The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

TIME FOR GIVING NOTICES UNDER THE BANKRUPT ACT,

In a case where a party was summoned under the Bank-
rupt Act, with a view of making him a bankrupt, an objec-
tion was taken as to service of the notice. It was urged, that
by the 29th Rule of Court four days' notice must be given,
which, it was contended, must be taken to mean four clear
days.

-ffhe Learned COMMISSIONER said there was another clause
which appeared to be frequently overlooked, in which it was
declared that in all cases where any particular number of
days was mentioned in the Act they should be taken exclu-
sive of the first and incht,ive of the last, except it should fall
on a Sunday, Christmas-day, Good Friday, or other day ap-
pointed for a public fast

MARLBRV-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Miller, a smart, well- dressed youth, was charged with
picking the pocket of Wm. Johnson, Esq , barrister-at-:aw,
residing at the York Hotel, Blacktriars-bridge, of a hand-
kerchief, under the f Bowing circumstances :
Between 7 and 8 o'clock last evening, as the prosecutor
was passing along Holborn, near to St. Giles's Church, the
prisoner lifted up his pocket and took out his handkerchief;
which he secreted about his person. The prosecutor was un-
aware of having been robbed, but a gentleman who had
witnessed the transaction having informed him of his loss,
the prisoner was seized on the spot, and the stolen property
found in his possession.
Mr. HAttpwroc (to the prisoner)—Do You wish to say
anything in your defence? Prisoner--I have nothing
to say.
air. Johnson said, that as he had a great pressure of pro-
fessional business coming on at Winchester, Hampshire, he
should wish that the prisoner might be summarily dealt
with. He believed the prisoner was not known to the police.
Wilks, the gaoler, said he had been committed from this
Court, and convicted of felony at the Old Bailey.
Mr. HARDWICK said, as the case was so clear, and with
the fact of the firmer conviction, he must send him for trial,
and no doubt he would be sent out of the country.
FORTUNATE PRESERVATION OF A LARGE SUM OF MONEY.
—A person, who gave the name of Francis Garland, of gen-
tlemanly appearance, not wholly recovered from a haavv de-
bauch, was charged with being drunk and incapable of
taking care of himself.
Inspector Aggs, of the C division, stated that between
twelve and one o'clock this morning, the defendant was
brought to the station-house by two gentlemen, perfect
strangers to him, who had found him insensibly drunk, lying
on his back in Regent-street, surrounded by prostitutes and
bad characters. His right hand was full of sovereigns, and
about him he had thirty-nine more, and also some Bank of
England notes.

The defendant said he had drank till ho completely lose
his senses.

He was fined .55.. which of course he paid with alacrity.

WESTMINSTER- BRIDGE.—We understand that this
bridge sank on Wednesday considerably. Sir Howard
Douglas predicted that it would sink, in a pamphlet which
appeared some time ago, but the piers have subsided further
than he anticipated. The Committee have resolved unani-
mously on pulling it down.
BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE FOR THE FIRST SIR
MONTHS OF 1846.—We have here, in a simgle sheet the
whole statistics of the cotton manufacture of Great Britain
during the first six months of 1846, arranged in such a
manner that a glance will aff ,rd any information on the sub-
ject that may be required. Mr. Gladstone, during the time that
he presided over the Board of Trade, gave orders that " this
very useul publication," as he justly termed it. should ue
regularly taken in for the use of the Board ; and every mer-
chant should follow this example. A counting house can
no mare be said to be completely furnished without Burn's
Commercial Glance, than an attorney's would be without the
Law Almanac. Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Mr.
Goulburn; have each borne testimony to the merits of this
very " useful," " excellent," and " valuable" document.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND NEW ZEALAND.—POST-
OFFICE NOTICE.—The following was yesterday issued at the
chief office, St. Martin's-le- Grand.--!Notice :—Mails will be
made up for the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand, to be
forwarded by her Majesty's ship Inflexible. All letters in-
tended to be so forwarded Must be addressed " by her Ma-
jesty's ship Inflexible," and will be liable to a packet rate of
postage of one shilling not exceeding half an ounce, and so
cn in proportion. No charge will be made on newspapers.
The Inflexible is expected to sail from Devonport about the
29th instant.
A SiOF TiIE OVAL GEORGE.—Several aged
the sinking °
ofll
.Y seamen have lately died, for whose memory it has been
claimed that each was the last survivor of the fearful tragedy
of
s
al George, at Spithead, in 1782.
Notwithstanding so mans' " last survivors," however, we
have the satisfaction to state that another yet lives,—that a
hale and worthy tar, 87 years of age, named Michael Gould,
now residing in Poole, was on board the Royal George at the
moment of her going down, and with several others was most
providentially preserved by escaping through a port-hole.
The circumstances of Gould, who has no pension, have re-
cently been submitted to the Board of Admiralty, and Cap-
tain Hamilton, the secretary to the First Lord, was promptly
instructed to forward a guinea for the immediate necessities
of the worthy old sailor, which he did in a letter full of kind
remarks and inquiries.—Poole Herald.
The Lower House of Bavaria have voted 24,000 florins
(2,0001.) as an instalment towards the purchase and trans-
port of the Numismatic collection of the brothers Longo, of
dAalelsssi(nba,.ssol_trecolienst.aoisr) is saneAogfrigentum and Syracuse—pat-
those unsurpassed gold me-
terns of the finest art-taste ever exhibited by MAIL—Tbe
Builder.