The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Kelley and R. Kelley, Shepton Mallet, Somerset-
shire, grocers—E. W. Elmslie and W. W. Lee, Regent-
; street, Pall-mall, surveyors and architects—S. B. Pearce
and S. W. Johnson, Birmingham, printers—J. Manley
and R. Manley, Broadclist, Devonshire, millers—J.
Thomson and W. Young, Moor • lane, Cripplegate,
ribbon dressers—J. Cleave and E. Farr, Chorlton-upon-
Medlock, Lancashire, joiners and builders—H. Baldwin,
G. Browne, and J. Porter, Preston, Lancashire, wire
workers—T. 13. Whitfield and J. Hughes, New-street-
square, City, lamp manufacturers and ga!fitters—
R. Armstrong and J. D. Nicholson, Birmingham,
factors—H. Iliron and E. Prichard, Evesham, Worces-
tershire, chemists and druggists—S. T. Rogers, T.
Rogers, P. Bentley, and W. Vickers (as far as
regards W. Vickers), Nottingham and Wood-street, City,
hosiers—W. Pugh and C. Pugh, Blackman-street, St.
Mary, Newington, auctioneers—W. Chambers and W.
Gowing, Liverpool, ship chandlers and blockmakers---
S. Hyde, J. Lennox, and J. Jones (as far as regards J.
Lennox), Billiter-square, merchants—R. A. Cochrane,
C. Jackson, F. Wiggins, B. E. A. Cochrane, A. Wiggin,
J. Burrell, and W. Green, Chalford, Gloucester:hire,
prpir makers—R. Weare, W. P. Piggott, and T. Weare,
Birkenhead, Cheshire, watchmakers and opticians—M.
Banes and J. S. Fisken, Watling-street, sewed muslin
warehousemen—R. B. Sparrow and J. W. T. Imbrie,
Newington-causeway, tailors and drapers—F. Under-
wood and C. Underwood, Blackfriars road, tea dealers—
S. B. Yenning, J. Busk, J. M. Yenning, E. J. Jerram,
and C. J. Busk (as far as regards S. B. Yenning), Lon-
don, merchants and commission agents—J. Mason and.
W. Postlethwaite, sen., Kirby Ireleth, Lancashire, slate
merchants—E. Hughes and R. Jones, Liverpool, joiners
and builders—J. Bayley, T. Gwinnett and J. Bradley,
Broad-wasters, Leabrook, and Copy Collieries, Stafford-
shire, coal masters—lL J. Barrett, C. J. Ashton, and W.
R. Shaw (as far as regards W. R. Shaw), Kingston-
upon Hull, agricultural implement makers—W. IL Bill
and T. Hayes, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, oil and
grease merchants.
INSOLVENT PETITIONS.
John Russell, Manchester, bread baker.
Robert Chadwick, Manchester, assistant manager in a
cotton mill.
Charles Trimby, Bath, slater.
George Roberts, From°, Somersetshire, tea dealer.
Charles Smith, Bath, blindmaker.

Alfred Waddy, Bath, bookseller.
Samuel Postleth% aithe, Leicester, journeyman trimmer.
William Kemp, Chart Sutton. Kent.
George Brown, Alaid6tone, Kent.

Martin Harpham, Bureh:iu-the-Marsh, Lincolnshire,
collar and harnessmaker.
William Vowles, Bath, meat salesmen.
John Ashby, Bath, tea dealer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. S. Carnaehan, Glasgow, wholesale and retail drug
gist, to meet within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow, Nov. 23
•Ind Dec. 14, at twelve.

T. Brown, Airdrie, grocer, to meet within Forbe'A
Airdrie Hotel, Aii drie, Nov. 24, and Dec. 15, at one.
T. Simpson, Ferry-Port-on Craig, slater, to meet
within the Scutseraig Inn, Ferry-Port-on-Craig, Nov.
24, and Dec. 18, at twelve.
P. APLiAn and J. 11'Lean, Dundee, cabinetmakers,
to meet within the Bfitish Hotel, Dundee, Nov. 14, and
Dec. 14, at twelve.

J. Smith, BellEe'd, near Kinross, farmer, to meet
within the Ship ilotel, Edinburgh, Nur. 26, and Due.
17, at one.

D. Munro, Inver, near Tain, fish curer, to meet within
Mackay's Crown and Anchor Hotel, Tam, Nov. 26, and
Dec. 17, at twelve.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—lt is some gratification for us old tars to ice
occasionally some one take pity on us, and endeavour
to make those who have the power to do us justice.
There is not a man or officer in the navy but knows
that every word stated in your paper of the 13th, re-
lative to the navy, is most true, and even those that
have the power to remedy the existing evils must ac-
knowledge this.
But it is most extraordinary that it should be
supposed that the present system is either a cheap
or an economical one, when on a moment's reflection,
you perceive that the contrary must be the case.
For instance, when a ship is paid off the men are
" turned adrift," the consequence is that one-half of
them are lost to the service altogether, and when the
same ship, perhaps, is again commissioned, she has to
scrape together, as you observe, all the "long-shore "
vagabonds she can catch, and the ship takes three
years before she is again efficient.
This is not all; the officers get disgusted in finding
that with all their trouble of teaching and disciplining
a crew, that it is a hundred chances to one that they
or the service generally will, after that ship is paid
off, ever receive the benefit of their services, or ever
see those men again.
Another thing that disgusts a good seaman is his
bring constantly drilled with all the scum collected
every fresh commission, because they don't know
their duty; thus you may see a seaman gunner, who
perhaps has a first-class certificate from the Excellent,
mixed up with a lot of greenhorns, learning and bring
drilled at the cutiais or musket exercise, and perhaps
being taught the " duck-step" by a lance corporal of
marines, who has just come afloat for the first time,
and an old captain of a top being taught how to
haul out a " weather earing" by a young gentleman
fresh from school with his pockets full of lollypops.
Thus Jack, finding his proficiency saves him no
drills, takes it easy, and at last loses all regard to
smartness, or perhaps cuts a service where qualifica-
tion benefits him nothing, but rather begets him more
labour.

As for the reason we cannot get ships manned,
Jack, finding he has no home in England, and
perhaps no employment after his money is gone, he
goes to the Americans, Russians, or any foreigners,
where he gets double pay, and is always trew.ed
with respect as a superior seaman, and is the last
man they put to drills except to teach others.

Why should not there he barracks or guard-ships
at home or abroad for sailors, as well as soldiers, and
why not keep them on full pay always, the same as
the army ? Then their services could always be had
we then should always have able seamen to man our
ships, and our expenses would be less instead of
greater.
For the last fifty years this evil has continued,
and will until the Commons of England will put up
with it no longer.

I am, Sir, your*, &c.,
TOM BOWLINE.

MARYLEBONE SAV)
WELBECK-STREET.—Estabi
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PRC
PERIODS, DURING THE LAST

ENGS' BANK,
lislied July 5, 1830.
)GREss, AT SPECIFIED
SEVEN YEARS.