The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

11.61 W AND POLXCB.

Several rules nisi were obtained in the Bail Court, call-
ing on various attorneys to show cause why they should
not be struck off the rolls for misconduct.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, Forte, who had been an
attorney at Marnehull, near Shaftesbury, came up on
application for his final order. His debts and liabilities
amounted to about 13,0004 but he had no available
assets. No opposition was offered to his application ;
but Mr. Commissioner Evans said that no man was justi-
fied iu getting into debt for so large an amount, without
the slightest means of paying the advances made to him,
and therefore the decision of the Court was that he be
adjourned sine die.
At Worship-street Ann M'Cormack was brought up
for final examination, charged with having stolen a sove-
reign, the property of Leah Aarons, her fellow-servant,
at the house of Mr. M. Gomez Silva, a West India mer-
chant, residing in King-street, Finsbury-square ; and
also with the abduction of her master's daughter, an in-
teresting child, ten years of age. The depositions, which
were very voluminous, having been read over, the pri-
soner, who reserved her defence, was fully committed
on the charge of felony, and in the event of her acquittal
thereon, the Magistrate ordered a detainer to be lodged
against her for the misdemeanour.

—A
young fellow named Joseph Collard, charged
with having been one of a gang of blackguards who
assembled at Parson's-green, Fulham, on the night of
the fog, and attacked several persons with sticks, was,tin
default of paying a fine of 405., committed for a month
from Hammersmith Police-court.

Yesterday Thomas West, alias Thomas Field, a re-
spectable looking middle-aged man, charged with obtain-
ing money under false pretences, by representing him-
self as an officer of the Court of Chancery, was fully
committed from Clerkenwell Police-court.

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Lord and Lady Worsley, who, on leaving this coun-
I try, proceeded on a tour through Switzerland, and thence
went to Florence, have since gone to Rome, where they
purpose sojourning some weeks.
Lord Crewe has left town for Crewe Hall, his Lord-
ship's seat in Cheshire.
The French Ambassador had a small dinner party on
Thursday, at Manchester House. his Excellency Baron
Neumann, M, and Madame Van der Weyer, Viscount
d'Abrantes, Marquis St. Aulaire, and the Secretaries to
the Embassy, were among the company.
Count Kielmansegge, the Minister from Hanover, re-
turns to this country early in the ensuing week, orders
having been forwarded to prepare for his reception on
Monday next.
Mr. Hughes, the American Minister at the Court of
the Hague, who returned last week from his tour in Ire-
land, is about to depart for Holland, to resume the func-
tions of his appointment in that country.
Lady Dalmeny and her infant danghter are both
doing remarkably well, according to letters received
from Scotland.

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The Board of Admiralty has just promoted a very
meritorious officer, Lieut. Archibald G. Bulman (1828),
to the rank of commander. Lieut. Bulman fitted out
the Fair Rosamond schooner in April, 1841, and pro-
ceeded with her to the West Indies. In that climate he
was for a long time without a medical officer on board ;
but Lieut. Bulman so well attended to his crew, that
though many were severely attacked with fever they re-
covered under the treatment he himself prescribed. With
scarcely a second officer to relieve him, he carried on the
duties of his little vessel during the whole term of com-
mission without having recourse to corporal punishment
in any one instance, yet the very creditable manner in
which he paid her off at Portsmouth a few days since
gave ample proof of the high state of discipline in which
she had been kept.
The annual dinner of the " Brill District Conservative
Association" takes place at Brill on the sth of Decem-
ber. The great guns are to be the Marquis of Chandos
and the Duke of Buckingham.
Owing to the density of the fog on Thursday evening,
one of Feast's Clapton omnibuses, while proceeding
down the Queen's-road, was upset in a ditch, with six-
teen passengers, none of whom, however, sustained in-
jury. The escape of the conductor, who was guiding the
horses, was providential. An omnibus belonging to Mr.
Kerrison, also came in contact with another vehicle, near
Clapton Pond. The omnibus was materially damaged,
fortunately no accident occurred.
Some specimens of coal have been recently brought
over from New Zealand, that formed part of the ballast
of a barque which arrived in the river direct from that
colony. The coal in question traverses, in seams, the
seagirt rocks of the island, is exceedingly black, clean,
and glistening, and is easily frangible ; and appears to
be little, if anywise, inferior in quality to the best Walls-
end or Lambton Main samples in the London market,
and far superior to the Burdwan coal of India.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of
nays for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together wills the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :

.T!, a
=,„
Week
Last 2,' o ai
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E.
t 4.
c.) . -
X X
rArbroathand Birminghamn alg Junction entdiForfaron .
7375
1 6 Chester and Birkenhead . • _1.44 137
2,160 1,608
808
16 Bristol and Gloucester •Gloucester.
•-••:
: :: :: •••• ••
Nov.! . .
.11 65
•
• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
415 297
. • . • • .. • • • •
b 93 -
14 Dublin and Drogheda ••.. ••
• ••
••
•
• • •
••. • • •
749 581
19 Dublin awl Kingstow.i
17 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • • • • ' 228 215
16 Durham and Sunderland ... 1,026 690
16 Edinburgh and Giaagow. 2,214 2,141
17 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 3,676 3,134
16 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,464 1,208
16 Glasgow and Greenock.. •••• • • • •• . • 745 712
15 Grand Junction 7,694 6,511
16 Great North of England .•••.• . • • • • • 1,661 1,328
12,976 12,000
17 Great Western .•••••••••. • • • • • • • • • •
4,350 3,650
15 Liverpool and Manchester .. ••. • • •
16 London and Birmingham ......... • 14,376 15,835
17 London anti Blackwall - ........ •• • • 648 617
16 London and Brighton . .... ••• • • .
19 London and Croydon
21 London and Greenwich ....... ••• • • • 817 647
17 Landon and South Western 5,043 5,028
17 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • • 805 730
16 Manchester and Birmingham 2,922 2,355
10 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 6,646 5,586
16 Midland Counties. -..- .... •••• .. •
16 Newcastle and Darlington
16 Newcastle and Carlisle ----. • • • • • 1,655 1,412
17 Newcastle and North Shields 376 328
15 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,401 856
.”.. Paris, Corbel!, and Orleans.. - -
18 Paris and Rouen .
•• 4,089 3,463
16 Preston and Wyre ••...•••.. • • .. . • . • 338 231
16 Sheffield and Manchester.. ••••• • • • • • 692 682
21 South Eastern .............• •••• • • • • 4,035 2,700
16 Taff Vale ... .....
.................. 698 592
17 Ulster . .... . 581 554
17 Yarmouth and Norwich .•.••• . • • • • • 172 -
16 York and North Midland . ...... •. - 2,189 2,030
THE KING OF Trip P.,....,,,,-.,. 13.....--- ....-• ---

HE _ING OP THE FRENCH'S PRESENT TO THE
POOR or WINDSOR.—The King of the French's liberal
donation to the poor of Windsor of 5,000 f. (2001.) will
be thus appropriated by Thomas Clarke, Esq., the
Mayor:-100t. will be presented to the Windsor and
Eton Royal Dispensary, and the remaining 1002 will be
distributed to the poor in coals, at Christmas.
TRIAL BY JURY.—Not a hundred miles from Pe-
terborough, at a late quarter sessions held in an ancient
town-hall, it is said that a remarkable circumstance oc-
curred. On the trial of a prisoner charged with robbing
his master of various articles, the business had proceeded
so far as to leave the matter in the hands of the jury ;
and that body not being able to cone to a satisfactory
determination whether the prisoner was guilty or not,
and being locked up, the foreman proposed, in order to
shorten the question, that the poker from the fireplace
should be placed exactly upright, and that if it fell to the
right the prisoner was guilty, and if it fell to the left he
was not guilty I The poker so placed fell to the right,
and the poor prisoner obtained three months' imprison-
ment in consequence.—Lincoln Mercury.
Mr. James llogg, the only son of the Ettrick
Shepherd, sailed on Monday for India, seeking his for-
tunes in the East, as the sons of Burns and the sons of
Allan Cunningham have done before him. Mr. llogg
has been appointed to a situation in the Bank of Bombay.
Ilia father's fame will be no drawback to his advance-
ment, and he has our best wishes for health and success.
The only surviving son of Sir Walter Scott is now doing
duty with his regiment in Madras. How strange the
destiny of genius I Milton's son was parish clerk of
Madras, when Addison's brother was governor of that
settlement.—Athenceum.
William Smith, another of the men implicated in
the murder of Police-constable Couchman, has been
taken in custody, and was yesterday sent off to Maid-
stone, to take his trial for the offence along with the
Clarks now in prison there. Thomas Clark, the indi-
vidual who struck the fatal blow, is the only one of the
guilty parties now at large.—Dover Chronicle.