The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, - SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1850.

LITERATURE.
TIE FOREST AND THE FORTRESS.
3 Vols. By Laura Jewry.
Already has the authoress of these beautiful
volumes celebrated her abilities by the charming
fiction of " Kirkholme Priory," and, still more, by
the exquisite romance of " The Ransom"—a work
conceived in that lofty school of Anglo-Oriental
fable, of which Sir Walter Scott's "Talisman" may
be regarded as, at once, the originator and the repre-
sentative. Had Miss Laura Jewry never again ad-
ventured upon any enterprise as a novelist, she would
still have maintained, to our thinking, her high posi-
tion in contemporary literature, through the honour
redounding to her from that solitary production—
" The Ransom," revealing the sweetness of her sensi-
bilities, the graces of her composition, and the rich-
ness of her versatile and comprehensive imagination.
Happily, however, for all those who rejoice in the
perusal of this department of literature—a depart-
ment not mere bewitching in its beauty than bene-
ficial in its influence when presided over by one of
the master minds of a generation—our charming
romancist is proving herself as industrious in the
cultivation of her great powers of fancy, and of her
remarkable capacities for delineation, as in the
development of her genius and in the extension of
her rePutatian- flaying depicted with a most
felicitous pencil the domestic scenery of England
in one narrative, and the voluptuous land-
scapes of Palestine in another, she has here
broken h.e„ ground for the display of her icven-
thm, re's-ouzel hitherto untouched by the imaginative
Vi.ri*,ers of Great Britain, but such as will not, we
c'enceive, be henceforth overlooked by novelists in
search of arenas of incident, unhackneyed in descrip-
tion. Through "Thaddeus of Warsaw.' the English'
readers of romance acquired a familiarity with the
aspect, the manners, and the customs of Poland and
the Poles. Through " Gisella" they obtained an in-
timate acquaintance with the topographical peculiari-
ties of Hungary, and with the social characteristics
of the Hungarians. Through the " Forest and the
Fortress" they will obtain a delightful knowledge of
the appearance of Servia, and of the many noble and
admirable qualities distinguishing its heroic popula-
tion. What Miss Porter had accomplished in refer-
ence to the children of the land of Sobieski ; what
Mr. Simpson has more recently accomplished in
regard to the valorous but unfortunate Magyars ;
Miss Jewry has effected in behalf of that portion of
the great Slavonic multitude who acknowledged as
their leader, the terrible Kara George—a hero re-
nowned as their ill-fated but illustrious Gospodar.
Kara George has been here daringly selected as the
principal personage in the romance; and of all those
wonderful men whose careers are recorded in history,
not one could have been chosen more peculiarly suited
to the requirements of the historical romancist. For
the whole story of the life and death of the great
Servian chieftain consists of a rapid succession of
vicissitudes, startling in their suddenness and
marvellous in their character. To the Servians,
Kara George was le hat Wallace was to the
Scots, what Tell was to the Swiss, what Hofer was
to the Tyrolese—a hero born from the national cala-
mities, clad in homespun apparel, but crowned like
the warrior-monarchs of the middle ages with a
diademed helmet, and elevated as a sovereign from
the ranks of the people on the buckler of a revelation !
Such was the extraordinary being who rent asunder
the manacles imposed upon his fellow-countrymen by
the Government of Con,tantinople, who displayed in
time of war the genius of a great soldier, and in time
of peace the genius of a great statesman, who di-
rected with his own masculine intellect the whole
effeir3 of the state although personally illiterate, and
who, although destroyed in the midst of a military
commotion, left behind him a memory so replete with
awe end glory that his influence was thereby ren-
dered hereditary—insomuch that the child of his
loins is at this very day wielding the sceptre of the
Servians, adding or.e name more to the list of the
ruling princes of Christendom. It is this /wonderful
adventurer, the hero of Servia, who is the hero of
" The Forest and the Fortress." Miss Jewry hae
been wise, we repeat, in her selection. For, while
recounting to her readers the memorable struggles
between the crescent and the cross in that pro•
viace of the Danube, and reviving to popular
recollection the singular career of the Gospodar
George, she has best enabled herself 'to impress upon
their imaginations the prominent features of Servian
society while enhancing thereby the attraction of
whatever is fictitious in her narrative. From the
opening chapter the story is invested with an enthral-
ling atmosphere of attraction, the interest excited in
behalf of the principal characters exercising its fasci-
nation uninterruptedly to the conclusion. Driven
from their native land by the grinding domination
of the Moslem conquerors of Servia, George Petro-
vich and his aged father, Petroni, are disclosed to us at
the commencement of the narrative, hastening to the
banks of the river Save, to, escape from the pursuit of
a party of Bosniaks into Slavonia. The terrible in-
cident which transpired on that occasion is recounted
in a strain of simple and touching eloquence, the
young patriot, in an agony of bewilderment at the
sudden refusal of his parent to cross the frontiers and
by that means evade the cruelty of their antagonists,
killing Petroni with a pistol shot, and disappearing
immediately after the perpetration of that tremendous
act of parricide. When next we are introduced to
the unfortunate hero, the future Gospodar of the Ser-
vians is acting as forester on the domain of a monas-
tery of Benedictines situated near the southern borders
of the Danube, hard by the town of Mohacs in Hun-
gary.• His companions are a little child named Vanda,
subsequently the heroine of the romance, and a wolf-
hound called Lasar, whose value has attracted the in-
terest of a Magyar nobleman, one Count Wessolim.
Several veers have elapsed after the introduction of
these. personages before the tale is resumed, and then,
Vanda, having grown into a beautiful maiden under
the guardianship cf her adopted parents, the Count
and Countess of Wessolim, and George, her previous
protector, having gradually acquired the leadership
of the insurgent population of Servia, the vicissitudes
of the novel are entered upon in earnest. From this
moment the charm of the book increases in proportion
to its advancement, carrying the reader on with an
ever-extending curiosity until the last terrible and
mournful catastrophe. Our obligation to Miss Jewry
for the deep and peculiar pleasure she has afforded us
by spiriting our fancy into a realm of singular loveli-
ness, half historical, half fictitious, would of itself be
sufficient in the present instance to preclude us from
marring the beauty of her narrative by giving a dry
epitome of its events and of their bewitching alterea-
tion, even were such a custom not already one
totally averse to our ideas of judicious criticism.
Under ordinary circumstances we are disinclined to
interfere thus perversely with the aim of every
novelist, namely, that of exciting the anxious
solicitude and the, earnest inquisitiveness of
whosoever may adventure upon the exami-
nation of their compositions. Especially, therefore,
are we indisposed to strip, from " The Forest and the
Fortress" the spell which our gifted authoress has
thrown around them from the riches of her fruitful
imagination, and from the glow of her delicate and
contagious sympathies—knowing well that we could
give no compensation for so doing by mapping out
the labyrinthine trails through the Forest, or by
drawing out a sectional plan of the windings of the
Fortress. Before a syllable of the present notice was
penned we had devou.red the volumes of this brilliant
fiction, and we are the more explicit in this
intimation, from perceiving that such does
not appear, in its instance, to have been
the course adopted by the mass of its reviewers.
Having derived ourselves extreme gratification from
the last effusion of Miss Laura Jewry's fancy, we
regretted to observe one of our contemporaries, after
the fashion of a certain eccentric worthy in the me-
tropolitan corporation, pertly and flippantly putting
down" The Forest and the Fortress," as a very so-so
attempt at an Hungarian romance ! hereas,hed the
critic Only troubled himself sufficiently to glance
through the work upon which he pronounced this
very peremptory condemnation, he would have found
that it was about as much a romance of Cockaigne as
it was a romance of Hungary. Servia, and not
Hungary, is the land upon which all its interest is con-
centrated. Servian leaders,and pot Hungarian leaders,
are the prominent characters involved in its succes-
sion of vicissitudes. Venda, its :lovely heroine, is a
Servian. Kara George, it is needless to say, so far
from being a Magyar, is not only a son of the soil of
Servia, but its Gospodar and its Liberator. A bril-
liant variety of other characters, almost all of them,
with scarcely an exception, Servian, add an additional
merit to the story from its revelation of the workings
of the human heart, and of the versatile and volatile
capacities of the human intellect. Erfrem Petro-
vich, the brother of Kara George, is the principal
villain of the work until he is succeeded and exceeded
in rascality by his son Lasar (curiously enough called
by the same name as the wolf-hound of his uncle,
when the latter was a forester to the Benedictines).
Milan, the Knes of Rudnik, a most lovely and love-
able character, especially enlists the sympathies of
the reader ; and the mournful episode of poi Helena'
clings to the recollection with a peculiar and almost
painful tenacity, even after her history has become
eclipsed by the more conspicuous history of her friend
and companion Venda. Of the whole description of
Rudnik we must speak in terms of admiration,
conveying, as it does, a vivid and life-like
idea of the aspect, the manners, and the domestic
economy of a beautiful Servian village. We rove
through the plum orchard with Liubitza and her
lover Milosh—we watch the good Wishnia superin-
tending the, arrangements of her household—we sit
by the hide of Helena's blind old grandfather—at the
potent bidding of the novelist. Again, we are com-
muning in the solitudes of the forest with the mystic
phantom of a Wili—we are reclining by the side of
Shirine in the gorgeous apartments of the Pasha of
Belgrade—we are storming the citadel in the ranks of
the Servian patriots, led onwards by the heroic Gos-
podar—we are mingling in a conclave of the

Woiwodes, or singing a street ballad with the Golu-
bitza, or gossiping with the barber Jowan, or writing
dispatches with the priest-warrior Luka Lasaravich
—we are at one moment in the midst of a troop of
Momkes and at another surrounded by a tur-
baned band of the Osmanlis—according as the ro-
mancist wills us to direct the current of our imagina-
tion. All her scenes are painted in language as fluent as
descriptive. Her powers in dialogue, moreover, are
singularly conspicuous ; and the abounding glitter of
incident, wild, horrible, or astounding, imparts to the
entire fiction a charm of peculiar and commanding
fascination. It must consequently be apparent, from
what we have already observed, that the work before
us is one of no ordinary ability, and that its excellence
is raised far above the dead level of a meritorious
mediocrity. As an historical romance, illustrative of
the Servian revolution, " The Forest and the For-
tress" must hold a high, and anything but evanescent
popularity in this beautiful department of literature.
If it fails to eclipse in our estimation the brilliant
merits of the "Ransom," at any rate it immeasur-
ably surpasses in ability the still charming and agree-
able fiction of " Kirkeholine Priory." While we
acknowledge that we expect yet greater successes
from the hand of Miss Laura Jewry, we can felicitate
her on not having caused her admirers any disap-
pointment whatever, but on having brought to a feli-
citous conclusion a romance which will tend greatly
to the enhancement of her reputation.

DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE of JOHN

EVE LYN. Vol. .1.1.
English history, English travel, English criticism
on Arr, English custoa.s, English literature—are all
aided, 2dvanced, and illustrated by the estimable
diaries of the good and garrulous Evelyn. We turn
to them ever with an increasing zest, conscious that
in examining, even in our most :idle moments, the
apparent lumber of all this gossip, we are safe to light
upon some precious curiosity or other, stored up fur
posterity in the midst of its confusion. In reading
most writers upon matters political, historical,
literary, biographical, or critical, we feel, as it were,
seated beneath the rostrum of a lecturer, listening
to the staid and rounded periods prepared for our im-
provement after long and careful deliberation. When
we are reading, on the contrary, the diaries of such
Men as the excellent Mr. John Evelyn, or even, as
friend Dogberry would call him, of that " naughty
varlet," Mr. Samuel Pepys, we are transported away
from all sense of mere perusal, over the gap of a
century or two—and find ourselves, so to speak,
sauntering through the reigns of the last Stuarts with
the hand of the narrator on the lappel of our
coat. The effect of the mere style is be-
witching—so conversational and familiar, yet
pointed into occasional wit, and glittering. with
frequent anecdotes. Compared with " Pepys's Diary,"
"Evelyn's Diary," it is true, has none of the at-
tractions of a most humorous eccentricity. Yet it
has other qualities that make it equally agreeable,
end some characteristics that compel one, however
reluctantly, to yield it the preference. With all our
predilection for the cdd, comic, and ultra-grotesque
confessions of Mr. Pep3s—his secret licentiousness of
temperament, his quarrels with Mrs. Pepys behind
the bed curtains, his epicurean particularity in de-
scribing his dinners, his abominable little peccadil-
loes in ogling pretty girls in church, and getting
pricked with pins in the fleshy part of his thigh
by way of recompense, his ostentation in his carriage,
his vanity in his dress, his miserly affection for his
gold pieces —we are yet forced to regard the Diary
of Mr. Evelyn as immeasurably more deserving a
frequent examination. The extent of his numerous
joureies through the continental countries, the natl-

tiplicity of his acquaintance, and those acquaintance,
too, among the foremost men of his generation, the
variety of his parts, the versatility of his talents, the
distinction of his numerous correspondence, his fami-
liarity with the events occurring in the
reigns of the first and second James, and of the first
and second Charles, and of the Commonwealth with
all its illustrious soldiers and statesmen, his protracted
and industrious career extending almost to the vene-
rable age of ninety, qualify him eminently for the
office of an instructor of posterity. As such h 3 must
always be regarded. Meanwhile, the amenity of his
disposition, the goodness of his heart, the purity of
his life, the gentleness of his manners, the earnest-
ness of all his friendships, and the tender devoted-
ness with which he clung to the ties of
family, must perforce secure to him the
sympathy, the love, and the admiration of all those
acquainted with his personal history. To us there
are few characters in the records of English literature
more winning in every essential particular than that
of the good and learned John Evelyn. His venerable
name always possesses for us an irresistible attrac-
tion. If for no other consideration, he wou!cl be en-
titled to respect as one of the founders of the Royal
Society. His exquisite work on forest trees, entitled,
if we recollect rightly, " Sylva," is about the best tes-
timony of his genius, both as a cultivator of .science and
of literature. But the composition which has preserved
fur him, up to the present day, a very wide and per-
snanent popularity, is the one here being republished
in a cheap and beautiful form by Mr. Colburn. The
enterprise evinced in this regard by that distinguished
publisher is deserving of all eulogium and encourage-
ment—the cheapness of the re-issue being as re-
markable as its beauty and compactness. The work
in its present form is a necessary companion to the
popular histories of our country, to Hume, Hallam,
and Macaulay, to Lingard's " England," and Car-
lyle's "Cromwell." Its elevation to the book-shelf,
as among the best diaries and correspondences in our
.language, cannot but serve to adorn any library,
no matter how fastidiously selected.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWEF, FRIDAY.—The English barque Spartan,
Brown, from Jamaica for London, put into this port
on Tuesday last with the losi of her mainmast, having
encountered a severe hurricane on the 2d inst. near
the Western Islands, and was thrownion her beam-
ends, which obliged the master to cut the mast away ;
in this almost disabled state she reached this port.
The master on his arrival proceeded to London for
the advice and assistance of the concerned, and the
steam-tug Copeland has been sent down here to tow
her to the river. As soon as the weather moderates
the barque will proceed to London with the tug,
which arrived here yesterday afternoon.
Married, at St. Mary's Church, West Cowes, by
the Rev. J. B. Atkinson, on the 24th inst., Captain
Tatnall, 92d Highlanders, to Diane, youngest
daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq., of Ivy House,
Cowes.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
The secretary has sold the Flirt yank, of 155 tons,
the property of Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., Vice-
Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to Sir
Charles B.PLeod, Bart. ; the price is said to be
twenty-three hundred pounds.

THE MESSENGER BALLOONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stu,—ln the Morning Herald of Wednesday last,
Mr. Shepherd, the messenger balloon projector, makes
a proposal to the subscribers of that paper to raise a
sum of 801. to defray the expense of constructing 15
balloons, with apparatus for filling them with gas,
printing the dispatche, &c., and to be sent out with
Captain Ross's expedition. A number of these mes-
senger balloons have already been sent out to the
Arctic regions, and from the statements which have
at different times appeared in the papers respecting
the experiments made in London, much is expected
from them by the Admiralty and others.
It is proposed to dispatch these balloons from the
vessels when they arrive in the Arctic regions, and
by means of them to scatter over the ice or water a
quantity of slips of parer and silk, having printed on
them, for the information of those who may find them,
a statement of the position occupied by the parties
who dispatched them, and their object in doing so.
New I cannot see of what use these messenger bal-
loons will be if employed in this manner. We are
told that these messenger balloons are to assist in dis-
covering Sir John Franklin ; how is the discovery to
be made by Mr. Shepherd's plan ? We will sup-
pose that Sir John Franklin fails in with one of the
paper slips which informs him that parties are in
search of him, and where they are to be found ; of
what value will this information be to him ? If he is
alive he will naturally suprrse that search is being
made for him.

By picking up the slips he would certainly be
made acquainted with the position of the searching
vessels, but how is he to get to them? If he could do
this, one would Euppcse that he would, not remain
where he is.

Thus it appears that Sir John Franklin is to find
the vessels in search of him, and not they to find him.
Now, these passenger balloons would have been of
great value to Sir John Franklin, if he had adopted
the plan proposed by Mr. Hampton, ,the aeronaut,
in 1845, at the time the expedition was being fitted
out. _ _

_
Mr. Hampton proposed that Sir John Franklin
should take out a number of these balloons in case he
should be locked up in the ice, or otherwise prevented
from proceeding on his voyage ; then dispatches could
have been sent off with the balloons stating that he
was unable to proceed, where he was situated, &c.
These would have proceeded to a considerable dis-
tance, and being picked up by other parties either at
sea or on land, measures might have been adopted for
the relief of the sufferers.

The only thing that now remains to be done with
balloons that appears to be of utility is in adopting
the plans of Mr. Hampton, or of Lieutenant Gale, in
sending out an aeronaut with a large balloon to make
surveys. Much might be done in this manner, for an
immense circle of view would be laid before the aero-
naut, and with powerful telescopes objects could be
more distinctly seen from a balloon than from a ship
on the surface of the water. This is certainly the
best plan yet proposed for assisting in the discovery of
Sir John Franklin, but unfortunately it has been re-
jected by the Admiralty and a useless one adopted.
Before I conclude I may state that these balloon
projects, generally supposed to be new ones, are not so.
As early as the year 1785 Cavallo proposed the use
of balloons in carrying letters from ships that could
not safely land, dre., and, in 1826 an anonymous
writer in the Mechanics' Magazine suggested that
ballcons might be employed in releasing whalers
from the ice.—l am, &c.
CHAS. HY: BROWN.
Meanwood-road, Leeds, April 28, 1850.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of Vac situation of the Bank
of France on April 25:

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots ...
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due •••
Bills falling due in Paris, of which
14,610,626 f. 50e. were received from
the branch banks ...
Bills in the branch banks

f. 340,003,838 0
. . 130,336,436 0
84,875 35

... 41,396,551 7
... 64,710,864 0

Advances on coins and ingots... ..• 844,300 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... • 437,544 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 18,141,919 85
Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,211,771 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,394,488 13
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank .
Ditto branch banks
Bills protested at Paris
Ditto at the branches .
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches
Miscellaneous

... 12,826,541 39
4,000,000 0
3,421,721) 0
200,000 0
:230,000 0
1,125,285 16
1,445,072 0
315,826 94
345,545 0
... 307,544 36

r. 774,783,122

LIABILITIES.

Capital ...
Ditto of the Branch Banks
Reserve fund ...

f. 67,900,000 0
... 23,350,000 0
... 10,000,000 0

Ditto of the branch banks 2,980,750 0
tteserve-imneobiliere 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 414,896,500 0
Ditto of the branch banks 69,307,80,0 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 1,641,775 80
Account-current with Treasury creditor 39,746,933 74
Various accounts current 94,609,183 65
Ditto in branches 23,986,966 0
Bills payable at sight ... 5,319,500 0
Ditto at branches ... 1,440,069 0
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 6,415,371 37

Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 3,038,392 0

Dividends payable
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto branch banks ...
Expenses anticipated ...
Re-discounts of the last six months
Ditto in branch banks .. ...
Miscellaneous

... 295,845 25
... 15,520 0
... 2.531,495 16
... 1.202,996 0
... 256,152 40
... 263,317 26
... 285,208 0
... 1,299 346 48

f. 774,783,122 25
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France,
IYA RGOUT.

We find by the foregoing account that the cash in
band has increased within the week by 2,600;000f. The
amount of eommercid bills discounted remains nearly
the same. The protested bills have decreased by 60,000 t.
The baldt-nutos in circulation remain nearly as at the
date of ;he previous account. The balance t) the credit
of the Tr7.asury has increased by 3,000,000 t. Tire
sundry credits have decrt ased by 4,000,000 f.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25, 1850.

The Queen Lai been pleased to ;44 °int Edward G,if-
Gibs, Eq., L:f utenr.nt in the Royal Nary, to be Super-
intendent of Lihrraied Afi leans at St. Helena.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 26. _ _

The Qicen has bz•en pleased to present the Rev.
Robert b.,eivart to the church and parish f Trapent, in
the presbytery and county of liaddingtun, vacant by the
deatn of the John Ilerderson, late minister thereof.
IVAR-OFF ICE, APRIL 26.

10th Regiment ef.Light Dragoons—Lieutenant George
Webb to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lloyd, de-
ceased; Cornet Robert Clements to be Lieutenant, vice
J. Percy Smith, appointed Adjutant; Lieutenant John
rcy Smith to be Adjutant, vice Webb, promoted,
Jun. 29.

10th Regiummt of Foot—Major Thomas Miller to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Young, de-
c.aied; Brevet Major Henry Errington Lorgden to be
Iti:jor, vice Miller; LieuterAnt John Robert Grnhsm
Mattison to be Captuin, vice Lougden; Ensign John
Edmund Wilhite to be Lieutenant„ vlc4 reason, Feb. 21.

24th Foot—Ensign Lord Frederick Montagu to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mowbray, deceased,
Feb. 17; Ensign Francis Freeman Wbite, from the 73d
to be Ensign, vice Lord Frederick Montagu,
April 26.
49th Foot—Ensign John Augustus Conolly to to
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Powell, who retires, April 26.
50:11 Foot—Ensign Parr William Kingsmill to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mullen, deceased,
April 16.
73.1 Foot—Captain Wyndham Edmund Bevres, from
the 45th Foct, to be Captain, vice Murray, appointed to
the 83d Foot, April 26.
78th Foot—Lieutenant Hamilton Douglas Gordon to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Caldwell, who rotires;
Ensign Henry Bagslia‘Ne Harrison Rocha to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gordon, April 26.
83d Foot—Captain James Florence Murray, from the
73d Foot, to bo Captain, vice Douglas W. P. Labalmon-
there, who retires upon haif-pay. 45th Foot, April 26.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
EASTER TERM, 13TH VICTORIA.

26th April.

This Court will, on Thursday the 9th, Friday the
10th, and Saturday the 11th days cf May next, hold
Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of business then
pending and undecided.

BY THE COURT.
The motion in re Berber (part heard) will Le the
only business taken et the Sittlegs after Term.
BANKILUi"TS.

William Chittenden, draper, Paddington, to surreoder,
1114 y 7, at twelve, and June 7, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, efficial assignee, Basinghall-
street; Cooke, King-street, Cheaptide.
Charles Veneer, builder, Tonbridge Wells, Kent, May
7, at two, and June 4, at eleven, at thu Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Eawards, official assignee, Sambrcok-court,
Basinghall-street; Smith, Steuuing, and Croft, BAsing-
hall-street; Stenning and Carvell, Tonbridge.
John Pattinson, grocer, Liverpool, May 10 and 31,
at eleven, at the Liverpool INF-trice Court. Bird, official
assign: e, Liverpool; Tyrer, Liverpool.
John Stanford and Henry Bannisb r, brickmakers,
Titford, Ha towen. Worcestershire, May 13 and Julie
3. at cloven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
officiA assignor, Birmingham; Smith and James, Bir-
mingham.
Alexander Speers Corrck, timber dt aler, Bristol,
May 8 and June 5, at e:even, at the Bristol District
Court. Act-urn:in, official assignee, Bristol; Brittan,
Bristol.
John Powell, cattle dealer, Upper Cabalva, Radnor-
shire, May 8 and June 5, at clever, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Miller, othcial assignee, Bristol; Pugh,
Hay, Breconshire; Britton and Sons, Bristol.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Weeks, Hyde, Isle of Wight, grocer, May 17, at
eleven—J. H. Gandell, East Challow and Harringdon,
brewer and corn merchant, May 17, at half-past eleven—
LT. TheAtald, Colchester, coal merchant, and J. Church
Deptford, coke manufacturer, May 17, at eleven—J
Bermondsey-street, Southwark, hop merchant
nay 17, at eleven.

In the Country.
B. Lord, Blackburn, Lancashire, coal dealer, May 27,
at twelve, at the Court, Dlanehester—T. Proctor, Pres-
ton, spindle and fly maker, May 27, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester—H. Rotherham, Chesterfield,
plumber, May 27, at twelve, at the Court. Manchester—
J. Y. Ashton, Liverpool, builder and scrivener, May 20,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. Evans, Talyllyn,
Merionethshire, cattle dealer, May 17, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—W. Miles, Worcester, stock and Elan-
broker, May 23, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Ilannen, Little Britain, tallowmelter, on
Thursday, May 2, and Iwo following Thursdays, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansteld, Basing-
hall-street.
Walley and Hardwick, Oxford-street, linendrapers, 28.,
on Thursday, Alay'2, and two following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stensfeld, Ba-
singhall-street.
R. West, Fleet-street, medicine vender, 7d., on Sa-
turday next and three subsequent Saturdays, between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-

at one.

lane. Devonshire, grccer, 9?d.,
T. N. Hayward, Torq Y'
on any Tuesday, betweenuelleven and three, at the office
of Mr. Ilirtzell, Exeter.
J. Hodge, Cioyton, Devonshire, currier, 45., on any
Tuesday or Friday
sfier 30thi instant, between eleven and
three, at the cif= of .r. I ernaman Exeter.
T, Trelisstca, Cornwall, copper smelter,
2a. 81., on any Tuesday or Friday after April 30, be-
tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hernaman,
Exeter.
J. Alizekleston, jun., Shrewsbury, Shropshire, grocer,
2s. 4d., on any Thursday, between eleven aad three, at
the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham.
H. B. Burton and G. Bulpin, Dublin, drapers, 4s. 93.,
on Saturday, April 27, and three subsequent Saturdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards,
Sambrook-court, Basingliall-street.
J. Wright, Pendleton, Lancashire, dyer, 2s. 5 d., on
Tuesday, April 30, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Blanchester.
G. Ilesketh, Manchester. straw-bonnet dealer, a se-
cond dividend of Id., and 2,7 d. on new proofs, on
Tuesday, May 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manche: ter.
W. Hague, S. Hague, and W. Shatwell. Manchester,
commission agents, a first dividend of Is. 3d. upon new
proofs, on Tuesday, May 7, or any subsequent Tuesday,
between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser
Manchest' r.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall.street.
11. J. Stacey. Crosby-row, Walwortla-road, grocer,
May 17, at half p.:lst eleven—J. Slater, Friday-street,
Cheapside, v. arehouseman, May 18, at twelve—H. C.
Cawston, Upper Dorset-place, Clapham-road, grocer,
May 21, at twelve—W. Woodridge, Mincing-lana,
lonial broker, May 21, at eleven—T. Ellen, Victoria-
stre( t, Holborn-bridge, and Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, coal merchant, May 21, at one.
In the Uoubtry.
W. Wallace, Sunderlatd, butcher, May 17, at twelve,
at th,,, Court, Newcastic-opon-Tvne—l'• B. Choftin,
Bristol and Bath, hoAseller, May 20, at eleven, at the
Court, Bri,tol— f. S. Sleightholm, Scarborough, York-
shire, painter, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—
J. Goulde!brough, Manchester dealer, May 17, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester—R. Savory, Hereford,
plumber, May 18, si eleven, tit the C9urt,,Birmingliga..

Lucy Perrers, Ilolsnor,hr, Devonshire, innkeeper, Nlety
29, ut eleven, at the Court, Exetcr.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

J. Crisp, jun., 13c-ccles, Suffolk, corn-merchant—D.
Slater, Preston, Rutlandshire, cabinet-maker, certificate
of the first class—H. J. 'Tyrer, Newcastle-place, Clerken-
watchmaker—S. Nelson, New Bond-street,
,ic•seller—J. Bonnie, jun., Brompton. builder, certi-
ficate of the third class—H. Loweeck, Tborverton, Da.
vanshire, dealer in artificial manures, certificate of the
first class—J. 0. Culyer, Edmonton, Middlesex, gas-
fitter, certificate of the second class—J. Lucas, Aldgette
High-street, licensed victualler, certificate of the second
class—S. Wilson, Weetbrolawich, Staffordshire, draper,
certificate of the first class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. Ord and R. Ord, jwn., Stockton-on-Tees, Durham,
curri,-rs and leather merchants—J. Hutton, J. Langley,
end J. Saxton. Sheffield, engineers and millwrights (so
f.:r as regards J. Saxton)—T. Hine and C. B. Hine, Bury
Saint Edmunds, cutlers and haberdashers—T. Hull and
R. Hull, Kirktiale, Lancashire, millers—J. Finch and B.
D. Wood, Dudley, Worcestershire, fire-iron makers—S.
Audih4irt and C6,fiie Laurin, Gracechurah-street, re-
stauraunt-keepers—J. Bottomley and J. Farrar, Hud-
dersfield, manufacturers—H. Chadwick, J. Chadeick,
aid W. Niggle, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton-svin-
ners—C. G. Webter, J. J. Forrester, W. Offity,
F. Cramp, and C. Ofilay, London, Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, Oporto, and elsewhere,
wine and spirit-merchant—C. Waudby and J. Waudby,
York, sculptors and marble masons—J. Wild and B.
Hepworth, Whitley Lower, Yorkshire, scribbling-113V-
lers—M. Jacobs and A. S. Oppenheim, Leman-street,
Goeclman'r.-fields and nem, Covent-garden, cigar-
manufacturers—Anne Edgar and G. Clark, Ilowtord-
buildings, Fenchura-street, printers—J. Miller and M.
J. Reilly, Great Tower-street, City, wine and spirit-
brt kern—D. King and J. Jones, Heywood, Lancashire,
grocers—W. Clark and B. Wolstenholme, Ramsbottorn
L-Nrcashire, grocers and tea-dealers—J. Cox and J. R:
Nicholson, Liverpool, gss-fitters and brass-finishers—H.
Brown and R. Rhodes, Pemberton, Lancashire, miners
and coal-merchants—J. Anderson and J. Ingram, Liver-
pool—J. A. Lloyd and T. Ringer, Bath, surgeons and
apothecaries.____

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Abraham Ward Rhodes, Birmingham, fire ironmonger.
Tolley, Deepfield, Staffordshire. plumber.
David Green, Newton-in-Mackerfiekl, Lsncasi:lre,

butcher.
Join Oakley, Westßromwich,Staffordshire, boot-mftker.
William Wilkinson, Beeston, Lear Leeds, Yorkshire,

butch: r.
Theophilus Knowhs Ridlcy, Pcncombe, Herefordahire.

taPincr.
Richard Beeson, Nettkhan, Lircolnshire, butcher.
Thomas 11Priry Eves, Birmingham, brewery agent.
Benjamin Thiggot, Birmingham, iron button•maker.
William .Tarver, Thrming,har±g, road-maker.

William Swadkin. Birmingham, greengrocer.
WiLi,:rnitussell.ColehiN, Warwickshire, huckster.

(;hatlrs Baker, l'e7ry Bar, Staffordshire.
Sotham, Henley -on-Tlimmes, Oxfordshire.
William Alinnitr, Noct.)n, Lincolnshire, le.bouror.

William Adams, Caldieut, Monmouthshire, farmer.
illia.ci Marro ln t, patow,tow, Monmouthshire, innkeeper.
James WorrelL jun., Wolvorhamrton, Staffordshire, re-
tailer of beer.
J:111 e 13radicy, Widverhampton, St2fferdshire.
Thomas Wright, Wolverhginpton, Stoffirdshire, butcher.
SCOTCH SEQUEST_RATIONS.

P. Ri'ehio. Wocol:ads, by Perth, farmer. to meet
within the Glisgow Chophouse, Perth, May 1 and 30,

A. Mcldrum. Dundee, merchant, to meet within the
Royal ll(.lA,Dundee, May 2 and 27, at twc.
J. NAnian, Edinb,..irgli, spirit dealer, to meet within
Graham'., Tavern, Edinbugh, May 3 and 23, at (lie.
A. Christie, Rana!lnch, Abcrdeenshite, farmer, to
meet within the Committee-room of the Advocattl,'-hel!,
Aberdeen, May 4 and 24, at tvtelye.
J. Spence, Edinburgh, tavein-kceper, to rnect within
Doweit's Rooms, Edinburgh, April 30 and May 21, at
two.

J. Angus, Cuminegtown, Aberdeenshire, merchant, to
me,t within the Lvmon•tree Tavern, Aberdeen, May 2
and 22, at twelve.
S. liatbbone and J. Rathbone. Portobelle, potters, to
meet within Ferguson's Ship Ho:el, Edinburgh, May 3
and 30, at two.