The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, OcTosia 22

Srocx Excnstruz.—The sales are—Great North of England,
151. Shares, 20% p.—Liverpool, Orrnskirk, and Preston, 4% p.—
Manchester, Leeds Extension, 1 p.— North British, 8% p.—Ditto,
Quarters, 2% cum new—Ditto, Extension, %p. ,

HULL, OCTOBEIC2'2.
STOCK EXCIIANCIK.—The sales are— Hull and Selby, 53% —North
British, Quarters, 75s.—Ditto, New Quarters, scrip, 13s. 9d. p.—
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2/. 14s. 6d.— Birmingham and
Oxford Junction, 4% p.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% P.—
North Staffordshire, 2/. Is. p. cash—West Riding Union, 31. 6s. p.—
East Coast, 9s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 23a. scrip.

• SHEFFIELD. OCTOBER 22.
STOCK EXCIANOE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
51. 19s. dis.—Ditto, Extensions, 425. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 245. dis.—
Ditto, Docks, 21. 19s. dia.—Huddersfield and Manchester. p.—
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2s. die.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 41. 7s p.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 238. dis.—
North Staffordshire, 2 p.—Sheffield aed Lincoln, 235. dis. —Shrop-
shire Union, par—West Riding Union, 1M p,

YORK, Ocviaxii 22.
STOCK Excaewur.—The sales are—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, 21. 17s.—North British, Half Shares, 15% —Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 3/. 19s. cum new—Ditto, Extension, 11. Bs.—West
Riding Union, 31. 7s.—York and Newcastle, New, 1634 —York and
North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 17.
EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 21.

STOCK EzellAwag.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 30s.—Corn.
wall and Devon, 335. 6d.—Direct Northern, 30s.—Dundee and Perth,
231. ea new—Ditto, New, 71.—East Indian Railway, 16s 3d.—Edin-
burgh and Granton, Preference, 20 —Edinburgh and Northern, 101.
31.—Ditto, Newport, 495. —Edinburgh and Perth, 38s.—North British,
341.—Ditto, Quarters, 775. 6xl.!cum new —Ditto, New Quarters (scrip)
265. 6d.—Scottish Central, 19 —Strathern Junction, 435.
GLASGOW, OCTOBER 21.

STOCK ExCmoma. —The sales are—Caledonian and Dumbarton-
shire, 245. 6d.—Clydesdale Junction, 331. East Indian Railway, I6s.
6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 9%—Glasgow. Kilmarnock, and
Ayr, 331.—Ditto, Quarters (5 per cent. guar.), 1714 —Ditto, Halves,
71. Lis. 6d. p.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 33s.—Glasgow and
Garnklrk, 401.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 27s.—Madras,
Nellore, and Arcot, 4s. 6d.—North British, New Quarters, scrip, 245,
6d.—South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, Ns.

DOG-CARTS TAXABLE.—The question of liability
to pay duty fur those sporting vehicles called " Dog-
carts, although the original cost of whioh did not ex-
ceed nineteen guineas, was determined by the Com
missioners of the Assessed Taxes at Kensington a few
days back, on an appeal by a Colonel in the Guards
against the assessment. The Commissioners decided in
favour of the assessment, on the ground that the Act
only applied to persons in " trade or business " using it
•r ibat purpose.
THE NAILOES' STRIKE.—The nailors about Broms-
grove have partially resumed work again, and the re-
mainder are expected to go to work in a day or two,
though it is not yet settled whether an advance in the
wages will take place or not.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—" I declare to the House that that
day in my political life on which I look back with most
satisfaction and pride, was that on which I was ready
and prepared to take on myself the responsibility of
issuing an Order in Council for the opening of the ports,
and trusting to you for an Act of Indemnity." The
events and experience of the year that has elapsed since
the late Premier arrived at the ever-memorable decision
to which he thus alluded on the 16th of February last,
have so completely authenticated the soundness of that
decision, and legitimated the " satisfaction and pride"
with which it was retrospectively regarded by its author,
that it is difficult to comprehend the apparent relutance
of his successors to adopt, under circumstances gene-
rically identical, but of incalculably greater urgency,
a precedent which time and opinion have thus em-
phatically sanctioned. Why is it that the given's
present Ministers, who have not usually been repute d
less impressible than Sir Robert Peel by obvious con-
siderations of policy and humanity, continue to deny
themselves that honourable " satisfaction and pride"
which a recent and most instructive experience indicates
as the meed of bold and prescient statesmanship ?
Whence this strange pertinacity with" which Lord John
Russell and his colleagues refuse themselves the right to
indulge hereafter in a retrospect, which they are in
fellitds pre-assured will be freely accorded to them by
the voice of an approving people, the verdict of rival
statesmeo, and the more formal concurrence of both
Houses of Parliament ? This question is now coining
to be .very generally asked, even by the most friendly
critics of Lord John Russell's public conduct, in a
tone in which surprise is largeiy and increasingly
qualified by regret. For our own part, we cannot under-
take to meet it with any answer that will be fully satis-
factory either to ourselves or to our readers. Yet
we have always been accustomed to take for granted,
of the less intelligible acts or omissions of the Noble
Lord's public career, that they were grounded on reasons
of sufficient prima facie force, at least, to justify them to
his own mind; and we are not disposed to relinquish in
the present instance a pleasing and respectful assumption
which has rarely deceived us. In the absence of any
other intelligible or conceivable grounds for the pro-
tracted hesitation of Government in meeting the de-
mands of the present crisis, by the prompt application of
the simple, rational, and traditionally. recognised policy
of " open ports," we are constrained to believe that it is
some respectable "constitutional" scruple that stops the
way. Lord John Russell must see as clearly, and feel
as strongly, as any capitalist or operative in Lancashire,
the monstrous impolicy, the almost indecency, of the
State's artificially obstructing the ingress of the very
food for which it asks the Church to pray. It cannot
but be painfully repugnant, both to his convictions and
feelings, to tolerate, in the present circumstances of the
united British and Irish people, the continued action of
a system which operates as a bounty on the re-
exportation of the corn that commerce has
housed and garnered, and gives foreign( rs an
an unfair advantage over us in our own market.
Nor can his Lordship entertain the smallest shadow
of a doubt as to the cordial willingness of Parliament to
ratify, on its first day of meeting, the measure by which
he is now on all hands implored to anticipate its formal
vote. That which Parliament has repeatedly done, or
approved of the Executive doing, throughout a series of
precedents retching over the last three-quarters of a
century ; that which the very protectionists blamed Sir
Robert Peel for having left undone twelve months ago—
will indubitably receive Parliamentary approval now,
when the whole system of policy whose last miserable
remnant it is proposed summarily to extinguish has been
deliberately declared an egregious injustice and folly.
All this Lord John Russell perfectly well knows, of
course. That his Lordship has not ere this acted on
what must be his undoubting conviction of the right and
expedient, we are disposed to attribute to a misplaced
and exaggerated deference for the formalities of that
constitution with whose preservation and improvement.
his public life is so honourably identified. Lord John
Russell—so, at least, we find ourselves constrained to
ii&r—declines opening the ports, suspending the navi-
gation laws, and permitting the use of sugar in our
breweries and distilleries, by Order in Council, be-
cause he think, it would be " unconstitutional."
That there would be anything really and truly
" unconstitutional " in the course which public
opinion and necessity now impose on her Majesty's
Ministers. we must take leave altogether to deny. Such
a reading of the constitution of this country as would
preclude the Executive from temporarily suspending
legislative measures that are found, from unforeseen cir-
cumstances, to be working counter to ,the Legislature's
known intent and expectation, we pronounce without
hesitation to be not merely narrow and pedantic, but ac-
tually false. Should Lord John Russell and his col-
leagues continue to hold themselves constitutionally
disabled from anticipating the known intent and purpose
of the Legislature in regard to those statutory cheeks on
superabundance of food, which have unexpectedly be-
come operative\as aggravations of a horrible famine,
there is only on&,thing to be said. Let Lord John Rus-
sell forthwith summon the Legislature to re consider
and undo its own most palpable blunder, and put its acts
into conformity with its known intentions. As it is
quite certain that this Parliament—the free. trade Par-
liament—would gladly do, in the present tremendous
emergency, that which many previous Parliaments have
unhesitatingly done in far less serious emergencies,
there would be obvious constitutional propriety in giving
it the opportunity of promptly arresting the conse•
quences of its own error.
ADVERTISER.—AIthough the alliance between
France and Spain—now become matter of history—is
almost worn threadbare in discussion, there is yet one
point of view, from which it has been but little consi-
dered by the parties engaged in the controversy, but
which is, in fact, the most important to this country.
We mean the degree in which the material interests of
England are concerned, in preventing the union of the
young Infanta Luisa with the Duke de Montpensier. It
is, in fact, from a want of knowledge of the pounds-
shillings-and-pence part of the argument, that many
persons in this country maintain that we are not justi-
fied in interfering with a mere family arrangement.
They assert that England has already lost enough by
her interference in the domestic quarrels of other na-
tions, and that she ought by this time to
have learned experience, and should quietly stand
by, and let other nations do as they like with their own.
Such principles are, it must be owned, very good in
theory; needless and uncalled-for interference with
the transactions of foreign states is certainly
to be deprecated; and it is allowed that past expe-
rience shows that we have not always reaped the
benefits from our benevolent interposition which we
more immediately proposed to ourselves. But the ques-
tion is, can a great commercial state like England exist
without in some degree interfering in the affairs, internal
and external, not only of her neighbours, but of all the
world ? A small inland state like Anhalt, or Lippe-
Detmold, may not, perhaps, be much affected by a few
islands at the Antipodes being taken possession of by
France, or by the Dutch dethroning a petty Sultan in.
the Indian Ocean ; England, however, with her com-
merce extending to the remotest corners of the earth,
her ships in every sea, and her possessions on which the
sun never sets, is concern* d in every event that can
occur, even of the most insignificant nature. His St renity
of Anhalt, or his Highness of Lippe, cannot lay an ad-
ditional thaler on the cotton nightcaps of his subjects,
without perhaps throwing a hundred or two English
workmen out of employ, and causing the ruin of one or
more manufacturers and merchants. The loss accruing
to England by the union of France and Spain, is by no
means to be measured by the amount of diminution of poli-
tical influence sustained by this country at the Court of
Madrid. France is longing to become a manufacturing
and commercial country. Two things, however, pre-
vent the attainment of her wishes—she has no market
for her manufactures—she has not edequete ports for
her commerce. In the open market she is undersold by
England; Germany (or at least the
,Zollverein states)
is herself a manufacturing country, and as eager as
France to become a commercial power. With the excep-
tion of Marseilles on the Mediterranean, and Havre and
Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast, France does not pos-
sess a single port equal to a third-rate English port.
Her manufactures cannot flourish for want of commerce;
her commerce is declining owing to the deficiency
of manufactures. The fruits of the Montpensier
alliance are expected to supply all these wants.
Spain possesses numerous splendid ports on a long
line of coast ; Barcelona, Carthagena, Seville,
Cadiz, Malaga, and numerous others present un-
rivalled facilities for again creating an extensive
commerce, such as once made Spain the greatest nation
in Europe. The immense trade of England with these
ports is naturally regarded by France with the utmost
envy, and were the influence of that power once predo-
minant at Madrid, there can be little doubt that special
commercial treaties, differential duties, and exclusive
privileges to French commerce would soon reduce the
trade between England and Spain to a mere name. The
cottons now exported from England to Spain and her
colonies, to the amount of several hundred thousand
pounds, would have to give way to the productions of
Rouen, Mulhausen, Lyons, and other would-be " Man-
chesters " of France, while the grain and other
natural productions of Spain, the sugar, coffee, and
tobacco of Cuba, and the spices of the Philippines, re-
ceived in exchange, would contribute to raise French
shipping at the expense of England.
HERALD.—A most sensible—and, we may add, a
most seasonable, letter—appeared in the columns of a
Contemporary, headed " A Few Words to the Members
of Agricultural Societies and others interested in Land,*
and signed " James Stewart, Lincoln's Inn." At the
first blush we were under the impression that this letter
was the production of Mr. J. Stewart, the Queen's Coun-
sel, who has recently been elected M.P. for Newark, by
the protectionists of Notts, and who is a gentleman of
some seven-and-twenty years' standing at the bar ; but
on closer inspection we find it is the production of Mr.
James Stewart, of Stone-buildings, the conveyancer
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equity draughtsman—a gentleman who, though
a silk gown, is of some twenty years' standing. _
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practical experience in his profession—we nevertheless
conct
ive that his letter is'well worthy of attention, em-
bodying, as it does, many valuable and really practical
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suggestions. -We are by eo means rvensible to the ad-
vantage conferred on the community by the Ist William
IV., c. 27, which extended the remedies provided by the
31 and 4th William and Mary, c. 14, for the relief of
creditors against fraudulent devises, and enabled courts
of equity to carry their decrees on this subject into exe-
cution. Neither would we undervalue the Acts of Ist
William IV., cc. 47, 65, GO, 36, and 40, known to the
profession under the style and title of Sir E. Sugden's
Aots—and which provided for consolidating and amend-

ing the laws for facilitating the payment of debts out cf
real estate—for amending the laws respecting convey-
ances and transfers—for consolidating and amending
the laws relating to fetnes-covert, idiots, lunatics, and
persons of unsound mind—for altering and amending
the laws relating to illusory appointments—and for
making better provisions for the disposal of the un-
disposed residue of the effects of testators. But though
we admit the full value of these improvements, and
readily concede to Lord Campbell also the praise which
is his due for the great improvements he introduced into
the law of real property,—and freely allow to Lord
Brougham, also, his full share of merit for his reforms
accomplished, and, in a still greater degree, for those
intended by him, and in the prosecution of which he has
been thwarted—yet we still think that much remains to
be accomplished,—and feel perfectly persuaded that the
statesman—be le Protectionist, Tory, Whig, or Radical
immortalise himself, under whose auspices Mr.
Stewart's principal recommendations,—to use the vulgar-
est of all Parlidmen:ary and newspaper phrases shall be
"carried out." Tne simpl,fication of the law of real
property presents a fine field for a great statesman or
great legal reformer, on a ground totally irrespective cf
party. That branch of the law of England, which relates
to the acquisition, transniissio: , and encumbrancing of
real property, comes home to the business and bosom
of every considerable man and family in the kingdom.
The expenses and delays which now erabarra,s all deal-
ings in land are great and cr) tug. If free trade in corn
b:, a good thing, why should not free trade in land?
The buying and selling of land is now anything but
free, and the expense and delay which ernbarrafs all
d, alings in it, an. serious evils. The state of the law as
to land, as Mr. Stewart states, is anything but clear,
simp,e, or easily under: toad. In truth, it is the most
dithcult branch of out jurisprudence: so difficult that,
perhaps, there are not more than a dozen lawyers in
England—if there really be S 3 many—profoundly
skilled in it. That this is not as it should be, perhaps
there is not even more than one sergeant who would
now contend. The laws relating to property should be
few and simple. Even the earliest conveyance of which
we have any account—" the field of Ephron, which was
in Macpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and
the cave which was therein "—was needlessly
verbose, though there may be one sergeant—the
man of Calipee and Calipash—and three conveyancers
now living who would maintain the contrary. The length
oflegal instruments in England bas indeed become in-
tolerable. They are spun out by repetition, and involu-
tion, and circumlocution; and the men who so spin them
out, and who are the only beings who profit by it, an-
nounce to their dupes, that they follow the good old
practice. But the fact is otherwise—for this abuse of
verbose draughting, and drawing, and diffuse pleading,
is an evil of scarcely more than sixty or seventy years'
growth. The older and better—and, for want of a more
expressive term, we must say the more classic draughts-
men and pleaders—did not set their clients afloat in a
sea of provisos, or launch them into a wide waste of
words. Mr. Stewart asks, is it necessary that the pur-
chase and mortgage of land should be so difficult as they
now are ? To which we, though mere laymen,
answer unhesitatingly, no. Rail and steam have
fortunately brought us into closer contact with con-
tinental countries, and in that France, Belgium, and
Prussia, which we can reach in a few hours, the
transfer of land is nearly as easy as the transfer of
stock. The result of this increased facility is—that
land is more va!uable in those countries than in
England—fetches more in the market—and money can
be borrowed at an easier rate than here. It is monstrous
that at the very close of the nineteenth, and we may say
bordering on the twentieth century, the first rules of
English property law should, in a civilised country like
England, be founded on the feudal system. At a time
when there was neither domestic nor foreign trade, and
when property seldom changed hands, the policy of
that system was to restrict, if not to prohibit, alienation.
It was only by degrees, and then fraudulently and in a
cunning and clumsy fashion, that the rules prohibiting
the transfer of land were evaded. But even in 1846 the
doctrines of feudality must be treasured in one particular
corner of a conveyancer's brain, and in the alienation of
copyholds, Cragius, and Spelman, and Glanville, and the
I?egiam Majestalem—and Skeen and Bracton and Stair
—and Heineceius and the Burgundian laws—and Staun-
ford and Kaimes—and old Dalrymple—as well as the
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Some of the most eminent men in ancient as well as in
modern times have been in favour of a registry, and
among the former we need merely cite the name of Lord
Keeper North, as appears by a passage in that amusing
book "His Life," written by his kinsman Roger. In
much that is said by Mr. Stewart as to the mischief of
entails of excessive duration, we cordially agree. Most
of the continental jurists and publicists have urged strong
objections against them, and none more than Muratori,
and that great magistrate the Chancellor D'Aguesseau,
who in 1731 drew up an ordonnance which received the
royal sanction in 1747, by which they were lirsited to
two degrees between the creator of an entail and the
heir; these degrees being counted per capita, and not per
stirpes. We believe the landed interest will oppose no
obstacle to such reforms as Mr. Stewart proposes, and
the lawyers certainly will not thwart measures which will
multiply dealings in land tenfold.

TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY OF

SCOTLAND.

Most of our readers are aware that a survey of the
British Isles, upon an extended and accurate scale, has
been going on tor a great many years, under the direc-
tion of the Admiralty and Ord lance departments of the
Government. The survey of Ireland has, we believe,
been compl. ted, and that of England nearly so. Only a
comparatively small portion of the south of Scotland is,
we understand, finished ; but the triangulation, which
has been in progress for some years, is well advanced.
It is upon the trigonometrical survey, or the observations
determining the great triangulation of the country,
preliminary to the detailed survey, that the corps of
surveyors upon Ben Nevis is now engaged. Perhaps it
is not generally known that the base line upon which the
triangulation of the three queendores and all their islands
is reared, was measured in Ireland. From this base line
a multifarious system of angles has been raised, triangu-
lating the country to its uttermost limits. When the
observations have been taken from the main points, they
are sent up to the Ordnance Survey-office, which is at
present at Southampton, where the calculators and
mappers are at work. Upon the reduction of the calcu-
lations here, any distance from any point in Scotland
to any other, with the bearing, can be determined
to a nicety, without a line ever having been actually
measured in Scotland. They are all divided from the
original base-line in Ireland, upon the simple and beauti-
ful calculation, that when the one side and two angles of
a triangle are given, the other two sides and the remaining
angle may be found. The great net-work of triangles
formed by these trigonometrical points (which may now
be seen upon every prominent hill-top in the country)
forms the ground work upon which the survey is based.
Surveyors are employed filling in the details with great
minuteness. Others again are employed filling in the
coast lines, sounding the channels and navigable rivers,
observing the tides and currents. &c., placing buoys and
beacons where required, and publishing the charts with
full and correct sailing directions. So correct and elabo-
rate is this Ordnance survey, that in Ireland, where it
has been completed, no new survey has been required for
railway lines
The great theodolite upon Ben Nevis is one of
three of the largest size which are at present in ope-
ration upon leading points in Scotland. It was con-
structed by Ramsden, in three feet diameter, has eight
microscopes, and reads to tenths of seconds. The
methods by which long distances are observed is in-
t, resting. It is evident that, in distances of 50 to
100 miles, no ordinary object could be distinguish-
able. By the adoption of the heliostal or sun light,
it is calculated that they will be enabled to take
observations at a distance of 120 or 150 miles from
Ben Nevis. Corporal Windzer is in confident ex-
pectation of being able to observe Knocklayde in
Ireland. The sun-light consists of a mirror so posi-
tioned as to reflect the sun right in the direction
of the mountain-top from which it is desired to ob-
serve it. At present, there are sun-mirrors upon
many of the principal mountains. directed towards
Ben Nevis. That on Ben Macdhui, when seen
through the great theodolite, presents the appear-
ance of a very vivid star. These heliostal
besides enabling the observer upon Ben Nevis
to fix with a greater degree of certainty the main
points of the great triangulation, and likewise
to observe objects at distances where no ordinary
signal could be visible, serve as beacon-lights amongst
the tremendous sea of hills by which he is sur-
rounded. Sum" idea may be formed of the splendid
sweep of vision which the theodolite upon Ben Nevis
commands, when it is stated that 1,500 observations
are expected to be taken from it. Upwards of four
mountain-tops will thus, on the average, fall within
each degree of the circle. In addition to the main
purpose of the triangulation of Scotland, numerous ce-
lestial, and barometrical, and thermometrical observa-
tions are here being registered. From Corporal Windzer
we learned, that during the first fortnight in August
(during which only he had lived upon the summit), the
lowest thermometer had been 38 degrees, and the highest
As4berdegrees ;rntahl.e barometer
_averaged 25-2 inches.—

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ARMY. NENAGR, OCT. 20. PROMO
GEORGE OF CA MBRIDGE. —OR Monday last his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, who has lately
been appointed to the command of the military district of
this neighbourhood, and whose head quarters are in
Limerick, commenced his tour of inspection of the
troops at Nenagh, and at ten o'clock arrived in this town,
accompanied by Colonel Mansell, adjutant-general of the
district. His Royal Highness proceeded to the barracks
now occupied by the depot of the 72d Highlanders, and,
the day being very wet, inspected the men in their se-
veral rooms. We understand that his Royal Highness
was most minute and particular in his inquiries as to
their comfort, and their having any complaints to make
—speaking with much condescension to them, and urging
t:iem to speak out freely, if they wore any way aggrieved.
He aim made inquiry as to their food, and being in-
formed that the bread was generally good, he said it
should always he good, as they paid for its being so,
and ordered that it sv•ould be minutely looked to. After
the inspection, a dejane, about two o'clock, was served
up in the mess room, at which the officers of the 72d
were present. Prince George left Nenagh, accompanied
by Colonel Mansell, at half-past two o'clock, for Temple-
more, to inspect the troops there, and was to take up his
quarters at the mansion of Sir Henry Carden, Bart., of
the Priory, from thence he was to proceed to Thurles,
Cashel, Clonmel, Casher, &c., en route to head quarters,
Limerick.—Nenagh Guardian,

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Orr. 20, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of John Pascoe
Greufell, Esq., a Rear-Admiral in the Brazilian navy, to be
Consul-General in the United Kingdom for his Majesty the
Emperor of Brazil.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ayrshire
Ayrshire Re,gime of Yeemanry C tvalry-Cornet William
C)chrane Patrick to be Lieutenant, vice the Hon. John leer,
nedy, deceased. Sept. 29. 18-16.
CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS
.FOR THE
RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DE3IOI.S.
SPRING CIRCUITS, 1847.-MIDLAND
Hesity llaysowe, Esq., Chief Commissioner.
Essex-at Chelmsford, Tuesday, March 9.10.
Essex- at Colchester, Wednesday, h
SuffAlz-pit Ipewich, Tianreelay, Tylarch 11.
Norl7o- -at Yarmouth, Satnrday.l.W. ar..e'a 13.
Norfolk-at the Castle Norwich, Monday, l'..larch 13.
At the City and County:of the City of Norwich-the same day.
Norfolk-at Lynn, Wednesday, March 17.
Suffolk-at Bury St. Edmunds, Thursday, March 18.
Cambridgeshire-at Cambridge, Friday, March 19_ .
Huntingdoushire-at Huntingdon, Monday, March 22.
Northamptonshire-at Peterborough, Tuesday, March 23.
Rutlandshire-at Oalchani, Wednesday. March 24.
Lincolnshire-at Lincoln, Friday, March 26.
At the City and County of the City of Lincoln-the same day.
Nottinghamshire-at Nottingham. Monday, March 29.
At the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham-the
same day.
Derbyshire-at Derby, Wednesday, March 31.
At the City and County of the City of Lichfield-Thursday,
April 1.
Staffordshire-at Stafford, Saturday, April 3.
Shropshire-at Shrewsbury, Tuesday, April 6.
Warwickshire-at Birmingham, Thursday, April 8.
Warwickshire-at Warwick, Friday, April 9
Warwickshire-at Coventry, Monday, April 12.
Leicestershire-at Leicester, Tuesday, April 13,
Belfordshire-at Bedford, Thursday, April 15.
Northamptonshire-at Northampton, Friday, April 16.
Buckinghamshire-at Aylesbury, Monday. April 19.
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
JOHN GREATIIED HARRIS, Esq., Commissioner.
Berkshire-at Reading, Friday, February 19.
Oxfordshire-at Oxford, Monday, February 22.
At the City and County of the City of Oxford, the same day.
Worcestershire-at Worcester, Wednesday, Feb. 24.
At the City and County of the City of Worcester-the same
day.
Radnorshire--at Presteigne, Friday, Feb. 26.
Herefordshire-At Hereford, Monday, March 1.
Brecknockshire-at Brecon, Wednesd my, March 3.
Carmarthenshire-at Carmarthen, Friday, March 5.
At the Borough and County of the Borough of Carmarthen-
the same day.
Cardiganshire-at Cardigan, Monday, March 8.
Pembrokeshire-at Haverfordwest, Wednesday, March 10.
At the Town and County of the Town of Haverfordwest-
the same day.
Glamorganshire-at Swansea, Friday, March 12.
Glamorganshire-at Cardiff, Monday, March 15.
Monmouthshire-at Monmouth, Wednesday, March 17.
Gloucestershire-at Gloucester, Friday, March 19.
At the City and County of the City of Gloucester-the
same day.
Somersetahire-at Bath, Monday, March 22.
At the City and County of the City of Bristol-Tuesday,
March 23.
Devonshire-at Plymouth, Saturday, March 27.
Cornwall-at Bodmin, Tuesday, M ,rch 30.
Devonshire-at the Castle of gxeter, Thursday, April 1.
At th ! City and County of the City of Exeter-the same day.
Dorsetshire-at Dorchester, Tuesday, April 6.
At the Town and County of the Town of Southampton-
Thursday, April 8.
Wiltshire-at Salisbury. Friday, Apt it 9.
Southampton-at Winchester, Saturday, April 10.
HOME CIRCUIT.
. WILLIAM JOHN Law, Esq. Commissioner.
Kent-at Maidstone, Saturday. March 6.
At the City and County of the City of Canterbury-Tuesday,
March 9.
Kent-at Dover, Wednesday, March 10.
Sussex-at Lewes, Wednesday, March 24.
Hertfordshire-at Hertford, Wednesday. March 31.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
CHARLES PHILLIPS. Esq. Commissioner.
Yorkshire-at Sheffield, Thursday, Feb. 11.
Yorkshire-at Wakefield, Fritter; Feb. 12.
A-, the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-
Hull-Thursday. Feb. 18.
Yorkshire-at the Castle of York-Saturday, Feb. 20.
At the City and County of the City of York-the same day
Yorkshire-at Richmond, Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Durham-at Durham, Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Non humLerl ind-al Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Friday, Feb. 26.
At the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne-the same day.
Cumberland-at Carlisle, Monday, March 1..
Westmorland-t Appleby, Tuesday, March 2.
WestmarlanC- t Kendal, Friday, March 5.
Lancashire-at. Lancaster, Monday, A' a •ch 8.
Lancashire-at Liverpool, Tuesday, March 16.
Montgomeryshire-at Welsh Pool, Friday, March 19.
Merionetshire-at Dolgelley, Monday, 31arch;22.
Anglesey-at Beaumaris, Wendnesday, March 24.
Cernarronshire-at Carnarvon, Friday, March 26.
Denbigshire-at Ruthin, Monday, March 29.
Flintshire-at Mould, Tuesday, March 30.
Cheshire-at the Castle of Chester, Thurlsy, April 1.
At the City and County of the City of Chester-the same day.
WHITEHALL, Ocr. 17.
The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has ap-
pointed Thomas Waters, of the city of Winchester, Gent., to
be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the ac-
knowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of tines and recoveries,
and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance,
in and for the city of Winchester, also in and fur the county
o: Hants.

BANKRUPTS.
James Plumley, :stone ma,on, Reading, to surrender, Oct.
30, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee; Moseley, Bedford-street, Covent-
garden.
George Robotham, currier, Lane-end, Staffordshire, Nov,
10, at twelve, and Dec. 1, at eleven, et the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Waterloo-street,
Birmingham; Cheadle, Ingleby, Wragge, and Cope, Bir-
mingham.
Robert Williams. publican, Manchester, Nov. 6, at eleven,
and Nov. 2q, at twelve, at the Manchester Dirtriet Court.
Ibbson, official assignee, Manchester; Makinson and San-
ders, Elm-court, Temple, London ; Barlow, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
G. W. Gee and J. F. Gee, drapers, Leeds—first div. cf ss.
in the pound, on new proofs, on any Tuesday, at the office
of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
G. W. Gee and J. F. Gee, drapers, Leeds—first div. of lie.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.
J. F. Gee, draper, Leeds—first div. of 4s. 4d. in the pound,
on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester.
Wilkinson, grocer, Manchester—first div. of 6%d. in
the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Man.
chester.
J. Taylor, A. Adshead, S. Garner, J. Warren, and N.
Hulme, cotton manufacturers, Ratcliffe-bridge, Lancashire—
first div. of ss. 4d. iu the pound, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, or any
subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Dlr. Pott, Manchester.
W. Rolfe, music seller, Manchester—first div. of 6s. 9d. in
the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Man-
chester.
A. Casacuberta, merchant, Manchester—final div. of
la. o%d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, or any subse-
quent Tuesday, at the offie of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
W. Hooie, leather dresser, Sheffield—final div. of 11. in
the pound, on any Friday, at the office of Mr. Kynaston,
Leeds.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
T. E. Jones, linendraper, Knightsbridge-terrace, Knights-
bridge, Nov. 13, at half-past twelve—A. Reed and S. J.
Porten, ironmongers, Tottenham Court-road, Nov. 13, at one
—A. Barley, draper, March, Cambridgeshire, Nov. 13, at
eleven—G. S. Whitechurch, hosier, Fleet-street, Nov. 1:1, at
half past eleven—W. M•Dowall and R. Brown, printers,
Pemberton-row, Gough-square, Nov. 13, at half- pa:t one—
W. APDowall. printer, Pembert( n-row, Gough-square,
Nov. 13, at half-past one—lt. Brown, printer, Gough-square,
Nov. 13, at halt-past one—F. Belloni, silversmith, Shaftes-
bury, Dorsetshire, Nov. 13, at half-past one—R. Sheet,
grocer, W elsted-street, Somers'-town, Nov. 16, at half- past
one—R. H. Beart, wine merchant, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk,
Nov. 16, at one—E. B. Kilpin, jeweller. Ryde, Isle of Wight,
Nov. 16, at half-past twelve—J. B. Crampern, coal mer-
chant, Wharf-road, City-basin, City-road, Nov. 17, at twelve
—J. G. Todman, livened victualler, Graj's
Nov. 17, at two

In the Country.
WaterhPuse and R. Sutton, calico printers, S tlfo; d, Lan-
cashire, Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court
—J. S. Chadwick, calico printer, Mancllester, Nov. 17, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court—P. Bury, calico
printer, Manchester, Nov. 17, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court—J. Law and E. findson, cotton spinners,
Ramsden-wcod, Lancashire, Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to

the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Pace, general nur.diant, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill,
Nov. 17-11. More, cunt merchant, Norwich, Nov. 16—E.
Oxley, Jun., hatter, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Nov. 16—P.
M•Shane, cattle dealer, Dundalk, Ireland, Nov. 13—W. 81-
lenger, brewer, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Nov. 17—J. J
Eva, baker, Redrath, Cornwall, Nov. 17—J. Caines, corn
dealer, Chilton Cautelo, Somersetsbire, Nov. 17—J. Ward,
glass cutter, Birmingham, Nov. 14—A. Nichol, ship broker,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 17—J. Tuddenham, builder,
Pickering-place, Bayswater, Nov. 13—J. D. Paine, pu.)-
Fisher, Duke-street, Westminster, Nov. 13.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
E. Miller and A. Fothergill, woollendrapers, North Shields
—W. Gethen and R. W. Bryant, chemists, Manchester—W.
Binks and D. Broadley, pianoforte makers, Laeds—W. Jen-
nings and E. Hinde, jun., farmers, of Catton and Sprowston,
Norfolk—J. and J. Collison, woollendrapers, Ormskirk, Lan-
cashire—J. 3PClymont and T. Murray, drapers, Manchester
—S. P. ard J. Smith, architects, Shrewsbury—W. 11. and
C. F. Ivens, merchants, St. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill—C.
and R. Pasnley, wine merchants, Worksop, Nottingham—R.
Walsh, R. llaslam, and R. Holme, muslin manufacturers,
Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire—J. EL Knight and I'. Thomp-
son, basket manufacturers, Southampton—Cr. Smith and J.
M'Culloch, drapers, Liverpool—W. Teall and J. Burton,
jan., stockbrokers, Leeds—W. T. Hayward and D. Biddle,
lacen3en, Oxford-street—R. D. Chantrell, jun., and W. P.
Hopps, commission agents, Leeds—R. Corke, Natili,ll. L.
Sopwith, C. Trustram, W. Delves, J. Str" nger, J. Delve., R.
Jull, J. Sammons, and J. Barnett, innkeepers, Tunbridge-
wells—R. Davis and W. Dethick, contractors—J. Richards,
J Richards, and E. Richards, bottle merchants, Raven row,
Spitaltields—J. and F. Hitchins, leather sellers. Chichester-
place, Gray's Inn-road—T. and J. Meat) ard, butchers, Salis-
bury—D. Hunt and J. G. Perrin, coal merchants, Bristol

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Cuthbertson, grocer, Glasgow, Oct. 28 an.► Ncv. 18,
at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Buchan. Glasgow.
Archibald Finnie Allan. farmer, near Edinburgh, Oct. 28
and Nov. 18, at one, at Paxtou's Royal Exchange Coffee •
house, Edinburgh.
Aulay Smith, bak3r, Glasgow, Oct. :27 and Nov. 17, at
twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Strathera and Douglas,
Glasgow.
Archibald Black, warehouseman, Glasgow, Oct. 29 and
Nov. 18, at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Strathern and
Douglas. Glasgow.
Robert Laing, commission agent, Kircudbright, Oct. 29
and Nov. 19, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Jackson, Max-
welltown.