The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN,

width. The land belongs partly to Mr. Chamberlayne,l
of Chester; and partly to the corporation of Liverpool;
but it is understood that tho hare r fusc t to
give any sanction to the undertaking. The Dock Com-
mittee of Liverpool have agreed to petition, so as to
give them a standing to be heard when the case is under
Parliamentary investigation.—Liverpool Mercury.
NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY COMPANY.—
On Saturday a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of
Newark, Mr. Thorpe, and Mr. Godfrey, accompanied by
Captain Salmond, chairman, Mr. Denniston, secretary,
and Mr. Sanderson, surveyor and assistant engineer to
the Newark and Sheffield Railway Company, waited, by
appointment, on his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, at
Clumber. His Grace inquired minutely, and with much
interest, into the objects and prospects of the proposed
line, more especially as to its probable bearing on the
town of Newark, the best interests of which his Grace
expressed himself as most anxious at all times to pro-
mote. After an interview of upwards of an hour, the
deputation retired, much gratified with their reception,
and especially with the kindness and urbanity of manner
which so peculiarly distinguish his Grace on all occa-
sions. We understand that his Grace the Duke of Port-
land has expressed his intention to support this line.—
Doncaster Gazette.
The largest elm-tree that has been brought into
Worcester for the last half•century was on Thursday
safely deposited in Mr. William Tunk's timber-yard,
Tybridge-place. It grew on Lord Sandys's estate, Om-
bersley, near Worcester ; it measured thirteen feet long,
and fourteen feet in circumference at fifteen feet from
the butt ; weighs from fourteen to fifteen tons ; and there
is supposed to be 150 cubic feet of timber in the top, left
behind on the estate.—Worcester Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 4.

IN THE MATTER OF JOHNSON, JOHNSON, AND MANN.

TILE ROMFORD BANK.—This day was appointed
for the allowance of the certificate to Mr. Mann, one
of the partners in the Romford Bank. An application
was made to the Court on Saturday last, and it was
then stated that Mr. Mann's private debts were only
301. in the shape of weekly bills, and that the re-
mainder of a sum of 12,0001. would be carried over to
the joint estate, which would pay about 2s. 6d. in
the pound. On the present occasion Mr. Maim was
in attendance.

Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE asked if any
creditor attended to oppose the certificate ?
No creditor attended, and the Registrar informed
the Learned Commissioner that all Mr. Mann's pri-
vate creditors would be paid in full, and a day had
been appointed (the 22d instant) for that purpose.
The Learned Commissioner signed the certificate,
and it was, therefore, duly allowed.
When the case was mentioned the other day, Mr.
Commissioner Goulburn remarked that the small
amount of debts owing by Mr. Mann was very credit-
able to him.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

John Luca,: Grierson, residing at 210, Strand, and
who stated himself to be a phrenologist of some cele-
brity, was placed at the bar, before Sir James Duke,
charged with having defrauded Mr. Charles, the
tailor, of Fleet-street, of a suit of clothes, value 51. ss.
Mr. Ward, a solicitor, of Essex-street, appeared
for the prisoner.
According to the evidence of the prosecutor's son,
it appeared that on last Wednesday evening the
prisoner entered his father's shop, and ordered a
suit of clothes to be made for himself, and which
he desired might be executed by the following
evening, and sent to his residence at the above
address. The clothes were accordingly sent home by
the time, witness taking them, when he was informed
that the prisoner was not in the way, but that if he
called in the course of two hours, he, no doubt, might
find him in the way. Witness then left, and on
calling in the course of two hours, found that he
had returned home. Prisoner immediately came
I down to the door, and expressed his regret that
he had been disappointed in having some cash, and
which would prevent his paying the amount of the
suit, cash on delivery being the agreement; but that
if witness would call with the clothes on the follow-
ing evening (Thurrday) he would be sure to have
sufficient cash to settle the bill. On the Thursday
evening witness again called at the prisoner's resi-
dence, when he was ushered into the sitting room.
The prisoner then expressed his desire to try the
.clothes on, and they were handed over to him for
that purpose. He instantly proceeded into a kind of
anti-room, as witness supposed, to put them on. In
a few minutes afterwards a lad came up into the
sitting-room with a pair of boots, appa-
rt ently. new from the bootmakees, and inquired for
the prisoner, but who was not forthcoming. A gen-
tleman next came up and made the same inquiries,
bat met with the same unsatisfactory results. The
1 andlady, Mrs. Butterworth, at last entered the
apartment and informed them that the prisoner had
I,!ft the house about ten minutes previously. Wit-
Less, on passing a bootmaker's shop at the corner of
_Essex-street, in the course of Friday afternoon, saw
the prisoner come out, and he immediately caused
iii in to be taken into custody.
Wardle, the City police-officer, stated that he re•
rekved the clothes from the mother of the prisoner,
wilt) lived at the boot-shop alluded to. They had,
app gently, been in pawn, for they were very much
creased, and had only been brought into the house a
short time before he seized him.
Sir J. DUKE wished to know whether Mr. Charles,
serr.., could identify the prisoner as being the same
part y who ordered the clothes of him on the Wednes-
dav evening ?—Mr. Charles said he could not posi-
tive] y swear to him. The prisoner was something
like the party, but there was a difference.
rardle, the officer, thought he could assist Mr.
Chau lea in clearing up the doubt. When he appre-
hei td ed the prisoner, he found him wearing a wig;
that: was since doffed, and he thought that if it was
put ou the prosecutor might then have an opportunity
of io lentifying the accused.
Si r J. DUKE immediately ordered the wig on, and
on it 'lbeing effected, Mr. Charles said he had then no
doubt • but what the prisoner was the same person who
orders mcil the clothes of him on the Wednesday evening.
Th prisoner was remanded.
LAMBETH.

On Saturday a reseectable-looking middle-aged
female dressed in " widow's weeds," applied to Mr.
Norto a. for his humane assistance.
The applicant stated that, through the sudden and
unexp acted death of her husband, herself and her six
childe rai were at present reduced to a state of perfect
want, 'End she knew not what to do to provide them
with a b solute necessaries. In reply to the questions
of Mr. Norton, she said that her late husband, Mr.
John I l 'Dore, was an artist of considerable eminence,
and 11 pi idly rising in his profession, when in the
midst health he was seized with violent illness, and
died in' a few hours afterwards. Though he had re-
ceived a good deal of money from several distin-
guishe a personages for portraits, and other paintings,
yet fr o m having to provide for a young family in'
a man Et er which he thought befitting his position, her,
husbal u I had not been enabled to make the slightest'
provisi n for herself or his children, and the conse-
quenci s was, that the melancholy deprivation placed
her ar a her family in a state of dependence, and, she
might my, poverty. By the assistance of some kind
friend s she took a house in West-square, in the hope
of bei a g able to make a living for herself and family,
by bo. a -d and lodging ; but this turned out a perfect
failure.. Her furniture had been seizel on and sold
up for 3 'ent, and she was now left, as she had ',before
stated, • without the means of subsistence for herself
and clii dren. The applicant further said that her
oldest d hild, a girl of seventeen, was out at a boarding-
school, • giving her services for her board and lodging;
and the other six (and one of them an infant in arms)
were ion her hands. The applicant here handed to
Mr. Na aton some flattering testimonials of the talents
of her late husband. Amongst them was one from
Sir -illiam Follett' in which that distinguished
lawy, r e addresses him in the most familiar
mane ar, and speaks in the highest terms of his pot
trait 'of Sir Edward Sugden, the present L'rd Chan-
cellos of Ireland. Another, from the Right Hon.
John -Wilson Croker, in which that laconic writer,
addre 5.5 ing the late artist, sap.—" Dear Mr. Moore,
you w i ll be glad to hear the picture cause down -a c,
and is pronounced here equal to Sir Thomas's."--
A this , from Mr. Barrow, of the 1 reasury, in which
the wrii er speaks in the highest terms of admiration
of the pi irtrait of his mother, Lady Barrow, painted
by Mr. , Moore ; and several others, and from distin-
guished persons, equally laudatory of the talents and
genius e f Mr. Moore.
Mr. 3 ronrom remarked that the funds in the poor-
box w( e intended to relieve those cases of distress
which c ame incidentally before the magistrates more
than is s, cases of applications for relief, such as that
made l I the applicant ; besides, the funds in the
poor-I mr were, he was sorry to say, not very great.
He th en directed one of the summoning officers to
make the z pecessary inquiries, and he having repre-
sentei l the .circumstances precisely as they had been
descri be, Iby Mrs. Moore, Mr. Norton ordered the
chief tle rl/4 to give the applicant a sovereign.
Mr J. 1 doore, on receiving the money, expressed her
gratit iich to the worthy magistrate for his kindness.
SOUTHWARK.
0 a SA turday morning the vicinity of Long-lane,
Berl sey, was thrown into considerable excite-
meuf, ow ing to a report being extensively circulated
th at a ma n had inhumanly murdered
his wife in the
forma Lion of the above being given a e s
you rhood of Smith's-buildings, Long-lane.tthta t.on-
In-
house 8001 i after the 'occurrence, Sergeant Newberry,
owta.fiasnthnteispotfound
th et oas
womancer-
oofn wasthe
dispatchedreport.
Hteo
ftohue
of the ins is Thomas Hines, residing with his family,
which eo sists of his wife and four children, at N 0.5,
but in a hopeless condition. The name
Cotta
porter, lin the habit of earning from 15s. to 20s.
a de- but the woman and children are in the most
depl prabia state. Saturday morning, about eight
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