The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856.

As in this condition the rams constitute about half I
the flock, they furnish, of course, a much larger
proportion of warriors than in the domestic state.
If the flock is threatened with an attack, the rams
immediately form a line, placing themselves in
front, somewhat in advance of the weaker members
of the flock, and thus constitute a phalanx which
even the larger animals of prey find it no easy
matter to penetrate.
Among the wonders presented by the varied in-
stincts of animals, it is particularly interesting to
observe how large a share of these instincts and
propensities may be rendered subservient to human
purposes. When the Almighty bestowed upon
man dominion over all the inferior races of ani-
mated nature, the means to establish this power as
well as the authority were conferred. These means
are found in the varied powers of the reasoning
faculty. It is said that the bunched oxen of the
Hottentots are taught to perform, in some mea-
sure, the duties of a shepherd's dog : " they are
instructed to guard the flocks ; which service they
perform with dexterity, and ,defend them from the
attacks of strangers and of rapacious animals."
That most useful of domestic animals, the horse,
notwithstanding the almost endless variety of ser-
vices which, under the direction of human reason, he
is taught to perform, does, in reality, little more
than exercise the power which he instinctively pos-
sesses almost from the instant of his birth. The colt
equires no instruction, either from man or its
parents, how to walk. He begins, when only a
few hours old, to use his limbs, rather awkwardly,
indeed, but in a manner essentially the same as
that he is to practise through life. In his wildest
and most playful gambols, he is only exercising
and improving the powers of locomotion which,
without instruction, he received from the hand of
nature. And what does he ever accomplish, in
the varied services in which he is employed, but
exercise the instinctive power, moulded and modi-
fied, it is true, by human education, which he pos-
sessed from the day of his birth. He moves as he
is commanded, either swiftly or slowly, carries a
burden or presses against an opposing obstacle ; yet
he is only exercising the instinctive faculty of loco-
motion. Still, a little reflection may convince us
that if the amount of intellect possessed by the
horse was much greater or much less than it is, he
would answer the purpose of his owner less per-
fectly than he :does. [To bring these desultory
remarks to a close, it may be observed that as the
instincts conferred upon the various animal races
are evidently designed to promote the happiness of
the whole, the dominion conferred upon man was
certainly never designed to counteract this purpose,
but, as far as human influence can extend, to pro-
mote it. It is, therefore, an evident part of the
duty of man, as the delegated governor over the
liferior races of animated nature, to render his

government conducive to the great purpose of the
promotion,not the destruction, of happiness among
the subjects of his authority.

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

( From the Report of the Registrar•Reneral.)

The present return shows a continned iaiprovernent in
the public hea'th. In the three previous wk eki the
deaths registered in Londoa were 1,232, 1,250, and
1,122 ; bet week they were 1,081. The present rate of
mortality is very near the average rate of corresponding
weeks in ten previous years, if the excess of deaths pro-
duced by epidemic cholera in 1349 and 1854 is not ad-
mitted into the c)mparison.
The deaths caused by diarrhoea, which in three pre-
cedir„. weeks were 211, 253, and 214, declined !as':, week
to 190. This disease was fatal last week to 141 children
who ere less tban a year 011 The cases referred to
cholera, and whic!i previously numbered more than 20,
were last week only 11, and 8 of these occurred to chil-

. •
dren. Tne re_nainin3 3, which proved fatal to adult .., are
as follows : —At 7, Edward•street, in the sub-di strict of
Mile-end o.d Town Lower, 25th August, a woman, aged
41 Tsar,, diarrhea t 3 dap), Asiatic cholera (16 noun);
in 13arbic tu-court, Alder: gate, on 20th Augu,t, a female
servw t, aged 3t3 years, " choleraic diarrbce t (7 day-) col-
lapse ;" and at Aylilk-street, Newington, on the 25th
August, a sailor's widow, aged 7d years, diarrhma, cho
;era, cinseetr.ive fever. With regard to other dheases
in the epidemic clam the return exhibits satisfactory re-
sults ; the nursib.rs ara either less than or do no' exceed
the ordinary amount. Tifere were only S deaths from
small-pia, 2l from measles, • 31 -frcin Scarlatina; and
typhus, whch rose to 48 and 50 in previous rettaw, was
not fatal in more than 27 cases ; 11 of the 27 oc,mrred in
the east districts There were no less than 8 fatal cases
of carbuncle. Fourteen children are registered as hav-
ing died from want of breast-milk or inanHon, 42 from
atrophy, 36 from debility, 31 froth convulsion. Mr.
Wilson, a registrar in Marylebone, makes some oh.erva-
,ions, which are subjoined. on this waste of infant life,
which his experience leads him to a.ttrihute, to a con.:l-
- extent, is the practice which prevail-a ain3ngst
domestic servants and others putting out their children
to 11 Uroe,.

Three women died last week at the respective ages of
90, 90, and 93 yelrs.
Last ankk the 'oirt'as of 90d boys and 809 gYs, in all
1,773 children, svt.re r.•;gistered in London. In the ten
c,,rrespnding of the years 1310 55 tha average
nuaiber wag 1,431.

At the Royal Ooservatory, Greenwich, the mean h&gbt
of the barometer in the week was 29.821 in. On two days
the instrument rose above 30 in. The mean tempoattire
of the week wai 81 deg., which is 1 4 deg. above the ave
rave of the same week (as determined by Mr. G•Asher).
The highest temperature in the week was 75.5 deg., on
Wednesday ; the lowest 45.8 deg. on Saturday. The
mean dew-point temperature was 53.9 deg., and the dif-
ference between this and the mean temperature of the air
wai 7.1 deg. Tile mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 62.8 deg. The wind blew generally from
the south-west. The rain which fell was eight-hundredths
of an inch. There was rain on three days, though
smell in amount,
Mr. Wilson, the registrar of the sub-district of St.
John, Marylebone, writes as follows :—"Four of the
cases in my present return are deaths of infants, not
more than four months old, from want of br.-a4t-milk,
inarasinus, and diarrhcea ; and I have frequently met
with case; of a similar nature in the course of my duty
as registrar. They relate to children who have been
put out to nurse at a very early age, and have died
shortly afterwards. In all the instances of this week,
and ino.it previous ones, the parents are represented to
• be dem,- s'ic servants ; in one case, though married, they
live I with different faniiiies, and passed for unmarried.
Sometimes the child is put away that the mother may go
as wet nurse ; at others that she may return to service.
There are in most neighbourhoods (particularly suburban
one) poor people who make it an occupation to take
charge of such children, their object of course being to
derive a profit from the small weekly allowances given
with them. These payments, as may be supposed, are
often made irregularly; the infant, in some cases which I
have known, is entirely abandoned, and, after much suffer-
ing, is taken to the workhouse ; in others, being de-
prived of natural nourishment, and ill supplied with any
substitute, it becomes the victim of some infantile dis-
ease which is assigned in the medical certificate as the
primacy, when in reality it is the secondary, cause of
death. I believe that this fatal termination in some cases
which I have noticed was the result anticipated, and
even desired, by the parent ; but iu others I am certain
-it could be avoided if some means existed by which such
children could be provided for, with proper care and at
a moderate expense. My opinion on this matter is
shared by the other registrars of this district ; and a case
which has appeared in the newspapers for this week, and
which I beg to enclos3, convinces me that fati-1 results
from such causes are not uncommon elsewhere."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-General Sir George Buller, 5.C.8., who corn.
mended a brigade of the Light Division in the Crimea,
and had previously been very actively engaged at the
Cape, has been appointed to command the troops in the
lonian Islands, in succession to Sir H. W. Barnard,
5.C.8., nominated to the command at Shorncliffe.
Major-General J. Bloomfield Gough, C. 8., lately in
command of the Belfast district, has been appointed to

command a brigade at the Curragh. General Gough
served on the staff under his distinguished namesake in
most of the Indian campaigns of late years.
The following officers have just been placed on the list
of those receiving rewards for distinguished services—
viz. :—Major-General Dupuis, C. 8., of the Royal Artil-
lery ; Colonel Collingwood Dickson, C. 8., and Lieut.-
Colonel Adye, of the same corps; Colonel 11. D. Towns-
hend, commanding the depot battalion at Templemore ;
Col. J. N. Jackson, of the 90th Regiment; Col. Win.
Parlby, of the 11th Hussars ; and Col. F. G. Shewell,
of the Bth Hussars.

Her Majesty's troop and store-ship Resistance, Com-
mander Russell, arrived at Spithead from the Crimea on
Monday evening. She cleared Sebastopol harbour of the
remaining ordnance and dockyard stores, of which she
brought about 280 tons home, guns, shot, shell, and an-
chors ; she brought also 23 officers and 121 men of the
Land Transport and Medical Staff Corps. She had a
long passage from the Crimea, which she left on the 4th
of July, touching at Constantinople, Malta, and Gib-
raltar.

The Empire steam-transport, Capt. Savage, arrived at
Spithead on the night of Monday from the Crimea,
bringing Dr. Linton, C.B. ; Major Cooper, 44th ; Cap•
tains Moore and Blake, 47th ; Lieutenant Grier, 83th ;
Lieutenant and Adjutant Hamilton, Land Transport
Corps ; Dr. Rose, ditto ; Messrs. Moss, Victor, Field,
Peeke, and Mowbray, clerks, Land Transport Corps ;
Mr. Marriott, War Department ; 278 rank and file,
Land Transport Corps, and four horses.
By the arrival of her Majesty's steam-sloop Devasta-
tion at Spithead yesterday morning we have advices from
the Cape of Good Hope to the 13th of July, on which
day she left Simon's Bay; arrived at Ascension, July
31, left on the 2d of August ; arrived at St. 'Vincent on
the 12th, left on the 13th ; arrived at Teneriffe on the
19th, left on the 20th ; arrived at Lisbon on the 27th,
and left on the 28th at 6 p.m. She left in Simon's Bay
her Majesty's ship Castor, 36, Commodore Trotter ; the
Penelope steam-frigate, 18, Capt, Sir W. Wiseman ; the
Seringapatam depot ship, and the Dart tender. The
Frolic, 16, Commander Agnew, had sailed a fortnight
previously for the Mauritius, and the Castor expected to
leave for that island at about the end of July, and to
visit the various ports in the Mortmbique Channel.
No slavery w:-.8 going on on any part of the
Cape Station. The Kafiri; were quite tranquil in
outward appearance, and it is said that the news of
the emigration to the frontier of 10,000 of the
British German Legion has been received by them with
considerable dismay, Moshesh, the great chief, having
declared that if they came he should at once go further
• afield.

Tne City of London steam-transport left Malta on the
27th for Liverpool, conveying 22 officers, 321 non-corn-
missioned officers and privates of the Anglo-Italian Le-
gion.
The Nil French postal steamer arrived a': Malta from
Constantinople, Smyrna, and Syra on the 27th, bringing
for Genoa 90 Sardinian labourers, and for Marseilles
Lieutenants Fellowes, Stataews, and Wawieski, 2 Polish
soldiers, 2 French officers, 4 soldiers, and 17 civil
employes, and left for Marseilles on the same day.
The Lords of the Admiralty resumed their inspection
at Portsmouth yesterday. At 10.20 a.m. Sir C. Wood
and Rear-Admiral Eden proceeded to the Royal Naval
College, where the First Lord held his levee, and gave
audiences to officers who had not had an interview with
him during the past 12 months. At 11 the dockyard
labourers passed in muster before the other members of
' the Board at the Admiral-Stiperintendent's office, and
afterwards were dismissed to the usual half-holiday. At
1 the Board left the dockyard, and proceeded on board
the Excellent to witness gun drill and shot and shell
practice, after which they inspected the training ship
Illustrious and her tender the Sealark, and also the ordi-
nary on board the St. Vincent. Tue day's labours ter-
inieated in the usual hospitable manner by tire First
Lori entertaining the heals of the various departments
at the George in the evening. On Monday their Lord-
ships proceeded to the office of the Admiral-Superinten-
dent, and there inspected some plans 1- r very extensive
alterations in the dockyard. Amongst other things pro-
jected, we understand that it is proposed to continue
the first dock opening into the harbour across the ad
joining dock and to some distance beyond, so as to double
its length and enable it to admit the largest vessel or
two ordinary liue-of battle ships. Tire stay at this office
was very lengthened.
The following non-commissioned officers and men be-
loNiog to depots at the provisional battalion, Chatham,
were yesterday selected by Colonel H. Jervis, the com-
mandant, and placed under the directions of Captain W.
Slott, 331 Regiment, and Lieutenant A. A/Piaci-id, 78th
1-lighlaucler e the instructors in musketry to Chat'Aam
garrisoz, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of
the -Enfield rifle previously to their ernha k dime to join
the bead criart€ rA of their respective corps in India and
the colonies :-27th E•lniskilices, 1 sergeant and 6 moo ;
32d Regiment, 9 men; 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment,
1 sergeant and 4 men ; 523 Light Infantry, 4 men ; 533
rtogisuent, 1 ocr4oant and 3 men ; 78. h Highlanders, 2
• :sergeants and 6 mon ; the whole of whom will be re-
lieved from th,-:ir ordinary garrison duty while und•a-
going their course of instruction.
Tne board of engineer officers forming the court of ire.
qu:iy ordered to re-assemble at Becmpton barracks for
the purpose of re-investigating the circumstances attend-
ing the recent accident at Cnatharn to several of the
troops belonging to the provisional bat'alion terminated
their sittings on Monday evening, but the nature of
their deliberations will not be made known until approved
by his Repel Highness the Commander-in-Chief.
In pursuance of directions received from the Secretary
of State for the War Department, Mr. Francis's fl oat-
iag metallic pontoon waggon, which was tested in sun-
dry ways a short time back in the oneer basin of Wool-
- wich Dockyard, was yesterday submitted to some
additional trials on the canal in the Royal Arsenal.
These experiments were watched on the part of Govern-
ment by Colonel Beinbrid, e, RE., Inspector of Fortifi-
cations; Captain Coffin, C. 8., Director-General of Naval
Artillery ; Captain Boxer, R.A , Superintendent of the
Laboratory in Woolwich Arsenal ; Captain T. A. Camp-
bell, assistanteecretary to the Select Committe i; Ceptein
Clark,R.A.,acting mi itarysuper7ntenderit of the carriage
factory ; and Mr. Abel, superintendent of the chemical
department of the Laboratory. Mr. French', tl e pa-
tentee, was present to direct the experiments. The first
experiment consisted in thrusting the waggon, with the
whole of its appurtenances, feeding trough and geer at-
tached, into the water. Seven men then entered the
waggon, and rolled and rocked about, and endeavoured
to capsize it, but they could not succeed in bringing the
4unwale to the water's edge. Boxes of iron, weighing
12 cwt., were then added, making the aggregate weight
amount to 211 c et. The waggon was then rowed across
the water to prove its floating capabilities, and also to
show the advantage which an army would possese in cross
ing unfordaksle river=, if supplied with these pontoon-
waggocs, which are driven through the stream without
the necessity of detaching the horses. Some very powerful
efforts were again made to upset it, but without
success. It was then hoisted out of the water by means
of a crane, without removing any of the load, and cleared
out, the body being taken off and again thrown into the
water. Seven men were ordered into the boat, and the
boxes of iron were increased to 22 cwt. It was then
rowed about, rolled and rocked as before, and struck
with a sledge-hammer some 20 or 30 blows en one spot
without any visible effect on the rivets or joints. Alter
being carefully examined it was mounted on its carriage,
and dragged up to the practising butt. An artilleryman
standing at a range of 101 yards then fired a couple of
Minie rifle balls through the sides. In each case the
ball traversed without splintering clean through the
body, carrying with it a portion of the metal. The suc-
cess of this experiment was considered of great import-
ance, as considerable injury re ults in many cases from
the scattered splhiters of the carriages in present use.
Mr. Francis then got into the waggon and closed the
perforations with a few blows of a hammer, leaving only
the spots which had been carried away by the balls.
This, he explained, could be repaired in the most simple
manner by any one " with any bit of metal and two or
three old nails." A couple of the feeding troughs serve
as a canoe to convey one man with a paddle across a
4rearn, and four of the bodies connected form an excel-
lent raft, capable of supporting any- heavy ordnance of
the service. By keeping the running gear attached they
can be run in and out of the water with great facility ;
and, by making some alterations in the construction, it
could be packed up in a small csmapa.s for the conve-
nience of transport.

The Corriere Italiano of Vienna contains the following
extract of a letter from Warsaw :—" Before leaving
Warsaw for Moscow, Prince Gortachakoff expressed to
the Polish nobility his gratitude for the readiness they
had displayed in departing for the coronation fetes ; and
he gave them assurance that such a manifestation cannot
fail to be followed with the best results for Poland. The
prince takes with him to Moscow several projects relat-
ing to a reform of the various branches of the adminis-
trative and of public economy."
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upwards, is manufactured with such unerring precision
that it will fit with surprising exactitude the place de-
stined for it, not a single musket alone, but in every other
constructed on the establishment. For instance, from in-
discriminate heaps of each of the several finished parts of
a lock, consisting of the plate, the sear and its springs, the
bridle, tumbler, mainspring, and screws, an artisan can

put up a lock in a few minutes. It is the same with every
other part of the weapon ; all the respective materials are
exact counterparts of each other ; every barrel adapts it-
self to every stock, every bayonet to every barrel, and so
on. By this complete system of interchange of parts, when
any portion of the arm wears oat in service before the
rest, or gets into disorder, it can easily be replaced, and
thus the whole weapon is not disabled by a casualty of
that kind. Touching the quality of the materials at work,
at every single stage of its progress it undergoes a rigid
examination, by which any defect is at once detected, and
every minute article is made exactly to correspond with
an unchangeable gauge. The very tools used are manufac-
tured on the premises, and also by machinery in many
instances.

Although, however, all the rolling stock used at Enfield
was imported from the United States, a very considerable
portion of the fine tools, with their fixings, employed in
the machines were made in this country by highly-skilled
artisans. The machinery for making gunstocks is an ex-

ception, for it was specially and wholly fabricated in the
manufactory of Mr. Ames, of Chicopee, Massachusetts,
and is of the most ingenious and efficient description. This
department of the factory, which is under the direction of
Mr. 0. Clark, an American, skilled in its management, is
singularly interesting. It contains 23 machines, which per-
form 16 distinct operations on the stock, and are similar
in principle and construction to those in use in the two Go-
vernment armoury establishments in the United States, at
Springfield, Massachusetts, and Harper's-ferry, Tirginia.
A. piece of walnut•wood, roughly sawn into the shape of a
gun-stock, is submitted to those manifold processes, which
round it, scoop outthe bedfor the barrel, do all the intricate
manipulations required fur the reception of the mechanism
of the lock and its appendages, and, indeed, every other
imaginable thing towards its completion, with the most
eonstimmate neatness and accuracy. Several of these ma-
chines embody a beautiful automatic action for reversing
the motion of the tool when it has penetrated the wood_deep
enough, by which it disengages itself from the stock on which
it is operating, and literally " backs out." Perhaps the
most interesting and ingenious of the whole machines in
this department is that by which the entire lock is let into
the stock—a work involving much time and labour when
performed by hand. This beautiful instrument is pro
vided with five vertical spindles and appropriate cutters,
mounted upon a kind of revolving reel, which aro brought
round in succession, and trace the figure of a guide or copy
which lies alongside the stock beneath the cutters and
guide-pins. A small fan-blower is attached, by which the
chips from the tools are blown away as fast as they are
made► The machine is also furnished with a clever auto-
matic action for throwing the driving belt on and off the
pulleys of the spindles as they are brought round in succes-
sion to perform a new part of the process. By this machine
a lock can be completely lot into the stock in about three
minute& Indeed, the whole process of making and per-
fecting the stock does not occupy more than half-an-hour,
and the only hand labour employed upon it is that which
causes the friction of a little sandpaper along its surface
after its removal from the last machine. Colonel Dickson
and Mr. Burton say that they are able to make in this
way 200 stocks a-day, at a cost of little more than is a-
piece, whereas an expert workman, single-haude], would
cot be able to make more titan eight or niuo in a week, at
a cost of 12s. 61, a-piece. In estimating the price of mak-
ing a stock at Enfield at is., no allowance is made for the
original cost of plant and tools, or their subsequent
deterioration by wear and tear ; but, at the seine time,
there can be no doubt that the saviug effected by
machinery such as this will, in a short time, repay its
whole cost, if, indeed, it has not already done so long ere
this.

The interest inspired by this large accumulation of
machinery, and its results, is enhanced by the reflection
that the whole of its complex operations aro performed
simultaneously, and derive their motion from a common
source; that the machines which give shape and finish to
the bayonet and the stock are propelled by the same engine
that communicates motion to the IneAlanism which makes
the lock, and so on through the whole series of results.
Into the question of an interference with an important
branch of the domestic industry of the country which this
establishnibnt at Enfield involves it is not now our pro-
vince to enter. Looking at the whole thing simply as an
exkillition—interesting for it own sake and its affects—of
mechanical power and invention applied to the fabrication
of a pail of the national manufactures, it seems question-
able whether mechanism has ever achieved greater
triumphs, and no thoughtful man who witnesses its opera-
tions and their results in this instance can fail to perceive
that there ale scarcely any units to its application in the
whole range of human labour.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN OFFICE, A UG. 30.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don &retina
Bat bail. as Consul at Gibraltar for her Majesty the Queen
of Spain.
Queen has also boon pleased to approve of Mr. John
Barker as Consul at Sunderland for his Majesty the King
of the Belgians.

the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective asses
will be announced.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 1.
Notice is hereby given to the Officers, Seamen, and
Marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessel
Victoria, captured Sept. 20, 1855, by her Majesty's ship
Nile and her tender the Redwing gun-boat; the Magpie
gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ; and the
Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Majestic,
will commence on Monday, the 15th Sept., 1856, in the
Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-Ge-
neral of the Navy, Adminltty, Somerset-house."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the collector of customs or
inland revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to
intimate the same by letter, to be addressed, " On Prize
Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in
which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely,
stated, as well as the place of the nearest collector of cus-
toms or of inland revenue, from whom it would be con-
venient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes : _

£ s. d.
Flag share
Captain , 43 16 0I
Commander
Third class
Fourth class 2 0 10 1
Fifth class

£ i. d.
Sizth class
Seventh class
Eighth class 0 6 9
Ninth class 0 4 7
'Tenth class 0 2 3

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admirafti Somerset-house, Sept. 1.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and
marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessel
Ottawa, captured on the 20th September, 1855, by ner
Majesty's ship Nile and her tender the Redwing gun boat ;
the Magpie gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ;
and the Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Ma-
jestic, will commence on Monday the 15th Sept., 1856,
in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Account-
ant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house."
Agents and other persons holding powers of•attorney,
prise orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed " On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon-
don," in which letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the Oleo of the nearest Collec-
tor of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

Flag share k£33 15 5
Captain
Commander
Third class 3 17 6
Fourth class
Fifth class 1 7 9

Sixth class 5 0
Seventh class
Eighth class
Ninth class 0 5 7
Tenth class 0 2 9

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.

Job Broadhurst, earthenware manufacturer, Longton,
Stolie-upon-Trent, Staff olshire.

BANKRUPTS.

William Bainbridge and Joseph James Dale, otherwise
Joseph James Delo, otherwise Joseph James Dell, shoo
manufacturers, Southwark Bridge-road, to surrender
Sept. 11, at ono, and Oct. 15, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official asignee, Coleman-street•build-
ings; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbnry.
Eccles, Nuttal, and Co., cotton spinners, Bottoms Hall
Mill, Lancashire, Sept. 18 and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee,
Manchester ; Crossland, Bury ; Higson and Robinson,
Manchester.

John Carpenter, grocer, Hythe, county of Hants, Sept.
11, at two, and Oct. 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bircham, Dal-
rymple, and Drake, Parliament-street.
Edmund Roberts, jeweller, Derby, Sept. 16, and Oet.
7, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. Barris,
official assignee, Nottingham ; Reece, Birmingham.
John Corbett, licensed victualler, Birmingham, S. pt. 15
and Oct. G, at ton, at Birmingham. Bittleston, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Rawlins and Rowley, Birming-
ham.

Allen Searell, miller, Devonshire, Sept. ii, and Oct. 23,
at one, at the Exeter District Court. liirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter ; Stogdon, or Messrs. Gears, Mountford,
and Goare, Exeter.

Benjamin Greening, wire worker, Manchester, Sept. 26
Oct. 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Manchester.
John Ross, ship owner, Brunswick-terrace, Commercial-
road East, ept. 15, at one, and Oct. 21, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guild-
hall-chambers ; Young and Plows, Mark-lane.
George Benton, licensed victualler, Chapel-place, Gros-
venor-square, Sept. 1,, and Oct. 17, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Roberts, Bucklersbury.

Jane Eliza Norton and Geor,,cre Zachariah White, atone
merchants, Harrow-road, Paddington. Sept. 15, at two,
Oc'. 21, at half past ono, at the Court of Banktuptcy.
Nichels.m, official assignee, Basinghall-stre,t ; Ksyo and
Son, Symond's-inn, Chancery-lane.
PARTNERS HIPS DISSOLVED.

H. C. Bunkell and G. Beckett, Holloway, builders—M.
S. Cox, King Fd ward's-road, Hackney, and G. Stevens,
jun., Lower Norwood, Surrey—J. Mason, W. Baxter, and
T. Mason, Liverpool, saw and file manufacturers, and
dealers in Sheffield goods—T. J. Lough and W. J. Adams,
America-square, City, merchants and general agents—J.
IL Wilson and J. Welsh, Liverpool and Mobile, commis-
sion merchants -W. Williams, jail., and J. Williams,
Bedminster, masons and builders—J. Britten and J. Brit-
ten, jun., Basinghall-street, clothworkers and packers—G.
F. Murphy and W. N. Croyton, Manchester, manufac-
turers of fancy goods J. Hayward and R. Seward, Liver-
pool, coffee dealers—D. and IL Edwards and F. King,
Douglas, Isle of Man, and London, manufacturers of pa-
tent preserved potatoes—W. C. Worthington and D. Mea-
dows, Lowestoft, surgeons and apothecaries—J. Bailey
and S. Ferule, Nottinzhatn, manufacturing chemists—W.
E. Evans and T. E. Saunders, Sheffield, music sellers—A.
Dixon and A. M. Bell, Smethwick, engineers—J. Scudder
and J. Hughes, Queen-street, Ratcliff, plumbers, painters
and gasfitters —J. Harkness and G. Irving, Bolton-10.
Moors, general drapers—R and It. J. Philps,and J. Smith,
High-street, Poplar, linen drapers, as far as regards J.
Smith—H. Parnell and T. B. T. Willaume, New Broad-
street, City, solicitors—B. Gilpin and T. Dixon, Church-
bridge Works and Wedges Mills, Staffordshire, pdgo-tool
manufacturers—S. Briggs, R. Bobley, and E. W. Briggs,
Nottingham, lace manufacturers, as far as regards S.
Briggs.