The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-12 00:00:00

MEMORANDUM.

Lieut. P. Murdoch, upon half-pay 36th Foot, has
been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of an
Unattached Commission, Jan. 12.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
Samuel Strangman and Joshua Strangman Davis and
Joshua Robirson, Liverpool, merchants.
Samuel March, Kennington, Surrey, lace-manufactarer:
BANKRUPTS.

David Crole, Sweeting's-alley, Cornhill, exchange'
broker to surrender, Jan. 19, 26, and Feb. 23, at ten, at
the Court of Commissioners. Paterson and Peile, Old
Broad-street.

Daniel Smith, Walham Green, stage-coach proprietor,
Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Com-
missioners. 'Willis, Sloane-square, Chelsea.
Richaid May, avonport, tobacconist, Jan. 25, 26, and
Feb. 23, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport.
Smith, Ba‘inghall-street ; Husband, Devonport.
Andrea Gaetano Ripamonti, Fox Ordinary-court, Ni-
cholas-lane, merchant, Jan. 15, 22, at ten, Feb. 23, at'
twelve, at the Court of C.nntnissioners. Coombe, Tok,!n-
house-yard.
Thomas Ellam, Liverpool. bricklayer, Jan. 25, 26, awl
Feb. 23, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.
Corr, Liverpool; Chester, Stnp!es-Inn, London.
Joseph Birka, Wickersley, Yorkshire, maltster, Jan. 16.
18, and Feb. 23, at ten, at the Guildhall. Lever, Gray'a
Inn-square, London ; Fisher, Doncaster.
Joseph Robison Stephenson, Manchester, ironmonzer,
Feb. 1,2, at three, and 23, at nine, at the Palace Inn,
Manchester. Hampson, Manchester; Ellis, Walmsleyt
and Gorton, Chancery-lane, London.
Robert Franklin, Southampton-row, tailor, Jan. 15, at
twelve, 22, at eleven, and 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Commissioners. Broueh, Chancery-lane.

Thomas Crump and John Crump, Tewkesbury, ins Alen..
drapers, Jan. 28, four, at the Fleece Inn, Tewsbury, 29,
and Feb. 23, at ten, at Brookes and Hays's office, Tewkr....
bury. King, Serjeant's inn, Fleet-street, London;
Brookes ano Hays, Tewkesbury.
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Thomas Packwood, Weishpool, Montgomeryshire, Fed-.
2,3, and 23, at one, at the Globe Tavern, Birminghan..
Tooke and Carr, Bedford-row, London ; Griffiths, Bk.-
mingham.

William Dawson, Tetford, Lincolnshire, Carpenter,
Feb. 10, at seven, 11, and 23, at eleven, at the Masons'
Arms Inn, Louth. Pye, Louth ; Young and Veiling('
Saint 11ildred's- court, Poultry.
Richard Geddes, Fenchurch-street, wine-merchant, Jan.
15, at eleven, 22, at ten, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the
Court of Commissioners. Murphy, Castle-alley, Cornhill.
Samuel Cooke, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer, J..n.
22, at three, 23, at eleven, and Feb. 23, at ten, at the
King's Head Inn, Coventry. Austin and Hobson, Gray's
Inn ; Troughton and Lea, Coventry.
Thomas Bellamy and Wi Ilirn Clark, Woodbridge, Suffolk,
drapers, Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court
of Commissioners. Jones, Size-lane, London.

James Horridge, Liverpool, confectioner, Jan. 26, 27►
and Feb. 23, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Smith, Chancery-lane, London; 13ristowe, Liverpool.
John Wood, Mitten Lam, Buckinghamshire, baker,
Jan. 15, 22, at nine, and Feb. RS, at eleven, at the Court
of Commissioners. Lovell, Gray's Inn ; Nash Wyeombet
Bucks.

INCREASE OF POSTAGE.—The TCTIIOII4 Of
the Post-office Establishment from Lombard-street to St.
Martin's-le-Grand, has increased the distance from Chelms-
ford to upwards of thirty miles, by about a furlong—tka
consequence is an increase of one penny postage upon all
'caul passing between this town and the metropolis,'
which will hereafter be charged Id. This circamstaneo
will probably not affect any other place in the e0anty........
Chelmsford Chronicle.
I NI PUD ENC E.—Never fear the march of talent;
impudence is the true security. Impudence works its
way with kings, queens, and rabble. It is the only faculty
of nine-tenths of all the rising fellows of the day. Seehotif
it supplies the place of education, brains, birth, and breed-
ing. It teaches one all that he knows of finance, and the
English laugnage ; another, all that he knows of eominoo
law, or common sense; to another it is principle, and to
all profit. It catches the ear of a monarch, and the heart
of a mistress. I have known it give a dasher the reputa-
tion of a rent-roll ; with three executions on his tandem,
and his worldly possessions limited to his Goat; and give
another the reputation of saintahip, witk his coat so shab-
bily turned, that it would have been a kindness to strip
him of it altogether.—Monthly Magazine.
SINGULAR ZOOLOGICAL FACT.—It is well
known that animals in a state of nature, when by some
secret impulse they feel their end approaching, always re-
tire to the moat hidden recess, where as if pursued by it
dreaded demon, they await the fatal moment solitary and
unseen ; hence it is rare to find a wild animal which has
died in the open fields. A remarkable circumstance
illustrative of this principle of instinctive foreknowledge
has long been familiar in Callendar policy, in the eastern
half of which a number of sheep are yearly put to grilse.
It necessarily happens that during the season a few die A
fair etrae death. On these occasions the doomed animal
invariably forsakes its companions, and wanders from the
flock towards the side of a steep hill facing the nortb,
where, under shelter of a small p!autation, it patiently
lies down without tasting the pasture on which its car-
case is soon to be stretched, food for the fox and the erovr.
—Scotsman.

STATE Or TRADE.-HALIYAY.--•There 15
little worthy of remark since our last. The business done
at the piece-hall, on Saturday, was much as we have re'
ported it for several weeks past. The stocks of many of
the purchasers are heavy ; and at this season •f the year,
without a prospect of a ready market, many of the ma"
nnfacturers do not care to keep their works and hands iv
Cull employ. Still, some of the factories are running the
nsnal hours; and the demand fur " lastings" is consider'
able ; but for merinos there are an purchasers, and fir
other sorts the phrase of " flat, stale, and unproitablet
may safely be applied. At Huddersfield, on Tuesday,
large quantity of igoods were sold, but at Bradford, on
Thursday, little or no business was duing.—HaisfaN
Chronicle.

ENORMOUS SKATE.—The largest skate ever
caught by our fishermen, was a few days since brought
ashore at Burghead. Its extreme length was seven feel
eight inches ; breadth six feet ten inches • thickness one
foot two inches and a half; and it weighed !27 English
pounds. It was purchased for three shillings by a butcher,
who had been keeping his Christmas, and who remarked
that he would make a gable of it for his shop, which A
mad ox had driven down the previous night. I fevf
hours aft2rwards, however, he sent his horn through the
village intimating that he had good beef and mutton al
threepence per pound, end skate for a farthing! Fur-
thermore the good-humoured flesher intimated that those
who had no money might get skate on credit, and wool('
have themselves to blame if they wanted Christmas ill"'
—lnverness Courier.