The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

11EALTE OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrctr-Generat.
The deaths registered in London, which in the
three previous weeks of April were on the average
1,069, declined in the week that ended on Satur-
day to 1,038. The present return furnishes very
clear indication that the public health is unusually
good. In the ten years 1847-56 the average num-
ber of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last
week. was 1,046 ; but as the deaths occurred
in an increased r. ,ulation,' the avemage, with
a view to comparison, must bs raised in
proportion to the increase, in which case it will
become 1,151. The deaths now returned were
therefore less by 113 than the number which the
average rata of mortality at this season in previous
year would have produced.

The weather has lately been very cold ; the mean
daily temperature was constantly below the average
during the 11 days after the 21st ult., and fre-
quently to the extent of eight degrees or more be-
low it, while at several times the thermometer fell
near to, or even below, the freezing point of water.
It does not appear, however, that this circum-
stance hss operated so far as to cause any seri-
ous aggravation of pulmonary complaints; for the
deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs,
exclusive of phthisis, which had been previously
above 200, fell last week to 177 ; and those from
bronchitis, which bad been above 100, fell to 84.
The deaths from phthisis (or consumption) were 150
last week, a number which nearly agrees with the
corrected average of corresponding weeks.
Sixty children, all of whom, except three, were
under four years ofi age, died of booping-cough ;
the average of weekly numbers is 54. Four fatal
cases occurred in the sub district of Kensington ;
also four in that of St. John's, Wes,minster. Not
a single case of smallpox was registered, although a
child died of " varicAla" in Mile-end. The deaths
Ifrom measles rose to 36, which occurred principally
in the Central and East districts ; except four in
the district of Lambeth, there were none on the
south side of the river. Typhus was fatal in 36
cases, nearly half of which occurred in the south
districts. Five persons are recorded as the victims
of intemperance, besides two who died from deli-
rium tremens. Three nonagenarians are returned,
the oldest a man 93 years old, who died in the
Shoreditch workhouse.

Last week the births of 896 boys and 849 girls (in
all 1,745 children) were registered in London. In
the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56
the average number was 1,565.
At the Royal Ob-ervatory, Greenwich, the mein
height of the barometer in the week was 29.912 in,
The barometer rose to 30 in. on Saturday. The
mean temperature of the week was 41.5 deg., which
is 7.5 deg. below the average of the same week in
43 years (as de ermined by Mr. Glaisher). Ou Sun-
day, the 26th, the m--an temperature was only
37 deg., which is 10.6 deg. below the average. The
lowest temperature occurred on Wednesday, and
was 29.1 deg. ; the highest on Saturday, and was
59 deg. The range of the week was 29.9 deg. The
mean dew-point temperature was 35.0 deg., and
the difference between this and the mean tempera-
ture of the air was 6.5 deg. The wind blew (.n
every day from the north-east till Saturday. • No
appreciable amount of rain fell in the week, though
there were slight showers on several days. Every
day is qescribel by the observer as "cold," "very
cold," or "intensely cold."

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM A.I.L CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 2.
Zymotio Diseases . 193
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3l
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 177
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. 4
Malformations 6
Premature Birth and Debility 26
Atrophy ... 46
Old Age
Sudden
10
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 22
Causes not specified

DEATHS IPBOM ALL CAUSES 1,038
Population Deaths in corn- Deaths
Enumerated. spending week in the
1851. 1886. Week.
West Districts
173 ...... 148
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 535
Females 503
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males 896
Females 849

Total .

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this society was held on
Friday in the large room, Exeter-hall, which was
densely crowded. Mellon. A. Kinnaird, M. P. pre-
sided ; and on the platform we observed the Rev.
Dr. Bunting, Mr. T. Farmer, Mr. Chambers, Rev.
Dr. Hannah, Rev. Dr. Hoole, Rev. R. Young,
Rev. T. Jackson, 'Rev. J. Scott, Rev. R. Osborn,
Rev. J. W. Etheridge, Rev. S. W. Christophers,
Rev. T. M'Crae, Rev. D. Liefchild, Rev. J.
Walker, Rev. G. C. Harvard, Rev. J. Rattenbury,
Rev. A. Kisser), Rev. E. E. Jenkins, Mr. J. R.
Kay, Sic.

The Rev. R. Yourro (the President of the Con-
ference) having opened the proceedings with prayer,
The CHAIBMAN addressed the meeting, observing
that he felt peculiar satisfaction in presiding on that
occasion, because it gave him an opportunity of
testifying the deep interest which he felt in the succ
cess of the missionary work. He congratulated the
society on the success which it had pleased God to
grant to its missions, and truAed that that success
would eucourage them to go forward in their great
and glorious work. He could cordially sympathise
with every Christian mission of every denomina-
tion. Much as he wds attached to the missions of
his church, and greatly as they had been h moured
and blessed in South India, in New Zealand, in
and all parts of the world, yet
Nheosrhth Aouldmfeereilca;shamed if for moment, taking a
view of the erJuntless millions who were perishing
for lack et: knowledge, and seeing the comparatively
speaki:irg miserable efforts which had been made to
oveirtake that great and fearful mass of heathenism
—he did not warmly sympathise with every mis-
sionary work. The mission work was no longer an
experiment. The result was certain. It was not
an antiquated means of doing good, but a means
peculiarly adapted to the present age of progress.
There was ample independent testimony to satisfy
the most scrupulous. mind as to the truth of Chris-
tianity and the power of Christian inis-ions, as well
as their important effects on the world at large.
(Cheers.) He trusted that increasing efforts would
be made on behalf of the various missionary socie-
ties, and that melt of ability, men of energy, but,
above all, men of piety, actuated by a love of souls,
and ready to sacrifice them in the cause of Christ,
would be induced to come forward and give their
assistance in the promotion of this great cause.
(Cheers.)

The Rev. JOHN H. JAMES then read the report,
which was of considerable length, and which
detailed the condition of the various missions under
the direction of the Conference in Ireland, Ger-
'many, Spain, Ceylon, the Madras and Mysore dis-
tricts, China, the Cape of Goad Hope district, the
Albany and Katfraria districts, Kaffraria Proper,
the Natal district, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, the
Gold Coast, Ashantee and other parts of Guinea,
the Antigua district, the St. Vincent's and Deme-
rara district, the Jamaica district, Honduras, St.
Domingo, the Hayti district, France and Switzer-
land, Canada and Anstralia. The following state-
ment shows the present position of the society :
Central or principal stations, called c rcuits, 458 ;
chapels and other preaching places, 3,624 ; minis-
ters and assistant mi-sionaries, including thirty
supernumeraries, 632 ; other paid agents, as cate-
chists, interproers, day-school teachers, &c,, 886 ;
unpaid agents, as Sabbath-school teachers, &e.,
9,833; full and accredited church members,
114,428 ; on trial for church membership, 4,337
scholars, deducting for those who attend both the
day and Sabbath schools, 92,619 ; printing esteb-
lit.hinents, 8.
From the financial statement it appeared that
the funds of the society are in a more favourable
position than they have been for mealy epars ,
The net receipts for the yeerendine: 11)8a5s it;
vamanocue of h 9
ntedttolpl9re, 2cd"
0e5i.8 2,)
e, being a little in ad-
amounted to the
eg year. The expenditure
aindn.,upti eence of the debt reported at the lasthe Nee - creme sum, including 6,3971. 10s.
. meeting of the society.
Addresses were delivered, and resolutions in ac-
cordance with the objects of the meeting moved and
supported, by Mr. T Chambers, the Rev. J. W.
Etheridge, the Rev. R. Young, Pastor Monod (of
Paris), Mr. J. R. Kay, the Rev. J. Calvert (from
Town, South
Bti Africa),
theejHoeulsllands),W
Rev. W. Shaw (of Graham's
Rev. Dr. M'Crie, Rev. Dr.
Hannah. Rev. S. W. Christopher (of Manchester),
Mr. J. Falconer (Newcastle.), Rev. J. Walker (Tra-
lee), Rev. T. Jackson, Mr. R. S. Cook (Liverpool),
ttev. J. Scott, and the Rev. Dr, Bunting.

LA IF INTELLIGENCE.—May 5.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. BARNWELL. -THE LATE DENBIGH

ELECTION.

Sir F. Thesiger (with whom was Mr. Macauley
and Mr. J. Brawn) showed cause against a elite
obtained by Mr. Skinner for a criminal information
against the Rev. Mr. Barnwell, under the provi-
sions of the sth section of the 17th and 18th Vic.,
cap. 102, the Bribery Act, which enacted--" That
every person who shall directly or indirectly by
himself, or by any other person on his behalf, mike
use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, vio-
lence, or restraint, or inflict, or threaten the in-
fliction by himself, or by or through any other
pers)n, or any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in
any other manner practise intimidation upon or
against any person, in order to induce or compel
such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on
account of such person having voted, or refrained
from voting at any election, or who shall, by ab-
duction, duress, or any fraudulent device, impede,
prevent, or otherwise interfere with the free
exerctse of the franchise of any voter, or shall
thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any voter,
either to give or refrain froin giving his vote at any
election, shall be deemed to have committed the
offence of undue influence, shall be deemed guilty
of a m'sderneariour;"

Sir F. Thesiger said, he believed the present was
the first case that had occurred under the statute,
but the words were so vague and general that he
feared that if their lordships were of opinion that
the rule ought to be made absolute, it would be
followed by many. In the borough of Den-
bigh there were two charit;es called Gooduaan's
and Felworth's Charity, fir the dibtribut: on of
bread, and the voter Treberne, was is the habit of
supplying such bread,, as also for the borough pri-
son and the union, and Treherne alleged in his
affidavit that he also served Mr. Barnweli's family
with tread and flour. Mr. Barnwell, the chairman
of Mainwaring's committee, called upon Treherne
and asked him to vote for Mr. Main Waring. Tre-
home stated that he had promised to vote for
Morris, when Mr. Barnwell threatened to take
from him the supply of the church bread and also
his own custom, and that he would never notice him
any more, and would do all he could against him.
Atter this he was visited by Mr. Lewis, one- of the
churchwarden, who tilt eatened the taking away
of the bread ; when Treherne said he became so
annoyed at the threats held out tiat he went and
voted for Morris, and since then Mr. Barnwell had
taken away his custom from him. Mr. Barnwell
now, in his affidavits, made a most positive and
distinct denial of the statement of Mr. Treherne.
Mr. Barnwell positively deposed that he did not
make the threat, but had withdrawn his custom,
which was about 3s. a week, because he was dis-
gusted with Treherne, who refused to keep a pro-
mise be had made to vote for Mainwaring; stud
with regard to the charity bread, he had no power
over it. The learned counsel urged that as the
statements in the affidavit upon which the rule had
• been obtained had been so positively denied, the
rule ought to be discharged, as, if there had been
any intimida•ion or threat, it was on the part of
the other side.

Mr. Macauley and Mr. Brown followed on the
same side.

Mr. Skinner and Mr. Dowdeswell, in support of
the rule, claimed that the rule ought to he made
absolute, as one of the most important allegations
in Mr. Treherne's affidavit bad nut been sat sfac-
torily answered, and the case ought to be sent for
further inquiry.
Lord Campbell said, when the rule was moved
there could be no doubt a prima facie case had
been made cut, as there could be no doubt that a
threat to withdraw custom was an intimidation,
and an offence under the act, The defendant's
affidavit was, however, a substantial answer, al-
though it was not so categorical and tatisfactory an
answer as it might have been, and it was not suffi-
cient to say the other side had been to blame. It
was still open for the parties to prefer an indict-
ment, and therefore the rule would be discharged,
but without costs.

Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Crompton con-
curred.

Rub discharged accordingly.
THE QUEEN Y. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CHELTEN•

HAM JOURNAL.-LIBEL.

Mr. Powell moved for a rule calling upon the
printer and publisher of the Cheltenham, Journnl
and Parish Register to show cause why a criminal
information should not be filed against him for an
article published in that newspaper reflecting upon
the character of Mr. Boodle, the gentleman on
whose behalf he made the present applica'ion. It
appeared that Mr. Boodle had indicted several per-
sons for assaulting him when he was proceeding to
record his vote at the election of town commis-
sioners for the North Ward in Cheltenham, and
the accused parties having been acquitted, the
writer of the article in ques ion made a strong per-
sonal attack upon him for instituting' the prosecu-
tion—speaking of his "debased morality," saying
that his friends ought to be utterly ashamed of his
companionship, and accused him of having com-
mitted a flagrant violation of the law in creating
160 votes in one night, by the payment of 6d. each
on the part of the voters, adding that, after he had
perpetrated this deliberate act of fraud, he had the
audacity himself to conduct his dupes to the polling
booth in open day. This allusion, it seemed, had
reference to the fOrmation by Mr.. Boodle of a
working men's institute, some of the members of
which had become voters.

Lord Campbell—lf the article bad been a mere
comment on the prosecution we perhaps should not
have interfered, but it goes greatly beyond that
limit, and assails the conduct and private charac-
ter of the applicant with respect to matters wholly
unconnected with the prosecution. Take a rule.

Rule nisi.
APPLICATION TO STRIKE AN ATTORNEY OF THE

ROLLS.
The Court bad granted a rule calling upon Mr.
Richards to show calve why be should not be struck
off the rolls for misconduct.

Mr. Sergeant Pigott, in showing cause against the
rule, said that Mr. Richards was some time ago tried
before the assistant judge, at the Westminster Ses-
sions, for embezzlement, and convicted, the charge
against him having arisen out of trAnsactions in
which he was engaged as long ago as 1854.
Lord Campbell—The judgmentst and unrevers ed.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott said it was not reversed, but
the affidavits entered in detail into all the circum-
stances of the case.
Lord Campbell said the court could not inquire
into those circumstances. The judgment being uu-
reversed the party could no longer remain an officer
of the court. .

Mr. Sergeant Pigott—This is an appeal to your
lordships' discretion.
Lord Campbell—lt is a fixed rule that if an at-
torney is convicted of felony, and the judgment
standi unimpeached, he must be struck off the
rolls.

Mr. Sergeant Pigott apprehended that there was
no fixed rule on the subject.
Lord Campbell—Then is a felon to be allowed
to practise in this court ?
Mr. Sergeant Pigott—lt is for your lordship to
say whether under the circumstances it would be
safe to allow bim to remain as an attorney.
Lord CAmpb.-dl.-1 think it would not be be-
coming that any person under such circumstances
should be on the roll of attorneys. If there had
been anything to induce the Court to interfere, or
if a writ of error had been brought, and judgment
was reversed, we might then hive heard the appli-
cation; but the judgment not having been dis-
turbed, I take it that it is imperative upon us to
strike his name off the rolls,

The rule for striking Mr. Richards off the rolls
was then made absolute.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS.—TUEBDA.Y.
(Before Mr. Baron Watson.)
THE LATE CASE OF ALLEGED ABDUCTION.-THE
(MEN V. CAPTAIN
In this case, which appeared in our paper a few
days since, under the head of " Marlborough
Poliue.nourt," an application was made to admit
the defendant, Captain Edam, of the militia, to
bail, he being in Negate for the alleged abduc-
tion of Rose Goodman; a ori.under 16 years of ve.
Mr, llumphrite, argued in gappol of the applica,-
Con, and Mr, Lewis, jun., opposed it.
At the termination of the argument,
Mr, Baton Watson declined to grant the appli-
cation, seeing that the sessions would so shortly
commence. Had the defendant longer to remain,
he might have taken bail for his appearanca.
The application was accordingly refused.

THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM.—Them are more ways of elude
mg the Vigilance of lynx-eyed guardians than by a ladder
of ropes from a chamber window, as the sequel will show,
About the middle of last week two young ladies and two
gentlemen, all apparently in mourning, paid a morning
visit to a church in a quiet neighbourhood in St. Anne's
Ward. On their entering the church the door was closed
and locked, and the ladies—leaving the gentlemen to
di,e;mumber themselves of their overcoats and draw forth
their white kid gloves —retired behind the pulpit, whence,
having relieved each other of the habiliments of woe,
they shortly emerged in full bridal attire. The object of
their visit was now patent, and the clergyman, accom-
panied by a minor official, appearing from the vestry,
they joined the rne+arnorphosed mourners at the alta-,
when the nuptial ceremony was gone through. The geu-
gentlemen then resumed their overcoats ; the ladies
again retired to their impromptu • gibing-room, anc',
reappearing in their mourning costume, the happy party
left the church, looking as demure as tfiougis their visit
had been for the purpose of inspecting a tablet tree's('
to the memory of a defunct relative.--Liverpool Albion.

1867

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

HORSE GUARDS, S.W., MAY 4
Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
army should wear any other mourning, on the present
melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a black crape round
the left arm, with their uniforms.
By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief,
G. A. WETHERALL,
Adj utant-General.

ADMIRALTY, MA 4.
Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
fleet or Royal Marines shoul,l wear any other mourning,
on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her
late Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a
black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms.

IL OSBORNE.

The Gazette of this evening states that, the officers and
men of the Royal Navy and Marines, who have received
her Majesty's permission to wear the French Legion of
Honour, must apply for the same to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, Whitehall, between the hours of 12 and 4 daily,
and for the army to the War Office, Horse Guards at the
same time.

W ITE HALL, MAY 2.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
the Right Honourable Robert Montgomery, Lor :1 Belhaven,
to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General
Assembly for the Church of Scotland.

HOME-OFFICE, MAY 4.
The Rossie Reformatory School, near Montrose, in the
county of Forfar, has been certified by the Secretary of
State as fit to ho a Reformatory,School, under the provi-
sions of the Statute 17 and 13 Vict., c.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of Sate for Foreign Affair', a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm,
enclosing the following translation of a Proclamation
which has been issued by the Chamber of Commerce, of
that city, relative to the cattle disease.
The Royal and State Chamber of Commerce makes
known that information having been given to the Board
that in certain places in the Grand Duchy of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin cases of virulent diseases among horned
cattle have appeared, and that the same disease which has
been for some time prevalent in the Kingdom of the
Netherlands has latterly increased considerably in
the Province of Friesland, the Chamber of Commerce
now declares the Grand Duchy of 'lecklenburg-
Schwerin infected bysdisease in horned cattle, and repeats
the order formerly published, declaring the following
countries infected by the same disease, viz.:—The Nether-
lands, En;land, Scotland, the Duchy of Holstein, as well
as that part of the Duchy of Schleswick which is situated
between the River Eider and Huzum in the west and
Flensburg in the east; besides which, The Netherlands,
Zeland, Farm, and Jutlaod are declared infected with
glanders in horses.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from l,►er Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, temporarily
permitting the free importation into France of At oxhide
seeds (ground nuts), under conditions specified in the de-
cree.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Maiesty's Consul at Isloy, report-
ing the re-establishment of tha export duty on gold and
silver from the ports of Peru ; viz. :
4 reels, or ls 10,1 d. per mark of Siz. of silver.
2 reels, or 141. per oz of gold.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
throu;h the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Lima,
enclosing a copy of a decree of the Provisional Pi esident of
Peru, of which the following is a translation, declatidg
certain articles of consumption free of duty.
Art. 1. The undermentioned provisions of the first ne-
cessity shall be free of import duty for the term of 18
months, viz. :
Sugar, rice, cheese, lard, dried beef, butter, tallow,
French beans, chick peas, broadbeans, peas, lentils
and barley.
Art. 2. Wheat only shall be free of duty for the time
stated in Ait. 1, in the ports of Arica, Iquique, and Payta,
and flour shall pay at those ports the half of the duty spe-
cified by the commercial regulation.
Wheat and flour carried or re-shippod from those ports
to others of the repuolic shall always pay the duty accord-
ing to regulatiun.
Art. 3. This law shall take effect 30 days after its pro-
mulgation.
Dated 22d January, 1857.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
Huntingdonshire Militia—George John Rust, Eaq., to
be Captain, vice David Veasey, deceased.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Williain Honutr Fitzpatrick, M. 8.,
to be Assistant:Surgeon, vice Bone, resigned
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En-
sign William Plnmmer to be Lieutenant, vice Stone, re-
signed.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Alfred James Cogdell, Gent., to be Ensign.

MEDALS FOR THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, April bO, 1857.
Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify
her commands that a medal be granted to all persons, of
every rank and class, who have been engaged in the several
Expeditions to the Arctic Regions, whether of discovery or
search, between the year 1811 and 1855, both inclusive,
Notice is hereby given, that all claimants to such medal,
notwithstanding any previous application, should apply
personally, or by letter, with the words " Arctic Medal"
on the outside, to the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-House.
Every applicant must state his rank or rating, and the
name of the ship or ships on board which he served ; also,
in the case of every petty officer, seaman, or marine, it is
indispensable that his application should be accompanied
by a certificate of service, except in the case of his being on
board one of her Majesty's ships, and the application be
made through his commanding officer, in which case the
certificate will not be required.
In all cases where the parties served on board mere than
one ship, or belonged to more than one expedition, such
information should be afforded.
The following are the names of her Majesty's ships, the
officers and crows of which are entitled to the Medal :
Name of Ship. Year of Expedition.
Isabella
Alexander lBlB
Trent
Dorothea
Hecla
Griper
Fury
Heels lB2l
Griper . 18!3
Hecla
Fnry 1824
Griper 1824
Blossom 1126
Heels -27
•
Terror 1836
Erebus
Terror 1845
P10ver......
En terprize lBl4
Investigator lB4B
Herald
Enterprise 1849
Invest ga or
North Star .1849
Resolute . 1850
Assistance...
Rattlesnake
Assistance 1852
Resolute 1852
North Star
Plicentx
Phosnix
Victory
Lady Franklin'.. lB5O
Sophia

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Samuel Danford, money scrivener, Lombard-Street.
BANKRUPTS.
- - • •

Thomas Harrison, coal merchant, Maidstone, to surren-
der May 11 and Juno 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Bennett, Ludgate-hill.
Thomas Ward, manufacturer, Bow Churchyard, May 20,
at eleven, and Jima '22 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, o‘ficial assignee, Basioghall-street ; Baylis,
Re, i cross-stre
Thomas Frederick Timed, surgeon, Winchester-street,
Waterloo-town, May 12, at half-past eleven, and June 9,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official
assignee; Jukes, Bridgewater-square.
Henry Dateaon, apothecary, Waterloo-road, May 12 and
June Li, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basingliall-street • Miller, Copthall-court.
John' Figg, boot and shoe soaker, Farnham, Surrey,
May 15, at two, and June 18, at one at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basiughall-street ;
Hancock, Tokenhouse-yard.
Lucy Oakley, draper, Walsall, May 15, and June 5, at
half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Suckling, Bir-
-,:neharti
Win,;,,:na Sheldon Withers, miller, Mansfield, Notting-
hamahira, Ma.„" 19, and June 9, at half-past ten, at the
Shireltall, Nuttim;hani. Harris, official assignee. Not-
tingham ; Parson and Son, Mansfield; Bewley and Ash-
well, Nottingham.
William Penny, brewer, Nea:
nort, Monmouthshire,
May 18, and Jane at t l5, at twelve,
Court. Miller, official assignee, BristO: e
Bristol Bristol District
Cathcart, New-
port ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
David Meyrick, shoemaker Cardiff, May 18 a.:4 June
15, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraalnao,
official assignee, Bristol ; Salmon and Dickinson, Bristo.2-
Ititehingham Gravil, grocer, Halifax, May 25 and June
15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, offi
fl
cia
assignee, Led Holaoyd, Son, and Cronhelm, Haliax ;
Bond and liirwidk, Leeds.
Ebenezer Brookes, spring knife manufacturer, Sheffield,
May 16 and June 27, at ten, at the Council Hall, Sheffield.
Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield i Broadbent, Sheffield.
William Swinton Laurie, Liverpool, May /8 and June 8,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official
assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool.
William Wiliam Jones, ship builder, Carearvon, May 22
and Jude 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turivr, official assignee, Liverpool ; Evans and Son,
Liverpool.
George Gillett, Cabinet maker, Preston, May 19 and
June 16, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis
vestrict Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Etty, Li pool.
James Wallwerk, c tton zpinner, Chorley, Lancashire,
May 2 and Juno 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Horxtuattu, official assignee, Manchester ; Hulton
and Brett, Salford. .
Anderson Stoker, grocer, I- urban!, June 9, at one, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Curt.
Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Watson, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne ; Harwood, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Thomas Walsh, wine merchant, Glasgow.
David Stewart, shipowner, Dundee.

CENTRAL OPTHALIIIC HOSPITAL.—Mr. E. C. Huime,
F.R.C.S., has just been appointed one of the surgeons
of this excellot institution.

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT LUNDHILL.

LUNDHILL, MAY 5.
bodies have bren exhritned to-day, being
the largest numb r whic, has been recovered in
01 e day, and increasing the total number to 31..
those previously found none of the bodies were
in such a state as to be personally recognisable,
being very much decomposed, but six of them have
been identified by peculiarities of dress. Four of
the bodies "were brought out at 4 o'clock this morn-
ing, and were shortly identified as those of William
Thomps, in, of West Melton, aged 29 ; James Hunt,
of Lundhill, aged 27 ; and Joseph Harrison and
William Smith, both of Wombwell, and respec-
tivoly 18 and 17. The bodies of William Thomp-
son and .Harrison, who was his " trammer," were
found at the top of the fourth board-gate on the
south side of the pit, where they were at work at
the time of the explosion ; while those of Hunt
and Smil were discovered in a slit between the
third and fourth boardgates, having probably at-
tempted to escate on the occurrence of the eiplosoll
and been arrested by the IJOX'OUS gas. The fifth
body was brought out at 8 o'clock th's morning,
and has not been identified. It was found floating
in the miter in the dip level to the south, and was
in a shockingly decomposed state. The remain.*
throe bodies making up the eight were brought out
at noon to-day, by the men whose shift or turn
terminated at the time. They were found Delr the
face or end of the north level. Two of them were
at once very satisfactorily identified as those of
John Frost, of West Melton, a • married man, 32
years of age, and of Charles Kellett, a youth who
had lived at Wombwell. At 3 o'clock the third
body had not been identified, but was expected to
be so, as there were several peculiarities about the
di ess.

A numt er of the bereaved were present when the
three last named bodies were brought out of the
pit, and followed them in mournful silence to the
r ception shed where they were placed by the other
bodies.

The body of George Dyson, recovered yevterdaY,
has been interred to-day in the churchyard at
oath upon-Dearne.
The miners who have undertaken the task of re-
storing the pit and recovering the bodies are at
wesent engaged in removing the vast accumulation
of debris at the bottom of the yen-Hating shaft.
There is no doubt that at the time of the explosion
from 20 to 30 perm-ins were congregated in the spots
covered by those falls of earth. It has alWays been
feared that the remains of those bodies would not
be found, as they were exposed to the full vehe-
mence_of the terrific fire which broke out there.
The miners carefully examined the earth as theY
removed if-, but have not hitherto been able to.di-P.
cover any remains of a single body in that part of
the pit.
Ait-r these large falls of earth shall have' been re-
moved, it is expected that the t odies will be reco-
vered with much greater rapidity.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL-MAY 5.

The corn exchange this morning was well attended, and
i
a good busine,s was transacted in wheat, fair in flour, an.
moderate in InJian corn. There was a general advance 01;
Friday's rates, making the week's improvement 2d to Jo
per bushel on wheat, is to is 6,1 per barrel and sack upon
flour is 6d per qr on Indian corn, and 6,1 to 9d per ion
on oatmeal, Barley, beans, and peas fully supported las
week's quotations.