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London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

offidial assignee, Coleman-street; Wright and Bonner,
Lo radon- street, Fenchurch- street.

`William Evans, lamp manufacturer, Derby, Oct. 8,
awl Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Whis-
ton, Derby; Bowley, Nottingham.
czeorge Smail, draper, Coventry, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2,
ut twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Smith, Birmingham.
Jc,seph Gardiaer, provision merchant, Birmingham,
Oct. 2 and 30, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding,
Birmingham.
Charles Foster Cotterill and William Henry Hill,
mrarahants, Walsall, Staffordshire, Oct. 2 and 30, at
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham; Bolton, Wolverhampton.
David Pratt and Joseph Finnemore, steel pen manu-
facturers, Birmingham, Oct. 3, and Nov. 2, at eleven,
at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Joseph Jennings Day, ship broker, Liverpool, Oct. 4,
and 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Johnson and Co.,
Temple, London ; Grocott, Liverpool.

DIVIDENDS.
In the Country.
J. P. Burdett, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, grocer, Oct.
14, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Pritchard,
Quay Head, Bristol, licensed victualler, Oct. 15, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol—T. Cox, Manchester, wine
and spirit merchant, Oct. 13, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—C. Cox, Salford, Lancashire, wine and
spirit dealer, Oct. 13, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester
—L. Pearson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, currier, Oct. 14, at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. Hall,
Claypath, Durham, grocer, Oct. 14, at one, at the Court,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

C. F. Came and M. Telo, Liverpool, merchants, ls. sd.
any Monday after Oct. 5, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
R. Edwards, Aberdovey, Merionethshire, draper, Ss.
any Monday after Oct. 15, between eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
._.

R. J. Jones, Basingstoke, tailor, Oct. 13, at half•past
eleven—J. Card, Dilton, Wiltshire, miller, Oct. 13, at
half-past two—B. Gage, Gosport, victualler, Oct. 12, at
twelve—T. Lawrance, Reading, draper, Oct. 16, at
twelve—W. Craft, Spring-street, Paddington, fishmonger,
Oct. 16, at twelve. _

In the Country.
T. H. Holford, Dudley, Worcestershire, grocer, Oct.
14, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Kinder, Birken-
head, painter, Oct. 15, at eleven, at the-Court; Liverpool
—J. Smith, Ashton, cotton•spinner, Oct. 14, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—S. Hurdle, Hazlebury Bryan,
Dorsetshire, cheese factor, Oct. 19, at eleven, at the
Court, Exeter--T. Cox, Manchester, wine and spirit.
merchant, Oct. 12, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
At the Court of Review, Oct. 12.

J. Bailey, Stalybridge, Chester, joiner and builder.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Tattershall and G. Tattershall, Ivy-bridge, Devon-
shire, tanners—C. Kingsford and C. L. Barnwell, Field -
gate-street, Bow, manufacturing chemists—A. Broom
and J. Broom, Friday-street, City, commission agents
—T. Bonamy and G. Bonamy, Chichester, barge
owners—H. Spackman and C. Bodrnan, Marshfield,
Gloucestershire, drapers—T, Watson and W. J. Taylor,
Darlington, stockbrokers—J. Colley and H. Smith,
Hull, commission agents—J. Shipton, J. Shipton, and
C. L. Browning, Wolverhampton, carriers—C. C.
Merck and W. F. Thomas, Princes-street, Hanover-
square, tailors—T. Butler and S. Foden, St.
Helen's, Lancashire, booksellers—S. W. Graves
and H. Kearaley, Manchester, stockbrokers—
A. Hales, E. W. Oidaker, and W. Baker,
Norton green Colliery, Staffordshire—Ann Jones
Goodwin, W. Smith, and H. Barber, Bristol,
tilers—H. Hart and J. Hart, Abchurch•lane, City, ac-
countants—J. Copelin and W. Hams, Pittield street,
Hoxton, ham dealers—T. W. Harby and J. B. Harby,
13ronaley, Middlesex, ropemakers—R. F. Swift and S. J.
Phillips, Wordsley, Staffordshire, iron-founders—W.
Chout, C. Cook, and H. Swain, Chelmsford, livery-
stable keepers—J. Alderson and J. A. Brown, Totten.
ham court-road, linendrapers—J. .Morfitt, jun., and J.
Barstow, jun., Wortley, Yorkshire, flax spinners.
. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS

William liitchener Daniell, Romford, Essex, millwright.
Edward Bonfellow, Great Yarmouth, merchant's clerk.
Robert Benjamin Greenwood, Upper Cropley-terrace,
Wenlock- street, City-road, clerk.
James. Littlewood, jun., Ludham, Norfolk, licensed
victualler.
Thomas Miller, Woolwich, broom-maker.

Thomas Pagett, Brompton -road, Kensington, pianoforte
maker.
James Holbrook, Ipswich, Lieutenant in the Royal
Navy._

Georg; Cox, Wood-street, Lambeth-walk, journeyman
upholsterer.

Anthony M‘Nevin, Salisbury•street, Strand, upholsterer.
Samuel Jones, Southampton, linendraper.
Jacob Bedwin,Milton, Barks, tailor.

Henry Crace, Adam-street, Adelphi, surveyor.
William Woodgate, Ipswich, farmer.

George Dewdney, Riakmansworth, Herts, carpenter.
Thomas Wace, St. Paul's-terrace, Camden-town, engine.
clerk.

William Russell, Chelsea, Buckingham, butcher.
Thomas Marginson, Church-street, Bethnal-green, hat-
manufacturer.

Edmund Littler, Essex, foreman to a silk printer.
Henry Helliwell, Wardwick, Derby, librarian.
Thomas Burtan, Carlton, Nottingham, framework-
knitter.
Richard Burrows, Folkingham, Lincolnshire, cooper.
George Mitchell, Calver, Derbyshire, lead miner.
Robert Whitehead, Higher Temple•street, Manchester,
salesman.

John Rice, Alvaston, Derbyshire.
Henry Hodgkinson, Leicester, journeyman smith.
Henry Swift, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, bailiff.
Robert Hardy, Grantham, assistant veterinary surgeon.
James Saunders, Newark-upon-Trent, greengrocer.
William Hodgson, Caunton, Nottinghamshire, butcher.
Thomas Deacon Gotch, Wellingborough, Northampton-
shire.
Joseph Hamblet, Corn hill, Dudley, brick-maker.
Samuel Stephens, Stone, Staffordshire, shoe-manu-
facturer.
William John Hammond, Liverpool, comedian.
William Evans, Higher Tranmere, Cheshire.
Oliver Beckett, Liverpool, passenger-broker.
Richard Jones, Liverpool, labourer.
John Jones, Liverpool, joiner.
David Cook, Rockview, Lancashire.

Hugh William Lewis; Bangor, attorney.
Thomas Wilkinson, Hulme, Manchester, grocer.
William Wilkinson, Stockport.

Jaspar Wallis, Swindon, Mason.
William Benson Bill, Bristol, assistant to a bookseller.
Thomas Oxton, Liverpool.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

J. Holmes, Beatock, liamfries-shire, innkeeper, to
meet within the Annandale Arms Inn, Moffat, Sept. 24,
and Oct. 15, at one.

T. Beard. and J. Baird, Greenbank, Renfrewshire,
dyers, to meet within the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley,
Sept. 24, and Oct. 14, at one.
W. Gemmell, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within the
office of Messrs. M'Clelland and M‘lienzie, Glasgow,
Sept. 27, and Oct. 16, at one.
D. Campbell, Edinburgh, innkeeper, to meet within
the Breadalbane Arms Inn, Aberfeldy, Sept. 24, and
Oct. 15, at twelve.

RETURN RELATIVE to RAILWAY

ACCIDENTS.
By an analysis of the Returns recorded in this
Department, it appears that of the 101 persons killed
and 100 injured, on all the Railways of Great Britain
and Ireland during the six months ending the 30th
June, 1847, there were—

14 Passengers killed, and 48 injured, from causes
beyond their own control.
8 Passengers killed, and 3 injured, owing to their
own misconduct, or want of caution.
8 Servants of Companies killed, and 17 injured,
from causes beyond their own control.
51 Servants of Companies killed, and 24 injured,
owing to want of caution, or recklessness.
19 Trespassers killed, and 7 injured.
1 Person killed, and 1 injured, while crossing the
railway at level crossings, owing to misconduct
of servants of Company.
Total—Killed, 101: Injured, 100.
And for the same period the number of Passengers
amounted to 23,119,412.
DUNCAN MACGREGOR, Registrar.
Office of Commissioners of Railways, July 21,1847.

BRIDGWATER. —FATAL ACCIDENT.— An inquest
this town. the
s held on Tuesday evening, at the Town-hall, before
coroner, J. E. Poole, jun., Esq., on the body of
Charles Merry, late landlord of the Bull and Butcher
Inn
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potatoes to get up
for the purpose oidiggirgiiabout half-past six o'clock,
Quick, on Tuesday
, andwaerntet.r. entering the field he
barrel gun with him He carried a double-
was heard to fire off one of beget? He then returned
placed caps on the nipples
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the next field, and
and placed the gun in a ditch under as.
little after one o'clock, Mr. Merry
dinner, a man called Frederick Tabred,a
working in the next field, went up to him, and told beenhim
he had raised five birds in the field where he had been
working, and that they had gone into an adjoining
ground. Mr. Merry said he had a gun and would have
a shot at them. He then rose, went to his coat and
thence to the ditch, where he had placed his gun. In
a moment after Tabred heard the report of a gun, and
on going to the spot, found the deceased lying on his
face and hands, and afterwards found his gun in some
brambles, about a yard and a half from him. One of its
barrels had been recently discharged. Tabred, assisted
by some other men, placed the unfortunate man in a
cart, and immediately convey ed him to the Marquis of
Wellington Inn, kept by the deceased's brother. Death
appeared to have been instantaneous. The jury returned
a verdict of Accidental death. Mr. Merry, who has left
a widow and child to deplore his lose, had but recently
taken the Bull and Butcher Inn, where his respectable
management and marked civility had gained for him the
good opinion of an extended connexion, and among
whom his untimely death is sincerely regretted.—Wes-
tern Flying Post.

" What had you for dinner on Sunday ?" asked a
friend. " I dined off a couple of ducks." " Ay, and a
good "5' off, too," was the reply.