The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-09 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Lambert, victualler, Portsmouth. street, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, to surrender April 17, and May 20, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane ; King, St. Mary Axe.
Francis Wright, builder, Earl's Colne, Essex, April 18, at
eleven, and May 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghail-street ; Mayhew,
Coggesball, Essex.
John Shefford, hay merchant, Widmore-farm, rent, April
15 and May 31, at- eleven, at the Court of Bandrnptcy.
Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; King, St. Mary Age.
Thomas Milford, cabinetmaker, Southampton, April 15. at
two, and May 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Dolman, Clif-
ford's Inn ; Wright, London-street, Fenchurch-street.
John Hollingsworth, butcher, Paddington-street, April 18,
at eleven, and May 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers ; Goren,
South Holton-street.

Elizabeth M•Knott and James Glass, coal merchants,
Belvidere-road, Lambetk, April 22, at one, and May 22, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee
Freeman and Co., Coleman-street.

Edward Smith, cheesemonger, South Molton-street, April
18, at two, and May • 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Pain
and Hatherly, Basinghall-street.
John Smith, cotton manufacturer, Barnoldswick, York-
shire, April 21 and May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Wiglesworth, Rids-
dale, and Craddock, Gray's Inn, London; parr, Lofthouse,
and Nelson, Leeds; Hartley and Heath, Settle, Yorkshire.

Edward Edwards Robinson, grocer, Wolverhampton,
April 28 and May 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Capes and
Stuart, Gray's Inn, London ; Robinson, Wolverhampton.
Thomas Strutt Stuart, jun., drysalter, Liverpool, April 11
and May 13, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London ; Green, Liverpool.
(Dividends, &c., to-morrow.)

On Monday Lord Denman presented a petition
from an individual who has been for three years incarcerated
in the Queen's Bench, for no other crime than that he re-
fuses, from conscientious scruples, to take an oath. The
prisoner is known to be a man of high moral character.
Eighty of his fellow-prisoners have put their names to a de-
claration, that they believe conscientious scruples are the
sole ground of his refusal to take the oath which it was pro-
posed to administer to him. Now surely there is something
monstrouslT oppressive and unjust in laws which can thus
subject a virtuous man to three years' incarceration for such
an offence. The very circumstance of having conscientious
scruples to taking an oath is presumptive proof that the
party is a man of integrity. An unprincipled person has no
such scruples: he will take oaths by the dozen. But what
is the value of his swearing? He may swear falsely or
truly, just as the case may be. The man, on the other hand,
who cannot bring himself to swear, because he conceives the
Divine injunction, " Swear not at all," is at variance with
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