The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

JANUARY -9, 18m8

bury, Jan, 19, at three, and Feb. 19, -at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Tebby, cheesemonger, Great Castle-street, Ca-
vendish-square, Jan. 21, at eleven, and Feb. 16, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
. . . _

James Metcalfe and Christopher Metcalfe, tailors, Rich-
mond, Yorkshire, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court.

Pain Arnold, manufacturer, Manchester, Jan. 25, and
Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.

William Hancock, builder, Manchester, Jan. 19, and
Feb. 16, at one, at the Manchester District Court.
Jobn Stuart, coffeehouse-keeper, Wigan, Jan. 19 and
Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
William Mowbray Lookup, banker, Staindrop, Jan. 14,
at half•past eleven, and March 4, at twelve, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
In the matter of Groux's Improved Soap Company
(Limited), the Commissioner has appointed Tuesday, Feb.
2, at the Court of Bankruptcy, for the settlement of the
affairs of this company.
James Parker and James Ronald, commission agents,
Bread-street, Jan. 20, at half-past eleven, and March 1, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Bullen, butcher, Leather-lane, Holborn, Jan. 18,
at one, and March 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Thomas Butler, licensed victualler, Priory-road, Wands-
worth-road, Jan. 20, at half-past one, and March 1, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Andrew Thompson Honeyman Dalziel, licensed victual-
ler, Liverpool, Jan. 15 and Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Liver-
pool District Court.
William Oxlade, coal merchant, York, Jan. 26 and Feb.
23, at half-past eleven, at the Commercial-buildings,
Leeds.
James Moorhouse, cotton spinner, Howgill, Yorkshire,
Jan. 26 and Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Commercial-build-
ings, Leeds.
Chatburn Cockcroft, picker maker, Stansfield, Halifax,
Jan. 19, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 16, at eleven, al
the Leeds District Court. _ .

Thomas Oliver and Andrew Oliver, lace manufacturers,
Nottingham, Jan. 21, and Feb. 9, at half-past tev, at the
Shirehall, Nottingham.
Tom Smith and William Fletcher, commission agents,
Bradford, Jan. 21 and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leods
District Court.

Edmund Cockshott and John Cockshott, worsted manu-
facturers, Bradford, Jan. 28 and Feb. 26, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court.

John Mayor Brown, apothecary, Kinston, Warwick-
shire, Jan. 21 an 1 Feb. 11, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
Joseph Thompson, jun.. plumber, Dudley, Worcester-
shire, Jan. 20 and Feb. 10, at half-past ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
Edward R. Daunt and Brother, general merchants, Liver-
pool, Jan. 15 and Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. _ _ _

Jamas Laidlaw, insurance broker, Liverpool, Jan. 26
and Feb. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

John Moffat, tanner and currier, Annan.
Chappell an.l Anderson, brick-makers, Glasgow.
William Russell, grocer, Glasgow.
Cay, Ogilvie, and Company, merchants, Leith.
Donald M`Glashan, wino merchant, Edinburgh.
Alexander Mitchell, manufacturer, Glasgow.
James Morrison, innkeeper, Port Elphinstone, Aber.
doenshire.
Robert Philp, builder, Glasgow.

supposed to have been killed—no account of him since the
mutiny at Delhi took place.
Mr. It. N. Settle, Sub-Conductor, Delhi, May 11, 1857
supposed to have been killed—no account of him since the
mutiny at Delhi took place. No. 5.
Mr. George Connor, Sub-Conductor, Delhi, May 11,
1857, supposed to have been killed— no account of him
since the mutiny at Delhi took place.
Sergeant Isaac Hoyle, Park-Sergeant, Delhi, May 11,
1857, killed by Sepoys while proceeding to the magazine.
No. 7.

Mr. Geoffry Coleman, Conductor, Allahabad, June 22,
1857, died of wounds by insurgents.
Mr. Nicholas Reilly, Assistant Commissary of Ordnance,
Cawnpore, June, 1857, supposed to have been killed, no
account having been received of him since the station has
been reoccupied.
Mr. George IL Manviil, Officiating Sub-Conductor,
Cawnpore, June, 1857, supposed to have been killed, no
account having been received of him since the station has
been reoccupied.

Mr. Richard Saunders, Magazine-Sergeant, Cawnpore,
June, 1857, supposed to have been killed, no account hav-
ing been received of him since the station has been re-
occupied. No. 11.
Mr. Matthew Jones, Conductor and Engineer, Putty-
ghat., June, believed to have been killed at Futtyghur, or
on the river between that station and Cawnpore, but no
account has been received of him.
Mr. Michael flohan, Conductor, Futtyghur, June, be-
lieved to have been killed at Futtyghur, or on the river
between that station and Cawnpore, but no account has
been received of him.
Mr. Patrick Hammond, Sub-Conductor and Assistant-
Engineer, Futtyghur, June, believed to have been killed at
Futtyghur, or on the river between that station and Cawn-
pore, but no account has been received of him.
The wives and children of all the warrant and non-com-
missioned officers have been killed, with exception to Nos.
5,7, and 11.

A. ABBOTT, Colonel,
Inspector-General of Ordnance and Magazines.
Fort William, Ordnance Office,
Nov. 11, 1857.

POLICE IS TELLIGEACE—Jan. 8.

MARLBOROUGH STREET. Mr. Dyer,
jeweller, 96, Regent-street, applied to Mr. Bing-
ham for an assault warrant against Col. Grenfell,
Hill's Hotel, Spring-gardens. Colonel Grenfell
purchased a watch at the shop a short time ago,
which was brought back to be regulated, as a com-
plaint was made that it did not keep correct time.
The watch was put in order, and Colonel Grenfell
took it away that morning, but brought it back
about an hour or so afterwards, and stated that he
wished to return the watch and have his money
back. He told Colonel Grenfell that he would do
anything to the watch that it might require to
make it go perfectly, or he would exchange it, but
he must decline to return the money. Colonel
Grenfell immediately struck him a blow on the face
with his open hand, and was leaving the shop when
he told his assistant to shut the door and fetch a
policeman. The young man placed himself in the
way of Colonel Grenfell, who gave him a violent
blow on the mouth and left the shop.
Mr. Bingham said the blow received by the coin-
plainant was more in the nature of an insulting
blow than a blow to do serious injury. Now, the
law would hardly justify the complainant in giving
a person into custody whose name and address he
was in possession of for inflicting a blow in his shop,
nor could the constable have taken the charge, not
having witnessed the assault. Then, with respect
to the assault on the young man, the complainant
proceeded to imprison his assailant a little—
Complainant said he did not detain the Colonel.
Mr. Bingham understood the complainant to say
ho had shut the door in order to detain this
gentleman until a constable came. If this were so,
the complainant was detaining the gentleman with-
out reasonable cause, and then came the nice point
how far the person detained was justified in using
reasonable force to remove an impediment placed
in his way. If, however, the complainant chose to
press the case, he might take a summons.
Mr. Dyer asked for a warrant, as Colonel Gren-
fell was to leave for America that evening.
Mr. Bingham said if a warrant was necessary it
should be granted.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mr. John Sharpe, a
fruit salesman in Thames-street, attended before
Mr. D'Eyncourt, at the instance of the district
Board of Works of Whitechapel, to answer an in-
formation in which ho was charged with being the
owner of certain houses in that parish which were
wholly unfit for occupation.
Mr. Wm. Coward, the sanitary inspector of the
district, said, that in consequence of being informed
that numerous cases of malignant fever had occurred
within three weeks in the court in which the houses
in question were situated, he on the 4th inst. visited
the place officially, in order to examine and report
upon its condition. The court consisted of a cluster
of four or five-roomed houses, abutting at the rear
upon a high walls which had the effect of greatly
excluding light and ventilation, and the houses
were let out in tenements to different poor families,
In the first house he entered he found the front
room occupied by a man and his wife and three
grown-up daughters, the latter of whom were all
affected by fever ; and the adjoining room was
occupied by another man and wife and four chil-
dren, two of whom were suffering from the same
disease, and were apparently in a dangerous state.
All the other rooms in that and the adjoining
houses were equally overcrowded with poor occu-
pants of both sexes, without that proper regard for
the requirements of common decency that ought
to be exhibited, and displayed the same features of
dirtiness, disease, and destitution, to a greater or
less extent.

Mr: Liddie, the medical officer to the Board,
fully confirmed the evidence of the last witness with
respect to the offensive and improper condition of
the habitations, which was detrimental to the health
of the tenants, and calculated to spread its effects
through the surrounding neighbourhood.
The defendant at once candidly acknowledged
that a s far as his houses were concerned they wei o
certainly net in so satisfactory a state for habita-
tion as he should wish, but he assured the magis-
trate that since he had kad it it had been a most
expensive property to him ; and as a confirmation
of that,
.he might mention that each of the houses
was subject to a ground rent of 81., and that he
had altogether sustained a loss of several hundred
pounds since the property had come into his pos-
session; indeed, he was so thoroughly worn out
with vexation abou it that he was almost inclined
to offer a handsome bonus to any one who would
take it off his hands.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that, as the' condition of
various premises had been so clearly deposed t?,
and so freely admitted by the defendant himself, it
only remained for him to make an order that the
necessary steps should be adopted for the effectual
cleansing and ventilation of the houses ; and lie felt
that he must also, under such circumstances, issue
an order for the immediate expulsion of the tenants,
in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
The inspector thought there would be a good
deal of difficulty attending the expulsion of the
tenants, as there generally was in such cases ; but
the magistrate told him to explain to them that it
was compulsory, and that under the 14th section
of the statute they were liable to a penalty of 20s.
for every day they retained possession after the
notice of removal had been served upon them.

LAMBETH.—Thomas Scott, a youth of 16 years
of age, and Charles Crisp, aged 15, were charged
before the Hon. G. C. Norton with stealing a corn
sack of the value of ls. 6d. from a waggon in Lam-
beth-walk.
The evidence against the prisoners was perfectly
conclusive of their guilt. Scott was seen to take
the sack from the waggon and give it to Crisp, and
both were taken with the sack in their possession.
The prisoner Scott, it was said, was of respectable
parents and had a comfortable home, but such was
his disposition to dishonest practices that he fre-
quently absented himself from the roof of his
parents to indulge in his propensities, and on two
occasions be had been summarily convicted and
sent to prison from this court. His sister, a
respectable-looking young woman, informed the
magistrate that on one occasion, observing that
the prisoner was about to leave home to join
his companions in crime, she locked up his
&othes to prevent him, but he swore at her so,
and made use of such threats as to run her through
with a knife, that she was glad to give them up to
him. Both th© prisoners pleaded guilty, and Mr.
Norton was about to order the gaoler to give them
a sound flogging, when he discovered that both
were over the age of 14, and therefore the Act of
Parliament would not justify him in making such
an order. A long experience enabled him to say,
that a sound flogging had a much more salutary
effect on juvenile offenders than imprisonment, and
he observed that prisoners who mre whipped sel-
dom returned, while those who were committed to
prison invariably came back again and again. He
(Mr. Norton) considered that a great deal might be
accomplished in the way of reformation by altering
the law so as to give the magistrates the power of
ordering flogging up to the age of 16, instead of 14,
as at present. In the ease of the prisoner Scott,. it
was clear that a prison had lost all its terrors for
him, and that a goad whipping would be the proper
punishment for the present offence, yet he (Mr.
Norton) could not legally order it, he being over
14 years of age, and on this point the law, he
thought, could be most advantageously altered.
Addressing Scott he asked the prisoner. whether he
whipped and dischargedto
would piefer his being
being sent to prison, and he replied he should
prefer being sent to prison, and the other prisoner
said the same, upon which Mr. Norton remarked
that, the choice made by the prisoners was a confir
matit.n of his opinion, and said that reformatories
wont' be found. ineffectual until the law, as he sug-
gested should be altered. Be was tbe.e about to
commit the prisoners to the House cf Correction,
but they having in the interim plucked up courage,
said they would be whipped and discharged, and
Cooke, the gaoler, gave them a Sound flogging.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL-JAN. 8.

We have had a good inquiry for wheat at our corn ex-
change this morning, and holders are veryfirm in demand-
ing such an, advance as buyers will not readily comply
with ; the result is only a moderate amount of business, on
which we raise our quotations for good useful qualities ld
to 2d. Flour in some request, and a trifle dearer for su-
perior parcels. Barley and beans a slow sale. Oats and
oatmeal steady. American mixed and yellow corn must
be noted fid, Galatz and Odessa I s per qr. cheaper ; white
corn supports its late value. In oats and shelling no
alteration.

WAKEFIELD—JAN. 8.
Wheat was generally held fully 18 per qr. over last Fri.
day's rates, but business proceeds slowly, the return of
mild open weather operating unfavourably on the trade.