The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 2.

Robert Hunt, late of Knightsbridge, shopkeeper,
was opposed by Mr. George Thomas Baxter, soap-
manufacturer, for a debt of 60/. •
Mr. Baxter st4ted, that the insolvent , had done
business with him for some time, and d;icing that
period had p.id him considerable sums of money.—
Ile had been in the habit of drawing bills upon the
insolvent at two months' date, and 15 hen be applied
io him, as usual, for that purpose, he said that if he
woi,id allow the, account to run, he would pay in
future for whatever goods were sent in to him upon
their delivery. The amount of the last parcel was
91.; and when he called for mutt:tit, the insolvent
made some excuse, and gave him an order for more
goods, telling him that if he would send them, he
would positively pay him for all on the Friday fol-
lowing, upon his calling at his house, at Knights-
bridge. Mr. Baxter did call, but did not see the in-
solvent ; and instead of the money, which he so po-
sitively promised, he only received a note from the
insolvent's wife, in which he offered to accept a bill
for him, at two months' date ; this Mr. Baxter re-
fused, and left the, house a good deal dissatisfied.-
-On the following Friday, however, his cletk called
and took the insolvent's acceptance for 2.5/., WhiCh
• was never Paid; it was only upon the promise 'So
positively given that he would pay him, that he
allowed him to have the goods. He had since learned
that he had been seeking indulgence at
.this very
time from. his other creditors, and had, even under-
stood that he had offered them &composition, which,
if he bad been at all aware of previously, he never
would have allowed his debt so to accumulate. - At
the same time be was not partienlatly anxious to
throw any obstacle in the way of the a solvent's
discharge.
The insolvent did not deny that he had sought
indulgence from his other creditors, but, never
offered them any composition. After a further exa-
mioation the -insolvent was discharged.

The general distress that pervades almost all
classes of the community has extended to the medical pro-
fessien, particularly country practitioners, in a degree of
which there is no parallel in former times. The trades-
men, they say, arc without business, and the farmers are
subsisting on their little remaining capital. Debts from
either class arc n,t t,) 1:e collected, yet the medical practi-
tioiii:r is called upon almost hourly to attar' patients who
reside, in some instances, eight or ten miles 'distant, from
whom he can hare scarcely any expectation of ever receiv-
ing a farthing fur the exercise of his talents, his attend-
ance, or his aiedicincs.- Great tunWters of eountry prae-
' titioners, urged to id by the distress of the times, have
recently embarked for America and the satletreat on the
Swan River, in the hope of obtaining some sort of sub-
sistence fur theme:lva and their families,— Obeirver.

:11ADDINGTON CORN MAIIRET.—jan..L.
A small market of aits—top up 6d. and Sd. on tha
average-122 quarters said, 62 unsold. Barley is up 6.1,
on the on the top, and down about 9d. on the average--
127 quarters sold-23 t0,c1.1.. Wheat is down 2s. co
the top, but the average is h. up. Pease and Beans sr e
both flown.

Wheat.
First Ott
('es Oti
Third
There werea•Oqrs.

A verage.,

DALKEI

The supply of
lint tuna large ; p
sennight.

First 5Rs
s,cond 518
Third 46s

Barley. '
Sls 0,1
25.; Oct
0-.2g 0,1
of Wheat
56 Umsoit

TIT eOIO
all kinds
-ices near!)

Oath.

216 Ri

21s

2f)s ca
in market,:
1-11 Grey,
21. !2a.3,1

i MARKET
of Grain
the same

Pease.
29s Od
Fie (ki
266 0:1
0 wkereol

I. 11.12ths.

F3l
at this 1
as thoße o

Beam.
324 NI
284 01
2N; 0.1
were anitl•

..at. Barley. Oats.
OA :lOs 11:1 2ls Od
OA 24. Od 21s lid
Od 254 Od Bs Od

rea,se.

d" this d

Rran~,

St: Okl I 31. a
305 0.1 304 ed.
gas 0,1 205 Cd

CORNWALL MARKETS.

Trunto.—Wheat (average) 235. ed.—Barley, t 3.. Od.—Oats, 103.
112.isTos—Wheat, Ws. 6d.—Barley, Us. SI
Atwst.t—Wheat, 21s. to 21-I.—Barley, I Is. to 134.—Oadso
Bs. to 9s. 6d.
Ron tit tx—Wheat (average) 23, 04.—Barl7y, 134.
I.s t; r.sTerc—W h eat (average) 234. Nl—Barley, 12s. 041.—Oatro
Ss. o.l.—Beef, 6d.—Mutton, sd.
rENZANCA—Wheat, 23a. to 244.—Barley. to 16,—Oats.
St. to 10s. 0.10-711 ed and Mutton, 441. to 514—rork, 31d. to 9d.-
Mutter, 11d. per lb.
LlSKeartb—Wheat, 225. 6.1. t.) 231.—8ar1ey,134. (Id.—Oats, 10:,
to Its. Od,
Sr. Comosa—Wheat, 20s. to 2:1a.--Barley, 11,x. to 13s...—Bref,
and Mutton, id. to Nd.—Veal an ,1 Lamb, tO4 _to 6d.

A question has been• raised in a- Sunda}'
paper re!ative to the parentage of One of the fairest orna-
ments of our fashionable circles. The lady in question
understood to be the daugliter of Mr. MACNAMARA (eldrr
brother to the one of duel celebrity), by. Countess Div

LON, daughter to Lady DALTron. Born at Vienna, ahe
was bequeathed by her mother. to the protection of Lora
ELGIN, at that time Ambassador to the Austrian Cone,
in whose family she was educated, and • regarded with so
much affection, that • Mr. Bauer, who died a few year'
agi) in India, left her the hulk of hie fortune. Her•Ladr,
abip's connexion wish Lord iIEitTOCAD is squally. easy r'
explanation. Herself end her children are -placed eicela,
sively under hisguariliauship by the will of her late gal-
lant hu.band, who died in his Lordship's 'arms: sh,:is
said to forfeit half her joinktire by marrying without bii
consent.—Court Journal.

THE STUART PAPERS.---It iS gated in.
letter from Rome, dater] Decerttber 11, in a French Papers
that there is no truth in the report of the King of ENO'
LAND having presented to Sir WALTER. Scorr the archive°
of the STUA nu, said to have been bequeathed to him
Cardinal YORK. The archives were, it is now deelarbrit
sent immediAely after the death of the Cardinal to the
lat King of SA Mir NI . The papers supposed to have got
into the iroascssion of GEORGE the FOLIZTH Were,
cording to this account, a few inanuseripts which a' WO°
less servant had obtained at the request of Cardinel
GoNsAt.vi. [We know better.-51. L G.]—:—Literarg
Gazette.

L It G E .Tu ItY.--A gentleman in this tow!'
received from London, on Torsday last, a turkey, which
hcing ritrippill of its feathers, the enormoo
weilht of 211lis. It me:gored fire feet from the bill to O.
extremity of the legs.—Scolaman.
PIG-KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.---FRED
nzatex GREEN, the governor of the poor-house it Bre
wiro,f, Stafford/bile, last week made a wager of 10/. Olt

he ‘vottl,l kill, scald, and well sad corapletely.dress, open,
eight pies in finer hours, without any other assist'
ante whatsoaver timing the proms, than that of having,
the lett water conveyed .to the neildingAttly as hrylaniel
it. He performed his task in the extraordinary shore,
time of three hours and 46 minutes, to the.admir,tion °:
all present. One of thelbetve pigs iteigliedtE3o6l`.; ash
none were of lets weight. than '24olbs. Thiptiereal'
kilied iu a butcher's slaughter-1161We, and 140,
advantage of the wind and Windlass, to get the "pigia
the scalding-tub.—Coventry Herald. •
- •
A VEsuvws.—lp returning a few, years ago
from Berwick-upon-Tweed, a stranger was much stir
prised, as, night CalliC on, at seeing two immense 1114
near Newc?stle. Upon inquiring, he found; that. tbd
were the small coal which tines not readily sell,. and i 4
therefore
igou
step.aarpast separated by btf,
itbseEr(;enunsi
formed
oantt
months tiie larger
01 or clk°l1;
Prodpits ; and from the decomposition of the pyrites; it'd
take tire-aud burn for years. One of these huge mound"
was but a few mi!es from the road; it was said to coslf
twelve Acres of ground, anti to have . been burring for/
elght years. As all that small coal might be Made' ass 0
to produce coal was, he. says the Legislature should inter"
fere, to prevent such a shameful waste ; for not lesi the
130,000 ehaldrons are thus annually dastreyed on the
hanks of the river Tyne; and neatly the same quantity
the Wear. Beneath these burning heaps he found a hCd
of (thickish scoria, ‘vhich resembles basalt, and is need for
mending the roads.--Bath Chronicle.