The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-16 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

T. C. Henderson, dealer in dressing-cases, New Bond-street,
Aug. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—D. Morphew,
chemist, Dover, Aug. 5, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy--P.
Youngman, bookseller, Chatham, Aug. 5, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy—J. Laughton, wine-merchant, Bishop's-yard, Charles-
street, Grosvenor-squ'are, Aug. 6, at ten, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy—H. Trisham, merchant, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane,
July. 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—M. Wertheim,
foreign-warehouseman, Friday-street, Aug. 5, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy—G. Children, banker, Tonbridge, Kent,
Aug. 5, at three, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Whare, hatter,
Leeds, Aug. 6, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull
—R. Hutton, linen-draper, Leeds, Aug. 11, at ten, at the Court-
house, Leeds—A. Mosman, merchant, Liverpool, Aug. 9, at eleven,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool--E. Matterson, chemist, Leeds,
Aug. 12, at_tavo, at the Court-house, Leeds—S. Coleman and M.
Chapman, silversmiths, Liverpool, Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, Liverpool—J. Walker, tanner, St. John's, Worces-
ter, Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Crown Hotel, Worcester—W. John-
son, ironmonger, Hanley, Staffordshire, Aug. 29, at eleven, at the
Union Inn, Birmingham—J. Roberts, merchant, Carnarvon, Aug.
22, at eleven, at the Goat Hotel, Carnarvon—A. Johnson, draper,
Southport, Lancashire, Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Preston.

CERTIFICATES, Aue. 5.
A. Brooks, scrivener, Newport, Shropshire—D. Miller, drug-
gist, Bristol—J. Frost, manufacturer of fancy goods, Huddersfield
—W. Fry, chemist, Bristol—R. Olpherts, coachbuilder, Thrump-
ton, Nottinghamshire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Wright and Co., Genoa—R. Andrews and W. Targett, un-
dertakers, New Compton-street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields—J. Low-
thian and C. Rucastle, grocers, Penrith, Cumberland—S. and J.
Buxton, timber-merchants, Manchester—S Clay and Co., oil-
merchants, St. John-street--B. Tyler and Co., iron-manufacturers,
Whichnor, Staffordshire—W. Morgan and Co., common-brewers,
Monmouth (so far regards C. J. Powall)—J. and T. Lee, brick-
makers, Selby, Yorkshire—W. Shaw and Co., ironmasters, Dews-
bury, Yorkshire—J. and W. M'Dowall, drapers, Nottingham-
place, St. Dunstan's, Stepney—R. Bradley and Co., iron-masters,
Tipton, Staffordshire (as far as regards F. I. Welch)—W. H.
Massey and J. Simpson, callenderers, Manchester—J. H. Quincey
and S. J. Knight, ironmongers, New Bond-street—T. B. Trotter
and Co., linen-drapers, Coleford, Gloucestershire—C. 0. Barnell
and Co., Kiel, Duchy of Holstein—J. Smith and Co., proprietors,
Liverpool—G. Brown and J. Mitchell, stonemasons, Leeds—J.
Heath and Co., engravers, Shelton, Staffordshire—J. Rickarby and
J. Bushell, Liverpool.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JOHN CAW, haberdasher, Edinburgh, July 21 and Aug. 4,
at the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh, at two.
JAMES SKELTON, coach-contractor, Kinross, July 23 and
Aug. 12, at Kirkland's Inn, Kinross, at one.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1834,

plaintiff's house extends 12 inches over the proposed line of
road, and 18 inches more were required for the erection of a
wall. The committee endeavoured "to turn this corner," but
they found that the lopping off of the corner of Miss How-
ard's house was absolutely necessary to the completion of the
plan. The committee proposed to give Miss Howard 10 feet
of ground for the right, of her premises for the accommoda-
tion of the two feet and a half which they required her to
yield, but they could not agree. The parties, however, on
coming into court, compromised the matter. The sum agreed
to be accepted was not stated.
A MANIFESTATION.—The congregation at Barn-
staple Church were greatly alarmed last Sunday morning,
shortly before the conclusion of the service. The Rev. Vicar
(Mr. Luxmore) was describing the unworthiness of mankind,
with all their piety and good works, to enter the kingdom of
Heaven, when a man suddenly rose, extended his arms, and
exclaimed, with an audible voice, "Itis no such thing—l am
a true Briton, a true Israelite, and a true disciple of the Mes-
siah ;" adding, with a clenched fist, "and you know it, Mr.
Luxmore." This very singular and uncommon occurrence
gave a momentary check to the service, and excited so much
consternation that there was an almost simultaneous move-
ment for leaving the church, and several ladies fainted. The
sexton, however, interfered, and the individual walked quietly
out, without attempting any further interruption. His name
is Tyte, a native of the town, but late of Portsmouth, and he
arrived there last Saturday evening, on a visit to his friends,
who state that he is superannuated from his Majesty's service
in consequence of insanity, with which he has been some time
afflicted. He was induced to go to Barnstaple Church,
having, as he said, been christened there.

INFLUENCE OF COLOUR ON THE ABSORPTION
OF ODOURS.—My attention was first directed to the subject of
odours as connected with colour during my attendance at the
anatomical room in 1830-31. During the earlier part of that
winter I generally wore a light olive coloured dress ; but hap-
pening one day to attend in black clothes, they acquired an
almost intolerable smell. This fact led me to begin a series
of experiments. The result was, as I had conjectured, that
the colour of bodies, independently of the nature of their sub-
stance, modifies the capability of surfaces for imbibing and
giving out odours. I enclosed black and white wool, ten.
grains of each, in a vessel with a small piece of camphor, and
kept it secluded from the light. When examined, six hours
afterwards, it was at once evident to the sense of smell that

the black wool had attracted more of the odorous particle than
the white, though neither had gained any appreciable weight.
I also took equal quantities of black and white wool, and put
them in a small drawer with a piece of asafoetida ; ill twenty-
four hours the black had attracted a strong odour of the gum,
while in the white the smell was scarcely perceptible. Similar
experiments were made with cotton of six different colours—
black, blue, green, red, yellow, and white. The black, as
before, was found to have much the strongest smell, the blue
next, then the red, and so on down to the white, which had
scarcely any.-11r. Stark, in Repertory of Patents.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOCIAL DEPRAVITY.-A
governess is required to know everything. It is curious,
while female intellect is held very low, that yet when a family
wants a preceptress, nothing less is expected than the powers
of- an admirable Crichton or an Edmund Stone. What is the
consequence? A poor girl foresees that she must earn her
bread by teaching. She cannot acquire above two, or at most
three accomplishments well ; but she must seem to possess
what the vulgar and unintellectual market requires. The
consequence is, that the capabilities which might turn to a fine
account, are more than half lost, by endeavouring to attain
what the soul sickens at. But the unfortunate girl must have
a home ; bread to eat, and clothes wherewithal to be covered.

Again, what is the consequence ? She goes forth an impos-
tor ! She knows that she is in reality good at nothing, because
too much has been aimed at. She goes out for the purpose of
instructing youth, (and we should imagine morality the first
and principal lesson,) a practical liar. Admirable instruc-
tress ! ! Can we wonder that we have a race of such ad-
mirable pupils.? With all this before her eyes, Fanny could
not offer herself as a governess, even had she possessed
the indispensable advantage, of what may very properly be
termed Bolsterers ; viz. those who pass their words for people,
of whom they know precisely nothing. For fear of any mis-
take on this important point, we allude to REPERENCES."-
John Reid, Glasgow.

ACCIDENT AT GRAVESENDe—A circumstance
occurred on Sunday evening at Gravesend, which had nearly
been attended with very serious consequences. Persons
on paying two-pence each are permitted to walk on the tem-
porary pier, which is so very narrow as not to allow more than
four persons to walk abreast. On Sunday evening last, while
a great number of men, women, and children were on the

a signal was made that a steam-boat was ready to sail
for London, in consequence of which a great number of per-
sons at Gravesend rushed on the pier to go aboard the vessel,
when a frightful scene of confusion ensued. The parties
who were amusing themselves on the pier, endeavouring to
leave, came in contact with the others, and several individuals
during the confusion were precipitated into the water and
mud ; others were thrown down and injured ; women had
their garments torn to pieces, and a child, which had been
separated from its father, was missing, and was supposed to
be, lost. The unhappy parent, in agpny and despair, was
bewailing the loss of his child, when fortunately, after the
confusion had ceased, a waterman delivered it to its father,
having plucked the child, nearly smothered, from the mud.
The confusion was increased by the constables endeavouring
to clear the pier, and by a numerous gang of pickpockets
from London, who chiefly made the rush, and robbed several
persons in the crowd. One steam-boat alone landed 1,100
persons at Gravesend on Sunday. The new pier will be
opened with due ceremony on Friday next.
DREADFUL AND DETERMINED SUICIDE.-

Yesterday morning, about half-past three o'clock, as John
Mason, police constable No. 121 of the D division, was on
duty in Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, he observed
a female in her nightdress make her appearance at the third-
floor window of the house of Mr. Thorpe, No. 10, chair-
matufacturer, and opening it, commenced getting into the
window-sill. Suspecting that she was about to throw herself
into the street he called to her, begging of her to desist ; but
by this time she was standing upright on the sill, outside the
window, and waving her hand for him to stand out of the way
she bent herself forward, and plunged headlong into the street
from a height of between fifty and sixty feet. She fell on her
head on the curb-stone of the foot pavement, narrowly escaping
being impaled on the spikes of the. area railing. On the
policeman running up to her assistance a most dreadful spec-
tacle presented itself: the unfortunate woman was writhing in
the agonies of death, covered with blood, and the right side
of the skull smashed in so shocking a manner that a person's
doubled fist could be introduced into the brain. The police
" stretcher" from the Albany-street station-house was pro-
cured with as little delay as possible, and the poor creature
was placed on it to be conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, but
expired before it had proceeded many yards. It appears that
the name of the deceased is Setter, a widow, in respectable
circumstances, who lodged at Mr. Thorpe's house ; latterly
some domestic afflictions preyed heavily upon her mind, and
she became in a very low and desponding way ; it is supposed
that in a paroxysm of grief she had got out of bed and com-
mitted the fatal act. The deceased was forty-three years
of age.

ANECDOTE OF CuRRAN.---A farmer attending at
a fair with one hundred pounds in his pocket, took the pre-
caution of depositing it in the hands of the landlord of the
public-house at which he stopped. Having occasion for it
shortly afterwards, he resorted to mine host for the bailment ;
but the landlord, too deep for the countryman, wondered what
hundred pounds was meant, and was quite sure no such sum
had been lodged in his hands by the astonished rustic. After
ineffectual appeals to the recollection, and finally to the
honour, of Bardolph, the farmer applied to Curran for advice.
" Have patience, my friend," said the Counsel, " speak to
the landlord civilly, and tell him you are convinced you must
have left your money with some other person. Take a friend
with you, and lodge with him another hundred pounds, in the
presence of your friend, and then come to me." We must
imagine, and not commit to paper, the vociferations of the
honest dupe, at such advice - however, moved by the
rhetoric or authority of the worthy counsel, he followed it, and
returned to his legal friend. " And now, sir, I don't see as
I'm to be better off for this, if I get my second hundred again ;
but how is that to be done ?" "Go and ask him for it when
he is alone," said the counsel. " Aye, sir, but asking won't
do, I'ze afraid, without my witness, at any rate." " Never
mind ; take my advice," said the counsel ; " do as I bid you,
and return to me." The farmer soon returned with his hun-
dred pounds, glad, at any rate, to find that safe again in his
possession. " Now, sir, I suppose I must be content; but I
don't see as I'm much better off." Well, then," said the
counsel, " now take your friend with you, and ask the landlord
for the hundred pounds your friend saw you leave with him."
We need not add, that the wily landlord found that he had
been taken off his guard, while our honest friend returned to
thank his counsel exultingly with both hundreds in his pocket.
OXFORD STUDENTS.—The crying evil of Oxford
is repletion. Your ancestors may have drunk more, and I be-
lieve they did, but I defy them to have eaten more than their
descendants. In speaking, indeed, of the generality of the
undergraduates, it is not too much to say that one-third part
of their time is spent in gormandizing, one-third in violent
exercise to throw off the weight which oppresses them, and
the remainder in deep drowsy slumber. The late breakfast,
which equals in variety and quantity of food the morning meal
of the voracious Yankee, is followed close by the huge
luncheon. A ride is then absolutely necessary to enable
the literary youth to do justice tol the college dinner. This
meal is succeeded by a wine party, then comes coffee, and
then, though Ilast not least, the supper, or at all events a
friendly compotation, before each student (studens a non ttu-
dendo) retires for the poor remnant of the night to his own
cell. A detailed account of the entertainments given by these
young gentlemen would not be credited on the Continent,
and your English fathers do not stand in need of information.
The items in their sons' unpaid bills will let them into the
secret. Your Dons are indeed strange unaccountable crea-
tures. Fondly attached to the present order of things, they
yet suffer the rising aristocracy of England to plunge into
more than Sybarite luxury, at a time when more than usual

vigour is required by those who are to take an active part in
public life. But not only is the intellect clouded, the morals
are also corrupted by this wide-spread gluttony. Were not
your distinguished countryman Abernethy already in his grave,
I should propose to have him appointed inspecting physician
to the University. Graduates and under-graduates alike
should be committed to his charge ; and after reviewing the
collegiate bands, from the sleek dean with his portly semicir-
cular protuberance, to the tall gawky freshman of eighteen, I
doubt not the man of science would have given in his verdict
with characteristic brevity--" Repletion—nothing but reple-
tion."—Letter to a Noble Lord by a Foreigner.