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London, England, 1846-08-15 00:00:00

Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Lloyd, Aug. 15 ; Lieute-
nant A. H. Cobbe, to be Adjutant, vice Lea, promoted,
Aug. 13.

Rifle Brigade—Sergeant-Major T. Gough, from the Corps
of Military Labourers at Barbadoes, to be Quartermaster,
Aug. 14. '

2d West India Regiment—H. A. W. Ayton, Gent, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Griffith, deceased, Aug. 14.
UNATTACHED.—Captain J. St. John Munro, from the 60th
Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Colonel
C. H. Smith, who retires, Aug. 14.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—H. Semple, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Fletcher, whose appointment has
been cancelled, Aug.l4.
BREVET.—Major J. Grattan, of the 18th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in the Army, ug. 14.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire,
E. Romilly, Esq , to be Deputy-Lieutenant, June 17.

Commitsions 13Y the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—
Lieut. Viscount Curzon to be Captain, May 7 ; Lieut. C. T.
Freer to be Captain, June 3 ; Cornet •H. Clements to be Lieu-
tenant, May 7; Cornet C. S. Burnaby to be Lieutenant,
June 2; J. Boyer, Gent., to be Cornet, July 27.
WHITEAEILL, AUG. 8, 1846.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick Hancock, ()f
Shipton nu Stour, in the comity of Worce,ter, Gent, to be a
Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

Frederick D-ly, money scrivener, Hemel Hempstead.
John Solomon, outfitter, Exeter.
BANKRUPTS.

Joseph Barter Bloomfield, jun., chemist and druggist,
Poole, to surrender August 28, at two, and September 25,
at half-past two, at tt.e Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basioghall• street ; Knight, Basinghall-
street.

Francis Holmes and James Flolmes, ship-builders, South-
town, Suffolk, August 28, at two, and October 2, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, tiirchin-
lane ; Storey Gray's Inn.
John William Stratton, tailor, March, Cambridgeshire,
Aug. 28, at one, and Sept. 23, at half-past one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane;
Meredith and Co., Lincoln's Inn.

James Mead Price, innkeeper, Warminster, Aug. 28, at
half-past one, and Sept. 25, at half-past twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane ; Stewart, New Inn.
Thomas Uriah Knight, grocer, Princes-street, Gravesend,
Aug. 24, at eleven, and Sept. 25, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Coome and Jones, Church-court, Clements-lane.
Thomas Browne, hatter, Southampton, Aug. 26, at eleven,
and Sept. 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett,
official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Lloyd,
Cheapside.
Robert Oxtoby and William Christopher Oxtoby, millers,
Wansford, Yorkshire, Sept. 2 and 30, at tan, at the Town-
hall, Hull. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Capes and Co.,
Gray's Inn; Robinson, Beverley; Bell, Hull.
Simon Puckering and William Thomas Makins, woollen
drapers, King4ton• upon-Hull, Aug. 26 and Sept. 16, at ten,
at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official assignee,
Hull; Linklater, Leadenhall-street ; Ayre, Hull.
William Ludlam 011ard, auctioneer, Upwell, Cambridge-
shire, Aug. 22, at halt past ten, and Sept. 25, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official a-signee, Birchin-
lane ; Hensman, Basing-lane._

John Birch, tailor, Hull, Aug 26, and Sept. 16, at ten,
at the Town..hall, Hull. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull;
Hicks, Gray's Inn; Galloway, Hull.
Charles Taylor, brush manufacturer, Birmingham, Aug.
29, and Sept. 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whi•lnore official as4gnee, Birmingham; Ivemey,
Chancery-lane; Vright, Birmingham.
Thomas Crane, comm.at brewer, Kegworth, Leicestershire,
Sept. 1 and 29, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; James, Birmingham.
Robert Naylor, licensed victualler, Marlborough, Aug. 31
and Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acre-
man, Bristol; Blower and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields; Nash,
Bris- 01.

George England, clothier, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire,
Aug. 27 and Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Paris, Stroud.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possassions in America, computed from
the returns made in the week ending August 11, 1846, is
333. 53/4d. per cwt.
EDividends, &e., in oar Next].

MR. RICHARD DUNN AND MISS
BURDETr COUTTS AGAIN.

From the following extraordinary and unique proceedings it
will be seen that Mr. Richard Dunn, nothing loth of the in.
dictment which has been found against him by the Grand
Jury at the Central Criminal Court in June last for perjury,
and upon the warrant subsequently issued for his apprehension,
and of his committal to Newgate, the pars iculars of which ap-
peared in our journal of the sth inst., is determined to obtain
the 100,0001. which he alleges he has the authority of Alias
Burdett Coutts to draw out of the banking-house of Coutts and
Co. ; as in the course of Wednesday morning the Learned
Gentleman went to the Court of Bankruptcy for the purpose of
swearing an affidavit before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, but
that learned functionary nct sitting, he went and swore the
following affidavit before Mr. Co nmissioner Goulburn, which
was signed as a matter of course, not the slightest remark pass-
ing, beyond the officer of the Court saying, this is your name
and handwriting, and the contents of this your of .lavit is
true? to which Air. Dunn replied in the affirmative. The
following is a copy of the affidavit

" IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.

" Richard Dunn, Esquire, barrister at law, of No. 6,
New-stre• t, in the city of Westminster, maketh oath, and
saith, that Angelina Burdett Coutts, of No. 1, Stratton..
street, and 59, Strand, both in the city of Westminster, is
justly and duly indebted to this deponent in the sum of
100,000/., by virtue of a certain authority in writing given
to this deponent by the said . Angelina Burdett Coutts, to
draw a bill on the bank of Coutts and Co. for such a sum of
money as this deponent should think a fair compensation for
the injuries and imprisonments done and inflicted on this de.
ponent by the said Angelina Burdett Coutts, and fur the re-
covery of damages for which this deponent had at that time
commenced legal proceedings, and which said bill so drawn by
this deponent the said Angelina Burdett Coutts promised in
writing should be duly paid, which said bill, although drawn
for the sum of 100,000/., as compensation for the said inju..
ries, and duly presented by this deponent at the said bank
aforesaid, dated March 4, 1846, was not paid, and which said
bill still remains justly due and owing to this deponent; and
this deponent further saith, that the said Angelina Burdett
Coutts is a partner in the said bank aforesaid, and a trader
within the meaning of the laws relating to bankrupts, as this
deponent verily believes,

"RICHARD DUNN.

" Sworn in the Bankruptcy Court,
Basinghall-street, this 12th day of
August, 1846, before me
(Signed) " EDWARD GOULBURN."
As soon as the signature of the Commissioner was attached
to the affidavit, it was handed back to Mr. Dunn, who pro-
ceeded to the office of Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor to Mit.s
Burdett Contra, and informed that gentleman through the
medium of his son, that he (Mr. Dunn) had no intention by
his present proceedings to sue out a fiat of bankruptcy against
Miss Burdett Coutts, his object being to oblige her to give
bail, that she would proceed to trial in an action for debt, and
that if Mr. Humphreys would give him a written undertaking
that he would accept the affidavit on behalf of Miss Coutts, he
would be perfectly satisfied. If his proposal was rejected, then
he should have to adopt measures to enable the affidavit of
debt to be served personally on the lady. Mr. Humphreys,
however, declined interfering, causing Mr. Dunn to be in-
informed that he must adopt what cou-se he thought proper,
on which the Learned Gentleman left the office for the purpose
of causing his notice of debt to be served.
The following is a copy of the order for payment which has
led to the adoption of the recent proceedings : _ _

" Londim, Mareh 4.1846.
" Gentlemen—Pay myself or order the sum of One Hundred
Thousand Pounds. "RICHARD DUNN.
"By the authority of Miss Burdett Coutts.
"241essrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand."

Mr. Dunn has also sent a icing statement of complaints to
Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, in which he requested the interference of the
Government to protect the liberty of the subject, contend-
ing that as he had removed the indictment by a writ of certio-
rari into the Court of Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Baron
had improperly committed him to Newgate, because he had
not been able to obtain two housekeepers for bail. although
one person who was rejected had 1,6001. standing in his name
with the Accountant- General, that he could qualify for a voter
for the city of Westminster, and that if the Lord Chief Baron
had the power to commit, it was to the Queen's prison, ani
not to Newgate, at which latter place he was treated as a felon :
that he had applied at the office of the clerk of the indictments
at the Central Criminal Court, to be allowed to see the indict-
ment in which perjury bad been assigned, but which had been
refused.

It will thus be seen from the above statement that still
further legal proceedings will be adopted before the matters
connected with this extraordinary case are finally terminated.

EAST LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—On
• Wednesday last the twenty-second anniversary of this very
deserving institution was celebrated in a dinner at the White
Conduit House Tavern, Islington, on which occasion about
fifty gentlemen partook of an entertainment served up in the
usual excellent style of this place. Henry Knight, Esq.. of
Basinghall-street, presided. as chairman, and was supported
by the Rev. T. Gibson, senior curate of St. Matthew's,
Bethnal-green. After the usual loyal toasts had been given,
accompanied by very appropriate observations of the chair-
man, and responded to with great enthusiasm by the com-
pany, Mr. Knight, in a very eloquent speech, proposed
success to the " East London General Pension Society,"
which, he stated, hat afforded assistance to ninety aged male
and female pensioners. He expressed his regret that the
deficient state of the funds of the charity has obliged the
Committee from time to time to limit its sphere of useful-
ness. He however trusted that in the forthcoming year
sufficient funds would be placed at their disposal, so that in
obedience to its charitable principle a fuller measure of relief
may be afforded to the deserving poor. The Rev. Mr.
Gibson, in a neat speech, proposed the health of the worthy
chairman, and promised to preach a sermon for the institu-
tion. The toast, as was the kind offer of the Rev. Gentle-
man, was received with great applause. The Secretary then
read a list of donations (which included one of ten guineas
from Lord Robert Grosvenor) amounting to between 50/. and
60/. The chairman shortly after vacated the chair, and the
party broke up, evidently highly pleased with the evening's
proceedings.
Tug WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN DERBYSHIRE.—
A correspondent just returned from au excursion into the
mirth of Derbyshire and Notts, describes the harvest as fast
progressing there, at every interval allowed by the thunder
storms, which have occurred almost daily for some time.
The wheat crop, he says, is almost universally luxuriant,au
especially the red, being larger in the ear than
kfo.r
yield of spring corn seems scarcely equal anyw
fine fields of
autumn-sown. About Warsop are several
luxuriant and for-
years. This is particularly the case about Welbhecere, btuomt
tthhyee
turnips—one sown broad-cast remarkablyuialf
grown and
ward, the bulbs being already
outat o
ythedupgot
crop, our correspondent having i
h in size, were all that, though as fine as could be wished
sound. There is, however, a genemr:n:
seems to have operated
in-
jured by the prevailing blight, which
week two. The "
within the last or fruitage
more powerfully irseelluftesreye seen bmouatn
in that district, so famous for its orchards, is this year a
total failure—few apples, fewer pears, and scarcely a single
plum being seen on
the trees. Nuts and bramb:e fruit are,
however, in gre it abundance —Derby Reporter.
CAETIoNoro TRADESMEN.—FORGED BILLS.—A Polish
Jew, name unknown. has lately been obtaining a quantity of
goo 's from various tradesmen at the East end, by means of
bills of exchange which have turned out to be forgeries. Mr.
Calisper, No. 88, Aldgate, is a recent sufferer. The Jaw
lately resided in Plymouth, is 28 years of age, 5 feet 10
inches high, red hair and whiskers, ruddy complexion, and
had a paralytic stroke lately, which injured. one of his eyes.
THE BREAKwATFR AT PORTLAND —We have much
satisra( tion i;: statim that infm-IDAti,m, which may be relied
on, has loon Iv_Te. from I.,r,n(ion, annotmeing that
it is the intention of Government to proceed with the bong-
talked of Breakwater off Portland, as soon as local circum-
stances wilt permit. The liveliest sensation has been excited
weynnth on tin pit Sherkurne Journal.