The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

George Rogers, ironmonger,' Gloucester, to surrender Jan.
8, and Feb. 5, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol; Wilkes, Gloucester.
James Andrews, grocer, Llantrissant, Glamorgan, Jan. 8,
at half-past eleven, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at, the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Millar, official assignee, Bristol ; Prideaux and
Son, Bristol.

Michael O'Hara Nash, licensed victualler, Bristol, Jan. 8,
at half-past twelve, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Tre-
hems and White, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, London ;
Sabine, Bristol.

William Barker, millwright, Royton, Lancaster, Jan. 5,
and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Pott, official assignee, Manchester • Wilson, South-square,
Gray's Inn, London ; Wilson, Manchester.
Henry Bartleet, builder, Redditch, Worcestershire, Jan.
12 and 30, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram and
Knowles, Birmingham.
Thomas Cook, printer, Leicester, Jan. 15 and Feb. 12, at
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, offi-
cial assignee, Nottingham ; Bowley, Nottingham.
Thomas Hulse, shoe-seller, Birmingham, Jan. 6 and Feb
3, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Rowlinson, Birmingham.
Henry Green, button manufacturer, Birmingham, January
3 and 30, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding, Birm ingha m.
Philip James Luntley, druggist, Bread-street-hill, City,
Jan. 9, at half-past one, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Sadgrove, Mark-lane.

Henry
n Wilkinson, cabinet maker, Watford, Jan. 7, at half-
past twelve, and Feb. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings;
Strutt, Buckingham-street, Strand.
William Alfred Elston, Bugbrook, Northamptonshire, sm.,
geon, Jan. 13, at one, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street; Freeman, Bedford-row; Freeman and Hicks,
Northampton.
John Card, builder, Dilton, Wiltshire, Jan. 18, at half-
past twelve, and Feb. 11, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, Coleman-street-buildings, official assignee ;
Fennell, Child, and Kelly, Bedford-row; Miller, Frome.
William Law Wood, ironmonger, Gracechurch-street.
Jan. 5, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Belcher. official assignee; Henderson, Mansell-street, Good-
man's-fields.

Alfr6d Fielder, brewer, Southampton, Jan. 5, at one, and
Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assignee; Dyer and Co., Ely-place, Holborn.
Owen Roberts, farmer, Tym y Coed, Carnarvonshire, Jan. 8.
and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District , Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Edwards and Peake,
New Palace-yard, London ; Williams and Edwards, Plas
Pigot, Denbighshire ; Dodge, Liverpool.
Robert Elliot, agricultural implement maker, Liverpool,
Jan. 12 and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Bird, official assignee, Liverpool;. Holme and Co., New Inn,
London ; Booker, Liverpool.
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William Oswin, boot and shoe maker, Liverpool, Jan. 12
and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Vintents, Temple, London ;
Deane, Liverpool.

William Junes and George Clay, boiler-makers, Liverpool,
Jan. 8, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Smith and
Ce., Bedford-row, London; Greatley, Liverpool.
Daniel Harford, licensed victualler, Birmingham, Jan. 20
and Feb. 3, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Vaipy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Smith, Birmingham ;
Weeks, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn.

ELECTION OF BENCIIERS AT THE INNER TEMPLE.—
It is understood that the adjourned hearing of the case
relative to this matter took place on the 30th November
and 2d of December last. Eleven judges were present.
Sir T. Wilde had formerly been heard for the appellant,
Mr. Haward ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Merrivale
appeared for him on these two occasions. The case of
the Benchers was conducted by Sir F. Thesiger. The
arguments were confined to the jurisdiction and validity
of the mode of election by a ballot, in which a single
blackball might exclude. The judges took time to deli-
berate, and have since delivered their unanimous deci-
sion to the effect that an unlimited discretion is vested
in the Benchers as to the choice of new members, but
that the mode of election is unreasonable, and the judges
recommend the adoption of a more satisfactory mods in
future.

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER:FROM WAKEFIELD GAOL,
AND RECAPTURE.—On Saturday evening a young man
named Joseph Ibbotson made his escape from the Wake-
field House of Correction, to which he had been com-
mitted for two years, at the last York assizes, on a
charge of passing base coin. He had broken through
the roof of a privy, and, after climbing over several
walls, precipitated himself from a height of about six
yards to the ground. His escape, it is said, must have
been attended with imminent danger. His flight having
been discovered, information was sent to the neighbour-
ing towns; and on Monday evening, about half an hour
after receiving notice of the occurrence in Manchester,
the prisoner was in the custody of Mr. Superintendent
Taylor, by whom he was given up to the Governor of
the Wakefield prison. He had been twice convicted at
the borough sessions in Manchester, being on one occa-
sion sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the New
Bailey, and afterwards confined for twelve months in
Lancaster Castle.—Manchester Guardian.

A German journal relates the following :—A short
time ago M. Fraxiexoni, the professor of Italian at the
University of Prague, announced that in future during
his lectures all the Jewish students would be expected
to occupy the seat behind the Christian students, of
whatever country. Some of the young Jews resisted
this order, and took their seats promiscuously. The
professor remonstrated, and most of the Christian stu-
dents took part with him. The Jews laid a complaint
before the director of studies, M. Zeitler, a prelate, who
summoned a council of the professors, at which M.
Fraxiexoni demanded the expulsion of six of the Jews
who had been most active in their resistance to his order.
M. Zeitler, however, reprobated him severely for his
intolerance, and informed him that the council would not
admit of such distinctions. The Dean of the Univer-
sity, who is also a prelate, said he coincided with M.
Zeitler, and M. Fraxiexoni was compelled, on pain of
dismissal, to retract the order that he had given.
YARMOUTH FISHERIES.-Our boats have most of
them made up, and have realised a larger catch than for
many years past, the boats averaging, according to the
information received from an old fish merchant in the
town, from 33 to 40 lasts a boat. As far as can be as-
certained the prices average about 15L a last, although a
few of the finest of the fish realised as much as 404 a
last. A large portion of the catch having been taken
during the last few weeks, it is feared that a market will
hardly be found for all of them, especially as the French
have been prevented purchasing, while the stock of billet
or cord wood is nearly exhausted, and the suspension of
the river traffic will render it difficult to obtain a fresh
supply for curing the latest caught fish.—Cambridge
Adv rtiser.

MESSRS. ROWNEY, DILLON, AND ROWNEY'S MO-
DERN IMPROVEMENTS INT PENCILS.—We lately received
some backlead drawing pencils from Messrs. Rowney,
Dillon, and Rowney, of Rathbune-place, of a very novel
character, being neatly and elegantly finished, and
which, on trial, proved vastly superior to those of the
old kind, notwithstanding their extremely low price. The
lead is so beautifully tempered as to retain a fine point
for a length of time, and is also iree from grit or danger
of breaking, the common faults of pencils of the present.
day, while the process of finishing, which polishes the
cedar and:tamps the makeis's name and the degree of
the pencil in gold, is most ingeni.ais, and reflects
great credit on the taste of the manufac-
turers. We took particular p. ins in trying
these pencils in every possible way, aad they
are such as completely to justify us in according them
the very highest praise. From an inspection of Eoale
very beautiful drewings done with them, their full
superiority is made manifest. An evenness of tone, and
their freedom in handling, combined with the intense
depth of the softer degrees, point out their value over
the Cumberland lead pencils. The material from which
black lead pencils are manufactured is found in various
countries, as North America, Bohemia, the East Indies,
France, Spain, Guernsey, England, Ireland, and Scot-
land. And yet it is a curious fact that the had
of each country differs most materially from that of
others, either in the form of crystallization or in the
substances found in combination with it. The Borrow-
dale mine, in Cumberland, has long been held in the
highest esteem, from the purity of the lead found in it;
and some idea may be formed of its value from the fact
of the manor of Borrowdale being, at the dissolu-
tion of the monastery, let by James for the
yearly rental of fifteen shillings and four-
pence, while, in 1804, the stock of blank-
lead then on hand was valued at 54,0001., and the value
of the annual consumption stated to be 3,5001. This
amount which afterwards greatly increased has latterly
proved too heavy a demand for the productive powers of
the mine ; and the immense falling off in the quality of.
the produce has led many of the pencil manufacturers to
try various compositions as substitutes. Among other
inventions, a Mr. Brockeden, an artist of very consider-
able scientific acquirements, patented a method of com-
pressing lead-dust into a solid form, but this, however in-
genious in theory, has not answered in practice as we
found the pencils made from this lead to be exceedingly
rotten, and it is now scarcely made use of by any of the
pencil manufacturers. The failures of other sources in-
duced Messrs. Rowney, Dillon, and Rowney to investi-
gate this subject more fully, and, with the aid of Mr.
Thomas Rowney, of the Royal College of Chemistry,
have succeeded in producing an article of great import-
ance to the Fine Arts as well as of general utility to the
public.