The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

IN RE GEORGE NATHANIEL DAVIS.

This insolvent, who was a prisoner in the gaol of
Southampton, applied through counsel to be liberated
upon bail until the day appointed for the final hearing.
He was described first as a carcase butcher in Salisbury,
and also officer to the Sheriff of that county, and next as
the proprietor of the Steam packet Hotel, Boulogne-
sur-Mer, and lastly of Southampton.
Mr. CooRE, on behalf of several of the creditors, read
several affidavits in opposition to the application, first
upon the ground of a fraud, and next because it was a
friendly arrest under which the insolvent was confined.

It appeared that the insolvent had contracted a large
amount of debts in the town of Salisbury, when he sud-
denly disappeared, and after some time it was found that
he had taken the Steam-packet Hotel at Boulogne.
After remaining there for a length of time he returned
to England and went to Southampton, where he coin•
menced business as a cider merchant and commission
agent. In a very short time after his arrival in that
town he was arrested, on a judge's warrant, for a very
small sum, by a person who had been nearly connected
with him, and he had now sought to be admitted to bail.
The affidavits stated that one of the persons named us
bail called upon the opposing creditor, and requested
him to oppose his being taken as a surety, as he did not
like it.

Mr. COOKE said, as it had been proved that the in-
solvent ran away to France from his creditors, taking
which him a large sum in ready money, also that he was
now in custody at the suit of a friend, he trusted the
Court would not allow him that privilege which was
intended for honest creditors.

Mr. Commissioner LAW said this was a case upon
which he did not wish to decide without consulting pre-
cedents upon the subject, and therefore adjourned it for
a short time.

BOW•STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Flowers, a respectable looking man, was charged
before Mr. Jardine, on suspicion of being concerned with
other parties, in stealing 1004, the property of Mrs.
Harley, the landlady of the King William Tavern, in
Ship-yard.
The prosecutrix, a widow, wishing to dispose of her
house, advertised it for sale. The prisoner applied to
her concerning it, and the preliminary arrangements
having been made on Monday week last, he called 'and
paid a deposit of 304 On the following Thursday he
called again with a man, who appeared to be a workman,
and said he wished to measure the bed-room, as he had
some old-fashioned furniture to put in it. She
proceeded up stairs with the two, and when they
got into the bed-room the prisoner examined the
drawers in the room, and the prosecutrix said, " Oh,
I intend to take those away with ma." The prisoner
then said to the other man,.," You will want some
money, I suppOse," and then asked the prosecutrix to
give him change fur a 51. She opened the drawer in
which her money was kept, and took out a bag contain-
ing 1001., and gave him the change for the note. They
immediately went down stairs, and the prisoner left the
house. Having occasion shortly after to go up stairs,
the prosecutrix found her room door locked, and the
key taken away. On obtaining another key and going
into the room, she observed that the drawer in which her
money was kept was marked as with a chisel, and on
examining she discovered that her money was gone.
Information was given to the police, and the prisoner
was taken into custody. A lot of new furniture was
found in his house, and when he was taken he said, " Oh,
it is sure to be a remand," He had been in custody on
a charge of felony before.
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner for a week.

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)
Two working men, named Mennan and Jones, were
charged with being drunk, and whilst in that state furi-
ously driving a gig along the Edgware-road.
Policeman 206 D said he saw the defendants driving
a gig along the road, and lashing the poor animal most
unmercifully, at nine o'clock last night. They both had
hold of the rains, and were quarrelling, and both wanted
to drive. He went up to the horse's head and stopped
their progress ; and, finding they were intoxicated and
incapable of driving, many persons having been nearly
run over, he took them to the station-house and the horse
and gig to the green-yard. When he stopped them the
horse was rearing about the road, and would most likely
have darted off, had he not interposed.
The defendants said they had been drinking, and were
very sorry for their conduct. They were fined 20s.
each, which they immediately paid.

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Dunn was charged with committing a violent
assault on Timothy M'Carthy, by which he fractured his
skull.

It appeared that the .offence arose out of one of those
disgraceful affrays which are of such common occur-
rence amongst the lower orders of the Irish in the me-
tropolis. On the preceding night a row commenced in
White Hand-alley, a locality peopled chiefly by the
Irish, and the complainant, who seems to have
interfered in the character of peacemaker, was
attacked by the prisoner, who struck him three
heavy blows with a poker on the head and frac-
tured his skull. The whole place was in a state of
complete uproar, men, women, and children being en-
gaged in the affray, which was not put an end to until
the police interfered ; and the wounded man was obliged
to be conveyed to the hospital, where, on examination,
it was discovered that his skull was fractured.
Although the injury is of such a serious nature, yet it
was pronounced that 31‘Carthy's life was not in danger,
and his assailant was held to bail to answer the charge
at the sessions.

FLANDERS AND HAMBURGH
MAILS.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
Sr. PETERSBURGH, Atm. 30.—The Emperor has ap-
pointed the Grand Duke Constantine to the command of
the Ulysses brig. His Majesty has also given the insignia
of the order of St. Alexandra Newsky to General Sirders,
accompanied by a rescript thanking him for his impor-
tant services in Daghestan.

The Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums pub-
lishes a singular piece of information , from, Poland,
namely, that the Jews who are included in the levies for
the army, are obliged to take an oath by which they
bind themselves to remain by their colours, and never to
desert, even in case the Messiah should appear.
HANOVER, SEPT. 6.—We have received to-day the
melancholy intelligence that his Excellency the Minister
Baron von Schell had died at his seat, Schetenburg.
BRUNSWICK, SEPT. B.—On occasion of the assumption
of the title of Highness by our Duke, it is remembered
that his father Duke Frederick William was offered at
the Congress of Vienna, the rank and title of Grand
Duke for the great sacrifices he had made in the cam-
paign against France, and because the house of our
Prince is one of the oldest in Germany. The Duke,
however, declined it in order not to impose new burdens
on the country, but he expressly reserved for himself and
his successors the precedence before Mecklenburg and
Oldenburg, which took that title.
WARSAW, SEPT. I.—The exportation of corn from
the kingdom of Poland is prohibited by the Prince-Go-
vernor till it shall be ascertained that there is sufficient
for the lidnie consumption. This measure is the more
necessary' as the transit is in fact very indifferent, and
some landowners will even be obliged to purchase seed
corn in the course of the year.
BERLIN, SEPT. B.—The King, as was to be expected,
has declined in a very gracious manner the great festivi-
ties with which the city of Berlin proposed to welcome
him on his return to his capital. His Majesty is ex-
pected here on the 13th, and will go on the same day to
Sans Souci, and on the 14th to Pillnitz, to meet the
Queen, who leaves Ischel to day for Munich, when she
will proceed to Pillnitz.