The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-09 00:00:00

IN BE GEORGE BULLER.

The bankrupt was an auctioneer. This was the
examination meeting. The bankrupt's balance-sheet,
as prepared by Messrs. Mackillop and Young, extends
from January, 1842, to June, 1850, and contains the
following items :—To capital, 3,451/. ; to creditors,
173/. ; to drawings from the firm of Fuller and
Marsh, and G. and R. Fuller, 1,995/. ; to partnership
liabilities, 6,463/. The a,sets are about 2,0001. An
adjournment was ordered, that some partnership ac-
counts might be filed.

IN RE TOMLIN.
The bankrupt was an innkeeper at Finchley. His
certificate was unopposed, but the Learned Commis-
sioner said
.it mmst be suspended for twelve months.
The bankrupt had been little better than a brewer's
puppet, except that he had gone out of his way to add
farming to the business of innkeeper. He almost
doubted whether he ought to grant certificates at all
to brewers' puppets. However, in this case, as there
was no opposition, the certificate would be suspended
twelve months.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.)
IN RE RADFORD AND SOUTHALL.
The bankrupts were coal merchants in Gracechurch-
street. Their balance-sheet, prepared by Messrs.
Glover and Son, contains the following items:—The
separate balance-sheet of Southall showed debts of
4,01r37w1.
a,
llßanking
Cm
a sum
Company, ny, and et
f 1 , 13 3 1. to the
of
Devon
(3h3,1291.
The capital was 2,0081. The debts of Radford are
1,5551.; the assets, property, and good debts, 745/. ;
doubtful debts, 528/. The bankrupts passed.
IN RE JOHN GRIFFITHS.

The bankrupt was a draper carrying on business in
the Strand and at Hoxton. His balance-sheet, as
prepared by Messrs. Mackillop and Young, extends
from the 3d of April, 1847, to the 3d of August,
1850, and contains the following items :—Dr.: To
capital in 1847, 2,203/. ; to creditors, 4,022/. ; to
'5081.; trade expenses,
5,0
creditors holding security, 803/. ; gross profits, 4,2511.
Cr.: Good debts, 3401.; property as realised, 2.8671.;
property22L;
househeld as
andsecu personalrity expenses
losses include a sum of 7001. by the expenses, 3301. The
ease of 246,
Strand, and 8581. on realization of stock.
Mr. Dupree appeared for the bankrupt, who passed.
There was no opposition.
IN RE GARLICK.

Charter
was
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House
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His es prepared by
Mr. Butler, shows debts, 2,8111.; assets, 790/.
Mr. Lawrance supported, and Mr. Linklater op.
posed the certificate.
After some discussion,
His HONOUR granted the bankrupt an immediate
certificate of the third class.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)
IN RE JARDINE.
The bankrupt was a draper and the actuary of the
Dartford Savings' Bank. The certificate meeting
was this day adjourned in order to give further time
for the depositors to prove their debts against the
estate, in order that they may be in a position to op.
pose the certificate should they think proper to do so.
Mr. Jones, of Sise-lane, appeared for the assignees ;
Mr. Linklater for the bankrupt.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, .Nov. 8.
(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)
IN THE XATTER OF LIEUT. CHARLES ABNEY MOUAT.
This insolvent, a lieutenant on full pay in the 50th
.Regiment of Infantry (Queen's Own), who had dis-
tinguished himself during the Indian campaign, ap-
plied under the Protection Act.
Mr. Nicholls opposed for Philip Bey fus, and Mr.
Dowse for Messrs. Lyon and Co. Mr. Cooke, with
whom was Mr. Sargood, supported the application.
The case was before the Court in August, when it
was adjourned with the view of effecting an arrange-
ment, but it had not been completed.
Mr. Nrcuor.Ls and Mr. DOWSE submitted that the
insolvent, having incurred debts with the opposing
creditors, without reasonable or probable expectation
of payment, it was not a case for protection.
Mr. Coox made a powerful appeal to the Court on
the part of the insolvent. It was a painful position

for a gentleman to be placed in who had distinguished
hiravelf in the service of his country, who had re-
ceived honourable wounds, end who would suffer from
them for the rest of his days. There was a class of
persons, such as students at the Universities, clergy-
men, and officers in the army, who were preyed upon
by another class, ruinous bill-discounters, who tempted
the unwary with their Birmingham ware or with
their money, for which they made the borrowers pay
some sixty per cent. Was this Court to protect such
a class of persons—men who protected themselves in
the exorbitant interest they charged ? He hoped the
Court would protect the gentleman now before it, and
shield him from such a class of persons, relying as he
had done on the promise of Lieutenant Muller's, that
he would rather sell his commission than he should
suffer—a promise which would have been fulfilled, but
fur the sudden death of that gentleman.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said he would again ad-
journ the case, to see whether something could not
be done between the parties, by which he would be
relieved from the painful duty of deciding the matter.
He felt the force of what had been said by the
Learned Counsel for the insolvent. The question was
a simple one ; it was this :—Had the insolvent rea-
sonable expectations of paying the debts when he in-
curred them ? Had he such a reliance on the pro-
mise of Lieutenant Mullens that he would receive the
money from him, that he could accept the bills., and
make himself liable ? He hoped the matter would be
settled before the next occasion.

The case was adjourned to the 9th of January nest
and protection renewed.

IN RE ADAM GILFILLAN.

This insolvent, :who was a tally linen-draper and
tea-dealer, having " rounds" at Greenwich, was op-
posed by Mr. Cooke, for Mr. Tarsey, warehouseman,
Alderinanbury ; Mr. Peram, tea-dealer ; M-ssrs.
Outhwaite and Co., tea-dealers ; and other creditors.
Mr. Sargood supported.
The case occupied several hours on Thursday, and
judgment was given at the end of the day. Several
complaints were urged against the insolvent. He
owed 3231, contracted in a short time. He had nine
creditors, and as many as 323 debtors on the tally
system, who owed him 257/. It was urged that the
insolvent had made-away with his property, in con-
nexion with a person named Hill and a Mrs. Wilson,
from which last-mentioned person money, it was al-
leged, had been borrowed. A meeting of the credi-
tors had been called in April last, and accounts were
exhibited, which were now admitted to have been
false. Another complaint was, that the insolvent had
obtained about 2001. worth of goods in a very short
time from the opposing creditors, paying them nothing.
Mr. Commissioner LAW was of opinion that the
creditors had been grossly cheated, and remanded the
insolvent for 18 months, for contracting debts by fraud,
for making away with property, and making false en-
tries in his account-books.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Richard Hammett Drake, charged with having
feloniously embezzled the sums of 4771. 1 le. 3d.,
125/. 18s. 6d., and 51., the property of his employers,
Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., was brought up for
final examination.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, had made a
confession to a fellow-clerk, by whom he had been
pursued, of having plundered the house, and witnesses
were produced at the former examination to show that
he had feloniously appropriated the sum of 4771.
lls. 3d.
The following is the substance of the evidence
with which the final examination of the prisoner con-
cluded :
Mr. D. King, clerk to Messrs. Twining and Co.,
bankers in the Strand—On the 29th of June I re-
ceived directions to pay to Robarts and Co., Lombarl.
street, 72/. 14s. 11d., to the credit of the Rev. Henry
Mair ; and 531. 3f. 7d. to the credit of Messrs. Mayor
and Brackenbury. I paid those two sums in notes
and money as follows : one Bank of England note for
100/., No. 30,442 ; one for 20/ No. 83,138 ; and Si.
18s. 6d. money. The person to whom I paid the
amounts gave me the receipts produced, as far as I can
remember.
Mr. Edward P. Nunn, clerk to Messrs. Dixon and
Co., bankers, in Chancery-lane, said—On the 13th of
October last I had to pay 51. to Messrs. Robarts, and
I received the acknowledgment produced.
Mr. G. T. Oldfield, clerk in Messrs. Robarts, Cur-
tis, and Co.'s bank, proved that the receipts produced
were in the prisoner's handwriting.
It was also proved that there was no entry in the
cash-book of the sums referred to.
Alderman GIBBS then asked the prisoner whether
he wished to say anything ? The prisoner—Nothing
whatever.

He was then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
William Dawn was charged with stealing a num-
ber of books, the property of Mr. Collins, bookseller
and publisher, of 113, Fleet-street, his master.
Mr. Collins stated that on Tuesday last he missed
one volume of Knell's Chemistry, and on the following
day another volume of a different work, value, cost
price, 1/. lls. 6d. On making inquiries he found
prisoner had taken them to Simpkin and Marshall's,
and sold them. The books had been originally pur-
chased from Simpkin and Co.'s, and prisoner was sent
there to buy other books. He took the two volumes
back and got the firm to allow for them in the goods
he was buying, instead of entering them to Mr. Col-
lins's account as goods received back.
Police•constable, 372, said he took prisoner into
custody about eight o'clock on Thursday evening.
He denied all knowledge of the charge ; and when
taken before the inspector at the station, he said, "It's
no use telling a lie about it, I did take the books. I
sold them for 1/. 11s. 6d., and got the money. If you
will take me back to Mr. Collins I will pay him
for the books." Prisoner saw Mr. Collins shortly
after, and said, "If you will forgive me, master, I'll
pay you for the books." Witness searched prisoner's
lodgings at No. 6, Bride-lane, and found a large trunk
full of books of various descriptions, amounting in
number to about 86 volumes. 'There were also some
articles of wearing apparel, and about 21. 13i. in
money. Witness went to Simpkin and Co.'s, and
they immediately produced the two volumes prisoner
had sold them back.
A fellow•servantof the prisoner's was here produced
to identity the books as his master's property, but he
prevaricated in such a manner that his evidence was
perfectly useless. At length questions were put to
him so straightforward and distinct that he could
not possibly misunderstand them, but he still con-
tinued to prevaricate, and
Alderman HUNTER said he would not trouble him
any further. He had made his decision, and he would
commit the prisoner to the House of Correction for
two months, and punish the last witness, who acted as
a friend towards the prisoner, by sending him to the
same place for seven days.
SOUTHWARK.
Mary Sprery, a young woman with an infant in
her arms, attended before Mr. Arnold, to solicit his
advice under the following circumstances :
The applicant stated that she had been in service in
Cork, and twelve months ago was married to a private
in the 26tb, or Cameronians, which regiment was
then quartered in that city. About eight months
ago the regiment was ordered for foreign service, and
her husband embarked for Gibraltar, a certain
number of the men's wives going out with them, but
she was not included. Since then she had given
birth to the infant she held in her arms, and as she
was unable to make a livelihood in Cork, she came
over here with a view of proceeding to Jersey, the
dersilft of the regiment, in the hope that the officers in
command there would send her and her child over to
Gibraltar to join her husband. She raised money enough
by pawning her clothes at Cork to defray the expense
of her passage to London, and arrived on Saturday, but
being destitute of everything, she applied to the
officers of the parish of Bermondsey, who refused to as-
sist her on her journey, and she therefore called here
to know what she was to do.
Mr. ARNOLD said that she ought not to have left
Ireland, her home, without being provided with the
means of proceeding to her husband. It was evident
she came over here upon the mere chance of getting
out to Gibraltar, so that whatever privations she en-
dured she bad brought upon herself by her precipi-
tancy in not making the requisite inquiries before she
left Cork.
Mr. Slow, one of the relieving officers of Ber-
mondsey, being in court on other business, and hear-
ing the nature of the application, said that on Sundy
morning a large steam-boat arrived in the river
crowded with poor people from Ireland, some of
whom were landed on the north and others on the
south side of the water, without money and in rags.
In their distress, the unfortunate people applied for
relief, many of them at Bermondsey workhouse, and
although they had no claims upon the parish, they
were relieved with food, but the guardians had de-
termined not to put the parish to the expense of send-
ing them back again—that they were brought over
here for 2s. and 2e. 6d. per head, and that to send
them back to Ireland, the parishes were charged at
the rate of twenty-six shillings for each adult. That
under such circumstances, they (the guardians of
Bermondsey) had come to the resolution not to pass
any but those who had a claim by having lived in the
parish for some length of time. It was only the pre-
ceding day he had paid on account of the parish a
large sum of money for the expenses attendant upon
passing paupers to Ireland. That with respect to the
applicant, it appeared she had only been in London
since last Saturday, and had slept in Bermondsey.
He knew that money would not be given her to take
her to Jersey, whence it appeared she wanted to go,
but they would have no objection to give her a little
temporary relief.
The applicant said that if she had as much as would
pay her passage to Jersey, she was confident that at
the depot of her husband's regiment she would meet
with friends who would subscribe and send her out
to Gibraltar. At all events, they would not let her
starve.

Mr. ARNOLD directed that the applicant should
apply again to the parochial officers of Bermondsey
to relieve her present wants.
In about au hour she returned to the court, and
presented a note, given to her by the relieving officer,
merely specifying as follows:—" Admit Speery to see
the guardians on Wednesday, the 18th day of Nov.,
1850, at four o'clock."

Tne applicant said that she did not know what to do
until next Wednesday, or where to go, being en-
tirely destitute ; and that with her infant she would
be compelled to remain in the streets.

Mr. Edwin, the chief clerk, on perusing the reliev-
ing officer's note, said that the woman could not exist
from that day until next Wednesday without relief,
and that they were bound to see that she did not
starve. He therefore sent her back to Bermondsey
with Winch, the summoning officer, with a request
that she might have immediate relief.

THE LATE PLATE ROBBERIES

Martin Maguire, the man implicated along with
Macauley and Sirrell in the late extensive plate rob-
beries, but who was discharged from custody through
want of proof being produced of his handwriting, was
placed at the bar at the Liverpool Police-court yes-
terday (Friday),on a charge of having had in his pos-
session a gold watch, knowing the same to have been
stolen.

Police-officer Johnson stated that on the previous
Friday afternoon he received instructions from Mr.
Clough to go in search of the prisoner, and proceeded
for that purpose to Wrexham. On the Wed❑esday
afternoon a carpet-bag was taken by a female in an
omnibus from Wrexham to Chester. He proceeded
to Chestcr, and saw the prisoner go into Mr. Hook's
public-house. He then proceeded to the Police-office,
Chester, where he met Bates, one of the detective
officers of the Liverpool police force, and they went
together to Mr. Hook's, and took the prisoner into
custody.
Bates deposed that on apprehending the prisoner in
Chester they found upon him a 101. note and a silver
watch. He (Bates) told him that they were taking
him into custody on the charge of stealing a gold
watch at Halifax. On the 2d of October last he
(Bates) apprehended the prisoner on a charge of
being implicated in the sale of stolen plate, and on
searching him on that occasion found in his pocket a
key which opened a chest claimed by Maguire, and in
this chest he found a ticket for a gold watch pledged
in September last. He obtained possession of the
watch from the pawnbroker, and found that the num-
ber and maker's name had been taken from it, but
in consequence of information he was possessed of he
took it to Coventry, to Mr. Hill, a watchmaker, who,
on taking it to pieces, stated that he was the maker,
and that he had supplied it to Mr. Toleno, of Halifax.
Mr. Wheeler, the attorney for the prisoner, here
interrupted the officer, and objected to any state-
ment made to him by a third person being retailed in
court.

Mr. Rushton said he should take good care that
nothing should be taken against the prisoner which
was not strictly evidence, but it was necessary for
the ends of justice that the whole history of the case
should be gone into.

Mr. Wheeler rather pertinaciously urged his ob-
jection, but it was overruled by Mr. Rushton telling
the officer to proceed with his statement.
Bates went on to state that Mr. Voleno's shop, in
Halifax, was entered on the night of the 14th of July
by means of cutting a circular piece out of the door,
in a similar way to the means adopted to accomplish
the late Liverpool suburban robberies, and property
to the value of nearly 2,0001. stolen. The watch had
been pledged in the name of Murphy.
The prisoner (impetuously indignant)—The ticket
belongs to me, and you found it in the chest. What
is the use of making such a blather about it ?
The prisoner here consulted with his attorney, who
informed Mr. Rushton that he wished to know whe-
ther the examination would be gone into here or
elsewhere.

Mr. Rushton said this depended upon circum,
stances.

Prisoner—l can prove that I bought the watch and
paid a fair price for it.
Mr. Rushton—You are at liberty to do anything
you like about it.
The prisoner was placed under a general remand.
It may be interesting to this case to state that some
time ago a man of the name of Murray, alias Haw-
kins, was, along with others, tried and convicted for
having robbed the captain of a vessel of four dou-
bloons, by means of " ringing the changes." Hawkins
kept, under the guise of a beer-house, a rendezvous
for thieves. After being detained in custody, his wife
went to the police-station to make inquiry after her
husband, having heard of his apprehension. On
searching her a roll of bank notes, to the amount of
351., was found, and she was detained, aud, being
taken before the magistrates, remanded for seven
days. During this time Mr. Bes wick, chief superin-
tendent of the Manchester police, wrote to Mr.
Clough to ascertain whether he was in a position to
establish a case against the prisoner, otherwise he had
a charge against her for receiving 40 gold watches,
stolen from the premises of Mr. Voleno, of Halifax.
The prisoner was given into the custody of the Man-
chester police, and on her trial the case was proved
against her, and she is now imprisoned in York
Castle. When Bates apprehended Maguire he (Ma-
guire) stated that he he had bought the watch from
Hawkins, and that he had paid a fair trade price for
it ; and in his statement made before Mr. Rushton
to-day to that effect Hawkins is the person to whom
he alludes.