6 'and interference being removed, while the intelligent 6 viction, knowing that the magistrates will otherwise compel them, 101. "Advantages of non-interference by, with parish authorities, 99, 106, 266. "Some of the most enlightened admit the evils of their interference, 126, 127, 128." And at p. 373 of the same volume we find the fol lowing passage:-"Mr. Docwra attributed the bad character and conduct of the native population to the countenance and support which the magistrates afford to the complaints of paupers, against which he declared all resistance on the part of the overseers to be vain ; and he accounted for the good conduct of the exparishioners by the fact of their having no power to apply to the magistrates, and being in consequence solely dependent on character for employment.” Again in the Commissioners' Report (1834) we meet with the following evidence, which appears to be quite conclusive:— "By the unconstitutional measure which was passed in 1834, known as the Poor-law Amendment Act, 'Parliament abdicated both its fundamental duties and 'its functions. Power, which Parliament has no constitutional authority to delegate at all, was pretended to be given to an entirely irresponsible and secret body to make rules and orders at its arbitrary plea6 sure, which overseers of the poor and all such officers 'should be obliged to obey. Instead of the parishes "The opinion of many of the most experienced maobtaining what was needed-a more thorough and in- gistrates themselves coincides with that expressed by dependently responsible control over their own officers occupiers and overseers, that the over liberality of ma-all control whatever was taken away. The parish has gistrates in granting relief has been a principal cause of to pay the poor rates, and that is, practically, nearly the high rates, and of the dependence of labourers on 'all that is left to it. It has no sort of control, direct the parish. In many instances they have adopted a or indirect, over the expenditure or application of the dictatorial tone to the parish overseers, which has inrates, nor over the officers who administer them. duced men of respectability to avoid the office." (P. 133, 'Thus indifference is engendered, and a moral degra- | 8vo. ed.) dation, of the most injurious and debasing character and tendency, is enforced; while, on the other hand, social treachery, and secret sycophancy, and moral and intellectual subserviency are cherished and re 'warded. "The overseer is no longer, therefore, the officer of 'that name found in the acts of Elizabeth. He has now only to do the bidding of others, either as dictated by statute or by irresponsible functionaries. He 'cannot exercise his own intelligence and zeal in the ' endeavour to do what he can discover to be best for the common good of all his neighbours, after conferring, as the statutes of Elizabeth required him to do continually, with the churchwardens and other over'seers." (Pp. 128-130). Another assistant commissioner says, "The effect upon the vestries, I was led to believe, was to cause many respectable persons to refrain from attending." (P. 141, İd.) In other words, to destroy altogether the constitutional and common-law powers of the most ancient of our institutions, upon the healthy and efficient working of which, more than any other institution whatever, depends the cultivation of the qualities that distinguish Englishmen from beasts and slaves. Why, then, it may be asked, instead of at least first trying the experiment of taking from these magistrates their unconstitutional and most pernicious powers, was the expedient at once resorted to of appointing a central board, with a monstrously cumbrous and costly, as well as unconstitutional and inefficient, machinery? It would lead us too far out of our way at present to give a full answer to this question; but we have said enough to shew that the clear and simple course now is to sweep away this central board, with all its appendage rubbish, and to take from the magistrates all power of dictating to or interfering with parishes in this unconstitutional manner. The following passage on the subject of public footpaths will give some idea of the thoroughly practical character of the work before us:— There was unquestionably a vast body of most valuable evidence regarding the condition of the agricultural labourers in particular, and the administration of the Poor Laws, collected by the Poor-law Commission of Inquiry which was appointed in 1832, and made their report in 1834. This evidence is particularly full on the subject of the pernicious effects of the interference of the magistrates with the free and healthy action of the ancient constitutional and common-law authorities of the parish. As the majority of the commissioners were unquestionably men of average vera- "It is of great importance that it be always borne in city and honour, there is no attempt to suppress this mind that footpaths are included within all the liabi evidence. On the contrary, it is brought out with the 'lities and responsibilities as to highways. It is not the most complete fulness and effect. In the volume of mode of passage that makes a road a highway; it is "Extracts from the Information received by His Ma- 'the fact of the right of the public to pass over itjesty's Commissioners as to the Administration and whether by foot, horse, or carriage is all one as reOperation of the Poor Laws," published "by autho-gards the law and the principle. A field footpath is rity," in 1833, this important point is particularly and repeatedly insisted upon. This volume contains a very carefully prepared table of "contents," also published "by authority," from which it will be sufficient to quote two or three of the heads under the title "Magistrates," with the references in support of them. "Magistrates. "Support persons of vicious habits, in opposition to the parochial authorities, 4, 29, 98, 108, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 126, 150, 160, 162, 262, 263, 374, 375, 376, 203. 6 just as much a highway as the broadest carriage road in the land. The highway surveyors are just as much bound to keep the former open, in good repair, and freed from any obstruction, as the latter. This is too ' often forgotten. It is well remarked by a writer already quoted, that under the common law no dis'tinction can be found between footpaths and carriage roads; the right of the public is of exactly the same quality over the one as over the other, and it ought to receive the same support in both instances. It is frequently asserted that footpaths are very injurious to the property over which they pass. This I deny, if Injurious effects of interference with parish autho-it be meant that they are injurious to the quantum of rities, 101, 166, 204, 373. "Overseers act mischievously, contrary to their con 4 'property vested in the owner. The soil is not so va. luable as it otherwise would be, but it is as productive ། BLIO BODL 'as it ever has been to the proprietor; and it was with reference to its present capability that he purchased the estate. Every right of way is a public easement, 'which must have been acquired with the consent of 'the owner of the soil; [more correctly, which was re'served and retained to the public use when the rest ‘of the land, at first altogether common, was allowed 'to be appropriated to separate proprietorship.] In 'almost every instance the closing a public way for 'the benefit of the proprietor is an absolute gift, without 'consideration, to an individual, out of the possessions of the public. There has of late years been a systematic 'course of attempts by owners of land or their agents 'to close public footpaths. Formerly this could not be 'done. The periodical inquiries that took place kept 'every man's attention alive to such attempts, and gave 'a ready and certain remedy against them. The attempts 'that now take place are made because no such whole'some check exists, but they are not less made in defiance of law and right. They are made because it is 'thought that no individual man will run the risks of 'a contest on the question. It is the duty of the highway surveyors, on behalf of the community they act 'for, to watch these things, and to resist every attempt 'to close or divert any footpath. The public fieldpaths of England are the most valuable possession of the 'poor of England. They constitute no less one of the 'great charms of the country to every man of taste and 'feeling. But to the poor man they are the chief means of health, and the great helps in what is to him income, 'namely, time and distance. They are as much his 'birthright and inheritance and property as the acres 'they lie over are those of the proprietors whose agents 'seek to improve' that property by depriving others of their rights and property. It is as much a fraud and a robbery and a crime against society and the 'state to stop up a public footpath, over which the 'poor man is accustomed to pass, as it is to stop the 'rich man on the highway and demand his money or his life." (Pp. 315–317). (To be continued). PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES. 17 & 18 VICTORIA.-SESSION 2. (Continued from p. 392). CAP. CV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Militia in England and Wales. [11th August, 1854.] Sect. 1. Parts of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 116, repealed. 2. Place for militia storehouse to be provided. Storehouse to be exempt from local rates. 3. Sale of place which is not required. 4. Expense of storehouse, how to be provided for. 5. Power to borrow on mortgage of the county rates. 6. Justices to provide for interest on mortgages and repay ment of principal. 7. Power to reborrow. 8. Mortgages under former acts saved. 9. Acts done and contracts made by deputy lieutenants shall be valid. 10. Powers given by this act to extend to militia of the city of London. 11. Municipal boroughs exempt from county rate to contribute in due proportion. 12. Mode of assessing the proportions payable by the boroughs. 13. Manner in which the award is to be made. 14. Arbitrator to be appointed in default of agreement. 15. Vacancies in arbitrators to be supplied. 16. Power to inspect rates. Penalty. 17. The borough treasurer to pay the sums awarded to the county treasurer. 18. Borough may borrow money on mortgage. * Wellbeloved on Highways, pref., p. 8. 19. How mortgages are to be made. 20. Conveyances and other instruments exempted from stamp duty. 21. Stannaries charged to be apportioned. 22. Award may be revoked in certain events. 23. Three parts of the county of Lincoln, how to be dealt with under this act. 24. How the several quotas shall be paid. 25. Parts of Lincolnshire to be separate counties, with reference to contributions from boroughs and franchises. 26. Isle of Ely to contribute in certain proportion to county of Cambridge. 27. Quotas of the county and isle to be raised separately. 28. In settling proportion contributable by boroughs, &c., the isle to be included in the county. 29. Proportions contributable by franchises and places exempt from county rates. 30. Berwick-upon-Tweed to be deemed part of Northum 34. Permanent staff to be billeted. 35. Repeal of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 133, except sects. 1 and 2. 36. Deputy lieutenants to aid in raising volunteers for the militia. 37. Notices of general and subdivision meetings to be sent to deputy lieutenants by post. 38. Times and places of exercise to be appointed without general meetings of lieutenancy. 39. How notices of times and places of exercise to be given. 40. Penalties for fraudulent re-enlistment. 41. The justice before whom a militiaman is convicted of re-enlistment in the militia to send report of conviction to Secretary-at-War. 42. Power to discharge men from the militia who have enlisted in the regular forces. 43. Provision for withholding payment of bounty from men wrongfully absent from training. 44. Inrolment in militia not to cause forfeiture of any interest in any benefit society. 45. Punishment of men not attending or absenting themselves during training, and not taken till after. 46. Provision for apprehension of militiamen not attending or absenting themselves during training. 47. Penalty for inducing militiamen to absent themselves, or harbouring or employing militiamen absenting themselves. 48. Penalty for buying arms or militia stores. 49. Recovery of penalties. 50. Application of certain penalties. 51. Application of penalties on militiamen. 52. Sect. 98 of stat. 42 Geo. 3, c. 90, suspended. 53. Volunteers under instruction in the army to be under Mutiny Act. 54. Act to extend to stannaries of Cornwall and Devon. 55. Secretary of State to have power to move regiments not embodied into any quarters in the United Kingdom. 56. Persons qualified to act as surgeons in the army to be held to be qualified for the militia. 57. Short title. 58. Interpretation. CAP. CVI. An Act for amending the Laws relating to the Militia, and raising a Volunteer Militia Force, in Scotland. [11th August, 1854.] Sect. 1. Short title. Appointment of Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers. 2. Her Majesty to appoint lieutenants of counties, who shall appoint deputies and officers of militia, whose names and ranks shall be certified to her Majesty. 3. Vice-lieutenant, authorised by the lieutenant, may, in his illness, &c., grant commissions and act as lieutenant. 4. Three deputy lieutenants may be authorised to act when the lieutenant shall be out of the kingdom, or where there shall be none. 5. Commissions not to be vacated by the revocation of the power of the grantor. Qualifications of Deputy Lieutenants and Officers. 6. Qualifications of vice-lieutenants, deputy lieutenants, and officers, except within the city of Edinburgh. 7. Qualifications within the city and county of the city of Edinburgh. 8. The lieutenant, with the approbation of her Majesty, may appoint the provost of any royal burgh, or three resident persons, to be deputies of the sub-division. 9. Qualification of deputy lieutenant or officer may arise from personal estate. 10. Persons holding certain military ranks may be appointed field officers, though not possessed of property qualifications. 11. No qualification required under rank of captain. General Meetings of Lieutenancy. 12. General meetings of lieutenancy to be held only in certain cases. Mode of Appointment and Rank of Officers. 13. Secretary of State may make regulations as to appoint ment of officers. may, with 18. How the captains and subalterns shall be appointed. 19. Her Majesty may direct supernumerary officers to be appointed to men trained for the service of artillery. 20. The lieutenant authorised to name the colonel the approbation of her Majesty, appoint a surgeon. 21. Her Majesty to appoint adjutants from the army or militia, who shall preserve their rank in the army, and may be appointed to the rank of captain. 22. Her Majesty to appoint quartermasters, &c., and colonels to appoint corporals and drummers. Colonel may appoint drum-major. While militia is embodied, colonels to appoint sergeants; but no publican shall be a sergeant, corporal, or drummer. 23. No adjutant, &c. to be appointed captain of a company. 24. Extra drummers may be kept as fifers or musicians, at the expense of the regiment. 25. Oath to be taken by persons entering militia. Raising of Men for the Militia. 26. Number of militia to be raised. 27. Quotas of counties to be fixed by Order in Council. 28. Her Majesty may direct into what regiments, &c. militia shall be formed, and with what officers and staff. 29. Militiamen to be raised by voluntary enlistment. 30. The number not raised by enlistment in any county may be authorised to be raised by enlistment as a supplemental corps in another county. 31. Volunteers to be raised for supplying the places of men whose time is about to expire, and for supplying vacancies by death, &c. 32. Volunteers to be sworn and inrolled. Regulations for Training and Exercise. 43. Lieutenants, with approbation of a Secretary of State, to provide places for exercise. 44. Regulations for sending notice of the times and places of exercise. 45. Her Majesty may cause militia to be called out for train. ing more than once in a year. 46. Secretary of State may cause militia to be exercised out of their own counties, and her Majesty may extend or reduce the period of exercise. Regulations for embodying Militia. 47. In cases of actual invasion, rebellion, &c., her Majesty may order the militia to be embodied, and put under the command of general officers, &c., and led by their respective officers into any part of Great Britain. 48. When the militia is ordered out, the county lieutenants shall issue orders to the schoolmasters, &c. 49. While any part of the militia shall continue embodied, her Majesty may order any not embodied to be drawn out, to be mustered, trained, and exercised. embodied. 52. Officers, &c. may be tried by a court-martial for offences committed. months after training or being disembodied. 53. But charges to be made out and delivered within six 54. Volunteers under instruction in the army to be under Mutiny Act. Constitution of Courts-martial. 55. General courts-martial may be appointed. Pay and allowance to officers. 56. Regimental courts-martial may be appointed. for a certain period, and if not then restored they shall be 57. Non-commissioned officers may be reduced to privates discharged. Punishment of Desertion from Militia when not embodied. 58. Men not appearing at the time and place of exercise, or absenting themselves during that time, if not taken till afterwards, shall forfeit 101., or be committed for three months. 59. Penalties for fraudulent re-enlistment. 60. The justice before whom a militiaman is convicted of enlistment in the regular forces or re-enlistment in the militis to send report of conviction to Secretary-at-War. 61. Power to discharge men from the militia who have enlisted in the regular forces. 62. Provision for withholding payment of bounty from men wrongfully absent from training. 63. Drummers or buglers offending in certain cases, how to be dealt with. 64. In case of discharge for misconduct, the cause of discharge to be certified on certificate of discharge. 65. Provision for apprehension of militiamen not attending or absenting themselves during training. 66. Penalty for inducing militiamen to absent themselves, or harbouring or employing militiamen absenting themselves. Punishment for Sale, &c. of Arms, &c. 67. Muskets to be marked, and if men sell or lose their 33. Secretary-at-War may make regulations for bounties, arms, &c., or neglect to return them in good order, they shall and age, height, &c. of men. 34. Regulations to be laid before Parliament. Regulations for keeping of Arms and Stores. 35. Arms, &c. to be kept in a place appointed by the commandant, with the approbation of the county lieutenant, to be under the care of the quartermaster. 36. Place for militia storehouse to be provided. 37. Expense of storehouse, how to be provided for. 38. Commissioners may raise sums required by assessment or by borrowing. 39. Apportionment of assessment on burghs. 40. Power to Queen's Advocate to raise and apply assessments. 41. Conveyances, &c. exempt from stamp duty. 42. Penalty for neglect of duty in clerks of supply. forfeit not exceeding 31., or be committed for not exceeding three months. 68. Penalty for buying militia arms, &c. Miscellaneous Provisions. 69. Inrolment in militia not to cause forfeiture of any interest in any benefit society. 70. Inrolment of servants shall not vacate their contracts with their masters unless the militia shall be embodied &c. Sheriff or two justices may settle disputes touching wages under 207. under Small Debt Acts. AMES SURMAN, New Hampton, Middlesex, market gardener and dealer in beer, Oct. 26 (and not 24, as before advertised) and Nov. 23 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sols. Messrs. Solomon, Fenchurch-street. -Petition filed Oct. 4. DWARD HAWKINS, Ponsonby-street, Westminster, builder, Oct. 27 at 11, and Nov. 30 at 12, Court of Bank ruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sols. Messrs. Hopgood, King William-street, Strand.-Petition filed Oct. 17. HARLES DEARIE, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London, merchant, dealer and chapman, (trading under the firm of Charles Dearie & Co.), Oct. 30 at 2, and Nov. 30 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sols. Lawrance & Co., Old Jewry-chambers. Petition filed Oct. 18. filed Oct. 11. HARVEY MEADOWS, Warboys, Huntingdonshire, draper and grocer, dealer and chapman, Oct. 30 at half-past 12, and Nov. 30 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sol. Jones, 15, Sise-lane, London.-Petition CHRISTOPHER CREW and CHRISTOPHER CREW the younger, Gertrude-street, Chelsea, Middlesex, builders, Oct. 28 at half-past 1, and Dec. 9 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Pennell; Sols. Grane & Co., GEORGE MOMILLAN, Bennett-street, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, draper, dealer and chapman, Oct. 28 at 11, and Dec. 9 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Nicholson; Sols. J. & J. H. Linklater, 17, Sise-lane, 23, Bedford-row. - Petition filed Oct. 17. London.-Petition dated Oct. 17. WILLIAM YEATHERD BALL, Wood-street, Cheapside, London, and Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, wholesale glover, dealer and chapman, (trading under the firm of William Y. Ball & Co.), Oct. 28 at half-past 1, and Dec. 9 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Nicholson; Sols. Depree & Austen, 9, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside.-Petition dated Oct. 20. dated Oct. 6. OHN HEWETT, (and not HEWITT, as before advertised), Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, brick maker, Oct. 27 and Nov. 16 at half-past 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Christie; Sols. Overell, Leamington Priors; Motteram & Knight, Birmingham.-Petition HENRY MANTLE HITCHCOCK, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, miller, dealer and chapman, Nov. 7 and 28 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham: Off. Ass. Harris; Sol. Spooner, Leicester. - Petition dated Oct. 12. ROBERT LAMBERT, Liverpool, merchant, outfitter, dealer in tents, dealer and chapman, Nov. 3 and 30 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Turner; Sol. Blackhurst, Liverpool.-Petition filed Oct. 12. WILLIAM MOSS, Liverpool, cabinet maker, Oct. 31 and Nov. 22 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Morgan; Sols. Evans & Son, Liverpool.-Petition filed Oct. 13. ISAAC FLETCHER, Liverpool, stock and share broker, dealer and chapman, Nov. 3 and 30 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Bird; Sol. Dodge, Liverpool.-Petition filed Oct. 13. PETER ORMEROD, GEORGE HEYWORTH, TIMOTHY HEYWORTH, EDMUND BRIDGE, and ROBERT CROSSLEY, Egypt Mill, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, cotton manufacturers, dealers and chapmen, Oct. 31 and Nov. 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hernaman; Sols. T. A. & J. Grundy, Manchester.-Petition filed Oct. 12. LAMBERT TATLEY, New Hall Mills, Ince, near Wigan, Lancashire, cotton spinner, dealer and chapman, Nov. 3 and 24 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hernaman; Sol. Rowley, Manchester. - Petition filed Oct. 18. THOMAS WHEELDON, Bakewell, Derbyshire, tailor and woollendraper, dealer and chapman, Oct. 30 and Nov. 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hernaman; Sols. Bowley, Nottingham; Roberts, Manchester.-Petition filed Oct. 10. MEETINGS. Thomas Shenton, Bethnal-green-road, Middlesex, grocer, Nov. 13 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last. ex.-Henry Knapp, Chelsea, Middlesex, builder, Nov. 2 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Wm. Adam, Great Tower-st., London, merchant, Nov. 2 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-G. F. Rossiter, London-wall, London, wholesale clothier, Nov. 2 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-James Merchant, Foulmire, Cambridgeshire, grocer, Nov. Cottman, Sandgate, Kent, grocer, Nov. 2 at 1, Court of Bank2 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Henry road, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, jeweller, Nov. 2 at 12, ruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Charles Henry May, EdgewareCourt of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.- -Wm. Long, Lamb's Conduit-street, Middlesex, baker, Nov. 2 at 12, Court of ton, Sussex, perfumer, Nov. 2 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, Charles T. Laycock, BrighBankruptcy, London, aud. ac.— London, aud. ac.-Wm. John Ward, Folkestone, Kent, innkeeper, Nov. 2 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac. -B. R. Waite, Wormwood-street, London, butcher, Nov. 2 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-E. Ground, Leverington Parsondrove, Cambridgeshire, grocer, Nov. 2 at Manchester, silk manufacturer, Nov. 7 at 12, District Court 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Wm. Coveney, of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; Nov. 14 at 12, div.— Richard Brownlow, Manchester, gum manufacturer, Nov. 2 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.Benjamin James and Thomas G. Hardie, Newport, Monmouthshire, builders, Nov. 16 at 11, District Court of Bankshoemaker, Nov. 2 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Brisruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.-Henry Amor, Bath, Somersetshire, tol, aud. ac.-John Thomson and Wm. Leith, Liverpool, timber merchants, Nov. 2 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Frederick Smith, Standon, near Ware, Hertfordshire, miller, Nov. 10 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Isaac Jones and Mary Browne, Highrow, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, lead and glass merchants, Nov. John Mason, and Alfred Mason, New Broad-street, London, 14 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-J. O. Mason, merchants, Nov. 16 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-James Woods, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Middlesex, tailor, Nov. 14 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.John Taylor, Hoxne, Suffolk, grocer, Nov. 14 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-John Bristow, Lewes, Sussex, tea dealer, Nov. 14 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.Augustus Hounsham, Portsmouth, Southampton, grocer, Nov. 14 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Chas. James Sanders, Collingwood-street, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, provision merchant, Nov. 14 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, Nov. 14 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Peter London, div.-Joseph Hill the younger, Southampton, builder, Perring Thoms, Warwick-square, Newgate-street, London, printer, Nov. 11 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-James Sherman, Brentwood, Essex, grocer, Nov. 11 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Thos. ChapCourt of Bankruptcy, Nottingham, aud. ac. and div. man, Leicester, worsted spinner, Nov. 21 at 10, District CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shown to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. Henry Knapp, Chelsea, Middlesex, builder, No. 13 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Charles Levet, Ely, Cambridgeshire, ironmonger, Nov. 11 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-John Milner, Devonshirestreet, Islington, Middlesex, stockbroker, Nov. 11 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Wm. Yorke, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, builder, Nov. 10 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Frederick Hawse King, New Shoreham, Sussex, carpenter, Nov. 10 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Benedetto Bernasconi, Red Lion-street, Clerken Company, Oct. 30 at 10, County Court of Suffolk, at Bury The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before Nov. 3 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. George Watmough, Manville-terrace, Maiden-lane, Kentishtown, Middlesex, carpenter. Nov. 3 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner MURPHY. Francis E. Steele, Norland-road, Shepherd's-bush, Middlesex, assistant to a licensed victualler.-William Louis Le Plastrier, Sidmouth-st., Gray's-inn-road, Middlesex, watchmaker. Nov. 4 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. Thomas Caffall, North-street, Maida-hill, Edgeware-road, Middlesex, plumber. well, Middlesex, looking-glass frame manufacturer, Nov. 10 To be granted, unless an Appeal be duly entered. PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. Edward Lawford, John Lawford, and Henry S. Lawford, Drapers' Hall, Throgmorton-street, London, attornies and solicitors. INSOLVENT DEBTORS Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy, and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from Process. James Swift the elder, Dawley, Shropshire, puddler, Nov. 18 at 10, County Court of Shropshire, at Madeley.- William Craddock, Abersychan, Monmouthshire, beer-house keeper, Nov. 9 at 10, County Court of Monmouthshire, at Pontypool. - John Williams, Denbigh, woollendraper, Nov. 9 at 11, County Court of Denbighshire, at Denbigh.-John Price, Worcester, tailor, Nov. 15 at 10, County Court of Worcestershire, at Worcester.-Wm. Bill, Mold, Flintshire, cooper, Nov. 7 at 1, County Court of Flintshire, at Mold.-Thomas Freestone, Foulden, Norfolk, rat destroyer, Nov. 9 at 10, County Court of Norfolk, at Swaffham. -John Elkins, Winchester, Southampton, innkeeper, Oct. 31 at 11, County Court of Hampshire, at Winchester.- - Martha Bamford, widow, Rochdale, Lancashire, out of business, Nov. 2 at 12, County Court of Lancashire, at Rochdale.-Robert Biddulph, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, commission agent, Oct. 27 at 10, County Court of Staffordshire, at Stoke-upon-Trent.Robert W. White, Pembroke, currier, Nov. 13 at 11, County Court of Pembrokeshire, at Pembroke.-Wm. Ward Moore, Maidenhead, Berkshire, out of business, Nov. 15 at 10, County Court of Berkshire, at Windsor.-David H. Taylor, Birkenhead, Cheshire, commission agent, Nov. 10 at 10, County Court of Cheshire, at Birkenhead.-Wm. Spence, Newcastleupon-Tyne, lodging-house keeper, Nov. 9 at 10, County Court of Northumberland, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.-J. Grantham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bricklayer, Nov. 9 at 10, County Court of Northumberland, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.-J. Critchlow, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, clerk to the Newmarket Railway The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before At the County Court of Hampshire, at WINCHESTER, Augustus Wise, Swanwick, near Pitchfield, labourer. Wm. Henry Moxhay, Bristol, omnibus conductor. TUESDAY, October 24. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM BRODRICK MITCALFE, Taunton-place, Re- |