The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

EDWARD MARK GOOD, farmer, Peckham, to
surrender, Aug. 30, at one, and Oct. 1, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane, Cornhill ; Wright, London-street, Fenchurch-street.
THURSTAN COOK, silver cutler, Kirby-stree.,
Hatton-garden, Sept. 2, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 3,
at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Taylor, Castle-
street, Holborn. _

EDWARD PETERS, brewer, Godstone, Surrey,
Sept. 2, at twelve, and Oct. 3, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall.
street ; Woods, Epsom; Dimmock and Burbey, Sise-
lane, Bucklersbury.
RICHARD BEESLEY, wine-cooper, Oxford-street,
Sept. 2, at one, and Oct. 3, at half-past two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane;
Shute, Millbauk•street, Westminster.

GEORGE and WILLIAM NOEL, shoemakers, Jer-
myn-street, St. James's, Aug. 30, at eleven, and Oct. 3,
at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official
assignee, King's Arms-yard ; Bennett and Bolden,
Scot's-yard, Bush-lane, City.
THOMAS and ROBERT BARBS, tobacco-manu•
facturers, Worcester, Sept. 5 and 28, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assig-
nee, Birmingham ; Smith, Birmingham.
NOTICES Ok' INSOLVENCY.
T. Snashall, grocer, Penshurst, Kent.
S. Harris, carpenter, Stalbridge, Dorsetshire.
E. Bray, corn dealer, Solihull, Warwickshire.
T. Heskin, jun., horse dealer, Bishop's Stortford.
R. Knight, farmer, Byfleet, Surrey.
SECOFD NOTICES.

J. Taylor, printer, Birmingham, Sept. 3, at eleven, at
the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, officiai
assignee.
W. Stringer, baker, Manchester, Sept. 10, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official
assignee.
J. Reece, labourer, Ty-ny-Wern Aberkenfig, Glamor-
ganshire, Sept. 6, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court.
Acraman, official assignee.
C. Vickers, baker, Manchester, Sept. 10, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee.
W. and J. Pollard, tailors, Manchester, Sept. 10, at
eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee.
Harm plasterer, East Teignmouth, Devonshire,
Sept. 5, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
A, Clarence, seedsman, Romford, Essex, Aug. 20, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee.
J. Burgess, jun., shoemaker, Southwold, Suffolk, Aug
29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager,
official assignee.
J. Morris, tinman, Highgate, Aug. 29, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee.
W. Smith, auctioneer, Wellington-street, Clerkenwell,
Aug. 29, at eleven, at the Court of bankruptcy. Alsa-
ger, official assignee. _ _ .

E. Brown, private governess, Clarence-plaee, Brighton,
Aug. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsa-
ger, official assignee.
P. Clark, fancy trimming manufacturer, Elder-street,
Norton Folgate, Aug. 29, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee.
W. Fearn, clerk, Lyon's Inn, (Strand, Aug. 29, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee.
J. Sherwood, stationer, Wood-street, Cheapside, Aug.
29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee.'
J. Fairall, stamper in the Stamp-office, Sussex-place,
Camberwell, Aug. 29, at elven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee.
R. Smith, Bowling-green-buildings, Marylebone, Aug.
29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankrupcy. Alsager,
official assignee.
A. Longland, butcher, Northampton, Aug. 29, at
eleven, at the Corut of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee. _ _

G. Woodley, artist, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square
Aug. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy
Alsager, official assignee.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

Ti.f. A mTnlgn (se Pr;,.. of Tlrnwri e•• env 41,4
week ending Aug. 20, 1841, is 325. 81d. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

GORDON CASTML—The Duke and Duchess of
Richmond are at present entertaining a large circle of
friends at this magnificent seat, where his Grace has
just arrived from his shooting quarters. The following
are among those who are partaking of his Grace's hos-
pitality. The Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Con-
stance and Eleonora Paget, the Earl of March, Lord
and Lady Templemore, Colonel Rotton, Mr. Cox, Mr.
Roby, Mr. Russell, Mr. Ricardo, &c. The family circle
includes the Ladies Caroline, Augusta, and Cecelia
Gordon Lennox, and Lords George, Henry, and Alex-
ander Gordon Lennox.
A white swallow was taken out of a nest in Twyn-
ing Church last week by a Mr. Thomas Brown, plum-
ber, of Tewkesbury, and was kept alive for a couple of
days. It has since been stuffed.—Gloucester Chronicle.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
Octavius Clarke, aged 28, son of the celebrated clergy-
man, was indicted for stealing a gold watch, two seals,
and a key, value 201., the property of Mr. Leese, in the
dwelling-house of Mr. Alexander T. Sweat ; also with
stealing a purse containing 1.5/., the proporty of George
Boothl
lot, the property of Richard R.' goods, to the value of
Pearce, in his dwelling-
Y and also with stealing
dwelling-
house.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the whole of the in-
dictments.
The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner was a whole-
sale plunderer, and sentenced him to ten years' tran-
sportation.
Jane Robinson, aged 40, was indicted for stealing a
silver tea-pot, a silver coffee-pot, and various other arti
des, the property of her mistress, Mrs. Mary Hoffman ;
and Mary Anne Robinson, aged 40, sister of the prisoner,
and Sarah Bailey, were indicted for receiving the pro-
perty, knowing it to have bem stolen.
The first prisoner pleaded Guilty.
From the evidence adduced against the others, it ap-
peared that the property lad been given to them by
Jane Robinson to pledge, bu; it did not appear that they
bad a guilty knowledge.—Tie jury acquitted them.
The COMMON SERGEANT inquired how long the con-
victed prisoner had been ii the service of the irose-
cutrix

Mrs.. Hoffman said she lad been in her service four-
teen months.

The COMMON SERGEANT said the prisoner had been
guilty of a very serious offence, and sentenced her to
seven years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

• A man named William Harden, was charged be-
fore the Lord Mayor under the following circum-
stances :
William Murton, a person in the employment of
Messrs. Nathaniel Fenn and Co., of Botolph-lane,
Aldersgate-street, stated that on Tuesday last a
person called to look at some sugars, which witness
showed to him, and he chose three bags, containing
between five and six hundred weight, and value from
161. to 201. lle then ordered that the sugar should
be sent to the Nag's llead, Bow, addressed 0. M., in
the name of Joseph Morris, of Kingston. Witness
forwarded the bags accordingly. The prisoner upn
being asked, said that his name was Joseph Morris,
and witness told him it was the usual practice of the
firm to have cash for the first purchase, and a refe-
rence for any future purchases, and he told the
witness to send the invoice to Sir Charles

Prices, and to mention in—& invoice the -day
he would call with the discount taken off.
Witness, therefore, considered it to be completely a
ready-money transaction. The prisoner referred him
to Messrs. Lowell and Nash, and Thompson, Ross, and
Co., and the former house, to which witness applied,
gave him a very high character of Mr. Morris. In
order that there might be no mistake, witness asked
the prisoner a second time his name, and the prisoner
gave him a card, with the name of Joseph Morris, tea-
dealer and cheesemonger, Collaton-bridge, Kingston.
Witness afterwards saw the sugars in the possession
of Mr. Russell, and identified them.

Mr. Joseph Morris, of Collaton-bridge, grocer,
stated that the prisoner called upon him on Monday
last, with samples of sugar, and, after receiving an
order from him for two bags, asked him where he
dealt in London. He replied, at Sewell and Nash s,
and Thompson and Ross's, and was then asked by
the prisoner for his card, which he accordingly handed
to him. Witness asked him what house he repre-
sented, and he said he represented Messrs. Hands and
Co., of Mincing-lane, brokers. Witness had not
given the prisoner any authority to apply to Messrs.
Fenn and Co. for any goods in his name.
William Bashford, a man in the employment of the
proprietor of the Nag's Head Inn, Bow, stated that
whilst he was at work in the yard on Tuesday, a man
entered and produced an order for three bags of sugar.
The goods were given to the man, and witness as-
sisted in loading the cart, but in consequence of in-
formation which he received, he followed the cart to
the Swan on the Dover-road. The cart then re-

turned to Mr. Russell in High-street, Borough,
where witness, seeing the prisoner help to unload it,
gave him at once into custody.
Mr. Thomas Russell, of No. 72, High-street, Bo-
rough, stated that on Tuesday the prisoner came to
his shop and said he was a traveller, and asked him if
he was a buyer of sugar. The prisoner stated that he
represented the house of Hands and Co., Mincing-
lane, that he was selling on commission; and he exhi-
bited a sample, which he said was a remnant of three
or four bags from off a large parcel which they had,
and asked 60s. per hundred weight for it. Witness
offered him 595., and the prisoner observed, that as it
was to clear a remnant, he would take it.
Yesterday the sugar was brought to the
door, and the prisoner presented the invoice
produced, made out in the name of Dent,
who he said was a commission-agent. Witness hesi-
tated, and the prisoner wanted to take the sugar away,
but witness said, " No, if it's all right I'll keep them,
,s I bought them; if not, you have no business with
them ;" and then the last witness came in, and asked
whether witness knew the prisoner, and where the
sugars came from, and witness sent to the Nag's Head
to ascertain who had booked them, and found that
they came from Fenn and Co.'s. The prisoner was
then given into custody.
The LORD MAYOR said the prisoner had adopted a
most ingenious and systematic plan of robbery, and
committed him for trial.
GREENWICH.

Yesterday Mary Ann Kendall, a fine-looking
young woman, aged 22, was brought before Mr.
Jeremy, charged with attempting self-destruction by
throwing herself into the Grand Surrey Canal, at
Black Horse-bridge, Deptford.
William Arthur deposed that he was going to his
daily labour, and when near Black Horse-bridge he
heard a scream repeated three times loudly. He saw
the prisoner jump into the water. Supposed she was
trying to save her sister, who had previously jumped
in and sunk. She resisted witness very much, and
sail she was determined to go in again. He got her
out of the canal with the assistance of the police and
other persons.
W. Padgam, 278 M, deposed that he conveyed the
prisoner to the station-house. On the way she de-
clared that she would go into the water again. She
would go with her sister, but assigned no reason for
so doing.
Prisoner said she did not know her sister Eliza was
going to drown herself. Her sister dipped her hand-
kerchief in the canal, and wiped her face. Witness
turned round. and in an instant she heard a splash in
the water. On again turning she saw deceased sink-
ing. Don't recollect saying I would follow her.
Jane Kendall deposed that she and her sister went
out to get from the sight of their father; they left
home early in the morning, at five o'clock; there
are five in family, her father, self, and three sisters;
they all work at shirtmaking, for a slop- house at Ber-
mondsey ; the person they work for is a Mr. Nor-
man ; deceased and her sister had pledged some
shirts; witness lent them ss. to redeem them; it was
money given her by her father to pay the rent with.
They could earn by working very hard indeed, early
and late, 3s. 6d. or 4s. per week. They received from
Is. 6d. to 3s. per dozen for making them.
Mr. JEREMY—That's from lid. to 3d. each.
It was not mentioned to her father that the money
had been misapplied, to their knowledge; but they
much feared his knowledge of the fact ; ss. was all
that her father had to pay his rent with.
Mr. JEREMY said she had much better have told the
truth, that the money had been applied to redeem
shirts.

The father of the prisoners stated that he got his
living by working along shore among the shipping.
He had made no complaint of her pledging the work,
or redeeming it with his money.
Mr. JEREMY said the present case was one of those
exhibiting the effects of the grinding system in pay-
ing for labour. Here was a scene of distress and
misery; two young girls going out deliberately in
the morning for the purpose of destroying them-
Selves, and one of them at that moment lying a corpse.
After reading to the prisoner a most feeling admo-
nition, Mr. Jeremy ordered her to be delivered over
to her father, who promised to sooth and keep a
watchful eye upon her for the present.
The unhappy parent and his daughters then left the
Court, absorbed in grief.

THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday John Jackson, a waterman, belonging to
the Lower Custom-house-stairs was brought before
Mr. Ballantine, on a charge Of smuggling 41bs. of
foreign manufactured tobacco.
The case was a somewhat remarkable one. The
prisoner was seen by a river inspector, named Joshua
Judge, leaving the Earl of Liverpool steamer, off Pickle-
herring wharf, Horselydown, and, suspecting he had
smuggled goods about him, called upon him to stop,
which he refused to do, and rowed away as hard as
he was able. Judge directed his men to give way,
and they pulled after him. The prisoner, however,
ha.l ...,..y 1:& oLoz-b boat, awl sob ulscuAl a the
police galley; but happening to get athwart hawse of
a mooring-chain, brought him up all standing. The
police galley bore down upon him, and he got away
again, and " dodged" the river police among the
tiers of vessels for some time, when he suddenly left
off rowing, and put his hand inside his bosom for the
purpose of removing some tobacco concealed there.
Judge called out to him that it would be the worse
for him if he threw anything overboard, and away he
rowed again. The police galley continued the chase,
came up with his boat, and Judge boarded him, and
found seven papers of compressed tobacco secreted
about his person.
The prisoner's defence was, that some man he did
not know gave him the tobacco to carry ashore, to
some place he could not name.

M. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 505., and in
default of payment sentenced him to 14 days' im-
prisonment.

THE STATUE or GOETHE.—The Journal des De-
buts announces that the colossal statue of Goethe, which
was east in bronze at the royal foundry of Munich,
according to the model of Schwanthaler, has been com-
pleted and exhibited to numerous visitors. This
statue is intended to ornament one of the squares of
Frankfort-on the-Maine, his native place. Goethe is
represented clad in a mantle, but having his hands free.
He wears the simple costume of the present period.
His right arm is resting on the trunk of an oak tree,
and in his left he holds a laurel crown. His eyes aro
turned towards Heaven. The subjects of the bas reliefs
on the pedestals are borrowed from the works of Goethe.
In the front, three female figures represent the natural
sciences, and dramatic and lyric poetry. On the oppo-
site side is seen, at the right, Gcets of Belichingen, Eg-
mont, Tasso, and a fawn. On the left the Bride of
Corinth, Prometheus, and the King of the Aulmes. One
of the lateral surfaces represents Iphigenia, Orestes,
Thoas, Faust, and Mephistophiles ; and the other,
Mignon, Wilhelm Meister, the Harpist, Hermann, and
Dorothea.

CONSCIENCE.—The following is a verbatim copy of
a letter in our possession, addressed to Mr. William
Thompson, of Settrington Wold, near Melton :—" Mr.
Thompson, I have sent you the enclosed sixpence,
thinking it was my duty, having got from your house
three or four eggs between 20 and 30 years since. That
was the only thing upon my mind that made me un-
happp now, I'm happy. 'Go thou and do thou like-
wise. --,A Methodist."—Yorkshire Gazette.

DEATH OF A REMARKABLE

CHARACTER.

On Saturday morning, a remarkable character, well
known to all classes of our citizens by the name of
" Dr. Syntax," but whose proper patronymic was
John Shirreff, died in the Royal Infirmary.
He had been missing from the streets for the
last six or seven weeks, indisposition having
seized him, the result of a severe cold, which,
to some extent, had also confined him to his
house during a portion of last winter. This
strange and eccentric individual, for twenty-five
years, had managed to cut a strange figure in the
metropolis, and although his peculiarities displayed
much of the monomaniac, there was a harmlessness
and innocence about him which made him a general
favourite. In early life he had been a clerk in the
City Cess-office, and it was while in this situation
that his mental aberration first manifested itself.

For the last quarter of a century he devoted his
time to frequenting all public places, more particu-
larly the University and City Churches. In the
College, by the favour of the Professors, he had a free
right of access to all the lecture-rooms, and it was his
boast he had attended more than a hundred courses of
lectures. Like all half-witted persons, he had his tale
to tell of persecution and oppression, endured at the
hands of mysterious enemies, and the same notion in-
duced the feeling that, notwithstanding his knowledge
of the medical science, these same enemies had con-
spired to deprive him of his license as an M.D., long a
favourite object of his ambition. A desire to show
them that they had not altogether crushed him,
seemed to be a ruling motive for his celebrated Sun-
day exhibitions. Dressed with the most scrupulous
care and cleanliness, in an antiquated costume of a
semi-military character, with Hessian boots, he was
to be seen every Sunday stalking through the streets
at a rapid pace, with his stick over his shoulder. His
appearance was rendered still more grotesque by his
wearing a deep green shade over his eyes with a pair
of unusually large green spectacles poised near the
extremity of his nose. He was sure to plant himself
in the principal seat of the front gallery of one of the
City Churches, where he made himself still more con-
spicuous by standing up, sometimes sketching the
portrait of the preacher while the rest of the congre-
gation were composedly attending to the sermon.
The High Church was his favourite resort for this
purpose, and happy man was he when he could con-
trive to secure his position without molestation in the
seat of royalty. On the Sunday following the Town
Council's resolution not to attend the High Church,
the Doctor coolly and consequentially took possession
of the empty seat, as he himself said, "to set the ma•
gistrates an example." He always stood during the
singing of the psalms, and he had an idea that he, and
not the precentor, led the congregation in this part of
Divine worship. He kept neither the time nor the
tune of the precentor; so that his discordant per-
formances had a painfully ludicrous character.
Several years ago, on account of the marked conspi-
cuousness of his behaviour, he was ejected from St.
George's Church, and this was an affront which he
never forgave, or ceased to enlarge upon, when re-
lating the malicious doings of his persecutors.
As a sketcher of portraits, he used also to attend
the meetings of the Town Council, the Presbytery,
the General Assembly, and the Parliament House.
Many of these sketches possessed considerable merit.
Though he never followed any occupation by which
he could gain a livelihood (with the exception of an
eighteen months' connexion with a London newspaper),
it is satisfactory to know that his wants were pro-
vided for by the united liberality of a few benevolent
citizens, who gave him liberty to purchase to a cer-
tain extent weekly. He inhabited alone a good house,
but meanly furnished, attending to all his household
concerns without any assistance. It was by dint of
no little manceuvering that he was prevailed on to
quit his own house, and he did not know that he had
been taken to the Infirmary till some days after his
removal. his death was hastened by his dogged re-
fusal to take the medicine prescribed by his attendants,
under dread of poison, and after lingering ten days he
expired early on Saturday morning. He was, we
believe, a native of the Borders, andabout sixty-nine
years of age.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday.