The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-08 00:00:00

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

COUNTRY DI ARY.—.PRIDAIr. Am. 0.
Beadey and Co., Wotton-under- Edge—Beaufort Arms, Petty

France "
Birley. J., Bawtry, Yorksh.—Corporation Arms, Rossington

.
Brillse
Drew, G., Manchester—Star, Manchester
Drosier, T., Blakeney—Angel, Norwich 4
Haynes, W., Neath—Public rooms, Swansea lt
Jones, T., Shrewsbury—Red Lion, Chester ll
Marshall and Co., Bristol—Swan, Bristol I
Prior, W., Keinerton, Gloucestershire—Hop Pole inn
Tewkesbury lO
Thomas, W., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury

INSOLVENTS APPLYING
Petitions to be heard at Pertugi
• AUGUST 11,
Aitkenhead, 0., Stepney
Alfrey, J., Wellesley-et., City-

G TO BE DISCHARGED,
;al-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
, AT NJXB.

Garland, W., Windsor-terrace,
City-road
Irving, J., Liverpool
Lovegrove, W., Kensington
Lloyd, J., Battersea
Minn, J., North-street, Man.

road
Baylis, W., Bath-street, Cler-
kenwell
Boulter, T. Woodford
Bray, J., Saunders' Gardens,
Kingsland-road
Clarke, J., Devonshire-street,'
- -

-1 cheater-square
Scott, J., Stepney
Trott, W., Great Suffblk-st.,,
Borough
Watkins, T., Wandsworth
Wicks, J., Baker-street, Port.

Queen-square
Coote, W., Broad-it., Golden-

square
Cowell, S., Brompton
Day, W., Ironmonger-st., Old-

man-square
Yarnold, P., Jerusalem-passage,
Clerkenwell

street
Draper, R., Chigwall

AVGU
Bentley, I-1., Northampton-et.,
St. Pancraa
Canavan, A., Cheltenham
Fixat, Stamford-street, Black-
friars-road
Franks, K., Portsea
Goodinge, J., Tottenham-court-
road

ST 13.
Gramtion, J., Bermondsey New.

Haines, J., Grove-street, Corn.
mercial-road
Hepworth, J., Leyton
Killerby, J., White-st., South.
wark
Marston, S., Pimlico

THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Yesterday morn-
ing the usual weekly meeting of the Directors was held at
the Company's Offices, in Walbrook, for the purpose of
(receiving a report from the engineer on the state of the
(works, and of the measures adopted to clear the Tunnel of
the loose soil collected i❑ it. The report was satisfactory
in every point of view, and up to yesterday morning, every
thing had proceeded favourably. Upwards of 800 tons of
soil, gravel, &c. have been taken out of the archways ; and
it is confidently expected that before the day on which a
general meeting of the shareholders is to be held, the ex-
tension of the Tunnel will have been commenced. The
visitors to inspect the Tunnel average about 150 daily.—
Before the accident occurred, as much as 501. and 601.
a-day was frequently taken from visitors.

Some years ago William Duncan, gardener, •
near Ayr, formed a plan by which he watched
his bees through the day and his garden at night.
This was taken notice of in the Ayr Advertiser
at the time it happened, and many people came
from a great distance in Scotland and in Eng-
land to see it. All who saw it acknowledged
the method for watching the garden was good,
and the plan for watching the bees was consider••
ed both sure and very curious. By this method
it was clearly discovered how many bees went
out to work, and, when swarming, what number
was in the swarm. As this may appear to those
unacquainted with the method very improba!le,
some explanation is necessary. It is all done
by weight. The hive is placed upon a weigh-
ing-beam, about three feet eight inches long,
with a board on the other end on which stones
of the weight of the hive are put. When the
bees begin to cast (an ordinary top-swarm is
between 41b. and 51b. weight), and when the
first pound weight of bees have left the hive, the
beam will turn back a little the same as a mer-
chant's scale does on the counter. But, before
0 the scale rest, it forces out a trigger, like the pin,
id a mole-trap, which lets off a small iron wire
tto a bell in the house that gives sufficient warn-
ing to the bee mother to go and take care of the
swarm. The above method has been practised
ifor several years by Mr. Duncan. 1