The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-02 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAN•

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON (THIS Monist-11160E5
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigat:i;st
Company's ship Ripon, Captain Moresby, has ,34,10
arrived here, bringing the heavy portion 01 "
East India, China, and Mediterranean mails.
The steamer Tagus left Gibraltar for Southa
Ca-
ton at midnight on the 25th ult., to touch at
diz, Lisbon, &c., for the mails. from
screw steamer Livorno, seven days Liverpool, bound to Genoa, and the Euxine“, fwd and three-quarters from Southampton Du
to Alexandria, arrived at Gibraltar on the Southampton,
The Orontes, six days and a half from Liveril;
'
arrived on the 26th • and the Astrologer,. nrai,
from Smyrna, bound to Liverpool, reached Glb
tar on the 27th ult. q tail
At Gibraltar exchange on London was Dent,
51,1 to Spanish pillared dollars, 5i per
premium.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS -1).°)

(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)

IN RE DAVEY.
.... 110 e,
This bankrupt was described as of Pow•sT Dist
Brighton, builder, and to-day was appointed for his
examination. - total

The accounts prepared by Mr. Maynard show • •s
debts to the amount of 8,0001. ; 6,9001. of which la
secured, but there will not be any fund available for
dividend. uot
His Honour remarked that the bankrupt 130`4rti.
kept any cash-book, and when he applied for his
ficate conk( only expect one of the third class.

• IN RE .
This bankrupt had carried onCLAY
business as a warellelloe;
isman in Ironmonger-lane, and to-day was appointecliier
last examination, which had been adjourned under
not
peculiar circumstances. It appeared that the bankr-„'d
was by accident behind time on a previous days
•
although the case was postponed by the court,
inbavfor
rut did not arrive in time, and left without ask ----0,0
protection or another day to be appointed, and he
shortThely after under an execution. ere
bankrupt was now examined, but the facto mete
of no general interest.

wed'

SOMNAMBULIBM.—Between 12 and 1 o'clock on was
nesday morning, as police-constable Hinds, S 324' °b-
on duty in Upper Albany-street, Regent's-park, be
served a woman in her night dress, walking hr.l_ss,
along the pavement. He spoke to her several tu.in
but, receiving no answer, felt convinced that she ,f
a state of somnambulism. He immediately laid hold„b,
her, and, wrapping her up in the reatcoat, called a't,o'nf
in which he conveyed her toAlbany-street OA dto
where, after the lapse of an hour, she became restereon
consciousness. She was then asked by the offcerjn
duty as to her name and address, and occupstio..ar.
reply she said she was a domestic in the service crt;t,
Haines, chemist, Albany-street. It aPPeared
aster
having been in the habit of engaging a cab for her but,"
in the morning, she had, while her "senses were f
gone in her sleep upon the same errand. Thbe of
the street door, which was discovered to have een
open, was at the station found in her hand. t'le of
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—The Corriere hi-veal" en-
Genoa quotes a letter from Naples of the 15th) i-lje'--
tioning the discovery at Pompeii of three human sltvaTh
tons, evidently belonging to one family, to were afood
that of a dog. The postures in which they wer in
lead to the presumption that they were eergetakec
flight at the time of the eruption, but were over
ors.
by the lava, the dog refusing to leave his was one
They had bags of gold and silver coin with the
of the skeletons, still displaying rings and °man', the
fwuagmsittßihv.eanst.oowf
LalNDyouEngugiiorTl,r._prowbaebblye the daughter al
information of the members and friends of
Tract Society, that the acceptance of the office of aO,
encea
sponding secretary, by that gentlexnan, cornmvapt
few days since, has not necessitated the relinquiZ 1,0
of the duties of editor of the Society's tracts, WI" .)
has so long and ably sustained. ionft i
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