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Yorkshire, Feb. 5 and 24, at eleven, at t' e Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Tebbs, Essex-
street, Strand.
John Bullough, cabinet-maker, Huddersfield, Feb. 7
and 28, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds ; Lewis and Co., Ely-place,
London ; Fenton and Jones, Huddersfield.
George Henry Lupton, flax-spinner, Leeds, Feb. 4
and 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds ; Cox, Size-lane, London ; Lee,
Leeds. . . .

Thomas Fisher, linendraper, Selby, Yorkshire,
Feb. 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Rushworth and Co.,
Staples Inn, London ; Sanderson, Leeds.
Nicholas John Kempe, shipowner, Liverpool Feb. 11 and
26, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Temple ;
Minshull, Liverpool.
John George Schott, Manchester, and John Casper
Larater , of Aldermanbury Postern, City of London,
merchants, Feb. 3, and March 3, at eleven, at the Man-
chester District Court. Holt, official assignee, Manches-
ter ; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester ; Makinson
and Sanders, Temple.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
J. Coupland and F. Duncan, merchants, Liverpool—n '
div. of ll d. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, or
any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
.T. Coupland and F. Duncan, merchants, Li verpool—
a div. of ss. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, or
any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
F. Duncan and J. Coupland, merchants, Liverpool—a
div. of 14s. 7d. in the pound, on Wedi.esday, Jan. 29, or
any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
E. Johnston, jun., and T. Manley, sugar refiners,
Whitehaven, Cumberland—a fourth and final div. of
one halfpenny and seven-tenths of a farthing in the
pound, on Saturday, Jan. 25, or any succeeding Satur-
day, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Davison, farmer, Marton, Yorkshire—a third and
final dividend of threepence and one-sixth of a penny
in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 25, or any succeeding
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle7on-Tyne.
W. Waddell, merchant, Liverpool—a second div. of
6d. in the pound, on Monday, Jan. 20, cr any subse-
quent Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
G. Cottam and W. Osburn, jun., wine merchants,
Leeds—a further div. of 3id. in the pound, also a fur-
ther div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound on the separate estate of
G. Cottam, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, or any subsequent
Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
J. Porter, callenderer, Barnsley, Yorkshire—a second
and final dir. of ss. 10d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan.
21, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Fearne, Leeds.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
B. Perkins and S. Woolley, drapers, Stamford, Feb.
14, at half-past one—F. Shotter, grocer, Portsea,
Hampshire, Feb. 13, at eleven—R. Thompson, draper,
Strood, Kent, Feb. 11, at twelve—T. G. Martin, wine
merchant, Coal Harbour-lane, Camberwell, Feb. 11, at
half-past one.

In the Country.
T. and W. Reeves, coach builders, Claines, Worces-
.er, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court
—S. Eccles and C. Ridings, cotton manufacturers, Man-
chester, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court—R. Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool, Durham,
Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—T. and R. Bulmer, rope manufacturers, south
Shields, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court—R. Smith, attorney, Worcester, Feb. 12,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
R. Eaton, butcher, Featherstone-street, City-road,
Feb. 12—B. B. and B. G. Owen, tailors, Pall-mall, Feb. 14
—W. Burchett, chemist, Whitechapel-road, Feb. 12—
J. T. Maund, laceman, Birmingham, Feb. 11—J. John-
son, apothecary, North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, Feb. 11
—lt Footner, cabinet maker, Lymington, Southampton,
Feb. 11—C. B. Reynolds, tailor, Devizes, Feb. 13—It.
Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool, Durham, Feb. 12-11.
Nicholl, worsted spinner, Halifax, Feb. 14—I. Ketcham,
merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 13—T. Crosfield, sen., linen-
draper, Kirkham, Lancashire, Feb. 12—It. Youd, cheese
factor, Liverpool, Feb. 11—T. Scott, baker, Colchester,
Feb. 11—J. J. Brez, tailor, Bath, Feb. 11—J. White-
head, common brewer, Ainsworth, Lancashire, Feb. 11
—T. Tabberner, corn factor, Birmingham, Feb. 11—R.
Robinson, coal merchant, Strand, Feb. 11.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. I. and C. L. Lucy, wine merchants, Kidderminster
—J. Hadland and R. Shillingford, warehousemen,
Cheapside—F. Higginson and E. R. Coles, shipowners,
Rochester—W. Pistell and C. Ayliffe, painters, Basing-
stoke, Southampton—J. Armstrong and J. W. Wright,
hatters, Brighton—J. Ormer3d and P. Hargreaves,
cotton sheet manufacturers, Bacup, Lancashire—M.
Grange and B. Booth, hosiers, Manchester—T. Tootal,
T. H. Tootal, and E. A. Tootal, corn merchants, Wake-
field—S. Butler, W. Butler, and J. Butler, ironfounders,
Birmingham—J. Stephenson and J. Royston, en-
gravers, Manchester—R. Bradley, W. Barrows, J. Hall,
F. Downing, and T. Darby, coal masters, Rowley Regis,
Staffordshire—St. Austell Gas Company, St. Austell,
Cornwall—C. Tayleur and J. F. Dupre, ironfounders,
Warrington—C. Tayleur, W. 11. Tayleur, W. Bates, F.
Pennington, D. Madden, and C. W. Claude. Liverpool—
J. Inkson and C. Roth, Little Ryder-street, St. James's
—J. Reeve and T. liolyoake, surgeons, Kniver, Stafford-
shire—C. Brown and J. Williams, drapers, Cheltenham
—J. and R. Lynex, wire workers, Birmingham —J.
Wilkinson, F. Wilkinson, G. Wilkinson, and S. W. Wil-
kinson, cotton spinners, Stockport—C. Stephenson and
J. Caley, Liverpool—W. Hewitt, sen., and W. Hewitt,
jun., coal merchants, Bristol—W. Miles, T. W. Kinder,
and T. H. Wheeler, coach builders, Leicester (so far as
regards W. Miles)—J. Hughes and W. Hanson, limo
masters, Sedgley, StaffOrdshire—R. and E. Leeds,
millers, Norwich—A. Hazeland and It. Manning,
common brewers, Melksham, Wiltshire—J. S. James
' and P. Stacey, sand dealers, Stratton, Cornwall—T
and T. Penson, farmers, Foxcote, Gloucestershire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Henry Stevenson, general merchant, Leith, Jan. 28
and Feb. 25, at two, at the Exchange Hotel, Leith.
William Grant, cattle dealer, Alarnoch, Banffshire,
Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Banff Hotel, Banff.
William Gray, merchant, Dundee, Jan. 25 and Feb.
15, at twelve, at the chambers of Shiell and Small,
Dundee.
John M'Culloch, baker, Kinross, Jan. 27 and Feb. 17,
at twelve, at Kirkland's Inn, Kinross.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Jan. 21.
The Court took the special paper to-day, and wero
engaged in hearing arguments upon the case of the
committal of Mr. Vandersol, by the order of the Court
of Review, for a contempt. The arguments were of a
purely legal character, and would not afford any general
interest.

BAIL COURT, Jan. 21.
(Before Mr. Justice WILL(Ams.)
ILLUSTRATED RECORDS.

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Mr. FITZFIERBERT moved fora rule to show cause
why certain pictures, or, more properly speaking,
plans which had relation to a patent, should not be
struck out of the record, in a case pending before the
Court. It was the first time within his knowledge
that such illustrations had been introduced into com-
mon-law pleadings.
Mr. Justice WlLLlAms—They are intended to illu-
minate the pleas, I suppose.
Mr. FITZHERBERT—Ne doubt, nay Lord. But
though it is now the fashion to illustrate almost every-
thing, I never expected to see legal papers so embel-
lished.

Mr. Justice WlLLlAms—Take a rule niai, and let
the matter be argued before a full court.
Rule granted.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 21.
(Before the CHIRP COMMISSIONER.)
IN RE JOSEPH lIILLYER.
The insolvent was the well-known and popular
equestrian who had been so many years attached to
the late Mr. Ducrow's company. He described him-
self in his schedule as a riding-master and theatrical
equestrian.
The insolvent's petition to be discharged was sup-
ported by Mr. Woodrutre, and opposed by Mr.
Cooke on behalf of Mr. Hayes, who married the late
Mr. Ducrow's widow, on account of a large number
of horses and a quantity of theatrical property which
the insolvent had bought from her shortly after her
former husband's death.
During a lengthened and searching examination to
which he was subjected by Mr. COOKE, the insolvent
stated that the last engagement he had was at Fran-
conia Theatre in Paris, where he, with his wife, got
81. a week. An action was brought in one of the
French courts of law, in consequence of which he
left Paris, but returned again. He had no property
whatever in Paris at present, although he took
over two horses and a pony with him when he went
there, but he subsequently disposed of them to the
proprietor of the Theatre Francaise. Shortly before
the late Mr. Ducrow's death he made a will, in which
he left insolvent a legacyl of 2701. ;
ht and on
M his
demise iu Jadatiary, , he boug from rs.
Ducrow seven horses out of the stud of her late
husband, seven poneys, and a quantity of horse fur-
niture and trappings, and also some theatrical pro-
perty. The sum which he agreed to pay for this
purchase was 7001., out of which the amount of the
legacy left by Mr. Ducrow was to be deducted,
and the remainder of the money was to be paid
in quarterly instalments of 251. He was unable to read
or write himself, but he got some of the members of
the company to keep a profit and loss account of the
various theatrical speculations upon which he entered.
Previous to going to Franconi's, at Paris, he took his
company and a portion of his stud to Hamburgh, but
this spetulation proved a complete failure, and, after a
sojourn of nine weeks there, he was compelled to give
' itup,having lost a large sum of money. He was
engaged
at the Theatre Royal, in Dublin, by Mr.
Caleraft, from whom ho got a bill for 1751.
'in payment of his salary, which bill he was
compelled to sell in Hamburgh for 701. He
also was compelled to sell some of his horses
' there as well as some of his theatrical property. He
was born in Italy, but had been twenty-one years in
this country, the greater part of which he spent in
Mr. Ducrow's theatre. He had also been compelled
to dispose of several of his horses in various places
where he had been performing. He swore distinctly
that he now possessed no property whatever, either at

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Paris, Hamburgh, or elsewhere. He did own a
house at No. 9, Stangate• street, about fourteen
months ago, but during his absence on the continent
his mother-in-law paid the rent and taxes, and also
supported his children, and both the property and
furniture in the house, and the interest in the house,
was vested in her.

Several other witnesses were examined.
Mr. COOKE applied to have the case postponed for
a week, on the ground that although the insolvent
had shown how he disposed of certain property, he
had failed to render a satisfactory cash account.
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, although
he agreed with the Learned Counsel as to the cash
account, yet he thought the insolvent had shown
every anxiety to render a full and satisfactory account
of his affairs.
The COURT then ordered the case to stand ad-
journed for a week, in order that the insolvent might
file a new money account.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKEIVWELL.
James Steward was charged with absconding from
the St. Pancras workhouse, and stealing a suit of
clothes.
Mr. Lee, the master, deposed to the fact of the
prisoner's absconding about a week ago, and to his
returning to the workhouse as a destitute pauper, on
Saturday last, without the workhouse uniform, which
he said he sold to pay his debts. He scaled the walls
of the workhouse.
Mr. GREENWOOD—WeII, what have you to say ?
Prisoner (cooll:-)—I sold the clothes to redeem arti-
cles of more consequence.—He was sentenced to
twenty-one days' imprisonment.
LAMBETH.
Upon Mr. Henry taking his seat on the bench this
morning, a greengrocer, residing in North-street,
East-lane, Walworth, applied to the Magistrate for
an assault warrant against two men and a female.
The applicant said that about half-past nine o'clock
last night the female, accompanied by two men, en-
tered his parlour with a large clasp-knife in her hand,
about nine inches in length, and would have stabbed
him in the breast but that her aim was fortunately
turned aside. The two men and women uttered the
most dreadful imprecations against him. There was
a crowd of about three hundred persons assembled
round his door, and the neighbourhood was thrown
into the greatest confusion. One of the men was
named Miles.
Mr. HENaY said he thought there must be some
cause for so extraordinary an assault, but he would
grant the warrant against Miles and the female.
WORSHIP-STREET.
On Monday, Rowland, the warrant-officer, reported
to the magistrate the result of inquiries he had been
directed to make relative to an appalling case of be-
reavement and distress, which had taken place in the
family of a poor weaver named Ney, living in Ridge's-
fields, Twig Folly, near Old Ford.
Mr. Broughton's attention was first directed to the
case on Saturday last by Mr. Harvey, a schoolmaster
in Bethnal-green, who waited upon the magistrate
and stated that the object of his solicitude, a man of
most industrious habits and excellent character, had
by close and indefatigable labour contrived creditably
to support a wife and numerous family, amounting to
eight children, all of whom lived with him at home
and were in perfect health, until about three weeks
since, when they were attacked by a malignant fever,
whose ravages had swept no less than six of the chil-
dren to the grave. The man was actuated by such
feelings of honest pride and independence, that he had
steadily refused to accept any assistance from the
parish to defray the medical and funeral expenses of
his unfortunate family, and his slender finances had
been so thoroughly drained by his sudden misfortune,
that he was now reduced to a state of the greatest
want and wretchedness. The applicant added, that
he had satisfied himself by personal investigation of
the truth of the statement he was making, and felt it
to be a case that urgently demanded the most prompt
and effectual assistance.
On hearing the above statement, Mr. BROUGHTON
immediately directed Rowland to proceed to the
man's house and inquire into the facts of the case,
and, handing the officer a sovereign, ordered him to
appropriate it to the relief of the most pressing wants
of the family.
Rowland yesterday reported to the magistrate that
he had been to the house of the weaver, and had found
the unfortunate creatures in the exact condition that
had been represented by the benevolent person who
had brought the circumstances to light. He had
ascertained that the disease of which the poor children
had died was scarlet fever, terminating in dropsy ;
four of the family were not only dead, but buried al-
ready ; and, in addition to two other children who
were now lying in the house dead in their coffins,
another child, making the seventh victim to the disease,
was in such a dangerous state as to preclude all hope
of its recovery. In consequence of their incessant
attendance upon their children, the father and mother
had been wholly unable to pursue their occupation
ever since the family had been attacked by the fever,
and were reduced to the greatest distress ; and from
the hopeless condition of the other child, and the
mental and physical debility of the parents, there did
not appear much likelihood of their being able to
resume work for some time to come. He had learned
that one of the neighbours, who pitied their con-
dition, had reported the circumstances of the case
to Mr. Christey, the relieving overseer of Bethnal-
green, and that that gentleman, on being ap-
prised of the facts, had given them his prompt
attention, and directed that they should receive
ss. per week till something better could be done for
them ; but so small an amount of assistance was wholly
inadequate to meet their situation, and the father ex-
pressed the strongest repugnance to permit his chil-
dren to be buried like paupers at the expense of the
parish, and was determined to undergo any privation
rather than submit to such an alternative. Rowland
added, that, notwithstanding the distress of the
family and the awful calamity that had befallen them,
their little place exhibited the greatest order and
cleanliness, and that both the man and his wife were
much esteemed in the neighbourhood, and everywhere
described as a sober, industrious, and honest couple.
Mr. BBOUGHTOI.4 said he was pleased to hear that
such was the case, and directed the officer not to lose
sight of the unfortunate family, but to render them
what further assistance he might consider urgently
requisite under the trying circumstances in which
they were placed.
THAMES POLICE.
Monday Augustus Joseph Hope, grandson to Dr.
Hope, late surgeon of the Dreadnought, was charged
with robbing the till of Mr. Rowland Alger, grocer,
of Cannon-street-road, in whose service he had been
as an assistant. The prisoner, on coming of age, would
be entitled to the sum of 1,0001., with several other
considerable expectaneies.
It appeared, that the lad Hope came into com-
plainant's employment about three weeks ago, and
circumstances occurred which induced a suspicion
that all was not right as to his conduct. On Satur-
day some money was marked and thrown into the
till. On the following day Mr. Alger asked him
what money he had about -him, upon which he pro-
duced a shilling, and said that was all. On being
pressed to search his pockets further, the prisoner
produced Is. and 4d. more in silver. Mr. Alger
then said, he suspected him of being a dishonest
lad, and asked if he had any copper money on him ?
He steadily persisted he had not, but on a further
search 4s. I Id. in copper, together with a corkscrew
belonging to complainant, was found in his pocket.
Seven of the penny pieces exhibited the marks put on
them on Saturday. Complainant believed the whole
of the money found on the prisoner to be his, and
he was satisfied 1001. would not cover the losses
which he had sustained in the same way during the
last twelve months.
The prisoner in his defence told the story he had
previously told to the constable when taken into
custody—namely, that the money found on him was
given to him by his friends. He accounted for his
possession of the marked copper pieces by admitting
that he took them from the till to pay into a penny
savings'-bank in the neighbourhood, but he always
put back the amount in silver of any coppers so
taken.
The lad was committed to Newgate for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.

DARING BURGLARY AND CAITIPRE oP TILE BUR,
GLARS.—On Friday last, near midnight, a most
daring burglary was effected at the French Horn,
public-house, Gerard's-cross, near Beaconsfield, in the
occupation of Mr. George Yowell. It appears that the
thieves obtained an entrance into the front of the bar,
immediately underneath the window, by removing a
sufficient quantity of the brickwork to admit the body of
a man. Having thus effected admission into the pre-
mises, they proceeded to the larder, where, it appears,
they regaled themselves most sumptuously, as most of
the cooked victuals were missing. They took also fror
thence two flitches of bacon, a considerable quantity oh
cigars from boxes in the bar, and a quantity of liquor.
So plentifully did they imbibe the strong drink in the
landlord's barrels, that before they had made the requi-
site preparations for their departure they became some-
what noisy, by which proceeding they disturbed the
slumbers of the ostler, who watched their movements,
and followed them a little way down the lane. One of
the party had one of the flitches of bacon upon his back,
another carried a flitch in his arms, and the third car-
ried the rest of the plunder. All of them being in a
state of intoxication, and the ostler having observed
them, on their road towards Fulmer, place their loads
behind some ricks of corn, and then lie themselves down
beside their plunder, he hastened to inform the consta-
bulary before daylight, when Mr. Larkin, the high con-
stable of Buckinghamshire, sergeant Roadnight, and
constable King, sallied forth to meet the marauders.
They came up with and captured them near to Long-
bridge ; and on Saturday they had a hearing before Sir
William Wiseman and Sir Thomas Dagrell, Esq., at the
Court-house, at Uxbridge. The magistrates immediately
ordered that the three prisoners, whose names are Samuel
Tunnard, Robert Ball, and Robert Shoppee, should be at
once taken to Beaconsfield, where they were conveyed