The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial ire"
portance in the Gazette
Henry Knight, cigar dealer, Oxford-street
William Benne, miller, Woodbridge
George Dawson, merchant, Huddersield
David Shaw, hosier, Huddersfield
Charles Mather, grocer, Manchester
Woolf Moses, glass dealer, Brixton-road
S. A. Pickard, watch dealer, Hatton-garden
George Pearce, farmer, Romsey
William Meredith, fishmonger, Wolverhampton
William Veal, licensed victualler, Birmingham
Henry Woodward, coal merchant, Kidderminster
David T. Little, baker, Ware, Hertfordshire
John Hobbs innkeeper, Longho, Gloucesterahire
John Plant, 'beerhouse-keeper, Cheshire
George Taylor, commission agent, Westbromwieh
Alfred C. Wright, carpenter, Southampton
David A. Hawking, cabinet maker, Truro, Cornwall
James Cook, cab driver, Birmingham
Edwin Day, butcher, Bristol
John Rowland, carpenter, Cheater
Joseph Roberts, business agent, Walworth
James Southey, cheesemonger, Northampton-road
Thos. T. Bennett, plumber, Broad-street, Golden-square
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
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SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Sharp, jun., mate, Nairn
John Park, innkeeper, Ayr
Francis Sala, cabinetmaker, Glasgow
Alex. Gilmour, sen., miller, Glasgow

Course of the Exchange—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 11 19t 11 191
Antwerp — 25 55 25 6'4
Brussels — 25 65 25 60
Hamburgh — 13 8 13 8f
Paris .. Short. 25 22i 25 27-1
Ditto .. 3 Months, 25 52} 25 67}
Marseilles
__ 25 55 25 60

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan ....
Genoa
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina
Lisbon

119 k 119/
11 45 11 60
11 45 11 50
364 36!

481 49
48f 49
25 65 25 70
25 65 '25 70
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
2:-,5527700
25 65
25 65
521 b3i

Oporto — 524
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ...... P 75 9
3
Mexican Dollars 0............••" 00 6 it
Silver in Bars (Standard) .................... 0 0 0
South American Doublons ..........

:
A NEW CLASSICAL TRAGEDY, in two acts, on the
difficult subject of IViebe, by M. Alphonse Schmit, a de-
ceased poet of some promise, has been recently produced at,
the Odeon Theatre.
It is likely that the post of
Assistant-Quarter...
master-General in Ceylon, from which Colonel Ouvry has
jciunstarrteetrirmencla,tweri.llGbeeneraiZb
abolished, and
a thatpoi a oDeputyn Assistant-
instead. The
Ceylon Staff is out of all proportion with the strength of
epappointed
and the reduction in question can-
the troops in the island,
not be considered otherwise than lair and reasonable.
Mr. Parsons, of Blackheath, complains that Cap-
tain Palliser has merely carried out the plans of
strengthening guns which he had. previously proposed to
the War-office, and hence the success which the gallant
officer has obtained in lining a cast-iron 68-pounder with a
wrought-iron tube. Without entering into the question of
priority of invention, it seems
priori to us that Mr. Parsons pro-
posed to line the breech of cast:
iron guns, first removing
the breech, and then attaching it again by screwpower; at
,
least, such is what we gather from Mr. Parsons plates
and description. We believe such a plan would only ren-
der the gun weaker than before. To Captain Palliser be-
longs the merit of having successfully carried out what he
proposed, and thereby greatly increased the power of the
cast-iron 68-pounder to stand a heavy charge, the gun tubed
by him having withstood one-third more strain than any
unstreogthened cast-iron piece previously tested. We do not
however, believe in wrought-iron tubes, and doubt whether
our ptesant cast-i:on ordnance would be sufficiently im-
proved to pay for the cost of tubicg ; but We do think that
Captain Palliser's plan might ba advantageously em-
ployed in inserting tubes of steel tempered in oil, in the
numerous 70-pounders now lying useless at Elswick and in
the Arsenal, and which, if converted into muzzle-loaders,
would become efficient weapons for the upper decks of our
i despatch-vessels and woolen cruisers ; but should these he
suffered to remain rusting for another year or two, they,
like most of the cast-iron guns, will be out of date, and the
money already expended upon them lost to the country.