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fer, whenever we can, taking care of ourselves. We 'think we can be trusted to go alone, and we really do not like being sent back to our childish leading-strings. Regulations, for instance, respecting the management of cheap trains; that they shall not stop very long at stations; that the number of passengers shall be li

railway engineers of the first class are already in the employment of the companies, and must, therefore, be "put out of consideration. We are far from thinking that their education or habits of thought qualify even the greatest among them for the office of judges, for the duty of balancing evidence on points on which their own minds are previously made up; far less domited, according to the dimensions of the carriage in we expect that a satisfactory tribunal will be formed

such a train; that the carriage shall be lighted at out of the profession, after excluding forty or fifty of night-are all very well in their intention; and the 'the ablest of its members. The officers must be se-case of cheap trains is probably that in which the lected from young and rising men not yet in railway public would be most disposed, for the sake of the employment, but all influenced by the laudable ambi-poorer classes, to tolerate a departure from the getion of engagements in the service of the companies on⚫neral rule of keeping government interference at its whose interests they are to decide. The more profes- minimum." 'sional ability and energy they possess, the more eager will be their hopes of succeeding in due time to the reigning Brunels and Stephensons; the more certain "will it be that they will have a direct tangible interest in conciliating the parties between whom they are to act as judges. They will have no bar to watch them; but the effect of excluding counsel will be more conveniently considered when we speak of the hearing

'before the board itself."

We have scarcely much hope that the public will see the mischief of handing over railway business to governmental direction. Terrified by the occasional happening of accidents, which, when they do happen, are well calculated to strike terror into the public mind,-bewildered by the magnitude and apparently irresponsible power of the gigantic and complicated bodies who manage the transit service of the country, above all, impressed partly, as we have obAnd again,-" We are compelled to adopt the only served, by the former efforts of the railway companies remaining alternative, and to believe that the com- themselves, with the idea, that railway undertakings 'missioners have, no doubt from the best motives, but, are not of the same class as other trading undertakas we think, most erroneously, attempted, not to se-ings, and dreading some vast and mysterious tyranny cure the means of judicial decision, but to vest in at the hands of railway companies, the public, in the themselves a power of irresponsible administrative ac- hope of defeating their imagined enemy, clamour for tion. Mr. Strutt is well aware of the necessity of the interference of the executive; and the executive professional assistance to a judicial tribunal. Either will, of course, accept as much power as the public and ' he himself or some other chairman of a sub-commit- the Legislature can wrench from the hands of the now 'tee last year publicly recommended solicitors unac- unhappy companies, and deliver up into their hands. quainted with parliamentary practice to leave their With the railway companies, as such, no one, probacases in the hands of their agents, without inter- bly, will very much sympathise, should they be thus ference, as an advantage to their clients, and a saving sold into bondage. Every lawyer knows that they of the public time. He certainly would not wish to have done their best to be unto themselves their own "give any parties an unfair trial; but we fear that he law. But that danger has passed; the law has conmeditates the entire superseding of the trial. After trolled and subjected them to rule; and the question hearing evidence on disputed points of engineering, now is one wholly beside the merits or demerits of he proposes, in certain cases, to send down an officer companies, and company management. The question 'to examine the question on the spot, and to report to is, whether the law is now to adopt in this country a "the commissioners. We need not say, that his report new principle, and, no longer proceeding upon the doc'will almost always be conclusive with the board, and trine of leaving trade to be managed quietly between 'consequently with Parliament. If the best evidence the trader and his customer, to assume, that neither 'that can be procured by the parties interested still the trader nor the customer knows his own interest; leaves the matter in doubt, it is clear that an official to assume, that good will result from not allowing report will turn the scale." men to embark and manage their own capital in their own way; and that there is something peculiar in the circumstance, that a road is made of iron instead of granite, from which the consequence fellows, that the people cannot safely travel upon it, unless the road and all that moves upon it are under government di

When we come to the second branch of the new legislative scheme, we find that a multitude of regulations are to be imposed on railway companies, the result of which will be, and is probably intended to be, ultimately to take the virtual management of the business of railways out of the hands of the companies to whom they belong.

rection.

Of this, the spirit is happily pointed out by our author in the following passage, with which we shall close our extracts from his well-written pamphlet: "It would be impossible," he says, "to discuss in de'tail all the provisions of the bill respecting the control ' of railways. The commissioners will have no sinecure if they enforce half of them; the railway com'panies no slight need of accurate memories and scrupulous consciences if they obey the unenforced half. Not that all the regulations are in themselves essen-den-bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire. 'tially wrong, but the best of them are generally such as a well-conducted company would be disposed to 'make for itself. Why, then, it may be asked, not 'make and enforce them by superior authority? The ' question involves a very considerable assumption; it 'involves admitting the whole theory of paternal go'vernment-repudiated by us in almost all other trans ' actions, introduced in our railway system alone. Fo"reign governments take care of their people: we pre

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Packer, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for the Island of Barbadoes.

MASTERS IN CHANCERY.-The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentlemen Masters Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery:-William George Cursham, of Nottingham; William Sutcliffe, of Heb

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT. Sir Albert Denison Conyngham, Knt., commonly called Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, for the city of Canterbury, in the room of James Bradshaw, Esq., deceased; Robert Perfect, Esq., for the borough of Lewes, in the room of Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

London Gazettes.

TUESDAY, MARCH 16.

BANKRUPTS.

ROBERT SAW, Hammersmith, Middlesex, grocer and cheesemonger, March 22 at 1, and April 26 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Graham; Sol. Dods, 102, St. Martin's-lane, London.-Fiat dated March 6. WILLIAM ROUND, Broadway, Hammersmith, Middlesex, grocer and cheesemonger, March 26 at 12, and April 26 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Turquand; Sols. Dods, 102, St. Martin's-lane, Charingcross.-Fiat dated March 15.

JAMES JOYCE, Warwick-lane, London, corn dealer and waggon office keeper, March 23 at half-past 1, and April 27 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Pennell; Sols. Tilson & Co., Coleman-street, City. - Fiat dated March 12.

JOHN GREVILLE FENNELL, King-street, Holborn, Middlesex, child bed linen, berlin wool, and perfumery dealer, March 25 at 1, and May 1 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Follett; Sol. Pullen, Basinghall-street.-Fiat dated March 15.

CHARLES JARDINE, Basinghall-street, London, woollen warehouseman, March 25 at 1, and April 23 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Groom; Sols. Baylis & Drewe, Basinghall-street.-Fiat dated March 12. RICHARD PARKER, New-inn-yard, Old Bailey, London, carrier, dealer and chapman, March 25 and April 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Edwards; Sols. Lawrance & Plews, Old Jewry-chambers.-Fiat dated March 8. FRANCIS KESTEVEN, Camden - street, Camden-town, Middlesex, builder, March 25 and April 27 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Groom; Sol. Huson, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside.-Fiat dated March 9. GEORGE HILTON, Hythe, Kent, grocer, March 25 and April 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Groom; Sols. Lawrance & Plews, Old Jewry-chambers. Fiat dated March 1. HENRY HUGH BEAMS PAULL, Peckham, Surrey, lodging-house keeper, dealer and chapman, March 25 at 11, and April 29 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sols. Sturmy & Simpson, Wellington-street, London-bridge.-Fiat dated Feb. 26. WILLIAM HAYWARD, Ashford, Kent, butcher, March 25 at half-past 1, and April 28 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sols. Butterfield & Co., Gray's-inn.-Fiat dated March 13.

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OWEN GOODWIN and THOMAS GOODWIN, Burslem, Staffordshire, druggists, dealers and chapmen, March 31 and April 21 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bir mingham: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sols. Hodgson, Birmingham; Pilcher, New Broad-street, London. - Fiat dated March 4. RICHARD GIBSON, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, grazier, cattle dealer, dealer and chapman, March 30 at half. past 11, and April 27 at 12, District Court of_Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Valpy; Sols. Smith, Birmingham; Weeks, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn, London.-Fiat dated March 9. ROBERT GLOVER and FREDERICK GLOVER, Leeds, Yorkshire, dyers, dealers and chapmen, March 27 and April 16 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds: Of Ass. Hope; Sols. Payne & Co., Leeds; Hartley, Southampton-st., Bloomsbury.-Fiat dated March 8. JOHN HARVEY, Liskeard, Cornwall, assayer, dealer and chapman, March 30 and April 21 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter: Off. Ass. Hirtzel; Sols. Stogdon, Southernhay, Exeter; Keddell & Co., Lime-st., London. - Fiat dated March 9. JOHN INGHAM, Liverpool, merchant, wool stapler, dealer and chapman, March 30 and April 20 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Morgan; Sols. Robinson, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple, London.-Fiat dated March 10.

MEETINGS.

Isaac Sharland the younger, Bath, tailor, March 29 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, pr. d.-S. Puckering and Wm. Thos. Makins, Kingston-upon-Hull, woollen merchants, April 7 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Kingstonupon-Hull, pr. d. and ch. ass.-T. W. G. Stevens, Bampton, Oxfordshire, hackney master, March 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex.- -Philip J. Luntley, Bread-streethill, London, druggist, April 8 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-. c.-Edwin Bryant, Lime-street-sq., London, merchant, April 8 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Peter Flitton, Barley, Hertfordshire, boot maker, April 8 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.John Patterson, Tonbridge, Kent, tea dealer, April 8 at halfpast 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.—Mary Ann Shenston, Brewer-street, Somers-town, scale manufacturer, April 13 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.John Titley, High-st., Southwark, Surrey, woollen draper, April 7 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac. and div.-John A. Howe, Bristol, umbrella manufacturer, April 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.

Alfred Birchall, Manchester, sharebroker, April 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; April 9 JOHN HALSTEAD, Radcliffe, near Manchester, cotton at 11, div.-John Pickard the younger, Exeter, hatter, April manufacturer, dealer and chapman, March 26 and April 16 7 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter, aud. ac.at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Andrew S. M'Laurin, Bradford, Yorkshire, warehouseman, Ass. Hobson; Sols. Whitehead, Bury; Clarke & Co., 20, April 8 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, aud. sc. Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.-Fiat dated March 13. and div.-Thomas Bailey, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, JOHN NOSWORTHY, Manchester, stock and share broker, printer, April at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, BirMarch 26 and April 16 at 12, District Court of Bank-mingham, aud. ac.-Richard Satchell the younger, Winsley. ruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hobson: Sols. Burdett, street, Oxford-street, and Hyde, near Hendon, Middlesex, Manchester; Sharpe & Co., 41, Bedford-row, London.-brewer, April 21 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.Fiat dated March 11.

JOSEPH WINDER, Salford, Lancashire, bleacher, dyer, finisher, dealer and chapman, March 29 and April 19 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Pott; Sols. Gibson, Manchester; Chisholme & Co., 64, Lincoln's inn-fields, London.-Fiat dated March 9. HENRY BOOTH and JAMES BOOTH, Haughton, and THOMAS BOOTH, Denton, both in Lancashire, hat manufacturers, dealers and chapmen, March 30 and April 20 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Fraser; Sols. Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne; Clarke & Co., 20, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.-Fiat dated March 12. THOMAS WALKDEN, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, scrivener and share dealer, dealer and chapman, April 1 and 30 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds: Off. Ass. Freeman; Sols. Branson, Sheffield; Moss. Serjeants'-inn, London.-Fiat dated March 8.

ELIZABETH BARRS, widow, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, lodging-house keeper, April 1 and 27 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol: Off. Ass. Miller; Sol. Chesshyre, Cheltenham.-Fiat dated March 5.

Henry Wilkinson, Watford, Hertfordshire, cabinet maker, April 21 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.—John Clark, Crescent, Minories, London, merchant, April 7 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Daniel W. Acraman, Wm. E. Acraman, and Alf. J. Acraman, Bristol, merchants, April 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, div.John Roberts and Hugh Hughes, Deansgate, Manchester, linen drapers, April 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; at 11, fin. div. sep. est.; at 12, joint div.: April 9 at 12, fin. div.

CERTIFICATES.

To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on the Day of Meeting.

Philip James Luntley, Bread-street-hill, London, druggist' April 8 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Andrew Sroft M'Laurin, Bradford, Yorkshire, warehouseman, April 8 af 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds.—James Bickerton, Castle-street, Southwark, Surrey, hat manufacturer, April 14 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.

To be allowed by the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before April 6. Thomas Yates, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer.-Wm. Ferries Brand, Wigan, Lancashire, draper. -James Sutcliffe, Habergham Eaves, near Burnley, Lancashire, cotton spinner.

FIATS ANNULLED.

George Knight, Weybridge, Surrey, dealer in manure.Hewson Dutchman, Toxteth-park, near Liverpool, merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Duncan, Dunn, & Whyte, Edinburgh, merchants,-Alex. Stevenson & Sons, Edinburgh, stock brokers.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS

Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from

Process.

porter merchant, No. 67,933 C.; Hodgson Lewis, assignee. -James Pentland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, auctioneer, No. 67,946 C.; James Shield, assignee.

Saturday, March 13.

Orders have been made, vesting in the Provisional Assignees the Estates and Effects of the following Persons:—

(On their own Petitions).

John Wilson, Navarino-terrace, Cowley-road North, Brixton, Surrey, brewer: in the Gaol of Horsemonger-lane.Arthur Brideson, St. Martin's-lane, Middlesex, baker: in the Queen's Prison.-Samuel Bradley, City-road, Middlesex, malt factor in the Queen's Prison.-Bevan George Sloper, Hammersmith, civil engineer: in the Queen's Prison.- Hen. commercial traveller: in the Debtors Prison for London and Benjamin, Wellclose-square, Goodman's-fields, Middlesex, Middlesex.-Robert Collinson, Newman-st., Oxford-street, Middlesex, out of employment; in the Debtors Prison for Richard Keating, Sheerness, Kent, grocer, March 25 at London and Middlesex.—Susannah Mary Atkins, Upper half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Geo. Woodley, Baker-street, Portman-square, Middlesex, assistant to a dress Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, innkeeper, March 27 at maker: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. half-past 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Wm. Coppen, -Thomas Withey the younger, Pagoda-terrace, Bermondsey Norwood, Surrey, grocer, March 27 at 2, Court of Bank- New-road, Bermondsey, Surrey, pork butcher: in the Gaol of ruptcy, London.-Francis Fisher, New North-street, Red Surrey.-Abraham Levy Goodman, Oxford-street, Middlesex, Lion-square, Middlesex, merchant's clerk, March 25 at 12, not in any trade: in the Queen's Prison.-Charles Green, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Wm. Hurle Moore, George's- Manchester, licensed victualler: in Lancaster Castle.-John terrace, Barnsbury-road, Islington, Middlesex, coal merDeacon, Leicester, glove maker: in the Gaol of Leicester.chant, March 25 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, Lon- Christopher Ragg, Leicester, butcher: in the Gaol of Leidon.-Charles Gould, Northam, near Southampton, Hamp-cester.-Thos. Parker, Mellor, near Blackburn, Lancashire, shire, baker, March 25 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, labourer: in Lancaster Castle.-Thos. Dixon Cort, LancasLondon.-Harry Bacon, Judd-street, Middlesex, steward of ter, assistant to an engineer: in Lancaster Castle.-David the British and Foreign Club, March 27 at half-past 2, Court Whatley, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, out of business: in of Bankruptcy, London.-Richard Cooper, Rainham, Essex, the Gaol of Gloucester.-Patrick Miller Smith, Newcastlebaker, April 8 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Benj. upon-Tyne, out of business: in the Gaol of Newcastle-uponHubbard, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, butcher, April 8 at Tyne.-Charles Ogle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, auctioneer: in 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-George Godsmark, Nor- the Gaol of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.-Wm. Hill Tucket Galton-street, New-road, Middlesex, out of business, April 8 at pin, Chiswell, Portland, Dorsetshire, butcher: in the Gaol 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Wm. Candler, Red Lion- of Dorchester.-Wm. Sykes, Millbridge, near Leeds, Yorkstreet, Holborn, Middlesex, coach maker, April 8 at 11, Court shire, attorney at law: in York Castle.-John Ripley, Leeds, of Bankruptcy, London.-Thomas Evan Roberts, Hill-st., Yorkshire, tailor: in York Castle.-Thomas Godwin, Sutton Walworth, Surrey, clerk in the General Registry Office, So- Veny, Wiltshire, labourer: Fisherton Anger. merset-house, April 8 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.James Tirkin, Black Horse-yard, Rathbone-place, Oxfordstreet, Middlesex, out of business, March 31 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Charles Robotham, North-end, Walham-green, Fulham, Middlesex, commercial traveller, March 29 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Thomas Sims, Whitechapel-road, Middlesex, licensed victualler, March 29 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Anthony Challis, Scarborough-street, Goodman's-fields, Whitechapel, Middlesex, butcher, March 29 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London. -Henry Jos. Fradelle, Percy-street, Bedford-square, Middlesex, artist, March 29 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London. -Thomas Old, Leytonstone, Essex, clerk in the Bank of England, March 23 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-John Bailey, Totnes, Devonshire, sub-contractor, March 23 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter.-H. Baker, Tiverton, Devonshire, out of business, March 24 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter.-Geo. Mynett, Stroud, Gloucestershire, out of business, April 9 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-Edmund Weeks, Bedminster, Bristol, grocer, April 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.

Saturday, March 13.

The following Assignees have been appointed. Further Particulars may be learned at the Office, in Portugal-st., Lincoln's-inn-fields, on giving the Number of the Case. Thomas Mayhew, Shepperton-street, New North-road, Islington, Middlesex, bricklayer, No. 58,406 T.; Edw. Bliss, assignee.-George Longmore, Lansdowne-place, Brunswicksquare, Middlesex, rag merchant, No. 58,648 T.; Samuel Staniland, assignee. Isabella Hodskinson, William-street, Lowndes-square, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, widow, out of business, No. 58,701 T.; William Masters, assignee. Frederick William Lee, Southampton-buildings, Holborn, Middlesex, tailor, No. 58,591 T.; John Jacob Hill, assignee. -Richard Smith, Lichfield, tallow chandler, No. 67,651 C.; Wm. Webb, assignee.-George Laws, Bucks Nuck, near Ryton, Durham, husbandman, No. 67,880 C.; Ed. Martinson, assignee. — Matthew Thompson, Scarborough, Yorkshire,

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The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before

a Commissioner on Circuit:Court-house, NOTTINGHAM, (County), March 29 at 10. John Spreckley, Nottingham, victualler.

Court-house, DERBY, (County), March 31 at 10. George Topham, Alfreton, grocer.-John Moss, Long Eaton, baker.

Court-house, HERTFORD, (County), March 31 at 10. John Baron, Hatton, baker.-William Scroby Tucker, Bishop's Stortford, shoemaker.

Court-house, EXETER, Devonshire, April 1 at 10. Hugh Rattenbury, Exeter, labourer.-Thos. Alcock, Devonport, out of business.-Francis Jewill Browning, Plymouth, hat manufacturer.-Richard Graham, West Teignmouth, shoemaker.-Campbell John Pegus, Exeter, retired lieutenant in the royal navy.-James Harvey, Torquay, builder.

Court-house, CHESTER, (County), April 1 at 10. David Booth, Sutton, near Macclesfield, gas fitter.-John Schofield, Sanbach, bricklayer.-Thomas Vicars Bramwell, Stockport, attorney at law. Geo. Rutland, Macclesfield, auctioneer.-Matthew Oldfield, Macclesfield, whitesmith.Wm. Hallett, Prestbury, out of business.-Peter Dean, Macclesfield, out of business.-Sam. Oakes, Alsager, near Sandbach, butcher.

Court-house, BODMIN, Cornwall, March 30 at 10. Mylor, near Falmouth, lieutenant in the royal marines on Thos. Dunstan, Gwennap, miner.-Jas. Loutitt Braimer, half-pay.

MEETING.

Andrew Carroll the younger, March 31 at 1, Peel's Coffeehouse, Fleet-street, sp. aff.

FRIDAY, MARCH 19. INSOLVENT.

ISAAC LINTERN, Upton, Bitton, Gloucestershire, licensed retailer of beer.

BANKRUPTS.

JOHN PELLS, Southtown, Suffolk, out of business, March 26 at half-past 12, and April 30 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Cannan; Sols. Casterton, Yarmouth; Galsworthy & Nicholls, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn.-Fiat dated March 12.

JOHN HAZARD and WILLIAM BEAUMONT, Highst., Deptford, Kent, tailors and drapers, dealers and chapmen, March 26 at 2, and April 30 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Pennell; Sol. Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard.-Fiat dated March 13. CHARLES BROWN, Somerset-st., Aldgate, London, plumber and glazier, and Milwall, Poplar, Middlesex, paper manufacturer, dealer and chapman, March 26 at 1, and April 30 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Belcher; Sol. Lawrence, 5, South-square, Gray's-inn.Fiat dated March 9.

GEORGE TEIL and BASIL M'KENZIE RONALD, Old Jewry-chambers, London, East India merchants and partners, dealers and chapmen, (carrying on business under the style or firm of George Teil & Co.), March 31 and May 6 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sols. Hughes & Co.-Fiat dated March 17. THOMAS BRUCE WAVELL, Lake, Brading, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, miller, maltster, and corn merchant, April 1 at half-past 11, and April 26 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Graham: Sol. Turnley, Ludgate street.-Fiat dated March 17. DAVID ELWIN COLOMBINE, Carlton-chambers, Regent-st., St. James's, Westminster, money scrivener, dealer and chapman, April 3 at half-past 11, and May 14 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Green; Sols. Rickards & Walker, Lincoln's-inn-fields. -Fiat dated March 13. THOMAS WALKDEN, Mansfield, Nottingham, scrivener and share dealer, dealer and chapman, April 1 and 30 at 10, Town-hall, Sheffield: Off. Ass. Freeman; Sols. Branson, Sheffield; Moss, Serjeant's-inn, London. Fiat dated March 8. WILLIAM SARGINSON and MATTHEW RIGBY, Bury, Lancashire, joiners and builders, copartners, dealers and chapmen, March 30 and May 4 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Pott; Sols. Whitehead, Bury; Clarke & Co., 20, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.Fiat dated March 13. JOHN HUNT, Manchester, merchant, commission agent, dealer and chapman, March 31 and April 22 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hobson; Sols. Slater & Heelis, Manchester; Pearce & Co., 10, St. Swithin's-lane, London.-Fiat dated March 9. HENRY WILLIAM SHIPLEY, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, dealer and chapman, April 1 and 23 at 12, Exchange-rooms, Nottingham: Off. Ass. Bittleston; Sol. Bowley, Nottingham.-Fiat dated March 10. THOMAS READER, Foleshill, Warwickshire, miller, baker, dealer and chapman, April 1 and 22 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Christie; Sols. Dewes & Sons, Coventry; Weeks, 12, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn, London.-Fiat dated March 11. THOMAS JOBLING, High Conside, Durham, draper, grocer, dealer and chapman, March 26 at 11, and April 29 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Off. Ass. Wakley; Sols. Ingledew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Williamson & Hill, 4, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, London.-Fiat dated March.9.

THOMAS SLATTERY, Liverpool, corn broker, April 9 and 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Turner; Sols. Lowndes & Co., Liverpool; Sharpe & Co., Bedford-row, London.-Fiat dated March 13. THOMAS HARDWICK and WINTER HARDWICK, Leeds, Yorkshire, auctioneers, March 30 and April 19 st 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds: Off. Ass. Hope; Sols. Blackburn, Leeds; Lee, Leeds; Walker, Furnival'sinn, London.-Fiat dated March 13.

WILLIAM GLOVER, Leeds, Yorkshire, woollen manufac turer and merchant, dealer and chapman, March 31 and April 21 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds: Of. Ass. Young; Sols. Payne & Co. or Bruce, Leeds; Sudlow & Co., London.-Fiat dated March 9. REV. ANDREW KEIR, North Cave, Yorkshire, clerk, wood merchant, timber merchant, dealer and chapman, April 7 and 28 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Kingston-upon-Hull: Off. Ass. Kynaston; Sols. Robinson, Beverley; Bell, Hull; Capes & Co., Gray's-inn, London.Fiat dated March 10.

WILLIAM SMITH, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, mercer, draper, and letter-press printer, March 30 and April 27 at II, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Valpy; Sol. Catlow, Cheadle.-Fiat dated Feb. 25.

MEETINGS.

Henry Brewer, Great Waltham, near Chelmsford, Essex, draper, April 15 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex.-Charles Edmonstone, Over Darwen, Lancashire, paper manufacturer, March 31 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.-Fran. H. Bourquin, Northampton-sq., Clerkenwell, Middlesex, watch manufacturer, April 9 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Wm. Williams and Joseph Sawtell, Newport, Monmouthshire, corn merchants, April 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, aud.ac. Joseph Jas. Cannabe, Bath, Somersetshire, fringe manufac turer, April 12 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.— -Wm. Jones, Park, near Cardiff, and Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, ship builder, April 13 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.; April 15 at 11, div.

Stephen Hey, Colne, Lancashire, worsted manufacturer, April 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; April 13 at 12, div.-Thos. Holland, Birmingham, japanner, April 10 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, aud. ac.-John Jones, Conway, Carnarvonshire, ship builder, April 9 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Thos. B. Golborne and Arth. A. Dobbs, Liverpool, wine merchants, April 9 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Thos. B. Molyneux and Percival Witherby, Liverpool, merchants, April 9 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac. and div. joint est.; April 10 at 11, fin. div. J. B. Molyneux.— Wm. Lake, Henfield, Sussex, grocer, April 9 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-James Pritchard, Seymourplace, Camden-town, Middlesex, butcher, April 9 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Thos. C. Smith and Rich. Hayes, Henrietta-st., Covent-garden, Middlesex, hotel keepers, April 9 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Jos. Miller, Whittlebury-street, Hampstead-road, Middlesex, painter, April 9 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-E. Jones the elder, Budge-row, London, pasteboard manufacturer, April 9 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Simeon Charles Warner, Walworth-road, Surrey, coal dealer, April 9 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.— John Weston, Liverpool, merchant, April 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div.-William Seddon and Francis Jordan, St. Helen's, Lancashire, millers, April 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div. CERTIFICATES.

To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting.

THOMAS POTTS, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper, dealer and chapman, March 30 at half-past 10, and April 29 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: W. Law Wood, Gracechurch-street, London, ironmonger, Off. Ass. Baker; Sols. Ingledew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; April 9 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-John DonaldWilliamson & Hill, 4, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, Lon- son, Regent-street and Margaret-street, Middlesex, coach don. Fiat dated March 12. maker, April 10 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-J. RICHARD DIX, Wells, Somersetshire, saddler and harness Beaumont Hellawell, Halifax, Yorkshire, dyer, April 10 at maker, dealer and chapman, April 6 and 30 at 12, District 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds.-Robert Elliot, Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol: Off. Ass. Hutton; Sols. Liverpool, agricultural implement maker, April 9 at 12, DisHobbs, Wells; Whitaker, 12, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Lon-trict Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool.-Wm. Oswin, Liverdon.-Fiat dated March 17. pool, bootmaker, April 12 at 11, District Court of Bankrupt

cy, Liverpool.-John Prior, St. Blazey, Cornwall, tailor, April 13 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter. To be allowed by the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before April 9. Richard Hallam, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, grocer.-Isaac Morris, Mayfield, Staffordshire, cattle dealer. -John Fogg Taylor, Wigan, Lancashire, cotton spinner.George Willding, Dartford, Kent, miller.-Paul Garbanati,* Borrott's Cottage, Charlton-vale West, Woolwich, Kent, carver and gilder. Wm. Johnson, High-street, Hampstead, Middlesex, builder.- Wm. Hunter, Gray's-inn-lane, MiddleI sex, coach maker.-Benjamin Shaen, Beswick and Miles Platting, Manchester, cotton spinner.-Robert Penny, Cockermouth, Cumberland, mercer.-Thomas Cook, Leicester, printer.

PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.

Hancock, Harecastle, near Tunstall, miner.-Geo. Barratt, Eccleshall, flour dealer.-John Bedward, Wolverhampton, carpenter.-George Dicken, Rugeley, tailor.-G. E. Knight the elder, Wolverhampton, commission agent.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S DIVIDEND.

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