The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, June 24, 1859.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now being made for the intended
distribution of an award to the officers and crew of her
Majesty's ship Chesapeake, by the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, for the recovery of the shaft
of the Alma, her cargo, and other property recovered from
the wreck of the Ava, between the 12th March and 26th
July, 1858.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said 'award, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that Officer,
and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court.
Agents and all 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
belonging to any salvor, are requested, with as little delay
as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
"Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
House."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the
" London Gazette," of the date proposed for the commence..
ment of distribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of
an individual's share in the respective classes will be an-
nounced.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
MarMaduke Foster, bill broker, Bradford.
BANKRUPTS.

Benjamin Robinson Bartram, coal merchant, Banbury,
to surrender July 13, at two, and Aug. 6, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Phillips, leather cutter, Norwich, July 13, at
half-past twelve, and August 16, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Edward Clarke Brady, grocer, Ludford, Lincolnshire,
July 13 and Aug. 10, at twelve, at Townhall, Kingston -
upon-Hull.
Thomas Swift. grocer, Shefflold, July 9, and Aug. 6, at
ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Jolitt Aston, maltster, Birmingham, July 8 and 29, at
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Francis Clubley, draper, Kingston-upon-Hull, York-
shire, July 13 and Aug. 10, at twelve, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.

Bearow—Marks and Edward Samuel Franklin, woollen
merchants, Birmingham, July 8 and 29, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
James Wooldridge, fellmonger, Lincoln, July 6 and Aug
3, at twelve, at the Townhall, Kingston-upon-Hull.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

George Austin, dressing-case manufacturer, Glasgow.
Andrew Ramsay, surgeon, Leslie, Fifeshire.
Robert Fraiter, baker, North Queensbury.
John Conacher, auctioneer, Edinburgh.
Marsh and Beattie, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Hugh Mackay, grocer, Edinburgh,
William Garrow, steam boat agent, Lossiemouth. Elgin.

A LONG HOLDING.--Among the obituary notices
in tho Leeds Intelligence?' is the following :—" On the 20th
inst., aged 45, Mr. Peter Matterson, of Low Dunsford,
near Boroughbridge. He and his ancestry have been the
owners and occupiers of the farm on which he died for more
than 800 years. The farm was not entailed, and the owner
has always been a Matterson, without adoption."