The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-06 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES—AuGusr 6.

H. Creaves, grocer, Leicester—T. Wilson, joiner, Manchester—
J. Thai:keray, common brewer, Walton, Liverpool—•J. Doughty,
tavern-keeper, Bristol—T. C Baker, brickmaker, Sittingbourne,
Kent—G. Lax Fox, grocer, Sunderland near the Sea, Durham—
J. Edmundson, cotton-manufacturer, Manchester.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED_
T. Cooper and Co., merchants, Monument-yard (as far as re-
gards J. Stringer)—H. and E. Wrigglesworth, grocers, Leeds—
E. S. Russell and W. Keyzer, zinc-manufacturers, Keppel-row,
New-road—S. Underhill and W. H. Hudson. shoe-tip manufac-
turers, Wolverhampton—R. G. Holland and J. Walker, surgeons,
Sheffield—J. D. Walker and J. Griffiths, paper-dealers, Liverpool
—S. Walker and W. Yates, iron-masters, Anchor Wharf, Upper
Thames-street—J. Pitcher and D. Franks, hay salesmen, No. 3
Wharf, Paddington-basin—M. Lamb and d. Gideon, pawnbrokers,
Stanhope-street, Clare-market—T. G. Stemmann and D. Steel,
news-venders, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square—J. Brown
and A. Johnson, tea-dealers, Bristol—G. Benbow and Co., rope-
manufacturers, Leftwich, Cheshire—S. and 111. Tansley, glass-
dealers, Dorset.street, Portman-square—E. B. Bradley and H. F.
Metcalf, corn-factors, Mark-lane.—S. Gostling and Co., hardware-
men, Leadenhall-street—J. Avent, jun., and J. D. Avent, solici-
tors, Modbury, Devonshire—G. Simpson and R. Robinson, tea-
dealers, Vork—J. Caister and N. Wedd, corn-merchants, Boston,
Lincolnshire.

The Duke of Devonshire left Devonshire House
yesterday for. Chatsworth, where his Grace will entertain a
succession of visitants during the autumn. Sir Jeffrey Wyat-
ville has just finished some additions t 6 his mansion which
have been going on for a length of time.

Earl and Countess Grey and Lady Georgiana return
to Downing-street this morning from a visit to his Majesty at
Windsor. The domestics of his Lordship continue at the
house in Downing-street ; but he will shortly circumscribe his
establishment.

Yesterday morning' Lord Fitzroy Somerset gave
audience at the Horse Guards to Major-General Fraser, Col.
Campbell, Gen. Sir H. Douglasi, Sir Charles de Vaux, Major
Campbell, Lieut.-General Sir W. Peacock, Colonel Sir D.
Cuyler, Colonel Harris, Major Sir F. Head, Major Mitchell,
Lieut.-General Vincent, and a number of other officers.

PROFESSION OF A NUN.—A few days ago Miss
Eccles, a young lady the heiress to a large fortune, took the
veil at the convent of Mount Carmel, near Darlington. The
ceremony excited great interest, and a grand high mass was
celebrated on the occasion by the Right Rev. Dr. Briggs,
assisted by several of the Roman Catholic clergy of the nor-
thern district.' '

FLOGGING in the BRITISH ARMY and NAVY.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
SIR,—A recent event added to the general feeling of the
inhabitants of this part of the country on the subject of military
and naval flogging, as at present practised, has induced a very
considerable and respectable number of the inhabitants of this
town to request the Mayor (Wm. Ramsden, Esq. ) to con-
vene a public meeting, which he kindly condescended to do,
and at which meeting, holden in the Court Hall he presided,
when the following petition to each House of Parliament was
agreed to in pursuance of the resolutions then passed, viz.:—

TO TIIE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL,
AND TO THE HON. COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IREL&ND
'IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, RESPECTIVELY.

" The humble petition of the inhabitants of the ancient
:own of Rye, in the county of Sussex, and its vicinity,

" SHEWETH,
" That your petitioners do not wish to encourage insubor-
dination in the army or nary of this kingdom.
" That your petitioners do not think the punishment of
flogging is the most effectual means of obtaining the subordi-
nation required, inasmuch as that the wisdom of Parliament
has seen fit to reduce the amount of that punishment, and also
to restrain it to particular cases of ddlinquency.
" That your petitioners view with horror and disgust the
barbarous scenes which have been exhibited in cases of flog-
ging ; and that your petitioners do humbly presume to think
that when such punishment is inflicted it is produttive of
more evil than good. That the notorious offender is not
likely to be reformed by it, and that the inadvertent culprit
may be hardened so much in his crime, as to make him reck-
less of punishment. And besides which they deem the effect
of it not to rest entirely with the individual receiving the in-
fliction, but to extend to the whole of the persons in his Ma-
jesty's service in the army and navy of this kingdom, who by
law at present are liable to the punishment, by putting a cha-
racter on those services which they ought to be too honourable
to bear.

" That without imputing improper motives to those who
hold commissions in his Majesty's Army and Navy, your peti-

tioners do consider it probable that circumstances have occur-
red, and will recur, so as that some individuals might be sub-
jected to the punishment of flogging, without deserving the
same ; that this impression has taken such fast hold on the
public mind as to prevent persons entering the Army and
Navy from motives of honourable ambition, and to be at
variance with the humane feelings and best judgment of the
people of this country.
" That without requesting your Right Hon. House to take
example from other countries, your petitioners beg that the
eff4ctive means of preserving discipline in the Army and Navy
of this country may be distinct from the present practice of
flogging ; that they hail with pleasure the announcement made
in Parliament by a high authority of an inquiry into the mat-
ter by a Commission to be appointed, but humbly hope that
the Report of that Commission will induce your Honourable
House to entirely abolish a practice which your petitioners
cannot view but with horror and disgust, inasmuch as they
consider it at once barbarous and impolitic.
" That while the most salutary laws have been enacted by
your Honourable House for the extinction of the brutal system
of corporal punishment in our West India Colonies, and also
the benevolent measures adopted for the protection of the
brute creation from cruelty; your petitioners greatly regret
that the human species of their own blood and their own
country should not have received that protection to which your
petitioners think they are justly entitled.
" And for which your petitioners will ever pray."