The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1851.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BeINKRUP 11:Y Aug. 23,
(Before Mr. Golutai.sioner FONBLA,NQUI...)

- -
IN RE NAM AND NEALE.--THE REIGATE AND DOER

ING B tNIC.
The bankrupts were the proprietors of the above
r bank.

This was a dividend meeting.
The liabilities of the bank were about 50 0001. The
( !state has already paid a dividend or 11 f. 61 in the
)ound, a further divi lend of 2a in the pound was now
c' letermined upon, and a further and final dividend of
s mall amount is expected.

Mr. BAGLEY said that under the 195th clause of
l:Eie Bankruptcy Consolidation Act the Court was au-
thorised, where a bankrupt's estate should have paid a
dividend amounting to 12s. 61. in the pound, to snake
n allowance of 7/ per cent. npon the assets to the
b ankrupt. His client, Mr. Neale, was now dead,
but he had to mike an application that the 7k per
cent. might be paid to his representatives.
Mr. CLAWN objected, on the grounds that the di-
widen(' had not yet been final, and that the Court hav-
ing a discretionary power (the certificate of the bank-
rupt Nash having been of the second class, and that
-of Neale of the third class), he should prefer the ap-
plication being adju ticated upon by the Learned
Commissioner before whom all the facts of the case
bad come.

His Hosoua said he should decline to adjudicate
upon the application without having the whole case-
brought before him. There was no question but the
Court possessed a discretionary power to reduce the
allowance, the bankrupt's certificate not having been
of the first class. Tne application was, consequently,
ordered to stand over until Mr. Commissioner Goul
burn should be sitting.
Oa the application of Mr. Duncan, R. Brown,
auctioneer, of Old Broad-street, passed his examina-
tion on accounts showing &lots 1.8001, assets 2001.

nesses was evidently a tissue of tal•ehnoi. so much so
on the part of Pickering that Mr. Clarkson declined
examining them.
Several witnesses were called who gave Long an
excellent previous character for honesty.
The jury immediately found them Guilty, strongly
recommending Long to mercy.
Upon the prisoners being asked the usual question
be!ore passing sentence,
Pickering said he thanked all parties for the fair
trial he had had.

The RECORDBR, in passing sentence, said that he
thanked Mr. Clarkson for discontinuing to examine
witnesses who it was evident were not speaking the
truth. It would have been degrading to call them
when the defence was clearly a falsehood, and Mr.
Clarkson had vindicated the honour of the bar by the
course he had adopted. With regard to Long, he
should attend to the recommendation of the jury.
The prosecutor had also stated that he had up to this
transaction borne a good character, and he thought it
likely he had been drawn into this matter by Picke-
ing ; still, in a port like the city of London, where
so much trust was reposed in lightertuen, his
offence could not be passed lightly over, and
he should therefore order him to be imprisoned for
twelve mouhts. As to Pickering the case was dif•
ferent: he believed him to be the principal, and as a
man in his position--a whsrfinger—he should make a
signal example of him to deter others and prevent si-
milar practices upon the river, our great course of
commerce. He had also tried to prevent the coarse
of justice by getting false evidence fur the defence,
and was therefore a man not safe to be at large in this
country, and he should transport him for ten years.
Ooe of the witnesses for the defence, named Par-
sons, swore that the officer Thomas, through whose
zeal and ability the evidence had been obtained, had
offered him 51. to swear against the prisoners, arid at
the close of the proceedings the R-corder ordered him
and another of the witnesses for the defence into cus-
tody fur perjury.

T H lie II GO RT.
(Before Mr. RUS:.ELL GURNEY.)
James Langritke FVulker, a fashionably-attired
young man, was indicted tor obtaining goods by false
pretences.
Mr. Parry and Mr. Woollett prosecuted ; and Mr.
Ballantine and Mr. O'Brien were for the defence.
Mr. Francis D.,cld, of Cornhir, j-weller, stated
that in the early part of l+st month the prisoner came
into their shop, and stating that he and his brother
hai been customers at their shop for some time, re
questtd to be shown 60,110 bracelets, which was done,
and he selected two, which he said he would take
round to his offices, Wni?e Lion-court, Cornhill..
Having been satisfied that he had some place there,
the bracelets were sent, and he kept one valued at 101.
which he said he would call and pay for, or return if
not approved. After he had got the bracelet the
I prosecutor called several times at the office, but only
once saw him, and he then told him that if he did not
return him the bracelet he had obtained by fraud
be should give him into custody.
Mr. Joseph Sari, of Cornhill, silversmith, said
that prisoner came to their shop on the sth of July, 1
and asked to look at some bracelets, which were
shown to him. He stated he was of the firm of
Walker and Co.—(Laughter.) Two were sent upon
approbation, and the prisoner came back and said that
he would keep the one that was valued at 161., and
that in a short time he would call again and give
them a cheque on Smith, Payne, and Smith for the
amount. He did not come back, and witness meet-
ing him some abort time after in Cornhill gave him
into custody.
When you went to White Lion-court what did you
find there ? Witness—There was a chair or two and
a desk.—(Laughter.)
It was proved that prisoner was not even known at
Smith, Payne, and Smith's
_ _

Inspector Mitchell proved prisoner being given into
his custody on the 24th of July, by Mr. Slrl, at the
station-house. Prisoner then said that if Mr. Sarl
would withdraw the charge be would give up the
bracelet, and subsequently they were both given up
to witness.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Inspector Mitchell said he had obtained a bracelet
from another jeweller, and had got 401. worth of gooth
from Mr. Alderman Hunter, and also swindled a poor
woman at Elomerton out of some money, and had
further obtained three valuable looking-glasses from
another tradesman.

Mr.. GUBNEY said, it would not be satisfying jus-
tice he did not give the prisoner a severe term of
imprisonment, and ordered him to be kept to hard
labour fur twelve months.
The prisoner, it would appear, had, fortunately for
the trading community, been stopped in good time,
for he had just ob`ained possession of a handsome
residence at Abbey Wood, K-nt, which was evi-
dently intended as a place of reference.
Jost as the above cas,t had condo led, Inspector
Park begged his Lordship would tell h to dis-
pose of a gentleman who had ju,t bean give.) into the
custody of one of the V divi4on on a bench warrant,
he bHinar in attendance as a witness?

Mr. Palter s the p-rion ellud4 to was a client
of his, ani they had been behind his back and ob-
tained a bill, and, without giving him any notice,
now, by getting a bench warrant on a S iturdav,
sought to lock him up until Monday. The charge had
been dismissed by Th.- magistrate.
Mr. GURNEY said, if tha bsil would present them-
selves he would examine them himself without notice,
as he wished to stop the practice, which was often re-
sorted to tor extortion or spite.
Mr. PARRY said that scarcely a session passed that
parties were not taken into custody in this way on a
Sa,urday ;
.and he would suggest that no warrant
should be lasued on that day without notice being
previously given, or unless they had been before a
magistrate.

Mr. Gnarls 7 said, he could not well make the
order. It was a great injustice to parties. In this
case he would consent to bike one bail.

ASTERN UNION RAILWAY.--The Trowse branch
of this company is now completed, sad the Cr' vratilluatit
koPINWir mover it toKley.

Clarkson and Mr. Brikin were for the prisoner
Pickering, and Mr. P.Arry and Mr. SI •ig7 were for
L

The case, which lasted nearly the whole day, was
of great public importance, and the court was crowded,
the hitherto respectable position held by the accused
parties making the trial one of extreme interest to
those by whom they were known, and also to a large
class of the agricultural body, who have for some
time pest been sufferers by the nefarious practices of
which the prisoner() were convicted.
' The evidence of the numerous witnesses who were
examined proved the following case :—Tne real pro-
' secutors are Messrs. Gibbs, of Sr. Helen's-place,
agents to the Peruvian Government for the sale of
the guano, and it was stated b 1 the Lo.arned Counsel
in his address to the jury that the Government of
Peru bad suffered most materially by the present
system of fraud, the pure guano sent over by them
being most scandalously adulterated by the practices,
and thereby obtaining a bad repute, whereas in the
pure state in which it is inverted into this country
its fertilizing property as manure is valuable in the
extreme. In the early part of May Messrs. Gibbs
received from Mr. Schofield, a large agriculturist at
Bowden, in Yorkshire, an order for 220 begs of
guano, to be sent down by a coasting vessel. At
that time the Invermore, laden with guano, was
lying in either the East or West India Docks. The
guano, it appears, is brought to this country in bulk,
and when sold is sent away in bags, which are filled
in the vessel from the bulk, the bags being sown up
and marked by some of the dock officers before they
leave their charge. The officers also take a sample
from each vessel of guano when she is half unloaded,
which they carefully keep, with the nameof the vessel
attached to it, for the sek- of reference should any dis-
pute arise as to its respective property and value. The
prisoner Long is a lighterman and bargernaster, and was
employed to remove the guano from the Invermore,
and should have gone to the Docks on the 16'b of
May for it, and on that day let Captain Drury, of the
Albion coasting vessel, have it on board. Long, hew-
ever, did not go to the dock until Saturday, the 17th,
and the guano, weighing in all 14 tons, was delivered
to him in the usual way into a barge under his com-
mand named the Old S tul. Long did not deliver the
guano to Captain Drury until Monday, the 19th,
and said he could not get out of the dock before.
When the guano arrived in Yorkshire the bailiff to
Mr. Schufi-141 had his suspicions raised that all was
not right, there being a bag too many, and that being
io appearance shorter than what they had been accus-
'rimed to have. Upon inspecting their contents he
()unit the substance to be of a very inferior quality.
A hag was therefore sent up to London by Ceptain
Drury, and he having obtained a sample of the origi-
mli bulk, it was analysed by Mr. Waly, anelyti, al
hytnist to the Royal Agricultural Society, and he
iund that that whice had been delivered to Mr.
Schofield had been adulterated above half with
,nerl, sand, and some other compound. I (for-
mation was then given to Messrs. Gibbs, and they
laving consulted Forrester, the Mansion house officer,
the police were set to work to sift the mater to the
b Atom, and the evidence they obtained preyed the
guilt of both parties beyond all doubt. It appeared
;net Long left tne dock on the same day he received
the guano, and then proceeded with his barge, the 0
Soul, as far as the Union wharf, Liinehouse, belong-
ng to Pickering, and keown as Pickering's wharf.
['tie 0;d Sow was there unloaded, and the guano
•aken into Pickering's premises, where the hags were
'pened, emptied of their contents, and 611 e 1 with a
(nature called phosphate and some portion of the
original guano. Tney were then sewed up and
marked again by the two prisoners, and reloaded on
to the Old Soul, and thence shipped into the Albion.
For the defence, it was attempted to be shown that
'he barge that was being unloaded and reloaded was
not the one in question, but the evidence of the wit-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Margaret Raymond, aged ihi ty, was charged be-
fore Aioermotil Wilson with throwing her son, agod
six, from the third-flour window of a house iu Sun-
court, Gulden-Line.
Policeinan 140 D said he received information on
the previous evening that a child had been thrown out
of a window, and proqeeded to 9, G d,len-lane. The

prisoner was coning ote, and she excliimed, " I have
done it now." The child was sent to the hospital,
and the prisoner was taken into cu.dody. The child
afterwards sail that his in 'they had thrown him out
of window?, bocauie he would not let her take off his
boots.

The prisoner-.-I Wd4 very drunk, your Worship.
Ald-rruvi WiLsort—Do you think that to be a
justi&dtion of your conoluct

The police officer—Sle knew very well what she
was doii.g. The child fell on his head on the shed
below the window, and thence roll-d to the ground.
The surgeon's certificate was produced It stab-d
that the child's head was much injured, but the skull
was not fractured.

Miry Anne Regan, an intelligent girl, aged 11,
who said she never read the Bihie, hut al w iys told
the truth, deposed that she lived in the house (No. 9),
and was looking through the second-fl ior window.
Sie saw the prisoner holding the child out of the
upper window ; he exclaimed, " Oh, mother, don't
chuck me out!" The mother then took him by the
heels and dropped him out of the window. At the
same time a little girl in the mother's room exclaimed,
"On, mother, don't throw him out !"
The prisoner was committed for trial. She subse-
quently admitted that she had wanted the boy's boas
in order to sell them fo- gin.

CLERKEIV WELL.
Thomas Ledger, master of the national school in
Agar Town, was charged before Mr. Tyrwbitt with
assaulting one of his pupils, 12 years of age, named
Philip Wheaton, of 32, Carnhridge-street. The com-
plainant's hack was hired in court, and there were
from 30 to 40 black and blue marks very visible. It
appeared in evidence that the defendant first gave him,
about half-past 11 o'clock in the day, two cuts across
the hand, and afterwards caned bim, no one else
being present, at the same time holding him up with
one hand until the weapon spit. U. then got an-
other came, and then held him with his face down wards,
and, putting his font upon him, fl egged him !or a con-
siderable time, when a gentleman and some of the
boys, who had heard his 'screams' came to the dour,
and he was permitted to crawl away. Defendant
said he would not hit hint again, hut would turn him
out of the school ; the reason he was thrashed was fur
making a noise with his fingers.
Mr. Trawuirr said such charges were getting so
frequent, that it appeared likely one magistrate would
have, to devote his whole time to their investigation.
Daf-ridint said the complainant was an obstinate
and wicked boy, and he punished him for making a
u.iist, and snapping his fingers while the school was at
prayers. He denied using two can .s. and celled two
of the bo% a. who on oath corroborated his statement.
Mr. Trawatrr was of opinion the, the case ought
to end there, ter no great harm had been done. He
would repeat what he h.,(1 often said, that he had seen
pu rishin-nts far more severe itifl cted in the school
where he was brought up upon some of the first no.
blemen now living, clergymen, naval and iniiitary
effieers, and others of very high standing, who never
firoched from it, but tor& is twintully and in good
part, knowing they had deserved it, and chat it was
nec-ssary fur the character end dignity of the esta-
blishment that such a discipline was actually neces-
sary : " and without it," emphatically exclaimed the
worthy tnagistrate," what would have become (d our
army and navy ? Why, instead of a brave and manly
race, we should have had a set of cowards and
runaways." He did oot approve of secret flogging ;
if it. was necessary it ought to take place before the
other scholars, to operate as a warning. He wanted
to know from the father of the complainant did he wish
the case to be sent to the sessions ?

The father said that undue severity had been exer-
cised, and he was dehirous that defendant should be
tried before a jury.
The Rev. C. Hart hoped the matter would be set-
tled there, and gave defendant a very high character.
The father would not consent.

Mr. TYRITHITT was glad in one respect that the
affair would have to be settled in another court, where
it would be decided to whet extend a schoolmaster
was justified in correcting yourhs committed to his
care—a care of a most reqwnsible and harassing
nature, He would recommend all schoolmasters for
the future to have their rules and regulations, witb
modes and extent of punishment for different offences,
printed or painted in the school -ro,m, and to show
them to every parent bringing a child there, and if
they did not like the regulaion, they would have an
opportunity to go away with the youth who, through
that mawkish, foolish, and mistaken feeling, would
most likely turn out a bad character for want of
learning good example and discipline. Such was his
opinion -or the whole facts, in which he was glad to
say he was borne out by the highest dignitaries of the
Church, judges, and other humane and learned cha-
racters.

The depositions were then formally taken nviinst
the prisoner, who was commirted to the next Middle-
aex sessions for trial, and the witnesses were bound
ovtr to prosecute.

Bail Was taken fur his appearance to take his trial,
and he was liberated.

THE COON TitY MA KKETS.

LITERPO L, Aca. 23—The tract, wears 0. ste,dier
app,-arkii.ce to dm), there not b,ing s much pressure
on the market, but there is not much doing.
e.d.e. d

Wheat, per 701 b :
English, white . 5 11 to 6 2
Do. red 5 8 6 0
Irish, best red • 5 3 5 4
Do, lower quality 5 2 5 4
Manx, red and wit. 5 6 5 9
Dantsic, high mixed 6 0 6 4
Do., mixed .. 5 10 6
Rostock, &c • . . 6 2 6 6
Ilain burgh and
Lower Baltic .. 5 8 5 10
American & s white 8 9 6 ip
• anadian, Z red 5 6 5 8
Antwerp & Louvain 5 6 5 IV
French, red.. .. 5 6—5 10
Hungarian and
Mariaropoll .. 5 0— 5 2!
Odessa, Polish •• 5 4 5
Do., common .. 5 0 5 2
Egyptian .• .. 310 4 2
Flours English &
Irish, per 2801 a 32 0 33 0
Do., extra fine 33 0 34 0
United States, per
barrel 18 0 21 6
Canadian 19 0 20 0
Indian corn, per
430113, white .. 25 0 28 0
GL ,UCESTER, AUG. 23.—The market was fist and
farmers endeavoured to ameed upon the prices of Inst
market day on the strength of the uncert.orvy of the
weather. The effiet, beeever, was fruitless, cod erces
mast be quoted as before, the importations tending to
keep prices down at the lowest pitch. As set there
has nut been much new wheat brought into G oucester
market, the farmers being too busy in the fields, and
Inbour being too scarce to allow of threshing. In the
course of a fortnight or three weeks, however, we may
expect a good deal of the present )eas's growth in the
market. Good English white wheat sees here at 5-4 to
5s 4,1 per bushel; and red 4s fel to 44 10.1 ; foreign,
4s 2d to 4s 61. Malting barley keeps up its price, at
25s per quarter; and grinding, 22s to 23s per patter.
In oats 22s per quarter is otesioeble tor old; English,
new, 21s; new Irish about 20s per (paver. o.d beans,
4s to 4s 3il per imperial bushel fir Efighish ; and 3s 8d
and 34 8d to 33 10. i for French; Egyptian, 3. 6d to 3s
8d; Peas are quoted at 4s per bushel.
At Cirencester the average price of wheat h 38s Id
per quarter; barley, 25s 2d; oars, 214; and bean., 365;
flour, 29s to 30s per sack. At this town a good dell of
excitement has been occasioned by the appear-memo of
Mr. SPCormick's reaping machine yesterday, which
qeite astonished the Cotswold farmers, who, sceptical of
its powers seemed perfectly astonished at the work it got
through, and the way in which it was done.
At Devizes old wheat sold at ab nr the same as last
week. S.iveral lots of new were off ,red, which for
brightness awl quality were much admired. Some 30
sacks soll at 21s per sack, but the average price is 19s
to 20s per sack. Little business doing in other grain.
WORCESTER, Argo. 23 —Another week of bright har-
vest weather has contributed greatly to the prospect of
plenty, and the effect has been felt in the corn-market
to-day by a further fill in the value of most articles of
grain. Best English wheat has now fallen to 158 and
15s for white, and I4s to 15s for red samples. For
malting barley there was an average inquiry, at from
3s 8d to 4s per bushel; distilling qualities from 3s to
3s 4l per bushel. English beans fetched 4a 6d per
bushel for best qualities, and 3, 61 to 34 10s for inferior.
Old English oats must be queted a' 3, 4 t per 391 h; and
24 9,1 to 3.; Irish, 3s. Winter vetches tr in 4s to
44 6 1 per bushel. White pees average from 4. 41 to
4s 6 1 per hu hel; and grey, 3. 6 I to 3 • 8,1 p• r bushel.
At Steurbridee n]..rkst on Fri,le.% the ?attendance of
Farmers was scanty, true weather b -ing propeieus for
harvest operations, an 1 all being busy in the field gar-
nering the ripened a.11,5t. Some new tem:Wes of 12,,ine-
growa wheat were held firm at last week's rates, but
old must be quoted Is per quarter lower; good new,
I 61 per bag. Foie milting barley continues in de-
in mod, end maintains former prices. In oats, peas, and
beans little ening, and prices mast be quoted as before.
At Wolve henseton the tran.actions in wheat were
confined utmost exelusively to dealings in new, the
samples of which were brought to ina.ket in very fair
condition. Fine white (new) made 5. 4d per bushel;
and red, from 5a to 5s 21. 01d English and foreign
were qutte ueglcc-ed, cud could hardly have been sold
at 2,1 per bushel 1.8% money than last week. Barley re-
main• d unchanged in value ; the current price of malt-
ing is from 28s to 34s per quarter; and grinding 25s
per verger. Beans were dull of sale, and rather
cheaper. Oata maintained former rates. English must
be qtioted at 24: per quarter; and I, ish 21s to 28s.
Kidderminster market was dull, and the attendance
limited. There also the inquiry for wheat eyes re
stricted in a great weenie's to new, old being negl.eted.
Euglish new was offered at 5i to 5s 2 I per bushel for
white, awl 4e 101 to 5. for red; old, 5s to 5s 2,1 for
white. Grinding barley, 3s 4d per bushel of 49 b.
English beans averaged 13s 6d per bag of ten score;.
4.1 imigu, to lass' per bag. 014 oats were tahroe,

d. I. d.
Do.Nfeal, perl96lb IS 0 to 16 0
Barley, Ent.,lisli,pr
imperial quarter 26 0 '4B 0
Irish, Scotch, and

.iiarx,perfiolb.. 3 8 3 10
Foreign, grinding 3 3 3 6
ttye, pgr 6019 • 3 t 3 9
!loans, English, pr
imperial quartr 32 0 34
Irish and Scotch,
per 48016 .. 30 0— 31 0
Dutch .. •• :10 0— 31 0
Egyptian .. 25 0 26 0
Peas, English, per
• imperial (Naar 31 0 33 0
Foreign .. 31 0— 32 0
ints, per 451 b :
Scotch,

and Welsh. old 210 3 4
Irish, n cet
mealin. . .. 210— 2 11

Do., feeding' .. 2 6 2 8
Do., foriign .. 3 0 3 2
Oatmeal, Ei Wish,
,colch,pr24olb ''7 6 24 0
Irish. new 24 6 27 0
1)0., old . .. 25 0— 26 0