The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-12 00:00:00

Thompson, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, coach spring
maker, June 13, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
A. Lett, Commercial-road, Lambeth, timber merchant,
31c1 any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basin zhall-street.
E. M. Totterdell and J. Gruchy, Portsea, woollen
draper, ss. 3d., any Wednesday, between eleven and
three, at the office of Mr. WI hitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. Ranstord, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, coal,
porter, and ale merchant, 3s. 4d., any Thursday, be-
tween eleven and three, at the ffice of Mr. Christie,
Birmingham.
J. and C. D. Matthews, Chipping Norton, Oxford-
shire, and Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, bankers
and grocers, first dividend of 75., and second of 35., on
Thursday, May 10, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir-

mingham.
Bale, Brothers, and Hellings, Rugeley, Staffordshire,
brewers, first dividend of 2s. 3d., and second of 2d., on
Thursday, May 'lO, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir-
mingham.
W. H. Gratrix and J. Taverner, Nuneaton, War-
wickshire, silk and ribbon manufacturers, 2s. 2J., on
Thursday, May 10, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir.
mingharn.
C. Broad, Bristol, timber merchant, second dividend
of 6,171.., together with first dividend of ls. 11d., upon
new proofs, any Wednesday, between ten and twelve,
at the office of Mr. Miler, Bristol.
J. Whitworth, Leeds, millwright, Be, any day after
May 10, betweeen eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Young, Leeds.
J. Dent, Huddersfield, cloth merchant, 2s. 3id., on
subsequent proofs, any day after May 10, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. G. Walker, Newick, Sussex, apothecary, June 5,
at lilf-past eleven—R. Wynne,;Brentford, grocer, June
5, at eleven—T. Floyd, Wendover, Buckinghamshire,
cattle dealer, June 6, at half past twelve—G. Francis,
Rayleigh, Essex, innkeeper, June 8, at eleven—N. W.
Hill, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, plumber, June 8, at
twelve—P. Cruikshank, J. Melville, and W. F. Street,
Austin-friars, City, merchants, June 6, at eleven—J.
Nash, Globe wharf, Rotherhithe, and Strood, Kc nt,
timber and hop merchant, June 8, at half-past eleven—
T. Pearson, Blaudford-street, Portman-square, butter-
man, June 14, at eleven—C. H. Swann, Sandford; J.
Swann, Wolvercote; and W. Swann, Ensham, Oxford•
shire, paper makers, June 5, at eleven.
In the Country.
G. S. Y. Bricknell, Cheltenham, coach proprietor,
at the Court, Bristol, June 1 at eleven—lL Kenward,
Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, tailor, at the
Court, Bristol, June 1, at eleven—T. Coates, Sunder-
land, wine merchant, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, June 3, at eleven—E. Lax, Berry Edge, Durham,
grocer, at the Court, Newea,stle-upon-Tyne, June 8, at
h Alf-past ten—T. Reddy, Bridlington, Yorkshire, printer,
at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon. Hull, June 13, at halt-
past ten—G. liouldsworth, Northowran, Yorkshire,
worsted spinner, at the Court, Leeds, June 1, at eleven
—G. Kyrke, Bryn Malley, Denbighshire, lime burner,
at the Court, Liverpool, June 11, at eleven.—W. Green,
Birkenhead, auctioneer, at the Court, Liverpool, June 7,
at eleven—A. Egerton, Over, Cheshire. builder, at the
Court, Liverpoo,, June 6, at eleven—M. Kirk, Notting-
hem, builder, at the Court, Nottingham, June 8, at ten
—A. I'. Halliday and E:iza Paten, Cornbroek, and Sal-
ford, Lancashire, manufacturiog chemists, at the Court,
Manchester, June 7, at eleven—J. Scott, Manchester,
bootmaker, at the Court, Manchester, June 5, at one—
C. Kent, Ashbuurn, Derbyshire, draper, at the Court,
Manchester, June 5, at twelve.
At the Court of Review, June 1.
G. Workman, Water-lane, Brixton, beer shop keeper
—E. Perks, Redditch and Stokes Mills, Worcestershire,
needle manufacturer—S. Adcock, Edward's-street, St.
Marylebone, working jeweller—A. Reynolds, Charter-
house street, Aldersgate-street, engraver—A. Mitchell,
Cardiff, draper—H. Ready, Hounslow, builder—T. Ives,
Wakefield, dyer —W. Allen, Watton, Norfolk, innkeeper
—J. C. Fletcher, Trafalgar road, Greenwich, coal mer-
chant—D. Evans, jun., Liverpool, coach builder.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Musgrave and J. Musgrave, Laugbton, near Gains-
borough, farmers—R. Barlow and J. Reed, Liverpool,
watchmakers—J. Fear and T. Fletcher, Stockporr,
Cheshire, joiners—D. Evans and C. Wakeford, Cardiff,
newspaper proprietors—T. Arnall and C. J. Tinker,
Pontefract, Yorkshire, chemists and druggists—J. Col-
bourn, S. Growcutt, J. Turley, and T. Turley, Bank-
field-works, near Bilston, ironmasters (so far as regards
J. Turley and T. Turley)—E. Bury, T. A. Curtis, J.
Kennedy, and J. Vernon, in and near Liverpool, iron
shipbuilders—W. Mills and J. Skinner, Brighton, meal-
men—T. Smith, Elizabeth Wilden, and B. Wilden, Bir-
mingham, drapers—ll. Elphee, G. Jackson, and A.
Jackson, Maidstone, linendrapers—J. Brown and W.
Clay, West Derby, near Liverpool, plumbers, painters,
and glaziers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.-
John Prime, Cambridge, journeyman carpenter.
Robert Stevens, Cambridge, college servant:
Amos Tomkins, Swanbourne, near Winslow, Buck.
inglaamslaire, baker.
Robert Dickens, Stewkeley, Buckinghamshire, farmer.
Mary Spencer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
William Edward Gingell, Bath, engraver.
Charles Shrubsole Palmer, Sheerness, grocer.
Thomas Winsley, Bridgenorth.
Richard Tree, Clyst St. Mary, Devonshire, market gar
dener.
Edward Watson, Sheerness.
William Johnson, Queenborough, butcher.
Charles Young, Shrewsbury Gaol, taskmaster.
Rev. John Dawson, Llangar, Merionethshire, clerk.
John Wylie, Hanley, Staffordshire.
Evan Roberts, Casginhigbgate, Denbigshire, farmer.
Luke Davis, jun., Wolverhampton.
Thomas Nutridge, Bilston, Staffordshire, butty collier.
Joseph Richard Hart, Cambridge, bookbinder.
John Collins, Cambridge, butcher.
William Kempson Walker, St. Georges'-street, East.
John Hitting, Cambridge, beer seller.
Charles Matthews, Bath, baker.
Thomas Dagg, Bath, coal dealer.
James Roberts, Bridgewater, journeyman blacksmith.
Isaac Hoyle, Headingley-cum-Burley,'.near Leeds, York.
shire, wire drawer.
John Norman, jun., Bungay, tinman.
John Burgess, Lowestoft, shoemaker.
Thomas Jepson Wagner, Oxford, attorney.
Robert Watson, Manchester, music seller.
James MeDougall, Longsight, near Manchester,.
Joseph Burgess, Hulme, near Manchester.
William Perry, Salford.
Henry Easor, Liverpool, bootmaker.
James Butcher, Salford, butcher.
James Moffatt, Chilton Polden, Somersetshire, tailor.
John Newton, Ashford, Kent, ostler.
William Pierce, Canterbury, ginger beer manufacturer.
Edward Ovenden, Canterbury.
John Bayldon, Wanstrow, Somersetshire, clerk.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Forbes, Taymount, Kinclaven, Perthshire, farmer
and shipowner, to meet May 16 and June 6, at one,
within the City Hall, Perth.
G. Williamson, Aberdeen, cattle-dealer, to meet
May 16 and June 6, at twelve, within the Advocates'
Hall, Aberdeen.
A. Lorn, Ardrishaig, Argyleshire, fisherman, to meet
May 19 and June 9, at two, within the Wellington
Hotel, Dunoon.
Barbara Williams, Edinburgh, milliner, to meet
May 17 and June 7, at two, within the Ship Hotel,
Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com.
pnted from the returns made in the week ending May 8
1649, is 255. 83/4d. per cwt.

THE ISLAND OF HONG-KONG—long-Kong is an
abbreviation of Heang-Kcang, which, in the Chinese
language, signifies the valley of fragrant waters, and
it is one of the group of islands which lie north
of the estuary leading to Canton, in latitude 22 deg.
17 min., and longitude 114 dcg. 12 min. east, and is
distant from Macao 42 miles, and from Canton
105 miles. Hong-Kong is about ten miles in
length, and four and a half in breadth ; the noble
harbour is nearly four miles in length, and rather more
than one and three-quarters in width. Hong-Kong of
one of that cluster of islands, called by the Portuguese
the Ladrones, or Piratical Islands, and is a barren
region, which although in many parts cultivated with
persevering industry by the Chinese inhabitants, scarcely
repays the agriculturist for his labour, as vegetation will
not thrive in this " insalubrious colonial possession of
the British." A rocky sterile mountain rises from the
shore, the height of which is 1,000 to 2,000 feet above
the level of the sea, on whose side the town of Victoria
is built, where houses of every variety of form
have sprung up, with continuous ranges of build-
ings, interspersed with detached and enclosed
villas, where lately revelled the venomous serpent and
Poisonous centipede The island has been held in ill
repute by the Chinese nation from time immemorial, as
one most unhealthy, and from being the resort of
pirates, thieves, and depraved characters of every
description; and' when taken possession of by
us, the whole population, which was under eight
thousand, consisted principally of this disreputable
class; and although many have left, still the insecurity
of property to and in the in Hong-Kong is proverbial, and daring
acts of piracy occur continually near
har-
bour of Victoria, within sight of our men-of-war. The
extreme eastern and western parts of Victoria are com-
posed of Chinese streets and bazaars, where articles and
curiosities essentially Chinese are to be found, as well as
those of European origin or manufacture. Some few
villages are distributed over the island, but Chuck-choo,
a military station on the southern side, is the largest,
the population of which does not amount to seventeen
hundred. Sai-Wan, a smaller village on the east, is
also occupied as a military station and sanitorium for
our troops, the native population of which does not
amount to five hundred.—China and the Chinese.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLMASTERS' AND
SCHOOLMISTRESSES' MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—A
meeting was held yesterday at St. Martin's National
School, Trafalgar-square, for the purpose of forming a
Church of England Schoolmasters' and Schoolmistresses'
Mutual Assurance Fund.—His Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury was in the chair, and tho Bishop of Win-
chester, Lichfield, and Manchester were present. An
abstract of the rules and regulations was read, and the
society formally established, after which a vote of
thanks was given to his Grace, and the meeting broke up.
PARIS EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART.—The Na-
tional Assembly has d-termined that the annual exhibi-
tion of the modern productions of art shall take place in
the ci-;levant palace of the Tuileries, now named the
" ralais National." It will not open before the 15th of
June. The Exposition of Industrial Art will open
June Ist.—Builder.