The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

IN R B. W. A. SLEIGH.
This bankrupt, who had been a lieutenant in the
army, and was proprietor of the British Army Gazette,
came up on his application for certificate.
Mr. Laurance appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr.
Linklater for the assignees, and offered no opposition.
His Horroua inquired what was the cause of the
bankruptcy?
Mr. LaurtArzcE said that it arose from a negotiation
respecting the paper, which the bankrupt had offered to
sell for 2,000/.; bankrupt had been secretary to the
County Service Club, and expected to have made the
paper answer. The expenses were very moderate.
ilis HONOUR granted a certificate of the aecond class

111ARLBRO'-STREET.-('r HIS DAY.)
A DRUNKEN GENT.—Mr. James Mansh, gentleman,
Gower-street, was charged before Mr. Bingham with
being drunk and disorderly.
Fret:, 311 A, stated that this morning, about half-
past one, he was on duty in Bluecross-street, when he
saw the defendant, who was very tipsy, chasing a cat
down the street, and behaving in such a boisterous man-
ner as to arouse the inhabitants in the street. Witness
requested him to go away, when be (defendant) made
use of a filthy expression and refused to leave. Witness
then took him into custody.
The defendant, who did not attempt to deny the
charge, was fined ss. for being drunk.
RUFFIANLY ASSAULT.—Henry Lucking was placed at
the bar charged with assaulting Henry Field, the water-
man employed at the cab-rank in the Haymarket.
The complainant, whose face was covered with blood,
said, about four o'clock this morning ho was on the cab•
rank, when he saw the prisoner acting as waterman, a
privilege to which he had no right, and on witness
cautioning him against doing so, he (defendant) struck
him a tremendous blow in the mouth, which knocked
out four of his teeth. The defendant was proceeding to
further violence when a constable came up, and witness
gave him in charge.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was fined 505.,
and in default committed for a month.

FRIGHTFUL GUN ACCIDENT AT PECKHAM.—On
Saturday au accident of a very frightful characteri took
place at Peckham-fields, tent o
named Thomas Groves,
in the employ of the patent pottery works, Canal-bridge,
Peckham, whereby it is feared he will lose-his life. He had
killed several birds. On his return he placed his loaded gun,
full-cocked, behind a haystack, with his right hand over the
muzzle. The gun went off, blowing the right arm almost to
pieces. He was taken, in a distressing condition, to Guy's
Hospital, in a cab. He was examined without delay, and it
was found that he bad received such serious injury that it
was deemed necessary to amputate the limb at the shoulder
joint, which operation was performed. The poor fellow is in
a very precarious state, from the hemorrhage and shock to
the system.
• CHECKS TO INTEMPERANCE IN THE NAVY.—In
order to &courage the use of ardent spirits in the navy, the
Admiralty have oetermined that in future no drawback of
the duty on spirits shall be allowed to the merchants in sup-
plying the officers of her Majesty's ships with spirituous
liquors. It is reported that their Lorclillips have been led to
this determination in consequence of an bppiication on the
part of an officer in command, demanding the drawback on a
large quantity of spirits he was about to ship. Their Lord-
ships' i egulation, however, can only apply to the home parts ;
it will be futile at any foreign station. It therefore,
just as wed have never been issued tor the god that will be
produced, except that it evinces the desire of the Admiralty
to throw every obstacle in the way of inteniperance.—United
Seretce Gazette.
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AA lERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.

The Royal mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins,
wish advices and letters frota New York to the
6th instant, arrived in the Mersey at half-past seven
this morning.
The Ash:has 300,000 dolls.. specie on freight.
The Royal mail steam-ship Africa was passed by
the Asia at 7 A.m., on the 7th inst.

Among the AAa'3 passengers i 3 Lady Emmeline
Stuart Wortley, on her retura from a tour in the
New World.

Great interest had been'awakened by the great
meeting, relative to the Union, at New York. Among
the chief features in the report is the following letter
from the lion. D. Webster, Secretary of • State, in
reply to an invitation to be present :
"Franklie„ N.H., Oct. 28.
" Gentlemen,—Nothing in the VC orld but regard to the
state of my health prevents rise from accepting at once
jour invitation nod assuring you of my presence at the
• Union Meeting,' at Castle-garden, on Wednesday even-
ing next. I rejoice to know that such a meeting is
called; I rejoice to know that it es ill be attended by
thousands of ietelligent men. lovers of their country,
party men doubtless, but abject slaves to no party,
and who will not suffer eithes party clamour
or party discipline to dry up wie,bin them all the
fountains of love and attachment to the constitution of
their country.—(Applause.) The voice of such a meet-
ing will be heard and respected; it will rebuke disobe-
dience to the laws actual or threatened; it will tend to
check the progress of mad fanaticism; :it will call men who
are honest, but who have been strangely misled, back
to their duty, and it will give counsel :vice and courage
to the faithful friends of union throng gout the land.
" When the commercial interest of the great metro-
polis of the country speaks with united hearts and voices,
expressing its conviction of the presence of the great
danger, and its determined purpose to meet that danger,
to combat with it and overcome it, the example is likely
to rouse good men everywhere; and when the country
shell be roused the country will be sari n—(Applause.)
" I concur, gentlemen, in all the p olitical principles
contained in the resolutions, a copy o f which has been
sent to me; and I steed pledged so support these
prin-
ciple:, pubiicly and privately, now cad always, to the
full extent of my influence, and by thu exertion cf every ,
faculty which I possess. The emin et it men you have
mentioned, and with whose names emu have done me
the honour to associate mine, are well worthy of the
prai,e which you bestow on them, lal fall never forget,
and I trust the country will never forge t, the patriotism,
the manliness, the courage, manifests( by them, in au
hour of difficulty and of pr ril.—(Appl (vase.)
" The peace measures of the last session are, the
Texan Boundary Act, .the Act for Est tehlishing the Two
Territorial Governments of New Me: ti eo and Utah, the
Act for the Abolition of the Slave Tr wile in the district
of Columbia:, and the Fugitive Slave I.tt,i?. The last mea-
sure, gentlemen, is not such a measure as I had pre-
pared before I left tho Senate, and vihich of course I
should have supported if I had reratibei A in the Senate.
But it received the proper sanction of the two Houses
of Congress, and of the President of 1.1 e United States.
It is the law of the lend, and as such ia to he respected
and obeyed by all good citizens. I hal e heard no man,
whose opinion is worth regarding, deny its constitu•
tionality, and those who counsel violent.; resistance to it,
counsel that which, if it take place, is sure to lead to
bloodshed; and to the commission of c a pital offences. It
remains to be seen how far the deluded and deluders will
go on in this career cf faction, lolly, Lad crime.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.)
" There were honest and well-me a sing members of
Congress who did not see their way ca early to support
these great and leading measures of tthe last session.
You are quite right in saying that the motives of these
gentlemen ought not to be impeached. But the measures
have been adopted, they have becor at a laws, constitu-
tionally and legally binding upon us all, and no man is
likely to oppose them.—(Applause.)
"No man is at liberty to set up, or reflect to sat up, his
own conscience as above the law—(G r eat cheering)—in
a matter which affects the rights of ot I iers, and the obli-
gations—civil, social, and political—at to to others from
him. Such a pretence saps the four u lation of all go-
vernment and is of itself a perfect abs is rdity ; and while
all are bound to yield obedience to flee laws, wise and
well-disposed citizens will forbear tycim renewing past
agitation and rekindling the flames of useless and dan-
gerous controversy.—(Cheers and app.lt ease.)
"If we would continue one people la 'e must acquiesce
in the will of the majority constituna .nally expressed;
and he who does not mean to do that means to disturb
the public peace, and to do what he c nto overturn the
Government.—(Applause.)
" Gentlemen, I am led to the aclopthx n of your last re-
solution, in an especial and emphatic is fanner, by every
dictate of my understanding, and I eci brace it with full
purpose of heart and mind. Its senti I neat is my senti-
ment. With you, I declare that I 're r ,ge myself under
the banners of that party whose princi pies and practice
are most calculated to uphold the co nstitution and to
perpetuate our glorious *Utdon.'—(Cris of 'Hurrah!)
" Gentlemen, I am here to recrn s my health, en-
feebled as it has been by ten months o:i excessive labour
and indescribable anxiety. The air cd' these my native
hills renews my strength and my spirt tt s. I feel its in-
vigorating influences while I um writi.a.g these few lines,
and I shall return shortly to my pest. to discharge its
duties as well as I can, and resolved i a all events that,
so far as it depends on me, our Union al fall pass through
this fiery trial without the smell of awns ke upon its gar-
ments.—(Civerwhelming cheers, and w ving of hats all
over the assemblage.)
" I am, Gentlemen, with very sines re regard, your
obliged fellow-citizen and obdient serval t,
" DANI EL WEBSTER.
" To Messrs, F. S. Lathrop, Gerrard I :allock,
Charles G. Carleton, P. S. Duryee, ommit-
tee, New York."
Accounts from Washington, of the • evening of the
sth inst., say—
" The Republic denies officially that the President has
ordered troops to Boston, with the vie 'of enforcing the
Fugitive Slave Law. It states that t see communication
has been received by the President frill n the Marshal at
Boston, or any other Marshal, as to. anticipated vio-
lence; nor has the President any incites' relation that leads
to the belief that any peculiar dispel ition of military
force will be rendered necessary for th s - execution of the
laws. The Republic adds that, shot l.el any exigency
however arise, no doubt the President will discharge his
duty; but expresses its belief that no £ orcible resistance
will be offered to the laws."
Much anxiety existed at WashitA gton relative to
the peace of Boston.
Rumours of an outbreak against ft he slave hunters
had been current. The President, owever, was re-
solved' to suppress the disorders and enforce the law.
Several slave hunters had been shot; in various parts
of the Union. A proposition had la )en presented to
the Virginia Reform Convention far the expulsion of
all free negroes.
On the 4tb inst. a grand dinner vP.as given to Amin
Bev by the merchants of Boston.
The Secretary of the Treasury heed issued the usual
quarterly statement of revenue for the:. United States
Treat,ury Receipts and Expenditures from the Ist of
January to the 30th of Septetd ber, 1550.
RECEIPTS.

________ ___
Dollars.
From customs ... ...
... 14,76 t,043 05
From lands ••• ••• ••• ... 317,082 96
From lean of '47 (Treasury notes fum led) 116,050 00
From miscellaneous sources ... ... 425,264 64

15,622,440 65

EXPENDITURES.
Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign inf:e

courEe ..•
On account of the Dolls.
army, &u. 1,792,997 :35
Fortifications ... •.• 92,331 14