The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER JO, lB4B,

LITERATURE.

MADELEINE ; a Thle of Auvergne. By Julia

Kavanagh. -1
Vol.
We remember noticing last year a juvenile tale
called " The Three Paths," by Julia Kavanagh.
This agreeable writer has now chosen a more ambiti-
ous theme, to which she has done ample justice. The
history of Madeleine, the peasant-girl of Auvergne,
is one of the most interesting and admirable works of
its kind that we have seen. The style of the narra-
tive is at once simple and eloquent. It is totally de-
void of all affectation, or straining after effect. In
the very first chapter our sympathies are enlisted in
Madeleine's behalf. The tale opens with her eternal
farewell to her betrothed. Madeleine, whose affection
is as unselfish as it is fervent, has discovered that
Maurice, while about to give his hand to her, his long-
affianced bride, is in heart devoted to another, and
in the first pages of this history we listen to the un-
wavering yet tender accents in which she tells her
then unfaithful lover of her discovery, and, in spite of
his protestations, releases him from his engage-
ment. They part, never to meet again, and the
warm love of Madeleine's ardent heart, forbidden
to flow in its natural channel, is lavished boun-
tifully on all around her. The poor and the
suffering become the objects of her especial
care. Her pecuniary means of assisting them are
very limited, but she possesses a treasure more valu-
able than silver and gold, an unwavering, undoubting
faith. The main incident upon which the narrative
is founded is, we are told, true. A peasant girl, like
Madeleine, animated by a strong desire to assist her
suffering fellow-creatures, and, like Madeleine, con-
vinced that He who cares for the sparrows, and
clothes the grass of the field, will also care for
those who trust Him, like Madeleine, succeeded by
her patient and unceasing exertions in collecting
funds sufficient to erect an asylum for the sick and
the destitute in a neighbourhood where such sufferers
had till then been totally unprovided and uncared
for. Such is the wonderful undertaking triumphantly
accomplished by the heroine of this volume. Her
patience and perseverance, in spite of every kind of
obstacle, and notwithstanding the sneers and re-
proaches of almost all who heard of her visionary
project, and who regarded her as a madwoman, are
marvellous and most exemplary. Her patient labour
during the week enabled her to put aside a
trifle towards the accomplishment of her task ;
but Sunday was her day for collecting. At the
conclusion of the church service Madeleine stood at
the church door and begged of the charitable a trifle
" for the Hospital of Mont St. Jean." A collection was
only to be obtained once or twice at the same church,
and accordingly every Sunday saw Madeleine in a
different village. The surrounding neighbourhood
was soon exhausted, and then the unwearied girl,
having borrowed a horse, proceeded to make a wider
circuit and visit distant towns and villages—some•
times returning exhausted with fatigue, after having
obtained only a few sous ! At other times she was
more fortunate. Ultimately, after innumerable dis-
satisfactions, the darling object of her wishes was
achieved. A spacious building raised its head upon
Mont St. Jean, and its doors were opened
to the sick, the suffering, and the destitute.
Then Madeleine's mission was at an end.
With a grateful heart she would sing
her nunc dimittis, and worn out with her almost
superhuman labours, she died in the very spring time
of her youth. This eventful history, interesting in
itself, is rendered doubly attractive by the charming
manner in which it is related. Miss Kavanagh's
narrative sets forth in a very forcible manner the
indomitable firmness and resolution so conspicuous in
Madeleine's character, while at the same time it is
suffused with such genuine pathos and tenderness,
that few readers will turn over its pages without
emotion. It is a work adapted for all. The pros-
perous may here obtain a glimpse of the real trials of
life, while the struggling and the suffering—and
their name is legion—will here, instructed and
consoled by a sublime example, gather courage to
sustain their burdens and confidence to stimulate
their exertions. The secondary characters are all
naturally portrayed, their various faults and peculiari-
ties are all life-like.

HELEN CHARTERIS ; a Novel. Dedicated to Miss
Edgezvorth. 3 Vols.

The fact of this-novel being dedicated to Miss
Edgeworth is a guarantee for its moral excellence.
The principles which it inculcates are admirable,
more especially that of mutual confidence between
mothers and daughters, a lesson very beautifully il-
lustrated by the example of Helen and her mother.
But the chief attractions of " Helen Charteris " do not
consist in the interest of its plot, or the attractive
characters of its hero and heroine ; for, sooth to say,
the hero is a most insipid personage, and the plot is,
in consequence, not peculiarly interesting. The
attractions of " Helen Charteris " are, its
brilliant and animated style, and the ca-
pital sketches and caricatures with which it
abounds. To the unromantic class of readers, who
do not care to read only stories of " absorbing in-
terest," but who may wish to wile away an hour or
two agreeably, " Helen Charteris" will be most ac-
ceptable. It resembles a portfolio of portraits and
"studies after nature," brief outlines, and laughable
caricatures—but caricatures still bearing a life-
like resemblance to their originals. Such are the
Miss M'Crackins and their respectable parents, while
Mrs. Charteris and her daughter Fanny, and the
officious, kind-hearted wife of the Archdeacon are
among some of the more highly-finished and most
fascinating pictures. The writer has not confined
herself to a bare narration of her story, her pages are
enlivened with many extraneous episodes and innu-
merable anecdotes of all descriptions. To be amused,
one is not obliged to read from the first chapter to
the last, but many a hearty laugh will be elicited by
the casual turning over of a few pages.

EAST INDIA COLLEGE,
HAILEYBURY. _ .

HERTFORD, FRIDAY EVENING.—This day being ap-
pointed for closing the second term of 1848, a deputation
from the Court of Directors of the East India Company
visited the College at Haileybury, near Hertford, for
the purpose of receiving the report of the Principal, the
Rev. Henry Melvill, B D., upon the literature and disci-
pline of-the term, and of distributing the medals and
prizes awarded to the successful competitors in the
various branches of oriental, classical, and European
literature. The deputation consisted of the following
members of the Court:—Lieutenant-General Sir James
Law Lushington, G.C.8., Chairman; Major• General
Archiball Gal Away, G.C.8., Deputy-Chairman; Sir J.
Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P.; Sir Henry Willock, K.L.S.;
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8.; Mr. J. Wigram, Mr. R.
Ellice, and Mr. F. Warden. In addition to the above,
there was a great body of visitors, amongst whom were
the Right Hon. Lord Campbell, Major-General Sir G.
Pollock, Lieutenant-Colonel Swinton, Colonel Hender-
son, Colonel Stack, C. 8., Captain Balfour, Captain Ber-
ford, Captain E. Wilmot, Sir R. Anstruther, Major Cup-
page, Mr. G. Palmer, Dr. Greig, Major Wilkinson, Mr.
J. Davis, Mr. W. Hammond, &c.

The deputation, on arrival by special train on the
Eastern Counties Railway, proceeded to the Principal's
lodge, and thence to the council room, where the Prin-
cipal's report was presented to them. The deputation
and the professors then proceeded to the hall, where the
students had already assembled. The chair was taken
by Lieutenant-General Lushington, snpported on either
side by the members of the deputation. The chairman
being seated,
Mr. T. W. HOOPER, the clerk of the college depart.
ment of the East India House, read the following report
of the prizes and distinctions obtained by the students:—
MEDALS, PRIZES, AND OTHER HONOURABLE DISTINC-
TIONS OF STUDENTS LEAVING COLLEGE, DEC., 1848.

Mr. Shaw—Highly distinguished, with prize in
Sanscrit.

Me-srs. Currie, Dalyell, Freeling, and Jenkins—
highly distinguished.
Messrs. Gretifell, J. 11. Cockorell, Ellice, and Thomp-
son—Passed with great credit.
The following classification of the students about to
depart for India was then read:—

RA.NE OF STUDENTS LEAVING COLLEGE.

BENGAL.—First class.-1, Mr. Benson; 2, Mr. Bal-
main; 3, Mr. Dampier; 4, Mr. Birch; 5, Mr. Hume;
6, Mr. Smyth; 7, Mr. Boileau; 8, Hon. H. G. Camp-
bell; 9, Mr. Henderson. Second class.-10, Mr. Ra-
venshaw; 11, Mr. Henderson. No third class.
MADRAS .—First Mr. Swinton. No second
or third class. _

liomßAY.—First class,-1, Mr. Chapman; 2, Mr. Ho-
bart. No second or third class.

Mr. Smyth read his prize English essay; after which
the students read and translated in the several Oriental
languages. The prizes were then presented by the
Chairman, and the usual notices were read.
The CHAIRMAN (Sir J. Lushington) then addressed
the students almost precisely to the tame effect as the
address he delivered at Addiscombe on Friday last.
The Court then broke up, and a splendid dijeuner was
s(rved to the company at the Principal's house; after
which several toasts were proposed and duly responded
to, and the company returned to town by special train.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, FRIDAY.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
the Prince Albert and the Royal Children, took their
usual walking and riding exercise yesterday, in the
neighbourhood of Osborne.

Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Mrs. Phipps, had
the honour of joining the royal dinner party yesterday
evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours left Osborne this morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince Albert crossed to
Portsmouth, in the Fairy, this morning, to view the
practice, and observe the system of education pursued
on board her Majesty's ship Excellent.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday morning,
from the Priory, Stanmore, the residence of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager. Her Royal Highness left
town in the afternoon on her return to the Priory.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
from Brighton.

Mr. Hart Davis, Deputy Chairman of the Excise;
and Mr. Ingham, Secretary and Comptroller-
General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of
the National Debt, had interviews with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence, in Downing-street.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial office for the Governors of the North
American Colonies.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and heard an appeal from British Guiana,
" Arrindell v. Retemayer." The Court then rose.

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PRESENT AND PROPHETIC HIS
TORY OF THE LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND
SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.
(From the Liverpool Times.)
This line was originally projected by a Manchester
company, who had the data to go upon, of the great
passenger traffic from the interior, by canal and
coaches, irrespective of the Liverpool traffic.
With this groundwork, the West Lancashire prepared
a Bill, seating powers to make a Coast Line from
Southport to Liverpool, joining the then proposed Leeds
and Bury Railway at Kirkdale, which would secure not
only the Lancashire canal and coach traffic, but also that
of the vast daily migratory population of Bootle, Littler-
land, Seafortb, Waterloo, Formby, and the far-famed
sanitorium Southport, and, in addition, opening out a
sea shore of thirteen miles, hitherto inaccessible for want
of a road of any description.
When the Bill was before Parliament, Committees of
the House of Commons had determined, at that time,
to throw out all Railway Bills of apparently a specula-
tive nature. In this category the West Lancashire Bill
was placed, and bowled out almost without a deoent
consideration. _ _ _

The project then appeared abandoned altogether,
when, through the perseverance of the solicitors, Messrs.
Toogood, of London, and Messrs. Duncan and Ratcliffe,
of Liverpool, a Liverpool board of Directors was formed,
and the Liverpool and Southport Railway Bill was car-
ried, without almost a shadow of opposition, through its
various stages, during the next session of Parliament,
on its own absolute intrinsic merits.

The portion of the line from Southport to Waterloo,
comprising about 131 miles, was contracted for by
Messrs. Holme and 91Cormick, and completed in the
short space of three months, and the result of the traffic
will, we are informed, show that a return of 15 per cent.
for nine months, and 71 per cent. for the three winter
months, is a very moderate estimate when the remaining
portion of the line is completed up to the junction with
the Lancashire and Yorkshire line at Sandhills• bridge,
a distance of only 3i miles.
For the information of the sceptical we will give the
facts as they have reached us, in order to show that there
is some solidity in railway investments, under sound
management.
During the summer, or rather the autumn months that
the line has been opened from Southport to Waterloo, the
average number of passengers was about 4,000 per week,
notwithstanding the drawback of an omnibus convey-
ance of five miles, and the Lancashire traffic conveyed
by coaches from the Euxton station of the North-
Western, which, however, on Monday next, will be
transferred to the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and con-
veyed from the Preston road station at Walton to Wa-
terloo by omnibus.
The total cost of the line from Southport to the junc-
tion at Sandhills-bridge will not exceed, for a single line,
180,0001., including plant of engines, carriages, &c., or
say 10,0001. per mile, upon which a return is to be made,
and not upon 50,0001., 60,0004, and 75,0001. per mile, as
on some of the great lines.
It may therefore be assumed that the average for the
year, when the line is completed, will show a traffic of
500,000 passengers, and this will give, at the low money
average of Is. 6d. per head, 37,5001. per annum gross
receipts.
Tile working expenses of a single passenger line of
this kind, requiring no night work or double staff, is
es,timrted at 10,0001., leaving a balance of 27,5001. as
profit, yielding a dividend of 10 per cent. and a reserve
of 9,5004 to meet wear and tear, and to replace stock,
say— Dividend, 10 per cent ... £lB,OOO

Expenses - 10,000

- X 28,000
Receipts

Reserve fund

ST. PE TERSB EIRG H.

The last advices from St. Petersburgh give the fil-
lw‘ing summary of accounts received from the interior
respecting the state of the harvest

harvest Of-Winter corn good—of
summer, moderate. Ilay good and sufficiently abundant.
" CRERSON.—Complaints predominate of a bad bar-
vest of all kinds of grain. The summer of this district
has been of a peculiar character, a burning heat with
uniform south-east winds and no rain, the result of which
has been an unhealthy atmosphere, and a scanty pro-
duce of grain and hay, which has been further dimi-
nished by the ravages of the locusts. It was not until
the middle of last September that things recovered a
little, when the fields and meadows clothed themselves
in their spring array of green.
" KlSAN.—Throughout this province the harvest of
winter grain is below an average, but the summer crop
is somewhat more abundant.
" KOSTROMA.—The entire harvest has been pretty
abundant.

•` ARCHANGEL—Throughout this province the har-
vest has been tolerably good.
GRoDNo.—The winter crop of corn is good, and
the summer crops abundant."
The exports at Cronstadt up to the 27th November.
are given as follows : Grain, 341,614 chetwerts;
istles, 69,032 puds ; linseed, 273,697 chetwerts; tal-
low, 3,281,932 puds ; potass, 348,021 puds ; hemp,
1,558,085 puds; and flax, 814,032 puds. The Customs
receipts up to the same date had been 12,412,119
roubles, being an increase of 420,760 upon the receipts
of 1847. The return of the movement of the shipping
trade is as under

With Goods Arrived. Sailed.
In Ballast —• 1,027 ... 1,351
48 116
With Coals
••• 439 ...

Total
1,514 vessels. 1,467 vessel:.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, MIDNIGHT.—The Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company's steamer Jupiter, Captain F.
Meehan, with the usual Peninsular mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Langton, Admiralty agent, arrived here at
eleven o'clock this evening. Her dates are—Gibraltar,
7th December; Cadiz, Bth; Lisbon, 10th; Oporto, 11th;
Vigo, 12th. She brings 32 packages of specie, value
20.0001., a general cargo, and about 20 passengers.
LISBON, DEC. 10.—Exchange on London 30 days, 521.
At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th, the
Portuguese war-steamer Mindelho was dispatched for
Naples in search of the Pope, to offer him an asylum in
Portugal, should he think fit to accept it; the Queen's
Chamberlain, Count de Penafiel, is charged with the
mission. Matra is being prepared for his reception.
Sir Charles Napier's squadron was daily looked for,
and her Majesty's brig Racer had been out three days
cruizing for them, to inform Sir Charles that the Portu-
guese were determined not to admit the squadron to
pratique, but on the morning of the Jupiter's departure
tla u r.. 14 tho oinoo re,t,ivaa nrclora to
grant free pratique immediately. The quarantine re-
gulations are, in some degree, relaxed. Passengers
arriving by vessels in ballast, or with non-susceptible
cargoes, are to be subjected to only five days quaran-
tine, and those by vessels with susceptible cargoes eight
days.
UIBRALTAR,—On the 7th, the Prince and Princess. of
Capua embarked on board the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Euxine for Malta. The garrison
fired a royal salute on the occasion. Exchange on Lon-
don, 90 days, 49.
On the 3d instant the Jupiter exchanged blue lights
with a steamer, supposed to be the Sultan, and on the
12th passed and exchanged colours with the steamer
Paha, steering south.

NATIONAL PRTUOT lON VIDENT INSTI-
.

The 13th annual meeting of this very prosperous
institution was held yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at the
London Tavern ; S. H. Lucas, Esq., in the chair.
About 500 members were present.
From the report read by Mr. MARsu,
the secretary,
it appeared during tie past year, and by the 20th of
November, 1,423 new policies had been issued, realising
an annual income of 24,50. 0/. The total annual income
is 126,0001. notwithstanding reductions in
premiums of
upwards of 10,0001. under the division of profits of last
year. The total capital is 440,0001., and the total amount
of policies issued sine) the commencement of the institu-
tion, 9,200.
The CIIAIRMAN congratulated the members on the
successful progress of the institution; after which the
ri port was adopted, end the meeting proceeded to ballot
for the election of tvo directors. The candidates are
Messrs. Synnott, Ileskett, Smith, bletham, Gilpin,
Sheppard, Thorp, Hill, and Tirrell.

HAYMARKET TRSATRE.—MT Webster has kindly
allowed this theatrt to be used, on Tuesday, the
19th in,t.. for tho hPtrfit of the Philanthropic Associa-
Lien ler the erilyluyrtKit of the Poor as Street Orderlies;
on which occasion M. and Mrs. Charles Kean will per-
form. We have no doubt that this benevolent object
will receive all the mouragement it deserves.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 14, 1848.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
George Augustus Frederick Hart to be one of the
Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Robb to the Church and Parish of Longside, in the
Presbytery of Deer and county of Aberdeen, vacant by
the death of the Rev. John Imray, late minister thereof.
WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 15.
9th Light .Drageons—Cornet Henry Andrew Stirs]
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, ♦ice Wedderburn, pro-
moted ; William Wedderburn Arbuthnot, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Sarel, Dec. 15.
10th Light Dragoons---Cornet John Drummond, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker, who retires;
Francis Benjamin Hallowell Carew, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Drummond, Df c. 15.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet James Henry D'Arcy
Hutton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Colston,
who retires; William Oliver Bird, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Hutton, Due. 15.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Captain Patrick L. C. Paget,
from the 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice
Hay, who exchanges, Dec. 15.
10th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Henry Radford
Norman to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hollins-
worth, died of his wounds; Ensign Patrick Brown Lucas
to be Lieuteretnt, vice Norman, Oct. 4.
30th Foot—Lieutenant Armar Lowry to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Wilkinson, who retires ; Resign
William Robert Hepburn to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lowry; George Francis Coventry Pocock, Goat., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hepburn, Dec. 15.
49th Foot—Captain Henry George hart to be Major,
by purchase, vice Faber, promoted in the 2d West India
Regiment; Lieut. Henry Seymour Moon Donneley Ful-
ton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hart; Ensign Wil-
liam Whitaker Maitland to bo Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Fulton; Gentleman Cadet George Henry Lamb,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Maitland, Dec. 15.

54th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain John William
Hay, from the Scots Fusilier Guards to be Captain, vice
Paget, who exchanges, Dec. 15.
55th Foot—Lieutenant-General John Millet Hamer-
ton, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General John
Wardlaw, deceased, Dec. 7.
62d Foot—Lieut. John M. M. Hewett to be Adjutant,
vice Lambert, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Dec. 15.
63d Foot—Lieut. Henry Lees to be Captain, without
purchase, vice George Gardine Shaw, who retires upon
full pay; Ensign D. C. Augustus Delhoste to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Lees, Dec. 15.

95th Foot—Lieut. W. Minchin to bo Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Rouse, Rho retires; Ensign John Herbert
Armstrong, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Min-
chin; George Lyneduck Carmichael Smyth, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong, Dec. 15.
2d West India Regiment—Major William Raikes
Faber, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Allen, who retires, Dec. 15
UNATTACHED.— Lieutenant John Kellerman Wedder.
burn, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by
purchase; Lieutenant Allan Menzies, from the Royal
Newfoundland Companies, to be Captain, without pur-
chase, Dec. 15.
MEMORANDIIM.—The removal of Ensign Joseph
Charles Goodfellow, from the 10th Foot to the 22d Foot,
cancelled.
sstated in the Gazette of 15th August, 1848, has been
Captain Thomas Smales, upon half-pay of the Ist
West India Regiment, has been permitted to retire from
the army, by the sale of an Unattached Commission, as a
Captain of Infantry, he being about to settle at the Cape
of Good Hope.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.
Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Alexander Rolls, Esq.,
to be Captain, vice H. M. Clifford, promoted; Edmund
Philip Herbert, Esq., to be Captain, vice E. Carter de-
ceased; Richard Arthur Laurence, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice J. S. Macgregor, not to be found.

J. Berkley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant, 3d., on
any Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at
the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
S. Dethick, Newton-heath, near Manchester, corn:.
miller, 205., on any Tuesday, between the hours of ele-
ven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
J. White, Exeter, decorative painter, Is. 6d., on any
Tuesday and Friday, between the hours of ten and three,
at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Exeter. _ _ _

G. Hornsby, Lesbury, Northumberland, builder, id.,
on any Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at
the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle•upon-Tync.
J. Ferens and R. Ferens, Durham, drapers, 6d., in ad-
dition to 4s. previously declared, on any Saturday, be-
tween the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr.
Baker, Nei castle-upon- Tyne.
N. Mackenzie, Newgate-street, fringe manufacturer,
2s. 5d., on any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
J. Reay, jun., and H. Reay, Mark-lane, wine-mer-
chants, 25., and on the separate estate of J. Reay, jun.,
the second dividend of 4s. 6J., on any Wednesday, be-
tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street.

H. Turner, Coventry-street, Haymarket, fishmonger,
ss. 41, on any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street,

C. Elstone, Guildford, linen-draper, 3s. 4d., on any
Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Graham, Col( man-street.
T. llid4dale, jun., Mihon, next Gravesend, iron-
monger, 2s. 7d., on any NVtdnesday, bctwet n the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.

W. Sage, New Brentford, and Hampton, Middlesex,
tallow•chandler, Is. 2d., on any Wednesday, between the
hours of eleven and t,o, at the office of Mr. Graham,
CL leman-street.

W. E. Jefferies, St. Michael's• alley, Cornhill, City,
tavern-keeper, 3i. 2d., on Wednesday, Dec. 18, and
three subsequent Wednesdays, between the hours of ten
and two, at the office of Alr. Turquand, Guildhall-cham-
bers, City.

Sarah T. Watson and W. Byers, Skinner-street, City,
Manchester warehousemen, 5d., on Wednesday, Dec.
13, and three subsequent Wednesdays, between' the hours
of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guild-
hall-chambers, City.
E. Moseley, Upper Gloucester-street, Dorset-square,
wine-merchant, ls. 2d., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, and
three subsequent Wednesdays, between the hours of ten
and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-cham-
bers, City.
S. Fletcher, Church-street, Hampton, 3d., on Wed-
nesday, Dec. 13, and three subsequent Wednesdays, be-
tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr.
Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, City.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
•
•
-_At the Court, Basinghall-street. _
. .

H. Colenutt, Portsea, baker and grocer, Jan. 5, at
eleven—A. Gilmore, Stamford-hill, merchant, Jan. 9, at
eleven—J. Liddiatt, Selesly-place, Whitehead's-grove,
Chelsea, builder, Jan. 6, at eleven.—R. D. Read, South-
wark, victualler, Jan. 8, at eleven.
In the Country.
A. Armstrong, Salford, ironmonger, Jan. 8, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester—J. Greenshields and M.
Strang, Liverpool, merchants, Jan. 5, at twelve, at the
Court, Liverpool—A. Smith, Shrewsbury, dealer in ma-
rine stores, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham
—E. Nelson, Ironbridge, Shropshire, clothier. Jan. 23,
at eleven. at the Court, Birmingham—J. Rees, Stour-
bridge, Worcestershire, woollen draper, Jan. 17, at the
Court, Birmingham—T. Powell, Aston, Warwickshire,
miller, Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—T.
Jones, Old Swinford, Worcestershire, dealer, Jan. 16, at
levee, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, Jan. 5.
G. Black, Aldermanbury, straw hat manufacturer—
C. Wilson, Aldermanbury, straw hat manufacturer—S.
Berry, Ipswich, licensed victualler—H. C. Brown, Win-
chester, builder—J. Matthews, Chipping Norton, Ox-
fordshire, banker—H. Hilliard, Austinfriars, stationer—
G. W. Wakeman, Nantwich,:Cheshire, upholsterer—
M. Stephenson, ycliffe, Durham, common brewer—J.
Render and E. Render, York, tailors—E. Pearson, Nor-
wich, modeller—C. D. Matthews, Chipping Norton, Ox-
fordshire, banker.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Eliza West, Emma West, and Jane Margery West,
Upper Baker-street, Regent's-park, milliners (so far as
regards Jane Margery West)—T. Hudson and J. Hud-
son, Lambeth-hill, wine merchants—S. Jeffreys and R.
Nicholls, Ranelagh-road, Pimlico, maltsters—S. Wood
and W. Y. Sandford, Liverpool, spice and seed merchants
—W. Paine and E. Dalton, Southam, Warwickshire, linen
and woollen drapers—A. Holmes and H. J. Dickinson,
Charles-street, City-road, billiard table manufacturers—
W. Snow and C. T. Snow, New Malton, Yorkshire, linen
and woollen drapers—J. Leadbetter and W. W. Moore,
Gloucester-place, Kentish-town, general commission
agents—J. Holmes and J. Holmes, Keigbley, Yorkshire,
coal merchants—H. L. Smith and J. G. K. Burt, Southam,
Warwickshire, surgeons—H. D. Cormack and H. C.
Webster, Manchester, ale and porter dealers—W. Ste-
ples and A. C. Grove, Lymington, drapers—J. Bradley
F. T. Barnard, G. Thomas, R. Jackson, W. Bertram, and
S. L. Price, Bristol, public accountants—G. Blackgrove
and A. Folkes, Tcok's-court, Chancery-lane, law-sta-
tioners—J. L. Clarke and E. Minnitt, Liverpool, stock
and share brokers—J. Sadler and G. Sadler, Ltrindon,
Essex, farmers—F. Toychent.6, J. Waterman, and P.
Powell, Red Cross-street, Cripplegate, feather and
horsehair and wool purifiers—W. Muschcmp and T.
Weighill, Sunderland, linen and woollendrapers—C. R.
Alston and H. A. Bevan, John-street, Minories, bullion-
dealers—T. Musgrave, S. Musgrave, G. Scott, and T.
Scott, Leeds, corn factors (so far as regards T. Mus-
grave.)

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Richard Reeves, Abingdon, Berkshire, coachmaker.

James Pow ner, toke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, butcher.
Thomas Scholfield, Rochdale, Lancashire, painter.
Stephen Hickman, Standlake, Oxfordshire, cattle dealer.
Thomas Hickman, Standlake, Oxfordshire, cattle dealer.
James Pearce, Canterbury, licensed victualler.

Charles Lock, Hastings, Sussex, tailor and draper.
Uriah Hobson, Almondbury, Yorkshire, cloth dresser.
Frederick Bartlett, Storrington, Sussex, chemist.
Matthew Livesey, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, labourer.
Joshua Brook, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, hat manufacturer.
James Taylor, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, fancy cloth ma-
facturer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

R. Scott, Glasgow, draper, to meet within the Black
Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 21 and Jan. 11, at one.
Catharine Gillespie or Brown, Greenock, ship master,
to meet within the Tontine Inn, Greenock, Dec. 20 and
Jan. 10, at two.

W. H. Long, Glasgow, teacher and bookseller, to meet
within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 22 and Jan. 12,
at two.

A. Munro, Tain. innkeeper, to meet within the Balna-
gawn Arms Inn, Tain, Dec. 20 and Jan. 17, at two.
P. Young, Glasgow, merchant and Dundee warehouse-
man, to meet within the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 18
and Jan. 8, at one.