The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-23 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

RICHARD EGAN LEE and JOHN HADDOCK,
printers, Craven-yard, Drury-lane, to surrender March 4, and
April 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Walsh, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
JOHN CONA WAY, cheesomonger, Gray's Inn-lane,
March 8, and April 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Lawrence and
1-)lews' Bucklersbury.
(EDWARD A RNATT, baker, Oxford, March 5, at
at eleven, and March 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Spencer,
Verularn-buildings ; Brunner, Oxford.
WILLIAM GOLDING, innkeeper, Gletusford, Suffolk,
March 6, of twelve, and March 29, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall; Chilton
and Acland. Chancery-lane ; Gooday, Sudbury.
ROBERT PENNY, draper, Cockermouth, March 5, and
April 16, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Waugh,
Cockermouth ; Stubbs, Furnival's Inn, London.
WILLIAM JACKSON, baker, Liverpool, March 12, and
April 3, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
official a,sigme, Liverpool, Vincent and Co., Temple Lon.
don ; Deane, Liverpool.
JOHN HUGHES, painter, Liverpool, March 8, at half-
past eleven, and April 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool Distriet
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Maples, Pearse,
Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, 0:d Jewry, Eondon ;
Fairclough, Liverpool.
JAMES SI ALLALIEU, woollen manufacturer, Saddle-
worth, Yorkshire, March 8, and April 19, at twelve, at the
Mancheester District Court. Hobson, official assignee,
Manchester ; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields ;
Buckley, Ashton-under-Lyre.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
R. Humble, assistant draper, Glossop, Derbyshire.
J. Burge, jun., tailor, Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire.
F. Randle, grocer, Dudli Worcestershire.
C. Wright, victualler, Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire.
E. Sawyer, trader, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.
I. Brooks, stone mason, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.

J. T. Carlisle, schoolmaster, Pendleton, Lancashire.
G. Worrell, Post-office clerk, Birmingham.
F. Farrar, attorney, New Peckham.
D. Gregory, coal merchant, Cheltenham.
T. Green, innkeeper, York.
M. Whitaker, clothier, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
W. Elogy, saddler, Manchester.
E. James, cordwaincr, Sheffield.

F. Sowry, shopkeeper, Wortley, Yorkshire.
J. Hill, fruiterer, Rochdale.
0. R. Windsor, solicitor, St. Ann's-terrace, St. John's wood.
J. Hillier, builder, Fulham.
R. Tackle, baker, Creek-road, Deptford.
G. Atherley, grocer, South-street, Chelsea.
M. S. Phillips, butcher, Cheltenham.
G. Rickwc,od, veterinary surgeon, Bedford.
T. Turnbull, grocer, Skipton, Yorkshire.
S. Lightfoot, rice cleaner, Liverpool.
G. Parish, butcher, King's Swinford, Staffordshire.
J. Walton, licensed victualler, Great Budworth, Cheshire.

M. Camp, Abingdon.
G. Cambden, nautical brazier, Afeeting-house-alley, Calvert-
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street, Old Gravel-lane.
H. Drury, Captain R.N., Portsea.
G. Titehrnarsh, farmer, Foxton, Cambridgeshire.
G. Doust, licensed victualler, Tonbridge, Kent.
J. Turner, shoe-maker, Longdendale, Cheshire.
W. J. Allen, butcher, Portsea, Southampton.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Feb. 20, 1844, is 365. 10-td. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

'COURSE OF EXCH.
Aintentarn CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6
Antwerp
Ilamburgh M.D. 13 15
Altona l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
'Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Franktbrt on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 36i
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. H. 3 M 957
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz

%_NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
I Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa
Milan —
Venice
apl©s 39i
l'alenno, per oz llBl
Lisbon!
531
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Avres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia

PRICES OF BULLION, PIER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars f 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.— 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 94
Silver in Bare O4 11

36i

Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From Prince's Price Current of Feb. 23.)
SrOAR.—To-day a steady demand existed for all sorts of
West India Sugar, and former rates were well sustained.
The total sales for the week are 1,100 hhda and tierces. Still
without arrivals.
BENGAL—At public sale, 1,100 bags in bond went at 38s
6d to 39s 6d for middling yellowish white ; 379 bass, duty
paid, sold at 67s 6(I to 70s for middling to fine white, being
very full rates.
COFFEE.—The market is firm, and a steady business is
dolitt-,-. At public sale Ceylon were offered, and sold at full
priresi ordinary mixed 67s 6d, one lot 675, good ordinary
pale 685.t0 68a6d, and sea damaged 64s so 65s 6d. Mocha at
stiff prices; blacks 28s 6d, bold triage 59s 6d, ordinary 68s,
fine ordinaryy 73s to 755, pea berry 80s, and damaged at 62s to
70s. Dutch Company's Java, good yellowish at 50s, Com-
pany's Padang, ordinary at 30s, and damaged 26s to 27s
per cwt.
PIMENTO.—At 2id to lid for good ord, and low middling
bought in at 30 per lb.

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CASSIA LIGNEA.—At an advance of Is to 2 per cwt on the
middling qualities ; good thin quill 65s 6d to 675, middling
ditto 655, middling coarse quill 635, ordinary coarse quill
58s 6d to 595, ordinary coarse thick quill 58s to 59s 6d, first
class mouldy 59s to 60s, second ditto 55s to 55s 6d, slightly
mouldy 60s, broken 48s to 495, broken ends 58s per c Wt.
GlNGER..—Jamaica, middling and good white, 61 to
101 lis per cwt.
PEPPER.—Holders are firm for white, and will not take
lower rates : at auction 135 bags were offered and bought in
at 61-d per lb for dingy white. Sumatra sold at 3d to 3Ad
per lb.
TEA.—The market is firm, and a good business is doing.
Common sound Congou is selling at 814 d, cash.
COCHMEAL.—The demand is brisk, and a good business is
doin. Honduras at ld to 2d per lb advance, ordinary to mid-
dling silvers and foxy 4s 3d to 4s 9d ; Mexicans at 4s 6d for
middling silvers, and 5s 2d to 5s 6d for ordinary blacks.
OlL—This afternoon, at public sale 70 tuns Foreign
Southern were offered, and partly disposed of at 321 to 34/ ;
20 tuns Davis Straits Whale, and 7 tuns Northern Whale,
out.

WIIALEFINS.—At auction 54 tons Foreign were put up,
and sold at 2361 to 237, and cleaned 240 per ton.
AS lES.—I2O brls Montreal Pearl at auction, were taken
out, but 24S brls United States Pot partly sold, 3d sort at
21s 9d to 225, and unbranded 15s 9d to lis 9d per cwt.
TALLow.—The market is flat and prices lower; P.Y.C. at
40s 3d per cwt. At public sale this afternoon 100 casks
P. Y. C. were offered and bought in, first sort at 39s Gd
to 39s 9d. second sort 31s 9d to 39s 6d ; casks Odessa Beef
Tallow at 40s 3d to 40s 6d; 144 Casks North American
incited at 37s to 40s 6d ; and 11 cassks East India at 398
per cwt.
LARD-424 casks 25 kegs American at public sale sold at
35s 3d to 37s 6d, one lot at 39s 3d per cwt.
INDIGO.—A fair amount of business has been done in all
sorts of East India this week, and prices are firm ; the opera-
tions would have been on a more extended scale, if the mar-
ket had been better supplied. Spanish is wanted, but few
parcels are to be had ; the stock is light.
RICE.—In all descriptions of East India the operations have
been upon a very extensive scale, and a further advance has
taken place in prices ; middling to good white Bengal fetch-
ing Ils 6d to 12s, yellow Madras 9s, and white Java 9s 6d to
12s per cwt. Cleaned Rice in excellent request, Patna at
13s to 17s, and Carolina at 21s, 245, and 26s per cwt.
SAGO is not so much in demand ; large Pearl at 15s to
15s 6d per cwt. Sago Flour 18s to 19s. Tapioca realised 2d
to 24d for low white, and 54d to 6(1 for good white. Arrow-
root at firm rates.
SPIRITS.—The operations in Jamaica Rum have beeu upon
a very large scale this week, at an advance of 1d to 2d per
gallon ; in all, 700 puns have been sold at 3s 4d to 4s for 30
to 36 per cent over proof; Demerara much wanted, and
higher prices paid: 200 hhds sold at 2s 10d to 3s Id for good
and fine quality ; Leewards are' higher.. and much ;wanted,
proof at is lld to 2s; theystock.in first hands all sorts is
nearly exhausted. Brandy is dull of sale, and rather lower
rates. Corn Spirits firm at'.los to lOs 2d.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

H OUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack a
few minutes after Five o'Clock. _ .

Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought in a Bill to simplify the
transfer of real property, which was read a first time.
POOR-LAWS.—RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

The Bishop of EXETER presented two petitions from
Penryn, in Cornwall, and another place in the diocese of
Exeter, praying their Lordships to adopt some means of se-
curing spiritual instruction to the inmates of union work-
houses. The Right Reverend Prelate then proceeded to
move, pursuant to notice, for a Select Committee,
to consider the provision which might require to
be made for religious worship and spiritual instruc-
tion in the union workhouses in England and Wales. He
begged to state that he would rot press this question to a
division, as he would leave the question of Committee or no
Committee to the responsibility of the Government. He had
paid attention to the defects of the Poor-law Amendment Bill
and to their operation for the last ten years, and in no portion
of it had he seen such defects as in that which relatd to
spiritual instruction. The inmates of the workhouses lie had
seen exposed to the greatest spiritual destitution. He spoke
of what he had witnessed in his own diocese
and other places. He did net say things were not now ordered
better in this respect. He particularly instanced the union of
Liskeard, when, in consequence of the Commissioners
having originally omitted to nominate a chaplain
there was no spiritual instructor, except a Dissenting minister,
who came there without being sent for by the inmates. This
union formed a sort of precedent for the other, and this joined
with the exertions of the Dissenters, led to their having
no Chaplains in any union throughout the diocese.
He held in his hand a remarkable proof of the accuracy of that
statement. In the union house of St. Austell there was a
large room originally designed for a chapel, but no chaplain
was appointed, and an unlicensed Dissenting minister preached
there twice every Sunday. In Bodmin, where the population of the
union' amounted to 4,000 there was no chaplain, but the curate
gave his gratuitous services one day in the week to instruct the
poor. But in consequence of the extent of his parish it was
wholly out of his power to visit them on the Sunday. There
was in that house 56 inmates who were old people and unable to
walk out of the house to church. There were also 45 children
who had no other instruction in religion but what they received
from schoolmasters. On Sundays, prayers were read by the
master, or sometimes by the porter. In St. Germain's Union
Workhouse there;was no chapel, and there were thirty-two aged
persons who could never stir from the house. He came next
to a case of a grave character, that of Penzance. The Union
contained nineteen parishes, and the population extended to
45,951. There too every exertion was made in the Board of
Guardians to obtain the appointment of a regular chaplain, but
the party who resisted that measure succeeded in procuring
the appointment of a clergyman who had apostatised from the
Church. The clergy of the neighbourhood offered to do the
duty gratuitously, but the Board of Guardians rejected the
offer on the ground that it would be against the law, as the
statute required that the chaplain must be an officer of the
Union, and be paid for his services. He did not say anything
against the moral character of the person who was appointed,
but that he had cast off the office which he held in the Church.
He took away the prefix of reverend from his name, and
even went so far as to appear in public in a blue
coat and other coloured clothes. Having cast himself
from the Church he attached himself to a lady, who was a
daughter of a rigid Dissenter, a banker in the town of Pen-
zance. He went so far as to attend her chapel, and he had his
children baptised there. Their Lordships would suppose that
the appointment of that Gentleman was not made with his (the
Bishop of Exeter's) sanction. It was reported to the Com-
missioners, and they sent down an Assistant-Coremis-
sioner to inquire into the matter, but having re-
ceived his Report, they took no further notice of it.
It was not long before this time when one of the most bar-
barous instances of cruelty was enacted in that union, when
the master imprisoned an unfortunate female in a dark hole,
although she told him that it would be the cause of her death,
owing to the state of health in which she was ; and the souse-
quence was a premature labour and death. The Board of Guar-
dians:notwithstanding retained him in his situation, and it was not
until the Assistant Commissioner heard of the matter, that he was
discharged. Baptism in that union was administered in tt.e
workhouse instead of the parisk church, and no registry was
made until long after birth in the parish books, in cows.-
vence of it being considered a private baptism. T 1 e Lord's
upper was administered by an unlicensed person, ar d contrary
to the laws of the Church. He should next allude to the parish
of Redruth, which consisted of nine parishes, conta ning a po-
pulation of 48,569 souls. The appointment of a chat lain to
that union was opposed, to allowing the chaplain to perform
the two services, and the consequences was, that one of those
Divine services were performed by a Dissenting preacher. The
Assistant-Commissioner said the law required that some salary
should be given, and a nominal sum of I/. per annum
was given. This was then raised to 201., to which 601.
was added by subscription ; and although the Secretary was
thus raisedto 901., no gentleman could be got to discharge
the duties in all the xorkhouses throughout Cornwall.
Divine service was performed in the dining-room of the
workhouse, to the great detriement of religion; and he
trusted that their Lordships, in any Bill they should bring be-
fore the House, would see that care was taken to provide a
proper room, which should be alone devoted to the performance
of Divine service and the administration of the sacrament.
In the union of Oakhampton, the letter of the resident clergy.
man stated that the children born in the workhouse
were all illegitimate, and were never brought to the church
to be baptised. The consequence was, they were
never baptized. because the vicar of the parish had no power
to go to the Union work-houe to baptise a child, unless it
was dangerously ill.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAYEB took tke chair at Four o'Clock.

The following Bills were read a second time and ordered to
be committed :—The Ribble Navigation, the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway, the Ramsay Inclosute, the Bury (Hunting-
don) Inclosure, and the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Bills.
NEWBURY AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY