The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, '1845.

of the speculative stocks, we should not be at all sur-
prised if a reaction to the full extent of the rise shortly
takes place. The opinion is, that the advance has oc-
curred too suddenly to be of a permanent character.
In Railway Shares there is still a very large extent
of dealing. The constant , accession of new securities,
and the interest a numerous class of capitalists take
in this description of investment, have quite given an
altered appearance to the business of this market.
Compared with what is really doing in the other de-
partments, we should say the dealings in shares exceed
by almost double the amount of business done either in
English securities or foreign stocks. Nothing like the
activity that is at present observable in this quarter of
the Stock Exchange was ever before known. The only
fear is, that all this activity and buoyancy. cannot last for
ever; and that when the day of reckoning comes with
the desperate speculators, they will find it a heavy and
ruinous settlement.
Among the parties that are coming forward for the
remission of the existing duties the coopers are taking a
prominent position. The incorporation of coopers of
Glasgow and the journeymen coopers of London have
alike memorialised the Board of Trade for a repeal of the
duty on the raw material required for their work. The
movement is not a new one, but was mask in 1842, before
the existing tariff was brought into operation, and also
in 1843. The memorials now presented call attention to
the inexpedieaey of allowing foreigners to import manu-
factured articles into the British colonies without the
payment of duty, while the British manufacturers are
charged from 20 to 30 per cent. on the raw material, and
to the fact that there are no United States staves used
in this country, althouzli they are of the best quality
and suited for the largest portion of the export trade
of Great Britain. This exclusion from the United States
market has the further effect of enhancing the price of
the inferior material, which, the cooper complains, he is
compelled to use. Under these influences it seems that
the• export of coopers' work has materially fallen, al-
though the English workmanship is allowed to be far
superior to that of any other nation in the world.
The returns of the circulation of the private and joint-
stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks
ending respectively the 14th, 21st, and 28th of Decem-
ber ult., and the 4th of January inst., as published in the
Gazettes, when added together, form the aggregate circu-
lation for the month ending the 4th of January instant,
and give an average circulation as follows :
Private banks
Joint-stock banks .

Average circulation of private notes in Eng-
land and Wales during the past month... .£7,487,14n
On a comparison of the above with the returns for the
month ending the 7th of December, it shows—
A decrease in the notes of private banks of £15,097
A decrease in the notes of joint-stock
banks of

Total decrease last month - .£42,301
And as compared with the month ending the 6th of
January, last year, it shows—
A decrease in the private banks' issues of £394,964
A decrease in the joint-stock banks' issues of 175,56:

Total decrease, as compared with last year, £570,521,
The Bankers' kagazine for the present month contains.
prefixed to the weekly circulation returns, the exact
amount which each bank respectively is now allowed tc
issue. The amounts are as follows :-
199 private banks allowed to issue
71 joint-stock banks allowed to isaae

Total fixed issues

This amount is somewhat less than the total of the
fixed issues, as originally published in the Gazettes ; se•
veral of the banks (as specified below) having given up
their privilege of issue, and the total of the fixed issues
being diminished accordingly. On comparing the re-
turns for the past month with. the fixed amotrnts, as given
in the Bankers' Magazine, it appears that the
Private banks are below their fixed issue £583,38C
Joint-stock banks below their fixed issue

• Total below the fixed issue ... xi,001,27s
On comparing the present weekly returns, as pub-
lished in the Gazette, with the list of the several banks
allowed to issue notes, as certified by the Commissioners
of Stamps and Taxes under the recent Act, it appears
that the following banks have ceased to avail themselves
of the privilege of issue, and we presume they have
adopted the circulation of Bank of England notes.
Against each of the banks is affixed the amounts they
were to be allowed to issue, viz.:—

Bristol Old Bank Baillie, Ames, and Co. ... 89,54(
Wrexham and _North 1
Wales Bank R. M. Lloyd
Oxford University Bank Sir J. Loch and Co.
Staines Bank
BilMllaotpnpslhS'i'raeltßhaamnk and i
Gunner and Co.
Cambridge Bank Messrs. Humfrey and Son 2,61 r
Cambridge Bank Messrs. Fisher and Sen... 8,75
Margate Bank Messrs. Cobb and Co. ... 9,99 t
The Western District}
(Ceased business)
Bank •

Total $7160,43b

From this statement it appears that already the sun.
to he deducted (as the amount of the circulation of those
" banks which have ceased to issue") from the aggregate
sum fixed for the amount of the country issues in Eng-
land and Wales by the recent Act, is 160,4351. ; and this
sum being taken from such aggregate sum, leaves the
present fixed issues of the banks which now make weekly
returns at 8,488,4181.

At the St. Katharine Dock Company's meeting to-day
the dividend declared was at the rate of 5 per cent. pet
annum. Although from the prevalence of easterly winds
at the end of the year the receipts of the Company hat
decreased, still, as the amount had been fully made op
by the increase of business in the present month, arising
from the coming in of the vessels which were previously
wind-bound, the Directors said they felt justified in de-
claring the same rate of dividend at previously. The
Directors have given notice of a special meeting about
to be called to consider the propriety of cancelling the
remainder of the floating debt of the Company.

he (Dr. Addams) submitted that the Court would not
be justified in pronouncing a sentence of deprivation hi
the present suit.
Dr. Phillimore, jun., remains to be heard on the
same side.

stealing his gloves, acid called a policendan arid
gave him into custody. The constable received this
charge, and persisted in conveying him to the station-
house, although the landlord of the house came forward
and said the gloves were in his bar. The charge was
booked, and he was detained to answer it. As he cer-
tainly should bring an action against the party who had
thus deprived him of his liberty on Such a trumpery
charge, he begged the magistrate Would allow him to
have the name and address of the complainant as it ap-
peared oh the police•sheet.
This was granted, and the defendant was then dis-
charged.
CABMEN'S FROLICS.— Thomas Sttdly was Charged with
having assaulted Thomas bell.
The parties are cabmen, and the assault occurred on
Nionday evening, in Conduit-street, in consequence of
some ." larking," commenced at the Coach and Horses
public-house.
It appeared that a number of cabmen were engaged
in a new game called " one off behind"—the multi feat
ture of which consists in approaching D. person unper-
ceived, and by a smart blow on the rim of the hat be-
hind, causing it to fall off backwards. The complainant
and defendant were of the party, and as there was an
old grudge between them, the play very soon ripened
into earnest.

According to the defendant, the complainant com-
menced hostilities by throwing a pewter pot at him.
The complainant, however, denied this. and asserted that
the defendant followed him out of the house, and knocked
him down repeatedly.
A good deal of conflicting evidence was brought for-
ward, but as the defendant did not succeed in clearing
himself from the charge of having acted with great
lence, Mr. Maltby inflicted the penalty of 40s.
James Thomas was charged on suspicion of stealing
four silver table-spoons, two silver forks, and two silver
tea-spoons, from the house of Mr. Matthew Vantein,
of No. 8, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, tailor.
It appeared that the prisoner had been hi the service
of Mr. Vantein as errand-boy, and quitted it about nine
months since. He was, however, in the habit of calling
at the house to see his fellow-servants, and on Monday
evening last was there, and left but a few minutes pre
vious to the robbery being discovered. No doubt could be
entertained but that it had been done by some person
well acquainted with the premises, and suspicion, in con-
sequence, fell upon the prisoner, who last evening was
given into custody ; but, on searching him, and also his
lodgings, nothing was found to inculpate him with the
robbery.
Mr. AIALTIIY said ho did not think, in the present
stage of the case, that the evidence was sufficient to
warrant the detention of the prisoner, but Mr. Vantein
would hare the assistance of the police in tracing out the
property.—The prisoner was, of course, liberated.

gilarditim3shoitld laa*e more power to punish within their
own hands.
Mr. Ryder repeated his regret that such a sentence
should have been passed for so brutal and premeditated
an attack. After contrasting the sentence passed at
this Court a few days ago of 14 days on some of these
boys for insolent and disorderly conduct with that
tOrarded Afr. Sergeant Adams at the Sessions, he ob-
served, With a sii lie, that lie tho,t gentleman
would undertake the Wince of master of a WOrktoilsZ,i

one fortnight.
Mr. BOND, having repeated his desire to assist the au-
thorities, requested that Mr. Sutton would in future in-
form him as to the pttstious character and conduct of the

parties accused. -
Mr. Ryder thanked the maristrate, and withdrew.
LAMBETH.
Augusta Hamilton, who represented herself as the
v%idow of an officer, was charged with robbing her

readrfurnished
"Mre. Rayner, of No. 1, Mason.street, Walworth,
stated that the prisoner came to reside at her house a
short time ago ; the prisoner was then dressed in a very
genteel manner, and seemed lady-like in her appearance.
She stated that she could give no reference, as she had
just come from the country, and that she was the widow
of an otlicer in the army, was highly connected, and that
her boxes and luggage would arrive on the following
morning. The prisoner, on obtaining possession of the
lodgings, commenced pledging every thing she could
lay her hands on.
Richard Davis, P 55, stated that he found a quantity
of duplicates in the possession of the prisoner, some of
which related to the missing property of the prosecu-
trix. The officer Informed the magistrate that the pri-
soner was well known, and had already been tried at. the
Surrey sessions, and received six months' imprisonment.
The prisoner made a long statement, and said she was
the widow of a midshipman, and had come up from
Ilastitgs,
Mr. HENRY said it was a very bad case, and he should
send the prisoner to the Criminal Court for trial.
Remanded for a week. _

James Jenning!, Patrick Ford, and Henry Robin-
son, were charged before Mr. Henry, by police-con-
stable P 112, with a robbery ender the following cir-
cumstances :

The constable stated that on Tuesday night he was
on duty at Mill row, Brixton, when he heard the
creaking of a basket, and on putting his lamp over
into the garden he saw the three prisoners, and on
going up to them, he asked them what they were
doing, to which the prisoners replied that they were
going to sleep in an open shed ; they had been to
Croydon, and had no money, and were quite tired.
He took the prisoners to the station-house, and went
back to search the garden, when he discovered a
basket full of lead ready to be carried away. On
examining the premises of No. 8, he fund there was
a bed-room which projected from the building, and
on examining the roof he ascertained that upwards of
two cwt. of lead had been cut from the roof, rolled
up, and ready to be carried off.
The gardener of Mrs. Whittaker stated that yes-
terday the lead of the roof was all right, and the
garden-gate was bolted ; and the prisoners must
have climbed over the fence.
Remanded for a week.
SOUTHWARK.

Cato Fernando, a seaman belonging to the ship
Taglioni, lying in the West India Docks, was charged
before Mr. Cottingham with stealing three cotton
shirts, the property of Joseph Frowski, a Jew crimp,
residing in East Smithfield.
Complainant stated that the prisoner was in the
habit of lodging at his house on his return from sea.
About eleven months ago, previous to the last voyage,
he sold the prisoner some clothing, and lent him 7s. 6d.
After he was gone he missed several shirts, but had
no suspicion of the prisoner. Yesterday he heard that
the vessel had arrived in the docks, and that the pri-
soner, instead of coming to his lodgings, had taken up
his quarters with a prostitute in Martin-street,
Borough. He, however, proceeded on board the
vessel yesterday afternoon, to seek payment for the
debt due to him, amounting to 1/. 12s. 6d. Although
the prisoner had been paid, he refused to settle with
him. At a latter part of the evening he came for his
chest, when it was searched, and the shirts were found
therein. He identified them as his property.
The prisoner (a coloured Portuguese) gave quite a
different version of the story. He said that the
shirts had been placed in his chest without his know-
ledge ; in fact, he did not discover that they were there
until he arrived at sea, when he thought the com-
plainant, who packed up his chest, had placed them
there in return for a quantity of cigars which he gave
him. As for the money, he certainly should have
paid him, but he was drunk last night. The com-
plainant had been in the habit of robbing him for
many years, which made him quit his lodgings ; and
he believed the charge was made through spite.
Frowski said he did not think he should have given
him in charge if he had paid him and returned to his
house as usual. He denied robbing him ;he treated
the prisoner as he would one of his children.
The prisoner paid the crimp the 1/. 12s. 6d. and was
discharged.
George Elliott, described as the secretary of a public
school at Battersea, was charged with violating the per-
son of a woman named Wilson, a widow, advanced in life.
The complainant attended at the Court on the pre-
ceding day, and made a statement to the effect that an
outrage of the above description had been committed on
her the Friday before, by a person named Elliott, at a
house in Wellington-street, Walworth. When ques-
tioned by the magistrate as to the reason she had not
given information before, her reply was that she had
been so ill since the occurrence, that she was unable to
leave her room. Mr. Traill directed the woman to re-
pair to the station-house at the rear of the Court and
give a description of the person whom she accused
and that he would be taken into custody and brought up
to the Court in the usual way. Late the same afternoon
the prisoner was apprehended, and when placed before
the Magistrate,
The complainant proceeded to state that she was a
widow, and obtained her livelihood by going out to work
at gentlemen's houses. That on Friday last she
was at the house of 1,11 Dr. Lipscombe, in Wel-
lington-street, for whom she was in the habit
of charing, as he kept no servant. In the course of
the evening, while she was engaged washing in the
kitchen, she was called by the prisoner, and the moment
she arrived at the head of the kitchen staircase she found
he was waiting in the hall, and she, expecting that he
wanted to give her some clothes, asked him what he
required. The prisoner, however, instead of ans% ering
her, got her round the waist, and began taking improper
liberties. She endeavoured all in her power to extricate
herself from his grasp, but could not ; and, with a pen-
knife, he cut her stay-lace, and the strings of her petti-
coats, so that all her clothes, with the exception of her
chemise, fell off on the floor of the passage. That she
still resisted the efforts of her assailant, but he, being a
strong man, pushed her into the back parlour, and from
thence on the bed. The complainant here described the
particulars of the alleged outrage, and added that she
became insensible, and found, on her recovery, that the
prisoner was still at her side.
- In reply to Mr. Traill, the complainant said that the
only person in the house besides she and the prisoner was
Dr. Lipscombe, who must have heard the noise, but he
did not interfere or render her any assistance, and
seemed to treat it all with unconcern.
Mr. TRAILL asked the accused if he wished to put any
question to the woman who made so serious a charge
against him ?—The accused replied in the affirmative,
and he proceeded to ask her if, after what she now com-
plained of, she did not have some meat pies and gin with
him, and remained in the house for upwards of two
hours !—Her reply was in the affirmative.
She was then asked if she had complained to any one
of the neighbours, or had even made such a noise as
could be heard by those living right and left of the house?
—She said that she was so frightened she had not the
power. She had no person to bring forward to say that
she had been laid up in consequence of the alleged
outrage.
The prisoner then proceeded to address the magis-
,
trate, and declared that the complainant had told a tissue
of falsehoods with respect to his having used any force
towards her ; and that if it were true he had acted in the
manner described, the people in the next houses must
have heard the noise ; that it was true they had meat
pies and gin together on the night in question, and that
she went away afterwards without making the slightest
complaint ; and that he was both shocked and surprised
when a policeman mentioned the nature of the charge
brought against him, and took him into custody. He
added, that Dr. Lipscombe, an old man of
soner'
80, was in
court, and prepared to corroborate his (pris) state-
ment. With respect to any violence having been exer-
cised towards her, if there had he must be cognizant of it.
Mr. TRAILL said that, after the complainant's own
admission that she stopped in the house for upwards of
two boars after the alleged outrage, and both ate and
drank with the accused, he should dismiss the case,
leaving it to her to adopt any other steps she though*
proper.

THAMES POLICE.
CrtEATING A JEW.—Tuesday James Lindsay, a sea-
man, was brought before Mr. Broderip, on a charge of
obtaining a suit of clothes and other articles, value
41. 4s. 6d., from Mr. Harris Lazarus, an outfitter and
slopseller, of No. 112, Upper East Smithfield.
The prosecutor, who is a Jew, stated that the prisoner
called at his shop on Monday evening and represented
himself as an old customer, and was so well satisfied
with his former bargains that he wished to deal with him
again. The prisoner then produced a written order to
the following effect :—" London Dock, January 20,
1845. Sir,—Please to let tho hearer have Necessaries to a
reasonable amount, and I will acknowledge the same.
John Brown, master of the Kelsick Wood." He was
not quite satisfied with the prisoner's assurance that he
belonged to the ship, but he protested that he did. Wit-
ness observed that he did not want the clothes that
night, and asked him where he lodged. The prisoner
said he had just arrived in England, and had no lodging,
on which he passed his word for a bed, supper, and
breakfast, and desired him to call the next mon% •
ing. The prisoner did so, and waited upon him in
a most deplorable condition.. He supplied him
with a suit of clothes, a new hat, and other
necessary articles, and when he put on his new
rigging the change was so complete that he hardly knew
him again. He then asked the prisoner to accompany
him to the dock to ascertain the genuineness of the
order, and they proceeded to the ship Kelsick Wood, and
the prisoner stepped up
.to the captain and asked him to
pay him his wages. Witness then took the order from
his pocket for the purpose of showing it to the captain,
and the prisoner immediately snatched it out of his
hand and made away with it. He saw it no more, and
gave the prisoner into custody. The captain of the

ship informed him that he had never written anything
of the kind. .

''''''''''' who looked very smart in the Jew's
clothes, said the ordiir Ilss not a written one, and that the
last time he was in London lie went to the same shop,
and the Jew made him drunk and robbed him of 71.
Mr. Lazarus was recalled, and he said he never saw
the prisoner before, or had an'; dealings with him, to his
knowledge.
Mr. BRobEntp remanded the prisoner until Tuesduy
nexi.

Inspector Walker, of the Thames police, then preferred
a charge of smuggling tobacco against the prisoner, which
the Magistrate ordered to stand over till the same day.

A policeman of the II division, who apprehended the
prisoner, asked if he might be permitted to take the new
clothes away ?
Mr. BRODERIP declined giving any directions on the
subject, and the prisoner was sent to prison in his new
suit of blue.

A WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS.—Tuesday
middle-aged man, with a sorrowful-looking countenance,
made an application to Mr. Broderip for a warrant to
apprehend his wife for robbing him under very peculiar
circumstances.
" Please your worship," said the man, " the woman to
whom I am married has robbed me of 1231. on Christmas
night. Gone off with all."
Mr. BRODERIP—Is she your wife ? The applicant—
tell you that presently. One hundred and thirty-
two pounds in money, a silver watch, gold rings, and
silver spoons.
Mr. BRODERIP—Have you reason to suppose that any
one assisted her in carrying off your property ? The
applicant—l believe not, Sir; but there is—
Mr. BRODERIP—Stop. Have you any reason to
believe that she has a paramour, and that her companion
has robbed you of the property ? The applicant—l
don't know who she's gone off with, but she is a regular
bad an.
Mr. BRODERIP explained to the applicant that no
woman could be put on her trial for carrying away her
husband's property. Ile could not interfere.
The applicant was about to leave the box, when, sud-
denly recollecting himself, he turned round and said,
" Oh, Sir, since she has robbed me I have discovered
that she has a lawful married husband in Buckingham-
shire. She had him before she had me."
Mr. BRODERIP—Then all you have got to do is to
speak to the police on the subject.
The applicant—And, what is worse, she has married
again since she has been my wife.
Mr. BRODERIP—Then give her into the custody of the
police.
The applicant—l will if I find her.—He then hastily
left the Court.