The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-31 00:00:00

T OF BANKRUPTCY, Dgc. 30

IN RE GRANT AND GRANT.
Abe bankrupts in this case carried on business as mar-
gtta in the City of London, and the commiision was
desks against them as far back as the year 1783. Suffi-
tree
assets since ha d been obtained to ay the represcnta.
of all the then creditors 20s. in the pound, and also
turptui sum suffif.:ient to pay interest on a considerable
portionko.: of the amount for which proofs had been made
"Lst their joint and separate estates.
pt Mr. Lawns, a barrister, now appeared on the part of the
esentativt s of a creditor named nli.ercadale, to claim
Al arrcar of iest upon on for 1,5001., nd Sir
!Zanci,r Crane rant, Bart.a , appeared a
in person also to
4141 interest upon u debt due by the bankrupts to his late
tether
for advances to the amount of 2,085/.
S•r to the claim for interest by
R. • Lvwiv, opposition
nit7t to A• C. Gran.,-, contended that lie was not entitled to
„" ayrneut i atercst, as the instrument by wic the
?. his father was created did not expres hslyh state
lllterest" wasto be paid, and that the Act of Geo. IV.,
ki
interest from the period of its enactment, was not
L'raled to ...rave a retrospective effect.
, Sir Ale.xander Grant said he made his claim as the
tereseniutive of his late father, who was the elder bre.
t;" of James and I'eter Grant, the bankrupts, under these
tpltristances :—James Grant was in business in London
a century ago, and his younger brother, Peter, on
tzing from India (where„he had been employed in the
acirviee), was induced to enter into partnership with
but his only capital was a legacy of 3,0001. left
kit,;"„.,bY a relation, and the sum of 2,0851. secured by a
from James, with the cencurreace of his brother
e.'
,t,", and the proof was made upon the joint estate.
14kaddition he considered it would be strange to contend
itit'lt bond ;lid not contain a covenant for the payment of
; and so satisfied was he of his right, that he pre-
ti d himself before the Court without the assistance of
t er counsel or solicitor.
Law's was heard against the claim.
t! Loathed CosimissioNart said that some of the ob.
htnraws raised were new to him, and he would give them
st attention.
vhe further hearing was adjourned.

INQUEST.—The inquest on one of the bodies
Fthe unfortunate sufferers who met their deaths at
bilhee.street Chapel, Dublin, on the morning of Christmas
thtlY "'as ht.id st the Coombe Hospital last Tuesday. Her
ts,„,te wa% Claxton, a shoemaker's wife. She was literally
to.death. This poor woman was dragged from
I,o,eltis of human beings at the foot of the flight steps
into the chapel. The Jury brought in a verdict
tc..,.hat Giles Claxton came by her death in consequence
141,the frightful occurrence on Christmas Day, from bruises
Contusions inflicted on her person by a man unknown,
,'t
nq acted whether from nervous apprehension or felonious
"tent said Jury cannot ray." The broken plank, or piece
~,
timber, was proved by one of the witnesses to have been
In the same state before Christmas. Amongst the incl..
dents, one is mentioned illustrative of a mother's affection
fur her offspring and great presence of mind. In the
kidst of the shrieking and uproar she threw her infant
from her into one of the boxes used for confessing penitents,
and thus 'Aecured its-safety, regardless of what happened to
herself.
N COMET.—The French papers seize with
avidity the appearance of a new comet, as one of the re.
41,141:ab1e series of prodigies by which the year 1840 is to
"1, Made famous to all future time. Nothing but this they
firer, was wanting to make it commemorable. The new
comet is certainly not fictitious. Dr. Bremiker, of Berlin,
4' just discovered one, which was remarked also at the
tlh?,ervatory of Vienna on the 18th of November, and which
,Otte also observed by an astronomer at Modena on the Ist
.
December. This comet is not visible except with the
4ivanco of a telescope. At this moment it is to be seen
I 4
the constellation of Andromeda.
SEVEN tiORSESKILLED BY EATING WHEAT.
On Sunday last a considerable loss was sustained by Mr.
"uuathan Infield, of \Vest Fen, front a number of horses
titting at sonic thrashed wheat. A person who had charge
~
~-11,0 stock discovered a hole in the place where the
the place, stopped the same with wool. It appears that
at
night the horses removed the wool that they might get
at the wheat, for twelve of them were violently ill in
ne morning, and seven died in the course of the day, and
It five retraining, it is feared, will share the same fate.
IlliooN AND LUCRETIA BOItGIA.-011Ce be-
°N I saw a.lock'of aat same golden hair, but where is it
lIOw ? for the breast on which it was worn is mouldering
111 4" untimely wave. That breast was Byron's ; and well
do I remember his entering into a warm defence of Lit.
"etla Borgia, protesting against the truth of the charges
Preferred against her, and exhibiting a gold medallion in
Which were some twenty fair hairs, resembling fine threads
of gold ; which he assured us he obtained with great diffi-
Zilty from the ringlet at the Ambrosian library, and which
ot "slued highly. and always were.—Larly Blessington's
!Viler in hay, vol 111.
THE 1‘ EA T tiEn.—A remarkable difference in
temperature, between London and Manchester, we observe
t 0 have occurred on Christmas-day, when, according
t 0
the London papers, the thermometer, at two o'clock,
:4,s as low as 18 degrees, being 14 degrees below freez-
-I,N; point; while here, as our readers all know, we had no
r°6t at all, but a mild day, with so much of thaw, that
Pools in the neighbourhood, where there had been many
skaters the preceding day, no longer afforded a pleasant
teld for this exercise.—Manchester Guardian.
This morning, at half-past tight o'clock, death
lerminated in Guy's Hospital the sufferings of Robert
Loader, aged 25 years, one of the unfortunate firemen
belonging to the Watling-street Fire-station of the Lon-
don Fire-establishment, who was severely injured by the
falling of a wall at this destructive fire, at Mr. Good-
hart's, sugar-baker, in Rateliff-highway. The unfor-
tunate young man underwent amputation of the leg. Her-
ries, another fireman, lies in the hospital without hopes of
recovery,