The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

JOHN MILLER, painter and glazier, Maidstone.
WILLIAM COOK, coach smith, Pancras-street,
Tottenham-court-road.
CHARLES GILL, butter and egg dealer, Leeds.
JOHN TILCOCK, seedsman, Market-place, St.
Alban's.

JOHN PIGEON COTTRILL, grocer, St. Peter the
Great, Worcester.

JOSEPH GOSLIN, coal-dealer, Smethwick, Stafford
shire.

SAMUEL HABBERLEY, shoemake.r, Smethwick,
Stafford.
FRANCIS JOHNSON GIBSON, wool dealer,
Leicester.

SECOND NOTICES.
JOSEPH PEIRSON, gold chain-maker, Clerkenwell,
Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall. street. Pennell, official assignee.
WILLIAM THOMAS, shoemaker, Woolwich, Jan.
10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street. Pennell, official assignee.
THOMAS PRESTON, civil engineer, Lower George
street, Sloane-square, Feb. 1, at two at the Court of
Bsnkruptcy, Basinghall-street, Lackington, official as-
signee, Coleman-street-buildings.
GEORGE CAIN, victualler, Melton, next Gravesend,
Kent, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Lackington, official assignee.
JOHN SOLOMON, watchmaker, Princes-street,
Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, Jan. 10, at one, at the
Court of Bankraptcy, Basinghall-street. Edwards, offi-
ciarassignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
WILLIAM HOPKINS, tailor, St. Pancras, Middle-
sex, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall• street. Groom, official assignee, Lombard-
street.

ISAAC DICK, Hulme, Lancashire, Feb. 1, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy. Pott,
official assignee.
JAMES FLETCHER, grocer, Hulme, Lancashire,
Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester.
THOMAS MOXON, mason, Eckington, Derby-
shire, Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court of Bankruptcy. Fraser official assignee, /Man-
chester.

GEORGE SHARPE, grocer, Liverpool, Jan. 20, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy.
Follett, Liverpool, official assignee.
WALTER WILLIAMSON, tea dealer, Leicester-
shire, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy.
Valpy, official assignee.
EDMUND POLLITT, Spotland, Lancashire, Jan. 18,
at eleven, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy.
Pott, official assignee.

COURSE OF EXCH.,
Amsterdam C F. 12
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 9
Antwerp
Hamburgh M. B. 13 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 1521
Petersburgh, 3 Us.
Berlin 7

ANGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn .... 3l 5
Genoa ... 26 25
Milan
Venice
Naples ......... ... 40
Palermo, per as 120 k
Lisbon 52
Oporto 52
Rio Janeiro 25
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 46i
Philadelphia 4O
PRICES OF BULLION, PER bZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold C0m...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars... 0 4 14

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto lO 3
Madrid ...
Cadiz
Bilbao ... 36
Barcelona

Seville

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Michael Meagan, an Irishman, a shop-
keeper, and dealer in second-hand shoes, in White-
cross-street, Ellen Regan, alias Meagan, his wife,
Catherine Singleton, a sister of the latter, and Hannah
Cotter, an elderly woman, living at Meagan's in the
capacity of servant, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, the sitting Magistrate, on suspicion of
having been concerned in the murder of Thomas
Leary, a single man, a journeyman in Meagan's
employ.
The prisoners were brought to the Court by a
party of the G division of police, and the Court, and
all the avenues to it, were thronged by the residents
of Whitecross-street and neighbourhood, amongst
whom the occurrence had occasioned intense excite-
ment.
Mr. Wm. Richard-Bland, the first witness, stated
that he was a tobacconist, keeping a shop at N 0.106,
Whitecross-street, immediately opposite the prisoner
Meagan's, and after ten o'clock on Sunday night, was
serving a customer, when a strange outcry and bustle
on the opposite side of the street attracted his notice,
and going to his door he saw the prisoner Michael
Meagan come out of his shop, and two of the females
also in a hurried and agitated manner. Meagan him-
self went off in one direction and the females the op-
posite one, and soon afterwards the witness saw a man
called " Jack," who worked for Meagan and lived in
the house, came out wringing his hair and his hands,
and uttering exclamations as if he had witnessed
something dreadful. The witness then went into the
shop and saw the woman Cotter, wh., in arswer to
his question as to what was the matter, said she did
not know, but, looking behind the counter, he saw
the deceased Leary lying there, He at first thought
the deceased was asleep or insensibly drunk, but,
looking again at him more particularly, saw that he
was bleeding profusely from a wound in the side, and
just then the man called " Jack" returned with Mr.
Wright, a surgeon, who sent for some strapping, and
dressed the wound. The deceased, however, expired
in about half an hour.
The witness, in reply to the Magistrate's question,
said he knew the parties as neighbours, living oppo-
site. He was not aware that the prisoner Meagan
was in the habit of getting drunk, but the deceased
(Leary) was.
John Rice, the young man whom the witness
Bland mentioned by the name of Jack, said that he
worked for Meagan and lived in the house, as did also
the deceased, Thomas Leary, who was a single man.
Two of the females lived in the house ; and one of
them, the prisoner Ellen, was Meagan's wife. On
Christmas eve the witness was at the house of a Mr.
Perry, who is in the same kind of business, in White
Horse-yard, and he remained with them all night and
till six o'clock on Sunday morning, when he went
home and went to bed until eight o'clock, when he
arose and went again to Perry's, where he continued
throughout the day. At night, about ten o'clock, he
heard the voice of the prisoner Singleton calling to
" Jerry," Mrs. Meagan's brother, who lives in White
Horse-court, and the witness fearing from her manner
that something had happened, went home, and on
entering the shop, found the deceased lying bleedin
behind the counter, and exclaiming, " Oh, Tom.
He took him by the hand, and asked him who had
done that to him ? The deceased, who appeared to
be fast dying, said, " Jack, you are the last person I
shall ever speak to," and the witness said, "For God's
sake, Tom, tell me who did it before you die."
Mr. BROUGHTON asked if there were any other
persons present at this conversation between him and
the deceased?
The witness said that some of the policemen, and
other persons also, he believed, were in the shop at
the time.
Mr. Heritage suggested that all such witnesses
should be ordered out of court during the further
examination of this witness, who, however, being de-
sired to look around the Court could not recognise
liny one; nor did it appear that any person present
had heard anything spoken by the deceased.
The Police Inspector, Jarvis, said, in answer to
the Magistrate, that if any of the police had heard
any Stieh conversation, he believed it would have
been reported to him.
The witness said he thought they had entered the
shop at the time he spoke of.
Mr. BROUGHTON desired him to proceed with his
e vidence, and state what the deceased had said.
The witness said the last words spoken were, " Oh,
Jack, you are the last person I shall speak to," for
while witness was reiterating his entreaties to know
who had done it the deceased closed his eyes, and wit-
ness then hurried off for Mr. Wright, the surgeon.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after some private communication
f;som the Police Inspector, asked the witness whether
he. had not heard that Meagan was jealous of the de-
ceasecl, and had complained that the latter was too
familiar' With his wife.
Mr. Frederick Wright, surgeon, said that about
half-past .ten on Sunday night he was called to the
prisoner A,reagan's house by a man who told him that
a man ther,s had cut his throat. He accompanied the
messenger, .and found the deceased lying behind the
counter, bleeding copiously. from a wound between
the two upper ribs on the right side. He compressed
the lips of the wound, and strapped it, but it kept
bleeding, and in half an hour the deceased expired.
The wound was hail an inch long, and three-quarters
in breadth, st stab, evil must have been the result of a

very hard blow. He Lad not proile d it, but was of
opinion that it had Penetrated the lungs. The de-
ceased did not speak whi,:l he was present, and was in
a state of syncope during ~he whole of the time till
he died. The witness picked up a knife, now pro-
duced,
which he found by the side of the body, and
he believed the wound had been jnilleted by a hard
blow with that knife; it was a shoen_ia.lier's knife, with
.
1 square end and keen edge.
Several of the police were then exainTher.: to th. o fit
lowing effect :-134 G, who first went to the shop abo. '-
the time when the deceased expired, went in pursuit of
Meagan, on learning what had occurred, but did not
find him; and about half-past two yesterday morning
the prisoner Meagan went to the police station, and
gave himself up to sergeant Ellis, saying that he un-
derstood the police were after him, and that it was an
unfortunate business, but he knew nothing about it.
Ellen Regan, or Meagan, was found in the house by
Sergeant Beaumont ; and Charrington, 160 G, said
that on the way to the station she exclaimed, " Oh
dear, if they split it will be a hanging job." The
prisoner Singleton lodged in Spitalfields, and 134 G
went there, and waited till six yesterday morning, but
she did not return home all night. In the course of
the morning, however, she called at the house of
Driscol, 24 H, and gave herself into custody, and said
to him that they began throwing shoes about in Mea-