The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-04 00:00:00

No. 16,888. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SUN, VEMBER 4, 1846.

ANTWERP, BRUSSELS, and the RHINE.
(Sea Passage Seven Hours only.)
The Antwerp Company's powerful, splendid, and very favourite
Steam-ship ANTWERPEN, THOMAS JACKSON, Commander,
leaves the St. Katharine's-wharf, Tower, every SUNDAY MORN-
ING, at Ten o'clock, returning from Antwerp every Wednesday
morning, at Eleven o'clock.

THE SMALL DEBTS ACT.

DISTRICT No. 10.—LA1wASIIIRE, PART OF (BURY).
Proposed to consist of the following Superintenden
Registrar's Districts:—

The following correspondence, and the details sub-
joined, will show what progress has been hitherto made
in preparing to carry out this most important measure:
" Wimbledon, Sept. 16.
" Sir,—lt is the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to proceed forthwith to put in execution the Act
recently passed for the recovery of small debts.
" The first thing to be done is the division of the
country into convenient districts, which will, be made by
the authority of the Queen in Council ; but it is ad-
visable that the final consideration of the subject should
be preceded by some local inquiry, in order that a ccn-
sistent scheme may be brought under the notice of her
Majesty's advisers.
" It is my wish that you should undertake to conduct
these inquiries, for which you are well qualified by your
knowledge of the details of the Act and of the several
local Acts which it will supersede.
" I annex the particulars of a set of districts with
which I have been furnished ; from which, combined
with the verbal instructions which you have received
from me, you will perceive the principles on which I
wish the division to be proposed.
" You will endeavour to ascertain from those persons
who appear to you most likely to be able to furnish
correct and disinterested information, how far these dis-
tricts are likely to prove convenient, and what altera-
tions may be deemed desirable. You will be careful to
remind those whom you consult that this inquiry is
merely preliminary, and that full opportunity will be
given for the representations of all parties concerned,
after the formal notice required by the Act shall have
been given in the Gazette, of her Majesty's intention to •
take the matter into consideration.

Name. Population.
Atcham ... 18,842
Bridgenorth. . 16,118
Church Stretton ... 6,069
Cleobury Mortimer 8,708
Clun ... 10,024
Drayton Market ... 13,950
Ellesmere ... ... 16,329
Ludlow ... 17,521
Llanfyllin 20,4451
Madeley ... 26,253
Towns in which it is prop(
held :—Oswestry, Wem, Di
Broselev, Shrewsbury, Stre
low, Bridgenorth, Wellingtoi

Name. Population.
Montgomery ... 20,983
Newport ••• ... 14,717
Oswestry ... ... 23,074
Shiffnal ... ... 11,050
Shrewsbury ... 21,529
1 Wellington... ... 19,901
Wem& Whitchurch 17,842

Name. Population.! Name.
Burnley ... 54,192nuslingden
Bury ... .•• 77,496 Rochdale
Clitheroe
••• 23,0181

Population.
... 41,280
... 60,577

Carriages and horses may be sent to the wharf up to one hour
before the time of starting, but all applications for the shipment
of goods must be made to the London Agents, Messrs. Lightly and
Simon, 123, Fenchurch-street, where, as well as at the Packet Office,
33, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, berths may be secured, and every in-
formation obtained.

Towns in which it is pt
be held :—Clitheroe, Ilaslinj
Rochdale.

283,335

LIFE ASSURANCE AGENCIES.-AGENTS AND MEDICAL

REFEREES

Ised that Courts should be
rayton, Newport, Shiff'al,
tton, Bishop's Castle, Lud-
), Cleobury, Welchpool.

WANTED in the principal Counties of Glou-
cestershire, Somersetehire, and the West of England.
Application to be made to A. 8., Mr. Fletcher, Stationer, Shaftes-
bury-terrace, rimllco London.

DISTRICT NO. 26.-STAFFORDSIIIRE, PART OF ( WOL.

PUBLICATIONS.

VERHAMPTON).
Proposed to consist of the following Superintenden
Registrar's Districts:—

This day is published, in 2 vols., post Bvo., price 255., the Second

1 .. . .
Edition of - -
DEACON'S LAW and PRACTICE of BANK-
RTTPTCY, with a Collection of Forms and Precedents, and
Practical Notes. By EDWARD E. DEACON, Esq., Barrister-at-
Law. Revised and Corrected by the author; with some additional
Referent s and Notes by Johnlde Gex, Esq.. Barrister-at-law.
Vol. I. The LAW and PRACTICE of BANKRUPTCY.
Vol. 11. STATUTES, PRECEDENTS, and PRACTICAL FORMS
relating to BANKRUPTCY.
London : Shaw and Sons, Fetter-lane,

Name.' Population.) Name. Population
Dudley 86,028 Wolverhampton
Walsall ... 34,274) and Seisdon
West Bromwich ... 52,590

... 80,722

Towns in which it is pro]
held:—Dudley, Wednesbur;

253,620
oosed that Courts should b©
', Walsall, Wolverhampton.

DISTRICT No. 27.—STS]
Proposed to consist of ti
Registrar's Districts:—

*FORDSHIRE (STAFFORD).
le following Superintenden

This day, price One Shilling,
THE INCOME TAX, its Extension at the
present rate proposed to all classes ; abolishing the Malt-tax,
Window-tax, Duty on Hops, on Licenses to Sell and Make Beer,
the Tax on Railways, the Excise on Bricks, and Reducing the Duty
on French Wines.

Name. Population. Name. Population.
Cheadle ... ... 17,859 Stoke-on-Trent ... 47,925
Leek and Longnor 21,307 Stone ... 18,837
Lichfield ... 24,127 Uttoxeter 14,407
Newcastle-under- Wolatanton and

By WILLIAM RAY SMEE.
Pelham Richardson, 23, Cornhill.

" I have not thought it necessary that you should be
furnished with more formal authority than this letter for
instituting these inquiries, not doubting that you wil
meet with ready co-operation from all persons capable o
assisting you in obtaining for her Majesty's Governmeni
the means perfecting this measure, the proper adjust•
went of winch imports so highly to the common ad•
vantage.

Lyme ... ... 19,476 Burslem...
Penkridge 16,074
Stafford... ... 20,293

32,669

Towns in which it is prof
held :—Leek, Cheadle, Newc
ford, Uttoxeter, Penkridge,

I 232,974
posed that Courts should be
castle, Shelton, Stone, Staf-
Lichfield.

"lamp &c.,
" COTTENHAM.

" J. E. D. Bethune, Esq., &e."

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of th,
Registrar's Districts :

28.—CHESIIIRE.
le following Superintenden

" Gwyder House, Whitehall, October, 1846.
" Sir,--Enclosed I send you some copies of a map
showing the boundary of a district, which it has been
proposad to place under one judge for the purposes of
the Small Debt Court Act.
" These districts have been formed by consideration of
the division of the country under the Act for Register-
ing Births, Deaths, and Marriages. The district No.
) consists of the superintendent-registrar's dis-
tricts, which are named in the accompanying list ; and
it is proposed that courts should be held in the towns
named at the foot of the list. I have not thought it ad-
visable at present to mark on the map any subdivisions
of the district, because these cannot be well adjusted
until the principle of the main division into districts is
settled ; and it is desirable to learn in the first instance
how far that is likely to prove satisfactory. The towns
have been selected so as to cover the whole country with
courts as equally as possible, having some reference also
to those towns in which courts are now held under local
Acts. It is not proposed that courts should be held
at the same intervals in all these towns ; once a week or
oftener will be necessary in some, while in others
once a fortnight or month, or even less frequently,
will be found sufficient. I request that you will take the
trouble of communicating these lists to those gentlemen
of your county who, in your opinion, are most likely to
have considered the subject, and to intimate to them
that I shall be glad to profit by any suggestions they
may wish to make. These may be addressed, either to
me, or to my secretary, Emilius Clayton, Esq., at Gwy-
der House, Whitehall, and endorsed Small Debts
Courts.' After revising the lists upon such information
as I shall receive in consequence of this first communi-
cation, I intend to send the maps, corrected as may be
necessary, to each bench of magistrates in the county,
and by these means I hope to be enabled to present an
accurate report to the Lord Chancellor for his consi
deration.

i
Name. Population. Naase. Population.
Altrincham ... ... 31,019 Runcorn ... ... 26,136
Congleton ... ... 29,040 Wirrall ... ... 31,532
Great Boughton ... 49,085 Malpas, part of ... 2,82
Macclesfield... ... 56,018
Nantwich ... ... 33,811
Northwich ... ... 29,018

288,480

Towns in which it is proL
held :—Birkenhead, Chester,
ton, Macclesfield, Knutsfor
Frodsham.
DISTRICT No. 29.—NORTH WALES.

,osed that courts should be
Malpas, Nantwich, Congle-
-d, Middlewich, Northwicb,

Proposed to consist of the following Superintendent
Registrar's Districts :
Name. Population.' Name. Population.
Anglesey ... 38,105 Corwen... ... 15,098
Bangor & Beaumaris 25,902' Ruthin ... 16,619
Carnarvon 28,511 Wrexham ... ... 36,721
Conway 10,706 Holy well ... ... 40,787
Festiniog 15,473 Bala ... ... 6,953
Llanrwst 12,322 Dolgelly ... 13,208
Pwllheli 21,600
Asaph, St. ... 23,568, 305,546
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held:—Bangor, Carnarvon, Conway, Pwllheli, Trema-
doc, Dolgelly, Denbigh, Wrexham, Holy well, Mold,
Ruthin, Corwen, Llanrwst, Bala.

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of tt
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population.'
Aberavon ... 12,874
A berystwith ... 22,242
Cardigan ... ... 19,901
Lampeter ... 9.866
Newcastle-in-Emlyn 20,860

>OUTH- WEST WALES.
e following Superintendent

Name. Population.
Llanelly ... 20,178
Narbeth ... 21,753
Haverfordwest ... 37,139
Pembroke ... ... 19,671
Nfachynlleth ... 12,306
Newtown & Llanid-

Tregaron ... 10,253
Carmarthen ... ... 37,512
Llandeilofawr ... 17,128
Llandovery ... 14,726 302,367
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held :—Newton, Llanidloes, Aberystwith, Machynlleth,
Lampeter, Newcastle-in-Emlyn, Cardigan, Fishguard,
Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Narbeth, Carmarthen, Lla-
nelly, Llaodovary, Llandeilofawr.

loes ... ... ... 25,958

" I take leave again to remind you that the inquiry
with which I am charged in this matter is wholly preli-
minary, and that the subject will come to be discussed
by her Majesty in Council, after the statutory month's
notice has been given in the GazeMe, which will not be
until after the Lord Chanellor has received my report.
" The information which I new seek is, whether
the towns selected are well chosen, whether any
others ought to be added or substituted for those
in the list ; also whether any part of the pro-
posed district would be more advantageously an-
nexed to an adjoining district, or any addition
taken into it. For the purpose of facilitating the
consideration of these questions I have had the situation
of some of the chief towns in the adjacent districts lying
near the boundary marked in the margin of each map.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
"J. E. D. BETIIUNE.
"I have enclosed some additional copies of the Lord
Chancellor's letter of instructions to me."

DISTRICT NO. 31..---SOUTEI•EAST WALES.
Proposed to consist of the following Superintendent
Registrar's Districts:—

- Name. Population.l Name. Population.
Brecknock ... ... 17,689 Cowbridge&Bridgend 21,357
Builth ... ... ... 8,714 Cardiff ... ... ... 32,552
Crickhovnll... ... 17,666 Swansea
... ... 38,641
Hay ... ... ... 11,330 Kington ... .v. 9,315
Merthyr ... ... 52,864 Presteign& Knighton 15,738
Neath ... ... ... 32,627,
Rhayader .. ... 6,722 265,215
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held :—Swansea, Neath, Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr,
Brecknock, Hay, Builth, Rhayadar, Presteign.

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of tli,
Registrar's Districts :

32.— NORFOLK.
e following Superintendeni

- Name. Population.
Aylsham ... ... 20,056
Blofield... ... ... 10,555
Docking ... ... 16,930
Erpingham ... ... 20,513
St. Faith ... ... 11,556
Flegg,East & West 7,684
Forehoe ... ... 13,529
Henstead ... ... 11,381
LAdon & Clavering 14,472,
Mutford and Loth•
ington

. Name. Population.
; blitford & Launditch 28,493
Norwich ... ... 61,846
ISwafflam ... ... 13,084
Thetford ... ... 17,542
Tunstead & }lisping 15,436
Walsingham ... 20,960
Wangford ... . . 13,860
Wayland ... ... 11,168
Yarmouth ... ... 24,031

".. 16,3911

Towns in which it is props
held :—Swaffham, Fakenhal
Dereham, Attleburgb, Nor,
Bungay.

I 349,487
,osed that Courts should be
an, Cromer, Ay!sham, East
midi, Yarmouth, Lowestoft,

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of thi
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population.
Blything ... ... 27,319
Bosmero and Claydon 16,521
Bury st. Edmunds 12,544
Cosford ... ... 18,237
Deward ... . . 25,590,

33. ►SUFFOLK.
le following Superintendent

Name. Population.
Plomesgate ... ... 21,059
Risbridge ... ... 17,440
Sampford ... ... 11,818
Stow ... .., ... 19,675
Sudbury ... ... 30,048
Thingoo ... .. 18,031
Woodbridge ... 23,015

G uiltcross 11,9651
Hartismere ... 18,529

Hnxne ... 15,797
Ipswich ... 25,254
Mildenhall 9,184
Towns in which it is prop
held:—Eye or Diss, Halesw
Edmunds, Stowmarket, Sud
ham, Woodbridge, Hadleigh

322,026

Posed that Courts should be
vorth, Mildenhall, Bury St.
ibury, Ipswich, Sazmund-
I, Haverhill.

DISTRICT No. 34.—EssEx.
Proposed to consist of the following Superintendent
Registrar's Districts:—

Name. Population.! Name. Population.
Billericay ... ... 14,934 Orsett ... 10,157
Braintree ... ... 16,018 It( chford 14,617
Chelmsford .. ... 30,603 Romford ... 22,216
Colchester ... ... 17,790 Saffron Walden ... 18,821
Dunmow ... 19,884 Tendring . . 26,251
Epping ... 15,987 West Ham ... ... 26,919
Halstead 17,691 Witham ... 15,407
Leaden & Winstree 20,881
Maldon ... 20,838
On gar 11,804
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held : Harwich, Colchester, Maldon, Chelmsford,
Rochford, Billericay, Romford, Epping, Dunmow, Saffron
Walden, Halstead.
DISTRICT: No. 35.—HERTFORDSHIRE, MIDDLESEX,
PART OF.

320,818

Proposed to consist of the following Superintendent
Registrar's Districts :
Name. Population. Name. Population.
St. Albans ... ... 17,051 Watford . . ... 18,009
Bishop Stortford 19,380 Barnet ... ... 13,751
Hatfieldand Welwyn 8,023 Edmonton ... .. 52,569
Hemel Hempstead 11,499 Hendon ... 15,444
Hertford ... ... 14,145 Uxbridge ... 18,889
Hitchin ... 22,346 Luton ... 19,010
Royston and Bunt-

ingford ... 24,929
Ware ... ... 15,528
Towns in which it is prc
held :—Royston, Hitchin,
Hertford, St. Albans, Watfc
ham, Edgeware, Uxbridge,

270,573

posed that Courts should be
Luton, Bishop Stortford,
prd, Barnet, Enfield, Totten-
iampstead, Highgate.

DISTRICT No. 36.—CAMBRI:

:DOE, HUNTINGDON, NORTH-
tE, PART OF.
. _

AMPTONSIIII
Proposed to consist of ti
Registrar's Districts :

to following Superintendent

Name. Population.
Cambridge .... ... 24,453
Caxton &Arrington 10,080
Chesterton ... 21,608
Ely . . 20,077
Linton ... 12,958
Newmarket ... 27,383
North Witch ford 14,7731
Whittlesey ... 9,032
Wisbeach 31,481
Huntingdon ... 18,431
St. Ives 19,107

Name. Population.
St. Neot's ... 18,035
Freebridgo Lynn 12,578
King's Lynn ... 16,554
Downharn Market 19,200
Kettering ... 18,327
Oundle ... 14,975
Peterborough ... 23,314
IThrapstune ... 12;041

344,410

Towns in which it is prop,
held:—Cambridge, Newmar
Peterborough, Downham Al
ton, Huntingdon, Oundlo, ICI

iosed that Courts should be
rket, Ely, March, Wisbeach,
larket, St. Neot's, Kimbol-
:ettering, Thrapstone, Lynn.

DISTRICT NO. 37.-NORTHADIPTON, PART OF ; BED-
FORDSHIRE ; BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, PART OF.

Proposed to consist of the following Superintendent
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population. Name. Population.
Ampthill 15,681 Brixworth 14.330
Bt dford ... 31,767 I)aventry 21,467
Biggleswade ... 20,694 Hardingstone ... 8.668
Leighton Buzzard 13,945 Northampton .• 28,103
Woburn ... ... 11,282 Pottersbury 9,704
Aylesbury ... ... 22,134 Toweester 12,537
Buckingham ... 14,239 Wellingborough ... 20,133
Newport Pagnell 22,999 Berk hrunpstead ... 11,512
Winslow ... ... 8,376
Brackley X 3,508

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:Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held :—Aylesbury, Buckingham, Newport Pagnell,
Leighton Buzzard, Ampthill, Bedford, Biggleswade,
Berkhampstead, Brackley, Towcester, Daventry, Nor-
thampton, Wellingborough, Stony Stratford.

VIIAMSRIRE, PART OF; OX-
BERKSHIRE.

DISTRICT No. 38.—BUCKL
FORDSUIRE,
Proposed to consist of I
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population.
Abingdon ... 18,789
Bradfield ... 15,667
Cookharn 11,0601 u...—
Faringdon 15,582 Thame
Newbury ... 19,963 Wlt----
Reading ... 19,528,
Wallingford ... 13,930
Wantago 16,826,
Wokingham ... 12,803'
Bicester ... 15,231
Chipping Norton 16,151
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held :—Newbury, \Vantage, Faringdon, Abingdon, Wal-
lingford, Reading, Maidenhead, Henley, Oxford, Wit-
rwy, Chipping Norton, Woodstock, Bicester, Amersham,
Thule.
DISTRICT, No. 47.—Kary.
Proposed to consist of tli
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population.
Bromley .. 16,079
Dartford ... 25,361
Lewisham ... ... 23,013
Gravesend ... 15,665
Hollingbourne ... 13,830
Hoos ... 2,794

,he following Superintendent

Name. *Population.
Ileadington ... 14,091
ifenley "' ... 15,639
Oxford .. ... 19,701
Timone ... ... 15,413
Witney ... ... 22,963
Woodstock ... ... 13,390
Amersharn ... ... 18,207
Wycombe ... ... 34,150

't PART OF (MAIDSTONE).
le following Superintenden

Name. Population.
Medway ... ... 36,590
Milton ... ... 11,493
North Aylesford... 14,676
Seven-Oaks ... 22,210

Maidstone ... 32,310
Mailing ... 17,933
Towns in which it is pr(
held:—Bromley, Dartford,
tingbourne, Maidstone, Sevi

Sheppey ... ... 10,856
Tonbridge ... ... 23,814

I • 266,624
posed that Courts should be
Gravesend, Rochester, Sit-
rn-Oaks, Tonbridge.

DISTRICT NO. 48.— KENT, PART OF (CANTERBURY).
Proposed to consist of the following Superintenden
Registrar's Districts:—

Name. Population.! Name. Population.
Blean 13,745 Faversham 15,915
Bridge ~. ... 10,981 ißomney Marsh ... 5,200
Canterbury ... 14,986 Tenterden ... 10,999
Cranbrook 13,1631Thanet... ... 31,467
Dover .. 24,522 West Ashford ... 11,329
East Ashford ... 11,536
Eastry 23,928

202,433

Elhaii ... ... ... 14,662,
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should bo
held; —Tenterden, Ashford, Romney, Folkstone, Dover,
Faversham, Canterbury, Ramsgate, Deal.

DISTRICT No.
Proposed to consist of th
Registrar's Districts:—
Name. Population.
Chertsey ... 14,929
Croydon ... 27,721
Dorking ... 10,968
Epsom ... ... 17,251
Farnham ... 17,787
Godstone ... 11,459
Guildford ... 23,08.3
Hambleton ... 12,811

49.--SURREY.
le following Superintendent

Name. Population.
Kingston ... ... 23,974
Reigate ... ... 14,329
Richmond ... ... 13,558
Eton ... ... ... 20,247
Staines... ... ... 13,21 G
Windsor ... ... 20,502
East Hampstead ... 5,935

• 247,772
Towns in which it is proposed that Courts should be
held:—Kingston, Croy don, Epsom, Godstone, Reigate,
Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, ilaslemere, Staines,
Widsor.