The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-11 00:00:00

In the Country.

Amelia Holmes Reid, Bristol, teacher of dancing.
Edward Gillett, Bristol, shopman.
Thomas Clee, Bristol, beer retailer.
Joseph Young, Bristol, retailer of beer.
Richard Millman, Bristol, milkman.
Thomas William James, Canterbury, saddler.
Wm. H. Walshaw, Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, tailor.
Ileac Curtis, Leamington Priori, Warwickshire.
Jtel Cutter, Harpford, Devonshire, farmer.
Henry Griffin, jun.. Sidmouth.
George Cooper, North Warnborough, Southampton.
Jervis Williams, Crossycylog, Monmouthshire, labourer.
Charles Jones, Trevethin, Monmouthshire, blacksmith.
Henry John Dixon, Oxford, clergyman.
Henry Kenney, Great Massinghatn, Norfolk, shoemaker.
John Banister, Wolverhampton, attorney's clerk.
ilyld Cope, Walsall, Staffordshire, bride bit maker.
Jost-ph Henry Moore, Walsall, Staffordshire, attorney
at law.
George Cattell Stringer, Walsall, Staffordshire, attor-
ney's clerk.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. Galloway, Gl,sgow, me-chant, to meet within
Carrick's Royal Hotel, Glasgow, June 18 and July 8,
at, one.

J. and T. Maclean, Dundee, cabinet makers, to mrei
within the British Hotel, Dundee, June 16 and July 7.
at cle.

D. Stewart. Inverness, silk mercer, to meet within the
New Royal HAW, Inverness, June 16 and July 7, at
twelve.

J. Glass, Newburgh, Fireshire, baker and spirit
dealer, to meet within the writing chambers of W,
Chrystal, Newburgh, June 19 and July 10, at one.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
Mr. James Huggins, a solicitor, was brought before
Alderman Wire upon the charge of having set fire to
the premises No. i'2, Lime-street.
The case exaited a great deal of interest. Mr. Braid-
wood, the director of the fire brigade, was present during
the investigation, Mr. Humphrey's attended to conduct
the prosecution. Mr. Lovell appeared for the defence.
Mr. Humphreys consented, at the request of Mr.
Lovell, to postpone the detiols of the charge until Mr.
Bodkin, who was engaged for the prisoner, should be
able to attPnd, and stated that he should merely upon
the present occasion call evidence sufficient to justify a
remand.

Mr. Lovell—lt is to be understood that we shall have
,he power, on the next examination, to cross-examine
any witness you may thick proper to call upon a charge
of so much importance ?
Mr. Humphreys—Certainly, and I shall go no fur-
ther to-day than will be necessary to show to the Al-
derman the nature of the charge and the grounds of the
proceedings upon it. The charge against Mr. Huggins
is, that he set fire to the premises No. 52, Lime-street.
I appear upon the part of the Atlas Insurance Com-
pany, in which the premises were insured, to watch the
investigation which has been instituted by the police. It
is well known that the assurance companies are re-
luct, except upon 'eery good grounds, to appear as pro-
secutors, and they do not jump unadvisedly to a conclu-
sion as to the criminality of parties accused. At the
same time they are not backward in prosecuting if they
find they are perfectly justified by the circumstances of any
case. The present charge i 3 brought by the City police,
who having had reason to suspect that an offence had
been committed, pursued an investigation, and gave
notice to the Atlas Fire Office, in which an insurance
had been effectedb but not by the prisoner, of the result
of the inquiry. The Guardian Assurance Office was
likewise interested in the investigation. I shall merely
call one or two witnesses to introduce the case, which
shall be brought forward in a perfect form on the next
examination.
James Bradley, of Jeffrey--square, St. Mary-axe, fire-
man of the brigade, said—On Saturday, the 31st of May,
I was sent fur to the prisoner's, No. 52, Lime-street. I
went there at six minutes after eleven o'clock at night,
and got there immediately. I found the premises full of
smoke. Upon opening the door of the passage I found
the flames coming through a trapdoor and flooring, and
I succeeded in eeenguttoling them so far as to enable
me to open the trap-door.
Mr. Humphrey6—Upon opening the trap-door did
yon meet with e.eything which excited your suspicion?
Witness—l did. I descended into the cellar, and I
found the smell of smoke, which appeared to me to be
like the smell of turpentine or ramphine, and I found
certain articles which attracted my attention. The first
article I foiled was a wooden block, with an iron tunnel,
having a hole in the side to admit air, and a Benched
h .lo in the centre, I found aphce of a wax candle in-
side the block, and after the fire was extinguished I
found anethee pint of wax candle in the cellar. The
block was placed under the steps of the ladder of the
cellar. I found besides two iron troughs, and one of
them contained some wadding saturaied with spirits,
which appeared to me to be spirits of turpentine.
It was directly age the candle in the funnel in the
wooden block, and within a few inches of the candle, so
that a train could be laid, if any person were so minded,
from the waddingio the bottom of the tunnel. There
was a bit of Wire 6 the hole iu the bottom of the funnel.
I found it hole in the block corresponding exactly with
the hole in the tube. I produce the second iron trough,
which I found lying alongside the ladder under thefloor-
ing and joistin&s. The wadding in the second iron
trough hadbeen burnt to tinder.
Mr. ilutephreyi—You found that the fire came up the

trap-door from th. place in which you found those arti-
cles? Witness--I did. The rafters underneath the
trap door were hsrrit, and that was the direction which
the flames would have taken supposing that the burning
had taken place from the wadding in the two troughs. I
also found in the ;Lollar a decanter, which was empty, but
it "n'ic exa"tlY hke the small which attached to the
wadding in the iron troughs.
Willi"' "31),C01d-harbour-lane, Brixton, carpenter,
said I know Mr. Huggins. About the Ist of May he
called upon me. rho I done some jobs for him before
that time. It west() make such an article as this (point-
ing to the woodes block and the funnel). I was to turn
the centre part of the funnel to fit the block. I did so.
This is the blook,lto the best of my belief. There is a
small hole in the centre of it. The entire was made by
me to order. took it to No. 7, Loughborough-park Cottages,Brixton, and left it there for Mr. Huggins with
the servants, within the first week of May. I saw Mr.
Huggins a few days afterwards, I think passing my
place, and I asked him whether the block suited him. He
said " Yes."

Mr. HumphreYe—Did he tell you what the article was
for? Witness—lie did not.
Mr. Humphrep—Did you ever make such a thing be-
fore? Witness—Nover.
Tho witness then gave further proof that he had
turned the block by fitting the instrument called a
chuck or driving plane, which he had used to a parti-
cular part of it.

Eii•;abeth Strong, wife of William Strong, said I re-
side and have resided at the house No. 52, Lime-street,
upwards of two years, with my husband. I was in the
hone on the night of the fire on the 31st of May. My
husband fint disc3Vered it.
The prisoner, who said not a word during the exami-
nation, was then remanded.
CL E RKE N WELL.
Charles Merton, alias Flash Charley, and George
Staigh, alias Gee Mountford, who have undergone se-
veral examinations' on extensive and numerous charges
of swindling, were finally examined before Mr. Combe,
when Mr. Wakrling conducted the pro.ecntion.
The court way crowded by respectable goldsmiths,
jewell-rs, and other respectable tradesmen, who had
been duped by the prisoners.
The plrticulars have been briefly detailed in the news
papers.
Mr. R ,bert James Chaplin, jeweller, of No. 17,. Red
Cross-square, City, jeweller, identified the prisoners as

Ann Walkden, Horkstow, Lincolnshire, carrier, July
2, at half-past twelve, at the Court, Leeds—T. Williams,
Sandiway, Cheshire, innkeepk,r, July 2, at twelve, at the
Court, Liverpool—W. Parkinson, Blackburn, Lanca-
shire, cotton manufacturer, July 1, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester—G. Sayre, Heywood, Lancashire,
grocer, July 1, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H.
H. Preston, Darby, laceman, July 11, at ten, at the
Court, Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

J. Chisholm and W. Chisholm,D;ii;g,'Surrey, and
Ludgate-hill, City, wholesale perfumers, certificate of
the third class—H. Collings, Wickwar, Gloucestershire,
innkeeper, certificate of the first class—H. B. M'Millan
and R. S. IN ilson, Preston, and Accrington, Lancashire,
drapers, certificate of the second clasa—W. Newby,
Manchester, juiner—J. Suker and H. Suker, Birken-
head, Cheshire, carpet and furniture dealers, certificate of
the first class—J. Johnson, Coventry, wino and spirit
merchant, certificate of the second class.
PAR I'NERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Hamilton, W. Adams, and J. J. Miles, Paternos-
ter-row, booksellers (so far as regards T. Hamilton)—J.
Hepworth end J. Royston, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and
Bishopwearmouth, clothiers—R. Williamson and J.
Coldbeck, Manchester, silk finishers—H. P. Sleath and
I). J. Betts, Nottingham, boxcaakers—S. Morris and G.
Morris, Purtsea and Laudport, curriers—J. Veevers and
H. Veevers, Preston, grocers—J. Williams and J.
Sowerby, Oxford-street. silk mercers—J. Duncan and J.
Smith, Bread-street, Cheapside, warehousemen—J. B.
Wathen and A. L. Philips, Basinghall-street, attorneys
—G. Frith, C. Birkenhead, and J. Elkin, Dewsbury,
machinemakers—J. Covington, J. Covington, jun., and
J. W. Maude, Macclesfield street, City -road, and Lime-
house, wharfingers—F. Flower and W. H. Hall, Ware-
ham, Dorsetshire—J. Smith and J. Grainger, Leeds,
worsted spinuers—J. Southgate, jun., and W. Aicoek,
Watling street, and George-yard, Bow-lane, trunk-
in:ikons—J. L. Hancock and W. L. Hancock, Welch-
pool, Montgomeryshire, cabinetmakers —W. J.
Swellie and R. Green, Oxford-street, fancy sta-
tioners—J. Thompson and T. Cunningham, Liver-
pool, plumbers—J. C. Taylor and J. T. James, Liver-
pool, commission agents—J. Shepley and E. Galibert,
Kettering, Northamptonshire, and London—J. Ferin-
hough and J. C. Ferinhough, Liverpool, tobacconists—
E. R. Lirken, R. Palmer, J. Clayton, T. L. Hunt, G.
Dawson. R. Toynhee, W. Fisher, jun., R. Congreve, J.
T. Marston, J. J. Metcalfe, T. Ballantyne, G. J. Holy-
oake, G. H. Lewes, L. Heymann, and W. J. Linton,
Crane Court, Lader Newspaper Company (so far as
regards R. Palmer, J. Clayton, T. L. Hunt, W. Fisher,
juo., R. Congreve, J. T. Marston, J. J. Metcalfe, T.
Ballantyne, G. H. Lewes, and W. J. Linton)—J. Dyson,
C. Walker, and W. Poole, Leeds, leather dressers—E.
Payton and E Leonard, Birmingham, factors.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Alexander Wm. hlihell, Margate, boot and shoe maker.
John Ing, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, baker.
Samuel Bryant, Kingswood-hill, Gloucestershire, grocer.
John Marks, Bristol, sailmaker.