The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

IMPRISONMENT.

Two Years—Charles Swan:William Girdleston, John
Kelly, Joseph Francis Fussell, and three months, to
enter into his own recognizances in 1001., and find two
sureties in 501. each to keep the peace for five years ;
Joseph Williams, and one week, own recognizances in
1001., and two sureties in 501. to keep the peace for three
years ; Charles Ernest Jones, and one week, bail him-
self in 3001., and two sureties in 1501. to keep the peace
for five years ; Alexander Sharp, and two months, with
bail himself in 100/., and two in 501., and keep the peace
for three years ; William John Vernon, and bail himself
in 100/., and two in 501., to keep the peace for three
years ; Francis Looney, and two months, with bail him-
self in 1004, and two in 501., to keep the peace for three
years.
Eighteen Months—Daniel Keefe.
Twelve Months—John Smart, Richard Aldrige,
Luke Keefe, Jose
ph Saville, John Smith, Joseph Collis,
John Mortimer, John Brown alias Benjamin Locker,
James Reath, John West, John Harris, Jonathan Case,
Charles Beard, William Davis, George Burgess, James
Cannon.
Nine Months—John Atkins, John Smith, Caroline
William Jones, Robert Smedly, John
Smith, Thomas
Daley.

Six Months--Thomas Franklin, Mary Niles, Philip
Clog, Sarah Johnson, Mary Ann Brown, Namah,
James Richard Taylor, William Hartley, Daniel Daley,
Frederick Allen, William Lovel, William Reeve, Sarah
Williams, Thomas Cannon, Thomas Jenkins, John San-
derson, John Mack.
Four Months—Sophia Harley, William Robe, George
Holt, Catherine Ganey, Elizabeth Webb, Richard
Tanner, Elizabeth Robinson.
Three Months—Richard Edwards, James Brantcn,
Joseph Wilkinson, William M'Kew, William Dixon, and
to be whipped, John Atkinson, Oliver Chapman,
William Aldis, Robert Downing, Richard Frith, Samuel
Palmer.
Two Months —John Oliver, John Falkner, Daniel
Rush, Richard Reeder.
One Month—Thomas Woodinc,,, Wm, Tait.
To be Imprisoned in Newgite for Terms varying from
Three Days to One Month—Sarah Rice, Emma. Hart,
Henry Nixon, Thomas Skinner, William Moss, and to
be whipped, Elizabeth Caps, George Whitehead, Robert
Slaughter, Edward Scarborough, Eliza Cawood, George
James, and to be whipped.
Remanded until next Session—George Day (bailed),
Samuel Watchman.
Judgment Respited—Alfred Bishop, Ann Fuel.
Acquittals—Abraham Simmonds, John Saunders,
Charles Perkins, John James (ordered to be detained),
Ellen Baynes, Jane Pearson, Joseph Brian, James Brian,
William Mann, Daniel Oliver, Sarah Poole, Eliza Wert,
William Matthew Aston, James Hinton, John Welch,
Henry Johnson, Charles Dag, Mary Ann Wood, Henry
Clarke, Peter Williams, Edward Worby, John Walker,
Ellen Merritt, Patrick Collins, John Jones, Thomas
Stevenson, Ann Grey.
The Court sits again on the 25th of August.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
George Jones, a person dressed like a porter, was
brought up charged with having presented a forged
order for quicksilver at the warehouse of Messrs. Drew.
Hayward, and Barrow,: of Bush-lane, wholesale drug-
gists.
The prisoner called at the warehouse on the 7th inst.,
and presented the order to one of the servants of the
establishment. It purported to be the order of Messrs.
Browning, of St. John-street, with whom the house had
done business. The forgery was suspected, and the pri-
soner was desired to call again at three o'clock, when
the quicksilver should be ready. The prisoner then
went off to. Messrs. Browning and mentioned that ho
had been employed by one of their men to apply for the
quicksilver, and had been promised by him sixpence for
calling; but a Messrs. Drew and Co. had refused to let
him have the article, ho would be obliged by the trifle
of money for which he bad performed the message. One
of the firm gave the prisoner into custody instead of
giving him the money.
The prisoner was remanded till this .day.
BOW-STREET.
A woman named Mary Filer was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. Hall, charged with being concerned in a Post-
office robbery of 391.75. Id., under the following circum-
stances:—

On the Ist of July Mr. Grainger, a merchant, in
Pudding-lane, transmitted through the Post-office a
cheque for 39/. 7s. ld., payable to Mr. Ponsonby, of
Southwick-road, Paddington. On the Bth it was found
that the letter never reached its destination, but on ap-
plication at the bank it appeared that the cheque had
been presented by the firm of Moses and Son, and duly
cashed. Messrs. Moses were next applied to, and they
stated that on the 4th instant two men, who gave the
names of Marshall and Spring, ordered some clothing of
them, and tendered the cheque in payment of the re-
quired deposit, upon which, utter sending to ascertain
the genuineness of the cheque, they paid the dif-
ference in the amount. It was arranged that the
goods should be called for on the following
Thursday. Accordingly, on that day a boy,
named Cremer, came to the shop for the goods,
which were delivered to him; but, by previous arrange-
ment, ho was followed and taken into custody. The
boy then explained that his aunt, the prisoner at the bar,
requested him to go with her to show her the Duke of
York's Monument, in St. James's Park, that morning ;
that she there met and conversed with a postman, and
afterwards sent him to Moses and Sons, to inquire for a
parcel, giving him a shilling for his trouble. The aunt
was then apprehended, but she declined stating what
she knew upoa the subject. Meanwhile, it having
been ascertained that her nephew was a postman, and
that he had absconded, a reward of 20/. is offered for his
apprehension.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination.
John Thomas Witchell, a letter-carrier in the Post-
office, was charged with stealing a letter, containing a
shilling, two duplicates, and two penny stamps.
He was detected while concealing the letter in a me-
morandum book. and was accordingly watched.
He was also remanded.
MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
James Grieves, alias Penson, alias Barenger, was
brought before Mr. Bingham for final examination,
charged with having obtained goods from various parties
by false and fraudulent pretences.
William Tytherleigh said—l live at Stalbridge, Dor-
setshire. I deal in butter and other goods. On the
26th of May last I received through the post a letter,
signed George Benson, and containing a request for my
terms for goods. I looked into the London Directory,
and finding the name of George Penson, cheesemonger,
88, Berwick-street, I supposed the letter came from the
same party. I wrote an offer of contract to supply him
with butter. On the 28th May I received an order for
butter, and on the following day I sent 3501b5. of butter,
worth 161. ls., directed, as requested, to the Boar and
Castle, Oxford-street. The next day I sent to the
place 601bs. more butter, but as I did not receive a re-
mittance, as promised, I made inquiries, and was in-
formed that no such person lived at Berwick-street.
William Archer, a stationer, of No. 88, Berwick-
street, said about six weeks ago, the prisoner, who was
a stranger, came into my shop and asked if I had any
objection to take in his letters, as the person next door,
' who had done so, had left. I consented, and the pri-
soner wrote on a piece of paper George Benson, cheese-
monger, High-street, Woolwich. I was to have a shil-
ling a week for taking in his letters. I received six let-
ters, five of which were given to the prisoner. The
three letters received by last witness, I believe to be in
the prisoner's hand-writing.
Hugh Lavington, carrier, 69, Old Bailey, proved that
a woman brought several orders. Some goods sent from
Mr. Tytherleigh, were delivered in consequence of these
orders. Witness was not sure that the prisoner was
the man who was seen with the woman after the order
for delivery was brought.
Edward Stone, a commercial traveller, proved that he
had been twice to Woolwich, and could find no such
person as George Benson, of High-street, Woolwich,
there.
George Ham, police-constable, proved that he found
two tickets on the prisoner which had come on the pack-
eges in which the butter had been sent.
Mr. Brickwell, Overthorpe, a magistrate, proved that
he received letters and orders for butter from the pri-
soner. He sent four or five parcels of butter before he
found out the fraud.
A gentleman from Messrs. Makinson and Sanders,
Temple, attended for the prosecution, and produced
numerous letters whieh the prisoner had sent to the
parties who had been defrauded, and from others who
did not come forward to prosecute. The letters were
written in such a plausible, business-like way as to dis-
arm suspicion.
There was a case of forgery, but it was not gone into,
Mr. Bingham suggesting that it would be competent for
the parties to bring forward evidence at another time if
they chose to proceed against the prisoner.
The prisoner, who is a respectable, elderly man, of
quiet, grave appearance, admitted that he had received
goods in several instances; but he said there were some
parts of the evidence not correct.
He was fully committed.
SOUTH WARK.
George Pearson, a very powerful young man, and re-
turned transport, was brought before Mr. Seeker,
charged with attempting to stab a policeman.
Serjeant Dorrig, M division, stated that, having re-
ceived information that the prisoner was at large, after
having been sentenced to twenty years' transportation,
two years ago, for highway robbery, he (the Serjeant)
proceeded with a policeman to a fair held on some ruins
in the Mint, where he was likely to bo found. They,
however, did not succeed in their search, and at a later
period of the evening they entered a house, a receptacle
for thieves in the Mint, and there found the man they
were in search of dancing with some women in one of
the rooms upstairs. The moment the prisoner saw the
police were after him, he made a bolt out of the room
down stairs followed by the policeman, but instead of
running out of the house, he stopped short, and concealed
himself in a dark corner on the staircase. The police-
man, aware that the prisoner was still on the premises,
began to search about for his man, and when he ap-
proached the spot where he was concealed, the prisoner
made a stab at him with a knife, which fortunately he
avoided by falling back, and having his truncheon out,
he struck his assailant a blow on the arm which disabled
it, and made him drop the weapon. The prisoners was
then secured and taken to the station-house.
The prisoner said that the police were mistaken in his
identity, and that he had not returned from transporta-
tion before the expiration of his sentence.
Sergeant Watkins, however, was called, and he proved
that the prisoner was tried and convicted of highway
robbery at the Old Bailey in 1846, and sentenced to
twenty years' transportation.
The prisoner then said that he should decline saying
anything further on the subject of the charge until a
more fitting opportunity.
The MAGISTRATE said that he should commit the pri-
soner for trial.

ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.—Saturday next will be St.
Swithin's Day, remarkable on account of a well-known
popular notion, that if it rain on tkis day there will be
rain for forty days to come. St. Swithin was an emi-
nent and learned Bishop of Winchester, and priest to
King Egbert. The story runs, that being buried at his
own request in the churchyard of the Cathedral, the
priests, a hundred years after, felt desirous of doing him
greater honour, and commenced the work of translating
his remains into the interior. This was on the 15th of
July. They were stopped in their work by a heavy fall
of rain ; neither could they resume their duty next day,
for the heavy rain still continued. In short, this rain
lasted forty days, by which time the priests became
convinced that it was to stop them in a work which,
though well meant on their part, was ill taken on that of
the saint, and they gave up the point. Ever since then
it has been held as a maxim that if there be rain on St.
Swithin's Day, there will be rain forty days ensuing.
THE WEATHER. -- The weather continues fine,
and the glass is high, but as this is Glasgow Fair week,
and St. Swithin's day falls upon the Saturday, we need
not holla until we get out of the wood. Meantime the
crops everywhere, and the potatoes especially, are look-
ing most beautiful.—Gtaggoto Constitutional.

GAS-LIGHT

AND COKE CO,

Name of Company.

Dividend
per

Amount
of
Share.

:PAN=ES.

Paid. I Price.

Annum.

X. a. d. X. s. d.
British .• ••••..• • • • •• 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 16
Ditto Provincial •• 11. 83. 20 0 0 19 0 0 22
Bristol .. --••• • • • • • 101. per cent. 20 0 0 - -
Brighton ...... •• • • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 - 16
Citrof London .. •. • lOl. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
Continental Consolidat 925. or share; 50 0 0 39 5 0 -
Ditto, New •• .... •• 855. pr sharer 50 0 0 37 10 0 -
Equitable 4ss. pr share; 50 0 0 50 0 0 36
Imperial ...... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Independent ........• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64
L0nd0n...............- •.•• .• • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Phcenix 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 293%
itatcliff .... . 5/. and bus. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General .• •• • • 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15
Westminster Chartered 3/, 50 0 0 - 55%
Ditto, New -••-• 125. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11
C Itt..a.T.El,lsS.
„;
i. . ,
*4 Dividend
'
Names of ; 1
L.! IDivideud! p„, e Names of +
Companies. Isj per ^"c ' Companies. cd per Price.
it: Annum. .2 Annum.
------ - ,-
X X
Ashtn& Oldh, 97 71. p c 80 Macclesfield . 100 - -
Barnsley •• • •jl6O 121. 180 Neath ..• •• • 100 lB/.
4rlttik&Abrgllso si. so Oxford.. •• • • 1001 20/. 190
Birmingham 35, 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78; -
Coventry.... 100; 25/. - Regent's •. •.331 11. ss. TN
1; ,t.bv • •••• 'lOO 61. 63 Rochdale.. • • 85 4l. 54
Ells rre&Chsl33 41. 48 Somrsct Coal ISO 71. iO, 130
c.:e A ash ... 110011 324 - Do.Lk I'd St 12 61. p. c. -
LlrandJunctn , 100 51. 77 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 290
1
GrandSurreylloo; - 35 Shrewsbury..
125 151.
rand Unionlloo, 1/. 10s. 25 Stourbridge.. ur -
145 201. 285
arantham • .11501 121. - Severn and
l
&emit & Avu' 39, 7s. 6d. 4N Wye Rail. j 26 1/. Bs. 26
Lee•lsStLivrplloo 341. 410 WarwickSel
Leicester .....140 101. 75 Rirming. j .00 W. 65
Letestr &Nthl 831 4/. 36 Warwick&
:aoughborogh; 142, 701. - Napton.. 1 100 - 46
Monmouthshlloo 81. - Worcstr Se} 78 21. 39
Slntgemryshlloo 51. - Birming.
lieltnMwbryloo 101. - Wilts & Brks 67 IL 11
•TaXST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- -
£ s. d. £ s. d
(lank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11'4
Clydesdale Bank -•• • • 63% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 149
Eastern Bank.. ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91.195.
Edinb.lc Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 551
Exchange Bnk of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 415%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 121
North of Scotlandßank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.155.
North British Bank •• - 50 0 0 10 0 0 3/.ls.
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 118%
Unionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80
`Western Bank. ... •• • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 25%
B. Accord. Lifeaud Fire - 20 0 0 0 11 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. ..... 10 0 0 1 0 0 105 Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 2/. 45
Edinburgh Life Instil' 6l. per cent. 100 0 0. 12 10 0 17
East of Scotland Life ..... 10 0 0
20 1517 06 115.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 .
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 i
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd Si. per cent. 100 (1 0 10 0 0
it '.77.,
Life Assoc. of Scotland 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0
Mercantile Life .. -. . -
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0
10 0
00 01 1: 00 552.00. d..
North British Incur 53% /.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22
1 0 0 175.0 d.
0
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent.
10 0 0
20 0 011 0 ss.
Scottish Life and Guar. - 0 15 0 105.0 d
Scot. Mao. and Gen. Life 5/. per cent. 1 0 0
1 0 0 11. 15
Scottish Union Inarnce. 6MI. pr cent. 20 0 04
1 50
00 , 1259. 04d
Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50
UnitedStaniard Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0
IYZISCZZLAICZOUS.,
Dividend Amount
per of Paid. Price
Name of Company.
Annum. Share.
-----_ -- -
-------.
X. s. d. X. s. d.
-
Australlan'A ericulturl 100 0 0 30 0 0 -
Anglo-Mexican Mint., 1%. 43. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
Canada ... .• •••• • • • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 28
-
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. -.-
City Bonds.. •••• • • • • 3341. pr cent. - - 82
Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen. Revers. is Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 , 100 0 0 911
Gen. S teataNavigation 11. 8s• 15 0 0 14 0 0 18
- 10
London Institution . • • - _
Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 8 0 50 0 0 51%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Royal Mail Steam.. - 35%1. pr cent. WO 0 0 60 0 0 453%
South Australian... • • - 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
Van Dleman's Land.„ 11. per share. 100 0 0 .23 0 0 -
Universal Salvage •• • • - 25 0 0 5 0 0 -

MARKED SALMON.—On Wednesday morning, sth
July, a salmon was brought up at Orchardnook ice-
house, near Perth, in one of the gathering boats, a fine
well-grown fish of 121bs. 2oz. weight, with a bit of
small copper wire attached to the root of the tail, on the
back of the fish, below the dead fin, where the skin had
been bored through with an awl, the wire, about two
inches in length, inserted, then twisted double, and, thus
marked, the fish had been turned adrift to seek its way
to the sea, from which it has now returned. Wo hope
every publicity will be given to this, so that the river,
time, and place where the fish was marked may be as-
curately ascertained, and another fact added to the in-
vestigation into the natural history of the salmon.—
Dundee Courier.

THE ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.--The anni-
versary festival of this, the oldest institution of its class
in the metropolis, was celebrated yesterday in the great
room of the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The
chair was taken at six o'clock by Lord Carington, the
president, who was supported by Archdeacon Holling-
worth, the Rev. Messrs. Rogers, Blomfield, Hackman,
&e.; Drs. Lloyd, Brownless, Sewell, &c. Mr. Toole
officiated as toastmaster, and Mr. T. Hatton, assisted by
Mr. Huxley, the Misses Williams, and others, arranged
the musical department. The usual toasts, the health
of her Majesty the Queen, and the hcalths of the other
members of the royal family having been drunk with the
usual display of loyal feeling, the chairman proposed
success to the dispensary, and advocated its claims to
public support. A large subscription, amounting to up-
wards of 7001., was then announced by the secretary.
In this subscription were included 1001. from an anony-
mous friend to the building fund and 1051. from the cor-
poration of London, besides many donations of 101. from
various individuals. The festivity of the evening was
kept up until past eleven o'clock, when the company
broke up and departed.

RAIL WAY SHARE 311ARKET:-5
LIVERPOOL, JULY 13.

STOCK EXCHAIIOI2. It will be seen from the following
list of business trarsaeteJ, that rates are improved. and the
extent of business done greater than yesterday. The sales
are—Lancashire and Yorlishire, Fifths, 1 chs.—London and
North-Western. 126—Ditto, New Quarters, l' c. p.—Ditto,
paid up, 2211 —London, Brighton, and South Coast, New
5/. Shares, is p.—illidland Stock, 106 —North Staffimishire,
2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover. 25 York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), I% p. ex int.