The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(TTITS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE PEARCY.

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Mr. Bingham said he certainly should not do so. He
should commit them for trial.
The depositions having been read over by the clerk and
the witnesses bound over, the prisoners were committed for
trial.

THAMES.
STEALING BRANDY ON BOARD SHIP.—John Ivory and
John Regan, two athletic Irish labourers, were brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with stezling two bottles of
brandy, and being helplessly drunk on board the ship
Admiral Lyons, in the East India Import Dock.
Captain Acock, the master of the Admiral Lyons, said
he was taking in cargo, and the prisoners and others had
'been engaged in stowing it. Yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock, he went on board, and found the prisoners very
drunk and ri)tous. Directly afterwards be discovered that
a case of brandy had been broken open and plundered. He
missed two quart bottles of brandy from the case. The pri-
soners were the only two men in the hold, where the cases
of brandy were stowed. Captain Acock added that these
robberies were of very frequent occurrence on board ship,
and the crews of vessels too often got blamed innocently.
Ivory, in defence, said that he drank nothing but two
pints of porter yesterday.
Mr. Selfe—Nonsense. You were so drunk yesterday that
you could not be brought here.
Rogan made a similar defence—it was the porter he
drank got the better of him upon an empty stomach.
Mr. Selfe—You were also helplessly drunk yesterday,
and could not be brought hero.
The prisoners said they walked quietly to the station-
house at Poplar from the dock, but this was contradicted
by Burgess, a dock constable, who said a cart was hired to
convey the prisoners from the dock to the station-house,
and the expense was borne by the Dock Company.
The prisoners insisted they walked to the station-house.
Mr. Selfe—How could you walk unless the bottom of the
cart was out ? There is a story of an Irishman who was
put into a sedan-chair with the bottom out. " Ah," said
the Irishman, " I might as well have walked and saved
the expense as be put into this thing." (Laughter.)
Capt. Acock said that a portion of one of the brandy bottles
was found upon 1 very, and that both prisoners vomited a
quantity of pure brandy from their stomachs in the station-
house.

Mr. Selfe—They took too much.
Captain Acsck—lndeed they did—a bottle of brandy each
before nine o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Selfe said this description of offeneo was very much
on the increase. No property was safe on board ships
while cargo was being stored or delivered in outward and
homeward bound ships. He sentenced the prisoners to be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection for one calendar month.

LORD BROUGIIAM ON DR. ANDERSON'S DIS-
COURSES.—A gentleman residing. in Cilasgow, who had for-
warded to Lord Brougham a copy of Dr. Anderson's re-
cently published volume of Discourses, has received a letter
a letter from his lordship dated Cannes, Dec. 31, 1859, in
which he says :—" The Discourses of Dr. Anderson appear
to be excellent and useful—Lord B. having been able to
read the one mentioned in Mr. L•'s note—the tenth—P Un-
charitable Judgments Judged')—and it is worthy of all
acceptation."

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WAR IN MOROCCO.—An affair, in which figures
Colonel Count de Castella, brother-in-law of the Infante
Don Henry, is exciting much interest. This noldeman was
placed in command 'of a regiment of the. army of Africa ;
but at the very beginning of the campaign he criticised, in
violent terms, and even before his inferiors, all the opera-
tions of the general in chief. This was a very grave fault,
but he committed a still more serious one in not being at
the head of his regiment in the combat of the 9th. For
this last negligence Marshal O'Donnell reprimanded him
very severely, and he answered haughtily. The result wsa
that he either demanded his dismissal or was dismissed;
and O'Donnell, in the order of dismissal, recorded—a Pain-
ful thing for a soldier—that he had not been with his regi-
ment in action. On arriving at Seville the count made use
of such imprudent language that the civil governor had him
arrested and sent to Cadiz. The captain general of the
latter place had him confined in the fortress of St. Cat he-
rine, and the Supreme Naval and Military Tribunal of
Madrid has decided that ho shall be tried by court-martial.
SKULLS FROM WROXETER.—In the corner of an
orchard abutting upon the Watling-street road, in the vil-
lage of Wroxeter, but within the old line of walls, upwards
of 20 human skeletons were a short time since exhumed,
several of the skulls of which presented extraordinary ap-
pearances. Their facial bones are, in fact, all askew, the
eye-sockets of one side of the face being in advance of those
of the other side. Such terrible-looking creatures as these
real original " Angles" were certainly enough to frighten
the city into subjection. An examination of these skulls,
however, and a knowledge of the conditions under which
they were found, would lead to the conviction that
Mother Earth has to answer for this distortion. When
exhumed they were in the condition of wet biscuit, in
consequence of the state of the ground, which is full of
springs. It can easily, therefore, be imagined that the
weight of the superincumbent earth, acting through so
many centuries, had pressed those skulls that had fallen
sideways thus out of their usual shape. There is in the
British Museum a skull of a Saxon warrior, disinterred not
long since in Cambridgeshire, with his Saxon ornaments
about him, which presents similar distortions
with respect
to the orbits and the extraordinary elongation of the head
which these Wroxeter skulls do. Judging from this fact
alone I am inclined to think that these poor people of the
orchard have been shamefully maligned as to their per-
sonal appearance,—Once a Inek.

This bankrupt was described as of Farnham, bricklayer
and builder, and came up for his certificate. The accounts,
by Mr. March, Basinghall-streot, were satisfactory, but
the assots will not yield a dividend. Tho losses were occa-
sioned through speculating on a small style on a deficiency.
There was no opposition, and an immediate certificate of
the first-class was granted.

IN Ilk W. It. WRIGHT.
This bankrupt was described as of Bucklersbury and
Stratford, auctioneer and broker, and carne up for his cer-
tificate. There was a strong opposition on various grounds.
The bankrupt, it may be remembered, was a director of the
General Indemnity Assurance Company, and sold shares
which rendered him liable to upwards of £lO,OOO. The
accounts, by Mr. March, gives little promise of a dividend,
as the affairs of the company are in Chancery, and it is
questionable whether the estate will be benefited, by which
bankrupt was to receive a salary as managing director in
the country.
The case was proceeding.

IN RE mEsicAnD.
Mr. Dorie applied in the case of this bankrupt, who was
described as of Park-street, Grosvenor-square, cutler, for
an allowance, the consideratidn of which had been ad-
journed tor the realisation of assets. The accounts, by
Mr. March, bad been verified by the receipts of good debts,
&c., and an allowance was granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE -(THIS D. 417.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBERY ♦ND RECEIVING DIES AND IMPRESSIONS.—
Benjamin Roberts, a workman in the employ of Mr. Joseph
Shepherd Wyon, seal engraver to her Majesty, of 287,
Regent-street, and Langham-chambers, Laugh= -place,
was charged with stealing two dies and ten wax impres-
sions, the property of his employer; and Emmanuel Wolf,
of 6, Union-street, Oxford-street, a die sinker and engraver,
was charged with receiving the same, well knowing them
to be stolen.
Mr. Edmund Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prosecution; and Mr. Lewis, jun., for Wolf.
Lambert, 68 E, said that at one o'clock yesterday ho went
to Laugham-chambers and saw Roberts leave the premises.
He followed him to 6, Union-street, Oxford-street, and
saw him enter the shop of the prisoner Wolf, a die-sinker,
having at the time two small parcels in his hand. He then
informed Mr. Wyon what he had seen, and went at six to
Langham-chambers, and there saw Roberts at work at a
lathe. He told him he was a police-officer, and that he was
charged with stealing two dies, the property of his master,
and selling them to Wolf. He denied doing anything of
the sort. He then asked what he bad in his hand in the
morning, and he replied, " Two dies he had to polish for
Mr. Wolf, but they were not his master's property." Ho
then asked if he was allowed to polish dies for other people,
and he said, " No." Me then took him into custody.
Inspector Pothers, of the E division, said yesterday even-
ing he went to the shop of Wolf, and asked if he had made
a pair of dies for any ono lately, and he said he had for a
gentleman who had fetched them away that day. He said
he had bought the dies of a man named Roberts, and on
asking what he paid for them, he said he had not paid for
them yet. He said he should charge him with receiving
the dies well knowing them to be stolen, and took him into
custody. He then searched the shop, and found several
impressions, which were identified as the property of the
prosecutor. He said he had bought the impressions of
Roberts at different times.
By Mr. Lewis, jun.—lt was a friend of the proseeutor's
who ordered the dies for the purpose of detecting the parties.
Mr. Lewis, jun., said it was a very objectionable plan.
Mr. Bingham said he thought it was a very proper plan.
Charles Pitt, in the employ of Mr. Revell, button manu-
facturer, of St. Martin's-lane, proved going to Wolf's shop
on Thursday last, and ordering a pair of dies with the im-
pression of a stag's-head. He went yesterday for them and
they were not at first ready, Wolf telling him that a man
at Wyon's bad them to polish. On going again at a later
hour he got the dies and the patterns, and paid for them
155., and got a receipt signed by Wolf.
Mr. Wyon said that Wolf was in his father's employ
three and a half years ago, and Roberts up to yesterday.
He placed some dies on a shelf near the furnace on the 24th
of December, and yesterday missed two of them. The pri-
soner Roberts had access to the place. The impressions
produced were his property.
By Mr. Lewis, jun.—Wolf was taken into custody by my
orders. Had marked the iron, and could positively state
they wore his property. Believed Roberts polished the dies
on his premises. It was possible the dies from which the
impressions were made were made while Wolf was in his
father's employ. Would not positively swear the wax im-
pressions wore his, but believed they were; but it was pos-
sible they were taken from a mould.
Mr. Lewis, jun., addressed the magistrate at some length
in Wolf's favour, and prayed that he would discharge
him.