The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-09 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOHN ROBERT FLETCHER, wine merchant, Lincoln.
HENRY THOMPSON, timber-merchant, King-street,
Clerkenwell.

JESSE BRIDGMAN and WILLIAM DRYLAND,
tallow-mcltcrs, Upper Chapman-street, St. George's.
BANKRUPTS.

STEPHEN HAWES CROSSWELL and JOHN MAY
the younger, wine and spirit merchants, Walbrook, London,
to surrender Oct. 21 and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Michael, Red
Lion-square.
JAMES COULSELL, builder, Richmond, Surrey, Oct.
16, at two, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
rapigy. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street-build-
ing Kightley, Panton-square, Haymarket.
THOMAS LEE, innkeeper, 13attye-mill, Yorkshire, Oct.
18, at ten, at the Court-house, Leeds, and Nov. 19, at ten, at
the Royal Hotel, Brighouse. Walker, Furnival's Inn, Lon-
don ; Blackburn, Leeds.
ROBERT BROWN, bookseller, Kingston-upon-Hull, Oct.
26, at eleven, and Nov. 19, at one, at the George Inn, King.
stun-upon-Hull. Rosser and Son, Warwick-court, Gray's Inn,
London ; England and Shackles, Hull.
JOSEPH TOMKINSON, builder, Manchester, October
22, and November 19, ateleven, at the Commitsioners'-rooms,
Manchester. Chapman and Roberts, Manchester ; Chester
and Toulmin, Staple Inn, London.

GEORGE CAREY, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Oct.
22, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the George the Fourth Hotel,
Nottingham. Percy, Smith, and Percy, Nottingham ; Austen
and Hebsob, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, London.
EDWARD TANNER, ship-agent, Fish-street-hill, Oct.
15, at twelve, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Weeks,
Tokenhouse-yard.
FRANCIS SNEADE, timber merchant, Chester, Oct. 26,
and Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Chester. John-
son, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Higson and Son,
Manchester.

JOHN ELLACOTT, shoe manufacturer, Cheltenham,
Oct. 18, and Nov. 19, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham.
Savery, Clark, and Fussell, Bristol; Hornby and Towgood, St.
Swithin's-lane, London.

ANDREW MORISON, lodging-house-keeper, Great
Malvern, Worcestershire, Oct. 19, and Nov. 10, at twelve, at
the Golden Lion Inn, Worcester. White and Eyre, Bedford-
row, London ; Finch and Jones, or Hill, Worcester.

RIJDOLPiI MORITZ DITTRICH, merchant, Kings-
ton-upon-Hull, Nov. 3, at eleven, and Nov. 19, at two, at the
George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Hicks and Marris, Gray's
hn-square, London; Holden, Hull.
JOHN RUSSELL, tailor, Brampton, Derbyshire, Oct. 19,
and Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester. Sale and Worthington, Manchester; Beaters, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, London
THOMAS BRYAN, butcher, Leamington-priors, War-
wickshire, Oct. 20, at eleven, and Nov. 19, at half-past two,
at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington-priors. Warrand, South-
square, Gray's Inn, London ; Empson, Leamington.
GEORGE BLIGHT BISHOP and FRANCES HILD-
YARD, drapers, Southampton, Oct. 15, at two, and Nov. 19,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official as-
signee, Basinghall-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside.
JOHN CAPARN, common brewer, Riddings, Alfreton,
Derbyshire, Oct. 22, and Nov. 19, at one, at the George the
Fourth Inn, Notttngham. Capes and Stuart, Field-court,
Gray's Inn, London.
JAMES GIBSON, cotton cloth manufacturer, Over Dar-
wen, Blackburn, Lancashire, Nov. 3, and 19, at eleven, at the
Swan Inn, Bolton, Lancashire. Fisher and De Jersey, Al-
dersgate-street, London ; Barker, Manchester.
CHARLES HOPPE, glass dealer, Blackfriars-road, Oct,
20, at twelve, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Leigh, Mae-
sion-Louse, London.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
R. Silk and T. Brown, coach makers, Long acre, Oct
at half-past eleven—J. Kingsford and F. E. Kingsford, wine
merchants, Dover, Oct. 27, at ten—W. Legh, corn dealer,
Sew Windsor„Oct. 29, at _heif-pa,st twelve—G. Lung- coal
merchant, Croydon, Oct. 29, at twelve—J. Barnett, budder,
Sydenham, Oct. 29, at half-past eleven—W. Morgan, G. R.
Roach, and G, Morgan, merchants, Liverpool-street, Oct. 29,
at eleven.

In the Country.
J. Peerman, brewer, Christchurch, Southampton, Nov. 2, at
eleven, at. the London Tavern, Poole—W. F. Coe, ironmonger,
Cambridge, Nor. I, at eleven, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge—
B. Boothby, sen., and B. Boothby, jun., ironfoanders, Notting•
ham, Nov. 4, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Not-
tingham—A. Pickard, cloth manufacturer, Ossett, Yorkshire,
Nov. 2, at one, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds—H. A.
New, grocer, Worcester, Oct. 28, at eleven, at the ofEce of
R. Rising, Worcester—S. Bedingfield, yarn manufacturer,
Suffolk, Oct. 30, at one, at the Crown and Anchor Inn,
Ipswich.
CERTIFICATES—OcT. 29.

J. White, ship builder, East Cowes, Isle of Wight—T.
Hamlet, goldsmith, Princes-street, Leicester-square—J. Mad-
ley and H. Courteen, brewers, Redbrook, Monmouthshire--
J. Burlinson, upholsterer, Sunderland—J. Day, ribbon manu-
facturer, Coventry—T. and J. L. Beasley, tanners, Bermond-
sey—J. D. Moss, watchmaker, Liverpool—G. Last, general
merchant, Birmingham—J. Robson, coach currier, Bear-
street, Leicester-square—W. F. Coe, cattle salesman, Bourne,
Cambridge.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

U. Wackrill and D. Merson, brewers, Tiverton, Devonshire
—J. Evans and C. Walmsley, cotton spinners, Hoghton, Lan-
cashire—C. Hall and J. Jones, merchants, Sheffield—E. C.
and T. D. Taylor, oil warehousemen, Lower Holborn—R.
Ruff and J. Martin, builders, King-street, Golden-square--
D. Le Boutillier and G. Le B. Diamond, drapers, Northum-
berland-place, Commercial-place East—T. Wright, F. Wright,
and E. Wright, librarians, Brightcn—T. Baker and C. M.
Darby, printers, Holborn-hill—M. Frost and W. Flattersley,
millstone manufacturers—F. and C. Cooper, attorneys, Brigh-
ton—J. Wareham and W. W. Brown, Fontmell, Dorsetshire
—S. and J. Ride, millwrights, Leicester—S. and I. Danks,
ooal masters, Wednesbury, Staffordshire—J. A. Douglass and
J. Cragg, solicitors, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn-lane--P.
and -Hope, grocers, Liverpool—T. Hollings' I. B. Not.
lings, and T. Hollings, jun., worsted spinners, Bradford, York-
shire (so far as regards T. Hollings, jun.)—W. Gill and E.
Russ, surgeons, Wolverhampton—W. H. Hodgson and 'l'.
Fellows, cotton manufacturers, Manchester—W. Thorp and
T. !Makin, silk manufacturers, Leigh, Lancashire—J. Demi-
chelis and L. Martin, general merchants, Coleman-street—J.
Roberts and J. Jonas, joiners, Liverpool—G. and J. Izon, ca-
binet makers, Birmingham—J. Higginson and E. Watkins,
block makers, Liverpool—S. Thrower, C. Thrower, and G.
Thrower, linen drapers, Cambridge—A. Horsfall and S. Tew,
ladies' shoe warehousemen, Halifax, Yorkshire—J. Wilson and
W. Thompson, booksellers, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending Oct. o, 1841, is
345. l(E1d. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Cnstoms paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain.

In Johnstone there are 120 families, comprising
300 individuals, in such distress as to be unable, without
aid, to obtain food or clothing, or pay for shelter. The
dirtress in Paisley has increased more this week than
during any week since its commencement. The number
applying for relief has increased 118, and now in all 804,
amounting, with. dependents, to above 2,400. The. sum
-requisite-to furnish these with a most scanty.pittapce,
will not fall much short of 1201., and on Thursday last,
only Si. was left on hand. The distres3, then, is most
severe, and is increasing. In addition to all this, many
.hundreds of families are but a step removed from, being
applicants, and their privations do not prominently ap-
pear.—Paisley Advertiser.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The Com-
mittee officially appointed "to take into consideration
the promotion of the fine arts in this country, in
connection with the rebuilding of the new Houses
of Parliament," have, at length, elicited sufficient evi-
dence to justify it in adopting and recommending that
measures should be taken without delay, to encourage
the fine arts, by employing them in the decorations
in the new Houses of the Legislature, and which
are now in course of erection. Mr. Barry, the
architect, having been requested to inform the Committee,
the superficies o the different portions of the buildings
which could be appropriated to painting, and also the
number of positions or places in which sculpture could
with advantage be placed, has stated those to be as follow
—ln St. Stephen's hall, 3,000 feet; Royal gallery, 2,140;
the Queen's robing-room, 1,168; lower corridors, fronting
the river, 5,072; upper corridors, fronting the river, 5,672;
House of Lords, 1,800; House of Commons, 1,260 ;
in the corridors from the central saloon, 1,325; conference
hall, 1,340; in the lobbies of the House of Lords, 1,036;
the lobby of the House of Commons, 1,260; in the Com-
mittee rooms 25,350 ; besides numerous other less im-
portant portions of the building.---Total, 49,823 feet. In
Westminster Hall, the superfices capable of being de-
voted to this purpose is 6,160 feet; but Mr. Barry con-
sidered it to be absolutely requisite that the roof of this
building should be " pierced" in various places equidis-
tant, so as to admit of an increased quantity of light, the
present lantern not being adequate for that purpose. The
paintings to be either in fresco or oil, as in the Houses
of Parliament, and the designs to be taken from. the most
prominent features in British history.
WHEAT PROM SEED 3,500 YEARS OLD.--,
At a late meeting of the East Suffolk Agricultural As-
sociation at Saxmundham, by far the most inte-
resting object shown was a sample of wheat grown
from seeds taken from an Egyptian mummy supposed to
have been incased 3,500 years ! This was exhibited
by W. Long, Esq., of Hurts Hall. It was white wheat,
the ears of which were considerably larger and broader
than the ears of English wheat, appearing to grow
double upon one stem ; and the straw was long and
stout. The practice of the ancient Egyptians was to en-
close grains of wheat in the mummy cases before de-
posited in their resting places; but that the wheat should
retain its vital principle through so many ages was re-
garded as one of those great wonders in the economy of
nature which have baffled the skill of man.—Leamington
Spa Chronicle.

LF YEARLY "MEETING OF
TirL]

(Vito3l OUR. OWN coI.RESPOSDENT. )
LIVERPoOL, THURSDAY, OCT. 7.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the
Proprietors in the Chester and Birkenhead Railway
was held at the Clarendon-rooms in this town, at
12 o'clock to-day, for the purpose of receiving a report
and statement of the general accounts from the opening
of the line, and transacting other important business.
The Chair was occupied by HENRY DixoN, Esq., the
President of the Board of Directors. The meeting lasted
for upwards of an hour and three quarters, and, when
contrasted with sumo of the former meetings of this
Company, was remarkable for the unanimity of business-
like manner in which its proceedings were conducted.
The report, which extended to considerable length,
was read by Mr. Mallaby, the Company's solicitor. The
accounts which commenced on the day the railway was
opened, the 21st of Oct. 1840, and were brought down
to the 30th of June, 1841, showed a surplus of upwards
of 5,00C1. The average rate of fare upon the line was
lid. per passenger per mile—less by a halfpenny, and in
some instances a penny, than that charged upon other
lines in this country. The extreme lowness of the fares,
and the expenditure incurred in conveying passengers
across the river Mersey to and from Liverpool, were
considered as the chief causes of the com-
parative smallness of the profits ; and the Direc-
tors desired to call the attention of the Proprietors
to the latter subject, in the hope of their being able to
abolish such an incubus. They also conceived t would
1).- desirable to have a tunnel formed at the Birkenhead
station, to communicate with the water-side, and thus do
away with the expenses of omnibuses for the convey-
ance of passengers thither. They thought it right
not to make any dividend on the surplus at
present for reasons of a cogent nature, which would
more particularly appear from the statement of the ac-
counts, but to pay a dividend at the next half-yearly
meeting ; and this they hoped would be the last sacrifice
which the Proprietors would have to make, on
account of the undertaking. The Directors had
taken into consideration the propriety of dispensing
with the services of their paid Treasurer,
but they had not, as yet, come to any resolution,
on the subject ; they had, moreover, turned their atten-
tion to the details of the several departments of the ex-
penditure, with a view to their diminution. It was with
feelings of gratitude that the Directors informed the
Proprietors, that although the passenger traffic had in-
creased upon the line, no accident had occurred to any
one, nor had there been any injury experienced by the
carriages, although the rate of travelling was equal to
that on any other line in the kingdom.
Mr. J. MOLYNEAUX moved the adoption of the Report.
Mr. E. GERARD seconded it, and it was carried
unanimously.

Mr. JACKSON, of Birkenhead, then made a proposi-
tion to the Company to pay the sums of 24,3501. for tlle
ferry between Liverpool and Woodside, and 5,700/. for a
new steamboat they had purchased, and to grant the right
in perpetuity to the Company to convey railway passen-
gers from Mankstown-ferry to Liverpool.
The proposition, which appeared fair and reasonable,
caused considerahk, discussion, and the Proprietors em-
powered the Directors to enter into a negotiation, with a
view to its being effected.
The meeting then separated.