The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Frederick Wm. Whiston, druggist, Birmingham, to sur-
render April 22; and May 13. at half-past ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie. official assignee, Bir-
mingham; Sonthal and Nelson, Birmingham; Hodgson
and. Allen, Birmingham.
Samuel Richards, apothecary, Bedford-square, April 17,
at two, and May 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Lawrance, Plows, and
Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.

Frederick BluCher Dowland, builder, Lee, Kent, April
17, and May 19, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Stopher, Cheapside.
Elijah Lawton, cotton waste dealer, Manchester, April
22 and May 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Boote and
Jellicorae, Manchester.

John Easton, builder, Clapham-road, April 17, at half-
past twelve, and May 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannon, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Crouch,
Gray's-inn-square.
Christopher Hall, East India Merchant, Sun•court,
Cornhill, April 23 and May 25, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham-
bers, Basinghall-street; Linklater and Haekwood, Sise-
lane.

James Bradshaw and Aaron Collinson, cotton monufac-
hirers, Burnley, April 23, and May 14, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee,
Manchester" Shaw, Sutcliffe, Tattersall, and Handsley,
Burnley; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman Manchester,
William John Roberts, draper; Burry Port, Pembrey,
Carmarthenshire, April 17 and May 11, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee,
Bristol; Prideanz, Bristol.

Thenias Pyecroft, carrier, Walton, Yorkshire, April 21
and May 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Plaskett, Gainsborough ; Bond
and Barwick, Leeds.
William Bulmer, grocer, Bodale, Yorkshire, April 17
and May 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, 'Leeds; Newton and Robinson, York;
Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Richard Jones, flannel manufacturer and slay maker,
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, April 16 and May 11, at
eleven, at, the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official
assignee, Liverpool; Jones, Newtown.
Edward Duke Moore, dealer in concentrated milk and
cocoa, Minories, April 23, at half-past two, and May 19,
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee,
Aldermanbury ; Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
chambers.

Henry Bishop, money scrivener and gas manufacturer,
Dun;ley, Gloucestershire, April 17 and May 11, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee,
Bristol ; Bevan and girling Bristol.
Charles Copland and William George Barnes, provision
merchants, Bodolph-lane, City, April 24, at one, and.
May 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 'Nichol-
son, official assignee, Basinghall-street; 3'. and J. H. Link-
later and Hackwood, Siso-lane.

William Gibbon, grocer, Spumy Moor, Durham, April
20, at eleven and May 26, at twelve, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; Scaife, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Bolding
and Simpson, Gracechurch-street.

The Princes of Oude left 1001. with J. Rateliff, Esq.,
Mayor of Birmingham, to be distributed amongst the
local ohs 'Ries:

Capt. Mulock, 70th Foot, proceeds to China with the
expedition, as aide-de-camp to Lieut.-Gen. Ashburnham,
C.B.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 6 per mille premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.25 per IL sterling. On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of Si. 17s. 103/4d. per
ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold, is nearly
3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.3 per 11. ster-
ling. Standard gold, at the English Mint price, is there-
fore nearly 7-10ths per cent, dearer in Hamburg
than in London. The course of exchange at New York
on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 108} per cent.,
which, when compared with the Mint par between the
two countries, shows that the exchange is nominally
against England ; but, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the present
rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either
way between the two countries.

THE OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA.--There is now living
in Murray county, Georgia, on.the waters of the Holly
Creek, a Revolutionary veteran, who has attained the
age of 134. His name is John Hames. He is known
throughout the region in which be lives by the appella-
tive, " Gran'sir Hames." Gran'sir is contracted for
Grandsire. A grandsire he truly is. As I was on my
way to visit this relic of the expired eighteenth century,
I inquired of au oldish gentleman of about 60 if he
knew him. "Oh, yes, I know him," said lie, "he is
my grandfather I" John names was born in Mecklen-
burg county, Virginia, and was a lad 10 years old when
Washington was in his cradle. He was 32 when Brad-
dock met his defeat in the Monongahela.' He and
several of his neighbours set forth to join the headstrong
and ill-fated commander, but after several days' march
were turned back by the news of his overthrow. He
migrated to South Carolina nearly 100 years ago. He
was in 13 considerable conflicts during the War of Inde-
pendence, and in skirmishes, rencounters with Indians,
with Tories, and with the British times beyond memory.
Ho was with Gates at Camden, with Morgan at the.
Cowpens, with Green at Hillsboro' and Eutaw, and with
Marion in many a bold rush into a Tory, camp or red-
coat
quartere.i-Cauviile (Georgia) Standard.

Arm 4.
Combined Counties of Eigia and Nairn—Charles
Lennox Cumming Bruce, Esq., of Roseisle and Kin-
naird. •
County of Monmouth—Chas. 0. Swinnerton Morgan,
of the Friars, Monmouthshire, Esq. ; Lieut.-Colonel
Edward Arthur Somerset.
Combined Counties of Ross And Cromarty—Sir Jas.
Matheson, of the Lewis, Bart.
County of Northumberland .Northern Division—The
Right lion. Algernon George Percy, commonly called
Lord Lovame ; the Right Hon. Charles Bennett, com-
monly called Lord Ossulston.
Southern Division—Wentworth Blackott Beaumont,
Esq. ; the Hon. Henry George Liddell.
Borough of Abingdon—Jobn Thos. Norris, of Sutton
Courtney, Berkshire, Esq.
County of Merioneth—Wm. Watkin Edward Wynne,
of Peniarth, Merionethshire, Esq.
County of Denbigh—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, of
Wynnatay, Denbighshire, Bart. ; Col. Robert • Myddel-
ton Biddulph, of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire.
County of Aberdeen—The Hon. George John James
Gordon, commonly called Lora Haddo.
of A berd,een.—Cohinel William Henry Sykes.
County of Berwick.—The Hon. Francis Scott, re-
siding at Mertonn House.
County of Dumbarton.—A. Smollett, of Bonhill, Esq.
APRIL 6.
County of Sunderland.—G. G. W., Marquis of Stafford.
County of Argyle.--A. S. Finlay, Esq., of Castleto ward
County of Wigtown —Sir A. Agnew, of Loehnaw, Bart.
County of Ayr.—Patrick James Herbert Crichton
Stuart, commonly called Lord James Stuart.
Ayr District of Burghs.—Edward Henry Craufurd,
younger, of Authenames.
County of Hereford.—Sir Henry Gears Cotterell, Bart.;
Thos. Wm. Booker Blakemore, Esq.; J. K. King, Esq.
County of Huntingdon—James Rust, Esq., Edward
Fellowes, Esq., John Moyer Heathcote, Esq.—equal
number of votes.
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright—James Mackie, Esq., of
Bongaly.
Borough of Shaftesbury.—George Grentell Glynn, Esq.
County of Stafford, Northern Division.—Charles
Bowyer Adderley, Esq.; Smith Child, Esq. Southern
Division—Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts Foley,
E-q.; William Orme Foster, Esq.
County of Essex, Northern Division.—Tho Right
Hon. William Beresford, of Hampton Court, Middlesex;
Charles Du Care, of Braxtect-Park, Essex. Southern
Division—Thomas Wil iarn Bramston, of Skreens,
Essex ; Richard Baker Wingfield, of Orsett Hall, Essex,
Esq.

County of Montgomery—Herbert Watkin Williams
Wynn, Esq.
Borough of Huntingdon—Major-General Jonathan
Peel, of Marble-hill, Middlesex ; Thomas Baring, o
Norman's-court, Hampshire, Esq.
Aran. 7.
County of Bedford—Francis Charles Hastings Rue-
sell, Esq. ; Richard Thomas Gilpin, Esq.
County of Caithness—George Trail, of Ratter, Esq.
Isle of Wight, County.—Charles Cavendish Clifford,
of Westfield House, Rydei in the said Isle, and of Eaton-
square, London, Esq.
County of Derby, Southern Division—Charles Robert
Colvile, of Lullington, Derbyshire, Esq. ; Thomas Wm.
Evans, of Allestree all, Derbyshire, Esq.
County of Dorset—The Hon. William Henry Berke-.
ley Portman, of Bryanstone, Dorsetshire ; ,Henry
Gerard Shirt, of Critcheil, Dorsetshire, Esq.; Renry Ker '
Seymer, of Handford, Dorsetshire, Esq.
County of Cambridge—Edward Ball, Esq. ; Henry
John Means, Esq. ; the Hon. Eliot Thomas Yorke.
County of Berks—Robert Palmer, Esq. ; The Hon,
Philip Pleydell Bouverie ; George Henry Vansittart,
Esq.

County of Leicester, Northern Division—The Right
Hon. John James Robert Manners, commonly called
Lord John Manners ; Edward Basil Farnham, of Quorn-
don House, Leicestershire, Esq.
Southern Division—Charles William Packe, of: Prest-
weld Hall, Leicestershire, Esq. ; The Hon. George
Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon, commonly called
Viscount Curzon.
County of Norfolk, Eastern Division—Major-General
Charles Ashe Windham, of Myton, Warwickshire, C.B. ;
Sir Edward North Buxton, of Colne House, Cromer,
Norfolk, Baronet.
Western Division—George William Pierrepoint Ben-
tinck, of TerringOn St. Clements, Norfolk, Esq.
Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, Norfolk, Esq.
County of Anglesea—Sir Richard Balkeley Williams
Balkeley, Bart.
County of Northampton, Northern Division—Augus-
tus Stafford O'Brien Stafford, Esq. ; William Alleyne
Cecil, commonly called Lord Burghley.
Southern Division—John Poyntz Spencer, commonly
called Viscount Althiop ; Rainald Knightley, Esq.

Convention between her Majesty and
the Emperor of the French.

(From the Gazette of last evening.)
Signed, at London, March 7, 18:57.—[Ratifications
exchanged at London, March 25. 1857.]
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of the
Franch, being desirous to prevent all future cause of mis-
understanding with regard to the right el trading at and
near Portendic, on the west coast of Africa, and at Al-
breda, in the River Gambia, asserted or assumed respec-
tively by the Governments or subjects of Great Britain and
France, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that
purpose, and have named as their respective Plenipoten-
tiaries ; that is to say : _ _ _

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George William
Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Hyde of Hindon,
Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of her Britannic
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, her Britannic
Majesty's Principal Secretary. of State for Foreign Affairs;
and the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, a Member
of her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Pi ivy Coun-
cil, a Memberof Parliament, her Britannic Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies;
And his Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur
John Gilbert Victor Fialin Count of Persigny, Senator,
Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Hon-
our, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Ma ljidie
of Turkey, Grand Cross of the Order of St, Maurice and St.
Lazarus of Sardinia, Grand Cross of the Order of Danebrog
of Denmark, his Ambassador to Her Britannic Majesty ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :