The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-17 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

(Before Mr. Commissioner EvAss.)
TOE WHITECHAPEL DISTILLER.Y.—This was the day fixed
for the adjourned examination of the bankrupt, and a few ad- !
ditional debts were proved; but the bankrupt not being pre- ,
pared with his voluminous accounts, the hearing was further
adjourned.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fownr.esQur. )
Is THE MATTER. OF KEASLET AND KV-AM:CT.—TO this
case, a solicitor who attended upon the behalf of Mr. Hobert
Warren, blacking-manufacturer, of the Strand, stated that
be was willing to abandon his lien upon some bark, warrants
for which had been handed over to him by the bant rupts, pro-
vided he was new allowed to prove for the amount, which was
about 5001.
The Learned CommssioNEß directed the proof for the debt
to be admitted, and the bankrupts not being prepared to pass
their final examination, the further hearing was adjourned.
The claim of the executor of another creditor (Mr. War-
ren's brother,now dead) for upwards of 5,0001. was disallowed.

Bell's Life in London of Sunday, March 21,
will give a full and correct account of the Leamington ,
and Warwick Steeple Chases, and Warwick Races; the
Trial of Deaf Burke, the Horses in Training at the Cur-
ragh, original runs with stag and fox bounds, Hunting
Appointments, Tables of Matches to come—viz., Coursing,
Races, Steeple Chases, the Ring, and Pedestrianism,
Betting sit Tattersall's, Manchester, and Newmarket.
Bell's Life of Sunday, March 2S, will contain the North-
ampton, also the Grand Military Steeple Chases, the
Rugby Steeple and the Pytchley Hunt Races, Caledonian
Coursiug, with a variety of other sporting matters. The
price of Bell's Lift is fivopence. Published in time for
Saturday afternoon railways. Bells Life of March 14
gave the Four Days' Cambridge tiniyusity 139 at Races.

MESSRS. CHAMBERS' BANKRUPTCY. —lt
has bees stated in some of the papers that the cortificitc
of the younger Mr. Chambers alone would be allowed ;
but in last night's Gazette the names of both father and
son appear, to be certificated on the 6th of April, unless
cause be shown to the contrary before that day.

AMERICAN TROTTERS.—The Americans,
who derive their heat breed from us, have hidierto been
able to produce horses greatly superior to ours in trotting,
and the only possible reason for this mutt be that they earry
habituate those horses that appear likely to shine at this
pace to stick to it and no othe-, which they certainly
would never think of doing were their trotting powers
likely to be remunerated by no more substanfal benefit to
their owners than mere fame. The Trotting Stokes on
the other Eile of the Atlantic, however, are sufficiattly
large tl induce the Americans to turn their tt'ention t')
improving a pace, which, when rendered first-rate, is sure
to be rewarded by ample pecuniary gains; and there can
be no doubt that were sinrikr prizes instituted in this
country, we should very shortly he able to compete with
Brother Jonathan in a pace which he has so studiously
cultivated as to be able at the present moment to send
horses to this country which throw down the gauntlet to
our best trotters.-0/d Spoiling Magazine fur february.
G AS-LIGHTING, LONDON.—For lighting Lon-
don and its suburbs with gas there are eighteen public
g-ss-works; twelve public gas-work compan'es •' 2,800,0001.
capital employed in works, pipes, tanks, gas holders, ap-
paratus ; 450,0001. yearly revenue derived ; 180,000 tons
of coals used in the y( ar for making gas; 1,400,000,000
cubic feet of gas made in the year; 134,300 private
burners supplied to about 400,000 consumers; 30,400
public or street consumers ; about 9,650 of these arc in
n
the City of London ; 380 lamplighters employed ; 17
gas holders, several of them sre double ones, capable of
storing 5,500,000 cubic feet • 890 tons of coalstw used in the
retorts, in the shortest lay, in y-our hours;
7,120,000 cubic feet of gas used in the longest
oyed night, sa
they
24th of December; about 2,500 persons empl in
metropolis aleoc in this branch of manufacture; between
1522 and 1827 the consumption was nearly doubled ; end
between 1827 and 1837 it was again neatly douticd.