The Sun. — 1836-12-05 (London, England)

CARLISLE.—A fiat of bankruptcy having been issued against the late banking firm of Forster and Co, the commission was opened here on Tuesday last, and the first meeting of creditors is fixed for the 21st December inst. Messrs Connell and Co. have called upon their creditors to meet them on Wednesday next, when, we believe, they will be prepared to lay before them a full statement of their affairs, and will then be guided by circumstances and .the advice of friends as to the steps to be taken to wind up their affairs. It was stated in one of the Whitehaven Papers that Messrs. C. proposed resuming payment on Tuesday last. This was a mistake. This point will not be settled till after the meeting of creditors. The call which we last week made for the establishment of a new Joint Stock Bank calculated to obtain the confidence of the people has been promptly answered. By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that some other failures have been consequent upon the failure of the banks. They are not, however, of any public importance, and we are happy to add that the working classes continue to be fully employed. —Carlisle Journal.  The parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, has recently received 5001. from the sureties of their late collector,  Callahan, who, it will be remembered, became a defaulter some few months since.  On Thursday 28 members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) at Manchester publicly seceeled from that body. —Sheffield Iris. A letter from Street to Ilchester, scarce 11 miles, costs ten-pence postage ; from London to the same place, 133 miles, the postage is ten-pence.—Sherborne Journal. On Friday afternoon, a little after five o'clock, as two ladies were walking up Acre-lane from the Brixtonroad towards their residence, when about 100 yards up the lane one of them was surprised by a man suddenly springinc, behind her and seizing both her bands, from one of which he took an umbrella, and then snatched at a reticule in the possession of the other lady ; this was resisted, and he then drew something from his pocket which appeared to be a pistol, and pointed it first at one and then at the other. This so alarmed the ladies that he obtained the reticule, containing articles of value ; the ladies then screamed loudly, which appeared to frighten him, and he ran off with what he had taken, and made his escape. The policeman on duty was at the further end of his beat, in Bedford-lane.  The first ordinary meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society for the session, was held on Saturday afternoon— Colonel Lusbington in the chair. A great variety of presents were announced, both to the library and the museum. A letter was read from Major-General Sir H. Worsley, announcing the liberal donation of 1001. for the general purposes of the Society, and recommending that, in order to rescue it from its present embarrassment, the members should double their subscriptions. Colonel Smythe read a paper on some of the habits of the Tugs, a singular race of murderers in Hyderabad, which were brought before the notice of the Society in 1832 in a letter from Lieutenant Reynolds, by whose exertions many had been executed, and about three hundred more sentenced to work upon the roads.