The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-15 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

C. Blundell and E. Hagthorp, barge builders, Stramlon-the-
Green, Middlesex—NV. Fairbrother and J. Payne, linen-drapers,
Banbury, Oxfordshire—J. Trenholm, and J. Lowson, spirit-
merchants, Darlington, Durham—J. T. Whitebread and T.
shore, barge-masters, Clapton—G. and B. Tinsley, common.
brewers, Liverpool—W. L. Hearn and T. Staples, bookbinders,
Strand-J. and \V. Gunson, cabinet-makers, Lancaster—M.
Driver and G. Armitage, fustian_shearers, Manchester—J. Carr,
and Co., cloth-dressers, Leeds—T. H. Hurlston and J. Hadley,
linen-drapers, Birmingham—J Penny and T. Lucan, coach-
builders, Preston, Lancashire—J. and J.Worrall, dyers, Ordsall,
Lancashire—W. and M. Pride, warehousemen, Glamorganshire
Canal—T.Painter and J. Solfleet, common-brewers, Morice Town,
Devonshire—B. Palmer and J. Whitehouse, iron-dealers, Dun-
kirk-Forge, Staffordshire—J. Sutcliffe and ci., cotton-spinners,
Willow Hall,Yorkshire—H. Shaw and Co. Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire (so far as regards T. Shaw)—F. C. Swinden and L.
Leslie, jewellers, Birmingham.

FRENCH BLUNDERS.—A French author,
who recently published a " Tour through England," calls
plum-pudding poudin de plumb (lead pudding), and trans-
Ides SIIAKSPEARE'S Winter's Tale, into Conte de Mr.
Winter ! The Minister Pine, he says, was called Billy,
because he introduced so many Bills into Parliament.
SHERIFF PARKINS AGAIN.—SLANDER.--
It is not long since we had occasion to notice the result of
a suit for slander against Ex-Sheriff PARKINS, of London,
which was instituted by a citizen of A.bany, and resulted
in a verdict of heavy damages against the defendant. The
same unruly member which caused its owner such consi-
derable disbursements, has more recently involved him in
still further trouble. Another suit for slander, brought
against him by Mrs. ISABELLA BARD, was terminated
yesterday in the Circuit Court of the United States by a
verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of six thousand five
hundred dollars, damages and costs. The plaintiff was a
widow lady of irreproachable character, and the mother of
a large family; she kept a boarding house in Park-place,
in which the defendant was, for some time, an inmate,
and professed to take great interest in her welfare. Dis-
approving, however, of his management, she intrusted to
others some business that she bad previously confided to
him. Taking offence, he left her house, and uttered
expressions, at various times, derogatory to her moral cha.
rat ter, and injurious to the reputation of , her
house. To vindicate her fame from these aspersions the
plaintiff appealed to a court of justice, with the results we
have stated. In the course of the trial the Ex-Sheriff was
so restive that his Counsel, Mr. STAPLES, informed the
Court that he must abandon the cause, unless his client
was ordered by the Grua to conduct himself with more
propriety. The defendant promised not to interfere again ;
but, after the testimony was concluded, he expressed an
anxious desire to argue his own cause to the jury. This
was granted by the Judge on the ground that he was a
foreigner, unacquainted with our institutions—and lest an
impression might get abroad, unfavourable to the liberality
of our courts of justice, this liberty was permitted to him
which would have been denied to one of our citizens. He,
accordingly, summed up the case by a speech of two hours
and a half, in which his range of remark teas often very
wide of the issue.

THE CRIsIs OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION.
--Thewas
formed
Committeei n of
this
town the A S
in
the n Anti-Slavery eor Society,
of last
which
year,
held
special meeting on Monday, 6th inst. to deliberate on such
measures as it might be deemed expedient to adopt in the
great emergency which has arisen in the progress of this
important question. Our esteemed representative, THOMAS
NIARSLAND, Esq., with an honourable adherence to those
principles which, when a candidate for the suffrages of
his fellow-townsmen, he avowed on this subject, attended
the meeting, and presided. It was resolved to edll in.
stantly upon the inhabitants of Stockport to unite at this
important juncture in petitions to the Legislature, and
thus to strengthen the hands of his Majesty's Ministers,
who have undertaken the " safe end satisfactory" settle-
ment of this anxious question. Two gentlemen also were
appointed to proceed to London, in concert with similar
deputations from other parts of the country, to declare to
the Colonial Minister, the feelings of their respective
neighbourhoods in favour of the immediate abolition of a
system which they regard as the greatest of existing
abuses. A subscription was opened in aid of the funds of
the society ; JAMES HEALD, Esq., with his wonted libe•
rality, presented a donation of 201.—.Stockport Advertiser.

Our first care landing had been to negotiate for
horses to convey ourselves and our baggage to Nauplia.
We were quietly eating our breakfast, in expectation of
their arrival, when a messenger came in breathless haste to
announce that a party of irregular soldiers, or Albanese,
as they are generally called, was coming down to pillage
the place. We immediately re-shipped all our baggage,
and, having prepared our arms, awaited the arrival of
these formidable brigands. In the meantime, the news
had spread the utmost terror and confusion through all
the inhabitants of Epidaurus. The women and children
crowded around us, weeping, screaming, wringing their
hands, exhibiting in every gesture the most abject despair,
and imploring us with mote than Irish volubility, to take
them on board our caique, which was the only vessel in
the harbour. Some of them looked like demoniacs in the
frenzy of their terror. To comply with their demand was
of course impossible, for our boat was a very small one,
and we might he obliged to have recourse to it for our
own safety. We told them, however, that if they wished
to put any of their valuables on board, we would take
them under our protection. Accordingly, the men
brought their arms, pistols, muskets, and yataghans, and
in such quantities, that we could not help asking why
they did not retain them, and use them for their own de-
fence, instead of submitting to be pillaged and abused by a
body of ruffs ens, who probably were not equal to them-
selves in numerical amount ? "We dare not resist,"
they replied ; " we might drive them away to-day, but'
they would return to-morrow with greater force, and our
fate would be worse than ever." We said 01l we could to
rouse them to a vigorous resistance, but our persuasions
were unavailing ; their spirit seemed completely broken by
a long course of suffering and oppression ; they had been
scourged and trodden into passive abjectness.
The Albanese soon appeared. They were, as I had
conjectured, a straggling party, without pay, and without
leader, and subsisting entirely on pillage. The whole of
Greece is overrun with similar bands. A more squalid,
ferocious, ruffian-looking set of men I never beheld. They
were filthy in the extreme ; their dress was torn and
ragged, and their coutenances denoted long endured fa-
mine and hardships. They all carried two_ enormous
pistols and a yataghan in their belts, and a long gun over
their shoulders. They saw at once that they had no re-
sistance to encounter, to set about their errand vigorously,
seizing every thing in the way of food or ammunition they
could lay their hands on. The people, subdued to the
cowardicia of silent indignation, stood quietly by, watching
the seizure of their stores without venturing even a re-
monstrance. I was equally disgusted with the dastardly
endurance of the one party, and the brutal oppression of
the other. The brigands, after rifling every house, ex-
cept the one in which we had established ourselves,
began to least upon their spoils. They were soon intoxi-
cated, and their brutality then became unbridled. Their
conduct was that of utter barbarians. They insulted all
the women who had been foolish enough to remain in the
village, and the men did not dare to interfere. I could bear
the scene no longer, and strolled towards one of the remoter
houses, when a loud scream arrested my attention, and
a young woman, with a babe in her arms., rushed out of
the door, pursued by one of the Albanese. My indiota-
tion had before wanted but little to make it overflow; so,
looking this way and that way, like Moses when he slew
the Egyptian, I rushed after the inebriated ruffian, and
brought him to the ground by a blow with the butt-end
of my carbine. He fell with great violence, and lay for
some minutes insensible. I took his pistols and yataghan,
and threw them into a marsh close by, and then went up
to the poor woman, who was terrified to death, and led
her to a thicket of thorn trees, where she was not likely
to be discovered. Here we remained till nightfall, when
we ventured from our hiding-places, and found that the
Albanese had retired, and were probably gone to repeat
the same scene at some other village.
The next morning we procured three horses for our
baggage, and proceeded to Nauplia on foot, passing
two other bands of brigands on our way, with
one of whom we narrowly escaped a fatal quarrel. These
bloodhounds swarm in every part of Greece, and till they
are utterly extirpated there will be neither security nor
peace. It is to be hoped that this will be one of the first
treasures of the new government.

HATTON- GARDEN.--Yesterday GEORGE
DAVIS, charged with the wilful murder of THOMAS
COOPER, was re-examined, and fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
THE ARMS OF NAPOLEON.—We an
nouneed t;trine time aeo the opinions of eminent counsel
that the arms of NAPOLEON, bequeathed by him to his'
son, and reserved in trust, to be delivered to him at
period fixed by the ex-Emperor, became, by the death of
the Duke de REICHSTADT, the property of France. This
opinion has since been confirmed by the adhesion of nu.
merous members of the bar, all of whom agreed that the
Archduchess MARIA Louisa could have no claims to them
whatever. The question which remained undeci ed,
seems now to be set at rest, in conformity to the counsels'
opinion, by the following letter, addressed by the
eldest brother of the late Emperor to the gentle-
men who signed the opinion :—" London, April 28,
1833.—Gentlemen,--Your opinion on the arms of
the Emperor NAPOLEON appear to me decisions which
cannot be invalidated by the public or by the
tribunals. Let these arms be appended, by General
BERTRAND, to the national column, and confided to
the protection of the people of Paris ; he who received
them from NAPOLEON with his list bre ttb, cannot betray
his wishes, by delivering them into the hands of enemies,
of whatever country they may be. Let us not demand
more at the present moment; when the exile and disper-
sion of the family of NAPOLEON still exist, ought not this
column to receive his ashes ? Should not its summit be
adorned with his statue? The nation will show itself
just when it shall have become itself by the destruction
of the treaties of 1815, which maintain the an ti-national
system imposed upon it by a few men who have formed a
wrong opinion of the public wishes. As to the family of
NAPOLEON, whatever may be said to the contrary by
crafty enemies, they have no other pretension than that
of serving their country. Their only right, as that of all
who are oppressed, consists in raising their voices against
the oppressors who exclude them from their native
country. Accept, &c. JOSEPH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."

WORKS TO BE EXECUTED IN THE GAR-
DEN IN THE ➢fONTH OF MAY.—As asparagus will now
be fit for cutting—my first observation shall relate to the
most . approved method of performing this, which is not
so simple as may be generally supposed. If you have ever
examined the crown of the plant in the budding season,
you will have remarked that, besides the fine shoot you
are abut to cut off, there are many others in various
stages of their growth under the surface—•and it in cut-
ting the one you maim any of the rest, you destroy those
shoots, and may materially injure the crown itself. Now,
on the continent, where they are very careful gardeners,
they male use of an implement for this special purpose,
not unlike a locksaw, but narrower, longer, and finer ;
the blade being about eight inches in length, one inch wide
at the haft, and terminating in half a❑ inch at the point,
which is rounded, and the blade, instead of being sharp,
has a fine serrated edge. The rounded point, when sunk
gently, will not injure the starting buds, and the serrated
edge will not slip, but merely cut the stem to which it is
applied. I have another hint or two for you also, unless
where you are like me, very impatient, and mean, according
to my former suggestion, to sac, ifice a few beds for an
early cutting :—I would wish you to observe this rule ;
don't be tempted to. cut the largest shoots—in the third
season from making a successful plantation ; from
each crown, four shoots may probrsbiy appear at the same
time, two of them perhaps large, and two small ; be con-
tent with one large and one small one, leaving the others,
and especially the strong one, which is the best calculated to
supply the returning sap, in abundance, to the increasing
root. One word snore—let no avarice or economy, or
limitation of garden soil, induce you to sow or plant any
other crop on your beds, or in your alleys. I have seen a
square of asparagus beds trampled into a flag, by a lazy
gardener, or his lazy labourer, crossing the beds day after
day, to cut a crop of cauliflowers from the intermediate
alleys.—Carrots, parsnips, and onions you must now look
to, and clear perfectly from weeds. I gave you a smart
lecture upon thi:, subject in the last month, if you attend
to it well, but don't neglect your operations to the same
effect in this month also ; and mind that you stake your
peas neatly, sad earth up your growing crops which are
in rows, and if the weather be dry, don't forget the water-
ing pot ; and persecute the slugs and snails, and now we
shall see what is to be dune in your nest naontb.—Doyles's
Practical Gardening.

GREAT HAVOC AMONG SHEEP.—Thurs-
day night, the 2d of May, the sheep folds of GEORG!,
WEBB HALL, Esq., of Sneed-park, near Bristol, were
entered by two dogs, which had been engaged in the work
of destruction, it appeared, a considerable time. When
the remains of the flock were inspected in the morning,
there were found 26 sheep and lambs killed, 36 severely
wounded, and upwards of 200 worried and injured from
fright, &c. The damage done was upwards of 5001. The
dogs were sporting dogs.--Bath Journal.
FACTORIES COMMISSION.—We have been
favoured with the following extract from documents
furnished to the commissioners in the above inquiry, which
we publish because it will give some idea of the importance
of the cotton trade to this town. Thirty-six master
spinners and manufacturers employ in their mills 11,444
workpeople, whose wages amount to 6,6391. Bs. 101.
weekly ; of these 320 are betwixt 9 to 10 years of age,
384 betwixt 10 and 11, '7lO betwixt 11 and 12, 2,923
betwixt 12 and 18, and 7,101 upwards of 18 years of
age. Many mills are not included because no returns
have been made.—Stockport Advertiser.

Several meetings took place yesterday in
various parishes in Westminster and Alarylebone, on the
subject of the assessed taxes, for the purpose of organizing
measures for obtaining the entire abolition of the above
unequal and oppressive imposts. Several brokers at-
tended in all instances, and declared their determination
to co-operate with their neighbours in the object proposed
by the committees of the combined parochial association.

Three noted informers paid a kind visit of in-
quiry to the inhabitants of Windsor by one of Thursday
morning's coaches. They had scarcely set foot on terra
firma, however, before their advent was proclaimed in
various quarters, and it was soon agreed to get up a practi-
cal joke at their expense. For this purpose some persons
adroitly man iged to cultivate their acquaintance, and then
plied them with copious libations until they became reeling
drunk. In this state their faces were most scientifically
painted with red-ochre, while their delicate persons were
first smeared with stale yeast, and then rolled in the dust
until they had attained a considerable incrustation of mud.
In this grotesque fashion, they were marched in all due
state, to the parish pump, for the purpose of having their
bodies purified by ablution ; but as the last scene of this
serio-comic drama was about to be performed, in stepped
the parochial authorities, and rescued the poor devils out
of the hands of their tormentors, and, to the satisfaction of
all parties, they soon after escorted them out of the town.—
Windsor Express.

Monday evening an inquest was holden at the
Town-house, in the Mile-end-road, before Mr BAKER,
on view of the body of MARIA OWEN, a fine young
woman, 22 years of age. From the evidence it ap-
peared, that the deceased had been courted for nearly three
years by a young man, a sailor, and they were to have
been married un his return from the East Indies. In the
early part of last week, she received an account of the
death of her lover, on his homeward passage, of yellow
fever. This circumstance preyed heavily on her mind,
and from the first moment of hsr hearing the news, there
was a most marked difference in her manner. On Friday
afternoon she left the house of her fither, and in a short
time afterwards her bi,dv was taken out of the Regent's
Canal, ne ir the Globe Bridge. It was the belief of the
Coroner and Jury, that the unfortunate deceased had
thrown herself into the water, but there being no evidence
of the fact, they returned a verdict of " Found drowned."

DISTRESSINGCIRCUMSTANCE.-A respect.
able clergyman of Exeter, who has for some years past
been suffering, both mentally and pecuniarily, from the
depredations of an unprincipled and abandoned son, has
had his cup of bitterness suddenly filled to the brim, in a
manner so exceedingly painful as to resemble rather the
catastrophe of some work of fiction than the incidents of
ptivate life. His son was tried at the late Somerset As-
sizes, at which he was convicted of burglary, and sentenced
to transportation for 14 years. His mother left Exeter
a few days ago for Plymouth, to take her last farewell of
the boy, who had, for a long time past, embittered every
moment of her exis,ence. She saw him, took leave of
him, and the day following was placed beyond the power of
grieving over his trangressions. She died. The unfortu-
nate father, embarrassed by the repeated demands on his
finances by the long-continued career of guilt of his son,
was arrested soon after the departure of his wife, and the
intelligence of her death reached him in prison. A few
friends, commiserating his unfortunate condition, raised a
subscription to pay his obdurate creditor, and the worthy
but unhappy gentleman was allowed to depart for Ply-
mouth, and pay the last mournful obsequies over his
broken-hearted partner.
LOVE-A-LA-MODE ON THE HIGH SEAS.-
On the quays of such a harbour as Greenock, where
ships arrive from, and depart for, all quarters of the globe,
scenes the most romantic and affecting are of daily occur-
rence. The bright and joyful countenances of newly
met, but long divided, friends and relatives, and the briny
tear, the throbbing heart, and " the long and last adieu"
of those who are about to part—perhaps for ever—often
e use the bystander to " feel the keenest sympathy, and
drop a kindred tear." Next to the separation in death is
the separation of the exile or the emigrant from " friends,
and home, and native land," prepared and resolved, if
possible, never to return. The last embrace of such a
one is like the death-grasp of the dying ; and it is only
those who possess the firmest nerve that can witness such
scenes and remain unmoved. With many who are spe-
cially concerned the case is often worse than death. A
few days ago the good old ship Jamaica, sailed for Mon-
tego Bay, her second voyage this season. In October
last she left Greenock with goods and passengers for Ja-
maica. After being at sea nearly two days, one of the
crew had occasion to descend to the hold in search of
something, when he discovered a young lady concealed
among some I:amber. Surprised at such a discovery, he
immediately gave intimation to Captain HYNDMAN, who
shrewdly suspected that she would be an attache of one of
the male steerage passengers, a Mr. ARCHIBALD ..-
Consequently, all was now excitation on the quarter-deck,
and Mr. CAMP➢ELL, first mate, was ordered to take the
supposed lover with him (on some other pretence), to
assist in removing the young lady from her hiding place.
He unwittingly consented, when, on a light being placed
at the entrance of the recess, a deep-drawn sigh was
heard, and a female voice exclaiming—" 0 Axcnv,
ARCHY !" Sod] an unsuspected discovery so completely
" ARCHY," that he lost the whole of his five
senses at once, and became utterly unable to assist in re-
moving the love•born maid, whose limbs had become be-
numbed by the crammed posture in which she had been
so long concealed. She was taken to the cabin, where
every attention was paid to her by Captain HYNDMAN
and Mr. CAMPBELL ; and after presenting her with a
little money, which, in the hurry of embarkatio❑ she
completely forgot to bring with her, the ship Lore in upon
the south point of the Isle of Arran, and a boat put off
to the shore with the luckless maid. On re-ernf arking,
she gazed wisttully on " ARCEIY," as if humming to her-
self—

" Look kindly or cauldly, but bid me no lea' th..e;"

She WAS put on shore onKildonnon Point, many a long
league from her father's house. It may be added that the
young lady Was a daughter of a gallant Colonel not a
hundred miles from the head of Loehfine.—. Glasgow
Courier.