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DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
1.1 ft at the Bankrupt Office, under Act 6, Gm 4th, cap. IS, see. 6,
WILLIAM BLIRARD, Peteeaham, Surrey, botcher. (Oct. 26 )
COOMISZ PAIIMINTRZ, Lrl sweet, Blackfriats,
(Oct. 27.)
Roar IT Praline, Egharn, Survey. carpenter. (Oct. 28-)
lyyMu etantsw, Upper Tharnes.street, corn-dealer. (oe-
echti,
BANKRUPTS.
Joww Iltoons and HENRI- WILLIANs, Hastings, Sussex,
process, to surrender Nov. 8,1:.„ and Dec. 10, at twelve, at the
Bankturs' Court. Solicitors, Messrs. Spence and Desborough,
Soo:lane.
EDwARD DAVIES, Walnut-tree-walk, Lambeth, engineer,
Nov. 5, 12. and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Bankrupta" Court. So-
/Ain/I,llr. Mernolt, Great Surrey.street.
Witt.rast Do 6 wave, Celentan-stieet, victualler, Nov. 5,8,
and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Conn. Solicitor, Mr.
11l Fenehorch.buildings, Fenchurch-atreet.
11011A1 B•RTRAM, Warwick, slater, NOV. 8, at five, 9,
and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Crown Inn. Iremingion-Priore. So-
licitor', Sir. James Platt. New Boswell-court, Lincoln's•lnn ;
and Mr. Patterson, fAmlngton • Priors.
Tibias TatorT, New Gloucester-street. Hertton, builder,
Nev. 12, 19, and Dec. 10, at ten, at the Bankrupts's Court. So-
-1 Site, Messes. Pope and Brewer, liloonalield.street, London-
-9 al'.
June Knowt.ta and JOHN WILKINSON KNowLES. Bent.
Mills, Yorkshire. and Blanchester, cotton•spianers, Nov. 11,12, ,
*A Der. 10, at two. at White's Hotel, Manchester. So.
tt.itues, Messrs. Ellis, Sons, Walnasley, and Gorton, Chancery-
).4 WA Mr. John Hampaon. Manchester.
rieloWiar Lawson, Manchester, cotton.spinner, Nov. 11, 12,
at ten, and Ihr. 10. at one, at the King's Arms Inn, Manchester.
Solicitors, Messrs- Milne and Parry, Temple; and Blears. Hal-
steads and Webster, Manchester.
MARIAN PIERPOINT, Cock and Bottle, Strand, victualler,
Noe. 12, 19.. and Dec. 10, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. So-
larium Mews. Jenson and Jordan, 'f havies-Inn.
THOMAS Roar, Tamworth Staffordshire, tanner, Nov. 5, at
ten, 19, at twelve, and Dee. 10, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
&ignore, Messrs. Burfoot, King's-Bench-walk. 'temple.
CMARLEI SANDOZ GILBERT, Devonport, ehynitst, Nov. 14.
IS, and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Roval Hotel, Devonport. So-
hitter', Mr. Henry \Vattern Sole, Gray's- Inn-square ; and blesses.
Sole Devoupeet.
Wiz Liam Et I'NOL ns, Liverpool, cotton-broker, Nov. 15, 16,
and Dee. 10, at one, at the Gorge Inn, Liverpool. Solicitors,
Sir. Edward Chester, Staple-Inn ; and Mr. Williant Hinder
Liverpool.
W &rt. lase AleacTEßse Duke-street. Aldgate, woollen-draper'
Nov. fa, 19, and Dee. 10 at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solidi-
tors Messrs. Watson and Broughton, Falcon-square.
WILLIAM Patuniate, Eustnn.atreet, Euston.square, music.
seller, Nov. 5, at eleven, 12, and Dee. 10, at ten, at the Bankrupts'
Cowl. Solicitor, Mr. Farris, Surrey-street, Strand.
Join Wtr.aos, Leeds, frizer, Nov. 9, 19. and Dec. 10, at
eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Solicitors, Mr. King, Hatton-
Roden ; end Mr. Granger Leeds.
JAMS'S STEVENS, Pall-mull, boot-maker, Nov. 12, 19, and
Dee- 10, at eleven. at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr.
Bedford..areet, Covenr.gsrtlen.
WILLIAM :SPIIIURDIE and WILLIAM CHARLILS POUT,
Epping, stationery, Nov. 8, at nine, 12, at eleven, and Dee. 10, at
ten. at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitur, Mr. William Richardson,
IVAlbrook.
TH,rtAs TAT Tex, Gerard-street, Sobo. grocer, Nov. 8, 15,
and Dee. I& at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor, Mr.
Drake, Old Fish-street.
JOIFIN HumroatTs, Harlow, Essex, builder, Nov. 5, 16, at
two, and Dec. 10, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor,
Mr. Baddeley, Leman-street. Goodman's-fields.
JANES JACKSON, Darvilts-row, Hammersmith, shopkeeper,
Nov. 5, at one, 15, at twelve, and Dec:. at one, at the Bankrupts
Court. Solicitor, Mr.- Coleman, Tysoe.street, SVilmington.
square.
lainer. NVILLIAMS, Finsbury-square, merchant, Nov. 5, 12,
and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitors,
Messrs. Barrow and Vincent, Basinghall-street.
Jens Oculist ow SMITH, High-street, Borough. draper. Nov.
5. 12, and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court. Solicitor,
Mr. Parton, Bow Church/ant.
WILLIAM SAMUEL W lxnson IlAtili;bAßEß, Kennington-
lane, silk-hat-manufacturer, Nov. 12. 19. at eleven, and Dec. 10,
at ten, at the Banknotes' Court. Solicitor, Mr. James Howorth,
War s ick-street, Golden.rquare.
DAVID Lewis, tamperer Pontstephen, Cardigan, innkeeper.
Nov. 12, 22, at ten, and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Bankrupts'
Caort. Solicitor, Mr. Thomas Nathaniel Williams, Bond-court,
Westbrook.
EDWARD Klotz, Manchester, cotton-merchant, Nov. 11, 12, and
Doc. 10, at one, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Solicitor, Mr. Edge,
Manchester.
DIVIDENDS.

Nov. 19. William Crawford, jun., Cheamdde, bookseller, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 22. Amos Slater, Cudding.
ton, Chester, corn-dealer, at ten, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Northwieb, Chester—Nov. 19. John Bitten, Cheepside, button-
merchant, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 19. henry
Jay, Kilburn. carpenter, at ten, nt the Bankrupts' Court—Nov.
19 William 51acGeorge, Lower Fore-street, Lambeth, brewer, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 19. John Bray, London-
wall; livery-stable-keeper, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov.
19. Thomas Byrne, King-street, Bryanstone-square, tailor, at one,
at tbs Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 13. James Carter, Downing-street,
victualler, at eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 19. William
ShePheed, Sloane-terrace, Chelsea, plumber, at two, at the Bank.
vises' Court--Nov. 19. John Welch, Princes-street, Lambeth,
'apsoned.leather-rnanufacturer, at one, at the Bankrupts' Court—
Nov. 19. James Cherwin and John Drme, Gould-squere, Crotch-
ed-friars, combe-makers. at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov.
194Jaha Marshall, Black-horse-yard, Grays' Inn-lane, box-
maker, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court—Nov. 25. James Grit--
titles, Liverpool, grocer, at twelve, at tke offin of Mr. Hirde, so-
lietor, Marshall-street, Liverpool—Nov. 21. John Manifold,
Ecadal, skinner, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Kendal—
Nov. 19. George Baker Clarke, New Shoreham, Sussex, brewer,
coal-enerchant, at four, at the Steyne Hotel, Worthing—Nov. 23.
David Darby, Olive Hill, Halesowerr, Salop, miller, at ten, at the
Swan Hotel, Birmingham—Nov. 19. Thomas Pine and Edward
Dana, Naidetone, Kent, millers, at eleven, at the Bankrupts'
Court.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
George Bowyer and W. Mortimer, Old Change, leather-facton
—Aka. Law and John Craig. Austin-friars—George, Thomas,
and Charles Fitch, Leadenhall.street, cheesemongers--William
Coalfield and Charles Derrick, Broad-street, solicitors—James Mills
and Thomas Robinson, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street, habcr.
ceshers—Daniel Speakman, jun., and Philip Gans, Manchester,
coteen-spinners--Elisabeth and W. Henry Snare, Clan-street, tea-
dealess—Willtarn Mott Thompson and George Walton Thomp.
aintaielcester, wine.merehants--George Morgan Clarke and John
Burney Hedges, Weston-street, Somers-town, cabinet-makers
Henry Wicks and Samuel Collis, High street, Borough, taitCHA—
Elialketh Bolton and Jonathan Ovenell, Corn-market, Oxford'
bout and shoe makers—Ann and ElitaSatterley, Devonport, ho-
siers—James Edwards and George Boxall, Thames-bank Foundry,
v•un.fourders—Joseph, Robert, and Thornton Pocklington, New-
gate-market, salesmen—James Bate and John Rees, Cheapside,
paper-hanging-manufacturers—Francis Quarton and Thomas Scot-
tore, Now Radford, Nottingham, lace-makers—Elizabeth and
Mary Ann Stephens. Church-street, Stoke Newington, milliners--
Tktotnas Jones and Francis Dixon, Derby, linen.cloth-rmu3ufac.
turers--Jahn Cooper and Thomas Johnson, 31accleslield, silk-
nnaufactarers—A. Horton, and Henry and Edwin Sparrow, Bir-
mingham, factors—John Merriman and John Healy, Fleet-street,
primers—Thomas Gates and -Benjamin Hardwick. auorneys—
Joseph Harding, Robett Tripbook, and John Lenard, Finsbury-
booksellere—Tbomas Telford and I%'illiam Rim Swan-
meat, Manchester, hatters—Samuel Smith and George Ivey. Cha-
peLniews, Orosvenor-square—John and George Ramsdell. Gaze-
head, Yorkahire—Sarah, Emma Charlotte Maria, and Martha
Priscilla Holland, Salopian Coffee-house, Chasing-cruse, wine-
merchants—Franeis Plummer and. Thomas Saalthwalte,
*met, soda-water-manufacturers.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sager, computed
frees the returns made in the week ending the 26th day of October,
1625, in 45n. 2ed. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of
cm/ Wm paid or payable thereon os the Importation thereof tato
Cites! Britain.

Avenge price of Coen from the Returns received in the Week
eildiog October 22, 1824.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Pease.
a. d. s. d. a. d. e. d. A. d. i. A.
14 7 40 11 26 6 42 6 46 1 a 4

We are informed by • oorrespondent that the typhus
fever has lately been, and is at this time, very fatal to many
in this county.—Hereford JournaL
9sio DIPFICULTINII.—A Mr. Henshaw, of Oldham,
left, in 1809, 20,0001. for the endowment of a Blue Coat
School, and the like sum for the endowment of an asylum
fur the blind, either at Manchester or Oldham ; but as
ah3re happens to be no establishment of either description
in either place, to endow, and no one seems disposed to
build (Vie for the sake of the endowment, the money re-
=Bias wholly useless in the hands of the trustees. lViien-
tho asylum for the blind is realized, the solicitor who
drew up the will of this benevolent individual will have a
g clidm to the mas:aship.—Cluster Chronicle.
11E51 ORATIILS YOB. • DYING M•N.—During the sit-
ting of the Court of the Quarter Sessions at Knutsford on
Wednesday last, the active Crier of the Court wrote a letter'
at his chair of office, addressed to Mts. Honley, the worthy
liciZtess of the George Inn, of which the following is a
littgsl copy
Ides. Ilooley,—Do send by the Bearer a jog of good strong
Celba_ppil put a Glass of Runt it it, seed MO shim some cold Pool,
moss TUCfied Muffins and Salt. I MPS wady deed.
MARK
truly
:dn it: Oct. '. MARK TOPliAlii."
bi letter basing fallen into misehievoue hands it was
,to the Bench, rheTe it created .considerable erri-
SlielL^Leeds Islelhgencer.

appeals of distress to deceive the humane and charitable part of the
public, and the prosecution was conducted by the Alen+'lefty So•
ciety, to prevent the success of such nefarious schemes, and expose
and punish the pen:et:Mors of them. He had represented, by
letter, that lie was a miniature painter, had just suffered illness
with a cancer in his nifroth, and had lost his wife in child-bed.
The letter was 101 l of canting and high stmeding epithets, moat
piteous bewailinge of reduced circumstances. and fraught with
every thing that was calculated to awaken the sympathy of the
lady. The letter was accompanied with a physician's certificate,
corroborating the talc of ill health and former respectability. The
fellow's application was made in the name of Ingall, and the certi-
ficate framed accordingly. The lady left the 4s. for him, and he
was on the acme evening found drunk on the Hampstead-road,
with the produce of the fraud, accompanied Sy the woman who was
said to be his wife, and who was, according to his written state-
ment in the morning. dangerously ill after her accouchement.
Elizabeth Bingham proved the presentation of the prisoner's
written appeal at the house of Alra. Walker. and the delivery of
four shallop to him in consequence. It was also proved that he
was found drunk the Same evening, on the Hampstead-road, and
obliged to be carried to the watch-house in a wheelbarrow; and
the Officers of the Mendicity Society proved the falsehood of the
risoner's tale of distress in every part, and of all the documents
found upon his person.
When called upon foe his defence, the prisoner said, It don't
really appear to me that the proof is sufficient to show that I car-
ried about these letters to &fraud people. It really don't." The
unembarrassed air of the fellow in making this observation was
quite ludicrous.
' The Jury immediately found the prisoner—Guilty.
The prisoner was next indicted for having, on the same day,
defrauded another lady, Mrs. Batty, at Hampstead, by repre-
senting himself as an unbeneficed clergyman, who had formerly
been a chaplain in the navy, and accompanying the application
with a variety of plauaible statements of heavy family distress, in
the same of Charles Wentworth, accompanied, of course, with a
physician's certificate of his decayed health, and diattessed family.
The prisoner declared his readiness to plead guilty.
The CHAIRMAN reminded him that he had better take the
chance of a trial, for that the second indictment would expose him
to transportation.
The prisoner repeated that he would rather plead guilty, which
he immediately did : this plea was recorded.
The COURT, after commenting on the heinousness of hisoffence,
sentenced him to transportation for seven years.
TIIE NEW GARDEN ACT.

IV. Skeater, G. Comble, and J. King, three boys. the two termer
of 14 years, and the latter aged lb, were indicted under the New
Garden Act, for stealing five apples, value four.pence, the property
of Sir J. Gibbon, Bart. of Stanwell-place, near Staines..
The prisoners had been five weeks in prison. They are fine
looking boys, and were neatly dressed, having clean white smock.
frock over their other clothing, and had all the appeanume of de-
cent labourers or small farmers sons. They appeared much affected
on being placed at the bar, and cried incessantly during the whole
time they remained there.
Mr. PRENDERGAST stated the case, observing that however
salutary the Act might be in some respects, still It was rather to
be lamented that it should extend to boys like those at present
at the bar, who, however respectable in other respects, had from
what sas meant, perhaps, as little more than a boyish frolic, be-
come subjected to the penalties of this Act, and the consequent
deteriorating influence of an association with felons in a common
gaol. It was not, however the wish of the prosecutor to press for
• heavy punishment, nor would this prosecution have been in-
stituted, if Sir J. Gibbon had not found that he was continually
being plundered of his fruit
G. il'oolford, servant to Sir J. Gibbon. stated, that he had been
employed to watch the grounds. On the 23d of September, about
1 o dock in the morning, he saw the prisoners under an apple tree
in the orchard. They were holding down one of the boughs, from
which they. had pulled off five apples, when witness came up, and
took then. into custody.
Cross-examined by Mr. BARRY.—The boys ate sons of decent
labourers, and have always borne a good character in the neigh-
bourhood. 'On my taking hold of them they cried-very much. and
expressed their contrition. I let them go, as I knew where to find
them. They were taken into custody the following day, and car-
ded before the Rev. Mr. Cowes, who committed them for trial.
Sir John Gibbon was on the belch at the time. He is a Magis-
trate for the county,
The CHAT/Imam, in summing up, said, that the new Act,
although in the present case it might appear severe, was one that
had become necessary to the clue protection of those whose property
principally consisted in orchards or garden ground. The case be-
fore them was not one that required severe punishment, and per-
haps it would have been as well if it had been passed over in the
first instance, but as- the aggrieved party had thought proper to
have the boys taken into custody, the Magistrate before whom they
were taken had no discretion but to commit them for trial. If they
(the Jury) were of opinion that the boys at the time were not aware
that what they were doing amounted to a felony, or that it was done
as a mere boyish frolic, they would give them the benefit of that
opinion, as a conviction for felony would be a serious thing against
young boys like those.
The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Vot Guilty.
The verdict appeared to give general satisfaction.
The CHAIRMAN ordered the immediate discharge of the pri-
soners, at the same time admonishing them not to be guilty of
such offences in future.

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday a respectable broker of the Stock Exchange, ne-
companied by eight or ten gentlemen, who stated themselves to be
Shareholders in a Mining Company, which was startedabout three
months ago, appeared at the Justice-room, to request the interfe-
rence of the Chief Magistrate with the Bankers or the Directors of
the concern, in order to obtain a restitution of money which they
had advanced as deposits upon shares. They had, they said, paid
the deposit of 21. per share, in the expectation that what the p-c-
-spectus set forth would be positively realised, and that their money
would be most advantageously invested. The shares had reached
a small premium in consequence of a manortivre in the market, but
they soon tumbled down to a discount. The holders, naturally
alarmed at this sudden downfal of the shares, began to inquire
about the responsibility of the persons whose names appeared as
Directors. They perceived that there were some respectable names
amongst them, but upon application, they were referred to the
Secretary, who was able, they said, to give the most full and satis-
factory information. The Secretary, in answer to their inquiries,
assured them, upon his honour, that the Company was one of the
roost promising in the kingdom, and that they would soon receive
a fine per ventage for their money. This was all they could learn.
Not a word was said aboit the manner in which the Directors were
disposing of their property. In fact, the Secretary seemed to know
just as much about the prices as the Shareholders, who thereupon
applied to the Bankers for information,. Here they also failed ;
the Bankers referring them back to the Secretary. Under these
circumstances they demanded the amount of their receipts, but
were refused, the Directors having issued no orders to pay them off.
A Shareholder—l was told, by a Director of the Company, that
the money had been drawn out of the banking-house, from the
apprehension that it would be attached in the Mayor's Court, if
left in the city. (A laugh.)
Another—Yes, I believe that to be the case. lam convinced
that they have no more idea of digging a mine, than they have of
building another tower of Babel. This has been the manner in
which multitudes have been taken in. A man takes up a pro-
spectus, sees a number of respectable names attached to it, and
calculates upon its success in consequence of the manner in which
it is thus introduced.

A third Shareholder—The Directors are chargeable with a great
deal. They, It is notorious in all cases where the money of the
public is determined to be played with, merely lend their names
for the reward of a certain number of shares, and the moment they
receive the shares, they sell them, and then, in gratitude, retire
from the direction.

Alderman A ?MAY, who sat for the Lord Mayor, laughed very
much at the statement, and said he was really astonished that the
public had not taken warning long since, from certain occurrences
which had taken place when first the mania commenced. Surely
enough had been said to induce people to keep their money in their
pockets. " Why do you not fix upon the Managers," said he;
and demand your property from them ?"
A Shareholder—lt is useless. We are referred to the Secretary,
who continues to boast of the concern, and humbugs us. It is no-
torious that no more than 409 shares have been paid upon, and can
the managers be justified, supposing that they were serious in the
assertion that the concern was going on. in applying the money al.
ready subscribed, when it was arranged that nothing should be
done until the whole 1,800 shares should be paid up on ? Were
not the shareholders the persons to decide upon the disposal of the
money in the hands of the bankers ?
Alderman ANSLEY said, he did not think the bankers could be
called upon, or were responsible to any but the Directors, upon
whose account they received the deposits and issued the scrip. He
believed that an action at law would have the effect of making the
managers refund.
A Shareholder—l was told some time ago by a Director, that it
was intended to get hold of the bears for some hundreds of the
shares which were locked up ; and that as soon as that was do- e,those
who held shares could dispose of them at an immense premium.
The attempt had, I believe, been made. bur proved unsuccessful,
upon which the managers seemed determined to do the Nat they
could for themselves.

Another—Yea ; I was told there would be a " rig" in the mar.
ket ; but the public bad seen the operations in the Lower Rhine
Company, and no bears could be caught.
A third—lt would be very desirable to have the bankers here, to
state what has taken place for the rood of the shareholders. lam
aware that there is no ground for summoning them, but if the Lord
Mayor would write a note requesting their attendance, no doubt
they would consent without hesitation.
Alderman ANSLEY told the applicants they might, if they
pleased, ask the Lord Mayor to interfere in the manner suggested,
but he could not give them any further assistance than the advice
to take the opinion of Counsel upon the Question, which it certainly
appeared was one of very general interest.
Mr. Hobler said, he believed the best manner in which the corn.
plainant could act, would be by indicting the managers for •
conspiracy.
The complainants went away, apparently determined to adopt
the latter suggestion.
GUILDHALL.
On Saturday, Mr. Mores Israel Levi, an elderly gentleman, of
the Jewish persuasion, came up In custody of an officer, on a charge
of felony, preferred by a person named Christopher, shoproan in
(*millet' shop, Fleet-etre:et. It appeared by the evidence, that Mr.
Levi took offence at a picture in Chillles window, which is intended

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