The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

CHINA.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—The following
intelligence was posted in the Underwriters' Room
to-day :
"A Colombo Times, extra, of the 15th July (Isle of
Ceylon), contains a very alarming rumour with re-
gard to the relations of this country with China, and
one which derives considerable probability from the
recent conduct of Sir John Davis, the Governor of
Hong -Kong. The report is, that the attack on the
Bogue Forts had roused a desperate spirit of hostility
against all foreigners, but especially the English, and
had led to a general rising of the people of Canton
against them. The report further states that the Con-
suls had been compelled to leave Canton, and that the
Europeans were preparing to follow them.
" The above news is said to have been brought to
Colombo by the Haddington steamer, which received
it from the captain of a vessel who had been dispatched
to Calcutta for troops, to reinforce the garrison of
Hong-Kong.
" The details are too incomplete to enable 'as to
judge whether this is a national movement, authorised
by the Emperor, or a popular commotion, but either
would be a very serious affair."
It does not appear how this intelligence has
reached England, but from the tenor of our previous
advices from the Celestial Empire, it is no doubt
authentic.

ROYAL ORTHOP2EDIC The half-
yearly general court of the governor and subscribers of
this institution was held yesterday, at the Hospital, 6,
Bloomsbury-square. Quarles Harris, Esq., deputy-
chairman, presided, The report read and adopted stated
that the total cumber of in and out-patients admitted
during the past half-year, from the 24th of February, to
the 24th of August, 1847, amounted to 758, being an in-
crease during the last six months of 220. The total
number of the patients admitted since the opening of the
charity in December, 1840, was 570, and of out-patients
.5,485, making a total of 6,055. The average daily at-
tendance of out-patients was now about 100; the cases
presented weekly from 20 to 40. The committee had
the highest satisfaction in mentioning that out of this
large number who presented themselves with cases of
club-foot, lateralzurvature of the spine, and other con-
tortions aild deformities, not one death had occurred,
neither I there been any instance of permanent suffer-
ping or inlay from the mode of treatment adopted. The
list of subscribers was steadily increasing, but the funds
at the disposal of the committee were quite inadequate
to the relief of the large number of applicants who came
from every part of the United Kingdom. Recently six
additional beds have been opened for the reception of
• eTherl
additions to their resources to the Corporation of the
gneodw themselvesin the e stabl
indebtedish fornt.
liberal
of London, who bountifully voted them a donation
of 100 L, and to the Mercers' Company, who kindly
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awarded them 25 guineas. The Right Hon. Sir Fred.
Pollock and Lord Robert Grosvenor having been nomi
nated to the vacant Vice-Presidentships, a vote of thanks
was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated.
SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. —BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY
EVENING —Last night a meeting was held at the public
office, convened by R. Martineau, Esq., Mayor, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of
raising a fund for the purchase of Shakespere's house.
The meeting was very respectably attended. Mr. Ed-
ward Flower attended, from Stratford, to give any infor-
mation required upon the subject. The Mayor opened
the business by stating the object for which the meeting
was convened, and concluded by urging upon all present
the necessity of immediate exertions to secure the birth-
place of William Shakspere, the immortal bard of Rrigland,
that the country might retain it as a national treasure.
Mr. Flower said it was the desire of the Stratford com-
mittee to obtain the active co-operation of the various
towns for the one object, rather than by having different
subscriptions and different attempts at purchasing; any-
thing like competition would only very materially en-
hance the value of the property. In London, Manches-
ter, and other large towns, they were co-operating for
one fund, and he hoped they would do the same in this
town. The appointment of a committee, for the pur-
pose of carrying out the object of the meeting, was then
moved by Francis Clarke, Esq., and seconded by Arthur
Ryland, and carried; after which it was arranged that
circulars should be immediately sent to the leading gen-
tlemen of the town, requesting their assistance, and to
prepare for another meeting to be held on Thursday
next.

_ ALLEGED FRAUD By A LETTER CARRIER.-
Yesterday a charge of fraud of a singular character was
investigated by the Post-office authorities. The charge
arose from the circumstance of Goodwin, who was what
is called " charge taker" of a division, and in that capa-
city had to receive and account for the moneys received
by a number of letter carriers, finding his cash account
frequently deficient, and having to make up the defi-
ciency from his private resources. This occurring fre-
quently, a police-constable was placed in the room be-
langing to the letter carrier's department, who shortly
adotected one of the men entering some time before the
mews' hour for business, and after opening Goodwin's
drawer with a key, proceed to alter the entries in his
eflaarge book. The case has been ordered to be re-
ported to the Postmaster-General, for his Lordship's
r division as to the course to be adopted towards the de-
linquent.
ANOTHER IMPRISONMENT FOR NON-PAYMENT OF
CHURCH-RATES.—Surely the members of the Establish-
•ment must see with shame the incarceration of another
victim to the unjust system of church-rates! A poor
tan, named Bedwell, has been sentenced at the Cam-
Aridgeshire assizes to six months' imprisonment for not
paying sixteen shillings to a church to which he did not
'belong! The facts are stated in an article taken from
the Nonconformist Elector in our Supplement. We are
,told that the sufferer " felt a conscientious objection to
4 the rate." When legal proceedings were adopted, the
churchwardens might have distrained on his furniture,
instead 'of indicting him. But they took the latter
miturse: two years elapsed before the trial; costs of some
he ndreds of pounds were incurred; and the poor ,man—
nr ,t having " a shilling in the world to bless himself with,"
lai at having a wife and five children earning only three
sit fillings a week—is committed to gaol for half a year!
ll rich events are a scandal to any church. They are
clearly of the nature of persecution for conscience' sake.
It is vain to say that the law was against the prisoner.
The complaint is that the law itself is an offence against
conscience, by requiring a man to pay for the teaching
of that which he does not believe to be true. It is idle
to reproach the man with obstinacy, for not obeying the
order of the justices: the same scruple which led him to
refuse the rate, would lead him to refuse the order. Yet
We must admit that if compulsory taxation for religious
tasching be just,—if it be right to make men pay for the
tefaching of that which they do( not in theiir,colit
Wieve,—the distraining of por Bedwe 1 s fury. tune
not even in that
udght have been warranted, though
t•ase the imprisonment of his person. Such cases as the
lPresent ought to lead men to consider whether cora-
pulsory taxation for the support of religion can be
- dieated by reason or Christianity.—Leeds Mercury.
TWILLNESS OF MR. LAW HODGES.—We deeply re-
gret to learn the serious illness of the newly-elected
Member for West Kent, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. We
understand that the Hon. Gentleman is suffering from a
complication of ailments, attributable to over-excitement
find exertion during the late contest, which he was en-
'p.,2l-,aged in, we are told, contrary to the advice of his me-
dical attendant. The warmest opponents of Mr. Hodges
will, we are sure, sincerely lament that his obedience to
what he considered a call of public duty, should have sub-
iected him to personal suffering, and will earnestly hope
that his maladies may soon yield to medical treatment.
We understand that the proposed dinner in this town to
ie:babrate the lien. Maidstone return has been indefi-
)si tely postponed.— Journal.
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Frome—Major Robert Edward Boyle, commonly called
the Honourable Robert Edward Boyle, of Roehampton, in
the county of Surrey.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

William Foster, manufacturer, Hollinwood, Lancashire.

BANKRUPTS.

Samuel Charles Everett and Henry Everett, coopers,
Poplar, to surrender Aug. 31, at two, and Oct. 8, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee, Basinghall-street; Lawrence and Plews, Old
Jewry-chambers.
John Oakley and Benjamin Oakley, builders, South-
ampton, Sept. 4, at one, and Oct. 8, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wbitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Barber, Furnival's Inn.
Harriet Drew, milliner and dress maker, Bury St. Ed-
munds, September 1 and 28, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Milne, Parry, Milne,
and Morris, Temple.
John Taverner, silk manufacturer, Nuneaton, War
wickshire, Sept. 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Towne, Devonshire-square, London.
Henry Bowen, clothier, Coventry, Sept. 14, at one,
and Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram and
Knowles, Birmingham.
Adam Jessop, auctioneer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Sept.
7 and 28, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Brodribb, Child's-place,
London; Scholes, Dewsbury; Harle and Clark, Leeds.
Thomas Sampson, grocer, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire,
September 8 and October 5, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ;
Baylis and Drewe, Basinghall-street ; Rickards and
Thomas, Tewkesbury.

DIVIDENDS.
In the Country.

A. Ashworth, Haslingdon, Lancashire, woollen-
manufacturer, Sept. 21, at twelve, at the Court, Man-
chester—Sally Budd, Newton Abbott, grocer, Sept. 29,
at 11, at the Court, Exeter—J. Stoodley, Bridport,
twine-manufacturer, Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Court,
Exeter—T. Avant, Dawlish, Devonshire, upholsterer,
Sept. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—G. Hole,
Watchet, Somersetahire, coal-merchant. Sept. 22, at
eleven, at the Court, xeter—J. Charke, Plymouth,
innkeeper, Sept. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—R.
and F. Glover, Leeds, dyers, :Sept. 21, at twelve, at the
Court, Leeds—G. Webster, Staincross, Yorkshire, nail
and bolt-maker, Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds
—L. Marshall, Northallerton, grocer, Sept. 23, at eleven,
at the Court, Leeds—J. Bretherick, Newlay, Yorkshire,
dyer, Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W.
Glover, Leeds, woollen-manufacturer, Sept. 23, at eleven,
at the Court, Leeds—J. Dent, Huddersfield, cloth-mer-
chant, Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds.
DIVIDENDS.
J. Mack, Liverpool, pawnbroker, ls. 6d, on Thursday,
Oct. 7, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven
and two, at the office of -Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
W. Cameron, Neivcastle-upon-Tyne, confectioner,,
2s. 9d., on any Saturday after the 2d of Oct., between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, 'Newcastle-
upon - Tyne.
C. H. Perry, Liverpool, baker and flour-dealer, 10s,
od Thursday, Oct. 7, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and, two, at_ the office of Mr. CazenaVe,
Liverpool.