The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-28 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

RIGHARD PHILLIPS, jun., auctioneer, ChiswelLstreet,
Finsbury.square, to surrender Feb. 8, and March 11, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lumley, Quality-court, Chan.
cery.lane; Graham, Copthall-building, official assignee.
WILLIAM VENABLES, draper, Lamb's Conduit-street,
Feb. 11 and March 11, at one, at the Court of Bankrqptcy.
Ashurst, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Hardwick, Law-
rence-lane, Cheapside ; Edwards, Pancras lane, official as_

signee.
THOMAS WOOSTER, sen., and THOMAS WOOSTER.

jun., coal factors, cool-exchange, London, Feb. 7. at one, and
March 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcr. Edwards,
official assignee; Sheffield and Sons, Great Prescott-street,

Goodman's-fields.

ARCHIBALD M'CALI„ merchant, Manchester, Feb. 13
and March 11, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manches-
ter. Makinson and Elder, Elm-court, Middle Temple, Lon-
don ; Atkinson and Birch, Manchester.

WILLIAM THOMAS SADLER, innkeeper, Norwich,
Feb. 10 and March 11, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Norwich.
Staff, Norwich ; Austin, Field-court, Gray's Inn.
JOHN EDGECUMBE, cooper, Bath, Feb 13 and March
11, at twelve, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath. Harvey, Barnard's
Inn ; Hellings, Bath.
GEORGE STOCKLEY and THOMAS WAKELIN,
comb-manufacturers, Kenilworth, Warwick, Feb. 7 and
March 11, at twelve, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coventry.
Fyson and Beck, Lothbury, London ; Troughton and Son,
Coventry.

WILLIAM ROSE, innkeeper, Bromsgrove, Worcester,
Feb. 5 and March 11, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kid-
derminster. Robeson, Bromsgrove and Droitwich ; Jonas
Gregory, Clement's-Inn, London.
GEORGE ELL I MAN, grocer, Watford, Hertfordshire, Feb.
4, at eleven, and March 11, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Child, Cannon-street, City; Turquand, Copthall-buildings, offi-
cial assignee.

HUGH HUGHES, builder, Henry.street, Hampstead.road,
Feb. 7, at eleven, and March 11, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Smith, Milton-street, Dorset-square.

I ROBERT MARSHALL, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Feb. 21 and March 11, at one, at the Bankrupt Commission.
rooms, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bell, Bow Church-yard, Lon
don ; Carr and Jobling, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
WILSON FORSTER, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 11 and
4arch 11, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Ad-
lington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; Ro-
bert Frodsham, Liverpool.
ROBERT MORRIS, corn-factor, South Hamlet, Glouces-
tershire, Feb. 11 and March 11, at eleven, at the Ram Inn,
Gloucester. George Stephens, Nelson-square, Blackfriars.
road, London; William Lloyd Chandler, Bromsgrove.
JAMES WHITEHEAD and PHILIP FRYER, Cotton_
spinners, 13arton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire, Feb. 14, and March
11, at one, at the Commissioners'-Rooms, Manchester. John-
son and Weatherall, Temple, London; Seddon, Manchester.
TITUS PARKER, victualler, Manchester, Feb. 10, and
March 11, at ten, at the Commissioners'-Rooms, Manchester.
Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedferd-row, London ;
Thorley, Manchester.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

, A MAN OP LAW.—Catherine Thomas, a pretty-
looking woman, was charged with robbing one
George Frost of nine shillings.
The prosecutor appeared about 70 years of age,
and was not more than four feet nine inches high,
with matted hair, and a face resembling more than
anything else a piece of shrivalled parchment, with
the furrows partially filled up with dirt, This
Adonis swore that the damsel at the bar came to his
bedside, and abstracted the aforesaid sum from one
of the pockets of his inexpressibles.
Mr. HALLS—Had you been sleeping together ?
Frost-0 yes, your Worship.
Mr. HALLS—At a brothel, I suppose ? Frost—
A brothel ! 0 dear, no ; at my own domicile, your
Worship.
Mr. HALLS—HOW came she there ? Frost—
Why the fact is, her hustand had turned her into
the streets for some mishap, and I wanting a house-
keeper, and she being, as your Worship perceives, a
comely body, I took her out of pure charity.—(A
laugh.) This morning she got out of bed in a pet,
and calling me very ugly names, took the money
from my pockets.
Mr. HALLS—There is no felony here.
Frost (in a passion)—No felony ! I say there
is a felony, and if you say otherwise you are no-
body.—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. HALLS—I tell you there is no felony in the
matter. You took her in, and she has taken you in;
that's all.—(A laugh.)
Frost—l tell you what, Sir, if you persist in say-
ing it is no felony you know nothing of the law, and
I must give you a lesson.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HAMS —I am sorry to differ from you, my
Learned Friend, but in my opinion no felony has
been committed.

Frost (in a downright rage)—You are a pretty
sort of a Magistrate. Now attend to me. If A,
having no legal right, come to the bedside of B, and
abstract 9s. from the pockets of B's inexpressibles,
is not that clearly a felony ?
Mr. HALLS—Not under the circumstances. The
woman is discharged.
Frost—Discharged ! me if she shall be
discharged.

Mr. HALLS—Officer, let the woman go, and turn
this old man out.

Frost (foaming at the mouth)—l'm -- if I
will be turned out. Look here (drawing a large
carving-fork from his coat pocket), how she wanted
to serve me; she threatened to prong me with this
weapon.

The woman was leaving the bar, when the en.
raged " man of law" made a spring at her, but
Taunton, the officer, caught him up in his arms,
ncl, notwithstanding sundry attempts to kick and
buffet, carried him into the street.
MARLBORO UGH.

RESISTANCE TO TETE PAYMENT OF KING'S
TAXES, AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER —The avenue;
to the office were yesterday, immediately after the
commencement of the business, crowded to excess
by members of the Political Unions, anxious to
have the decision of the Magistrates on several of
their body who had been taken into custody for a
gross and cowardly attack on an individual put in
possession for King's taxes.

At half-past eleven o'clock the prisoners were
placed at the bar. The following are their names
and addresses :

George Bolton, 12, Augustus-place, Regent's
Park; Samuel Drabble, 35, Marylebone-lane ;
John Johnson, 3, Denmark-street, Soho ; .Richard
Areale, 8, Gay's-buildings, Manchester-square ;
John Penleld (address refused); Wm. .Edgington,

The complainant, John Scattergood, was the
first witness called. He is a diminutive middle-
aged man, and his nose presented two severe cuts.
He was put in possession for 61. 145., for King's
taxes on Friday, and during that day and the suc-
ceeding one (Saturday), he experienced conside-
rable annoyance and insult from Ford. the baker,
and those whom he introduced as his friends. At
twelve o'clock at night the pro?rietor locked the
shop up and went out, leaving several persons in
the next room, at the time of his going making
the observation," Well, my lads, do the best you
can." In a few minutes after this, the prisoner
Johnson came into the shop, and turned the gas-
light out. Bolton, Drabble, and the others of the
party then rushed on to him. Bolton, Drabble,
and Johnson, then laid hold of him, and dragged
him some distance, and then attempted to put a
sack over his head, which he resisted with all his
power, screaming " Murder!" and Johnson then
said, " Cut the —'s throat," and he then felt the
knife cutting his face. Either Bolton or Drabble
were the persons who had and who used the knife.
At this moment he was out in the passage, and he
heard the street door burst open, and immediately
saw the police enter, who released him. He added
that the landlord had much ill used him.
Mr. CONANT—Confine yourself to what these
men did.
Mr. Wooler—Did they attempt to put you out ?
Witness—No, they did not ; they tried to drag me
into the parlour, but I resisted, and got into the
passage.
Mr. CONANT—Were any goods removed ? Wit-
nesteL--No, there were not. All day long the parties
swore they would murder me.
Mr. Wooler—You say, " they." Do you mean
that any of these persons made threats of that de-
scription ? 'Witness—No. I don't know that they
did; but friends of Ford did several times.
Mr. Wooler—You mean the rabble out in the
street? 'Witness—No, I don't; I mean those that
the shopkeeper said were his friends. They brought
in e rope and threatened to hang me. That was
slid all the Saturday. Langley, Edgingron, and
Neale were also against me.
Mr. Wooler—Which of the prisoners do you
identify ?
Witness identified Drabble, Bolton, Edgington,
Langley, and Neale.
Mr. Wooler--How do you identify them ? What
part do you say they took in the attack ? Witness
—Neale held my arm when I was endeavouring to
prevent the sack being pulled over my head, and
Edgington laid hold of me round the thigh aed tried
to pull me down on the ground just before the po-
lice came in. Johnson said he was one of the head
men of the Association, and it should be as good as
1/. a week to me if I would go out of possession.
Mr. Wooler—You say the gas was turned down.
How could you possibly identify in the dark the ac
of particular individuals ? Witness—The gas was
not quite out.
Johnson—Nosy did you not express much asto-
nishment yesterday at the station-house at finding
you had charged me, whom you had known for
twenty years ? Witness—l have known you twenty
years, but I have not seen you much lately. I did
not hear your name. When I went to the watch-
house my face was full of blood, and I could not
see very distinctly.
Mr. Wooler—Did you not have a knife to eat
your supper with ? Witness--Yes..
Mr. Wooler—Now might not you in resisting
have cut yourself with this knife ? Witness—l had
a knife with my supper. I did not have a knife in
my hand a quarter of an hour after I had done.
Sergeant John Jarvis, No. 15 C—At about a
quarter past one on S.inclay morning was on duty
in Berwick-street, and in company with one of his
men, 81 C. He was on the opposite side of the
way, and was particularly observing the house, when
he saw the gaslight apparently extinguished, and
then rise again immediately. He then heard a
scuffle like that of dragging a person along, and a
cry of " Murder." Some person then came to the
door and opened it a little way, as if to observe,
and, seeing him and the constable crossing the road,
immediately closed it again. He and the constable
immediately broke the door open, hearing the man
still crying " Murder," and a violent strugOing.
When he got the door open he saw the complainant
surrounded by men. Drabble had hold of him on
one side, and Bolton was holding him on the other.
The passage was full of men, and he saw Settler-
good's face covered with blood. They sprung their
rattles until other constables came up.
-By Mr. Wooler—l cannot recognise any other
person besides Johnson, Drabble, and Bolton. I
saw Johnson•in the passage when I first went in.
Witness, who had been excluded during the evi-
dence of the first witness, advanced to the bar and
picked out the three men, interrupted by observa-
tions from several of " You're on your oath, mind
what you swear."
James Neale, 81 C, corroborated the sergeant's
evidence; he seized Bolton and brought him out.
Evidence was given of Neale being found con-
cealed underneath a bedstead.
Police constable Davis proved the apprehension
of the prisoners, one in the cellar, and the others
in the garret.
Johnson said that the police were concealed in the
grocer's shop facing.
Mr. CONANT, after consulting his colleague, oh
served that the case had been msde out as to parties
cular acts against five. There was no apparent cause
but that the man had been placed in possession
under an execution for the King's taxes, about which
there had been much senseless and violent outcry.
He then observed that they were all present, and
must find bail in two sureties of 100/. each, and
their own recognizances of 2001.
Mr. Wooler said they were respectable men,
and most of them housekeepers.
After some further consultation it was reduced to
two sureties of 501. and themselves in 1001., with
notice of bail.
A warrant was then obtained against Ford, on
which he was immediately apprehended.
Scattergood repeated his statement. The de,
fendant had assaulted him, and had frequently told
him he should not go out of the house alive.
Ford was then held to bail to keep the peace,
Q UEEN- S Q U.A RE,
THE ALLEGED INSULT TO THEIR ROAYL HIGH-
NESSES TILE DUCHESS OF KENT AND THE PRINCESS
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receivedY east erd ay Mr.
letter
from GREGORIE,
mSir J:hnthecMordirgoiys:
Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, expressive of her surprise on seeing an accomic
in the public Papers in which a woman named
ClaTinan wa, held to bail for using insulting lan-
,;(l,lge towards herself and the young Nocess Vic-
toria on entering the Victoria Theatre. Her R
Highness the Duchess of Kent has declared that she
knew nothing whatever of the female being taken
into custody, and that neither herself nor the Princess
Victoria made use of any observation at the time
which could in the remotest degree sanction such
a proceeding on the part of the officer on duty. The
circumstance of the woman being punished on their
account, it also appears, has caused their Royal
Highnesses much distress of mind; and, in order to
set the Magistrate right upon the subject, Sir John
Conroy was deputed to write to Mr. Gregorie im-
mediately, stating the facts of the case, witil a hope
that the prisoner (Maria Chapman) might not
longer endure incarceration. It is likewise stated
that Mr. Gregorie received two letters from Messrs.
Abbott and Egerton, in which they positively assert
that the charge was given without their consent or
knowledge, and that they were ignorant at the time
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IRELAND-DUBLIN, JAN. 25.

(From the Correspondent of a Morning Paper.)

I have this moment learned a piece of intelligence
which, when generally known throughout Ireland,
is certain to produce no ordinary sensation.
The authorities at the Castle, finding that the
repeal question is beginning to assume rather a
serious aspect, and well aware of the many expe-
dients to which "the Agitator" can have recourse
for the purpose of embarrassing the Government in
the ensuing Session of Parliament, have sought, as
a countervailing power, the direct interference of
the Roman Catholic Bishops with the Priesthood.
They have solicited that influential body to ad-
dress pastoral letters to all the Clergy under their
charge, enjoining upon them, as a matter of po-
sitive duty, the obligation of exhorting the people
to abstain from all further proceedings with regard
to repeal. Meantime, as an inducement for them
to use their zealous exertions in effecting this great
object, they are to be formally recognised in their
episcopal character, and have been invited to at-
tend the next levee at the Castle, in full ponti-
ficalibus. They are all, at the present mo-
ment, assembled in this city, discussing the im-
portant proposition which has been officially sub-
mitted to them; and it is said that all, except
two, are perfectly ready to accede to it. These
two, however, are immoveable in their determination
not to agree with the majority, and have avowed
themselves in the conclave to be unflinching Re-
peelers. As yet, there is only a conjecture as to
who they are, but it is quite certain that the cele-
brated Dr. Doyle is not one of them. Well, thus
much as to the proposition itself, and the manner in
which it has been received ; let us now see whether
t!'e whole Catholic hierarchy of Ireland can, by any
possibility, thwart the views or counteract the de-
signs of -Mr. O'Connell, so far as regards his politi-
cal influence with the people. You may be assured
they cannot ;'and much as every man who wishes
well to the best interests of the country must de-
plore and deprecate that spirit of agitation and fe-
verish excitement to which the question of repeal
gives rise, he must still feel convinced, if not
utterly insensible to what is daily passing before his
eyes, that neither Bishops nor Priests have it in
their power to divert the people from any political
object on which they have set their minds. Several
of the parish priests are decided opponents of repeal,
nearly all the curates are its strenuous advocates,
and the latter despite of whole folios of pastoral ex-
hortations and injunctions, will take good care to
minister to the passions and prejudices of that vast
mass who look only to the " Liberator" as their
unerring guide in all temporal affairs. This is the
real state of public feeling among the multitude in
Ireland, and I have ascertained it from numberless
personal observations and inquiries.