The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

FROM THE LOA'

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
John Orrell and John Godfrey Phipps, of Cheltenham,
surgeons—William Jennings and James Jennings, of New
Windsor, Berkshire, common brewers—Robert Fowler and
Joseph Phelps Fowler, of Rollington, Dorsetshire, farmers
—Thomas Sheldrake, John Mumford, and John Everitt
Chapman, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, wine merchants (so far
as regards the personal representatives of Thomas Shel-
drake):!--Thomas Shackell and John Care, of Bath, car-
penters— William Chilton and Benjamin Holdgate, of
Manchester, plumbers John Wingfield, Alexander
Bell, George Turnbull, and Thomas M. Staig, of East
Greenwich, Kent, cement manufacturers—Ann Sharpies
and John Tunnah, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire,
cheese factors—Richard Brown and Joseph Hunter, of
Burton-in-Lonsdale, and Settle, Yorkshire, cotton spin-
ners—Edmond Sharp and John Indermanr, of 2, Devon-
shire-terrace, High-street, St. Marylebone, attorneys
Thomas Russell and William Nathaniel Bowen, of New-
port, Monmouthshire, ship brokers—James Lever and
Stephen Rhodes, of Farnworth, Lancashire, joiners—
Clement Taylor and Thomas Jull. of Maidstone, chemists
—Lawrence Piccope and Christopher Parkinson, of Booth-
fold, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers—William Francis
Askham and William Robert Moreton, of Eckington, Der-
byshire, surgeons—Joseph Napoleon Bland and Henry
Van Voorst, of 72, Watling street, CitY, wholesale per-
fumers—Thomas White, sen., and Ebenezer White, of
Hartley Wintney, Southampton, grocers—Samuel Makant
and Charles Watson, of adienshlw, near Bury, calico
printers—John Wilson Hawksworth, Joseph Ellison, and
Joshua Moss,. of Sheffield, Nerth America, and Canada,
merchants (so far as regards Joshua Moss)—Frederick
Brown and George Clack, architects—Henry Shaw and
Walter Blackett, of 47, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
house agents—James Cowgill, Benjamin Jessop, and Joseph
Hopkinson; of Huddersfield, fancy woollen manufacturers
(so far as regards Joseph Hopkinson)—Thomas Leigh,
William Cawley, and Richard Capper, of Ashton-under
Lyne, drapers (so far as regards Thomas Leigh).

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act '
the Week ending on .4atu6
issUE DEP,

ENGLAND.
7rh and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
lay the lath day of July, I e 53.
'ARTMENT.

4 4
.
Notes issued ...• .... 31,549,855 I :overnment debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...—. 2,914,900
Gold coin and •builion 11,5-0,7 ,I
81,ver bul lon ........ 19,154

$31,549,855 I X 11,549,855
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier
Dated the 21st day of July, 1853.
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' capital .. 14.553,000
Rest ....... • • 3,240,220
Public deposits ',in-
cluding Excheiuer,
Commissioners of
14/atonal Debt, Say.
Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,332,814
Other depogi s .... 13,422,004
Seven Day and other
1,408,893

Government s,eurities
(Includg.i)ead Weight
Annuity) .... 13.757.333
Other securit es 13, 64,3 W
N tes .•. .
Gold and silver coin

434 95 :,931

£34,
MARSHALL, Chief Cashi 956,93
er.
Dated the 21st day of July, 103.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 19th day of
July, 18.53, is 245. 31. per hundred weight, exclusive
of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Greatßritain.

A FLOATING DWELLING ON TFIE RIVER DON, AT
DONCASTER.—A bout eighteen months ago, a boat be-
longing to an organised gang of persons, commonly
designated "The Trent Pirates," used to ply on the river
Trent for the purpose of affording an easy mode of
escape to those persons, who same time ago committed
serious depredations in the neighbourhood of Epworth,
Butterwich, and Gainsbro'. The police of the district
becoming aware of the manner in which these men
effected an escape, assembled one evening, and succeeded
in capturing the greater part of them, and they were
ultimately sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
Their noat was then Fold to a labourer, who, with his
wife and four children, have occupied the cabin as a
dwelling for the last 12 months, it having been moored
during that time in Mill Dyke. Although the cabin is
not many feet in circumference, it has been used as a
dwelling for six, where all domestic work has been per-
formed, and the birth of a child took place. The mother
died this (last) week in this place under most pitiable
and destitute circumstances.—Doncaster Gazette.
PRICE OF BREAD IN PARIS.—The Prase publishes a
table showing the assize price of bread in Paris for
every year since the commencement of the present cen-
fury up to this day. Tilt highest pr;ee ww, hi 1847.
for dur.ng a short period of that year 2 kiioga
greatrAmines
loaf (four pounds) cost lir 22c., nriti during
part of diat year the price varied from 90c. to 94c..
whereas in 1851 the price during a period •of three
months wat.; only 50 centimes. The now is 80 cen-
times, which it? the highest price for the last twelve
years with the exception of 1846 and 1847.

of YESTERDAY.

DOWNING-STR ET, JULY is.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Henry Barkly, Esq., some time Go-
vernor of the colony of British Guiana, to be an Ordinary
'ember of the Civil Division of the Second Class. or
Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath.

CROWN.OFFICE, JULY 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TRIG PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Cornwall (Western Division)—Michael Wil-
liams of Trevince, in the county of Cornwall, Esq., in the
room of Edward William Wynne Pendarves, Esq., de-
ceased.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 19.
Corps of Royal Marines —Second Lieutenant George
Nay'llr to be First Lieutenant, vice William Hutchinson,
cashiered.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
Colonel Charles Leslie, K.H., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
July 15.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Major Richard Ellison,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Henry, Eger-
ton, resigned ; Captain Weston Cracroft, to be Major, vice
Ellison, promoted; Edward Farr Broadbent, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, July 19.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thos.
Belsey Tomlin, Esq., to be Captain and Adjutant, vice
Maher, resigned, July 15.
Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry
—Frederick Newton Dickenson, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Calthorpe, promoted, Jnly 30.
(This article is substituted for that which appeared in the
Gazette of the 19th instant.)
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant John
Harrison Allan to be Captain, vice James Berkley, re-
signed, July 12.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Francis Harrisson, grocer, Chelmsford.

BANKRUPTS.
Stephen Davey, builder, Brighton, to surrender, July
30, and September 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
May and Sweetland, Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
Edward Thomas, builder, Ebury
11-street, Pimlico, July
30, and September 2, at half-past , at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, .Aldermanbury ; Gooday,
Brunswick-square.
Alfred Horlock, steam-engine manufacturer, Northfleet,
Aug. :3, at one, and Sept. 6, at half-past two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court ; Lindsay and Mason, Basinghall-street.
Matthew Pothecary, dealer, Martin, Wiltshire, August
5, at half-past twelve, and September 2, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bas-
inghall-street ; Bishop and Son, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars ; Hannan, Shaftesbury.
William Haining, grocer, Cheltenham, August 5, and
September 5, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol • Abbot and Lucas, Bristol.
John Evans, hotel-keeper, ioy Hotel, Hampton Court,
August 3, at twelve, and September 6, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street.; Jones, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street.
John Ireland, draper, Kingston-upon-Hull, August 3,
and September 7, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Sale, Worthington and
Shipman, Manchester; J. and H. Richardson, Leeds.
George Eland Pinder, grocer and tea-dealer, York, Aug.
9, and Sept. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Henry Philip Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Fry and
Loxley, Cheapside, London ; Rawson and Best, Leeds.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
Thomas Salkeld, of Basinghall-street, warehouseman,
second dividend of 'lid. in the pound, payable at 24, Basing.
hall street, on any Tuesday.
Joseph Henry .Dunne and John Venables, of 9, Craven-
street, Strand, shipowners, a dividend of 209. in the pound,
payable at 24, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday.
John Francis Bricknell Cabburn of Cumberland-row,King's-cross, St. Pancras, licens9d victualler, first dividend,
of 35. in the pound, payable at 24, Basingliall-street, on
any Tuesday.
William itobinson, of 49, Grand Junction-terrace, Edg-
ware-road, upholsterer, first dividend of ss. in The pouud,
payable at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on July
23, and three subsequent Saturdays.
Jacob Jenkins Nicholas, of Newport, Monmouthshire,
timber merchant, third dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound
(in addition to 14s. in the pound previously declared),
payable at 19; St. Augustine's place, Bristol, on any Wed-
nesday.
Christian Bruce Reid, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, brewer,
first dividend of is. in the pound, payable at the office of
Mr. T. Baker, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on any
Saturday.
Samuel Cole Harrison, of Sunderland, Durham, linen
draper, first dividend of 3s. 6d in the pound (on new proofs),
and a second dividend of 2d. in the pound, payable at the
office of Mr. T. 'Baker, Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, on any Saturday.
John Skidmore, of Sutton, Cheshire, pasteboard manu-
facturer, first dividend of 4s. 10d. inthe pound, payable
at 7, Charlotte-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
Eden Clark and Henry Bleakley, of Chorlton-upon-Med-
lock, Lancashire, ironmonger, a further dividend of ls. 14d.
in the pound, payable at 45, George street, Manchester, on
Aug. 2, or any Tuesday.
Richard Battersby (of the firm of Battersby and Telford,
of Liverpool, ironfounders), first dividend of ls. 6d. in the
pound, payable at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool, on
any Monday.

INSOLVENT PETITIONS.
William Reynolds, of Aston, Warwarshire, pearl button
manufacturer—Samuel Sheffield, of Birmingham patato
saleiman—William Leeson, of Tipton, Staftbrdshire, car-
rier's clerk--Abraham Shaw, of Dudley, Worcestershire,
tailor—Ben jarnin Di m m ock, of Rowley, Stafror, i shire, green
grocer—Edward Lee, of Lower-town, Devonshire, cord-
wainer—Wm. Burren, of Clathatn, cab driver—Wm. Plow-
right, of Cliffe, Kent, blacksmith—John Tippen, of Chiches-
ter, Sussex, general smith—Henry Earwaker Stone, of
Poling, Sussex, baker—Charles Harding, late of Colehill,
Dorsetshire, out of business—William Marsden, of Bolster-
atone, Yorkshire, tailor—Charles Besley, of Laira, Ply-
mouth, superannuated clerk —George Bull, of Bristol, re-
tailer of beer and tobacco—Joseph Mortimer, of Hudders-
field, Yorkshire, waste dealer—George 'Wilkinson, of
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, musical preceptor—David Chand-
ler Wilkinson, of Chestergate, Cheshire, shopkeeper—
William Cave Legg, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, baker
—Henry White, of Leicester, carver —James Nayler Sands,
of Leicester, watch maker—William Cowdrey, of Brighton,
tailor—John Pownall, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire,
shopman.