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

TIRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1842,

maturity had been dishonoured ; upon -which the
plaintiff, who is a Sheriff's officer, and an extensive
bill, discounter, issued process, and ultimately obtained
judgment. After various negotiations between the
parties, the plaintiff consented to take the present bill
in lieu of judgment ; and it was to recover the amount
of this bill that the action was now brought. The
allegation on the part of the defendants was, that
the bill had been signed by the defendant Pyne without
the authority of his partner Richards.
Mr. Platt and -Mr. Humfiies appeared for the
plaintiff's, and Mr. Kelly for the defendants.
Two sons of the plaintiff proved that there had
been various bill transactions between their father and
the defendants, and that Pyne had frequently attached
to those bills the name of the firm.
Charles Lewis, the attorney in the case, stated that
the promissory- note had been received from Pyne.
He had brought the action against Pyne and Richards
and received judgment. Ile was pressing for pay-
ment, and was threatening to take the three parties to
the bill execution of the judgment. :He was, however, in-
duced to accept the present bill in lieu of the jugment
against them. The bill was brought to him by Pyße ;
but he had seen Richards the day after, who expressed
his gratification that the matter had been so settled.
Upon hearing this statement, the Counsel fir the
defendants intimated that they should press the case
no farther, as it clearly showed that Richards was a
consenting party to ,the arrangement that had been
made.
A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff for the
420 i.
A further verdict was entered for the plaintiff in
the sum of 8201., the amount of another promissory
note ; the evidence, which was not entered into, being,
it was understood, exactly the same as in the other case.

GREENHI THE PIER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. •
Mr. Charles Bayiy's compliments to the Edi-
tor of The Evening Sun, end, as a Director of the
Greenhithe Pier Company, he begs to correct an error
which occurs in the notice of the opening of the Pier,
contained in The Sun of the sth instant., in respect of
the names of the engineers who have designed and
executed the work. Those names should have been
Messrs. Birch, and not Bush—the gentleman con-
nected with the " Light of All Nations" having
nothing to do with this Pier. Mr. Bub-, therefore,
trusts that the Editor will correct the mistake, as a
measure of justice to Messrs. Birch, to whom alone
any merit attached to this structure is due.
Knockholt Lodge, near Greenhithe, Nov. 11.
[The error must have been committed by the
printer mistaking "Bush" for "Birch."—ED. Sun.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

INDIAN DISPATCHES.
(In Continuation of the Dispatches from India, published
in the Gazette of the Bth inst.)
NOTIFICATION.
Simla, Sept. 13, 1842.
The Governor-General of India is pleased to direct
the publication of the following copies of a letter from
Major• General Pollock, C. 8., dated Aug. 26, and its
inclosure, in continuation of his dispatch of the 25th
ult., published in General Orders of the 4th inst.
By order, &C.,
T. H. Mannocx, Secretary to the Government of
India, with the Governor-General.
FROM MAJOR-GENERAL POLLOCK, CB., COMMANDING IN
AFFGHANISTAN, TO T.H. MADDOCK , ESQ., SECRETARY
TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Camp, Main moo Khail, Aux. 26, 1842.
Sir,—l have the honour to forward, for the in-
formation of the light Honourable the Gover-
nor-General of India, a copy of a letter from
Major-General J. M`Caskill, K.H., commanding the
infantry division, transmitting a copy of a letter from
Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, K.H., commanding her Ma-
ji•sty's 9th foot, regarding the omission of the name of an
officer in the report yesterday forwarded to you. I shall
feel gratified if this omission can be rectified.
I have, &c.,
G. POLLOCK, Major-General,
Commanding in Atighanistan.
FROM LIEUTENANT-COLONEL A. B. TAYLOR, HER MA-
JESTY'S 9TH FOOT, TO CAPTAIN HAVELOCK, DE-
PUTY ASSISTANT-ADJUTANT-GENERAL.
Camp, Mammoo Khail. Aug. 26, 1842.
Sir,—ln my report of yesterday's date to you, for the
infw mation of Major-General M`Caskill, K. H.,
commanding the troops engaged on the hills and
in front of Kooclee Khail, on the 24th instant, with
the enemy, I beg to observe, that I have inadver-
tently omitted to mention that Captain Taylor, of the 26th
native infantry, was in command of that portion of the
force, consisting of two companies of the 2Gth native infan-
try, half a company of her Majesty's 9th foot, and about
30 or 40 sappers, which were so warmly engaged during
the day in defence of the left of our position, when mucn
pressed by, the enemy retiring before Brigadier Tulloch's
column. Those troops behaved with great spirit and
gallantry ; and Captain Taylor deserves every praise for
his zeal and exertions on the occasion.
I have, &c. B. B. TAYLOR,
Lieutenant-Colonel, 9th Foot.

Erratum in the Gazette of the Bth instant—ln the
letter from Major-General Pollock, dated August 25,
1842, for Captain Ponsonby, Assistant- Adjutant- G ene-
ral ; Captain Lane, Commissary of Ordnance ; read,
Captain Ponsonby, Assistant Adjutant-General ; Captain
Macadam, Deputy Judge Advocate General ; Captain
Lane, Commissary of Ordnance.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, OCT. 31.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of
Lord Forester, to appoint James Matthias Gilbertson,
Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentle-
men-at-Arms, vice Walsh, retired.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 8.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of
Union to be made use of in place of the Great Seal of
Scotland, granting the office of her Majesty's Solicitor-
General for Scotland to Adam Anderson, Esq., Advocate.
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of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Bodman'
Queen-street, Cheapside.
GEORGE TALBOT KNOWLES, cotton spinner,
Manchester, Dec. 7, and 93, at two, at the Commission-
er'-rooms, Manchester. Messrs. Baxter, Lincoln's.iim-
Fields, London ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester.
HANNAH CHARLTON, milliner, Regent-street,
Nov. 19, at half past ten, and Dec. 23, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard.
HENRY BUNDEY, builder, St. Marylebone, Nov.
22, at twelve, and Dec. 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Gray and Barry, Grove-place, Lisson-grove.
GEORGE JAMES MARSHALL and WILLIAM
CHARLES HALL, woollen-warehousemen, WooJ-
street, Cheapside, Nov. 22, at twelve, and Dec. 23, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Van Sandau and
Cumming, King-street, Cheapside.

FEROCIOUS STABBING NEAR
ELLESMERE, SHROPSHIRE.

(Abridged from the Shrewsbury News.)
A most barbarous and cowardly assault was per-
petrated in the neighbourhood of Ellesmere on the
evening of Wednesday last, by which two human
lives were nearly sacrificed, and .for which the mis-
creant is now awaiting his trial in our county gaol.
The circumstances, as far as we have been able to
ascertain, are as follow :
On the evening in question, the prisoner, whose
name is Edward Williams, and who was a sawyer,
and resided at Penley, near Ellesmere, and a party
of countrymen, among whom were the two sufferers,
Thomas Judson and Thomas Mason (both labouring
men), went to witness the performances of Van
Amburgh, who had pitched his tent in that town.
On their return home a quarrel took place between
the prisoner and Mason, in which the former made
use of violent imprecations, but no blows were struck.
Judson, who was a friend of the prisoner, seeing
him so much excited, endeavoured to persuade
him to go home peaceably, but he turned suddenly
round, and with a clasp knife stabbed his friend in
the lower part of the abdomen in so dreadful a
manner, that the bowels protruded from the wound.
The prisoner, undismayed by his first attack, in-
stantaneously inflicted two other stabs on the breast
of his victim, near the heart, the last of which would
undoubtedly have proved fatal, had not the knife
struck against one of his ribs. The prisoner then
inflicted a wound, about four inches long and half an
inch deep, at the back of the neck, and another severe
wound from the crown of the head to the forehead,
where the knife glanced against the bone. The hands
of Judson were also dreadfully lacerated in endea-
-1 vouring to parry the murderous thrusts which were
made at him by the prisoner.
Shortly after Judson had fallen to the ground, the
prisoner started on his way home, and vas followed
by Thomas Mason, who told him he was no man for
stabbing the wounded man in the cowardly manner
he had done, and for having made use of the knife at
all in a quarrel. The prisoner, without making any
reply, turned round, and stabbed Mason in the
stomach. ,Mason, the moment he found himself
stabbed, knocked the prisoner into a ditch, but he
jumped up immediately afterwards, and ran away ;
and while doing so was observed to throw something
away. The place was searched, and a knife was found
at a short distance from the spot where Mason was
stabbed. The knife is a clasp one, very sharp, and
the blade was much bent, supposed to be from
striking against the ribs of Judson. The cut in
Mason's thigh has divided the scrotum, and was within
an inch of the femoral artery.
The wounded man, Judson, was conveyed to the
house of Mr. Moseley, surgeon, who considered his
life to be in imminent danger, C. K. Mainwaring, the
nearest Magistrate, attended, and took down the depo-
sitions of the wounded man.
Williams was captured in Ellesmere the following
morning. He was taken the, same day before C. K.
Mainwaring, Esq., and fully committed to take his
trial at our next Assizes, on two distinct charges of
stabbing with intent to kill and maim. He is a very
powerful fellaw, standing upwards of six feet high,
and was taken to gaol on Saturday last.

THE SHIP CARPENTERS OF
LIVERPOOL

The scarcity of employment in the ship-building
yards of this town has for some time past been very
great, and we believe that it has recently increased, so
that in some instances the hands who have been for
years umployed in ene establishment, and who were
looked upon as the most steady and efficient workmen,
have at length been discharged. This deplorable state
of things seems to have driven the journeymen be-
longing to ,this town into the adoption of a foolish de-
termination to endeavourl)y all means in their power
to drive away from Liverpool all the ship-carpenters
who have served their time here. Yesterday, three
ship-earpehters applied to Mr. Rushton under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—They stated that whilst en-
gaged at their work on Saturday, in the graving docks,
several individuals belonging to the trade came to them,
and, stating that they (the men of Liverpool) had
come to the determination that no strangers should
hereafter be employed in the town, ordered them to
4' knock off work,' adding, " if you don't do it by
fair means, we'll make you do it by foul." The first
person thus served with this imperative order said that
he belonged to Chester, and that he remonstrated
with the men, and refused to leave work, whereupon
they threw stones and bricks at him. The second
was served in a similar way. In the third instance,
when the an was ordered to desist at once from
working, and the resolution of the trade made known
to him, he replied, "How can you call me a stranger,
when I have been twenty-seven years in the town ?"
The reply was, " Well, you have been here twenty-
seven years too long." He refused to comply with the
order, and was not then molested ; but subsequently,
a crowd of carpenters came, and threw a shower of
stones and bricks about his head. Mr. Rushton said
to one of the carpenters, " And do these men really
announce their determination to drive away every
stranger from the port ?" The answer was in the
affirmative. Mr. Rushton—What madness ! because
if they were to drive away all the people who are not
natives of the town, there would be very few left:'
As none of the parties throwing stones could be
identified, Mr. Rushton granted warrants for threat-
ening against the men who had ordered the appli-
cants to " knock off work," and said to the three
proscribed strangers, " Tell the ship-carpenters of
Liverpool that the end of this will be to involve
them m trouble, and to get many of them into gaol
for the Magistrates, they may depend upon it, will no
permit such proceedings as these."—Liverpool Times

The Countess of Norbury is passing the autumn at I i
Englefield Green.
EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.—It appears that a
teetotal soiree was held at Dungannon on Tuesday
evening, at which the Monaghan temperance band had
been invited to attend. While approaching the former
town, and at a short distance, accompanied by a crowd
of orderly and peaceable persons, they were met by
Lord Northland and Mr. Pole, on horseback, who in-
stantly, and in a most excited manner, commanded '
the musicians to cease playing. The conduct of the
Magistrates towards the crowd we shall not now
describe, but simply state, that two individuals were
-given into the custody of the police, without the
slightest provocation, one of whom was arbitrarily
sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment, for which he has
commenced legal proceedings. The soiree was sub-
sequently held at Mr. Fullam's greatrooms, and dur-
ing the night an Orange mob assembled opposite the
house, and commenced breaking the windows, and
shouting the usual party cries—" To hell with the
Pope," &c. Shots were also fired, and amongst
the outrages committed, Mrs. Kelly, the wife
of a tradesman, with her infant in her arms,
was struck in four places with brick-bats. The Artil-
lery, by orders of Lord Northland, were brought
from Charlemont to Dungannon. On the suggestion
of Mr. O'Farrell, a gentleman of the town, the people
have decided on memorialising Lord Charlemont, as
Lord Lieutenant of the county, to have a party of the
military stationed in Dungannon for their protection,
and to have some Liberal appointed to the com-
mission of the peace on whom they can rely.— Vindi-
cator of Saturday.
CouitAonous CONDVCt or A You L AbY.—Satur-
day evening last, between seven and eight, Mr. T.
Coulthard was driving home from Gateshead to Bill
Quay, accompanied by his sister Ann, aged lA. At
the same time the Royal George (Mr. Anthony Hut-
chinson's resuscitated Sunderland and Newcastle
coach) WRS returning from the former place; and nei-
ther the gig nor the coach being provided with lights,
they came into collision near the Felling-gate. Mr.
Coulthard was thrown from his seat The horse then
wheeled round and proceeded tutitinsiy batk to this
borough Miss Coulthard, with admirable presence of
mind, knelt down on the bottom of the gig and grasped
the splash-board. She was thus borne in safety through
the perils of a gallop dawn the 11;gh•street of Gates-
head, on a market night. The horse, she hoped, would
halt, by force of habit, at the door of the Black Bull
Inn ; but on it rushed ; and then; preserving her cool-
ness' she directed her efforts to the avoidance of
Bottle•bank. Happily this object was effected; she
turned the animal into Church-street, and onward it
galloped to the bridge, and which it passed in safety,
but, on reaching the Sandhill, ran against a horse and '
cart, and upset them both. The shock threw Miss
Coulthard upon the pavement, and liberated her bro-
ther's horse from the gig. The poor beast, with a
portion of the shafts rattling at his tail, broke the
windows of Mr. Wailes, grocer, and then ran forward
to Dean-street, where it was stopped. Miss Coulthard,
meanwhile rose up unhurt, and was soon rejoined by
her brother, who had followed in great haste, and
sorely afraikthat his sister would sustain some fearful
injury. Both the Royal George and its passengers
escaped the collision uninjured. The accident pro.
duced much excitement in our borough, and every
one rejoiced that Miss Coulthard was so providentially
preserved.—Gateshead Observer.
RAILWAYS.—The number of accidents on the rail-
ways of the United Kingdom, arising from causes
beyond the control of passengers, which occurred
in the year 1841, was 29, by which 24 persons
were killed and 72 injured. The number of
accidents which occurred in the same period to
individuals owing to their own negligence or mis-
conduct, was 36; by which 17 persons were killed
and 20 injured. The description given of the seve-
ral cases in this class affords proof of the extraordinary
recklessness of the individuals who have suffered.
" Jumped off after his hat" occurs no less than three
times ; . " jumped off," twelve times ; " run over,
crossing before a train," occurs six times. There are
I also several cases of persons killed whilst lying
' asleep on the rails, and of others killed or injured by
falling from trucks on which they had been riding
without leave.