The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Charles Smith, builder, Avenue-road, St. John's-
wood, to surrender November 19, at one, and December
20, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Can-
nan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Thompson and
Powell, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn.
Felix John Beall, baker, Hammersmith, Nov. 19, at
half-past' two, and Dec. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, Birchinslane, Cornhill ; Lewis and
Lewis, Ely-place, Holborn.
John Thomas Wheatley, lighterman, Commercial-
road, Lambeth, Nov. 19, at one, and Dec. 21, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee;
Barnard, Carlisle-street, Soho.
James Currey Wetton, flour factor, Mile-end-road,
Nov. 19, at halt-past one, and Dec. 21, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Lewis and
Lewis, Ely• place, Holborn.
Edward Thornton, plumber, Coleman-street, London,
Nov. 19, at eleven, and Dec. 21, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee;
Dickson and Overbury, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
John Webb, straw plait dealer, Luton, Bedfordshire,
Nov. 16, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 21, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official
assignee, Old Jewry-chambers, City ; Beart, Bouverie-
street, Fleet-street.
James Gilbert, bookseller, Paternoster-row, Nov. 19,
at half-past two, and Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings; Gale, Basinghall-street.
George Spearman, silk mercer, Leeds, Nov. 19, at two,
and Dec. 22, at. eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Rutter and
Trotter, Ely-place, Holborn.
Richard Dutton, wool broker, Sambrook-court, Ba-
ainghall-street, London, Nov. 18, at half-past eleven,
and Dec. 16, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Valiance, Old
Jewry-chambers.
Thomas Sherlock, brnsh maker, St. James's, Clerk-
enwell, Nov. 19 and Dec. 22, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrooko-
court, Basinghall-street; Knuckey, Wilmington-square.
Thomas Richmond, builder, Peterborough, North-
amptonshire, Nov. 19, at half-past two, and Dec. 22, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official
assignee, Aldermanbury, London ; Goddard and Eyre,
Wood-street, Cbeapside.
George Wood, commission agent, Trafalgar-place,
Kentish town, Nov. 17, at one, and Dec. 22, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee,
Aldermanbury ; Cross, Surrey street, Strand.
George Morton, paper-stainer, Leeds, Nov. 25, and
and Dec. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds; Jones and Co., John-
street, Bedford-row, London; Hick, Leeds.
Joseph Lowden, ironmonger, Leeds, Nov. 20, and Dec.
11, at 11, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds ; Sudlow and Co., Bedford row, Lon-
don ; Rayner and Son, Leeds.
Dominique Frick Albert, dealer in mathematical in-
struments, Manchester, Nov. 19 and Dec. 10, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official as-
signee, Manchester; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bed-
ford-row, London; Norris, Manchester.

Charles Williams, victualler, Liverpool, Nov. 23, and
Dec. 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official asignee, Liverpool; Norris and Co.,
Bedtord-row ; Toulmin, Liverpool.
William Alexander, shirt-maker, Nov. 22, and Dec.
21, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol ; Hellings, Bath.
James Lansdown Norton, stationer, Birmingham,
Nov. 28 and Dec. IS, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis •
trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Bloxam, Birmingham.
John Lee, watch manufacturer, Covenry, Nov. 17 and
Dec. 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Austen and Hob-
son, Raymond's-buildings, London; Troughton and Lea,
Coventry.
Henry Hunt, maltster, Derby, Nov. 26 and Dec. 17,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittht-
ston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Poole and Co.,
Gray's Inn; Vallack, Derby; Bowley, Nottingham.
Benjamin Gimson and Josiah Gimson, engineers,
Leicester, Nov. 26 and Dec. 17, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Bittleston. official assignee,
Nottingham ; Maples, Nottingham.
Jonathan Powell, cattle dealer, Lugwardine, Here-
fordshire, Nov. 30 and Dec. 14, at twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee,
Birmingham ; GRilliam, Hereford ; Sucklin,
Bir-
mingham.

IPficebe Maybury, hosier, Worcester, Nov. 17, and Dec*
14, at half past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Pullen, Wor-
cester ; Bloxam, Birmingham.
Thomas Bowser, linen draper, Morpeth, Northumber-
land, Nov. 19, at half-past ten, and Dec. 17, at eleven, at
the Newcastle-upon-Tyno District Court. Baker, otli.
cial assignee, Newcastle•upon-Tyne ; Woodman, Mor-
peth ; Crosby and Crompton, Old Jewry.

t',I)ISRSE OF EXCH
Amster.iam .. •• • • 12 13
Ditto, at sight .. 12 9
ltotterdaln ••.. • • 1-2 13
3•titvverp • • ............ 26 50
elamburgh .... • • M.ll. 14 6
l'aris, 3 days' sight .. .• 26 10
Ditto, • • • 26 40
3farseilles • ..... • • .... 26 fit)
.. 26 50
Frankfort on 31aine.... 126
Petersburgh, Si!. lible
Be”lin .......... •• •. 7 10
Vienna, effec. ti 0...... 10 28
Trieste, ditto.... ...... 10 30
Madrid ••.. • ......... 45

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Leghorn ..
Genoa 26 55
Milan . .

Venice. .
' Naples ............ • . 35%
Palermo, per oz ........ 117%
Li5b0n,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Si
Oporto ..... . • • .. • • 51
Rio Janeiro • ..... • • 24
Bahia
lluenos Ayres .. ••. • • .

Sew York, 21 dass'Bight

Philadelphia .. :....t ..

PILICI.9 OF BCLLION, PIK OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. .£3 17 9
New Dollars ...... 0 4 9'.i
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

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THE ANTI-GOLD-LAW LEAGUE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—l very much -regret that, owing to the entire
absorption of my time by the duties devolving upon
me as secretary, in the first formation of the Anti-
Gold-law League, my attention was not sooner
directed to your leading article of the 15th ult., on
the League. There is so obvious a tone of canour
pervading it, and the desire entertained by you of
giving the members of the Anti-Gold-law League a
fair opportunity of
_explaining their principles, and
of having them fairly and honestly discussed
is so manifestly expressed, that it was with great
pain I discovered only a day or two since that such
an article had been written, and not replied to. I
will (endeavour to make the best amends 1 can for the
unintentional oversight, and I gladly occupy the first
few minutes I have to spare in endeavouring to satisfy
your mind upon the straightforward objections which
have occurred to you. In addition, 1 most cordially
thank you, on behalf of the League, tor giving us the
opportunity of setting ourselves right with your
readers and the public, in connexion with the im-
portant points mooted by you. I shall be perfectly
explicit, and when you have read my letter, I think
you will be satisfied that the Anti- Gold-law League
does not wish to " slur over," or shirk any part of this
most vital question, but that it courts the most
searching investigation, being no less satisfied of the
justice, than of the propriety of the measures recom-
mended by it.
The stumbling blocks in the way of your acces-
sion to the views of the Anti- Gold-law League appear
to be four in number. I will take them in the order
of their importance, and give to each a full and ample
consideration.
1. You appear to conceive that creditors would be
unjustly dealt with by the substitution of the
" pounds " which the League wishes to see issued for
those which are at present in circulation.
2. You cannot perceive any necessary connexion
between the amount of Exchequer money recom-
mended by the League, as being required for the
service of the country, and the amount of the annual
taxation of the country.
3. You dispute the assertion of the League that
it is as absurd to fix the price of gold as it is to fix
the price of corn.
4. Strongly suspecting, as you evidently do, that
the amount of currency which can be kept in circula-
tion is very much regulated by the quantity of com-
modities to be circulated, being, in your view, an
effect rather than a cause, you doubt whether more
circulating medium is exactly the remedy the country
requires.
Your first position is the most important of all, and
the one that requires the clearest and fullest reply.
That your readers may see that I do not misrepre-
sent your meaning, I will quote your own words.
They are, "The most emphatic of denials will hardly
satisfy plain people that it Os quite the thing, in a
moral point of view, to alter the meaning of the word
`pound' to the disadvantage of all persons legally and
equitably entitled to receive pounds."
" Our anti-gold-law friends must work this point
most thoroughly before they can expect the public to
go another step with them. . . . " Gentlemen
cannot possibly take too much pains to make the
morale of the proceeding perfectly clear." Be it so,
Sir—the Anti-Gold law League desire nothing more
than a full and thorough sifting of this matter
to the very bottom; and if anything like fraud
and injustice can be shown to be connected
with the measures they recommend, I am sure
there is not a man among them but would in-
stantly abandon the League. We think, however, we
can exhibit the subject to you in a light in which
you have never viewed it, and we confidently reckon
upon the editor of Th 3 Morning Chronicle being
among our warmest supporters when we have tho-
roughly explained our views, provided he has no
other objections to our plan than those already named.
In replying, therefore, to the first point, 1
would commence by asking you in what respect do
you suppose the " pounds" the League recommends
would be of inferior value to the present ? In
measuring their inferiority do you measure by gold,
"breador and cheese," as the Times has
it ? byyp
now
alwoayysoucommemanands s,r dwts.whereasthat
3 grains
a `
of
pound "
go willd
it will in the case contemplated possibly only com-
mand 4 dwts., or do you meanthat the proposed pound