The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

PA RTNE RSII IPS DISSOLVED.

D., J., a., J., and N. Naylor, Anderton and Whitton, Che.
shire, salt proprietors—R. Rogerson and W. Hope,Alanches-
ter, suers—J. Wright and R. Miller, Manchester, calenderers
It. and P. Ainsworth, and S. Pennington, lltilliwell, Lanca-
shire, whitsters: so far as rehards S. Pennington—T. and It.
Joslin, Braintree and Chelmsford, Essex, grocers—C. May and
R. Knight, Ohl.street, smiths—T. and J. Roberts, New
Windsor, Berkshire, grocers.

The Inverness Courier says—" A cattle dealer
who had attended all the recent principal fairs in Scoiland,de.
dared, at Brentwood fair, that notwithstanding the high prices
which Scots cattle produced in England, he bad lost consider-
ably by the drove he had just sold. lie, however, signified it
to be his intention to return to Scotland, and bring another
drove fur the approaching fair at Ingatestone On being asked
by one of his dealers how he could muster sufficient courage to
go again to a market that had caused him already to be a loser,
he shrewdly replied,—' Can any man seek a parcel of money,
with an great a probability of success, as on the spot where he
lost "

A young man, of the name of Patterson, a com-
mon blacksmith at Donne, produced to us the blade of a pen
knife, in the centre of which he said would be found a por-
tion of straw entire, and Without having suffered in the small-
est from fire. The blade, which was well tempered, and
without the least flaw, was accordingly broken in the pre-
sence of several respectable individuals,
when a piece of
straw, as described was tinind .enclosed, although the metal
had repeatedly to be heated before It was properly tempered.
The young man had been induced to exert his ingenuity
in this way, in consequence of having seen in the news.
papers an account of a feat of the same kind produced
by the workmen of London who
it. The contrivance can
who challenged the workmen
of' some other place to equal
be of no practical use.; yet it shows what the perseverance
of an obscure individual can effect when aided by natural ta-
lents, and stimulated by that commendable spirit of emulation
which never fails to accompany the.pursuits of inborn genius.
He is at present only 20 years of age; an untutored country
smith, yet he has
roduced s p ecimens of his ingenuity in
various ways that would have. done credit to the more ea.
perienced artists of the metropolis. Of these we may mention a
p
pair of pistols, finished so highly thabthey excited surprise when
shown to makers in London. it is well known that articles of
this kind have to go through various hands ere they can be
completed—but our young workman, without any assistance
whatever, finished the inlaying in gold and silver, the engrav-
ing, and every other part, in a way that would have done
credit to him had he been regularly bred to every d.epart-
ment. We have been somewhat partricular in our description,
as it may be the mean of bringing into notice a young man
of modest and unassuming manners, and who has to struggle
against that obscurity too often the lot of genius.—(Stirling
journal.)

(On Thursday morning, as a man named Cropp
was walking at the bottom of the Marsh at Southampton, he
saw in the water what he supposed was a pair of trowsers, but
on examining it, he found, to his horror, a female child, wrapped
up, which some depraved wretch must have left there. An
inquest was held on. the body, and a verdict returned
-
".Found drowned."_. (Salisbury Journal.)