The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

In the Country.

W. Ireland, N. Calvert, J. Oveiend, and C. Tomlinson
Lancaster, merchants, Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Court, Man-
chester—N. Hodge, Bath, silversmith, Feb. 27, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—W. Pile and J. Pile, Monkwearmouth,
Durham, shipbuilders, Feb. 26, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Elizabeth Aydon and T. W.
Ferguson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, _ grocers and teadealers,
Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-0.
Hornsby, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, builder, Feb. 26, at half-
past twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-uron-Tyne G. Steele,
Durham, grocer, Feb. 26, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—H. Cranston, Sunderland, confectioner, Feb. 26,
at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Steel, Plough-road, Deptford, tar manufacturer, Is. 'lid.,
any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. Turner, Eastbourne, Sussex, grocer, 4s. 3d., on Satur-
day next, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane.
John Cowlishaw and James Cowlishaw, Derby, railway-
carriage builders, Bs. Bd., on Saturday, Feb. 15, or any sub-
qnent alternate Saturday. between eleven and three, at the
office.
Cowlishaw,
of AI r . Bittleson,
Derby l:f ot
railwayt i n g h
_carriagem builder, 205., on
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Saturday, Feb. 15, or any subsequent alternate Saturday,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleson,
Nottingham.
James Cowlishaw, Derby, railway-carriage builder, 2s. Bd.,
on Saturday, Feb. 15, or any subsequent alternate Saturday,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleson,
Nottingham.
W. Bates, Tithby, Nottinghamshire, horse dealer, 100.,
on Saturday, Feb. 15, or any subsequent alternate Saturday
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleson,
Not tingham.
C. Pretty, Leicester, grocer, 3s. on Saturday, Feb. 15, or
any subsequent alternate Saturday,etween eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Bittleson, Nottingham.
W. B. Cook, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, tape and
smallware manufacturer, 134 - , on Saturday, Feb. 15, or any
subsequent alternate Saturday, between eleven and three, at
the office of Mr. Bittleston, Nottingham.
W. and J. Pile, Monkwearmouth, ship builders, 17s. 10-id.,
on Saturday, Feb. 8, or any subsequent Saturday, between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
J. Fielding, Middleton, Lancashire, corn-dealer, 6s. 6id.,
on Tuesday, Feb. 4, and every following Tuesday, between
eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Mackenzie, Manchester.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
E. Hedges, Chilton Foliatt, Wiltshire, builder, Feb. 25, at
twelve—E. Brewster, Hand-court, Upper Thames-street,
City, printer, Feb. 27, at two— G. S. Jenks, King-street,
Hammersmith, cheesemonger, Feb. 25. at twelve—H. Byshe,
Brighten, builder, Feb. 26, at one —R. Rising, Frith-street,
Soho, dealer in casts, Feb. 26, at twelve—W. Smith, Canal-
troaedl4 Kiesgland, timber-merchant, Feb. 26, at half-past
w —ll. G. Stahlschmidt, Penchurch-street, City, mer-
chant, Feb. 2F, at twelve—W. Carter, High-street, South-
wark, boot and shoemaker, Feb. 26, at half-past one.
In the Country.
J. Fielding, Manchester, provision dealer, Feb. 28, at
aw e n t y - o n
he
idnpaeAymsßtaTrkled from
eleven, at the Court, Manchester—R. Chattam, Goole, York-
shire, innkeeper. Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
R. Dever, Cornhill, City, cook and confectioner, a certifi-
cate of the first class—W. Binder, Orsett, Essex, builder, a
jaad.ce2rltificate of the first class after
certificate of the second class —A. Beard, Liverpool, wine
et,
aoifeyt,h
De e firstsbucrlya: sy after
R s DISSOLVED.
twenty-one days ,
merchant,
fr a
Jan. c e r3tli fi.....cajt.
SHIP'
,Pairmi:hiaticte and W. Brumwell, Gravesend—R. Morton and
Gloucestershire,_ farmers—R. Law-
rence and W. Lawrence, Tottenham-street, Tqttenham-
court-road, carpenters--W. Keen and T. Watts, jun., Old
Paradise-row, Islington-green, leather sellers—W. Hadfield
and M. Fletcher, Manchester, merchants—T, Cardwell, H.
B. lligginson, and J. Parsons, Manchester and Bombay,
I commission agents (so far as regards a B. Hig-
asShn.djiMr.esorton, Miserdine,
genera
phelland, Lan
ors—J. Wall,
ca-
shire, coal proprietors--J. Y. Wall, and W.
Wall, Chatham,CullenT.
brewers—T. and J. Cullen,
Liverpool, builders—J.
ginson)—T. Rigby and W. H. Fisher, 1J
Carlisle and G. Buckton,
Leeds, dealer in tobacco and snuff—T. Smith and T.
Murfin and J. L.
Richards, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. drapers—J.
Green and E. Oliver, Upper Thames-street, Regent-street,
and King-street, Golden-square, china and glass dealers—G.
Anderson and R. Yates, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff merchants
. Manby and H. G.
Monk, Blackheath, ironmongers—W.
—A. M'Kechnie and G. B. Leonard, Manchester, commis-
sion merchants—C. Manby, 11. G. Robinson, and E. Light,
Light's Patent Life-boat, Buoy, Belt, and General Marine
Robinson) W. Barton and
D. Grs ' Warrington, Lan-
cashire. chemists and druggists— Lindy ana 0. Thomas,
Manchester,
Hereford, ironmongers—J. Frost and S. Buoyancy Company (so far aHs.reFga
Tawell, Wood-
street, lace manufacturers - .I. Quarmby and G. Quarmby,
Holmfirth, Yorkshire, painters and plasters—W. Keyes, sen.,
fent dealers
and W. Keyes, jun., Ashindon, Essex, farmers—M. Wilson
and J. Wilson, 0:c1 Bond-street, Hauover-square, tailors—
W. I'. Worwell and S. mayor, Liverpool, ship chandlers
N. Lloyd and T. Stott, Manchester, and Isle of Man, gum
and starch manufacturers—Elizabeth Offer, Mary Sadler, and
Ann Sadler, Clevedon, Somersetshire, hotel and tavern
keepers—E. Butler and W. Laffin, jun., Princes-street, St.
George, Hanover-square, tailors.
INSOLVENT
LPETITIONERS.
John Penrith, West Derby, ancashire, butcher.
Joseph M'Cartin, Liverpool, grocer.
William North, Hyde, Cheshire, gardener.
John Alcock, Liverpool, commercial traveller.
James Newcomb, Liverpool, optician.
John Davies, Liverpool, plasterer.
John Wallman Watson, Caxton, Cambridgeshire, farming
bailiff.
George Isaac Fiddaman, Camblidge, tailor.
Frederick Buxey, Kingston, Southampton, market gardener.
John Cunningham, Stockbridge, Southampton.
William Whitfield Snook, Landport, Hampshire, layer in the
ropery in her Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth,

THE TRIAL OF THE SLOANES.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, FED. 5.
THE SENTENCE.
At a later period of the day the prisoners were brought up
for judgment.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE addressed them in the following
terms :—George Sloane and Theresa Sloane, you have
pleaded guilty to several counts of an indictment, which
charged you with having in various ways and upon various
occasions assaulted and ill-treated a girl named Jane Wil-
bred, who was a servant in your employ. We have read
with great care the depositions that were taken in your pre-
sence before the magistrate, and we did not think it ad-
visable to grant the application made by your counsel that
you should be permitted to put in affidavits in answer to
them, and in mitigation, partly from the circumstance
mentioned by him—namely, your poverty, and a desire
therefore to avoid putting you to an unnecessary expense,
and partly because there are certain facts and certain state-
ments in those depositions which seem to speak for them-
selves and defy contradiction. It seems that this young per-
son—almost a child—an orphan, with no natural protector,
came into your service, and it would seem that she was
selected partly from the circumstance of her being an
orphan, and having apparently a better constitution than
some of the other girls, and therefore more likely to do you
good service in the capacity in which you engaged her. For
some time, it appears, that there was no reason for complaint
on her part, but at length your course of treatment towards
her appears to have entirely changed. Taking into con-
sideration, however, the age of the girl, and her opportu-
nities of obtaining redress, the Court does not consider that
you are legally reponsible upon that portion of the in-
dictment, and your punishment will not be increased on
account of it; but at the same time there is very little doubt
that your conduct towards this poor girl has been most cruel
in withholding from her proper Christian food. I say this,
because you know that the indictment not only charges you
with withholding proper food, but also with forcing
upon her matter at which nature revolts, and which I will
not offend the ears of the Court by further alluding to—it
will be sufficient to say that you are charged with having
forced upon her that which was nauseous, unwholesome, dis-
gusting, and unnatural. One would have thought that the
position of that poor girl when she came into your service
would have demanded especial protection at your hands,
and that while she conducted herself well you would have
assumed the position of her natural guardians. It is im-
possible not to take into consideration the position of the
parties charged with such an offence. One of you—a gentle-
man devoted to the study and practice of the law, who must
be taken to be thoroughly well versed in a matter so simple
as this, and who must have known what was his duty. The
other, I regret to say, a female and a wife—one who it might
have been thought would have been the first to protect a
young helpless girl, who was placed in her power, but who, I
regret to say, appears by the depositions to have taken an
equal, if not a greater part, in all the indignities that were
practised. When, after several months had elapsed, the con-
dition of this unfortunate young girl became known, through
the kind and humane interference of a gentleman connected
with your own profession, what was her condition? Dna-
ciated—almost at the point of death, and so desperate her
condition that she could not even be sent back to the union
workhouse, but the only place she could be sent to was
au hospital. The extreme state of emaciation to which she
was reduced was evinced by the fact of the almost in-
credible reduction in her weight, and the cause of that
emaciation appeared to be also clearly shown by the circum-
stance that the administration of proper wholesome food
speedily restored her to health and to her original bulk. It
also appears by the depositions that upon the person of this
unfortunate girl being examined, marks of violence, some
of recent and some of older date, were discovered ; those
marks of violence extending all over her person, and in-
directly showing that she had been subjected to a long and
severe course of ill-treatment. Ido not state these circum-
stances with any view of giving unnecessary pain. I trust
that reflection has already caused you more pain than any
remark or punishment the Court can inflict, I have thought
fit to make them, because it is quite right that the public
should know that in every case, where it is satisfactorily
shown that a master or mistress has acted with cruelty
tow ards a servant, the Court is determined to institute a
strict inquiry into all the circumstances, and to award
severe punishment. It now only remains for me to pass
upon you the sentence which has been decided upon for
your offence, which is that you be severally imprisoned for
two years.
The defendants heard the sentence without betraying any
emotion, and at the close of.the Learned Judge's address they
retired hastily from the dock.