The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-22 00:00:00

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY.—WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23.--At the Court of
Commissioners, Basinghaintreet.
Haine6 and Co., Watling-street, warehousemen

COUNTRY DIA ItY.—THURSDAY, JAN. 21.
Hill, W., Cheltenham—lmperial hotel, Cheltenham l2
Lubbock, W., Leamington Priors—Bedford hotel, Lea-

mington Priors
Luff, 0., Bristol—Mr. Hinton, Bristol
Nicholls, J., Cleeve Prior, Worcester—Mr. Workman,

Evesharn - ,i,
Parkinson, li., Wimcswould, Leicestershire—King's Arms,
Loughborough
Smith and Co., Hanley—Swan, Hanley - l2
Wardle, J. F., Wolverhampton—Whi.ston Cross Inn, Al-
trington 1!

INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED,
Petitions to be heard at Portugal.street, Lincoln's Inn Fields
Jan. 24, at Nine o'clock.
Bowers, T., Manchester, cotton dealer
Cundall, W., Trowbridge, Wilts, common brewer
Deane, W., Liverpool, book-keeper
Dwyer, W., Kentish-town, coach-master
Gask, R., Horncastle, mail-coach-guard
Harris, T., Bedwelty, commercial clerk
Hods,ll, C., Dartford, corn-dealer
Kirby, W., Hart-street, Bloomsbury, glass-grinder
Marshall, W., Doncaster-place, Kent-road, victualler
Pert, J. South-row, St. Pancras, carpenter
Petley, Hermitage-street, Wapping, lighterman
Raggett, W., Kings Langley, Horts, victualler
Smith, J., Kingsthorpe, last of Northampton
Smith, S., Chelsea, spinster
Tournolf, g., Manchester, licensed hawker

A report is revived that the whole of the just
debts of the late Duke of YORK will be paid in full, the
privy purse of an illustrious personage providing the sur-
plus to which the Duke's assets will not extend.
DEATH OF AN INDIAN GIRL FROM ILL
TREATMENT.—The town of Greenwich, within the last
week, has been thrown into a state of excitation in conse-
quence of the death of a girl of colour, aged 15, under cir-
cumstances of a cruel nature. A lady named MIGHIAN,
residing near the brick-kilos, Blackheath-lane, who has
lately returned from Bussard, brought the female in question
(a native of the Persian 'Gulph) with her, and was em-
ployed by Mrs. MIGHIAN as a domestic. The climate of
England not agreeing with her, she was unable to per-
form her work; Mrs. MIGHIAN, in order to cure her of
being what she termed sulky, ordered her to be put in the
yard, and was beaten in a cruel manner by the other ser-
vants, MATILDA FROUD and HANNAH NETTLEWOOD, with
a stick, and afterwards rolled in the snow. This inhuman
treatment ultimately caused her death. A Jury were
summoned upon the body, and the Inquest adjourned
three times ; the result of which was known on Saturday
by a verdict of Manslaughter against Mrs. MIGHIAN and
the two female servants. _ _

• -FIRE IN a COLLIERY.—\\Te understand the
colliery of Whitehill, south from flawthorndean, was lately
discovered to be on fire, in the wastes, or old workings,
of the great coal seam, which is about eight feet thick.—
This accident is supposed to have arisen from spontaneous
ignition, occasioned by the Pyrites (or Brasses, as the
miners term them), which are mixed with the coal rubbish,
having become wet and produced a decomposition, which
generates fire. The decomposition had probably been
going on for many months past, but the actual ignition
was only discovered two weeks ago. Mr. DEWAR, the
manager of the colliery, with much promptitude conduct-
ed water from the shaft of one of the pits by pipes to the
burning mass, and extinguished a part of the fire, but the
superincumbent rock strata were found to be red-hot, and
the heated sulphurous air is so intolerable, that this mode
of extinguishing the fire has been abandoned, and prepa-
rations are now making to fill the wastes with water above
the height of the burning mass.—Scotsman.
SINGULAR PRACTICAL JOKE.-011 the
last night of the old year, the congregation of the Wesleyan
Methodist Chapel at Wrexham, attended according to the
custom of that body of Christians, to watch and pray out
the old year and the new one in. After the Minister, each
of the preachers, in his turn, delivered a prayer and exhor-
tation. One delivered a most impressive exhortation from
the 13th chapter of Mark, very applicable to the " signs
of 'the tines" in many particulars. He drew a vivid pic-
ture of the terrors of the second coming of the Messiah,
and was proceeding with the 35th verse. " Watch ye,
therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house
cornett), at even, or at midnight"—at these words the
Chur.lli clock began to strike twelve, and the Chapel be-
came suddenly shrouded in impenetrable darkness ! A
scene of consternation ensued, and on the panic having in
some sort subsided, it was discovered that some mischievous
wag hsd seized the critical moment for turning off the gas
from the pipe that supplies the Chapel.—Sheffield Mercury.
About two o'clock on Monday afternoon the
Helena and Maria, 250 tons, BARTHOLOMEW KAR-
STENS, master, from Amsterdam for Rio Janeiro, was
towed into Falmouth in a most distressing situation, by his
Majesty's packet Plover, Lieut. JENNINGS. She left
Amsterdam on the 6th January, with 350 passengers, men,
women, and children, Oldenburgers, Prussians, ikc. emi-
grating to Rio Janeiro. On Saturday night and Sunday
she encountered a tremendous gale about 40 miles N.N.E,
of the Lizard, the sea all the time breaking furiously over
her. The hatches were obliged to be left open to save the
passengers from suffocation, when there being seven feet
water in the hold, all their dry provisions spoiled, and
every thing swept from the deck—the Captain, to ease the
vessel, deemed it prudent to cut away the mainmast and
foretopmast. In this dreadful situation she remained till
Monday morning, when nearing the Lizard lights, she made
was boarded by a fishing-boat, At 11 o'clock she
signals of distress by firing guns, &c. her landed a man
who was sent express overland to Falmouth for a pilot,
who reached her about 12 o'clock. Soon after the Plover
and by
packet hove in sight, when Lieut. JeNutucs tendered his
assistance, and towed her into Falmouth harbour at two
o'clock on Monday afternoon. We regret to state that the
vessel is insured at only 1000/., which will not by any
means cover the expence of repairs. The scene of misery
exhibited in the streets of Falmouth is truly distressing
and the unfortunate passengers deprived of all they possessed,
are objects of the utmost commiseration. We understand
there were some cases of fever on board, which will require
caution on the part of the authorities of Falmouth ; and that
a meeting is to be called for the relief of the unfortunate
sufferers.— Cornwall Gazette.
" TAM SAMSON'S DEAD.”—Shortly after
BURNS bad finished his inimitable poem of
Sam-
son's Elegy," he was one evening engaged in reading it
without noticing the re-
over at a tavern in Kilmarnock, to a select par‘ty"roafmfriSenaulds-,
among whom was Mr. Thomas SAMSON himself, who
" warns fou, but just had
nip
al plenty," I'm and
de
seemed
ye' to
regard the poem as an official intimation of his demise, for,
the close of each verse, as Buaws read—" Tam Samson's
dead," Mr. S. with increasing earnestness and vehemence,
exclaimed, " I'm no dead,
for Guidsake dittos put that in the sang," Th,„
poet,
however, read on to the close,
peated interruptions of his friend, and quitted the room,
as he insinuated, for the purpose of transmitting the ma-
Inuscript to the printer, but in less than ten minutes re-
speedily quieted
and
Mr. SAMSON'S apprehensions by readin-
g aloud the mollify
turned to the carousing. company,
ing "per contra," which he had composed during his brief
absence from the room, viz.
rc Gae fame, and canter like a filly,
Through a' the streets an' neuks o' Killie,
Tell as,,ry social honest billie
To cease his grievin',
For yet unskaith'd by death's, gleg
If
Tam Samson's lievin.
co Aye, that's it ! that's it noo !" shouted WI
r. SArssoN,—
Od, I thought, Roux, ye didna mean to kill me aftter, a',
but it look'd a;wee like it when ye said it sae aften .
BURNS used often to relate this incident afterwards, which
universally raised a laugh at the expence of Mr. S. in
Which he' always good_naturedly. joised.--From a Cor-
respondent in the Glasgew 01171cr'

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKE'f.—Jan. 19.
70s. Od. to 100 s. Od. Ipover 90s. Od. to I Iss.
Straw* Yss• Od. to 345. Od.