The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

ORDNANCE CORPS.

ROYAL ,ARTILLERY.—At Tarbert Fort, Shannon River
—5 gunners of Royal Artillery, 9 guns mounted. At
Kilkerran4-2 gunners, 9 guns mounted. At, Carrick
Island-4 gunners, 8 guns mounted. At Scattery
Island-1 master gunner, 4 gunners, and 8 guns.
At Dunnahagh-1 master gunner, 4 gunners, and 6
guns. At Kilcredane-5 gunners, 2 guns mounted. At
Carlisle Fort, Cove of Cork-1 master gunner, 4 gunners, 8
guns mounted, At Camden Fort-1 master gunner, 4 gnn-
ners, 6 guns mounted. At Westmoreland FOrt, Spike
Island-2 non-commissioned officers and 12 gunners. Brevet-
Major Otway, 3d Battalion, commanding at Charles Fort,
Kinsale-1 master gunner, 2 gunners, 6 guns. At Duncan-
non Fort-1 lieutenant, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 1 master
gunner, 26 gunners, and 15 guns mounted. 2d Lieutenant
Clarke is recruiting at Lisburn, near Belfast, as super-
intending officer. Lieutenant Ackland, barrack-master, at
Templemore, has received one month's leave of absence.
Royal Engineers, Dublin.—Distribution : At Dublin ( head
qtraters), Colonel G. G. Lewis, C. 8., commanding; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Savage, ditto • Second Captain Nelson, First
Lieuts. Hawkins, Baillie, Miller; and Second Lieut. Asley ;
at Cork, Major Cole and Second Captain Broughton ; at
Limerick, Second Captain Leyard, Second Lieut. Rich; at
Londonderry, First Lieut. Dill; at Clonmel, First Lieut.
Ogle; at Boyle, First Lieut. Gosset ; at Kilkenny, First
Lieut. Gallway ; at Belfast, Captain Larcom, on a tour of
inspection, and Second Lieut. Murray ; at Athlone, First
Lieut. Westmacott, Second Lieuts. Morrison and Hutchin-
son ; at Enniskillen, First Lieut. Wray ; Ist battalion Cap
taro Reynard-1 sergeant, and 30 rank and file, 1 corporal,
and three privates (supernumeraries).
Rifle Brigade, Ist Battalion, Depot Pigeon House Fort,
Dublin—Captain Reynard having been reported sick, did not
embark with the draft on board of the steam-vessel Rhada-
manthus, at Kingstown, for Cork, on the 13th October. Capt.
Murray will embark for Corfu in his place.
Staff—Colonel John Spink, K. 1.1., Quarter-master-General,
Dublin district, has proceeded to London on a month's leave
of absence, from 13th October to 13th November. Major
William White, Town Major, Royal Barracks, will perform
the duties of the department during his absence.
The enrolled pensioners of the city of Dublin are ordered
to be called for training and exercise for 16 days. Their
arms and accoutrements (600 stand of arms, &c.) are lodged
hy the Board of Ordnance at Island Bridge Barracks. Major
G. C. Swan, unattached, is commanding with Capt."Phibbs.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—On Friday informa-
tion was forwarded to the Metropolitan and City Police that a ser.
vent belonging to tho Glasgow Commercial Exchange Company,Vin.
cent.street, Glasgow, had absconded from their employment with
the sum of 20c1, consisting of a 1001. not,, two 9.01_ notes, and one
10/. note of the Western Bank of Scotland, a 101. note of the Cont..
mercial Bank of Scotland, and two 20/. notes. The delinquent,
whose name is John Watt Sandeman, 6 described as being about
twenty years of age, five feet eight inches high, with ordinary make,
pale ooniplcgion, and broyn

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GouLnumv.)
IN RE GLOVER.

Miss Mary Ann Glover, described in the schedule as other-
We 13,2 ➢Lary Roberts (the daughter of the celebrated actress),
came up on her petition for an interim order.
Her debts were about 570/. There was no opposition, aid
the interim order was granted without the insolvent being
examined.

OBBARD AND OTHERS V. RUDD.

This defendant who had carried on business as a plumber
and glazier, at Beckenham place, Denmark-hill, attended on
a summons obtained at the suit of the plaintiff's, who are
glass merchants, to show cause why he had not paid the sum
of 101. due from him.

The plaintiff's solicitor said that he had no doubt the
Learned Commissioner would consider this a case in which
the power of commitment should be exercised. The facts
were, that the defendant had attended before a Judge at
Chambers, and admitted the justice of the plaintiffs' demand,
but shortly afterwards he assigned over the whole of his pro-
perty to his son.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said if that was proved. it was
unquestionably a gross fraud.
The defendant having been sworn, admitted that he bad
made the assignment for money previously advanced by his
son. The property was worth 701. or 807.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that it was a very
flagrant case that a man having property to such an amount
should snake away with it after he had admitted there was
a justl claim against him. He would therefore be committed
for forty days to the county prison.
The defendant entreated to be allowed to make terms with
the plaintiffs,
The plaintiff's solicitor said they were not disposed to in-
terfere with the course of the law.

The Learned COMMISSIONER said the insolventhad acted
with great dishonesty, and he ought to be made an ex-
ample of.

The defendant was immediately taken into custody by one
of the messengers.

PALACE COURT.--FRIDAY.
(Before Mr. W. BRENT BRENT.)
BROWN V. DENVIL.

The defendant in this case, against whom a verdict was
given on the last court day, appeared under a summons
granted under the Small Debts Act, to show cause why the
amount of the debts and costs should not be paid by instal-
ments. The debt was 101. money, deposited by the plaintiff
as a check-taker with the defendant, as ee of the Pavilion
Theatre, and the costs were 61. 9s. 10d. The defendant was
examined now on his oath.

It appeared that Mr. Denvil, who is an actor of some re-
putation, became lessee of the Pavilion Theatre, u ithout, as
he admitt. d, any capital, and was suddenly obliged to quit
possession. He, however, paid all his performers, and should
have returned the deposit made with him by Brown, but for
non-employment, sickness, and a large family entirely de-
pendent upon him for support. He was now fulfilling an en-
gagement at Astley's Theatre, which was to continue for only
three weeks longer; his salary was 41. a week.
An application was made on the part of the plaintiff for an
order on the defendant to pay IL a week.
The defendant, with some excitement, said it was an utter
impossibilily. He had to pay 21. a week to creditors, and to
support ten in family out of the other 21. At present he
could pay no portion of the debt. He entered into an ex-
planation of his connexion with the Pavilion Theatre, and
his subsequent struggles to pay all his creditors without
taking the benefit of the Act. It was only on Saturday that
his wife was confined; and how, he asked, could he pay any
money at the present time?
The Learned JUDGE feasoned with the defendant, telling
him that he could pay the plaintiff, who had deposited money
with him, at 10s. a week.

The defendant declared that he could do no such thing.
People must eat, and be had ten in family to support. The
aw would not order a man to act without eating, and out of
the 21. remaining, after paying the sum he had agreed to
other persons, how could he afford to pay any part?
The matter was discussed at some length, and the case of
the plaintiff urged as a person who required the money to
pay a doctor's bill. It was offered that, if an order was
made on the defendant to pay 10s. a week while he was in
an engagement, no application would be made for his com-
mitment. He said he could not pay it, " and his carcase
must be had, he supposed, for the money."
The COURT made an order for 102. a week, the first pay-
ment not to be made till Monday week.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.
An elderly woman, in the attire of the Society of Friends,
was brought before the Lord Mayor by Horsford, one of the
officers of the Mendicity Society, on the charge of having
gone the rounds on the begging letter and petition system.
She stated her name to be Mary Cattell, and that she was
one of the sect to which she appeared to belong.
The officer of the society stated that he had followed the
defendant, who went from house to house with a red-book
in her hand, and appealed to the owners for the exercise of
ever so small a mite of humanity. Her appearance was ex-
tremely serviceable to the object upon which she professed
to pay her visits, and even amongst those who were evidently
hard pushed to support their families she raised from Id. to
6d. a head. She represented that she laboured to release a
person from prison who had been confined there for a length
of time; and it was realty difficult to resist her supplication
for she accommodated herself to the very lowest capacity of
pocket. After having witnessed for some time the unwearied
perseverance of the defendant, he told her he wanted her and
her red-book and her papers, and, after such a struvgle as
her little strength permitted, she resigned them to his hands.
In her pock t were 7s. 6d. in silver, some halfpence, and a
201. Bank of England note, which appeared to have just ar-
rived from that establishment.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, defendant, where did you get
this 201. note? Defendant—l got it at the Bank of England.
The LORD MAYOR—A dividend, I suppose? The de-
fendant—Not at all. I got it for silver.
• The LORD MAYoR—Oh, you got it for the money you
raised by going round for charity. The defendant— I don't
want to deny anything. I have been seeking assistance to
release my brother from captivity in the Queen's Prison,
where he has been confined five or six years. I am not
ashamed of the manner in which I have been engaged, con-
sidering the motive.
Horsford said, the old lady had about her several peti-
tions, which had been worn into au almost illegible con-
dition.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, defendant, you have been suc-
cessful in your applications, as the 20/.-note testifies. The
defendant —But the 201. will not accomplish the object I
have in view. The meeting-houses about town have copies
of the petition, and will, I have no doubt, assist me. The
contest in which my brother is engaged is a law contest, and
it would be difficult to point out any way of getting the
better of it without money. To obtain such aid, Ido not
hesitate to go from door to door, and to solicit the smallest
benevolence.
The LORD MAYOR directed that the defendant should be
taken care of until inquiries be made into the foundation of
her defence.
A man whose name was, according to his own statement,
Robert Wilkinson, was brought up in the custody of a po-
liceman, charged with having attempted by a letter forged
in the name of the Rev. Baptist -Noel to impose upon Mr.
Gurney Barclay, the banker of Lombard-street.
The letter was presented by the prisoner, who was imme-
diately given into custody. It recommended the bearer as
an object meriting the consideration of the charitable, and
subsequently there came into the hands of Mr. Barclay, a
list of sub-cribers for the aid of the party named in the letter.
Horsford, the Mendicity Society's officer, who upon seeing
the prisoner remained in the justice -room to hear the case, here
declared that Mr. Wilkinson's real name was John William
Dennison, and that a more resolute impostor could not be
found in all London.
The prisoner said, the mendicity officer was wrong in
saying.that his name was John William Dennison. It was
no such thing. It was William John Dennison.—(Laughter.)
He wished-helactinoney to pay for a defence, and he would
soon silence the offic(r.
Horsford—My Lord, he has.been an impostor of the most
active and detern-ired character for years about town; he
has been committed frequently from several police-offices.
The priscusr—Don't believe him, my Lord. Men of this
description are strangely given to lying.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—He says that he has known you to be
a hardened impostor, and to have been committed several
times.
Tae prisoner--Whatever might have taken place before
has nothing to do with the present charge, Why should it?
The LORD MAYOR—You may find that it has. He may
produce-such a thing a 3 evidence of your conviction upon a
former occasion, and that may have something particular to
do with the present charge.
Horsford—My Lord, I-ti has been convicted at that bar. A
woman who lives with him and assists him in this way of
living has been committed, together with her son, a clever
boy, whom they have brought up to practices of the same
kind.

The prisoner—The boy was not committed, for I took upon
me the offence with which he was charged. and the fact is, I
was committed at that bar; and so you see you are wrong
again.—(Laughter.)
Horsford—You were all three committed.
The prisoner—I had three months, but I took the offence
upon melf.
The LORD MAYOR.-.. 1 shall remand the prisoner, in order
to give the society time to make further inquiry and Wing
forward more evidence.

GUILDHALL.
Daniel Garrett, who has been examined on various
charges of stealing portmanteaus from the Great Western,
the Son' h-Western, and Birmingham Railways, was re-ex-
amined before Mr. Alderman H. Hughes.
Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Humphreys, and Mr. Nash appeared
as before on behalf of the railways, and Mr. Thwaites for the
prisoner
Mr. Bedingfield deposed that he is a commercial traveller,
and was a passenger to London, on reaching which he missed
his leather case. His memorandums and pocket-book were
afterivards returned anonymously through the Parcels' Deli-
very Company. He identified a blouse, a stock, and some
other. articles which were found at the prisoner's lodging, and
also the leather case produceOgy Collard, the superintendent
of the Great Western Railway police.
Collard stated that he received this case from Mr. Beattie,
a pawnbroker.
Mr Beattie deposed that he' is one of the firm of Notley
and Beattie, of Portman-street, He bought the case from
the prisoner about the latter end of August. He asked half
a guinea for it, and witness bought it for his own use. He
bad known the prisoner above a year previously, and had
purchased other things from him, which were now in the
care of Collard.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES asked under what circumstances
these had found their way to the officer? Had the latter
traced where they were? Mr. Beattie said that upon seeing
Garratt was in custody he wrote to the officer, and showed
him what articles he had had from the prisoner.
Mr. Alderman 11. HUGHES wished all persons in Mr.
Beattie's trade were equally ready to assist in furthering the
ends of justice.
The evidence was then read, and the prisoner was com-
mitted on the charge.
Mr. Clarkson then made an addition to the evidence in the
case of Mr. Webb, a merchant at Huddersfield, whose port-
manteau was stolen in July on the Birmingham line, as has
been already detailed.
Mr. Webb identified a gold pencil-case as part of the contents
of his portmanteau.
Mr. Beattie deposed that he purchased this from the pri-
soner on the 9th of September. He gave him 11. fur that
and an eye-glass.
Mr. Clarkson asked him if he did not call that a great bar-
gain ? Mr. I3eattie did not know that it was particularly so.
Mr. Webb also identified three pairs of trousers, which
were found at the prisoner's lodgings.
The prisoner was committed on this charge, and remanded
on another until Friday next.
MARYLEBONR.
Frances Westbury, a laundress, was brought up for re-ex-
amination on a charge of illegally pawning upwards of 401.
worth of linen and other ,trtiole'_: of dress intrusted to her to
wash..,..
It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner had been
hi the habit of washing for several families in the neighbour-
hood of Marylebone for some time past, and up to the month
of August last regularly ;returned the clothes intrusted to