The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-10 00:00:00

'UM' AND POSION.

Mr. Behnes, the celebrated sculptor: appeared in the
Bankruptcy Court yesterday, before Mr. Commissioner Shep-
herd, and passed his final examination.

At Gloticester, Mr. Baron Platt sentenced two men, named
Padbury and Carpenter, who were found guilty of? night-
poaching with arms, to ten years' transportation. His Lord-
ship observed that it was a great mercy they did not finish
the work of brutal violence, as they would then have had to
answer for the dreadful crime of murder, and have expiated
with their lives upon an ignominious scaffold, the terrible
result of going under a mistaken notion to take the game
which the law declared was the property of the owner of the
soil, as much as the furniture of a house was that of the oc-
cupier. He should therefore inflict such punishment as
would show these gangs that they could not traverse the
country committing these acts of brutal violence with iut
purity. Both prisoners protested their innocence.
The Count Caved°, residing at No. 15, Somerset-street,
Portman-square, was charged at Marylebone with having as-
saulted Jane Brodrick, a servant at the same house. Com-
plainant on the previous morning was asked upstairs by the
Countess, and immediately upon her entering the room, defen-
dant seized hold of her, and violently shook her. He also held
up a stick, with which he would have struck her, had not the
Countess, who was present, prevented him. Defendant, who
denied the assault, was fined 10s. and costs.
A young man, named John Whitely, for assaulting a
child under ten years of age, was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment with hard labour, by the Common Sergeant,
at the Central Criminal Court.

Several cases of larceny were tried at the Middlesex Ses-
sions, before the Assistant-Judge.
At the Guildhall, William Page, a bootcloser, lodging in
Maidenhead-court, Moor-lane, was charged with stabbing
James Bradshaw, a young man who had been hie intimate
companion for many years. The prosecutor did not wish to
press the charge, but Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes con-
sidered the case so serious that he remanded the prisoner.
comm—ressiormain.
The French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire
gave a grand entertainment last evening at Manchester
House to the following distinguished personages, invited to
meet the Duke de Broglie :—The Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Dietrichstein, the Russian Minister and the
Baroness Brunnow, the Belgian Minister, the Prussian Mi-
nister and Madame Bunsen, who were accompanied by
Baron Arnim, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor
and Lady Lyndhurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and
Countess of Haddington, Lord and Lady Stanley, the Coun-
tess Flahault, the Count and Countess de Jarnac, and Dr.
Lushington. There were also present Prince Albert de
Broglie, Captain Bouet, and M. Cotter. The banquet,
which was ot the most superb description, was served in the
Russian style, under the direction of M. Feron, chef de cuisine
to his Excellency's establi:shment. Sir Robert Peel and Sir
James Graham were prevented from joining the party
by previous engagements.
he Earl and Countess of Powis and the Ladies Clive
have arrived in Berkeley-square for the season.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, accompanied by
Baroness de Strutnfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstcin,
arrived at Brighton on Tuesday. Her Highness will not re-
turn to town till Monday.
The Russian Minister has a grand dinner party to-morrow
evening at Ashburhatn House.
Sir Hugh P. Palliser, Bart., has arrived in town from
Brighton. _

3ir. and Lady Augusta Milbank have been entertaining
at their scat, Thorp, Perrow, their noble relatives the Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Powlett, and
also a select party, including the Earl and Countess of Mul-
grave, Mr., Lady Catherine, and Miss Melville, &c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Dutch steam-packet Batavier, Captain Dunlop, ar.
rived yesterday afternoon alongside the:St. Katharine's steam-
wharf; near the Tower, from Rotterdam. She brought a
considerable number of passengers, and a heavy cargo, chiefly
consisting of fifty-nine live oxen and cows, and an immense
quantity of poultry, principally ducks and geese. The cat-
tle were examined previous to their being landed, in accord-
ance with the instructions issued by the Lords of the Com-
mittee of Privy Council for Trade to the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Customs, and found to be healthy and free from
the epidemic alleged to be raging amongst cattle on the Con-
tinent.

A meeting of the governors and subscribers of the Tallow
Chandlers' Benevolent Society was held yesterday, at the
Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, for the election of
four pensioners (three males and one female) on the funds of
the institution. Mr. Alderman Farncomb presided on the
occasion. It appeared that at present there are ten pensioners
on the establishment, the men receiving 16s. and the women
12s. each monthly, although the society has been hardly
established two years. The society has now about 1,0001.
capital stock. The. election having been concluded, a vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman.
The Earl of Aberdeen, as ranger of Greenwich Park, in the
room of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda
of Gloucester, has taken possession of the edifice and grounds ;
and the noble Fbreign Secretary has engaged a portion of the
establishment of the late Princess.

A numerous meeting was held on Monday last at Exeter,
for the purpose of considering the expediency, in con-
sequence of the immense increase in transactions in railroad
and other shares, to erect a Stock Exchange in that city
when it was resolved that a Chamber of Commerce should be
established.

Last night, shortly after nine o'clock, a rapidly destructive
fire broke out at No. 11, Spread Eagle-court, near Cho Thames
Tunnel, Rotherhithe. The spare engine belonging to the
London brigade from the neighbouring station was quickly
taken to the spot, and was followed by numerous others from
the establishment stations, and also the one belonging to
the West of England Company. Fortunately an abundant
supply of water was procured from the fire-mains in the vici-
nity, from which the brigade set to work with full vigour,
but they were unable to extinguish the flames until the build-
ing in which they originated was entirely gutted, and the
adjoining house seriously damaged. The house was unin-
habited at the time. The loss, therefore, is not very consi-
derable.

The Lords of the Treasury have authorised the Commis-
sioners of Customs to direct their principal officer at Shields
to grant sockets for outward entries for all goods not entitled
to bounty or drawback on exportation. This is a privilege
which the manufacturers and merchants of North and South
Shields have long been desirous of obtaining, and which will
be duly appreciated by all persons connected with the trade
of the Tyne.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MISTAKEN lENTITY.-
On Tuesday at an inquest held before Mr. W. Carter, the
Coroner, one of the witnesses strongly objected N view
the body. The Coroner urged very strongly that she
must do so, or her evidence could not be received, as
she might, in fact, be deceived as to the identity of
the body. The witness having gone for this purpose,
the Coroner stated to the jury the following extra-
ordinary case which came before his father whilst he held the
office. Ilis father held an inquest in the parish of Christ-
church, Blackfriars, on the body of a woman who had been
taken out of the river, it being supposed she had committed
suicide The mother and father swore positively that
the deceased was their daughter. The master in whose
service she had been was also equally positive as to her
being the individual. The inquest was about to close, when
one of Barclay's draymen passing by the house, and seeing
a crowd round the door, asked what it was about ? The
answer was, " Why, have you not heard of the death of
Mary -- ? .:She dead' why I saw her alive a little
while ago," replied the drayman. The drayman went to
look for the girl, and soon came back with a young woman,
whom the father and mother acknowledged to be their
daughter. The daughter thus discovered bore a striking
resemblance to the deceased person, and the jury, instead
of returning a verdict as to the death of the daughter who
was present before them, had the only alternative of deciding
that the body upon whom the inquiry was held, was found
• dead in the water, and therewas no evidence to show how she
• came there.

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