The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

&AMP' AND POLIO*.

In the course of the examination :i W. Law, in
the Bankruptcy Court, Mr. Commissioner Fon-
blanque said, in reference to the bill-swindling con-
cerns which have recently sprung up, "as to those
parties who are so considerate as to take their com-
mission in goods, they will find something in the new
Statutes, which will enable us to visit the practices
with severity." The examination of the bankrupt was
adjourned to the 25th of January.
Jane Passmore, a decent-looking old woman, aged
sixty-four, was convicted, at the Middlesex sessions,
of stealing two sheets, and other articles, the property
of Robert Eagle. She put in a long written docu-
ment, in which she stated that was the widow of a
general officer, and had been reduced to poverty. On
inquiry the whole statement was found to be a fabri-
cation, and she was sentenced to be imprisoned for
six calendar months, with hard labour, six weeks of
that time to be spent in solitary confinement.
The Lord Mayor refused to accede to an applica-
tion, made by Mr. James, at the Mansion House, for
a warrant to re •apprehend Besset, the Frenchman,
charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, who was dis-
charged the other day by habeas corpus.
A decently-dressed man, named Cutter, was
charged, at Bow-street, with victimising an eating-
house keeper, a la Dando. Mr. Bingham advised
him to pawn his coat, and discharge the score. The
prisoner appeared astonished, but complied.
At Clerkenwell, Walter Taff, William Allen,
William Foy, and Charles Ross, well-dressed young
men, charged with having wantonly and without law-
ful excuse, knocked at the doors, and rung the bells
at various houses in Brunswick-square and its vicinity,
to the annoyance of the inhabitants, &c., were fined
40s. each.

Two omnibus drivers were sentenced, at Union-
hall, to six weeks' imprisonment for furious driving.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Ladies
Constance and Caroline Leveson Gower, who are
visiting Lord and Lady Blantyre, at Erskine House,
N. 8., are expected to pay visits to the Earl of Bur-
lington, at Holkar hall, Lancashire, and the Earl and
Countess of Carlisle, at Castle lloward. The Noble
Duke and Duchess and the Ladies Constance and
Caroline Leveson Gower do not intend returning to
Trentham Hall until the
_middle of . the ensuing
month.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and
Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, have arrived at Rome, on
their way to Naples.
The Earl of Glengall has arrived at Dublin from
Caher Castle, Tipperary.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick and Lady
Caroline Neeld have arrived at Gatton Park, Surrey,
from Ramsgate.
The Hon. R. li. and Lady Harriet Clive and Miss
Clive have arrived at Oakley Park, from Ireland.
Sir Frederick Adam and Miss Anstruther Thomson,
have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Leamington
Spa, for the winter season.

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In the course of the last few days several vessels
laden with guano have arrived in the river Thames.
The manure is meeting with a ready sale. The
i Spar-
tan, 600 tons burden, from Ichaboe, is now n the
Surrey Docks unloading. In the Surrey Canal
there are two vessels, the Achilles, about 400 tons,
and the Young Captain, about 120 tons. In the West
India Docks there are two vessels, of about 1,100 tons,
laden with Peruvian guano. There are two other
vessels in the river, making altogether about 8,000
tons of this new description of manure in the market.
The price of the African guano is about 61. per ton,
the quality of which is described to be excellent.
When the Spartan left Ichaboe there were there about
200 vessels, some of which were of heavy burden,
and which were being laden with the utmost possible
dispatch.
From the records in the possession of the London
ire-brigade, it appears that no fewer than 800 fires
have occurred in the present year, but at the same
time the report states that they have not been of so
extensive a character as in former years. The num-
ber of lives lost, however, we regret to say, is much
greater.
Lord Glenlyon, says the Inverness courier, has in-
terdicted the engineers engaged in surveying the
proposed line of railway from Inverness to Perth. On
entering his Lordship's grounds the engineers were
met by a party of constables and others, who pre-
sented an interdict from the. Court of Session pro-
hibiting their entrance on the Athol domains.

THE CATTLE TRADE.—Black cattle appear to
reached that lowest point of depression from which they
naturally return in a contrary direction. Summering, no
doubt, was a bad trade ; but looking to the improved
aspect of affairs, it is well so many graziers in the pos-
session of the necessary turnips and fodder had the
courage to keep their St. Faith's stock over till spring,
when they will be much better grown, if not up nearly
to the mark of the shambles. The results of the Doune
and Stamford markets have already exerted vivifying
influences; and hence the improved prices at Castle-
Douglas on Monday, and Dumfries on Wednesday. The
news from All Hallow Fair, Edinburgh, also operated
as an extent in aid; and looking to the ground already
favourably broken, we anticipate decidedly favourable
tidings from Hampton-green, which commences on Wed-
nesday Scotland thishay, year
potatoes,is helpingandoven turnips.
—Dumfries Courier. England by
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compressed
OLDHAM.—On Saturday, Mr. Birch, of Lower
Lees Hall mill, raised the wages of his spinners five per
cant. and took off the charge for gas. Ho also gave an
advance of from five to ten per cent. to his card-room
hands and reelers. Most of the mill-owners in the neigh-
bourhood of Waterhead have taken off the charge for
gas, which will be equivalent to an advance of twopence
per thousand hanks, or about two shillings weekly. The
spinners employed by Mrs. Mary Broadbent and Son,
Hopwood mill, Side of Moor, have given notice of an
intention to turn out, for the purpose of obtaining an
advance of threepence per thousand hanks. Their em-
ployers are understood to have offered an advance of half
that amount, to which the men will not accede.

Three beautiful carriage dogs, destined as a pre-
sent from the Queen to the King of Prussia, were
shipped last week on board of a llamburgh steamer, to
be conveyed from thence to Berlin.