The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Richard Elliott, licensed victualler and builder, Kentish
Town, to surrender Sept. 10, at half-past t.velve, and Oct.
9r at one, at the Court of Blnkruptcy. Cannao, official as-
signee, Aldermanbury ; Ivimey, Southampton-baildinga.
John Townsend, auctioneer, Greenwich, Sept. 12, at
twelve, and Oct. 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; King and
George, King-street, Cheapeide.
James Gardiner, woollen cloth manufacturer, York,
Sept. 15 and Oct. 16, at eleven, at, the LeedeDistrict Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Brook, Freeman, and Bat-
ley, Hiutiers6eld.; Clay, Huddersfieki ; Bona and Bar-
wick, Leeds.

William Finch, jun., paper dealer, Dudley Port, Staf-
fordshire, Sept. 11, and Oat. ¶4, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Alicock, Birmingham; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham.
Arthur J. Kitchen, woollen manufacturer, Elland, York-
shire, Sept. 15 and Oct. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Holroyde,
Son, and Cronhelm, Halifax; Blakeley and Lander,
Dewsbury.; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
William Tyler, of tha Royal Surrey Garlens, Sept. 11,
at half-past one, and Oct. 14, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham official assignee ; Blake, Serjeant's-ion.
George Gull, tallow broker, Belsize-terrace, Hampsteal,
Svt. 11, at one, and Oct. 14, at half-past one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Sydney,
Finsbury-circus.
James Afeyrick, tailor, Crewe, Sept. 13, and Oct. 6, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Woodburn, Liverpool.
John Bridges, millwright, Belper, Sept. 8, and Oct. 6,
at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Har-
ris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Freeth, Rawson, and
Browne, Nottingham ; Haywood, Derby.
Fredk. Winstone, gold pencil case maker, Liverpool-
street, Old Broad-street, City, Sept, 11, at half-past twelve,
and Oct. 14, at, one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stens-
&id. official assignee ; Stafford, Wellington-street North,
Strand.

James S'ddons, grater, Sheffield, Sapt. 12 and Oat.
10, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brawin, official
assignee, Sheffield ; Smith ant Bur,lckin, Sheffield.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Charles Seaton, residing at Orchardtield, Leith-walk,
Leith.

James Snodgrass, commission agent, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANDE.— This DAT.
Amsterdam 11 17 'Gibraltar •• ••
Ditto, three months .. 11 19% Leghorn •..... 29 85
Rotterdam ............ 11 1 34 Genoa ••• • 2,5 75
Antwerp .............. 25 40 Milan ......••
Brussels •• ........ 25 40 -
11amburgh •• •• •• •• •••• 13 8 Naples ••••....•••••• 42%
A it( na • • ...... . • Palermo •• 128
Par!s ..•..... 25 25 Messina ... 12814
Do. three months . • • 25 6234 Lisbon ...... 52%
Man Cl'i .... ••••..• • 25 65 Oporto • • ••••.••• •• •• f 3
Bourdeaux ••••• • • • • • ••• • • Rio Janeiro ••••• ••
Frankfort-on- NI aine •• .. 119% Buenos Ayres ......
Berlin ................ New York.6o days' sight
Vienna •• •• •• •• •• •• • • ••• 10 33 Philadelphia • • ••• • ••
Trie5te................ 10 34 mots OF BVLIrom, PEI OZ:
Petersburg 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
•• • .... 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
C Wiz • • 50 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
11,rrelona •••••••• New Dollars 0 0 0
Seville.... .. • • •• River in bars ...... 0 0 0

DISREGARD OF
_II:UMAV LIFE AMONG

THE CHINESE.

John Chinaman places little or no value on
human life—he sacrifices his fellow man by whole-
sale, and apparently with the supremest c intempt
for all the arguments urged against capit d punish-
ment. Men, women, and children suffer without
distinction, and on occa.ions by the score. The
civilisation of the Chinese in this respect is fearfully
uncivilised—far more hideous than cannibalism.
At Hong Kong it is a common spectacle to see the
headless bodies of men who had been decapitated
either by the mandarins or rebels tied together by
the feet, and cast into Oil river to save the expense
or trouble of burial. For days they might
le seen drifting to and fro wiih the Vde like
any useless barrel or water logge 1 piece of
driftwood—indeed such is the value of life in
Chiba that Mr. ILbersham, of the American
- navy, who accompanied the North Pacific and Sur-
veying and Exploring Expedition lately sent out
by the Yankees, informs us, in a work in which he
pleasingly describes what he observed during the
cruise, that it is no uncommon thing for a person
to take the place of the condemned, provided the
latter pays a stipulated sum to the relatives of the
self-offered victim. At Canton our author was in-
duced to accompany several other officers to yhe
execution-yard, in which it is no exaggeration, he
says, to assert, that heath may ho seen weekly—
nay, sometimes daily—to fall by Vie hundred ; and
be gives us a painfully revolting description of the
horrors he there witnessed, while the callous exe-
cutioner strides over and atnong the bleeding
trunks., kicks a human head out of his way here,
seeps into a pool of blood there, and sweeps his
dripping sword over the head of the next victim.
If so many heads have been ordered to fall, the
beach must be found, and they are accordingly
seleLted indiscrimin at -.yl y, o a the principle, we sup-
pose, of the first come first served. If the number of
prisonPrs is not sufficiect to satisfy the sanguinary
laws of the Flowery Land—no mat ter. The defi,c:ency
is soon made up. With the utmost sing fioirl
a company of troops is despatched to seize th: first
doyen or 20 countrymen whom fate throws in their
way, and the next morning the ill-starre i lot are
kneeling in the slaughter-yard awaiting the exeeu-
troner's attendance. The sooner, perhaps, wevould
bring the Chinese—even at the risk of convincing
tls.em against their wills—to see the iniquity of this
bloedthirsty system, the better.
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-ne 'University of Guiessen has conferred the degree
of Ph. D. on Mr. Gecrge Lawson, Lecturer on Botany
and Vegetable Histology, E inhurgh.
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