The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancs•
shire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 27/. 10s. Shares,
5 per cent, for 1847-48, and 6 per cent., 1849, 15—Lancashire
and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths,
334 dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Extension), 8 dis.—Ditto,
Fifths (late West Riding Union), 51/4 dis.—London and
North-Western, 123—Ditto, New Quarters, 11,2 p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire' Quarters, No. 2, 1114—
Ditto, 10/. Preference, 10% —Ditto (late Great Grimsby and
Sheffield), 27 dis.—Ditto (Docks), 13% dis.—Midland Stock,
85—Ditto, New Halves, Sl/4 dis.--North Union (A), 203
Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), New 13/. 63.
Shares, Ya dis.—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheater),
61/4—South-Eastern and Dover, 23", i —Ditto, No. 3, 9 dis.
—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 71,4 c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1A dis.
MANCHESTER, Dac. 27.
Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield, Preference,
1074—North Staffordshire, 5 dis.—West Riding Union, 5
1-16 dis.—Grimsby, 20/. Shares, 107 i die.—East Lanca-
shire, New, 8 dis.—Grimsby, Quarters, 61/4 dis.—Leeds, 321
Shares, S dis.—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 2, 111/4,
BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—North British, Thirds,
4L,Bs. 9d.—Coventry and Nuneaton, 1,2 dis.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (B), 3/. 18s. 9d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, Bs. 9d.
p.—South Staffordshire, 41/4 dis.
YORK, DISC. 26.
STOCK EXCHINGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 221,4
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extensions), No. 1, 13%
—York and North Midland, Preference, 101/2.

[AIMIRTISRMENT.]—A Remarkable Cure of Dropsy
of the Chest by Holloway's Pills.—Extract of a letter
from Mr. Alunday, farmer, Kennington, near Oxford,
dated Dec. 2, 1848, to Professor Holloway ; Sir, —Hay •
ing on a former occasion apprised you of an extraordi-
nary cure upon myself by your invaluable medicine, it
gives me great pleasure to testify again to its efficacy in
a case of dropsy of the chest, with which my shepherd
was afflicted, to whom, the moment I was informed of
the nature of his complaint, I recommended a trial of
your pills, which advice was adopted with complete
success, for by taking a few boxes only be was perfectly
cured and is now in sound health.—Sold by all Drug-
gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244,
Strand, London.

WESLEYAN TRAIT SOCIRTY.—Last evening the
thirty-second annual meeting of the Southwark branch
of this association was held in the Southwark Chapel,
Long-lane, Southwark. D. W. Wire, Esq., presidia,
and addressed the meeting. After adverting to the
tranquil state of this nation, when compared with other
countries, he called upon the secretary to read the an-
nual report. From that document it appeared that
during the last year 66,149 tracts had beerkdistributed,
of which number 4,800 were sent to the Berevolent So-
F3"tY, 5,375 given to the subscribers, 8,000 sent to the
rha.lll eaStaßoentghekay4..s,B,ohooolT, the
and workhouses, 850
society. The society had deeply to distri-
butedregretdteZlb:yissthoe -h it treasurer, who diel in last May. It further ap-
peared, from the report, that the association is debtor
to the treasurer for the sum of 131. The report was
adopted.

LAW INTELLIGENCE. r
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. D.e. 27.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Broderip yesterday received 51. from " R. W.
F." for the poor-box, an acknowledgment of which
was requested by the press.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Alfred Pinner, described as an unem-
ployed toll-collector, was placed at the bar before Mr.
llatnrnill, charged with having been concerned with
others not in custody in assaulting and robbing a
decent-looking labouring man named Jeremiah
Travers, living in the East-road, Hoxton.
The prosecutor, whose face was much bruised and
swollen, stated, that his wife having complained to
him on the preceding day that she had been grossly
insulted by the prisoner, he proceeded in search of
him, and at length found him in company of several
other fellows, collected in front of a beer-shop in
Plummer-street, City-road. He was about to re-
monstrate with him upon his scandalous conduct,
when he was instantly surrounded and hustled by
the whole of the party, and while endeavouring to
disengage himself from their grasp one of them
struck him a violent blow in the face, which
brought him to the ground, and before he could recover
his feet the prisoner and another man knelt upon his
chest and held him down, whilst a third commenced
rifling his pockets, from which they stole all the
money he had with him, amounting to about Bs. in
silver and copper. The moment the last man had
secured his money he darted offend attempted to effect
his escape, and was intercepted by a person who had
witneFsed the outrage, and who endeavoured to seise
him; but he had no sooner caught hold of his coat,
than he was knocked down by two others of the gang
and robbed of his pocket-handkerchief. The prose-
cutor in the meantime continued struggling with his
assailants, but each time he attempted to rise he was
struck down by the prisoner, who forcibly held him
on the ground until his confederate had effected his
escape with the money, when he and the others also
made off in different directions. The robbery was
the more daring from having been committed in broad
daylight, and the prosecutor went forthwith to the
station-house, and gave such an accurate description
of the personal appearance of the men who had at-
tacked him, that it resulted soon after in the prisoner's
apprehension.
Upon being asked if he wished to put any question
to the witness, the prisoner unguardedly replied,
that it would be perfectly useless for him to do so,
as the prosecutor was in such a state of helpless in-
toxication at the time of the occurrence that he
could not possibly recollect anything that had taken

place.
Police-constable Jenkinson, however, proved that
the prosecutor was perfectly sober when he came to
the station to lodge his complaint; and that his face
and person exhibited marks of severe ill-usage, evi-
dently very recently inflicted. From his description
of the man who had committed the robbery he was
recognised as a well-known character who had been
previously convicted of felony, and the prisoner upon
being taken into custody admitted that he had been
present during the affray, but positively denied the
more serious part of the charge. '
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner
now repeated the same statement he had made to the
officer, but

The. MAGISTRATI ordered him to be remanded for
a week for the completion of the evidence against
him.

CLERKENWELL.
Our reporter is requested to state that "R. E."
has forwarded a letter containing the half of a 101.
note for the poor-box, with a request that its receipt
might be acknowledged in the newspapers.
LAMBETH.

Mary Sparritt, a common prostitute, and Hyam
Benjamins, a Jew, who lives with her, were placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott for further examination on
a charge of being concerned with another person, not
at present in custody, in stealing a gold watch of the
value of !71. and upwards of 3/. in gold and silver,
the property of Mr. Joseph Pearson, a railroad con-
tractor.

From the statement of the prosecutor it appeared
that on the night of that day week he met the female
prisoner and another woman near the Victoria
Theatre, and agreed to spend the night with them.
He accompanied them home to their lodging, and
went to bed in an upstairs room with one of the
women. On awakening at an early hour in the morn-
ing he missed his companion and his gold watch, and
also found that his purse, which he had placed under
his pillow for safety and which contained :3 1 . in gold
as well as some silver, had been emptied of its contents.
The prisoners, who slept down stairs, denied all
knowledge of or participation in the robbery, but the
prosecutor not believing the statement gave the man
and woman into custody.
The female prisoner was again remanded, but her
companion was discharged.
There were very nearly forty charges disposed of
by the Magistrate caused by the drunkenness and ir-
regularity of the preceding day, and in upwards of
twenty of them penalties of various amounts were im-
posed.

THAMES.
John Kelly, an Irish mendicant in the dress of a
sailor, who has been in custody a fortnight, was
brought up for final examination before Mr. Yardley,
charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Char-
lotte Connell.

The prosecutrix, a woman of the town, who was
discharged from the hospital on Saturday last, stated
that on the night of the 14th instant she was in the
Sir Sidney Smith public-house in Dock-street,
Whitechapel, in company with a sailor, when the
prisoner entered and demanded relief in a very
improper manner, and on her telling him to get
away, he said to her young man, " Can't you help a
poor shipmate ?" She told him if he asked for relief
in a proper :manner she would not hinder her com-
panion from giving him money ; but, if he insisted
upon it as a right, he had better take himself away.
IL: then offered the sailor a jacket for sale, which he
refit.,ed to and said he did not want it. The
prisoner then abused her in a gross manner, using the
most foul language and epithets of a revolting des-
which the witness gave the curt a
sample. She then pushed the prisoner with both
hands and told him to get away. He immediately

A fiat was this day opened before Mr. Commis-
sioner EVANS against Mr. John Fitzgerald, of 39,
Portland-place, and of Pendleton, in the County Pa-
latine of Lancaster.

Mr. Fitzgerald is an extensive mine owner and alai)
a coal mercant. It reported that the unsecured
debts are upwards of 10,0001., but the assets are said
to be considerable. The fiat bears date December 20.

The cases on the list were few and unimportant.
Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque there was a
last examination in the matter of P. W. Spokes, a
bookseller, in the Strand. Mr. Lawrance opposed;
Mr. Duncan and Mr. Parry supported. The bankrupt,
after some discussion, passed.

M. Mitchell, in presenting a donation of 101. 10s.
to the poor-box from the Court of the Drapers' Coin-
pany, expressed a hope that the press would give pub-
licity to the fact, that others might be stimulated to
join in placing funds at the disposal of the magistrates,
who had no other money applicable to charitable
purposes than that the public supplied. During the
approaching inclement season many pitiable cases
were sure to turn up in the ordinary course of the
business of a police-office.
_

1114IILBOROUGH-STREE
From "E. W. M." 101. has bean received for the
poor. box.

A ruffianly-looking fellow, named Hugh Stack, a
labourer, who has upon many occasions been brought
up for assaults of a most violent description, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on the
serious charge of having stabbed police sergeant
Bewley, 20 D.
Bewley, who seemed very faint and weak, and
who had evidently sustained serious injury, deposed
that on the previous night, as he was on duty in
Orchard•place, Portman-square, the prisoner, without
saying a word, ran up to him and spat in his face.
Witness desired him to go quietly away, but he
swore he would not do so, and, rushing at com-
plainant with a knife, forced the weapon through his
belt and coat, at the same time injuring his thumb.
Complainant called out for assistance, but none ar-
rived before the prisoner had plunged a knife into the
thick part of Bewley's thigh, which caused him to
bleed profusely. Before he was stabbed the prisoner
made many thrusts at him, which with his truncheon
he parried otT, and his impression was, from what was
stated by a number of the prisoner's friends, that they
had made up their minds to wreak vengeance upon
him to a far greater extent.
Tapp, 90 D, deposed to the brutality exercised to-
wards the sergeant, as did also another policeman of
the same division.
Bewley was recalled, and he said that the prisoner,
whilst making thrusts at him, used language of a
most violent description.
Mr. 'Wilson, assistant to Mr. Vickers, surgeon,
Baker-street, said that he dressed the wound, which
was in the fleshy part of the thigh ; it was an inch
and a half in depth, and had it been a little higher up
the knife would have perforated the femoral artery,
and the haemorrhage therefrom might have caused
death.
In reply to Mr. BROUGUTON, the witness said that
the sergeant was not in any danger, but that he re-
quired several days' rest.
It was further stated that at the station-house the
prisoner was very outrageous, and that a knife was
fund upon him.
The prisoner stands committed on the charge of
cutting and wounding, but will he brought up again
next Tuesday, when the depositions will be read over
end he will be sent for trial.
WESTMINSTER.