The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-30 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Watt and James, of Bristol, and Wait, James, and Co.,
of Gloucester, general merchants—Joseph Henry Ferguson
and John Bell Muschamp, of Wareham, Dorsetshite, '
chemical manufacturers—lsidore Bloomenthal and John
Hunt, 9, Dover-place, and 8 and 9, Weymouth-place,
New Kent-road, wholesale stationers—John Hall and
William Wilson, of Manchester, ironmongers—Stephen
Cox and William Score, Gloucester, manufacturers of
vitriol—William Roebuck and Henry Roebuck, Hudders-
field, cotton warp manufacturers—Joseph Smith, Bernard
Smith,, William Stephens, George F. Barber, and Alex.
Brooks Millington, 30 and3l, St. Martin's-le-Grand, Man-
chester, warehousemen (so far as regards Joseph Smith)—
James Naylor and James Bennett, 2 .5, Oxford street.
ironmonmers—Peter A. Ermen, Friedrich Engels, cad
Peter J. G. Ermen, Manchester, merchants (so far as re-
gards Peter A. Ermen)—John Benjamin Franklin and
.lames W. Franklin, 48, Chapel-street, Islington, butchers
—Stewart Tourney and William Tinkle-r. 29, Bridge-house-
place, Newington-causeway, steam wheel manufactnms—
Stephen Oates and William Ashdown, late of 167, Picca-
dilly, gas-fitters—Edward Curphey and Thomas Quirk, of
Douglas, Isle of Man, grocers—Thomas Blayds Molynenx
and Laurence Frederick Keogh, of Liverpool, cotton
brokers —Robert Fagg and Thomas Davis, of 119, St
' John-street-road, Clerken well, mineral water mannfac
turers Richard Mills, Edward Webb, Frederick Stuart,
and Thomas Webb, of Wordsley, Staffordshire, glass ma-
nufacturers—john Walker Cane Browne Cane and Eenja-
min Stapleton, of Manchester, estate agents— atmuel
Orchard, ,Edward Willis, and James Berry Greening, of
Wheatsheaf-yard, Farringden-street, City, type and
plate facers (so far as regards Edward Willis)—George
Haden Hickman, Alfred Hiaktnan, John Stones, and
Joseph Stones, of Tividale, Staffordshire, ironniasters (so
far as regards Joseph Stones).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Jamieson, stne4- broker, Glasge.,v.
Stewart 11,111illan, singer and calico printer, KU-
' marnock.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, AUG. 29.

VESSELSENTERED INWARDS.—The Christianshaab, from
Dantzic ; Albion, Jemea ; Bertha, Memel; Flensborg.
Archangel ; St. Michael, Archangel ; George, Archangel :
Sea, Odessa ; Arno, Archangel • Jeus Norest of the Mingle,
Randers; Lezzie Aisbett, Gotlen burgh ; Ernst Brockle-
nrtnn, Archangel ; Belton, Nyland ; Alma, Skelleftea
Flora Kerr, Jamaica ; Telegraph, Quebec.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Happy Re-
turn, for Antwerp ; F'elicitas, Hainburgh : Johanna Maria,
Varel ; Malcolm, Geelong ; Lochnagar, Shanghai ; Emily,
Malaga ; Martha, Constantinople ; Mariner's Hope, Ant
werp ; Alfred, Calcutta ; Eliza, Bruges ; Yssel, Adelaide ;
Jan n eta, Sydney.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Royal Saxon
for Sr4dney ; Alert, Dunkirk; Elizabeth, Amsterdam;
Arnandee, Hamburgh ' • Great Britain. Quebec and Mon-
treal ; Esperanza, Punta Arenas; Matilda, Trinidad ; En-
chantress, Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ; Canneston,
Berbice ; Happy Return. Antwerp ; Industry, Brest ;
Manchester, Dunkirk; Christiana, Cornwall ; Busher,
Eussora.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Larne, bound W., July 22, lat. 47 N, long. 34 W.
The Anto2ope, Antigua to Dublin, July 28, lat. 63 N.
The Star 01 the West, Liverpool to Now York, July 21,
lat. 37 N. long:. 44 W.
The Jacob A. Westervelt, New York to Liverpool, July
26, lat. 44 N, long. 49 W.
The Eagle, of Glasgow, lat. 42 N, long. 13 W.
The Briton (barque) of Kirkcaldy, bound westward,
June 23. lat. 53 S, long. -5 W.
The Premier (barque) bound westward, August 22, lat.
50 N, long. 10 W.
The Mary Harrison, of London, August 20, lat. 46 N,
long. 11 W.
The Pendleton, Pill to St. John's, N. 8., August 23, lat.
51 N, long. 16 W.
The Naples, City Point to Liverpool, Aug. 7, lat. 37 N,
long. 73 W.
The El. Dorado, St. John's, N. 8., to Liverpool, Aug. 1,
lat. 42 N, long. 63 W.
The Gleaner, Jamaica to Liverpool, Aug. 4, lat. 25 N,
long. 80 W.
The Boston Light, New Orleans to Liverpool, Ang. 5,
lat. 31 N, long. 74 W.
The Hamilton Campbell, from Liverpool, Ang. 8, lat.
47 N, long. 52 W.
The Stephen Watson (brig),--of Sunderland, for Quebec,
July 25, off Cape Rozier.
The Jessie Boyles, St. John's, N. 8., to Liverpool, Aug.
7, let. 43 N, long. 60 W.
The Salamanca, Hong Song to London, June 5, lat. 44
S, long. 88 E.
The Flumbol it (Hambnrgh aue), Valparaiso to Lon-
don (95 days out), Aug. 8, lat.b 17rq N, long. 32 W.
The Augusta, of Yarmou
t. th C adiz to
38 W.
St. John's, New-
foundland, Aug. 18,
The Prince Albert, Jamaica to London, long. 47 W.
The Oromocto, of Liverpool, steering west, Aug. 12,
lat. 45 N.. long. 31 W.
The Alphonse N. Cenrd; London to Australia, July 5,
lat. 13 N., long. 26 W.
The Ellen, Sierra Leone to Falmouth, July 18, lat, 15
N., long. 22W.
The Adelaide, London to Demerara, July 18, lat. 7 N.,
long. 9 W.
The Princeton, New York to Liverpool, July 2, lat. 42
N.,long. 62 W.
he Ellen Oliver, Liverpool to Boston, July 16, lat. 38
N.. long. 37 W.
The Gertrude, Jamaica to London, July 33, lat. 26 N.,
long. 80 W., had been 10 days becalmed.
The Sumner, Canton to London, June 25, lat. 11 S.,
long. 97 E.
The Ship, No. 4389, supposed a transport, June 17, lat.
44 N., long. 12.

INCENDIARY FIRES AT MANCHESTER. -On Monday
evening, about a quarter pest eight o'clock, an alarm
was given that the cellar warehouses of Messrs. Wilkin-
son and Davison, calico merchants, Morley-street, Man-
chester, were on fire. The fire brigade were sent for
and arrived with an engine in a very short time, but in
the interval Palice-constable Andrew Action had
effected an entrance, and found that the cause of alarm
was a quantity of burning cotton wool wrapped in a
paper, which had been thrown in through a window,
and had done no harm beyond burning a hole in the
counter. A pane of glass had been newly broken in a
front window, most likely for the purpose of throwing
in the burning material. The warehouse extends under
three others, belonging to other parties, and had the
incendiary fully effected his object a large amount of
property would no doubt have been destroyed. An in-
cendiary fire is also reported to have been attempted on
Saterday night last.
Paacrrneen JOKING IN LIVERPOOL.—During the last
week a series of "practical jokes" have been perpe-
trated on Mr. Henry Hunt, of the Star Hotel. William.
son-street, Liverpool, believed to be the production
of a coterie of " strong-minded women," out of re-
venge to Mr. Hunt, who is a widower, for the suc-
cessful manner in which he resisted their individual
attempts to obliterate his date of single blessedness.
The facts are brifly these :—On Thursday morning
a violent knocking was heard at Mr. Hunt's door,
at an early hour, and on proceeding to ascertain the
cause, Mr. Hunt found a bevy of sweeps from rival
proprietors, who each had been furnished by a note
signed by Mr. Hunt, that all the flues in the house
required sweeping. Later in the same day, the house
was besieged with appraisers "to take an inventory
of the goods," and by messengers from tradesmen in
every quarter of the town with quantities of glass, gro-
ceries, &c. In the evening a journeyman joiner entered
the house to measure Mr. Hunt for his c ,ffin, and
having been told of the trick played upon him ap-
peared greatly disappointed. Several of the leading
medical practitioners were surnmened by the sime
hande,riting to call to see Mr. Hunt, who had, it
was alleged. been attacked with premonitory symptoms
of cholera. But the "unkindest cot of all" was reserved
for Friday morning, and when a hearse and two mourn-
ing coaches drove up to the door of the Star Hotel, and
the driver, in a sable suit and white choker, demanded
"if the funeral was ready." This was the most serious
'`joke," as Messrs. Busby, to whom the order was sent,
happeeed to have all their hearses and mourning para-
phernalia engaged, and were compelled, at an expense
of upwards of '6/., to borrow them from a rival pro-
prietor. Not content with the above and sundry other
performances, the " jokers" wrote copies of the m trriaire
of Mr. Hut with a Mrs. Grady. widow of a Tippevry
squire ; of the death ef Mr. Hunt, at his resi.l,nco,
avid of the birth, at the S at Hotel.
of the wife of Mr. H. Hunt of a son and heir, all on the
same day, and sent each to a separate newspaper. ‘Ve
learn that Mr. H. was successful in suppressiteer the
birth and his death in the local newspapers, but the fact
of his marriage crept into -everal. The authorities have
obtained a clue to the perpetrators ; and we fear, from
the nnrnlik, and reApeeta.bility of the " depcn," they
will prove but "sorry jests" if the per Orators are di.-
covered.- . V):
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