The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Henry Brooker, grocer and cheesemonger, High-street,
Peckham, Surrey, to surrender Dec. 11, and Jan. 15, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; May,
Princps-street, Spitalfields.
Morris Williams, warehouseman, Priest-court, Cheapside,
Dec. 16, at eleven, and Jan. 15, at half-past twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Pain and
Hatherly, Basinghall-street.
William Bottle, grocer, Dover, Deo. 18, at three, and Jan.
19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Simpson and
Cobb, Moorgate- street.
William Hodsoll, farmer, South Ash, Kent, Dec. 22, at
half-past two, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Tripp, Ade-
laide-place, London-bridge; Hayword, Dartford, Kent.
David Stuart, baker, Stockbridge-terrace, Victoria-road,
Pimlico, Dec. 18, at half-past two, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-
lane, Lombard-street; Hare, Coleman-street, City.
Thomas Gammage and James Mott, cheesemongers,
Broad-street, Bloomsbury, Dec. 12, at two, and Jan. 23, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee,
Aldermanbury ; Rosser, Dyer's-buildings, Holborn.
Samuel Cunningham, sawyer, Minerva-street, Hackney-
road, Dec. 11, and Jan. 16, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court,
Basinghall- street ; Taylor, Moorgate-street.
John Edward Spicer and Cornelius Poulton, paper-manu-
facturers, 'Alton, Hampshire, Dec. 17 and Jan. 18, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street, City; Wilkinson,. Nicholas-lane Lombard-street.
James Peter ‘Vilson, builder, Clarence-place, Pentonville,
Dec. 12, at two, and Jan. 23, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street ; Goddard, King-street, Cheapside.
William Suddaby, millwright, Kingston-upon-Hull, Dec.
16, and Jan. 20, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynas-
ton, official assignee, Hull; Hicks and Marris, Gray's Inn-
square; Holden and Son, Hull.
Joseph Graham, sen., bookseller, Alnwick, Northumber-
land, Dec. 21, and Jan. 21, at half-past one, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wiikley, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Meggison, Pringle, and Co., London ;
Leithead and Wilson, Alnwick.
William Sharp, jun., brewer, Pudsey, Yorkshire, Dec. 22,
and Jan. 12, at e,even, at the Leeds District Court. Kynas-
ton, official assignee, Leeds; Rushworth and Co., Staple Inn,
London ; Sanderson, Leeds.
George cheated= and Jamea Woodall, glass manufactu-

rers, Birmingham, Dec. 16 and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir-
mingham; Reece, Birmingham; Tarleton, Birmingham.
Thomas Anderton, miller, Yardley, Worcestershire, Dec.
19, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Tarleton, Birming-
ham.

Richard Hallam, grocer, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dec: 15,
and Jan. 19, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding,
Newcastle-under-Lyme; Smith, Birmingham.
Alfred John Francis and Alfred Percival, slate merchants,
Liverpool, Dec. 17, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool
District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger
and Co., London-wall, London ; Dodge, Liverpool.
David Cook, wheelwright, Liverpool, Dec. 18 and Jan. 8,
at' eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry.-
chambers, London; Pemberton, Liverpool.
Charles Malpas, victualler, Manchester, Dec. 17 and Jan.
7, at.eliven, at the Manchester District Court. Powdrell,
official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall,
Temple ; Dearden, Manchester.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending December 1,
1846, is 335. 2irid. per cwt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Dec. 3.

WILLIAMS V. CHAPLIN AND OTHERS.-THE IRON .STEAM-

BOAT COMPANY.

This was an action brought by Mr. Charles Williams,
an extensive coal. merchant, against the defendants,
William Chaplin, John Sweeting, &c., the directors of
the London and Westminster Iron Steam-boat Com-
pany, to recover the sum of 784/. 85.10 d., the balance of
1,2871.55. 10d., for coals supplied for the use of the said
company.

Mr. Bodkin, M.P., with Mr. Hawkins, appeared for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Bramwell for the<defendants, who,
by allowing judgment to go against them by default, ad-
mitted that something was due to him.
The case lasted the entire day, but from the evidence
on the part of the plaintiff it appeared that up to the.
15th of July last the plaintiff had been supplying the
company with coals at 235. 6d. per ton. From that time
to the 31st of the same month 311 tons more were
delivered; but for these, in consequence of a great
scarcity, 325. 6d. was charged, the plaintiff's agent,
a man named Cripps, telling the secretary to the com-
pany that if any more were required 405. per ton
would be charged for them, on account of increasing
scarcity. No objection was made, and plaintiff supplied
230 tons more between the Ist of August and the 15th.
In part payment a bill for 5002 was given, and on the
plaintiff making application for the money he company
refused to pay, on the ground that the price of 325. 6d.
and 40s. per ton for coals was most exorbitant.
On the part of the defendant a tender of the plaintiff
offering to supply the coals at 245. per ton all the year
round, which was not accepted, was put in, and wit-
nesses examined to prove that the prices charged during
the months of July and August were extremely high ;
but, on their cross-examination, it was elicited that the
market price fluctuated so much at that period of the
year that it was almost impossible to give a fair average
price.

Mr. BODKIN having replied,
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, telling the
jury the only question for their consideration was the
amount of damages the plaintiff was entitled to for the
goods he had sold. It was entirely a question for them
to say whether 325. 6d. and 40s. was a fair price for coals
during July and August.
After retiring for a short time, the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 7842 Bs. 10d.

The Conde de Montemolin, accompanied by Lord
John Manners, M.P., the Marquis of Barbancois, the
Marquis of Villafranca, General Don Juan de Monte-
negro, and Mr. Borthwick, M.P., visited Westminster
Abbey, the Temple, and Lincoln's Inn, on Wednesday.
LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITITTION.—On Wednes-
day evening the quarterly meeting was held in the large
theatre of the institution, at Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, where the chair was taken by Mr. Valen-
tine. A letter was handed in, accompanying a purse
containing the proceeds of an amateur theatrical benefit,
which had taken place at the Olympic Theatre, the per-
formers being the members of the elocution class. A
resolution was proposed that the money should not be
received, as derived from sources inconsistent with the
objects of the institution. After a long and stormy dis-
cussion, a division took place, in which there proved to
be a trifling majority in favour of receiving the money,
which is to be appropriated to the reduction of the debt
of the institution.

LONDON HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon a quar-
terly general meeting of the directors and guardians of
this charity was held at the board-room of the institu-
tion; G. Lee, Esq., presiding. The usual financial and
medical report of the quarter, read by William J. Nixon,
Esq., the honorary secretary, was of a highly satisfac-
tory nature, it having shown a considerable decrease of
the previously prevalent diseases. At the conclusion of
the business of the court, Henry Lang, Esq., the solicitor
to the hospital, tendered his resignation of those duties,
which was aecepted, and the office declared vacant.
A VESSEL SUNK.—Between seven and eight o'clock
on Wednesday evening the crew of the schooner Lynx,
lying off Fresh Wharf, were suddenly alamed by a rush
of water into the starboard side of the vessel They
rushed on deck, when it was found that the pressure of
the vessels in the outside tier had forced a large wooden
fender through her side. The means tried to stop the
leak proved ineffectual, and the vessel filled and sunk in
half an hour. She was thrown so completely on her
broadside that her masts and rigging farmed a complete
bridge over the other vessels.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOLWICH.—The
lower part of the town of Woolwich, lying between the
steam-boat piers and the Royal Asenal, which has so
long excited the surprise of visitors on account of its
mean appearance, is about to be pulled down,. and a
spacious new street, communicating with Beresford-
street, erected, so as to allow visitors to pass in a direct
line to the Royal Arsenal. Spacious wharfs and
dwelling-houses will be erected along the bank of the
river.

THE REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—The requisition
to Lord Ashley has received upwards of one thousand
signatures.—Bath Chronicle. _

—The Society of Friends have entered into a sub-
scription of 2,0001. in Dublin to relieve the wants of the
poor in Ireland, and the same body in England have also
subscribed 20,0001. for the like purpose.
The Bestwall and Swineham estates of 296 acres,
close to the town of Wareham, were yesterday sold by
Mr. Robins, at the Auction Mart, to the Earl of Eldon,
for 12,700 guineas. These estates were for many years
possessed by the late Sir Claude Scott, Bart. Two
renters's hares in Drury-lane Theatre were also sold,
producing 66 guineas each.

CAPTAIN MANGY.—We are informed by a friend
of Captain Manby, who writes, in reply to a statement
in The Sun of yesterday, that he received a letter from
him on Wednesday, dated Dec. 1, from Great Yarmouth,
in which he mentioned that he enjoyed good health, and
has just entered into his 83d year. Captain Manby,
moreover, was not in the royal navy. He was gazetted
with the rank of Captain in the army, when he was ap-
pointed Barrack-master of Yarmouth.

- ATROCITIES IN THE EAST.—It is stated in a letter
from Constantinople of the 12th ultimo, that Bederhau
Bey, the chief of the Kurds, after his massacre of the
Nestorians, sent three hundred of the heads of Christians,
which he had cut off, to the Pacha of Mossoul, informing
him that if this present did not please him, he would,
also send him the heads of three hundred Turks. The
Pacha had done all in his power to deter the Bey from
his work of pillage and massacre, but in vain. It was be-
lieved, however, at Constantinople, that the Sultan would
supply the Pacha with the means of curbing the career
of this monster.

Seventeen men were committed for trial by the
magistrates at Warrington, on Wednesday, on a charge
of conspiring to intimidate Messrs. Jones and Pott and
the workmen in their employment. The conspirators
were members of a trade union, and the charge arose out
of their attempting to prevent Messrs. Jones and Pett
from getting any workmen, because those gentlemen had
taken adult apprentices into their employment.
HAIR-CUTTING GRATIS.—I must 'tell you a ridi-
culous thing that occurred in a small village of Oxford-
shire last week, and which caused a diminution in my
congregation of yesterday. A man, wearing a certain
badge of authority, passed through the village, and call-
ing at each house, informed the inhabitants that he was
a Government barber, sent from London to cut all the
poor people's hair gratis, it having been ascertained to be
the most effectual way of keeping off the cholera, which
had already made its appearance. The fellow succeeded
in carrying away with him sufficient hair to make several
wigs, and the deluded people were obliged to set to and
make warm caps to defend their bare heads from the
cold which set in next day.—From a Correspondent.
TARING THE VElL.—Wednesday the imposing ce-
remony for the reception of two postulants to what is
termed the Order of Mercy, took place in the chapel
adjoining the Convent of Mercy, in Parker's-row, Ber-
mondsey. It having been known that the Hon. Miss
Middleton and Miss Byrn were about to seclude them-
selves from the world by taking the white veil of this
order, long before. the appointed hour a very numerous
assemblage, including several of those ladies' friends,
had filled the body of the chapel. Shortly before
twelve o'clock the wax candles on the high altar were
lighted, and immediately after the tolling of the convent
bell announced the approach of the sacred procession..
The usual ceremony, service, &c., was then performed,
and the novices invested with the white veil and cloak.
The ceremony, which commenced at twelve, did not con-
clude till two o'clock, and the young ladies, who looked
in remarkably good health and spirits, each answered
the interrogatories of the celebrant with an exceedingly
firm and clear voice, and bore, without apparent fatigue,
the very long and somewhat arduous parts they had to.
bear. _ _ .

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THE SCOTT MONIIMENT.—We understand that trr,e
corners of mouldings and pieces of corbel heads in seve-
ral of the galleries of this splendid work of art have
been chipped off, while letters have been rudely waved
into the stone in different parts of the building. We
can scarcely find words sufficiently strong to 'renounce
the conduct of the individuals who have been. guilty of
such Vandalism.—Caledonian Mercury.
During the early part of the week a report was
current that Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey was about to
visit Colchester, for the purpose of looking into :the
register with some of the burgesses, aiid endeavouring to
ascertain what chances existed of his return, in the
event of a general election. A letter was, however, re-
ceived from him, postponing his visit for a fortnight, in-
tending then to give his attention to the subject.—lps-
wichExpress.

The electric telegraph has now been in operation
for several days between Loxtdon and Ipswich and the
intermediate stations.