The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-05 00:00:00

CREDITOR.

By sundry debtors:—
Considered good
Considered doubtful and bad,.£5,353 14 8
Estimated at
By surplus securities in the hands of cre-
ditors, as per contrr 11,344 7 3
By property as per statement 54,936 0 0

478 4 8

Deduct:—
Sundry debts to be paid in
full, as per statement 79 3 5
Expenses of management 2,500 0 0

£102,654 15 9

2,579 3 5

.£100,075 12 4
N.B. The contingent liabilities through bills re-
ceivable, discounted, amount to 133,2861. 7s. 7d., and
although several of the above bills are on firms that
have suspended payment, still, through other parties
to the bills, it is confidently expected that the whole
amount will be provided for. At the present date
(November 4) upwards of 46,0001. of the above
amount will have run off, supposing all the bills on
India to be paid, of which there is no reason to doubt.
The above statement, which shows nearly 20s. in
the pound, is more favourable than we had anticipated
At the same time, it transpired in the subsequent dis-
cussion, that among the assets stated above as " good,"
one item of 23,0001. is a litigated claim at Madras
(the recovery of which, although a verdict is certain,
will depend upon the ultimate position of the house
from whom it is to be collected); while it was also
mentioned that, among the liabilities, bills to the
amount of 28,0001. will possibly have to be paid in
full, a lien in connexion with them existing upon the
Santipore sugar estate.
At the close of the proceedings it was agreed that
the estate should be liquidated by the partners under
inspectorship, five gentlemen being selected from the
body of creditors present to fill that office. These
were,---Mr. Gouger, Mr. Dent, Mr. Bagshaw, Mr.
Davis, and Mr. Cowell, the services of the latter
being secured with the view of obtaining his attention
to the realisation of the property in India on his
return to that country in the course of the next
few months.

THEI DENSE FOG ON TUESDAY NIGHT.—The
ense fog on Tuesday night was more inconveniently
Melt south and west of the metropolis than within it, or
the northern and eastern suburbs. Westward the fog
was most dense, extending from about the middle of
Piccadilly down the Great Western and other roads for
miles. From an early hour in the evening the drivers of
vehicle of every description found the greatest difficulty
in keeping the road, and those that were not provided
with lamps and links were soon brought to a complete
standstill. Numerous collisions and accidents took
place. Shortly before eight o'clock one of the Richmond
omnibuses, on its return journey, although supplied
with lights, ran with great force against the wooden
hoarding erected where the Halfway-house formerly
stood, by which the pole was broken, and it was nearly
overturned. Fortunately not one of the passengers was
hurt. About half-past eight o'clock a gentleman named
Jones, living in Southwark, who was driving a horse and
gig towards town, ran against a heap of granite at the
side of the road, on the opposite side to where the Chi
nese collection formerly was, by which he was thrown
out with great force on the footpath. Although much
shaken he was shortly able to resume his seat and
drive. A few minutes afterwards a person named Hat-
terley, living
,in George-street, :Chelsea, while crossing
the road near St. George's Hospital, was knocked down
by a cab, but most miraculously escaped being run over.
About nine o'clock a street cab, proceeding down the
Hammersmith-road, ran on the footway just beyond the
railway bridge, and went with great force against the
garden wall of one of the houses in Vale-place, so as to
break both the shafts and throw off the driver, who was
much injured. About ten o'clock a serious collision
took place near the same spot, on the town side of the
railway bridge, between another of the Richmond omni-
buses on its return journey and a two-horse carriage
belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson,: the coach proprie
tress of Islington, lin which were two young gentlemen
returning to town, by which one of the horses had its
shoulder dreadfully injured by the splinter-bar of the
omnibus, so as to incapacitate it from proceeding, and it
was obliged to be left in the care of a veterinary surgeon.
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.--A lecture was de-
-1 livered on Wednesday last by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the
"Laws of Nature as applicable to Sanatory Measures."
The subject of this lecture was the absolute necessity of
ventilation and light for the due performance of the vital
functions in the human species. There are many per-
sons who imagine that if they fill the stomach with cer-
tain quantities of solids and fluids that it was all that
nature required for her aid, but they quite overlook an
absolute necessary, namely, atmospheric air, and the
proper ventilation and light of the apartments in which
they reside. A person may exist without food 48 hours,
or even longer, but they could not exist without air for a
few minutes—the food could not be digested, the blood
could not flow through the veins and arteries, in fact no
one function of life could be preserved without its aid.
The Health of Towns Commission had afforded a vast
fund of information, proving the bad attention that has
hitherto been paid to this subject; auctit is onlywhen some
direful scourge, such as cholera or fever, &c., affects us,
that remedies are sought, for it has been shown by the
various reports that all sorts of diseases were engendered
by the inhalation of impure air—at one time cholera, at
another typhus, influenza, and small pox. Tho quantity
of air consumed by each:individual in the course of one
day is 180 gallons ; and when one considers the vast
number of persons crowded together in towns, the effect
must be baneful in the extreme. The doctor also stated

he was happy to find that the Government were taking
measures to procure proper ventilation, and that a
society was now formed, under high patronage, to bring
the subject before the public by the publication of
pamphlets.

His Excellency the Earl of Dalhousie, the newly-
appointed Governor-General of India, with the Countess
and family, is expected to leave town the day after to.
morrow for Portsmouth, to embark for Alexandria,
en route for Calcutta. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Moun•
tain, C. 13., military secretary to his Lordship, and Lieu-
tenant the Hon. F. W. Pane, aide de-camp, accompany
his Excellency.
"STRIKE" AT SUNDERLAND. —Owing to the pres-
sure on the money market, the shipbuilders of Sunder-
land have proposed to reduce the wages of their carpen-
ters from 275. to 245. per week. The latter have refused
to agree to this proposition, and a " strike" is the conse-
quence. The workmen of the Low Ford Pottery are
also out of employment, in consequence of a scarcity of
orders of late from the continent.—Newcastle Guardian,