The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Charles William Norman, haberdasher, Shoreditch, to
surrender, Aug. 19, and Sept. 19, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Moorgato-street ;
Reed, Ironmonger-lane.
Henry Turtle, cheesemonger, Mile-end-road, Aug. 19,
and Sept. 19, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Moorgate-street ; Ashurts, Waller,
and Morris, Old Jewry. -
George Jeeves, brush manufacturer, Sheffield, Aug. 19
and Sept. 23, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin,
official assignee, Sheffield; Smith and Son, Sheffield.
George Hingeston, money scrivener, Lyme Regis, Aug.
16 and Sept. 14, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Stogdon, Exeter.
John Sugden and George Webster, wostaplers, Brad-
ford, Aug. 22 and Sept. 18, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Lees, Brad-
ford • Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Thomas John Holloway, rope manufacturer, Salisbury,
Aug. 18 at half-past twelve, and Sept. 22 at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder-
Wyatt, Gray's-inn.
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cial assignee, Kinipton, carrier, Liverpool, Aug. 17 and Sept.
Liver
tivthe Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
and Sept. 21, at
, grocer, Newbury,
Fenwick and Aspinall, Liverpool.
Henry Ta' "13°131;
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Bishop, Moorgate-street; Graham and Lyde,
boot and shoe maker, Southampton, Aug.
18, at twelve, and Sept. 22, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury; Miller and Son,
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Edward Davies, oil and colourman °rllleaasoinwzopatc.l,22P,aadt-
dington, Aug. 17, at half-past eleven
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.°
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bury, Aug. 18, at twelve, and Sept. 14, at ten, at the
mingham District Court. Christie, official assiomee, Bir
noingham ; Loxdale and Peele, Shrewsbury; 3lotteram—
and Knight, Birmingham.
George H. Fourdrinier, paper manufacturer, Shelton,
Staffordshire, Aug. 18, at twelve, and Sept. 14, at ten, at
the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assig.
nee, Birmingham ; Kerry and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-
Trent ; E. and H. Wright, Birmingham.
Thomas Belsham Hutton, spirit merchant, Birmingham, I
Aug, 18 at twelve, and Sept. 14 at ten, At J3izmillsilatzt I

District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmintham.;
Greves, Birmingham.
William Hooper, cabinetmaker, Bristol, Aug. 21 and
Sept. 19, at eleven, at Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
George Edwards, grocer and provision dealer, Newport,
Monmouthshire, Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ;
Carslake, Bridgewater; Castle, Henderson, and Co.,
Bristol.

Stephen Trotman, corn dealer and mealman, Chipping
Sodbury, Gloucestershire, Aug. 19 and Sept. 19, at twelve,
at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee,
Bristol; Trenfield, Chipping Sodbnry.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

T. M. Dickson and Company, merchants, Glasgow.
Andrew Purvis, contractor, Milngavie, Stirlingahire.
John Couper, grocer, Langloan, Lanarkshire.
Paul Cameron, wright, Glasgow.
William Squair, miller, Cantray Mills, Ardersier.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(Prom the London ATM Price Current of this day.)

SUGAR.—There has been 'rather more inquiry, at about
Friday's rates, but the public sales are still progressing.
Duty paid samples have realised full rates. Floating car-
goes are wanted. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
1,187 hhds 143 tierces 830 barrels. There were taken for
home consumption 961 hhds 68 tierces 485 barrels. The
stock in the same places is 9,552 hhds, 1,678 tierces 3,476
barrels. Refined brown lumps are at 44s per cwt.
COFFEE. There is a quiet market, although yesterday
the demand was better for Native Ceylon at 44s to 455.
There are buyers of Plantation at full rates. Costa Rica
has been in more request.
Ruu.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 964 puns 191 hhds ; there were
taken for home consumption 297 puns 42 hhds, and ex-
ported 239 puns 289 hhds. The stock in the same places is
9,457 puns 1,951. hhds.
Ricz.—At auction 2,400 bags Bengal were offered, and
all bought in at 12s 6cl for mid. •
PIMENTO.—At auction 700 bags were nearly all sold at
sid to 60 for mid coarse to good mid even.
TEA.— The demand has been limited, but holders are
firm. Ord congon is at lld per lb, with a prompt sale.
TALLOW.-A great increase has taken place in the de-
mand for Russian for consumption; many - speculative
contracts have been concluded, and advanced terms are
obtained. First sort P.Y. Candle, on the spot, sells at
67s to 67s 3d, and for late delivery 69s to 69s 6d. Home
melted is higher, and in extensive request • the carrency
is now 66s to 66s 6d cash. Of other descriptions the
supply is not ample for the demand, and the prices
obtained were for—Australian, fair to fine mutton 62s to
675, beef 61s to 655; and South American 61s to 67s per
cwt. Tho stock of tallow is 15,000 casks greater than last
year, and deliveries are 5,000 smaller. Prices rule 15s to
16s per cwt above that time.
OILS.—A brisker demand has been experienced for Sperm,
and an advance is paid ; good to fine quality realising
1041 to 1061 per tun. Headmatter, however, sells slowly
at 1021 to 1031 Seal is not much sought after, and a de-
sire is expressed to sell pale at 391. and other sorts 351 to
381. The reluctance shown to buy cod continues,
and prices]:' are drooping, ranging at 391 per ton.
Southern sells more readily at from 381 to 411, and
the market presents a firm appearance. In palm • a large
business has been done, and 45s to 48s isgenerally obtained
for mid to fine. Of Cocoa nut many parcels have been dis-
posed of; Cochin at 50s 61 to 51s, landed, and other kinds
48s 6d to 50s. Linseed oil met with increased attention for
home trade and shipment, and prices are firm at 35s 6d to
36s on the spot. In rape oil there is an increased business ;
pale 44s to 44s 6d, and brown 41s 6d. Lard oil is a more
ready sale at 54s to 555. Large parcels of olive have changed
h ands.

DROUGHT AND WATERWORKS AT BOMBAY.

The Englishman who complains of the climate of his
own country cannot, like Charles 11., have been doomed
to gain experience in any other: One of these grumblers
should have visited a city,, not unknown or recently dis-
covered, or under wild barbarian rule, about the end of
last May or the beginning of June, and he would have
found a population of half a million or more, on ,an
island less than 20 square miles in area, with the public
wells and reservoirs dry, and a rainless sky above. So
it was then at Bombay. A month or more had yet to
elapse before the heavy rains of the monsoon would com-
mence ; and there thousands of families found that the
great grief of their daily life was intolerable thirst, the
intolerable thirst of the Tropics. Everybody felt that
something must be done, and Bombay "made an effort."
Water was brought by steam-boats from the yet unex-
hausted sources in the islands of the harbour, and by
railway—itself a modern invention—from a distance of
some 30 miles. Subscriptions were commenced for con-
tinuing this imported supply; and under the general
pressure fortunate wealthy persons who had private
stores of water laid them open for public use. Still, how-
ever the relief was glaringly insufficient; 20,000, or at
most 30,000 persons, out of 500,000, got water by these
means. Disease set in, and afforded in a form capable of
statistical expression some index of the indefinite miseries
which the people were enduring. Yet this was but an
ordinary contingency in Bombay, one of almost cal-
culable recurrence. There will be failing monsoons arid
over-hot seasons, as everybody in Bombay knows ; and
a population which increases so rapidly that every
census is a surprise is sure to want increasing quantities
of water. It was just as certain 7or 8 years ago that a
day of distress for water would come, if nothing were
done to prevent it, as it is now that the day-had come I
and that its horrors have been endured. A few persons
did, indeed, at that day descry the evil from afar, and
among them was the governor. Anxieties were ex-
pressed, and plans were talked of; but the suffering was
not a present " emergency," and there was much else to
do. Besides, any such design as one for waterworks in
India has to run the gauntlet through a file of offices,
and is at last to be decided by gentlemen who never
knew what it was to turn in vain the cock that supplied
them from Chelsea or the New River—supplies them,
perhaps, with water at which they turn up their noses,
but which would have been precious in Bombay, at that
season sick with thirst. But what were the wealthy na-
tives of Bombay doing ? What was done by the thriving
house-owners of that increasing town, by the enterpris-
ing shipowners of that swarming port, by the capitalist-
employers of the people whose strength is dried up, and
whose courage is palsied more or less in every year by
the arid months of their waterless city ? These men,
sagacious and quick enough in all private affairs, and
of late given to right good constitutional grumbling
in public matters, surely they set about the mat-
ter for themselves, and only gave it up when they
found it impracticable ?—No. The usual spell was
upon them, and they slept soundly enough to the
burden of the old droning tune " Government
should do it." And so came 1854 with its
drought and deaths. Lord Elphinstone—all honour to
him—has taken up the plan proposed in the days of Sir
George Arthur, if not before, for bringing water from a
distance of 14 or 15 miles. We do not discuss the plan
or the objections to it ; we only say that it has been ap-
proved, and that the site of the reservoir was there, the
rains were there, the plans for utilising both were
known, the necessity was patent. and was neither more
nor less urgent then (that is seven or 10 years ago) than
it is now. Nothing is proposed now which was not
equally needed, equally proposed, and equally practic-
able then. But we might venture to calculate that if
the monsoon which just now relieves Bombay should
prove abundant, and any other subject should urgently
occupy the Government, Bombay will find itself just as
badly prepared as it is now for its next year of consum-
ing drought. The only reform which can save it is a
reform of its own men—we mean natives of wealth and
of public mark. We might reckon upon the delay none
the less for the subscription, if ever it be realised, with
which the justices of Bombay have proposed to ease by
one-half the pressure of these strictly local works on the
general taxation of India. Among the efforts for relief
under the recent distress, one deserves especial notice.
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, whose extraordinary charities
have won for him a British title and cosmopolitan fame,
has at different periods devoted large sums of money
to works for the supply of water, both at Bombay and
Poonah, and some of the most important structures of
this kind in both those cities are of his providing. To
these he has now added an extemporised effort for
the present occasion. In the height of the drought he
caused large but shallow wells to be sunk in the ditch of
the fort. The supply of water proved excellent in qua-
lity, and was most encouraging in quantity, although
the works were only in progress when the last accounts'
came away ; hundreds of families were thus relieved.
It is not the first time by many that important public
wants have been met or mitigated by this remarkable
man, when the British Government in India or his own
countrymen could not or would not do it.—Spectator.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVJRPOOL, ..A.uo. 7.

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STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues to improve.
Chester and Birkenhead, 17 • Blackburn, 5j ; Caledonian33k,
; East Lancashire, 17 16k; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
69. t ' • London and North-Western, 106 ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincblnshire, 24k; Midland, 68 i; North British,
8 13-16 ; South-Eastern, 19 13-16; York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 19. Preference Shares—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire (10/ shares), 11.1 ; ditto (6/ new), 7.16 p.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was active to-day,
shares generally being more in demand. Shrewsbury and
Birmingham were done at 711.

CANADA.—The elections are proceeding in Canada.
No contests had come off at the latest dates, but 11
members had been returned without opposition, 4 of
them members of the Government. It was supposed
that all the members of the Administration would be
returned, and that they would have a majority in the
house, but that the new Parliament would last but one
session. After the Ist of January next there will be
some 100,000 new voters, who will have a right to be
heard in the selection of the lawmakers at the earliest
moment. The farmers of Upper Canada are in the
midst of the wheat harvest. On the whole, the crop is
deemed below the average, but the breadth of land-
growing wheat is unusually large. Cholera has pre.
vailed to a greater or less extent m the principal towns
and cities of Canada for nearly a month. In Montreal
the pestilence has raged fiercest, some fifty deaths hay-
ing taken place a-day in a population of 60,000 during
part of the time. For some time past there had been a
general abatement of the disease.

NEW e idea of the nature of the popula-
tion of New York may be gathered from the circum-
stance that of the persons who died there in the third
week of July-915 in number (183 of them by cholera)
—only 572 were natives of the United States ; 215 came
from Ireland,
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DRUGGING INFANTS.—The Worcester Chronicle reports
an inquest recently held on tho body of a child nine
wan
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