The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE,

TUESDAY, JAN. cnSHIPS DISSOLVED.—R.
Gardner and Son, Liverpool, block maize, s— „„d Sagar, Bury, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers—Beswick anw d
Crookhall, Blackburn, Lancashire, tailors.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.—J. Higginson, Liverpool,
merchant—first div. of 4s. 3d., on the 14th inst., or any subse-
quent Wednesday, at Mr. Turner's, Liverpool—Barton, Main,
and Higginson, Liverpool, merchants—fourth div. of Bd., on
the 14th instant, or any subsequent Wednesday, at Mr. Tur-
nes's, Liverpool. _

BANKRUPTS,—James Cooper, Liverpool, butcher, Jan. 21,
Feb. 16, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool. District Coart of Bank-
ruptcy: solicitor, Mr. Greatley, Liverpool; official assignee,
Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.—John Stephen Orford and William
Kirkham, Manchester, paper hangers—James Phillip Tait La-
zarus, Horbury, Yorkshire, Stewart-street, Spitalfields, and
elsewhere, merchant—George Moon, Borrowby, Yorkshire,
corn miller—lsaac Gardiner, Bristol, saddler—Robert Plow-
den, Weston, Wellington, surgeon—Edward Wickins, Fevers"
ham, linen draper—Harold Stanley, late of Gerard-street, Soho,
London, scrivener—Alfred Markwick, Martin's-lane, Cannon-
street, London, manufacturer—William Moss, jun., Stock,
Essex, miller.
FRIDAY, JAN. 16.—PARTNERS II IPS DISSOLVED.—W..1.
Myers, Son, and Co., Liverpool, merchants; as far as regards
W. Lyon—Richardson Brothers and Co., Liverpool and else-
where, general merchants; as far as regards J. N. Richardson
—R. T. Smyth and Co., Liverpool, brosers ; as far as regards
%V. Rathbone—Wheeler, Armistead and Co., Manchester and
Oldham, manufacturers.

DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND,—J. ➢ionkman, Oldham, cot-
ham, cotton spinner.
BANKRUPTS,—John Varley, Manchester, chymist—Thomas
Urquhart Anderson, Wellington. Shropshire, mercer—Robert
Plowden Weston, Wellington, Shropshire, surgeon—George
Moon, Borrovi by, Yorkshire, corn miller—James Ingram,
Southampton, seedsman—William Dalton. Charlotte-street,
Pimlico, grocer—William Houston, St. James's-terrace, Har-
row-road, Paddington, builder—John Bristow, Lewes, Sussex,
tea dealer—Francis Frederick Woods, Pelham-place, Bramp-
ton, and Little Portland-street, Oxford-street, London, builder,

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
Jan. Hour.
20, Ed wd. Wilkinson and Thos. Bentley (2nd) District Court, II
20, John Warburton (2nd) Ditto, Il
20, l'ilacai re, Linneman and Berge (prf & div) Ditto, II
20, Thomas Gilbertson (proof and div.) .... Ditto, 11
20, Peter Lawton-(2nd)
20, John W. Hance (proof and div.) Ditto, 1/
21, Richard Jackson (audit) Ditto, 11
22, Isaac Abrahams (2nd)
22, Joseph Smith (2nd)
22, John B. Taylor (Ist) Ditto, 11
21, James Cooper (Ist) Ditto, 11
26, Michael O'Donnell (audit) Ditto, 11
26, William Seddon (audit) Ditto, 11
27, John Sherwin (2nd) Ditto, 11
27, Robert M`Kean (2nd) Ditto, 1t
27, Hugh and Lancelot Dixon (2nd) Ditto, 11
27. William Seddon (proof and div.) Ditto, 11
27, John Stockdale (proof and div.) Ditto, 1/
29. John Thomson and William Leith (2nd) Ditto, 11
29, William Farrell (2nd) Ditto, 11
30, W. M. Neill (2d) Ditto, 1

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

Monday Morning.
WHY is it that the most active warlike preparations are be-
ing made in England, just at the moment when the Queen
in person is about to announce to the reassembled Legis-
lature of the Kingdom, that she continues to receive as-
surances of peace and amity from all the powers of Europe ?
This question is being put daily by all denominations of
persons throughout the realm ; and no satisfactory answer
has been given to it. True, it is asserted that a sense of
danger arises, necessarily, from the recent proceedings of
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Such has been his conduct
with regard to liberty in France, in Rome, and in every

country over which he can-exercise the slightest influence,
that the greatest distrust of his future designs and inten-
tions ought to be entertained by all who value freedom, or
have the smallest desire for its preservation, in every part
of the world. He has shewn that no obligations can re-
strain the exercise of his own capricious will, or cheek his
onward march towards the object of his ambition. He

hates public opinion, and would suppress its expression
throughout Europe, because the intelligence of the age is
against him, and its diffusion has hitherto fettered his ac-
tion. And as England is at once the home of liberty and
the focus of public opinion, and as its sentiments give a
tone and character to the feelings of all the continental
powers, the French Dictator must naturally indulge a
strong desire to bow England to his yoke— the hereditary
desire of his family to control the voice, and establish a

censorship over the policy, of Great Britain, if not to ac-
complish the impossible feat of converting the Island into
a Department of " the Grand Nation." Who, therefore,
can confidently predict, after the folly and recklessness he
bited, what his next step may be ? Who

has already e

will guarantee the fact that he has not already meditated an

invasion of our coasts, as a dive

sion to the overwhelming

army which ho deems it necessary to keep on foot, and
for which he cannot find adequate employment, glory, or
wealth, within the limits of France, the walls of Rome, or
the forests and deserts of Algeria.
at is ceriain that Louis Napoleon has

lways hitherto

moved by stealth, and effected his ends by sudden sur-
prises. It may be assumed with tolerable accuracy that
he bears no good will towards England, for the refuge it
has offered to those whom he designed to make his vic-
tims, and for the denunciations heaped upon his treachery
and despotism by the whole English press, by a large
number of oar most trusted statesmen, and by almost the
universal population. And he has, himself, more than

once stated, both orall

.nd in his literar

productions,

that France must one'd