The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-24 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of any commercial
importance which appear in the " Gazette" :
Auguste Chiron, merchant, Lower Thames-street
Alfred Gurney, wine merchant, Islington
William Ashton, Newman-street, decorator
Joseph Bourgein, bootmaker, Southgate, Middlesex
Thomas Allen, appraiser, St. Pancras
George Willson, sen., shipowner, Milton, Kent
Wm. Ballard, ironmonger, Dockhead, Bermondsey
James E. Mooney, licensed victualler, Dudley
James N. Foster, skinner, Leominster
George Nelson, builder, Bristol
John Carruthers, publican, Liverpool
Thomas W. Rowell, brewer, Newcastle-npon-Tyne
Hugh Brown, ship chandler, Liverpool
Willi ~m John Pepper, printer, Coventry
Henry Read Price, solicitor, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare,
Georg• Stone, coal merchant, Weston super-Mare
Isaac Forbury, butcher. Congleton, Chester
Margaret Tudge, confectioner, Manchester
Robert S. Edwards, builder, Great Yarmouth
Alfred Gaubert, ship broker, Great Tower-street, City
David C. Folkes, grocer, Tower-street, City
Desmond G. Fitzgerald, newspaper proprietor, Pater.
nosier-row

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
M. Hetherington and Co., file manufacturers, Glasgow
Robert Henderson and Co., stationers, Glasgow
Donald Coghill, pavement merchaht, Thurso

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tius DAY.
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Antwerp — 25 37i 25 421
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Brussels

25 371

25 42}

Harnburgh — 13 7
Paris
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13 7-1.
25 22i
25 , 42i
25 45

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Vienna
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Petersburgh

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12 40
12 40
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Madrid

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25 60

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119 k
119 k
52k

Oporto 62, 63
ForcignGold in Bars (Standard), per oz
NT exican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(Tuis DAY.)

The ceremony of further proroguing Parliament took
plane this afternoon in the House of Lords.
The Lord Chancellor and the other peers named in the
Royal Commission having taken their seats on the wool-
sack, the Black Rod was directed to summon the COM.
mons to the bar of their lordships' house, and that official
proceeded in the usual formal manner, and with as much
ceremony as if the house was full of members, to execute
his orders.

In a few minutes her Majesty's faithful Commons, re-
presented by the clerks of the house, appeared, and then her
Majesty's Royal Commissioners commanded the commis-
sion which directed them to declare the Parliament further
prorogued until the 13th of November.

As the words " for the despatch of divers urgent and im-
portant affairs" were not added, the meeting of Parliament
on that day will again be of a purely formal character.

G1?E.17 INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY.

The twenty-sixth half-yearly general meeting of the pro-
prietors in this company was held to-day at the London

Tavern.

The report states that the gross earnings of the half-year
in respect of the 4374 miles open amounted to £239,687 13s.
id., or £547 lOs. 100. per mile. Of this sum, however,
only £167,145 I le. 9d. had been brought into the revenue
statement, the difference, £72,542 Is. 4d., having been first
deducted from the receipts,in accordance with previous prac-
tice, to meet the cost of passing traffic across the gaps in the
railway system at the More and Thull Ghats, and at the
Goolbun Ravine. The working expenses as shown in the
revenue statement amounted to £103,714 13s. 3d,, or 62.10
per cent of the above-mentioned sum of £167,145 lls. 9d.,
leaving £63,430 18s. 6d. as net profit, to be carried to the
credit of the company's interest account with the Govern-
ment.

After a short discussion the report was adopted.

MR. COBDEN M.P., AT MANCHESTER.

(THIS DAY.)
(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MANCHESTER, FRIDAY, Two o'CLocx.
To-day, in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Mr.
Cobden delivered an important speech, pointing out the
enormous evil to this country occasioned by the existing
state of international and maritime law, which he declared
was mainly maintained by the Government of Great Bri-
tain, and urging, from the example of the success of the
Corn Law League, the formation of some assocation to
place pressure on the Government to procure the abolition
of the blockade of all commercial ports by belligerents, and
the exemption from capture of all vePsels of commerce
actually engaged in the conveyance of munitions or contra-
band of war.

Mr. Cobden spoke for an hour and twenty minutes.
We shall give a full account of his speech to-morrow.

A FATAL DUEL.

AN EDITOR KILLED BY A DUKE.
PAitis, Thursday Evening.—Mr. Dillon, a member of
the English bar, who for many years past has been the
editor of the French journal the Sport, and was well known
as au organiser of French races, was killed yesterday at St.
Germain in a duel with the Duke de Gramont Caderousse.
The cause of the quarrel which has resulted in this fatal
issue is said to be that the duke, some time ago, on the occa-
sion of some races at the Chalons camp, objected to a certain
Mr. Thomas being entitled to the qualification of a " gen-
tleman rider," Mr. Dillon, in his journal the Sport
espoused the cause of M. Thomas, and wrote several para.
graphs which greatly irritated the Duke de Caderousse. The
latter addressed several letters to the Sport,and to the Francs
Hippique,and those journals not inserting them,he got them
printed in a minor Belgian paper. Thereupon Mr. Dillon
sent a hostile message to the duke, choosing for his friends
Colonel Viscount de Nod, and another officer named De
Maury. The duke at first objected that a man of his
rank was not bound to meet Mr. Dillon, but being pro-
voked by a strong letter from Col. de NoZ:, ho waived that
objection, and authorised his friends, the Prince d'Essling
and Viscount Talon, to arrange a meeting. Mr. Dillon, as
the offended party, chose pistols for weapons, but after s
negotiation, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Prince
d'Essling from the affair and the substitution of M. Fitz"
james as one of the duke's seconds,
it was agreed that theduel should be fought with swords. After. a
afdevwerpsary,4
Mr. Dillon was run through the body
died the spot.s
sword—the heart was touched an±.122t2....

IHE LAUNCH OF THE CALEDONIA (THIS DAY).
Her Majesty's splendid iron-plated frigate Caledonia was
launched this afternoon at Woolwich.
SUDDEN DEATII---This morning a female named
Watkins dropped down dead at the corner of White
1-1 art.
street, Dtzuvlarte•