The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-26 00:00:00

(Before Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS.)
OLD CommtssioNs.—A meeting of the creditors
under the commission of bankruptcy issued so long
ago as 1820 against Jose Morino de Quiros, a Port u-
guese merchant, was held before Mr. Commissioner
WILLIAMS, to adopt measures for paying to the
creditors who have proved against the estate a sum
of money that had some time since unexpectedly
come into the hands of the assignees.
The bankrupt was largely connected with the
Portuguese trade, and many of his creditors were
resident in Oporto • and other parts of Portugal.
Mr. N. M. RothsChild was in the list of proofs for
debts due by the bankrupt, and appears as a credi-
tor to the amount -of 2,5001. The total debts doe
by the bankrupt, are stated at about 16,0001. The
dividends already declared have amounted to 13s.
in the pound, the last payment having been made
in 1823. Since that period up to a short time back
nothing has been done, but a sum of money having
been obtained which was due to the estate, there
were paid into the hands of the Accountant-Gene-
ral Exchequer bills, which,with accumulations, have
formed a fund of about 1,7001. available for the
purposes of a further dividend. The bankrupt, it
appears, is dead, having been attacked last year by
cholera morbus, and some difficuby arose from the
lapse of time in proceAliag to declare another di-
vidend.

Mr. Page, the assignee, said by persuasion a sum
had been obtained. of 9001. from a party who held
it, and this, with other sums, formed sufficient
assets to pay a further dividend of Is. 6d. in the
pound. He thought that if the Court would make
a conditional order that the creditors should give a
guarantee the dividend might be paid.
The COMMISSIONEtt said the consent of all the
creditors must be obtained. If a dividend was first
declared the assignees might be put in peril. The
creditors, before they received their dividend, should
give an indemnity for the amount.
After some conversation between the Commis-
sioner, Mr. Page, and the solicitors, it was under-
stood that the course recommended by the Court
would be adopted.
During the day Clarke, who, it will be remem-
bered, has recently been before the Lord Mayor, in
company with a man named Cant, was brought into
Court, escorted by two city officers, to be sworn to
depositions he has been called upon to give in the
case of an old commission taken out against a bank-
rupt named Weeks. Cant was examined in the same
commission yesterday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday an inspector brought, but evidently
with great reluctance, two children, a girl, aged 13,
named Ann Donovan, and a boy, named John
Smith, before the LORD MAYOR, charged with
having sold unstamped sheet and book almanacs.
A gentleman, who attended from the Stamp-
office, stated that the sale of unstamped almanacs
was carried on to an enormous extent, and that
Government were determined to punish offenders
under the Act, which adjudged the penalty of 10!
upon every violation of it. Last year upwards of
300,000 unstamped almanacs had been sold, to the
great prejudice of the revenue, 15d. being the pr:cr
of each stamp. It was a painful thing to take into
custody children of such tender age, who could not
comprehend the nature of the offence they wert-
committing; but the Der:nnc
manacs were of that class of demagogues who exulted
in uniting profit with mischief, and made a merit to
the young persons they employed of acting in direct
violation of the laws.
The inspector, in consequence of instructions he
had received, apprehended the defendants in the
act of selling almanacs.
The little girl bought the sheet almanacs at 2s. a
dozen, and the book almanacs at 45., and she had a
small profit on them. She had a dying brother at
home, and she had lost her father about six months
ago. She had been selling the almanacs for t.vo
months, and thought that she committed no offence.
The LORD MAYOR asked why the Stamp-office
did not look after the printer and publisher, instead
of taking hold of the two children?
It was stated that there were difficulties in the way
of such a course, and the evil could not be checked
without actually inflicting a positive punishment
upon those who sold, of whatever age they
might he.

The girl had just laid out ss. at the shop of one
of the publishers, who sold under feigned names,
and she begged to be allowed to take the purchase
home.

The LORD MAYOR—What will you do with
them ? Girl—l'll take them back and try and
get my money again.

The LORD- MAYOR-I can't let them out of my
possession ; they must be destroyed; but if it were
not that other children would be encouraged to do
wrong in this way, I would give the girl the price
she has paid.
The girl assured his Lordship that she would
never sell any forbidden matters again.
Mr. Woodfall—As you are the two first we have
found erring, you shall have the money you paid for
these books and sheets ; but if you are ever caught
at the work again, you shall certainly go to Bride-
well. He then gave ss. to the girl, and Is. 6d. to
the boy, and

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The LORD MAYOR declared that, painful as it
would be to him, he should commit in every future
case of the kind. People were, he regretted to say,
acting as if the Government was a distinct and
separate body from themselves.