The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Edwin Wood, tobacconist, iiing William street, City, to
surrender May 27, at half-past two, and June 25. at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman.
street-buildings; Thorndike, Staple Inn, Holborn.
John Hitchins, leather seller, Chichester-place, May 29, and
June 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, oflicial
assignee; Sole and Turner, Aldersnanbury.
John Simpson, common carrier, Cropwell Bishop, Notting-
hamshire, May 28, at eleven, and June 29, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,
Birchin-lane ; Farrar, Doctors'-commons.
John Marriott Blashfield, Albion-wharf, Blackfriars,
cement manufacturer, June 3 and 29, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin- lane,
Cornhill ; Asburst and Son. Cheapside; Vandercom, Creel,
Law, and Coymn, Bush-lane.
Thomas Wallis, woollen draper, Oxford-street, June 3 and
29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, offi-
cial assignee, Basinghall-street ; Sole and Turner, Alder-
manbury.
Richard Wade, tailor, Cheapside, May 26, at eleven, and
June 29, at twelve at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher,
official assignee; Lindsay and Mason, Gresham-street.
Thomas Fitch, hop merchant, Duke-street, Tooley- street,
May 25, at half-past two, and June 29, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-
place, Old Jewry; Oldershaw, Tokenhouse-yard.
John DickinEon, bookbinder, Manchester, June 2 and 23,
at one, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official
assignee, Manchester; Cornthwaite and Adams, Old Jewry-
chambers ; Pemberton, Liverpool.
George Parton, innkeeper, Longfleet, Poole, May 24, at
two, and June 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Fox,
Finsbury-circus; Welch, Poole.
Joseph Pickett, cowkeeper and milkman, Everett-street,
Brunswick-square, Middlesex, May 29, at one, and July 9,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official as-
signee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Carpenter,
Staple-inn.
Frederick Berner, tea dealer, Birkenhead, June 1 and 22, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official as-
signee, Liverpool; Sharpe and Co., Bedford-row; lLowndes
and ~ Liverpool.
Robert Graham, lodging-housekeeper, Brunswick-house,
Clapham common, May 29 and July 9, at twelve, at: the
Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman-
bury ; Turnley, Ludgate-street.
James Phillippo, horse dealer, Cross-street, Finsbury,
May 26 and June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Taylor,
Pavement, Finsbury.
John Robinson, jun., manufacturing chemist, Fenchurch-
street, City, May 25, at two, and June 29, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-
place Old Jewry; Taylor, North-buildings, Finsbury-circus.
William Harris, mineral agent, Aberystwith, June 1, at
twelve, and June 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Maples and Co., Frede-
rick's-place. Old Jewry ; Hassell, Bristol.
Charles Tabor and William Clarke, lace manufacturers,
Nottingham, June 11 and 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ;
Wadsworth, Nottingham.
Joseph Slather, builder, Rock-ferry, Cheshire, May 25, and
June 25, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Sird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Parker and Co., Gray's-inn,
London ; Reade and Co., Birkenhead.
George Webster, nail and bolt maker, Staincross, York-
shire, June 1, and July 24, at ten, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Smith and Co.,
Bedford-row, London ; Tyas and Co., Yorkshire ; Blackburn,
Leeds.
William Wild and Robert Wild, bleachers, Gigg in Heap,
Lancashire, June 4, at one, and June 24, 'at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Clarke, Gray, and Woodcock, Lincoln's Inn-fields;
Whitehead, Bury.
William Stanton, lace-maker, Lenton, Nottinghamshire,
June 4, and July 2, at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Johnson and Co.,
Temple; Bowley, Nottingham.
Charles Vyse, straw-bonnet maker, Ludgate-hill, May 25,
at one, and June 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch- lane, Lombard •street ;
Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Harcourt-buildings, Temple.
Abel Quarterman, breeches maker, Oxford, May 25, at
eleven, and June 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry ; Wood and Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.
John Berkley, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 3,
at twelve, and 30, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis-
trict Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne; Harle, Newcastle-upon -Tyne ; Claisholme, Hall, and
Gibson, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
1 Dividends, See., in our neat.]

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.-It Was currently
41iimoured in political circles on Moslay, that the Parliament
would be dissolved as early as the 19th or 26th of next
month, if public business would admit; if not, the dissolution
would certainly not be later than the first week in July.
REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER.-Monday night
a meeting of the friends of Mr. C. Lushington took place
at the Belgrave Hotel, Pimlico, Sir W. Molesworth in
the chair. A resolution was passed, stating that Mr. Lush-
ington was a fit and proper person to represent Westmin-
ster. An amendment was also proposed, but afterwards
withdrawn.
FaLmouTit, MAY 15.—The Prussian barque Leo-
pold, Holtz master, arrived off this port to-day from Monte
Video, and proceeded without anchoring for Rotterdam. She
sailed on the 27th of February, but it does not transpire that
she brings any intelligence of moment.
COPYRIGHT or DESlGNS.—Notwithstanding vulgar
imitations and the frequent assumption of a similar name or
title in some instances, scarcely sufficient caution being used to
evade with success the liability to legal punishment, yet
does " icolls Paletot" still receive the highest and most
general patronage from the fashionable world. It is, per-
haps, as well for the patentees that these attempts to deceive
are frequently occurring, as one or two isolated cases might
have been insufficient to warn a scrutinising public, that care
should be taken to apply to the Patentee's advertised address.
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of
this society was held on Monday evening at Finsbury Chapel.
This Right Hon. Dr. Lushington presided, and the Conde de
Alontemolin was present at the proceedings. The report con-
gratulated the subscribers to the society on the progress
which anti-slavery principles were making, although in some
places they had been considerably retarded. The receipts for
the year had been 1,7151. 13s. 6d.; the expenditure 1,4261.
Os. 41d. ; leaving a balance of 2891. 7s. lid. to the credit of
the society. Sir George Strickland, in moving the adoption
of the report, severely denounced the conduct of the Ame-
ricans on account of their maintenance of slavery, but ex-
pressed his conviction that even in that country slavery
would, ere long, be extinct. The meeting was subsequently
addressed by Mr. Elihu Burritt, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Hinton, and
others ; and resolutions deprecatory of the system of slavery
were adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman, which was
briefly acknowledged, closed the proceedings.
ROBBERY OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER ON THE
HIGHWAY.—On Saturday night last Mr. James Gibson,
commercial traveller to the firm of Messrs. Thomas Gibson
and Co., hat-manufacturers, Castle-green, Bristol, while tra-
velling after dark, on the road between Cirencester and
Stroud, was attacked by three men, who rushed out suddenly
from the road side, seized the head of his horse, and then
dragged him from the gig, and used him with great violence.
One of them knocked him down, and then knelt on his chest
and gagged his mouth, to prevent his resisting or giving an
alarm, while a second plundered his person of his watch,
chain, and seals, and cash and notes to the value of between
1501. or 2001. Fortunately about 501. in sovereigns, which
was in the driving-box of the gig, escaped their notice. After
threatening him with further violence if he attempted to
pursue them, they decamped with their booty.
The Right Hun. Sir Robert Peel gives a Parlia-
mentary dinner on the 27th inst. to a very numerous circle.
The Right Hon. Baronet and Lady Peel and family left
Whitehall-gardens yesterday for Drayton Manor, Stafford-
hire, from whence they return to town on the 26th 414,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 17.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE SPICEIt AND POILTON.

These bankr4tscarrjea—On‘;;erieXtensive business as
paper-manufacturers, having three mills, one at Alton, one
at Bognor, and the other at Wandsworth. They were also
farmers and hop-growers, and one of the partners (J. E.
Spicer) traded as a paper-manufacturer, and farmer upon
his own account. They now came up upon the balance-
sheets, prepared by Mr. Butler, accountant, to pass their last
examination.

With respect to the private balance-sheet of J. E. Spicer,
which runs over the same period of time as the joint balance-
sheet, the following are the principal items therein :—Private
debts and liabilitie., 10,1111. 18s. 2d. ; and to creditors hold-
ing mortgages, 7,9901. The assets are 10,1461. ss. 4d.; profits.
4,3331 Os. I Id. ; capital, 1,474/. 19s. sd. ; trade and personal
expenses, 7,347/.195. Id. ; losses, 538/. 7s. 6d. ; transferred to
partnership account, 2,701/. 9s. 11d.; old debts (paid), 724/.
15s. 10d. ; liabilities as per contra, 2,530/. 14s. 4d.
After some discussion, the case was adjourned for the pur-
pose of further inquiry.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Iloutoyn.)
IN RE W. ItUINCEY.
This bankrupt, who was a tin-plate-worker, in Old-street,
' St. Luke's, came up to pass his last examination ; but,
no balance-sheet having as yet been filed, the case was ad-
journed.