The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

Dec. 19, IL D. Walker, Eaton Socon, innkeeper.—Dec. 19,
W. I'oynter, St. Paul's-churchyard, warehouseman.—Dec.
19, E. Knyvett, Great Stanmore, teacher of music.—Dec. 19,
M. Altai, Waltham Holy-cross, apothecary.—Dec. 22, W.
Jackson, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square, paper-hanger.—
Dec. 19, J. Peters, Godstone, Surrey, innkeeper.—Dec. 19,
J. A. Hensman, Margate, bill-broker.--Dec. 19, W. Richard-
son, King-street, Covent-garden, wine-merchant.—Dec. 19,
E. May, Aldgate, draper.—Dec. 23, E. M'Laughlan, Long-
lane, Bermondsey, hair and glue merchant.—Dec. 22, C.
Webb, Oxford, apothecary.—Dec. 10, J. Ashbarry, Holm
Lacy, Herefordshire, farmer.—Dec. 23, W. R. Watts, Bath,
chemist and druggist.—Dec. 23, E. Barry, Bristol, victualler.
—Dec. 30, W. Lowe, Bristol, ivory and hard wood turner.—
Jan. 9, W. Turner, Manchester, cabinet-maker.—Dec. 23, J.
Haigh, Almonbury, Yorkshire, clothier.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary on the day of meeting.
Dec. 22, M. Markwick, Harpur-street, Red Lion-square,
builder.—Dec. 22, W. J. Wardell, Pickering, Yorkshire,
wine•merchant.—Dec. 23, J. F. Cannell, Liverpool, book-
seller.—Dec. 20, R. Reynolds, Manchester, cabinet-maker.
CERTIFICATES to be granted by the Court of Review,
unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before
Dec. 19.

W. Mossman, Islington, fancy stationer. —J. Burrell,
Thetford, iron founder.—J. and R. Reay, Mark-lane, wine-
merchants.—T. Sanderson, Liverpool, coal-merchant.—T.
Forsyth, Dinsdale Spa Hotel, Durham, hotel-keeper.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Pool and Lofthouse, York, postmasters—T. D. Chapman
and J. P. and S. P. Kennard, Hobart Town and London ;
as far as regards J. P. Kennard—T. D. Chapman and S.
P. Kennard, London and Hobart Town, merchants—Robson
and Skelly, North Sunderland, lime burners—E. and R.
Rapkin, Brentford, tailors—J. T. Spofforth and B. Tate,
Knottingley, Yorkshire, lime burners—Harrop, Taylor, and
Pearson, Manchester,! Newton-heath, and Leigh, silk throws-
tors; as far as regards J. Chadwick—J. Johnson and W.
Goldthorp, Wakefield, cabinet-makers—E. Steele, 11. Cun-
nington, and J. Steele, Richmond and Mortlake, grocers—
J. Bradshaw and Co., Liverpool, slaters—W. and E. L.
Betts, contractors—W. Martin and J. Bennett, Munster-
street, Regent's-park, cheesemongers—H. and J. H. Walton,
Worsley-mills, Lancashire, corn-millers—C. W. Wisbey and
J. Spawforth, Carmarthen, printers—W. P., G. E. P., and H.
P. Barlow, Little Bridge-street, wine merchants; as far as
regards H. P. Barlow—E. James and T. Goodwin, Walsall,
bridle cutters—W. Smith and T. Wilson, Liverpool, watch-
case manufacturers—Summerfield, Fair, and Roebuck, Liver-
pool, drysalters—T. and G. Willsher, Warbleton, Herst-
monceux, Waffling, and Pevensey, Sussex, farmers—J.
Horton and E. Gill, Tividale, Staffordshire, tin-plate mann-
facturers—Holcroft and Fisher, Manchester, silk manufac-
turers—"G. L. Shaw and F. J. Reed, Friday-street, attor-
neys—Constable and Phillips, Broad-street, Bloomsbury,
and Aldersgate-street, tea-dealers—J. Kelly and J. Law,Rochdale, coal proprietors—Parkinson and V Haytin, Gray's
Inn, attorneys.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

William Treless Nimmo' Glasgow, gas manufacturer,
Dec. 5 and 26, at 12 o'clock, at the office of Mr. M•Grigor,
Glasgow._

Simon Fraser, Foyers, Dec. 8 and 19, at 12, at the Sheriff's-
office, Castle, Inverness.
William Meikelham, Glasgow, writer and coal-master,
Dec. 3 and 24, at 1, at the office of Mr. Monteith, Glasgow.
James M'Kenzie, Irvine, innkeeper, Dec. 8 and 29, at 12,
at the Eglinton Arms Inn, Irvine.

WilliamJohnstone,Castlehill, farmer,Dec. 5 and 26,at 2, at
the house of Thomas Gaff, innkeeper, Falkirk.

THREATENING LETTERS.

On Friday forenoon last, Mr. Comrie, of the Royal
Hotel, Glasgow, came to the Police-office there, and pro-
duced a letter which had been addressed to him, of a
rather alarming nature. The communication, which was
anonymous, was dated and had been posted on Thurs-
day, and the writer demanded that the sum of five
pounds should be inclosed to the address of John Thomp-
son, by one o'clock on the following day. He then called
attention to the conflagration of the City Theatre, and
stated that, if the request was not complied with,
the Royal Hotel would unquestionably share the
same fate. The writer continued by taking God to
witness that, if Mr. Cowrie breathed the circumstance,
or should take any steps to discover the person who
might call for the answering letter, the same fate would
still await him as if he had refused to send the money.
Mr. Comrie had no sooner retired, after tabling this
furious epistle, than his place was taken by Mrs. Cotton,
of the Wellington Hotel, who, in no very contented frame
of mind, produced " another of the same." Thirdly
came Mr. Alexander, to complain of the threat to raze
his beautiful theatre to the ground, and his private
dwelling-house into the bargain—that is, unless the cash
was forthcoming. Mr. Miller, of the Adelphi, made ap
pearance the fourth, and (as his own popular place of
entertainment had had rather a narrow escape when the
City Theatre was so unfortunately consumed) he had,
undoubtedly, much cause for anxiety and alarm. The
fifth claimant for the law's help was Mr. Mac-
Nau4htan, of the George, whose hotel and stabling
were placed under the same fiat of annihilation. This
was pretty good for one forenoon's work ; and the
police had scarcely time to consider what should
best be done, when Mr. M'Donald, of the Star, made
his bow, followed at a short interval by Mrs. Nelson,
commercial lodging-house keeper in Glassford-street.
These latter epistles were of the same tenor, with
the exception that, instead of one o'clock, their bills
were payable at Mr. Hicks' post receiving-house, in
Queen-street, at half-past eight precisely. This, we
may remark, showed much inexperience on the part
of the writer, as letters are not delivered at any of
those receiving-shops. The superintendent of po-
lice promptly acted on the complaint first made to
him, and put a letter in the post-office to the re-
quired address of John Thompson, at the same time
settinc, an intelligent man to watch for the person
who should call for it. An individual accordingly
did call for the letter between one and two o'clock,
and he was immediately apprehended. This person
was able satisfactorily to clear himself of the charge
of writing the letters, but such information was ob-
tained from him as gave a clue to the real Simon
Pure ; and after the exercise of much industry and
ingenuity, Captain Wilson apprehended him in Queen-
street, about nine o'clock, immediately after leaving Mr.
Hicks' shop, where he bad called to inquire for his let-
ters. The prisoner is a genteel young Englishman,
named George Smith. He was at one time a waiter in a
hotel in this city, and has latterly been a clerk in the
office of the Scottish Central Railway in Edinburgh; but
he had either left or been dismissed from that situation.
He admits, we believe, having written and sent the letters
with the view of raising funds, of which he was much in
need ; but although these letters were calculated to ex-
cite much alarm, especially with the females to whom
they were addressed, no one accuses him of any serious
intention of carrying his threats into execution. The
prisoner was brought before the police magistrate on
Saturday, and the case was remitted to the Sheriff.—
Glasgow Herald.

SINGULAR CASE OF POACHING.
At the last meeting of the Kingston Bench of Magis-
trates, a person of respectable appearance, named
William Stacey, attended to answer an information,
charging him with having unlawfully trespassed upon
the estate of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
at Coombe, near Kingston. in pursuit of game. Arthur
Dunford, gamekeeper in the service of his Royal High-
ness, deposed that about nine o'clock in the evening of
the 18th November, he was on duty in the game preserve
at Coombe-wood, where he observed a greyhound, which
in his presence turned up a hare, which it pursued,
overtook, and killed, and was about to walk off with
it in its mouth, when he struck it with a stick,
and it then dropped the hare and ran away. He fol-
lowed the dog to one of the entrances of the wood, called
the Gravel-pit-gate, where it joined two persons, who
walked away, accompanied by the dog. He gave in-
formation to one of the horse-patrol, who followed the
parties, and he himself, shortly afterwards, went in the
same direction, and came up with the defendant and
another person, and, upon his asking who the dog be-
longed to, the defendant said it was his, and he at the
same time gave his name and address. In answer to a
question from the Bench, the keeper said that he took
the dog from the defendant, and it was still in his pos-
session. He added, that he had no doubt, from the way
it went to work, that it was a regular poacher, and un-
derstood its business perfectly well, and he considered it
worth twenty guineas. The defendant, in answer to the
charge, said that the fact was he had come out for a
walk, and brought the dog with him, and when they got
near the wood they missed the dog, and he and his friend
went to the gate, where they were seen by the keeper
to look for him, and shortly afterwards the dog came up
to them, and they walked away, not at all imagining
that the dog had been doing anything wrong, until they
were followed by the keeper, and on his stating what
bad happened he readily gave his name and address.
With regard to the alleged poaching propensities of the
animal h assured the Bench that he was perfectly igno•
rant that it pursued them ; and he was not even aware
that he was near a game preserve at the time the dog
left him and his friend. He assured the Bench that, if
ho had committed an offence, it was quite unintentional
on his part.
The Magistrates, after a short consultation, convicted
the defendant, but, under the circumstacces, said they
should only inflict a fine of 2s, and the costs.

The amount was immediately paid, and, upon the ap-
plication of the defendant, the greyhound was ordered to
be delivered up to him.

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