Dividends:

Adam, E. C. B., printer, &c. First of 1s. 3d. Laidman, Newcastle.

Harper, S. B., newspaper proprietor. Second of 5jd. Turner, Liverpool.

Bankrupts:

Andrews, Charles, Cheltenham and Charlton Kings, bookseller, stationer, newsagent. &c.; solicitor, C. H. Jessop, Cheltenham.

Backhouse, Mrs. Margaret, High Street, Wells, Somerset, bookseller, printer, and publisher; solicitor, H. R Sheppard, Wells.

Collins, Alfred, Brewer Street, preparer of photographic papers; solicitors, Stocken and Jupp, Gracechurch St. Fisher, Charles Musto, Holly Road, Twickenham, late stationer, &c., Peckham; solicitor, R. J. Dobie, Basinghall Street.

Gage, James, and Robert Gray, Glasgow, booksellers and publishers. Claims by Jan. 21.

Hodges, John, Frome, Selwood, bookseller, printer, and publisher; solicitor, E. G. Ames, Frome.

Leno, John Bedford, Drury Lane, trading under name of Westminster Printing Company; solicitor, J. B. Pittman, Guildhall Chambers.

Mardon, John, Ramsgate, printer, stationer, &c.; solicitor, W. C. L. Bowling, Ramsgate.

Moses, Henry, Wheeler Street, Shoreditch, printseller, &c.; solicitor, J. Edwards, Bush Lane.

Paine, William, and Micheal Paine, Stratford-on-Avon, newsagents, &c.; solicitor, J. E. H. Greves, Stratford-onAvon.

Rott, Henry, Swansea, lithographic printer and engraver ; solicitor, H. Morris, Swansea.

Sala, George Augustus Henry (known as George Agustus Sala), Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, newspaper correspondent and contributor to a daily newspaper; solicitors, Lewis and Lewis, Ely Place.

Scoffern, John, Beresford House, Beresford Terrace, Kensington Park, author, &c.; solicitor, R. J. Dobie, Basinghall Street.

Streat, Robert, Bridgewater Square, account-book manufacturer; solicitor, W. Hicks, Basinghall Street. Viles, Henry Andrew, late Carey Street, publisher. Wells, William Henry, Park Road, Teddington, late St. Leonard's-on-Sea, stationer, &c.; solicitor, W. E. Goatley, Bow Street.

Assignments, Compositions, Trust Deeds, &c. :

Barratt, Frederick Reeves, Peterborough and Oxford, music seller, &c.; trustee, John Hopkinson, Regent St. Barringer, William Salmon, Edwards Street, Portman Square, proprietor of the Marylebone Literary Institution and Club; trustee, Henry Hale, gentleman, Gray's Inn Road.

Bennett, William, Ampthill, commercial traveller. Comp. of 28.; 18. in 3 and 6 months.

Blake, Alfred John, Salters' Hall Court, Cannon Street, envelope stamper. Comp. of 18. immediately. Cane, Richard William, Southampton, musicseller. Comp. of 5s. by two equal instalments, on 7th Dec. and 7th March. Secured.

Clark, Samuel, Amen Corner, music publisher. Inspectorship and covenant to pay trustees £50 on Nov. 19, Jan. 19, May 19, and Aug. 19 in every year, until debts are paid in full. First on Nov. 19; trustees, Nathaniel White and Frederick Renard, gentlemen, Barge Yard Chambers, Bucklersbury.

Coker, James Thomas, Little Britain and Bromley Road, Commercial Road, Stepney, printer. Comp. of 2s. 6d. in 14 days.

TRADE AND LITERARY GOSSIP. PROSPECTS OF THE SEASON, 1867-68.The next number of the BOOKSELLER will contain our Annual Notice of Books promised, or likely to appear during the forthcoming season. For the purpose of making this as complete as possible, we shall be obliged by Advertisers sending their lists early in October.

Dalton, Charles Stanley, Hanway Street, stationer, &c. Comp. of 2s. on 1st Oct.

Doran, Edward Joseph, Duke Street, Liverpool, printer. Comp. of 2s. in one month from registration. Farrand, Banks, Gaol-Gate Street, Stafford, bookseller and stationer; trustees, Henry William Fourdrinier, wholesale stationer, Sherborne Lane, and Robert Warne Routledge, publisher, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. Foster, Edward Phillipson, High Street, Peckham, stationer and printer. Comp. of 5s., in 3, 7, 10, and 18 months; trustee, William Williams, stationer, Southampton Street, Camberwell.

Hamer, Alfred, Horsforth, paper manufacturer; trustees, Samuel Bentley Shann, manager, and John Kirk, rag merchant, both Leeds; solicitors, Snowden and Son, Leeds.

Hazard, John Lewis, and James, Camden Street, Islington Green, printers. Comp. of 5s. 6d. by two equal instalments at 3 and 6 months.

Leach, Samuel, Middlesborough, printer and stationer, &c. Comp. of 78., by instalments: 38. on 22nd Jan., 2s. on 1st June, and 2s, on 1st Oct., 1868; trustees and inspectors, George Bottomley and George Watson, Justices of the Peace, Middlesborough.

Mason, Robert Hindry, Old Bond Street, London, and St. Giles Street, Norwich, trading under firm of Mason and Co., photographers. Comp. of 1s. 6d. in 3 months. Matthews, Robert, Bow Street, Sheffield, stationer; trustees, Edward Weston, newsagent, and John Aizlewood, miller, both of Sheffield.

Stead, Francis, Frith Street, Soho, engraver. Comp. of 58., by four equal instalments at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months from date of deed; trustee, William James Fryer, jeweller, Owen's Row, Clerkenwell.

Wesley, William, Fleet Street, bookseller. Comp. of 3s. in 4 months.

Partnerships Dissolved:

Fegan, John, James Hyland, and Thomas Lennon, Sally
Park Mills, Clondalkin, Dublin, paper manufacturers.
Debts paid by Fegan.

Finlayson, William, and Eleanor Elizabeth, Cheltenhamn,
music sellers and dealers.

Fleming, Josiah, and Henry Bates Moore, Leicester,
printers, engravers, and embossers, Debts paid by
Fleming.

Hutchison, James, and James Carrick, Jamaica Street,
Glasgow, printers. Debts paid by Hutchinson.
Jenkins, B. G., and E. D. Babbitt, Paternoster Row,
publishing the Babbittonian penmanship.

King, John, and Richard Loder, Little Knightrider Street, and Huggin Lane, wholesale stationers. Debts paid by King.

Macnab, James S., and D. Lamond Macnab, Miller Street,
Glasgow, printers.

Rowney, James, and Clement Moses, importers of foreign paper and millboard.

Siebe, Henry Herepath, and William George Burnett,
Frith Street, Soho, lithographers. Debts paid by Siebe. I
Simon, Richard, and Thomas Williams, Lime Strest,
Liverpool, photographers. Debts paid by Williams.
Vint, Robert, Thomas Carr, John Samuel Burton, and
Henry Arthur Cave, High Street, Bishop Wearmouth,
newspaper proprietors, printers, publishers, and sta-
tioners, as regards Vint. Debts paid by remaining
partners.

Wilkie, Robert, and Alexander McGregor, South Bride
Street, Edinburgh, bookbinders. Debts paid by Wilkie.
Wilkinson, William, William Hall Burnett, and George
Hood, Middlesborough, booksellers, printers, publishers,
and newsagents. Debts paid by Wilkinson.

THE DOTHIE FUND.-The subscription opened for the benefit of the widow and family of Mr. James Dothie, assistant to Mr. Geo. Robertson, Melbourne, who was lost in the "London" in Jan. 1866, has been closed. £296 18s. 6d. was collected in Australia, and £257 11s. 6d. in this country; of this, £261 has been expended in stocking a shop at St. Kilda for Mrs. Dothie, and the remainder is invested for the benefit of the family.

BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. Subscribers will notice that they are requested to meet at 56, Old Bailey, on the 24th October, to consider the propriety of revising the rules.

ACCIDENT TO MR. BENTLEY.-An accident occurred to Mr. Bentley, the publisher, on the 21st inst., at Chepstow station, on his return from Tenby with his wife. Just as the up-train was in sight of the station, in hurrying after his luggage, he fell over the platform with great violence. It was only by his being dragged off the rail, where he lay motionless, that he escaped instant destruction. He was conveyed back to the Beaufort Arms by Mr. Watkins and Mr. White, under whose skill the fractured thigh is progressing favourably.-Globe.

THE SWINDLERS.-Such of our readers as may be favoured with orders from swindling firms at Manchester, or elsewhere, will do well to forward the orders to the police of the towns whence the orders are dated. Here is a reply from Dublin : "Yours of the 19th inst. has been duly received, and in reply I beg to inform you that John Crauford is merely a lodger at No. 6, Lower Jervis Street, and that he was on one occasion in custody here, and convicted for having obtained goods on false pretences, and is said to be living by a system of getting goods in a similar maner. (Signed) JAMES RYAN, Acting-Superintendent, Dublin Metropolitan Police Office."

Mr. Holmes informs us that he has recently sold Mr. Porteus's business, High Road, Lee, to Mr. Sarjeant, late of Albany Road, Camberwell. Also, Mr. Edward Vallis's business, Swindon, to Mr. Joseph New, of that town. And Mr. Lewis's business (bookbinder), 22, Paternoster Row, to Messrs. Southgate & Long.

Mr. Bucknall, of Wigan, has transferred his business to Mr. Platt.

Mr. Warwick Savage, some years with Messrs. R. &. W. Wright, of Stafford, has succeeded to the business lately carried on by Mr. Bowering, of Burslem.

MIDDLESBOROUGH-ON-TEES.-Messrs. Burnett and Hood have retired from the firm of Wilkinson, Barnett & Hood, printers, &c., and commenced business separately. Mr. Wilkinson will continue the business he established, and is now sole proprietor of the Middlesborough Weekly News, hitherto printed by the late firm.

Mr. William Tyler, formerly of Bolt Court, printer, has been elected Secretary of the City Dispensary.

BIRMINGHAM.-Mr. Benjamin Hall has assumed as partner his old apprentice, Mr. Charles English, and the firm will trade under the name of Hall & English.

"Let the invoices

A HINT TO ASSISTANTS. be plainly written, and the figures plainly made; some we get are so difficult to read, and the figures so difficult to decipher, that one would imagine a spider had tumbled in the inkstand and walked over the paper, the scrawl is so wretched. We don't like to hurt anyone's feelings, but it is painful to see our assistants poring over the invoices, and wasting a morning in trying to make them out. Never put invoices inside goods, but always in an envelope outside, directed to us, as sometimes the invoice gets sent home with the goods, which is not very pleasant to J. & T. SPENCER, Leicester," who have printed the above pertinent remarks, and have sent copies to their wholesale correspondents.

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THE PERIODICAL PRESS.-We this month give our second instalment of a collection towards a history of the periodical press. This chapter relates chiefly to those papers which incurred a large amount of odium at the time of their appearance, but which most unmistakeably fought the battles by which our present freedom was It will be seen that all the agents in the great work were what one of our contemporaries would call "an inferior class of men," and consequently but little is known of them, and of the work in which they were engaged. From the difficulty under which we labour in obtaining information, our sketch is necessarily imperfect; but many of our readers will, no doubt, be able to fill up some of the missing gaps, so that, in a future number, we may complete and continue the chapter.

We have received information of several additions to our list of comic periodicals. "Mephis tophiles" flourished, we understand, for a week in London about the year 1859; the "Town Crier," a Birmingham monthly, filled with local allusions, is a well-written and clever paper, which has existed for about four years; various magazines and pamphlets written in the dialects of Lancashire and Yorkshire-of which the "Pogmoor Olmenack" may be taken as a fair representative-claim notice as comic periodıcals; and a whole host of London broadsheets published from time to time, principally with second-hand engravings, might be mentioned. Sufficient, however, for the day.

The National Atlas, published at 6d., by Mr. John Heywood, of Manchester, in small 4to, containing thirty fairly well engraved maps, neatly done up in half cloth, is without exception the cheapest atlas published in this or any other country. How it can been done for the retail price alone, to say nothing of any margin for profit is a puzzle we cannot solve.

TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS.-The Athenæum has discovered that " an inferior class of men" exist, in England. It consists of wholesale stationers, retired gentlemen of fortune, the son of an earl, a Wood Street warehouseman, and some others, who, having the misfortune to be the House Committee of the Royal Hospital for Incurables, have incurred the displeasure of the superior grade of beings who write in the pages of our contemporary, and under whose direction the polite tastes of the public are attempted to be guided. It would be a matter of some interest if the history of the writer of the article in question should be investigated by some of the "inferior class of men" mentioned by name in the Athenæum of September 21.

In anticipation of the great public interest which will be manifested with respect to Abyssinia, Mr. Stanford has just published a route. map of that country. The same gentleman has also published a map of England, showing the difference that will be made in the boroughs by the operation of the new Reform Bill.

Cheap editions of the "Excelsior" readingbooks have just been published by Mr. Murby, the price being about one-fourth less than before. This excellent series of Readers commends itself to the notice of teachers, as not only containing all that is necessary for the several standards, but also a great deal of useful information in an interesting form.

The Proof Sheet is the title of a new bi-monthly journal for printers, published by Messrs. Collins and M'Leester, type founders, Philadelphia.