The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Greenhow and Cephas Foster, distillers,
Saint John-street, Clerkenwell, to surrender, Jan. 1
and 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch•lane, Lombard-street; Law-
rence and Plews, Old Jewry-chambers.
William Alexander Reeves, cabinetmeker, Maidstone,
Dec. 17, at half-past one, and Jan. 28, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street; Case, Maidstone ; Braikenridge, Bartlett's•
buildings, Holborn.
Thomas Ellen, coal-merchant, Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, Dec. 20, at two, and Jan. 22, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Sambrook court, Basinghall-street ; Long, Lavvrence-
lane, Cheapside.
Edwin Loveless, grocer, Portsea, Southampton, Dee.
20, at one, and Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook court,
Basinghall-street ; Dyne, Lincoln's-inn•fields, and Sten-
ing,Portsea.

Charles Dugard Makepeace and Robert Strong, screw
manufacturers, Dec. 19, and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee,
Birmingham; James, Birmingham; Collis, Stourbridge.
Henry Thomas Watson, draper, Liverpool, Dec. 27
and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Dodge, Liverpool.
William Lakin Bowyer, grocer, Macclesfield, Dec.
31 and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee; Bain, Manchester;
Norris, Macclesfield. _ _ _

Thomas Kell Irwin, draper, Hexham, Dec. 20, and
Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District.
Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne;
Reed and Co., Friday-street, Cheapside; Sale and Co.,
Manchester; Griffith and Co., Newcastle•upon-Tyne.

IRELAND.
(FRom OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 10.—Two
municipal elections took place to day, for the wards
vacated by Mr. Reynolds, M.P., electing to sit for his
old ward, Merrion. Mr. Martin Burke, the eccentric
but wealthy proprietor of the Shelburne Hotel, and
who possesses the reputation of having saved Charles
Gavan Duffy from the fate of John Mitchel, was
returned for the Castle ward by a majority of 13 over
James Meade Loughnan, a Repealer, who last week
was ousted, by a Conservative, from the Custom-
house ward, for which he had sat since the Municipal
Reform Bill. Mr. Bagnall, a Repealer, was returned
without opposition for the Linen-hall ward, also va-
cated by Mr. Reynolds.
The great will case of the Hon. Martin Ffrench
against his brother Lord Ffrench, re-commenced to-
day, the Court having granted an order for a new
trial. The case, which is a special jury one, bill
last three or four days!
TIM NEW COURT AND TEE OLD ONE.—The fol•
lowing intimation, which was going the rounds of
the " Hall " to• day, evinces the noli me-tangere
relations in which the Court of Chancery and the En-
cumbered Estates Commission stand towards each
other. It appears ;nothing can equal Lthe 'politeness
of one to the other: except its distance. It
is now " fixed" by the Master of the Rolls, that he
will not appoint a receiver on petition, on any lands
brought int the Encumbered Estates Court, except
at the cost of the party applying. Further, if any
application be made for a receiver in respect
of such lands, and his Hononr be not ap-
prised that they are so circumstanced, the
order will be rescinded, with costs, to be paid by the
solicitor presenting the petition for the receiver. The
attorneys look upon this as sharp practice, even from
one so little friendly to the profession as the Right
Hon. T. B. C. Smith.

The sudden death of John Boyse, Esq., the newly-
elected Mayor of Limerick, before he had entered
on office, will cause a sharp contest for the civic
dignity in that city. Limerick is a stronghold of
the Protectionists, and it is expected that the struggle
for the mayoralty will embrace the questions of free-
trade or protection. Mr. Boyse was for a moderate
fixed duty.
A commercial paper of this evening has the follow
ing particulars respecting a course of competition, at
once insane and destructive, in which an immense
Irish capital is wasted in mutual injury instead of in
attempting to open up the thousand roads to prospe
rity still acessible in this country to well directed
skill and industry.
" One of the Dublin and London companies, irritated
by the opposition given to them by some gentlemen con-
nected with Waterford, encouraged or assisted the
establishment of a steamer between Waterford and
Liverpool, in competition with the Waterford Steam-
packet Company; and the latter, by way of reta
liation, have placed vessels on the Dublin and Liver
pool station, to oppose the City of Dublin Corn
pany, which is nearly identical with the British
and Irish Company, the promoters of the
Waterford opposition. This last is supported
by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railwey Company,
which claims indeed the merit of originating it, and in
revenge for this intervention, parties connected with the
old Waterford Company have set up cars for the con-
veyance of goods to and from Kilkenny, whereby the
railway traffic has suffered severely.
The result of this insane competition is that between
Dublin and London, Dublin and Liverpool, and between
Waterford and Liverpool the several Steam Compa-
nies are carrying goods and passengers at rates
which yield to them little more than halt
their expenses. Four years ago there was but one
company plying between this port and Liverpool.
there aro now three; seven ships in each week being
the addition made by the new corners. The freights
are about one-fourth, one-fifth, or even one-sixth
of what they then were; one company, for instance,
carrying sugar for 2s. per ton; bale goods for Id. per
foot; and deck passengers at 3d. a head. If directors
arc devoid of common sense, have shareholders no power
to put a stop to this inconceivable folly—to this reckless
and most inexcusable waste.

THE FUNDS.—Three per Cent Consols, 95k; Three-
and-a• quarter per Cent. Stock, 96i ; Mining Company
of Ireland, 5; Dublin and Kingstown Company, 132.
ROYAL EXCHANGE.—(Tnis DAY).—City Debentures,
Four per Cents., 72i; Dublin Consumers' Gas Com-
pany, 44.