The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-14 00:00:00

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court Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, March 6—W
Ward, farmer, Belton, Rutlandshire, March 6—W. Senior.
hosier, Sheffield, March 9—E. Smith, innkeeper, Southwell,
Notingliamshire, March 6—C. Barber, calico printer, Brindle.
Lancashire, March 10—J. Filbey, licensed victualler, Eghani'
Surrey, March 6—W. Ockleston, hide merchant, Liverpool,
March 6—M. S. Keyworth, common brewer, Manchester
March 6—J. Hulme, paper dealer, Manchester, March 6
G. Howes, tavern keeper, Milton, Kent, March 6—M. Cooke.
builder, Denton, Lancashire, March C—G. Payne, tailor.
King-street. Covent-garden, March 6—S. and J. Burton.
chemists, Kingston-upon-Hull, March 6.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Ward, sent, J. Ward, and W. Ward, jun., hosiers, Lei
cester—W. Ward, D. W. Grocock, and J. Ward, cravat ma-
nufacturers, -Leicester—T. ilarrison and T. Hammond, glass
manufacturers, Birmingham—J. Ridgway, T. S. Bale, R.
Brown, and J. 11. Bale, china manufacturers, Stoke-upon.
Trent—J. Braddock and A. Turner, coal miners, Hattersley
Cheshire—B. Green, J. Green, J. Haigh, and G. A. Haigh,
veal merchants, ThoruCliffe Colliery, Yorkshire—W. /daddy
and J. Greenhouse, cigar manufacturers, Liverpool—NV.
Harding, S. Schofield, and J. Renshaw, general warehouse.
men (so far as regards W. Harding)—E. W. Itabonc, A.
Dixon, T. Lloyd, and G. Dixon, merchants, Birmingham—
J. Anderton and J. J. Amstrong, spirit merchants, Waver-
tree, Laucashire—W. and G. Collings, bootmakers, Cam-
bridge-place, Kingsland- road—R. Bullen and E. Snell,
chemists, Duke-street, Southwark—J. and E. Deakin, boat-
builders, Bootle, Lancashire-,-R. Ellerby and J. Marsh,
bookbinders, Manchester—J. King and H. Hinckley, cheese-
mongers, Kentish-town—E. A. Hickley, J. Martin, G. Victor,
and W. H. Allen, spirit merchants, Portsmouth—J. Mather
and E. Dickinson, coal merchants, Liverpool—S. H. Tweed
andL W. Manthorp, surgeons, Bocking, Essex—D. Rimell
and H. Crees, tailors, Storrington, Sussex-11. B. Coe and
J. R. Mann, surveyors, Norwich—A. B. Maddock and W.
E. Hayman, surgeons, Judd-street, Brunswick-square—E.
F. Cole and R. Mossop, common brewers, Long Sutton, Lin-
coln-shire—T. Ingalton and R. Drake, booksellers Eton—J,
Mayan. NV. A. Mayson, and G. Earnshaw, cotton spinners,
Dogford, Lancashire—W. Barber, G. Barber, and J. Barber,
grocers, Gray's Inn-lane (so far as regards G. Barber)—R.
and W. Butler, watch-movement makers, St. Helen's, Lan-
ca,hire-11. Matnock and J. Manley, nurserymen, Hackney
—J. A. Meyer and H. Higgs, general commission merchants,
Mincing-lane—H. Oatway and J. F. Coulsting; wire workers,
Bristol-T. S. Cooke and T. Wise, jun., coal merchants, Bos-
ton—E. Brunt and H. EaS!wood, earthenware manufac-
-turem, Woodlesford, Yorkshire—J. Poncia and NV. Farmer,
merchants, Cape Town,Cape of Good Hope—W. and J. Brown-
bill, grocers,Liverpool—W.Wright and E.Gibbs, patent leather
manufacturers, (-treat Queen's-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields—
C. Hough cud W. Smith, joiners, Nottingham—J. Calvert
and W. Storey, stockbrokers, Leeds—G Pownall, jun., and
I. Worthington, stockbrokers, Liverpool.

T 0 CII SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Park and Company, spirit dealers, Glasgow, Feb.
16 and March 13, at twelve, at" the chambers of Mr. Steel,
Glasgow.
David Auld, merchant, Port-Glasgow, Feb. 17 and March
10, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Dempster, Greenock.
John Christie, builder, Glasgow, Feb. 19 and March 19, at
one, at the counting-house of Messrs. Mein and Cunning-
ham, Glasgow.
Alexander and Patrick Wilson, letter-founders, Edinburgh,
Feb. 18 and March 11, at one, at the chambers of Messrs.
Dundas and Jamieson, Edinburgh.
James Dow, bootmaker, Edinburgh, Feb. 29 and March
13, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
produce of the British possessions in America, computed
from the returns made in the week ending Feb. 10, 1846, is
355. sd. per cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANS I ON-1-10U S E.
PRISON DISCIPLINE.—A boy, named James Slade, between
twelve and thirteen years of age, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having robbed his master of two half-
crowns. It was quite obvious that the prisoner, who exhi-
bited more cunning and boldness than was usually possessed by
persons of such an age, had committed the robbery, and that,
in order to accomplish his escape, and destroy all evidence, he
threw a lighted candle amongst some rags, so that the appre-
hension of fire checked the ardour of pursuit, and be succeeded
in hiding the plunder. His answer to the Lord Mayor, upon
being asked by his Lordship what he had to say, was, " Why
they searched me, and found no money nor anything else upon
me. How can they prove that I stole it ?"
The mistress of the boy said he was not searched until after
he had got away, and that he had been long enough absent to
dispose of the money to :an accomplice. There was reason,
too, to believe that he bad stolen a fowl from a neighbour.
The boy—No such thing. Nobody can prove any robbery
against me. Did any one find anything on me? that's the
question.
The Loan MAYOR— Why did you throw the lighted candle
amongst the rags ? The boy—lt did not set fire to them. I
was in a hurry to go to see my mother, who is bed-ridden and
crippled, to tell her what they charged me with, and I did riot
think what I was doing.
The Loan MAYOR said that as there was a defect in the
evidence the boy, who was no doubt a very bad one, must be
discharged.
His LORDSHIP then turning to the City Solicitor, who was in
the Justice-room on other business, asked him whether the plan
he intended to submit to the meeting on Saturday would embrace
a case like the one just disposed of ? Here the boy had a good
place and a good master, and was the child of decent, hard-
working parents. He had not the excuse which many poor
children had who were brought to the Mansion-house daily,
and who had neither parents. nor home, nor food, and who
were literally driven to commit crime to escape from star-

COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 10
Antwerp• • ...... •• .... 26 15
liamburgh ~.. • .M.B. 13 14%
Altona • .

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Gibraltar .. .. . ...... ...
Leghorn • • • • • • 30 75
Genoa .. ...... .... . • .. 26 10
Venice.
Naples . . . . . . . • • . . . • • 40
Palermo, per oz .. .. .. 119%
Lisbon.... ..
Oporto • • .. ..
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Buenos Ayres ...... • •
New York, 21 days' sight.
Philadelphia .......... --

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months .. .. 26
'Marseilles ...... 26 10
Bourdeaux.... .. 26 10
Frankfort on Mains.... 122%
Petersburgh, 3 U 5....
Berlin ....... .......

Vienna, effec.flo • • 10 10
Trieste, ditto.... • 10 10
Madrid .. 36
Cadiz .. : ........ 36
13ilbao.. .....
Barcelona .• • • • • • •
Seville ..... • • • .....

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir R. Peel had an audience of the Queen yesterday

vation. - -
The City Solicitor replied, that the measures he should submit
to the consideration of the meeting would undoubtedly provide
for cases similar to that which his Lordship had just witnessed
If the previous history of the little boy were known, it would
probably appear that the offence he was chaNed with was not
the first or the second with which he was chargeable, and al-
though the parents were respectable, in all likelihood some
neglect of education or misplaced lenity had conduced to his
present conduct ; at any rate if a reformatory asylum such as
he (the ( ity Solicitor) proposed was established, his Lordship
would not have been reduced to the painful alternative of
either sending the boy to a gaol to be hardened in crime, or
letting him loose upon society by discharging him, as was un-
avoidable under the circumstances.
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly I should have detained him
till further evidence could be produced ; but I avail myself of
the defect in the evidence to discharge him, rather than com-
mit a chili of such a tender age to a gaol for criminals.
The following is the letter referred to by the Lord Mayor :
" Mansion-house.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor has directed me very
respectfully to solicit the favour of your presence at the Man-
sion• house, on Saturday, the 14th of February, at two o'clock
precisely, to consider the propriety of adoptin, any measure
that may be devised to find shelter and employment for the
destitute children who infest the streets of the metropolis, and
who, falling easy victims to the temptations which abound in
a crowded city, fill our gaols with criminals, and entail upon
the community an amount of expen,e greater than would suffice
to qualify them, by a judicious system of moral and industrial
discipline, to become useful members of society.
" The Lord Mayor has received various communications
from individuals possessing plans to effect this object, many
of which appear to his Lordship to possess great merit. By
his directions I have sent invitations to about 50 noblemen
and other benevolent individuals, to attend the proposed meet-
ing, when some of those plans, and any others that may be
suggested, will be taken into consideration, preparatory to a
public meeting; which will be shortly held in the Egyptian
Hall, to sanction an appeal to the Government and the Le-
gislature to provide a remedy for this great and increasing evil ;
or, failing that source, to seek from public bodies and philan-
thropic individuals, pecuniary means of making the experiment
upon a sufficiently large scale to afford the Legislature practical
proof that it is easier to prevent than eradicate crime, and,
therifore, to provide shelter and employment for destitute and
friendless youths, than to leave them in the streets, the victims
'of circumstances, till they become the instruments of crime,
wasting their days, between a life of plunder and a prison,
until their earthly career is closes in transportation or the
hulks.—l have the honour to be,
" Yours most obediently,
" CHARLES PEARSON."
RAILWAYS.—A surveyor, accompanied by a great number
of other persons, who represented that they had heavy claims
against a railway company, the prospectus of which contained
a great number of high City names, applied to the Lord Mayor
for a summons against one of the members of the provisional
committee, under the Joint-Stock Companies Act.
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his endeavours to render them service, if this matter came
within his jurisdiction.
We abstain, of course, from giving the particulars until the
case comes formally before the Lord Mayor.

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bus.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 f,
Now Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars •• • • 0 4 9;+6
Silver in bars ...... • . 0 4 11 4

- _
Her Majesty and Prince V Albert, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace at ten minutes
past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for
Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess
Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were In another
carriage and four The Equerries in Waiting, Coloael Arbuthnot and
Coloael Wylde, occupied a chariot and four ; and the Viscountess
Canning, the Earl of Warwiclia Dr. PrEetorius, and Colonel Bowles
followed in a carriage and four.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were conducted to their car-
riage by the Maids of Honour, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox, and Sir
Frederick Stovin. A party of Light Dragoons formed the escort from
the Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady FaullY
Howard and Sir George Cowper, Bart., honoured the performance".
the French plays with their presence yesterday evening..
cHis
dene aßtoKyalewll;egsktneerdssaythe Duke of Cambridge returned to his resi-
M. Stratenus, the Netherlands Charge d'Affaires,
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
1 Prince Castelcicala was present at the debate in the House transacted bust-

Commons yesterday evening.'
The Bishop of London had an interview with the Earl of
F., had also an interview witlit4
Noble Earl at the ()Mee of the

the most lively sensation amongst the ma-
nufacturerstion of
duties has caused
d protective
ofsilk, an
teopolis and the manufactaring districts. The
—The announcement of a reduc..
of formation in therepears
to be the the change will take place, and
genTerHalEhnSlcLfl7---„PsAe"aE(.Messrs. Everington and Graham amongst
n't''Y "f. the first
In the retail trade) have already announced
their determinatthe number of thosei
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t,
, meet the loss at once ; but in this it would
exists sheen observant policy, inasmuch, by getting ridof
seem there
their present stocks at the rate, or even less than they would cost. upon
the Continent. the far-seeing English salesman is prepared to buy tb:
newest and most recherche goods to start in competitidn with the
French themselves when the new tariff comes into operation
ADJOURNED MEETING OF MASTER SPIN NESS.
FACTORY lloußs.—The adjourned meeting of cotton-spinners, which
we announced in our number n, Wednesday last, was held at the
offices of Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, solicitors to the asso-
ciation, on Saturday, and it was numerously attended. Considerable
difference of opinion prevailed with respect to the subject which had
been tinder consideration on the preceding Tuesday, viz., the 're-
duction of the hours of factory labour from twelve to eleven h 9 urs,
upon the passing of Sir Robert Peel's proposed tariff; and, by
some discussion, it was agreed that Lord Ashley's Bill (wht, ch we
published at length en Saturday) should be strenuously oppow A and
that the consideration of the proposal for worsting clove n hours
should be postponed until after the passing of Sir rt reel's
Robe
measures.—Manchester Guardian. :-