The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY

JOHN SCOTT, drysalter, Brickhill-lane, Upper-Thames-
street.
JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, merchant, Nicholas-lane, Lom-
bard-street.
JAMES WARD, cabinet. maker, Albert-terrace, Shepherd
and Shepherdess-walk, City-road.
GEORGE HUTCHLSbN, cabinet-maker, Huntley-street,
Bedford-square.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
GEORGE POCOCK IR VING, ship-builder, Rothethithe.
BANKItUPTS.
THOMAS HOWSOF, grocer, Leeds, to surrender, August
26, at ten, and September 28, at two, at the Commissioner's-
rooms, Leeds. Bettye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane,
London; Shackleton, Leeds,
BENJAMIN WRIGaT, draper, .Madeley, Salop, August
26, and September 28, at eleven, tit the Crown Inn, Bridge-
north, Salop. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; Potts, Salop.
ANNE CASACUBERTA, merchant, Manchester, Aug.
27 and Sept. 28, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms,
Manchester, Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings,
Holborn, London ; Norris, Manchester.
JOHN DARCY and RICHARD DIERDEN, alk.li
manufacturers, Sutton, Lancashire, Aug. 27, and Sept. 28, at
one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Norris, Liverpool ;
Nr,rris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn,
London.
CHARLES TRAPPS, victualler, Abridge, Essex, Aug.
28, and Sep!, 26, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, Official Assignee;
and Lind
„ Bloon,,bury.square.
NAT.:sANIEL CLAUGHTON, fulling miller, Dixon-
Yeadon, York, Aug. 24 and Sept. 28, at twelve, at the
FCiummemr,issaiiloonesrsu'd-rkozsdaonmeemryeficainacl:bLitoilnddinogns; LHeiegdhsa;ulß,
43atrtyige.:
house Haliftx.
JAMES, CHUTCHETT, pawnbroker, Stroud. Gloucester-
shire, Aug. 26, and Sept. 28, at eleven, at the George Hotel,
Stroud. Shearman and Evans, Gray's-Inn-square, London;
Herbert, Painswick ; Paris, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
WILLIA it FAWCETT, manufacturer, Manchester, Sept.
Basing-lane, London; Bennett,
an,
tBe,ra.ndT2uBr,naetr
at invdel
iyiee,nastnit h e Commissioners'-rooms,Alanchti-
Manchester.

THOVAS NUTTER, brewer, Paul- street, Finsbury.
square, Aug. 26, at half-past-eleven, and Sept. 28, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Finsbury.
square, official assignee; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson,
Bedford- row.

THOAms ATKINSON, grocer, Lancaster, Sept. 10 and
28, at eleven, at the King's Army Inn, Lancaster. Robinson
and Dodson, Lancaster; Alakinson anti Sanders, Elm-court,
Temple, London.
HENRY MEDLEY and WILLIAM BACKHOUSE, oil
merchants. Leeds, Aug. 24, and Sept. 28, at ten, at the Com.
missioner's-rooms Leeds. Lambert, Raymond-buildings,
Gray's-inn, London; Snowdon and Preston, Leeds; Smith,
Leeds.
EDWARD STUCHFIELD, horse-dealer, Church-street,
Paddington-green, Aug. 25, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 28,
at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, offi-
cial assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bicknells, Manchester-street,
Manchester-square.
WILLIAM HENRY LAMPORT, silversmith, Plymouth,
Aug. 25, at half-past ono, and Sep. 28, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall•street,
Lloyd. Cheapside.
FREDERICK JONES, draper, City-road, Aug. 25, at
one, and Sept. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Carman, official assignee, Finsbury-square; Humphreys,
Queen-street, Cheapside.
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, woollen-cloth manufac-
turer, Ebley, Gloucester, Aug. 28, at half-past twelve,_ and
Sept. 28, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Fins-
bury-square, official assignee; Yenning, Naylor, and Robins,
Tokennouse-yard, Lothbury.

LATEST IMPORTED.
A BASHFUL LOVER.—A Green Mountain boy fell in
love with a very pretty girl, and determined to court her.
To that end he dressed himself in his Sunday-go-to-
meetings, went to her father's house, and found her
alone. " How d'ye du ?" said Jonathan. ." I'm nicely
—take a cheer, Jonathan," says the girl. Jonathan
took a chair, and seated himself in the farthest corner
of the room, as though the beauty was a thing to be
feared rather than loved. " Aint you cold ? hadn't you
better sit up to the fire ?" says Sally, supposing he
would of course, if he was going to make love at all,
do so in a proper manner. " No, I thankee, I reckon
I'm comfortable," returned Jonathan. " How is your
marm ?" said Sally.. " Well, she's a oomplainin
leetle;" said Jonathan. Here a pause of ten minutes
ensued, during which time Jonathan amused himself by
whittling a stick. "There's nothing new up your way, is
there ?" said Sally, which Jonathan might understand as
applying to his present situation, or to his father's domi-
cile. "Here ?---oh—yis, you meant tu hum, well no, that is
his—our spotted cow's got a calf," said Jonathan. Sally
wculd undoubtedly have laughed at this queer piece of
information, only ahe was too much vexed at the hash-
fulneskof the speaker. At length, after another pro-
tracted silence, Sally got up a small edition ofa scream,
and in aloud voice exclaimed, "Let me alone!" " Why,"
says Jonathan, dropping his knife and stick in astonish-
ment, " why, I aint a touchin' on ye." " Well," says
Sally, in a voice which might be indicative of fear, but
sounded very like request—" Well, aint you gedn. tut"
Jonathan thought a moment of this equivocal reply, and
then, after placing his knife in his pocket and blowing
his nose, he drew his chair by the side of pretty Sally,
and—the next week they were married.
A CAPITAL HIT.—A gentleman in this city, yester-
day, met a friend who had been passing some time in
Texas, and had, just returned. Some conversation en-
sued upon the country and the people, &c. The gentle-
man from Texas remarked that the people were gene-
rally a very curious set of beings, and, among other
things, told the following anecdote :—Not long since a
person there killed a fellow-citizen in cold blood. He
went immediately to a lawyer to consult him as to what
course he should pursue to escape punishment. The
lawyer, after patiently listening to his case, advised him
to run away. " Run away ?" inquired the client, mani.
festing
,great astonishment. " Yes, 'tis your only safe
course.' "Run away ?" again exclaimed, the murderer
—" Good heavens l am 1 not in Texas already r--
Lowell Courier.
A MAN RUINED BY SUDDEN WEALTH.—The Balti-
more Sun gives an account of a young man named Benton
Starks, from Athens, Ga., who had been remarkably in-
dustrious and had acquired a respectable property, but
whose intellect was completely disordered by his sud-
denly coming in possession of $7,000. Having collected
his funds, he took the stage for Baltimore, through which
he passed on to Philadelphia, New York, andßoston, and
ultimately returned to Baltimore, having spent nearly all
he had. A young gentleman from Virginia came on to
induce him, if possible, to return home, but failing in this,
requested the police at Baltimore to take him into cus-
tody.. He had, when taken, two• pistols, valued at $75,
47 pieces of gold coin, amounting to about $235; 191 in
paper, and $1 in silver, making in all $402. Five fine
gold watches were found upon his person—the chains
running round his neck and body. Three valuable breast-
pins of the largest kind glittered in his bosom.
A DAY'S WORK.—A labourer in New York, recently,
professed himself ready to do a day's work at anything.
in an honest way, for a dollar. Some wags employed
him to carry a brick, back and forwards, a certain dis-
tance, doing five miles each hour. Nothing daunted at
this tusk, the applicant set to,—he did six miles and
three-quarters in the first hour ; in five hours he had
,lorneleted 27 miles—he then took dinner ;he continued
for five and a half hours longer, when he had travelled
51 miles. The poor fellow earned his dollar. but he got
fame beside. Some thousand dollars changed hands
during his feat, and at its close he was backed by a
heavy purse, to step out against any competitor.

THE EGERTON YEOMANRY.

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The following are extracts from a letter addressed by
Lord Francis Egerton to the Manchester Chronicle, rela-
tive to the formation of a yeomanry corps in Lancashire
" I find that in some respects those who have undertaken
my defence, and who are erroneously described as having
done so under instructions from me, have been as much
mistaken in matters of fact as my assailants. On collect-
ing these publications I find myself charged with various
offences, some against common sense and di,cretion, and
others against the law and constitution of the country,
and with intentions of a murderous and blool-thirsty de-
scription.
" The first and most distinct charge is, that I have, on
my own authoriry, raised an armed force. Are the editors
of papers in large circulation, and the correspondents
whose letters they admit, so ignorant as not to know that
I should be immediately prosecuted by the Attorney-
General for such a proceeding, and that any armed force
raised without authority from the Sovereign, procured
through her Ministers, would be instantly suppressed by
proclamation?
" I am described as having made myself its colonel.
It has no colonel, because, consisting only of three
troops, it is not, by the rules of the War-office, entitled
to a commandant of higher rank than a major, and it
is to that command and rank I have succeeded, on a
vacancy, by permission of the Queen, procured as usual
through the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant.
My son has filled another vacant and subaltern commis-
sion, and after all these formidable proceedings, I be-
lieve there are still some officers and many privates
wanting to comiilete the corps up to the establishment
allowed and provided for by the Government. It was
under these circumstances that some forty or fifty of my
neighbours and tenants expressed to me a wish to form
themselves into an additional troop, in the hope of
being commanded by my son. The offer was made with-
out any previous knowledge or suggestion on my part.
" I am described as having done that which I have not
done; on communication with Sir Robert Peel. I have
had no communication, direct or indirect, with him
whatever in the matter.
" I have given elsewhere the reason why I have not
taken any one of the steps which would have been fleets.
sary towards raising the -additional troop lam accused
of having levied, I repeat, however, my confession and
assurance, that if the application of those who, without
an) suggestion of my own, wished to form one, had
reached me earlier, I should have had no hesitation in
recommending their application. to the existing Govern-
ment's consideration, I should have- done so on the
grounds, first, that eould strongly depend on the loyalty
and good conduct of those who made it ; and next, that
the establishment of the force in Lancashire is far inferior
to that of any county I know of similar importance. I
do not believe that the corps, at the annual exercise last
June, mustered above 150 nuin, including officers. .1
have served in the Staftbrdshire eomanry when it mus-
tered between 700 and SW. In Yorkshire, Cheshire,
and Warwickshire, I believe this force is on a similar
footing. It is certainly possible that the present ativerti
ment, or any other, might not consider those circum-
stances sufficient to authorise an increase. Opinions of
public and private individuals may differ as to tile Yttlue
and efficiency of this description of force, and circum-
stances of time and place may affect the expediency
of adding to its numbers. My own opinion is, that
the force is a valuable one, and ought to be encou-
raged within reasonable limits I and that, whether
to be increased fir hot, resident gentlemen do
well to Undertake the command of existing
clop!, though the task may, under circum-
stances of extreme, and, I trust, rare occurrence, be re-
sponsible and invidious, No man in his senses could
think it a de,,irti.blt thitig, pet' he, to command a detach-
ment of yeomanry in a civil conflict, which I am said to
anticipate, lam quite sure, however, that if the gen-
tlemen of England are always to be contemplating and
shrinking beforehand from such disagreeable possibili-
ties, the interests of the country at large will suffer with
their own, I will, however, at once admit, that if the
apprehensions of imminent disturbance which I am sup-
posed to entertain had ever entered my head, the raising on
my own estate at such a moment a single troop of yeoman-
ry, is not a measure I should have taken for my own protec-
tion or that of others,and that I should at least have waited
for the fullest sanction of the existing Government be-
fore I fur a moment entertained such a proposal from
others: As it is, the proposal has originated exclusively
in the desire of some friends and neighbours to serve
under my son, and I pledge myself has had no reference
whatever to any particular circumstances of the time.
On these grounds, I repeat, I should not have hesitated,
at a proper period for such application—viz, before the
estimates for the year are made up—to state this mighty
matter in all its bearings to her Majesty's present Mini-
stry, who, should they have thought fit to reject the
offer of the parties, would assuredly have done so on
better grounds than the strange and unfounded supposi-
tions to which that offer has given rise.
" I am not desirous to load your columns with a disqui-
sition or eulogy on the yeomanry force, but I am tempted
to allude to one of its attributes which I consider a
merit; that, like many other institutions in this country,
it brings together for a common and legitimate purpose
men of various politics. I have served myself in the
Staffordshire corps under Lords Hatherton and Lichfield.
The latter, I believe, still commands it, and promotes
its efficiency to the utmost by his example and influence.
That among the officers in general my own persna•
sion in politics may preponderate I think probable, but
in a county where I occasionally reside, Surrey, Lord
Lovelace commands the yeomanry. I see that the
Queen's escort of Hertfordshire Yeomanry, on her Ma-
.iesty'a recent visit to Pansanger, was commanded by
Lord Cowper. If I mistake not, I have seen addresses
moved or seconded in Parliament very lately, under
Whig Administrations, by gentlemen in yeomanry uni-
forms. At the last annual exercise of the West Hiding
corps, Mr. Stuart Wortley happened to be mounted on
the horse of a brother officer ; the lender was Lord Mil-
ton, his announced antagonist for the expected election.
"I believe some of the Blue and Yellow farmers present
could hardly understand it. I do, and value it.
"I really hope that my friends of the Whig or Radical
Press, whom I have usually found fair though uncorii-
promising opponents, will reduce their imaginations to a
peace establishment ; condemn the yeomanry, if they
please, or me for joining it, but in common justice acquit
me of the long-sighted, sinister, and blood-thirsty inten-
tions which I am bold to say are not consistent with my
general conduct or reputation. At all events, let them
acquit Sir Robert Peel, whom lam ready to expurgate
upon oath of all participation in or knowledge of
matter,--I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,

" F. EGEitTON."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
The early part of the afternoon was occupied in a
discussion on the new Doncaster Cup, an allusion to
which appeared in our report of the betting last week.
The Corporation have hitherto neglected to make it
known whether the entry, which closed so long ago as
the 7th instant, was sufficiently numerous to constitute a
race ; at present, it is doubtful whether such was the
case, and until this be known it would be loss of time to
enter into the subject. The St. Leger betting touched
two or three of the old established favourites at last week's
prices, and brought into play a new one in Mr. Gas-
coigne's Jack Sheppard, against whom, 25 to 1 to a
small sum, and 1,000 to 35 were laid ; the odds about
Van Amburgh were taken to a considerable amount, but
the general business was flat in the extreme. Closing
prices:—

ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agst Scott's lot
5 to 4 agst Mr. llawlinson's Coronation
9 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—t.
8 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middlebam
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's gringo
25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon
1000 to 35 agst Mr.Gascoigne's Jack Sheppard—taken

DERBY.

25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phoenix—taken
45 to 1 agst Mr. Melville's Amadou colt—taken

TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES:

We have received an Address from the South London
Auxiliary of the New British and Foreign Temperance
Society, signed by the Treasurer and two Secretaries,
setting forth the great advantages which have accrued
from the, establishment of these. societies, and adding this
as a reason for increased exertions. The Address 'is too
long for insertion, but we willingly insert the concluding
paragraphs _ _ _

" The Committee, however, feel that the -success which,
by the Divine blessing, has crowned their exertions in
this cause, is to be regarded as a call and stimulus to more
energetic and commensurate effort • strong drink is still
destroying its hundreds and thousands around us, ruinin.,
our fellow-creatures and fellow-immortals in body and
soul ; blasting their prospects in time, and hurrying
them to perdition for eternity. That the simple, tried,
and efficient remedy of Total Abstinence may be brought
into more speedy and extensive contact with this moral
plague, the Committee ask your contributions.
" To such as have embraced the principle and prac-
tice of Total Abstinence they would first appeal ; and
on the ground of gratitude, as well as of justice, would,
urge upon them the duty of doing what they can to sus-
tain and enlarge the operations of the Auxiliary. To
those also who, while they have not ostensibly connected
themselves with the Temperance movement, have by the
discussion of the question, and its direct influence upon
themsAves and others, in any measure reduced the
amount of their expenditure, the Committee feel war-
ranted in applying for pecuniary aid.
A third class, and one probably more nutaeolf than
either of the preceding, upon whom they- are desirous of
pressing the claims of the Society, are those who though
not prepared to admit the universal, application of the
principle of total abstinence, nor regarding it as their
duty to adopt the practice, yet acknowledge Temperance
Societies to be beneficial in their character, and allow
them a place in the system of means now so happily
and variously employed for the social and moral im-
provement of mankind. Upon the Philanthropist, the
Patriot, and the Christian, the cause presents distinct and
powerful claims for support, in proportion as each re-
spectively perceives drunkenness to be an evil, and so-

b-riety a ,rood ; and admits the suitableness of the means
employed by the Society to diminish the one and in-
crease the other. From each and all they ask—and
trust they shall not ask in vain—upon the ground of
what they have been permitted to achieve, and of what
they are still prepared to undertake, that among the
various institutions of the day now favoured with their
pecuniary support, a place may from this time be found
for the South London Auxiliary to the New British and
Foreign Temperance Society."

MR. Humz.—lt is reported that Mr. Hume is
to replace Mr. Chalmers as Member for the Montrose
Burghs. Mr. C. is willing to resign in his favour. The
Caledonian Mercury speaks of Mr. Stewart as likely to
succeed Mr. Rutherford, the Lord-Advocate,-should he
resign his seat for Leith ; but the Edinburgh Observer
seems to hold that Mr. Hume has the better chance.