The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

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MAY 21, 1846.

i.UESIIAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
W. Nell, wine merchant, Iffanchester--second div. of 4i.
in the pound, on Tuesday, June 9, or any subsequent Tues-
day, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
J. Todd, ship builder, Hylton Ferry, Durham—second div.
of 2d. and two-thirds of a penny in the pound (in addition to
2s. 6d. in the pound on new proofs), on any Saturday, at
the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon Tyne.
Thompson and Millis, merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
first div. of 9d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office
of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Hall, grocer, Durham—third div. of 4d. in the pound
(in addition to 3s. in the pound previously declared), on any
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
C. Williams, currier, Sunderland—second div. of Id. and
two-elevenths of a penny in the pound (in addition to Is. in
the pound previously declared), on any Saturday, at the
office of-Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. W. Collyer, victualler, Newgate-street—first div. of
3s. 10d. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Basinghall- street.
Christie, Birmingham.
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W. Gill, poulterer; Leadenhall-market—first div. of 7s. 11d.
in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Tur-
quand, Old Jewry.
W. Spjers, printer, North Audley.-street, Oxford-street—,
first div. of 4s. 4d. in the pound, on Wednesday, May 20, and two following Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Turquand, ,
Old Jewry.

DIVIDENDS.
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milliner, Fore street, Cripplegate, June 11, at
half-past twelve—W. Ebrey, . silk dresser, Aldermanbury,
June 11, at twelve—J. Linnit, goldsmith, Argyll-place, Re-
gent-street, June 9, at one—J. Barclay, mercantile clerk,
Farm-terrace, Clapham, June 9, at half past twelve.
In the Country.
F. S. Smith and J. Stanley, merchants, Liverpool, June 9,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Gibbons and
W. Sherwood, merchants, Liverpool, June 9, at twelve, at
the Liverpool District Court—J. Sugden and W. Gamble,
merchants, Liverpool. June 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool
District ourt—J. Pearson, fellmonger, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, June 11, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—T. Heppell, timber merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
June 11, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—R. and J. Balmer, ship builders, South Shields,
June 12, at half-past ten, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis-
trict Court—R. Agars, woollendraper, Kingston-upon-Hull,
June 17, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—
J. Lilly, fanner, Doddershill, Worcestershire, June 10, at one,
at the Birmingham District Court—B. Sayle and T. Booth,
iron masters, Sheffield, June 12, at eleven, at the Cutlers'-
hall, Sheffield—G. J. Birtinchamp, June 9, at twelve, at the
Liverpool District Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
R. Kimpton, jeweller, Crescent, Jewin-street, Cripplegate,
June 9—J. Martin, fringe manufacturer, Wood-street, Cheap-
side, June 15—J. Hawkins, journeyman butcher, Hurst,
Berkshire, June 19—J. C. Barratt, carver, Strand, June 9
R. Ensoll, draper, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, June 12—T.
Heppell, timber merchant, NeWcastle-upon-Tyne, June 9
W. Maud, licensed victualler, Liverpool, June 9—S. Cullen,
chemist, Nottingham, June 11—J. Wright, scrivener, Tam-
worth, June 10—W. W. Sanderson, baker, Great Russell-
street, Covent-garden, June 9—G. Dardier, merchant, Liver-
pool, June 9—W. J. Harris, tailor, High-street, Southwark,
June 9—J. T. Gibbons, grocer, Eton, June 9.
. _

PARTIIERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
- W. Thirkill and W. Leach, plumbers, Huddersfield—A.
and H. Wyatt, yeomen, Hinton-farm, Southamptonshire—
W. Muschamp, J. B. Muschamp, and T. W. Weighill, jun.,
linendrapers, Sunderland—J. Davison, J. Stead, and W.
Stead, stone merchants, Alcoates-hill, Yorkshire—l'. Thorne
and H. Hooper, Newfoundland merchants, Bristol—H. Wise
and J. Restarick,•plumbers, Walford, Hertfordshire—J. C.
Westbrook and J. Brown, printers, Northampton—R. David-
son and G. Weatherhead, blacksmiths, North Shields-,J. W.
Wilson and J. F. Erskine, commission agents, Liverpool—
W. C. and C. Bodley, ironfounders, Exeter—W. Sowden and
J. Edwards, cabinet-makers, Manchester—A. S. Levy and
J. C. Vaughan, wholesale fruit merchants, Botolph-lane--G.
B. Morewood, Morewood, J. R. Morewood, and M. Lef-
ferts, merchants, New York—ll. Smith and D. Marshall,
general agents, Star-court, Bread-street—W. Foster and J.
E. Mansfield, grocers, Francis-place, New North-road, Hox-
ton—R. Russell and B. Ramsbottom, joiners, Salford—R. and
W. Fentem, grocers, Oldham—J. Brooks, J. Erooks, jun.,
and J. M. Brooks, calico printers, Manchester (so far as re-
gards J. Brooks).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
Mary Robertson, Jane Thompson, and Isabella Steele,
partners of the Duddingstone Coal Company, May 22, and
June 12, at twave, at Stevenson's Rooms, Edinburgh.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS NEAR
• THE CLARENCE DOCK, LIVERPOOL.
A riot took place near the Clarence Dock last night,
which, though arising from a comparatively slight cause,
was soon, partly from ignorance, and partly from the
spirit of mischief that lurks amongst a portion of the
dock labourers, and especially the " navies," and the
boys, women, and others of that densely-populated
locality, threatened for a considerable time dangerous
consequences, and ' caused great alarm amongst the
peaceable portion of the inhabitants. It appears that an
emigrant ship called the Rappahannock had received on
board in the Victoria Dock 460 steerage pas-
sengers, her complement being, according to her ton-
nage, only four hundred and fifty. The Government
emigration agent of the port having gone on board and
ascertained the fact, ordered the chief mate, Mr. Cushen,
to transfer the ten extra passengers last entered to an-
other, and we believe equally fine vessel, the Ocean.
The mate on announcing the fact in the steerage, that
ten of those in the vessel must relinquish their places,
was answered by shouts and yells from the whole
of the parties intending to go by her. An abso-
lute refusal to quit, was, of course, the result. In
this state of affairs, the Government agent told Mr.
Cushen that he must exert himself to get rid of the
supplement of passengers, and he employed the steward,
we believe, to effect this object. A rope was fastened
round the body of the most uproarious malcontent,
which eventually fastened on his ankles, and he was
hauled up by it from under the deck, partly in a frolic,
and partly as an example to the others who had to leave.
The man, thus rather roughly handled, and probably
subject to fits, fell into, or threw himself into a fit, and
when being carried on shore, and afterwards to the
Northern Hospital, a hue and cry was raised that he
was dead, and that the mate was the aggressor and the
cause! Mr. Cushen (who is stated to us to be a gentle-
manly and humane man), is son-in law of Mr. Hickson,
of the George the Fourth Inn, in Waterloo-road, in the
neighbourhood ; and, being recognised as he went to the
house, an immense mob collected round it (at the bottom
of Stewart-street),!demanding the " murderer." Mr.
Inspector Johnson was early on the spot, at
first with only four police-officers, and by
the most strenuous, yet temperate, exertions,
prevented the house from being broken up and
gutted. The assailants quite forced one of the doors, but
were gallantly repulsed. The family of Mr. Hickson,
including Mrs. H. and several young ladies—her
daughter and others—were dreadfully alarmed ; but a
reinforcement of police-officers was got up and pro-
tected the house, though unable to do so until ;nany
panes of glass were broken by the infuriated mob, who
(men and boys) assailed the 'officers with successive
showers of stone, pieces of brick, &c. Immense crowds,
including females and children, continued to gather in
the streets adjacent for a period of about two hours, bent
upon mischief. The whole of that part of Waterloo-
road, Stewart-street, Oil-street, -&c, presented, from
time to time, dense.masses of the lower classes, chiefly
Irish, who seemed to be much inclined for a bloody
affray, but the disturbance was quelled by about nine
o'clock. After all, the passenger who had been ejected
from the ship remained only a few minutes in the hos-
pital, being so little hurt that he would not remain, and
he was soon afterwards walking about the inn, though
not known to the crowd. Mr. Cushen was secreted in
the house, which was protected through the night.—
Liverpool Standard of Tuesday.

To THE SPORTING WORLD.—The sale of Bell's Life
in London exceeds twenty-five thousand. Bell's Life is
published at 170, Strand, every Saturday, in time for the
afternoon railways. Anticipations of the Derby and Oaks,
by Pegasus ; horses arrived ; and exclusive particulars of
coming events at Epsom, in Bell's Life of Sunday, May 24.
" CAPTAIN O'SULLIVAN," the new novel from the pen
of W. H. Maxwell, Esq., the popular author of "Stories of
Waterloo," is, we bear, already a great favourite at the cir-
culating
libraries ; nor is this to be wondered at, for the
Gallant Captain is the very model of, a dashing, fighting,
love-making, Irish hero. Whether engaged in a duel or
avoiding a dun, beating the moors for grouse or whipping the
water for salmon, making love to one lady or running off
with another, Captain O'Sullivan proves himself worthy of
his country and his profession, and the reader is obliged to
acknowledge, at the close of the three volumes of his adven-
tures, that he never met with a more entertaining companion.
OPENING OF THE EASTERN UNION LINE.—We are
led to understand, from what we believe to be good authority,
that this line will be permanently opened for goods traffic on
May 26, and for passenger traffic on the Thursday following.
—lpswich paper.
OUTRAGE ON Two FEMALES.—Benjamin Painter, of
the parish of Astley Abbotts, near Bridgnorth, was brought
up on Saturday last, the 9th inst., before W. W. Brown, Esq.,
on a charge of having committed a rape on the persons of
Sarah and Kezia Higgins, two females of weak intellect, on.
the 4:11 of May last. Jemima Higgins, sister of the complain-
ants, stated that on Monday, May 4, she saw the prisoner
Painter skulking about her house. She had occasion to leave
home, but on leaving, she gave her sisters precaution to fasten
the door if they saw Painter coming to the house. Sarah Hig-
gins stated that Painter entered the house before they saw him,
he caught hold of her, and threw her on the sofa, where
he effected his purpose. That he remained in the house and
prevented either of the two females giving an alarm. After
remaining in the house a short time, he commenced on
Kezia with great violence also, and after a severe struggle,
he then threw her down on the sofa and effected his design.
He then left the house, telling them he hoped they would
not tell any one about it. Shortly afterwards theirsister
t
Jemima returned home, they informed her of he
circum-
stance, she sent for a woman, Mrs. Hayward, residing in the
neighbourhood, who examined them and found some marks
of violence on their bodies from the brutal attack of the pri-
soner. Painter pleaded guilty of the offence, and hoped the
magistrates would look over it; he was committed to take
his trial at the next Shropshire assizes. This distressing
event has occasioned groat excitement in thet
neighbourhood
hof Astley Abbotts, owing to the whole of e parties being
of unsound mind.—Shropshire Conservative

POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the western
division of Finsbury was held last evening, at the
Queen-square Rooms, 8, Theobald's.road, to consider
and to promote the objects and views of this society.
THOMAS WAKLEY, Esq., M.P., took theclair at half-
past seven o'clock, and opened the business,by reading
the requisition, signed by 116 of the householders of the
district, out of which the meeting originated. He said,
few things could give right-hearted men more plea-
sure than to contribute to relieve the distress of their
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supported by the rich man's purse—supported by those
awnhdoadlleesviriaetdettobelemssiesnfutrhteuneevs of
evils which arose from poverty,
which concerned the poor had untie poor man. The law
was not considered so good as wheneTne i a change, and
; but still
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law in the land which says that the
poor
want shall have relief; and the object of tilTean who is in
to see, at least, that that law was administererpetyhZs
to try to improve the law—and perhaps, if its
working
was so objectionable, to get rid of it altogether. He said
that the feeling of unkindness—the hard-heartedness on
the part of the workhouse officials, whose duty
it was to administer to the wants of the destitute, was a
disgrace in a civilised country. It was unprecedented
that riches should be accumulating in one part of a
country—a country which stood a terror to foreign
nations—and that those who were the producers of the
wealth of that country should be sinking into deeper
destitution and distress. Poverty was an evil in any
place; but it was a dreadful calamity in England, for it
was punished as a crime. It was the object, then, of
the Society to see that the poor but deserving family
should have the attention and relief which the law
entitled them to ; and if the Society did not succeed, it
would not fail for want of an effort. He was glad to
say, the press had come to the aid of the Society, and
exposure would follow the flagrant conduct of the ad-
ministrators of the poor-law. Why, he heard of a case
but the other day. One poor man was guilty of saying
of a poor-house, that the people there were hungry, and
ate raw potatoes ; but it so happened that this poor man
was reduced to have to apply to the house for relief.
But what said the officer ? You must get no more out-
door relief. What had you to do with the house that
you should talk of the people here being so hungry as
to eat raw potatoes? You shall come into the house, and
you'll see whether you can't be brought to eat raw
potatoes. In the case of the Andover Union, which was
before the House of Commons Committee at present, the
Society had sent down persons to Andover to make inquiry
of every poor family, what had been their condition ;
whether they had ever applied for relief ; and where
and what answer had been given them ; and what had
been the circumstances of their family at the time : and
there would be poor men and women brought up to Lon-
don at the expense of the society, to give evidence before
a Committee of the House of Commons. The Chairman
concluded his energetic address, which called forth great
applause, with expressing his approbation of the society,
as the best he had ever been connected with, and his de-
termination to support it to his utmost.
Mr. COCHRANE gave a statement of the efforts in
which the Society, during the time for which it has
existed, had been engaged. He said the first effort of
the Society had been to reform a diet table, formed by
the guardians of the Marylebone Workhouse, for the
casual poor, which proposed gruel or soup for the appli-
cant. The gruel, he was glad to say, had been with-
drawn.
The next case which came under the Society's notice,
was that of a woman, Gardiner by name, who was ill-
treated by Ann Lynch, in the Marlboro' House, at Peck-
ham. That woman had had her hair torn out by her
companion, in the workhouse, and then turned out, be-
cause she had become noxious to a person at the head of
that department. The Society took it in hand, and Ann
Lynch was put into Hersemonger-lane Gaol, and the case
was to have come on for re-hearing before the magistrate
OR the 2d of May, but the woman Gardiner was not
to be heard of. The Society wrote to the Lord Mayor,
and applied to the Commissioners of Police- if.it were
possible to hear of her, but she had not:Been heard of
since, and there was good reason for believing that
bribery had been exercised on that occasion. The third
case was that of Mary Jones and Mary Smith. One
of these women was coming out of the house before
mentioned, and plucked a flower as she passed along
the garden walk. The workhouse officer upon that came
forward and knocked the woman down. Her companitin
remonstrated, but his assistant came forward and
knocked the companion down also. A. warrant was ap-
plied for at Lambeth Police-office, and got against the
two men. The case should have come on for hearing
on the 9th instant, but the vi omen were not to be found.
Here, too, they had reason to suspect bribery. The
Society advertised this history,' and'offered two guineas
to any one who would inform the Society of the women
in question, and two guineas for information about the
woman Gardiner. The remaining case. was that of
another poor woman, recommended to, the attention of
the Society, who had attended at the Poplar Union, and
been refused assistance. The society took various
steps, but at last applied to the magistrate at
Lambeth, this being the parish in which the
woman had last been staying. She was recom-
mended to apply to the workhouse in Lambeth,
but meanwhile, this woman, met with Mary Smith,
one of the women they had been wishing to discover,
and it was found out that she had been bribed one day
with 2s. 6d., and another day with 35., besides articles
of apparel—a list of which the Society had—all
given her by the two ruffians who had abused these
women. Mr. Cochrane concluded his statement by
moving—
" That this meeting is of opinion that the labouring
classes, and the destitute poor, are at all times anxious
to maintain and recover their position of independence
by their own honest labour and exertions. That they
are not insensible to the humiliations and modifications
attendant on the necessity to seek parochial relief, and
that the parish authorities ought to be, under every
legal, as they are under every moral, obligation to render
them efficient aid in the hour of trial and difficulty, in a
spirit of kindness and benevolence."
Mr. FIELDEN, M.P., seconded the resolution, and sup-
ported it with many other remarks on the working of
the present poor-law.
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. KITCHENER moved, and Mr. MASS seconded, the
following resolution, which was put from the chair and
carried unanimously i—
" That this meeting warmly approves of the principles
and objects of the Poor Man's Guardian Society, acknow-
ledges the services which it has already rendered by
awakening public attention to many acts of hardship
and cruelty, committed towards the poor by various
parochial authorities, and pledges itself to promote its
benevolent operations, by aiding to increase the list of
members, and the funds of the Society."
It was moved by Mr. SAVAGE, and seconded by Mr.
OSBORNE, and passed unanimously by the meeting,
" That their cordial thanks are pre-eminently due to
The Press,' for the valuable assistance spontaneously
rendered in recording the exertions of the Poor Man's
Guardian Society."
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman
with acclamation, Mr. Wakley acknowledged the honour,
and added several remarks and instances corroborative
of what had been said, after which the meeting
separated.

ON THE EDUCATION OF THE

OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
When we compare the way in which young men are
severally appointed to commissions in the Queen's, and
inthpaotinttheoroffiedeueztwioofn f
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iooyra Royal Army,those ao sf
in the East India Company's Service, we are justified
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the company's land forces. e say not this invidi-
ously ; far from it, for the two services are twins, and
the members of the one ought to look upon the mem-
bers of the other as brothers ; but we do make the aster-
tion in the hope of stirring up the authorities at the
Horse Guards, to test the scholastic attainments of can-
didates for commissions before they be gazetted.
The senior officers of the scientific corps of both her
Majesty's and the Company's service have been taught
at the same military academy ; and, although the offi-
cers of these corps are now educated in separate esta-
blishments, we presume that they are on a par, the one
service with the other, as to theoretical knowledge ;
but, at the present day, the balance of practical know-
ledge must, we think, be with the company's scientific
corps ; as, for the last thirty-one years these have
been frequently actively engaged in the field, while the
Queen's engineers have not been called upon to put a
spade in the ground, or the artillery to unlimber in
action, since the year 1815. But how stands the result
of comparison with the infantry officers of the two ser-
vices ? Why, a candidate for a commission in this
arm of her Majesty's service, need not, of necessity,
have so much education as a national school-boy. Ay,
young gentlemen may, and do often obtain commis-
sions, who can do little more than write their own
names, who would be puzzled to know how many days
there are between the 25th of January and the 25th
of June, and to whom the plan of a fortification would
be as unintelligible as a sheet of paper covered with
Arabic characters ; while, on the contrary, • those des-
tined for the Company's Infantry, with a few exceptions,
must, for two years previous to obtaining commissions,
be under professional instruction at the Company's mili-
tary seminary. We cannot, then, be wrong, when we
say that there must necessarily be a preponderance of
military science in that Service, whose officers have at
least been grounded in its elements previous to their en-
tering, than in that where commissions are given to
those who may not be able to numerate a line of six or
seven figures, or know a berme from a banquette.
Coasidering, then, the number of our youths who are
destined for the- civil and military service of their
country, it is to be regretted that the education in our
public schools, and other large seminaries, is so ex-
clusively classical and mathematical, so wholly intended
as introductory to our Universities, for which indeed
the greater portion of the students are not intended.
We should therefore be glad to see, in all these schools
a branch in which the education should be more par-
ticularly English. This plan has been found to be
eminently successful in the Cheltenham College, which
has now been established nearly five years, where, while,