The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

In the case of Fry and Chapman's bankruptcy a further
dividend was ;declared under the joint estate. The bank-
rupts carried on business as bankers in St. Mildred's-court,
Poultry, and failed at the latter end of 1828. Dividends to
the extent of 4s. 11id. in the pound had already been paid,
and the amount declared on Friday was 6d., the time for the
payment of which will be shortly declared through the usual
official channel. Each of the separate estates has paid 20s. in
the pound, leaving a surplus for the benefit of the joint cre-
ditors. The total proofs admitted under this bankruptcy
amount to 398,1021. Os. 7d.
'Wm. Smart, described as a gentleman of fortune, was in-
dicted at the 'Westminster Sessions for assaulting Jeremiah
Collins, on the 27t1 of Dec. last. On crossing Grosvenor-
street on the day stated, the complainant was ridden against
by the defendant, and nearly knocked down. Complainant
observed that if defendant could not ride with more care, he
was not lit to be entrusted with a horse. Defendant then dis-
mounted, and attacked the prosecutor with his riding-whip.
The defence set up was, that the prosecutor was the first
aggressor. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and to pay a fine of
5/. to the Queen.
At Union-hall, Wm. Prior, collector and traveller in the
house of Messrs. Payne and Slee, vinegar-makers, in Church-
street, Horslydown, was charged with embezzling various
sums of money, the property of his employers. From the evi-
dence of Mr. Slee, one of the partners, it appeared that the
prisoner had been about five months in the employ of the
firm, at a salary of 250/. per annum. The prisoner was re-
manded.

At Marylebone police-court Mary Mitchell, a poor woman
living at No. 46, Hereford-street, Lisson-grove, stated to Mr.
Long, that on Wednesday evening last, as she was walking
along Drummond-street, near the terminus of the London
and Birrningnam Railway, she picked up from the pavement
a paper parcel sealed, and on its being opened it was found
to contain the halves of notes to the amount of 1451. ; she
was anxious that they might be restored to their rightful
owner, and with that view she had made the matter known
to the magistrate. The parcel now remains at the Court;
and it is hoped that in the event of the property being iden-
tified and given up, a reward will be bestowed upon the
finder for her honesty.
Frederick Kearns and Henry Behnke, foreign seamen,
who stood charged on suspicion of causing the death of
Thomas llaxell, by drowning him in the Lady-dock, Com-
mercial-docks, Rotherhithe, on the 14th of May, 1841, were
brought up for final examination at the Greenwich police-
court, and several witnesses were examined at great length.
Mr. Jeremy said that there had not been a tittle of legal evi-
dence adduced against the young men, and he considered it
a most malicious and unfounded charge, without even a pre-
tence. The parties had been most illegally imprisoned; they
were discharged without an imputation against them, but
with ample means against the parties who accused them.

COMILT-PASIIIONALIBMC.
In consequence of the alterations in progress at Bucking-
ham Palace, the removal of the Court from Windsor Castle
to town is not expected to take place earlier than Friday
next. According to present arrangements, her Majesty and
the Prince Consort will remain in town until the first week
in April, and then proceed to Claremont for the Easter
recess, until after which period it is understood there will be
no levees or drawing-rooms at St. James's.
Her Majesty has just been graciously pleased to command
that the whole of the wine left after dinner at the Royal
table shall be given, under proper regulations, to the sick
poor, whose complaints may require such aid, residing within
the two towns of Windsor and Eton, and within the exten-
sive district embraced by the Windsor dispensary.
The Duke of Rutland, who is staying at Brighton,,is im-
proving in health.

- Lord and Lady Dalmeny, who have been making a tour
in the Italian states, are expected to return home early in
April.
Lord Dungannon's spacious mansion in Grafton-street has
been taken by Sir James Flower, M.P., whose lease of the
Duke of St. Alban's mansion, in Piccadilly, expires next
month.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The twelfth anniversary festival of the Linen Drapers',
Silk Mercers', Lacemens', Haberdashers', and Hosiers' Insti-
tution, was held on Friday, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street. Dinner was served to about 250 persons, the
Lord Mayor in the chair. From the Report it appeared, that
the amount of subscriptions and contributions received during
the past year was 2,461/., and that the suns paid to persons
whose claims upon the institution were admitted, wad 274/.
The statement of the Society's funds exhibited a balance in
its favour of 2,778/.
On the same day the annual general meeting of the Go-
vernors of the Infirmary for Asthma and Consumption, in
Artillery-place, Bishopsgate-street, was held at the London
Tavern, John Travers, Esq., in the chair. During the past
year the applications for relief have increased to such an ex..
tent, that the Committee have been under the necessity of
daily rejecting many persons who applied. The present in-
come of the Society, including dividends on stocks, &c., does
not exceed 400/. The treasurer's account showed a balance
in hand of only 2841. 4s. 10d.
On Thursday an anti-League meeting was held at
York. Among those present were the Earl of Hare-
wood, the Earl of Tyrconnel, Lord Faversham, Lord Beau-
mont, the High Sheriff (Mr. T. Hulton), Hon. A. Duncombe,
and Hon. E. Lascelles. The Earl of Harewood was in the
chair, and after the adoption of the usual anti-League reso-
lutions, it was resolved, that a sub-committee foe each of the
three ridings of the county should be formed, and that every,
person subscribing 1/. be a member of one of those com-
mittees. At the termination of the proceedings the subscrip-
tion for the day was announced to be 4,000/.
A similar meeting of persons interested in the agriculture
of the South hams of Devonshire took place at the King's
Arms Inn, Kingsbridge, on Wednesday, when resolutions
condemnatory of the League, and in support of protection,
were passed unanimously, and petitions to both Houses of
Parliament adopted.

The funeral of Lord Sidmouth took place on Fri-
day. About noon the procession left Richmond.park, and pro-
ceeded to Mortlake church, where the service was read by the
Rev. Mr. Reeves. The deceased nobleman was interred in a brie%
grave in Mortlake churchyard, with the remains of his grit wife.
The chief mourners were—Lord Sidmouth, the Hon. Henry
Addington, the Dean of Norwich, the Hon. and Rey. H. Currie,
Lord Eldon, Lord Kenyon, and Sir R. Douglas.

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The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have
ordered .the demolition in the ensuing week of the White
Horse public-house, at the end of Stafford-row, and early in
the spring the site will be laid out as a shrubbery. The re-
maining houses in the row, it is understood, will be allowed
to stand some years longer, including the house to which the
business of the White Horse- has been removed by permis-
sion of the Board.

SPECIAL JURY EXCUSES.—In the Special Jury
eause of Corderoy e. Gibbs and others, no fewer than eight of the
gentlemen forwarded excuses, showing cause why they ought not
to be called on to serve. In most of the cases the grounds were
deafness and ill. health. On the name of Mr. being called, a
young man stepped into the witness-box, and upon being asked
by Lord Abinger why Mr. -- did not attend, the reply was,
"My Lord, he has run away." " When did he run away ?" in-
quired his Lordship.—" The 20th of January. my Lord. My
master went very fast out of his counting-house, and he has
never been seen since." A gentleman of the name of Latham
claimed to be exempted on the ground that being one of the Pay-
masters in the Exchequer-bill Office, he was not liable to serve
either on Special or Common Juries. Lord Abinger observed that
from the gentleman being connected with the Excliequer.bill
Office, he was a very fit person to serve ; at tie same time, if Mr.
Latbam could show any Act of Parliament which exempted him,
it should be attended to ; hut to the best of his (Lord Abinger) re-
collection, no such Act existed, and therefore the country would
have the benefit of ha knowledge.
The second of a course of lectures on Palestine
was delivere4 by Mr. Buckingham to the members of the British
and Foreign Institute on Thursday, at the Hanover-square Rooms.
The attendance was still larger than on the last occasion.
The Rev. IV. Greenlaw, rector of the parish church
of Woolwieis, received an anonymous note on Wednesday, en-
closing the munificent sum of 350/., in aid of the subscriptions
for building new churches at Woolwich, in connection with the
Eitablishedthurch of England.
On the first week in this month (February) a
blackbird'enest, with four eggs, was seen iu the plantations be-
longing to Mr. Francis Hudson, farmer, of Kirmington Vale, near
Brocklesby.—Doncaster Gazette.
SUICIIIII AT BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE.—About half-
past two on Saturday morning a respectably-dressed woman,
about 25 years of age, was observed by the policemen on duty
to be lingering about the bridge as if waiting for some one.
She was seen at the above time by City police-constable 329,
who having passed her about 20 yards, saw her deliberately
mount the parapet of the bridge near the centre, on the east
side, and plunge into the river. He gave an alarm, but in
consequence of the boats being secured, considerable delay
took place, and before he could reach her she had sunk and
was carried away by the stream.
DUBLIN, FEB. 22.—About seven o'clock on Sunday
evening, an Incendiary lire teas Committed at Tynte-park, near
Dunlavin, the residence of Tynte Pratt, Esq. The haggard of that
gentleman was set on fire, and 160 barrels of oats, and a mare and
foal were destroyed. The premises and a quantity of hay were
saved only by the exertions of the country people, who flocked in
from aU quarters, and remained up all night in preventing the ex.
tension of the fire% UlB auppoeett that the outrage was the remit
of Privitto Pullet

FOREIGN.
We have accounts from Madrid to the 16th, and from
Paris to the 22d, a brief outline of which will be found under
the proper heads.
A Lyons journal of the 20th announces the arrival of
Queen Christina in that city in the evening of the 19th, by
the Hirondelle steamer. She was received by the Prefect
and other authorities.
A letter from Beyrout, dated 17th of January, states that
a general insurrection is on the point of bursting forth in the
Lebanon. The roads are insecure, and the persons employed
in tillage are compelled to bear with them fire-arms for their
protection, whilst trade is utterly extinguished. The unhappy
Maronites of Kasseronan are suffering, it is affirmed, unheard
of vexations.
We learn from Stuttgard that the revenue of the kingdom
of Wirtemberg, from Ist July, 1842, to 31st June, 1843, ex-
ceeded by nearly two millions of florins the expenditure dur-
ing the same period. 'This favourable result is ascribed chiefly
to the admirable administration of the finance introduced
under the Government of the present King of Wirtemberg,
by which his Majesty has completely fulfilled the promise
which he made on his accession to the throne in these words
—" My people shall know for what they pay taxes."
LAW AND POLICE.
In the case of Turpin v. Heald heard in the Court of
Queen's Bench, which was an action upon a policy of in-
surance effected upon a vessel called the Theresa, as well as
upon her furniture and cargo lost on a voyage from New-
castle to Rio de Janeiro. The verdict was for the plaintiff.
Tho particulars were fully stated in The Sun on Friday.
The evidence was contradictory. Upon one hand, it was
stated that the vessel in 1841 was classed A.E., 1. ; that she
had undergone a general survey in that year, and that her
destruction off Dungeness was owing exclusively to the vio-
lence of the storm by which she was assailed. It was de-
posed, upon the other side, that the manner in which the
storm affected the vessel showed that she was not seaworthy,
and that she was managed in such a way as to increase the
injurious effects of the storm.: The jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff for the whole amount of the claim under the several
heads, with interest, amounting altogether to something more
than I,OOW.
In the Court of Bankruptcy, Sir C. F. Williams gave judg-
ment in the case of David Hannay, formerly manager and
director of the Marylebone Joint-Stock Bank, and decided
that the certificate of the bankrupt must be supended for two
years from the date of his passing his last examination,
which was in the month of February, 1843. The chief grounds
on which this decision was based were, that he had not in his
dealing between the bank and himself kept a proper cash
account, that ho had been extravagant, and had made pre-
ferences in the settlement of the claims of the creditors who
were relatives.