The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

JOHN BREAKENRIDGE and JAMES REID,
tailors, Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM STAIIIE, carpenter, Cutler-street, Houns-
ditch, to surrender, 0(1.27, at twelve, and Dec. 2, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Pennell, official assignee ;
Ruck, Mincing-lane.
bTr,PHEN SIMSON, watchmaker, Shirley, Nov. 2,
at four, and Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, South-
ampton. Pocock and Bartholomew-close,
London ; 'Clement and Newman. Southampton.
WILLIAM EAST, builder, Spalding, Lincolnshire,
Nov. 10, and Dec. 2, at three, at the White Bart Inn,
Spalding. Carter and Son, Spalding ; Willis, Bower,
amid Willis, Tolteohouse-yard, Lotlibury, London.
IIENRY BARTON, jun., merchant, Liverpool, Oct.
31 and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Clarendon-routuz,, Li-
verpool. Cotterill, l'hrogniorton-street, Loudon ; Flet-
cher and Buil, Liverpool.
CHARLES O'NEIL, ROBERT SALKELD, and
GEORGE SOMERVILLE DIUBY, iron-founders,
Belittler 11 orks, near Alargam, Giainorgaashire, Nov. 1,
at one, and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Gibson, official assignee, Bosinghall-street ;
Squance, and Tilson, Coleman. street, London.
DAVID BRANDON, shoe manufacturer, Barbican,
Oct. 29, at two, and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basingliall-
street ; Hall, Moorgate-street.

JOHN COOPER, provision dealer, Liverpool, Oct. 31,
and Dec. 2, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; Littledale and
Bardswell, Liverpool.
MARCUS HARRIS and SOLOMON ABRAHAM
HART, merchants, Cullum-street, Fenchurch-street,
Oct. 29, at one, and Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Reynolds, Adam-
street, Adelphi.
WILLIAM ROWORTH, confectioner, Wellingbo-
rough, Northamptonshire, Nov. 7, and Dec. 2, at eleven,
at the George Hotel, Northampton. Church, Bedford-
row, London ; Murphy, Wellingborough.

RICE F SUGA
The Average Price P
ro w O
of B n or Muscova R.
do Sugar, computed
from the Returns .made in the Week ending Oct. 18, 1842, is
3bs. Od. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon en the importation thereof into Great 131itain.

SERIOUS DISTURBANCE Ix DUNFERMLINE: On
Saturday evening, while two of the soldiers were
off duty were returning to their billet for the evening,
they gut entangled with a knot of trades lads in such
a manner, that it ultimately came to blows. The
soldiers had no chance with fifty or sixty young
ruffians, and the less so that they were slightly in
their cups. The officers, who reside in the George
Inn, seeing the mob maltreating their men, naturally
rushed down to their rescue, but were assailed by
the mob with groans and hisses, and occasionally
with stones. The guard was then turned out to clear
the streets, which they speedily did, and the officers
retired to the inn. A short while after the mob col-
lected in greater numbers, and showed every disposi-
tion to riot. They broke several of the inn windows,
and might have proceeded to extremities, had not the
Sheriff luckily arrived and read the Riot Act, after
which a piquet of the 42d patrolled the streets till
Sunday morning.
SLEEP-SEEKERS.—Macnish often coaxed himself
to sleep by repeating some well-known rhyme half-
a-nozen times; and a gentleman, in the town of Mil-
ford, has learned to fall asleep at will, by fixing his
eyes in one direction for a few minutes. Dr. Elliot-
son knows a lady who often remains awake till her
husband rubs her foot ; and to many persons the
having their hair combed is a soporific. John
Philips, the poet, delighted, when a boy, to have this
office performed for hours together; and Isaac
Vossius was so critically curious in combing,
that he preferred its performance rhythmically.
He liked to have it done by barbers or other
persons skilled in prosody, so that their pectinating
movements might imitate iambics, trochees, &c. to his
great delight. In these cases, reverie rather than
sleep was produced ; but in other instances the effect
is that of a simple narcotic. Thus, Sir John Rennie,
the architect, was regularly put to sleep by having
the hair at the back of his head combed, and rubbed
wit 4 fie .palm of the baud.—lredical Zino.