The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Henry Watson and John George ;Hick" (not " Fich,' as
before advertised in last Tuesday's Gazette), cement manu-
facturers, Pimlico.
Robert Blacker, innkeeper, Ripon, Yorkshire.
John Woodhouse, draper, Ripon, Yorkshire.
Samuel Armstrong, glass dealer, Bolton-le-Moors, Lan-
cashire.
Joseph Lucas Horrocks, merchant, Manchester.
Willi: Joseph Hawley, grocer, Woolwich,
William Henry Tautz and Bass Jackson, linendrapers,
Great Russell-street, Tottenham-court-road.
James Farley, laceman, Liverpool.
Thomas Dean, chemist, Seacombe, Cheshire.
Smith Tibbits,:ealer in mineral ores Cotterell,Gloucestes.sh.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending March 18,
MO, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
• on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 275. lid. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 283. Md. p,
From the East Indies 28s. Oid.
Average price of the tliree foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty 275. nil ~
By authority of Parliament,
Hxxn.T BICSN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, March 21.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo]
Itek at Five o'clock.

PETITIONS.
: • t arl GRANVILLE presented a petition from Colefiold
'n favour of the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill.
The Earl of LANESBOROUGH presented several
petitions against Papal aggression.
The Earl of FALMOUni presented a petition from
the shipowners of Brixham complaining of the repeal of
ille.navigation4a,,,,, and praying for redress.
Lord Ly TTELTON presented two petitions from
the clergy
of two dioceses in Canada, praying for a
better provision for the Church in the colonies.
The Earl of WINcuiLsEA.
presented twenty peti-
tions against the Papal aggression.
The Marquis of LAN BllOWNEinesented two peti-
tions from different bodies of Wesleyan Methodists
against Papal aggression.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented several petitions
against Papal aggression.
COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading th
is
Bill. th's
Bill. He proposed, as one of. court, the
the alterations, that in ease
of a new trial beinggranted a county
in ~ venue
of such new trial should be laid beforeanother county
court judge. It had been suggested that in
,all
cases the defendant should be called upon to
if
give
notice that he means to defend,
and
he does not give such notice he shall not
be permitted to defend, but that
the cause should be
treated as an undefended cause, giving the defendant
•trA.d
power of applying to the learned judge to be permi
to defend, if it should appear upon affidavit thl, t
he had in the interim discovered new evident °, ;
this was a matter worthy of consideration. B .13
proposed to give the county court judges jurisdictio ri
in, tithe cases, several clergymen had urged him to ad i
this provision to the Bili. It had been held utterly
ab-
surd to apply to the Court of Chancery in any matter in:
which the amount in dispute was less than 1,000/. ; he.
would not exaggerate, but he would propose to give to
the county court judges a Chancery jurisdiction in all
eases in which the amount to be decided on was under
100 i. These were the alterations he proposed ; thee()
were all the additions he proposed to the contentio, as
jurisdictions of the county courts. It had been aug,.