The Sun. — 1827-04-26 (London, England)

COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)  Mr. HARTLICY produced the Report of the Committer. on the Bankruptcy Lawe, and moved that the same might be approved of, and, in pursuance of the recommendation therein contained, that a petition be presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying for au alteration of these Laws.  Mr. FAYELL supported the motion. He certainly thought that there were a great many abuses resulting from the state of the law on the subject at present. He would mention a circumstance which happened to himself about thirty years ago. When proving a debt before the Commissioners on a bankrupt estate, he took the liberty of adverting to some abuses which he thought had been allowed to pass unnoticed, but no sooner had he opened his mouth than he was immediately stopped short by the Commissioners, because he could not make a specific charge against any body. When leaving the room, however, he was tapped on the shoulder by a Jew, who told him he thought he might gain more by betraying his accomplices in guilt than by his perjury. From the information derived from the same Jew, it was discovered that, on the same esta of fivete,debts twerehousapnrdovepdounfrdom: blrrela Jewsnd extenttowhtoheneverhad a farthing's claim on the estate, and who made the affidavits for other persons for ss. each. He (Mr. F.) mentioned this circumstance to show what gross frauds were practised under the present system. Mr. Dixow could not at all agree to petition Parliament on the subject, as the finances of the Corporation could not at present bear the expences. He therefore moved, as an amendment, that the subject might be adjourned till the next Meeting. After some remarks pro and con by several Members, the adjournment was carried by a considerable majority. Several petitions of no public interest were then presented, after which the Court adjourned.  On one of the gates of the city of Agrah, is the following inscription The first year of the reign of Julef, two thousand husbands were voluntarily separated by the Magistrate. The indignant Emperor abolished divorce in consequence. Next year there were in Agra]; three thousand marriages less, seven thousand cases of adultery more; three hundred women were burnt for having poisoned their husbands ; seventy-five men were burnt for the murder of their wives, and three million of rupees worth of furniture was broken in domestic squabbles. The Emperor re-established divorces."  A coal brig belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked on our beach, opposite West-street, on the morning of Tuesday last. She was a very old and rotten vessel, and we should suppose not at all sea-worthy. The weather was not very boisterous at the time, although there was a fresh breeze, but her rigging having gotten entangled with those of a sloop which lay along side of her, it was impossible to get her off' to sea. She is entirely wrecked ; and her fragments strewed the shore and surface of the sea for a considerable distance in front of the town, The hull of the above brig (the Venus) was sold yesterday afternoon. It is expected, should the weather prove favourable, to get the sloop to sea again.—Brighton Paper.  Herefordshire is so purely an agricultural country, that it does not contain a single steam engine.  A fine esplanade is being made in front of Brunswick-terrace, and it is in contemplation to widen the whole line of road on the West-cliff.— Brighton Herald.