The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-03 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

May 28. Charles Gard;erViil;-end:road, merchant, at eleven,
at the Bankrupts Court.
May 21. Benjamin Barge, Clifford-street, Bond-street, wine-
me.chant. at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court.
May 28. Joseph Levy, Smitb'r,-buildings, Goodnian's-fields,
feather-merchant, at twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court.
May 28. William Edwards, Chatham, linen-draper, at ten, at
the Bankrupts' Court.
May 23. Neeham and Co. Macclesfield, Cheshire, ironmo. gers,
at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester.
May 23. Edward Needham, Macclesfield, Cheshire, ironmonger,
at nine. at the Star Inn, Manchester.
May 11. Edward Powell, Dover, miller, at eleven, at the Guild-
hall, Canterbury.
May 11. James Durtnall, Dover, ironmonger, at one, at the
Guildhall, Canterbury.
May 26. Henderson Skaif, Whitby, York, linen and woollen-
draper, at ten, at the Angel Inn, Whitby.
May 26. John Anderson, jun. Whitby, York, merchant, at
twelve, at the Angel Inn, Whitby.
May 26. John Beaumont, Wheathouse, Huddersfield, merchant,
at ten, at the offices of Messrs. Whitehead and Robinson, Hudders-
field.
May 28. Elizabeth Glover, Hardshaw-within-windle, Lancashire,
shopkeeper, at one, at the York Hotel, Liverpool.
May 21. William Douglas Hopkins, Albany-road, Camberwell,
I shit, and insurance-broker, at ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
514 21. Walter Cosset., 11111bank.street, Westminster, at twelve,
at the Bankrups' Court.
May 21. Charles Sims, Crown-court, Broad-street, merchant, at
eleven, at the Bankrupts' Court.
May 21. Joseph Kirkman, High-street, St. Giles, brewer, at
twelve, at the Bankrupts' Court.
May 7. Thomas Smith, Hampton-Wick, timber-merchant, at
ten, at the Bankrupts' Court.
May 10. William Dann, Timewell Bentham, Bryan Bentham,
and James Balk, Chatham and Sheerness, bankers, at twelve, at
the llankruptts' Court.
May 23. Joshua Jogger, East Stonehouse, Devonshire, stone-
mason, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth.
May 21. George Hague, Kingston-upon-Hull, haberdasher, at
twelve, of the Bankrupts' Cow .
CERTIFICATES, Max 21.
Benjamin Wainwright, Herefordshire, maltster—Harry Scrive-
nor, sen. Harry Saivenor, jun. and John Wilson, Kentish-build-
ings, Southwark, hop-factors—Thomas Jarvis, Adderbury, Ox-
ford, fishmonger—Henry Hole, Norwich, draper—John Walker,
jun. Lambeth-walk, oven-builder.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Edmund Davis and William Davis, White Ilan-street, New-
gate-market, meat-salesmen—William Woodhead and Samuel
IVoodhead, City-road, stone.merchants---John Molineux and
Richard Hodgson Clark, Love-lane, Eastcheap, bottle-merchants--
Kimberley anti Nathan Kimberley, Birmingham. builders
Adnam and licorice Adnam, Brighton, grocers—Thos.
Leigh Blundell and James Dunlap, jun. Ewell, Surrey, surgeons—
Robert Robinson and Joseph Francis Taylor, Willow-wharf, Bank-
side, colour.manutiicturers--Charles Hannen and iVilliamßurridge,
Shaftesbury, Dorsetahire, attorneys—William Wilkinson, William
Bingham, and Luke Barton, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, makers
of twist-machioes--Isasc Caddick and John Waldron, Biluau,
Staffordshire, varnish.makers—Michael Leeson and John Norll,
Stamford, Lincolnshire, plumbers and glaziers—Robinson Thomas
Faraide and Thomas IVhite, jun. Peterborough, Northampton-
shire, grocers—lsaac Levi and Solomon Jacob Levi, Old Broad.
street, merchants—William Jones, William Rigby, and Thomas
Johnes, Llwynennion and Aberderwin, 'Wrexham and Ithusbon,
Denbighshire. iron anti coal-masters—Timothy Wood, jun. and
John Illoldworth, jun. Halifax, York, woolstaplers—Rosamond
Palmer and James Palmer, Derby, gardeners and nurserymen—
Henry Delves Broughton, James Sutton, William Fumival, Alex-
ander Law, and John Craig, Lawton.Roughwood,
and Wheelock, Cheshire, Shirleywich, Staffordshire, and Anderwn,
Norwich.

ENGLISH AND BRISTOL CHANNELS SHIP

CANAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
Sta,—lt having been lately asserted by an advertisement signed
" A Landowner, that the proposed English and Bristol Channels
Ship Canal can be of no benetit to the Irish trade; and the bold
assertion attempted to be supported by a letter from Belfast, signed
" Geo. Langtry and Co." who tell the world that their ships shall
not pass through it ; we think it right, in answer thereto, to ex-
hibit an extract from the Petition of the Merchants of Belfast,
signed by the highly respectable Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce in that town, and sixty-six other Members of the first
consequence, in which they state to Parliament, " That any mea-
sure tending to facilitate the commercial intercourse bctween Ire-
land and England, must be met by all persons concerned for the
welfare of the United Kingdom with the warmest and mast un-
qualified approbation. That the communication to be effected by the
proposed Canal will, in the opinion of your l'etitioocrs, be of the
highest national utility, by enabling vessels trading tram this and
other ports to the south and south-east parts of England, to avoid
the uncertain and hazardous navigation round the Land's End.
That the removal of these great evils, and the increase of trade,
which such a facility of intercourse must produce, will, in the
opinion of your Petitioners, necessarily follow the completion of
the proposed Canal."
Petitions of similar import from Cork and Waterford, as numer-
ously signed, have been presented to the House of Commons.
By order of the Committee,
KING and LUKIN.
5, Gray's Inn-square, May 2, 1825.
At the residence of the Ilayor of Canterbury, yesterday
afternoon, a young female, rained Carmichael, had been cited be-
fore his Worship, to attest the father of a child of which she is ea-
eiente. The unfortunate girl bad not been long there, and before
the necessary forms were gone through, when she fell Insensible on
the fbur, apparently from the effects of illness. It was, however,
soon ascertained, that remorse at bet situation had prompted a sui-
cidal attempt, and that she had swallowed a large portion of lau-
danum. An antidote (mustard diluted with warm water, and
given in the proportion of a table-spoonful) was immediately pre-
pared and adtninistered ; the,attempt was successful, and she was
shortly restored, but not sufficiently to enable her to go through the
necessary forms. It gives us pleasure to state, that although the
unfortunate victim of delusion lies very ill, she is considered out of
danger.—Kentish Chronicle.
An Inquest was held on Friday on the bodies of the un-
fortunate persons who lost their lives by the falling of a scaffold at
the New independent Chapel, Leeds, when a verdict was returned
or Accidental Death. 'file inhabitants of Huddersfield, amps.
thising with the families of the sufferers, called a public meeting to
open a subscription for their relief. This meeting was held on the
same day, and upwards,of 1004 was subscribed in the room, with •
prospect of being much augmented by a canvass for subscriptions
appointed to be made through the town. It was &leo iotended
to have congregational collections in that town, in aid of the
ur.d.

PRICE OF POTATOES, MAr 2.
Oxnobles . 3! lOs Od to 3/ Od per Ton.
Scotch Reds . 4/ N Od to 01 Os Od ditto
Marsh Champs. M lOs Od to M 15s Od d:qo
York. Kidneys 51 Os Od to 0/ Os Od ditto

COAL MARKET, Aran. 25.
.Chip: at Markel. Ships Sold. Price.
7} Newcastle . . 61 . . 293 Gd to ns Od
1 Sunderland . 1 . 211. Od to .-4 Od
2 Culm . . 2 - SU Od to --s Od
2 Cannell Coal - 0 - ..s 0,1 to —a 0.1

DIED.
At Palmer-terrace, Islington, on Saturday morning, Onrena
At St. Finn Rare a, the Rev. Joshua Berkeley,
Cocksedgs, youngest daughter of Wm. Fenwick, Esq.
Parish of the Holy Trinity, Cork.
At Wiston, Lanarkshire, on the 10th inst. James
preacher of the Gospel. About forty years ago, Mr. Ititrbit
he
eame a licentiate of the Established Church of Scotland, and NO:',l
through the early stages of his probationary state with usefulnos
and respectability. As a scholar, his attainments were not WO-
cable ; as a divine his views were just ; and, as a prcacher. D'A
composition was classically pure, chaste, and elegant, and tio
manner serious and impressive. Owing to doiappointment it re-
gard to pr.-motion in the church, he became at times. adios
rose, it
sour, and despondent • and was scarcely companionable till
his
chered by an enlivening glass. For the last twenty yor"(
life he was a wanderer on the face of the earth. Hit only home
was the house of a female relation, wha, though not in Aunt
circumstances, was kind to him and attentive. Ills visiu to bet
humble retreat were like those of a bird of pa‘uge, for be sotto:
Rector of the
sively filled the different parts of his annual nitration. Non' we
and,
ciose of a week he 'pummelled the manse of a parish minister,
it asked to preach, remained with his reverend host a dar, a yeti.,
a fortnight, or a month ; but if he met with a cool reception. w
proceeded to the manse of another, and so on, till be had off;
pleted the circuit of Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire sna
Peeblesobtre. His habiliments were furnished to him by the
tributions of the charitable and benevolent, both clergy and l'utc,
I bbt he was hardly ever entrusted with money, as he was sus-
pected of a predilection for the society of boon coirpa-ion,."
Glasgow Paper.

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