The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

M. HUMPHREY BROWN'S PETITION TO ANNUL.

To-day was appointed for hearing arguments on the
petition of Mr. Humphrey Brown, M.P., to annul the
adjudication in bankruptcy against the Royal British
Bank.

After some time, Mr. Linklater said that, under the
sanction of the court, the accounts between the bank
and Mr. Brown, which were voluminous, would be re-
ferred to arbitration, which would enable him to do
what he had promised to do, to realise the securitie,r,
and otherwise give valuable information. The assignees,
therefore, were happy in consenting that the petition
should be withdrawn, without costs. The learned
gentleman drew the attention of his Honour to
the fact that one of the allegations in the
petition was that the adjudication had been ob.
tained by fraud. He was glad to Fay that, on
his (Vlr. Linklater's) addressing himself to Messrs.
Tucker, the solicitor to the petitioner, they at once dis-
avowed any intention to impute fraud, but attributed its
insertion to the haste in which it has been drawn by
counsel. The assignees therefore considered the charge
had been withdrawn without reserve.

Mr. Greville, for Mr. Brown, expressed regret Gal
such an allegation had been made, and expressed a belie]
that the present arrangement would be beneficial to all

parties.

His Honour consented to the proposition for the dis-
missal of the petition, and considered the assignees had
acted liberally in consenting after such a charge.

The petition was dismissed without costs.

THE SAWARD FORGERY GANG.

This morning Saward, alias " the Barfister," alias
"Jim the Penman," and Anderson, the two men charged
with extensive forgeries on the bankers of the metro-
polis, were again placed at the bar at the Mansion-house
before the Lord Mayor, for further examination.
The evidence was principally of a carroborative cha-
racter with regard to the statements of the two approvers,
Atwell and Hardwicke.
The prisoners were again remanded.

POLICE INTELLTGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DISORDERLY PAUPER.—Ann White, a low, dissi-
pated looking woman, was brought before Mr. Bea,don,
charged with violently agsaulting Ann Harrison, an

inmate of St. Martin's Workhouse.

The complainant, a poor, but decent-looking old
woman, stated that yesterday she had a day'a leave
granted her by the master of the house, and on her re-
turn home, about seven o'clock, the prisoner, of whom
she had no previous knowledge, deliberately picked up a
large atone, which she threw at her head and struck her
with great force on her left temple. Complainant, who
was in great pain, called out, and the porter came out
and give the prisoner into custody.
Charles Rowe, assistant relieving officer of St. Mar-

tin's parish, said he was at the workhouse on the previ-
ous evening, when he saw the prisoner take aim at the
complainant's head with a atone, and then fling it at
her. The stone struck her on the bead, which was very
much swoollen in uonsequence. He at once seized the
prisoner and gave her into custody. Rowe added that
the prisoner existed entirely by going from workhouse
to workhouse, and her conduct was so very bad that he
almost dreaded a visit from her. Last night she applied
for admittance as a casual pauper, but as he invariably
made it a practice of taking in all the aged and feeble
poor before he admitted a single able-bodied pauper, he
desired the prisoner to wait a short time, when, if there
was room, she would be admitted. The prisoner refused
to wait, and her language was dreadful to hear ; in fact
she was one of the worst casual paupers in London.
The prisoner, with an oath, said she threw the
stone, but meant it for Rowe's-- head ; he was a
villain and a scoundrel, and ought to have admitted her
into the house. They were all -- thieves together,
and she wished them at --. She was proceeding in a
similar strain when Mr. Beadon cut her short by fining
ber 51., and in default committed her for two months.