The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-24 00:00:00

CULTURAL LABOURER

(From the Dover Chronicle.)
" Protection to native industry" is the plea urged by
monopolists for the continuation of the corn-laws. In
the teeth of evidence the most clear and irrefragable,
they will tell you that free trade would destroy the
agricultural labourer—that, in other words, the onl7
way to avoid the danger of starvation to the working
man, is to create an artificial scarcity. Of course,
the paradox involved in this opinion is scouted by
every one who, possessed of the least grain of common
sense, has thought it worth while to examine never so
slightly into the subject. But there are many persons
who have been content to let others think for them en-
tirely on this head, and who have consequently been
cajoled into the belief that the corn-law .repeaters are
anxious for a free importation of corn to displace home
cultivation, instead of to supply the deficiency caused by
the inadequacy of our home cultivation to the waits of
our increasing population. With this belief—entertained
without the least examination of the premises—they
jump at once to the conclusion that the labourer must
suffer by a free importation of corn, and, therefore, that
the corn-laws are a benefit to him. Not a single fact or
argument can be urged to justify the assumption that
free trade will throw the labourer out of employment ;
on the contrary, the most undeviating experience, as
well as the most unvarying testimony, is against it.
Food was grown in this country before food grown ins
foreign countries was taxed, and will continue to he
grown wile') the tax on foreign food is removed.
If the condition of the agricultural labourer was such
that the patriot and the philanthropist could look upon
it with complacency—if plenty smiled upon his cottage,
and the result of his labour was a sufficiency of food and
clothing—if he enjoyed a fair proportion of the good
things which are produced by the wormanship of his
hands—then w )uld there be some slight grounds for de-
scribing the corn-laws as " protection to native industry,"
at least, so far as the cultivation of the soil is concerned;
and however urgent might be the claims of the other
branches also of " native industry," for the destruction off
all favour to any one branch—however irresistible the de-
mands for consideration urged by the alarming vicissi-
tudes to which our manufacturing operatives are subjected,
there would be a more cautious approaching of the
great question—there might be a lingering fear in the
minds of many that the repeal of the corn-laws might
banish the rural felicity enjoyed by our ploughmen and
shepherds, and bring destruction upon the Arcadian
bowers of peace and joy wherein they dwell. But the
fact is—and it cannot be too strongly dwelt upon in the

important anti•corn-iaw agitation now progressing—
that the condition of the protected is not a whit better
than, scarcely indeed so good as, that of the oppressed.
The man who works in the fields is, notwithstanding the!
laws professedly enacted to favour him, as badly off as
his brother who works in the factory ; nay, I question
much if he be not worse ; for while occasional gleams of
prosperity visit his manufacturing brother, when food is
cheap, and give him hopes of approaching days that
shall he permanently better, his own wages are re-
duced, and a gradual deterioration of his social position
takes place.
I have availed myself of a few weeks' residence in
district purely agricultural—in the neighbourhood Of
Guildford, in the county of Surrey—to make myself ac-
quainted with the condition of those whose occupation
consists in tilling the land. I have conversed with them
in the field, and visited them in their homes ; and, from
what I have heard and seen, the irresistible conviction

has possessed my mind, that the abolition of the food
monopoly will confer the greatest possible blessing on
the agricultural population. The field labourer, lam
fully persuaded, will have cause to hail with the deepest
gratitude the day that witnesses the repeal of the corn-
laws. Let me illustrate this by an example of their pre-
sent position:—
In the course of my rambles I became acquainted
with an old man, over whose head more than sixty
winters have rolled. To those who are callous stud
indifferent to the sacred claims of humanity, his ap-
pearance would be considered a fit subject for ridicule;
but, to those of better feeling, it unfolds a tale of pro-
tracted human suffering, and a long career of unre-
quited toil. I will endeavour to describe it as I first
saw it. His face was thin And long ; and from his
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pointed chin depended a beard whiChhad not had an
acquaintance with a razor for some months, and which
imparted to his sallow, wasted, and wrinkled features,
a greater expression of forlorn woe than they would
otherwise have borne. His dress consisted of corduroy
breeches (the original material of which was almost
concealed by sundry patches and darns), and a
discoloured jacket of thin flannel, similar in appear-
ance to those worn in the field by gentlemen-
cricketers ; and might, for aught I know, have been
given him by some charitable and condescending
partisan of Young England. In order to obtain
greater warmth than this jacket would afford, the
poor fellow had obtained an old sack, which he had
ingeniously contrived to fix on his person, by making
A slit in the bottom of it through which to insert his
head, and one on either side for his arms. But he was
I not so extravagant as to permit a whole sack to hang
pendant from his shoulders : he had taken enough from
the top (now the bottom) to fasten round either leg as a
substitute fnr stockings. In the course of conversation
with this specimen of a " bold peasantry—his country's
pride," I ascertained that, after toiling a week, he could
earn the munificent sum of six shillings, which he was
allowed to appropriate in the best way he could, to ob-
tain food, clothing, and lodging. The repeal of the
corn-laws being now, as it should be, the all-engrossing
topic, I asked him what he thought would be the result
of such a measure ? His reply was, "Some of our people:
think the corn•laws doan't ought to be done away with,
but it makes no odds to I." “ Why not ?" was my in-
quiry. " 'Cos measter says I are getting too old to work,
and must soon go to the parish." " Then the corn-
laws have not enabled you to lay up in your young days
sufficient to keep you from the union:now you are old ?"
" Na, Sir ; things is been gettin' worse every year
since I wur a boy ; and this year it's worser than ever,
'cos the 'caters are bad." "But," said I, " the farmers
pay their men greater wages this year than they did
last, in consequence of their realising from 15s. to 20E5,
per quarter more for their wheat?" "Na, indeed ; I'
doesn't get so much, 'cos they say I doesn't work so
hard ; but the others doesn't get a bit more, and work
as hard as ever : if wheat wur twenty poun' a load
(80s.
.a quarter), they might get a shilling a week
more.' "That is, in consideration of their paying
from 2s. to half-a-crown more per week for their bread
alone?" " That's it, Sir."

A glorious prospect. truly, was before the eyes of this
old man ! Many a year has he lived alone in the world,
for he was never married—no opportunity has ever been
afforded him of cultivating the social and domestic affec-
tion. His life has been spent, and all his energies
wasted, in calling forth the hidden resources of the earth,
and producing food tbr the use of man ; performing thus
a far greater and nobler service to his country than he
who takes a shilling from a recruiting sergeant., dons a
red jacket, and goes abroad with murderous intent, to
blow out the brains of his fellow-creatures who have
never injured him. And the reward of his honest labour
is a poor-house for life ! Happy it may be for England
that asylums, in the shape of poor-law unions, are pro-
vided for enfeebled age ; but how much happier if such
a state of things existed as enabled the bard-working
man to reserve a fund for his support when kis frame
becomes too old for toil ; and exist they would, if labour
had its open market.
The condition of the labourer in the full possession
of his physical powers is scarcely better than that of my
aged friend in the sack. If married, he receives about
los. per week, of which front 2s. to 2s. 6d. goes out in
the shape of rent for his cottage. Food and clothing for
themselves, their wives, and families, have to be pro-
vided with the remainder. I have, the course of my
sojourn, become acquainted with many labourer's fami-
lies, whose expenditure for food is necessarily limited to
a halfpenny per head per meal. I have sometimes yen-
tured to suggest to the heads of families, that it was' to
be regretted that they had so many children to keep.
The answer was, that they could not get so much wages
if they had not, and they should also be without the
hope of ultimately realising something by their chil-
dren's labour. The objection to our manufacturing sys-
tem—that it fosters child labour—can be urged, I find,
with as much truth against our present system of agri-
cultural industry.
In no instance can I find that the labourer has re-
ceived even a nominal increase of wages in consequence
of the increase in the price of provisions. He receives
the same sum per week this year as he did last, while he
has to pay for bread alone from one to two shillings more
weekly ; and he has to contend, moreover, with the
failure of his little garden crop of potatoes.
Simultaneous with the gradual deterioration of the
condition of the labourer, has been the gradual increase
in the rent of land. Only a few years ago, good land
could be rented in this neighbourhood for 20s. an acre.
It is now realising from 365. to 405., and the tendency
to rise continues. The fact that the rent-receiver grows
richer and richer, while the land-tiller grows poorer
and poorer, owes its existence to the wickedness and
perversity of the men who, by a legislative act, have
limited the supply of food, and created an artificial
scarcity on the one hand, and enhanced the importance
of capital on the other. Away with the corn-laws
They are a libel upon God's providence, and an abomi-
nation upon the earth.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT ST. KATHERINE
DocKs.—Yesterday afternoon, at half-past three. o'clock, a
frightful accident occurred at the St. Katherine Docks,
which, it is feared, will be attended with fatal consequences,
to a labourer named Robert Bland, aged fifty-nine years. He
was at work in A and B vault, when he fell through a loop-
hole, a height of sixteenfeet. He was found totally insensible
from frightful injuries sustained. about the head. Both upper
and lower jaws were fractured in a shocking manner, and he
received other severe injuries about the head and body. He
was removed to the London Hospital.
DESPERATE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A YouTH

IN OXFORD-STREET, BY THROWING HIMSELF OUT OF A
WlNDOW.—Yesterday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, a
desperate attempt at suicide was committed by a young man
named James Bowles, eighteen years of age, residing at No.
68, Oxford-street, next door to the Princess's Theatre, by
throwing himself into the street from the second-floor window
Several persons who were passing ran to his assistance, and
raised him from the ground in a state of insensibility. He was
removed immediately to the Middlesex Hospital, where he
lies without hopes of recovery.

It is reported that Mr. Deane, the Chairman, and
another Commissioner of Customs, will shortly retire from
the Boyd.

~--7a:LlEstplyr-NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITFAALL, DEC. 20, 1845.
te•-• The Queen has been pleased to nominate, constitute, and
appoint the Right 44. llenry Goulburn to be one of the
Ycclesiastical CommissiOners for England, in the room of the
1,-Right Hon. Sir Herbertylenner Fust, resigned.
CROipT-OFFICE, Doc. 22.
SIEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Wo6ditock—Alfred Spencer Churchill, corn-
monly called Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, in the room of
John Henry Loftus, commonly called Viscount Loftus, now
Baron Loftus, called up to the House of Peers.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE Dec. 22.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second, Captain G. Innes to
be Adjutant, vice Sandham, who resigns the Adjutantcy only,
Dec. 18 ; Second Captain 11. T. Fyers to be Adjutant, vice
Shone, promoted; Second Captain A. Benn to be Adjutant,
vice P. Benn, promoted, Dec. 22.
OFFICE OF ORDNANGE, DEC. 22.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet Major
W. E. Lock to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hanwell, retired
on full pay ; Second Captain J. llill to be Captain, vice
Lock ; First Lieutenant J. H. Lefroy to be Second Captain,
vice Hill; Second Lieutenant R. Phelips to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice Lefroy, Dec. 12.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of
Yorkshire.
Sir W. Lawson, Bart, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, March
7, 1844.
Commission by the Lord- Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
T. S. Lea, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 1, 1845.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Coniwall.
.1. K. Lethbridge, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 13.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk.
Joseph Scott, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Thomas
Blake, Esq., LLD., to be ditto ; John Longe, Esq., to be
ditto; Thomas Havers, Esq., to be ditto; Frederick North,
Esq., to be ditto; William Sancroft Holmes, Esq., to be
ditto; William Robert Cann, Esq., to be ditto; Thomas
Edward Scott, Esq., to be ditto, Dec. 6.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—L, Hel-
bert, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Maule, promoted, Dec. 17.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Rodham, of
Wellington, in the county of Somerset, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 9.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed C. B. Portmo
high
Court of Chancery.

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Thomas Winston, merchant,BANKRUPTS Copthall-buildings, City, to
serrender Dec. 30, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 6, at two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ;
Crowder and Maynard, Coleman-street.
Elizabeth Rolph and Thomas Rolph, builders, Upper Brook-
street, Grosvenor-square, Dec. 31, at half-past eleven, and
Feb. 4, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Huson Ironmonger-lane.
Felix Ilerpent, warehouseman, Sherrard-street, Golden •
square, Dec. 31, at two, and Feb. 4, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Raw, Furniyal's Inn, Holborn.
Joseph Howard Rand, glass dealer, Westminster-bridge-
road, Jan. 3, at eleven, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Buchanan, Basinghall-street.
James Miller, cordwainer, High-street, Southampton, Jan.
6 and Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch- lane ; Overton and Hughes, Old
Jewry.
Thomas Brown, shoemaker, Paddington, Dec. 30, at one,
and Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee, Coleman-street ; Buchanan, Basingliall •
street.

Sarah Caroline Fry, stationer, Margate, Dec. 30 and Feb.
3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, offi-
cial assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Fisher, Verulam-build-
ings, Gray's Inn.
Esther Smith, innkeeper, Southwell, Nottinghamshire,
Jan. 9 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Shilton and
Son, Nottingham.
Clarendon Hyde, apothecary, Loughborough, Leicester.
shire, Jan. 5 and 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Ingle-
sant, Loughborough ; Foulkes, Birmingham.
William Brown, ironmonger, Atherstone, Warwickshire,
Jan. 5 and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Morgan,
Birmingham ; Chilton and Co., Chancery-lane, London.
John Sier, baker, Cheltenham' Jan. 15 and Feb. 12, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, Bristol ;
Oliver and Co., Moorgate-street, London ; Stiles, Cheltenham.
George Smith, bill broker, Manchester, Jan. 5 and 28, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official
assignee, Manchester ; Fox, Finsbury-circus, London ;
Worthington, Earle, and Berry, Manchester.
.Joanna Chatterton, licensed victualler, Pendleton, Lanca-
shire, Jan. 2, at eleven, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manches-
ter; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; Hitch-
cock, Buckley, and Tidswell, Manchester.
William Wingfield, brewer, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Jan.
8 and 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds ; Hudson, Bucklersbury, London ;
Robinson, Rotherham ; Bond, Leeds.
Joseph Collinson, worsted spinner, Allerton, Yorkshire,
Jan. 8 and 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds; Scargill, Hatton-court, Thread.
needle-street, London ; Dawson, Bradford ; Harle, Leeds.
DIVIDENDS. DECLARED.
.J. and W. Campion, shipbuilders, Whitby, Yorkshire—first
and final div. of 6s. 7d. and 10-16ths of a penny in the pound
to those creditors who have not formerly received, and a final
div. of 2s. 7d. and 10-16ths of a penny in the pound to those
who have received, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Kynaston, Leeds.
J. Campion, shipbuilder, Whitby, Yorkshire—final div. of
be. 11d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Kynaston, Leeds.
R. Campion, banker, Whitby, Yorkshire—first div. of
3m. 9d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Alia
Kynastoe, Leeds.
F. Loraine, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—second div.
of as. in the pound (in addition to ss. 5(1. previously declared )
ou any Saturday at Mr. Baker's office, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
I. Howden, ironfounder, Wakefield, Yorkshire—first div.
of 4s. 6,1. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Kynaston, Leeds.
J. and S. Sugden, cloth manufacturers, Huddersfield—
first and final div. of 106.7 d. in the pound to those creditors
who have net formerly received, and a final div. of 7d. in the
pomnd to those who have received, on any Tuesday, at the
office of Mr. Kvnastcn, Leeds.
W. J. Wardell, wine merchant, Pickering, Yorkshire—
first and final div. of4s. 9,id. in the pound to those creditors
who have not formerly received, and a final div. of 90. in
the pound to those who have received, on any Tuesday, at the
office of Mr. Kynaston, Leeds.
T. Paterson and J. Codling, earthenware manufacturers,
Sheriff-hill, Durliain—first and final div. of Gs. 9d. in the
pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
W. H. Bates—a third div. of 6d. in the pound, on any
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
B. B. Wilson, surgeon, Holme, Westmoreland—first and
final div. of sd. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office
of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
T. C. Smith, hotel keeper, Ilearietta-street, Covent-garden
—first div. of 20s. in the pound on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
T. C. Smith and R. Hayes, hotel-keepers, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden—first div. of 9s. Gd. in the pound, on any
Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. P. Bradley, wine merchant, Great St. Helens, City—
first div. of 6s. 2d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. 'Whitmore, Basingliall-street.
J. Brooker, carver and gilder, Southampton-row, Blooms.
bury—first div. of Is. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingliall-street.
IL B. Clarke, plumber and glazier, Gower-street North,
St. Pancras, Jan. 15, at half-past eleven—C. Jarman, tailor,
West Smithfield, .Jan. 16, at eleven—J. F. Armstrong, coal
merchant, Staffordshire-wharf; Greenwich, Jan. 16, at eleven
—C. F. Warman, glass dealer, Hounsditch, Jan. 15, at half-
past twelve—W. Barnfield, juu., wine merchant, Mark-lane,
City, Jan. 15, at halt-past eleven—ll. R. Harraden, print-
seller, Cambridge, Jan. 15, at one—J. Robbins, bookseller,
Winchester, Jan. 13, at half-past eleven—J. Middleton,
hay and straw salesman, Jan. 15, at eleven—G. M. Von
Dadelszen, merchant, Mincing-lane, City, Jan. 15, at eleven
—'l'. Hodsdon, butcher, Harrow, Jan. 13, at at half-past two
—T. J. Sutton, master mariner, Scarborough, Jan. 16, at
twelve—J. Peaks, miller, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, Jan. 14,
at twelve—W. II Alexander, hardwareman, Upper Clifton-
street, Finsbury, Jan. 14, at twelve—T. Smyth, perfumer,
Marchmont-street, Brunswick-square, Jan. 14, at eleven—.
li. S. Knowles, silk throwster, Moolham, Someraetshire,
Jan. 14, at eleven—A. Akehurst, baker, East Mailing, Kent,
Jan. 14, at twelve—C. Best, printer, St. James's-walk,
Clerkenwell, Jan. 28, at twelve—G. F. Blow, currier, Great
Dover-street, Newington, Jan. 14, at half-past two—J.
Wartnaby, underwriter, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street,
City, Jan.l 16, at half-past' eleven—J. Tunks, cowkeeper,
Newlands-terrace, Kensington, Jan. 16, at half-past
eleven—J. Tomlin and W. Man, merchants, St. Michael's-
alley, Cornhill, Jan. 16, at one—W. Burleigh, scrivener,
Haverhill, Suffolk, Jan. 15 at one.
In the Country.
G. Grove, miller, Wick and Abson, Gloueestertershire,
Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—P. W.
Smith, tanner, Bristol, Jan. 15, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court—J. Lilly, farmer, Brinepitts, Worcestershire,
Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—E.
Rogers, sur&peon, Great Witley, Worcestershire, Jan. 21, at
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the (lay herein mentioned.
J. Tunks, cowkeeper, George-place, Newlands-terrace,
Kensington, .Jan. 15—C. Draper, licensed victualler, Bishops-
gate. street Without, Jan. 15-11. Wood, draper, Cheltenham,
Jan. 15—T. Thompson, billbroker, Northampton, Jan. 16—
W. G. Flynn, merchant, Lower Thames-street, Jan. 18.—J.
P. Luxton, linendraper, Munster-street, Regent's Park, Jan.
15—G. F. Blow, carrier, Great Dover.street, Newington, Jan.
14--W. R. Parsons, grocer, Limehouse-causeway, Lime-
house, Jan. 14-5. Phillips, tailor, Pinner's-court, Old Broad-
street, Tan. 14—II. Liptrot, bootmaker, Wrexham, Jan. 13
—E. Meredith, linendraper, Liverpool, Jan. lb—.J. Lilly,
farmer, Brinepitts, Worcestershire, Jjug.,
cotton 21—T. Preston,jug.,;
cotton spinner, Manchester, Jan. 13—J. Crahb, hemp manu-
facturer, Hook-mills, Dorsetshire, Jan. I2—P. Hansen, mer-
c Rihant, Newcastle-upon- T VIIC, Jan. 13-4. 11. Limes, butcher,
chmond' Surren Soaaersetshire, Jan. 13. Jan. 13 —F. Ridd, surgeon, Nether Stowey,
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Jones and W. Chalfont,
stationers,e.eaWhite Hatt-place,
Kennington-lane—T. and T.
street, Leicester-square—lL r, curriers,. Lisle-
S. Easty and W. Williams,
sharebrokers, Southampton—w. W., Brookes, J. Lee, and W.
L. Brookes, attorneys, Whitchur
Qchuel'ehropehire—C. Denton
and J. Serjeant, stone merchants
s,c-Ivharf, Rotherhithe
—T. IV. and J. B. Woolfe, boatbuild
piintreo_isfrwr Shadwell—
E. and S. Penton, Lupus-street,
J. Kenworthy, and C. E. Kenworthy, Ca_t3ferPs, Kenworthy,anh
(so far as regards G. P. Kenworthy)...4l.
Eastwood Blanchester
Richardson, earthenware manufacturersz Woodlesford, York-
shire—C. Herring, J. Burness, G. Herring, and A.
Herring,
general agents, London—T. and W. Hallam, leatherselle ii
Northampton—T. H. Crowther and J. Ash, jun., cotton spin-
ners, Stockport—J. Whitehouse and E. Whitehouse, sen.,
garden-tool manufacturers, Wolverhampton—R. fiddle and
R. Birkin, lace manufacturers, Nottingham—J. Lewis and J.
Smith, locksmiths, Birmingham—J. and J. W. Hendy, gene-
ral builders, Portsmouth—J. Bevan, N. Irom, and R. Bevan,
provision merchants, Birchin-lane—G. and T. Burford, linen-
drapers, Stratford—H. Rawsthorn and B. Ellston, iron-
founders, Haslingden, Lancashire—J. C. Gamble, J. and S.
Crosstield, alkali manufacturers, St. Helens, Lancashire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATtONS,
Peter Allan, agricultural implement maker, Coldstream,
Jan. 2 and 23, at twelve, at the Newcastle Anna Inn, Cold-
stream.
John Mackenzie, coal merchant, Dingwall, Dec. 29 and
Jan._ 19, at one, at the Caledonian Hotel, Dingwall.
GlDasagvoiwd Prince Miller, theatrical ornament manufacturer,
Dec. 25 and Jan. 15, at twelve, at the chambers of
Strathern
John and Douglas, Glasgow.
two, at the BenAelovr, innkeeper,.Leith, Dec. 29 and Jan. 22, at
wld PTayern, Leith.