The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-18 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

THE ALLEGED DETENTION OF A SUM OF
MONEY BY THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT.
The following letter has been received at Lloyd's:—
Foreign-office, Jan. 15, 1844.
Gentlemen,—With reference to my letter of the sth inst., I
am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acquaint you, that her
Majesty's Government have been informed by Lord Howard de
Walden. her Majesty's Minster at Lisbon, that Mr. Consul
Smith has received from the Portuguese Minister of Finance a
note, stating his readiness to make over the proceeds of the
sale of the Chatham to any general representative of all the
parties interested, who may be empowered to give the Portu-
guese Government a general release, or, in lieu thereof, to fur-
nish that Government with adequate security, &c.

(Signed)
To Aressrs. Alelhuish, Gray, and Co.

CANNING.

VEaSELS srexxv WIT/I.—Nassau, Amsterdam to Batavia,
Nov. 28th, lat. 22 S., lon. 29 W. ; Brazilian Packet, of and
from Newcastle, 9th ult., lat. 2 S., lon. 28 W. ; Ocean, of
Philadelphia, 16th, lat. 13 N., lon. 33 ; Leo Nicholas, Barce-
lona to Charleston, 25th, lat. 26, lon. 38, by the Monarch, ar-
rived at Penzance. Tioza, New Orleans to Liverpool, 7th
inst., lat. 50, lon. 20, by the Clydesdale, arrived at Liverpool.
Britannia (steamer), Liverpool t• Halifax, 10th, lat. 56, lon.
16, by the Siddons, arrived at Liverpool.

THE LATE CASE OF HYDRO-
PHOBIA.
Last night an inquest was held at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, before William Payne, Esq., on the body of Enos
llayward, aged 14 years, who died from hydrophobia. ,
Some of the particulars of this case were given in The
Sun of Tuesday last—in addition to which it was stated
to the jury that the deceased, at the time he was bitten,
was in the act of tying a tin kettle to the tail of the dog;
the bite wtr§ on the lower part of the left cheek—the dog
was a sort of tan terrier, and on the following day was
again seen about the premises, when three dogs belong-
ing to the yard set upon it, and broke three of its ribs,
and otherwise mangled it; it, however, escaped into a
neighbouring gentleman's grounds, where in a few days
afterwards it was found dead. One of the other dogs
had since died, and the other two were kept tied up, but
had shown no symptoms of being in a rabid state. The
Coroner recommended that to prevent the possibility of
any further mischief they should be destroyed.
Mr. Depkiel, the house surgeon of the hospital, stated
that when the deceased was brought in he was suffering
from tetanus. Medicines were administered •to him,
but he continued to get worse, and between nine and ten
o'clock became excessively violent, and at ten minutes
before eleven o'clock expired.
Coroner—Of what disease did he in your opinion die ?
Witness-0f hydrophobia—the symptoms were decidedly
marked.
Coroner—You have, I believe, no cure for that
malady? Witness—None whatever.
By the sugge-tion of the Coroner the jury returned a
verdict that" the deceased died from hydrophobia.

A melancholy occurrence took place at Alalden, a
little village between Cheam and Kingston, on Saturday
night. It appears that the servant of Mr. Richardson, a
farmer of that place, had occasion to get a pair of boots
from under a bed in which three of her master's child-
ren were asleep, and while she was stooping for that pur-
pose, by some means the candle ignited the bed furniture,
and in an instant the bed was enveloped in flames. The
poor children shrieked violently, and the police constable
on duty in the village, accompanied by the landlord of
the Plough public-house, made their way into the house,
and by their exertions the fire was soon extinguished,
but not before all the children were dreadfully burnt.
Mr. Kingsford, a medical man of Kingston, promptly
attended, and did all in his power to alleviate the suffer-
ings of the poor children, but one of them was so se-
verely injured, that it died on Monday night. The ser-
vant in her endeavours to rescue the children was also
very much scorched and injured. An inquest has since
been held by Mr. Carter, the Coroner, and a verdict of
" Accidental Death," returned.

LIE TRADE OF TILE TYNE.—We are enabled to
state the custom-house receipts of the port of Newcastle
in the year 1843, and we give them in comparison with
those of the previous year :
Duties received in 1842 £432,787 0 1
Duties received in 1843 494,524 2 9

Increase in 1843 61,737 2 8
The increase is owing, almost altogether, to the duties
paid on the importation of corn from abroad, and on the
exportation of coal to foreign countries.--Gateshead
Observer. • ,_

POLICE

INTELLIGENCE

(YE ',TER DA Y.)
MANS I ON-111 011 SE.

Yesterday sveral proofs were exhibited in the .Tustiee-room
of the injudieoustie,s of departing from the regulation lai I
down by the Lord Mayor for preventing the obstructions which
have so long disgraced the great thoroughfares of the City. His
Lordship, after having inflicted the extreme fines in the cases
proved before him, after the public notice given that there
should be no exemption, was obliged to accept the services of a
brother Magistrate in the performance of the duties, on a day
appointed for the hearing of various charges against omnibus
and cab-drivers for loitering. On that occasion the Alderman
who acted as locum tenens for his Lordship, disposed of the
cases without inflicting either serious penalties or censure. The
consequence was, a report was quickly circulated amongst the
fraternity that the severity of the Mansion-house was at an end,
and Cornhill, the Poultry, and Cheapside, began to resume
their former appearance, and the drivers disregarded the orders
of the policemen, who were ordered to compel them to move on
at a proper pace.
Yesterday twelve omnibus drivers were summoned by the
policemen, who declared that the defendants had relapsed into
their old style of crawling.
His LORDSHIP-1 shall sit on every Wednesday myself to
meet with people of this description ; and I shall suffer no case
to escape. Let the summonses be made out accordingly.
His LORDSHIP listened calmly to the numerous ingenious
reasons of the defendants, but inflicted the full penalty allowed
by the law in every instance. '
One driver was summoned under peculiar circumstances.
He had, he acknowledged, loitered, but he could not help it, as
two omnibuses, the owners of which wanted to drive him cff
the road, crawled along, the one before and the other behind
him, and prevented him from receiving a passenger.
The Loan Mayoa. having been informed by the policeman
that the case of the defendant was such as had been represented
discharged the man without putting him to the least expense,
and fined the two delinquents to the full extent.
BOW-STREET.

A young man, who was dressed in the garb of a stableman,
named Henry Alford, was charged before Mr. Twyford with
obtaining, by means of forged orders, a quantity of horse
brushes, horse blankets, &c., from Mr. Davies, brush-maker,
of 33, Strand. _ _

It appeared that the prisoner was formerly a stableman in
the service of Mr. Henry Gray, the extensive livery-stable
proprietor, in Earl-street, Illackfriars. He was, however, dis-
charged from this employment about three months ago. About
a fortnight back he presented two orders, signed " Henry
Gray," to Mr. Davies, in the Strand, requesting him to send
half-a-dozen brushes of a particular kind, half-a-dozen other
brushes, alai a quantity of horse blankets. Mr. Gray was not
in the habit of dealing with Mr. Davies, but knowing him to
be a respectable man, and in such a way of business as likely
to require so many brushes, the latter gentleman immediately
executed the order. It was afterwards discovered that the
order presented by the prisoner had been forged. In con-
sequence of this information was given to the police, and about
a week ago the prisoner was taken into custody by a City
policeman.
There wero three other similar cases of forgery against the
prisoner.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and he was fully
committed for trial. _ _

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Charlotte Scott, charged with forging the name of an old
woman for the purpose of obtaining the sum of 601. from the
Provident Institution in St. Martin's-lane, whose ease ap-
peared in The Sun of the 10th instant, was brought up yester-
day afternoon for final examination, and fully committed to
Newgate for trial.
Two young men named Henry Johnson and Henry Timson,
both of whom had been remanded, were sentenced to three
months' imprisonment each, the one for attempting to pick
pockets in the pit of Drury-lane Theatre, and the other for
attempting to rick pockets in the Adelaide Gallery. Timson
was committed as a rogue and vagabond, and a solicitor who
appeared for him gave notice of his intention of appealing
against the decision of the magistrate.