The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

IN RE HARRISON.

A choice of assignees took place in the case of this bank-
rupt, a fringe and trimming manufacturer in Whitehorse-
yard, High Holborn. From the statement of Messrs.
Butler and Comings, it appeared that the debts to credi-
tors unsecured, amount to £1,120; to ditto secured, £4,341.
Property given up, £350. Assignees were chosen without
opposition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLB 0,14,0 U GIEI- STRE ET.
UTTERING A, FORGE]; CHEQUE.---William Glandinning
was. brought up charged by Sergeant Lonitard, 14 C, with
attempting to utter a forged cheque for £229, NNith intent
to defraud the Union Bank, Argyle-place.
Mr. Henry Glennie, one of the cashiers at the bank, said
that about eleven that morning the prisoner presented to
him the cheque Produced, and purporting to be signed by
Mr..George:.Wll4ehead for £229, in favour 'of Colonel
Tynte. Doubting the genuineness of the signature, he
spoke to Mr. Phillips, one of the managers, who put several
questions to the prisoner, and. asked where he obtained it,
to which ho replied that it was given to him by a man in
Poland-street to take to the bank and get cashed. He was
then given into custody.

Mr. George Whitehead, conveyancer, of 10, Poland-
street, said he had an account at the Union Bank. The
signature to the cheque produced was not his, though it
was very much like it. He had signed several cheques
lately in favour of Colonel Tynte. He knew nothing
whatever of the prisoner, and had no recollection of him.

Sergeant Lombard, 14 C, said he was called into the
Bank that morning, and on telling the prisoner he was
charged with attempting to utter tho cheque, his only reply
was that he was sorry for it, and had nothing to say in
answer to the charge.

The prisoner was then remanded till this day week.

THIS DAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Dec. 3.—Wind thii day at noon, S. W. ;
moderate breeze, and fine.
PLYMOUTH, Dee.. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bourse
d'Amoes, from Havannah for Falmouth; Contest, from
Newfoundland; Isabella, from Mogador for Falmouth.
Sailed—Navarino, for Moreton Bay ; Halifax, for Ports-
mouth. _

PENZANCE, Dec. 1.-Wind N.W.—Arrived—Marquis of
Chandos, from Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—lron-
master (steamer), for St. Michael's.
MILFORD, Dec. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pathfinder,
from Akyal.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Mag-
dalena (steamer), for the West Indies.
POOLE Dec. 2.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Sylph,
from Newfoundland.Z

COWES, Dec. 2.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ariel (steamer),
from Havre.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Ondine, steamer, from London ; Atalanta,
steamer, from Cardiff; Alma and Despatch, from Neath ;
Ripon, from Cardiff.
Sailed,--Madalena, steamer, for St. Thomas Hamburgo,
steamer, for :Hamburg; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin;
Argyll, steamer, for Carentan.
LivEnpooL, Friday Morning.
Wind S.
Arrived—Thames, from Leprieux ; Adria, from Alexan-
dria; Calhoun and Antartic from New York; Florida and
Monterey, from Savannah ; Joseph Rowan, from Mon-
treal ; Malakoff and Avon, from Quebec ; Elizabeth Kil-
lick, from Jamaica; Flora 'McKee, from Richibuctoo ;
Soplina, from Jamaica ; Laconia, from Charleston ; Antigua
Packet, from Honduras ; and Florence Graham.
Two flats have arrived with wrecked goods from Genova.

(114 Y SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind W. moderate ; tide three-quarters flood.
Arrived, Dec. 2.—Helmore, from Quebec ; Christina,
from Odessa; Maria Villatnon, from Pugwash ; Specimen,
from Fare ; Amelia, from Guernsey ; Claudia, from Dema-
rara.
Arrived, Dec. 3.—1n0, from Tregnier ; Rhine, steamer,
from Boulogne ; Adelaide, from Philadelphia ; Hawk, from
Morocco; Isabel, from Seville; Lee, from Stettin; Sarah
King, from blogadore ; Sarah Jane, from Rouen. ; Duke
of Roxburgh, from Odessa ; Ophelia, from Quebec •
Lark, from Gigon ; Amazon, from New York ; Faith,
from &vanilla; Empress Eugenic, from Madras ;
Virtue, from Morons ; Barbadoes, from Berbice ; Corsair's
Bride, from Condolore ; Isabella, from Cronstadt ; Specu-
lation, from the River Gambia ; Jane Tucker, from Buenos
Ayres; Edwin, from Shediack ; Agincourt, from Mel-
bourne; Admiral Nelson, from Guernsey; Thomas Hankey,
jun., from Burilapatam ; Ocean Monarch, from Quebec ;
Gleaner, from Table Bay ; Intrepid, from Symonds Bay ;
Southampton, from New York.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed.—Acadia, from Quebec, for Sheerness ; Ipswich,
barque, from the westward ; Ocean ship, from Callao ; City
of Quebec, from Quebec—all for Loudon.
Anchored—Berkshire, for Madras ; Asia, for Barbadoes ;
Lochnigar, for Auckland—all from London; Chevalier,
from Sheerness for Liverpool; Bedside, from Blyth, for
Boulogne ; St:Jose, from Newcastle, for Oporto; Sophia
McKenzie, from Quebec, for London.

COMPULSORY PREPAYMENT OF POSTAGE ON
LETTERS FOR CEYLON.—On the Ist of January next, and
thenceforward, the compulsory prepayments of postage will
be extended to all letters addressed to Ceylon, whether in-
tended to be forwarded by way of Southampton or by way
of Marseilles. The postage also of letters posted in Ceylon,
addressed to the United Kingdom, will be required to be.
prepaid by the senders.—By command of the Postmaster-
General, RowLAND HILL, Secretary.—General Post-office,
Dec. 2, 1858.
A letter from the Hague states that the Minister
for the. Colonies has just presented to the legislature a bill
relative to the emancipation of slaves in the Dutch East
India colonies. .As by the vote of the legislature in 1854,
these slaves become free on the Ist January, 1860, the pre-
sent bill is to regulate in time the manner in which that
emancipation is to take place.
UNFOUNDED CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—
The Liverpool police magistrate, on Wednesday, investi-
gated a charge of not supplying sufficient provisions, pie-
ferred by the Einigration Agent against Capt. Hussey, of
the ship Escort. Only two witnesses were examined, and
the ease was dismissed without the captain being called on
for his defence, as it appeared tho ship was 55 days at sea
fronkNew York, and the passengers were only put on short
allowance after the Escort had sighted Cape Clear. This
she did on the sth of Nov., and she was afterwards driven
three times out, of the Channel,