The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-11 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Patrick Fenn, linen-draper, Camden-town, to surrender
May 19 and June 22, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Lumley, Ludgate-street.
George Bell, tailor, Holland-street, Brixton, May 19 at
one, and June 22 at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Preston, South-
ampton-buildings..

John George 'Clans, merchant and shipowner, Liverpool,
May 25 and June 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Lowndes, Ro-
bertson, and Bateson, Liverpool
James Dalton, emery grinder, Newton Heath, near
Ma.chester, May 21 and J une 13, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manches-
ter; J. and B. Whitworth, Manchester.

Charles Cotidrun, silk manufacturer, Macclesfield, May
2.2, and June 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District
C,,urt. Putt, otikial assignee, Manchester; Higginbotham,
Macclesfield.

John L.,ft,s, printer and publisher, St• and, May 22 ani
June 19, at two, at the Court of B Lukruptcy. Graham,
official assignee ; Marsden, Size-lane.
Thomas Grist, clothier and, woollen draper, Salisbury,
May 18, at half-past one, and June 19, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Sole,
Turner, and Turner, Alderthanbury, LarnLert And Norton,
Salisbury.
Morgan Evans, grocer, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, May
23, at ten, and June 19, at eleven, at the Bristol District
CourL Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Gir-
ling, Bristol.

isavid Davies, jun., railway contractor, Neath, Glamor-
ganshire, May 28, and June 2 , at eleven, at the BriAol
District Court. Acrainan, Bristol; Grover, Cardiff;
Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
William Powell, linen draper, York, May 23, at half-
pest eleven, and June 19, at eleven, at the Lee Is District
C,,urt. Hope, official as4gnee, Leeds; Mason, York;
Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds.
John Areradt 11.2gestailt, licensed victualler, Kingston-
upon-Hull, May 3(1 and June 27, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Welke?,
Hull.

Robert Thomas and James Innes, drysalters, Manches-
ter, May 22 and June 11, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester;
Brown, Chester; Goulden, Manchester.
(Mat iea Greene, stationer, Charringlon-street, St. Pan.
eras, May 21, at half-past one, and June 19, at one, at the
Court of RAnkruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Ablerman•
bury; Diun, Great Knight Rider-street, Doctors'-com-
mons.

E Twin Stanley Brookes, hosier, Loughborough, May 22,
and June 12, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Inglesant, Lough•
boroual.
Wi.liv,m Jackson, woollen cloth manufacturer, late of
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, May 22, at half-past one, and June
19, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds ; Bruce and Butler, Leeds.
John Ritching, grocer, Clayton, Bra iforcl, May 24 and
June 22, at ekven, at the'Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds; Lees, Bradford; Bond and Bar-
wick, Leeds.

Alexander John Heath, boot and shoe maker, Glouces-
ter, May 25 and Juno 2 ,' ut eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Smallridge,
Gloucester.

John Brooks, wine and spirit merchant, Weston-super-
Mare, Somersetstdre, May 23 and June 19, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bris-
tol ; Crafter, Blackfriars-road, Southwark.

William Jefferson and Thomas Dixon, alkali manufac-
turers, Jarrow, Durham. May 18, and June 22, at eleven,
at the. Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, offi-
cial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hartley, Blooms-
bury ; Brignall, Durham.

Williana-Cockell, licensed victualler, Battersea, May 21.
and June at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
officiAl assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Futvoye, Sawtell,
and Lightfoot, John-street, Bedford-row.
John Elsdon, ship owner, Church-row, Limehouse, May
21, at two, and June 19, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ;
Lowless and Nelson, Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street.

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SCOTCHSEQUESTRATION.
Donald Fraser, junior, ironmonger,in Inverness—Cretli-
tor', meet in the Caledonian Hotel there, 231 May, at
twelve o'clock.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act '
the Week ending on Saturd,

ENGLAND,
'th and Sth Victoria, cap 32, for
Ly the sth day of May, 185 h
ENT.

ISSUE DEP,
Notes Issnei ........ 28,911,030

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...... 2,9 s 1,900
Gold coin and bullion 14,911,030
Silver bubi0n........

£28,911,030

£2,,911,03a
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier

Dated the 11Ith day of May. lsi

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14.553,000
Rest „, .„ 3,136,435
Public deposits tin-
eluding Exchequer.
. .

I'ARTMENT.

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) . .:.. 13 591,373
Other securities 12,721 050
Notes .... ........., 8,742 G 0
Gold and silver coin .. 7L8,189

Commissioners' of
N at onal Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 4,337,590
Ot'ier depoihs ...... 12,6,5,651
Seven Day and other

Bills ..:..... ... . 1,090,5361

£35,763,212 M £; 5,763,212
M. MARSHALL, Chief La.bler.
Dated the nth day of May, 1855.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Puice of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May 8,
1853, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 2os. 111 d.
Mauritius
ft East Indies l7s. 04d.
The average price of the three foregoing descriptions of
Sugar, computed as above, is 20s. Bd. per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-THIS DAY."
Amsterdam 11 IS% Gibraltar .. ••• • • •
Ditto, three months .. 12 014 Leghorn .. •• • • .... .•• 30 27%
Rotterdam 12 r % tienoa .. 25 57%
Antwerp •• 25 42% Milan ...• •••••• • • • • • •
Brussels .............. 25 425 Venice • • ......
. 13 7% Naples •••• • • • • ...... • • 4'%
ilamburgh • • • • • • • • .• •
Altona •• •••••••• •• • • Palermo .•••••• • • • • • •• 131%
Paris .• •• •• • • •••••• • • 25 22% Messina •• • ... 131 N
Ditto, three months .. 25 42% Lisbon
Marseilles ............. 25 45 Oporto .............. • • 54%
Bourdeaux .. • ........ Rio Janeiro ..... .• • ....
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 11914 Buenos Ayre5..........
Berlin •• .• New York,6o days' sight
Vienna • • 12 50 Philadelphia ...
•• .• .. 12 52 PRICES OF BULIICN, PER OZ.
Petersburg 35_, Foreign Goli in Bars £3 17 9

Madrid -
Cadiz ........
itarcelona ............

Portimal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Merean Dollars .... 0 4 11 34
New Dollars 0 0 0
diver in bars . . 0 5 14

ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

NAPLES, May 2.—Everything in Naples is for the
present extinvnisihed by one great fact—the eruption of
Vesuvius. King, Ministers, and policemen, in their
several spheres, are all scorched and shrivelled up into
nothingness. We have been expecting and longing for
it for some time. The wells at Resina had been dried
up. More than once since 1850, the mountain has

thundered and smoked, and in the beginning of the
year a portion of the crater fell in. Great numbers
of strangers have, therefore, waited till very late in the
season, in the hope of seeing this extraordinary spec.
ta-Ae, and have ju,t taken their leave, when the moun-
tain, as in " dispetto," breaks out. The principal guide,
*ho is called C.zzalino, reported on the morning of
the let May that he had just ascended the mountain,
and that on arriving at the summit there were a
thousand reports as of cannon, and then was thrown
up a discharge of red-hot stones. The rain and mist,

ar,d smoke, however, all mingling together, prevented a
near approach or nearer observation, and we are, there-
fore, for the present, left to our una;d-d observations.
During the whole of yesterday nothing was to be seen
but smoke and c'dmid, which enveloped not on'y the
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mountain but the whole coast, and then swept away in
immense volumes, towards Capri. As evening came on
the heavens were: in a bright glow, and the whole popu•
lation flock ed down to the mole of Santa Lucia, to see
the magnifitient spectacle. The mountain was indis-
guishable ; nothing was to be seen but clouds,
smoke, and fire. Up to the very zenith the sky was
covered with large bulbous clouds, black as ink, and
fringed with white ; underneath, and half-way down the
mm ntain, everything was on fire, whilst right in the
centre of it s hot up a cove of black smoke. Still lower
again, dark c clouds covered the base of the mountain,
having, too, is their centre-piece and contrast the river
of lava which is running down towards Resins. During
the whole of last night there was a. perfect procession
of carriages towards Regina. I contented myself
with remainii ig here for the first view, but probably
shall go over t o-night, and will send you father details
by Saturday's boat. The scene was rendered still
grander by an eclipse of the moon, which took place
about two hou re and a half after midnight.
A report is circulated that his Majesty was shot at
on the last dr ty of the late review at Capu. It is said
that the passed near enough to be heard. The fact
I doubt. What is, certain is, that the king immediately
after broke. up the camp. For a punishment the
whole rem wait was sent back to Naples on foot,
instead of returning, as u-ual, by railway. On
Monday la it a large Piedmontese steatn-frigate, laden
with troops , came nearly into port, and after rraltme•the
round of th shore went off again. The Sardinian colours
were flying, a nd the band was playing the national air.
General .742,e„ 'era was, it is added, on board. There
was no com:murn 'cation with the &Jere. Thi demonstra-
Coe is
thein 'niarkable at the present ',en t when
the Con•1-7;r oeernerrite!, ',.if.Nuaaplers, and
the co
Genoat hair
ie
just
deprived of his , „ritu
e tiler
canticle speaks of th 3
:ionduct of the Consul as daar-
ing the two countries . to Fie in a state of war.

A SEA SERPENT.— .The Nevi York Courier, in a tel
graphic despatch ft.( em Philaielphia, d.tted April 19
rays, "A de:patch r p.c,,ived here from Cape May says'
that a sea serpent, 1 00 feet long, Was seen Viere yester-
day. An expedition has gone in pursuit of him. A re-
ward of 1000 dollars has been offered for his capture."
The Plethnontese 1 2,7zette of the 7th announces that
ay,reeatily to the con, rt ntions stipulated by France aid
England, the Cover, tent 4 of Vio,e cooritrius have sent
orders for provi:ing t! re Piedniontee trno) , on the r
arrival at Constami p ( iple, with the necessary provisiots
and medicines, and • Co r their admission into the hospitals
of the Allies. _

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