The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-15 00:00:00

THE ARCHIMEDES SCREW PRO-
PELLER SHIP, having circumnavigated Great
Britain, and since performed an unprecedented quick passage
to Oporto and back, being engaged to visit Antwerp, Amster-
dam, and Hamburgh, WILL LEAVE BLACKWALL at
NOON on TUESDAY, the 18th Inst., presenting a favourable
opportunity for a limited number of GENTLEMEN PAS-
SENGERS who may wish to judge respecting the merits of
an invention which is now exciting great interest throughout
the kingdom, and at the same time to attend the FESTIVAL
of RUBENS at ANTWERP.

Preference would be given to a Select Party ; and for all
further particulars apply at the Patent Screw Propeller Office,
15, Fish-street-hill.

WRECK of the ROYAL GEORGE.
PORTSMOUTH DOCK :1 RD, Ave. 12, 1840.
Notice is hereby given that thttALE of OLD FIRE-
WOOD which is to take place at ails Yard on WEDNESDAY
the 26th instant, will include about 20 Lots of WOOD with
IRON attached thereto, recovered from the WRECK of the
ROYAL GEORGE.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STREET, Auc. 13, 1840.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Henry
Smith, R.N., to be a Companion of the Most Honourable
Military Order of the Bath.

WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 14.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. J. Johnston, to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires ; Cornet
R. J. Knox to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnston ;
Ensign J. Somerville, from the 47th Foot, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Knox, Aug. 14.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
R. C. S. Clifford to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Compton, who retires; C. Ball our, Gent., to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clifford, Aug. 14.
27th Regiment of Foot—J. T. D'Arcy Hutton, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Somerville, appointed to the 6th
Dragoon Guards, Aug. 14.
55th Foot—Captain H. Grimes, from the half-pay unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice A. Sharpin, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference, Aug. 14.
59th Foot—Ensign H. W. Gordon to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Heard, -who retires; J. de Montmorency, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, Aug. 14.
83d Foot—W. S. Wills, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Puleston, who retires, Aug. 14.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut.
Captain,ATacwo.i—thoLuit peutu.rcßha.se B,
Aug.eao,l4f.rom the 24th Foot,
to
13uEvET.—The undermentioned Cadets, of the Honourable
East India Company's Service, to have the temporary rank of
Ensign during the period of their being placed under the com-
mand of Colonel Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham,
for field instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining :
F. Whiting, Gent. ; J. H. Maxwell, Gent. ; J. D. Camp-
bell, Gent. ; E. J. Lake, Gent. ; P. Garforth, Gent., Aug. 4.
INIEMORANDA.—The Christian name of Ensign de Piro,
who was appointed to the Royal Malta Fencibles, on the 10th
July last, is Guiseppe.
The Christian names of Ensign Carmichael, of the 68th
Foot, are William Hugh Hedges, and not Hugh Hedges Wil-
liam, as previously stated.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—G. T. Lowth,
Esq., to be Captain, Aug. 11 ; J. W. Hinde, Esq., to be ditto,
Aug. 12. •
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire.
Castlemartin Yeomanry Cavalry—H. Leach, Esq., to be
Captain, vice Phillips, resigned ; G. Parry, jun., Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice Harris, resigned; J. L. G. P. Lewis, Gent.,
to be Cornet, vice Stokes, resigned, July 18.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

JAMES DEARDEN, coal merchant, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
JAMES ASKHAM, brewer, Sheffield.
BANKRUPTS.

ROBERT BUTTERWORTH, woollen manufacturer,
Rochdale, Lancashire, to surrender Aug. 28, and Sept. 28, at
eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Norris,
Allen, anti Simpson, Bartlett 's-buildings, Holborn ; Heaton,
RochdaIe.BENJAMIN WHITTEL, fancy cloth manufacturer, Broad
Royd, Halifax, Yorkshire, Aug. 27, and Sept 25, at ten, at
the George Hotel, Huddersfield. Lake and Waldron, Basing-
hall-street, London ; Battye and Clay, Huddersfield,
JAMES BONNER, builder, Thame, Oxfordshire, Aug.
29, and Sept. 25, at eleven, at the house of Mr. Lucas, Town-.
hall, Oxford. Holloway, Thame, Oxfordshire.
THOMAS ROGERS, innkeeper, Salisbury, Aug. 21 and
Sept. 25, at eleven, at the Three Swans Inn, Salisbury. Hodding,
Hodding, and Townsend, Salisbury ; Smith and Atkins
Gray'slnn-place, Gray's-inn, London. ,
THOMAS LOWNDES and SAMUEL INGRAM HILL,
earthenware-manufacturers, Stoke-upon-Trent, Aug. 25 and
Sept. 28, at twelve, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Stoke-upon-Trent.
Young, Longton ' • Gough, London.
WILLIAM MUNROE, jun., and THOMAS MUNROE,
merchants, Milk-street, Aug. 24, and Sept. 25, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-buildings,
official assignee; Van Sandau and Howell, Old Jewry.
BURN HARPER, butcher, Bishop Wearmuuth, Durham,
Sept. 4, and 25, at eleven, at Thwaites s Waterloo Hotel, Dur-
ham. Nicholls and Son, Cook's Court Lincoln's Inn, London;
Thompson, Durham.
BARTHOLOMEW V ANDERPLANK and SAMUEL
VANDERPLANK, woollen-drapers, Saville-row, Burlington-
gardens, Aug. 24, at twelve, and Sept. 25, at half.past twelve,
Couri of Baul.i T--
offieial assignee ; Van Sandau and Howell, Old Jewry.
ALEXANDER CHRISTIE, spirit-merchant, Lastcheap,
August 24, at one, and Sept. 25, at half-past .two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official
assignee ; Hartley, Bridge-street, Blackfriars,
CHARLES JOSEPH GRACE and EDWARD GRACE,
coal-factors, Cross-lane, Si. Mary at Hill, Aug. 25, at eleven,
and Sept. 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman,
official assignee, Finsbury-square ; Compton, Church-court,
Old Jewry, London.
JAMES WALTON, iron-founder, Great Bridge, Stafford-
shire, Aug. 28, and Sept. 25, at twelve, at the Swan Hotel,
Wolverhampton. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Mot-
to am, Birmingham.
WILLIAM FARRELL, cattle-salesman, Kensington, Lan-
cashire, August 21, and September 25, at eleven, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, Liverpool. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and
Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Frodsham, Liverpool.
WILLIAM JAMES SIMPSON, brickmaker, Reading,
Aug. 22 and Sept. 25, at twelve, at the George Inn, Reading.
Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London; Wheat-
ley, Reading.
THOMAS MASSER, common brewer, Liverpool, August
21, at ten, and September 25, at one, at the Clarendon-
rooms, Liverpool. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett,
Bedford-row, London; Crump and Hassall, Liverpool.
SAMUEL WOOD, chert-merchant, Bagilt, Flintshire,
Aug. 26, and Sept. 25, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn,
Holywell. Wolston, Furnival's Inn, London; Oldfield, Bod-
hyfryd, Abergele.
FREDERICK EDWARD TURNER, druggist, Holywell,
Flintshire, Aug. 26, and Sept. 25, at eleven, at the King's
Arms, Holywell. Bartrum and Son, Old Broad-street, London;
Oldfield, I3odhyfryd, Abergele.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
R. G. Gowar, coach maker, Church-row, Aldgate, Sept. 7,
at half-past eleven.
In the Country.

W. Barker and S. Adams, hosiers,"Nottingham, Sept. 9, at
twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—H. Mayle,
grocer, Bedford, Sept. 8, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn,
Bedford—J. and E. Milne, cotton spinners, Nen-hey, Lanca-
shire, Sept. 7, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, lqan-
chester.

CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 4.
J. Racine and J. Jaques, silk dyers, Hare-street. Bethnal_
green—A. E. Shelley, coal merchant, Lower Halliford, Mid-
dlesex—E. C. Hooper, commission agent, Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury—J. Wheeler, printer, Southampton.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Barney and W. H. Moberley, attorneys, Southampton_.
P. Forgie, A. Forgie, and W. Forgie, linen drapers, Goose-
gate, Nottingham—W. Cullum and W. Peake, china dealers,
dge—T. Field and W. Un.
reet—R. Thompson and J.
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Stopforth, maltsters, Ormskirk, Lancashire—D. Goodman and
J. Boden, cotton waste dealers, Manchester—J. and B. Ellis,
joiners, Folly Hall, near Huddersfield—W. Falconer and W. I
Robb, merchants, Manchester—J. Daniel, S. Rhead, and G.
Rhead, earthenware manufacturers, Stoke-upon-Trent—J.
Forrest, D. W. Forrest, and H. Worthington, cotton spinners,
Blackburn, Lancashire—D. Mellor, sen. and J. Mellor, shoe
makers, Oldham, Lancashire—H. Benwell and H. J.
surgeons, Greenwich—J. Anderson, W. Garrow, A. Smith,'
and T. Irvine, merchants, Liverpool (so far as regards A.
Smith and T. Irvine)—J. W. M'Cardie, J. MiCardie' and H.
Camm, wholesale haberdashers. Birmingham (so far as regards
nstt, drapers,C heasptsoidekpe—_J,—
Fowden,H. Camm)—W. Kirk and T. Davies, potatoe merchants, M
Cheshire—
G. Gn
ehester—J. S. Taylor and L. S. Richmond, attorneys, -
Potte-
ries, Staffordshire—E. I. S. Trimmer and H. GAr.a
Jones,
inger,
brokers, Pudding-lane, City—R. M'Call and 11.
linen
ela,raenhdourrse.men,
G. Sargent and T. R. Rowell, mealmen, Newbury and Green-
ham, Berkshire—J. Collins, J. Farber, H. Sherren, and J.
Sherren, refiners, Jewin-street, Cripplegate (so far as regards
H. and J. Sherren)—R. Clyburn and G. Lister, ironfound-
ers, Uley, Gloucestershire—W. Dupree and C. Tatner, jun.,
common brewers, Albion Brewery, Grove-street, Hackney—G.
Edgecumbe and G. Edgecumbe, jun., confectioners, Chippen-
ham, Wiltshire. SEQUESTRATIONS.
Barker,ridlainYe-
SCOTCH
JAMES COCHRAN, road contractor,
and Sept. 7, at two, at the Eagle
Inn, Glasgow.
c Paisley, Aug. 17
LEWIS M'KENZIE and JOHN. M'DONALD, railway
contractors, Kilwinning, Aug. 22 and Sept. 18, at two, at the
Eglinton Arms Inn, Irvine.