The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES.—MARcit 14.

I. Knight and J. Martin, corn merchants, Manchester—C. Fea,
woolstapler, Canterbury—J. Hale, maltster, Bromley, Middlesex—
J. Clark and G. Wood, dyers, Prestwich, Lancashire—C. Coles,
sen., and C. Coles ,jun„ West India brokers, Great Tower-street.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
C. and E. White, coal merchants, Lower Clapton—M. Hodgson
and J. Barwis, common brewers, Wigton, Cumberland —H. Mal-
lett and Co., Pyle, Glamorganshire (as far as regards H. Mallett)
—R. J. Minsher and J. Graham, tea dealers, Liverpool—ll. Stans-
field and C. Hoppe, Leeds—J. Whalley and Co., nurserymen,
Liverpool (as far as regards J. Whalley)—G. WasiiinAton and
Co.' engravers to calico printers, New Mills, Derby—F. Marris
and Co., merchants, Manchester (as far as regards F. Marris)—G.
Cochrane and W. J. Percival, Wickham Market, Suffolk—J. Foot-
man and J. Salmon, linen drapers, Harwich, Essex—A. and W.
Reid, furnishing undertakers, Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-
road—.l. Fletcher and .T. Corbett, linen drapers, Worcester—R.
W. and J. L. Cay me, glove manufacturers, Yeovil, Somersetshire
—J. Bennett and R. Collins, corn factors, Manchester—T. and G.
Wells, cabinet makers, Bedford—R. Ileathorn and W. S. Plane,
malsters, Gravesend—C. P. Devaux and Co., zinc manufacturers
—J. Cadman and A. Neugass, tailors, Sheffield—W. Sudren and
It. Glover, calico printers, Lancashire—G. F. Holt and 'l'. R. Hut-
ton, bill brokers, Jeffrey's-square, St. Mary-axe—T. Wilkinson and
J. Paton, soda water manufacturers, Manchester--J. J. Rippon
and W. W. Cutts, furnishing ironmongers, Castle-street, Oxford
street—R. Halland S. H. ILI-ley, wine merchants, North Shield.
—W. Copland and Co., milliners, Prince's-street, Hanover-square.

The Duke of Newcastle, (says the Hereford
Journal) has again been doing " what he liked with his own."
lie has caused all the poor families on his estates in York-
shire, Nottinghamshire and Wales, during the winter, to be
clothed, fed, and found in fuel, and has moreover taken off
"one-fourth of their rent from his Welsh tenants."

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Notwithstanding the long continuance of wet, and
general unfavourableness of the season, we are told that the
wheat plant in most situations looks kindly and promising.—
Hereford Journal,
• LORD BROUGHAM.-The cardinal distinction of
Lord Brougham's mind seems to be that faculty which is in
philoSophical strictness denominated the Intellect ; I mean
the power of acute, remote, and comprehensive mental vision
—the perceptive and reasoning faculty, the power of vast and
accurate observation, induction, and generalization. This
dominant principal may be recognised in all his productions,
written and oral. It constituted him the discriminating lawyer,
the triumphant pleader, tho champion of Parliamentary oppo-
sition, the sound though inexperienced equity judge, the " ml•
nister and interpreter of Nature" in physical science. In
connection with this feature of his Lordship's intellectual
character may be mentioned a power of abstraction to which
the records of biography scarcely afford a parallel, It seems
to be in his power to withdraw his mind to an indefinite de-
gree from the most pressing and disturbing calls on his atten-
tion, and to fix its whole force on subjeett the Mtist difEntilt
and remote. Thus we find him composing his most masterly
treatises on literary and scientific subjects, amidst the turmoil
and excitement of contested elections, and when in the Court
of Chancery breaking off for .a moment from an official letter
into a rapid analysis of a complicated train of reasoning, de-
tecting its fallacies or correcting its mistakes.—Pena
MURDER.--A widow named Hannah Smith, who,
with her child, a fine boy of six years of age, was residing at
the house of her sister and brother-in-lase, at Darlaston, Staf-
fordshire, was recently apprehended on a charge of having
killed her son, the child mentioned, by putting him down a
draw-well. George Wilks, the brother-in-law of the prisoner,
stated at the inquest held on the body of the deceased child,
that he was a gun-lock filer, and on the 4th instant he was
standing at the table in his kitchen packing locks in a basket,
when he heard deceased cry out, and looking round, he sar:
the prisoner in the act of putting him• into the well. The
well was about five yards deep in water, and twelve or thirteen
to the surface of the water. The moment he beheld this he
imbed towards her, and struck her back from time well, but it
was too•late. The witness stated his belief that had he been
but one step nearer when he struck at her, he should have
rescued the child. No time was lost; a man and a rope were
procured, and the body of the child got out of the well. A
medical man was sent for, and the usual means of restoring
animation resorted to, but without success. It appeared by the
evidence of the same witness that the prisoner had, about fif-
teen months ago, lost her husband by drowning, and that she
had not been quite in her right mind since. Before the loss of
her husband she was remarkable for her cleanliness of perstpn
but since his death she bud totally neglected herself, had be-'
come very dirty, and would lie in bed for days together, in a
state of abstraction. She had once attempted self-destruction
The prisoner-has six other children living. The jury returned
a verdict of " Wilful Murder.".-I&taffordshire Advertiser. ,