The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-08 00:00:00

'SUNDECEMBER 8, 1847.
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between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr.
Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
J. Butler, Saffron Walden, Essex, upholsterer, 4s. 9d.,
on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
T. G. Shane, Leeds, woollen cloth merchant, 4s. 9d.,
on Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds.
W. D. Hay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, baker, Bd., on
Saturdays. between the hours of ten and three, at the
office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Conlen, Cheltenham, woollen draper, 5d., together
with 2s. upon new proofs, on Wednesdays, between the
hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
J. Pritchard, Bristol, licensed victualler, 6s. 4d., on
Wednesdays, between the hours of twelve and two, at
the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol.
A. Tunstall and J. W. Cash, Bristol, oil merchants,
35., on Wednesdays, between the hours of twelve and
two, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Bristol.
J. P. Burdett, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, grocer, 2s. 2d.,
on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and three,
at the office of Ir. Bittleston. Birmingham.
T. Tomkinson, Leek, Staffordshire, tanner, Is. Sid.,
on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham.
M'Conkey and Howie, Latnbeg, Downshire, bleachers,
Is., on Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
F. Berner, Birkenhead, tea dealer, Is., on Thursdays,
between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Turner, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
T. May, Peckham, Surrey, stock and share broker,
Dec. 29, at eleven—W. Lambert, Great Tichfield-street,
grocer, Dec. 29, at half-past twelve—pr. H. Lewis,
Ludgate street, City, straw bonnet maker, Dec. 29, al
one—T. Capps, Lynn, Norfolk, dealer in toys, Dec. 29,
at half-past eleven—T. Owen, Fleet-street and Argyle-
street, common carrier, Dec. 29, at ore—A. Carter,
Romford, Essex, saddler, Dec. 30, at half-past one—G.
Trowse Newton, builder and victualler, Dec. 30, at
twelve.

In the Country.
J. J. Cannabe, Bath, fringe-manufacturer, Jan. 4, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Buckland, Chippen-
ham, Wiltshire, innkeeper, Dec. 28, at half-past twelve,
at the Court, Bristol—H. Cowell, Leeds, paper-merchant,
Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Court Leeds—S. Clough,
Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler, Dec. 28. at one, at the
Court, Leeds—J. Partington, Wyre Piddle, Worcester-
shire, cattle-dealer, Dec. 30, at twelve, at the Court,
Birmingham—J. Wainwright, Birmingham, draper,
Dec. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Jones
Manchester, coal-dealer, Dec. 30, at twelve at the Court,
Manchester—J. 11. Southam and G. Southam, Ashton-
onder-Lyne, cotton•spinners, Dec. 30, at eleven, at the
Court, Manchester—J. Featherstone, Manchester, iron-
founder, Dec. 30, at twelve, at the Court Manchester—
Mary Warbuton, Bury,. Lancashire, hat manufacturer,
Dec. 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J, Gee,
Dukinfield, Cheshire, cotton-spinner, Dec. 28, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester.
At the Court of Review, Dec. 28.
H. Howell, Shrewsbury, draper—J. J. Trigwell, Har-
row-road, beer shop-keeper—J. Fenton, Ockbrook,
Derbyshire, hosier—W. Butcher and W. E. Holmes,
Lichfield, coach-builders—j. Dorey and J. Hiskens,
Woolwich, brewers—G. Holford, Wolverhampton,
jeweller—W. Levett, Leicester, tailor—J. Reilly, Wol-
verhampton, grocer—E. Snowden, Alton, county of
Southampton, painter—G. Evans, Tottenham-court-
road, and Winchester, draper—L C. Taylor, Change-
alley, Cornhill, tailor.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
G. Giles and N. J. Giles, Lincoln's Inn-fields, solici-
tors—E. Lowe and C. D. Roberts, Ryde, Isle of Wight,
chemists and druggists—W. Woodgate and F. West,
Gresham-street, attorneys and solicitors—A. V. Greg-
son, J. Porteus, and S. S. Gregson, Lisson-grove North,
St. Marylebone, drapers—F. Clementson and W. Young.
Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries, earthenware manufac-
turers—W. Platt and J. Toole, Oldham, iron-founders
—L. Coldwell, E. Coldwell, S. Coldwell, J. Coldwell. A.
Cold well, and J. Coldwell, Liphill-bank, Yorkshire,
woollen cloth manufacturers (so far as regards John
Coldwell)—T. Maisey and C. L. Jones, Oxford-street,
cheesemongers—J. Knight and W. T. Knight, Tooley-
street, grocers—D. Cooper and W. Cooper, Leicester,
rope manufacturers—C. Smallbridge and J. D. Wheeler,
Gloucester, wino and spirit merchants—E. Landells and
J. Maxwell, proprietors and publishes of the Lady's
Newspaper—T. H. Rutter and D. M'lntyre, Manchester
and Liverpool, patent gum and starch manufacturers—
T. W. Gilbert, E. B. Hooke, T. H. Street, and G. Gut-
teres, Brabant-place, Philpot-lane, attorneys and soli-
citors (as far as regards T. W. Gilbert)—W. V. Willis
and G. B. Wainwright, Liverpool, merchants—W. Ed-
wards, W. Weaver, and J. George, Ludlow, mercers and
drapers—T. Pritty and J. Mann, Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk, iron founders—S. Coates and T. White, Lud-
gate-street, wine merchants—J. Nicholson and T. Smelt,
Manchester, commission agents—lL lliscocks and N.
Cook, Birkenhead, brewers—J. Partrige and W. M.
Tayler, Birmingham, attorneys and solicitors.
INSOLVENT. PETITIONERS.

Henry D'Arcy, Sattergate, Derbyshire, draper.
Robert Archer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Journeyman,
machine maker.
John Pollard, Batley, Yorkshire, blanket weaver.
George Clarke, Winchfield, Hampshire, station agent to
South Western Railway Company.
George Wood, Manchester, drysalter.
Thomas Tundley, Leicester, clerk.
William Hawley, Rugeley, Staffordshire, journeymaz
tallow chandler.
John Allan, Hugeley, assistant hairdresser.
John Honeyman, Brockhurst, Southampton, carpenter.
James White, Portsea and Salisbury, carrier.
William Burnett, Gosport, carmen and dairyman.
Thomas Bailey, Ipswich, baker.
John Butcher, Ipswich,' hat manufacturer.
Rev. Charles Lee, Yazley, lluntingdonshire, clerk.
Henry Robotham, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, auo-
tioneer's clerk and commission agent.
Seth Burge, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, baker.
Israel Banton, Little Bolton, Lancashire, shoemaker.
Joseph Ramsden, Little Bolton, rope manufacturer.
Aaron Snape, Hazel-grove, Cheshire, blacksmith
John Dicken, Ticknall, Derbyshire, wheelwright.
Philip Holloway, Southsea, Hampshire, seedaman.
George Hodgson, Durham, fishmonger.
Anthony Launt, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, clock and
watchmaker.
Charles Killmister, Bath, stage'coachman.
Edward Stevens, Wantage, Berkshire, machine maker.
James Hackman, Buckland, Hampshire, fellmonger.
Samuel Blake, Manchester, hairdresser.
Samuel Elsworth, Manchester, corn and provision dealer.
George Phillips, Bedlam's-end, Warwickshire, cattle
dealer.
Samuel Smith, Ipswich, cheesemonger.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
R. Trail, Pittenweem, merchant, to meet within the
writing chambers of Mr. Oliphant, Anstruther, Dec. 10
and 31 at two.
A. and J. Downie, Glasgow,
within the counting-house of Messrs. M`Ewan and Auld,
Glasgow, Dec. 10 and 31, at one.
TV
W. F. Campbell,
-8., ship owner and manufacturer
of tiles and bricks, and coal
master at Woodhall, Lanark-
shire, to meet within the Argyle Hotel, Dunoon, Argyle-
shire, Dec. 15, and Jan. 5, at one.
R. Macpherson, Kingussie, innkeeper, to meet within
the office of Mr. M`Rae, Rja merchants, to meet
gussie, Dec. 13, and Jan. 5,
at two.

A. APLean, Giltnerton, Perthshire,
stabler, to meet within the writing-office of Mr.
M'Rostie, sen., Crieff, Dec. 15, and Jan. 5, at eleven.
J. Thompson, Irvine, merchant and ironmonger, to
meet within the office of Mr. Rankin, jun., Irvine, Dec.
14, and Jan. 4, at two. innkeeper and
J. Kitchen, Glasgow, manufacturer, to meet within the
office of Messrs. M‘Naughton and Hamilton, Glasgow,
and Jan. 5, at twelve.
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Glassford, Dougalston, dealer in timber, and re•
spideicingl at Craigmaddie, Stirlingshire, to meet within
Campbell's Inn, Stirling, Dec. 11, and Jan. 8, at two.

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lighter, and they also sank before assistance could reach
them. Tha body of deceased, Sporle, was recovered on
Saturday morning, and the corpse of one of his com-
panions, named Lewis Warner, was taken out of the
river, off Poplar, on Monday morning last. Owing to
the absence of the only witness, the wife of one of the
unfortunate men, the inquest was adjourned.
SALE OF VALUABLE ENGRAVINGS.—Yesterday,
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, Of Wellington-street,
strand, concluded a sale of a valuable collection of en-
gravings. The value of the collection may be estimated
by the following items :—"The Marriage of the Virgin,"
by Raffaelle, engraved by Looghi, 54/. ; "LA Madonna
di Santo Sisto," engraved by Muller, a fine proof, 331. ;
" The Little Gardeners," by Mandel, superb autograph
proof, 17/. ; " Sybilla Calm," early proof, la by
... erfetti,
12/. 125.; " The Virgin in Glory," after Murille, by Pri-
doux, proof before letters, 121. 15s. The whole of the
engravings were in the finest state, and the prices ob-
tained for them remarkably high. The sale realised
near 6001.
THE ELECTION PEratorts.--Yesterday was the last
day for presenting petitions to the House of Commons
complaining of undue elections and returns; and it will
be seen by our Parliamentary report that several were
presented. Among them was one against the return for
Nottingham; the petition refers to only one of the sitting
Members, Mr. Feargus O'Connor; it alleges that he was
ineligible by resslA of his wsul of the requisite quali-
lict&n.

' COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
SHAKESPERE'S HOUSE FUND.
This theatre, the use of which last evening was,
in the most handsome manner, given by Mr. Beale
to the Committee for the purchase of Shakespere's
house, was crowded to excess. All the performers
in London, too, gave their gratuitous services, and
in order to erable the committee to make the most of
these offers, it was arranged that the performances
should consist of a series of scenes from Shakespere.
The following is a copy of the prologue (written by
Mr. Charles Knight, and spoken by Mr. Phelps,) and
of the programme of the performances of this, per-
haps one of the most remarkable representations in
the history of the drama:—

PROLOG UE.
" The Macedonian stood within the gat( a
Of the devoted Thebes. Relentless hates
Ask'd to be loos'd in bloodshed and in fire:
Spare not—the conquer'd cried:—Yet stay, the lyre
Of glorious Pindarus in Thebes was strung—
Search for bis house those fated piles among ;
Perish the city, down with every tower,
But save, from ruin save the Muses' sacred bower.
" The victor Time has stood on Avon's side
To doom the fall of many a home of pride;
Rapine o'er Evesham's gilded cane has strode,
And gorgeous Kenilworth has paved the road:
But Time has gently laid his withering hands
On on, frail house—the House of Shakspere stands;
Centuries are gone—fallen' the cloud•capped tow'rs;l
But Shakspere's home, his boyhood's home, is ours.
" Ye, who this night kind greetings bring to cheer
The histrionic groups assembled here,
Cherish the task, with reverent love to hold
One relic of our drama's age of gold,
For there, where Avon's long-immortal wave
Lingers in willowy banks by Shakspere's grave,—
The Pilgrims come: Ohio and the Rhine
Send forth their worshippers to Stratford's shrine,—
And still they come, to hail, from every clime,
The Poet of all countries and all time.'
"Perchance, in some dark hour, a venal stage
May leave to bookworms Shakspere's living page;
Fit on the buskins to some Newgate gang,
And give the comic mask to drunken slang:
Then, when no tear shall fall for Juliet's woe,
Falstaff be voted dull, and Hamlet ' slow,'—
Then, ere new Bettertons and Garricks rise
To win the crowd from scenes the good despise,—
The lowly roof, which you are here to claim
From cold neglect or desecration's shame,
May stand, the trophy of a nobler taste—
A beacon-light amidst the drama's waste.
" Yes 1 when a race unborn shall gather round
His hallowed roof, and consecrated ground,
And secret tears, and smiles of sudden glee,
Attest his sway, the mind's own jubilee;
Remembrance, perhaps, may turn to this 'brief hour,'
Which yields our feeble homage to his power:
For here th' assembled nation stands to say,
Our Shakspere's home is snatched from quick decay;
Is the work finished—or but yet begun?
Complete ! Maintain ! do all that needs be done !
Yes ! England's heart now beats at Shakspere's call—
The Muses' bower is saved—your's is the pledge for aIL"
BEETHOVEN'S OVERTURE TO " CORIOLAN US."

THE DEATH OF HENRY IV.
Second Part of King Henry IV. Act IV.
A Chamber in the Palace at Westminster.
King Henry ... Mr. Macready,
Henry, Prince of Wales ... Mr. Leigh Murray.
Prince Thomas of Clarence ... Mr. Aldham.
Prince John of Lancaster ... Mr. S. Parry.
Prince Humphry of Gloster ... Mr. Bellingham.
Lord Chief Justice ... Mr. Ryder.
Earl of Westmorland ... Mr. Edgar.
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Pages to the King
• • Mr. Andrews.
••• Mr. Smith.

THE DEATH OF QUEEN KATHARINE.
Henry the Eighth. Act W.
A Chamber in Kimbolton Castle.
Queen Katharine ... ... Mrs. Butler.
Patience Miss Andrews.
Agatha Her Attendants /Miss Bellamy.
Cicely Miss Johnson.
Cromwell ... Mr. James Vining.
Guilford Mr. Aldham.
Capucius ... Mr. Martin.
SIR HENRY BISHOP'S OVERTURE, INTRODUCING POPULAR
AIRS FROM SHIESPERE'S PLAYS.
111.
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.
Part of Act the Third.
A Street in Verona.

Launce
Speed

... Mr. Harley.
... Mr. Buckstone.

IV.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 7. —The Forth, Royal Mail
Company's steam-ship, Captain Chapman, arrived yes-
, terday afternoon at Southampton from the West Indies
and Mexico. She experienced boisterous weather from
Bermuda, and is, consequently, somewhat late in her
. arrival.
Her latest dates are Tampico, 25th October; Vera
Cruz, Ist November ; Havannah, 10th November ;
Nassau, 13th November ; Honduras, 20th October;
Jamaica, Bth November; Chagres, 2Gth October; Car-
thagena, 28th October; Demerara, 3d November; Tri-
nidad, sth November ; Barbadoes, Bth November ;
Grenada, 10th November; St. Thomas, 15th November;
and Bermuda, 21st November.
The freight of the Forth consists of, in dollars,
125,810; gold dust, silver in bars, and doubloons,
182,509; a quantity of gold, weighing 3,1640 z.; silver
weighing 108Ibs. 90z.; 6214 17s. 4d. in British coin, one
box of pearls, two packages of platina, one seron of
bark, 66 packages of sundries, and general cargo, con-
sisting of 79 cases of cigars, 5 bales of bast.
The Forth has brought home about fifty passengers,
amongst whom are Captain Bailey, R.N., Lieutenants
Joyce, Allan, Hunt, and Pattison, 2d West India Regi-
ment, Captain Johnson, Captain Baillie, R.N., Mr. New-
man, Mr. Donovan, Dr. Cumming, &c.
STATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.—Vera Cruz,
her Majesty's ship Persian ; at Bermuda, her Majesty's
ship Vindictive ; the Endymion at Barbadoes ; the
steamer Vixen had arrived at Bermuda ; the Vesuvius
was ordered down to Barbadoes, and the Trincomalee
had sailed there to relieve the Endymion, ordered home.
"'The Jamaica papers are chiefly occupied with accounts
of meetings, held at different places, for the purpose of
presenting petitions to the British Parliament on the
sugar and free-trade questions.
At a meeting held at St. John's, on the 30th Oct., it
was reselved unanimously :
" That this meeting view with very great alarm the
present state of the West India colonies, and the conse-
quences that may be expected to follow, produced by the
late measures of the British Parliament sanctioning the
admission of foreign slave-grown produce into the
British market upon such terms as must exclude the
produce of the free British colonies.
" That the great influx of foreign slave-grown pro-
duce since the adoption of the...aforesaid measures has
already had the effect of reducing the price of free-grown
sugar, and other colonial produce in the same proportion,
to an amount that leaves a heavy loss to the grower
thereof.
" That in addition to the population of these colonies,
whether by importation or natural increase, though it
may in time cheapen labour, is yet too slow a process to
give a hope of competing with foreign slavery, and
therefore cannot afford that relief which, under existing
circumstances, is so immediately required.
" That if the present state of things be not imme-
diately amended the total ruin of this island must ensue.
" That if colonial produce be admitted into the British
market free of duty, or if slavery be totally abolished,
and if the navigation-laws be repealed or modified,
these colonies will be retained as useful and beneficial
appendages to the British Crown, instead of becoming
uncultivated wastes, which nothing but the adoption of
one or other of the foregoing suggestions can now avert.
" That petitions for relief, accompanied by copies of
these resolutions, be forwarded to her Majesty the Queen
and the two Houses of Parliament."

Meetings of a similar nature have been held at
Black River, St. Elisabeth, at Clarendon, and other
principal points, at which resolutions were passed to
petition Parliament to take the present state of the West
India colonies into serious consideration.

The following are the resolutions adopted at Cla,
rendon

" Resolved, that the present depressed state of the
agricultural interests in the West Indies is the result of
the low prices of produce in the markets of Europe, and
that no effort we can make can have any adequate
influence in relieving us from the effects of that de-
pression.

" That if this depreciation continue, not only will all
atteuipts at improvement be baffled, but the staples of
the country must be driven out of cultivation.
" That we have no desire to evade the responsibility
of increased and better-regulated exertions on our own
parts, if our energies be not paralyzed.
" That however, seeing the present consequences of
these and other recent events as regards our condition,
we earnestly and solemnly appeal to the British nation
and the Imperial Parliament, so to modify and arrange
the application of the principles now in action in the
mother country in reference to our circumstances as
colonists, that we may be enabled to continue the pro-
duction of the articles on which our existence depends,
with a reasonable remuneration for the outlay of capital,
and the expenditure of labour.
" That in the spirit of humble but strenuous remon-
strance against either the neglect or disregard of our
present condition, we submit that the admission of our
products, sugar, coffee, and other articles, the principle
establisheci by the repeal of corn restriction, namely,
duty free, rum relieved of the present differential duty,
the encouragement of free and extended immigration,
the alteration of the navigation-laws, and the enforce-
ment of the treaties with foreign powers, which would
effect the total abolition of slavery, as means whereby
u
dbettered, and our existence as
o cultivatorscon i condition oon may be
continued.
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" That petitions to both Houses of the Imperial Par-
liament be framed in conformity with the foregoing re-
solutions, and be sent round for signature."