The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATUR DA I MORNINc;, JUNE 28, 1845.

WHITEHALL, Mallet' 21, 1844.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John William Jones, of
Lydney, near Newcham, in the county of Gloucester, Gent.,
to b.. a Master Extrarordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Herne, draper, Cardiff.
BANKRUPTS.
Samuel May and Pryce Mottram, drapers, Shrewsbury, to
surrender July 10 and Aug. 8, at half past twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Fennel!, official assignee; Goddard, Wood-
street, Cheapside, London.
Richard Carr, cheesemonger, Fore-street, Cripplegate,
July 10, at half-past eleven, and Aug. 8, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, 13asinghall-
street ; Gauntlett, Gray's Inn-place.
William Greenwell, wheelwright, Redcross-street, South.
wark, July 5, at one, and Aug. 9, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Well-
borne, T'ooley-street, Southwark.
James Forrester, baker, Hampstead, July 8, at half-past two,
and Aug. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basingliall-street; Vandercom and
Co., Bush-lane, Cannon-street.
Charlotte Paine, plumber, Lewes, Sussex, July 11, at half-
past one, and Aug. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, offizial assignee, Abehurch-lane, Lombard-street;
Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row ; Blaker, Lewes.
Robert Westmore, joiner, West Derby, Lancashire, July 9,
and Aug. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bed-
ford-row, London; Payne, Liverpool.
William May, draper, Liverpool, July 11, and Aug. 15, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court: Turner. official as-
signee, Liverpool ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside;
Sale and Worthington, Manchester.
Fenwick Loraine, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 8,
and August 20, at two, at the Newcastle District Court.
Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Shield and
Harwood, Queen-street, Cheapside, London; Chartres, New•
castle-upon- Tyne.
Edward Thomas, wine merchant, Bristol, July 11, at twelve,
and August 22, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, oficial assignee, Bristol ; Haberfield, Bristol.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
R. Elliot, merchant, Sheffield—first div. of 2s. in the
pound, and second div. of Is. ad. to those creditors who re-
ceived the former div., July 2, or any following Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
J. Prior and H. Brady, brush manufacturers, Kingston-
upon-Hull—first and second div. of 2s. 6d. and 3s. 31 in the
pound, and second div. of 3s. 3d. to those creditors who re-
ceived the former div., July 2, or any following Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
J.:Prior, brush manufacturer, Kingston-upon-Hall—first and
final div. of 20s. in the pound, July 2, or any following Wed-
nesday, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
H. W. Blackburn, wcolstapler, Bradford—second div. of
2d. in the pound, July 2, or any following Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
W. East, builder, Spalding—second div. of Is. lid. in the
pound, any Thursday, at the office of 31r. Christie, Bir-
mingham.
W. E. Jarman, confectioner, Exeter—a div. of 2s. 7d. in the
pound, July 1, or any following day, at. the office of Mr. Her-
Daman. Exeter.
R. Hill, currier, Exeter —a div. cf Is. sid in the pound,
July 1, or any following day, at the office of Mr. Hernarnan,
Exeter.

T. Lane, coal merchant, Hereford—first div. of 2s. 3d. in
the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Bittleston,
Birmingham.
J. Newbold, tailor, Nottingham—first div. of ss. in the
pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Bir-
mingham.
T. Lakin, builder, Nottingham—first div. of ss. in the
pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Bir-
mingham.
J. Hawksley, merchant, Arnold, Nottinghamshire—final
div. of Id. and 44-85ths of a penny in the pound, any Thurs-
day, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham.
B. Jones, victualler, Birmingham—first div. of Bs. 6d. in
the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Bir.
mingham.

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S. Cox, horse dealer, Brunswick-street, Blackfriars—second
and lima div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, June 28, and three fol-
lowing Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane,
W. F. Nicholson, worsted spinner, Warley, Yorkshire—first
div. of 4s. in the pound, and those creditors who received a
former div., a second and final die. of Is., July 2, or any fol-
lowing Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
W. Moss, woollen draper, Kingston-upon-Hull—second div,
of 6d. in the pound, July 2, or any following Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds.
T. Wilkinson, draper, Hartlepool—first div. of 3s. in the
pound, June 28, or any following Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Blake, harcwareman, Sunderland—first div. of 10d. in
the pound, June 24, or any following Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Collinsun, shipwright, East Busterwick, Lincolnshire—
first div. of Is. in the pound, July '2, or any following Wed-
nesday, at the office of Mr. Freem It. Leeds.

DI VIDENDS.
At 112 Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Beard, builder, Deptford, July 22, at half-past one—T.
Atkinson, chemist, Gloucester, July 21, at half-past one.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
J. Furnival, corn dealer, Kettering, Northamptonshire, July
18 —W. C. Tupper, grocer, Catheringtoo, Hampshire, July
19—J. Junes, brewer, Earl's-court, Old Brompton, July 21—
T. Forty, hotel keeper, Richmond, Surrey, July 22—S.
Brice, tailor, St. John-street, July 22—E. M'Knott, and J. Glass,
coal merchants, Belvidere-road, Black friars-road, July 21—W. S.
More, wine merchant, Liverpool, July 22—A. Smelt, linen
draper, Melton Mowbray, July 19—W. H. Webb, wharfinger,
Stratford-upon-Avon, July 29—S. Wilcock, innkeeper, War-
rington, July 2'2—J. Brown and A. Urquhart, carpet ware-
housemen, Manchester, July 18—J. Hyatt, victualler, Commer •
cial-road, Pimlico, July 18—J. Pr ice, draper, Oaken-gates, Shrop.
sh ire, July 18—E. Foster, grocer, Sheffield, July 18—J. Evans,
innkeeper, I3ourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, July 18--G.
Shaw, cotton spinner, Oldham, July IB—T. S. Stuart, jun.,
drysalter, Liverpool, July 18.—W. Higgins and T. Higgins,
hosiers, Old Bond-street, July 18—B. Robinson, draper,
Burton-upon- Trent, July 18—W. Hardisty, whitesmith, Wake-
field, July 18—C. M. Firth, lithographic printer, St. Michael's-
alley, Cornhill, July 18—J. Nicholson, linen draper, Black-
burn, July 18—T. P. Rees, iron merchant, Crooked-lane-
chambers, King William-street, City, July IB—T. Wilkinson,
draper, Hartlepool, Durham, July 18.
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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
H. Slaney and W. Muskett, tea brokers, Fenchurch-street—
J. Storry and E. Bates, carvers and gilders, Leeds--J.
Ed-
meston and C. H. Wilden, flour factors, Mark-lane—W.
Butcher and M. Butcher, beer retailers, Stepney—J. Beilby
and R. Markham, coopers, Hull—R. Sillitoe and F. Morriss,
mangle makers, Newington-causeway—E. Jefferies and T.
Longdon, tailors, Bath—L. Wilson, D. Keith, and T. Shoo-
bridge, silk manufacturers, Wood street, Cheapside (so far
as regards L. Wilson)—J. B. Heeles and W. Herbert, estate
agents, Basinghall-street—J. Hunter and A. T. Webster, straw
hat manufacturers, Luton, Bedfordshire—J. Hacking and G.
Lupton, milliners, Lancaster—J. E. Hilles and W. J. Frank-
land, commission agents, Liverpool—H. Ridley, G. Ridley,
and W. Ridley, wine merchants, Ipswich—E. Barron and W. H.
Cullen, attorneys, Bloomsbury -square—G. Oswald and G.
Oliver, Manchester—H. R. White and F. Abbott, wine
merchants, Margate—J. Bowyer and H. Baker, attorneys,
Petworth, Sussex—E. Smith and T. Moore, brick makers,
Beerlay, Isle of Wight—J. Gillard and J. Blight, coachbuilders,
Plymouth—C. H. Stowers and H. Pope, law stationers,
Chancery-lane—I. H. S Whitmore and J. B. Jardine, che-
mists, Drury-lane Suggitt and J. Elletson, lamp manu-
facturers, Howden, Yorkshire—J. Sutton and G. Sutton, dry-
salters, Manchester—W. Johnson and J. Stafford, plumbers,
Wakefield—P. N. Johnson and W. J. Cock, assayers, Hatton-
garden—M. Stobart, JC. Hopkins, D. 013tien,J. Robinson,
R. Cuticle"), J. Oliver, G. Embank, .1. Barnes, J. Shields, and

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, JUNE 26, 1845.
Her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has been
pleased to appoint Frederick Foster Quin, Esq., i%1.D., to be
Physician to her Royal Highness.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 25.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alexander
Paterson as Consul at Leith for his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands.
The Queen has also been pl,.ased to approve of Senor Jose
Maria Saens Montoya, as Consul in London for the Republic of
Ness Granada.

CROWN-OFFICF, JUNE 27.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Edinburgh—Sir John Hope, of Craighall, Bart.,
in the room of William Ramsay Ramsay, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 27.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. W. Hogg to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Codritigton, who retires; Cornet C. Ark-
wright to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Hogg; A. N. Adams,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase. vice Arkwright, June 27.
13th Light Dragoons—Major J. Lawrenson, from the 17th
Light Dragoons, to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice
Brunton, who rctiri s, June 27.
17th Light Dragoons—Captain F. Burdett to be Major, by
purchase, vice Lawrenson, promoted in the 13th Light Dra-
goons ; Lieutenant H. R. Benson to be Captain, by purcha e,
vice Burdett ; Cornet P. D. H. Lane to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Benson ; P. J. W. Miles, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Lane, June 27.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. H. C. Tyler, from the 40th
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stanford, June 27.
11th Foot—Brevet Colonel J. Hogge, from half pay Unat-
tached, to he Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir M. Creagh, who
exchanges ; .`,:ajor H. K. Bloomfield to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Hogge, who retires ; Captain Jchn
Singleton to be Major, by purchase, vice Bloomfield ; Lieu-
tenant J. T. Stanley to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Singleton ; En-ign J. A. Hunter to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Stanley ; C. M. G. Quantrille, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hunter; Assistant-Surgeon H. Hadley,
M.D., from the Rifle Brigade, to be Surgeon, vice 1).
Leonard, who retires upon half-pay, June 27.
19th Foot—Lieutenant G. B. Jennings, from the 60th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Maguire, who exchanges, June 27.
24th Foot—W. Selby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hackett, who retires, June 27.
40th Foot—Ensign W. H. Queade to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Tyler, promoted in the 9th Foot ; R. J. L.
Coore, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Queade,
June 27.
44th Foot—G. Cooper, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase,
vice Chamberlain, who retires, June 27.
49th Foot—Lieut. G. F. Bartley to be Captain, without
purchase, vice NA, right, deceased, June 20; Ensign R. L. Ross,
from the 93d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bartley, June 27.
6015 Foot—Lieut. John Maguire, from the 19th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Jennings, who exchanges, June 27.
62d Foot—Ensign M. J. Gregorson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macleod, who retires; Gentleman Cadet F. R.
E. Burnside, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Gregorson, June 27.
79th Foot—T. G. Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Maitland, who retires, June 27.
93d Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. W. Carden, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ross,
promoted in the 49th Foot, June 27.
Rifle Brigade—F. D. Howell, Gent., to be Assistant Sur-
geon, vice Hadley, promoted in the 11th Foot, June 27.
UNATTACHED.—Captain J. O'Grady, from the 2d Foot, to
be Major, without purchase, June 27.
MEmocaNnum.—The date of the commission of Ensign
J. S. Davidson, in the 78th Foot, is to be the 18th of January,
1845, instead of the 30. h of May, 1843.
The date of the commission of Ensign T. Cellingwood, in
the 78th Foot. is to be the 19th of January, 1845, instead of the
12th of September, 1843.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second
Lieutenants—J. S. W. Atkinson, vice Pigou, promoted ;W.
L. Dumaresq, vice Fraser, promoted ; G. Le Marehant Tup-
per, Noce Telfer, promoted ; 11. Heyman, vice Strange, pro-
moted; A. Dew, vice Gregory, promoted; G. S. Robertson,
vice Newton, promoted ; E. H. East, vice Gleig, promoted ;
D. E. Hoste, vice Frye, promoted ; E. Tassel!, vice Yelver-
ton, promoted ; E. B. Winterbottom, vice Vesey, promoted ;
J. Singleton, vice Standish, promoted, June 18.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second
Lieutenants—C. C. Chesney, vice Mann, promoted; E. C.
de Moleyns, vice Nugent, deceased ; L. J. A. Armit, vice
Lovell, promoted; C. B. Escart, vice Synge, promoted
June 18.

Mr. Kelly and Mr. James Anderson were heard in support
of the appeal ; and the Lord Advocate and Mr. Alexander
M‘Neail, of the Scotch bar, were heard for the respondents.
At the conclusioa of the arguments,
Their LORDSHIPS stated that they would give their judgment
in the case on Thursday neat.
The remainder of the day was occupied with the arguments
in the appeal of Cunningham v. Macleod.

COUR 7 OF CIL-LACE RY. .Ittne 27.
The LORD CtsaNcELLoa, having disposed of the case of Eochetti
v. Power and the unopposed lunatic and cause petitions in his
paper, proceeded to hear the further arguments its the part• heard
case of Eruin v. Knott, which occupied :the remainder of the
morning.

VICE-CIL.L.VCELLOIsfS" COURT, June 227,
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
His HONOUR heard unopposed petitions and short causes.
(Before Vice-Chan2cllor KNIGHT Barci..)
His HoNoust heard cause petitions.
(Before Vice- Chancellor WIGRAM.)
HIS Homoutt resumed the part-heard cause of Francis v. Grover.

COURT OF QUEEiV BENCTI,June 27.
(Sittings at Nisi Frius.)
Mill V. RITCIIER.
For the plaintiff, the Solicitor-General and Mr. Pearson; for
the defendant, Mr. Crowder, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Watson.
This was an action brought to recover from the Phenix In-
surance Company the amount of 1,040/., being the sum for which
plaintiff's premises were insured in the said office. The plaintiff,
a surgeon, had unfortunately, on the 16th of May, 1842, had
his premises in 11, Suffolk place, destroyed by fire, and from that
circumstance the present claim arose.
The defence was en the geound of irregularity in preferring his
claim.
Witnesses were called for the plaintiff, and it is expected that
the case will occupy the Court a couple of days.

BAL COUR7', June 27.
(Sittings in Banco.)
Di r REIS W. LITTLEWOOD.

Mr. HEATON, on the part of the p!aintiff, moved for a rule for a
new trial, in a case of goods sold and delivered.
Mr. GREEWELL objected, and the Court refused to grant the
rule.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 27.
(Sittings in Banco.)
Their Lordships sat this morning, and took the special paper,
but nothing of the slightest interest came before them.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(YESTERDAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE,

A regular system of plunder has been for some time carried
on by boys employed by news-agents, against their masters,
through various kinds of forgeries, and it has been discovered
that the delinquents actually kept books detailing the particu-
lars of their accounts with each other, from which books it was
evident their profits were very considerable.
A lad named Thomas Ki,g was on Thursday brought before
the Lord Mnyor, in the custody of a policeman, upon the
charge of having, in one case by himself, and in other cases with
the assistance of other lads, plundered his employers, Messrs.
Simmonds and Ward, of Cornhill, news-agents, by means of
forged tickets and orders.
Mr. Simmonds stated that he sent the prisoner, who was
errand-boy to the firm, to the office of the Times newspaper,
to pay for the insertion of an advertisement, and he afterwards
ascertained that the boy had altered the ticket to a larger
amount than had been paid.
Charles Pierre Robert, clerk to Messrs. Simmonds and
Ward, deposed that on Tuesday week, the 17th instant, he gave
the prisoner 41. to get an advertisement inserted in the Times.
The prisoner went away, and, upon his retuin, said the charge
would be 61., and witness handed him the 2/. extra. The pri-
soner brought back a ticket from the office of the Times,
charging 5/. 10s., and returned to witness ten shillings.
Mr. Robert Cannon of the Times office deposed that the
ticket produced had been given by him, and had originally been
for 51. Tickets of the kind were given as receipts. The pre-
sent ticket had been altered from Si. to 51. 10s. He had no
recollection from whom he had received the money, but he
certainly received no more than 51.
It was said that the addition had been made with red ink, to
correspond with Mr. Cannon's writing on the tickets, but that
the forger having used a dirty steel pen, the figure 10 following
the 5 turned quite black, and thus made the forgery palpable.
Henry Lowden, another errand-boy to the prosecutors, was
subsequently put to the bar, together with Thomas King, the
former prisoner.
Simmonds stated that in this case one of the prisoners
had received a number of copies of a newspaper, by means of
a forged order, and sold them at a reduced price. The firm,
he said, had a large foreign connexion, but no London busi-
ness of the kind.
C. P. ,bert said he was accustomed to give orders similar
to an order produced, to the following effect :—" Please to
give the bearer four quires of the Pictorial Times, for Sim-
mends and Ward.
" June 21, Is-45. " C. P. R."
Neither that order nor another cf the same description was in
his handwriting. One of them he believed to be in the hand-
writing of the prisoner Lowden, and the other in the hand-
writing of another boy whom the firm knew.
Stephen Anderson, a boy in the employment of Mr. Sawyer,
of Pope's Head-alley, newspaper agent, stated, that on Satur-
day he received the money from Mr. Sawyer to buy a quire
of the Pictorial Times, and, as he went along, he met the
prisoner King in St. Paul's Church-yard, who asked him
where he was going. When witness mentioned, King offered
him a quire cheap, and witness gave him 1/. Is. 6d., the full
price, whereupon he gave to witness three-halfpence for him-
self. Witness carried the quire to his employer's once. King
mentioned to witness, as a cause for selling the papers, that he
had paid some over money at his office, and they would .not
pay him again, and he had bought the quire to take it out.
Mr. Ward, the partner of Mr. Simmonds, stated that the
prisoner King admitted that he had sold the quire of the
Pictorial Times to the last witness, but he could not account
for the manner in which he had become possessed of the copies.
Mr. Simmonds stated that the forged request, or order, pro-
duced, dated 23d of May, was in the handwriting of the pri-
soner King, and
C. P. Hobert also identified the handwriting of King in the
order, and said that he had not authorised King to write the
order.

Yesterday another of the boys employed by newspaper agents
was taken into custody, and brought before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Simmonds stated that the prisoner had been in his em-
plo)ment, and he produced a forged request in the prisoner's
writing for two quires of the Pictorial TOMS.
The Loan MAYOR said he was happy to see that the deteo.
tion of so nefarious a system of robbery had taken place, and
directed that all the prisoners should be brought before him oes
Monday next, en which occasion several other charges will be
brought forward.

A person in the empioyment of Mr. Dickenson, lithographic
printer, Crown-court, Old Broad-street, was charged by his
ma:ter with having left his work in an incomplete state.
The defendant pleaded guilty.
The LORD MAroa—The greatest mischief is frequently
done by workmen who are careless of their employer's inte-
terests, and leave their work unfinished if offered more advan-
tageous terms, or temptation of drink. Those persons, whom
I shall take good care always to punish, seem to be utterly ig-
norant of the state of the law. I will tell them what it is, in
order to learn them, on this occasion. By the 4th George IV.,
chap. 34, see. 3, it is stated that persons contracting to do work,
and absenting themselves from the service before the term of
the contract, whether that contract be in writing or not, shall
be completed, may be committed to hard labour for a period
not exceeding three months. It is also stated that a propor-
tionable part of the wages, during the time they are in prison,
shall be abated ; or in lieu thereof the prosecutor may punish
the offenders by abating the whole or any part of their wages,
or di•charge them from the contract and service altogether."
Now if this most useful law were regularly enforced we should
have very little of this general complaint. It is my intention to
commit the defendant under this Act.
The defendant appeared to be quite bewildered by this most
disagreeable intelligence, and looked imploringly at Mr. Dicken-
son, who immediately said that he by no means wished to punish
the defendant by imprisonment, to whatever inconvenience he
might be subjected by the neglect of his service.
The LORD MAYOR—Defendant, are you willing to go back
to p:iur master, and complete your work? The defendant—
Certainly, my Lord. I shall be very glad to do so.
The LORD Ma von.— Very well. You are much indebted
to your master for his interposition to prevent me from car-,
rying the law into effect. If he had not interceded, nothing
should have kept you from prison. You are now discharged.
The defendant departed humbly, and apparently better in-
formed upon the subject of his obligation to his employer,
who thanked the Lord Mayor for the tone and substance of the
rebuke.

George Poshay, a man who had been tried at the Central
Criminal Court, and been frequently in Bridevrell upon charges
of robbery, was brought before Sir John Pirie, who sat during
the latter part of the business fer the Lord Mayor, under the
following circumstances :
Mrs. Christie stated that nn Thursday she came by the Gem
steam-vessel from Gravesend to Londuo-britige, and she lost
aboard a half-sovereign, some silver, and a halfpenny, which

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W. O'Brien, brewers, West Auckland, Durham (so far as re-
gards W. O'Brien)—A. Kurtz and C. Kurtz, vendors of patent
lamps, Liverpool—J. Kymer and R. Kirke, coat merchants,
Llanelly, Carmarthenshire.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or 3luscovado Sugar, for the
week ending June 24, 1845, is 335. 64d. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the irn-
poriation thereof into Great Britain.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Jane 27.
The House sat yesterday to hear appeals ; the Peers present
were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell.
GALBREATH V. ARMOUR.

The arguments in this part:l;;;l4casewere resumed, and
occupied their Lordships the whole morning. The case came
before their Lordships upon appeal from the decision of the
Court of Session.

The appellant is proprietor of certain lands situated in Kin-
tyre, within the courtly of Argyl . On part of the lands, the
town of Dalinlober is built, which contains a population of
about 1,500. In 18.30 or 1831, a gas company was established
within the burgh of Campbeiton, for the purpose of supplying
the inhabitants of the burgh and others with gas. The magis-
tra es of the burgh consented to the opening of the streets on
certain conditions, and in order to extend the business of the
company, they undertook to supply the proprietors and fillers
of the town of Dalinlober. The consent of the appellant teas
not asked or obtained by the gas company to the op-ring of
the streets or roads. In such circumstances the ap-
pellant, in 1840 s presented a petition to the Sheriffs
of Argyll to interdict the respondents, some of whom repre-
sent the Gas Company, and others are feuars under the ap-
pellant. It was maintained before the Sheriffs that as the
feuars had the use of the streets as highways, they were en-
titled to lay pipes for the conviyance of both gas and water,
and having the consent or tolerance of the Statute Labour-
road Trustees of the county, the appellant had neither right
nor title to interfere. The Sheriff on considering full written
pleadings found that as the respondents had right to their feuars
with freeish and entry, they were entitled to introduce water
Theby means of pipes laid
judgment of the
in
nr gasthe intsotretehtseir
ortenrenmaedi: tenements
Sheriff was brought under the review of the Court
of Session by advocation. Lord Cockburn, on '2Bth of
January, 184'2, recalled the interlocutors of the sheriff, advo-
cated the cause, and decreed iii terms of the original petition
with expenses. His Lordship explained the grounds of deci-
sion, which may be stated generally, that he considered the
right of property vested in the appellant, subject to a right
" to ti,e the streets or roads for the ordinary purposes of super-
ficial access." This interlocutor having been brought under
the review of the Second Division of the Court of Session,
their Lordships, before answer, and reserving all objections to
the competency, ordered an issued to be tried by a jury as to
whether certain roads passing through Dalinlober were under
the control and superintendence of the road trustees, and
maintained and repaired by them. The verdict of the jury was
affirmative of the i,sue, and the Court below in applying the
verdict, altered the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary, and
dismisssd the original petition, and found the appellant liable
in the expenses incurred both in the Sheriff's Court and in
the Court of Session. Hence the present appeal was brought,
complaining of the judgments of the Sheriff and of the Inner
House.

Mr. Wilde attended to support an information filed by the
trustees of the British Museum against William Charlton
Wright, of Ne. 4, Paternoster-row, under the Copyright Act
of the sth and 6th Victoria, for neglecting to cleaver et the
British Museum, within one month after publication, a copy of
" Haphaet's Prophetic Almanack" fer the year 1644, and one
for the year 1-45, whereby he had forfeited the value of the
two copies, and a penalty of Si. in each case.
Mrs. Charlton Wright appeared on behalf of her husband,
who was subicenaed on a trial in Dublin.
Mr. Wilde said this complaint was made by Sir Henry Ellis,
the 1 rincipal librarian, not because the copies omitted to be
sent on this occasion were of themselves of importance, but in
order to enforce on the booksellers in London a complete
obedience to the Act of Parliament. It was for the public
benefit that the law had provided for the collecting at such a
place as the British Museum all the publications of the day;
At the eleventh hour Mrs. Wright had written a very proper
letter, promising to make all the reparation she could ; but the
proceedings could not be withdrawn upon that, as two notices
had been served drawing attention to the Act, and requiring
the almanacks to be sent, and both had been treated with con-
tempt. The Learned Counsel read copies of the toVO letters
which had been addressed to Mr. Wright, and also Mrs.
Wright's letter.
Sir P. LAURIE asked if any similar proceedings had been
taken ,gaiest booksellers before? Mr. Wilde said he under-
stood there had been such corntrlaints recently at Marlborough..
street office, where the magistrate inflicted the full penalty
of Si.

Mrs. Wright said it was her own fault that the books were
not sent in.
Mr. Wilde replied, he was sorry that it was so, but he must
press the case for the sake of example.
Mrs. 'Wright prayed that he would not make an example of
her, but consider her case by itself.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE said the magistrates were called
upon to administer the law, the requirement of which, it was
alleged, she had knowingly disregarded.
The information having been read, Mrs. Wright was called
upon to plead to it. She said she was guilty, certainly, but she
begged to be permitted to state, in extenuation, that she had
no intention of setting the law at defiance. Her husband was
a tray: iler, and did not sleep in Loudon thirty nights in the
year. The maw-igen-lent of the business devolved upon her, and
in attending also to her family this matter had slipped her
memory. She had ben in business twenty-two years, anti the
Museum had not had occasion to complain before. It was
formerly the custom to call upon the bookseller for nine
copies, which she had always delivered cheerfully, but from
the letters she gathered that there was now a change, and the
booksellers were required to carry their copies to the Museum.
She had, upon receiving the letters, directed the showman to
leave them on the first opportunity, and she had neglected to
inquire whether he had done so.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE inquired the nature of the
almanac. Mr. Wilde said it contained only astrological pre-
dictions, but it would, perhaps, be a matter of curiosity in
after times.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked if the Museum enforced the deli-
very of a copy of every transient publication ; for instance, a
song. Mr. Wilde said the Act gave a definition of a book,
which would include a single printed sheet.
Mr. Alderman Al usce otrn asked if the counsel pressed for
the full penalty. Mr. Wilde replied that the trustees wiehed
to leave the amount eniirely to the discretion of the magistrates.
The magistrates having consulted,
Mr. Alderman Muse:nova said Sir Parea felt with him a
difficulty in reducing the penalty, because two notices had
been sent to Mr. Wright, requiring the delivery of the books,
and the trustees had been obliged to incur expense in main-
taining a right vested in them for the benefit of the public.
They had considered the matters urged in mitigation, and could
not reduce the penalty below 20s. in each case, and the value
of the two almanacs.
Mrs. Wright thanked the magistrates and retired.
LAMBE
William Hewidt, private secretary, as it was stated. to Mr.
F. O'Connor, again attended before Mr. Henry, to answer the
complaint of the officers of Lambeth parish, of neglecting to
support his wife, in consequence of which she had become
chargeable to them.
The case stood adjourned from Saturday last, to give time
to the relieving officer of Lambeth to make further inquiries
as to the defendant's means and income ; and also au oppor •
tunity for the attendance of his wife, she being too ill on
Saturday to appear in Court.
Mr. Bellamy said that all he had been enabled to learn was,
that the defendant was in the receipt of a guinea a-week, be-
sides his partial board, and that he was living with another
woman as his wife at a house in Lock's fields, where he laid
3s. 6d. a week rent. Since Saturday the necessaries supplied
to Mrs. Hewitt smounted to es., and the relief supplied alto-
gether by the parish amounted to 11. 6s. 6d.
Mr. HENRY—Has he made any proposition as to the pay-
ment of that amount and the future maintenance of his wife ?
Mr. Bellamy—He merely offers to settle with the parish
what they have expended, and to give five shillings a week to
his a ife.
Mr. HENRY—Five shillings is not enough for the poor
woman in the state she appears in. I should say seven shil-
lings is quite as little as she can do with.
Defendant--I cannot give it, Sir; all I can do at present is
to pay the 17s. 6d. due up to Saturday, and to allow ss. a
week. I will also pay the 9s. on Saturday next.
Mr. HENRY—I don't think that sufficient. Let the wife be
sworn.

Mrs. Hewitt, who was obliged to be carried into Court,
and who presented the the most distressing spectacle of human
suffering that can well be conceived, was here sworn, and
deposed that she had been married to the defendant twenty
years ago, and she had one child by him, a girl now about
eighteen years of age. About eight years ago her husband
left her, and allowed her eight shillings a week ; but, after
an absence of nearly two years, he solicited her to allow
him to return, and, upon ;the recommendation of her
friends, she permitted him to return. Ile, however, again
lett her, when he had a situation as assistant to a librarian in
the House of Commons, and then for a short time gave her
12s. a week. This he soon after discontinued, and took up
with a female of ill fame who used to walk the New-cut, and
still lived with her as his wife. In November last she found out
the residence of her husband, through a friend of hers seeing
him, and he then agreed to allow her 2s. a week. This sum,
owing to her aalliction and suffering from an internal abscess,
was totally inadequate to her support, and she felt perfectly
satisfied she must have died from the want of proper necessaries
had it. not been for the kindness and humanity of Mr. Bellamy,
the relieving officer.
Mr. IlitsaY thought a strong case of neglect had been made
out against the defendant, and one which the law contemplated
'in awarding punishment. It was sufficiently shown that
he was living with another female as his wife, and sup-
porting her, whilst at the same time he had shametully ne-
glected his wife, or, at least, given her such a pittance from
kis earnings of a guinea a week as was totally inadequate to
her support in her present deplorable situation. It was also
clear, Is the poor woman had herself acknowledged, that she
must have died from want of proper necessaries, had it not
been for the kindness of the relieving officer ; and fur this
wilful neglect of his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the
parish, he (Mr. Henry) should commit him to prison for one
month..

Th• prisoner was accordingly sent to Brixton House of Cor-
rection for one month.

SOUTHWARK.
A poor widow, having five children, wai brought up, charged
with leaving the wprkholke without giving due notice of her
intention.

It appeared the widow and her five children had become in-
mates of St. Saviour's Union some time since, soon after which
the latter were sent to Mr. Aubyn's establishment at Norwood.
The mother, being in health, and not wishing to remain in the
workhouse, intimated her desire to quit the place, and obtain
employment, by which she could maintain herself, and also be
enabled to procure some little necessaries for her children.
This wish on her part, however, was met by a refusal. being
informed that she must either remain in the how., or take the
whole of her children with her if she went out. Knowing that
she vat utterly incompetent to support such a family by her
own exertions, she mentioned the impossibiiity of complying
with such a regulation, and being tired of the place, the took
au opportunity of quitting it without permission, and obtained
a situation. The people of the workhouse, however, finding
out where she was, had her taken into custody for absconding,
leaving her children chargeable.
Mr. CormictrAla said that he would be sorry to punish
a woman under such circumstances; that she had no means
of supporting her five children, who were sent to Norwood,
and that her anxiety to procure for herself the means of exist-
enee, without living in the workhouse, showed that she was of
industrious habits, and did not wish to be a burden on the
parish. Since the above circumstances took place, it appeared
the woman, being out of work, was again received into the
workhouse, and some time afterwards, finding that she could
again obtain employment, but that she would not be permitted
to leave the house without taking her large family, she again
absented herself without leave, and was a second time appre-
hended.
Mr. Cettingham sent to make inquiries about the poor
woman, and ascertained that she was honest and industrious.
A female, with whom she worked, attended the court, and, as
an instance of her industry, said that while in her employ the
widow worked constantly from four o'clock in the morning
until twelve o'clock at night.

In reply to Mr. COTTiNGHAM, the witness said that it was
needlework. She employed the widow, and that she earned at
the rate of 2s. a day.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said it must be awful drudgery to work
so many hours for such a pittance, still the poor woman pre-
ferred it to remaining in the workhouse. The Magistrate
again expressed his disinclination to punish the widow for
quitting the workhouse under such circumstances, and that at
all events he should not carry into effect the latter of the law
in her case, until he had some conversation with the guardians
on the subject. The matter was, therefore, ordered to stand
over for that purpose.

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she remembered had a hole in it. She was informed by a per-
son on board that she was robbed, and the person was taken
into custody.
City P.theeman Wollen (No. 226) steed that he was a pas-
senger on board the Gem from Gravesend, with his wife, incog.
When the vessel got to London bridge the pri-oner passed
into her from the Hull steam-packet, which lay alongside,
walked crier to the lady who prosecuted, raised her gown aati
put his hand into her pocket. Witness immediately tack the
prisoner into custody, and found upon him a half sovereign, four
*billings, IS ad a halfpenny with a hole in it.
Sir J. Pliem—Well, prisoner, I told you when I last saw
you that it would come to this.
The prisoner—Never. I never saw you in my life before.
Sir J. Putt,—Why, you have not even changed your name,
remarkaHe as it is.
The prisoner—Can't recollect ever seeing you, nor being in
trouble afore.
Sir J. Plats—Perhaps you may know the principal turnkey
of the Compter, if you don't remember me. Gooch, come for-
ward. Do you know the prisoner? Gooch—He has been
tried at the Uki Bailey, and I have often had him under lock
and key.
The prisoner —Lord 1 Do you hear that ? Why, I'll be on
my oath I never saw either of you, and besides, that's my own
money that was took from me.
The husband of the lady showed extreme unwillingness to
allow his wife to prosecute, but Sir John Pirie insisted upon
binding him over to produce her at the trial, and commi,ted
the prisoner, after having highly commended the actiity and
cleverness of the policeman.
GUILDHALL.