The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Patterson, grocer, Tonbridge, to surrender, Aug. 27,
at half. past eleven, and OA. 2, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. 'Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Townshend, solicitor, Ilowland-street.

Thomas Evans Jones, linen-draper, linightsbridge•terrace,
Aug. 27, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 2, at one, at the C,,urt
of Bankruptcy. Atager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ;
Lloyd, Milk-street.

John Teasel, carpenter, Norwich. Sept. 2 and 26, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Jay, Bucklersbury ; Jay and Pilgrim, Norwich.
William Norris, builder, Camden New-town, Sept. 2, and
Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Haynes, Camden-town.
John Hartley Butterworth, hotel keeper, King-street,
Cheapside, Aug. 27, at eleven, and Oct. 1, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Ashley, Shoreditch.
Josiah Harris, grocer, Mevagissey, Cornwall, Sept 1 and
29, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman,
official assignee, Bristol ; Cadyon, St. Austel ; Bell and Co.,
Lincoln's Inn-fields,; Moore, Exeter.
Joseph Carne, sen., provision merchant, Truro, Cornwall,
September 1 and 29, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Morgans, Old Jewry;
Smith and Roberts, Truro; Turner, Exeter.
Rufus Parkinson, currier, Ashton-under-Lyne, Aug. 28
and September 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court, Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Clarke and Co.,
Lincoln's Inn-fields; Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Peter Bury, calico printer, Manchester, Sept. 1, and 23, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fras3r, official
assignee, Manchester; Cunliffes, Charlewood, and Bury, Man-
chester; Keightley, earth& and Beaumont, Chancery-lane.
Edward Ward, corn dealer, Medbourn, Leicestershire,
Sept. 10, and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Rawlins,
Market .Harborough ; James, Birmingham.
William Ballinger, maltster, Swansea, Glamorganshi:e,
Sept. 3, at one, and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; David, Swansea;
Bridges, Bristol.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED..

E. S. Harley, grocer, Birmingham—first div. of 3s. in the
pound, any Thursday after Oct. 3, at the office of Mr. Valpy,
Birmingham.

T. Wenman, merchant, Birehingham—second div. of Cs.
in the pound, any Thursday after Oct. 3, at the office of Mr.
Valpy, Birmingham.
T. Sutton, jun., draper, Athenstone, Warwickshire—first
div. of ss. in the pound, any Thursday after Oct. 3, at the
office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham.
J. V. Barber, banker, Walsall—third div. of 6d. in the
pound, any Thursday after Oct. 3, at the office of Mr. Valpy,
Birmingham.

T. Feaver, mercer, Ludgate-hill—final div. of 4d. in the
pound, any Saturday after Oct. 31, at the office of Mr. Green,
Aldermanbury.

J. F. Cannell, bookseller, Liverpool—first div. of 6s. 6d.
in the pound, any Thursday after Oct. 5, at the office of
Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
W. Bull, cloth merchant, Leeds—first div. of 2s. in the
pound, Aug. 20 and 21, or any Friday after Oct. 3, at the
office of Mr. Kynaston, Leeds.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basino-hall-street.

W. B. Lemon. ironmonger, C-rOycion, Sept 11, at half-
past one—J. Miller, painter, Whittlebary-street, Hamp-
stead-road, Sept. 11, at one.
In the Country.

11. B. Preston, coal dealer,Leigh,Gloucestershire, Sept.
28, at one, at the Bristol District Court—W. G. Taylor,
hosier, Liverpool, Sept 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court—C. Pope, copper manufacturer, Bristol, Sept. 11,
at one, at the Bristol District Court—J. Garsed, sen., and J.
Garsed, jun., flax manufacturers. Leeds, Sept. 11, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court—J. Marsh, grocer, Brewood,
Staffordshire, Sept. 12, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. _ _

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
B. Kent, lodginghouse keeper, Rosherville, Kent, Sept. 10
—J. T. Burton, wine merchant, Piccadilly, Sept. 10—W. B.
Lemon, ironmonger, Croydon, Sept. 8--J. Smith, grocer,
Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 8.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

H. Cryer and G. A. Vitty. timber merchants, Manchester
—T. F. Dickinson and J. Falkhouse, plumbers, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne-11. Bowden and N. Marshall, ale merchants,
Plymouth—G. T. Bradbury and D. Armitage, cotton spin-
ners, Ashton-under-Lyne—J. and J. Copland, drapers, Barn-
staple, Devonshire—J. W. Whitmey and J. Webb, curriers,
Birkenhead, Cheshire--T. and D. Pratt, thimble manufac-
turers, Birmingham—•J. Vaughan, J. Clemson, and J. Jones,
silk dyers, Horrocks, Lancashire—J. Welch and J. Barnett,
chemists, Birmingham—J. Taylor, J. Plews, and T. Shaw,
millwrights, Stockport, Cheshire (so far as regards J. Taylor)
—N. Whitley and J. B. Blenkhorn, woollen-cloth manufac-
turers, Huddersfield—T. E. White and 0. Luck, die sinkers,
Macclesfield• street, Soho—J. Madden and F. Malcolm, book-
sellers, Leadenhall-street—S. Owen, J. Hughes, W. Jones,
R. Parry, and W. Owens, limeburners, Anglesey—H.
Thompson, J. Mellor, J. C. Thompson, P. Hope, W. -Pugh,
J. Hunt, and A. Mayor, brewers, Liverpool—E. A. Deudney
and H. Hurst, jun., coal merchants, Hastings—T. Howard
and G. Wardlaw, cotton spinners, Glossop, Derbyshire—T.
and B. Shirley, china-ware manufacturers, Longton, Staf-
fordshire—W. H. Bullman and J. Grant, grocers, Mildenhall,
Suffolk—S. and L. Johnson, booksellers, Manchester—J.
Roby, jun., and G. Hadfield, colour manufacturers, Liverpool.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Barr and M'Nab, engineers, Paisley, Aug. 22 and Sept. 12,
at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Reid and Henderson,
Paisley.
William Moffat and Company, corn dealers, Leith, Aug. 24
and Sept. 15, at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Beveridge,
Leith. •
Norman Macqueen, Orbost, island of Skye, Aug. 25 and
Sept. 15, at one, at Ross's Inn, Portree, island of Skye.
William Mustard, Blairgowrie, Aug. 26 and Sept. 16, at
twelve. at M'Laren's Inn, Blairgowrie.

Russmx.—The account of the gran mae,,tro's present
doings are so contradictory as to deprive each other of all
credit. According to some, the visit of the delegates from
the Paris Italian Opera has revived his all -but extinguished
musical ardour, and having long been without a piano, he
goes every morning to a friend's house, and thumps his
instrument for several hours a day, composing newtatanew
and
splendid work for the Parisians. Others say that
opera will be all a humbug, a piece of ipatchwork made up
of pieces from the Donna del Lago, and. some of his
forgotten operas, with nothing new but the title
and the libretto, which is to be manufactured after the music
has been put together. We arp, moreover, told that arrange-
ments have been made for producing this new work (what-
ever it may be) at her Majesty's Theatre next season. We
must wait patiently till time shall solve this great mystery.
The Milan Gazette says that anew chorus has been corn-
posed by Rossini, aniollsitua with enthusiasm at Bologna, in
p
celebration of the amnesty granted by the new
Pope; but another journal (the Pirata) asserts that this was
merely a chorus from one of his old operas,. to which he put
new words. •

NEW SIGN OF DEATII—The following important
discovery is calculated to be of great service in cases of suspected
death. The communication was lately made to the Royal Academy
of Sciences, Paris, by M. Ripault, who, in directing the attention of
members to the discovery, observed, that it consisted in perfect
flaccidity of the iris when the globe of the eye is compressed in two
Opposite directions. If the individual be living, the pupil retains its
circular form, notwithstanding the compression ; it dead, the aper-
turg become 3 irregular, and the circular form in lost.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, August 18.
The Rouse sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lords present
were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and the Bishop of
Oxford.

PATRICK V. KUNG.

The arguments in this part-heard appeal were concluded
to-day, and
Their LO ILDSHIPS gave judgment, affirming the decision
of the Court of Session.
It is the last appeal their Lordships will hear this session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.—MichaeI Downey,
an Irish labourer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine,
charged with inflicting two wounds on the person of John
Sullivan, by stabbing him with a knife.
Mr. John Swayne, landlord-of the Dolphin public-house,
in Oxford-street, stated, that between five and six o'clock on
Monday evening, having some repairs going on in his house,
he gave directions to Sullivan, the foreman, respecting the
removal of a quantity of bricks, telling him, that if he could
not accomplish the work himself he might procure another
person to assist him ; but he replied, that he would prefer
working over the usual hours than to engage any other per.
son. In the forenoon he had mentioned the prisoner as a
person likely to suit him, but Sullivae objected to him, say-
ing that he was a lazy fellow, and that he would have no-
thing to do with him, which expression the prisoner, who
was at a short distance in conversation with another man,
seemed to have overheard, and, rushing over, he pushed
Sullivan, who was in a stooping position at his work, for-
ward, upon which he asked the prisoner " What the - he
was about?" The prisoner then went away apparently in
a sulky humour, but after a short delay returned, and rush-
towards the foreman with the knife produced in his
hand, swearing at and threatening him, he plunged it int•
him immediately above the left hip, and again into his side,
saying, " Take that and be -- to you." Witness cried
out, " Murder ! help ! police !" while the foreman seemed not
to be aware that such a desperate attempt had been made
upon him, and the prisoner continued brandishing the weapon
in his hand, threatening to skewer witness if he attempted to
interfere with him ; but perceiving the blood flowing co-
piously from the foreman he ran away towards the toll-bar
in Oxford-street East, followed by witness and the foreman.
In the pursuit he kept a pipe in his mouth, and repeatedly
turned round with the knife still open in his hand, threaten-
ing to drive it into witness unless he desisted in pursuing
him. They had got to Bloomsbury-court, where the prisoner
took up a brickbat to knock him down, and, seizing the op-
portunity, he rushed at him, and pinioning him by the arms
he held him in that position, calling out for a constable, who
soon arrived, and the prisoner was secured, after which the
wounded man had himself attended to at a druggist's shop in
the neighbourhood. The foreman and the prisoner were both
sober.

Mr. Bagster, a medical gentleman, said there was a wound
under the blade bone and another near the lower rib, upon
both of which he placed a plaster, to enable the wounded man
to be conveyed to the hospital.
. .

A certificate, of which the following is a copy, was handed
to the Court :

"King's College Hospital, April 18.
"I certify that John Sullivan was brought into this hos-
pital last evening, having received two stabs on the left side
of his back, one of which has penetrated two inches and a
half, and the other five inches. The larger one is a danger-
ous wound, and it is impossible to say at present with what
result it may be attended. lie is going on as favourably as
can be expected.

(Signed) " HENRY SMITH, House Surgeon."
The prisoner being called upon for his defence, said, that
he did it because the man deserved it, for he injured him on
another occasion, and he aggravated him to do what he did,
which he told him he would do if he was to be transported
for it.
Mr. JARDINE said that such a serious offence, supported as
it was by the most undeniable testimony, required no com-
ment from him, and he should order the prisoner to be re-
manded for a week.
STEALING :GOLD LEAF.— Walter Baird, a middle-aged
man, was charged with stealing a rhoda of gold leaf, value
10/., the property of Messrs. Seymour, gold-beaters, of Long-
acre, his employers.
It appeared that the prisoner worked for the prosecutor,
and received 355. a week as wages. On the 16th of July he
absconded, taking with him the property in question, and
nothing was heard of him until information was received by
Phillips, F division, who apprehended him, and he admitted
having committed the robbery through distress. The pro-
perty was subsequently found pledged at a pawnbroker's in
Frith-street, Soho, for 208., and the prisoner having nothing
to say in his defence, was fully committed for trial.
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY A SOLICITOR.—ShortIy
before the closing of the Court, James Hall, described on the
police-sheet as a solicitor, carrying on business at 16, Bos-
well-court, was brought up in the custody of police-constable
40, F division, charged with attempting to commit suicide,
by cutting his throat with a razor.
The constable said that about four o'clock in the afternoon
he was called into a lithographic establishment, in Gate-
street, Lincoln's 113 w-fields, where he saw the defendant in
the parlour, with his neckcloth loosened and covered with
blood.

➢ir. Houseman, 163, Strand, said that on passing through
Great Queen-street with his brother in-law, a gig with two
persons in it passed by at a rapid rate, and at a short dis-
tance was the defendant, with his throat apparently cut, and
his hands smeared with blood. There were some persons
folio wing him, and upon his inquiring of the defendant what
was the matter, the mob collected and they got him into a
lithographic establishment, where, upon examining, he found
a mark at each side of the neck, and, upon reasoning with
the defendant, he said he had made up his mind to destroy
himself, that he would not return to his family, and that he
had made up all his papers, as nothing would induce him to
alter his determination.

Mr. George Johnson, 37, Burton-crescent, who was in the
company of the last witness, said that the defendant was in
a very excited state, in consequence, as he stated, of having
experienced some ill treatment from his brother. After a
short time he became tranquil, but persisted in saying he
would commit the act.
The defendant during the examination held his hand to
his face, and declined saying anything, except that it was
a family difference, and it was his brother who drove away
in the gig.
The proprietor of the house in which the defendant was
found said, that from inquiries he had ascertained the bro-
ther refused to supply the defendant with some money he
required, and he borrowed a razor to destroy himself.

Mr. JARDINE ordered him to be remanded until his friends
could be sent for to take charge of him.
MAR YLEBONE.

• laxsn Rows.—Yesterday Dennis Corcoran and John Cal-
laghan were placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged
under the following circumstances :

On the previous-night, at a late hour, there was a great
disturbance amongst Irish labourers in Horace-street, Edge..
ware-road. There were two hostile parties assembled, deno-
minated the " three-years-old" and the " four-years-old"
boys, and for a considerable time they kept fighting in a
determined and savage manner. There were not fewer than
from 500 to 600 persons assembled, and bricks and stones
were thrown in all directions. The prisoners, who seemed
to be the ringleaders in the riotous conduct alluded to, were
very drunk, and after a determined resistance they were con-
veyed to the station-house.

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They were each fined 20a., and in default of payment were
committed to prison.

SOUTHWARK.

A young man of respectable appearance, whose name did
not transpire, but who described himself as next heir to a
Scotch earldom, entered the court in a hurried manner, and
ascending the witness-box, made an application to Mr. Cot-
tingham relative to the elopement of his wife.
The applicant's statement was to the following effect :
That some time ago being present at one of the theatres,
he was captivated with a young lady who belonged to the
corps de ballet, and having been introduced to her they
were ultimately married. Previously, however, to their
nuptials, it was agreed that she should remain at her father's
house, in which also he took up his abode, having expended
a considerable sum of money in furnishing that portion of
the dwelling which he and his wife occupied. They lived
in perfect harmony up to within the last few days, when his
wife began to exhibit symptoms of displeasure, although she
did not communicate to him, any cause for such feelings;
and he was the more surprised at the circumstance, as he
could assure the magistrate he uniformly treated her with
great tenderness, and attended with the most scrupulous care
to her wants, always supplying her with all the necessaries
she required. To his utter astonishment, however, on his
proceeding home a day or two ago, t.e found that she had
quitted the house, and, on examination, he discovered that
she had taken !away considerable property with her. He
added that he had strong grounds for believing that her family
perfectly well knew wiser, she was, although they denied that
such was the fact, and refused to give him any information
on the subject. Such conduct on their part was calculated to
excite an impression upon his mind that they acquiesced in
the step their daughter had taken.
Mr. COOTINGHAM asked him what assistance he could
render him ? and said that he could not find his wife and com-
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cifher to return to him again. The magistrate then inquired
if he had any reason to believe she had gone off with any man ?
The applicant said, that since his wife's departure he had
ascertained that a Frenchman used to be seen in her com-
pany when he was from homy and engaged in matters con-
nected with the title and estates to which he aspired, and to
which he was the rightful heir. He, however, did not in-
tend to impute infidelity to his wife, but he considered she
acted imprudently in forming such an acquaintance without
iris knowledge or concurrence. " If, however," added the
applicant, "my wife will return, I will, forgive and forget
everything that has happened, and never allude in anger to
the subject."
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