The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-28 00:00:00

sooner had recourse to. The oppreesiong. under George inn, 'Warrington, and May S, at one, at the Star
which the Licensed Victuallers labour, from the inn, Manchester. Adlington and Co., Bedford-row;
facilities which the law affords to common informers Nielm7son, Warrington.
of every eass for entrapping them, are grievous William Henry Sparkea, Godalming, paper-maker,
beyond all description; and we believe not only April 3, 10, and May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Com-
missioners. Browne, Jewin-crescent, Aldersgate.
wholly unknown in any other country, but even un.
Francis Arnitt, Thiisk, Yolk, draper, 21, 22, and
known in this in the case of any other class of trades-
sli.iicsh an,esattern.ine, at the Royal Hotel, Manchester
so. Makin-
men. The continuance, in fact, of the laws under sin d Sanders, Temple, London ; Atkin on and Birch,
which such oppression is exercised, is a disgrace to
the present enlightened age ; and being so, we make
no doubt, now that the subjcct s likely to come be-
fore Mr. Peel in a regular shape, and authenticated
in a mariner which will admit of no contradiction,
that every obnoxious statute will be expunged. The
great improvemeAts which he has effected in the
criminal, and partly also in the civil, law of the
country, point him out, independent of other eir
cumstances, as most fit to reform that branch whicl
affects the Licensed Victuallers of England.—
Morning Advertiser.

FORTY-SHILLING FREEHOLDERS.

By a ,eturn made to an order of the House of Commons
dated May 19, 1924, of the number of each class of free-
holders, (viz. 40s. 201. • and 50/. freeholders and rent
chargers) registered from Jan. 1,179 k, to Dec. 31, 1823,
it appears that the following is, in round numbers, the
amount in the following instances :
County. Forty-shilling Other
Freeholders. Clas,os.
Antrim
Armagh 23,500 830
Carlow 11,000 1500
Cavan 18,000 954
Clare 24,000 1800
Cork 22,000 5350
Down 49 000 1300
Dublin 5,100 1800
Fermanagh 25,450 1200
Kerry 14,842 2074
Kilkenny 1.050 1060
King's 6,792 1406
Limerick "3,000 3450
Lond on derry 24,289 1057
Longford 8 300 630
Mayo 43,000 630
Monaghan lB,OOO 310
Queen's 16,500 2500
Roscommon 16,090 1028
Sligo
Tyrone 12,827 378
Waterford
Westmeath
Wexford 22,700 2250
Wicklow B,OOO 800

DIVIDENDS.
James Cottrell, Pangbourn, Berke, innkeeper, April
24, at twelve, at the Lamb Inn, Wallingford, Berks.
Joseph Ritson, Caldewgate, Carlisle, spirit-merchant,
April 23, at eleven, at the King's Arms lon, Carlisle.
Jesse Chittenden, Dover, chen.is", April 21, at eleven,
at the Guildhall, Canterbury.
John Wells, Kenninghall, Norfolk, shopkeeper, April
18, at ten, at the White Lion Inn, Norwich.
Thomas Checkley, Warwick, hosier, April 21, at eleven,
at the Warwick Arms Hotel, Warwick.
Elizabeth and William Duncan, Brecon, mercers, April
29, at eleven, at the Castle Hotel, Brecon.

Dorothy Stones and Thomas Ashworth, York, turners,
April 22, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, York.
William Phillips, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, coal-mer-
chant, April 21, at one, at the 'White Lion Inn, Bristol.
Thomas S:nith and Thomas Hall, Wood-street, Cheap-
side, warehousemen, May 1, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners.

William Watson, Chelsea, brewer, April 7, at ten, al
the Court of Commissioners.

James Dyson, Dry Clough, Almondbury, Yorkshire,
merchant, April 24, at twelve, at the Pack Horse Inn,
Huddersfield.

CERTIFICATES -APRIL 17.

Joseph Wilkinson, B irge-yard, Bucklelsbury, merchant.
Richai d Hoskins, Manchester, merchant.
Arthur Miller Rose, Eastern-Wharf, Adelphi, coal-
merchant.