The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS,

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial
importance in the Gazette:—
George Howard, shoemaker, Hornscy
Joseph Tilley, publican' Rotherhithe
Joseph Oxford, mason, Grosvenor-street, Brixton
Hugh Aldridge, builder, Paddington
Charles Preston, attorney, Great Tower-street.
Benjamin Strutton, licensed victualler, Charterhouse-
lane.
John R. Preston, Upper Eaton-street
Joseph Grocott, tailor, Stoke-upon-Trent
E. S. Jones, clothier, Newport
Wm. Lidgey, grocer, Redruth
Robert James Kingston Innes, general dealer, Ken-
nington.
Samuel Thomas Isaac, ship's steward, Poplar.
lißichard V. Houssart, builder's clerk, Hackney'
Thomas Croft, licensed victualler, Woodford, Essex
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

Charles James Stillrood, clerk, Hampstead-road.
George James St. John Bashford, ship-broker, Leaden-
hall-street, City.
Arthur Bastow, worsted manufacturer, Bradford.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Tuesday.
o--
Amsterdam Short. 11 18/ 11 19.
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1 12 lf
Rotterdam
Antwerp
25 50 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 271 25 272
Ditto 3 Months. 25 421 25 471
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 121/ 1211
Vienna
Trieste — 11 20 11 25
__ _

Petersburgh -
Berlin

Madrid —47 f
Cadiz
Leghorn • 25 571 25 621
Milan
_ _ ___

Messina

25 62}

Genoa - 25 571 25 62
Naples - 25 57i 25 62
Palermo

Oporto
Lisbon

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.

ST. LEGER.
G to 4 agst Gladiateur (take 7to 4)
7to 1 agst The Duke (taken)
7to 1 agst Regalia (taken)
10 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)
20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken)

The Great Eastern Railway.

-40

The scrutineers to-day announced the result of Sergeant
Gazelee's amendment for the appointment of a committee
of investigation into the company's affairs, which the
directors opposed. The result of the poll was, according
to the decision of the scrutineers, in favour of the appoint-
ment of the committee. The following gentlemen were
then appointed to form the committee :—Messrs. Turner,
George Smith, W. A. Ballantine, Bevis, and Gregg. The
chairman of the board of directors said every facility would
be given to the committee. Books and papers would un-
reservedly be placed before the committee.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE IN PIMLICO.—
This afternoon a man named Shaughnessy, a mason,
attempted to murder his wife in Regent-street, Pimlico, by
Gutting her throat with a razor. lie inflicted a severe
wound upon her, and afterwards attempted to kill himself
by cutting his throat. Fortunately ho was successful iu
neither attempt. The wound inflicted on his own person
is the most 11kely to prove fatal. The poiice have the
matter in hand.

AWFUL DEATH OF MR. RAY, THE SECRETARY OF
THE HAND-IN-HAND INSURANCE OFFICE. -A very
painful sensation was caused this morning in the vicinity
of Fleet-street and Bridge-street, Blackfriars, arising put
of the following deplorable circumstance :—lt appears that
about a quarter before eight o'clock one of the upper win-
dows of the lofty pile of buildings belonging to the Hand-
in-Hand Insurance Office, in New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, was opened by Mr. Ray, the secretary, and almost
instantly the unfortunate gentleman either threw himself
out of the window or fell out by accident. He fell upon
his head with a loud crash. Two men, who witnessed the
occurrence, picked him up, and he was conveyed to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital ; but life was extinct—the skull
being completely broken. Mr. Ray was 65 years of age,
and has left a wife and family to deplore his loss. •