The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY)

RE WALTERS.

The insolvent in this case carried on business as a currier and
leather-dresser in Stepney. The amount of debts and liabilities
appearing in his schedule exceeded 1,5001., and the available
assets were very trifling.
In his examination he attributed his insolvency to having
joined John Law, his brother-in-law in several bills of ex.,
change, soon after which he became bankrupt.
Several creditors opposed his petition in person, but the
amount of their debts was small, and the opposition without
any general interest.
The LEARNED COMMISSIONER said, although always anxious
to mark his disapprobation of the practice of accepting accom-
sr.oda! ion bills, yet in the present instance he did not think
the insolvent's conduct called for a remand.
The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged forthwith.
Several unopposed petitions were disposed of during the
morning, and the applicants discharged.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
William Lawrence, 18, carpenter, was indicted for breaking
into the dwelling-house of John Frederick Archbold, E. q., and
stealing one violin, and ether articles, value 81., his property.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor resided in
Park-street, Westminster. On the 3d March last, the pre-
mises were broken into and the articles named in the in-
dictment stolen therein. On the 13th of the same month,
the prisoner was discovered at six o'clock in the morning at-
tempting to get into the house of the prosecutor by means of
the scullery. The prisoner was observed by a policeman,
who immediately took him into custody, and on his being
searched at the station-house, pawnbrokers' duplicates were
found upon him for the articles stolen from the house of the
prosecutor on the night of the 3d of March.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
'1 he prisoner was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
James Johnson, 19, labourer, was indicted for stealing one
clock, value 10/., the property of James Egan, in his dwelling-
house. Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor's wife and
another witness, that the prisoner lived in Monmouth-street,
Seven-dials. On the 24th of March last the clock in question
was safe ie the house at six o'clock in the evening, and at eight it
was missing. It usually stood on a dresser in the parlour. On
the 29th, an officer; noticed the prisoner get out of a cab in
the neighbourhood of Monmouth-street, and hand a bag out
of the cab to another person. They went away with the bag,
and the officer followed them, ;sod on their observing him to
do so, they let the bag fall and ran' away. The officer cried
stop thief, and pursued the parties, but only succeeded in cap-
turing the prisoner. The bag was examined and found to con-
tain the clock missed by the prosecutor.
Mr. I3ALLANTINE addressed the Jury for the defence, eon-
tending that there was so direct evidence to prove that the pri-
ioner committed this robbery, consequently the indictment in
its then form could not be supported. It was for the Jury to
consider whether the offence named in that indictment had
been committed, and however guilty the prisoner might be in
another sense, it was not that they had to consider.
The COMMON-SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Several witnesses stepped forward after the verdict was re-
turned, and gave the prisoner an excellent character for
honesty. The witnesses had known him for a number of
years.— Sentence on the prisoner was deferred.
NEW COURT.
IN THE MATTER OF BARNARD GREGORY, ESQ.
Scon after the opening of the Court, Mr. Gregory, who
stands indiced for publishing in the Satirist newspaper a scan-
dalous libel of, and concerning the Queen and tier Consort,
appeared in Court in order to enter into recognkances to appear
to abide his trial at the next sessions, himself in the sum o
80/., and Messrs. Sangster and Ward in the sum of 40/. each,
The defendant put in a plea of Not Guilty, wnich was re.
corded by the Clerk of Arraigns.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BOW-STREET--(THIS DAY.)

A stiff looking little man was charged with creating a dis-
turbance in Wyld-street.
Police Constable F, 121, stated that on Saturday when on
duty in Wyld-street, he perceived the prisoner and another man
engaged in a wordy conflict relative to the quality of certain
baked " taturs" which the other man wm selling. Witness
watched the progress of the dispute, which soon waxed into a
furious storm ; high words passed, and to them, as is generally
the ease, blows succeeded, and they gave each other " plaguey
knocks"; witness now thought it high time for him to interfere
in his official cal acity as preserver of the peace, and he com-
manded the noble combatants to move on ; the baked-tatur
man nothing loth, immediately acquiesced in the command of
this " terror to evil doers" and exp; essed his readiness to obey ;
but in proportion as the baked-tatur man was quiet, the pri-
soner waxed more wroth, and when the baked-tatur man said
he would not fight any more, the prisoner grew most despe-
rately pugnacious, and said but he be d—d if he would not
tight." Under these circumstances witness deemed it his
duty to remove the bell'gerent little man to the station-
house, which he accordingly did, and the baked-tatur
man moved away in an opposite direction to pursue
his humble, but delightful occupation of administering
to the wants and comforts of the people by giving them two
baked taturs, a spoonful of salt, a dust o' pepper, and a scrapin'
o' butter, all for a penny.
The prisoner said that as he vos a goin' along Vyld-street he
see'd a man asellin o' baked taturs, vich, he felt rather peckish,
and he says to hiniself, I thinks I shou.d like a' tatur jest by
vay,of a treat. It vos Saturday night, and he didn't mind
spendin' a brown ; yell he called bout to the tatur man,-and be
says, " I say, old feller, gives a ha'penny tatur, I d,n't want
none o' yer buttir, so give us a prime un. Veil, yet. Vertship,
continued the prisoner, he gave me a tatur, and I tipped him the
brown, vich, yen I came to heat it, it vos all rotten in the
inside— varnt fit for no hanimdl to eat, much more a 'specable
man ; after I'd guy him the brown, too, and didn t have
no butter. Vell, nuflin no furder than that 'ere,- he comes up,
and he 'saultp.rne, and in course I returns the compliment,
vich the crusher cum up, and takes me to the station-house.
There vos rrothinlcno furder than that I assure you, Sir, vich
I got a vitness to prove.
James Wood was then called, but he did not at all improve
the prisoner's case. He said that he was going to buy some
taturs of a man with a can they called the " Nonpariel, when
the prisoner said. " Don't buy of him, they're rough 'uns."
'lha vendor of the ripe Irish fruit did'nt like to have his taturs
called down in that fashion, so he aced the prisoner what he
meant, prisoner replied not in the most gentle terms, and a
fight ensued, the policeman came up, ordered him on, prisoner
resisted, and was taken to the station-house.
Mr. HALL ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 55., or be
imprisoned four days.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
The entries for the Craven and Handicap Stakes, to be run
for to. morrow, closed this evening as follows
Craven Stakes.—Captain Daintree's b c, by Mulatto, dam
by Middleton, 3 yrs ; Mr. Oshaldeston's Mountain Sylph, 5
yrs ; Duke of Grafton's Florence, 4 yrs, Mr. Batson's 'Bar-
bara, 4 yrs ; Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yrs ; Mr.
Ford's Heads or Tails, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas-day, 3
yrs; Lord Albemarle's Minaret, 4 yrs.
Handicap. D.M.--Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Bst 321 b ; cby
Muley, dam by Actaeon, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Buffalo, 4 yrs, 7st
121 b ; Scarf, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ; c by Mundig, out of Thebes. 7st
7slbis;terLtiobpurenrs,o4is),3 y
yrs, 6rsst,
7st4l 41b.
41b; Tiptoe, 3 yrs, Est; Etherilda
(
Handicap, T.Y.C.—Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Mena-
lippe, ti yrs, 7st 1213 ; King of the Peak, 5 yrs, 7st 61b.
The Duke of Bedford's Mona colt and Lord Stradbroke's
Memima colt have paid forfeit for the Tivistock Stakes to-
Morrow, and both the Doke of Bedford's for their engagements
tin Tuesday.
A match is made for Wednesday, between John O'Gaunt,
Bst 121 b, and Fitzroy, 85t—T.51.111., 1001.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.
DEAL, APRIL 10.—Wind, N.E. by N., light.—Arrd. from
the River and sailed, Cuba, Barbadoes ; Funehae, Texas;
Forturiato, San Guiseppe, Pernambuco ; Mountaineer, Deme-
rara ; Quebec, New York; Elphinstone, Hobart Town ; Orion,
Quebec Fanny, Newfoundland; Diamond, Constantinople.
RAMSGATE, APRIL 9.—Sld. Maria, Frederick, Surinam.
LivEapoor., APRIL 9.—Wind S.S.E., fresh breeses.-
10. Wind S., light.—Arrd. Eve, Airth, Monte Video;
Windsor, Heaton, Ceara, sailed 24th Feb. Sailed Querida,
Manilla ; Blackaver, Jamaica • Dublin, Philadelphia ; Me-
dora, Charleston; Laurel, Splendid, Science, and Themis,
New York ; G:enlyon, Aberdeen, and John, Quebec ; Airey,
James Reddin Thoburn, Henry Muir, and Alpha, Montreal;
Lena, Halifax ; Lady Constable, Hal fax ; Active, Sydney,
Cape Breton ; Pero, Newfoundland; Pumstead, Constanti-
nople ; Black Eyed Susan,. Ancona ; Wingfield, Calcutta ;
Venus, Lima ; Apparition, Lake Guayra; Elizabeth, do. ;
James, Berbice ; Hand of Providence, Odessa; Conquest and
Beccles, Smyrna ; Norden and Sophia, Trieste ; Petetseau,
Leghorn ; Regina, Constantinople.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 9. —Sid. Liverpool st., Gibraltar.
Pool., Aran 10.—S1d. Vere, Quebec, Samuel and Eliza,
and Mary, Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind E.—Arrd. Peterel, Read,
Ancona. And. off Garrnania, Havannah, for Bremen, William
Rippon, Sunderland, for Richibucto.
FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind N.E. to S.E.-9th. Wind
E. to E.S. E., strong breeze.—Arrd. Oriental steamer, Soy,
Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta, 28th, and Gibraltar, 3d inst. ;
Olga, Odessa; Mary Ann, Woodworth, Calcutta, sailed from
Algoa-Bay, Jan. 8. Sid. Skylark, Alicant. Arrd. off
Albertross. Haasnob, Batavia; Harriet, Munday, Jamaica ;
Robert Watt, Mason, Cadiz. Arrd. Brapnza (s.), Gibraltar,
left 31st ult., Cadiz Ist inst., Lisbon 4th, Oporto and Vigo 6th.
PENZANCE' APRIL B.—Arrd. Louise Elizabeth, with loss
of sails, boat, bulwarks, &c., and leaky. Arrd. off, Calder,
Arthur, Matanzas, sailed 25th Feb. ; Arab, Dalgarno, Ceylon;
Echo, Cormilsen, for Hamburgh. Sld. Antigua, Planter,
Antigua.
GLOUCESTER, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Pallas, Muncey, Ancona.
Std. Coblina, Quebec.
GUERNSEY, APRIL B.—Sld. Veritas, New York.
-JERSEY, APRIL 7.—Sld. Habnab, Bahia; Antelope, Per-
nambuco.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind E.N.E. to E. S.E. —lO.
E. N.E. to S. E. —Sid. Samarang, Madras. Arrd off, Eliza-
beth, Naples, with loss of bulwarks.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Sailed Elizabeth, Quebec.
BRISTOL, APRIL 10.—Sailed Emanuel, Quebec.
WIVENHOE, APRIL 9.—The Independente, Bovasor, from
Hamburgh to Havannah, has been brought in here leaky, and
with loss of rudder, &c., after being on the West Rocks.
WHITSTABLE, APRIL 10.—A ship's boat, marked " Bruns-
wick, of Hull, "I bonus Porter," has been picked up andbrought
in here, with broad.ide damaged.
POOLE, APRIL 9.—Sailed S au, Rumney, Quebec.
PADSTOW, APRIL B.—Sailed Bell, Quebec.
CORK, APRIL B.—Arrd. Mary Caroline, Liverpool, for St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Albion, Clyde, and Pallas, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Albion, Baltimore; and Do. Trusty,
Newfoundland.
WATERFORD, APRIL 7.—51,1. City of Waterford and Ann
Quebec; Bth, Brigand, Newfoundland. ,
ABERDEEN, APRIL 7.—Sld. Herwin and Robert M'Wil-
ham, Quebec.
LEITH, APRIL 7.—Sld. Elizabeth, Quebec.
SHIELDS, APRIL 7.—Sld. Cottager, Constantinople •
Countess of Westmoreland, Alexandria; British Hero, Montreal'.

SOCIETY OF ARTS.—AVe are glad to find that this
SJcietv is beginning to shake off the indolence under which it
was suffering for some time past, and that the members are
endeavouring to make it useful and interesting, as it ought to
be. There have been several instructive and amusing lectures
delivered there lately, and on -Wednesday next the 13th instant,
Mr. Edward Solly, jun., will give a lecture on the manufac-
ture of soap, to commence at 8 o'clock precisely. Each mem-
ber may introduce two friends.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house
yesterday, with the Dutch Dlail. -