The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-28 00:00:00

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 24.

Ist Regiment ot Lite Guards—Cornet George Henry
Earl of Mount Charles, from the 2d Dragoons, to be
Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, vice Gratrex, who ex-
changes, April 28.
2eDrageon Guards—Lieutenant Charles Hugh Key,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ley, who retires;
Lieutenant Edmund Huck Keene, from the 15th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Key; April 28.
2d Dragoons—Cornet and Sub• Lieutenant Thomas
Price Gratrex, fr.,m the Ist Regiment ot Life Guards,
to be Cornet, vice the Earl of Mount Charles, who ex-
changes. Dated 28th April 1848.
12. h Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Charles Sutton to
h.t Captain, by purchase, vice Matinseil, who retire ;
Cornet Charles Edward Grogan to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Sutton, April 28.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet William Bennett to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Keene. appointee to the 2d
Dragoon Guards, April 28.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Granville George Chetwynd
Stapylton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rattray, who
retires; Ensign James Nicol to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Stapylton; William Henry Jones, Gent., to
he Ensign, by purchase, vice Nicol, April 28.
15th Foot—Ensign Henry W. Walters to be Lieute-
nant by purchase, vice Montgomery, who retires;
Joseph Tuite, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Walters, April 28. William Robert Tnompson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blencowe, who retires,
April 29.

43d Foot—The Hon. Lewis Watson Miles to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Milnes, promoted, April 28.
44th Foot—Captain William St. Leger Alcock Stawell,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice the Hou.
St. George Gerald Foley, who exchanges; Lieutenant
Frederick Sykes Daubeney to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Stawell, who retires; Ensign William Henry Mans.
field to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Daubeney;
Charles Pye Pye, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Mansfield, April 28.
46th Foot—Captain Mundy Pole, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major George dt
Bottenburg, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Algernon
Robert Garrett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Pole.,
who retires; Ensign George Frederick Dallas to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Garrett; William Henry
Benner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dallas,
April 28.

56th Foot—Captain Arthur Mainwaring, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Pennant Athelwold
Iremonger, who exchanges ; Lieutenant James Stead-
man Hawker Ferrer to be Captain, by purchase, via!
Mainwaring, who retires; Ensign Francis
S3kes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farrer;
George Ley Wolferston Dodsley Flamstead, Gent., tet,
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sykes, April 28.
64th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Stirling to be Captain.
by purchase, vice Canavan, who retires; Ensign Robert
Du Cane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stirling ;
Horatio Glynn Grylls, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,.
vice Du Cane, April 28 ; Juhn Austen Moultrie, Gent..
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong, who retires;
April 29.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Patrick James John.
Grant to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forster, who
retires, April 28.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Jeffery Eager,
from half-pay Royal York Rangers, to be Lieutenant.
vice Robert Watson, promoted; Second Lieutenant John
Warden M•Farlan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice;
Eager, who retires; William Baker, Gent. to be Seconcll
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice M'Farlan, April 28.
BREvla.—Captain Mundy Pole, of the 46th Foot, toil
31ajor in the Army, Nev. 9, 1846.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Mid-Lothian.
The Right Hon. James Andrew Earl of Dalhousie to.
be Deputy-Lieutenant ; the Right Honourable-,
Sholto John Douglas, commonly called Lord Aber-•
dour, to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Sir James Walker
Drummond Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant„
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieute—
nant ; Carteret George Scott, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu-1
tenant ; Alexander Ilaeotiochie Esq., to be Deputy-1
Lieutenant ; William Stewart Walker, Esq, to be-
Deputy- Lieutenant ; James Clerk, Esq., younger, to be,
D,puty-Licutenant Dec 16

Outinnit•sions by the Ijoidi:Lieutenant of Rots-shire.
Ml9ii6itlah'—John toof
be North'
Lieutenant,British
vice William Muckuiii. deceased ; • Charles Robertson,
Gent.. to be Ensign, Vice Evan B. Fowler, deceased
April 24.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Richard
Penruddocke Long to be Captain, vice Walter Long.
jun , deceased, April 24; Cornet Edward Dugdale Buck-
mill Esteourt to he Lit utenant, vice Money, resigned ;
James Charles Herbert ‘Velbore Ellis Agar Viscount
Somerton to be Cornet, vice Estcort, promoted, April 23 ;
Ebenezer Thomas Clarkson, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Pollen, resigned, April.;24.
Commissions by the Lotd•Lieutenant of Nottingham-
shire. •
William Leigh Mellish, Gent., to be First Lieutenant,

vice Robert Caparn, resigned; Charles Thorold, Gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Thomas Wollaston White, trans-
ferred to the 16th Queen's Lancers.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
The Queon's Own Royal Regiment of StaffordshireYco-
manry Cavalry—Major E. Peel to be LieuteantColouel,vice
Moncton, deceased ; Captain the Hon. William Bagot to
be Major, vice Peel, promoted ; Lieut. Lorenzo Kirk-
patrick Hall to be Captain, vice Bagot, promoted ; Cor-
net Hugo Francis Meynell Ingrain to be Lieutenst, vice
Hall, promoted ; Thomas Guy Gisborte, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice Boothby, resigned; nenry Lane,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Ingram, promoted, April 25.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Salop.
South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry—Beriah Botfield,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice the Earl of Powis promoted ;
William Butler Lloyd, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Botfield,
promoted.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

William Atkinson, cotton manufacturer, "--'Manchester.
Francis and Charles Griffith, liaendrapers, Southamp-
ton-row, Bloomsbury.
Benjamin Barber, lace dealer, Nottingham.
William Goodall and Benjamin Hopkinson Bates,
cloth merchants, Skircoat, Ilalifax.
B A NKRUPT'S.
Benjamin Spikins, timber merchant, Lichfield street,
JuneWestminster,s, at eleven, and
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official-assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Alfred -place, Bedford-square.
9,
at t o
two, surrender, May
Thomas King Greenbank, tobacconist, Manchester,
Baiingliall-street, London; De Lara, Man-
May 9 and June 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court. Putt, official assignee, Manchester; Wathen
cahnedsrehr.illips,
Thomas Smith Mulvey, builder, Chester, May 16,
and June 5. at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and Co.,
Staple ;WTaYsrheirn'gitivn Atwood,
erpool'
merchant, America
square,-
May
r 9
eannride
IJl,une
officiall6, assignee;
twelve,at
Marten,the Thomas,Courtcd
G e o
r Ignen
Bar.kru ptcy.
and Hollams, Mincing-lane.
John Babbs Scan, innkeeper, Brentwood, Essex.
James Stuart Dobson, surgeon, Harlow, Essex.
James Fostor, fringe manufacturer, Wilson-street,
Finsbury.
Moses Workman, brazier, Upton-upon-Severn, Wor- '
cestershire. •
James Pugh, tailor, Monmouth.
Benjamin Yeatea, draper, Monmouth.
Henry Pace, watch manufacturer, St. John's-square,
Clerkenwell.
Thomas Pasco, upholsterer, Chichester.
Francis Armson, builder, Carlton-hill, St. John's-
wood, Middlesex.
Fuller Coker, timber dealer, Shipdham, Norfolk.
Joshua Clarke, hosier, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
John Bishop, linen draper, Tredegar, Monmouthshire.
John Wesley
Hooper, stone mason, Holmes-terrace,
Kentish-town.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending April 25,
1848, is 213. 3d. per cwt.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
Au Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and tth of Victoria, cap. 32, fur
the Week ending orSsat:rodsaryAit
, thTem2r2NdT.:d ay of AprA, 18411.
niu
X. Z.
Nettie 2604220 Government debt . • 11,016,100
Other securities ...• 2,9*4.900
Gold coin and bullion 10,750,552
gllTer 1,871,0,s

£26.621,920

Dated the 47th day of Aprll. 1541

.C.
Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000
Rest .. -• . ... 3,405,092
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-

ings-bank e, and Di-
vidend accounts) • . 2,321,33 e
Other depoelte . • • • • • 11,435.741
Seven day and other
1.021,500

25,62 1,920
11. MAILS HALL, Chief Cashier.

•urMx T.

432.73(.;,67

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity).. 12.2G5,E30
Other securities • . 12,001,566
Notes ••••••• • • • • • • . 7,160.055
Gold and silver coin.. 60,42

Dated Oa 27th day of April. Is

£32,736,672
If. MARMIALL, Chief Cashier.

MR. O'CONNOR'S LADOURERS.—" Monday week,'
says a correspondent of the Gloucester Journal, " the
bricklayers employed on the Chartist estate at Snig's
End struck for an advance of wages, and Mr. O'Connor
felt himself bound to remove from the works the dis-
affected and discontented by immediate dismissal."
FREEDOM (W OPINION IN FRANCE.—The Journal
des Debuts states, that M. Flers, a landed proprietor at
Hemevez, in the department of the Manche, having pub-
lished a pamphlet in which he contested the right of the
Provisional Government to impose an addition of 45 per
cent. on the direct taxes, is to be prosecuted by the
Attorney-General of Caen.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

James Warham Alexander, Gf No. 3, Windsor-street,
Islington, was again brought up before Mr. Alderman
Finnis, on the charge of appropriating the sum of 301.,
being part of the proceeds of a cheque for 421,, the said
301. being the property of Messrs. Hopkins and Woud,
of Leadenhall street, general agents.
Mr. Lanham, a solicitor, defended the prisoner.
The main facts of the case have already appeared.
The prisoner's defence was, that he °tiered to go to
the Bank and get the money, when he would pav Mr.
Sangster, and afterwards go with the 30/. to Niessri.
Hopkins and Wood, but he was not alloe ed to do so.
When the prisoner was placed at the bar,
Mr. Sangster observe:l to the Alderman that the pri-
soner's friend was then in the court.

. _
Mr. Langharn hoped the Alderman would not order
the party into custody,
Alderman FINN" said that he had nothing to do with
the party; it was for the prosecutors to give him in
charge if they thought proper.
After a short consultation the case was proceeded
with, without giving the person alluded to into cus-
tody.
lent
o then.
pilriidsone bill
prisoner, o
of costa Mr. Sangster then entered the witness-box, and was
'cross-examined by Mr. Langham at great length. lie
said that when be was at Mr. Watson's offices to com-
plete
stihs tast came
after t p ()
a :/g . ,
the purchase he had not the dishonoured bill of
Messrs. Hopkins and Wood the 30/., and deductin
s
1 IL, there would only be 11. due to him. The reason he
a3nodl. 111. 1
hehl hadPr se s
did not consent to allowing the prisoner to go to the
Bank was, that considering him in the light of a
stranger, he was not certain that he should get the
money, but be offered to send for the solicitor who held
the dishonoured bill, that he (the prisoner) should see
it paid in Mr. Watsen'e office. He asked Alexander
whether he would give up the cheque, and allow Mr.
Watson to make out two others—one for the
301., and the other for the 12/. ; but he
would cot consent to such an arrangement. Mr.l
Watson also offered to pay him his 1/, and he refused
to receive it. Witness remarked that he would
not trust him with the 301., which belonged
to his clients, Messrs- Hopkins and Wood, when the
prisoner said, " Why, you are treating me like a child?"
to which he rejoined, that he was only treating him as I
an ordinary stranger. The amount of the purchase-
money was 571., from which Mr. Watson was to deduct
151. for expenses, thus leaving the amount at 42/. The
prisoner took the cheque out of his hands, and appeared
to consider that he had an interest in the 301., but which
he (Mr. Sangster) contended he had not.
Walter Henry Hobson, a clerk in the Bank of Eng-
land, produced the cheque alluded to. as having been
paid.
Mr. Hopkins was then cross-examined, and stated that
he drew a bill on tho prisoner about the Ist or 2d of
February last, for 30/., on behalf of Hopkins and Co.,
payable at thirty days- The bill was dishonoured, and
he had been threatened with law proceedings by a Mr.
Ring, solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn-fields. The prisoner
had 201. for his bill, the other 10/. being taken for dis-
count. He held the reversionary interest as security
for the payment of the bill. He did not discount it
with his own money, but got it done by Mr. Thomas
M. Wood, Milk-street. If the bill, when due, was
honoured, he was to receive 41. 10s. back for himself and
partner.
Being re-examined by Mr. Sangster, Mr. Hopkins
said that he should have charged five per cent. for the
sale of the reversion.
Alderman FINNIS wished to know if he received any-
thing out of Mr. Watson's expenses? Mr. Hopkins re-
plied that ho had nothing re-do with Mr. Watson. He
should have returned the 41. 10s. to the prisoner if the
bill had been duly honoured, but as it was, he owed 5/.
to Messrs. Rush worth and Jarvis, for putting the re-
version up fur sale at Garraway's.
Alderman Fteefs lurid, that although the complainants
might think it a hard case, still no charge of felony was
sustained, and the prisoner was therefore discharged.
WORSHIP-STREET:'
was placed at the bar be-
Jane Mills, a young woman
H C 1 f lonio
fore Mr. Hammitt, was charged
hwiart
les e
Mills, ual s cui
labourer
and wounding her husband,
living in Willow-walk, Holton.
The husband, whose arm was in a b and age, an his
head strapped with adhesive plaister, stated that he re-
turned home with his wife between ten and eleven
o'clock on the preceding night, and upon getting in
doors asked her to prepare his supper. His wife, who
was in a bud temper, positively refused to do so, flew
into a violent passion, and alter smashing almost
everything in the room, and loading him with the
foulest abuse, seized a dinner knife from the table,
and declaring that he should not be there much
longer, ter it was her intention to do for him, made
a furious stab at his bead with the knife. Witness
put up his arms to protect his temple, and so warded
off the blow from the part ,she aimed at, but the blade,
in descending, struck his hand, and inflicted a gash the
whole length of his fingers, and penetrating to the bone.
On finding herself thwarted in her object, she then
seized a large crockery jug from a washhand stand, and
hurled it with such force at his head that the missile
was shivered to 'atoms, and his head laid open to the
depth of half an inch. As it was evidently her intention
to renew the attack with the knife, he caught her by the
arms, and endeavoured to wrest it from her, but after a
desperate struggle between them, he found himself too
exhausted Irons the blood be had lost to obtain posses.
sion of the weapon, and after a second fruitless attempt
watched an opportunity to escape from the room, and
running down stairs, made his Way to a surgeon's in
the neighbourhood, by whom his wounds were dressed;
but
he Was so terrified at the vindictiveness the prisoner
had displayed towards him, that be was afraid to return
borne, and having wandered about the streets all night,
gave directions for her apprehension in the morning,
When galled upon fur her defence, the prisoner, who
produced a handful of her hair, said that it had been
torn out of her head by her husband in the struggle be. ,
tween them, which had been produced by his taking

some money out of her pocket. He struck and knocked
her about most cruelly, and though she admitted
having taken up a poker to defend herself from his
violence, she positively denied that she had struck him
with a knife.

The husband as decisiaely contradicted his wife's
assertions, and said that another woman was then in at-
tendance to prefer a second charge of violence the pri-
soner had inflicted upon her also; but

Mr. Hastmu..t. considered it unnecessary to enter upon
that at the present stage, as a far more serious charge
was involved, and ordered the prisoner to be remand, d,
to iafford time for ascertaining the result of the injuries
her husband had sustained.
SOUTHWARK.

John Yerrier, who recently held an appointment in the
Dover Police, was brought before Mr. Seeker, charged
with eloping with Mrs. Sarah Silk, the wife of the land-
lord of the tap attached to the Ship Hotel, at Dover, and
stealing seventeen sovereigns, six half-sovereigns, a
watch, a coat, and sonae other articles.
William Henry Howell stated that he keeps a lodging-
house in the Maas, Tooley-street, and that about three
weeks ago the prisoner, accompanied by the female now
in attendance, called there, having with them a large
box, which, from its weight, appeared to be full ; that
the prisoner had a brother previously lodging in the
house, with whom he had a canversation, and after a
short time the former left with the female, taking with
them the box, and that he had not seen either of them
since, until. the preceding afternoon. About a week
after he had first seen the parties a Mr. Silk, who de-
scribed himself as the landlord of the tap to the Ship
Hotel, Dover, celled, and represented that the prisoner,
who was in the habit of frequenting his house, had run
away with his wife, taking with him the money and art'.
Iles above enumerated. That he (Mr. Silk) had, from
certain information, traced the prisoner and his (Silk's)
wife from Dover to London, aid that he had discovered
they had been at witness's house. He then proceeded to
describe the parties, which answered the descrip-
tion of the prisoner and Mrs. Silk, whom he was in-
formed had quitted the house in the Maze, and gone
elsewhere. Mr. Silk then requested witness to give the
prisoner into custody on the above charge if he should
call again at his house, adding, that when he was in-
formed of the circumstance he should immediately cotne
up from Dover for the purpose of preferring a charge of
felony against him. The witness added, that on the
preceding afternoon the prisoner called at his house, and
that he at once sent for a policeman, and gave him into
custody.
Policeman 24 M stated, that having received informa-
tion of the alleged robbery, he set about making in-
quiries for the fugitives; that, learning they had been
at the last witness's house in the Maze, with luggage,
and had gone from thence, he then traced them to another
house in Russell-street, Bermondsey, which they also
had quitted in a very sudden manner, and having lost all
clue to them afterwards he heard no more of them until
the preceding afternoon, when he was sent for to the
kouse in the Mase, and there took the prisoner into
custody. The policeman added that he had every
reason to suspect the coat the prisoner then wore
belonged to the landlord of the tap at Dover and that he
brought it away from that place with the money and
other articles. That he (the policeman) saw Mrs. ;
that she admitted having accompanied the prisoner from
Dover, and that when she found he was about to be taken
into custody, she said that he had nothing to do with her
husband's property, and that whatever she brought away
from Dover was done of her own accord, and not under
the directions of the prisoner, who had merely accompa-
nied her as a friend.
Mr. SECICER inquired if the watch or any of the pro-
perty had been recovered ?—The policeman in reply
said that Mrs. Silk had the watch then in her possession,
but that she refused to divulge where the box contain-
ing the bulk of the property was concealed.
Mr. SACKER inquired if the watch could be identified t*
—The policeman said that Mr. Silk described it to him—
, that it was a plain silver-case watch, with a silver dial-
plate, and that it had a chain attached to it.
The MAGISTRATE desired Mrs. Silk to produce the
watch, which she did, and it answered the above de-
scription.
She, however, said that the watch was her own pro-
perty, that she had brought it away with her from
Dover, and that she considered whatever was her hus-
band's was also her property, and that the prisoner had
nothing to do with any of the things.
Mr. SECLER said that be must order her to deliver up
possession of the watch, which she reluctantly complied
with, at the same time saying, with emphasis. that it
would be remembered that it was her own watch, and
that it was never in the prisoner's possession since they
left Dover.
The prisoner, a tall, fine-looking man, with an enor-
mous pair of whiskers, said that it had been stated that
the coat he then wore belonged to Mr. Silk, but he de-
nied that such was the fact, that it was his own pro-
perty, and he could prove the fact by a reference to the
tailor from whom he purchased it at Deal. That with
regard to the money and other property belonging to Mr.
Silk, and which he was charged with stealing, he denied
it, and although he had accompanied Mrs. Silk from
Dover, yet that he was in total ignorance of the nature
of the property she brought away with her.
Mr. SECLER said that if Mrs. Silk refused to divulge
where the box of property was, that the policeman was
to use his best exertions in discovering it; and that,
with a view of giving Mr. Silk an opportunity of com-
ing up from Dover, he should remand the prisoner unti
Saturday.

Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if any inconvenience was
sustained by the refusal of the billet ? To which In-
spector Ellis replied that the sailer was only detained
till another billet was made out.

The MAGISTRATE then said the full penalty was 51.,
but as the billet had been declined from no bad motive,
and enl3F for the purpo*e of maintaining the privileges
of the Vintners' Company, which the defendant had a
most undoubted right to support, he should mitigate the
fine to 40s. and costs.
Mr. Garland immediately paid the penalty.

LAMBETIi.
John Raw.•on, who has been in custody for some days
on various charges of obtaining goods by false repre-
sentations, was again placed at the bar before Mr.
Norton. From the publicity which the apprehension of
the prisoner and his mother had obtained, the court was
completely crowded. Several cases in which the pri•
soner had obtained pattern shirts to be sent to different
lodgings at which himself, his mother, and sisters had
been stopping, promising at the time to give an order
for half a dozen of such as fitted and was approved of
by his mother and sisters, but which, it is needless to
say, were never returned, were taken, and on each was
the prisoner committed to take his trial. While the
prisoner was at the bar, several persons in the court,
and a number of respectably dressed females seated at
the table, identified him as the person who had engaged
apartments at their houses for himself, his mother, and
sisters, and who, with his relatives, absconded after
living sumptuously at their expense for various periods.
Mr. NORTON remarked that, since the apprehension of
the prisoner and his mother, he had received, owing
no doubt to the extensive publication which their ex-
amination before him had obtained, several letters
from Brighton and various watering-places, from per-
sons who had been imposed upon by Mrs. Rowley and
her family ; so that it was quite apparent she did
not confine her practices of imposition to the metro-
polis alone. Atter the last examination, he (Mr.
Norton) had consented to take her own recognizances to
appear there that day ; but instead of Mrs. Rowley
complying with the terms of these recognizances and ap-
pearing, she sent him a note merely to state that she was
unwell an unable to attend. Whether she was ill, as
she represented, or not, he (the magistrate) could not
say, but the usual course iu such cases was to forward a
surgeon's certificate.
In answer to some remarks from a sufferer,

Mr. NORTON confessed that it did appear to him
very extraordinary that in this country persons like the
prisoner and his friends could go about and continue to
live, year after year, by false representations, and vari-
ous devices ; and the case, he thought. was one in which
the evidence should be drawn up, and placed before the
Home Secretary, with the view of obtaining some alter
ation in the law. The mode .by which Mrs. Rowley and
her family managed to gelinto the houses of many of
the complainants was very ingenious, and much calcu-
lated to throw unsuspicious persons off their guard. In
the majority of cases it appeared to be this—on a Sun.
day, one or the other of her sons called at the houses
of the complainants, and represented that himself,
his mother, and sisters, had just arrived by railway
from Worcester, that they had come to town to settle a
Chancery suit, and dispose of property that had been for
some time litigated, and had determined upon taking a
private lodging. Such a representation, made on a day
on which the parties to whom it was made had no op
portunity of making any inquiries as to the truth or
falsehood, was, as he had stated before, calculated to
throw unsuspecting people off their guard, and he
doubted whether in any case it had not succeeded. It
was really distressing to find that the number of persons
in attendance, who were the keepers of lodging-houses,
and who, he doubted not, could ill sustain their loss, had
been so shamefully duped, and were left, comparatively,
without redress from the law. In cases where goods
were obtained by false representations, the law gave
ample redress against the offenders; but, as in the pre-
sent case, where board and lodging were obtained by
similar means, the law gave no such redress. In Scot-
land the law was different, and sufficiently strong to
punish all offences of this kind. and he (Mr. Norton)
could not see why the law should not equally protect a
lodging-housekeeper and a warehouse-keeper, as well as
equally punish those obtaining board and lodging as
haberdashery by false pretences. Mr. Norton then re-
manded the prisoner for a week, and remarked that if
his mother, Mrs. Rowley, did not attend on that day, he
should send his warrant for her.
WANDS WORTH.

David Ridyly, an elderly and decently•dressed man,
who was described on the police-sheet as a beehive.
maker, was brought before Mr. Beadon charged with
stealing a few sprigs of broom, the property of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Police-constable Varrien, 327 V, proved that on that
morning, between five and six o'clock, he detected the
prisoner cutting the broom growing in Combe Wood,
Kingston Bottain, which is a preserve belonging to the
Duke of Cambridge. The damage done amounted to a
shilling.
The prisoner said he was a very poor man with a
family of four young children, and only just recovered
from a long and severe fit of illness. He had at present
no work, and he only cut a little broom to make a few
besoms for children, and he had no idea that he was
doing any harm.
Mr. BSADON told the prisoner that he was liable to a
penalty of 5/., but under the circumstances he should
only fine him 55., with Is. the amount of the damage.
Tile prisoner had no money, but some of his friends
mustered 43. 6d., which the Magistrate consented to re-
ceive in lieu of the original fine.

THAMES.
Mr. Charles Garland, the landlord of the Sun public-
house, in Sharp's-building, Rosemary-lane, appeared
before Mr. Ballantine to answer a summons at the in-
stance of Inspector Forbes, of the H division, for refus-
ing a billet. _ _ _

This was a proceeding under the Mutiny Act, the
9th Vic. cap. 11. and the object of the defendant was to
ivcertain whether treemen of the Vintners' Company
were exempt from the liability of receiving soldiers or
recruits billetted upon them. Mr. Garland is a free
vintner, and he was summoned for refusing a billet a few
days ago, but owing to an informality the ease WM;

dismissed. Inspector Ellis subsequently drected another CHARTIST CONVENTION.
billet to he made out, and on Good Friday he sent a ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
soldier, named James Saunders, of the 3d Regiment, to
SIR,—You reported the other day that oneotic defendant's house. A policeman, named Walker, Chartists at the Convention stated he had
Nbe,n if the
! n
132 H, accompanied him, and on producing the
billet,
,which was properly made out, the defendant's
York
years,
in the streets.
How de
barman reamed to receive the soldier, on the ground had never seen a beggar
, New for four and during that time he
that his master was a free vintner. The soldier retraced
his steps to the station-house in Spitalfields, and was that under it poverty and destitution does not exist. lightfullto represent a republic ,aa such a governmexe.st.:
quartered on another publican. I think it would have been but candid had the
Mr Garland said he did not wish to offer any factious speaker stated that the Americans suppress vagr_lo9:
opposition to the laws of his country, and was sure he with a very high hand, but that the poor and desu
might rely on an impartial coasid,ration of his case from tute are provides for, not only by hospitals for the
the worthy magistrate. He had been led to believe that sick, the deaf and dumb, lunatics, &c.,
free vintners were exempt from the billetting of soldiers means of workhouses, &c. As few parties, I believe,
upon them. He and his family had kept the Sun public-
house for twenty years, and no billets had ever b.,en sent are aware of the extent of pauperism in America'
there until three weeks Ago. He then put in a copy of . published at
his freedom. Americal4iAlmanac for 1845, page •226,
perhaps you will allow the following extract from the
Mr. BALLANTINE said the law did not exclude free as well as by
hould bo
vintners who kept public houses from the liability. The London, to appear in your publication. It a
Boston, and to be had of Messrs. Wiley and Putnam
exemption extended to free vintners who kept taverns particularly noticed that
only. He would read for the information of the defendant the state of New York.
the proviso, which was to the following effect:—" Pro- I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
vided that no officer or soldier shall be billetted in Eng-
land in any private houses, or in any canteen, held or the statistics relate solely to
occupied under the authority of the Ordnance Depart-
ment, or upon persons who keep taverns only, being
Vintners of the City of London, and entitled to their
freedom of the said Company in right of patrimony or
apprenticeship, notwithstanding such persons who keep
such taverns only have taken out victualler. liceaces."
Mr. Garland certain!) could not say his house was a
tavern only—it was a public-house in every sense of
the word.

North Devon, April, 1848.

A B.

" PAUPERS IN NEW YORK.
(From the returns of the Superintendents of the
Poor.)
" In 1843, the number of country paupers relieved
or supported was 78,233 ; the number of town ditto,
4,621 Whole number of regular paupers' 82.754'
or about 1 to 30 of every inhabitant in the etAte•
But, in addition to these, there were 62,047 paupers
temporarily relieved by the public officers, to
king
of
aggregate of paupers in the state of New York
144,801, or about 1 to 18 of the inhabitants.
The whole of the expenditure of the poor
during 1843 is go 353
But the value of the labour of the paupers,
amounting to ••• .. • • 58 659
'
must he deducted, and the net expenco is.. $533,694
(Being upwards of 120,0001. British sterling.
17) ss
During 1842 the expense was . • ••• 6--
Deduct pauper 1ab0ur57,13-
.. •• ••
Total expence •for 1842 . $460,604
.•• • .
This shows an increase of pauper expenses of the
year 1843 over those of 1842 of upwards of 73,000
dollars, or an increase in a single year of over 16 per
cent. in the expenditure.
The average weekly expense of each pauper during
the year 1843 was 58 cents and 2 mills. (2s. 7d.);
during the year 1842, 64 cents and 6 mills (2s. 80.1:
This shows that the expense of supporting eacu
pauper has decreased 8 per cent., yet the whole aggrle.4
'
gate of expense has increased 15 per cent. '0
solely arises from an increase in the number of pew
pers. This increase was '21,314' over the preceiiing
year ; yet it is proper to bear in mind that about on
third of this increase occurred' in the city of Neo
York. ,
• .

Of the paupers relieved there, were:
of England. Males 871 f:/iq
Females 533 'isld
--- 1,404 xi,
Ireland ...Males 4,442
~,A
Females 2,849 • .
01,
7,291
Scotland ...Males 178
females 107
285
Canada ...Males 220
Females 159

379
Total British subjects .... 9,359, the
relieTed as paupers in the State of New York la
year 1843.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27. , ,
STOCK Excmuflau.--The business done to-day
trifling indeed, little stock was offered. The prices,eh:rkshirs
were maintained. The sales are—Lancashire and 10,restetn*
(M and B.), Fifths, 44 dis. c.—London and North',7:oo(ers,
127 c.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 14_, sock.
141/.,2 dis. c.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 4 dis.—Micthinurand
97 c.—Ditto, New Halves, 63,', dis.—Seuth-EsiterrbirdS.
Dover, 22 c.—Ditto, No. 110 N dis. c.—Ditto. No. 4% 24. old
334 c dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original
B.), 273 c.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 1A„ dis.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 27. uyak'
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Lancashire an Think.
shire (West Riding Union), 44 dis.—Leeds andA Dews'
New, 21 dis.—London and North-Western (Leeds sillobirs•
bury, 12 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield. and Line° is
Eighths, SA, dis (Dian. and Lin. Union), SA
North Staffordshire, 3r4 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 27. rdibire•
STOCK EXCII4NGE.—The sales are—North
.5 °174;,..
635. 9d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), ,
BRISTOL, APRIL 27. Th 4 sales
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is again flat. wriet•
have been—Bristol and Exeter, New, 10 dis.—Great
ern, Quarters, 2% dis.
HULL, APRIL 27.
nfrostif
STOCK EXcIIANOE —The sales are—Blaekburn.
and Bolton, 13 dis.—North British, Halves, 9%—m— (°'
Quarters, 775.-Ditto, Thirds, 15s. n.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Arrtn. 27.
STOCK Excu.salGe.—The sales are—Great Northern.
la.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 1043/4—North British, Third 4
40s. dis.

GLASGOW, Arum 26.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 23/.---
Clydesdale Junction, 604—Dundee and Perth, 261i—Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 7e%—Ditto, Halves, \o. 1,6 L
14s.—Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 61. 12s.—Manchester and South'
ampton, 6s.—North British, Thirds, lbs. 6d.—York, N.W
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 81.

ASYLUM ron IDlOTS.—Yesterday the election
gy
six additional inmates to this institution took plee°,;ii
the Loudon Tavern. Alderman Sir George Ceril,
presided, and made a forcible appeal on behalf of
funds of the institution. There were upwards of sereecl
applicants. It is hoped that at the next election is,tiis
greater number of vacancies will exist. The soe'e,'„liii
yet in its infancy, and only requires to be gene" the
known to be rendered adequate in its resources t°,oo,
melancholy wants of the community. Dr. Lushiu
the Rev. Dr. Reid, D. W. Wire, Esq., Mr.
and several other gentlemen were present, and too
active part in the proceedings.
i s veryTllE bleVa uE tAi
tures is most brilliant, and the corn crops all give `pd
rfuul.Eit
eTghree
enp a poefa r
thea n ce
meadows of tbe
scnodu nfiptrol3
mice of abundance. The wheat plant is very thic,„ki;io
the oats are just coming through the ground. •'• ,bge
early enough for a good crop, though a little later ioo
usual. Yesterday morning the ploughs and harroti
were turning over the ground for the root crops.;,
Aee
we are glad to say that the appearance of the soil
alO
very good. Although there has been a great fall ofhr to
during the last few weeks, yet the evaporation has awe to
so rapid, in the frequent intervals of fair weether';reat
carry off the suFerfluous moisture. There is a :cod*
promise of stone fruit and pears in this neighbour-
-Liverpool Times.
lirla
c
ADTERTISEMENT.] Holloway's .ointroyt ears'
Pil s.—A Dreadful Case of Rheumatism, of 6ifoidiol
Standing, Cured in Ten Days.—Mrs. Potter'
at Leamington, widow of the-late James efluela
M.P. ,was, from long and excruciating phins,L, ab.
to a mere skeleton. It was with difficulty she anderful
to move any of her limbs; in this state these tad
medicines were •used, and- in ten days theYa and
perfect cure. In rheumatic affections the Ointment poet
Pills, if used together, will certainly cure tu!,10.'..'
desperate cases, however long standing they 11311J00110.'
Sold by all dealers in medicine, and at Professor
way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. a wet
MAlnsTosm.--The last week of cold an woo
weather has rendered our hop plantations tuucilog
gl,)omy in every reTect. A cold, ungenial sPr:ohisf
more to be dreaded in growing hops than te°l" r yre
crops and should this continue a' few days loogeor'ket
expect to see it show its effects on the Borough43„eoge
Potter,
prices of this article, which are now below the 1-100
of what they can be grown for. The shoots .the DP llea
have made are stunted, sad in moat cues will-be
away as useless.—Maidstone Journal.

1111C1713. . idf
On the 6th of March last, ut Bowrah, Kolapoore, . fh-
of Captain Paget W. Clarke, of a son. ilt e
On the 17th inst., at Harrowden House, Northaraptoo,
lady of C. Hill, Esq., of a son. T. /.
On the 19th inst., at Pembroke, the wife of Captain
Thomas, of Grenwich, of a daughtr. gretA
On the 24th e
inat., at Wimbledon,e Mrs. Hemery Le -
of a daughter. . 6.tuer6
On the 24th inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde. park's,
the lady of Alfred B. Bloxam, Esq., of a daughter.
W .i.e of So
On the 24th inst., at Muswell-hill, Hornaey, the
Bayly, Esq., of twin daughters. e, th.
On the 24th inst., at Chosham-strost, Belgrave-01„s- r
lady of the Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, of a daughter. aeore
On the 25th inst., at Isleworth, the wife of the Rev' -
Currey, of a daughter, •
Herd
On the. 25th inst.. at Champion-hill, the wife of ,
Benecke, Esq., of a daughter. if-ri I
On the .• 6z h iti,t., at Bloontfield-road, Maida-bill, ' .
Angell, of a daughter.
lirn
On the 26th inst., at Durham-park, Barnet, the A-- ,a -.0 .
Trotter, of a son.
SO'
On the 26th inst., at the Grove, Stratford, E"--'
Alfred Fell, of a daughter.
___..----''

MARRIED. 5 1013, ,
On the 25th inst., Henry Lund, Est., of Lincoln,
1111
Lucina Maria, eldest daughter of N. S. Marling, Es"
ley House, Gloucestershire.

On the 27th of November ?alibi at Bendinine, Ni* fr:l3tb.
Wales, James Macpherson Grant, Esq., second Son °f
late Sir George M. Grant, Bart., of Ballindellech.
00ini
the
ee 22d inst., Mr. JameaSkerritt, of Koyil
row, Chelea, aged 68.
age4l 4P.
22d inst., at Blackheath, John Day, - s s4lll'
On the 21th inst., at Southampton, Mary Johann..
house, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, K•
On the 25th inst., Mary, wife of T. Biuns, of TettenTl,,irer
On the 25th inst., Susanna, relict of John Burdor r*"
Esq., of St. Neot'a, ifuuts,.aged 78. in EA"
On the 25th inst., Susanah, wife of William Vowl
of Milto street Dorset-suare. 01,4°'
On the 26th i nst., at Upper Clapton, Mr. Philip
am, builder, ad 68. 030
KeOnnnedt3l%eE266q., thgeofinßataihiMma, su
lcolume.
,ythe infant son of Tk°
At Bennett-street, Blackfrlars, RicharjnedaDa,wrgenlinztEcAletv
Lately, at Douro-villas, Cheltenham,
tenant-Colonel Francis Brooke, C.B.

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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the GQ
hliddlem, Friday, April 28, 1148.