The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

the pound, together with the first dir. of 3d. in the pound,
on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
W. E. Acraman, merchaitt, Bristol—second div. of Is. sd.
in the pound, together with the first div. of 6d. in the pound,
on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
J. Sier. baker, Cheltenham—first div. of 4s. in the pound,
on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
G. and J. Barton, copper roller mannfacturers, Manchester
—first div. of 3s. 4d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, or
any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Baker,
Manchester.

J. Gillender, ironmonger, Sunderland—first div. of ss. in
the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, gasinghall-street.
W. Collins, tailor, Rugby, Warwickshire, Feb. 19—J.
Challen, brewer, Odiam, Southampton, Feb. 23, at eleven—J.
Spence, glass dealer, Horton, Feb. 22, at half•past eleven—T.
Wyatt, builder, Oxford- terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, Feb. 19,
at two—W. L. Collins, brewer, Wood-street, Westminster,
Feb. 19, at half-past one—J. Coles, tobacconist, Strand,
Feb. 19, at one.

In the Country.
W. J. Dunsford, surgeon, Bristol, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court—G. C. Crofts, corn merchant, Liver-
pool, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool Diltrict Court—
T. Wilson, C. K. Wilson, and W. Wilson, linendrapers, Liver-
pool, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—
W. Hounsfield, commission merchant, Manchester, Feb. 23,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—H. Rains, inn-
keeper, Newton, Cheshire, Feb. 24, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court—M. Dent, bookseller, York, March 5,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—R. Dunn, corn factor,
Wakefield, Yorkshire, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.

CERTIFICATES t 3 be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
R. Glover, snuff manufacturer, Mitcham, Surrey, Feb. 20
—J. Dixon, engineer, Spa-road, Bermondsey, Feb. 19—J. K.
Bullen, tailor, Peterborough, Feb. 23—G. Polden, shipowner,
Gould-square, Crutched-friars, Feb. 20—M. Dent, bookseller,
York, March 2—W. Bottle, grocer, Dover, Feb. 26—W. L.
Prattman, timber merchant, Butterknowle-lodge, Durham,
Feb. I9—J. Blackmoor, builder, Rotherham, Yorkshire,
Feb. 26—H. Peers, builder, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Feb. 19—
T. Wilson, C. K. Wilson, and W. Wilson, linendrapers, Liver-
pool, Feb. 19—E. Pipes, plasterer, Derby, Feb. 12—R.
Hallam, grocer, Newcastle-under-Lyme, March 2—E. T.
Bradshaw, stock broker, Manchester, Feb. 22-11. Gouldes-
brough, share broker, Manchester, Feb. 19—J. May, printer,
Redruth, Cornwall, Feb. 19—W. Lee, brickmaker, Brampton,
Southampton, Feb. 19—J. and T. Brown, brickmakers,
Eastrington, Yorkshire, Feb. 19—G. F. T. Fowler, printer,
Lillington-street, Pimlico, Feb. 19—H. Ayres, jeweller,
Liverpool, Feb. 19—C. Dorringtou, miller, Digswell-hill,
Hertfordshire, Feb. 19--W. H. Lerew, apothecary, Upper
Norton-street, Fitzroy-square, Feb. 19—T. Little, tobacco
manufacturer, Hull, Feb. 19.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
P. and W. Garnett, paper makers, Otley, Yorkshire—H.
and J. Broadhead, seed crushers, Leeds—W. Culverwell, sen.,
and W. Culverwell, jun., William-street, Christchurch—W.
Kendal and R. Yates, manufacturers, Manchester—J. Sut-
cliffe, J. Hallam, and J. Nixon, cotton spinners, Banks,
Lancashire—J. Lusher and J. Stone, tailors, Skinner-street,
Snow-hill—H. W. Hurley and G. C. Collinson, upholsterers,
Conduit-street, Hanover-square—J. C. Cattrall and R. Drury,
pump makers, Liverpool—A. and W. Higgins, painters,
Luton, Bedfordshire—J. Thorp and A. Hirst, fancy manufac-
turers, Yorkshire—J. -Holden and J. L. Clarke, attorneys,
Liverpool—T. Porter and F. W. S. Lack, hosiers, Strand— W.
Burch and T. Cracknell, painters, Adam-street West, Bryan-
stone-square—T. Peerless and R. Burt, coal merchant,
Brighton—J. and R. Charleton, ship brokers, Sundertand—J.
Bruton and J. Good, linendrapers, Watford, Hertfordshire—
W. Chainpness and G. Pollard, linendrapers, Chipping ()agar,
Essex—l. Hillier and J. Blackwell, be.con curers, Horsley,
Gloucestershire—G. and J. Wharmby, cotton waste spinners,
Disley, Cheshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

James Clark, farmer, Oudenard, Perthshire, Feb. 3 and 24,
at one, at the George Inn, Perth.
Richard Cruickshank. merchant, Aberdeen, Feb. 5 and
March 5, at two, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen.

Dividend Amount i
5 Name of Company, per of Paid. I Price
Annum. Share.
, - -
t £ s. d. X s. d.
eustralasia ...... •• • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 ---
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
1 :lonimercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
'iolonial.. .... .... .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Metropolitan . - 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 441!
Ditto, New... -•• • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Nat. Provnelal of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
i Ditto, sew... ••• •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
• Union of Australia- •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
' Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
X s. d. £ s. d.
Albion .........• •• • • 3/. 10a. 800 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto Marine. ••• • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5%
Atlas . .
p British Commercial .. 7s.per ehare 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
inerici, Med.& Gen. Life 1 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10
county
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
t '
Eaglele •
Eng. & Scot. Law .. •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
0 European Life
• Freemasons' . - .... •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
~ Globe ••• • • ... • . 6/. per cent. Stock. - 132 ad
Guardian ••-. . - - - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 4814
. Imperial Fire ..... ••• 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
, Imperial Life ••..•• •• 12s. 100 0 0, 10 0 0 -
6 Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31
; Law Life •• •• •• .. •• .. it. Ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Agal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
.:smidon Fire .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
«widen Ship ...... • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
i
tplarine - ..... •. • ... 5/. per cant. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Ved. Invild &Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
yational Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life. •
i alladium Liiii ......
Phcenix .. 2/. p. et. & bs. - - 1
195
Protector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Ns. Od
Provident Life.• .. - - 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
lisek Life.. -- • • .... 4s. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 180
Sun Fire.. •........ • 6/. 10s. - - 210
Ditto Life . ... - - 49
Universal Life .. lONi. pr cnt 100 0 6 15 -
LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. j Price.
Annum. Share.
- - -
X O.
Bank of Scotland -
100 0 0 , I 176%
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 ' 156%
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 220
Commercial Bank ... • 0/. per cent. - 100 0 0 167
National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 1141. es
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 91
Western Bank.. •• •• • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 841
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 714
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 12%
Eastern Bank 5l. per cent. - 10 0 0 •12%:
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. 9s
Edinb.&GLesgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 i6l. 18s
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 !12/. 7s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. j2O 0 0 1 0 0 1231. 9d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. ,100 0 0 10 0 0 I 1414
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd.. 51. per cent., 10 0 0 All paid. ' 9.74
North British Insur. ••5%/. pr cent. ,200 0 0 10 0 0 27%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin. &Glasg. Railway 1/.los. perc. 150 0 0 50 0 0 72
Ditto, !•4 Shares •• .. 7s. 6d. P.S. :12 10 0 All paid. 1714
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - '2O 0 0 00 0 0 18%
Glaszw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 IA
Glasgw& Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16%
Gisaw & Garnklrk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssernce.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 1

SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

The slaughtering of animals in town is necessarily
attended by circumstances which render the practice in-
jurious to the health of the community; and it is very
questionable whether any regulations, short of prohibi-
tion, will materially amend the present state of things.
It is no doubt possible to abolish private establishments
of this kind, and to compel all parties to make use of
those specially provided for the purpose; but as long as
the practice itself is permitted within the precincts of
towns, so long will it be a public nuisance, requiring
removal.
The views expressed on this subject, in the second re-
port of the Sanatory Commissioners, are very decided,
and, we think, perfectly warranted by the facts of the
case. The Commissioners state that—
The effluvia arising from the blood and the entrails
of animals, where recently slaughtered, renders the carry-
ing on of such business in the precincts of large towns
incompatible with due sanatory regulations, even when
the offal and filth are speedily and effectually removed.
In scarcely one instance, however, in which shambles or
slaughter-houses have come under the observation of the
Commissioners, either in the metropolis or in provincial
cities and towns, have there been found in force any
regulations or authoritative supervision to compel the
speedy and regular removal of offal from, or the efficient
cleansing of such places. They have, on the contrary,
been found to be, almost without exception, centres of
the diffusion of noisome influences, affecting, with more
or less intensity, the immediate vicinity, deteriorating
the sanatory condition of the surrounding population,
commonly poor and dense, as recorded in the local re-
ports of the Commissioners, and in a more remote degree
vitiating the general atmosphere of the town, and thus
becoming a nuisance to the inhabitants at large."
It may be laid down as a general principle, that all the
towns of England suffer more or less in this way ; and
that a thorough change is needful. In the "Report on the
Sanatory Condition of Bristol," it is stated, that—
" Slaughter-houses in Bristol are scattered over the
town without any special regulations. Very frequently
they are situated in unventilated courts, and are,much
complained of, both by medical witnesses and by the in-
habitants of the courts themselves."
Dr. Reid, in his " Report on the Northern Cities and
Towns," states that,—
"Private slaughter-houses formed on the whole the
most extreme subjects of complaint, and to such an ex-
tent do they prevail, and so little are they confined to
particular sites, that one of the worst cases occurs in a
central street in Newcastle, or, at least, immediately ad-
joining it."
Dr. Reid further gives it as his opinion, that—
"ln all drained and low-lying districts, slaughter-
houses very often, if not always, sustain a perpetual
malaria around the neighbouring habitations : they are
a fruitful source of fever and other diseases.
Similar evidence is given by Dr. Shapter in his report
on Exeter. He says:
"More inconvenience is suffered from the keeping of
pigs and the nuisance of slaughter-houses; both these
nuisances are most urgent, and prevail to a greater ex-
tent than is generally supposed, and by the poor obliged
to live within their influence is much complained of.
Cases frequently occur of serious fevers, nervous pains,
and sickness of stomach, which they refer entirely to
swallowing' bad smells from these resources."
Similar evils also exist to a great extent in the Lanca-
shire towns. Dr. Lyon Playfair says in his report, that,
from tho state of the law,
"If these slaughter-houses be in private courts they
are permitted to remain, however injurious to the in-
habitants, and in whatever state of filth they may be
kept. Thus, in the township of Mancheiter alone, there
are seventy-seven slaughter-houses (in many instances
six or eight butchers killing at the same place); but all
these are without regulations. In Bolton, for example,
I fbund set eral courts in which the middens attached to
the slaughter-houses were filled with the offal of the
slaughtered animals, and had not been cleansed for at
least two months. In other towns I have found slaughter-
houses below dwelling-houses, the smell in which was
most insufferable, and in many of these dwellings the in-
habitants looked pale and sickly, and diarriasea fre-
quently prevailed, although absent from the courts con-
tiguous."
The foregoing extracts will be sufficient to show the
general bearing of the matter under consideration on the
public health and comfort, but they do not comprehend
all that is objectionable; for the commissioners state
' that " A second evil and nuisance, necessarily contingent
upon the locality of slaughter-houses, however strin-
gently supervised and regulated, in the midst of large
and populous towns, is the quantity of animal ordure
deposited upon the public streets and thoroughfares
leading to such slaughter-houses, which, besides forming
a most offensive addition to the ordinary surface filth,
excites and accelerates its decomposition. This evil is
augmented in the ratio of the size of the town ; and
where, as in London, most of the surface filth of the
streets is washed down into the sewers, the continual
passage of cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the neighbourhood
of the intra mural slaughter-houses, must materially in-
crease the amount of that decomposing matter, the ema-
nations of which are constantly escaping from the un-
trapped gully-holes, to infect the atmosphere of the
metropolis. Nor ought the occasionally fatal injuries,
' and the constant peril of life and limb incurred by the
inhabitants of large towns, the streets of which are so
frequently traversed by goaded and over-driven cattle, to
be overlooked in an enumeration of the inevitable evils of
slaughter-houses situated in the crowded parts of towns,
and as strengthening the more general sanatory grounds
for urging upon the Legislature the expediency of abo-
lishing them, and of establishing properly constructed
')4 and efficiently regulated places for slaughtering cattle in
hi the suburbs."
In these opinions we entirely concur ; for we believe
that nothing short of the absolute prohibition of
-x4l slaughter-houses in towns will afford an adequate re-
medy. The poor, in this as in other things, are the chief
sufferers ; and it matters little whether they be subject
zd to nuisance from private shambles or public establish-
ments, for in either case the injury is inflicted. The
situation of the public slaughter-houses in Liverpool
renders them a source of great annoyance to the neigh-
bourhood, and it is not the less an offence against right
3, feeling that they are placed amidst the dwellings of the
industrious classes. We have learned on competent
authority that the noisome exhalations which proceed
from them are found to produce the usual effects ob-
served in other towns, such as diarrheca, sickness,
334 nervous complaints, &c. ; and persons suffering from
xd
these diseases have been obliged to change their resi-
ed dente before recovery could take place. The value of
property has also, in some instances, been deteriorated.
4 It is proposed by the Sanatory Improvement Act to
limit the slaughtering of animals, for wholesale pur-
poses, to the public establishments. This will no doubt
be a boon to those localities where there are private
shambles, but it will increase the nuisance arising from
the public slaughter-houses.
Previous to the year 1809, the city of Paris had suf-
fered to such an extent from the existence of private
shambles, that it was determined to abolish them entirely,
and erect five vast abbatoirs beyond the boundaries of
the city, and at nearly equal distances from each other.
These abbatoirs are exceedingly well conducted, and re-
turn a revenue of between 40,090/. and 50,0001. a year.
es They are described by an intelligent writer in the fel-
% lowing words
The slaughter-houses, which are considered the
nuisance and disgrace of the English metropolis, are s
'A placed in the outskirts of Paris, and under the inspection
es of the police. The slaughter-house of Montmartre rivals
B„,r_ many of the public buildings in its external appearance.
It is no less than 1,074 feet in length, and 384 in depth,
194 and is watered by sluices from the Ourcq. On entering
r 4 it, the stranger perceives no disagreeable smell ; he wit-
nesses no disgusting sight, and often he would not sus-
pect the purpose to which the building is devoted. The
English traveller should not fail to visit these useful
,r 4 edifices. lie will return with a wish to reform those
nuisances, and abodes of cruelty, filth, and pestilence,
which disgust him in the capital of his own country."
The other abattoirs of Paris are—that of Menil-
montant, which is about 870 feet long by about 750 in
breadth; the abattoir de Grenelle, about 600 feet long
by 450; and the abattoirs of Ville juif and Roule,
____ which are somewhat smaller. In all of them there are
certain great principles kept in view, namely, sufficient
Pelee, isolation from inhabited buildings—a spacious area—
proper inspection—thorough cleanliness, and a large
--supply of water. When sanatory police is better
understood in this country than it is at present, our
public bodies will be more alive to the importance of
this subject; and no better example could be followed
then that afforded by the city of Paris.—Liverpool
Health of Towns' Advocate.

TURNIP BREAD.—We had sent to our office, by
Messrs. Thomas mine and Sons, seedsmen here, a specimen
of bread made from equal parts of turnips and wheaten flour.
It was very grateful to the palates of all who tasted it.—
Ayr Observer.
It is gratifying to observe how applaudingly they
speak in Parliament of the peaceful manner in which the pre-
vailing destitution in the Highland and Islands of Scotland of
Scotland is borne ; and still more so to notice the great ex-
ertions everywhere making to relieve our suffering country-
men.—Ayr Observer.
CLERICAL " Caoss READING."—The congregation
of one of the Teignmouth churches were started the other
Sunday by the parson, who, having just given out the test,
commenced ;—" Thus saith St. Paul ; and Saint Jude says—
Little child shut thy book! do you hear shut that book! do
you hear; shut that book I do you hear little child ?"—to the
great consternation of the congregation, who did not see the
young urchin, under the nose of the reverend parson, who had
excited this sudden burst of indignation by reading during
the sermon time.—Western Times

HOSlERY.—Notwithstanding the advance in cotton
yarn, the cotton stocking trade, whether wrought or cut, is
a shade better, but the hands are suffering severely from in-
adequate wages. The cotton glove trade, though rather dull
is not worse, and forms one of the best branches in the trade.
The drawer and pantaloon branch is rather affected by the
advance in yarn, but not to an extent to be much felt. It is
now evident that the supply does not exceed the demand,
and a very slight change may cause the stockinger to once
more hold up his head. The silk glove trade is in a
wretched condition, but there is more employ for the plain
silk hose hands, and a very slight change in fashion would
give them an ad atntage little imagined, as they are now
very scarce handed, and it takes much practice to make a
good workman in this: most delicate branch.—Nottin.gham
Review.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FREKE OF THE
GRENADIER GUARDs.—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Percy
Freke, of the Grenadier Guards, died at Rome on the 15th
instant. He was the next brother to the present Lord
Carberry, and on the death of the late Lord was, with his
surviving brothers and sisters, granted the precedence en-
joyed by the sons and daughters of a Baron. In 1830
he entered the army and was promoted to a Lieutenant-
Colonelcy by purchase in the above mentioned corps in
1845. He was brother to the Hon. Captain Freke, of the
Life Guards.

A corn riot took place in Okehampton Market on
Saturday last. A farmer, named Hooper, having refused to
sell his barley fur less than 6s. 6d. per bushel, a crowd of
starving women loudly threatened to cut the bags, and let
the corn run out. He then acceded to their demands, and
retailed it at 6s. per bushel.— Sherborm Journal.