The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-31 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.

Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Great 81100034 of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and New Military
and Naval Spectacle.
THIS EVENING. JULY 31. _

~Will be repeated an entire new Eluestrian, Military and Naval
Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of
Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery. Messes, Appointments, &c.,
to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Na% y. Feast
of 250 Lanterns.
Dance of the POLK A, by Mdlle. rtnihnie and Sig. Milano.

New and unequalled Scenes of the Circ e—Extiaordinaly Feats
of Horsemanship by Ntnnxieur I Guis Tuurnaire, S.R. Germani,
La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c.; with Mr. R. Smith's highly
trained •tee.is.

After which, the old English pageant o' THE SUMMER'S
MORN of 16P4t; or, the White Wreath awl Flitch of Bacon.
Ti, conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE-CHASE; or, En-
land's Harvest Hume.

Acting and atage..rninager, Mr. W D. Broadfoot.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JULY 31.
The Grand O, era and sp'endid Spectacle have attracted the greatest
overflow ever remembered, increasing nightly.
Last Week but three of the Opera Season, commencing with PRA
DIAVOLO. Powerful Operatic Comp my— Miss Romer, Miss Betts,
Miss Pearson, Mr. D. W. King, Mr. Leffler, Mr. E. L. dime, Mr. S.
Cowe I and Mr. G. Stansbury, conductor. Increased Band and el&
dent Chorus from the Theatres Royal
To conclude with an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing
Three Seenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA-
RACT; or The Enchanter's Spell.
Places And Private Boxes to be bad of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box..
Mee, fro is Eleven to Four.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Daylight View of
LONDON in the OLDEN TIME
Painted by Danson and Telbin.
The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all
former viecedent ; the artist, the amateur, tho casual observer
are all struck with its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea-
tion,.i.d re unanimous in prtmouncing it the most wonderftil ex-
hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific
disp'ay ar Dusk is unjust ; it should be seenin the calm stillness or
the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa-
cious Lake, to be !Idly appreciated.
The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues-
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays cont.ucted uy Mr. Godfrey,
are upnn a scale of more than usual excellence; hilt words fail in doingjustice to the awful representation of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Its fearful characteristics are truthfully nourtrayed, but at the same
time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic
Art, roost delight is predominant over terror: and the 'thousands
who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit
that Sout.i.lay, •.he Unrivalled Pyrotechnist has achieved a matchless
triumph.
The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect
state, ai,d combining so many and interesting features, are by far
the most atiraetive lounge in or near the neetrooolit.
Feeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at
Dusk. Atimdtance, One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON mu-
-BEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collactlon of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of .?.laborafe research, at a
coat of 80,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
pean_ history, Yiz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROM WELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
tkrAPOLF:ON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to incf ease, by several very fine
plcturpa, &c., his orevlons almost in, relible number and variety of
MSS., Works of Art, and s multitude If valuable Relief, and other
curiosities, in this most •imiructive and. as hundreds have said it
oaght to be, a Natlona M.rseum. 31,my taotisand have hisoected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it engh to be seen by every one. The price of *deals-
Bon is reduced t) ONE SHILLING.

The NAPOLEON MUSEI7}I is to br seen only at the Egyptian
Hall." Meat'filly. daily fi oat Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER..—SUN OFFICE, .TULY 31.
TnEnmomirrEn, Lowest, 58 ; Highest, 68; Noon, 65.
BAnomicrEn, 29.7.—Wnm, N.W.

NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
24nally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TI.ITS DAY.
Morning ... 54 minutes after 2 f Evening ... 13 minutes After 3.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1844.

In the Lords the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Dis,
sentients Bill was passed.

The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill and the Metropolitan
Buildings Bill went through Committee. The Law
Courts (Ireland) Bill also went through Committee,
with very brief remarks. Important measures now
go through the House at railroad speed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the report of the
Committee on the Bill for repealing certain Acts
imposing penalties on Roman Catholics.

The Bishop of LONDON (we use his own words)
"did not wish it to be supposed that he was opposed to
the repeal of those penal laws, which pressed not prac-
tically but in theory only upon the Roman Catholics?'
The pious Prelate opposed the measure most strenu-
ously, because the Bishops had not been consulted,
and he then, not openly, but in the style of the Je-
suits, by inuendos, denounced Sir R. PEEL, for giv-
ing his support to the Catholic Emancipation Bill.
The first time, he said, when the bulwarks of the
Protestant Church were broken was when that Bill
Was Passed. What a selfish, persecuting, and wealthy
crew Sir R. PEEL has to keep in order ! These in-
tolerant, uncalled-for remarks of this upstart Pre-
late, the son, of a schoolmaster, will let the per-
secuted Catholics of Ireland know what mercy they
are to expect from the Bench of Bishops ;
and, above all, from the Bishop of LONDON, who,
if we are to judge from his addresses to the Lon-
don clergy, is as good a Catholic as Father APHALE,
the Bishop of Tuam. Towards the conclusion of the
discussion, Dr. BLOMFIELD said he felt justified in
the course he had taken by the countenance and ap-
probation of such of his Right Reverend and Most
Reverend Brethren, who had attended to support him.
So he was made the mouthpiece of the bench, and
not one Liberal Prelate, not one sincere friend of
Protestantism, was present to denounce this atrocious
attack on seven millions of our fellow-sub-
jects. Lord BROUGHAM, to his honour, op-
Rosed this selfish—this suicidal mania. " One
or these penal laws," he said, " which the
Bill would repeal, one of these safeguards of the
Established Church, imposed a penalty of 200 marks
upon every one who attended mass ; yet mass was
said in every part of London 'every week, every day,
perhaps ; and Catholic churches, some of them of great
architectural beauty, were erected in all parts, at the
expense of the pious in that persuasion. Would any
one attempt to enforce that cruel and absurd statute ?"
The Bishop of LONDON would if he had the power.
Vie Earl of WICKLOW; a good Protestant, and 1111

upright man, supported the Bill, and only regretted
that it was not more comprehensive. Every one but
the mouthpiece of the Episcopal Bench supported
the measure. The report was received, and the Bill
ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Bench
of Bishops was nearly upset during the commo-
tion caused by the Reform Bill, and we believe
all the friends of their country, and a vast proportion
even of the House of Lords, would be glad to see the
lawn sleeves consigned to the fate of Gatton and
Old Sarum. These inspectors of the Church say
that they have great duties to perform; they have
to watch over their flocks and the pastors of their
flocks. But somehow or other they neglect both
flocks and pastors for seven months in the year ;
give dinners and parties in London, and are remark-
, able only for obstructing liberal measures of every
description which come before them. Lord LYNn-
uuRsT And Sir R. PEEL see through their manoeuvres,
and will bear with them no longer.
The House adjourned at Eight o'clock.
The Commons met at twelve yesterday, when
several Bills were read a third time and passed.
On the House re-assembling at Five, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM asked Lord INGESTRE to postpone his motion
relative to Captain WARNER'S invention, owing to the
absence of Sir R. PEEL. The motion was postponed
till this day at five o'clock. .

A brief discussion took place on the depressed state
of the coopers' trade owing to the late tariff, but it

led to no result.

On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN, leave was
given to bring in a Bill to form a terrace between
Westminster and Blackfriars-bridges. The Bill was
not to be pressed this session. _

Mr. MACKINNON called the attention of the Go-
vernment to the report of the Committee on the
Health of Towns in 1842, and asked whether, in the
course of next session, they intended to introduce any
measure on the subject? Sir JAMES GRAMANI did
not give any explicit answer.

Mr. PETER Ijoiiniwicx made a motion about Don
CARLOS, and was supported by two Members and
opposed by thirty-one. The House was shortly after-
wards counted oat, only thirty-seven Members being
present, and adjourned till Twelve o'clock this day.

The " Insolvent Debtors Bill, to amend an Act
passed in the sth and 6th yeari of the reign of her
present MAJESTY, intituled An Act for the Relief cf
Insolvent Debtors,' and to limit the power of arrest
upon final process," was, on the 26th inst., brought
down from the Lords, where it had been a subject of
much controversy and some personal remonstrances,
to the House of Commons. A print of this Bill, in
the condition in which it left the Lords, is now
before us. It would occupy tou much time and space
to indicate the various amendments upon the original
draft of the Bill, which have been introduced in the
Upper House, or to point out their noble authors.
Yet, as the public cannot but feel a lively curiosity
to know what are the main enactments of the last
legislation on so important a question as the mode in
which it is proposed that insolvent debtors shall here-
after be dealt with, we will endeavour to give such
a brief analysis of its clauses as may answer that
purpose.
The preamble of the Bill before us having recited
the sth and 6th VICTORIA, c. 116; clauses 1 and 2
declare and enact, that notwithstanding any thing to
the contrary in such Act contained, the notices
thereby required to be given to creditors in the Lon-
don Gazette, or newspapers, previous to presenting
petitions for protection from process—shall here-
after be dispensed with ; and such form of petition
shall be according to a form specified in one of the
three schedules of this Bill ; and the petition and
schedule to be annexed thereto, according to the
former Act, to be in the form of another of such
schedules ;—to be sworn in like manner as any other
affidavits in bankruptcy may now be, and to be an-
nexed to such petition at the time of filing the same.
It has been erroneously imagined that the present
measure is altogether to repeal the existing Act. But
how unfounded this notion is may be inferred from the
constant adoption, in the Bill before us, of such parts
of the Act 5 and 6 Victoria as it does not expressly
repeal.
Clauses 3 and 4 enact, that from and after the
filing of such petition, the Commissioners shall (and
this is an important variation from the existing Act,
as to such notice) "forthwith, after such notice shall
have been filed, cause notice of the filing thereof to
be given, in such manner as he shall direct, to the
creditors named in schedule of petitioner, resident
within the United Kingdom, and whose debts shall
amount, respectively, to Si." and to be advertised in the
London Gazette, or papers circulating within the
county wherein petitioner shall reside ;" and the Com-
missioner shall thereby appoint a public sitting of the
Court (adjournable, at his pleasure, from time to
time) for examination of petitioners and choice of
creditors' assignee. The creditor to be allowed, at
discretion of Commissioner (who may reject or re-
move any person so chosen as assignee if he shall ap-
pear to him unfit for such office), to amend his
schedule or correct any misrepresentation therein :
the property of petitioner to vest in the assignee or
assignees for the time being, by virtue of his or their
appointment. Every such assignee is to be deemed
an officer of the Court wherein the petition is
filed, and to be liable to its control. (Power
reserved to Lord Chancellor, or Judges and
Commissioners of Court of Bankruptcy in Lon-
don, if authorised by his Lordship, to make such
orders and regulations for the security of petitioners'
property as they may judge fitting.) On this peti-
tion being filed, the Commissioner is to have the like
power to seize property of petitioner, and examine
him and other persons, as he now has by law in
bankruptcy cases.
The next clause, 5, whatever may be said for or
against its principle, certainly does away with an
invidious and unreasonable distinction which bore
hard on the less fortunate debtor, under former Acts,
who had not succeeded in saving himself from personal
caption. It enacts that, " any prisoner in execution at
the time of passing this Act, or any prisoner at any
subsequent time in execution upon any judgment
obtained in any action for the recovery of any debt"
—may be a petitioner for protection from process ;
and such petitioner shall be protected by an interim
order from being detained in prison, upon any judg-
ment in any action for recovery of any debt men-
tioned in his schedule ; and if so detained, Commis-
sioner may order his discharge : but all his former
liabilities to cease after lapse of the time mentioned
in such interim order. Clauses 6,7, and 8 are also
very important. If petitioner be in custody, no

being entitled to be discharged, he may yet be

brought up by warrant under the Conlin- issioner's

hand, directed to the person having him in custody, and
be heard at any sitting of the Court, either publicly
or privately ; all expenses of such hearing to be paid
out of his estate. In the event of a petitioner's death,
the Commissioner may proceed in the matter of his

petition, for distribution of his property. Wearing ap-
parel, bedding, working tools, and implements of a
petitioner, not exceeding, in the whole, the value of

201., may be excepted by petitioner upon operation
of the sth and 6th Victoria, and of this Act. Clauses
9 to 19 regard the powers, duties, trusts, &c., of as-
signees ; and these clauses again, in some res-
pects are considerable modifications of the Act
just quoted. Thus : the official assignee to act
as sole assignee until creditors' assignee ap-
pointed to sell property of petitioner, if Com.

missioner shall so order, and make such allow

ance to petitioner for his support as Commissioner

shall direct :—the property so vested in the oflicia

assignee to g. to his successor in office ; and if a

petition be dismissed, " all sales -and dispositions of
property, and payments duly made, and all Wier acts

theretofore done, according to this Act, or the before-
recited provisions of sth and 6th Victoria, to be good
and valid." So, again, assignees may execute powers
which petitioner might have executed for his own
benefit. Where a lease, or agreement for a house,
has been accepted by the assignees, or the benefit
thereof as part of his property, petitioner shall
not be liable for the rent ; and in the event of such
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assignees declining, on being applied to, to accept
such lease, &c., the lessor may apply to the Court
for the Commissioner's order in the case, either for ac-
ceptance of the same, or its delivery to lessor. As-
signees may sue in their own names—make composi-
tions for debts—submit differences to arbitration,
under consent of major part of the creditors of the
estate, and after a certain notice published, after
hereby prescribed forms. Creditors to vote according
to, and in respect of, the balances due to them on

account fairly stated. Where the petitioner is bene-

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