The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

SPECULATION

This day was appointed for the final examination of the bank-
rupt, who has carried on a very extensive business as a tallow
merchant, melter, &c., and has had- dealings in the course 'of
the period he traded to the extent of from 8,000,000/. to
8,500,000/. His personal debts are between 8,0001. and
9,000!., and his assets, it is expected, will realize 2,6001.
Mr. Maynard, as Solicitor for the assignees, stated that he
had every reason to believe that the accounts contained in the
bankrupt's balance-sheet were satisfactory.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—Has the official assignee (Mr.
Johnson) .gone over them
The Official Assignee said, he had not entirely gone over
every item of the accounts, fur it would take him three months
to do se; it had already taken seven months to prepare them,
which preparation had been made under his inspection, and he
was sure the most rigid examination would not prkdoce one
farthing more assets to the estate, or make one shiiling dif-
ference in the assets. . •
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Mr. Richard Thornton, one of the trade assignees, was quite
satisfied with the accounts, and should, under the circumstances,
pray that the bankrupt be allowed to pass.
Mr. Commi,sioner Eva ICS—The accounts ought to be ex-
amined, but if you and the Official assignee are satisfied, I will
pars him. •
The bankrupt then, having answered the usual, interroga•
tories, was declared to have passed his last examination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MANSION-HOUSE.

Inspector Maclean, of the City Police force, came to the
Mansion house yesterday, while the Lord Mayor was engaged
at St. Paul's Cathedral, and told Mr. Hailer, the Clerk to his
Lordship, that he considered it to be his duty to communicate
what he knew of the former conduct of the person who was
charged with having attempted to assassinate her Majesty. It
occurred to him that he had taken John Francis into custody
upon a charge of robbery about a year ago, the moment he saw
the name and description of the accused, and he had since as-
certained beyond a doubt that his suspicions were well founded.
Upon reference to the charge-book kept at the station, held in
Ib4l, in Watling-street, he found the follov.ing entry.
Wednesday July 14, 1841.

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a John Francis, of No. 14, To tenham-court-road, vras
brought in by Inspector Alaclean, charged by Charles Mend-
ham, 86, Cannon-street, on suspicion of stealing a silk pursv,
thirty-two sovereigns, and four shillings, from a box in his
bedroom.

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"Property found on the prisoner—A purse, 7s. 6d., two
seals, and ring in a case, nine shirt studs, a knife, snuff-box, and
memorandum book.

" Description-18 years of age, five feet four high, dark eyes,
hair, and complexion.
" Sent to the Compter,
" To find bail, by order of the Lord Mayor."
Mr. nobler immediately referred to the boot in which he
entered the charges brought before the Lord Mayor, in the
year 1841, and found, under the date of Thursday the loth of
July, of that year, the following note of examination :
" John Francis (aged 19), in custody of Charles Maclean, In-
spector."
"Charles Mendham—l lodge atMr. Bailey's, No. $5, Cannon-
street. I have known the prisoner six weeks or two months.
Prisoner has called at my lodging. I had thirty-two sovereigns
in a portmanteau. On Monday morning it was safe, at eleven
o'clock. In the evening he was at my lodging, though he had
appointed to meet me at the West-end of the town.
" Harriet Hill, barmaid, at No. 65, Cannon• street, said, the
prisoner came in at half-past six o'clock on Monday. He asked
for Mr. Medium. I said, do you mean Mr. Mendham. I
went down stairs. Mr. Mendham lodged in the second floor,
front room.
" Charles Mendham—l had appointed to meet him at four, at
the Cambrian, Leicester-square.
" Catherine Sullivan (a servant in the'house)—l saw the pri-
soner on Monday last, but. cannot say the time. 1 met him in
the passage, arid he went up stairs.
" Maclean (Inspector)-1 took the prisoner in Great Newport-
street, and he said helm,' been six weeks out of work. He had
in his pocket seven shillings, anti he told me he ha I paid seven-
teen shillings at the Bagatelle place, and that he had bought a
a ring. The lock was forced off the portmanteau.
" Remanded till Saturday."
The following memorandum appeared in Mr. nobler's note-
book the Saturday following :

" Saturday, 17th July, 1841.
" John Francis (19) remanded from the 15th.
" Maclean (Inspector)—"l have nu fresh evidence.
" Prissner discharged.
Inspector M•Lean said, that as he thought it very probable
that Miss Hill, the bar-maid at No. 85, Cannon street, which
was a respectable coffee-house, knew the person of the young
man who was charged with having committed the robbery, he
accompanied her, on Wednesday evening, to Newgate, and, in
the presence of Sheriff Magnay, she immediately recognised
the prisoner, Juhn Francis, as the party who had been accused
by Mr. Mendham. The Inspector said that he also identified
the young man ; and added that, to the best of his recollection,
the suspicion that John Francis had committed the rubbery was
very strong, in consequence of the fact, that at the time the
meeting was to have taken place between the prisoner and Mr.
Mendham, the former was at this lodging of the latter, and had
gone up stairs to the bed-room, as was supposed, to wash his
hands. He (Inspector M'Lean) remembered, too, that he
went to the house or lodging of the prisoner's mother, at No
14, Tottenham-court-read, and searched his boxes, but found
nothing calculated to aid in the inquiry. The prisoner appeared
at this time to be in very indifferent circumstances, and
looked much worse than he appeared to be at present.

Mr. Hobler desired the Inspector to wait upon the Lord
Mayor, and communicate to his Lordship everything he could
collect upon the subject of the former conduct and character of
the prisoner. He (Mr. Hohier) had some recollection of the
charge of robbery against John Francis, which could not he
sustained by such evidence as would have justified the Lord
Mayor in committing the prisfiner to Newgate, but he believed
there was strong suspicion that the accused committed the
robbery.
Inspector Maclean said that he was to see Mr. Mendham that
evening, and that on Friday he should communicate to his
Lordship everything he could ascertain relative to the prisoner,
who, no doubt, was the John Francis now in Newgate for shoot-
ing at the Queen.
WORSHIP-STREET.

CURIOUS CASE.—A MAN CHARGED WITH STEALING HIS
OWN HORSE.— Thomas King, a coach-bui der, living at Ho-
merton, was finally examined before Mr. Bingham, upon a
charge of having stolen a back pony, alleged to be the pro-
perty of Mr. Thomas Feathers, a master tailor, in Bunhill-row.
On the proceeding day the prisoner was summoned before
Mr. Bingham, to answer a charge of unlawfully obtaining the
pony, when it appeared in evidence that on the 2d April last
the prisoner applied to the prosecutor for the loan of 51., and
agreed to deliver his pony to the latter as a security for the
repayment of the money. A document was accordingly pre-
pared, and signed by the priscner, by which the prosecutor
was authorised to keep possession of the pony for five weeks,
and to sell it at the expiration of that time if the loan and ex-
penses, amounting together to 6/. 55., should remain unpaid.
Upon reviving the pony, the prosecutor placed it at a livery sta-
ble in Bunhill-row, where it remained until the 23d ult.,
when it was discovered that it had been secretly removed from
the stable during the night. Having reason to suspect that
the pr toner had reposseesed himself of the, pony, although he
had failed to repay the borrowed money, the prosecutor pro.
ceeded to his residence, with Serjcaut Brennan and Redmond
of the G divi ion ; and on being questioned respecting it, the
prisoner admitted that he had the pony, and added, that there
could be no theft, it. being his own property, and he was re-
solved to keep it. The prosecutor abstained from giving him
into custody, and took out a summons against him ; but the
Magistrate, on hearing the evidence, considered it sufficiently
strong to support the charge of felony, and the prisoner was
accordingly placed at the bar, and after an examination was
remanded upon bail until this day.
Inspector Shackell now stated that, after the conclusion of
yesterday's proceedings the prosecutor's brother, accompanied
by Sergeant Brennan and a policeman, repaired to the pri-
soner's stables, where they found the pony, which they brought
away; but as they were returning home, they were stopped by
the prisoner, who gave them into custody. On reaching the
station• house, the prisoner insisted upon charging them with
breaking into his premises, and stealing the horse, and they
were now present to answer the charge.
Robert Feathers, Sergeant Brennan, and Policeman Smith,
were then ranged in front of the bar, and the prisoner King
entered the witness-box.
King stated that he met the prisoners with his horse in their
possession, and as they broke open his stable door, in order to

take it out, he charged them with house-breaking, and horse-

stealing.
Mr. BINCHAM—Is it the same horse that you were re-
Mr.
on a charge of stealing? The prisoner answers(' in

the affirmative.
Mr. BING nem—Then I dismiss your complaint.
the
ansi
chief
e.
The prisoner was afterwards placed at the bar,
depositions against him were read over by Mr. Vine the
clerk.
A solicitor who attended for him cross-examined the pro-
secutor, who admitted that before the expiration of the 6,”s
weeks the prisoner and another person called upon him w
no
ith
the intention, he believed, of redeeming the horse, but that
money was tendered.
The solicitor contendcd that the charge of felony
to the ground, the prosecutor having merely a lien ou the horse,
and the absolute ownership being retained by the prisoner. .4
The MAGISTRATE said that the prosecutor had a Frcl.t
property in the horse as long as the money for which he kept t
as a security remained unpaid ; but as he inclined to the op..lll°°
that the prisoner had acted rather from perversity of snag'
ment than a felonious design, he should allow him an 01per.
tunity of making an amicable settlement. long
The parties retired into a private room, and after a
conference it was intimated to the Magistrate that a satisfee
tory arrangement had been effected. must fall
Tl.c prisoner was accordingly discharged.
MARLBOHt,UGB-STREET.
EARLY DEPRAVITY.—EIiza Suet!, a good-looking fOrl'
who, althoueh only lb years of age, was far advanned in prer
nanev, Baas placed at the bar, charged with robbing her late
employer, Mrs. Haynes, of No. lb, New Bond-street, milliner:
&c., of a quantity of valuable artificial flowers, lace, seine_
&e. From the statement of the prosecutrix, it appeared 64;
the prisoner haft. been employed a few days in heed
establishment as an assistant, but was discharg
about three weeks since. During the svhole t'wet
she lived there, valuable articles were daily missed, bel
although all the assistants in their turns had been question
the
no clue as to who was the thief had been discovered, 1061 .
previous afternoon, when from information she had reedy
she caused the prisoner to te taken into custody
Inspector Plume of the C division, iu whose presen
she immedi,tely confessed that she had began rhod,„err,.
leg her mistress the very day she entered her
She
vice, and it deed only about an hour afterwards•
also admitted that the stolen property was concealed at es,
mother's house, and on inspector Plume proceeding there,
e'
compareed by the prisoner, she took from different bas
'in:
drawers, &c. articles of various descriptions, to the an'°v
of about 401., which Mr. Haynes identified to be the prepee,
he had issed.
Tile prisoner, who wept bitterly, confessed she bad anal
the different articles, and was committed to Newgate for to& •
U. N./0 HAL L. oca
CaIUGGLING.—Pierre Lavalette, a Frenchman, was dare
with smuggling.
A policeman stated that he met the defendant in Teolere
street, and seeing that he looked very bulky about the WVe
stopped him, and on searching him found that he had ,ev
bladders of French brandy concealed underneath his elothes.
The elicitor to the Customs stated that the bladders CL):
tained two gallons, that it was purchased in France at Js:;
gallon, and sold here at 3:s. a gallon. He added that smugel'b;
was carried on to a considerable extent by the crews °I t
small French coasting-vessels.
The defendant said that he arrived on the previous day frai'
Gravelines, and that he was taking the brandy to a friend. ej,
He was fined lON.. and in default of payment was condsitt

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

fi'
POhTsMOUTII, JUNE 2ue ,
.—The Actaeon, 26, may u et.
pected to arrive from the Brazils about the end of June. ''t of
ters from her of the 25th February state that her freigh no
dollars and gold bars would amount to nearly two millioe
she was then at Sans Bias, and was to touch at all the north '
ports, leaving Rio de Janeira for England.
The only vessel at Plymouth fitting for foreign service is
.<
brig Philomcl, 10, Commander Sullivan, destined to roc'.
to the South American station, on surveying service. ~,s1
The Winchester, 52, Captain Eden, will be paid the n'ioo
advance of wages on Thursday, and proceed in the cdsutos
week to the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve the Southalre.'
frigate. Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, with his 6e
tare, Mr. Dyer, have arrived here.
'the Talbot, 26, Captain Sir Thomas Thompson, Bartdek
Cleopatra, 26, Captain C. Wyvil, are rapidly getting lo'n,ol
at Chatham. Several of the crews of the Benbow and Ce'"
have joined those ships. f rIV
The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. Sartorius, destined () 0,
Brazil, remains ready for departure in Plymouth Sound, Ord
ing further orders. .It is. said she will take out a new C°
for Bahia.. 501
The Immo, 72, it being. proceeded with, in order to be tbe
1 to Jamaica, to receive the broad endant of Commotler,e,,ot.
I Hon. H. Ilyng, as a receiving ship,. in lieu of the Magnille:', to
The Dee is preparing at Woolivich as a steam trade tiny
be commanded by Mr. Thomas Driver, master, R.N., des
by
Theo
Fly, IS, rt to take
Captai n troop to C
Priceanadaßlackwood, with he. r atf(o
ef
tender, Bramble, 10, arrived in Funchal Roads, Madei eradool
the 20th April, and left again on the 24th, for the Cape of ,
Hope and Torres Straits, on a voyage of 'discovery. 00
The brig tender, Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Paulson, has retnrd is
from the Sussex coast to re-victual, having been employe
protecting the fishery in that quarter. . eaes
The cutter Sylvia, Commander Sherringham, has pre°
on surveying service, off the adjacent coast. .
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'1 he President, 52, is ordered to be docked and surve)e`
ascertain her fitness for -commissioning. too
The Crocodile, 26, tr reoop-ship, Mr. Elson, master, bas apa
her orders countermanded, and is now to go to Helifsl
Quebre. a f'f
The Columbia steam-vessel is ordered to be prePareyolie
commission, by Captain W. Owen, for surveying service 0.- '
coast of Ireland.
At Spithead—Crocodle. Geed
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory. Excellent, Royal
yacht, 'Winchester Albatrpss, Satellite, Echo, Volcan°'
1 Nautilus.—Brighton Gazette.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
Lonnon, JUNE 2.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W. ybinie
STANDGATE CREEK, June Colburete,
Constantinople.
SHEERNESS, JUNE I.—Sid. Waterloo, Sydney.
rd. I."l°'
Dy,em., JUNE I.—Wind S.W., mcgerate.—.Ar . RitirP
Gre China rin ; Ann, Monden, Tidad. Arrd• from the
Integrity, for Sierra Leone.
BRISTOL, MAY 31.—Arrd. Ann, Champion, Leghorniet,,
POILTSMOUTH', Juice I.—Wind S. S. W.-- Arrd.
borough, London, for Madras; Toronto, London, for ew :per
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE Clyde, steamer, Barb+A,4lo
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 1.1-- Wind variable.—Sailed tbe don
(steamer), Marseilles. Arrd. Blanchard, Plyo'
for Rotterdam; Montrose, Danse, St. John's; Wtn , jog
derick, Hindmarsh, Sydney, New South Wales; Catb`r
Sandiman, Torra Vecchia, for the Baltic. krttV.
FALMOUTH, MAY 31.—Wind S. S. W. to S., moderate'stro:
Perronet, Mitchel, Port-au-Prince. Arrd. off -- Sur') se
Duncan, Ceylon, sailed Feb. 6, from the Ca.ps March ,
St. Helena, April 5. Cr.,
Livearoot, JUNE I.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd dot
rolina, Crawford, Mobile ; ;Sesostris, M'Kenzie. New o'sr
with loss of wizen-mast and main-topmast ; Gondola,
wick, Leghorn ; St. Mary's, Whiteside, Jamaica, left Allifte
CORK, MAY 30.—Arrd. William Pitt, Pernambuco, 10
Video ; Lady Falkland, Baker, St. John 3, New 1511.05""
Alban, London for Quebec. Sld. Endymion, Quebec.
LONDONDERRY, .MAY 27.—Sid. Ann, Quebec. For
MACAO, ( China. )--Arrd. previous to 25th Januarl,
field, Whiteside, and to sail 26th January for London.

CORN AVERAGES
,ftri,:il
GENF.RAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISHv-orifoo
For the Week .ended May '27, 11342, made up from the Peons.,
the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tsiwns in Bog iii
Wales, per Imperial ()natter
Wheat 6ls. Clid. i Oats
Basler ',si. Ild I Rye
AVERAGES OF THE LA3ITsT.
V.'pek ending WHEAT. HARLEY. OATS. 1 RYE. REANI3. i li
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May 6 6 0 8 27 4 19 9 j 3.1 3, 31 ~... jl, 1
13 59 9 26 3 19 6i 91 3 31 v., 51'0
t 0 6l 11 25 1: 19 b, 32 4131 .: 0 1
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IMPERIAL AnnnEnATE AVERAGES OF THE FIX
.. .310 it
Wheat 6os. 9.t. 1 Oats ...,..... 19s. 5/1.1 Beans.... .. ..ii, 7.
Barley. 26.i. 9(1.1 Rye acs. 41,1 epase. ..... toev- .
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DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. . . OP. '
Wheat l2s. 0:I. j Oats
B uley los. Oct. I Bye -
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THE MARKETS.-YESTEIt- ,1.1 •
COLONIAL MARKET.
There was not mud' business done in the market, b 4:
were firm, and the quantity of produce pressed for fi
small. 'the imports were to a fair extent. Raw Se,
tained the previous value, but the trade operated with_ „d Ie
d
Coffee was firm and in request. Ceylon good and fine '
at 71s. to 775. per cwt. Rum less in request.
TEA MARKET.
A fair business was done in Free Trade Tea at full r
~
the Market was firmer. Company's Congou, Is. Bd., ,f'
TALLOW MARKET.
,i_ sfe.
There were few buyers, prices kept up, and 486. u'r_ ,'
value of P.Y. C. on the spot,. and 495. for delivery 01 7-i"
three months of the year.
WHITECHAPEL. ' --
There was a good supply of Hay and Clover, with 0:.
rand for the fine and middling qualities ; ordinary 60.4_,„A.
in request. Of Straw a better supply, and the deurvitiT
Clover, first cut, 2/. 105. to N. 3s. ; Meadow Hay, P:',.. 1;
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41.; Straw, 1/. 10s. to IL 14s.

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Ship arrived since
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last manet.day, fS

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Bell, Robson k Co. Hartley 16 9,
Carr's Hartley
Holywell Main
Nelson's West Hartley l7
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Ord's liedheugh l4 6
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Walls End Wharncliffb l7 6
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We learn from Berlin that, on the 15th •1
axletree of the four-wheeled engine, the Hecla, w11,.„1";so_:' ~
on the Berlin and Dessau railroad, broke down b1.",b..i.
and Lackenwalde, but. fortunately the 'fleets of "with rjr.
not extend beyond the tender and live waggons, wii.,bit
which followed the locomotive, and they were onlY s:;', 1101
malted. Th.--carriages, in which were the passeolr utt Otiv
receive the slightest injury. Another engine was P 00
the whols train was br .ught safe to Berlin.
The ancient Hotel de Sens, in the quart. ler N
Paul, has been purchased by the city of Paris, to 07.04.,
as a national 'monument, as being the only edi6e
el. V
bearing the characteristics of the old feudal tinl
.ii,.oi
or
longed to the Archbishops of Sens, and was purcho„" A .
Liam of Melun, in 1363, by Charles V., for the pun
larging his Hotel St. Paul. It was, however, tetr.o ,' . •
beginning of the fifteenrh century, by Tristan de
bishop of Sens, and has ever since remained as it. ou , ,

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BIRTH.
On the Ist inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Robert Se
daughter.

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MARRIED. . to
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On the Ist inst., Abraham Levy, Esq., of Pari'lo'f*" a,
line, youngest daughter of Hymen Cohen, Es ti" iti, 7
street. ode*
Rev. Edward- Quenby Ashby', Rector of Du C$
Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. H. Palmer, °f '' sti°
Leicet4, r. _hill, ;
At Kennington. J. Smith Faithfull, of Berne th.
to Catherine, daughter of Mr. J. Barton, of Law"

On the 428th ult., at Brom-Dwilchl‘Hlio.use, Pl°
Bate, of the Promenade, Cheltenham widow of t"- • C,
Bate, Esq., of the Circus, Itath.' riigesjl/11,°;
On the 31st ult., in Trinity College, C4°2l' 0° for
Jo.eph Monkhouse, a Westmister scholar on that f°,
r .
On the ‘2.9th ult., Willoughby W• • B
William 0
years Under Secretary
to the Marine Society. „4.9 i
Worcester.lo
London: Printed old PublithA I:y flp()ij ,tol‘ •
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the County of Middlesex, Friday/ June "- 1