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, ,
any Wednesdey, between eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basin shall.street.
E. M. Totterdell and J. Gruchy, Portsea, woollen
draper, ss. 3d., any Wednesday, between eleven and
three, at the cffice of Mr. W hitmore, Basingha i
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J. Ransford, Leamington Priors, Warwickshre, coal,
porter, and ale merchant, 3s. 4d., any Thursday, be-
tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie,
Birmingham.
J. and C. D. Matthews, Chipping Norton, Oxford-
shire, and Chipping Campdsn, 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.
Bile, Brothers, and Hellings, Rugeley, Staffordshire,
brewers, first dividend of 2s. 3d., and second of 2d., on
Thursday, May ;10, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir-
mingham.
W. 11. Gratri:e and J. Taverner, Nuneaton, War-
wickshire, silk and ribbon manufacturers, 2s. 21, on
Thursday, May 10, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir •
mingham.
C. Broad, Bristol, timber merchant, second dividend
of 641.., together with first dividend of Is. 11d., upon
new proofs, any Wednesday, between ten and twelve,
at the office of Mr. Allier, Bristol.
J. Whitworth, Leeds, millwright, Bs., any day after
May 10, betweeen eleven and two, at the' office of Mr.
Young, Leeds.
J. Dent, Huddersfield, cloth merchant, 2s. 30., 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 half-past eleven-R. Wynne,:Brentford, grocer, June
5, at eleven-T. Floyd, Wendover, Buelsiughamshire,
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, Kent,
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-H. 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 8, at eleven-E. Lax, Berry Edge, Durham,
grocer, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 8, at
half-past ten-T. Teddy, Bridlington, Yorkshire, printer,
at the Town-hall, liingston-upon•Hull, June 13, at halt-
past ten-G. Houldsworth, 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 eleveleven.-W. Green,
Birkenhead, auctioneer, at the Court, Liverpool, June 7,
at eleven-A. Egerton, Over, Cheshire, builder, at the
Court, Liverpool, June 6, at eleven-M. Kirk, Notting-
ham, builder, at the Court, Nottingham, June 8, at ten
-A. P. Halliday and Eliza Paton, Cornbrook, and Sal-
ford, Lancashire, manufacturing chemists, at the Court,
Manchester, June 7, at eleven-J. Scott, Manchester,
bootmaker, at the Court, Manchester, June 5, at one-
C. Kent, Ashbourn, 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-
heuse street, Aldersgate-street, engraver-A. Mitchell,
Cardiff, draper-11. Ready, Hounslow, builder-T. Ives,
Wakefield, dyer -W. Allen, Waiter], Norfolk, innkeeper
-J. C. Fletcher, Trafalgar road, Greenwich, coal mer-
chant-D. Evans, jun., Liverpool, ceaeh builder.
PA R'FNERS HIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Musgrave and J. Musgrave, Laughton, sear Gains
borough, farmers-R. Barlow and J. Reed, Liverpool,
watchmakers-J. Fear and I'. Fletcher, Ssockport,
Cheshire, joiners-D. Evans and C. Wakeford, Cardiff,
newspaper preprieters-T. Arnall and C. J. Tinker,
Pontefract, Yorkshire, chemists and druggists-J. Col-
bourn, S. Growcutt, J. Turley, end T. Turley, Bank-
field- works, near Bilston, ironmasters (so tar as regards
J. Turley and T. Turley)-El. 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-IL 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-
inghamshire, baker.
Robert Dickens, Stewkeley, Buckinghamshire, farmer.
Mary Spencer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
William Edward Gingen, Bath, engraver.
Charles Shrubsole Palmer, Sheerness, grocer.
Thomas Winsley, Bridgexiorth.
Richard Tree, Clyst St. Mary, Devonshire, market gar-
dener.
Edward Watson, Sheerness.
William Johnson, Quetnborough, 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, Bitston. Staffordshire, butty collier.
Joseph Richard Hart, Cambridge, bookbinder.
John Collins, Cambridge, butcher.
William Kempson Walker, St. Georges'-street, East.
John Hilling, Cambridge, beer seller.
Charles Matthews, Bath, baker.
Thomas Dagg, Bath, coal dealer.
James Roberts, Bridgewater, journeyman blacksmith.
Isaac Hoyle, Headingley-cum-Burleyosear 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 M`Dougall, Longsight, near Manchester,.
Joseph Burgess, Hulme, near Manchester.
William Perry, Salford.
Henry Ensor, Liverpool, bootmaker.
James Butcher, Salford, butcher.
James eioffstt, Chiltoa Polden, Somersetshire, tailor.
John Newton, Ashford, Kent, ostler.
William Pierce, Canterbury, ginger beer manufacturer.
Edward Ovenden, Canterbury.
John alyidon, Wanstrow, Somersetshire, clerk.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Forbes, Taymouut, Kinclaven, Perthshire, farmer
and shipowner, to sus et 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-
puted from the returns made in the week ending .lay 8,
1849, is 255. 83/4d. per cwt.

Tax IsLLND OF HONG KONG.—Hong-Kong is an
abbreviation of Hesng-Keang, 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 deg. 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
P•
irates thieves, and depraved characters of every
description; and when taken possession of by
as, the whole population, which was under eight
thousand, consisted principally of this disreputable
class; and although many have left, still the
and insecurity
of property in Hong-Kong is proverbial, daring
acts of piracy occur continually near to and in the 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
villacres 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.
CIIURCH of ENGLAND SCHOOLMASTERS AND
SCHOOLMISTRESSES' MUTUAL ASSURANCE SociETY.--A
meeting was held yesterday at Si. 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
Caoterbury µas in the chair, and the Bishop of Win
cheater, Lichfield, and Manchester were present. An
abstract of the rules and regulations was read, and the
society formally established, atter which a vote of
thank; was given to his Grace, and the meeting broke up.
PARIS EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART.—The Na-
ional Assembly has d-termined that the annual exhibi-
tion of the modern productions of art shall take place in
the ci-devant palace of the ..luileries, now named the
" Petals National." -It will not open before the 15th of
-The Exposition of Industrial Art will open
June lst‘--Builder. • -