The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-23 00:00:00

THE NEW POST-OFFICE.

The preparations for commencing the business of
the Post-office department in the new building were
yesterday evening completed to a great extent, and
workmen were employed to a late hour to make all
ready for transacting public business this morning.
The guards and others connected with the mail•
coaches assembled yesterday evening ut the new
Post-office, to receive instructions preparatory to
their proceeding on their journey. Among other
new regulations is one to the effect that none ado
guards shall leave the new office, after they come Q 0
duty, until the departure of the muds.
Last night, so great was the pressure of the crowd
around the entrance in St. Martin's-le-Grand, that
officers were called in to keep the doorway clear, ill
order to afford flee ingress and egress to those COw
fleeted with the establishment. Throughout the
whole of the night the books, papers, and other of
ficial et ceteras, have been conveyed from Lombard•
street to the new office, in order that every thing
may be rendered complete for the general busines4
of to-day. Great numbers of persons, and among
them were many individuals of rank, visited the
establishment last evening. The whole of the lower
offices were again lighted up last night.

FRYS AND CHAPMAN'S BANKRUPTCY.

Yesterday a meeting of the creditors under the
commission of bankruptcy issued against Messrs.
Frys and Chapman took place at the .Bankrupt's
Court, Basinghall-street, before the Commissioners
of the Ninth List, Messrs. Trebeck, Smith, and
Holroyd. The meeting was held for the proof of
debts, and for the declaring of a dividend on the se"
veral estates of the bankrupts. The Court wag
much crowded, and many members of the Society
of Friends were present. A great number of debts'
were proved, varying in amount from a few shillings
to 2,0001.: the latter was proved on the estate of
Joseph Fry.
A lodging-house-keeper from Hastings made hie
appearance and tendered his claim; it was a moo
due by the bankrupt Chapman, for board and lodg-
ing at the watering-place, and for which the chtimaug
had received a cheque. The landlord had held the
cheque over until the failure of the bank. The land'
lord was required to prove on the ground that none
of his claim, for which the sum named in the cheque
was a part, had been satisfied. The Commissioners
allowed the proof.
Roscoe, a solicitor, said, he appeared for the,
creditors of Messrs. Cochran and Robertson, e`
America and Liverpool, merchants and rnrnrng
agents. He exhibited a long and heavy accodufj
showing a claim of 128,0001. (as was stated), an
entered into a long detail of the way in which t, e
debt had been contracted. Ile begged to prove el:
the separate estates of the bankrupts. before SPY
division of the funds took place.
Mr. YOUNG, solicitor, contended that Mr.itos— f
was not entitled to prove on the separate estates 0
the bankrupts, and quoted Lord Hardwicke as ad
authority in point : some of the debts exhibited be
been already paid.
The Commissioners having consulted together:r.
Mr. Commissioner TREBECK said, we are of eril-te
nion that proof cannot be admitted on the see'
estates of the bankrupts. oulj
Mr. Commissioner SMITH said, the Court ei 00
not put off the creditors by locking up the fun°
such a question.
•.
Mr. RoscoE gave notice, that he should to
diately file a bill in Chancery against the F'66
the amount of 25,000/. as balance of accounts. ova
A Quaker, named WM. GROUNDY, Prege bill*
himself to prove a debt of 5001. due on an co od
He mode an attack on Mr. Young, the solicitor,'
the latter called the Quaker an impudent fellow.oo
Mr. GROUNDY softly replied that he knew heker)
impudent.—(Loud laughter.)—He (the Olsbeen
had refused to take notes for gold, and he Ls"
thought impudent for so doing.—(A laugh.) , si..
lenTci
After some further discussion, and an investlag_
int eg
AirGroiltici3r, Commissionersen hd
ad
disallowedso e d ittlihceupl trye
f.titi.
tion of the balances in hand on each separate c,ste L;it
este:
.0,
sebrt
elate,
3 dividendsS.c!
d . in
ee d
pound eclared
on
JosephlVilliamFFury:
in the pound; and on Jonathan Chapman 0 e,
10s. is the pound. The Court then adjourned.

ss
. '
Two persons have been for some toe Pop
engaged with a diving bell at llolyhead, in bri?g"ll,oi
dollars which had been sunk in the ship Enterprae hisel‘
year. ago. The dollars are generally coated with s botl
oxide, which, when removed, exhibits the coinage ire'
entire.

BIRTHS. td
On the 20th inst. at Kingston-grove, Oxfordshire'
lion. Mrs. W. Rodney of a son mid he'r.
On the 21st inst. at' Stoke ewiniton, Mls' W.
Barker, of a so. erei
On the 19thn inst. at Ewell, the lady of Capt. Leal
of a son.
MARRIED. W'
On the 22d inst. at Marylebone, H. --11, rga
Esq. of 1331sbant-house, Cambridgeshire, to 3'37 prt'
the youngest daughti:r of Augustus Browne, E
vonshire-place.q.
_hoof°
Oa the 22d inst. at the Friends' Meetiog k_hOlf
Bishopsgate-street, Riehrrdson, of Denil3..,drKey
to Sarah, only daughter of the late George Etb'
Hoxton.

DIED.I ad
On the 22d inst. at his residence in the Nrauxur;or°o3'
Mr. Christopher Henderson, formerly of Long
Carlisle, Cumberland, in the 63djoilogest,son - vear of ag,e:f Mr../‘
On the 21st inst. Valentine
Friedman, of Burton-crescent. TI d
On the 21st inst. at Camberwell, Mr. W.
the
thecelebrated artist, aged 56.
On t inst. at Ulster -place, Riehard„ the sots
Mr. R. J. Lane.

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