The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

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}MOOT TO .t BRITtsU firblJecT FOR FIRST PTISLICATION.
Lord Campbell now delivered the judgment of the court
in this case. This was an action for seating and ming a
mneical composition entitled a cavatina from the apse et
" La Sonnambula," of Bellini. The daeleaulisa, whisk
wen in the common form, alleged that this easapraties
was first published in I:newt within 111 ; that the
plaintiff was the proprietor ot the us,yrigkt therein, and
that the said copyright was subsist*/ at the time when the
grievance set forth in the declaration was committed. To that
declaration the defendant pleaded, first, that the plaintiff was
not the proprietor of the copyright in the declaration men-
tioned, and secondly that at the time of the committing of
the said supposed grievance, copyright did not subsist in the
%aide:imposition. At the trial before Lord Cranworth, then
Mr. Baron Rolfe, evidence was adduced to show that the
opera of " Ia Sonnambula" way composed (by Bellini, an
alien, at Milan, in February,lS3l •' that Ltelliru then resided,
and had ever since resided at Milan ; that he was by the law
of Milan entitled to the copyright in the opera, and to as-
sign that right to any one he pleased ; that on the 19th of
Fehruary,lB3l, by an instrument in writing, framed in ac-
cordance with the law of Milan, he assigned the copy-,
right in the work to Giovanni Rioordi, also an
ahen, and resident at Milan ; and that Iticordi thereupon
sic vested with the said copyright ; that on the 9th of
• 1831, Ricordi' in England, duly made, signed, and
seared, and attested by two witnessee, on indenture between
him and the plaintiff, whereby, *for a valuable considera-
tion, he assigned to the plaintiff, a native born subject of
Great Britain, the right to publish the opera in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland ; that the plaintiff published it cm the 10th
of June, 1&3I, in London, that there had been no prior pub-
lication of the opera either within the British dominions
or in any other country ; that he made the usual entry at
Stationers' Hall, and deposited copies of the publication at
the British Museum, and other plaices as required by law ;
and that on the 13th of May, 1811, he caused a further
entry thereof to he made at Stationers' Hall, under the
and 6 Vic., e. 4.i. The learned judge, in conformity wiA
the opinion of the Court of Exchequer, in the case of
" Boosey r. Purday," ruled that the evidence was not suffi-
cient on the issues joined, and his lordship directed the
jimigto find on both issues for the defendant. To that a
bill of exception was tendimil, on which the pre-
,
seat writ of error was brought. After listening to the very
learned argument, and looking into the authorities on the
subject, the court were all of opinion that the evidence was
sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict on both issues;
that the direction of the learned judge *as erroneous, and
that there must be a venire dc novo. The first
question discussed WAS, whether an authur pos-
sessed a copyright in his works at common law.
That was not evential to the determination of the present
fail', but, supposing that it were, the court were strongly
inclined to concur in the declaration of Lord Mansfield and
other judges, in favour of the common law right of author,.
But the court rested their judgment can the statutes with
respect to literary property,,which, in their opinion, and
according to the evidence adduced at the trial, entitled the
plaintiff to maintain this action. The Court of Exchequer,
in the case of " Boosey r. Purday" (1 Exchequer Reports,l
10), overruled the prior decision of that court on the
equity side, the opinion unanimously expressed by the Court
of Common Plea., and the sulisequent opinion of the Court
of Queen's Bench,all directly expressive of the opinion that
the right in such an action must depend on the statute law !
of this country, that the law, of foreigu nations have 111, ea-
tea territorial power, and the proper construction of the
Auto," of Anne and George 111. that a foreign author re-
siding abroad was not an author a ithin their meaning, and
could not have a copyright in his works, which acts were
intended for the encouragement of British t.dent by giving
to British authors a monopoly in their literary works, dat-
ing from the period of their first :publication here. The
learned judges of that court therefore held that by first pub-1
his works in Great Britain, a foreigner acquired no
copyright here. If these promisee were sound, the infer-
ence to be drawn front them was, incontrovertible, that a
British subject who purchaser such a right from a foreigner
cannot be in any better condition here than the foreigner
would have been himself. But with great deference for an
opinion an expressed, the court saw no sufficient reason for
thinking that it was the intention of the legislature to ex-
clude foreigners from the benefits of the statutes. The
British parliament has no power to legistate fur aliens
beyond the British territory, but within the limits of that
territory, it less the power, and the court conceived that the
general words must he presumed to do so. The monopoly
which the statutes conferred is to he enjoyed here, and the
conditions for the enjoyment of it are to be presumed here.
What was there to rebut the presumption that aliens are
entitled ? The statute 8 Anne, c. 19, is for the eneouragenient
oflearning, by Tea ing the right in printed books in the authors
thereof. Assuming that the l•erielature intended this neces-
sarily fur the encouragement of learning in Great Britain;
might it not be for the encouragement of learning that
foreigners should he induced to send their work, here to be
first published? If Itapin and De lailme hail written their
valuable works on our constitution ou the continent, with-
out visiting this country, insteuil of first publishing them us
they hail 110111. in England, was it to be contended that they
would thereby have been debarred from assigning their
property in thew works to an Englielainati? It would ill
Ixwione them, sitting on that bench, to express any opinion
upon the policy of introducing agricultural produce or manu-
factures Irons foreign countries; but looking sit the statute
hook, he might without any impropriety observe that it
lint been the uniform policy of parliament to facilitate the
introduction of learning and literature from other countries.
Although printing had been introduced and carried on by
Caxton in the reign of Edward IV., in the statute 1
Richard 111., c. 9, to restrain Italians and other foreigners
from carrying on trade here and to protect our woollen
manufactilee., a proviso was made by the 12th section that
that act should not extend to prevent any merchant or
trader, of whatever net' he might be, from bringing into
this country any boob, written or printed. The real ques-
tion was whether a foreigner, by sending his
work to a publisher here, could acquire a copy-
right in it. Upon that question depended his right to
magi' to another. It was admitted that if a foreigner
composed his work here he might acquire a copyright in it,
and the learned counsel fur the defendant would out deny
that if a foreigner while livine here for a temporary pur-
pose wrote a poem, he might publish it and acquire a copy-
right in it here. If he hail composed it in his own country,
and brought it over in his memory and produced it here for
the first time, or if he had written out a book in manuscript,
would it have made any difference as to his rights? Could
his per,onal appearance within our realm be essen-
tial to his right as an author, if he did that by an
agent which it was not disputed he might do in
his own proper person. The right which he had
in England was the right of acquiring a monopoly
for a certain number of years for the sale of his work.
That right was incorporeal, and in the nature of per-
sonal property which he carried with him wherever he
went, and all that was to he done to negotiate it he might
do by another. Where. then, was the necessity of crossing
from Paris to Does r before giving instructions for the
publication of his work, and entering it at Stationers'
hall? The law of England afforded protection, and would
give the foreigner redress for any wrung which might be
inflicted on him here. In the sixth year of Henry VIII.
the Court of Common Pleas held that an alien residing
in France might maintain an action of debt here, but
not in the roe of real property, for an alien could hold
nu land. In another case it was held that an alien, although
he had never been in this enuntry, might maintain an action
for an injury to his reputation contained in a libel, and that
great judge, the late Chief Justice Tindal, remarked that it
would create in foreigners an unfavourable opinion of our
laws if we held that aliens could not maintain an action of
this description. And Mr. Justice Muule also pointed to
the fact of our courts going further in allowing actions to
be brought by foreigner. for running down ships upon the
high seas. If Mr. Gibbon, after writing the concluding
volume of his work at Lausanne, had published it there,
could it be doubted that while domiciled there, he could,
keying caused his work to be' published in Lon-
don, acquire the same right sal an English author ?
Yoe such a purpose what difference could it make
whether the author were an alien or a natural born
subject. In the present ease, he presumed it would be ad-
mitted that if Denial had never come to London the de-
fame would have been done away with if he had been
naturalised by act of parliament. For these reasons the court
thought that sf an alien residing in his own country were to
weapon a literary work there, without publishing his work,
but should cause it to be published in this country, he
would be an author for the encouragement of learning,
and might maintain an action against any one who
Weald pirate his work. lie wished to be understood
always to speak of the rights of foreigners who
inepuliffehnd their works in England. If a literary work is
oboe published au author can only claim a copyright by the ,
law of else, country in which it is first published. 'That
was the doctrine of our courts, and the legislature might
be considered as having adopted and sanctioned it by the
enactment of the two ree rit international copyright acts.
The learned counsel for the defendant contended that
though an alien residing abroad might publish here, he
could not transfer the right to another, but if by the law of
a foreign country in which he resides the right may be as.
signed to a publisher with a right of again mingsting, the as-
signet of the author, or his assignee, becomes the owner of
the property. It consisted in the right of retaining a mo-
nopoly for the sale of a work in the country in whitb it was
first published. Whatever right the waft, this work,
had of publishing is Haalua was traaedlmei byhtiz uto
Ricardo, and by Riee/M- to the plaintiL •
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I the doctrine now supported by this Wort. In the Exchequer
al ease decided by S ice-Chancellor ShiLdwell was relied era,
in which his HOISOMIT had observed Mkt the court would
not protect the copyright of a foreigner. But the point in
that case had nothing bearing on the present question, it
being for an infringienent of a design for seals and labels;
and in a subsequent ease—" Bentley v. Billions" (as we
stpderstood)—his -Honour adopted the view now taken by
the coml. One other point only remained. It was con-
tended on behalf of the defendant that there was not in
the evidence any valid assignment to Rieordi, there
being no allegation that it was attested by two
witnesses. Looking at the assignment in the bill of imeeptiona
it might be presumed that there was each an as•omit
executed as was shah:lent. At all events, the court thought
the title sufficient, upon the statement that Bellini assigned
to Ricordi according to the law of Milan. This was not
like a conveyance of real property in England, or an as-,
signment of personalty in England, which might be attested
in a particular form. When the assignment was made, it
bad no reference to England, and it was merely sufficient
to clothe Rieordi with all the rights of property in the
opera of " La Sonnasubula." The assignment by Ricer&
to the plaintiff was made according to all the forms of
English law. Upon the whole, the court thought the
learned judge ouOt to have directed tho jury that if they
believed the evidence they shoeld and a verdict on both
issues for the plaintiff. 1. here must, therefore be a venire
de novo. •

STEINER r. HEALD AND OTHERE.—PATENT RIGHT..
This ease was argued on Friday, and reported in the
Express of the following day. It was a bill of excep-
tions to a ruling in an action fur infringement of patent,
that the invention was not a new inventiten.
Mr. Justice Patteson said they were all of opinion that
there should he a venire de novo, as the learned judge was
wrong in his direction to find for the defendant, in treating
as a matter of law what should have been left to the jury.
Judgment accordingly.
FRIAR Y. GREY AND OTHER..

Mr. Masud), appeared to argue this case, but the court
said they would not trouble him, and gave judgment re-
vening that of the court below.

COURT OF BA
HMIS ma.

Is Rs Cox.

N.—YESTERDAY.
Yawn Antics.

This was the last examination Meeting in the cue of
William Cox, stock and share broker, of Throgmorton
street. The balance-sheet, prepared by MCVITi. Hutton,
of Bucklersbury, extended front th‘• 16th of April, 1849,
to the 4th of April last, and contained the following rather
onsiderable items creditors, 6,749/.; ditto, holding
security, 11,8161.; liabilities, 5,3901.; profits, 1,7611. ;
3,3371.; received in respect of the late firm of W. and
H. P. Con, 7,8901. By good debtors, 2/. 10s. 3d.; pro
;7rty, 1001.; ditto, held by creditors, 6,4001.; liabilities,
3901.; trade expenses, 1,4711. ' • house and personal ditto,
1,4751.; graestity and expenses, 6.191.; losses, ll,2881.; paid
in respect of the late firm, 20,1571.
The meeting was adjourned for three weeks to give the
assignees an opportunity of investigating the accounts.

MSOLVD,IT DEBTORS' COURT-YESTERDAT.

Simms vu Caw Cassaisse.sza.
IN TEE MATT= OT CRAHLES MATHIAS GONNELL.
In this case an application was made to reduce the an-
nual allowance for the creditors. The insolvent is a clerk
in the House of Commons at a salary of 300/. guear. Ile
was discharged under the act in 1415, when 2401. a-year
was set aside for the creditors. Since then his wife had not
received the remittance she had expected from China, and
his sons, who were in situations, were now on his hands,
added to which he had been compelled to pay some debts
which were not set forth in his schedule.

The Chief Commissioner made an order reducing the al-
lowance to creditors from 2.501. to 130 i. a-year, to commence
in July next.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIRD COURT.—YevrEntaY.
Baran Ms. Ittvixt.i. OCIUMT.
CONSPPRACY •ND AEDECTION AT STEPNEY..

Ifitiui; Day surrendered to take his trial for misde-
meanour upon'au indictment preferred against him under
the statute known as the Bishop of Oxford's Act, for con•
spiting to procure tho defilement of Harriet Newman, sho
being under 21 years of age.
The proweutrix, who is rather a good-looking and
quiet-mannered girl, stated that she was just turned 19
years of ag.s and lived with her father and mother in Man-
ning-street, Newman's-fields, Limehouse. Having received
a letter purporting to come from a young man named
Richard Roberts, with whom she had for some time
kept company, she went, in accordance with an
appointment made in that letter, at about 5 o'clock
in the evening of the 31st of March, to the lien
Johnson, at Stepney, where she saw the prisoner, whom she
had not before known ; he came up and asked her if her
name was Harriet Newman; she said it was. He said,
" Are you not waiting to see Richard Roberts ?" She said
she was. Ile then said he had come and would take her to
him. She asked him why he had not come himself, and
prisoner said he was ashamed to come; and witness added,
"And well lie might." She then followed him a short way
down by the Ben Johnson, when he beckoned a cab, and,
taking her by the arm, said she must go with him ; she re-
sisted him, but he told the cabman she was his wife,
and, with the cabman, forced her into the cab,
jumping in himself. The man drove on; prisoner
then put a handkerchief over her mouth, and she
soon became insensible, and when she recovered she found
herself on a sofa, in a large house ; she did not know where,
or had ever been able to find out. A young woman sat
opposite to her, and asked her if she was better. Witness
said she did not know she was ill. The woman asked her
if she knew where she was, she said she did not. The
woman told her that if she was a respectable girl she had
better leave the house as soon as she could, and gave her a
knife to defend herself with. Au elderly woman then
came into the room and said she must stop all night and
should be made a lady of. She pressed some drink on her,
which she said would make her better, the effects
of which drink witness immediately felt, and made
an attempt to get away, but theold woman stopped her and
made a noise which brought three gentlemen down stairs,
and one put his watch and chain round her neck and made
improper overtures to her, and forced her back on to the
sofa. She took the watch off and threw it on to the
floor, and with the knife cut the woman on the arm ; she
also threw the tumblers and glasses at them; she also
cut one of the gentlemen in the hand, and finally she
dropped the knife and they then tried to force her up
stain; but, finding that she still resisted, one of them called
Day, and told him to get a cab and take her away. lie
said if she would go quiet, he would take her home to her
father. She felt much stupefied and got into the eah
with Day, and they drove until they came to a dark street,
where he got her out and said they would walk
the rest of the distance. When they uot a
short way down the street she felt that the use
of her limbs was going, and prisoner left her on the
step of a door, with a direction in her hand, and she then
became insensible, and the next day found herself in the
hospital. She was very ill, but recovered, and on the Sa-
turday after she went with a constable to a beershop in
Holywell-street, and there saw the prisoner, who was ail.
krently dressed.
The prowl:unix underwent a searching cross-examination
by Mr. Payne, who failed to shake her testimony or elicit
anything to her discredit. She positively denied that she
had gut Mrs. Woodfield to write the note or the address
found in her hand. She had never begged of Mrs. Wood-
field not to split or she would be ruined. She first knew her
front coming to their house to tell fortunes. Mrs. Wood.
field came to then and offered her assistance, saying that she
would give him a lift that would transport him (prisoner.)
Francis llillyer, 47 Cr, said that he found prosecutrix
early on the morning of the Ist of April, on a step in Sutton-
streat, Clerkenwell. She was quite insensible, and was
oblised to be taken on the stretcher to the hospital.
Mrs. Eliza Randall, nurse at the Free Hospital, Gray's-
inn-lane, said that the prosecutrix was brought in about
two o'elock in the morning. She was in a state of stupor
and did nut recover until ten o'clock the next day. He;
dress was torn, and her hands were bleeding, but she had
no marks of violence on her person. As soon as she was
conscious, she told her the same story that she bad al,
along.
Mr. Tindal Robertson, house Burgeon at the hospital, de-
posed to attending the prosecutrix, who was in there for
five days. Ile had examined her, and found her body quite
free from violence. Not any liberties had been taken with
her, and she was a virtuous girl.
From the rest of the evidence it appeared that although
the prosecutrix did not know Day, he was known to
Roberts, her sweetheart, but be had not informed him of
their acquaintance or courtship. When she first made the
statement to the police, Roberts was taken, but at once dis-
charged ; and that after then he saw prisoner at the Standard
Theatre, and told him what he had been charged with ;
and prisoner, in the presence of two or three companions,
said that he had had a fine lark with a girl is a
cab and had bees driving her about all night. Roberts
asked him where he had left her? and he said sear
Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. Roberts made some remark at
that, and prisoner got away from their company. When
prosecutrix went with the policeman she at once pointed
prisoner out, and when he was taken and saw her he said,
" Oh, that's you." On the police-constable searching his
lodgings, some clothes answering the description given by
the prosecutrix of those he wore on the night in question
were found. After the first examination Roberts went to
see prisoner at the House of Detention. l'risoner said it
was • bad job, and Roberts was the only one who could
save him, if he would see the girl, and try to get her to
make a flaw in the indictment. It was also proved that
the prisoner had made statements to others about the lark
he had had with the girl in the cab, and that he had been
absent from his home all that night.
Mr. Payne, for the defence, contended at some length
upon the glaring improbability of the story told by the girl,
and said that not only should be prove an alibi but that the
whole affair was a trumped-up fabrication for the purposes
of extortion.

The learned counsel then called a host of witnesses to
prove where prisoner was at the hour the girl said she first
met him, but they all disagreed about the time, and not
one could account for where he was all the night.
Mr. Payne then called Mrs. Woodfield, the alleged for-
tune-teller, a dirty gipsy-looking old woman, and the in-
stant she got into the witness-boa she without being asked
said that she had known the girl Newman from a child, and
was 23 years of age. That she had written the letter sup-
posed to come from Roberta at the dictation of the girl her-
self, and elm the address found in her hand. Newman said
they were going to have a lark. When she spoke to New-
man of the Krems nature of the chute, she begged that
witness would not Wit. as It would ruin ker. She denied
that she Reed by tang ketoses ; Ile lived by writing
hum aa4 awes wok.

la erem-examination it sppsard that she had acted ran
attorney in getting up the defence. She had been in the
Moses of Correction for an assatOt. A woolen spit at her,
and she tut her bead open with a quart pot. Witness got 14
days in the prima and the woman a month in the hospital.
Mr. Merry having replied,
Mir. Gurney summed up, and in so doing said the teal
shown by go woman Woodfield was evidenced by the re-
mark she made about the girl's age; which if proved,
would have defeated the principal counts in the indictment
—a thing else seemed to be aware of.
The jury having retired for I quarter of an hour, returned
a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Gurney, in passing sentence, said the prisoner's
offence was a very bad one, and had been aggravated by
the defence setup. There could be no doubt but that the
girl had been drugged and taken to that house for the
, purpose of defilement, and he had now by the defence sought
to blast her character by attributing to her perjury.
He was then sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.
The patties had scarcely left the court when the woman
Woodfield was brought back by one of the officers charged
with threatening the girl Newman at the door of the court.
Mr. Gurney, having heard her explanation, cautioned her
as to her future conduct ; and she left the court taking
oaths of the prisoner's innocence, and anathematising the
parties concerned in his conviction.
The Common Scrjeant sat in the New Court, and disposed
of several cases unfit for publication. The above case,
which lasted from the sitting of the court until late in the
evening, ended the session.

THE POLICE COURTS.
___ MANSION-HOUSE. _

The Lord Mayor requested that the press would acknow-
ledge the receipt of the following sums for the sufferers by
the falling of the premises in Oracechurch-street;Mr.
Philip Cozener°, 51. ; Mr. Ellis Franklin, manager of Es-
change Bank, Lcadenhall-street, 11. (found in a shop) ; E.
W.2Cutts, 11. Is.
WORSHIP-STREET.
_ _ _

Richard Hunt, a well-dressed, middle-aged man, de•
scribed as a trimming manufacturer, in New Nichol-street,
Bethnal-green, and Nathaniel l'aleter, a journeyman
weaver, were charged with having broken into the dwell-
ing-house of Mr. John Smith, an extensive trimming ma-
nufacturer, in Charlotte-street, Bethnal-green, in the month
of September last, and stolen therefrom a large quantity of
silk, jewellery, and other property, to the aggregate amount
of 1,4001.
Sergeant Teakle stated that he apprehended Palmer on
the preceding evening, and, upon acquainting him with the
nature of the charge, lie said that he had been employed
by Runt to sell the fringe, and that was all he knew about
the matter. Witness afterwards proceeded to the hqnse of
Hurst, who, on learning the particulars of the charge, re-
quested to speak to the prosecutor in private, which wit.
neis declined to permit; and, on searching the places he
discovered, in a cupboard in his bedroom, two cards of
fringe, which Mr. Smith also identified as his property.
I The prisoner Hurst accounted for the latter articles by
stating that he had received them from Palmer, and each
of the prisoners, upon being questioned respecting the bill
of exchange sehiqh they obtained from the wltlleS9Milligan,
' declared that the other had it in his possession.
The prisoners made no observations in answer to the
charge, and they were bath ordered to be remanded fur a
1 week, but was admitted to bail, themselves 1001. and two
I sureties in 501. each.

MARYLEDONE.
Charles Watkins, pawnbroker, of high-street, near this
court, was fined 101. for having charged 10d. intere4t on a
watch pledged for 2/. 10g. and redeemed on the Same day,
and for having charged the duplicate ticket.

from the LONDON 6.4ZET 'E.—Tuesday, May 20.

CIIACLIN Bono, Therein, eiMSreeurtare7 tanner, to surrender May
27 at 124, and June at 11, at Bristol Court. Sol., Bann,
B 701101; off. Acramae, BristoL
RICHARD bats to U•erpool, draper. June 3 and 23 at 11, at Liner.
pool Court. Sobs, Sale and Co., Manchester ; off. Mu g., Gummi.,
11,erleceL
Joe). GEOIUI CAMAIONR, fiallsbury-street, Strand, pine merchmt,
May 30 and 'um 30 at 11, at Bminghallatreet. Sob.. Lawreom
and Co., Oki Jewry ; off. meg., Jobneon liminghali street.
T1t011.4/ ,STORLR Dosissos, tymmouth, 'Northumberland, banker,
May 26 at 11, and Jobe 16 at 12, at Norms: le.upon-Tyne Court.
Sala., iebekines, North Shields, and Griffiths and CrWiton, New-
emitle-upon.7mse ; rd. swig., Wakley, Newastle.upoffryne.
Josar ii Exams DOWAON, Oshicslarreet, 31ary lebonc, fureathing iron-
Monger, May 31 at I, tral July 12 at IL at liasinghall-strect. Sot.,
Coniar, Gray's.innequare and Old Clivendtdiostrcet ; off. sake.,
Neholcon, limingballmreet.
JORILULI Faanan,ca Faamit, liampstead.street, Fitzroy-square, li-
censed victualler, May 30 and July 4 at 11, at Basingtiall-atreet.
Sot., Rawlings, Jolinaffreet, Bedlard-row, and Itomfurd, Ertel;
oft.msig., Canaan, Birch:n-Imm
Dario Gomm, Misburtes, Coy, and I:abridge, clothier, May 23 toad
July lat 12, at Basinghall-street. Sole, Revd and Co., Filday-
effeet„ and dale and Co., Manchester; ad. assts., Simms
fold. Basi I.4treet.
Roemer _ _

'LAZARD and FitaDRICK ROOM ffaIARD,IStOI, victuallers,
June 4 at 12, and July 2 at 11, at Bristol Court. Sol., Bevan,
Bristol; off. wig., Miller, Bristol.
hoes Joss% Oaerwen, Anglesca, ironmonger, Jane 3 anel23 at 11, at
Liverpool Court. Sole., Yletcper and Hull, Liverpool, and Joints.
Hang r; off. saalif., Morgan. Liverpool.
Leas Fiume' Mactl. a te, Farb &meat-street, Westminster, lithographic
printer, June Sat I, and July 1 at 11, at liaaingliall-atreet. Sol.,
VbEllse, Orare.iunimume ; otL assign Edwatels,lMMbrOok.OUUrL
JAMO kl•Nanas, Manchester, manufacturing claciniat, June 2 and
July 1 at 13, at Manchester Cow t. Sols., Sale nod Co., Manchester ;
nnilto I'ott, Manchester.
Wit.uu Nos, Croat Yarmouth, Norfolk, grocer, May 30 and June
30 at 12, at ilmingliall.street. Sole., store. Yestherstone.buod-
lega, and Yillett and Co., Norwich; off. mile., Johnson, Booing.
hall-street.
_ DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.

Juvizetneu Butes, Welluigton.street North, Covent-garden, book-
seller-Ist dia. of 6,1„ May 22, and three subsequent Thuralsys,
at etsnaktd'a, Baelnertiail-atreet.
Wiwids Belt/1110N sen., WILLMN &MAIMS. Jun., and lona Bra-
arms, Portsmouth, bankers—ads di.. of led. May Jl, and thus
subsequent •thuradsys, at Statudetirs, Baaingball-etreet.
WiLiasu SoLosore Worm., Blshopagate-.tract Wittmut, and New-
street, 1.1 rset-aquare, geyser —t st div. of J. lid., May de, and three
subatveuect Thursdays' at etuutsfeld'e, limingball-street.
JOlll.l 11/••/L. IlerefOrtidgre. mercer —lstdev. of 2s. 9d.,
any Thursday, at Cbriatie's,
lons 110Lum, Norton St. Philip, nomersetshire, muter-Ist die, of
9x.64., any Wednesday, at Miller's, Bristol.
Pm. T 110211,0; gem, irinaburgh-plane, Nem-road, earpen'er —2nd
div. of 241., May 22, and three subsequent Thursdays, at Stansfeld'a,
Basinghall-street.
lel CI DEN D..—June 13.1. King, North Audley-strest, Groavenor-
square, coach builder—June 10..1. Reid. Xing 's-rum, l'intlies, corn
deader.

CWATIFICATEB to be granted, unless cams be shown to the contrary
cm the day of meeting.
June 11. R. J. Biadee, Richesmourt, City, merchant-June 25. J.
Bury, jun., Soeinton, Nottingham-hire, cotton waste dealer-June
11. L. P. ldsmul, Klug-street, llulburu, Importer of watches-June
10. R. E. Curet, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, apothecary -June 1,. J.
Keels, Riches-court, City, merchant -June 13. 11. lledworth,
bech di. Peter, Llimbrldgeenre, grocer-June 13. J. Orange, Not-
tingham, lace manufacturer-June 10. O. inuelite, High.sleet,
Shadwell, eilversinith -June 10. R. W.Wright, C. Davy, and J. Dixon,
Deeonduremueet, Bloomsbury, goldsmiths.
PORTNEKSIIIIM DISaOLVEIL-C. 11. S. Anzolata and W. Cox,
St. Mary-at-114 City, general merchants-W. Elaine, J. J. Grieve,
W. Grieve, and C. P. Hunter, Greenock, and lit. John'., Newfoundland,
su far as regards W. liaine.-S. Bates, J. Shaw and it. Shaw,
Halifax, To, &hire, millwrights-J. Barwick and R. Donaldson,
Little Dolton, lancaabire, Umber merchants-0. Beckett and W.
Beckett, Nurthwich, mercers-11. Brice and J. Brice, Cole.
ford, Somerset hue, millers- . Browning and H. ltsgby, Salford,
Loma/hire, millwrights-W. Cash and IL Ledgard, Saint Alton's.
hall, Little Love.lane, Addlo.aireet, and Wood-street, City, ware.
housemen, so far as regards W. Cash-E. Clarke, W. Spoke, and A.
Con:daub:Bk Glasgow. , sod Demerara, merch iota, so tar aa
retards W. Ogres, jun., and W. V. Wright, Old
Polussuct, Dcatodassmus, Coy, issil-T. ay
W.
Disco, Morley, Tadialublblosetwa.th usallfassosran -A. Ewes, W. I'.
Brookes, and a. T. Spat, surgeons-
,. Prosimul, 01 aa bit enigmas lisCi=iosienktrAls the Was-
ters Wise dcorlMW. Wirt owl T. Clisilos, Ouseburo, New-
tatisapassTiss, itasi town -11 T. Haiwartlly. J. Conway, 11.8.
P. Ipso J. L. Tlskts, C. P. ship{., and Wilma New York, mars
drals, .Orr swards It. S. P. Eyre -T. lawasblicad and J. Lid-
dell. MddlageliblViaskshlrs, wadies sloth arsisats —H. a. Sr
sas mad 8..-Clam lawareal. omilawbers hums -J. Hassey
ad P. laishalsay Marobaslar. ward agents -J. Mitchell
mad 11. lard. solamora-T. L. llarawaft sad J. W.
Harris, Lives Usralsauta -N. laiolsods sad O. Trap
Wks lOUs sub dealers-W. Ohharo, J. G. Amory,
and J. Lash, cell, millaristu-U. W. Olivar
E. G. wattages% sal . Oliver, Alder-timabriry, pry, Has:
chest r woraboommss--Jamot Parkiassa sad Pau, lausmens,

Pears. haw otadoner•—A. Pardee' and 0. Han.
;16aillait gook IMP MISIPEINS J. 1.. nap" C. r. ehippy
U. P. J. Onwpr. awl A. st'i Wu de Janeiro, nen hams,
as ter as yew& EL IL T. 1110.1e-11. ProtOara. and W. Weaver. Liss.
talletk Menationneke, esti geeprietore-11. Mantles and W. Bandon,
110 l Ihelieheree giselwees—A. hobos J. Robson, 0. Boman,
aad J. wen vlyhly Meweastlo.spoo.l yo.—J. A.Shar-
won sod T. IL MlMMpesploatroot Without and Artillery.
Ws% ony, MOM no sad F. Oloroop, btavely,ptnero—
C. Wore NM Illkobwee. Ilenona.p ace. Huston, willow bonnet
.hap. masstestorwa—W. J. White and W. Mk; ,11tesest.etreet. silk
Kaman—X. Wks owl Zama Martha Baal, (Zoo; smatters.
SOOT= SIMUMITKATIONS.
Cana, Crams, Gime% eteeeheah May 21 and Jan 16, at the
Glob. Motel, tilusser.
Wzi.usx Max, oaf" is....ffehat, may n and Juno 23, at the
Globs tiotal. Gleams.
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