The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-03 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Commissioner EvArts.)
IN RE DONALD lIACLEAN, LATE ➢I.P. FOR OXFORD.
Mr. LAWRENCE this day applied to his Honour for a
further postponement of the hearing in the case of this
bankrupt. He read a letter from Mr. Maclean, who is
at present residing at Rome, accompanying a medical
certificate from his physician, Dr. Carey, attested by
the clergyman of the Protestant Church there, that the
bankrupt's state of health would not at present allow of
his returning to this country, and he (Mr. Lawrence)
therefore prayed his Honour for a further pastponement
for two months.

Mr. JORDENSON opposed on behalf of the creditors.
There was a large sum involved, not less than 70.0004,
and no assets of any consequence to meet it. It was
necessary, therefore, that some measures should be taken
to command the attendance of the bankrupt.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS did not see that any object
would be gained by refusing the enlargement of the pe-
riod for his appearance.
Mr. LAWRENCE would undertake that his friend, Mr
Jordenson, would exhibit interrogatories, they would
be transmitted to Mr. Maclean, and answers would be
returned to them.

Mr. JORDENSoN still opposed the postponement of the
hearing. The creditors were most anxious to obtain
possession of certain properties believed to be in the
hands of the bankrupt's friends, and for this purpose the
attendance of the bankrupt was necessary.
Mr. CommisvionerANs thought the creditors vveie
not likely to be benefited, if by refusing to enlarge the
term, the bankrupt were declared a felon. He should,
therefore, postpone the further hearing for two months.

BOW-STREET.-(T1118 DAY.)
John Clark was charged on a summons with assault
ing William Jolly, under the following circumstances:—
The complainant stated that the defendant had made
a charge against him of stealing half a sovereign, which
charge the inspector at the station-house refused to
entertain, on the ground that it was not a theft, but a
debt, for which a summons must be taken out. The
defendant then wentaway, and he (complainant) followed
in a few moments, and overtook the defendant at a short
distance. The defendant, as soon as he saw witness,
ran towards him, and struck him in the face, without the
slightest provocation, witness not having spoken a word,
or taken any notice of the prisoner.
William Morgan, who was with the complainant at the
time, corroborated this statement.

The defendant said, that after he had left the station,
he was standing in the street talking with a friend,
when the complainant and his witness came towards him,
and said, in tv loud tone, "That's the d—d vagabond
who said I stole his half-sovereign." At the same time
he lifted his hand, and attempted to strike him (the
prisoner), but he warded off the blow and struck the
complainant in the face.
The person mentioned by the prisoner as being with
him at the time gave evidence in support of this
statement.

The prisoner's employer, in whose service he had
been for fourteen years, gave him an excellent character,
and said that he was a remarkably quiet and peace-
able man.

Mr. JARDINE said that he suspected, even when the
complainant was giving his evidence, that some such ex-
pression as that spoken to by the prisoner's witness was
made use of. These sudden attacks were not made
without some provocation, or something to excite the
person at the moment, and though the complainant chose
to deny it, he himself believed the witness, that the com-
plainant called the defendant a " vagabond." Taking
this into account, and also taking into account the pri-
soner's previous good character (which, in all cases, had
considerable weight with him), he would inflict no
, penalty, but defendant must pay the costs (25.) The
defendant payed the costs, and left the Court.
John Orchard, a drummer in the Coldstream Guards,
was charged with stealing a watch and a sovereign, the
property of Captain Charles Grimstead.
It appeared that, on the 26th November, the prose-
cutor left his gold watch and a sovereign on the table in
his own room, adjoining the guard-room (to which no
one but the prisoner and a corporal had access), at
eight o'clock in the evening, when he went to
mess. At eleven o'clock he returned and missed the
watch and sovereign. Nobody but the prisoner and
the captain's servant had been in the room. The
prisoner was apprehended on Tuesdey last by policeman
H 17, at a public-house in Whitechapel. He said that
he had taken the watch and sovereign, and had taken a
cab to Ratcliffe-highway, where he got a man whom
he knew to pawn it for 3/. The policeman, after leaving
the prisoner at the station, went to the lodging of the
man mentioned by the prisoner, but failed in apprehend-
ing him. He afterwards made inquiries at the pawn-
broker's, and found the watth which he now produced,
and which was identified by the captain.
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner till to-morrow
week.

OUTHIV A RK.-2(THIS DAY.)
William Bearde, alias Donovan, a young man, with a
cut over his right eye, was brought before Mr. Seeker,
charged with entering the Dun Cow public-house, High-
street, with three other men, for the purpose of com-
mitting felony.
The prisoner, who is suspected of belonging to a gang
of thieves who plunder public-h )11,,e•;, walked into the
I)un Cow that morning about half-past eight o'clock.
They went into the tap-room and called for a quartcrn
of rum, and while the bar-maid was serving them the
prisoner took an opportunity of slipping unperceived out
of the room. In about five minutes afterwards he was
seen coming down stairs, and endeavoured to make a
`°bolt" out of the house, but was prevented. On exa-
mination of the rooms up stairs, it was discovered that
three coats belonging
to the landlord had been taken
out of his bed-room, and were found lying on the stair-
case, dropped, no doubt, by the prisoner, in his anxiety
to escape detection. His three companions escaped
during
the confusion of the moment.
When before the magistrate the prisoner asseverated
his innocence of having any felonious intention ; said
that it was all spite, and that he obtained hitt living by
honest means.

A policeman, however, said the prisoner had been
frequently in custody, and that he belonged to a gang
of thieves who had succeeded in committing extensive
robberies on licensed victuallers.
The prisoner was committed to the House of Cor-
rection for three months. Ile left the bar uttering loud
denunciations against the parties who had given him
into custody.

CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.)
James Brookes was charged with violently assaulting
police-constable 141 G, under the following circum-
stances :

The policeman stated, that last night he saw the pri-
soner in the New-road, in company with a drunken
female, whom he knocked down and brutally assaulted,
and when ha (the constable) interfered for her protec-
tion, the prisoner struck him three times in the face,
and attempted to trip him up. When he was tetken into
custody he resisted violently, and it required several
constables to take him to the station-house.
Mr. COMBS said he would not, in the pro:sent case,
inflict a fine; he would take the more effectual remedy
of ordering the prisoner to find good bail to keep the
peace.
Not being provided with sureties, the prisoner was
locked up.

LYNN AND ELY RAIL'S/VA:I%
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
line was held yesterday at the London Tavern, in Bishaops-
gate-street, for the purpose of sanctioning a conetiti onal
agreement entered into for leasing the line in perpet oily
to the Eastern Counties Company. Sir William l'o' aces,
chairman of the board of directors, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the agreement was f( it 5/.
per cent. upon the whole capital of the compan: r for
three years from the opening of the line, and a minis num
Eastern Cou saties
iinously rejected, an id in
its place a resolution lia
of 61. per cent. ever after, the dividend being al‘ ways
sagreed
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Another resolution was also agreed to empower; ing
the directors to take the necessary step or assist in i ip-
plying to Parliament next session for Bills authorisi ng
the construction by the Lynn and Ely Company of a 1 ine
from Wisbeach to Spalding, and Holbeach, and fin an
Ely to Bury St. Edmunds, as well as docks at the p ort
of King's Lynn, with a navigation or aqueduct fry mil
such docks to the River Nay in Norfolk.
The business relative to the raising of the sum of
118,8001., part of the 120,000/. authorised by the I ply
and Huntingdon Act, by the issuing of 10,000 share .s of
9Z each, and 108,000 shares of 2l each, was postponed,
and the meeting terminated.

ELY and HUNTINGDON RAILW AY.
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
line was subsequently held in the same place, ;and for
the same purpose ; Mr. Henry C. Lacey, Chai an of
the goard of Directors in the Chair,