The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-22 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

Computed from the Returns made in the week ending
Nov. 19, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : per cwt.
Muscovado, the produce of British America 24s Od
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 22s llid
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —s —d
Average price of the foregoing .. .. 23s 8d

The portion of the " Gazette" containing the Bankrupts
had not arrived when we went to press.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
11 19! 12 0
Rotterdam
Antwerp . 25 52k 25 57k
Brussels . 25 52k 25 57k
Hamburgh — 13 8k 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
51852 k 2
519571
Frankfort on Maine —
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —32 k

Berlin -

Madrid

Cadiz

48j
44
25 70
25 67i
25 70}
391
118 k
1181
52
52k

25 75
25 72}
25 75
391
1181
119
52i
52±

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palerma
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
• •
New York
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
south American Doubloons

THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT FOR

DEBT.

The case of William Miller, which has often been
prominently put before the public, was heard yes-
terday at the Queen's Prison before the Registrar.
In reply to the questions put to him he stated that
ho was arrested on the 3d of September, 1814. He
at that time carried on business as a general
cabinet-maker and carpenter in Christchurch ,
Hampshire, where he was born. There was no
debt. He owed nothing to the man who arrested
him. He was said to be detained for £l,OOO, but
there were no proceedings in any court against
him whatever. If the Registrar would look at the
document upon which he was arrested he would see
that there was no sheriff's name attached to it. He
had never petitioned the Court of Bankruptcy or the
Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors because
he contended that he owed no man anything. He
had a life interest in some house property in Christ-
church, but he received no rents, and had received
none since he was imprisoned, nor did he know who
received them. He had sisters, very poor people,
who resided in Christchurch. His mother was alive
when he was arrested, but she had died since. The
man Cull who arrested him seduced one of his sisters
when he had been in prison six years. His sisters
did not receive the rents. The only money he re-
ceived on account of them was from a tenant, who
sent hifferent sums from time to time, amounting in
all to £lO. He did not know if Cull took posses-
sion of the rents ; being in prison he could learn
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never
been signed by a sheriff. It could not be superseded,
because it had not been issued out of any court. It
was a forgery. There had been no trial. He did
not know what Cull claimed £l,OOO for, and never
signed
hatnyis ladcociumm,ent. He never owed anything
besides
except a few shillings in tho
prison. He was kept in the old gaol in the
city of Winchester until he was removed to the

new gaol in the year 1849. In the new prison
he was for three years in a felons' ward, because
he
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for about two months. He was in solitary
confinement for three years. A gentleman pre-
sent said that no doubt the explanation was that for
three years no one was in the same ward os Mr. Mil-
ler. From the 6th of December, 1849, until 1854 he
was never in the sheriff's ward in the new prison.
He was kept in the floor under the felons' ward
the in
solitary confinement to force him to petition
Court. The Registrar asked Mr. Miller if he was
willing to be made a bankrupt, and told him that
he could adjudicate him one ;
to which the reply
was that no one could make a man a bankrupnot wil-
t who
owed nothing,.and that he (prisoner) was
ling. The Registrar said he would take time to con-
sider what course he should adopt in the matter.
Thirteen other cases were disposed of.

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN SEAIN.—The Liberal
journal, the Iberia, has been again condemned in a penalty
of 40,000 reals, for having, in a correspondence from Lon-
don, contained remarks in praise of Don Juan. Since the
Ist of April this journal has paid 151,000 reals in the shape
of penalties,

The Roxburgh Castle, with £202,000 in gold,
has now been at sea 85 days from Melbourne, and the Wel-
lodey, with 43080001 66 days.