The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-17 00:00:00

INSOLVEN 7' DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 16.
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MA

The COURT was occupied during the day in hearing appli-
cations for the admission of bail, of which sixteen stood upon
the list, few of which were marked by the slightest point of
general interest.
The Commissioner then proceeded to take a few motions.

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Henry Sheminine, aged 30, was indicted for a misdemeanour
in obtaining money by false pretences.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner
had been a seaman on board her Majesty's ship Phantom,
and he had gone to lodge with a woman named Brown, in
the neighbourhood of Wapping, and he represented to his
landlady that he was entitled to upwards of 2001. as prize
money, for the capture of slaves on the coast of Africa, the
Phantom having been engaged in that service. Upon the
faith of that representation she -had advanced him various
sums of money amounting to 36/., and according to her state-
ment she had even pledged her own clothes and other articles
to raise the money. It subsequently turned out that the
prisoner was not entitled to more than 46/., and that he had
already received the greater part of that amount from a ship
agent, to whom he had sold his interest.
The prisoner, in his defence, declared that the prosecutrix,
while he lodged in her house, charged him double the value
for every article he had, and that when he borrowed one
pound of her she charged ten in his account.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Recorder sen-
tenced him to eighteen months, imprisonment.
In consequence of an intimation that there was some pro-
bability of the prosecutrix getting part of her money, the
sentence was ultimately annulled, and judgment respited
until the next session.

Elizabeth Brown, who was convicted on Monday of rob-
bing a Mr. Robert Clavering Savage, with whom she had
been first connected as chere amie, and afterwards as a do-
mestic, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and hard
labour.

The Court then adjourned to Monday, the 4th March.

SENTENCES, &c.
At the termination of the session a number of prisoners
were brought up to receive judgment, and some to have the
sentences which had been passed instanter revised. The sub-
joined are the principal sentences :
Transportation for Life—T. Lawrence, T. Edwards, J.
Davis, alias Blythe, H. Robinson.
For Twenty Years—J. Smyth, alias Boodle.
For Fifteen Years—J. Lawrence, C. Edwards, Thomas Ed-
monds, J. Marabello, W. Johnson.

For Fourteen Years—J. Stagg.
For Ten Years—P. Murphy, J. Boyd, J. Davis, J. Frost,
J. Hert, W. Hammett, J. Hutchinson, W. Wicking, P. Con-
nor, I'. Connor, N. Kershaw, J. Reeves, T. Friend, W. Murdy,
T. Smith.

For Seven Years—W. Holder, R. Cooper, W. Hammett,
H. Anscomb, J. N. Watson, T. W. Jones, H. Payne, G.
Pellett, J. Hughes, E. M. Jones, E. Thompson, G. Hurcum,
H. Alford, A. Shepherd, J. Green, S. Human, S. Johnson,
R. Neal, C. Evans, T. Leaton, S. Brown, H. Williams, G.
Neal, T. Hook, C. Francis, W. Hengk.

IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR.

The convicts hereafter namerl were sentenced to be kept to
hard labour, in the House of Correction, for the counties
wherein their offences were alleged to have been committed,
for the following periods :
For Two Years—Mary Cook, Emma Knight, C. Brown, E.
Todd, S. Trussler, W. Knight, G. Curtis, S. Hansford, W.
Handiford, C. Scott.

For Eighteen Months—J. Petrie, T. Smith, E. Winter, T.
Broadle, C. Beckley.
For One Year—T. Parr, G. Bowles, S. Mullins, S. Pettitt,
G. Jones, W. Smith. H. Jefcott, H. Melford, E. Nugent, C.
Murray, S. Broughton, alias Judd, I'. Brown, J. Wood, G.
Stokes, T. Goodman, W. Anderson, R. Emery, T. Tyson, J.
M'Carty, J. Sponser, G. Gardener, S. Collicutt, T. Jel•cott, H.
Milford, W. Henderson.
For Nine Months—G. Griffiths, J. Elmes, T. Cunningham,
S. Bears, S. Jones, alias Casey, W. Glenell.
For Eight Months—J. Harradine.
For Six Months—W. Scurrow, J. Maidon, J. Jefcott, W.
Anderson, J. F. Watson, R. Eldridge, T. Higgins, W. Sawyer,
T. Britain, E. Kelly, W. Jones, Sarah Smith, Elizabeth Rey-
nolds, Mary Lewis, Elizabeth Fowler., Mary M'Carty, Jane
Penn, Emily Ferns, Elizabeth Reynolds, Mary Hen-
kess, H. Jones, W. Drumscourt, A. Kelly, W. Tait, C.
hams, W. Dear, T. Smith, T. Stacey, J. Baker, W. Ward,
T. Scott, T. Allen, G. Webb, C. Allen, H. Hadden, 11. James,
P. Bendon, J. Wilson, H. Knight, T. Felix, S. Headford,
F. Sullivan, F. Graham, T. Hursant, B. Burton, C. Harnett,
A. Bentley. W. Funn.

For Foil; Months—T. Willock, H. Hancock, T. Smith, R.
May, T. Durrant, Mary Lewis, Sarah Ann Hunt, J. Bartho-
lomew, J. Hickinson, N. King, T. Webb, G. Griffiths.
For Three Months—G. Chadwicl4 F. D. Legron, E. Hank-
ings, G. Chapman. W. Holmes, C. Rumbell, G. Fudey, E.
Mayes, T. Turner, E. Lums, H. Joyce, W. Way, alias Ro-
berts, H. Cunningham, W. Berkley, T. Henderson, T. Blake-
man, J. Defour, T. Thompson, I'. Parker, J. Sharp, J. White,
T. Berry, H. Way, J. 'Push, T. M‘Ginty, T. Henderson, J,
Harris, W. Warde, G. Lamb, W. Pratt, W. Lawson, D,
Collorn, Ellen Turner, Sarah Williams, R. Simmons, W,
Anderson.

For Two Months—J. Fennsbury, C. Hemmings, J. Jen-
kins, J. Williams, T. Byrn, • J. Smith, T. Williams, Mary
Ann Knight, D. Callaghan, 'l'. Raskelly, W. Churchill, J.
Gabruth, T. Briggs, 'l'. Connor, T. Read, J. Stedman.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
QUEEN'S-SQUARE.
• - - - -

Two little boys, named Charles Guild and Francis White,
were charged with creating a disturbance in St. Margaret's
workhouse. The master of the workhouse stated that the
two boys were incorrigible, as they were continually fighting
and annoying the other inmates.
Guild was committed for ten days ; White was discharged.
Mary Ann Tomlinson, a girl of the town, was charged,
by a young man named John Carter; who accompanied her to
a brothel, with administering a narcotic drug to him, which
stupified him, and that whilst in that state she took from his
person 4/.los. It appeared that other women were hi the
room at the time, and the prisoner was remanded for a week,
to give the police time to trace them out.
!Valiant Ford, a lad about eighteen years of age, who is
well known to the police as an incorrigible smasher, was
charged with uttering a countefeit. half-crown, at a pork-
butcher's in Chelsea-road, and a shilling at a public-house in
Queen-street, Pimlico.
Both cases were fully proved.—Remanded until Monday.

THE FRENCH ARNIY.—It appears from a recent
return that the French army has, at this moment, 75 regi-
ments of infantry of the line, and 25 of light infantry, each
of 3 battalions; 10 battalions of chasseurs d'Orleans, 2
foreign regiments, 3 battalions of light African infantry, 5
battalions of zouaves, and 3 of native tirailleurs in Africa; 3
regiments of marine infantry, 30 companies of marine artil-
lery, which number is to be extended to 40, and 6 companies
of workmen in the ports. The cavalry is formed of 2 regi-
ments of carabineers, 10 of cuirassiers, 12 of dragoons, 8 of
lancers, 13 of chasseurs, and 9 of hussars, each of 5 squa-
drons ; 4 regiments of African chasseurs, the three first of
G, and the other of 5 squadrons ; 15 squadrons
of spahis, and the cavalry school of Saumur. The artillery
is composed of 14 regiments, of which 10 have 15 batteries,
and 4 have 14; 1 regiment of pontonniers, 12 of artil-
lery workmen, and 6 squadrons of park artillery. There are
3 regiments
engineers,
,1 battalion of ouvriers d'administra-
tion, 4 squadrons du train des equipages, and $ companies of
workmen of the same branch. The veterans consist of 8
companies of non-commissioned officers, 4 companies of horse,
10 of fusiliers, 13 of gunnois, 1 of engineers, and 2 of artil.
lery. In the compagnies de discipline, there are BOf Nitllcers,
and 4of pioneers. The above is exclusive a the sapeurs-
pompiers and municipal guard of Nil, aad the gendarmerie
of the department.

SUSPICIOUS -MATH IN THE RIVER.-04 Thursday
an inquoiA was held before William Carter, EN., at the Spread
Eagle, Rotherhithe, as to the death a man unknown, who
was found dead under very i'emarkable and suspicious cir-
cumstances. Thomas Craddock, a watertitan, deposed that
on Monday last, as he was rowing past the platform at Ro-
therhithe,'he perceived the body of a man floating down tho
atream, which he Immediately got into his boat; He then
discovered that there was a frightful fmt'oo Of the right leg,
through the skin of which the l was protruding. There
was also a bruise on ono side of his face. He had made
every inipiry, Wit C6iild obtain no clue as to who thQ de.
or by what means he came to his deAtli. Mr.
Gardner, the beadle, said there were no less, titan Ave persons
now missing whose bodies are stiacAsed to be in the river, and
though he had inoni7icd on bOthi sides of the river, had not
3ibeen sitecitzgui irt-gCiting the slightest information, The
try relurned'a verdict—" That the }3p e 4 was tbund
-6ad tti the river, but there sn',49. ticrk(i.eaWo show how he
Chine there, or by Nvliat inCans -I,w death WO oause(l.
A*,04110i,---All the proprietors of
BP-641R*, lead been members of the Repeal, Associa-
ItiP,ll, tiara withdrawn from that body. The resignations of
Dr. Gray and Dr. Atkinson, proprietors of O.IC -V4*vincia's
Journal; Mr. Barrett, proprietor of tha Not; Mr. Staunton,
proprietor of the freck/if Vivyter ; and Mr. Duffy, proprietor
of the Nation, were received at the Association on Monday.

KET NEWS.—(YESTERDAYO
cOELN EXCH.ELNUE.
Very moderate supplii:s of English Wheat have
come t 0
hand, since Monday. The demand for that article was steady,
and previous rates were firmly supported. Foreign Wheat
moved off freely, and fuil rates were obtained in every in-
stance. Very little Barley was on show, yet the inquiry for
it was trifling, at late rates. The Malt trade was 61°w;
while in the value of all other grain, no variation occurred.
A ItitIVALS.
Wheat. I P ! Oats. Flnur
English 4,640 qrs 8,110 qrs. 4,6t.0 qrs , 5,580 racks.
Irish - 890 j 19,080
Foreign 42 0 1,.80 t--••• --•-•
Malt, 7,330 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.
Although the supply of beasts was only moderate, we have
to report a very dull inquiry for Beef, and Monday's quota-
tions were barely supported. The numbers of Sheep were
again small, while the sale for them was active, and the prices
had an upward tendency. In Calves very little was doing
and in some instances the rates were a trifle lower. The PO
trade was firm, and the currencies were steadily supportea
Milch Cows were held at from 161 to 1915 s each.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal. d to s 3
•
s. d. to s. 4
Interior Beasts. 2 6 2 8 Inferior 5heep......... 210 .10
Second qu.:llty ditto... 210 30. Second quality ditto... 3 0 g
Prime large Oxen 2 3 6 Coarst,woolled ditto. 310 7 6
Prime Scotus . 3 8 4 0, Southdown Wethers 4 4 7, 6
Large coarse Calves. 3 S 4 di Large Hogs
1-rlme small ditto 4 8 4 10; Sm.ll Porkers .
Suckling Calves.each 18 0 26 0 I Quarter old Pigs, 0,016 0 ‘•
SUFFLY AT MAKKRT.
Busts Sheep Piss
580 2,050 Calves.( 312
NEW GATE AND MEADENHALI,
The general demand here was rather inactive, on the fo
lowing terms :

At per tone, by the Carcase
S. d. s
toe rt. S. 4. tog .
1 0
Fleet, ir ferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior - 3 4
- mid.iling _. 2 6. 2 8 -- middling..... 3 , 6 8
-- prune laigr
-- prime stokll 3 2 34, Pork, large_2 6 4 0
Veal
BOROUGH HOP DIARKZIr• all
Our market continues to be very scantily supplied with
ti
descriptions of Hops, while the general demand is stead'', to
the following terms :—Weald of Kent, pockets,_ 6/ 43
61 14s ; Mid Kent ditto, 6/ 12s to 91 lOs ;East Kent ditto
6/ 15s to 9/; Choice ditto, 101 to 11/ lls ; Sussex ditto, 61 t;6/ 12s ; Farnhams, 8/ 15s to 11/ 15s ; Mid Kent, bags, 6112,
to 8/ 10s.

SUOAR.—The market for British Plantation has been fir 11?;
and as the accounts from the West Indies are still bad,'
likely to continue so. The sales since our last have beet

about 1,200 hhds at rather higher rates.
MAußrrtus.-6,135 bags have been put up, which sold
well at 58s 6d to 61s for ord, and at 62s to 68s, and 69s °",
for mid to fine bright yellow.
BENGAL-227 bags realised 68s to 69s 6d for fine Avl,ite'esi.
FOREIGN.—There has only been a small private basinict.
done. Refined has been steady, standard lumps at 78s Perl.,,i;
COFFEE.—British Plantation descriptions have been 11,—,f
and only in moderate supply. At auction a small IparceL._
Jamaica realised 63s to 65s 6d per cwt. In Ceylon asol;
continues to be a good business ; 1,775 bags have been
publicly at 52s 6d to 90s and 995, for ord to Pea Berry P 131.1,;
tation kinds. In Mocha 280 bales went at 45s 6d to 81to
for triage to fine, clean garbled being taken in at 68s 8d re
695, and some Rio was taken in at 56s for fine ord. The
has been some inquiry for Pedang. Prod
Run.—The market is firm, and with more demand.
Leewards are is lid per gallon.
S
dearer,
t' Petop p3srd haspe rbleben a ;
an shadedcas easier.sia
gn
ea Pimentoitt,,e
rr,a,tflui elri

rates.
for
SALTPETRE.-3,900 bags nearly all sold at 23s to 28$ - 6(1
Ili to 41 refraction. J.
CorroN.—The sales have not been so large as last 'd
About 2,000 bales have changed hands privately, arid to
auction a little Madras realised 41d to 4id. and Surat
4id per lb. Prices were firm.
at the
TEA.—The market has been quiet privately, and as
public sales only a small portion has found buyers• illy
are auctions again next Tuesday. Prices are firm genellthe
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quiet at 41s to 41s 3d per ewt 00

spot.
LATE ACCIDENT AT BAIICL Y
AND PERKINS'S BREWERY' is
:LEANS OF PREVENTING ITS RECURRE'"
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIY,•, of
you permit me, through the mea'll—.oo
your widely-circulated Journal, to draw public attentir
to a plan which, as it strikes me, would effectually' kro
vent the recurrence of such drea Ifni accidents as :P`sto
which occurred the other day at Barclay and perking
brewery, by which two human beings lost their ii"-vo
suffocated by the carbonic acid gas generated in ¢e is,
into which they had descended. The plan I prors' .0f
to furnish every man, before he descends into °DLit
these enormous vats, with an Indian rubber, or air' I'7oi
tube, the length of which should con. L, ag4 ve
the depth of the vat. One end of this tube snouitt blioa
affixed to it a mouth-piece and stop-cock, and this e 4
the workman should take down with him into the
..10
taking care to keep it closed by means of slbe
stop-cock, leaving the other end loose on big
outside of the vat. Should the workman during
oi
descent have reason to suspect that he was inr
danger of inlialing any noxious gas, he should jur,o
diatcly apply the mouth piece, and turn the stop-001'4
as to render the tub, pt-rvious, when his comtnuniPs" h
with the external air would be instantly restored throufe.
the medium of the tube, and he would breathe freeo
It wolVd be right that the person thus situated su".so
draw his breath in through the tube, but should bret,44
out through the nostrils, as otherwise the carbonic 70s
gas, which is the product of the lungs. and which is bits
rid of by each act of expiration, %%ould accumulate '
the tube, and probably produce suffocation.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servantt
J. C• S'

an 90
RECEPTION or MR. O'CONNELL AT THE
OF COMMONS.—The approaches to the House, presented,a,r
night, a most animated spectacle, a Large crowd Ofos:-01
sons having assembled, evidently for the special PurPi, obee
witnessing the arrival of Mr. °tonnell. The Hon.-14e -OP
reached the vicinity of the House at about half-past
being recognised, he was greeted with tremendcufng of
plause, and so completely surrounded by the thr,Ys ref
his admirers, that he had great difficulty in making most
to the entrance-door. Altogether his reception wasuortlf
enthusiastic. The Duke of Wellington, who arrived s:to of
after Mr. O'Connell, was greeted with clamorous sip'
dirapprobation, mingled'with partial cheers.
00'
A TRIBE OF SAVAGED'WARFS.—Beyom.
t.li
sive wilderness w hich bounds Caffra, on the s°ll. cod.'
the Doko, a pigmy and pelfectly wild race, not el‘e.„;iOst
ing four feet in height, of a dark olive eorcil' "0
and in habits even more closely approxiinact`-nthern
the beasts that perish " than the bushmen of I°e-a, 100
Africa. They have neither idols, nor tenlP f So,
ot
sacred trees ; but possess a glimmering idea ite
preme Being, to whom in misfortune (such
i,"-e 14;
their relatives being slain by the kidnapper), ti'e/agialui
standing on their heads, with their feet resting t op:
a tree, "Yere, if, indeed, thou art, why cl°sta,
suffer us to be killed ? We are only eating °Lod '7,
f
ask neither food nor raiment. Thou host ricountti
up. Why dolt thou cast us down ?" The forest
inhabited by the Dolt°, is clothed with a dense l coil;
of bamboo, in the depths of which, the Pe°„Paegftg
struct their rude wigwams of bent canes e" pos7l,
They have no King, no laivs, no arts, no arils 'not co,
neither flocks nor herds ; are not hunters, d°39, roc!gh
tivate thi2 soil, but subsist entirely upon fr,!101
mice, serpents reptiles, ants, and honey ; bop' 'ring s'g
latter they like the bear, from off their I'd
hands. They beguile serpents by whistling%lnorthta,
torn them piecemeal with their long nails, oe
raw ; but although the forests abound with neo
buffaloes, lions, and leopards, they have
of destroying or entrapping them. A largetr Snail
Loko, is found, amongst many other species sera to
an extraordinary height, the roots of which, whew are
are red, and serve for food. The yeho and well , air
principal fruits ; and to obtain these, women, L"„acli
men ascend the trees like monkeys ; "throvi.
quarrels and scrambles, not unfrequentlY woos k
other down from the branches. , ii)3o°.ttilltiobro:thy(Ps'oollol;
perfectly naked, and have thick
minutive eyes, and flat noses. The hair is 11 den holl-
and in the female, reaches the shoulders. '12.'0% one is
no beard. The nails, never pared, grow °,,,;0101% of
hands and feet like eagle's talons and ere eithe
digging for ants. The people are ignorant oc.,
fire. They perforate their ears in influlibe e%file
pointed bamboo, so as to leave nothing, sage nierceopc.
nal cartilage ,• but they neither tattoo- nor ; nec'-d,
nose ; and the only ornament Worn is ,lidr.
composed of the spinal process of a fierPent.
the
Highlands of Ethiopia. berg %look
NEW MECHANICS' ITALL.--The Ineirlbave awaicle
Mechanics' Institution, in this town, stnirotid. ,„„Pdegt,l:,
ing of which the will have reason to be ,„
being calculated tor the greatest utility, it Willvon .7/trot7
tute of architectural adornment. The lectuts 00.7--
by far the largest and most convenient in the
11010
of Asomaionzgeottors announcementi
tingham Review,
the iv'
ars In
tea $ Ph%
ast EX nppe
entitled John Frost will be performed on Si'
rove ato res
the Chartist Chapel. Riste-place. The proceeds the le
voted to the fund for defending and protecto:p...sotn
made at the " Battle of Maperley Ellis.
Review, kb Sill gii•
i•Tor.
STRIKE.—The sailors of South and .0 get aid
have turned out. The object of the strike is to are, din th
vauce of wages. The present rates of wBge, 011 0001;
coal trade, from 3/. 10s. to 31. 12s. 6d• per vo,Yfra. per
American and Baltic trade, from 2/. ss. to 21., „col-
The wages demanded are 4/. fur the beeari by
the Baltic. Numerons meetings have,!`noonliZr',cak-
lore in the Loyal Standard and Good Desig:',!..a--
resolutions in favour of the strike:wore pao--
Advertiser.
BIRTHS. MA)"
Peep'
On the 6th inst., the lady of George 15.
place, Leeds, Yorshire, of a daughter. af the r, e,
On the 7th inst., at Hamhurgh, the lady_ a
Dewar Chaplain to the British residents, oc,27g7ga, e,17
On the 13th inst., at Belinda-terrace, I lu
.0144
Dewick, of a son.
:ED. m.,

On the 21st of December,A
1843, at 13ombay, E°`E.ir j
Esq., M.D., to Anna Maria, eldest daughter ° icier,
Rivett Carnac, Bart., of Rook- cliff, Hampshire. 03004ep.
On the 13th inst., at St. Pancras, Henry rellleoige
Esq. to Amelia, second daughter a the late
hearCl, Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell-Ware'. bl
DIED, lat ° 64t
On the 6th of November 184,1, on her arrive t ofthe
Elizabeth Mary, the wife Or. i2aptain C. 11. Bur ,
v. ii,
On the 6th infji.,
Bengal Native ..Infailtir; of the /le ,
Grog-,
Lvall, Vien-- vOlOll
~„ ....r of Godmersham, Sent.
ootnt fhh, See:(u.23At
tth.lh:e
Rector
nii
inst.,
:she:, e.
t.
:: ra,ta
tEt: xoue Rider'suti
,eirganb. Boulogne,
'.:n the lOtk inst., Mari the wife a George _l.
a, Fe'
Lewd' the -
-re:Lts6ll:7olp!
the Rev. George Walton Onslow, aged 76. eengtelit O.
Ou the 22d of December, 1843, on board the Qiiiburi,, o
off the mouth of the Indus, Captain JalllB3 Woe" itio
9th Regiment Bengal Native InfantQ:. patchy ClaP
On the 24th of December last, at Bhooj, in `-' ..00
oeßuaenegll:lB,:nuredda'rsst:i.goi
le,
~.40,
John Davies, of the Bombay Army. ~ pliciNibs
ta
On the 4th lust , at CliftOn, the Hon. Aralen` .1. oftO
of the late Sir Francis Burton, G.C.H., and siste
UOll. Lord Cloncurry. oue, It p 7per,

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