The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-24 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

A. M'Cormick, W. J. Watson and W. Richards, timber
merchants, Cardiff, Glamorganshire—C. J. Hanson and P.
Theakston, painters, Yerk—J. Wood and C. H. G. Gas-
coigne, wine merchants, John-street, Crutched-friars—J.
Leigh and J. R. Postlethwaite, cotton spinners, Preston, Lan-
cashire—J. Jones, J. Aspinall, and E. H. Peel, iron founders,
Smithwick, Staffordshire—J. Speight and G. Dewhurst, coach
makers, Blackburn, Lancashire—J. Chamberlin and T. Riding,
cotton manufacturers, Burnley, Lancashire—J. Johnson and
W. Daniels, pork butchers, Birmingham—G. Hardcastle and
H. T. Bfunton, commission agents, Sunderland—l. and J.
Benoliel, jewellers, Rugby, Warwickshire—W. 0. Taylor and
S. W. Smith, ironfounders, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire
—T. Bridgman and G. Pledger, farmers, Bury St. Edmund's
—J. and W. Bell, wine merchants, Duke-street, Grosvenor-
square—H. Spink and J. H. North, printers, Hull—J. Fo-
thergill and J. Lorn, surgeons, Darlington, Durham—J. Lane
and J. Bowden, brewers, Wenlock-road, City-road—J. Grif-
fiths and R. Roberts, tailors, Liverpool.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ _

GEORGE BLACK, grain merchant, Kilmarnock, April
29 and May 17, at one, at the George Hotel, Kilmarnock.
GEORGE ROSS, calico printer, Kilmarnock, April 30
and May 25, at twelve, at the Star Hotel, Kilmarnock.
J. G. SCOTT and CO., mousseline-de-laine printers,
Glasgow; April 29 and May '2O, at one, at the chambers of
Mein and Johnston, Glasgow.
JAMES BELL, innkeeper, Dalreoch, Perthshire, April
26 and May 17, at two, at the Star Hotel, Perth.
CAMPBELL and FRAME, provision merchants, Glas-
gow, April 30 and May 21, at one, at the chambers of A. and
J. Morrison, Glasgow.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, April 23.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the special paper this morning, and was
engaged in hearing arguments relating to points of law, of
no interest except to the parties immediately concerned.

BAIL COURT, April 23.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
HYDE V. GREEN AND ANOTHER.

In this matter, which was an action brought on account of
the non-delivery of some bullion, the Solicitor-General ap-
plied to the Court for a rule to sliGw cause why a mandamus
should not isssue, commanding the Supreme Court of Judi-
cature in the East Indies to take evidence in behalf of the
plaintiff. The attorney in the case had, in the absence of
the plaintiff, made affidavit giving therein the names of two
witnessed whose evidence he swore to be essential to his
clients cause. The Court granted a rule nisi.
CAUTION TO JUIMIEN.—On the nisi prius busir ess com-
mencing, seven persons, summoned as jurors, and who on
Saturday were fined five pounds each for, non-attendance,
were now ordered to be fined ten pounds for continued neglect
of their duties. One juror thus fined, afterwards stated to
the Court that he had thought himself relieved from obliga-
tion as a petty juror, inasmuch, as he had been summoned on
special cases. Mr. Justice Coleridge said, as he believed lie
had neglected a public duty from misapprehension, the fine
in his case should be remitted ; but, for the future, he must
understand that being summoned as a special juror did not
exempt him from service upon common juries.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 23.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing
motions for new trials, in' cases devoid of public interest.
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.
The Learned Judges of the Queen's Bench and Exchequer
met in the Exchequer Chamber this morning, and announced
that writs of error from the Queen's Bench would be heard
on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th of May ; and
those from the Exchequer on Saturday, the 11th of May.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, April 23.
The Court heard motions to-day out of the New Trial
paper. None of them were of such a nature as would justify
a report.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
On Saturday a boy, named John Kingston, aged fifteen
years, was brought up before the Magistrates, charged
with having made a most desperate attack with a stone
on a boy named Robert Edwards, thirteen years of age,
by which his life was in imminent danger.
It appeared the prisoner and Edwards were engaged
with other boys in loading grains at the brewery of
Messrs. Coles and Co., at Twickenham, and while at
work they were paid with beer instead of money, and
many of them were in the habit of getting tipsy upon
their allowance. The prisoner and Edwards quarrelled
on leaving work, and the former, in the height of his
anger, ran to him and beat him on the head with a large
flint stone till he fainted from pain and loss of blotcl.
He was taken to an hospital, and had only recovered
sufficiently to appear then in Court.
The prisoner acknowledged the assault, but said he
was provoked by Edwards having thrown stones at him.
The Bench committed the prisoner for trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKEAWELL.

William Burton Newenhaaz was brought up on re-
mand, charged with the felonious abduction of Frances
Louisa Wortham, a ward of Chancery.

The Court, as on former occasions, was crowded with
respectable persons, among whom were several fashion-
ably-attired females, country magistrates, and profes-
sional gentlemen.
Mr. Allen, the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, who
attended with the Lord Chancellor's warrant on several
previous examinations, was not present at this, nor any
other officer of that Court. •

Mr. Southee of Ely-place prosecuted, and Mr. Hum
phries defended the prisoner.

Miss Wortham was ushered into Court from the clerk's
office. She is of rather low stature, and pretty-looking,
with a pleasing expression of countenance. She wore a
black satin dress, a black silk scarf, edged with blonde
lace, and a straw bonnet trimmed with puce-coloured
velvet. She is largely pregnant, and was accommo-
dated with -a seat near the clerk's desk. She never
looked towards the dock, but sat with her back towards
the prisoner, who on seeing her buried his face between
his hands, and appeared to be deeply affected. Miss
Wortham gave her evidence with clearness, firmness,
and precision, without faultering or hesitation. She
was presented with a glass of water, which she merely
tasted, and having been sworn;
Mr. CoMBE asked her where she lived.

Miss Northam—ln Gcrard-street, Cobour road, Is-
lington ; and in answer to further interrogatories, stated,
I live with my mamma now. I was fifteen years of age
on Christmas-day last. I have known the prisoner about
four years. We were living in Henningford- terrace,
Islington, when first I saw him. He came to lodge
there. My father was then living. He was on intimate
terms with my father ; rather so, at least.
Mr. COMBE—W here did you live in; October last ?
Witness—ln Gerard-street, Cobourg-road.

Mr. COMBE—Do you recollect—the 13th of that
month ?—Yes.

Mr. CO MBE—Where was the prisoner living when
he did not lodge with you ?—I cannot tell. I recollect
his being at my mother's on the 13th. We had not been
more than three days in Gerard-street then. The pri;
soner had been in the habit of visiting us.
Mr. Co3lßE—Had he ever before that day paid his
addresses to you ? Witness—Never.
Mr. COMBE—In no manner ? Witness—Oh yes ; he
wrote some letters to me when I was at school.
Mr. Conßu—•What sort of letters ? Miss Wortham—
Love letters. He wrote them about this time last year.
I left school at Midsummer. After I left school he never
wrote any more love letters. He never talked to me on
the subject of love.
Mr. COMBE—At any time of his interviews with you
at the school did he never talk to you about marriage ?
Witness—Never. I heard him say one day before the
13th inst. something about marriage ; he asked if I
would like to be married, but he did not say to himself.
I answered, I did not know. This was, as well as I re-
collect about a month after I left school.

Mr. COMBE—Did you understand that question to re-
fer to himself, or to marriage generally ? Miss Wor-
tham—To marriage generally.
Mr. COMBE—Did he at any time represent himself to
to you aq a man of fortune? Miss Wortham—He told
me whilst I was at school that he was worth 5001. a-year
—did not recollect who began the conversation about his
property, but I think he said so without being asked. I
often heard him talk on that subject.
The Magistrate handed to the witness a paper, on
which was written several items relating to house-
keeping. The witness deposed that she wrote this cal-
culation by the prisoner's directions. It turned out, how-
ever, that the paper was written whilst they were re-
siding at Lisson-grove, after the alleged abduction, and
almost five weeks ago. Mr. Combe did not, theiefbre,
think it necessary to put her evidence on this matter in
the depositions..
Mr. CestsE—l am now going to call your attention to
what occurrred on October 13, and I request your espe-
cial attention to the questions I put to you.
The witness, in answer to interrogations, then pro-
ceeded to state that, on the 13th ofOetober, the pri-
soner was in her mother's house at Gerard-street. In
the early part of the day her mother, in the prisoner's
presence, said she would go out, and that she would be
home to tea at five o'clock. The prisoner and witness
were then in the front drawing-room. The prisoner
asked me to go out to walk, and I said, Oh, perhaps
mamma might be displeased; and he replied, Oh, I will
leave a note. He asked me to walk to Furnival's Inn
with him.- I changed my dress to a mousseline de laine
walking dress. (Witness then identified the note writ-
ten by the prisoner to Mrs. Wortham, and which ap-
peared in our paper of yesterday.) I asked him why
he should address mamma in the note as "My dear
Jane," which was not his custom; but he answered,
" Oh, never mind, let it be so." When we were leaving
the house he said we were going to Furnival's Inn. We
went to the City-road, and thence to St. Luke's Hos-
pital. He left .me standing for a moment at the corner
of a street there until he fetched a cab. He spoke'to