The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-23 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. J. Barry and C. Lane, surgeons, Margate—N. Harrison
and J. Brockmer, hatters, Nottingham—R. Paterson ana W.
Stevenson, commission-agents, Upper Thames-street—C. Te-
nant and Co., dealers, Upper Thames-street (as far as regards
R. Paterson)—S. Greg and Co., cotton-spinners, Bury (as far
as regards S. Greg the elder)—J. Taylor and J. Whiting, Vas-
sall-road, Brixton—J. Wright and J. Bagnall, printers, Bristol
—T. Barnes and H. Badcocke, drapers, Axbridge, Somerset-
shire—W. Steen and I. Fisher, silversmiths, Birmingham—S.
Danford and E. Robinson, solicitors, George-yard, Lombard.
street—J. F. Reeves and R. James, attorneys, Glastonbury, So-
mersetshire—T. B. Smith and L. Goddard, manufacturers of
Brazilian grass, St. Alban's—R. and F. Pillin, grocers, Doncas-
ter—R. R. Storey and H. Cockburn, common brewers, North
Shields—G. Burnham and H. M. Hodgson, attorneys, Welling.
borough, Northamptonshire—H. Homer and Co., wine-mer-
chants, Nottingham--J. Jackson and S. Wood, carvers and
gliders, Leeds--B. and A. Brown, grocers, Hungerford, Berk.
shire—R. Milligan and R. Monies, linen.drapers, Bradford,
Yorkshire.

CAPTAIN ROSS'S CHRONOMETERS.—The
return of this adventurous officer, in safety from his peri-
lous arctic expedition, bas caused the following rather
siugular and amusing perplexity :—When Captain Ross
was about to start from London in 1829, on his voyage, an
eminent chronometer maker in Cornhill requested him to
take out with him four of his best made chronometers, in
order to ascertain their goodness by subjecting them to the
trial of the intense climate of the north. Captain Ross
accordingly took the chronometers out with him, and in
order to guard against casualties, the owner of the instru-
ment!' took the precaution to insure them at Lloyd's, they
being of great value, but he did not deem it necessary to
insure, as we understand, to the full amount for which they
were even then saleable at home, not considering that the
hazard of losing them was very great. The long unac-
counted for absence of Captain Ross, without any commu.
nication being had with him for nearly four years, excited
alarm for the safety of himself and crew, and indeed left
but little doubt that they had prished. In these circum-
s.snces, the period having elapsed without hearing any-
thing of the property insured, when by law the owner is
entitled to the sum insured, the chronometer maker claimed
and received of Lloyd's the amount of the insurance of his
instruments, which were given up by all part,es as lust.
Since then, Captain Rosa happily returned in safety, and
with him the four chronometers, which proved in the se-
vere trial to which they had bred submitted, to be of an
all but perfect construc.ion, as to the regulation of time,
and of course, the value, now considering all those ad-
ventures, and their avowed goodness, is scarcely to
be named. It is not to be wondered then, that
the original owner should be most desirous to
possess them again, but unfortunately for him, other
owners are now substitu'ed, for Lloyd's have claimed the
chronometers as being their property, having p iid the sum
insured on them. In vain has the maker offered to return
the amount insured with interest, fur so great is the tsti-
mation in which the chronometers are held by Lloyd's, that
on no conditions would the establishment part with them
to other hands.—Blachburn Gazette.