The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-08 00:00:00

INSOLVENTS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER and Commissioners
BOWEN and Law.) . _

Samuel Levy Lumley, an unopposed insolvent, applied
by petition to be discharged. The insolvent, in answer to
the questions of Mr. Commissioner Bowen, stated that he
had accepted some bills of exchange for Messrs. Sylvester
and Walker, the late solicitors of Furnivals Inn, on the
undertaking of Mr. Sylvester that he would provide for
them when they became due. He bad been induced to
accommodate Messrs. Sylvester and Walker with his ac-
ceptance in consequence of it being represented to him
that the firm were engaged in several verb heavy Chancery
suits requiring the expenditure of large sums of money.
The bills on arriving at maturity were dishonoured, Mr.
Sylvester having in the meantime absconded to America
bow the bail he had given on a etitninal charge.
In discharging the insolvent, Mr. Commissioner BOWEN
strongly recommended him in future to have nothing
whatever to do with accommodation bills, for if be ap-
peared before the Court again within a less period than
five years, he might rest assured the obtaining his dis-
charge would be a rather difficult matter.
Thomas Berhett, an insolvent who took the benefit of
the Act in 1830, and who, like the former insolvent,
owed all his difficulties to the benevolence of his die•
position in accommodating others with his acceptances,
applied for his discharge. His debts amounted to no less
a sum than 1,6601., 4961. of which he had never received
any consideration for, having accepted a bill of exchange to
that amount to oblige a friend.

The CHIEF CO3I3IISSIONEa refused to grant the insol-
vent's discharge un►il he had obtained the consent of three-
fourths of his creditors, at the same time expressing his
surprise that the insolvent shouid have attempted such an
expe►iment, considering the facts and circumstances of
his case.

The further hearing of the case was adjourned sine die.

SINKING FUND.

The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the N Atonal Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10George IV.,
c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of Octo-
ber, 1833, amounted to the sum of 1,437,9331. 14s. 71d. ;
. .

The Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt give notice, that the sum of 359,483/. Bs. 711. (being
one-fourth of the said surplus of 1,437,9331. 14s. 711.)
will be applied under the provisions of the said Act
between the 7th day of January, 1834, and the sth day
of April, 1834, to Vie following purposes, viz.:—
To repay the Bank of England, per sth George
IV., c. 45, the sums advanced by the Bat k to

pay'the Proprietors of 4/. per Cent. Stock,
who did not assent to receive 31. 10s. per £ s. d.
Cent. Stock in lieu thereof 392 15 0
To be applied to the purchase of stock 359,090 13 71

359,483 8 7
Add interest receivable on account of donations
and bequests, to be applied to the purchase
of stock

£362,5;10 2 1;

S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General.
National Debt-office, Jan. 3.

The Austrian Government has been induced,
for the benefit of the intercourse between Constantinople,
the Levant, &c., and the cities of Europe concerned in
it, to have a mail between Constantinople and Vienna
once every week, instead of once every fortnight, as
hitherto. The mail will leave Vienna every Tuesday, and
Constantinople every Wednesday. The change was to
commence on the 17th ult.

By the advices from Hamburg the price of
gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price
of Si 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13. 8-1. ; and the exchange at Hamburg on
London, at short, being 13. 71., it follows that gold is
15-32 per cent, dearer at Hamburg than in London.

'1 he premium on gold at Paris is 9 per mille,
which, at the English Miat price of 31. 17s. 1034. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchringe of 25. 372.
and the exchange at Paris on London, at short, being
25. 25, it follows that gold is -.12- per cent. dearer at Paris
than in London.

On Tuesday the Marquis de Fitzjatnes was
arraigned before the Court of Assizes for the Seine Infe-
rieure, held at Rouen, upon an indictment for attacking
the order of succession to the throne, and the rights
which the King holds from the nation, by chalking on a
wall of a public inn at Guerbaville " Vice Henry V. !"
and beneath it a large pear. The Marquis, in defending
himself, maintained that the simple expression of the three
words '• Vice Henry V. !" could not be made to amount
either to treason or sedition ; still he, as well as many
other young men who bad taken no part in the errors of
the restoration, meant by the use of it to declare their
hope that one day their country might enjoy happiness,
liberty, independence, honour, and glory. He referred to
the trial and acquittal of those who had used the words of
M. de Chateaubriand, " Madame, votre fill est mon
Rol," and concluded by declaring that if his devotion to
the cause he had espoused should bring him to the scaffold
his last prayer should be for Henry V. and France, and
his last words those which bad brought him to the bar of
that tribunal. He was acquitted by the jury, and imme-
diately discharged.— Galignani's Messenger.

CHURCHMEN AND DISSENTERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The attention which the press is bestowing upon
the numerical proportion of Churchmen, and Diss-nters
may, perhaps, render the following statement, showing their
inequality in Manchester and Salford (which may be taken
as a pretty correct guide for the manufacturing towns and
districts), not unacceptable to the public.
We have here 22 Established Churches, of which six
have been erected within the last few years. The con-
gregation of these is in many cases exceedingly limited—
some of these structures having been built apparently more
for show than use. There are 33 chapels of various de-
nominations of Dissenters—of these 17 belong to the
llethod.sts, 9 to the Wesleyan, and 8 to the Primitive
Independent and New Connexion, 4 to the Unitarians,
Bto the Independents, 4to the Baptists, &c. As a mode
of ascertaining the comparative number of th.: Dissenters
and Churchmen, the following table has been drawn up
partly from Parliamentary returns, and partly from infor-
mation obtained by the Board of Health :—.

Year. lntenn. of Church. Interm. of Dissent. Population.
1821
1822
1803 ............ 1,585
1824 ............ 1,428
1825 ............ 1,3 43
1826 ............ 1,543
1827 ............ 1,604
1828 ............ 1,615
1829 ............ 1,479
1830 ............ 1,590

The above numbers must of course he taken as an ap-
proximation to truth, rather than as truth itself—the
stste of registration being so miserably defective—still
they afford sufficiently correct data for judging, the ad-
vantage, however, being decidedly on the side of the
establishment, as far as accuracy is concerned. It thus
appears that the church has remained nearly stationary
during the last ten years, the burials in 1821 being 1,561,
and in 1830. 1,590 ; while the population has increased
from 152,683 to 212,913, and the burials of Dissenter.
from 1,726 to 4,383. The table is curious in other re-
soects, and worthy a stricter analysis than I can just now
afford it. P.
Manchester, Dec. 4, 1833