The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

IN ICE SIMS AND SIMS.

These bankrupts were described as Of Fish-street-hill,
merchants, and now came up to pass their last examination
on accounts by Mr. S. T. Cooper, showing—Debtor to
creditors unsecured, £4,021 Bs.; to ditto holding security,
£1,608; capital, August, 1855, £207. The assets are set
down 'as—good debts, £176 ; property, £406 ; ditto in the
hands of creditors, £2,000; ditto in the hands of liability
creditors, £201; the trade expenses are set down at £5OO ;
and partners' drawings, W. R. Sims, £Bl7, and A. R.
Sims, £222 ; the liabilities, which are on bills receivable,
amount to £3,535.
The bankrupts passed.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)

THE METROPOLITAN SALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY.-PETI•

TION UNDER THE WINDING-UP ACT.-EN PARTE THOS,

HAWKINS.

To-day was appointed for hearing a petition filed by a
Mr. Thomas Hawkins, a shareholder of 150 shares, for the
winding up of the affairs of this company, on the ground
that three-fourths of the capital had been absorbed, and no
dividend had been paid.

Mr. Roxburgh appeared as counsel, and Mr. Clarke, Bed-
ford -row, as solicitor for the petitioner; and Mr. Sargood
as counsel, and Mr. Pope, the secretary to the company.
Witnesses were ordered out of court, and the learned
counsel (Mr. Roxburgh) addressed the Court on the figures
of the case, saying that if he convinced the Court on that
point, that the capital, or three-fourths of it, had been ab-
sorbed, it would not be necessary to go further.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

SHERIFFS' COURT.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY V. HOLMES,

Mr. Ashley appeared for the company, and Mr. Pearce,
of Giltspur-street, for the defendant, who is a salesman,
of Newgate-market.

The amount sought to be recovered was £1 14s. 5d
carriage of certain meat to defendant.

Mr. Minnot, collector to the Railway Company for 15
years, said that defendant's clerk hid paid him an amount
(16s. 9d.), being the balance of a former charge for car-
riage, on the day of the contracting of the present debt,
but he had not paid the amount now sought to be reco-
vered.

Cross-examined by Mr. Pearce—Witness had applied to
several other persons in the market for the amount,
£1 14s. sd. He was £1 15s. short in his accounts, which
sum defendant never paid him.

Mr. Pearce then ,called George Mortlock, clerk to de-
fendant, who positively swore that he paid defendant
1 14s. sd. on the Ist of April, and that amount was the
sum now sought to be recovered. He paid it in the follow-
ing coins :—One sovereign, ene half-sovereign, and 4s. 6d.
in silver, and Mr. Minnot returned him id.

His Honour said the onus of proving that the amount
was due was upon plaintiff, and the agent of the company
had admitted that he applied to several other persons for
this amount. Defendant's clerk swore he had paid the
amount, and plaintiff's agent not having clearly proved his
case, and there being only one witness against the defen-
dant, he (his Honour) considered that defendant was en-
.... _ _ _

tied to a judgment.
Plaintiff nonsuited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.

CABBY AND THE LAWYER.—James Lambert, driver of a
" Shoful," appeared in support of a summons issued against
Mr. Hubbard, a solicitor of Bucklersbury, for the recovery
of his (complainant's) fare. The complainant said that
he was hired by defendant, who was driven to his
own house in Bucklerebury. Upon arriving at this
place defendant got out and told plaintiff to wait.
After waiting two hours, plaintiff went into the office occu-
pied by defendant and was then told that he had been paid,
and that he had not been directed to wait by defendant.
Defendant said that when he wished to alight from
plaintiff's cab he pushed up the small trap in the roof of the
vehicle, and put the fare, 6d., through the hole. He was
told to wait, and was induced to offer a small sum as com-
pensation to the cabman, to remunerate him for waiting so
long, perhaps under a wrong impression. Upon plaintiff
being insolent, defendant refused to give him anything.
In answer to his lordship, plaintiff said that he gave Mr.
Hubbard no ticket.

His Lordship said that plaintiff had, through such
neglect, laid himself open to the infliction of a penalty. The
summons must be dismissed.

Mr. Hubbard—l will now say that is the second attempi
upon me within the last few days.
_ _ _ . . .....

His Lordship—You are entitled to the thanks of the pub.
is for resisting all attempts at extortion.
The parties then left the court.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY OF A GOLD WATCH, RINGS, &C., AT A
FENCING .ROOM. - Augustus Sterring, a earpenter, of 3,
St. Martin's-street, was charged before Mr. Bingham with
stealing, at the fencing-rooms of Mr. Arnold, 118, New
Bond-street, a gold watch and gold Albert ehain, two gold
rings, the latter the property of the Rev. Robert Stafford,
and also with having in his possession some brass fittings,
the property of Mr. Arnold.

Joy, 338 A, a detective, said that on the previous after-
noon he received information that several robberies had
been committed at 118, New Bond-street, and at six in the
evening he watched the prisoner leave the premises, and
followed him to 67, Princes-street, a jeweller's, where he
saw him offer a gold ring for sale, and on going in and
asking where he got it from he made no reply. He then
told him he was a constable, and asked if he had not got
another ring in his pocket. He then took a ring from his
pocket, and also a card-case containing three duplicates,
one relating to a gold watch, one to a gold Albert chain,
and the other to a bed. On searching, him at the station
he found on him some brass fittings. At his lodgings he
found also another ring, which he said he found in the dirt
from the shop.

The Rev. Robert Stafford, of 10, Portland-road, Regent's •
park, said the two gold rings produced he left on the man-
telpiece at Mr. Arnold's, on Saturday last, while he was
taking his exercise, and on sending for them on Monday
morning they were not forthcoming.
Mr. James Arnold, fencing-master, of 118, New Bond-
street, said the prisoner had been employed by him for
about two months ; the brass fittings were his property,
but he did not miss them till that morning.
Joy having asked for a remand, that the property at the
pawnbrokers' might be produced, the prisoner was re-
manded.

COAST DEFENCES.—On Saturday orders were
received at Chatham for the 18th Company of Royal Engi-
neers to proceed to Weymouth, for the purpose of being
employed in putting the line of coast in the neighbourhood
in a thorough state of defence, and erecting batteries and
earthworks for the mounting heavy guns in those parts
which are now unprotected. The defence of the arsenal at
Pembroke and the protection of Milford Haven appear to
have engaged the attention of the authorities for new works
for the better fortification of these important posts are to be
immediately commenced. Solid works are to be erected upon
Popton Point, and upon ground contiguous to Conjuick.
Tho Great Head, commanding the entrance to the Haven,
is also to be fon tified.
BONNY, WEST COAST OF AFRICA —The King of
the territory of Bonny, Western Africa, accompanied
by Mr. Richard Thwaites, has lately had an interview
with the Bishop of London, with a view of providing for
the introduction of Christianity into that country, which,
with its dependencies, forms a very extensive area, and
contains a large population, and which, since the aboli-
tion of the slave trade in 1841, must have in_Tcased to an
enormous extent, as previously to that year 20,000 slaves
were annually exported from thence, about a proportion of
one-sixth of the whole exportation from the Western Coast
of Africa. Upon the abolition of slavery, which was entirely
suppressed, and has never since been revived, the popula-
tion
oil. The king has been baptised into the Chiistian
fttiloitnh,hs b
and
a seei
nine
ee mcopnfiloyie.med, according to the rites of the
d principally in the production of
Established Church, and he is a regular attendant, on Sun-
day morning, at St. Paul's Cathedral.—Record.