The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
BANKRUPTCIES

THOMAS SMITH 6(30.151, merchant, Manchester.
JOSEPH RALEIGH and THOMAS SMITH
GOODE, merchants. Manchester.

BANKRUPTS.
SAMUEL YOUNGER, merchant, Tower•street,
City, to surrender, Oct. 15, at two, and Nov. 15, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official
assignee, Coleman-strect•buildings; Bourdillon and Sons,
Great Winchester-street.

BENJAMIN JAWI.:R WOOD, optician, Liverpool,
Oct. 18 and Nov. 15, atone, at the Clarendon-rooms, Li-
verpool. Hall, Bishop, and Mourilyan, Verulam-build-
ings, Gray's Inn, Loudon ; Neal, Liverpool.
BENJAMIN HARGREAVES, tailor, Manchester,
October 15 at four, and November 15 at eleven, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Blackmore, St.
Martin's-place, Charing-cross.
MARK PEARSON, chymist, Workington, Cumber-
land, Oct. 21, and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Black Lion
Inn, Whitehaven. Elder, Clement's-inn, London ;
Armistead and Musgrave, Whitehaven.
SAMUEL. THORP, drysalter, Manchester, Oct. 24,
and Nov. 15, at the Commissioners'-room, Manchester.
Baxter, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Sale and Worth-
ington, Manchester.
ANTONIO MATHE and STEPHEN MOORE,
merchants, Liverpool, Oct. 20, and Nov. 15, at one, at
the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Thompson, Liverpool ;
Cuvelje, Skilbeck, and Hall, Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, London.
RICE HARRIS, glass manufacturer, Birmingham,
Oct. 10 and Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms,
Birmingham. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ;
Arnold, Haines, and Arnold, or Ingleby, Wragge, and
Cope, Birmingham.

LITERARY NEWS.
(From the Publisher's Circular.)
The beneficial operation of the New; Copy-
right Act is already sensibly felt in this country;
and will continue .to be more and more per-
? Rived ; for its provisions are so stringent, and its
penalties so severe, against piracy, that those
who have hitherto trafficked in it with impunity,
now pause and tremble. Circulating libraries in
all parts or the country are compeled to dis-
continue purchasing (even
had they- any longer
the opportunity) and lending out a single copy
of a tbreign edition of an English work. The
mere having it in their possession, ticketed and
marked as a library
.Look, exposes them to the
101. penalty. The immediate consequence
that the libraries are forced to purchase legiti-
mate copies of English works. But a remoter
and far more important consequence may be
perceived : this effect of the new law will tend to
the publication and circulation of works of more
solid merit than we have for some time been
accustomed to in libraries of this description.
But while this good effect is produced at home,
we trust it will extend to the Colonies, to which
the Act is expressly extended, and where it is
of the utmostimportanee that it should be vigo-
bAomthe
rously and faithfully carried out. At present,
they purchase almost exclusively these pirated
forr icaribarnadrieraend individuals.
French ° books,
ing and export houses, at home have only to put
their foreign agents on the qui vice, and we shall
copies
soon have to report the same beneficial effects in
our colonial possessions, which, with gratitude to
the Legislature, we now announce that we are
experiencing at home.
"A Continuation of Rotteck's Universal His-
tory" has been published in German, by K. H.
Hermes, under the title of " Geschichte der
Letzten 25 Jahre" (History of the last Twenty-
' fi'veYears), in two volumes. It is written in a
truly' liberal spirit, and a plain, unpretending
style; and receives a certain kind of unity from
its commencing with the fbrmation of the Holy
Alliance, arid then pursuing the events in the
light of the ideas which actuated the Sovereigns
who formed that celebrated alliance. Accord-
ing to the author's opinion, the spell with which
they had nearly succeeded in binding the conti-
nental nations; was first broken by the late Mr.
Canning's celebrated toast at Harwich—"Li-
berty civil and religious, all over the world!"
cc Der Deutsche Oberrheiu" (The German Up-
per Rhine during the Wars from the Peace of
Westphalia to the year 1801), by C. de la
Roche; Stuttgard, 1842.—" Der freie Deutsche
Rhein" (The Free German Rhine), by H. B.
Oppenheina.—The first of these works recals the
recollection of Germany to the intrigues and
cruel devastations with which the French have
fin Centuries acted against her, in order to push -
their frontiers to the Rhine, and to distract,
weaken, and enslave the German people. The
second gives a history of the rapacious legisla-
tion and fiscal institutions by which German
Princes and Nobles, and in more recent times
France, and still more Rolland, have impeded
the navigation of that fine river, and crippled
German industry and commerce. National
unity, security 'of frontiers, and extension of
trade and manufactures, are the three leading
ideas which DOW actuate the German mind, and
seem to be more and. more affecting German
litemiture. Even some time before they ob-
tained such a leading influence, the best intel-
lects of the nation began to turn from works of
imagination to researches in history; and now
that a practical end for these researches has been
found, the number of labourers in this depart-
ment has been increasing every year. The Ger-
mans are evidently descending from the region
of the clouds to our firm earth ; and as they are
in earnest in all they do, we entertain no doubt -
that within a very few years they will on this
practical stage astonish and affect the world even
more than they have done in the regions of ima-
gination and pure thought. It is for this reason
that we have so often invited the attention of our
readers to works of this character issuing from
the German press. • _ _

A small volume on the liberty of the press in
England, published at Berlin in 1841, has lately
fallen into our hands, which presents a clear and
concise account, not only of the Libel-law as it
it now exists, but also of its history, in this coun-
try. To us, who are no lawyers, it conveyed
much information ; and we have no doubt it
would do so to others, and would therefore, in an
English dress, be welcome to many who know
nothing of this law by its
"glorious uncertainty."

The Chancellor of the Eichequer returns to town
to-morrow from the Isle of Wight.
Lord Stanley leaves town on 'Thursday for Knows-
ley Park, Lancashire, on a visit to his father, the Earl
of Derby.
SPLIT IN THE TORT TOWN COUNCIL OF COL-
CHESTBR.-Mr. S. G. Cooke, who recently served the
office of Mayor of Colchester, and is universally re-
spected by all parties •in the • town for his straight-
forward and upright conduct, yesterday resigned the
office of Alderman, in disgust at certain proceedings of
that exclusively Tory body, in connection with the
proposed erection of a new town-hall for the borough.
The step taken by Mr. Cooke is, we are informed,
likely to be followed by a few
others, who value pri-
vate character more than corporation honours, when
the latter require a compromise of the former.
Montserrrat had Irish colonists for its early settlers,
and the negroes to this day have the, Connaught
brogup curiously and ludicrously engrafted on the
African jargon. It is said that a Connaughtman, on
arriving at Montserrat,
"
was, to his astonishment,
hailed in vernacular Irish b a negro from one of the
first boats that came alongside" Thunder and turf,"
di aoul." said
“lil Irishman, exclaimed the Connaughtman, " how long have you
been here?" "Three months," answered Quashy.
hours the Connaughtmari was and in a few
" Three months, and so black already !—Hanurn a
on his return, with a
countryman, stythain:inkoinngg Qyeuafs,hy a ci-devant
white skin, to the Emerald Isle.
crowd, her hoed was
by the executioner, but in consequence of the
to death for murder, was executed at G ien, four days ago.
Having ascended the scaffold, in the presence of an im-
menseA woman, named Henry, who had been condemned
placed in the proper posi-
tionrain that had fallen, the
ground on which the guillo-
tine stood gave way, and the knife was thrown out of
its equilibrium. It was, necessary, therefore, to
unbind the criminal, and set the machine in order.
Whilat this was being done, the poor wretch 're-.