The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

In the Country.

R. Taylorson, Felling-shore, Durham, iron manufac-
turer, Nov. 13, at half-past ten, at the Court, Ni,weastle-
upon-Tyne— M. B. Bell, Nevvcastle-upon-Tyne,victualler,
Nov. 15, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—J. Steele, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, innkeeper, Nov.
13, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W.
Wilson, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, moister, Nov.
15, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne— B. C. Stenlake, Tavistock, Devonshire, watch-
maker, Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—F. Burt,
Plymouth, boardinghouse-keeper, Nor. 13, at eleven, at
the Court, Exeter—W. Dixon, Manchester, ironmonger,
Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Court, Manchestej—J. Turner,
°Akira, Lancashire, cotton spinner, Nov. 16, at eleven,
at the Court, Manchester—J. Stott, Ballatlen, Lan-
cashire, cotton spinner, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Court,
Manchester.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
J. MeteLer, Manchester, auctioneer, certificate of the
first class—J. Smith, Smith's-buildings, Ilansel'-street,
Whitechapel, spruce-merchant—E. Mumford, Great
Maplestead, Essex, miller, certificate of the second class
—W. Reeves, Iforseferry-road, Limohouse, live stock
dealer, co tificate of the third class—J. Ellis, Pontypool,
Monmouthshire, victualler, Oct. 19, certificate of the
first class, after 21 days—W. Soden, Gloucester, ship..
broker, Oct. 19, certificate of the second clasl, after 21
days.

By the Vice Chancellor, unless cause be shown on or

before Nov. 13.
H. Armistead, Barrowford, Lancashire, cotton spinner
—J. Mayer, Cheltenham, printer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Glasgow and D. Glasgow, Manchester, screw bolt
manufacturers and engineers—W. Kirkman and C.
Kirkman, High Holborn, grocers and tea dealers—J.
Burgess and C. Burgess, Harrington, Lancashire, grocers
and chandlers—W. Lyal and J. Tapson, James- street,
Covent-garden, potato salesmen—G. W. Finch and J.
G. Dobinton, and W. Genre, Lincoln's Inn-fields, at-
torneys and solicitors (so far as regards G. W. Finch)
Mary Ann Hackwood and W. Rockwood, Wednesbury,
Staffordshire, coopers—R. Procter and R. Procter,
Burnsall, Yorkshire, farmers, graziers, and cattle dealers
—F. Rigby, J. Fieetwood, and F. Rigby, jun., Birken-
head, Cheshire, painters, plumbers, and glaziers—T.
Aplin, J. B. Lawrence, and E. H. Lawrence, Bristol,
tailors end drapers—W. Pontine and J. King, Pitch-
comb, Gloucestershire, farmers--J. Jackson, T. Coston,
and W. Jones, Manchester and Prestwich, printers of
calicoes and muslins (so far as regards W. Jon( s)—J.
Wilson, J. W. llawksworth, J. Moss, and J. Eliison,
Sheffield, and United States of America, merchants and
manufacturers—J. Ryder and S. Ryder, Plymouth,
millers—J. Horswell, Stoke Damen], Devonshire, and
C. Weeks, Egg Rockland, Devonshire, millers and
farmers—W. B. Collis, E. Clowes, and E. Uhthoff,
Stourbridgo, Worcestershire, attorneys and solicitors—
G. F. Girdwood, Maida-hill, and H. Howlett, Cambridge-
terrace, Hyde-park, surgeons and apothecaries—J. Meek
and J. Gatis, Liverpool—W. Murrell, jun., and 0.
Murrell, Norwich, ironfounders—C. Ilitfe, J. Lin, and
T. Bate, Gresham-street, City, button manufacturers and
general trimming warehousemen.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Richard Carkset Coulson, Penzance, dispenser of me-
dicine.
Thomas Hales, South Dean, Kent, wool dealer.
Thomas Hernmin, jun., Cheltenham, porter.
Richard Harrison, Wateringbury, Kent, wheelwright.
William Knipe, Scredington, Lincolnshire, farmer.
Thomas Thielfall Hough, Liverpool, haberdasher.
Thomas Hill, Liverpool, greengrocer.
Robert Barnes, King's Lynn, Norfolk, fruiterer.
Job Casteletti, Leicester, dealer in looking glasses.
William W. Walden, Wiggenhall, St. Mary Magdalen,
Norfolk, cowk ceper.
William Liddle, Haa khurst, Kent, farming labourer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
R. Wilson, Glasgow, stationer, to meet within the
Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 26 and Nov. 16, at one.
J. Bogle and J. Rus-ell, Glasgow, grocers, to meet
within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 29 and Nov, 19,
at one.

CLAIRVOYANCE IN THE COTTON MARKET.—One
day last week a well-known cotton speculator, findi, g
himself at a loss what to do as to selling or holding of •
ton at the present rates, and wishing, with his usual
caution, to act on the best information, bethought gin self
of the many instances of wise foresight recorded in
the public journals, as manifested by the equally well-
known lady so eminently gifted with clairvoyance.
Quietly and softly did the cunning man wend his way
to the cunning woman. On introducing himself
to the lady, he, with mercantile liberality, presented
her with more than her accustomed fee, and begged
of her to acquaint him with the price which Bowed
Georgia cotton, of fair quality, would bear at the expi-
ration of the current year, for ti that epoch did his
speculative views extend. The lady. with that mod sty
which always attends real merit, and which so wel; be-
comes her sox, at first excused herself, saying the' she
knew nothing about cotton, and r erer heard of Bowed
Georgia. But the ardent speculator WM not to be so put
off in his suit, and, on redoubling his entreaties, he at last
prevailed on the lady to try her powers on th novel and
difficult question. She seated herself in her prophetic chair,
like the Python( ss of old. " Bring the board," she cried,
meaning the Loanl which she uses in her vatkinations ;
" chalk on the board the price which the thing you talk
of brings in the market this day." The merct aat forth-
with chalked the figure 6 large and legihl-, sixpence
being the value of Bowed Georgia, of f: it quality,
last week. " Turn the board upside down ; t e you
will see the price which Bowed Georgia c( tta of fJr
quality, will bear in the last week of the current
year." The delighted speculator lost not a, mo-
ment in visiting the cotton walk of our Ex•
change, bought many thousand bags of the cotton of
his choice; and, in reward of his faith and diligence, he
has already had the gratification of an advance of a
halfpenny per lb., as the pleasing prologue of the three-
pence per lb. which is to come.—Liverpool Mercury.
FALLACIOUS NOTIONS WITH RESPECT TO LIFE
ASSURANCE.—In a recent number of cur much-esteemed
contemporary the Builder we find the following startling
piece of ietelligence:—
mutual"Th eoffitustutahlerePrairnecipnleo
in
nharLehifoe
ldeArsssutrhaenc7icln
holders themselves cot stituting the company, pamongsty
whom the profits are thus divided, and a policy in such
offices has been known to increase in value no less than
600 per cent, while with proprietary companies, of course
the 600 per cent. would have been divided among the
shareholders, the value of the policy remaining as at
first, without the slightest increase."
Now this is altogether erroneous. All proprietary
offices divide a considergb:e portion of their profits
among the policyholders--some as much as 80/.
per cent. and policies in such off. a have had
bonusses declared upon them greater in amount
than were ever &dared by a mutual office. It is per-
fectly true that the shareholders in some offices have
reaped enormous profits upon their investments, but not
improperly so. If the business transacted was great
and the deaths few, as on the other hand the very reverse
might have been the case, they but reaped a far
profit upon the capital they have applied to
such great risks. In a mutual office it is perfectly true
that all the profits belong to the assured, but we could
name some mutual offices that expend more in manage-
ment than would pay all the directors and shareholders
in a proprietary company, giving both their full and
'Satisfactory quota of profit.— The Reporter.
Major-General his Royal Highness Prince George
of Cambridge, K.G., has returned from leave of absence,
and resulned the command of the troops serving in the
garrison of Dublin, and in the Dublin district.

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
rHE OLD WORLD and the NEW.
By Mrs. TROLLOPE.
" In all respects one of the very cleverest and most interesting
novel. of the day."—Morning Herald.
" A very clever novel, presenting in marked contrast The Old
World and the New during the eventful epoch out of which we are
emerging."—Post.
• Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

1E ROYAL BRITISH BANK will be
rOPENED for BUSINESS, at 16, Tokenhouse-yarJ, as soon as
the premiss an I internal arrangements are completed. The rates
of interest, &c., to be charged on advances, and allowed on ac-
counts and deposits, must of course vary with the state of the mar-
ket, and the value of money, which so frermently fluctuates; but
at opening, the Directors propose that the following shall be their