The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-24 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY and INSOLVENCY

LAWS.
7'O 7HE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your report of the speech which you attri
butt to me at the meeting held )esterday at the London
Tavern, on the subject of the bankrupt-laws, I Lind the
following passage. —" The learned gentleman expressed
his disapproval of the present law, and strongly approved
of arrest at the instance of the Court of Bankruptcy,
because it was prompt, silent, and sure. The seizure of
property was often attended with expense and difficulty,
but the seizure of the body was alwa)s safe, because
every creditor knew his debtor."

You will, I am sure, be equally sorry and surprised to
learn that in attributing the expression of those senti-
ments to me you have been grossly imposed upon. I
made no allusion whatever to the law of arrest, nor to
the seizure of person or property. Not only is every
line, butevery syllable, and every letter of the passage, a
pure invention; nor do I believe that any such trash
was uttered by any one else at the meeting. No such
passage is to be found in the reports of any of the morn-
ing papers, and it seems difficult to suppose that the
misrepresentation can be accidental. I take it for
granted, therefore, that you have been imposed upon:
I feel the more annoyed at having such opinions im-
puted to me, inasmuch as they are directly opposed to
those I enter tain. I decidedly object to the restoration
of the power of arrest as exercised under the old system,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Reform Club, Nov. 23. M. FORSTER.
[By the accidental transposition of a few lines of the
report is question, an abstract of a letter from Mr. Com-
missioner Fane, which was read at the meeting, found
its way into the speech of the Hon. Member for Hull.
We may remark that our reporter, owing to the insuf-
ficient accommodation provided at the meeting for the
press, was compelled to frame his report standing on a
side-board close to the door, and with his back to the
speakers. Had the entire report been incorrect instead
of correct, as it is throughout, some excuse might have
been claimed for it on this ground.]

THE Two DOUBLE RETURNS.—At a meeting
held at Manchester, on Monday evening, it was announced
that Mr. Cobden had elected to sit as representative of
the West Riding, and that Mr. C. Villiers, with many ex-
pressions of grateful acknowledgment to the electors of
South Lancashire, declined to desert his former consti-
tuents of Wolverhampton. Writs will accordingly be issued
for new elections for South Lancashire and Stockport.
TowN AND COUNTRY.—Mrs. Trollope's new novel
"Town and Country," just published, is said to be a remark-
able exposition of fashionable life in the gallant days of the
Prince Regent, in which the writer, with the graphic talent
that has made many of her previous works so popular, has
introduced some remarkable incidents, the scene of which is
laid at the Brighton Pavilion. These pictures of a private
circle, perhaps the most exclusive ever known in society,
can scarcely fail of rendering " Town and Country " one of
the most attractive of the author's productions.
RESTORATION OF THE HAIR.—To Messrs. A
Rowland and Son, 20, llatton-garden, London. Linton,
Cambridge, October 25, 1847. Gentlemen,—A striking in-
stance of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil in the restora-
tion of the hair has just come under my notice. The person
alluded to is a young man named Haylock, of Ashdon, near
this place, whose entire head of hair came off by some unac-
countable means. He purchased of me several different
popular preparations, which he regularly and faithfully used,
but without effecting the least apparent change. At last I
advised him to try a bottle of your Macassar Oil; and, on
Friday last, he communicated to me the pleasing intelli-
gence of the reappearance of a thick head of hair. You
can make what use you please of this, and refer any in-
quirers to yours respectfully, J. Sergeant, bookseller, &c.
*.* Beware of Spurious Imitations !—The words " Row-
land's Macassar Oil " are on the wrapper of each genuine
bottle. Sold at 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Che-
mists and Perfumers. •
On Tuesday, the 23d instant, a General Assembly
of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of
Arts, in Trafalgar-square, for the purpose of electing b a
Secretary and a Professor of Painting, both officesnvil t y
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the death of Henry Howard,
Esq.,whenand
Knight, Esq., R.A., was unanimously elected. Secretary,
cted
Charles Robert Leslie, Esq., 1Z A., was unanimously elected
Professor of Painting.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND
HOLLOWAY'S OINTJENT AND PILLS.—A benevolent
pastor, residing in Belfast (whose name is withheld by his
own desire) was applied to by a poor woman of his pa-
rish who had been afflicted for four years with an awfully
bad leg with sixteen wounds, and so extremely painful,
that she could not place her foot on the ground. Feel-
ing for her poverty and sufferings, this humane gentle-
man presented her with a supply of Holloway's Ointment
and Pills, which soundly healed her leg in about file
•
weeks, although she had been in the Dublindijospital for
seven months, and had consulted several
Ireland.—Sold by all druggists,
nd at InYrol2lsonarelnlcidn
a -
loway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.
HEROIC CONDUCT.—A Waterman named Peak,
while employed yesterday at Rfii
holding a rope attached to avessaelin Wthhearrivf;eWr,mbylwaccident
fell off the barge on which he was standing and immediately
Ina minute sunk to the bottom.
or two after he rose to the
surface on the other side of the barge, completely exhausted,
when a gentleman, whose name is not known by any person
who witnessed his praiseworthy conduct, jumped into the
water, and succeeded in bringing the drowning man on
shore. Peak is still alive, and it is to be hoped will recover,
although so
him
gunder water. Every attention bas
been paidto mat
Mrs. Gosling's tavern, whither he was
conveyed on being rescued by the stranger, who proceeded
to town the fist opportunity.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 24.—Wind S. by W., light breeze
I.nd fine clear weather.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes
and squally. Arrd. Yarmouth, Forsyth, Pernambuco,.
left Oct. 9. Off port Thetis, Phillips, Punta Arinas ;
Matilda, Butler, ditto ; Claud of Shoreham, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23. —Wind W.—Arrd. Albion,
Wylie, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Neth, Smith,
Calcutta and Mauritius ; Lardman, Calcutta ; John
Dalton, Gillespie, ditto ; Panthea. Glen, ditto ; Man-
chester, Bell, Bahia ; Mercutio, Sewell, Monte Video ;
Indian Queen, Forsyth, Barbadoes ; Maryland, Buck,
ditto ; John Cook, Stennin, Batoum, leaky, &c., having
been struck by a heavy sea, and thrown on her beam-
ends, on the 21st inst., put back ; Palos, for
Boston. Off port Duke of Wellington, Calcutta.
The Leith Packet, Newport to Stirling, was fallen in
with in a sinking state, off Bardsey, 22d inst., and crew
taken off by the Norman, arrived here. The Fanny,
from Alexandria, which went on shore at Crosby Paint
yesterday, capsized during the night.
DEAL, Nov. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Phoebe, Dale,
Port Adelaide; Emma Eugeisia, Sydney, New South
Wales; Chieftain, Edwards, Canton; State. Nicol, Pe_
nang ; Amelia, Teasdale, Calcutta ; Arrow, Walker,
Zanzibar; Guineaman, Anny, Africa; Fanny, Connel,
Sierra Lone; Diadem, Westcott, Jamaica; Duke of
Bronte, Barclay, ditto; Paragon, Fox, Prince Edward's
Island; Cove, Storey, Quebc; Canton, Nicol, ditto;
Murtnion, M'Lean, ditto; Watesheu, Dodds, ditto. Sld.
Cesar, Berbice. Arrd. Cornelius, Vernard; Edward
liuggest, Batavia, and sailed fur Rotterdam; Whampoa,
Willis, Demerara.

OFF MARGATE, Nov. 23.—Emma Eugenia, Beach,
Sydney, New South Wales; John Duffers, France, Nora
Scotia; Mormer, Servis, Quebec.
COWES, Nov. 23.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrived
Alanon, Tamis, Bahia.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind W.—Arrd. Calypso,
Anderson, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W.—
Off port, Madagascar, Bombay.
On, DUNGENESS Nov. 23.—Royal Victoria, New
Orleans, for Hull; Mary Jane, Quebec, for Sunderland.
OFF SCILLY, Nov. 21.—Sophia, Antigua. 22. Part
of a boat (teak built). marked on the stern " Lady
Flora, W. C. Kendrick," has been picked up here.
SUNDERLAND, Nov. 23.—The Mary Jane, of this
place, was on shore at the entrance of the harbour.
MARGATE, Nov. 23.—The Rosebud, Combleton, from
Charlotte Town to London, has been assisted in here
to-day leaky, having touched upon the Break Sandh is
morning, during thick weather.
DEAL, Nov. 23.—1 t blew a gale with heavy squalls
this morning, from S.W. to W.S.W. At 1 30 Fat. the
wind veered to the N.W., and moderated.
PENZANCE, Nov. 22.—The Anna Hermanna, from
Cardiff' to Bremen, has put in here leaky, and with cargo
shifted, having been thrown on her beam ends yester-
day during a heavy squall.
JERSEY, Nov. 19.—Five of the crew of the Mique-
lonnaw, lost on the coast of Labrador, have been landed
here by the Swift, Leselleur, from Labrador.
PORT TALBOT, Nov. 23.—The Eagle, from Aberyst-
with, got ashore to the northward of the breakwater, in
entering the bar yesterday, and has sustained consider-
able damage ; cargo discharged. The Olive Branch,
Lavinia, and Sisters, all went on shore to-day, but are
expected off next tide.
SCARBOROUGH, Nov. 23.—The Vorwarts (steamer),
Newcastle to Hamburg, has been assisted in here to-day
very leaky.

WAINiLEET, Nov. 21.—The Venus, of Dundee, Riga
to Hull, drove on shore at Saltfleet, 21st inst., and be -
came leaky ; cargo much damaged—crew saved.
SALCONBE, Nov. 23.—The Lady Courtney and the
Compeer have been in contact, and both received some
damage.

PORTDYNLLIEN, NOV .22.—1 t blew a gale this morning
at N.W. The Catherine and Mary, of Port Madoc, and
a smack, hare run on the beach, but are apparently not
damaged.