The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dee. 4.

MANSION-HOUSE.— Win. Gr2Plts was charged
before Alderman Wire with having committed extensive
robberies upon his emplopers, Messrs. Davi3 and Co., of
Houndsditch, merchants.
Mr. Parry, instructed by Mr. Barber, attended for the
defence.

Mr. Lewis, who appeared to conduct the prosecution,
said the prisoner had been a considerable time confi-
dentially employed by the firm, and that suspicion hav-
ing been excited, measures were taken to apprehend the
accused, when, upon a strict investigation, a successful
system of plunder was detected, by which he had accu-
mulated much property.
Mr. D. Hyams, a partner in the firm of Davis and Co.,
said, the prisoner was in our service as warehouseman.
He has been with us many years, and we reposed great
confidence in him. In consequence of information which
I received, I directed an officer to watch him, and on
Friday night week, about 6 o'clock, when the prisoner
left the warehouse, he went out with a red bag in his
hand. I was watching with the officer in Hounds-
ditch, and I gave directions to him, and he went up
to the prisoner. Tho officer then brought the bag,
and it was opened, and was found to contain one
dozen of dessert forks, each fork being wrapped in a
separate paper, and our property, and two lamps,
which I did not then recognise, but I have since
ascertained that they are our property. The prisoner
said he had purchased the forks. I asked him from
whom? He replied, "From Mr. Millington." I
asked him when ? He said, " Sometime since." I then
gave him into custody, and he was taken to the station
house. _ _ _

2L4, said—On the 23d of November I took the
prisoner into custody in Bishopsgate-street. He was car-
rying a red bag, which I had seen him bring from the
premises of the prosecutors. I asked him what he had
got in the bag. He said—" A lamp he had bought of
Mr. Alfred Davis, in Houndsditch." I asked him to
allow me to see it, and he opened the bag and showed
me the two lamps produced. I found a packet of twelve
dessert forks in it. I told him I thought it was not all
right, and he must go back with me to the warehouse.
I did not find any invoice. He went back with me, and
I showed the property to Mr. Davis and Mr. Hyams in
his presence. Mr. Hyams said, taking up the property,
" These are our property." The prisoner said be had
bought them of Mr. Millington. I searched him in the
station-house, and found in his possession a watch and
chain, and 6/. 4s. id. He gave me his address at the
station house, and I went to his house, and found there
the property specified in the lists I hand in.
An immense quantity of property was produced.
0. Palmer, assistant to the prosecutors in the cabinet
department, said—On the 17th November the prisoner
came up stairs and asked for a writing desk for a friend
or customer. The dressing case produced was on the
counter at the time. He asked the price of it, and if
he might take it down stairs. I said " Yes," and he
took it down. We had only two of those dressing cases
in stock, and I sin certain that the case produced by the
officer is one of those two. It was my duty to hand to
the prisoner whatever he asked for. The value of the
case is 45e. It has our private mark upon it.
The dressing case was identified by the maker as one
of two or three which he had sold to the prosecutors'
buyer, who subsequently identified the article.
Mr. J. J. Millington, manager of the Birmingham and
Sheffield department of the prosecutors, said—l have
not sold the prisoner any of these forks at any time. I
have occasionally missed goods from my department.
T. Dawson, assistant in the musical and lamp depart.
ment, said—On the 23d November the prisoner bought
of me two lamps for 35., similar to those produced by
the officer, and I gave him an invoice so as that he might
pay for the goods at the desk in the shop. He had no
authority that I am aware of to remove them from the
premises without paying for them.
The prosecutors' assistant in the shipping department
said—The prosecutors had an order for a quantity of
night lights, which were delivered in their premises on
the 20th November, not in time for the shipping order.
The prisoner requested me to show them to him, and I
did so at the time, and he requested me to let him have
some of them. I opened a parcel, which I now produce,
from the warehouse, and he took another box out of the
parcel, and then took the parcel into his own depart-
ment. He had not the slightest authority to take the
box proeuced from the premises, nor was I aware that
the box had been taken away from the premises.
The assistant in the comb and tobacconist department
said—l saw a box of this description, not opened, in the
prisoner's cupboard in the warehouse, a few days before
he was taken, and the moment he left the warehouse the
box was gone. From reasons I looked into the pri-
soner's drawer, and saw there a paper containing 100
slate-pencils. I took them out, and tore the paper to
look at them. The paper of pencils produced by the
officer is the same. I saw that they remained in the
prisoner's drawer for the next day, and then I missed
them. I communicated with my employers, and the
police were spoken to. The prisoner had not the
slightest authority to remove the goods from the pre-
mises.

The assistants in other departments of the extensive
premises of the prosecut rs gave evidence of a similar
kind against the prisoner.;
Witnesses were also called who proved that the pri-
soner had sold to them various articles, which had been
procured by him in the manner described.
Evidence was also brought forward on a charge cf
embezzlement against the prisoner.

The prisoner, upon being asked in the usual terms
whether he wished to make any defence, sail, "I re-
serve my defence."
He was then committed for trial.

The Lord Mayor requested that the press would an-
nounce his receipt of 10/. from the Ironmongers' Com-
pany, for the poor-box.

BOW-STREET.—A middle-aged man, named Alex-
ando• Ferrari, who, though described as au interpreter,
spoke English with manifest difficulty, was charged with
assaulting Julia Bouquet.
The complainant was accompanied by an interpreter,
and gave her evidence in French. She stated that she
was a single woman, but was about to be married to a
gentleman engaged at present at the Strand Theatre.
Last evening she went to the theatre to see him, and a
quarrel took place between them on the subject of his
profession, which she wished him to abandon. She left
the theatre by the side door, and her "husband" by the
front, and they met again in the street, he being accom-
panied by the prisoner, who was in his service. Here
the dispute was resumed, when the prisoner, to whom
she had not said one word, began to beat her with his
walking cane. Her arms and wrists were marked with
stripes from the blows he gave her.
Mr. Thomas Payne, lessee of the theatre, here came
forward and offered an explanation of the circuiestances
of the case. He said that the gentleman referred to was
Senor Marcos Diaz, the Spanish dancer, and the pri-
soner was his interpreter. Complainant had for some
time been in the habit of going behind the scenes to see
Diaz ; but their quarrels had become so frequent, and
complainant's conduct so violent, that he (Mr. Payne)
was obliged to intimate to Diaz that she could no longer
be admitted. The senor signified his wish that she should,
by all means, be excluded, which was done until last
night, when she passed in during the temporary absence
~f the person whose duty it was to prevent her admis-
sion. She made her way to Diaz's dressing-room, and a
scene took place, the nature of which might be judged
of from the fact that when he next saw Marcos Diaz his
face was covered with blood from scratches, apparently
inflicted with the finger nails. Afterwards complainant
followed Diaz to the stage, and, seizing him by the
throat, flung him down a flight of stairs. Witness had
several times ordered that she should be turned out, but the
men were all afraid of her. At last he put her out himself.
Diaz left the house at the front entrance, hoping to
escape her, but she met him at the corner and made a
fresh attack upon him, when the prisoner interfered to
protect his master.

The constable who took the prisoner in charge
(Draper, 310 A) said that he saw the complainant strug-
gling with a man, and was approaching fur the purpose
of interfering, when he saw prisoner strike complainant
three times very violently with his cane. Witness stopped
him as he was about to inflict a fourth blow.
Senor Diaz corroborated. He observed that he could
not conceive what right Alexander had to strike " La
Senora."

Chas. Payne, one of the stage carpenterz, gave a si-
milar version of the occurrence to that of Mr. Payne.
The prisoner said he only wanted to separate the com-
plainant from his master, and had net the slightest in-
tention of hurting her. He called the magistrate's at-
tention to the scratches still to be seen on the face and
neck of the senor, and appealed to his worship to say
whether he could be expected to stand by and see his
master so treated!
Mr. Jardine said this was not enough to justify an as-
sault, and in such circumstances, upon any one, but
especially on a woman. Had the weapon used been one
likely to inflict permanent injury, he would have sent
bpi to prison for a very long period ; but as no serious
mischief was done—or, perhaps, intended—he would
only fine him 4/.
The fine was paid.

WESTMINSTER. BURGLARY AT A CATHOLIC
CHAPEL.—John Dino; a youth 17
yeadrs of age, was
charged with burglariously breaking an
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witnesses, are briefly these :—The prisoner, who was
inerly employed abcut the chapel, met a gardener named
Briant on Monday afternoon, and told him that he in-
tended by some means to get into the Oratory that night,
at the same time enjoining him to secrecy. Briant im-
mediately gave information to the authorities of the
place, and a man was placed in the dwelling-house at-
tached to the chapel to watch, but by some means the
robbery was committed without his detecting the offen.
der. The place was found broken open at 4 in the morn-
ing, an entrance having been effected from the roof of a
closet just below the refectory window, which was found
open, and three money boxes, one bearing an inscription
" Offerings to our Lady," the second "Offerings to St.
Philip," and the third "The Poor," had been torn down
from the wall and carried off, These were found, rifled

of their contents—computed at about 51.—in a garden I
ground adjoining a neighbouring churchyard. Beneath
the open window of the refectory half a brace button
was teund, which appeared to have broken in the exer-
tion of entering, and upon the prisoner's being appre-
hended by Sergeant Rogers, 9 B, the other half of the
button was found attached to his trousers. The money
stolen was charged as belonging to the "Fathers of the
congregation of the Oratory."
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
DESPERATE ASSAULT.-IVilliam Groves, a respectable
looking young man, described as a gentleman's servant,
was brougLt up for re-examination, charged with assault-
ing and wounding James Clapson, a plasterer, living in
Hasker-street, Chelsea.
The complainant's wife and her sister, who had a dog
with them, were standing at the top of the Vauxhall-
bridge-road, when the prisoner and a male companion
came up and accused them with unbecoming familiarity
about their dog. Mrs. Clapson told them to go about
their business, when defendant struck her on the mouth ;
and her husband, who had only left her two or three
minutes before, coming up, seized the prisoner, who
struck him two blows on the head with a very thick
knotted stick—the effect of which was that he was very
severely wounded and lost a great deal of blood.
A fresh witness was examined, who gave an account
somewhat more favourable to the accused than the pre-
vious witnesses, but still proved that he inflicted the in-
jury with the stick in question.
A surgeon's certificate was produced, stating that the
injured man was not yet out of danger.
Mr. Lewis, jun., urged the magistrate to take bail fur
the accused's future appearance, assuring him that he
should be able, on a future day, to put a different com-
plexion upon the matter.
Mr. Paynter refused, and prisoner was remanded till
this day (Wednesday) week.

WORSHIP-STREET. —A. BRUTAL HUSBAND.
James Elliott, a bricklayer, living in Spitalfields, was
brought befora Mr. Hammill on a warrant, charged with
savagely assaulting Harriet, his wife.
From the poor woman's statement it appeared that
she had been married 30 years to the defendant, and
had had a large family; but, for the last seven years,
he has been in the habit of subjecting her to the most
cruel and brutal usage, and once she had been seven
weeks in the hospital, in consequence of his cutting
her head open with a stick. The assault now complained
of took place on Monday morning, when she arose
between three and four o'clock to prepare her husband's
breakfast before he went to work ; but he suddenly
jumped up, and, placing a large box against the door to
barricade it, struck her a vialent blow at the back of
her neck, which he cut, swearing that he would " cut
her throat from ear to ear ;" and she believed that he
must have had a knife in his hand when he struck her.
He then made her put on his shoes, his coat, &c., which
she said she did as well as she could, feeling very faint
and much frightened. At length she got away from
hi-o, and, in the course of the day, made her complaint
to the magistrate. b'he added, however, that she had no
wish to hurt him if she could be protacted from his vio-
lence.

Mr. Hammill asked her if she had ever complained
against hull before during the many years that she now
said he had so ill-treated her ?

The complainant said that he had been four times
brought before this court for ill-using her, and had be-
fore threatened her with the knife, butshenever appeared
against him, trusting to his promises of amendment.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said his wife
was never sober, and made away with his things —he
could not keep a thing.
The complainant assured the magistrate that there was
no truth whatever in her husband's assertion. She had
no a-sDciate, even of her sex, but was kept in slavish
suljection—her sole dependence being upon him.
Gee, the warrant officer, said he found the defendant
drinking and smoking at a public-house, but he knew
nothing of his wife.
Mr. Hammill committed the defendant to six months'
hard labour, and required him also to give bail for other
six months.

CLERKENWELL.—John Bradford, a beer-shop
keeper of the City-road, was summoned for refusing to
provide a lodging for one of the Royal London Militia.
The defendant said he had had two men billeted upon
Lim for 61 days, and that billet did not expire till the
Ist January. He had only been in business about
four months, and from the commencement had two men
with him ; and, as it was a very small house, and he had
to pay them out, he considered it a very great hardship
to have another one billeted upon him.
➢lr. Coombe said that it seemed to be the practice to
billet the recruits singly upon each of the publicans.
The defendant said he was not aware of that, or ho
would have consented to receive the man. If the man
were now stint he would take him in.
Mr. Combo said that would alter the case. Address-
ing the serjeant, he told him that, if the case had gone
on, he could not have convicted, as he had forgotten to
bring the copy of the billet with him.

LAMBETH.—RAILWAY PLUNDERERS.—Mary Field,
a well-dressed and well-known thief, and G. H lzzard,
also a notorious thief, who has been frequently con-
victed, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, the
former on a charge of attempting to pick the pockets of
three ladies at the Waterloo station, and the latter with
being at the same station for an unlawful purpose.
Mr. Thomas Bent, an inspector of police, doing duty
on the South-Western Railway, deposed that at about
ten minutes before five o'clock on the preceding evening
he was standing on the departure platform at the Water-
loo station, and saw both the prisoners approach and
pass him. The female approached three ladies who were
standing together, and he distinctly saw her put her
hand into the pocket of one of them. Immediately after,
indeed on the instant, one of the ladies addressing him,
said she had caught the female's hand in her pocket.
This was said loud enough for the prisoner to hear it,
but, notwiths'anding, he (Bent) subsequently saw her
put her hand into the pocket of anotler lady, and he
then took her into custody. On his doing so the male
prisoner approached and asked what was the matter, and
the female prisoner said she had but just arrived by the
Windsor train, though a Windsor train had not arrived
for an hour before. The male prisoner at this time dis-
appeared, but knowing his person he gave information
to the police, and he had since been taken by Sergeant
Bread of the L division.

12.ie prisoners having declared that they were strangers,
Inspector Bent stated that both the prisoners were well
known and convicted thieves, and they were remanded
for a week.

SILOCKING MURDER BY A RUSSIAN

AT BRISTOL.

BRISTOL, Tuesday.—Anlnquest, held at the Royal
Infirmary, was commenced on Saturday and concluded
this day before the city coroner. J. B. Grindon, Es. q ,
on th: body of Jose Jrßelgian Mareschal, a sea-
nevi of the ship Leopold L, now lying in this port, who
died from the effects of inquiries inflicted on him under
the dastardly circumstances hereinafter detailed, by
Johann Wilhelm Adolphe Schiuck, a Russian sailor
belonging to the same vessel.
The jury having (after some opening re narks by the
coroner) viewed the body, which was that of a fine
young roan,aged about 24, evidence, of which the fol-
lowing is an outline, was taken.
R. Bruce, Esq., Belgian consul, was present to watch
the proceedings.
William Murphy deposed that he was nhipkeeper on
board the Leopold 1., a foreign ship, lying at the corner
of th„luay. The captain and crew were foreigners, one
of them bring a Russian. At about one o'clock on Sun-
day morning witness was keeping watch on deck, when
he beard sonic men tusseliog and fighting on the quay,
and on looking towards them saw that it was the Rus-
sian, the deceased, and another Belgian. They were
all tipsy, but deceased more so than the others. The
Russian came on board, went forward, and armed himself
with a heavy capstan bar, and then called out "Frank."
The deceased at that time was in the act of going
aboard. He stepped off the plank to the deck, and was
walking towards the fore. part of the ship, where his
berth wa@, when the Russian came forward and met him,
and, without a word passing, struck him with all his
might across the head with the capstan bar. (The bar,
a most murderous weapon, was here handed in for view
by the jury.) The deceased fell on his side on the deck,
and witness called to the captain, and then spoke to
deceased, who was lying in a pool of blood. The Rus-
sian tried to prevent him (witness) from going on shore
to call the police, but he persisted in going, and went
on to the quay, and alarmed two constables, who re-
turned with him to the ship. The Russian had in the
meantime contrived to escape, and had never since been
seen. The deceased was conveyed to the infirmary.
The Belgian sailor who had formed the third in the
scuffle was called to give evidence, but a difficulty arose,
as, beyond a few words, he was ignorant of both French
and Flemish, speaking only a patois, which neither the
consul nor any one else in court could understand.
The Ship-keeper, on being questioned, said the witness
was not on board, and had nothing to do with the blow.
The Coroner said if that were the case he should not
attempt to examine him.
Mr. Nathaniel Crisp, acting house surgeon of the
Bristol Royal Infirmary, deposed to the illness and death
of the deceased on Thursday night, and to his baying
made a careful post mortem examination of the body. On
the left side of his head was a straight wound, tolerably
clean, mid about three incheS long, over the temporal
bone. On removing the scalp blood was found effused
between the scalp and the skull, nearly all over the head.
On opening the skull there was a large quantity of blood
pressing on the membranes of the brain and on the brain
itself, which was broken in two places. There were
fractures on both sides of the skull, commencing under-
neath the wound, and then breaking off into two. One
of them ren right through the base of the skull and to
the spinal canal. The fractures were probably caused
by one blow, and they were undoubtedly the cause of
death.
Police-constable No. 85 deposed to having been en-
trusted with a warrant for the apprehension of the Rus-
sian, Schinck, who had contrived to elude all pursuit.
Ho had searched Bristol, Cardiff, and Newport, but
could find no trace of him.
Tne jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
the Russian, Schiuck.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT KlNGSLAND.—Yesterday morn-
mg, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, a fire, at-
tended with a great loss of property, and almost fatal
consequences to an entire family, happened on the pre-
Inises of Mr. Thomas Hay, the extensive cabinetmaker,
Laterntim-terrace, Kingsland-road. The firs was not
subdued until the stock, furniture, and house were burnt
out, although every exertion was made by the men ; and
the adjoining premises, belonging to Mr. James Smart,
Mr. S. Bland, and others, were severely damaged by fire
and water. Cause unknown. The lose will fall on the
Phenix, Atlas, and other Are-offices.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 30.-
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Allan
Wallis, Esq., now British Vice-Consul, to be her Majesty's
Consul at San Jose, in the Republic of Costa Rica.
FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. de
Castelnau as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, for his
Majesty the Emperor of the French.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 3.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Leip-
zic, reporting the appearance of an Imperial Decree in the
Gazette of St. Petersburg, prohibiting the exportation of
corn and grain from the whole European frontier of Rus-
sia, as well as from the Kingdom of Poland, wheat, how-
ever, being allowed to be exported from the Customs' sta-
tions of the latter country.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 3.
The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Counoil for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg,
forwarding a translation of a further notification respect-
ing the levying of a rate on ships, in consequence of the
completion of the deepening of the Trave and its estuary,
of which the following is a copy :
Whereas in the notification of the 29th of February,
1810, respecting the levying of a rate in consequence of
the measures taken for deepening the Trave and its estuary,
a proviso having been made for raising this rate after the
completion of the works executed in conformity with the
plan for the regulation of the river, and the Senate, in
accordance with the Commoners (Burgerschafft) having
decided that the said works being now completed, the rate
in question shall be raised, the Senate, conformable to this
joint decision, annulling at the same time the dispositions
contained in the notification of the 29th of February,
1810, hereby decrees and publicly make known as follows :
1. From this Ist of January, 1856, all sailing vessels and
steamers of more than 30 lasts burden, arriving or leaving
here, will have to pay the rate levied for deepening the
Travis accord ng to the following tariff :
A. Laden, 6 schilling per last of 4,1201b5.*
B. Exceptionally when laden with timer, 4 schilling
per lass of 4,1201b5.
C. In ballast or empty, 2 schilling per last of 4,1201b5.
2. The rate will be collected by the Customs and Excise
Department, according to the tonnage ascertained by
Lubeck measurement, and the certificate of measurement
granted thereon, conformable to the instructions annexed
to the decree of the 30th of January, 1850, respecting the
measurement of sea-going vessels, and has to be paid on
entry anti departure, and by sailing vessels at the same
time as the tonnage dues.
3. Ships laden to not more than one-tenth part of their
total capacity pay as empty ships, two schilling per last.
Ships which, besides timber, are also partly laden with
other goods, pay, when such goods fill a space not exceed-
ing one-tenth of the total capacity of the vessel, the rate
of timber-lades ships, four schilling per last.
Whoever lays claim to one of the two exceptional cases
above mentioned, has to certify the same to the Customs
and Excise Department ; for which, as a rule, the bill of
lading for inward, and a ship broker's certificate for out-
ward bound vessels, will suffice ; the Customs and Excise
Department retaining, however, the right of ordering a
search to be made when expedient.

4. Mail packet-ships, and other vessels sailing under
state flags, are, as such, not subjected to the rate levied
for deepening the Tra.ve ; but mail packet-ships, carrying
passengers or goods, will have to pay the rate conformable
to the above regulations.
And also the following translation of a Supplement to
the above Notification :

The regulations contained in the Notification of Feb. 29,
1849, relative to the rate for the deepening of tho Trave,
together with the dispositions respecting the Dredging
dues, taken from the said notification, and incorporated
(under 7) in the decree of January 30, 1850, respecting the
shipping dues for sea traffic and the passage on the Lower
Trave, shall, ups and from January 1, 1856, cease to
operate (be repealed).

* 13 schilling currency =• 1 shilling sterling.
1 Lubeck lb. -= 1.07 lb. avoirdupois.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 4.

Bth Light Dragoons—Major-General George Charles,
Earl of Lucan, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice General Sir
John Brown, deceased. _ _ _

MEMORNDUM.— Major-George Charles, Earl of Lucan,
K.C.8., has repaid the difference between the full price of
a cava?ry and infantry Lieutenant-Colonelcy, which he
received on exchanging from the 17th Light Dragoons to
half-pay unattached on the 14th April, 1837.

WAR OFFICE, DEC. 4.
39th Foot—For William Blennerhasset, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Nicholls, elated 27th July,
1855, which appeared in the Gazette of that date, read
William Blennerhasset, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase.

MEMORANDUM.— With reference to the Memorandum,
dated Horse Guards, April 25, 1855, which appeared in
the Gazette of Ist May last, the under-mentioned Officers
of the East India Company's Service have Brevet Rank in
the Army as follows :—Brevet-Major Henry Atwell Lake,
Madras Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army;
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Forsyth Tait, C. 8., Bengal
Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Mayne, Bengal
Army, to be Aides-de-camp to the Queen, with the rank
of Colonel in the Army.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 24.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John
Delves Broughton to be First Lieutenant, vice Curry, de-
ceased.

Manchester, general Manchester warehousemen, further
div. of 2s. 8 d. in the pound, p tyable at Maucliester, on
any Tuesday.
Clarinda Kilner, of Walsall, Staffordshire, licensed vic-
tualler, first div. of ls. 11d. in the pound, payable at Bir-
mingham, on any Thursday.
John Watson, of Market Harborongh, Leicestershire,
tailor, first div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, payable at Bir-
mingham, on any Thursday.
Mary Johnson and W.Johnson, of Cheadle, Staffordshire,
grocers, first div. of 16s. in the pound, at the rate of 2s.Bd.
in the pound, payable at Birmingham, on Thursday, Dec.
13, and any subsequent alternate Thursday:
R. Heath, W. Welch, and J. H. Barber, of Tunstall,
Staffordshire, ironmasters (on the separate estate of J. H.
Barber) first div. of 9s. 3d. in the pound, payable at Bir-
mingham, on Thursday, Dec.l3, and any subsequent alter-
nate Thursday.
William Butcher, of Lichfield, Staffordshire, coach
builder, first div. of 6s. 2d. in the pound, payable at Bir-
mingham, on Thursday, Deo. 13, and any subsequent
alternate Thursday.
A. M. Edwards and T. Cooper, Coventry, ironmongers,
first div. of 3.i, in the pound, payable at Birmingham on
Thursday, Dec. 13, and any subsequent alternate Thurs-
day.

J.
Bilton, 14, Cumming-street, Pentonville, convey-
ancer, a div. of 2s. 84d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portu-
gal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
D. Brown, 1, Little Chapel-street,Wardour-street, Soho,
eatinghouse-keeper, a div. of is. 10,'„d. in the pound, pay-
able at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
T. Thompson, late of South Shields, journeyman cur-
rier, a div. of 3s. 4d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portu-
gal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
M. A. Holt, 102, Great Titchfield-street, Oxford-street,
boardinghouse-keeper, a div. of 34. 2d. in the pound, pay-
able at §, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
W. Hood, late of Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, cur-
rier, a div. of 2s. 2d. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.
T. Price, late of Pill, Somersetsbire, licensed victualler,
a div. of 4s. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street,
Lincoln's-inn.

J. Ediugton, late of Liverpool, assistant in an iron
manufactory, a div. of 10s. ld. in the pound, payable at
5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
A. Richardson, Richmond, clerk in the Money Order
Department, Post-office, a div. of 4s. in the pound, pay-
able at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
C. Davey, 4, Rockingham-row East, New Kent-road,
wholesale milliner, a div. of is. lid. in the pound, pay-
able at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
J. Ahlborn, Liverpool, haberdasher, a div. of ls. lid. in
the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn.
William Bevington, late of Swansea, pipe manufacturer,
a dividend of 10Id. in the pound, payable at 5, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.

Henry Pierce, of Rhyl, Flintshire, publican, first divi-
dend of 7d. in the pound, payable at County Court, St.
Asaph.

- DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED.
T. Brooks, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, and
Saudown, Southampton, wine and spirit merchant, Dec.
27 G. B. Pouting, Devizes, Wiltshire, innkeeper, Dec.
27—R. W. Johnson, Gloucester, wine and spirit merchant,
Dec. 27—T. Parker, Southport, Lancashire, hotel keeper,
Dec. 26—L. Aulborn, Liverpool, toy dealer, Dec. 26
R. Beckett, Liverpool, currier, Dec. 26—Jessie Shaw,
Longton, Staffordshire, stationer, Dec. 19.

CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
W. Turner, 34, King-street, Golden-square, licensed vic-
tualler, Dec. 27—J. Hunter, Burscough, Lancashire, ship-
wright, Dec. 27—J. Braithwaite, Stafford, miller, Jan. 7
—R. Goodwin, Derby, grocer, Jan. B—W. Wright,
Loughborough, Leicestershire, miller, Jan. 8.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
J. Nicholas, Birmingham, painter and glazier—W.
James, Birmingham, tailor—S. T. Barr, Birmingham,
wood engraver—W. Duesbury, Birmingham, auctioneer—
J. Wareing, Birmingham, wood turner—E. Largo, Bir-
mingham, appraiser—E. Wylde, Birmingham, engine
fitter—J. Boulton, Church Coppenhall, Cheshire, grocer—
T. Smith, Nantvvich, licensed victualler—J. W. Davies,
Worthing, dealer in toys—H R. Ellie, Shoreham Coast
Guard Station, Sussex, chief officer—C. Sydenham, Salis-
bury, shoemaker—H. Denly, Brighton, grocer—F. Clif-
ford, Brighton, eating-house keeper—J. Livock, Dickle-
burgh, Norfolk, assistant to a general shopkeeper—W.
Manning, Bury St. Edmunds, baker—J. Crook, Bath, but-
cher—E- Tompkins, Frome, Somersetshire, dealer in fancy
goods—R. Fait hurst, Macclesfield, journeyman joiner
J. Lane, Macclesfield, labourer—W. Kirkham, Maccles-
field, watchman— S. Goodall, Congleton, Cheshire, publi-,
can—N. Mercer, Prescot, Lancashire, watch frame maker
—J. Bowel!, North Lopham, Norfolk, shoemaker—T.
Trowell, Draycott, Derbyshire, shoemaker—J. Bircher,
Litchurch, Derbyshire, beerhouse keeper.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

D. Hum and T. Hum, 3, St. Michael's-alley, Cornbill,
boot and shoe makers—M. Williams and Rees H. Rhys,
Aberdare, Glamorganshire, manufacturers of bricks—W.
Levier and R. T. Buck, 61, George-street, and 79, Baker-
street, Portman-square, linen drapers—T. Molinens and
J. Cunliffe, Manchester, silk manufacturers—J. Horner,
J. Holt, and W. Ashworth, Bacup, Lancashire, cotton
manufacturers—G. F. Nelson and C. R. Nelson, 104,
Fleet-street, advertising agents—J. Haworth, W. Cunliffe,
and W. G. Hird, Bridge Clough, Lancashire (so far as re-
gards W. Cunliffe)—l. Abrahams and T. Brain, jun., 52,
Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, accountants—Joseph
Sweeny and Joseph Hughes, Manchester, silk manufac-
turers—S. Drake and J. Blowfield, Maidenhead, Berkshire,
blacksmiths—W. P. Chance, T. Chance, Marst•gate lane,
Stratford, bone boilers—S. Mason and C. A. Burrell, New-
port, Monmouthshire, dealers in china—J. Atkins, jun.,
and H. Atkins, Sutton, Surrey, lime burners—W. Wood
and E. Wood, Spalding, Lincolnshire, linen drapers.