The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-12 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
F. Barham, surgeon, Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-Park,
Oct. 5, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
J. Scott, flour dealer, Sheffield, Oct. 9, at eleven, at the
Town-hall, Sheffield—G. Hattersley, stove manufactuier,
Sheffield, Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Sheffield.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
C. W. Graham, merchant, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-
street, Oct. 3-w, Groves, grocer, Huntingdon, Oct. 3—J.
Wyatt, common brewer, Ockham, Surry, Oct. 3—G. Free-
man, grocer, Croydon, Oct. 3—W. Green, boarding-house-
keeper, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Oct. 3—W. Hunt,
printer, High-street, Marylebone, Oct. 3—G. Baxter, cur-
rier, Church-street, St. George's, Southwark, Oct. 3—R.
Bone, grocer, Durham, Oct. 6—T. Edwards, surgeon, Llan-
saintfraid, Montgomeryshire, Oct. 2—J. Scott, flour dealer,
Sheffield, Oct. 9—W. Sudlow, warehousekeeper, Liverpool,
Oct. 6—J. Came, grocer, Falmouth, Oct. 6—W. G. W.
Tayler, surgeon, Tywardreath, Cornwall, Oct. 6—S. Smith,
grocer, Bristol, Oct. 2—J. Buttrey, commission agent, Man-
chester, Oct. 2—J. Evan, cheesemonger, High-street, Shore-
ditch, Oct. 2—J. T. Blurton, Piccadilly, Oct. 2—B. Kent,
lodging-housekeeper, Radley, Berkshire, Oct. 2.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
A. Barlow and N. Clode, brewers, Shirley, Hampshire—
J. Leader and T. Dooley, joiners, Liverpool—W. S. Simpson
and C. Briggs, railway contractors, Downham, Cambridge-
shire—R. C. Preston and F. H. Moody, woollendrapers, Sid-
ney. alley, Leicester-square—H. Horner, W. B. Horner, and
F. Homer, engineers, Sheffield—E Shenton and E. Easther,
common brewers, Winchester—A. Reynolds, F. W. M.
Collins, and C. Gregory, printers, Charterhouse-square (so
far as regards C. Gregory)—S. Cheshire and J. Little, tea
dealers, Chester—T. and S. Lloyd, timber merchants, Liver-
pool—J. and G. Corbett, farmers, Croft, Lincolnshire W.
IL and J. Coombs, builders, Benets-hill, Doctors'-commons
—M. Crighton, J. Crighton, and W. Crighton, machine-
makers, Manchester—A. Lambert and F. Whitefield, milli-
ners, St. James's-street, Pall-mall—M. Keating and W. Y.
Dent, land surveyors, Leeds—F. Pyne and W. Knight,
printers' block makers, Vineyard-walk, Coppice-row, Clerk-
eni,vell—J. and R. Higgin, wine merchants, Salford—T.
Ragg, B. Hunt, and W. E. Hunt, minters, Birmingham—
R. Wight and T. Forster, ironfouriers, South Shields—W.
Egan and A. Scully, ironmongers, Bradford—J. Gemmill and
J. Gemmill, jun., merchants, Liverpool.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Turnbull, flasher, Airdrie, Sept. 15 and Oct. 6, at
twelve, at Drummond's Hotel, Airdrie.
William Dickinson, jun., wine merchant, Glasgow, Sept.
16 and Oct. 7, at two, at the chambers of Messrs. Scott and
Stevenson, Glasgow.
Charles Shank and Company, commission agents, Glas-
gow, Sept. 16 and Oct. 7, at two, at the Eagle Inn, Glasgow.
John M•Cliesh, surgeon, Edinburgh, Sept. 16 and Oct. 8,
at one, at the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possessions in America, computed from
the returns made in the week ending September 8, 1846, is
325. 7d. per cwt.

COURTS OF CONSERVANCY.
THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES.
Yesterday an adjourned Court of Conservancy was
held by the Lord Mayor at Stratford, for the purpose of
receiving a special presentment of certain encroachments
and obstructions erected in Hole Harm, a navigable
creek of the Thames, which separates Canvey Island
from the main land on the Essex coast.
At the last sessions of the Court the j/ had made a
similar presentment, omitting, however, to state the
names of the parties who had placed the obstructions in
the creek. The Court, under these circumstances, re-
fused to receive the presentment, and directed the City
solicitor to prepare a presentment and summon witnesses
to show who had erected the nuisances complained of,
and yesterday the jury assembled at three o'clock, having
previously again viewed the creek. The Lord Mayor
attended to preside, assisted by the Town Clerk, who,
in the absence of the Recorder, charged the jury, who
having examined the witnesses named on the back of the
bill, returned to the Court, finding that the obstructions
in question had been placed b*y, or under the direction
of, William Hilton, Esq., the treasurer of the Commis-
sioners of the Canvey Island, and it is understood that
the Commissioners intend to justify the placing of the
breakwaters in the creek, under the authority of the Act
of Parliament.
The Lord Mayor then proceeded te Greenwich, where
the Court of Conservancy for the county of Kent was
held. The jury, after retiring for about an hour, re-
turned into Court, finding true bills against the Patent
Fuel Company and the proprietors of two charcoal works
on the Thames, for a nuisance in discharging deleterious
refuse of the works into the Thames. They likewise
made presentments against the owners of the tanyard in
Deptford Creek, for choking up the channel with refuse
tan ; and also against the proprietor of 'Deptford Pier.
The Town Clerk thanked the jury for their attendance,
and was about to discharge them, when the Lord Mayor
desired to know whether they had any observation to
make about the Garden Stairs Pier ?
They stated that they had no presentment, and after
having inspected the pier they returned, and said that
the jury could not agree in a verdict, whereupon the jury
were discharged, and the Court adjourned at a late hour

A WITTY PRISONER.—Not long since, the chaplain
of one of our state prisons being engaged in preparing
a table of crime, held the following dialogue with a pri-
soner. Chaplain : Well, what brought you here ?
Prisoner : The sheriffs, Sir. Chaplain : But I want
to know if liquor had anything to do with it ? Prisoner :
Oh yea, sir, they were both drunk I—American Paper.
Many of the slaves escape from the French West
Indian islands to the nearest free island under the British
crown. They effect the passage in open boats,