The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-03 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS,

War-Office, Dec. 31, 1824.
10th Regiment of Light Draoons—Captain Hon. John Jones to
be Major. by purchase, vice Taylor, promoted ; Lieutenant
J. C. Wellington to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jones ; Cot.
net Robert Dent to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Walling.
ton.
27th Regiment of Foot—Hon. Robert Howard to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Johnstone, promoted.
43d ditto—Gentleman Cadet Hon. William Sydney Clements, from
the Royal Military College. to be Ensign, by purchase, sine
Bucknall Estcourt, promoted.
UNATTACHED.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Taylor, from the
10th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by
purchase, vice Major-Gencral Sir Edward G. Butler, who
retires.

Erratum in the Gazette of the lath ult.
For George William Newton, Gent. to he Lieutenant in the King's
Cheshire Volunteer Legion, read George William Newton, Esq.
to be Deputy Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester.

BANKRUPTS.
James Gerrish, sen. and James Gerrish, jun. home Selwood,
Somersetshire, clothiere, to surrender Jan. 7, 22, and Feb. 12, at
eleven, at the Whestsheaves inn, Frome Selwood. Solicitors, Mr.
Hartley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; and Mr. 11. Miller,
Fronse.
Richard Hayward Unsworth, Pedlar's-acre, Lambeth, coal.mer.
chant. Jan. 8, 15, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court.
Solicitor, Mr.Wigley, Clement's Inn.
Charles Roffe, Postford Mill, near Guildford, Surrey, paper.
manufacturer, Jan. at eleven, 16, and Feb. 12, at ten, at the
Bankrupts' ourt. Solicitors, Messrs. Walker and Co. Buing-
hall-street.
Henry Minter Fyffe, Holborn, grocer, Jan. 8, 15, and Feb. 12,
at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. C. Barber,
Chancery-lane.
George Benson, Bowling-green-place, Kennington, builder, Jan.
11. 15, at eleven, 'and Feb. 12, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
Solicitor, Mr. W. J. Norton, Old BrOul-street.
John Shswcross. Manchester, innholder, Jan. 14, 15, and Feb.
12, at ten, at the Coach and Horses Inn, Manchester. Solicitors,
Meters. Appleby and Cbarnock, Gray's Inn-square; and Mr. J.
Whitehual, Manchester.
Edward Riahton, Preston, Lancashire, money.scrivener, Jan. 10,
26, and Fcb. 12, at eleven, at the iVhite llorse Inn, Preston. So-
licitors, MessraWiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray's Inn ; and 111 r.
LW. Hopkins, Preston.
John Ferris Bennaliack, Truro, Cornwall, scrivener, Jan. 11,
15, at eleven, and Feb. 12, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
solicitors, Messrs. Sherwood and Son, Canterbury-square, South-
wark.

Ann Bryan, Richmond, haberdasher, Jan. C, 15, at eleven, and
Feb. 12, at ten, at the Bar Prupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr. J. J. Tan-
ner, New Basinghall-street.
Martin Amsby, Staverton-row, Walworth-rnad, baker, Jan. 8,
18, at twelve, and Feb. 12, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court. Soli-
cher, Mr. J. Robinson, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly.
Richard Cooper, Noble-street, Falcon-square, coal-merchant,
Jan. 4, 11, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Soli-
cor, Mr. Mahooy, ChanceryCharnbers, Quality-court, Chancery-
le.
. .

Claudio Areangelo, Gloucester terrace, Bethnal-green, feather-
merchant, Jan. 8, at one, 18, at twelve, and Feb. It at one, at the
Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Lane and Bennett, Law-
rence Pountney-place.
DENDS.
Jan. 22. Elizabeth Rent, Dicester, Oxford, draper, at eleven, at
the Bankrupts' Court.
Jan. 22. Andrew Timbrill, Old South Sea House, and South.
ampton.row, Russell-square, merchant, at twelve, at the Bank.
rupta' Court.
Feb. 3. James Davies, Hereford, victualler, at eleven, at the
Green Dragon Inn, Hereford.
Jan. 28. Spencer Rogers, Malta, merchant, at one, at the office
of Williamson and Son, Brunswick-street, Liverpool.
Jan. 24. John Bownu, Liverpool, merchant, at one, at the office
of Williamson and Son, Brunswick-street, Liverpool.
Jan. 27. Thomas Hoppa, jun. Fishergate, York, cornfa;:tor, at
eleven, at Rooke's Hotel, New Bridge-street, York.
Jan. 27. Richard Thomas, Rochdale, Lancashire, hat-manufac-
turer, at one, at the Reed Inn, Rochdale.
Jan. 26. John Greaves, Sheffield, merchant, at four, at the
Fountain Inn, Sheffield.

Jan. 25. George Grove and Herbert Wilkinson. Liverpool, iron.
mongers, at one, at the office of Mr. William Hinde, Marshall.
street, Liverpool.
Jan. IS. Benjamin Yeoman, Reyford Frome, Somerset, baker,
at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court,
Jan. 25. George Otley, New Bond-street, tailor, at twelve, at
the Bankrupts' Court.
Jan. 11. Charles Christian Becher, Lothbury, merchant, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court.
Jan. 24. Thomas 11 alley, Liverpool, merchant, at one, at the
George Inn, Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES--JawranY 22.
Thomas Moss, Vauxhall, potter—John Garnett, Liverpool,
linen..draper—Alexander Strachan, Liverpool, muter-mariner—
James Penford, ltingwood, Southampton, mealman—Edward
Raddyffe, High Holborn, carver and gilder--Joseph Piercy and
Richard Saunders, Birmingham, edge-toolmakers—James Wal.
thew, Liverpool, linen-draper.

PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED.
Thomas Parker and George Adolphus Owen, Mark-lane, attar.
my, and solicitors—Robert and John Small and Richard bane,
Old Jewry, so far as relates to Robert Small—Robert Ford and
John Wheelton, Bagnio-court, Newgate-street, calenderers and
packers—Henry Woolley, jun., William, Samuel, Abraham, and
Stephen Woolley, John Agar, and Jane Woolley, Winster,
Derby, grocers—Thomas Phipps and George %Van!, Holland.
street, Christ-church. carpenters and builders—lsaac CoHinge Ed.
mood Tamer, Laurence Ashworth, John Hey, James and S:muel
Mldgley, and James Prockter, Rochdale, Lancaster, cotton.spin-
ners, so far as respects Edmund Turner—Frederick (:ranwell
Westley and John Parrish, Strand, booksellers—Frederick Rich.
arda and William Randall, Woodstock-street, Oxford-street,
pocket-book-makers--Thomas Beard Holy, John Wilson, Thomas
Dunn, and William Jefrcock, Sheffield, colliers, so far as respecti
Thomas Beard Holy—William Row, sen., William Row, jun.,
William Thomas Goad, William Reece, and James Row, Little
St. Thomas Apostle, Queen-street, hide and skin brokers--John
Gardner and Mary Brock, Leadenhall_street, hair.dressers--Wil.
Liam Hunt, sin. and William Hunt, jun., Shoreditch, butchers—
John Bolden and John Kerr, Coventry, drapers—Henry Colburn,
Simon Saunders, and Edw. John Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover.
square, booksellers, so far as regards Henry Colbum—William
Barlow and John Rhodes, Rochdale, l.aneaster, cotton-spinners—
George Skelton and George Frederic Davis, Commercial Chambers,
Miaories, tobacco-brokers--Edward Heane and John Newman,
Dudbridge, Gloucestershire, general-merchants--Riebard Power
and William Horton, London, merchants—Robert Jackson and
George Lawrence Andrews, Old Jewry, insurance-brokers_wit.
Liam Ellis and John Inman, wine and spirit broken--John Beeby
and Joseph Painter Coleman, Atherstone, Warwick, piercers__
Joseph Goodwin and Thomas Barnard Williamson Dudley, Duck-
lane, Wettminster, dealer in patent horse-shoes—William Ricker.
by and George Harris, Southampton, printers--William Anthony
Hartshorne and Anthony Hartshorne, Fashion-street, Spita/Selds,
dealers in building-materials—Michael Hall and Thomas Fenwick,
Gateshead, Durham, woollen-drapers—James Thornber and John
Jones, Manchester, commission-agent. for the sale of calicoes and
other goods—John William Bell, Hardsham-within-Windle, Lan-
cashire, glass-manufacturer, and George Burdy, Liverpool, mer-
chant—Robert Thomas Kent and William Ledger, Southwark,
surgeons—William Little and James William Stuart, Bartholo-
mew-lane, stock-brokers—Samuel Beastall and '4 illiam Robinson,
Nottingham, millers—Henry and John Buckler, Basinghall.street.
Blackwell Hall factors—Hannibal Sands, Edward Horton, James
Roarke, Sandys, and HanniUl Sandyx. jun., Crone-
.

[From the Rary and Nortairh Post}
We find in the London papers a project formally announced for
making a Rail Road from the Aletrupolis to Norwich, by way of
Ipswich, with branches to Harwith, Bury, Varniouth, and Lynn.
We rejoice that there is at length a chance of the prodigious tide
of improvement extending its influence in this direction ; and if
we may draw any inference from the expression; of an advertise-
ment, the notice that tenders may be made for " the remaining
shares" (to complete a capital of 1,000,000!.) and a provision for
the event of a surplus, would lead us to suppose it probable that the
plan will be carried into efiect. We do not, however, profess a com-
petency to give an opinion as to the likelihood that the scheme will
answer the purpose of the projectors; but of its general utility
there cannot, we conceive, be • doubt. A contemporary, who from
his situation in the centre of the mercantile districts of the north is
better able than ourselves to speak on such a subject, makes the fol-
lowing observations t—
" Easy and expeditious internal communication is of great import-
ance to every country. In ninny cases it makes all the difference
between obtaining a market and inst obtaining erne, for produce and
manufactures. A few shilling; expended in carriage or freight
often makes it impossible to bring a commodity into a domestic o:
foreign market, in competition with other commodities of the same
kind, produced with no less labour and expense, but nearer at hand.
The excellent internal communications of this kingdom were strongly
insisted upon, by several witnesses before the Artisans'Comniittee of
the House of Commons in the last Session, as one of the essential ad-
vantages which England tiossessed over France for manufactures and
commerce. Such communications enable a country to make the
most of all its various anti scattered sources of wealth. Different
district{ have peculiar advantages for different products. One
district has mines of tin and copper ; another has iron and coal ;
another salt mines, another lime, another is rich in agricultural
products : one country is favourably situated for the co:ton-mi-
-1 nufacture, another for the woollen, another for pottery, another for
hardware. It is of immense importance to all these districts to
have such easy intercourse as will enable each to avail itself of tile
Iresources of the others, and to supply them with its own prosluc-
tions. These scattered advantages are thus practically concentrated.
Several counties, though fertile, are thinly peopled, merely because
their communications with the busier parts of the island are
ditb-
cult ; and the most densely inhabited districts are those whirl'.
' either by nature or art, combine the greatest number for trade.
I The woollen manufactures of our own district have coal and iron
in their immediate neighbourhood, without which they could never
haveflourished; but they derive their rawmaterial,and many articles
necessary to the manufacture, from various parts of this an,L
other distant countries. The wool comes from Scotland, Lincoln-
shire, and the South, from Saxony and Spain ; the dyeing ware"
from Americaand the Indies ; the brad-work of the machinery from
Birmingham, and originally from Cornwall or Fent ; the pro-
visions, &c. which support our population, from every quarter of
the °lobe. bet any man consider how entirely we should be cut
1 off from many of the most important of these supplies, if the Aire.
the Ouse, and the Humber, were to be blocked up ; how trance
of our manufacturers must of necessity relinquish their business
and how difficult the rest would find it to send their goods to
market without this grand outlet and the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal. Lancashire is still more obviously indebted to its excellent
communication with different parts of the kingdom and of the
world, for its manufacturing prosperity. Manchester, which is the
centre of the greatest manufacturing district in the world, receive,'
its cotton, dye wares, &c. by the Mersey from Liverpool ; the iron
of its machinery from Staffordshire, and many of its tools, ma-
chines, &c. from Birmingham, with both of which places it has at.
excellent communication by canal. Fill up the canal anti the
Mersey, and all Lancashire would be starved. The various eol-
Reties, potteries, and manufacturing districts, owe their prosperity
in a very great degree to the excellent roads and the navigable
rivers and canals which intersect the kingdom. There are also
many other flourishing agricultural districts where the land would
be worth extremely little, if such modes of communication did net
enable farmers to receive from a distance tools, bricks, lime, ash.
and manure, and to send to market in return their grain, roots, and
cattle. If then industry, wealth, and population have been sr.
greatly promoted by the existing modes of communications it is
obvious that improved modes would cause a still higher degree of
prosperity. We have not the least doubt that, with railways inter.
setting the whole kingdom, and with a free corn trade, England
might receive a prodigious increase in the number of its inhabitants
and the amount of its wealth.
" Not only, however, would the country be rendered richer aril
stronger by this facility of traversing it, but knowledge and intel-
ligence would be at least as much promoted as wealth. The In-
habitants of towns are always better informed than those of vil-
lages and hamlets, and the population of the metropolis than that
of the country. This arises from the more frequent interrntuse
of mind with mind, as well as from the greater abundance and
easier circulation of books where the inhabitants are closely con-
gregated ; and this frequent intercourse end easy circulation may
soon be enjoyed, in a degree at present scarcely to be conceived, by
the inhabitants of the agricultural districts."—Lerds Ahrcary.
Such are the advantages arising from facility of communication
between place and place, or at least such are the advantages whisk
without that facility, cannot bit enjoyed. How desirable then must
be such an improvement in a district like this. To tnko, for in-
stance, the town of Bury, where a population of 10,000 per. o-s.
have no other trade or occupation than that of supplying
other, and the inhabitants of the vicinity, with the articles of
mediate consumption. Our wool trade has been taken from us by
the machinery of the north ; but once possessed of an easy commu-
nication with the h.:tropolis, we might soon have our revenge, or
rather, to use a more enlightened sentiment, we might join witft
the manufacturers of Yorkshire, Nottingham, and Lancashire, in
the grateful labour of' increasing the wealth and prosperity of the
community. The subject opens a wide field for speculation, and
at another opportunity we shall return to it.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT TIM •PTS' COURT, BASIXORALL-STRRIT•

TO- MORROW.

THHIP lIIKTIIIIOI. H.
Houghton, P. and S. P. Skinners.atreet, Snow.hill, leather-
. .
sellers - . - RI
Howell, J. Piccadilly, linen-draper . . - II
James, H. J. Cannon-street, stationer . - Ica
Levy, J. Smith's-buildings, Goodman's-fields, feather-mer-
chant-
- . . - I.:
Levy, 11. Rathbone-place, Klass-dealer (enlarged) . lit
.Nlannall, W. great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-flelds, baker 14
Roberts, J. High Holborn. corn-dealer - I l
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Walker, J. Bishopsgste-street-without, hard warcman - 111

SECOND MELTING.,,
Crick, W. and Golding, J. High-street, Southwark. bakers 12
Dousbery, R. Bell-lane, Spitalhelds, mustard-manufacturer 12
Erwood, W. and Crofts, R. Turners-square and Distaff-lane.
paper-stainers - 12
Good, W. sen. and W. jun. Hythe, Southampton, ship-builders 11

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