The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-18 00:00:00

PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND.

J. Clerk and J. Philip 33, L-eieester, bankers, 205., any
Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Christie, Birmingham.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
T. Burrell, Bellericay, Essex, licensed victualler, Jan.
8, at one—J. E. Pye, Berkeley-square, milliner, Jan. 7,
at eleven—J. Snook, Ledbury-road, Westbourrie-grove,
Paddington, builder, Jan, 7, at half-past eleven—T.
Halst,ad, Arundel-street, Strand, publican, Jan. 10, at
one—W. Jolley, Charing-cross. poulterer, Jan. 11, at
one—J. G. Jackson, Newcastle-street, Strand, and
Calais, importer and manufacturer of fancy, embossed,
and ornamental papers, Jan. 11, at two—W. Palmer,
Uxbridge, jeweller, Jan. 11, at half-past eleven—W.
l)owsiug, Ipswich, Suffolk, oil and colour man, Jan. 11,
at half past one—T. G. Brownsmith, Bedford-street,
Covent-garden, fringe manufacturer, Jan. 14, at hull-
past twelve.

In the Country.
Phabe Mayhury, Worcester, hosier, Jan. 18, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham 11. Wilders, Uttoxeter,
Staffordshire, farmer, Jan. 18, at tv.alve, at the Court,
Birmingham.

At the Court of Review, Jan. 7.
J. Taverner, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, silk and
ribbon-manufacturer—T. Byers, Upper Lisson-street,
Lisson-grove„ licensed victualler—L. Shelton, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, licensed hawker—J. Law, Faversham,
Kent, coal merchant S. Owen, Liverpool, flour dealer
—T. H. Pinder, Southampton, Cheltenham, and Glou•
tester, tailor—J. Hurley, Bristnall-fields, Worcester-
shire, victualler—J. Dunlop, Dover-road, and Trindon,
Durham, coal merchant—C. Houghton, Dudley•grove,
Paddington, ironmonger—G. Frost, Leadenhall-street,
cutler.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. J. Hughes and W. D. Bruce, Clement's Inn,
Middlesex, civil engineers—T. H. Theobald, J. Church,
and T. C. Gibson, Deptford, coal merchants—W. John-
son, H. 11. Johnson, S. I). Martin, and J. Fox, Great
George street, Westminster, engineering surveyors—J.
Turner, J. Bottomley, and J. Bottomley, Oldham,cotton spinners W. Cunningham and W. Giles,
Strood and Chatham, steam-boat owners J. Rives
and N. Brangwin, Old Ford, Middlesex, grease
manufacturers—H. W. Potter and N. Lloyd, commission
agents—J. W. Hanson and R. Bruce, commission agents
—E Downing and H. Yellely, Great Charlotte•street,
Blackfriars-road, furniture dealers—T. P. and R. 11.
Adams (so far as regards T. . Adams). Plymouth, mer-
cers—J. Coates and R. Harrison, Scarborough, bricklayers
—R. Allen, J. Coates, and R. Harrison, Scarborough,
builders—W. Mitchell and J. Honeychurch, Seymour-
streA, Euston-square, shop fitters—J. Harnett and W.
Harnett, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, and Albany-road,
Camberwell,imanufacturingldentists—J, Smith, S. Smith,
and W. Wilkinson, Manchester, letterpress printers—
J. E. Clowes, E. Clowes, and 11. B. Wedlake, King's
Bench-walk, Inner Temple, attorneys—T. F. Cole and
C. Stokes, Isle of Wight, attorneys—W. Wells and J.
T. Newsieud, Leeds and Bradford, wine and spirit-
merchants—H. 11. Malthouse and R. Allison, Middles-
borough, Yorkshire, smiths—W. Bire and 11. J. lice,
Ivybridge, Devonshire, millers—G. Loder and J. Robey,
Slough, Buckinghamshire, common carriers—T. Barker
and T. Nisbet, Breams. buildings, Chancery-lane,
perfumers—W. Ford, J. Ford, and J. F. Singleton,
Cadster, Chapel en;le Frith, Derbyshire, manufacturing
chemists—T. Holderness, T. Clinton, and T. 11. Hol-
derness, Kingston-upon-Hull, and Liverpool, mer-
chants—J. Shepard and C. 11. Hughes, Southampton,
brewers.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Sell, Dover.
Willia►n Harbridge, Totnes, Devonshire, coach proprietor.
Nicholas Gidley, Tomes, Devonshire, baker.
Richard Harvey, Dover.
Thomas Wilkinson, Eeclesfeld, Yorkshire, butcher.
John Horner, Burnley-road, Halifax. Yorkshire, tailor
Francis Lane, jun., Elm•tree Inn, Westfield, Soznerslt-
shire, carpenter and retailer of beer.
Mark Skinner Denton, Chatham, shoe manufacturer.
John Field, Birmingham, pearl button manufacture.
Edward Weekes, Rochester, barge master.
John Harwood, Bury, Lancashire, travelling draper.
Richard Hudson Hall, Hockloy, Ashton, Warwickshire,
attorney-at•law.
George Gillott, Sheffield, file grinder.
John Howarth, Heywood, Bury, Lancashire, plumber.

TaELL

Henry Townson, Clitheroe, Lancashire, saddler.
Charles Walker, Leominster, Herefordshire, farmer.

Joseph Trim, A rundel,Sussex, confectioner.

Jo.eph Barclay Scott, Norton-under-Edge, Gloucester-
shire, grocer.
William I'm:niers, Munston, Holiner, Herefordshire

carpenter.
John Etnbb ton, St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, enginewright.
John Mellor, Stafford, shoemaker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Rogers, Glasgow, ironmonger, to meet within the
Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, c. 23 and Jan. 13, at one.
C. Rogers, Glasgow, ironmonger, to meet within the
Blaclz Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 23 and Jan. 13, AS
twelve.

J. F. Tress, Edinburgh, tea dealer, to meet within the
Writing-chambers of J. Lindsay, W. S., Edinburgh,
Dec. 20 and Jan. 17, at two.
R. Forrester, Glasgow, warehouseman, to meet within
Carrick's Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 24 and Jan. 21, at one-
C. B. Merard and W. Ellwood, Edinburgh, hat manu-
facturers, to meet within Fergusons Ship Tavern, Edin-
burgh, Dec. 23 and Jan. 13, at two.
C. Boddy, Edinburgh, artificial flower, feather, and
bonnet manufacturer, to meet within Ferguson's Ship
Hotel, Edinburgh, Dec. 24 and Jan. 21, at one.
W. B. S. Campbell, Edinburgh, writer to the siKnett
to meet within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Ellin-
burgh, Dec. 24 and Jan. 17, at two.
J. Martine, jun.. Haddington, brewer and mercltsht;
to meet within the George Inn, Haddington, Dec. 22 and
Jan. 12, at twelve.

G. Green, Glasgow. underwriter, to meet within! the
Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Dec.2s and Jan. 1,8, s$
twelve.

P. Thorns, Dundee, merchant and clothier, to moot
within the Writing chambers of Messrs. Neish and. T
tullo, Dundee, writers, Due. 22 and Jan. 19, at one.
T. Nicol, Altos, draper, to meet within the Crtivia
Inn, Allos, Dec. 23 and Jan. 20, at eleven.
J. F. Montgomery, Edinburgh, advocate, to net
within the Chambers of Messrs. Webster and Renal'
Edinburgh, writers, Dee. 22 and Jan. 12, at two.
W. Murray, Glasgow, tailor and clothier, to meet
within the Office of J. Buchanan, Glasgow, writer, Dec'
23 and Jan. 13, at twelve.
J. APFarian, Glasgow, wholesale stationer, and
Greer, Glasgow, wholesale stationer, and Bally moo,
Ireland, stamp, di,tributor, to meet within the Chamber!,
of Macdowall and Murray, Glasgow, writers,.Dtec•
and Jan. 12, at two.

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G. Richardson and J. Pringle, maxwentown,, Tor.
queer, nursery and seedimen, to meet within the King
Arms Inn, Maxwelltown, Dec. 23 andiJan. 13, at two.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, compu 04
from the returns made in the week ending December Of
1847, is 226. 71;2d. per cwt.

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS*"
" The freedom of the press" is much vaunted at out:
public festivals; but, though the toast is received with -al.'
the gusto of after-dinner enthusiasm, it is " a mockery►
a delusion, and a snare," as no property is so tni-
justly and so oppressively taxed as the broad sheets
which are daily and weekly issued to the world. DI
Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, there is u°
stamp duty, and hundreds who wish to disseminate their
principles, and, at the same time, save postage, restart to
the little presses of these islands, and dispatch their
publications far and wide, to any part of the empire, free
of exist use. These important atoms in the
scale of nations possess privileges which are
resolutely denied to the mother country—to the
greatest city in the world !—which, to our mill'
has as much right to claim so important an advantage
as these excessively troublesome and vain segratellij
of the realm. Commercial London and
facturing •Manchester are taxed in every 116 J
which the ingenuity of tax-framers could .e 0!.
.
ceive ; but, if an exception be made in lit
respect, it must not be on their behoof Those motegrt-
sovereignties in the two Channels where the despere"-
s
debtor secludes himself in security from his credctit6l:
and which contribute so much to the revenue, tuns
that case, become exceptions to the rigid rule
ledge cannot be relaxed elsewhere. Stamps off knovi
there !
Surely a tax of forty per cent. upon the snraliegat
advertisement published ought to entitle the peps.
papers in which they appear to travel post free ! „,
servant of all work—poor wretched slave, with scarce
ly
sufficient time for rest, a holiday once a 4lua:.;
ter, and wages just sufficient to buy clothes''-
drudge in:—advertising for a situation, pays the .52.71:
amount of duty as the peer who advertises an. estate, '9O
yearly rental of which is 100,0001. Then the ill:tiled,
amount of capital, cash paid down, that is lost,
cast as it were into the sea, by the Government
compelling a penny stamp to be imprinted each
newspaper, is incalculable. Thousands upon
ti
thou-
sands of the newspapers published iu Ll3' °
never leave tho metropolis, and as many of their loci
i
contemporaries possess no circulation beyond their ut:
mediate locality, half the newspapers issued throughout
the kingdom never pass through the Post
office at all. What gross extortion it is, then, to charge
one penny each for every newspaper which. never
troubles the Postmaster-General with its care ! .But, .
addition, there is the enormous duty upon the paper--
the worst, the last, and the most inexcusable of the many
taxes which once bowed down knowledge to the dust,
and which, even in this era of cheap books and! expan.
sive intelligence, still weighs heavily on the people. The
newspapers, though otherwise free and independent, are
taxed to their teeth, and the good nature with which the
proprietors submit to the exactions pressed upost them
is as praiseworthy as it is extraordinary, because the
pens of the editors might crush, in a brief period, this
monstrous hydra. The worst of it is, that the people
indirectly are the sufferers.—Civil and lifercafigik
Journal. - • • • - "

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Dzc. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Bristol and Exeter,
11 dis.-Ditto, New, 4 dis.-Great Western, Fifths, 314 P'
-Ditto, Quarters, 2 p.-Midland, Bristol, and Gloucester,
50/. Shares, 7 !J.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, New, 2 P'
-Taff Vale, 101. Shares, par.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 16.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties,
15,?i,-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 4, N
die.- Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and (504,.,1' /ci
dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 14 dis.-Manchester, Sheffield,„
Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, 174-Ditto, Eighths, 279 do.
North Staffordshire, 5-16 dis.-South-Eastern and 1)°"4
No. 4, 11-16 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 16.
cr or-
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham, vi 0" „ d
hampton, and Stour Valley, 28s. 9d. dis.-Shrewsbury 714
Birmingham (B), 465. 3d. dis.-South Staffordshire,
c. dis.-North Stafiordshire, 4 dis.
YORK, Ditc. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are- Great Northern, 411
-Leicester and Bedford, Ile. 6d.-North British, Thir!:
11. 195.-Ditto, Quarters, 4/. Gs. Sd-York, Newcastle, ell'
Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 121. Is. 3,1.--Ditl°'
G. N. E. Purch., 9/. 3s. 9d.
EDINBURGH, DEC 15.
STOCK EXCILINGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 254'
3d.-Dundee and Perth, New, 131.-Edinburgh and Giese'
93/. IN.-Edinburgh and Northern, 16/. 155.-Ditto, ;NOV
port, New, 1/. 125.-Edinburgh and Perth, Halves, 2s. 6";
-North British, 26/.-Ditto, Quarters, 41. 65.-Ditto, Ne"
Quarters, lls.-Ditto, Thirds, 11. 18s. 6d.
GLASGOW, Dzc. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Edinburgh and 13eth
gate, 4/. 17s. 6d--Edinburgh and Glasgow, 931. 55.-Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 555.- Great Norale`-,
'
4i. 9s.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—CARRIAGE
residing in the country are supplied with Teas ay
Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities 11°' lees than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any par.'
of England. Orders must be accompanied by a remit;
tence, or if a reference be made in London, paytuen;
will suffice on receipt and approval of the goods. A 114'
of prices and samples free, on application to G. T.
sell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, BucklersburY,
•Cheapside,

TILE PREVAILING INFLUENZA.—PoIice Inspector
Stewart, the intelligent Coroner's officer of this city, in:
formed us yesterday that he never before knew so ralle;',
sickness to prevail in Manchester... I never in my life,
says be, " experienced so much difficulty in getting a
jury together, for at nearly every house I called at
summon jurymen, I found the party laid up and incispo-
citated by influenza."—Manchester Courier.
TUE RHINE DUTIES.—It appears by a corre-
spondence in the Cologne Gazette, of the 12th illit°l)t'
there is no likelihood that a reduction, much lesi,
abolition, of the Rhine tolls will take place at the k—
"t3-
ginnin,.? of the next year. On the other hand, there /4„
0"
grounds for believing that the auspension of the ant'r',
~;
on corn will be prolonged for a longer period than
one originally fixed—the Ist of January, 1848.
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Professor Holloway's es tablishment,244, Strand, r.

BlRms.
William
On the 12th mind, at Cowley-road, Brixton, )firs.
Haines, of a daughter.
On the 16th at Marwell Hall, Hampshire, the lady of
John Long, Esq., of a son.
On the l!th inst., at Bishop Briggs, near Glasgow, Mrs. D.
H. Maeleaf, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., in Great Russell-street, Covent-garden,
Mrs. Wiliam Webster, of a son.
On the 12th inst., in Montague-street, Russell-square, bill'
John Muir, of a son.
Ga the 12th inst., in Margaret. street, Cavendish-square'
Os wife of H. B. Lee, Esq., of a daughter.

Afd /CRIED.
On the 16th inst., at Hartleburv, the Rev. Edward Win-
nington Ingram, to Maria Louisa, eldest daughter of the Lord
Bishop of Worcaiter.

DIED.
On the 9th of October, at Rio de Janeiro, Walter William
Mayor, Esq., many years in the house of Clegg Brothers.
On the 14th inst., at Cathcart House, Renfrewshire, the
CeuntC9S Do o. ager Cathcart.
On the 14th inst., at Maristow, Devon, Susan, the unlY
daughter of Sir Ralph and Lady Lopez.
On the 16th inst., at Holly Lodge, Walton. on-TharneS•
Robert Shepherd, aged 21.
On the 16th inst., in Tavistock-place, Frederick, eldest
son of Mr. J. W. Parker.

*London: Printed and Published ii) MURDO YOUNG, at
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112 i
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count/ a
Middlesex, Saturday, December IS, 1147.