The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

• -- -
M. Gavelle and DJ. Webster, copper-plate printers, Ta-
vistock-street, Covent-garden—J. and A. Saxon, cotton
:pinners, Ashton-under-Line—P. Butler and T. Fisher,
iron ore merchants. Witrigs, Lancashire—P. Jay and C.
J. Egg, linen drapers, Whitechapel-road—E. and. W.
Tomkins, plumbers Newport Pagnel, Buckinghamshire
—B. Ward. L. llas'lop, and W. Brierley, bat manufac-
turers, Oldham, Lancashire--IL Sweetland • and -R.
Cockeram, lime burners, Ebford, Devonshire---S. Sadler,
T. Whitford, and F. W. Johnson, Irish linen factors,
Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside--Rt. and Roger Lee, school-
masters, Brighton—H. Twentyman and IL E. Thomp- I

son, Manchester narehousemen, Friday-street, Cheap-
side—E. S. Smith and A. L. Good, milliners, Bridport,
Dorsetshire—J. W. Mason and T. Lavan, slaters, Bir-
kenhead, Cheshire—J. Collins and E. Gripper, common
brewers, Salford, Lancashire—J. Bourne and J. Wor-
sham, letter-press printers, Manchester—G. Winter. and
T. Farmer, coal merchants, Sunderland-wharf, Pimlico
—Wm. Brown and W. C. Raymond, sealing wax mann-,
facturers, St. Saviour's Church-yard, Southwark—S. and
J. Wood, coach-spring manufacturers, Birmingham—J.
Allen and W. Matthews, lime burners, Uffington, Shrop-
shire—W. Taylor and G. Bingham, wool merchants,
Bradford, Yorkshire—R. Waddington and R. Crosland.
iron founders, Bradford, Yorkshire—E. Middleton, J.
Harris, and H. Middleton, linen drapers, Birmingham—
W. Allbut and W. S. Kennedy, printers, Stoke-upon-
Trent—D. Shuttleworth and W. Heap, tin-plate workers,
Burnley, Lancashire—N. B. Ramsey and F. G. Carring-
ton, printers, Devonpert.—W. Claughton, H. Claugh-
ton, and J. Grafton, jun., wine merchants, Ches-
terfield, Derbyshire (so far as regards j. Gratton, jun.)—
J. Combes, jun. and H. Bracher, farmers, Ogbourne
St. Andrew, Wiltshire—l. Stockwell and T. Umfrey,
linen drapers, Brill, Buckinghamshire—J. and W.
Glover, chemists, Worcester—J. Davies and S. Morgan,
Welch ale consignees, Queen-street, City—p. Fox, H.
Horner, and C. Ashton, engineers, Sheffield (so far as
regards C. Ashton)—J. end
and R. C. Lamb,
plumbers, Liverpool.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

DAVID GRIEIISON, innkeeper, Enterkinfoot, Dum-
frieshire, April 8 and 29, at one, at tho Queensberry
Arms Inn, Sanquhar.

JAMES M"NAIR, timber merchant, Tradeston,
Glasgow, April 6 and 28, at one, at the Chambers oi
Mein and Johnston, Tradeston, Glasgow.
JOHN WATSON, watch maker, Kirrimuir, April
9 and 30, at twelve, at the Burgh Court Boom, Forfar.

WHITE V. HOLE.
The same._ WHITE
174/.
M. JONES V. HOLE.
The same.—Damages 67/. 10s.

BAY WARD V. L OLE.
The same.—Damages 964

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, IM2

office was finally closed in January, 1841. Did not think
I was doing wrong when I went to the Board. I thought
the Directors were all honourable men. I was not
startled at the large liabilities I signed my name to, as
I was assured by the defendant there was plenty of funds
in the establishment. Certainly did not consider there
was anything wrong when. I saw myself described as a
Director, with Esquire attached to my name. 'The de •
fendant is my brother-in-law. I placed some reliance
on what he said. All the annuities were paid up to the
quarter previous to the dissolution of the Company.
Re-examined--I insured my• life in the concern for
1001., and allowed discount for present payment, and I
received 901. I got the money immediately after I in-
surde. The defedant gave me the amount.
Three cheques for 500/. each were here put in. They
were signed " William Hole," and made payable to Mr.
Williams. One cheque was on the Bank of England,
and the others on the Western Bank of Scotland.

The witness said, he understood from the defendant,
chat that money was sent to Scotland, to release Mr.
Williams, who had been arrested there by some of the
annuitants. •

By Mr. Baron GURNEY—The concern was broken up
through want of funds ; did not know whether there
were any assets when it was dissolved.
Wm. Edward Taylor said, I was one of the Directors,
and was appointed when the Association was first esta-
blished ' • previous to that period. I was a journeyman
locksmith and bell•hanger, and was in the employ
of a Mr. Greathead. The defendant • married
my wife's sister. I was applied to by the de-
fendant and Knowles to become a Director ; was in
the habit of attending at the board on Fridays. Ire-
ceived 2s 6d. for each attendance, for a year and a half.
I afterwards received a salary of 801. per annum, though
I only attended as a director to sign my name to policies.
Knowles was Chairman of the Directors. I was desired
by the defendant to sign my name. I signed all docu-
ments laid before me. It was at first arranged • that I
should sign for three years, and Mr. Williams was then
to take my place, but at the expiration of that time, he
said I might as well continue signing as it was all the
same.

Mr. PLATT--Did you receive any directions with re-
spect to your dress and appearance ? Witness—Oh,
yes, We were to dress well, and were ordered to wear
rings and jewellery.
Mr. PLATT—Did you do so ? Witness—Yes, and the
defendant gave us rings to wear.
A paper in the defendant's handwriting was here
read, upon which was a memorandum, dated September
15, 1839, to the following effect :—" Taylor fined for
not having on his ring."
The witness said they were afterwards fined for a
similar offence.

Cross-examined—Many fines were levied and exacted.
Was ordered by the defendant to sign the documents.
Mr. Baron GURNEY observed that the witness and his
colleague appeared to be the " directed," instead of the
directors.

Be-examined—Knowles and Williams acted as se-
cretaries after the defendant left the concern. I had no
suspicion that anything was wrong. I placed great reli-
ance on the defendant. Williams, Hole, Hastier, and the
defendant, used to be in a private room together, except
on board days.
Joseph Packer, a law-stationer, stated that he was em •
ployed to engross the deed of the Company, which
was dated 26th September, 1111371 saw the first nine
names of the list of shai ()holders signed on that day.
He was afterwards desired to obtain other signatures to
it ; he did so during the vacation in 1840. He applied
to persons indiscriminately to put their signatures to it,
and it remained at his office for that purpose. He was
employed by Knowles and Williams; recollected being
at the Company's office one morning when the de-
fendant and his wife was there. The post had just been
delivered, and he saw the defendant open some letters
and take some Bank notes from them; lie made some
observation to his wife ; believed the words were—
" Look here." He then put the notes into his pocket
and went away with his wife. Whenever he got any
person to sign the deed, a number of shares was always
placed opposite their names.

Cross•examined—Knowles married his (witness's)wife's
sister. Knowles employed him to engross the deed.
The deed creating the Company was then read, by
which it appeared that the defendant was appointed
secretary, and, ex officio, a director for life ; it further
stated that he was to be allowed, besides his salary,
70 shares ; and his wife, as a provision for her, and for
absolute use and benefit, was to be allowed 700 shares,
Another letter, of which the following is a copy, was
then put in.

" France, 9th January, 1841.
" Knowles,—Thou art a scoundrel, and thy son no
better. I shall print and publish all the bye-laws and
proceedings which relate to any transactions which I
had with the Company, .and expose your villainy to
Mackenzie, and others; and I give you and your
lying rascal of a b
he should dare to publish any slander relative
to my character, I shall instruct my solicitor to
prosecute you, you d—d perjured scoundrel—you base
wretch—swear against your own hand-writing-:--what,
swear you never borrowed my money of me for the office
—Oh ! wicked wretch, I hare your signature, and my
solicitor has seen it—base—base—base—hang thyself
with your friend Williams.—Truth.

" WM. HOLE:
" P.S. I havelleard you have again plundered the office
—Ah ! how many times wretch.
" Address to Mr. Thos. Knowles, 44, Cambridge Ter-
race, Paddington, London."
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the Jury for the
defendant, and in a long speech tried to make the best
of a hopeless case.
Baron GURNEY addressed the Jury, and said 'the
plaintiff in this action sought to recover frotn the defen-
dant a sum of money of which he had, as was alleged,
deprived her by fraud, and if they believed that the
money was obtained . by fraud by defendant or
by others, acting in concert and conspiracy
with him, the plaintiff was entitled to a ver-
dict. The Jury would look at all the circumstances
of the case, and, upon these circumstances, it would be
for them to decide whether or not fraud had been proved.
It appeared this Association was established in 1836 ;
that it professed to have a capital of a million ; that
names were put to the prospectus issued to the public,
describing persons as " Esquires," some of whom were
not in existence, and others were persons of low station,
who were paid small sums weekly for signing their
names. It also appeared that the defendant was the ori-
ginal promoter of the undertaking, and that he had
the entire management of it. The question for
the Jury was, whether this was really a bona
fide Company, established for the purposes of an
ordinary insurance association, or whether it was not a
scheme, by unprincipled persons, to get possession
of the money of all those whom those prospectuses lured
to invest it with them, and then apply it to their own
use. In the former case they would find a verdict for
the defendant ; but if they thought that the ground he
suggcsted had been proved, then they would return a
verdict for the plaintiff:
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, 9001.
STANLEY v. HOLE.
This was an action of a similar character, against the
same defendant, and upon the application of Mr. Cham-
bers another Jury was empanelled to try the cause. The
sum sought to be recovered was 160/.
Mr. PLATT addressed the Jury, and said that the
charge against the defendant was that he had got up a
sham insurance society, offering great advantages to the
public, and by this means he had induced the plaintiff to
invest the sum in question in the concern, and the whole
of it had been lost.

The hooks were then produced, and it appeared that
the plaintiff had paid 1601. to the West Middlesex Assu-
rance Company, and that she had been guaranteed an
annuity of 251. per annum for that sum.
Mr. G. E. Williams was then called.. He deposed that
he signed the deed of settlement of the Company, but
he never paid any thing upon the shares. Be and his
father wited as solicitr,rs to the Company. Hole, the
defendant, first prepared the .draft of the deed creating
the Association. He came to the office of witness's father,
:n Bart street, Bloomsbury, in 1836, and he said that
several gentlemen intended to forma now Insurance
Company, and he wished to know if his father would
have any objection to act as solicitor to the concern,
and he replied that he had not ; and soon afterwards,
-he told him that the gentleman had agreed to ap-
point him as solicitor, and witness's i ame was
joined with his father's. In 1539 the defendant
holes asked him if lie would like to be secretary, and
he then enquired of him whether all the names to the
prospectus were bone fide parties, and he said they were.
('his took place at Hastings, and Hole pointed out a
large mansion, near that town, as the residence of. Mr.
Alexander, tine of the names mentioned in the prospec-
ins ; and witness reluctantly accepted the situation, and
Acted as secretary. After this witness told Hole that
Mr. Hunter %%ished to know the addresses of the par-
ties mentioned in the prospectus, and he burst into a
laugh, and said that it was all concocted by
aim and . Knowles ; •and, upon this, witness
resigned his situation. He remembered a quarrel takin
place between Hall and Knowles, and the latter accuse
la -

f placing the greater part of the money that was
•eccived in the affair to his own private account, instead

of placing it to the credit of the Company.
Cross-examined—His father signed the deed forming
the Company, and actions had been brought against
him.' His father had purchased property since his con-
nexion with the defendant, and this had been sold and
given up, when he found it was such a rascally business.
His illther had now been abroad for nine months.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Dama!,,res 160/..
deducting the amount paid for the annuity before the
closing of the establishment, but adding thereto the in-
terest from the period when the money was first placed
in the defendant's hands, which reduced the amount to
143/.

110PKIN3 V. HOLE.
This was an action of the same description. The
amount paid by the plaintiff a as 2,600 L for an annuity of
261/. a year.

The same evidence was adduced, and the Jury found
For the plaintiff, damages 2,500/., allowing as in the
former ease, for what had been paid back in the shape of
innuity, and adding the interest.
NORRIS V. HOWL
This was a similar action.— Verdict for the plaintiff.
Damages 144/.

SCOUGALL V. HOLE.
The same.—Dainages-163/.

The same.—Damages 1991.
HOLMES V.
LETITIA JONES
HOLE.
The same.—Damages 1971.
BURNETT V. HOLE.
The same.—Damages 4961. V. HOLE.

MADAME D'ARDLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS.—
This fascinating work has advanced in interest and popu-
larity in each succeeding portion that has been published,
each volume presenting the reader with a new series of
public characters, and a new condition of society and
manners. In the third and forthcoming volume, which
will appear in a few days, the charming and accomplished
writer arrives at that period of her varied and brilliant
career, r% hich placed her in immediate attendance on the
person o fQueen Charlotte, and brought her into an intimate
personal acquaintance with every individual of the
Royal Family, every one of whom, from the King and
Queen themselves on the throne and in the closet, to the
infant Princess Amelia in her nursery robes, are, as we
understand, placed before us precisely, " in their habits
as they lived." The dates of this third volume—viz.,
1786 and 1787, give us the period of that remarkable
event in the life of George 111., his attempted assassina-
tion by Margaret Nicholson, the minutest details of
hich are, we understand, given from the very lips of the
King himself, as related by him to the Queen on the
night of the day when the event occurred,

BrAN v. HOLE.
The same. Damages 4001.
The verdicts having been recorded in all these case.
Mr. PLATT applied for speedy execution.
Baron GURNEY granted the application.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
- Herbert Godfrey, the policeman who on Saturday
charged an elderly woman, named Sarah Lewis, marine
store dealer, with having received stolen goods, and was
on Monday charged by her with having, in conjunction
with another man, robbed her of a cloak and a time-
piece, was broUght up, and, at the request of Mr. Hobler,
junior; who appeared for the prosecutor, remanded till
this day, when the extraordinary investigation will be
closed, by the commitment of the prisoner, after the exa-
mination of some important witnesses. Reynblds, who
was accompanied by the prisoner into Mrs. *Lewis's
house, has not yet been found ; and Mr. Woutner, the
solicitor for the prisoner, complained, on the part of
his client, that active measures had not been adopted for
taking that person into custody•, although the prisoner
had expressed the strongest wish to be confronted with

Mr. Hobler, junior, observed, that the inactivity of the
police upOn this occasion, if any actually existed, ought
to be complained of to the Commissioners, and not to the
Magistrates, who had 'nothing whatever to do with the
force.

Two girls, named Sarah Shaddoch and Mary Tighe,
each of them eighteen years old, were charged with
having robbed one of the poor old inmates of Bishopsgate
workhouse.
The two prisoners hare been, almost from their birth,
living in the workhouse, in which they frequently distin-
guished themselves by breaking windows and pelting
the orderly residents with bread, appeared, upon being
put to the bar, as quiet as mice.
The assistant matron stated that the prisoners had
just returned to the workhouse from Bridewell, where
they had been confined for smashing windows, and upon
reaching their old quarters stole the pocket of an old
pauper, in which were contained the poor woman's
savings, amounting to threepence halfpenny.
Mr. Booker, one of the parochial officers, said that
the prisoners, when they took a fancy to' change from
the workhouse to Bridewell, committed violence of some
kind, and thus contrived to have a little variety to their
taste, and they had been for a length of time ungovern-
able in the former place.
Alderman GIBBS said he should try what a little extra
discipline would do towards correcting the girls, and
sentenced each of them N be confined two months in
Bridewell at hard labour, and to be locked up every
other alternate week during that period in a solitary
cell. The Alderman said that he should take very par-
ticular care that the diet of the prisoners should be as
low as would be consistent with the preservation of their
health.—The prisoners were then committed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET:
Seven females, well-dressed, and five of whom stated
themselves to be married women, were brought up on
warrants issued against them on the' application of the
parochial authorities of St. James's; Westminster, under
the provisions of the Act of Parliament, 25th Geo. IL,
for keeping " disorderly houses, or acting or assisting
therein." As in several cases recently brought before
this Court, a professional adviser appeared on behalf of
the defendants. The identity of the relative parties
having been proved, they were ordered to find sureties
to answer and plead to indictments which will, in the
course of law, be preferred against them. The nuisance
complained of is stated to be of a most revolting charac-
ter. Its locality it confined, in the present proceedings,
to John's-court, Golden- square, and the immediate
neighbourhood.
The defendants readily obtained the sureties required,
and were liberated:
Cornelius M'Carty and James Murphy, sturdy young
Irishmen, were charged with vagrancy.
Wm. Horsford, one of the constables belonging to
the Mendicity Society stated, that about half-past six
o'clock on Thursday evening he saw the prisoners in
company together in St. James's-square, beg of several
ladies and gentlemen, and receive alms—their plan was
to follow up the persons they solicited until they ob-
tained something or else abuse them. When they met
with unprotected females their importunity was in-
timidating ; the prisoner M'Carty actually followed two
gentlemen to whom he was evidently a perfect stranger
into the hall of one of the club houses. They were both
old offenders, and had been committed from different
Police Courts for similar offences. They resisted vio-
lently on.being taken into custody.
Mr. Hlunwics. Said he was determined to purge the
streets of this description of sturdy beggars' and com-
mitted each of the defendants to one month's imprison-
ment, and ordered a record of their convictions to be re-
turned to the Sessions.
Horsford stated that just at night fall on Thursday
evening lie counted no less than 25 young sturdy beg-
gars in Pall-mall, within 14 minutes.
Mary Smith, a young woman, was charged with being
concerned with a gang of other females, two of whom
stand committed for trial from this Court at the Central
Criminal Court, for robberies effected by the means of
false or skeleton keys, in different lodging-houses in the
neighbourhood of Seven Dials. The gang contrived to
ascertain when the occupant of an apartment was absent,
and availed themselves of the opportunity of entering
and plundering the room of every portable article they
could meet with, great facility t:• commit this species of
robbery being offered by the street-doors in this neigh-
bourhood being continually left open.
The prisoner was fully committed on two separate
charges, she having been proved to have disposed of the
stolen property immediately after the robberies had
taken place.

MONEY MARKET And CITY NEWS.
SUN.—Consols were extremely firm during the whole
of yesterday, and although several sales were made, prices
advanced to, and closed at, 90 to 904 for Money, and 904
to 901 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 31 to 33 prem.
The rise in the Spanish Three per Ceut. Stock has
continued and reached 25, but the quotation has since
declined to 241 244. The nominal value of the Five
per Cent. Active Stock not hav4tg been materially af-
fected by these operations, it is a necessary conclusion,
that the present is one of the wild speculations which are
sometimes entered into by the dealers in Foreign Bonds,
with the hope of inducing the unwary to follow them,
and take the stock off their hands at prices still
higher. That this rise has no legitimate foun-
dation is evident. when their price is considered
—namely, 24i 4. A slight improvement took place
also in the rates of most other Foreign Bonds —Brazilian
being 664 674 ex div. ; Dutch Two-and. a-Half per
Cents., 52 4, the Five per Cents.. 100 4 ex div. ; Por-
tuguese Five per Cent., 36 4, the Three per Cents., 21 4-;
Colombian, 37 1-3 d; and Mexican, 401 4 ex div.
A fair amount of business was transacted in Railway
Shares, London and Birmingham being 644 86 ; Great
Western, 27 28, and the Half Shares, 14 1 prem. 11ir-
mingbrun and Gloucester, 56 513 • South Western 59 60
Gosport, 59 60 ; North Midland, 69 70, the New Shares,
344 351 ; and Brighton, which slightly improved, 361 4
per share. South Eastern and Dover, 234 23 ; and
Eastern Counties, 14 134 discount.
Some variation occured in the quotations or the Fo-
reign Exchanges. Amsterdam improved to 12 5, Rot-
terdam to 12 51, Hatnburgh to 13 124, 13 13, Frankfort
1511, Lisbon to 524 521, Madrid 364. Antwerp receded
to 12 Paris 25f. 80c. 25f. 85c., do. Short 25f. 53c. 25f.
60c., and Leghorn 30 024 30 05. Vienna remained at.
9 52 9 53, and Trieste at 9 531 9 54.
It must be. noticed that the Spaniards are turning their
attention to the development to the minerals of that'
country. During the month of February permission
to work no less than eleven new mines was applied for,
two of which were of Quicksilver. This metal has long
formed the source of a considerable portion of the revenue
of the kingdom, being .a Government monopoly ; and it
is to 'be regretted that an article so necessary in the
various branches of industry, should be placed as it is at
present. The effect of the contract now in force has been
to raise the price upwards of 150 per cent. upon what it
was before it wits granted, and the result is, that far less
has been consumed both in this and in other countries.
It is to be expected that at its termination sonic arrange.
ment more advantageous to us will be entered into.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUN TING .APPOINTMENTS.
The Essex stag hounds will meet on Monday ai
Samfbrd Hall-12.
Mr. Drax's lids., Mon., Spetisbury Down ; Thur.,
Stourton Candle Pound. .
Major General Wyndharn's lids., Mon., Denby House ;
Wed., Burningfold ; Fri., Devil's Punch Bowl-101.
Marquis of Hastings' hds., Mon., Cox Bench, Derby-
shire ; Wed., Lockington Hall Sat., Long Clift--14
Ansty hds., Tues., Swacliffe ; Thur., Oversley Wood ;
Sat., Alcester-101.
Mr. Candler's lids., Mon., Cliffey ; Wed., Bredon
Hill ; Sat., Walsall Top-10-3-.
Shropshire lids., Mon., kennel ; Wed., Iscold ; Fri.,
Shawbury.
Mr. Atty's hds., Mon., Wynnstay ; Wed., Chorlton
Hall ; Fri., Penley-101.
Albrighton Hunt, Mon., Kennel ; Fri., Knighton-101.
Mr. Robertson' hds., Mon., Ritlington; Wed., Rosedean
Thur., Pallisburn ; Fri., Akeld ; Sat., Mindrum Mill.
Badsworth lids., Mon., Kennel ; Wed., Stainer Hall ;
Sat., Fenwick-101.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Weelsby House; Wed.,
Wrawby Hall ; Fri., Hendall Lodge-1 1.
Quorn Hunt, Mon., Owthorpe, Notts ; Tues., Bardon
Hall ; Thurs., Bunny ; -Fri., Quorndon
Earl Fitzwilliam's lids., Mon., Fineghade ; Wed.,
Warboy's Wood ; Fri., Bulwick-10.
Burton Hunt, Mon., Scotgrove Wood ; Tues., Nocton;
Wed., IVellingore ; Thurs., Carlton le Moorland ; Fri.,
Branton Wood ; Sat., Langton, by Wragby-11.