The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-07 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1833.

tribute nothing toward: the maintenance of the pri-
soners in New,gate, nor does the city of London pay
anything for those confi.ed elsewhere. This privi-
lege the city holds under the cherter, which confers
on it the right of electing the Sheriffs. It, in fact,
is wholly exempt from contributing to the county
rate.

EXPENSE OF PROSECUTIONS.—WiIIimn Rowlg, a
little boy about twelve years old, was charged with
-tealing a (viewer of a pound of sugar, value three-
alfpence,
' Uxbridge. The shopman, on Saturday week, in
consequence of something he was told, ran out o
the shop after the boy, and found him with
quarter of a pound paper of sugar in his ban
He brought him back to the shop, when a consta-
ble was sent for by his master's order. Witness
could nor swear to the sugar, but he could swear
that the paper corresponded with that they then
had in use. (The paper did not appear to differ
from that generally used by grocers.) The con-
stable found the boy crying in the shop, and was
desired by Mr. Hetherington to take him beiffe a
Magistrate. He accordingly put him in the ge,
and on the Monday following took him before a
bench of Magistrates, when he was commit d.
He had known the boy about a year; he had o ce
before been brought ' before the bench (for t
was not stated). The Jury found the boy Not
Guilty. He was immediately delivered over to his
mother, who had come all the way from Uxbridge
io attend the trial. He had none of the appearance
of a hardened boy, and wept bitterly all the while
the trial was going on.
The usual application was made at the conclu-
sion of the trial for the expenses, which were
granted. On inquiry the reporter was informed that
these would consist of two witnesses' attendance six
days, at ss. each per day, travelling expenses to and
from Uxbridge 3d. each person per mile, besides
which there are the fees for drawing the indictment,
swearing the witnesses, recording the verdict, &c.
A number of other cases were tried iu the course
of the day almost equally petty and expensive. In
the majority of cases the Chairman, where a convic-
tion took place, ordered a brief period, generally a
week at the commencement and conclusion of the
period of the imprisonment, to be passed by the
prisoner in solitude. Sanguine hopes are enter-
tained that this mode of punishment will, in many
instances, be productive of beneficial effects.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 5.

William Pattin Donkin Chubb, the publisher,
late of Holywell-street, Shand, applied to be dis-
charged. He was opposed by Mr. WrOODROFFE on
the part of a stationer named Harrison, and two
other creditors appeared in person. An opposition
had been entered on behalf of Mr. St. John Long,
who, it will be remembered, obtained a verdict with
100/. damages against the insolvent for a libel; but
on his name being called no one answered. The
insolvent was supported by Mr. COOKE.
The case occupied the Court to a la e hour. The
opposing creditor, Mr. Harrison, stated that the in-
solvent owed him 1041. for paper supplied within a
short period, for which he held his dishonoured ac-
ceptances. He was induced in August last to renew
a bill of exchange, on the insolvent representing to
him that he had debts owing to him, and he pro-
duced to him a book containing the names of the
debtors, which book had not been filed in Court.
He also represented to him that he kept the
American coffee-house in the Minories. He told
him he wanted the paper for the London
Spy. _the John Bull's Picture Gallery, the Black
List, and the Devil's Menagerie—(A laugh)—
which was to pay them all off and play the
very devil —(Loud laughter.) The London Spy
had been sold to a printseller named Dugdale, who
was examined. He agreed, the latter end of July, to
gave the insolvent 1001. for the work, the wood-
cuts, and every thing. The agreement was to pay
and take, as neither of them, he said, could "trust
each other."—(A laugh.) He did not pay him in
money, but gave him 143 reams of paper, which he
had plueliased the same day; he gave him white
paper, which was marketable for his printed paper,
which was scarcely marketable.—(Laughter.) In-
solvent, on his examination, stated that ne never
kept the American coffee-house; he was there a
short time, but a foreigner named Veal took it who
was now in Spain. One morning Veal removed all
the furniture off, and, what was more, he took his
wife too—(ll.lars of laughter)—neither of whom
had he seen since.

Mr. WOODROFFE, to put an end to the case, ad-
mitted t hat a new special balance must be filed, and
thus the case terminated. The creditors were to
have ten days' notice previous to the next hearing,
which was adjourned sine die.

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ther they are sucli.ai can be accepted, has not yet
trans d.
S'WHOLAI, DEC. 21.—The fears that were
excited by the appearance of the cholera in Norway
gradually vanish, as all the accounts from that coun-
try give reason to hope that the disorder will not
spread beyond the few detached points where it has
appeared.
BERLIN, DEC. 29,—0n the 27th, in the morning,
in the presence of the Princes and many Officers of
rank, trials of a breachin(hattery began at Spandau
o-at the walls of alib;tion, which was destroyed
. explosion of a owder magazine in 1813, and
s inten to rebuild. Numbers of
vere attracted from the capital on the
.sion. The interest was increased by the
inshor
circumstance that the citadel of Spandau is indebted
not only to Count Lynar and Christopher Romer,
but, like the citadel of Antwerp, to the celebrated
Francis Genmella, for many of the much-admired
works. _ _

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 4.
Actual Debt, 214 per cent og to 42
Amort Syndic, 4 per cent .....« .....
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 percent. 9B to 98X
Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London, one month
Ditto, two months
—Dutch Papers, Jan. 5.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hasmotto. JAN. 1.-13 1114 ; two months, 13 10.
BERLIN. DEC. 29—Three months, 6 28%.
BREMEN, DEC. 28.—Two months, 614.
ST. PE rEassuaGn. DEC. 18,-10 11-32.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 21.—Seventy-five days, 14 5.
Hamburg Papers, Jan. 1.