The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-28 00:00:00

3i. A." 47 AND DOMICIL

There was not a single charge of drunkenness made
at the Mansion-house on the day after Christmas-day.
Edward Downes Boucher, a clerk at the Castle and
Falcon Inn, Aldersgate-street, charged with obtaining
money by false pretences from Mrs. Lee, a saleswoman
in Newgate-market, was fully committed from Guild-
hall. The prisoner was in the habit of overcharging for
the carriage of parcels, and of pocketing the difference
between the amount charged and the amount entered on
the waybill.
At Queen-square Richard Smith, a determined-looking
fellow, was on Thursday charged with violently assault-
ing Mary Higgleton, cutting her dress off her person,
and demolishing the whole of her furniture. He was
also charged with making a furious attack upon a
policeman. The prisoner had first seduced and then de-
serted her, but afterwards finding that she had, by her
industry, earned sufficient to purchase a room full of
furniture and live comfortably, he sought to renew the
intimacy. On Christmas-day they dined together, the
prisoner got drunk and attacked her with a knife, and
destroyed the furniture. He was only secured after a
desperate resistance. Mr. Burrell committed him for
one month to hard labour (without imposing any fine)
for the assault on the constable, ordered him to pay a
penalty of 5/., or be imprisoned for two months, for the
unmanly attack upon the female, and to find bail to keep
the peace for the next six months.

Robert Woodgate, a returned transport, was com-
mitted from Lambeth-street, for one month to the House
of Correction, for cutting the guard and attempting to
steal a valuable silver watch, the property of Thomas
Wilson, at a coffee-shop, in Whitechapel.
At the Thames Police-court, when the magistrate, Mr.
Ballantine, took his seat on the bench, it was announced
that there were only five night charges which had
occurred at the various station-houses of the district,
containing s> population, including sailors, of over
150,000 persons, Of these only three were charged with
drunkenness, and, as they had not behaved disorderly,
they were discharged.

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At seven o'clock in the evening, tho happy partybr
up, Mr. Rowe having business which called him into t e
P.ountry. Mr. Rowe is a young men, 27 years of Age' of
A further decided advance towards the completi°°j„,
the lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands, has beeulua
the height to which it is now brought above bighla'l:.
mark being sixteen feet. By New Year's day all
tion of thirty-four feet above high-water mark is
petted to be attained, when the workmen will be rege"
on the sands near its site.
On Christmas-day the lending library at the
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with Union-house was opened for the use of the
mates. Upwards of 200 volumes were distribute 4, 03,1 r,
the effect was so signally beneficial that the rooter'
-
Ellis, had not, last evening (Thursday), a single etWl3sf
insubordination to report to the board of guard,ii,
which had arisen after the festivities of Christmas-Is%'

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 24.—The average price of Whett,",•• re.
week was 17f., and that of Rye 10f. 62c. per hectootder
The Belgian Consul at Sincapore has visited, by cr
of his Government, the ports of China, open to Eurol)e,b-,
commerce. The Government has just received from 'the
Consul a detailed and very interesting report 013,f1i
general commerce of the Chinese empire, and esPeci ndi.
on the several articles of import and export, the c%r-
tion of sale, &c. A selection of patterns has not Yet hei.
rived. The report will, however, be sent to the Cbsn''ltt,
of Commerce, which is directed to communicate it t°
merchants and manufacturers of the kingdom.
Between seven and eight hundred compositors ani
printers of Brussels met yesterday, on the invitatt°° 00,0
the Provincial Committee of the printers, issued , the
days ago, in consequence of the reports concerning r
suppression of literary piracy in Belgium. This iniPrLu'ur
taut meeting was conducted with the greatest dectio.
and propriety. A permanent Committee of flee the
hers was chosen by a great majority, after which
meeting dispersed in the most orderly manner. viai
BREDA. DEC. 20.—For some time pasta gretlit ;ion.
for the advantage of our trade has been in costelnP4-the
This is the making of a canal from this city t'?„•,,g
Moerdyk, which, it is expected, will revive our electiTrol
commerce and manufactures. There have been °el bos
meetings on the subject, and we learn that a petition f
been presented to his Majesty for the formation °O4
Chamber of Commerce. It is proposed that the
shall be navigable by steam-boat, and other vessel"
Oosterhout and Gertrindenberg.
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POLISH FRONTIER, DEC. 14,•--.Some timeof
report was spread in the German newsPall—ohe
arrests which were said to have taken place
„Trof
kingdom of Poland, and of an extensive COWL'
there. A letter which we have just received,
quarter to be depended on, gives satisfactory ac
toners
on this subject. It states that Russian Comm tier
are engaged at Peysen, a Russian Polish l'sgo-
town, in endeavouring to trace a revolutionarl This
ciation among the inferior Polish nobility• ow
association is stated to have ramification even in tote.
casia, which would confirm and account for the noise
anent lately given in a German paper, that a c°ll-ft,iitla
able number of Poles had embarked in r.. 11
port, with the intention to proened to Circosia',o:-"
Russian authorities describe the matter as ~ "i 0
Two Polish noblemen, and A----, liriof
fugitives, under a false name, on the frcnt,eciing
Russia and Poland, were engaged ill srialjr%iAti'
foreign books into Poland. M. Von Suchorzeblfoi.4
a landowner on the frontier, had received fic4n of
three packets, which these noblemen ~,
ht
the
smuggling into Poland. They arrived at Nrierotief
town above-mentioned, opposite the Prussia" tvol
town of Witzernburg, on the 20th of October, °,,,,py
in the afternoon. They remained there in coallor4)
of the frontier officers till midnight. Thelwa of
equally fortunate in reaching the Polish '°ovieg
Landeck, where they breakfasted, and were °Join.
their cigars, when an inspector of the excise here
and, smelling the cigars, said to himself, t°
Prussian cigars," and immediately caused se'. The
be made in the carriage of the two noblemen' all 4
result was, that the three packets of b°°..th
pamphlets were discovered, and the carriage+ wtlloll'
contents, the horses, and the coachman, were knowa
The two noblemen escaped ;TA it is 1:1°t been
whither they. have fled. .Many noblemen We,. IS
arrested and carried in chains to different Part sr°
is said that noblemen in the Prussian territe*
implicated,
DUTCH FUNDS.....AIISTERDASI, Dec. 24. 0016
&tones. 4,44
Actual Debt, ‘.2% per ........ 644 1102
Ditto, ditto, S per Cent.
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent.
Mete. ante 5 per Beast.„ 993 i 'OS
Arnett Syndic, 4 g per cent O!4
Ditto, ditto, sg per cent....." .
... ?IS 1014
Commercial Company, Vi per
Loan 1837, 4% per cent.
Exchange en London, Onarnonth .....
Tworrionths...
At sight l2
Dutch Papers, Dec. 25
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE /W. I°' sonei•
-41 Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Lean 1144, 105%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate.... 103 n,
105% "
Inscription, Ist series
Russian per Cent. Hope and Co., 34 and 4th
ries go
Ditto In Certificates
New 4 per Cent, (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, S per Cent. .......,,.,«,„ B7 of
Spanish. New S per Cents, 19% I
Polish Bonds
New Tickets
Exchange on London.
Haraburgh, One month -
Two months...— IS 8
BELGIAN FUND3.—Bars9nts,
Actua Debt, N per Cent., ........
RothschiW's Loan, Five per Cent.. ..... ....
Lean of Thirty Milions, Four per Cent ........
Three per Cent. "";,,-.
--- Thirty-seven Millions, /Litt. •-•-••••"*.
... 10913
(11340)•••••" ...
. ICSN
Loan of City, 1843, Four perCea. .......... ........ --
1832 ..................... . .................
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half Per 03
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent.... .......... ...... .1—
Issue of ,„ ...
—Brussels Papers, Dlc.„ 25..

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HER MAJESTY AND THE PRINCE ti° (011FitO$
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—WINDSOR, TEURSDLT*---,°
A. CORRESPONDENT.)—The distribution of the, 4ftr:o
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert's allnUa,b, ort
the poor and needy families of Windsor and a '-
,erau4h,
of the parish of Clewer which is within the h
it. the
which will be dispensed through the inedillui:
Lord Steward of her Majesty'sh h ld o'6' do'
'9 f ALISO 0
the Hon. and Rev. C. L, C,ourtenay (the Quel t'a
mestic chaplain), agreeably to the reconmenmi/jpi s
Mr, John Clode, Jun., and the other churchicsr the
the parish, will take place on New Year's erec 1414'
iiiding•school at the new royal mews in the nerlir;iinell
It is expected that her Majesty and his Royal 'vropr
Prince Albert, attended by the members of the eon
h
ousehuld, will be present to be witnesses of the
tying scene. One hundred and eighty Pairs. aOlO4
quarter blankets will be given to that number oi_t..--01 so'
agreeably to the recommendation of the varoc."-
in; •
thorities. Nearly two hundred families, averogoatlt'
children in each, will also be supplied fthe (1.1 re
being
regulated according to the number of chid, Fe
at the same time with heel', plum-pudding, bre soll
tatoes, and ale, and also one hundred weight of cv
each family. ly f'))el
SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—Lady E 11%,.; be 1;:.
caused a quantity of excellent beef and money P",y-h
trilauted on Saturday last for the poor of t'"eisto"
parish, to provide them with a substantial
dtom_ner. Her Ladyship has also ordered wsriu bbc;ri
be given in the indigent inhabitants of then %d
ifng parishes.—Lord Paulett has forws hirtVi
or the necessitous poor in Batbwick, Somerset! 11‘
.Hon. Mr. Warneford, of High worth-house, SuPtehe
given a liberal supply of blankets and coals for yorre:{
tressed inhabitants of Hig
ah worth.—The Rev. grh' iutt;p
Forfarshire, has received from Lord P nmure (I'l
poor. the 70L to be laid out on coals for .he IPA
has likewise given a subscription of 251. to
kitchen. is

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CHRISTMAS PESTIVITIBII AT ELTHASI ode lr
Preparatory to Christmas-day a collection ass
Fe
the village of Eltham, in Kent, of which Ite'ae--ril'seplii
_Mills, J. Willemotte, A. G. Milne, R. J. Ss
Dr. King, the Rev. Mr. Fryer, and some eblirtoort
he `lr
ladies, were the principal contributors, for t- ' e
the vicinity, and amounted to upwards of 50t• truste`let
,
tribution of this seasonable benevolence was ini,(o.
Dr. King, who with his characteristic kindnes,;-,factie,
exerted his best energies to give individual s3rbe CI
and upwards of 150 families were recipients o• t
and made happy on the great festival. cot,'
A burglary of a most daring character
witted a few days ago, in the residence of Miss -
f .
bers, of Radway, near Kineton, on the borders °,,c„ lee;
wickshire and Worcestershire. The villains,
three in number, with blackened faces, and strelOilrod ft:
pistols, having made a forcible entrance into thud
two of them proceeded to Miss Chambers's sffelaijit'w
whilst the third kept watch at the stair-foot d°°,1r;',01.113,:
to the apartments of the servants, who were ",-/ tarri
and whose brains he threatened to blow out if tglalb,.%:'
any noise. The same threat was made to Miss I,'
by the two men who entered her room ; they thou
seeded to rifle the house, and carried off cash, Plit,„,era,
other property to a considerable amount. A ren 4011°
201. has been offered for the p prehension and c(i-s.„,
of the offenders.—Tea Towhas'PMessenger.
STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACS -flow -he
The general condition of the cotton hosiery mane ja•
Is about the same as reported previously i$
wrought hose line, the situation of the work eft 13'1
Woo;
tnentable, as they are, in general, neither 00IP
discharged, vibrating between both, having t°
day after day for even a very scanty allowszleeie o'7
cotton glove trade, though dull, is in a better state
Cotton glove trade, though dull, is in a bettetoctU4
any other branch of the cotton hosiery n 13111111,0
but the drawer, pantaloon, and shirt brancu, hole/
been in a worse condition for years. Tbe,,si,l,^b"ebb_.,,iirr
trade in all its branches has not improved. 1'43 3
net lace trade is much the same. Nets fire
in the market with many houses, who seem to be
mg their establishments. In despite of this 112,-0, tri
state of things, we think there will be a reactieo
ad
better. Greater attention is now paid to tba grow
net, and as the Brussels ground has, and can be °I., 000
!machinery, we hope, ere long, to have to annotoL otice
it has been completed. The warp lace trade iS l'ot, tb
the same situation it has been in for some weeks 11(1? it/
tatting branch having to a slight extent surrse o'l
some articles, the bobbin-net manufacture. ,nsisPood,
press is still in a very fair condit4'''"- but thVitik.
. ; he
is in a depressed state,
--6 a serious rival
Cot 0,
ofiolkr l•N-N
—orning Mr. Noble, the Governor of York be ,
•0 t
ceivvd a respite from the sentence of death, 1 b.e
nr,-InAemt s .—A 'o
POTTERt tin.g_h nr% Blei Tyr
e'd feir;;
of William Potter, convicted at the late -Yorks ford),/
sizes of arson, at Wistow, near Selby, " until tbneesor
signiticatioa of her Majesty's piessure."'
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