The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-21 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM WILSON and EDWARD BRODRIBB,
merchants, Brabant-court, Philpot_lane, to surrender Jan. 2,
at one, and 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur.
ner, Basing-lane ; Graham, official assignee, Copthal-buildings
RICHARD HAYD AY, silk-warehouseman, Milk-street,
Dec. 31, at half.past twelve, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-
street, official assignee ; Rainc, Lombard-street.
THOMAS AUGUSTUS GAY, law-stationer, Southampton.
buildings, Chancery-lane, Jan. 9, at half-past one, and 31, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane,
official assignee; Downes and Gamlen, Furnival's Inn.
SAMUEL JONES, tailor, Old Cavendish-street, Jan. 3 and
31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, King's
Aims-Yard, official assignee; Wellsteed, New Inn, Strand.
SETH FLITCROFT and THOMAS MUSGROVE, grate
manufacturers, Liverpool, Jan. 2 and 31, at one, at the Cla-
rendon-rooms, Liverpool. Mawdsley, Liverpool; Adlington,
Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London.
ROBERT DICK, tailor, Hanover-street, Hanover-square,
Jan. 4, at eleven, and 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street ;
Cannan, Lothbury, official assignee.
SAMUEL and THOMAS DARWIN, roller-manufac.
turers, Sheffield, Dec. 30, at ten, and Jan. 31, at two, at the
office of Messrs. Rodgers and Son, Sheffield. Rodgers,
Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate-street, London ; Rodgers and
Son, Sheffield.
GEORGE BAGSHAW, cutler, Sheffield, Dec. 30 and Jan.
31, at eleven, at the office of Mr. Palfreyman, Sheffield. Tat-
tershall, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Palfrey-
man, Sheffield.
JESSE LANE, cheesemonger, Strand, Jan. 2, at ten, and 31,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Hutchinson, Crown-
coutt, Threadneedle-street ; Whitmore, Austin-friars, official
assignee.
JOHN BOYN, sen., and JOHN BOYN, jun., wine-mer-
chants, Jewry-street, Crutched-friars, Dec. 31, at one, and
Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Burn, Finch.
lane, City.
RICHARD HALL, slate.merchant, Birmingham, Jan. 7.
at ten, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Bir.
mingham. Woodrooffe and Lewin, New-square, Lincoln's-
Inn ; Mole, Birmingham.
WILLIAM ATKIN, ironfounder, Halifax, Yorkshire,
Jan. 14 and 31, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Halifax. Jaques,
Battye, and Edwards, Coleman-street, London ; Edwards,
Halifax.
JOHN STORER and WILLIAM HENRY STORER,
grocers, Brierley-hill, Staffordshire, Jan. 13 and 31, at twelve,
at the Swan Inn, Wolverhampton. Norton and Chaplin,
Gray's Inn-square; Richards, Birmingham.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, victualler, Birmingham, Dec
27, at three, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Union Tavern.
Birmingham. Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn, London
Capper, Birmingham.
THOMAS ACTON, warehouseman, London, Jan. 2, at
one, and 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clift
and Fisher, Red Lion-square.
MATTHEW JOHN LEGRE, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 8,
at eleven, and 31, at two, at the Commissioners' Rooms,
Manchester. Atkinson and Birch, Manchester ; Matkinson
and Sanders, Temple, London.
WILLIAM DONNISON, licensed victualler, Tash-street,
Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 27 and Jan. 31, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall.street, official-assignee;
Rushby, Charter House-square.
EDWARD WORSEY,blank tray-maker, Aston, Warwick,
Jan. 7 and 31, at eleven, at the Union Inn, Birmingham.
Holme, Frampton, and Loftus, New-Inn, London; Parke
Birmingham.

The Helvetic, of Porentruy, has the follow,
ing :—" The King of the French has written to M. de
Rumigny, his Ambassador in Switzerland, an autograph
letter, in which he excuses himself for refusing to receive
in France the Poles who had signed a petition to that
effect, alleging that his Ministers would not consent to this
measure, at a moment when the greater part of those
refugees might increase the republican ferment that pre-
vails in the kingdom. His Majesty, at the same time,
remitted 3,0001. to be distributed among them."
ABSENCE.—Thorlacius, the Danish Grose,
whilst riding out for his amusement one evening, was
in such earnest confab with his companion, a portly
f,lio on Scandinavian antiquities, as altogether to
forget that his steed required any earthly care from hint.
The animal, left therefore to its own impulses, roamed
along the side of a ditch, nibbling at the grass which
grew upon it but, being at the moment as absent as his
master, suddenly made a false step, and, in the endeavour
to recover his footing, discharged the antiquarian and his
chum into the grassy bottom beneath. The descent was
soft and gentle; the couch, smooth and kindly ; and there
Thorlacius lay, intently continuing his devotions, as if be
had never parted with pommel or stirrup. Some half an
hour afterwards, an acquaintance of his, chancing to be
driving homewards, past the scholar's verdant stwdio
drew up, and invited him to take a seat beside him,
" Vastly obliged," replied our antiquarian ; out of humour
with the interruption, " can't you see, Sir, I'm taking my
rite?" Wherewith he and the Scandinavian tome were
instanter locked again in close confab.
VELOCITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WAVES.
—The velocity of waves has relation to their magnitude.
Some large as ayes proceed at the rate of from thirty to
forty miles an hour. It is a vulgar belief that the water
itself advances with the speed of the wave, but in fact the
form only advances, while the substance, except a little
spray above, remains rising and falling in the same place,
according to the laws of the pendulum. A wave of water
in this respect, is exactly imitated by the wave running
along a stretched rope when one end is shaken; or by the
mimic waves of our theatres, which are generally the
undulations of long pieces of carpet, moved by attendants.
But when a wave reaches a shallow bank or beach, the
water becomes really progressive, because then, as it cannot
sink directly downwards, it falls over and forward, seeking
its level. So awful is the spectacle of a storm at sea, that
it is generally viewed through a medium which biasses
the judgment; and lofty as waves generally are, imagina-
tion makes them loftier still. No wave rises more than
ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet
that its surface afterwards descends below this, gives
twenty feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any
water.valley to the summit. This proposition is easily
proved, by trying the height upon a ship's mast at which
the horizon is always in sight over the tops of the waves;
allowance being made for accidental inclinations of the
vessel, and for her sinking in the water to much below
her water line at the instant when she reaches the bottom
of the hollow between two waves. The spray of the sea,
driven along by the violence of the wind, is of course
much higher than the summit of the liquid wave ; and a
wave coming against an obstacle, may dash to almost any
elevation above it. At the Eddystone lighthouse, when a
surge reaches it, which has been growing under a storm all
the way across the Atlantic, it dashes even over the lan-
tern at the summit.—.Arriott's Elements of Physics.
MARRIAGE DISAPPOINTMENT OF MRS.
HANNAH MOR.E.-What were the exact circumstances
under which it took place, I have never been able to as-
certain. A scandalous report prevailed for many years,
and it was even adopted into books and pamphlets, that
she had borne an illegitimate child to some gentleman under
a solemn assurance of marriage, and that the gentleman
had afterwards retreated from his engagements ; and I
remember well that a celebrated poet of our day expressed
his disappointment, upon my discrediting to him the
whole of that story as a fiction of malignity. However,
there certainly was some story of a delicate nature, in
the belief of some of Mrs. More's best friends, con-
nected with the rupture of her marriage engagement;
and I have received the following as the true facts,
limn a clergyman of great respectability, and a friend
of Mrs. Hannah More:—The morning was fixed for
the marriage ; Miss More's friends were all in attend-
ance, and, after breakfasting together, had actually pro-
ceeded to the church, where, by appointment, they were
to meet the bridegroom. They actually waited above an
hour in the porch, looking out for his arrival, and as yet
with no suspicion of his dishonourable intentions. At
length a single horseman was seen approaching ; he ad-
vanced to the steps, dismounted, and presented to Miss
More a letter, in which the gentleman pleaded simply, as
a reason for receding from his engagements, that he could
not bring his mind, at the hour of crisis, to so solemn
and so irrevocable a contract. He offered, however, to
make such reparation as could be made in a pecuniary
sense to Miss More ; but this intention, if he really had
it at the time, would, no doubt, have died away as soon
as the immediate difficulty was overcome. The friends of
Miss More, aware of that, pressed him vigorously, and
would grant no delay. The sequel was, that rather than
stand a prosecution, he settled on Miss More a handsome
provision, my informant believed not lees but rather more
than 4001. per annum for life.— Tait's Magazine.
Parrots are sometimes extremely quick at
picking up certain words that happen to strike their ears;
and tbis they often do very untowardly, so as afterwards
to repeat them with an apparently mischievous intent. We
remember a parrot which belonged to a lady, which was
the innocent means of getting his mistress into a very un-
fortunate scrape. A friend of hers having called one
forenoon, the conversation of the two ladies took that turn
towards petty scandal to which, we grieve to say, it is too
frequently bent. The friend mentioned the name of a lady
of their acquaintance. " Mrs. B—!" exclaimed the
owner of the parrot, " Mrs. B— drinks like a fish."
These words were hardly uttered, when the footman, in a
loud voice, announced Mrs. B-- ; and as the new visiter
—a portly, proud dame, came sailing into the room,—
exclaimede
no Ar
short time to
" Mrs. B— !" exclaimed the parrot, " Mrs. B
drinks like a fish." Mrs. B--- wheeled round with the
celerity of a troop of heavy dragoons, furiously, to con-
front her unknown and base maligner. " Mrs. B i's
cried the parrot again, " Mrs. B— drinks like a fish."
prepare. the lady
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house, " this is a piece of wickedness towards e which
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taken you
the blackness of your heart towards one for whom you
have long pretended a friendship; but I shall be revenged."
It was in vain that the mistress of tiae parrot rose and
protested her innocence; Mrs. B--- flounced out of the
room in a storm of rage, much too loud to admit of the
voice of reason being heard. The parrot, delighted with
his new caught-up words, did nothing for some days but
shout out, at the top of his most unmusical voice, "Mrs.
13.-- ! Mrs. B-- drinks like a fish." Meantime, Mrs.
8—.....28 lawyers, having once taken up the scent, suc-
ceeded in ferretting out information that ultimately produced
written proofs, furnished by some secret enemy, that the
lady's imprudence in the propagation of this scandal bad
not been confined to the instance we have mentioned. An
action at law was raised for defamation. The parrot was
arrested and carried into court, to give oral testimony to
the malignity of the plot which seas supposed to hwasave been
good fame ; aud he by no
laid against Mrs. B----2°
means niggardly of his testimony, for to the great amuse-
mentbar of the bench, the , and all present, he waB no
than he began and continue,l loudly to
sooner produced ,
.Mrs. 13-- . Mrs. B-- drinks like a
vociferate, '
fish I" till Judge and Jury were alike satisfied of the merits
of the case; and the result was, the poor owner of the
parr otwas cast wit immense damages.—Miset-Iluny of
No le/History.