The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING,

head, from several large stones lying across each other.
The boy above, on seeing the well give way, immediately
ran back to Painswick, and gave the alarm, though not
with the remotest idea of saving the poor fellow, the
whole mass of earth and stones, thirty feet in depth,
having closed above him. From sixteen to twenty men
got to work to dig through the mass of earth, it being
necessary, from the nature of the ground, to work upon
a large surface. about one o'clock on Sunday morning,
one of the two men who were at work in the well (there
not then being room for more) was relieved, and another
went down in his place; but immediately afterwards,
from unmistakeable signs below, they were pulled up
again, and instantly a large quantity of the earth gave
way, and to a great extent closed up the apace the pre-
vious labours had effected. Men again set to work, but
their operations were necessarily slow from the large
stones they frequently encountered, one of which
weighed five cwt., and to remove which a triangle had
to be erected; and it was about eleven o'clock on Sun-
day morning before they got down to where their tools
had been previously buried. Shortly after this another
fall took place. On getting down about sixteen leer,
those assembled had the satisfaction of kno Ning the poor
fellow was alive, as be was heard to sp, ak in reply to
questions put to him. The whole of his body was fixed
in the earth and scones, there being only a small space
above his head, which enabled him to breathe. The
men continued their labours without intermission, and
between five and half-past five on Sunday afternoon
the poor fellow, to the great joy of all assembled, was
drawn from his subterranean prison, where he had been
fixed without nourisbment for thirty hours. Ile was
carried in a sheet to a house near, when it was found ho
had sustained no material injury, his legs and wrists
only being badly cut, and parts of his body bruised.
We understand the providential escape of Musty has had
a great effect upon him, and from being a somewhat dis-
solute character he is likely now to become the very re-
verse.—Gloucester .7ournql.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 15.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall.street.
E. Bliss, Barbican, City, brushmaker and warehouse-
man, Aug. 7, at one—R. Miles, London, merchant, Aug.
5, at half-past one—B. Peach, Gravesend, discount
broker and commission agent, Aug.s, a; one—R. Cop-
land, Union-street, Whitechapel,lnendraper, Aug. 5,
at one.

In the Country.
W. Farrow, Kingston-upon-Hull, coal merchant,
Aug. 6. at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-
upon-Hull.
PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Racine and J. Jacques, Hare-street, Bethnal• green,
dyers, 41., on Thursday, 17th inst., and three following
Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Stansfeld, Basiughall-street.
W. Morrison, Fenchurch-street, stationer. 311., on
Thursday, 17th inst., and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basingball-street.
W. Williams, Brecon, draper, 5d., on Thursday, 17th
inst., and three following Thursdays, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basitighall-street.
J. Belbin, Eeaumont-street, Marylebone, coachmaker,
6id., on Thursday, 17th inst., and three following
Tnorsdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Stensfeld, Basinehail-street.
W. Collins, Rugby, Warwickshire, tailor, 5d., on
Thursday, 17th inst., and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall-street.
T. Keasley and J. L. Keesley, Church-street, Black-
friars-road, and Walsall, Staffordshire, tanners and
leather merchants, second dividend of 2 11-16 d., on
Thursday, July 17, and three f,,llowin2 Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Baoinghall street.
C. Gough, Altrincham, Cheshire, ironmonger, second
dividend of Is. 3d., on any Tuesday, between eleven
and one, at the office of Mr. Mackenzie, Manchester.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghail-street.

J. Harris, Buckingham, boot and shoemaker, Aug. 5,
at half-past one—S. T. Jay, Hadley, Suffolk, miller,
Aug. 5, at half-past two.
In the Country.
W. G. H. Taunton, Liverpool, civil engineer and
patent windlass and chain cable manufacturer, Aug. 7,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.
CER rIFIC ATES GRANTED.

A. King, S.. Cleinent'u, Oxfordshire, timber merchant
and builder—G. W. Law, Landport, Hampshire, auc-
tioneer, valuer, and estate agent, certificate of the third
class—R. Sheppard, Norwich, commission agent and
general dealer, certificate of the second class—J. Hughes,
Hacconby, Lincolnshire, beastjubber and sheep sales-
man, certificate of the second class, after six months
from July 11.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Franklin and W. Woodrow, Princes-street, Hano-
ver-square, tailors—R. Pearce and G. Burrows, Banner-
street, Bunhill-row, working silversmiths—C. Hooper
and J. T. Wilson, Hereford, grocers—Eliza Parker and
M. A. Heine, Welbeck-street, Cavendish square, mil-
liners—T. R. Moore and G. R. Tatum, New Sarum,
Wiltshire, surgeons—W. Dean and J. Aspinall, Ash-
ton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, grocers—R. 14,,wick, J. W.
Haythorn, T. Cope, and J. Elaythorn, Nottingham, lace
manufacturers—W. Critchley and A. Searle, Liver-
pool, vinegar makers—J. Watton and G. B. Watton,
flour floaters—A. Collinson and J. Hulme, Burslem,
Staffordshire, mercers—R. Matthews, sen., and R.
Matthews,
,jun. Hush:tin and Rewe, Devonshire, paper-
makers—W. Newall,i C. Whitehead, G. S. Whitehead,
and J. Burt, Liverpool, merchants (so far as regards C.
Whitehead and G. S. Whitehea7)-6-. Jamieson, J. Gif-
ford, and J. F. Edgar, Calcutta, Canton, and Hong-Kong
(so far as regards J. F. Edgar).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Thomas Wright, Upton, Huntingdonshire, licensed vic-
tualler.
Simeon Mountain, York, railway porter.
William Harding, Poulton, Somersetsbire, farrior.
Richard Pursey,Leckhanipton, Gloucestershire, hallier.
Henry Thomas Atkinson, Minster, K4-nt.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

H. Hope, Glasgow, wiTie merchant, to meet within
the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, July 21 and Aug. 03, at one.
J. Stewart and M. Sinclair, Glasgow, wrights, to meet
within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, July 17 anid Aug. 9,
at twelve.

J. Alexander, Edinburgh, agent or solicitor before the
Supreme Courts of Scotland, to meet within Murray's
Turf Hotel, Edinburch, July 21 and Aug. 15, at one.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8.,
M.P., leaves the Admiralty for Gloucestershire this day.
Captain Milne has left the Admiralty for Mussel-
burg, Inveresk.
Mr. Baldock, the newly-appointed storekeeper to
Devonport, vice Jenkins, deceased, has arrived at that
dockyard, and has entered upon the duties of his office.
has declined the vacancy at
Sheerness.
The office of chief engineer, vacant by the removal
of Mr. Charles Atherton to Woolwich, via s Hum-
phreys, is not to be filled up. The official r esidence
lately occupied by the chief engineer is to LA appro-
priated to the residence of the chaplain, at 1/e vonport,
the Rev. J. Briggs, who has hitherto received 501. per
annum, as "lodging money."
ANOTHER SLOOP DESTROYED BY LIGET rearm—.
BOSTOIq, JULY 2.—The Sallie Fearn, Owen, of Bath,
from New Orleans for Liverpool, was struck by light-
ning, and burned to the water's edge, prior to June 28
in let. 37, long. 71—crew, passengers, and. 135,000
dolls. in specie saved, by the Frank Johnsoni,, Brown,
from Havannah for Se. Petersburgh. Happily the ships
of the royal navy are secured from the awful effects of
the destructive element, for, by positive A dmiralty
order, the entire navy afloat is fitted with Sir W. Snow
Harris's lightning conductor.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.—Magicienne steam-frigate,
in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe, of the St. Gec e:ge, 120,
Master commanding, arrived this morning fro m Devon-
port with supernumeraries for the Trafalgar, and pro-
ceeded on with Mr. Pope, Assistant-Master attendant
and party (who had navigated the Desperate to Devon-
port), for Sheerness, and thence to Woolwich.,
Dauntless steam-frigate, 22, Captain Halsted, has been
taken into the basin to-day to be refitted and I receive
larger masts.
The Royal yachts have been brought down ft .ona their
moorings to-day. The Fairy has been taken c sut to try
her engines, and the Elfin. has been taken en the Gra-
ving slip to have her bottom cleaned.
Letters from China state the Hastings, 72, 1 tear-Ad-
miral Austen, C. 8., left Trincomalee for a crud se on the
12th of May, and on the 14th anchored at Po telicherry,
the old French settlement, where no Englis h
battle-ship had touched for upwards of 30 yet irs..
Reynard hae been relieved by the Selman der, and is
on her way to England, via the Cape.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 16.—Her Majesty's stiea m-vessel
Magicienne, with Mr. Brown, Master-Attenduet it, and a
party of riggers and seamen, sailed yesterday ft sr Sheer-
ness, with the seaman and riggers who navigated the
Desperate to port.
The brig Heroine was unmasted yesterday; ihr r officers
and men will be paid off at the Dockyard Pay-i iffice to-
morrow.

Yesterday morning, a boy belonging to her 3 tajesty's
ship St. George, 120, fell overboard, and as the tide was
running strong he soon drifted away. A seaman,
named Boyd, jumped after him, but not bein g able to
swim could render little assistance. Both be it ig, there-
fore, in a perilous situation, Mr. Julian, seco a ci master,
the officer of the watch, gallantly plunged ove ri hoard and
providentially sustained them until rescued t'y a boat,
when a considerable distance astern. Mr. Jul lion was
full dressed. This is not the first instance of his gal-
lantry.

The General Screw Steam Shipping Comp; Lny's ship
Sir Robert Peel, Captain Boxer, sailed at t c o o'clock
yesterday afternoon for Sr. Vincent, Sierra : 3one, and
the Cape of Good Hope. She had a full carg o of British
manufactured goods, and several passenger 1, including
Paymaster Timbre!, Lieutenant Reeve, and C 01 'net Gab-
betts, 19th Lancers; and Messrs. E. Moore, ;?. Moore,
Friedland, Hopewood, Josiah Lewes, Haile oak, and
Connor. The Sir Robert Peel made her first t rip to the
Cape and back in a most creditable manner, ind, it is
hoped, she will do so again now; but her team ;ge is too
small for such a dist Ant voyage, and we hope soon to
announce the appearance of a more powerful at earner to
take her place.

A PATRIARCHAL LOTHARIO.—An old mi n, aged
E 6, belonging to Strathglass, who had five sons, tw o daugh-
ters, and forty-two grandchildren, recently got mar tied to a
fair maid of 30! One of the bridesmaids on the. occasion
was great-granddaughter to the woman who act.tra I in that
capacity at his first marriage, sixty years ago. that to crown
all, his forty-third grandchild was baptised by t he same
clergyman immediately after the marriage ceremony was per-
formed. So much for the salubrity of Strathg,last I,—John
01 Groat's Journal.