The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Mary Martyn and Elisabeth Dyer, Grosvenor•street
West, Eaton-street, Pimlico, milliners—S. Phillips and
J. Burton, New Broad-street and Moorgate•street,
timber merchants—R. Garrard, S. Garrard, and S.
Spilsbury, Panton-street, Haymarket, gold and silver-
smiths (so far as regards S. Spilsbury)—W. Whitridge
and R. T. Rhodes, Rabere-street, gold chain makers—
W. Archer and T. Serginson, Manchester, plumbers
and painters—T. Lucas and G. Lucas, Manchester,
engravers—T. W. Willett, Margate, and F. Willett,
Commercial-road. linendrapers—J. Hincliff and C. Hin-
cliff, Hepworth, Yorkshire, clothiers—J. Wales and C.
Wales, Leeds, painters—J. Lee, J. Wood, and G.
Bently, Bradford, Yorkshire, wharfingers (so far as re-
gards J. Lee)—W. W. Kett and H. Kett, Norwich,
linendrapers—D. Thomas and E. W. Thomas, Oswestry,
Shropshire, mercers—J. Oliver and J. Green, Cork-
street, Burlington-gardens, importers of silk—P. Dres-
cher and J. Shey, Kingston-upon-Hull and Scarborough,
watchmakers—S. Wood and T. B. Brown, Liverpool,
spice merchants—J. M. Clement and H. Adams, Devon-
port, coal merchants—H. T. Bussell and G. Damson, Lyd-
brook, Gloucestershire, mealmen—l. Robson, W. Smith,
and C. Evans, Huddersfield, grocers—J. H. Needell and
W. G. Langdoa, Old Change, Cheapside, calico printers—
T. Derbyshire and J. Holgate, Manchester, grocers—R.
Hargreaves and J. Marsdon, Little Bolton, Lancashire,
ironfounders—C. Wilkins, T. Carr, and W. Carr, Tiver-
ton-mills, near Bath, cloth manufacturers—T. B. Hawks-
ley and J. C. L. Marsh, Nottingham, surgeons—J.
Bryant and A. Ellis, Lewisham, drapers—F. Munday
and C. R. Pottinger, Harkwick-place, Commercial-road,
East, wine merchants—D. Grieef and G. Grief, Wool-
wich, bricklayers—G. C. Collyer and J. T. Blackmore,
Old-street-road, surgeons—J. Mack and 0. J. Williams,
High Holborn, chemists—A. R. Strong and F. G.
Strong, Long-acre, varnish manufacturers—T. Dewhirat
and T. Jamieson, Bradford and Leeds, sharebrokers—
T. Whitehurst and J. Bowden, New Brompton, brewers
—J. Brammall and B. Dickinson, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire,
file manufacturers—W. Jaggs and Mary Ann Tates,
Milton next Gravesend, licensed victuallers —G. E.
Waterton, P. Kagenbusch, W. Y. Dent, and Y. C.
James, Leeds, patent alkali manufacturers—G. Warwick
and T. Cox, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, linen-
drapers—J. F. Morice and D. Wilkinson, Liverpool,
ship brokers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
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Joseph Drury, Wellingrove, Lincolnshire, labourer.
Michael Weetman, Dodderill, Worcestershire, black.
smith.
Josiah Thomas, Huddersfield, railway clerk.
Watkin Williams, Birmingham, earthenware dealer.
Edward Mead, Birmingham, button maker.
Nathan Levi, Birmingham, dealer in watch materials.
Thomas Flynn, Birmingham, collector.
William Marment, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, farmer.
John Bridle, of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorsetshire, vic-
tualler.
Joseph Smith, Bristol.
James Bryant, Hanham, Gloucestershire, labourer.
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Thomas Haynes, Grantham, Lincolnshire, gardener.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
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W. Fearn, Edinburgh, leather merchant, to meet
within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh,
Feb. 24 and March 16, at one.

James Wright, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, wright, to
meet within the house of P. Buchanan, innkeeper,
Strathblane, Feb. 24, and March 16, at one.
David Stirrat, jun., Glasgow, merchant, to meet
within the King's Arms Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 21 and
March 13, at twelve.
R. Hall, Edinburgh, grocer, to meet within the sale-
rooms of J. M`Dowell, Edinburgh, Feb. 22 and March 13,
at two.

G. Armstrong, Edinburgh, tea dealer, to meet within
Stevenson's rooms, Edinburgh, yob. 23 and March 15,
at two.

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R. Laing, Edinburgh, paper manufacturer, to meet
within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh,
Feb. 23 and March 15, at one.

DUNDEE TRADE, FEB. 16.—Our trade has exhi-
bited little or no alteration during the past week. In flax
it is said that some transactions have been effected at
prices a shade lower than formerly, but we do not con-
sider that any further decline has been fully established;
and owing to the now reduced state of the stocks of some
kinds of flax, the course of prices will in a great measure,
depend on the probability of there being an early or late
re-opening of the navigation at the different flax ports.
In linen and yarns there is still very little doing, and
prices are yet without any improvement. The Gustav,
from Liebsu, with flax, codilla, and timber, arrived here
last week, after a passage of about six weeks.-Courier.
DEEP-SEA. EISUIN(*.—We are happy to observe
that the people of Elgin are going to work in the
.r.ight
way to secure constant supplies of fish. The committee
of the Working Men's Provision Association have taken
the thing in hand, and propose to establish a fishmonger's
shop, to be supplied by a deep- sea boat or boats. The
capital is to be raised by shares of five shillings each,
and at a meeting on Monday week fifty shares were taken.
Many more names have since been added to the list.
—lnverness Courier.

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TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir, —On 11 neseay the 16th, the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill was considered in Committ, e.
The most prominent part of the debate was the speech
of Mr. Gladstone. Moderate, sagacious, and just, he
is clearly one of the rising statesmen to whose care
we must bequeath our children when we die.
On local business, I presented the petition of your
solicitors for the removal of the certificate duty ;
which appears to have been the precursor of a general
movement on the subject. Ido not know whether
the petitioners may approve of their petition being
presented in what may be deemed a light vein. But
I beg them to observe, that by means of this I intro-
duced the answer to the stock fallacy adduced in this
and other cases, which is that the tax will be re-
covered from the consumers.
On Thursday was a Currency debate, curiously
got up in defiance of the appointment of a Com-
mittee. From the defection of the Scotch Members,
and other causes, there seemed to be an apprehension
in the House that Ministers would be in a minority.
The question however was carried in their direction,
by 163 against 122.
On Friday came on the Ways and Means, or what
is called the Budget. And here I believe I came in
some respects to different conclusions from some
in my neighbourhood. Having been art and part in
that great demonstration at Manchester, which though it
did not " go for gold" may be surmised to have been
the beginning of the movement which stopped the
progress of the war mania, I of course watched for
tokens of the effect on the measures of the Govern-
ment. And I must avow, if lam to speak my mind
honestly, that with certain exceptions towards the
conclusion of their proposals which shall be noticed,
I felt a firm and increasing conviction, that the Go-
vernment was doing precisely what considerate
and intelligent men would do in such circumstances
for themselves. The Government did not make the
war madness; it was the simple consequence of one
" untoward event," over which they had no manner
of control. The unfortunate letter, was the torch
thrown into the peace of Europe. Late and limping
apologies have been made, on the ground of its pub-
lication being unintended. Military men do not
often make such mistakes; and when they do, they incur
such consequences as leave small risk of the repetition of
the weakness. But if it was so, produce the culprits
and the evidence. Till then, the natural conclusion
will be, that the letter was cruising about for a
twelvemonth for somebody to publish it. It is
known that six months ago, it was in the state of
being a great secret on the continent. The letter
had carried a bitter feeling towards England into
every cottage in France, and was curiously
directed to calling upon Frenchmen to ran-
sack their history for causes of rancour
of which the existing generation hardly knew the
names. 'What modern Frenchman, for instance, ex-
cept professed politicians, knew or cared anything
about Toulon, till the schoolmaster called him up and
asked, " Where did the English burn a fleet, on pre-
tence of being the allies of France ?" But for all
this the Government was not to blame. One man
can set fire to a house, and six hundred and
fifty-eight men cannot put it out again. The
Government had nothing to do with any-
thing but struggling with the consequences.
It was clear, that in their position, they must do
something, and that anybody else in their place
must do it too. Assuming, therefore, that the Go-
vernment had as perfect an aversion to the origin of
the mischief as any that met at Manchester, still all
that it could do was to meet the mischief in the least
mischievous way it could. And this, till it came to
a point which shall be mentioned, I certainly
thought it was doing. The several steps pro-
posed with respect to the navy, the army, and the ord-
nance, all seemed to me to be the measures of men
desirous to see the end of the popular disease,
with as little in the way of apothecary's bill as would
satisfy the parish. They honestly declared their dis-
belief in the imminence of war. Two strong reasons
for joining in this, present themselves to my appre-
hension. One is, that peace between the French and
English nations was substantially concluded by the
events of 1830 and their consequences, It was a
peace, not between diplomatists, but between the
people on the two sides ; and what the people have
made, neither diplomatists nor militarists will break.
I saw at that period old colonels of the Empire, men
whose rank and prospects and ambition had been cut
down by the results of the war, going back to France
with tears in their eyes, and declaring that it never
entered into their thoughts that the English people
could behave as they did on that occasion. And the
next reason is, that the Government has, on the rising
questions in Europe, already taken the better part, to
an extent which settles anxiety on what their line of
conduct is to be. Hence that France at this moment
should be cherishing hostile designs is about as likely
as that she should be doing it when Englishmen in
Paris were demanding to carry a musket in the bar-
ricades. But notwithstanding this, it is impossible to
have a fire put out for nothing; the bill, therefore,
should be laid at the doors of those who fired the
train.
The point where my objections began, was at the
proposal for a Militia ; and one too, where, with that
awkwardness which often marks the proceedings of
the political denomination from which it came, it was
intimated to be desirable that substitutes should not be
allowed. Now on this I invite the most sifting
search. If more force is wanted, let it be fairly pro-
posed in the shape of an addition to the regular army,
and Parliament decide on it accordingly. A militia-
man does not eat less, cost less, than a regular
soldier. He is a regular soldier with the exception
that he is not to do a regular's work. An increase in
, the regular army is an operation which nobody need
hear of; but the creation of the novelty of a militia
, is sounding the trumpet to every clashing feeling
abroad and at home. In a militia regiment more
port will be drunk, and more offensive toasts
given to season it with,— there will be more
harping on every tender question both in home
and foreign politics, more quarrelling between the
aristocratic feeling of the officers and the popular
tendencies of the rank and file,—than in six regi-
ments of the line. The motto of the militia will ne-
cessarily be—" War with France and French opinions;"
without this, or without talking about it, they will
be nobody. And by way of helping, the men are
proposed to be raised by ballot, without allowing sub-
stitutes. Is there to be a Chartist company in a
militia battalion, or are they to be divided among the
rest that they may disperse their principles ?
Is a Chartist to have liberty of conscience
and of speech, or is he to be brought
up for unsoldierike conduct if in his sleep he names
the Charter ? If ever there was a way to get up a
collision and revive political animosities, it is this.
And to all this what is there to set off ? Simply the
desire to enlist on their side the ambition for militia
scarlet. There may be excuse for the uneconomical
force of a militia, which may be called an army with
one leg tied up, when the population is greatly ex-
hausted by military service, and it is expedient to call
on men for one kind of service who might not be
willing to give the other. But there is no such reason
now. Recruiting parties may not be very popular at
Manchester; but a conscription among the, working
hands, without allowing substitutes, will be a great
deal less. On all accounts together, therefore, the
plan of a militia seems to be about as wise as to re-
commend a man to tie up his leg and use a wooden
one, when he has got a good leg of his own.
There is a deficiency in the revenue, if I make no
mistake, of three millions and a half; and the pro-
posal of the Government is to make the new expenses
overshoot the old by about 300,0001. Now this is
only some three per cent. on the old ; and there is no
man who cannot economise to the extent of three per
cent., especially if his previous arrangements have
not been particularly economical. If nothing else,
the experiment has been tried on the public with the
income-tax, in a way that proves the possibility to
be undeniable.
If, therefore, I was in a position to offer counsel
to the manufacturing and commercial interests, who
undoubtedly have great power in their hands on this
occasion, it would be that, instead of figuring in
a barren minority, they should try what they could
effect by a proffer to support the Government on the
two conditions of the withdrawal of the militia and
the dispensing with the three per cent. addition to the
estimates. To pay up the deficiency, may be held to
be a necessity arising out of what bills of lading
call the act of God ; but the other is not. And to
the proposal for a militia force the most steady and
persevering opposition should be engaged for, leaving
to the decision of Parliament whether more of regu-
lar force is wanted or not.
I had a desire to Fay something on the subject of
income-taxes; but it must be deferred to a slack
time.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Feb. 21, 1848.

TERRIBLE CALAMITY.—SIT PERSONS DESTROYED
Sy FIRE IN KILLARNEY.—On Sunday night a dreadful
fire took place in Killarney, by which six individuals
lost their lives. The extensive pawnbroking establish-
ment of Mr. Carberry, in the New-street, which con-
tained the deposits of the poor from all parts of Kerry,
to the amount of several thousands sterling, was the
scene of this dreadful catastrophe. Two persons, in
their endeavours to escape, were killed, and four chil-
dren perished in the flames. The affair is a most melan-
choly o'he..--Freentan's Journal.
On Tuesday Patrick Ryan (Small) was executed
at Ennis gaol for the murder of the late James Watson,
Esq. Ho ascended the scaffold at half-past two o'clock,
in a very feeble state, supported by the Rev. Messrs.
Mahony and Quinlan. The wretched man appeared
almost insensible, and had to be held up while the
executioner was adjusting the.. rope. He fainted off
before the lanit was drawn, and 'died instantly. The
evening before his execution he_ declared his innocence
in the gaol. A great concourse of persons congregated
before the prison to witness the bpeotEkcle.—Limerick
Cltronic4.