The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-22 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Saunders, jun., bookseller, Paternoster-row, Jan. 14, at half-
past eleven—D. Francis, surgeon, Goswell-street-road, Jan. 14, at
half-past twelve—J. Cates, jun., surgeon, Beaumont-street, St.
Marylebone, Jan. 14, at half-past one—J. Grant and J. Reid, ship-
owners, Mansell-street, Minories, Jan. 11, at one—J. Miller, sta-
tioner, Drury-lane, Jan. 11, at two—T. C. Matheson, shipowner,
Mansell-street, Minories, Jan. 11, at half-past one—R. Armistead,
straw hat manufacturer, Liverpool, Jan. 11, at eleven-.•W..1.
Cockerill, music seller, Poultry, Jan. 11, at twelve—G. B. Hard-
ing, Cannon-street, City, Jan. 11, at eleven—J. D. Stevens, paper
maker, Two Waters, Hertfordshire, Jan. 12, at one—W. Elkins,
bookseller, Oxford-street, Jan. 11, at two.
In the Country.
H. Jones, china manufacturer, Hanley, Staffordshire, Jan. 11, at
ten, at the Swan Inn, Hanley—T. Compson, Hales Owen, Shrop-
shire, Jan. 15, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham—G.
Lowthian, draper, Exeter, Jan. 29, at twelve, at the Clarence
Hotel, Exeter—J. T. Thring, Warminster, Wiltshire, Jan. 9, at
eleven, at the Bath Arms Inn, Warminster--J. Cowgill and Co.,
Manchester, Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms,
Manchester—R. and W. Senior, dealers, Manchester, Jan. 17, at
ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—E. Jones, linen
draper, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Jan. 18, at one, at the Mack-
worth Arms Inn, Swansea.

CERTIFICATES.—JAN. 11.
J. B. Falkner, sharebroker, Liverpool—E. Walker and Co.,
clothiers, Thurstonland, Yorkshire—R. Nicholson, wine merchant,
Leicester-place—J. B. Law, warehouseman, Bow-lane, Cheapside
—T. Boyle, muslin manufacturer, Alancheqer—H. A. Eaton
miller, Lutley Mill, Worcestershire—H. E. Mosely, licensed vic-
tualler, Forest Gate, West Ham, Essex.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. Hall and T. Beesley, joiners, Garstang, Lancashire—R. J.
Ravenscroft and W. G. Nisbet, cabinet makers, King-street, Hol-
born—T. Marevood, jun. and Co., printers, Sunderland—J.
Griffee and C. Palmer, brush manufacturers, Cloak-lane, City—
W. H. Dikes and W. Gibson, ship builders, Kingston-upon-Hull,
Yorkshire—W. :levan and W. Whitehead, iron founders, Dukin-
field, Cheshire—W. Kilburn and Co., iron founders, Elland, York-
shire—J. and J. W. Gratton, maltsters, Chesterfield—S. A. Hur-
ton and P. W. Griffiths, letter-press printers, Liverpool—J.
Brooke and Co., iron founders, Halifax—G. Porter and W. T.
Arnold—J. H. Ivan and Co., distillers, Battersea—A. Schloss and
E. Allpress, booksellers, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury—J. and
A. poorhouse,
brewers,butehersiiveoldrphoaoml., Lancashire—T. Lambert and E.
Bond, vinegar

Dr. Birkbeck's complaint has taken a favourable
turn, and he is out of danger.
MR. WARD'S NEW WORK.--The title of the
new production by the accomplished author of " Tremaine,"
~ Pictures of the World, at Home and Abroad," is
most happily borne out in the three masterly delineations
to which it refers. The " pictures are as striking and
graphic in their general effect as they are true to nature in
their minutest details. The titles of them are alone suffi-
cient to pique that curiosity which their perusal will so
amply gratify. " Penruddock ; or, the High-minded ;"
and " The Enthusiasts !" What promises do these titles
give, when applied to two tales by one of the most amiable
of " enthusiasts," and most " high-minded" of English gen-
tlemen. The th"d tale is called " Sterling ; or the Knight
of Swithin's ;" very felicitously delineates and contrasts
the various modes offashionabk and would-be fashionable life.

Yesterday morning, in most of the public thorough-
fares, placards were posted in tradesmen's windows, an.
nouncing that after a certain date (in most instances from and
after the Ist of January of the ensuing year) their shops and
warehouses would be closed at eight o'clock. Some few,
however, stated that they had adopted nine as the hour
for closing.