The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-04 00:00:00

TO RECEIVE.

Cash at the Banker's £4,616 2 8
Exchequer Bills 18,336 8 4
Arrears of Instalments
Cast of Machinery 28,954 0 8

£31,061 11 8

The CHAIR:IIAI'; said, that the balance would, of course, be the
balance in favour of the Company, and be begged to lay, that the
Company's credit had been fully restored.
The Meeting then adjourned.

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POLICE INTELLIGENOE.

MANSION HOUSE.-7The LORD MAYOR being yester.day
engaged. at the Wardmote for Wintry Ward, Sir Joux PERKING.

sat for him.

A complaint was made, regarding a person in Leadeahall-mar-
ket, keeping a ferocious dog, which was net only mad itself, but
bad bitten several others in the market. Sir John recommended the
complainant to go to the Lord Mayor, and get his Lordship's au-
thority to tell the people in the market who had dogs that bad
been bitten by this dog, to destroy them immediately. Sir Joha
added, that the command would come with much greater effect
from the Lord Mayor than trom him.
A very fashionable attired female, who called herself Mrs.
Pratt, was brought up in custody of an Officer, to whose care she
had been confided, for disturbing the peace of the house of a Mr.
Leader, a glass cutter, at 15, Coleman-street.
, Mr'. Leader deposed that this female was always insulting him,
by coming to his premises and demanding to see a Mr. Wagstaff,
who is a Turkey merchant, and occupies offices in the complain-
ant's house, and has done so for thirty years. This day she came,
and upon being told that Mr. Wagstaff was not in the way, she
created a disturbance that caused a mob to assemble, and be was
compelled to give her into custody. He had no wish to det6in
her, but he was anxious to maintain his own peace.
Sir Joni; PERRI:iO asked what business the woman had there,
or if she was at all known ?

The complainant said he believed that Mr. Wagstaff had
kept her. -
The poor woman declared that she had been long in the keep-
ing of Mr. Wagstaff;bnt 'that he had now deserted her without
allowing her a maintenance, and shewent to his cohnting-house
-in order to seek for redress ; but he was denied to her, and she
declared that she would continue to go there until she obtained
redress.

Mr. Leader admitted that she had been there many times before,
and created a disturbance, and he wished his Lordship to prevent
her future interruptions.
Sir JOHN PEILIUNG said that if the Lady would say that she
would not annoy Mr. Leader again, he would set her at liberty.
Mrs. Pratt at length consented to this, and was discharged.
MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday, a fine little boy, of
very healthy appearance, about seven years of age, was brought to
this office, accompanied by his father and mother, who were de-
sirous of apprenticing him to a usaster chimney-sweep, named
Brown, residing in the parish of Marylebone. _ _ _

Mr. RAWLINSON inquired if the parents of the child were pre-
sent ?--The father and mother stepped forward.
Mr. RAWLINSON-And do you give your full consent to the
child's being bound apprentice to a chimney sweep?
Father—Oh, yea, your Worship, I wish it.
Mr. ItAwuNsox—You are aware, I suppose. that you are
about to bind it to a trade of slavish misery.

Father--Why, I think he will do very well; he will have a
good home, and be well fed.
Brown exclaimed—Why, I took the boy out of *hazily; he
was perishing in the street, without a home to go to, and about
twelve months ago I took him, and have had him ever sinott.

Mr. RAWLINSOI4 asked the father whether be lived with Lis
wife? Father—Oh no, not for the last two years.
111 r. ItswMicsoN—And how much are you to get for this
child upon his being apprenticed ? Father—Nothing at all.

Mr..ltewriNso;. then asked the little fellow if he wished to be
a sweep ?—The hoy replied with much simplicity, that "ho did
not care about it, but his father wished him to be one.
Mr. RAWLINSON—DU you ever go to church? Boy—No.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Do you know your prayers?
Boy—No, I never says prayers. I don't know them. He said
he had been frequently sent up chimneys. Beiug observed to
walk lame, his feet were found to be quite sore, end blistered,
which it turned out he had received through the exercise of his
trade.

The Magistrate asked Brown whether be had any other ap-
prentices? Yes, your Worship, two more.
Mr. RA WLINSON—Do they know how to mly their prayers?
Brown (scratching his head)—Why, I can't go to the eapeose,
your Worship.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Do you ever say your prayers yourself?

Brown—Why, sometimes.
Mr. RAWLINsON—Have you ever heard your apprentice* say

their praye:•► ? Brown—Sometimes.
Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the apprentices to be seat for, wed on
their arrival they confessed, that they neither knew their Cate-
chism or prayers ; they were never sent to Church or Chapel,
and Mr. Brown never instructed them.

Mr. ItAwr.iNsoN reftised to hind the child, unless Mr. Brown
could bring hint to the office with a knowledge of the Creed and
the Lord's Prayer.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday dman named Datiis was brought
before the sitting magistrate, M. Swabey, Esq., on a warrant
which charged him with having assaulted a Mr. Holding, a mil-
ler, residing in the Kent-road.
The complainant's account of the affair excited much mirth
awl laughter in the office. He stated, that on Monday last, as
he was proceeding to his mills at Rotherhithe, the defendant, of
whom he had no previous knowledge, rudely stopped him in the
street, at the same time using some extremely insolent expressions.
The complainant, who is a very diminutive man, remonstrated
against such conduct, when the defendant, added he, " threw
himself into a fighting attitude, and when lie found that I was
not disposed to place myself on a level with him, he commenced
to threaten me, by declaring that he should duck me in a horse-
trough Close by.
Magistrate.—Come to the assault, Sir, did he put his threat
into execution, and duck you in the horse-trough?
Complainant.--No, he did not duck me in the horse-trough,
but he repeatedly told me to go and hang myself, in the presence of
50 by-standers, some of whom I have brought here to substantiate
that which I have asserted. (The complainant here bellowed
aloud for some of the persons who had heard the offensive expres-
sions, to enter the office for the purpose of bearing out his state-

ment.)
The Magistrate, however, observed that there was no necessity
fur their presence, for as yet there was no assault proved against
the defendant.
The Complainant.—What, Sir, have you not the power of
binding down this man to keep the peace for threatening to souse
me in the horse-trough?
Magistrate.—lndeed I have not, and I should be very sorry to
be invested with such a power; if you swear that you go in bodily
fear of Mr. Davis, that fact would certainly alter the complexion
of the case. Has he prseented a pistol at you, or threatened your
life on any occasion ?
Complainant.-1 consider his threat of putting me neck end
heels into the horse-trough, was tantamount to a threat of de-
priving me of life ; for had he put it into execution, in all proba-
bility I should not he here to tell the catastrophe ; the horse-trough,
your worship, was broad and deep.
The Magistrate—You have dwelt a good deal on the subject of
the horse-trough, but really I cannot perceive by your statement
that you need he under the slightest apprehension of danger trona
the defendant. The Magistrate then asked the defendant what
could have induced him to threaten the complainant with a duck-
ing in the horse-trough ?
The defendant, in reply, said, the person who brought the
charge of assault against him, which never happened, was the ag-
gressor ; he (the defendant) never saw him before the day in
question, when he grossly insulted him in the public thorough-
fare, by calling out " Stupid, stupid," after him. When the de-
fendant asked for au explanation of the offensive term, which was
evidently applied to him, Mr. Holding, he said, repeated it in his
teeth, and then, and not until then, he (the defendant), in the
height of irritation, pointing to a horse-trough, certainly threatened
to souse him in it if he persevered in applying such epithets to

him.
Magistrate—You don't intend to do Mr. Holding any harm?
Defendant—None at all, Sir; 1 never contemplated depriving
him of life : had he continued his abuse, I can't say but I might
have soaked his jacket in the trough.
The Magistrate discharged the defendant.

The General Post Office het of this morning con-
tains a notice that the Mails for the United States will, in fu-
ture, be forwarded to Annapolis, from Bermuda, at which Island
they will be left by the packet bound to Halifax.
HENRY VIII. AND A NOBLEMAN.—King Henry
VIII. designing to send a Nobleman on an embassy to Francis I.
at a very dangerous juncture, he begged to be excused, saying,
" Such a threatening message to so hot a prince as Francis I.
might go near to cost him his life." " Fear not," said old
Harry, " if the French King should offer to take away your life,
I would revenge you by taking off the heads of many Freedmen
now in my power." " But of all these heads," replied the noble-
man, " there may not be one to fit my shoulders."—Liverpoal
Albion.

DR. SOUTH.--Dr. South, visiting a gentleman one
morning, was asked to stay to dinner, which he accepted of; the
gentleman stepped into the next room and told his wife, and de-
s:red she would provide something extraordinary. Hereupon she
began to murmur and scold, and made a thousand word' ; till, at
length, her husband, provoked at her behaviour, protested, that,
if it was not for the stranger in the next room, he would kick Ler
out o f doors. Upon which the doctor, who heard all that passed,
stepped out, crying " I Leg, Sir, you will make re stranger of
me."—Liverpool Albion,