inst., Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev J.
-
C. Crosthwaitc, rector of St. Mary-at-Hill.
On :the 9th inst., at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Charles
Peskin, Esq., of the Vote-office, House of Commons, aged 47.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, tit
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 040.
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. In the eehutr •
aliddleeez, Tuesday, September 12, leo.