The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-26 00:00:00

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THE HAGUE, JAN. 20.—The official journal contains all
the laws relative to the budget of the years 1844 and 1845.
The total expenditure for 1844 is estimated at 70,264,971
florins and 26 cents., and for 1845 at 69,901,143 florins and
bk 7 cents. But the ways and means voted for the two years are
not sufficient to cover the expenditure. The deficiency for
1844 is 5,193,707 ; and for 1845, 4,825,880 ; t0ta1,10,023,587
florins, which has yet to be provided for. In the second Cham-
ber of the States General yesterday, five petitions were pre-
vented against the proposed law for a tax on property. The
Committee on Petitions brought up its report on several ad-
dresses and petitions. There are two financial plans and six-
teen petitions against a tax on property.
THE HAI.UI, JAN. 22.—The report of the central sec-
tion on the project of law for providing for the defi-
ciency of the budget of 1844 and 1845 has just been
distributed among the members. Forty-five members took
part in the examination of the project of law in the
section. The first question was, " w hether the proposed
measures would attain the object ot regulating our finances on
a durable footing. to provide for the deficiency of former years,
and to equalise the revenue and expenditure, so as to prevent
further deficiency." This is the most important question in
the opinion of the majority dttbe members, since it will depend
on the solution of it whether they vote against or for the
measure, the-principal justification ot which must be its pro.
viding an effectual remedy for the embarrassed state of the
finances. It was generally feared that it would not prove so,
and many members could not conceal their apprehensions that,
even allowing the correctness of the calculations furnished by
the Government, and supposing that all-the estimates should
be realised, there will nevertheless he a deficiency for 1846,
which will call for new burdens. This deficiency is estimated
by the Chambers for 1t,46 and the following ears at 100,000
florins per annum. But in addition to this it is feared that
certain branches of revenue are estimated too highly, and
that some incalculable expenses have not been included. The
Chamber, therefore, thinks a voluntary loan extremelydesirable.
The Chamber, we observe, asked whether the Government
thought it could impose a moderate duty on tea and coffee.

ACADEMY OF • SCIENCES.—SITTING OF JANUARY
15.—M. Arago made a further communication respecting
the comet discovered bv M. Faye, from which it appears
that it is a periodical, having a revolution of six years
and 200 days. A paper was received from M. Bonjean,
of Chamb6ry, on the effects of the ergot of rye. In a
memoir communicated to the Academy in 1842 the author
had stated his opinion that the ergot is much less dange-
rous when baked in bread than in its natural state ad-
ministered in poWder, the heat and tern: station of tht
baking process having the effect of changing its proper-
ties to a great extent. In his present communication, M.
Bonjean. in illustration of the correctness of the opinion
that he had expressed, relates a ease Of poisoning with
bread made front rye, a portion of which had the ergot.
A family of nine, lather, mother, and children, at Envers,
in Savoy, had eaten in three days eighteen pounds of
this bread. They were all attack, d with pains and rigi-
dities of a very severe charactc,r, accompanied with
shiverings, but all recovered. On examining the rye,
part of which had been used to make the bread, it was
found to contain 14 per cent. of ergoted grain. If, says
M. Bonjean, the same quantity as was consumed in the
bread had been taken in powder certain deati must have
been the consequence. A paper by M. Robinet, mem-
ber of the Royal Society of Agriculture, on the formation
of silk by the silk-worm, was next read. It has been
contended by some writers on this subject that the silk
exists in the animal in a perfect state before it is thrown
off, whilst others have asserted at it is in a liquid
state in the body of the insect. M. Robinet has ascer-
tained that it is liquid until it reaches the capillary tubes
where it becomes solidified, but the process of solidifica-
tion is still a mystery.
CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLEBS.—Great ex-
citement prevails in this vicinity from a report being prevalent
that James Ford, who is a very steady sort of person, has lost
money to the amount of 1101., while returning home from Lon-
don in the train on the South-Eastern Railway on Friday
evening. James Ford is a jobbing carpenter, and by the will
of a relation he became entitled to the above-named sum of
money. His attorney in London having written to say that
the money was ready, Ford went up on Friday to receive it
himself, countryman-like. He received a cheque from his at-
torney to the amount of 110/. Having inquired his way to the
Bank to get the same cashed, he returned to the Borough with
the money in his pocket, namely, 70 sovereigns and four 10/.
Bank of England notes, since ascertained to be the following
numbers, 24,985, 86, 87, and 88. He was accosted by a per-
son with the garb and appearance of a countryman, who in
course of conversation asked Ford to drink with him, saying he
wanted to get a little business in Kent. A third person
" dropped in," whom the polite inquirer addressed as " Squire
Jones." They all drank together, and parted. Ford repaired
to the railway station, where two persons took their seats be-
side him, and lett him at Reigate. When Ford got home to
his cottage at Brenchley, after supper he prepared to spread
the table with sovereigns, but to his great consternation his
gold had been turned into coppers, about 2s. worth of which he
found in his pocket, tied up in paper. He remembers some
confusion in the Versthata tunnel, where he thinks the robbery
took place.—Maidstone Gazette.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNClL.—Yesterday a Court
was held for the dispatch of public business. After the annual
election of the usual officers appointed by the Court, a discus-
sion of considerable length took place, upon a reference re-
specting the standing orders. Upon the motion of 11r. Ashurat,
a Committee was appointed in relation to the power of com-
pelling traders within the City to take up their freedom. The
Committee will commence the inquiry into this very important
and interesting subject with all possible expedition. The
Chairman of the City Lands Committee presented a Report,
on the Report of the City and Bridge-house accounts to the
Common Hall, on Midsummer-day last. We regret we have
not space for the Report, which was unanimowly agreed to by
the Court, and the Remembrancer was ordered to prepare an
act of Common Council accordingly. The Chairman of the
City Lands Committee brought up. a Report relative to the
performance of additional works at the Sessions House, in the
Old Bailey, in order to afford increased convenience to the
public. It recommended that the lowest tender, that of John
William Cartwright, at 6871., should be accepted. After some
discus ion, the Report of the Committee was agreed to, and
the Court adjourned.
The Dowager Princess of Ilohenlohe died on the
10th instant, at the Chateau de Kapferzell, in Germany.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHAATCEI: 1' Jar. 25.

IVARNE-V.

Durill'g the argunu,nts,
Mr. W AKEFIELD objected to the case proceeding, as
he was desirous of answering certain affidavits, which
had only been filed yesterday, reflectinff on the character
of some of the witnesses for the defendant. _ _ _

The COURT ordered the motion to stand for Monday.

WARNE V. GOLDING.

Mr. STUART applied in this vcase on behalf of the de-
fendant, who carries on business at 23, Ludgate-street,
for the .dissolution of an injunction, restrainirg him
manufacturing or selling any antigropaluses in imitation
of those qnanufactured by the plaintiff.
The COURT, after some considerable argument.
ordered the injunction to be dissolved.
Mr. BETHELL then applied upon another motion in
the same cause to commit the defendant to the Queen's
Prison for a breach of the injunction, between the time
of its being granted and notice of the intention on the
part of the defendant to apply to dissolve it.
The COURT refused to make any order upon the
motion.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 25.
LORD W. PAGET V. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN.

Mr. Sergeant CxANNELL moved fora rule to show cause
why the defendant should ❑ot have judgment, as in the case of
a nonsuit. 'f he action was brought against the defendant for
an alleged act of criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife,
and the cause was set down for trial at the last Guildhall sit-
tings, and was specially fixed for Friday, the 22d of December
last. A few minutes before the Lord Chief Justice came into
Court the record was withdrawn ; and it will not have been
forgotten that Lord William Paget addressed on the same day,
to the leading Morning and Evening newspapers, copies of a
letter which he had forwarded to Lord Cardigan, charging him,
in terms so coarse and violent, that it was considered necessary
to suppress the greater portion of the letter, with having
bought the plaintiff's principal witness, Winter, who had sud-
denle disappeared from the Guildhall, on the morning appointed
for the trial. In support of the present motion, affidavits were
made by the defendant, his attorney, Mr. Powell, and the
clerks who had the conduct of the cause, stating, in the most
positive and unqualified terms, that neither he nor they were,
directly or indirectly, concerned in procuring the absence of
Winter.—Rule nisi granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKEN WELL.
FRAUDULENT PERSONATION OT A POLICE OFFICER.—
ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A MAGISTRATE'S CLERK.—William
Taylor, a furniture dealer, residing in Turnmill-street, Clerk-
enwell, was finally examined on a charge of falsely and fraudu-
lently personating a police constable of " the detective force,"
under circumstances of a very aggravated nature.
Mr. C. Btoddart appeared for the prisoner.
Police-constable, 243 G, deposed that on Sunday morning
last, between twelve and one o'clock, A.M., he was on duty in
Cross-street, Hatton-garden, when the prisoner addressed him,
saying he was an officer of the detective force, and that he could
produce his authority, at the same time drawing from his
pocket a pair of handcuffs. The prisoner then went to the
beer-shop, No. 26 in the street, and knocked at the door. He
was not admitted : and then requested witness to come to the
door with him. Witness consented. They knocked at the
door, and were admitted. When the prisoner entered the
shop, he said, " I am an officer of the detective force."
Mr. GREENWOOD—Did he mention the name of the divi-
sion? Witness replied in the negative. The prisoner was
given into custody by the barman.
Wm. Clarke deposed that he was acting for Mr. Hayes, the
landlord, on the night in question, who lay in a room adjoining
the shop dangerously ill, from a concussion of the brain. The
prisoner had twice ineffectually attempted to obtain anmission
as an officer of the detective force, but as the house was closed
witness refused to admit him. Hei was admitted subsequently
at the instance of the police officer. He wanted drink, which
was refused. He then said he wanted to search the house.
Witness directed the police officer to do so, and he did search
it, even the room where the sick man lay. When asked for
his authority, the prisoner produced a pair of handcuffs. His
manner was boisterous and insolent. Witness at last gave him
into custody.
Mr. Joseph Liddell deposed that he was in the house on the
occasion referred to. Had been sent for, as it was expected
the landlord would have died on that night. The prisoner was
very noisy, and witness begged of him for God's sake not to dis-
turb the sick man, but the prisoner jeeringly said, " The sick
man should have the physician before the undertaker."
Mr. GREENWOOD—Are you an undertaker ?-ed am. When
the prisoner wanted to have the house searched 1 directed the
officer to do so, lest Mr. Hayes might be disturbed.
Inspector Penny deposed that the prisoner was not a member
of the metropolitan police force, detective or otherwise.
Mr. Stoddart said the prisoner had been in the Birmingham
police force, and had been sworn in a special constable for the
city. The prisoner had freequently assisted the police in de-
tecting thieves. He was not sober oa the night the offence was
commit ted.
Mr. GREENWOOD said, upon the previous occasion the pri-
soner had produced a document purporting to be his warrant to
act as a police-constable of Birmingham for the year 1643.
The paper, on inspection, turned out to be an ordinary notice
to appear at special sessions in 1841, and of course no authority
whatever. If he had been a policeman, the fact would have
rather aggravated his offence.
Prisoner—l went tothe house on scent for a thief.
Mr. GREENWOOD—You had no warrant or authority what-
ever. The law very properly looks upon this as a very bad
offence.
After commenting on the impropriety of the prisoner's con-
duct, the Magistrate sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or a
month's imprisonment.
Mr. Mould (the junior clerk) said, that in the early part of
the day Duke, the usher of the Court told him that the pri-
soner wished to speak with him in private. He replied to the
communication that he did not wish to have any private inter-
view with the prisoner. When he (Mr. Mould) came into
Court, during the momentary absence of the Magistrate, the
prisoner whispered to him, saying that he understood the clerk
had great influence with the Magistrate, and that if he (Mr.
Mould) would exercise that influence in his favour, he would
reward him handsomely. The proposal was indignantly re-
jected, but he did not consider it right to communicate the
matter to the Magistrate until the ease was disposed of, lest it
might create an unfavourable prejudice in his Worship's mind.
Mr. GREENWOOD told the prisoner it was a most audacious
proposal, and one for which he might be prosecuted at the Old
Bailey, and if convicted severely punished. He would recom-
mend Inspector Penny to communicate the affair to the Com-
missioners of Police, who would say whether er not it was a
case for prosecution.
Inspector Penny having taken down the clerk's statement,
promised doing so.
The prisoner said he had not then the money to pay the fine.
He was locked up.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday John Davis, alias James Blythe, Henry Robin-
son, and George Hirt, whose former examination for extensive
burglaries, committed in the premises of wholesale firms in the
City, have lately appeared in our columns, were brought be-
fore Mr. Bingham for the completion of the former charges,
and to answer a fresh charge of burglary, committed in the
warehouse of Messrs. Wood and Co., warehousemen, in Red
Lion-court, Watling-street.
The substance of this last charge was this :—Mr. Robert
Oakley, Messrs. Wood's chief clerk, and who, with his family,
resides on the premises, west carefully over the warehouse at
twelve o'clock on the night of Monday, the 27th of November,
and examined all the belts and fastenings, which he left secure ;
but at five the following morning he was rung up by James
Brett, a City policeman, who on passing the door had found it
open. As there were no marks of violence on the warehouse
door or shutters in the lower part of the house, the upper part
was examined, when one of the attic windows was found open,
a corner of one of the panes, large enough to admit a man's
arm, having been cut with a diamond, and an entrance ob-
tained here from one of the adjoining houses, as in all the
other burglaries wiih which the *prisoners have been found to
be connected, and the premises quietly quitted by the usual
means of egress. On examining the warehouse it was found
to be completely ransacked, and a large amount of property
carried off by the burglars, among which was a quantity of
plated articles from the private atoartments, the whole robbery
being so quietly effected that not a single member of Mr.
Oakley's family was disturbed by the thieves.
The prisoner Davis or Blythe, it will be recollected, was
detained and given into custody by Mr. Sowerby, a pawn-
broker in Shoreditch, while offenn g as a pledge a handsomely-
worked silver snuff-box, part of the produce of an extensive
burglary committed on the pretnises of Messrs. Riley and
Storer, silversmiths, at the back: of the Goldsmiths' Hall, and
which forms one of the present charges against him, and on
Taylor, an officer, searching him, addition to a second snuff-
box of the same description, and. a quantity of duplicates, three
small gold seals were found in tote of his pockets.
Three seals were now prodneed, and sworn to by Mrs.
Oakley, the wife of the first witutes s, who had used them only
a few hours before the burglary was committed, and placed
them in her writing-desk, which rshe had left is a parlour in
the upper part of the house, but -which desk was found in the
morning on the basement story broken open, and its contents
strewed about, the seals having been abstracted.
The prisoner Davis had dealt for clothes with a tailor named
Davies, residing in New Union-sereet, Little Moorfields, and
between nine and ten in the mos, ning of the 11th ult. the pri-
soner called at Davies's house &wing his absence from home,
and, producing a large brown paper package, requested the
wife's permission to leave it wit b -her till he called for it. She
consented, and heard nothing further of the prisoner for a
fortnight or three weeks afterw arcis, when she read an account
of his examination at this Court on the other charges ; and
becoming alarmed lest she sho old become implicated with
him, she broke open the pairs :el, and found its contents to
eons'ist of part of the property above described ; and being
satisfied it was the produce of t .nother robbery, she repacked
the parcel, directed it to the P'ol. ice-court, Worship-street, and
carrying it over the water, sen.t it to this Court by the Parcels
Delivery Company.
The depositions being there taken by Mr. Vine, the chief
clerk, all the prisoners were iftt4lly committee' to Newgate for
trial, Hirt on one charge of r eceiving, and Robinson upon
three, and Davis upon five cha el ;es of burglary.

STAMPED AND UNSTAMF ED PUBLICATIONS.—There
are a great number of weekly p üblications, as our readers know,
of which there are both a stair p ed and an unstamped edit ion. We
understand that the newsmei a have experienced great inconve-
nience from this circumstan. te, and the revenue has suffered a
loss. Very frequently it hal 5f `ns that orders are sent from the
country for copies of these publications a few days after they
are issued, when it is generall: found that the stamped copies
are all exhausted. The ensure .ner will not pay postage, and he
cannot therefore be supplied at . all. The proprietor of the pub-
lication and the newsman be ,th lose a cnstomer. To remedy
this, a wide-awake newsman suggested to the Post-office that
it should allow the unite mped copies of these publications,
which, when stamped, are sent free, to be transmitted by the
Post-office on applying b ) each copy a single penny-postage
stamp. It was represente dto the Post-office that by so doing
the sale of these publieati ons would certainly be promoted, and
the revenue, as well as Lie individual, be benefited. The Post-
office, however, returmes I a very positive refusal, and peremp-
torily declined to ado' 4 the suggestion. An Administration
seriously bent on mr.l, ing the Post office the means of the
greatest possible good., would, we think, have adopted the sug-
gestion and been th difful for the discovery of any means to
make the Post-offic.r, at once more useful and more productive.

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DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—This morning, shortly after
one o'clock, a rapi( Ji y destructive fire broke out on the premises
belonging toMr. H.r iughton, straw-bonnet manufacturer, carry-
ing on an extens. iv';; business at No. 40, Whitechapel-road.
The fire when first perceived, was raging furiously in the
lower part of th, bu ilding. Several of the brigade engines
were with all pr‘ 3my ititude on the spot, with the West of Eng-
land one, all of w A. were set to work, and a vast column of
water was poured r ipon the fire; notwithstanding, the firemen
could not get ti- conflagration under until the premises were,
for the most part with their contents of stock-in-trade and furid-
ture, consumed.. he total loss must be very heavy, and will fall
upon the West t if England and Phoenix Fire-offices. Nothing
could be aster i .ained as to the origin of the fire. Besides the
destruction of Mr. Houghton's premises, several other buildings
in the immedi ste vicinity are damaged by the fire, water, &c.
After th D present engagement of Mr. and Mrs.
Wood at the Princess's theatre, Madame Thiellon, who has
caused such peat sensation in Paris, will make her first ap-
pearance in this country, in Auber's celebrated opera of the
Diamans d ; ;I,a Couronne.