The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-25 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard, at the Court-house, in Portugal
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields on Monday, March 28, 1836,
at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon.
Nicholson, H., Old Paradise-row, Islington-green, professor of
music.
Cutler, C., Fareham, Hants, farmer.
Morgan, E., Upper St. Marylebonc-street, St. Maryleboue, cof-
fee-house-keeper.
Berry, J., London-read, Southwark, tailor.
Taylor, J., Great College-street, Chelsea, tailor.
Dilley, IL, Little Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons, tailor.
Hawker, J. 8., Lower Montague-street, Portman-square, painter.
Martin, J., Long-lane, Smithfield, box-wood preparer for engraving.
Buller, C., Thornton-street, Horselydown, leather-dresser.
Dt.ay, M., Fenchurch-street, City, widow.
Hutchinson, IL, late of Angel •court, Skinner-street, Snow-hill,
medical agent.
Rees, G . ,
Adjourned (2,,
Chichester,
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victualler.
the 29th of February.
Davidson, L., Whitechapel-road, victualler.
On Tuesday, March 29.
Barber, S., Manchester, clerk to a Manchester warehouseman.
Palmer, 8., Duke-street, St. James's, tailor.
Bradbrook, C., Great Shire-lane, Temple-bar, grocer.
Allen, J., Fetter-lane, fleet-street, green-grocer.
Abrahams, 8., King-street, Hammersmith, furniture-broker.
Knight, W., Moscow-road, Bayswater, gardener.
Hay, P., Davies-street, Berkeley-square, watch maker.
Fennell, J., Bromham, near Devizes, farmer.
Dixon, 8., Oxford-street, warehouseman.
Jones, E., Punderson-place, Bethnal-green-road, brewer.
Carter, E ,Everett-street., Brunswick-square, lodging-house -keeper
Love, J., Queen's Head-lane, Islington, agent.

Musical education is progressing in France. A Royal
Ordinance has been issued, ordering the study of singing in
all the elementary schools.
On Friday the Town Council of Leith transmitted
a petition to both Houses of Parliament, in favour of the Irish
Corporation Reform Bill.—Caledonian Mercury.
We regret to announce that on Wednesday, the 2d
instant, about five o'clock, p.m., a most disastrous occurrence
took place at the British Iron Company's Works at Abe-
ryschen. The fly wheel, propelling tho machinery at the
forge, is upwards of twenty feet diameter, and revolves
up wards of seventy times a minute. During this velocity,
and with but a momentary notice, it is supposed one of the
cogs of the wheel gave way, the whole of the attached
wheels, &c., were hurled, in an alarming momentum, through
the roof into the air, upwards of 300 feet, and one piece,
weighing nearly two tons, descended within ten feet of the
forge, and was buried a considerable depth in the ground.
Fortunately, although some persons were within two or three
yards of the place where this huge mass of iron fell, and
nearly 100 altogether in and about the works, not a single per-
son was injured. The damage done to the works is estimated
at about 5,000/.—lllonmouthshire Merlin.
IMPRISONMENT. NEW POOR LAW. TheIMPRISONMENT.
Brighton Guardian in some strictures on the recent proceed-
ing in Parliament relativC to the Macclesfield Small Debts
Bill, among other remarks on the subject, contains the follow-
ing complaint against the Workhouse system :—When the
meddling legislature interferes with so many things and stops
the extension of manufactures by its laws and other restric-
tions, the progress of agriculture by its tithe tax, and the in-
crease of ship-building and navigation by its timber duties ;
when the legislature by a host of noxious regulations impedes
human exertion and hampers in every direction the progress
of prosperity and the demand for labour, taking care, too, when
it is employed, that its rewards shall be as scanty as possible,
.while the idle pensioner and the sinecure pluralist are pro-
' tested in the enjoyment of great wealth ; when the legislature •
both deprives honest industry of its legitimate reward, and
hampers its exertions, it can scarcely be said that those who
cannot find employment or are even unwilling to labour hard for
very small wages arc half so much in fault as the Legislature
itself. Yet at Henfield we saw a number of able-bodied
workmen whose want of employment or whose aversion to irk-
some toil may be traced to the conduct of the Legislature,
and who owe nobody a farthing—there we saw these men
condemned by that very Legislature which will not sanction
imprisonment for debt, and condemned by the instrumen-
tality of those very patriots who resisted the Macclesfield
Small Debts' Bill, to continual and hopeless imprisonment,
to imprisonment combined with hard labour and miserable
diet. Can there be a greater inconsistency? On the one
hand, men are shut up as in prison, and compelled to labour
by the Legislator without having committed any offence, ex-
cept the offence of being born to share the blessings of our
common parent ; and on the other, this Legislator is r
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THE VO LUNTA RY SYSTEM.—We have just time
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to state here that Dr. Chalmers, at his examination before the
Commission in Edinburgh, on the 16th February, has most
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Baptists, a separate parish ! I On
Dr. ehalmors's own opinions, we have long ago ceased to
any dependence. But we cannot forget that
to all of these ministers
he has
pbelaecnelately visiting some members of the Cabinet in London,
and that the views he has now expressed have long been ad-
vocated by some of the London Journals, and by the Edin-
burgh Review—the organ of the Whigs; and we would not
feel at all surprised, if ;Ministers should actually propose such
a measure to get quit of this perplexing ecclesiastical ques-
tion. The principles of our friends, therefore, and their ho-
nesty, may soon be most insultingly tested. Dr. Chalmers:
makes no mention of Papists, Unitarians, &c. ; he leavto
them to tliC Ministry. But if the offer is made to other D:iires
senters, he knows well it must be made to them also.—r,_
luntar,y Church Magazine.