The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

Thomas Wilkinson and James Mulcaster, Wood-street,
warehousemen, Oct. 31, at twelve, at the Court of Cam-
mibsioners.

George Brown, Monmouth, innkeeper, Nov. 5, at ele-
ven, at the Beaufort Arms Inn, Monmouth.
John Cools, Burr-street, East Smithfield, tailor, Oct.
28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
William Winscombe, Bristol, builder, Oct. 30, at one,
at the Bush Tavern, Bristol.
John Staniforth, Charles Stauiforth, and John William
Gosling, Old Broad-street, merchants, Oct. 28, at twelve,
at the Court of Commissioners.

John Jones, New Bond-street, Hanover-square, linen-
draper, Oct. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
John Walters, Holme, Herefordshire, drover, Nov. 3,
at twelve, at the King's Head, Kington, Herefordshire.
Anthony Hartshorne, Fashion-street, Spitalfields, dealer,
Oct. 31, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
Samuel Sparke Porter, Exeter, cabinet-maker, Nov. 13,
at eleven, at the Old London Inn, Exeter.

George Alderson, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, coach-pro-
prietor, Nov. 1, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Pontefract.
John Thomas Gunn, Foley-place, Marylebone, coach-
maker, Oct. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
John Bell, Pocklington, York, John Fotherley
Sculcoates, York, and Thomas Bell, Sculcoatcs, merchants,
Nov. 1, at twelve, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-
Hu.ll:

CERTIFICATES—Ocr. 28.
Richard Frisby, Richard Miles Frisby, and Henry Fria-
by, Mark .lane, merchants.
William Henry Moody, Reading, Berks, coach-master.
William Pickton, Liverpool, timber-merchant.
Joseph Hyde, Uffington, Salop, miller.
William Dodge, Sherborne, Dorset, linen-draper.

Nathaniel Brooks, Doverdale, Worcester, mercer.

Thomas Ellison Collinson, Bread-street, London, whole-
sale-stationer.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Richard Goodhugh and Thomas Goodhugh, Glasshouse-
street; St. James's, Westminster, fishmongers.
William Blanc and Alexander Blame, Francis-street,
Walworth, tea-dealers.

Sarah Law and James Butterworth, Rochdale, Lancas-
ter, cotton-spinners.
Cyrus Jay and Robert Ashton, Gray's-inn-place, Gray's-
inn, Fleet, attorneys.

. . .
Leah Dyke and Mary Dyke, Bristol, lace-manufacturers.
William Isard and Richard Isard, Bromley, Kent, tallow-
chandlers.

Thomas Parsons, Samuel Stockton, and Elizabeth Wilkes,
Chipping Norton, Oxford, drapers.
Edward Owen Jones and Rupert Brindley, Mill Stairs,
Slate-wharf, Duckhead, Tooley-street, slate-merchants,
Thomas Davenport, Joseph Harris, and Edward Wil-
liams, Denby, Derby, colliers.
John Ansdell and Peter Serjeantson, Liverpool, brokers.
William Peter Gaubert and John Gaubert, Brewer-
street, Golden-square, Middlesex, jewellers.
George Webb and John Stewart, Threadneedle-street,
East India merchants.

James Swettenham and Jain Andrew, Wirkswortk,
Derby, attorneys.
William Row. sen. William Row, jun. James Row,
and Williams Row, the younger, skin-brokers.
John Danks, Isaiah Danks, and Edmund Tyler, Wolvcr•
hampton, carriers.
Joseph Harvey and Benjamin Harvey, Bridge-road,
Lambeth,

Robert Ranson and Robert Gill Ranson, Ipswich, to-
bacco-manufacturers.

William Smith and John Smith, Glemaford, Surrey;
builders.

BOWEL COMPLAINTS.—A piece of Turkey
rhubarb the size of a pea, chewed daily, will prevent that
must distressing complaint diarrhma, so prevalent at this
season of the year.

The Mayor of Devizes caused all the butter
in the market to be weighed on Thursday. There was not
a single pound deficient in weight. On the contrary, the
butter from several dairies was full an ounce above the legal
standard, and that of a Reverend gentleman in the neigh-
bourhood, an ounce and a half:—Hants Advertiser.
THE LEVEL OF THE SEA.—There is, per-
haps, nothing which illustrates in a more striking manner
the exact accordance of nature's phenomena with the few
general expressions or laws which describe them all, than
the perfect level of the ocean as a liquid surface. The sea
never rises or falls in any place, even one inch, but in obe-
dience to fixed laws, and therefore changes may generally
be foreseen and allowed for. For instance, the eastern trade.
winds and other causes force the water of the ocean to-
wards the African coast, so as to keep the Red Sea about
twenty feet above the general ocean level; and the Medi-
terranean Sea is a little below that level, because the eva-
poration from it is greater than the supply, of its rivers
--causing it to receive an additional supply by the
Strait of Gibraltar ; but in all such cases, the effect is
as constant as the disturbing cause, and therefore can
be calculated upon with confidence. Were it uut for
this perfect exactness, in what a precarious state would
the inhabitants exist on the sea-shores and the banks
of low rivers ! Few of the inhabitants of Loudon,
perhaps, reflect, when standing close by the side of
their noble river, and gazing on the rapid flood-tide
pouring inland through the bridges, that although sixty
miles from the sea, they are placed as low as persons sailing
upon its face, where perhap., at the time there may be toss-
ing waves, covered with wrecks atid the drowning. In
Holland, which is a low eat, formed chiefly by the mud
and sand brought down by the Rhine and neighbour-
ing rivers, much of the country is really below the level of
the common sluing tides, and is only protected from daily
inundations by at tilicial dykes or ramparts of great strength.
What awful uncertainty would hang over the existence of
the Dutch, if the level of the 4t:a were subject to change.:
for while we know the Water of the ocean to be seventeen
miles higher at the equator thau at the poles, owing to
the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation ; were the level
as now established, from any cause to be suddenly changed
but ten feet, millions of htunan beings would be the victims.
—Scotsman.