The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-09 00:00:00

Commissions by the Vice• Lieutenant of Devonshire.
North Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Law-
renco Desborough, Gent., to be Cornet. May 7.
Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas
Stokes liccig,, Gent., to be Surgeon, May 7.
BANKRUPT.

William Grayson, market gardener, Mortlake. Surrey,
to surrender Oct. 23 and Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Fisher,
Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Orders have been made, vesting in the provisional
assignee the estates and effects of the following per-
sons on their own petitions:—
James Rogers, Northumberland-street, Strand.
John Read, warehouseman, Albion-terrace, Kingsland-
road.
William Thompson, surgeon, Upper Kennington-lane.
John Northcrofr, law stationer, Chancery-lane.
Alfred Simms, cigar manufactnrer, Birmingham.
Sylvester Harrington, railman and sub-contractor, Gla-
morganshire.
Richard Procter, jun., haruessmaker, Skipton-in• Cr-
aven, Yorkshire.
Charles Smith, coal dealer, Worcester.
William *Morley, ale dealer, Bilton-with-Harrogate,
Yorkshire.
William Cartledge, scythe grinder, Sheffield.
Joseph Brooks, cordwainer, Birmingham.
Robert Hargreaves, farmer, Bradford, Yorshire.
Richard Hoed, labourer, Maney, Warwickshire.
William Weaver, retailer of beer, Lackhampton, Glou-
cestershire.
Samuel Rimaden, clothier, Leeth.
Hannah Dean, farms, Leeds.
William Smith, cotton cloth agent, Addingham, York •

shire.
John Scott, licensed victualler, Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Joshua Dineley, attorney-at•law, Lancaster.
John Rowell, shoemaker, Burnley, Lancashire.
Abraham Etchells, bread baker, Manchester.
Edward Worsley, book-keeper, Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall- street.
J;Vevers, Cheapside, woollen warehouseman, Oct. 29,
at twelve—l. Blackburn, Minories, and Northumber-
land-alley, Fenchurch•street, City, engineer, Oct. 29, at
one—F. Burghart, Clifford-street, Bond-street, tailor,
Oct. 31, at one—J. 'Alpin, Bicester, Oxfordshire, scri-
vener, Oct. 31, at twelve—H. Ashley, Fleet street, and
Little Carter-lane, Doctor's•commons, carrier, Oct. 31,
at two• _ -

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In the Country.
W. Varnam, Ibatock, Leicestershire, draper, at the
Court, Birmingham, Nov. 2, at eleven—T. Goode, Here-
ford, chemist, at the Court, Birmingham, Nov. 2, at
eleven—G. Bodington, Birmingham, chemist, at the
Court, Birmingham, Oct. 31, at twelve—J. Davies, Dud-
ley Port, Staffordshire, ironmaster, at the Court, Bir-
mingham, Oct. 31, at twelve—T. Cooper, son., Wolver-
hampton, locksmith, at the Court, Birmingham, Oct. 31,
at twelve—T. Thomas, Dudley, Worcestershire, at Tip-
ton, Staffordshire, iron merchant, at the Court, Birming-
ham, Oct. 31, at twelve—J. Hall, Shrewsbury, timber
merchant, at the Court, Birmingham, Oct. 31, at twelve
—F. Stoessiger, Birmingham, jeweller, at the Court,
Birmingham,
Oct 31, at twelve.
_ PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS.

M. Cawood, Leeds, ironfounder, 4d., any day on or
after Oct. 15, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
A. K. Holman, Wortley, cloth manufacturer, 55., any
day on or alter Oct. 15, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
J. Garrison, ilelperby, grocer, 2s. 4d., any day on or
after Oct. 15, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall street.
R. Copland, Union street, Whitechapel, linendraper,
Oct. 30, at eleven.

In the Country.
R. Nuttall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturer,
Oct. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES GRAN f ED.
F. Webster, Green Writtle, Essex, innkeeper—D. H.
Haley, Lodge-road, near Birmingham, ironfounder, cer-
tificate of the first class—F. Stoessiger, Birmingham,
jeweller, certificate of the second class—W. W. Evans,
Ludlow, Shropshire, butcher, certificate of the third
class, after the expiration of six months from Oct. 3.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

A. Sudbury and W. King, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, lace
manufacturers—T. S. Warry and C. S. Warry, Liver-
pool, chemists and druggists—J. H. Hulme and W.
Mawson, Manchester, attorneys—W. Tritton and A. D.
Tritton, Hythe and Sandgate, Kent, Woollen and linen
drapers—B. Field, sen., and B. Field, jun., Tonbridge-
wells, watch and clock makers—S. Keeling, J. Shirley,
and T. Keeling, Hanley, Staffordshire, manufacturers of
earthenware—C. Crowley and J. Crowley, High-street,
Shadwell, boot and shoe manufacturers—J. T. Beale, C.
Enderby, H. Enderby, and G. Enderby, East Greenwich,
engineers—H. Perry and J. Lutley, Rye, Sussex, contract-
ors—J. Betteley, jun., and E. S. Roberts, Liverpool, chai❑
and anehorsmiths—J. Barnicott and G. Bloor, Taunton,
Somersetahire,silk throwsters—R.Franklyn and H.Frank- '
lyn, Great Carter-lane, Doctors'-commons, oilmen—J.
Weary and 11. M. Crocker, Devonport, proprietors of the
Ponlee slate quarry—H. Pigeon, H. Pigeon, jun., and A.
Pigeon, High-street, Southwark, rectifiers— W. Ridley
and J. Ridley, Foisted, Essex, millers—C. Somerset
and J. West, Stockport, Cheshire, power-loom cloth-
manufacturers—J. Robinson, A. Hayman, and B. Bed-
dow, Gresham-street, City, wholesale haberdashers—S.
Greenwood and G. Wainman, Bisbopwearmouth
Durham, engine-builders—T. Falkingham, G. Astwood,
and G. Towler, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, coach,
builders—W. D. Bailey and E. Bailey, Hartley Witney,
Hampshire, coachwakers—R. Hudswell, J. Wild, G.
Shaw, S. Kilburn, J. Scholes, J. Hall, and J. Cutt,
Thornhill, Yorkshire. mill-owners—J. Bunce and E.
Abrehart, Mitcham, Surrey, market gardeners.
INSOLVENT PE rITIONERS.

John Bennett, Borough Gail of Alanchester, hospital
warder.
John Hogg, Irthington, Cumberland, labourer.
Andrew Robinson, Carlisle, shoemaker.
Thomas Railton Taylor, Wigton, CUmberland, grocer.
Ann Bullen, Barbrook, Norfolk.
Rebecca Parker, Hockering, Norfolk.
John Connars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, waiter.
Thomas Walker, Whiekhain, Durham, lessee of lead,
copper, and iron mines.
John Avery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, carver and gilder.
William Johnson, Newcastle•upon-Tyne, sailmaker.
David Barron, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, assistant at a beer-
shop.
' William Kinnell, Rushmere, Suffolk, brickmaker.
Isaac Kemp, Worlingworth, Suffolk, bricklayer.
John Whitlock, Kidlington, Oifordshire, horse dealer.
Thomas England, jun., Bradford, Wiltshire, baker.
John Jones, Liverpool.

John Taylor, Liverpool, grocers assistant.
Thomas Staferey Williams, Liverpool, baker.
John Wright, jun., Liverpool, looking glass manufacturer.
John Black, Liverpool, joinor.

koToti Sii-:QUESTRATION.
J. WlArty, LochranzA, island of Arran, innkeeper,
to meet Oct. 16, and Nov. 6, at two within the Bute
Arms Hotel, Rothesay. ,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
r Alderman Gibbs, charged with bur-
glary before Robert Wilson and John
.Adams, a mere boy, were
of No. 20, Primrose-street, said—l
Mr. Hanniptto
about four o'clock this morning by a
was alarmed
.a
the next room, who informed me that
young man in
men in the yard. I found the pri-
thereglary in the holies: of a Mr. Chance.
were t
ammes said they hadlonly knocked a man
to let them gn through my house.
ebe something serious, and detained
I said it might arrived.
them till the police(wife of the first witness)—I heard
Mrs. HalnptOrl
were in our yard, and I went down
sdoenweers,
atehderees.wkAidq
that the prisoners
and took each by
the
shoulder, They said they had
been fighting on account of a sister of theirs, and they
wished to evade the
police,
came, and I went and got a policeman. I found the
t, and then my husband
network and some
back had been broken since I retired to rest. I ob-
served tiles between our house and the
down the back area of my
house, and I searched a
served some footstepshd
found about a dozen lucifers
there.
Mrs. Sarah Chance,
wife of the prosecutor, who
keeps the Fox and
minutes Grapes
to four o'clock this
u
morning I was alarmed
5 public-house in Primrose-
street, said----At five ~_Y a noise in my house. I got
a light, and pulled open
the stairs say " Jemmy" twice
voice at the bottom of indow open and sprang a
very loud. I threw the vi.i
the police answered. My
rattle, and in a few seconds
husband ran down stairs and
the door, and I heard a man's
had been opened.
~.hat time did you go to
Alderman GIBES—At "' nremises at that time?
called out that the house
bed, and in what state were the r
A at a quarter past twelve
The witness—I went to be-..-,safe then. I fancy I
o'clock last night, and all v"-o pass through in the
saw the tall prisoner (Adams) J
course of the day and go to the
missed nothing. I was awoke this
Mr. Chance, the prosecutor--
o'clock. I got up
morning about five minutes to fourd I went down and
skittle-ground. We
and my wife sprang the rattle,
an had been opened.
found the parlour door and window was broken in two
The fastening to the parlour door
and lay in the passage. 1 found a knife sticking in
the boards to keep the door
open,o and a small
. There were
whichor it had been
" jemmy" was lying beside the
d
marks in the door at the spot at
broken, and some drops of wax were on the floor and
the mat. There is a wall and there
Ore sheds between
of the house oc-
cupied house and the next, and the yard
cupied by Mr. Hampton backs on to the next door.
Evidence was produced to
show that an iron
t to Mr. ", jemmy" was found in the yard Ilex
Hamp-
ton's house.
Inspector Fosbery of the City
police—At ten
minutes past four o'clock I met Mrs. Hampton at the
bottom of Sun-street, and from what she said I went to
her house with policeman No. 611. I found the two
prisoners there, and we took them
into custody, and
at the station-house we searched them, and some
lucifer matches a life-preserver, and a small piece of
wax candle were found upon Wilson.
I examined
the drops of wax which had fallen in the place, and
found that they corresponded with the piece of wax
candle which Wilson had in his possession.
The prisoners, who appeared to be
quite at their
asked in the
ease during the investigation, were then
usual form whether they wished to say
anything.
They both answered in the negative, and were
committed for trial for the burglary.