The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

A RELIGIOUS SWINDLER.

A young Belgian, named Vertaille, was, three
days ago, tried
.by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police of Strasburg for swindling. A young man
in January last waited on the Abbe Vetter, pro-
fe9sor of the Free College of Colmar, and announced
to him that he was a gentleman named de Villars, of
Paris, of large property, and that having become
converted, he, in disgust at the dissipated life he
had led, was about to enter a convent ; but that
before doing so he meant to place two young
brothers in the college, and wanted to know the
terms. Ho then produced what he represented to
be a consecrated medal, and said that the superior
of the Convent of La Trappe had charged him to
present it to the Abbe. The Abbe received the
medal with respect, encouraged the stranger in his
pious disposition, and came to an agreement with
him for the board and education of the boys. The
stranger then said, though not without embarrass-
ment, that he bad lost his purse on the railway,
and was not able to pay his fare back to Paris.
The Abbe at once advanced 140 fr., which the
stranger received with eveiy demonstration of
gratitude ; but the good-natured priest never saw
or heard anything more of the man, and the two
young brothers never went to the college. In
March last the Abbe Schnell, of the College Saint
Arbogast, at Strasburg, was cheated out of 50fr. by
a well-dressed young man who told him a precisely
similar tale. On the 17th August last, the abbe on
going to the Institution des Scours de la provi-
dence, in the Rue du Sanglier, saw a young man in
•couversation with one of the sisters, and as this
young-man started and turned pale on seeing him,
he scrutinised him closely, and perceived that he
was t' e one who had swindled him. The sister re-
lated that he had just arranged with her to send
his two sisters to the institution, and had borrowed
20fr. in consequence of having had his pocket
picked whilst at breakfast in an hotel. The abbe
gave him into custody. In the evening the abbe
learned that he had attempted to swindle the Lady
Superior of the Sisters of the Christian Doctrine, in
the Rue Brulee, but, not succeeding, had walked
off with an umbrella ; also, that he had swindled
the Superior of the Sisters of Our Lady, in the Rue
des Mineurs, out of 6fr. The Abbe Vetter, hear-
ing of the arrest, gave a description of the man who
had swindled him, and it appeared that he must
have been the prisoner. Inquiries having been
made about the man, he turned out to be a market
gardener, and it appeared that he bad been con-
deemed at Soissons and Belley for swindling and
vagabondage. The tribunal sentenced him to five
years' imprisonment, and five years' surveillance of
the police.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George B. Van
Buren, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the Island of
Grenada; and Samuel Henry Frederic Abbott, Esq., to
be Attorney-General for the Island of Tobago.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of
Middle,ex lilitia—Joseph Balderson, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Jennings, displaced.
Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeoman►y Ca-
valry—Captain the Right Hon. George Granville Franois
Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ;
Lieutenant the Hon. Algernon Fulke Egerton to be Cap-
tain, vice the Earl of Ellesmere, promoted ; Georg • Theo-
philus Robert Preston, Gent, to be Cornet.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Edward
Slater Harrison to be Captain, vice Eden, retired.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Charles Turville Wilson, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Shep-
pard Harvey, resignei.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
John Townsend, Greenwich, Kent.
BANKRUPTS.

Francis Brewer Coleman, linen draper. Brampton, Mid-
dlesex, to surrender Oct. 20 and Nov. 17, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
SamErooli -court, Basinghall-street ; Buchanan, Basing-
hall-street.

William Anderson, plumber, Broa,l•street, Ratcliff,
Middlesex, Oct. 15 and Nov. 19, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings; Bolt, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.
William Grcaves, carpet manufacturer, Halifax, Oct.
16, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds; Brierley, Halifax.
Bernard Seale, plumber, Sheffield, Oct. 17, and Nov.
21, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brewiu, official
assignee, Sheffield; Broadbent, Sheffield.
Medbury Joyce, timber merchant, Saint Noets, Hunt-
ingdonshire, Oct. 19, at half-past one, and Nov. 21, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Sismey, Fleet-street.
William Harris, corn dealer, West Bromwich, Stafford-
shire, Oct. 17 and Nov. 6, at half-past ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham.
John Price, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Oct. 15, and
Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Tyndall, Liverpool.
Martha Price, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Oct. 15,
and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Tyndall, Liverpool.
John Shaw, machine maker, Dukinfield, Cheshire, Oct.
21, and Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Flernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Slater
and Myers, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Henderson, bookseller, Dunfermline.
William Al`Naughton, innkeeper, Muthill.
James M`Nabb and Son, joiners, Ayr.
William Crooks, currier, Paisley.
Henry Frederic Holt, South Beach, Stornoway, Ross-
shire.

Charles Stewart, manufacturer, Glasgow.
William Wair,boot and shoe maker, late of Kilmarnock.

DIVIDENDS.
N0v..1 T. Hawley, Blackfriars-road, Surrey; Clements-
inn-passage, Strand; King's-road, Chelsea; and Crawford-
street, Maryl ()bone, grocer; Oct. 27.—J. B. Ricketts,
Leadanhall-street, City, merchant : W. Booth, Upper
Whitecrosa, St. Luke's, machine sawyer ; E. Butler, Clif-
ford-street, Bond street, tailor ; Oct. 29.—J. Morton,
Huntingdon, ironmonger ; Oct. 30.—L. Horsfall, Accring-
ton, Lancashire, tailor ; Nov. 10. —C. Shearcroft, Lcng
Sutton, Lincolnshire, grocer ; S. West, Nottingham, lace
maker; Oct. 29,—R. J. Brown, Sunderland, timber mer-
chant ; W. E. Brockett, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and
Whickham, Durham, money scrivener; W. Rawle, Liver-
pool, broker.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
Oct. 29. Davies and F. Norman, Great Scotland-yard,
Westminster, cement manufacturers; T. Nash, jun., Great
Dover-road, Southwark, brush maker; E. White, New
Corn Exchange, Mark-lane ; Stratford,' Essex ; and Globe-
wharf, Wapping, corn merchant ; J. Morton, Huntingdon,
ironfounder ; J. Watson, Upper Bemerton-street, Caledo-
nian-road, pianoforte manufacturer.—Nov. 2. J. Dockreo,
Percival-street, Goswell-street, wine merchant; T. B. Clark,
Minories, licensed victualler; J. Cruse, Kint bury, near Hun-
gado! d, Berkshire, builder; W. Randall, Maidstone, Kent,
hotel keeper.—Nov. 4. S. Rowley, Cambridge, fell-monger ;
W. Squires, Oxford-street, gunmaker ; T. Warington, New
Corn Exchange, Mark lane, and Mark-lane, City, corn
merchant 1 • G. Tilley, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, brewer.
—Oct. 27. R. H. Lankester, Bread-street, Cheapside,
enamelled bag manufacturer ; F. Manser, Brownlow-place,
Queen's-road, Haggerstone, baker.—Oct. 28. W. Hadfield,
Cockspur street, merchant.—Oct. 29. W. Standing, Kings-
land-crescent, Kingslaud-road, engineer.—Oct. 28. E. S.
Cooper, Commercial-place, City-road, leather seller; J. B.
Robinson, Macclesfield, Cheshire, hosier.—Oct, 29. J.
Lougton, Liverpool, ship broker; H. H. Statham, Liver-
pool, attorney-at-law.—Nov. 13. J. Stamps and W. Finch,
son., Alton, Staffordshire, paper makers.—Oct. 27. T.
Bennett, Derby, miller ; S. West, Nottingham, lace maker.