The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.

(From Punch.
Noire is hereby given that the persons whose
• nam., s and descriptions are hereunder written ill'
teud t'o apply at the next WeStminst-r Sessions to
be 11 lit ved from all he liabilities they have
curred as traders upon cant, parry-cries, populta
ignorance, former prestige, and faction generillYt
they being entirely bankrupt in political reputation,
and insolvent as regards their engagements to the
persons with whom they have had dealings.
Notices of opposition must be entered on the paper
of the House of Commons.
Benjamm : formerly a revolutionarY
epicnionver ; afterwards a pupil of the late Jeaerh,
Hume, Recical, deceased ; :then a Tory-Liberal an"
vituperator of the late Daniel O'Connell, Radical,
deceased ; then for scsree time a tide-waiter at the
door of the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Liherei-
Conservative, deceased ; then a vituperator of the
said Robert Peel, and a hanger-on at the itables Of
the late Ge. rge Lord Ben' inck, Conservative, de;
ceased ; also biographer of the said George Lord
Bentinck ; then in the service of the Earl of Derby
as exceedingly odd roan, and now of no occupation
whatsoever; of Maidstone in 1837, of S wsburyll`
1841, of Buckinghamshire in 1847 ; iuventor Of
successful specific for getting rid of proprietor,
money, called the Representative ; also of a quack
mixture called the Asian Mystery, for the ewe.°f
social disorders ; also of a great variety of more or
less adhesive epithets fastened on with a compose"
lion of gall and impertinence ; also of a new date
for the Christian era ; also of an equitable adjust.
ment of taxation, by taking off the territorial arts"
toeracy, and placing it upon the Consolidated
Fued ; also treaty between England and Francs
for the more complete subjugation of Italy ; also o',
a great number of mares' nests, for which he re-
ceived no consideration or credit whatsoever ; doe'
net 'admit that he has ,ever' failed in business or
anything else. Attorneys, Thesiger and Napier.
Gladstone, William Ewart : Formerly holder 0'
a double first-class ticket for Oxford, which el-
plains his habit of trying to go two ways at once ;
then a doctor of civil law, which was a degree tee
civil for him, and he has since laid the law down,
with, incivility ; afterwards a Conservative ; tbet
a Pee'ite, and since a partner in a ManchesT7
concern, which failed ; at various times ets
business for 'himself as a splitter of hair, all
also an upholder in the church furniture and orua:
ment line ; also a maker of budgets, in whiae
he. was successful, but his prospects were de"
stroyed by the war ; also as the representatives
of Nicholas Romanoff, of St. Petersburg, Turkisu
toweller, deceased ; also in partnership with a(lr'
don & Co., Aberdeen software merchan.s, bank;
rapt ; also a spinner of yarns of unprecedeuteu
length and tenuity ; and now of no occupati°.,
';
whatsoever except that which Nicholas the elder
habitually provides for idle hands to do ; of Newark
in 1832, of Oxford in 1847 ; attributes his failursi
to the existing prejudice against non-natural vieir
of things. Attorney, Roundel]. Palmer.
Cobden, Richard : formerly in successful business
in. cheap bread, in connection with which he of
tamed an honourable position, and dealt in 11,u
adorned eloquence ; then speculated unsuccessful'),„
in crumpling Russia ; then pattuer in a discovery
that Russia, ought not to be crumpled ; then inis
land scheme for allotting to Russia waste Mot
in Moldavia and Wallachia ; then in best"
ness as a peacemonger, and embarked in
scheme for paving the streets of St. Petersburg
with English flags ; then originator of '
proposal for feeding the British Lion with humble., e.
pie ; then partner with both the above-named 1.11:
solvents in a scheme for introducing a new bottle.
holder of Derby manufacture; of Stockport l!
1841, of the West Riding in 1847, and now of to
place what-oever ' • attributes. his failure to the
acknowledged fact that the entire nation, with t'',
exception of a few of his own friends, is is a ett"6
of insanity. Attorney, Hadfield.