The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Elisha Allsop and David AllisTop,—builders, Arlington-
place, Back-road, St. George's in the East, to surrender,
March 23, and April 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Hodgson, Great Tower-street, City.
James Ayers, farmer, Elham, Kent, March 23 and
April 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman,
official assignee, Birchin-lane; Richardson and Talbot,
Bedford-row; Sankey, Canterbury.
William Skinner, clothier, High-street, Aldgate,
March 23, at eleven, and April 27, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,
Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Mardon and Prichard, New-
gate-street.
George Rait, tailor, Moorgate-street, City, March
28 and April 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee; Desborough, Young, and Des-
borough, Sise-lane.
William Lancelot Kelly, bookseller, Newport, Mon-
mouthshire, March 23 and April 28, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Fry, Loxley, and Fry, Cheapside.
Thomas Nokes, sea,, miller, Upminster, Essex, March
22 and April 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turqaand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Towne,
Devonshire-square.
John Cossins, linen draper, New Church-street, Port-
man-market, March 29, at one, and April 27, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee,
Lombard-street ; Hardwick and Davidson, Basinghall-
street.
John Thomas Flynn, grocer, Birmingham, March 22
and April 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harrison,
Birmingham.
Walter Palmer, corn-merchant, Rugeley, Stafford-
shire, March 27, and April 24, at ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Wild, Rees, Humphry, and Wilde, College-
hill, Cheapside ; Rawlins, Birmingham.
Thomas Wesson, lace manufacturer, Nottingham,
March 30 and April 27, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, Nottingham, official assignee;
Coope, Nottingham.
John Light, saddler, Weston-super-Mare, ,Sr Bristol
shire, March 30 and April 27, at eleven, n
District Court. Miller,
jun., Bristol; Irwin and Taylor,
GraY:vsn, March 27, and
Bristol;t Gibb,
Henry Adams, scrivener, Bridget?
official assignee,
April 24, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
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Inn.
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zel, official assignee, Exeter; Turn
Broad street buildings.
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April 24, at twelve, Manchester, March 28 and
Henry Wilcox,
"firth() Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Lincoln's
Inn•fiLlds; Bennetts, Manchester.
John Revvcas
tle
copperas maker,Gateshead, March
23, at half-past ten, and April 26, at half past one, at
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, offi-
cial assignee, Newcastle-uyon-Tyne; Harle, Southamp-
ton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Cragg, grocer, Blackpool, Lancashire, March
27, and April 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Appleby,
Harper-street; Liddell, Poulton near Preston; Snow-
ball, Liverpool.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending March 13,
1849, is 265. 6%d. per cwt.

CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's steamer the Queen
of the French, sailed for Boulogne yesterday with 77
passengers. The Marquis and MarchiOness of Ayles-
bury Aucl Rl* yerO 931 Word.

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ending NAME OF RAILWAY.
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March Aberdeen .. •• • ..... • . - .... ... .. -A A
11 Amiens and Boulogne . .... •
..
10 Belfast and Ballymena •• - - ...... 482
11 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 710 599
10 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroc, and W. Y. 380
10 Caledonian...... .... ... .••• • • • ... • • 4,496 2,568
11 Chester and Holyhead. - - • •
• .. 1,085
- Cockermouth and Workington........ - 95
8 Dublin and Drogheda.... ••.••• • • • • • 587 715
•13 Dublin and Kingstown ...... .. .•• • • • 596 604
10 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........ 1,001 795
11 East Ang1ian.......... •• • .
10 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... ••• • •• 3,291 3,119
10 Edinbnrgh and Northern.... --• • • . 1,689 1,003
II Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13,313 12,144
10 East Lancashire • •
10 Eastern Union ...................... 1,202 1,088
10 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 2,550 2,058
10 Glasgow and Greeneck.. .. 1,014 924
10 Great Northern and E. L... •. . . .. 1,829 -
- Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • - 1,929
11 Great Western, Sse - ... . „ 17,926 16,536
- Kendal and Windermere...-. ••• • • • - 114
11 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 11,317 9,183
9 Lancaster and Carlisle......
II Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• • -
- Londonderry and Enniskillen - 157
11 London and North Western, &c 88,210 34.886
II London and Blackwall• •••••• • • . • . •
10 London and Brighton . .. • •
11 London and South Western . •
10 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 3,154 2,145
10 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham 20,185 18,956
11 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • LOA 873
- Monklands ... •••....•..• • .. • • • • • • • • - -
- Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • - -
10 North British .......... •• •
10 Paris and Rouen . .................. 5,517 2,805
10 Rouen and Havre ...... .....• • ...„ 2,979 1,176
10 Scottish Central ............ -- - 858
11 Shrewsbury and Chester • ........... 1,237 608
10 South Eastern and Branches • ....... 6,782 6,587
9 South Dev0n........ . .... • • ........ 1,412 744
10 Tad' Vale • 1,842 1,901
11 Ulster . .... - •••• 713 864
3 Waterford and Limerick 955 -
- Whitehaven Junction ..• •....• • • • • • - 166
10 York and Newcastle ..••.••• • • • • • • • 11,376 10,063
10 York and North Midland .

SETTLEMENT LAW.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—lndependent of the reasonable objections which
are, and may be, urged against the removal of poor per-
sons to, as is termed in law, " the place of last legal
settlement," I think there is not a member of the bar,
nor a respectable solicitor, but who is ashamed (though
called upon to perform their duty honourably to their
clients) of the special pleading and the vast nicety now
required in a case of removal. The amendments of the
I,lw are in the right direction, provided the forms were
but plain, simple, and straightforward, instead of which
they are confounded, intricate, and crooked.
I lift up my humble voice in favour of a total abolition
of the law of removal.
March 12, 1849. A PROFESSIONAL

Comm OF ALDEEMEN.—Yesterday a special court
was held to consider certain clauses in the Bill now be-
fore Parliament, disqualifying aldermen under circum-
stances therein stet( d. The principal clauses alluded to,
which were read, were to the effect, " That any alderman
or common councilman of the city of London becoming
a bankrupt or an insolvent debtor, or compounding with
his creditors, or absenting himself, unless obliged so to
do bv-illness, or other reasonable cause, for more than
siteatendar months at one time, from his duties, or being
convicted of fraud, &c., shall be immediately disqualified
fo hold the office." Sir Peter Laurie having expressed
his satisfaction at the contemplated enactment, Alderman
Humphery objected to the words in the clause " other
reasonable excuse," as ho could not see who were to be
the judges of " reasonable excuse." Several of the alder-
men present said, the Court of Aldermen were to be
the judges. The Lord Mayor, in answer to some obser-
vations from Alderman Hooper, said it was clear by the
Bill they were discussing, that no alderman who did
not pay twenty shillings in the pound could be re-
elected. Alderman Wilson thought the 7th clause of
great utility. The Common Sergeant was of opinion
that under the clause, as it stood, a person disqualified
-was incompetent to re-election, and in this opinion the
Town-clerk concurred; and after some observations
from Alderman Copeland and Sidney, an addition, pro-
posed as an amendment by Alderman Humphery,
" that any person so disqualified should not be qualified
for re-election," was negatived. After soma further
discussion on the clauses relating to the payment of
rates and the regulation of the polling, Aldermen
Humphery begged to inform the Court that when the
Bill should come into Committee in the House of Com-
mons, it was his intention to move clauses for the
increasing
the of the City wards, but without
the number of aldermen; Alderman Copeland said, he
should strenuously oppose any such proposition.
Mr. J. Prior, chairman of the Committee of
.the Com-
mon Council, having expressed the satisfaction he and
bis colleagues felt at the manner in which the Bill had
been received and discussed by the Court, the business
terminated.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE
VISION.—TnE EYES.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
—Optical improvements to enable persons at an ad-
vanced age to read with ease and to discriminate objects
with perfect distinctness. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons,
opticians, have invented Spectacle Lenses, of the greatest
transparent power. The valuable advantage derived
from this invention over the Spectacles now in common
use is, that instead of vision becoming strained, heated,
weakened, and in numerous cases seriously injured, it is
preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are
enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu-
pation, and can see with those Lenses of a much less
magnifying power, and that which is a matter of the
greatest consequence is that they do not require the
frequent change to further helps. Also, Achromatic
Telescopes, Opera Glasses, invisible and all kinds of
Acoustic Instruments, for relief of extreme deafness.
Caution—Not in any way connected with a pel:s?n
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stone.cura tArloPPorfehhiesntoes must be amputated ; refusing to
sauhroit to this he returned to Falkirk, and commenced
using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and, miraculous
as it may appear, these invaluable medicines healed his
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foot, and in three weeks he was enabled to resume his
employment.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
MAJOR MAHON'S MURDER.—Gardiner, who pleaded
guilty, it is said, will implicate very many in the conspi-
racy to murder Major Mahon.—Roscontmon JournaL
Mr. Justice Maule was sufficiently recovered from
his indisposition to open the Nottingham commission.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILIPAY.—MT. Waddington,
M.P., was appointed, by the board at their meeting OR
Thuisds) last, Chairman of the Company, in the room of
Mr. Hudson; and Mr. Samuel Anderson was elected
Deputy Chairman, in lieu of Mr. Waddington.
At the Dorsetshire Assizes on
tWeeldanteesedaoynse, Mr.rva
Hingeston, an attorney residing at Lyme Regis, reco-
vered 166 L from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, h
tive candidate for the borough, for services rendered to
Sir Fitzroy as his agent at the last election. The de-
fence set up was, that Mr. Hingeston had agreed to ren-
der his services gratuitously.
A JUDGE ASSAULTED.—On Saturday evening log
Mary Ann Brown pleaded guilty before Mr. Justice IVil
Hams, at Salisbury, to the charge of stealing four 21b..
loaves,thi
this
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Lpeorrtdysho fi
Lordship
aarvriinegt Brown, shopkeeper,
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Senteneeinheermonth, the
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prisoned and kept to hard labour 0
Cr and suiting the
prisoner said, " Thank ye, /11" LT Lord,that, at at the saran
action to the word, added, j-
tSimh eerbotrhareowJionugrnhal."
A fever, said to be of a typhoid character
it necessary to postpone SOOassizes.
aracter, prevails
old boot at his Lordship's head.,
in the Lincoln gaol, to such
. anextent as almost to make

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 16.

- -
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
aack at Five o'clock.
The Earl of MOUNTCASIIEL presented several pe-
titions against the rate in aid.
Petitions with a similar prayer were presented by the
Earl of WICKLOW and Lord MONTEAGLE.
Messengers from the Commons brought up the second
report of the Poor-law Committee (Ireland), which was
ordered to be printed.
REV. J. SHORE.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Sud-
bury, praying their Lordships to adopt measures for the
immediate release of the Rev. J. Shore, and to adopt
measures to prevent ministers seceding from the Esta-
blished Church from being prosecuted ors uch secession
for the future.
OVERSEERS IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the
Overseers in Cities and Boroughs Bill. This measure
was mainly intended to remove certain doubts which had
arisen as to the construction of the existing statute re-
gulating the duties of those officers.
The Bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the
West Riding, in favour of the Clergymen's Relief Bill ;
also a petition, praying for the introduction of a com-
prehensive Public Health Bill.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 16.
The SPEAYER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.