The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Alfred Twelvetrees, blacking and ink manufacturer,
Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, to surrender Nov. 20 and
Dec. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basingliall-street ; Ashley, Old Jewry.
William Barkar, brewer, Hampstead-road, N0v.19 and
Dec. 18, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee, Sambrook-court; Chidley, Gresham-street ;
Mayhey, Argyle-place, Regent-street.
Thomas Walker, innkeeper, Keighley, Yorkshire, Nov.
23, and Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Terry and Watson, Brad-
ford ;Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Matthew Craig Norbury, joiner and builder, Chorlton-
upon-Medlock, Lancashire, Nov. 22, and Dec. 13, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman,
official assignee, Manchester • Slater, Manchester.
Charles Henry Paul Rawlings, timber merchant and
ironmonger, Mile-end, Portsea, Nov. 23 and Dec. 22, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assig-
nee, Aldermanbury ; Pownall, Son, and Cross, Staple-
inn • Edgcombe, Portsea,
Henry Wylde, music seller, New Cavendish-street,
Nov. 21 and Dec. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Chappell,
Golden-square.
George Parsons, brassfounder, Birmingham, Nov. 22 and
Dec. 20, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Corks,
Birmingham ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Anne Staveley, bookseller, Nottingham, Nov. 27 and
Dec. 18, at half-past ten, at Nottingham. Harris, official
assignee, Nottingham; Deverill, Nottingham.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 3d day of Nov., 1855.
IBBDE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ........ 24,741,320

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 10,741,320
Silver bu11i0n........ -

£24,741,320

£24,711,320
AIA./tSEIALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the Bth day of Nov., 18

°AIITMENT.

Proprietors' capi tat .. 14,553,000
Rest ..... 3,178,169
Public deposit C. (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
_ _

Government securities

pncludg.Doad Weight

10,201,276
Other securities ...... 18,355,54 S
Notes • • .• .......... 4,644,40
Gold and silver coin.. 558,314

lug's Banks, and
DiviilendlAccounts) 3,3 .9,981
Other deposits ...... 11,691,200
Seven I)ay and other
Bills ........ 964,250

£33,759,603
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Datod the Bth day of Nov., 1855.

£33,751,603

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Nov. 6,
1855, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Groat Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 37s. Sid.

,COURSE OF EXCHANOE.—Tnis DAT.

Amsterdam ............ 11 17%
Ditto, three months .. 11 15%
Rotterdam ............ 11 19.%
Antwerp .............. 25 6231
Brussels .... • ......... 25 62%
Elamburgh ............ 13 931
Pari5........ ........ 25 43
Ditto, three months .. 25 773
Marseilles ............. 25 b 0
Bourdeaux

Gibraltar •• •• •• ••
Leghorn .. . 30 15
Genoa ••...... 25 t•2;4
Aiilan
Venice •• ......
Naples . . 45
Palenno 1321.'2
Messina
Lisbon ......... •• .52 4,
Oporto ................ 53!3
Rio Janeiro ...... ••

Frankfort-on Maine.... 120%
Berlin
11 32
Trie5te........••••.... 11 34
Petersburg ............ 33%

Buenos Ayres ..... —
New York,6o days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICES or BITLIICN, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9

Madrid
Cadiz .......... ..... ..
Barcelona •• •• .• •..4 • •
Seville.. •• .. ........

Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 1134
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.

(From the Gazette of this Evening.)

Convention between her Majesty and the
,King of
Prussia, additional to the Convention concluded at
Berlin, May 13, 1846, for the Establishment of In-
ternational Copyright, Signed at London, in the
English and German Languages, June 14, 1855.
[Ratifications exchanged at London, August 13, 1855.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia, as well in his own name as in
that of his Majesty the King of Saxony, his Royal High-
ness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Brunswick, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, his Serene Highness the
Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, his Serene High-
ness the Prince of Schwarsburg-Sondershausen, his
Serene Highness the Prince of Reuss (elder
branch), and his Serene Highness the Prince of
Reuss (younger branch,) on the other part, being
desirous of extending the scope of the Convention
which was concluded betweeen their said
is toMajesties
at Berlin on the 13th of May, 1846, for the re
%
procal[protection of copyright, have resolved to conclude
an an additional Convention for that purpose, a
named as their respective Plenipotentiaries ; thatn

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say: dom of
onourableßaroll Hydereor g
o Cef
Her Majesty the Queen of the United
H King ,
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right
William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon,
dom, a Member of
llindon, a Peer of the United King
able Privy Council,
her Britannic Majesty's
Order of the Garter, Knight
Knight of the Most Noble
Honourable Order of the
Most Honour
Grand Cross of the Most
Majesty's
Principal Secretary of
Bath, her Britannic:and the Right lionoui.
State for Foreign
BAaffroaniretanley of Alderley, a Peer
able Edward John, a Member of her Britannic
of the United Kingdom,TT onrale Privy Council, and Presi-
Majesty's Most
CommitteeHonourable
of Privy Council for Affairs of
dent of the
Plantations
.
Trade and Foreign
And his Majesty the King of 'Prussia, his Privy Coun-
cillorlain Albert Count of B
to
Knighternbtorff and Chamberlain, ~
Envoy Extraordinary anaM iif.ter Plenipotentiary
her Britannic Majesty,
Grand Cross of the Order
of the Red Eagle, and of the Orders for Civil Merit of
the
Bavarian Crown, of St. Januarius of the Two
S
jeilies, and of St. Stanislaus of Russia, Knight Com-
mander of the Order of Christ of Portugal ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their
respective full powers, found in good and due form,
have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :
ARTICLE I.
It is agreed that all books, prints, and drawings pub-
lished within the dominions of any other State that has
concluded or may conclude, or which has acceded or may
accede to, a Copyright Convention with Great Britain,
than, if exported from Prussia, Saxony, Saxe-Weimar,
Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Brunswick, Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, Anhalt-Bernburg,
Sehwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershau
osen,
c r Reuss
, be considered, for the purposes of this_
Conven-
tion, to have been exported from the country f their
publication,

ARTICLE .
The protection granted by thell Convention which was
concluded between the High Vontrauthag Parties on