The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-16 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

THE CITY OF LONDON SMALL

DEBTS' ACT.

The first court to be held under the new Act, which
will take effect on the 29th inst., has been appointed
for the 12th of October. In the Act there is a provi-
sion, similar to the one in the New County Courts'
Act, for the recovery of tenements in a summary
manner :—" And be it enacted, that when and so soon
as the term and interest of the tenant of any house,
land, or other corporeal hereditament where the value
of the premises, or the rent payable in respect of
such tenancy, did not exceed the sum of 50/. by the
year, and upon which no fine shall have been paid,
shall have ended, or shall have been duly determined
by a legal notice to quit, and such tenant, or if such
tenant do not actually occupy the premises, or oc-
cupy only a part thereof, :any person by whom the
same or any part thereof shall be then actually oc-
cupied, shall neglect or refuse to quit and deliver up
possession of the premises, or of such part thereof
respectively, it shall be lawful for the landlord or his
agent to enter a plaint in the Court, and thereupon a
summons shall issue to the person so neglecting or
refusing ; and if the tenant or occupier shall not
thereupon appear at the time and place appointed
and show cause to the contrary, and shall still
neglect or refuse to deliver up possession of the
premises, or of such part thereof of which he is then
in possession to the said landlord or his agent, it shall
be lawful for such landlord or agent to give to the
Court proof the holding, and of the end or other de-
termination of the tenancy, with the time or manner
thereof, and where the title of the landlord has ac-
crued since the letting of the premises, the right by
which he claims the possession ; and upon proof of
the service of the summons, and of the neglect or re-
fusal of the tenant or occupier, as the case may be, it
shall be lawful for the judge to issue a warrant under
the seal of the Court to any bailiff of the Court, re-
quiring and authorising him within a period to be
therein named, not less than seven, or more than ten
days from the date of such warrant, to give possession
of the premises to such landlord or agent, and such
warrant shall be a sufficient warrant to the said bailiff
to enter upon the premises, with such assistants as, he
shall deem necessary, and to give possession accord-
ingly ; provided always that entry upon such warrant
shall not be made on a Sunday, Good Friday, or
Christmas Day, or at any time except between the
hours of nine in the morning and four in the after-
noon ; provided also that nothing herein contained
shall be deemed to protect any person by whom any
such warrant shall be sued out of the Court from any
action which may be brought against him by any
such tenant or occupier for or in respect of such entry
and taking possession, where such person had not at
the time of suing out of the same as aforesaid, lawful
right to the possession of the same premises."

A FATAL NEWSPAPER WAR.—We learn verbally,
says the Nachitoches Chronicle of the 14th instant, that
Mr. Russell, editor of the Red Lander, was killed a few
days ago in San Augustine, Texas, by Mr. Kendall, of
the San Augustine Shield. A very bitter newspaper
controversy had been going on between the parties for
several weeks, and finally led to the shedding of blood.
Report says that Mr. Kendall and Mr. Russell fired
three shots at each other without effect, and that in a
day or two after they met again, when Mr. Russell fell
mortally wounded.

LORD SANDox.—A requisition, headed by Sir
Thomas Brancker and many other leading merchants, is
now in course of signature, calling upon the Mayor to
convene a public meeting, to consider the propriety of
presenting a testimonial to Lord Sandon, in acknow-
ledgment of his services during the sixteen years he has
represented Liverpool in Parliament. Upwards 9f 700/.
has been subscribed for tho testimonial.—Liverpool
Standard.

NEW POSTAGE STAMt'S.—The new postage stamps,
intended principally for the pre-payment of foreign
letters, were issued on Monday. They are of the value
of Is. each, the colour being green, and the form octa-
gonal, to distinguish them easily from the
i smaller deno-
mination of postage stamps at present n use. These
stamps may be used for inland as well as foreign postage,
but they are chiefly intended for the postage of letters
to the United States, India, China, the West Indies,
New South Wales, New Zealand, and other places to
which the postage is is. It is understood that other de•
nominations of postage stamps are hereafter to be issued;
and no doubt it will be found desirable to have a four
penny or sixpenny stamp, to avoid the inconvenience of
the long rows of stamps now frequently required on in.
land letters.

Mdlle. Jenny Lind arrived at Mr. Tait's, New
Royal Hotel (where apartments had been previously en-
gaged for the young lady) on Saturday evening. She
appeared much fatigued on reaching the hotel, and we
have since learned that she is suffering from cold and sore
throat. The symptoms, however, are gentle, and such
as give every reason to hope that one or two days' rest
will enable her to fulfil her professional engagements.—
, Edinburgh Courant of Tueodsy-

This arrival at Vera Cruz of Paredes, and his hasty
departure for, probably, Mexico, have given rise to
much conjecture and various opinions, as he is known
to be strongly prejudiced against the Americans. His
taking passage in a British steamer will by some be
considered as an unfriendly act of the British Go-
vernment. It will be said that it was with their
knowledge and approbation.
Almost every man has an opinion on this subject
peculiar to himself. The question is—what can be
the object of Paredes ? The general reply is—to
promote a revolution and put down Santa Anna.
Your correspondent does not concur in this almost
universal opinion ; he thinks it most probable that
there is an understanding between Paredes and
Santa Anna, and that they will unite in an effort
to prevent a division of the Mexican empire, and
to conduct the war with better hopes of ultimate
success.

There are those in this city, and probably through-
out the United States, who believe, or profess to be-
lieve, that some understanding exists between Pare-
des and the British Government. That opinion, they
say, is strengthened by the declaration that Lord
Palmerston made to the Mexican Minister, that if
they were compelled by adverse circumstances to re-
move the seat of Government from the city of Mexico
into the interior, the British Envoy would follow the
Government thither.

Whatever may be the true state of this question of
British interference, it is certain that this war is
daily becoming more unpopular. It may be added,
I think with truth, that the prospect of a speedy peace
is daily becoming more gloomy. The friends of the
Administration keep up the farce that Mr. Twist
will ultimately effect something in the form of of a
treaty, and, while making these assurances of peace,
the President makes a call, principally upon the
Western states, for 10,000 additional volunteers,
which shows most clearly that the Government en-
tertains no present hope of peace. Public opinion
will now become more faltering and indecisive, until
Paredes shall develop his views and intentions. But
assuredly nothing favourable towards the United
States can reasonably he anticipated from the sudden
appearance of this Mexican General.
Mr. Houston, a senator of the United States from
the state of Texas, has recently published a letter re-
lating to the alleged interference of British agents to
prevent the annexation of Texas to the United States.
Houston was Governor of Texas while the negotia-
tion was pending, and, in common with other distin-
guished Texans, was active in promoting the circula-
tion of the tale that the British Government was
intriguing to defeat the annexation. Mr. Houston
now comes out and states that this charge has no
foundation in truth, and that it was circulated to
alarm the American people, and thus promote the
great object of annexation. It having produced the
intended effect, he considers it, his duty to make this
explanation
" A great man has fallen in Israel?' Silas Wright,
senator of the Unit©d States, died suddenly, a few
days since, at his residence in St. Lawrence county,
in the 53d year of his age. He had filled various
public offices, and among them Governor of the
state of New York. He was no ordinary man.
Mr. Wright exercised a controlling influence with
the democratic party, of which he was a distin-
guished and efficient member. By a kind of common
consent he would have been their candidate at the
next election for the office of President of the United
States.

The death of Silas Wright, at the present moment,
is therefore an important event, and may, in its con-
sequences, affect the future policy, foreign and do-
mestic, of this country. It will be found no easy
matter for the dominant party to fill the space his
decease has created. It has already caused some con-
sternation in their ranks.

In another point of view, and in other political
ranks, he is a national loss. He was friendly to the
Wilmot proviso, and, had he been spared, would have
contributed, doubtless, to the settlement of the vexed
question of slavery.
Lieutenant Rodgers, who was held by the Mexican
Government as a spy, and Major Gaines have made
their escape from Mexico and arrived in safety at our
American camp.
The money pressure in England has not affected
this country. It continues abundant at moderate
interest.

Sterling exchange is on the rise, but not much in
demand. It may be quoted at 7to 7f.
—Times. A GEN EVESE TRAVELLER.