The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, 'ltl DAY MORN ING, SJAVITEIWBER 12 1645.

LAW iX4`7LIAGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept, 12.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUIL.)

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Previous to the above cases being gone .into, a man named
Daniel Cunningham was put to the bar with the above;-named
John WVflame, the former char ,:d on suspicion of stealing
le',eral flasks of salad oil belonging to his employers, Messrs.
Pritchard, of Smithfield, and Williams was charged as the re-
ceiver,
The wife of Wayw.ood; a prisoner in the R 1) 0170,. cave; ~aving
coinm;,n;ce.e,! t!'_at Cunningham had brought the oil to her
lieuse, from whence Williams had taken it away, the officers
made a further search at Williams's shop, and found eight flasks
of oil corresponding in number with those described, for which
no invoice could be produced.
A elbrk froth Messrs. Pritchard's attended to identify the
oil; but could not de so satisfactorily.
The Loan MATott accordingly laid; that althottgh he felt
Moral citiiibt on the stibjerit, there *as not sufficient evi-
dent(' to warrant the detention of Cunningham, who was con-
sequently discharged, Williams being detained on the former
charge.
GUILPHALf.
An old Many netted William owes, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Kelly for re-examination, charged with stealing
a copper and other artieles.
Mrs. Hillier, of Water-street, Blackfriars, stated that abont
a fortnight ago she employed the prisuneri who was the inmate
of a workhouse, to carry the copper, &c., to Messrs: Pontifei'iL
She accompanied him, saw the old topper weighed, end gave
directions for a new copper to be trade in exchange. This was
to be ready for her in a few days. On Saturday the prisoner
called upon her and said the new copper was not yet ready.
She asked him how he knew that? He replied he had called
at Messrs. Pontifex's. She had not required him to tall) and
her suspicions being aroused, she called herself at the foundry,
and discover...A that the prisoner had obtained the old copper
by falsely pretending she had sent him to fetch it away. The
warehouseman said, the man who brought the copper fetched
it away.
In consequence of tht hbh-attendance of the warehouseman
to give evidenct) the prisoner was reminded, to enforce his ap
peOtahte.
John Jowitt, the witntssi nOw attended,
but though he was
mire the property was redelivered to the men who brought it,
he ethild rid recognise the prisoner. He thought if there was
Irly loss it should fall on Mrs. Hillier, and net on Messrs.
Pontifex. .

reign; four half-crowns, and ten shillings, which she deposited
there .nn the previons day: She nici li
eseuinsptecictueedtihoenreds,ohne,
is-no did not return till morning, 1.5 t,
became very insolent, and refused to give any account of hirri-
self, and owing to his threats and violence she was compelled to
ivn him into custody.
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Mr. Bsoor ate—And is it you , ntfntlon to prosecute?
The witness, who was much au-eel...A, sotri:elY
what to do. Her husband, who was the captain or a 5o0!
Seaman, would not be home for some time, and her eldest son
was also
,at sea. She was alone in the world, and had been
+dent grievodsly wt.enizi7d by her yoinger boy. Two ships
had been procured for him, but he would nut :ental±i ?I,sitheri
and was constantly pilfering anything he could lay his
hands on.
Edward Grafi x noliee-coristable„No. 59 H, stated that the
boy was given into his cu±tody, find that he brsoOght home with
him a pistol, a powder-horn, and some percussion apt, Whitli
he had purchased with a portion of the money he had stolen
troth his wither. The boy said he had purchased a jacket and
waistcoat with some of the money, and had spent the remainder
with other boys. He asked him what he had been doing
siiace last saturdaY and ht replied that he had been rowing
about the river in ooats, and sleeping during the nights ih A
barge alongside Execution Dock, Wapping.
The prisoner was asked if he had any defence to make, and
he replied " No.
Mr. fiaonEarr said this was a most lamentable caie. flie
poor woman who appeared to prosecute her own child was
quite alone in the world; her husband absent on a whaling
voyage, and her eldest son far away from her at sea; and, as
the only ineaht of ebeekinii the citeer of the prisoner it the
bar, she *as cotivelled to have reCbtlll6 td this proceeding,
and a very severe one it was. He hoped this case would be
brought under the notice of the Worthy Assistant Judge, at the
IlliddiesA Sessions, and that the lad would be prevented from
feturiiing to his evil N., iys, for if he came out or:prisbil he must
either prey upon the public, or upon his unfortunate mother.
The prisoner was then committed to the Middlesex Sessions.
,mina Watts, aged 17, was brought befor Mr. iiroderip,
on a charge of robbing Mr. Richard Wiscoe, a gentleman, of
24, Colet-place, Commercial-road East, of property to a con-
siderable amount.

IN RE TEMELEER.
The Court was oc'cl!pi'M tre iihods -of the morning in hear-
ing 111 r. Ceer,e in opposition to this bankrupt, wbo came up for
b!ttuitination on adjournment from the 15th of August.
The bankrupt, who was described as a coal merchant, or
Tysoe-street, Wilmington-square, ii well knoWn in the sporting
circles.

Tire taaslinltion to-day was principally directed to the dis-
ltol ,tveral valuable guns to Messrs. Brown, Boydell,
ichardson, Dutt, and Co. One gun alone was valued at et)
guineas.
The bankrupt said mom of his books had been destroyed by
his children. Swore that the guns had been given in satis-
faction of bond fide debts. He had not parted with any dogs,
The COMXISSIONEA said that, on thill whole, ha considered
an adjournment advisable, to nnorti time for further inquiry,
and he considered the case had better stand over till he could
hear it hineelf. In the interim, the bankrupt must content him-
self with an order for subsistence-money from this time, but its
prospective to be paid, if on his next examinatiOn all the
doubtful points were cleared up.
The case was not oror till two o'clock.:

The prisoner entered into the service of Mr. Wiscoe exactly
five weeks ago, and his daughters had missed property from
various drawers in the house almost daily ever since. On
Tuesday afternoon one of the young ladies missed a shawL from
a drawer, and some pictures which a child had been playing
with on a bed in the course of the day. On the same evening
the prisoner asked for and obtained permission to go out for
an hour, and one of her master's daughters, suspecting that she
had been pilfering, spoke to her father on the subject, who
directed a policeman, named Whittleton, 173 K, to take the
prisoner into custody directly she left the house. The police-
man obeyed the instructions given him, and brought back the
prisoner to her master's house, and she immediately dropped a
white cambric handkerchief upon a chair, and a large pot of
scented pomatum, rolled from it. The policeman then asked
her if she had any other property about her. She replied in
the negative, and said she wished to retire to the back part of
the house. The policeman refused to allow her to leave the
apartment, and left her there a short time with Miss Susan
Wiscoe, who directed her to undress, and found upon her the
shawl and the pictures she had missed on the same day. The
prisoner begged of the young lady to forgive her, and promised
not to offend again. The prisoner was ordered to put her
clothes on, and when she had done so, the policeman was called
in and took charge of the property and the prisoner too, and she
delivered to him a key which opened the locks of all the drawers
is the house. The prisoner said she found the key at the
bottom of a drawer in the child's bedroom. After Whittleton
had locked her up, he proceeded to her mother's dwelling,
where he found a gold pin belonging to a gentleman who
visited Mr. Wiscoe, on Sunday last, a golden locket belonging
to the prosecutor's daughter, a lace collar, three handkerchiefs,
habit shirt, five books, and various other articles, the whole of
which were identified by Mr. Wiscoe. A short time before the
prisoner was brought before the magistrate, her mother de-
livered to Mr. Wiscoe a parcel containing two bed-gowns, a
chemise, and a petticoat which had been stolen from his house.
In addition to the property recovered, there was a considerable
quantity still missing.
The prisoner made no defence to the charge, and she was
committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Mr. Alderman KELLY thought there could be no doubt on
that point. It was Messrs. Pontifex who had been deceived and
defrauded by a false representation, not Mrs. Hillier.
The witness said this was very hard.
The Alderman said it would be more so to cast the loss on
Mrs. Hillier. As she came with the goods they should not
have been redelivered to her porter in her absence and with-
out her order. _ _

The prisoner admitted he fetched the copper away, and said
he lost it.

The Alderman committed him for trial.

A person, who was stated to be-most respectably connected,
but who was most miserably dressed, and who gave her name
as Sara/i Pennell, was brought before Alderman Kelly, charged
with breaking two squares of glass, value 51.
Jane Niel, of the Red Cross public-house, said that about
eight o'clock that morning the prisoner came into the house and
threatened to break all the windows en Mr. White's premises.
Orders had been given for some time past not to serve her
with liquor. She left the house, and presently afterwards wit-
ness heard a great smash, and on going outside observed a crowd
about the prisoner, who had a stone in her hand. A police-
man shortly came up and she was given into custody. There
were two squares of plate-glass broken, which would cost from
4/. to 5/, to replace. She was not intoxicated, and used most
violent language.
Police-constable 163 said that she was well known.
Alderman KELLY said she must pay thu 5/., which not
being forthcoming, she was committed to prison for two
months, and on her release to find sureties for her good beha-
viour for the next six months.

DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY

COMPANY.

A meeting of the shareholders in this railway was
held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
submitting the plait of their proceedings in the ensuing
Parliament.

The advertisement having been read,
Mr. CAPPER was called to the chair, and in a few re-
marks stated that their engineer, Sir John Rennie, had
resigned, and Mr. John Miller was elected in his stead.
He was happy to say, that although their expenses in
the late contest in Parliament had been very heavy, they
had still money and money's worth left, and the prices
of shares in the market at that time were higher than
when originally issued. He should call upon the Secre-
tary at once to read the Directors' and the Engineer's
report.
The Secretary then read the reports alluded to,
After stating the course pursued during the last session
before the Committee of the House of Commons, and
their defeat by the London and York, the report thus
proceeded :
" Holding it to be now settled, beyond doubt, that a new
line from London to York would be sanctioned, irrespective
of existing routes, and being convinced that the scheme of
the London and York does not satisfy the main conditions
which ought to attach to such a line, as a communication
of great national importance, your Directors instructed Mr.
John Miller, the distinguished engineer of the North British
Railway (to whom they. have now committed the entire
charge of the engineering department) to examine the
country between London and York, and to report to them
his opinion, with a view to future proceedings.
" In his opinion the Directors most heartily concur, and
they propose acting upon it, by carrying out the system o
railway therein recommended.
"To the North British, the Great North of England, and
the other lines which form the eastern route to Scotland, the
formation of the shortest line from London to York is of vital
importance, and the Directors think themselves justified in
anticipating that the scheme recommended by Mr. Miller
will receive the cordial support and co-operation of these
Companies, as well as of the population generally of the
north-eastern portion of Great Britain.
"In Mr. Miller's hands the Directors are confident that
they will be enabled to submit to Parliament a main line
which shall be at least ten miles shorter than that proposed
by the London and York, and which, combined with the
necessary branches, will give a greater amount of local ac-
commodation.

" The Directors are enabled to state that the gross amount
of expenses incurred will be about thirty shillings per share,
and, consequently, to such Shareholders as may desire to
withdraw from the further prosecutihn of the undertaking,
there will remain the sum of, say from 17s. to 1/. per share
on their original deposits of 21. 10s. per share to be returned.
",Having maturely considered all the circumstances of the
case, the Directors have come to the determination that the
original project of an integral line from the metropolis to
York on the direct principle, and under one management,
ought to be resumed and proceeded with in the ensuing ses-
sion of Parliament.

" For this purpose the Directors propose that the required
capital of 4,000,000/. shall be divided into 160,000 shares of
251. each, those Shareholders who may desire to continue
their interest in the undertaking being entitled, with the
sanction of the Directors, to exchange their Scrip Certificates
of 501. each for two new shares of 251. each, on paying up
such further sum per share as, with the remainder of the
former deposit, will make up 10 per cent. upon the capital
now required to be deposited by the Standing Orders of the
House of Lords. As to any shares that may remain at the
disposal of the Directors, after carrying out this arrange-
ment, they will consider a preference to be due to approved
holders of the present Scrip."
The report of Mr. Miller, the engineer, was then read,
recommending a direct line from London to York in pre-
ference to a line which should more particularly ztudy
the local accommodation of the district. He proposed
that those local disadvantages should be met by a system
of branch lines. _ _ _

Mr. J. BLACK proposed that the reports should be re.
ceived and adopted, and that the thanks of the Share.
holders be tended to the Directors for their exertions.

Mr. CRODIBIE, after a few observations, seconded the
resolution, which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. ROBERTSON proposed a resolution to the effect
that the capital of the Company should be 4,000,000 L,
divided into 25L shares, with a deposit of 21. 10s. per
share, the holders of present scrip to receive the first
allotment.

This resolution was seconded by Mr. Laws Ex.
After a few qt stions from Mr. Gore, as to whether
any opposition might be expected to their schemes from
the Cambridge and Lincoln and the North-Eastern
Railway s, to which the Chairman replied in the nega-
tive, the meeting broke up after a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.

SOVTIIWARK ELECTION.

STATE OF THE POLL.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
NINE O'CLOCK.
Filcher's Molesworth's
Committee. Committee. Committee.
Molesworth 493 584 561
Pilcher
260 183 206
biiall
TEN O'CLOCK.
Molesworth 921 1,099 971
Pilcher
ISiail
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
Molesworth
Pilcher
Mull
TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Molesworth ... 1,120 1,419 No
Pflehr ..... 1,093 816 tate rnen t
hiiall
ONE O'CLOCK,
Molesworth ... 1,250 1,570
Pilcher
382 311
TWO O'CLOCK.
The following is the state of the poll as given by Sir
arm. Molesworth's Committee :
Molesworth. 1,691
Pilcher
Miall
THREE O'CLOCK.

MAesworth
Filcher

Miall

CLOSE OF THE POLL.
FOUR O'CLOCK.

1,835
1,116

Molesworth
Pilcher 4... 1,176
Miall
_ Majority over Pileher
Majority over Miall

RETURN OF SIR W. MOLESWORTH BY A

MAJORITY OF 766.

At three o'clock, the latest hour at which we could get
a return from Mr. Miall's Committee in time for publi-
cation, the poll stood thus :
Molesworth
filcher
Miall
Giving Sir William a majority of---662

Mr. Pilcher'; Committee issued no regular returns
during the day, though, at half-past three o'clock, a
written placard was put out giving Sir William
Molesworth a majority under a hundred. This was
vidently a mere feint to rally straggling voters, in order
to give a respectable minority to their candidate, as it
was evident from an early hour there was no chance
of his return.

The advantage which the friends of Sir Wm. Moles-
worth gave him the first hour of the morning by placing
him at the bead of the poll, was never for a moment
lessened, but gradually increased as the returns of the
various hours will show, till four o'clock, when the poll
finally closed ; the numbers then being
For Sir William lfolesworth 1,942
Mr. Pilcher
Mr. Miall
Majority for Sir William Molesworth -766
Majority for Sir William Molesworth over
Pilcher and Mr. Miall --413

At the time of going to press all is quiet, though an
immense crowd is collected in front of the To*a-hall in
expectation of an address from Sir William Molesworth.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
for the Week ended Sept. 6, 1845, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales,
per Imperial Quarter.