The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-04 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

RICHARD PIERCE, druggist, Wellington, Shropshire, to
surrender Aug;;ct 17 and Sept. 14, at eleven, at the Shire-hall,
Shrewsbury. Newman, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London; Tanner,
Wellington, Salop.
WILLIAM BARRETT, girth-web-manufacturer, Haserbury
Plucknett, Somersetshire, Aug. 15, and Sept. 14, at eleven, at the
Greyhound Inn, Rridport. Polme, Loftus, and Young. New l'nn,
London ; Murly and Tidcombe, Crewkerne, Somersetshire.
JOSEPH FARRAR, THOMAS CALVERLEY, and Wlte-
LIAM MAYORS, card-makers, Elland, Yorkshire, Aug. 24, at
twelve, at the George Inn, Huddersfield, and Sept. 14, at ten, at
the White Swan Inn, Halifax. Rushworths, Staple Inn, Holborn,
Lor.don ; Watson, Wakefield.

RICHARD GO UG H, worsted-dealer, Stourbridge, Worces-
tershire, Aug. 15, and Sept. 14, at ten, at the Vine Inn, Stour-
bridge. Clowes and Wedlake, King's' Bench-walk, Temple,
London ; Collis, Stourbridge.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghel-street.
W. Charleton and J. H. Reddell, white-lead and colour manu-
facturers, Berners-Atreet, Commercial-road East, Sept. 1, at one—•
W. Spring, plumber And glazier, Great Portland-street, Portland—
place, Sept. 1, at twei7e—W. Weston, merchant, Gracechurch-.
street, Sept. 1, at eleven.
In thse Country.
. . _ .

E. Sheppard, senior, and E. .Sheppard, junior, clothiers, Uley,
Gloucestershire, Sept. 3, at tweINT, at the Old Bell Inn, Dursley
—W. Bolton, linen-draper, York, Aug. 29, at one, at the Com-
missioners'-rooms, Manchester—S. coal and commission-
agent, Liverpool, Aug. 22,-at one; at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver-
pool—W. Long, ironmonger, Warminster, NN7llr3hire, Oct. 22, at
twelve, at the Bath Arms Inn, Warminster—G. J. S. Tomkins,
scrivener, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Aug. 29, at one, at
the Red horse Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon—W. Dic:.'son, draper,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sept. 14. at twelve, at the Bankrupt Com-
mission-room, Newcastle- upon- Tyne —J. Everett, grocer, Bur-
well, Cambridgeshire, Sept. 14, at twelve, at the Bull Inn, Cam-
bridge—l. J. T. Hayward, common-brewer, Downfield and Stroud,
Gloucestershire, Aug. 31, at ten, at the Golden Cross, Cainscross,
Gloucestershire—R. T. Latham, surgeon, Andover, Southampton,
Aug. 30, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Andover—W. Sandford
and J. Box, dyers, Salford, Sept. 5, at one, at the Comm'ssioners'-
rooms, Manchester—W. Constable, grocer, Hay, Brecknockshire,
and Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Aug. 28, at two, at the Ccrnmer-
cial-rooms, Bristol—T. Deakin and J. Vipond, ironmongers, Pon-
typool, Monmouthshire, Aug. 28, at one, at the Commercial-roams,
, at
Bristol-4. Sumner, carpenter, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Aug. 01,
Birmingham—F.
D—t Fe. e sHotel,
Deakin,
otlt timber-merchant,
er- 7hcahma
C. Turner, lodging-house. keeper, Leamington Priors, Warwick-
shire, A ug. 30, at twelve, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington
Priors—J. Moss, cotton-spinner. Haslingden. Lancashire, Sept. 3.
at two, at the Commissioners'-iomns, Manchester—W. Grundy,
!!ctton-spinner, nlkington, Lancashire, Sept. 5, at tea, at the Corn-
iner.::ll I", Holton-le-Moors.
CERTIFICATES, Attn. 24.

J. soutei., Exeter-street, builder, St. Luke, Chelsea—W. Top-
lis and T. ToIM.I. drapers, Nottingham.
rAit ;NEttSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Mary GravatiaidH. ill'Derniot, linen-drapers, Great Russell-
street—W. Marshall and - Hev:itt, tea-dealers, King William-
street—S. Dcwnitig and E. 111;.mphries, millwrights, Bilston,_uay,Staf-
fordshire—W. Scott, J.Scott, and is.• Scott, lighterruen,Cox'sQ
Thames-street—E. Hiude, scu., E. 1-17.ntle, jun., and F. Hinde
(so far as regards E. Hinde, seti. ), mazn,facturers, Norwich—H.
Iltsgreaves, J. Conolley, and K. Pearson. Ir..liter3, Wheathill, Sal-
ford—J. Grant anti E. Lawford, coal-merchant's, Leighton Buz-
zard, te Ifordshire—J. Smith and H. Palmer, taiijqs, Boston, Lin-
colnshire—S. Lees, E. Lees, A. Let-s, and J. Lees (so far as re-
gards S. and J. Lee,), roller-manufacturers, Soho, k.,reenacres-
moor, Lancashire—W. Nicol, It. Duckworth, and W. White-
head (so far as regards W. H. Whitehead), Liverpool—W. Jones
and H. Altham, lime-burners, Wapping-street, St. John of Wap,
ping—T. Brown and 11. Edes, checsemongers, Grafron-st.,•e6
Soho—lt. Peck and J. Hardmrit, check-manufacturers, Wigan,
Lancashire—J. Holdhant, J. Oldham, and G. ()Wham, black-
smiths, Norbur,ACheshire—T. itlarwood,jun., J. Vint, G.Wood,
S. Turncr, and B. L. White (so far as regards J. Vint, G. Wood,
and S. Turner), printers, Bishop V:earmouth, Durham.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING

PRACTICAL DESIGN.

A most grat:fying dcmnnstration of the increasing interest evinced in
the progress of this Society, was witnessed on Tuesday evening, in the
ass( mblage of an audience of :100.persons, including a number of ladies,
on the occasion of Mr. „Latitla's second lecture on the ancient but revived
art of fresc) painting, at the Society's Rooms, Saville House, Leiceitcr.

S~Uar~^.

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Air. Ls set's (who is a member el the Council) began by declaring
the necessity olcultitating the highs r branches of art, as the only means
of raising to eminence the inanu:actures of this country—that by en.
coura:titsg the higher we promoted the lower, and that he brought Mr_
ward the subject of fresco painting, as eminently calculated to call into
action talent that does exist, bit which, by the fisrce of example on the
one hand, and the want of encouractement au tug other, has been suffered
to remain dormant. In offering a icw plain ins:"uctions to the young
artist, he remarked that the student's ultimate objeit being painting, it
mu.t not be made a preliminary step, but assuming him to be endows d
w.tb a natural capacity, and an inclination for the art iwithout which he
hail better bestow his time and attention in some ot:at- pursuit) cau-
tioned him against too great an ambit i m to become an ,tsiist, km w ng
as he did many, who aiteiw.rds Is e'ing their own wasit,of suffeLnt
talent to rise in the procession, lamented that they Lad n b ail 0 ale
tradesmen or artiz ass. It was as yam t t el:pect to become a g oa nice
by in,re industry, without genius, as to expect 'o become a musician o.' nos t
without a ollisicA ear, or poetical taste. The nest step was to acquits s
fundamental knowle.!ge of the humin figure, by studying separately its
c-msponent parts ; and i i enforcing this precept, the lecturer quoted a
exark, of rusch's, that " a hair's.hreadth s,;!,tractqd from the under lip
of Apo:lo, would destroy
nohl, figure of Al) 4.0. the (3,1,1.4—(A1tent.,n was directed to the
; A thorouAls Imo% ledge o • ,"steotrgy and rnyo-
locry, or the doctrine of bones and mn.cles—t ha lecture,: declared to he
in. ispensable to the praet:ce oh high art, and referred to :he wor.ks of
Haph:.e!, Michael Ange:o,,da Vinci, and others, as proofs of the opinion.
The ancients, he said, were perfect masters in the aolication of anatomy
to the arts of design, whet ens, in modern works thejuMeious and delicate
expressions which proceed frOnl a knowledge of that science are und.
known. lie urged the necessity of studying from the livh.g and
conqaring it with the antique, in order to arrire at the truth and beauty

of natu c.
Mr. Lanlla then minutely explained the materials and their m.srie o f
management, ritcessary for this kind of painting, and exhibited's:me
specimen.; of his own execution —as also a series of engraved
illustrations of the Free:nos in the Loggie of the Vatican, and
the Listine Ctia:wl; and exprese'.xt his conviction that the
only prospect of advancing high art in this country was in the
ii.troduction of grand myna!, pictorial decorations, &c., et pt ay..
tised by the old masters, in c.hich opinion he was supported by EiCritce
Walpole, " Architee,s' Journal," and other authorities. He felt grati.
lied that this species of painting was beginning to he adopted in this
country by some Noble patrons of art, because it will he the surest
promotion os
among
means of developing native genius in each of the departments_his_
terical, animal, landscape, still life, and ornament ; and al.o the means
of extending the yrrat object of the Society—the practical
design and the diffusion of knowledge end tortef the
artall
classes.
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The Lecturer, after contrasts m the encouragement which had bet n
0,„, to high art in FrAiee with what it had received in this country,
then c:irected some pointed and severe remarks against some of of r in_
srii a inns for their marked suppression of it, and their encouragement of
a meaner description cf art, and concluded his interesting adL:ress with
treat satisfaction,

PRICE Or BREAD IN EDINDURGIL—Last Mon-
day the four pound leaf, best bread, was raised to 10,1. for ready mcney
(„r if pld within a mcnth), ana ILI& credit Facur 3s. 6d. per atone.