The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-12 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOHN WATLING and ROBERT KNIGHT VORLEY,
drysalters, Bread-street-hill.
CHARLES THOMAS, corn-factor, Bristol.
BANKRUPTS.

JOHN MOSSMAN, Maulden, Bedfordshire, sheep-dealer, to
surrender Oct. 26, and Nov. 23, at half-past ten, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Williams, Hatton.garden ; Whitmore, Austin-
friars, official assignee.
JONAS BENNETTS and NICHOLAS ROBINS, Gunnis-
lake, Cornwall, granite-merchants, Nov. 14, and 23, at eleven,
at Elliott's Hotel, Devonport. Fox, Finsbury Circus; Gilbard,
Devonport.
JOSEPH ANKRETT, Walsall, Staffordshire, grocer, Oct.
22, and Nov. 23, at twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London; Hawkins and
Richards, Birmingham.
HENRY DAWES, Birmingham, curry-comb-maker, Oct. 20
and Nov. 23, at three, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Temple-row, Bir-
mingham. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Lincoln's-Inn-fields ;
Tyndall and Rawlins, Birmingham.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Robinson and W. Hepworth, Shaw, Crompton, Lanca-
shire, cotton-spinners.
J. Dobson, jun., J. and W. Dobson, Selby, Yorkshire,
worsted.manufacturers.

J. and J. Brooker, sen. and jun., Cambridge, carvers.
W. Pilortimer and J. G. Wilson, Bristol, surgeons.
S. Bettison and M. Cox, Cheltenham, coal-merchants.
W. Fort, M. Fort, and T. Fort, Marlborough-place, Kenning.
ton. Cross, as far as regards the said M. Fort.
M. A. Reid and A. Cross, Poland-street, Westminster, milliner.
G. Abraham and M. Lebrecht, Speldhurst.street, Judd-street,
Brunswick.square.
A. and A. George, Reading, common-carriers.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW COLONY.—Several
young men and women, and children of both sexes,
from ten to twenty years of age, were brought before
the LORD MAYOR, charged with having planted a
regular colony under some of the dry arches on the
eastern side of London Bridge.
From the statement of Evans, the street-keeper
of the district, it appeared that crowds of vagrants
of both sexes were in the habit, after the labours of
the day, of assembling under the arches of London
Bridge, for the purpose of getting up a meal, and
afterwards sleeping together. When he went to
the new colony, he saw about fifry poor wretches,
who evidently had no other home than the melan-
choly one they had thus established. About twenty
men, women, and children, had retired to repose
under one of the arches, where they lay " spoon-
ways," and quiet enough, with the exception of that
music which bears the strongest testimony to the
absence of care. A fire was burning under another
arch, and there was a large saucepan upon ir, con-
taining, it was stated, a ram's kidney, and the out-
side parings of two jemmies (sheeps' heads), besides
a considerable quantity of coarse beef, called by the
sausage-makers " bow-wow." An old bone-grub-
ber was stirring up those delicacies with a piece of
an iron hoop. The smoke was so dense that he was
only seen at intervals, arid then in tears, which
dropped bitterly from his eyes, and formed part of
" the ingredients of our cauldron." Altogether the
scene was such as a man might meet in an old book,
but never could expect to find on the great metro-
politan stage of life.
To questions put to them by the LORD MAYOR,
some of the defendants replied by charging the
officers of the parish to which they belonged with
having totally abandoned them to want. Others
said that they had no claim to parochial support;
and others that they had ineffectually tried every
experiment for a morsel of bread. Whether any of
those statements were without foundation could not,
of course, at the moment be ascertained; but if
ghastly countenances and tattered garments speak
any language, the poor creatures at the bar pleaded
moat eloquently before they opened their lips.
The officers said that many of the workmen em-
ployed about the bridge had lately complained of
having lost their tools, and a number of pieces of
timber had been cut up and burnt by the paupers,
who now seemed to think they had a legal claim to
the dormitories, and began to mark out boundaries,
&c. It was almost impossible to stand the smell
which issued from those crowded chambers, which,
at bed time, the inmates closed up by means of bricks
and quantities of rubbish.
Evans said, that he had been obliged to send some
of the unfortunate vagrants to the Hospital, as they
appeared to be almost starved to death. Others
he sent to the workhouse to prevent them from
perishing. If severe weather had set in, there must
have been fatal work amongst the wretched population.