The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Haigh, J. Nicol, and J. G. Sale, joiners, builders,
and surveyors (so far as regards J. Nicol)—T. Acaster
and J. Hayes, York, linendrapers—T. and R. Ellington
—J. Pickles and A. Wilkinson, Leeds, cut nail manu-
facturers—U. Trotter and T. Young, how don, Northum-
berland, shipbuilders—C. J. Barker and W. Stewart,
Godalming, gardeners—F. Malpaa and J. Foot, Wor-
cester, drapers—ll. Ault and S. Wood, Manchester,
timber sell( rs —J. and 11. Dawson, Liverpool, ship-
builders—M. Simpsom and G. W. Gee, Scarb( rough and
Whitehaven, tailors—G. Beale, sen., G. Beale, jun.,
and T. J. Blackwell, Frowlesworth, Leicestershire,
farmers—J. Dugard and H. Tattoo, Birmingham, coach-
harness platers—J. and A. Green, Liverpool, pawn-
brokers—W. Walton and J. Harrison, jun., Darlington,
Durham, brick and tile manufacturers—G. T. Thco-
bald and J. B. Hammill, Westminster, general
merchants—G. Nelson and J. R. Teale, Leeds, cabinet
makers—R. Elliott and M. Hutchinson, S.,uth
Shields, grocers—J. and W.Underwood, Luton, Bedford-
shire, linendrapers—T. Nash, F. Selmes, and F. T.
Curteis, Southwark, hop and seed factors—C. Bunyard
and 11. F. Metcalf, City-road, seedsmen—T. Jukes and
C. Barrett, Tisbury, Wiltshire, surgeons and apothe-
caries—l. Northall and T. llipkins, Netherton, Worces-
tershire, engineers—R. Rath bone and W. H. Harris,
Queen's-row, Walworth, upholsterers.
INSOLVENT PETI rIONERS.
Jame, Salkeld, Colton, Lancashire, shoemaker.

Robert Peters, Chew Magna, Somersetshire, farmer.
William Cox, Chew Magna, Sornersetshire, farmer.
Charles Lloyd, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, coal

merchant.
John Crawshaw, Halifax, Yorkshire, farmer.
Thomas Perkins, Liverpool, shipwright.
Thomas Faircloth, Horningtoft, Norfolk, farm bailiff.
Sigmond Yager, Exeter, shoemaker.
Thomas Lurk, Stroud, Kent, pork butcher.
Ezra Miles, Stoke Hammond, Buckingham.
Phillip Griffiths, Wiston, Pembrokeshire, farmer.
William Carden Joues, East Ilsey, Berkshire, horse

agent.
Thornton Ousey, Staly bridge, Lancarhire, artist.
Henry Bunn, Worthing, Norfolk, butcher.
Patrick Burns, Liverpool, provision dealer.
George Turner, Liverpool, butcher's assistant.
Samuel Jackson, Newton, Yorkshire, farmer.
Edward Lampitt, Watlington, Oxford. attornoy-at-law.
Sydney Booth, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, tailor.
Thomas Slater, Kirkdale, Lancashire, stonemason.
Elizabeth Ms powder, St. Thomas the Apostle, Devonshire.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
R. Henderson, Overton Mills, near Greenock, paper-
aker, to meet within the White Hart Inn, Greenock,
Dec. 1, and Dec. 22, at eleven.
J. M. Houiton, Paisley, merchant and commissi, n
agent, to meet within the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley,
Dec. 3, and Dec. 31, at one.
D. M`Kie, Calside, near Whithorn, farmer, and manu-
facturer of and dealer in farina, to meet within Haw-
thorn's Inn, Whithorn, Dec. 4, and Dec. 25, at twelve.

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__pt .. or another trial of the Minx, V., r. eet i-- .ti
horse high pressure disc engine, when sh. Ai- • .'...,,,..i - , 41:
have made 4,659 knots, we find the fo ce..:.4lfr 4,
"The Minx is a vessel of 301 tons, origin irill, eitt, ..
from a design by Captain Sir William Sym. v. el. ciShiji,
engines of 100-horse power, ten times the horse power
of the disc engine of Bishop's patent tried to-day." It
is due to the ex-Surveyor of the Navy to state that the
Minx was not designed by him, but like the notorious
half-dozen batch—the Harpy, Lizard, Torch, Myr-
midon, Bloodhound, and Jackal—most of which are
now for sale ; like the Antelope, Oberon, and Triton,
built for the lonian Government, but repudiated by
them on account of their inferiority—the Minx was
designed by Mr. John Edye, the sole professional ad-
viser of the late Surveyor of the Navy, and the first
a,sistant to the present Surveyor ache Navy, The Fairy
ro) a! yacht, Mare and Co. (then Ditch burn and Mare),
having p'easrd Sir G. Cockburn both in respect of
her lines end speed, the " deputy surveyor" was
foolishly permitted (notwithstanding the failure of
ti.e " halt dczen") to try his hand at a couple of
screw steAtners to pos•ess, as gun• vessels, something
approximating to the qualities of the Fairy. The
result was, that the Teazr and Minx were con-
structed, the one of wood and the other of it n
with engines of 100-horse power in each : they were
launched about three years since and tried, when, in
consequence of the usual gross errors in c.dculation,
the vessels were so deep that one (Teazte-) attained a
rate of speed averaging about 6i- knots, and the
other (Minx) averaged about a knot faster. This
would not do, and it was determined that the en-
gines should be taken out and others of lesser
weights should be substituted. Accordingly 50-
horse engines replaced the 100 in the Teazer,
and she was sent to the coast of Africa, and the
Minx has been kept for various experiments in rudders
and high-pressure engines. So thoroughly ashamed
was Sir Charles Adam of these vessels, that he deter-
ainA to stop the building of any more of them, and
ordered the Boxer and Biter, which, as usual, had
been commenced before their "pattern " models had
been tried to be taken off the stocks at Chatham, and
not to be proceeded with. Sir William Symonds has
enoubh to answer for with respect to the construc-
tion of bad ships for the Royal navy, without burden-
ing his, conscience with the worse blunders of his
shipwright adviser; and it is only fair that he should
be absolved from the public reproach that attaches to
the Teazer and Minx, and some score of failures from
the Hermes, alias the Gulnare, down to those vessels.
It should be remarked that the - pressure of the 10-
horse engine was 551bs. to the square inch ; with the
ordinary marine engines the pressure, most proba-
bly, did not exoeed 71bs. or Blbs.—Herakt.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Fairy Royal
yacht, Commander Crispin, embarked their Royal
Highnesses the Princess Royal and Princess Alfred
at 12 25 P.M. to-day, at the Clarence-yard, and con-
veyed them, under the usual Royal salutes and cere-
monies, to Osborne, to join the Royal circle.
The Constance, 50, Captain Courtenay, was towed
out to Spithead this morning by the tug, and sailed
immediately for Deronport to be paid off.
The freight ship Waverley will leave Deptford on
the 29th inst. for this port, to embark draughts of the
44th and 69th Regiments, from Cowes, for Malta.
The freight ship Essex will embark draughts of the
16th, 36th, and 76th Regiments to-morrow,,at Cowes,
for Corfu.

ROYAL MARINES.

Captain Thomas Park, of the Chatham Division,
a gallant officer of 40 years' full pay service, having
retired, vice Brevet-Major Gordon, lately deceased,
the following promotions take place :
First Lieutenant Coode, of the Plymouth Divsion,
to be Captain, rice Park.

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Second Lieutenant Pearse, of the Artillery Corn•
panies of the Corps, to be First Lieutenant, vice
Coode.

A guard of honour was draughted from the Ports •
mouth Division this day to receive their Royal High-
nesses the Princess Royal and Prince Allred. Capt.
Nepean commanded.
Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, the surveyor of
the navy, visited Portsmouth on Monday to inspect
his last ship, the Constance, 60, which sailed for
Plymouth early yesterday morning to be put out of
corn mission.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 25.—The Pandora, 6, surveying
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander James Wood, will be
paid off on Tuesday.
The Britomart, 8, Commander Chamberlain, sailed
from the Coast of Africa on the Ist of November; and
will be paid off at this port on her arrival.
Mr. W. Langdon, son of Mr. Langdon, of this
town, has been appointed chief accountant and as-
sistant secretary to the Great Indian Peninsular
Railway Company, at a salary of about 6001. a year.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 27.—The Garland Dover mail
steam-packet, 120-horse power, Lieutenant Com-
mander Benjamin Aplin, arrived at Woolwich yester-
day afternoon, acd was taken into the basin to ba ready
for being docked ar.d refitted.

The Violet Dover mail steam-packet, 120-horse
power, Master-Commander Robert Sherlock, is
ordered round to Woolwich on the Ist of December,
r • have her defects made goof at this port.
The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Ross, was paid
off yesterday at the same time as the Investigator,
Captain Bird, and one sergeant, one eJrporal, and six
privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines
from each of the vessels rejoined the Woolwich divi-
sion from service in the Arctic regions. The
corporal of the Royal Marines on board the En-
terprise was promoted to sergeant on arriving at
Woolwich.
The Terrible steam•frigate' Captain Hope, C. 8.,
was visited to-day by her first-lieutenant, David
Miller, and two sergeants, one corporal, one bornba-
dier, and 50 gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery,
arrived at Woolwich barracks this afternoon, from
Portsmouth, under the command of Lieutenant
Thomas Quin Meade, for service in the Terrible.
The Vulcan steam-frigate was taken out of the
basin to-day, and instead of waiting to be taken to
Chatham by the navigators of the Horatio round to
Woolwich, she is to leave this port to morrow at eight
A.m., and will be towed by the Black Eagle, l\laAter-
Commander S. B. Cooke, and the Lightning, Master-
Commander Pettey, the parties to navigate her being
supplied from the Fi*ard and Black Eagle.
The keel of the Malacca, a steam-frigate, ordered
to be built by Mr. Moulmein, in the East Indio., was
laid on September 13. The length of the keel is IE7
feet, and the height of the knight-heads on the stern
from the under part of the main keel is to be 32 feet.
Mr. Mould has already supplied several vessels of
very creditable workmanship of the best timber the
country produces.

THE ROYAL YACHT AND HER Goss.--Under this
head we yesterday quoted a paragraph from the United
Service Gazette, setting forth the enormous cost of her
Majesty's yacht, which is set don at " nearer 200,000/.
thaa 100,0001.," and deprecating the expenditure of so
much money upon a vessel which has done so little
service as the Victoria and Albert for such outlay;
showing also that the vessel is " ordered to be docked at
Portsmouth to have an entire refit, and to have new
boilers.planned for her," which " will be the third sot
of new boilers within fire years." As such statements
are naturally calculated to mislead the public, we are
requested to contradict the statement as to cost, and to
set forth the reason of the change of boilers, as three
sets of boilers in five years bear the appearance either
of gross extravagance or dangerous mismanagement.
The first set of boilers, then, supplied to the Victoria
and Albert were what were termed "flue" boilers.
During the period comprised in the time of their being
put in the vessel until she had run a season and was
laid up for the next winter, " tubular" boilers had
been invented, and the Admiralty, judging that
a better speed could be got out of tubular
then flue boilers, decided on taking the latter
out, and substituting the newly-invented article. The
flue boilers were then taken out of the Victoria and
Albert, and put into the steam-sloop Devastation, in
which ship they now remain, about to serve a threo or
four years' commission. The tubular boilers put into
the royal yacht about five years and a half ago have
lasted ever since, without repair. On examination
lately, however, they have been found to require re-
pair; the Admiralty have therefore decided on taking
those boilers out (which, when repaired, are to be placed
in a war steam•sloop), and giving the Queen'a vessel the
benefit of all the science latterly brought to bear upon
boiler making, which, as compared with those made
five years and upwards ago, it is supposed and believed
will furnish a much greater power in the same space,
thereby accelerating the speed of the yacht half a knot
or more per hour, and consequently adding to the ecm-
fort and convenience of the Sovereign when travelling
by sea. To prove that the Victoria and Albert has not
had the money wasted upon her that the public might
infer from the paragraph in the professional paper
abovenamed, we have only to instance that in foul
weather she is a most comfortable "sea boat," and as
regards speed, we have merely to mention that last
year she steamed from Aberdeen to Osborne-house at
the average rate of 12 knots per hour, and in the sum-
mer steamed from Cowes roads to Cork harbour at the
average speed of 11 knots 6-10ths, and after landing the
Queen at Greenock, she ran Ilona that port to Cowes
roads at the average rate of 11 knots 7 -10ths.-7 ifnes.
Tyroostimickr. WIDOW AND ORPHAN
WO noticed, a tew weeks since, the appointment of a
provisional committee of compositors connected with the
daily press, for the purpose of drawing up a series of
rules for the guidance of a society having for its object
the affording assistance to the families of their deceased
brethren. The committee have just completed t'leir
labours, and issued a set of rules for the approval of the
trade. They have already received the names of about
three hundred compositors, expressing their willingness
to join the proposed society, and are daily enrolling
fresh names. A public meeting of the members of the
trade favourable to the object, will, we understand, be
held on Saturday evening, Dec. 15, when the rules will
be submitted for confirmation, and the necessary officers
appointed for the management of the society. By a
small weekly subscription the family of a member will,
at his death, receive a sum of twenty pounds.
VALUE OF LAND.—The Louth Advertiser states
hat an estate in that county has been disposed of at so
high a rate as twenty-six years' purehase,

MINTPAL
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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, :>cle Lessee and Manaer. uid Brompton.
TH ES EVENING
Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready;
Eogar, Mr. J. Wallack ; Earl of Kent, Mr. Stuart ;
Cordelie, Miss
Reynolds.
To be followed by the successful and laughable Farce, called an
4LARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan
Sweetapple, Mrs. i• itzwilliam.
To conclude with an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN
ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Mogg Snaggy,
Mrs.
rs. KEAN Keeley.
line notice will be given of the appearance oty Mr. and M.
The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.
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THEA CBE ROYAL. ADELPIII.
nde- the ritr,,tion Madame Celest,
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
COPSE.
To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO.
MESTIC ECONOMY. John Gramly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. GrumleY.
Mrs. F. Matthews.
To conclude with a new slippery skstch called lIRS.BUNIIIITRY'S
SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford Bob Twinks,
Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Bunbttry, Mrs. T.
Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.

ROYAL LYCRUM THEATRE.
'Under the Management ot Madame Vestal&
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Wlll be performed METHINKS; I SEE MY FATHER.
To be followed by DELICATE GROUND.
After which a new Farce, entitled DROP THE CURTAIN.
To conclude with RAISING TIIE WIND.
Dressisoxus, Ss.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; 26.1 asllerY, No
h sir-price 1- Any part of the house.
All applications for Priests Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 11,
Mew Bond-street.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox. Sole
EVENING Lessee and Manager.
THLS ,
Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE-
COND.
After which the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT.
Tip conclude with a sew comic drama, entitled THE LIFE
GUARDSMAN.

AS rub.l", ROYAL IMPHITHEATRI.
Pronrietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Immense hit I Moncrieff's New Pedestrian and Equestrian Ex'ra-
vaganza of Mr. b riggs in the " Pleasur s of Housekeeping and
Horsekeeping," having been received with roars of laughter and
shouts of approbation, will he repeated ever; evening until further
notice.—Mr. Batty has engaged the following eminent Gymnastic
and Equestrian artistes, Mr. Milner and his two sons. Messrs.
Crowhurst, A. Powell, A. Bridges, Mons. Valentine, and those ce-
lebrated Provincial Clowns, Messrs. Jackson and Wheale, who will
appear,

THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven with the
Grand national and magnificent Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO, in which Mr. Edward Gomersal will appear in his
original character of Napoleon.
After which Batty's SCENES OF TUE ARENA.
To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or
the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING A.ND lIORSEKEEPING,
in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a
long train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Baroucke, Go-Cart,
and other vehicles, will appear.
Itox-office open from Eleven till Fotr.
Vermeer, Mr. w. West.
Mr. BATTY'S Benefit Is axed for Monday, Dec. 3.

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TUE WEATHER.—Stni OrslcE, Nov, 28.
THERITOMXTER, Loviest, 22; Highest. 31; Noon. 25,

BAROMETER, 30.09.
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