The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

CANDLES.

le retail shops, is as follows:
I Moulds, per d0zen,......95. tid

K ET. —Dec. 2.

Per Ton. s. d.
Walls End Hotspur-- 17 6
Walls End Killingworth 18 „5
Walls End Newmarch..... 17
ditto Northumberland 17 9
Walls End Perkins 17 O
Walls End Riddell's 19 0
Walls End Walker 18
Eden Main 16 °
Lambton's Primrose 18 0
Walls End Hetton '2l
Walls End Lambton 21 0
Dixon's Butterknowl—. 17 0
Walls End Butterknowl 19
Walls End G0rd0n.....—... 19 0
W. E. South Durham.. 19 ?,
Walls End Tees , 19 "
Hartley 15 6
Cowpen . 15
st market-day, 15.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

(From the London Gazette.)
TO-MORROW, DEC. 3. M.
E. Stringer, victualler, Commercial Tavern, Poplar lat 1

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DIVIDENDS. st.
R. Stevens, victualler, Newgate-street at If 3
H. H. Arderae, cabinet-maker, Southwark 1
T. Thompson, merchant, Chamomile-street 2
W. Oaks, coppersmith, Houndsditch 3
G. R. Tempany, tailor, Holles-street, Cavendish-square l2
R. H. Brown, hackney-coach-master; Vauxhall.walk l'2

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.-It gives U 5
no small pai❑ to have to state that an attempt, which
happily proved abortive, was made this morning on the
life of our worthy fellow-townsman, Mr. Egerton Smith.
About ten o'clock a gentleman was shown into the editor',
room at the Mercury (Bee; Mr. Smith and Mr. M'Queen
were in it at the time, but at the request of Mr. Smith,
Mr. M'Queen retired. Tee stranger then, to Mr. Smith's
reat surprise, deliberately fastened the latch of the door,
and began to tail: in a very strange and incoherent man-
ner. He described himself as the gentleman who had re-
cently advertised in the Mercury and other papers for a
wife, and be had come to complain of what he considered
personal allusions of an offensive nature to him in sundry
paragraphs in the last Mercury. Mr. Smith protested
that he had never seen him before, and that no allusion
whatever had been made to him in his paper. This con-
versation lasted about five minutes, when Mr. Smith's
alarm was considerably excited by seeing the stock of a
pistol protruding from his breast. While preparing to
resist any attack that might be made on him, the stranger
drew another pistol from his inside pocket, and at that
instant Mr. Smith closed on him. A struggle ensued, in
which Mr. Smith used all his efforts to turn the pistols in
such a direction as to prevent any injury to either of them
in the event of any one of them going off. The noise
occasioned by the struggle alarmed Mr. M'Queen and Mr.
Langley, who were in the outer room, who, apprehending
the worst consequences, very properly and promptly burst
in the door and seized the assassin. As he is a strong
athletic man, they had some difficulty in keeping him
down, and on taking the pistols from him they were found
to be loaded with powder and ball, and further prepared
for fatal mischief by having percussion caps on. Officers
having been sent for, the prisoner was carried before the
sitting magistrates, his worship the mayor, and Peter
Bourne, Esq., and Mr. Smith, accompanied by Mr. Ros-
coe, and other friends, attended. The prisoner, on being
asked what he had to say, replied, " It's a lie ; what did I
want with two pistols to shoot one man ?" His wanner
and his agitation showed but too plainly that he was not
in his right mind, and accordingly the magistrates ordered
him to be remanded until Monday ; and two medical gen-
tlemen in the mean time to visit r•im : and inquiries to be
made after his friends. The prisoner is a gentlemanly-
looking man, apparently about twenty.five years of age.
Fie had written several strange and incoherent letters to
Mr. Smith, of which no notice was taken. The prisoner
is named De Bruin, and lodged in a house in South Myrtle-
str. •t. He is possessed of some property, and was a clerk
in the office of Messrs. D. and T. Willis. He has not
been very well for a week or two, and has not taken his
meals regularly. Hie behaviour did not attract the par-
ticular attention, however, of the people with whom be
lived, until this morning at breakfast.time, when he was
cbserved loading his pistols. He did not eat any breakfast,
and on going out said he should not perhaps be back that
night.—Liverpool Chronicle.