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PROOFS.

George Wildman (the eanofe. Pawnbroker), examined.
From what you have known of your father's business, and what
you have hoard at the dinners of those Pawnbrokers (witness bad
before stated his having attended at some " stock " dinners of
Pawnbrokers), what is the profit they made?—My father always
estimated his profits at thirty per cent. exclusive of the profits
arisiog from the price of the duplicate.
What do you mean by the price of the duplicate?--The Act al-
lows them to take a certain price for it.
What proportion of the expenses do you think that will cover?—
That depends on the extent of the pawnbroker's trade altogether.
Ifs Pawnbroker's trade is large, is the receipt on the ticket money
large ?—Yes.
And capable of paying to that extent the trade expenses
1)p you know any thing of tile practice of demanding three
mnnths interest upon backing ?—Yes.
'What is the demand made (for backing.)—The price of the
duplicate.
And by some, three months interest ?—Yes.
Not by all ?—No, by very few.
In answer to another question. the witness said. " the man at
31r.tillattliews' refused to back a ,icket for me, because 1 refused in
pay the price of the ticket, and three months' interest.
James firemen, a Pawnbroker, examined.
You are s Pawnbroker residing at 17, Great Smith-street, West.
minter ?—Yee.
How long have you been in the business P—Very nearly twenty.
two years.
After tasting that there were nearly 300 Pawnbrokers in Londas
and Westminster, including Southwark, that the average capital
employed by each was from 7.000/. to 3,oool.—that the expenses
vary according to the situation, and that his own expenses acre
about n9Ol. on a profit of 6001. a year, made front a capital of lass
than 2,01i1d
Wimess was asked, how often in the year does the Pawnbroker
turn his capital ?—I can speak acconling to my own local knots.
ledge; the receipt upon a capital of 2,000 f. would be about 6001. or
rather better.
That would be threttimes in the year ?—Yes.
In calculating profits. do you include the interest of capital, or
deduct it ?—The interest of caphal would be about 6001. The in-
tenet of that capital would be about 1001.
Do you in recketing 6001. et.year profit include that interest, or
do you calculate money borrowed s—No, 1 do not include the in.
terest upon the capital.
Then you would make 700 f. ?—Yes.
How far does the ticket money go to the payment of the expenses
of a Pawnbroker's concern ?-1 have always found dr ticket money
covered the licences, the books, and duplicates, and those expenses
completely; and pens and ink and other minor articles.
In the pledges that come to the Pawnbroker's counter, how
many are redeemed within a week on the average P—As near one
as poraible.
What is the profit the Pawnbroker makes upon articles pledged
sad redeemed within a week, from week to week ?—The articles so
redeemed circulate four times in the month, that is, four months'
iaterest upon each article.
What does it amount to per year ?—lt would be eighty per cent
upon those articles.
Pave you ever had, in vont own practice, instances of articles
Tied:zed in the beginning of the week. and redeemed at the end, tor
any number of weeks for a length of time. —l'es ; in some in-
stances for years: it might happen that in winter time, or hard
times, they might then lie a few weeks.
Bow many pledges hare you received in the year upon the
average ?—Front 4900 to 42,000 in the year.
AI:LEGATIONS.
Unwillingness of Pawnbrokers to lend halfss•crown.
PROOFS.
Is half-a-crown $ snm that the pawnbroker likes to lend P—Not
exactly. he would rather lend 2..
Why world you rather lend 2s. ?-11alf.crown pledges are not
reckoned among the trade so profitable.
Do you know whether it is the practice, if half-a-crown is asked
by a poor man, to say—" we will lend you 2s. or 2s. 7d. ?—I know

t The legal interest is a fraction lower, hut in 00 eases out of
109. the penny per month is demanded and taken for loans of fort
shillings.
Mr. Barnett. a Pawnbroker, Is asked, in the pledges that came
to the Pawnbroker's counter, how man are redeemed within a
week upon the average ?—As near one half as possible !

site Pawnbroker's, where it is the practice to sayi—" I will lewd
you 2s. 7d."
What difference would that make from lending aut P—A half-
penny is taken for 25.; but, as the interest for 2s. .7d. the Pawn-
broker would take three farthings, because the stani-cseeeds the
half-crown.
In answer to another question this witness says, that the majority.
of Prtwrihrokers would not lend a sum above of below, for the sake

of the difference of intense.
On this subject the witness George 'Wildman aye-.lt le a ge-
neral rule nut to lend half-a-crown ; I have heard that that was an
invariable rule where I have known the trade to be carried on.
When a half.erown was asked. bow was it evaded P-Whet a
half-crown was asked they have offered either 2s. or 3s. "
Half a-
crown is is sum we do not lend" is generally answered.
State why ?..-Because the legal interest of half-a-crown amounts
exactly to 20 per cent. ; but upon 2s. it is 26 per cent. and on 3s.
they tike three farthing., which makes again 25 per cent.
The invariable rule is not to lend half-a-crown ?-I have heard
so.
Have you known instances yourself?-yes.
Charles Foulkes. *rho had served an apprentice hip of five years to
Mr. Edward Machin, a Pawnbroker, is asked-
What was the maztioe of the house as to lending hal&s.erown
-We charged a half-penny a month for half-a-crown.
Did jou lend half.enivens or avoided it ?-We geeerally avoided
it. Al e preferred lending either 2s. or 31. We did not like to
lend half-a-crown.
It was more beneficial to lend 2.. or 3s. 9-Yes, it wee.
On the same subject George Turvey. who had been upwards of five
years an apprentice to a Pawnbroker, says-
Had vet any custom in your master's shop about half-crown
loans 2-Yes, we never lent that sum.
Why not ?-It was the order of our master never to lend it. "If
it is asked for, lend 2s. or 3e."
Is there any advantage in lending 2s. or 3s. above half-a-crown !
-For half.a-crown we can take only a halfpenny, and upon le.
are always take a penny.
Ni'llat do you take for 2.. P-A halfpenny.
ALLEGATIONS.
Overcharges on the Poor, where they may be made with impunity.
PROOFS.
Turney's evidence.
What wag lone as to paying farthings ?-We always demanded a
penny for 3.. except where people looked auspicious, and then we
were to ask three farthings !
Even according to the showing of the witness J. Bassett, who
put the ease in the most favourable point of view for the Pawn-
brokers, the disposition to lend a rum greater or less than 21.11 d. is
apparent; we End, by his average calculations, from the pledges re.
cowed in one month, that the 2s. pledges in the year exceeded those
of 2s. 6d. by 1728 ; that the 35. pledges were also 17211 more; and
(by a curious coincidence in Mr. Bassett's accidental selection of
one month) the number of 4s. pledges was by exactly the same
amount, 1728 more numerous than the 6s. (It may be right to
state, that Pawnbrokers in general charge the same interest for four
or for five shillings.)
ALLEGATIONS.
One of the charges against the Pawnbrokers is, that though re.
etricted by the Act from lending any sum higher than 101. on one
article, and in one transaction, they do nevertheless lend large
sums, on which they charge as high as 161. and 20!. per cent. to the
ruin of those unfortunate persons 'rho are obliged to resort to them.
PROOFS.
Charles Hale, who had been a Pawnbroker in Somers Town for
two or three years, is asked-
While you were in the trade, do you know it was frequent in
the trade to advance larger sums than 101.9-Yes.
Was that your own practice ?-Yes.
How much per cent. ditl you charge on goods redeemed ?-Some-
times 20, sometimes IS per cent.
What is the largest sum you have lent upon any occasion ? -
About SO/.
Did you give one ticket or more?-One ticket.
When you lent more than 101, upon any pledge, did you make
it out for less than Id/. ?-Yes, if I had any suspicion of the parry.
If you could trust the party, what did you do ?-Made it out for
above 10!.
Why did you make it for less if you had any suspicion ; did the
Act require it P-To secure my interest.
To secure what interest?-Fifteen per cent.
Stephen Rocking., a porter, who lived for eleven years In the
service of ,Messrs. -, examined.
[lt can be of no use to the argument to state the names of the in.
dividuals mentioned by the witness; and from motives sufficiently
obvious they are suppressed.l
After describing the individuals with whom he lived as being in
the cloth trade, and stating the names of several Pawnbrokers with
whom he had pledged pieces of cloth at various times, the witness
is asked-
Can you give the Committee any idea of the amount 9-No.
One thousand pounds 7-Yes.
Five thousand ?-Yes.
Ten thousand 7-1 should think so.
In what quantities at a time did you make those deposits ?-
Ten pounds, and upwards of thirty or forty pounds.
How did you carry the goods 9--on my back principally.
Did you ever carry them in carts ?-Yes, a time or two in carts.
Wu the cart full ?-Yes, pretty full.
What cloth was it ?--Sometimes West Country cloth, and some.
times Yorkshire.
After stating in answer to other questions. that, at one time, the
cart contained 500/. worth of goods, on which he received from the
Pawnbroker (61r. Morris) 2501. and as many tickets as there were
pieces of cloth (the ticket being for 101. each, and the piece of cloth
being of the value of LW. or 21:0.), witness said lie redeemed this
particular parcel (among many others). and paid fifteen per cent.
interest. That was the rate he generally paid-never less than that.
Have you ever made pledges at the instance of
(his employers) with Crouch ?-Yes.
To what extent .9-Fifteen hundred pounds.
All at one time ?-Not put in at one time, but twenty or thirty
times.
How much was taken to Crouch at any one time and deposited
with him ?-I do not mind (recollect) above 64.11.
That was the largest 9-Yes.
Did you ever redeem the article.' lodged with Crouch P-Yes.
What interest did you pay 9-11 e charged 20 per cent.
Did he charge 20 per cent. on the 16001. 7-All I fetched out. I
cannot say how much that was.
Upon the whole, without troubling the Committee with a detail
of Messrs. --'s transactions, how much do you think
was the value of the articles you deposited on their account. and
received loans from Pawnbrokers far ?-I am sure 1 cannot say bow
much.
1)0 you think it amounted to 20,0001. ?-Yes, more than that.
Do you think it amounted to 50,000/. ?-Yes, I have no doubt
of it I
In answer to other questions, witness stated, that to the extent of
60.000/. 15 oer cent. was paid on the redemption .of those articles,
but that it did not exceed 15, except in the house in Fore-street,
where it was 20 per cent.
[lt will not surprise the reader to learn, that the individuals for
wham the ruinous loans were negotiated, have long since become
bankrupts.l
The witness then gees through a detail of transactions he had
with Pawnbrokers, fur (various other persons with whom he
lived, and in answer to a question he states, that on the whole
he thought be had raised money (in that way) to the extent of
100,0041. !!
It would be tedious to go through the whole of the evidence ad-
duced in support of the allegation that Pawnbrokers do lend sums
above 191.; and in some instances very large sums, at an interest of
16/. and frequently of 20!. per cent. It will therefore be sufficient
tot:draftee, that the fact is farther proved by the evidence of John
Page, lon that of Joseph Hunt, by that of John Baeueley, and of
James Dessert. Tile two last named are Pawnbrokers' Journey-
men, and were called for the Pawnbrokers, against the Bill.
ALLEGATIONS.
It has been urged as an objection to the present system of Pawn-
brokers, that even on valuable property no surplus is paid to the
pledgers in 6~ eases where the articles have been unredeemed,
and suffered to go to a sale.
PROOFS.
George Turvey, a Pawnbrcker'a apprentice, to whose evidence re-
ference lute been already made, is asked
'ut was the practice as to the overplus in case of auction
pledges Lave seen the persons conic to ask to look at the books.
and tender a penny ; I have seen the boolss shown to them, but I
bare never seen any thing given to them :-The answer was, that
the exeeneer of one and iuterest were more than the value.
You never saw any surplus paid to anybody?-No.
A gentleman, whose name it is unnecessary to give. states that
he had several transactions with a Pawnbroker, with whom he de•
posited various articles of valuable property, on which he received
advances of 401. and 501.; and on every transaction paid an interest
of I d. per cent.
He is asked on the 4th of Sept. 1821-Do you remember mak-
ing Mr pledges at Mr. Dry'SP-Yes•
11' hat did you do then ?-Ile came to my house and looked out
a ease of violins, a glass desert service, and a variety of books, on
which he advanced me 60/.
What were they worth?-Perhaps better than one hundred, or
one hundred and twenty pounds: -
How many tickes had you there?-Thirteen.
Were the tickets under Ittl. 9-Yes, every one.
That transaction was one transaction
'.4 did he charge you for the tickets ?-I cannot say. lie gave
me a check for 601. I was short of money, and he sent me the
tickets some days afterwards 1 sec les. 6d. Is charged over for the
ticket. and coach hire.
How far had he to go up to your house 2-About a mile and a
half.
Did you redeem those did not. Finding my inability so to
do, I seat the tickets to Mr. Dry, requesting hen to do the best he
could with the articles, and if there was any overplus to hand it
to me.

Did ever get any overplus ?—No.
On March 23th, 1822, did you pledge a watch and some plate ?
—Yea.
'tt'hat did he give yon ?-onc ticket for 141. ; one for 101.; one
for Sil.: one tor V.; and another for till.
What did he charge you for each ticket ?-1 do not know.
Did you go after the twelve months had expired, to claim the
over ;us upon thaw articles ?—I did. I called upon Mr. Dry in
last December. saying that so and an was the case, and if there was
any overplus corning to me, 1 should be very glad to have it. He
*aid he wo: extremely awry that he had sold thetia for a certain
sum, and it did not cover the expenses and interest.
Hays you seen dime articles, or any of them, sines in Mr. Dry's
I window ?-1 have.

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Now were they marked P.—The tenatt is marked IBL Ilk upon
which helmet me Ili.
Vj that one of the articles that be said had been sold, sad that
there was no overpins P—Yes.
Go on with the other articles 7—l believe I have given you all.
Did you see any others?—Tea, but I did not notice the marks
against them. It vexed me. and I walked on.
ALLEGATIONS.
It has been urged—that great hardships and inconvenience
wave to the poor tram the misconduct of Pawnbrokers, and from
the difficulty of proceeding effectually against them, owing to the
want of a particular form of information in the Act.
This is • defect, which, as far as they themselves may be eon.
Tensed, the Equitable Loan Company propose to remedy.
PROOFS.
W. 'William Ileresford examined.
Are you Chief Clerk to the Aldermen of London, sitting at
Duildhaft P—Yee.
How long have you been in that situation 7—Twenty years.
Has that situation given ymt opportunities of seeing how Pawn.
brokers nitithict their business ?—lt has.
Have you known that complaints have been often made to the
Magistrates of the conduct of Pawnbrokers ?—Yes, at different
times during that period.
Have those complaints been with regard to the conduct of Pawn-
brokers towards the poor P_-They have.
State the nature of those complaints from time to time P—The
complaints have been for charging too much interest ; sometimes
for exchanging goods, and property lost.
Do you recollect any other complaints having been made ?
Complaints hare been made in this way :—When a pledge is ex-
pired on tire Sunday, the have applied to redeem it on the pre-
vious Saturday, end the Pawnbroker being very much engaged in
business, has desired them to call again next week, and they have
so called, and when they have so called they have been denied.
" They did not recollect an thing about it ;"—they refer to one
and to another, and put it off as it were, and then thej have re-
fused to let them have the property.
Have you known instances in which, through the interference of
the Magistrates, property has been restored to people when the
Pawnbrokers have refused it ?—Yes, I have.
Have you known Pawnbrokers brought before Magistrates to an-
swer for those complaints P—l have.
Have the Pawnbrokers attended to those summonses in the first
instance, or have they required to be summoned more than once ?
—in some instances they have required to be summoned a second
time.
What has been the course in your general observation ? has it
been necessary to summon them more than once before their at-
tendance has been procured ?—Yes, it has ; in some cases the
hardship upon the poor is in this instance :—when they complain
of an overcharge of interest, they (lie Pawnbroker) are summoned ;
and on the return of the summons, a professional man attends ; '
then he asks for the information : if there is no information, he
tells the Magistrate he cannot proceed, and they must begin de
nano. When the information is filed, then he attends, and points
out a vast number of objections, and nine times out of ten the
informations are quashed, and there are no convictions.
From want of form P—Yes.
In answer to another question, Mr. Beresfonl stated, that in nine
cases out of ten justice has been defeated from want of a special
information.
The opinion of Mr. Beresfnrd on this subject is supported by
that of Mr. Heritage, Chief Clerk to the Police Office in Worship. I
street, who states that complaints have been frequent at his office
against the conduct of Pawnbrokers, " for refusing to restore
pledges to poor perams. and harassing them from time to time."
He adds, that it has required the intervention of the Magistrate to ,I
procure justice to the complaining parties ; and in one instance he
was obliged to threaten to commit the Pawnbroker before he con-
sented to do justice to the complainant.
Alleyn, one of the Magistrates at Union Hall. is asked—
Is it easy for persons who are aggrieved (by Pawnbrokers) to ob.
min retinas P—lt is the most difficult thing in the world !
Do not Pawnbrokers require informations to be drawn out at full
length of all the offences charged P—Yes, they do.
And in your district, it is an exceedingly difficult thing for the
poor man to get redresoagainst any Pawnbroker who has violated
the Act ?—lt is almost impossible ! !
(After this will it be contended that some amelioration of the
present system is not called for, and what more effectual one can be
supplied than full and fair competition ?)

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ALLEGATIONS.
Public utility of such an establishment as the Equitable Loan
Bank, even if it afforded loans to the poor at the same interest as
that which Pawnbrokers may legally demand (not that which they
do take).
PROOFS.
Mr. Dyer, one of the Magistrates of Marlborough-street Office,
gives a decided opinion in favour of the establishment of a Public
Company, such as the Equitable Loan Bank. He is asked—
Are the Committee to understand that you. speaking from your
experience as a Magistrate. are decidedly of opinion, that the in.
terest of the poor would be better secured by a Company carrying
nn the Pawnbroking business, and employing responsible servants,
than under the existirg system ?—I think so. supposing them
under this Act to be liable to the same penalties for misconduct
that the Pawnbrokers are.
(The Company seek for no exemption from any penalty to
winch the Pawnbrokers are liable.)
Mr. Beresford is asked—
From your acquaintance with the necessities of the poorer classes
of the metropolis, are you of opinion that an establishment which
would lend them money at • lower rate of interest than the Pawn-
brokers do at present, would be an advantage to the community ?
It think, DO doubt of it.
Suppose the rate of interest to be the same even with that now
taken, would the means of having another place at which the poor
could get money upon deposit be advantageous to them, so as to
induce competition in the market ?—I am quite of that opinion.
Upon this point the evidence of Mr. Heritage is quite conclustve.
The period to which hit answers refer was about two months after
the formation of the Equitable Lean Company.
Mr. Heritage is asked—
In the course of your experience, have you found, that goods,
which have been stolen, have frequently found their way into the
hands of the Pawnbroker ?—Yes.
Have you found that Pawnbrokers have been forward to make
disclosures as to property of that description. or stood in the way
of it I—l have lately noticed, that several have stopped goods
lately, and they have bought them down.
ithin what period of time I—Within a few weeks past.
Since the introduction of the present Bill I—l do not knew that.
Within how many weeks P—Five or six weeks, or two months.
Ant I to understand that there has been a marked difference in
the conduct of Pawnbrokers in the last five or six weeks 1-1 have
observed lately, we have not had occasion to summon them.
When you have summoned them, has their conduct and deport-
ment been different from what it was before?—Lately they have
been extremely civil, and wishing to accede to the Magistrates re-
quest, without a word.
Was that their conduct previous to that time ?—No ; I have seen
a threat of commitment been obliged to be held out ! !
If the expectation that a competition was about to be esta-
blished against them, could produce a change in the conduct of
Pawnbrokers so favourable to the interests of the public, particu-
lady to those of the labouring poor, what may not be expected if
surh competition was in full and active operation?
We could select a vast number of extracts. besides those already
given, in support of " the Allegations of the Equitable Loan
Company," but we think that enough has been already adduced to
show that they 11.. re been fully borne out. Let the opponents of
the Company, instead of selecting a statement " got up " for the
purpose of misletding, go over the evidence, and if they find any
impartial witness whose testimony can Tette the statements here
given, let them send it forth to the world. We shall most willingly
abide the decision of the public on the comparative merits of the
two.
One word more with respect to Bassett's " gross profits of
71. IV. 12}d. per cent. out of which all expenses are to be paid." It
was proved by Mr. Basnett that a great deal of the pawnbrok'ng
business is carried on on borrowed capital—for which the borrower
paid ten per cent. ! Would this be done if the gross profits were
only seven and one-third per cent.?
We do not quarrel with the Pawnbrokers on account of their
profits, but when an attempt is made to hold them up as a set of
men " bowed down by the badness of their trade, and struggling
under all the difficulties of only seven and a third per cent." it Is
right that the public should know the truth, and that the paltry
effort to defend their ill-gotten gains by the smallness of the amount.
should be publicly exposed.
To the above extreme I shall only add two questions. Can the
Pawnbrokers or their supporters disprove tho statements here given ?
If not, upon what just ground can they oppose the Equitable Loan
Bill ? J. T.
London, May 7.

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The line of packets between New Yerk and London is
now finally established, by the completion of the York,
which is the last of the five truly beautiful vessels destined
to maintain it constant communication between the first
port of the United States. and the metropolis of England.
On Monday last the York, commanded by Capt. Baker,
arrived in the River, after a passage from New York,
which was, from adverse winds, of more than usual length.
Her cargo, which consisted of New Orleans cotton, being
delivered, she went on Wednesday into Rattenbury a
dock, where she has since been coppered. On Saturday
morning she went out of dock, complete in every ?lancet.
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the Pore, and to his successors.
The counsels with which they trust me I will not disclose to any
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A Brighton Paper says it is not true that Mrs. Pitzher-
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1 FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Lord Chamberlain's Oiler, May 6, 1825.
Notice is hereby given, that the Drawing-Room intended
to be held at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 12th in-
stant, in celebration of his Majesty's Dirtli-day, is post-
poned to Monday, the 23d inst.
Office of Ordnance, May 7, 1825.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant Provo William
Lawlor to b: Second Captain, vice Rains, removed to the 51st Re-
giment. Second Lieutenant Richard Fleming St. John to be First
Lieutenant, vice Lawlor. Gentleman Cadet John H. Cockburn to
be • Second Lieutenant, vice St. John. Second Captain William
Ernst Jackson, from half-pay, to be Second Captain. Second
Lieutenant William Henry Pickering to be First Lieutenant, vice
Foote, removed to the Staff Corps. Gentleman Cadet Henry S.
Coombe to be Second Lieutenant, vice Pickering. Gentleman
Cadet George Illarkland to be Second Lieutenant, vice Brooke,
promoted in the 17th Regiment of Foot. Gentleman Cadet Robert
Robertson to be Second Lieutenant, vice Pottinger, promoted in the
6th Regiment of Foot. Gentleman Cadet John Hill to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Jones, promoted in the Staff Corp
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant Thomas Furbor
Lancet, to be Second Captain, vice Head, appointed to a Company
in the Cape Corps of Infantry. Second Lieutenant George Browne
to be First Lieutenant, vice Lancey.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Morris, late of Oswestry, Shropshire, mercer.
Thomas Osborne, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, linen-draper.
George William Brealey, of Aidersgate-street, linen-draper.
BANKRUPTS.
John Trayton Durrant. of Lambeth-mad, victualler, to sur-
render May 14, 28, at ten, and June 18, at twelve, at the Bank-
rupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. Hull, Chiswell.street.
Francis Roper, of the Haymarket. hosier, May 10, 21, and
June 18, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. J. M.
Taylor, len-court, Fenchurch-street.
Christopher Woods, late of Stowmarket, Suffolk, corn-merchant,
May 16, at six, 17. and June le, at eleven, at the King's Head
Inn, Stowmarket. Solicitors, Mr. W. Ransom, Stowmarket; and
Messrs. Dixon and Sons, New Boswell.court, Lincoln's Inn.
Reuben ihawner, of Banbury, Staffordshire, brick-maker, May
16, at three, 17, and June 18, at nine. at the Red Lion Inn, Ut.
leaver. Solicitors, Messrs. Clowes, Orme, and Wedlake, King's
Bench-walk, Temple; and Mr. Blair, Uttoxeter.
iVilliam Clay, of Cullum.street, flnur-factor, BUty 14, 21, and
June 18, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Messrs.
Smith and Weir, Coopers'-hall, llasinghall.street.
John Foulkes, of Wood-street, Cheapside, tea-dealer, May 10,
17, and June 18. at eleven, at the Bankrupts Court. Solicitor,
Mr. J. Wilks, Finsbury-place.
Edward Boultbee, of Liverpool. merchant, May 26, 27. and
June HI, at eleven, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Paradise-street,
Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. slawdsley, Doran's-lane, Lord-street,
Liverpool ; and Mr. Wheeler, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
William Quirk, of Liverpool, ale and beer brewer, May 26, 27,
and June 18, at twelve, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Paradise.
street, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. 3lawdsley, Doran's-lane, Lord-
street, Liverpool; and Mr. Whee!er, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the week ending the 4th day of May,
1815, is Las. O'd. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of
Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into
Great Britain.

,
Average price of Corn from the Returns received in the Week
ending May 4. 1825.
Wheat. i Barley. i Oats. 1 Rye. Beans. Peas.
a. d. a. d. a. d. e. d. a. d. a. d.
17 0 36 3 23 11 38 3 33 10 36 10

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS,
AT THE BANKRUPTS' COURT, BASINGMALL-STRZIT,

TO-110111FIV.

THIRD MEETINGS.
Fry, R, sen. East.atreet, Hoxtoo, cheeseanonger
Tomse, J. Beaumont street. Mary-la-bonne, grocer .

SECOND NEETINO.
Moss, A. High.street, Shadwell, slopseller

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