The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Ingle and W. Ingle, jun., Shoreditch, tailors and
drapers—W. Fountain and T. Probin, Walworth-road,
gas fitters and brass finishers—J. Elliott, G. W. Prit-
chett, Sarah Colo Pritchett, E. J. Spry, Anne Spry, and
W. Michell, Flock, Cornwall, Penpoll lead smelting
works—J. Barrows and Mary Emery, Daybrook, Not-
tinghamshire, omnibus proprietors—F. C. Dickson, T.
A. H. Dickson, F. Broadman, and W. Jackson, Liver-
pool, merchants and general agents (so far as regards
F. C. Dickson)—J. Rock, jun., and W. R3ek, Cradley,
and Old Swinford, Worcestershire, nail and chain manu-
facturers—R. Webb, sen., and R. Webb, jun., Henley-
upon-Thames, Oxfordshire, carpenters, wharfingers, and
bargemasters—W. Mee and W. Allison, East Retford,
surgeons and apothecaries—J. Alder, C. J. Knowles,
L. W. Knowles, S. H. Knowles. and Ann Knowles, Birs-
tal, Yorkshire, dyers of woollen goods—J. Thompson
and J. Atkinson, Biagloy, Yorkshire, coal maaters—G.
W. Poole and v. Wilkinson, Wem, Shropshire, silk
mercers, drapers, and grocers—J. Goggs and F. W.
Heading, Fenchurch-street, wino merchants—J. Ten-
nant, C. J. Tennant, G. Brown, C. T. Dunlop, J. Clow,
J. B. Statham, and R. llellmann, Liverpool and Man-
chester, merchants and manufacturing chemists (so far
as regards J. Clow)—F. Thompson and S. Thompson,
Gresham-street, and Desborough, Northamptonshire,
warehousemen—S. Gregson, R. H. Potts, A. Chapman,
H. J. W. Baynes, and A. D. Chapman, Austin-friars,
East India agents (so far as regards R. H. Potts).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Benjamin Wrigley, Rochdale, rend maker.
John Hawley. Birmingham, brick burner.
M. Wheeler, Bireinghaaa, coach-spring manufacturer.
H. Robinson, Birmingham, journeyman fender maker.
Edward Pinder, junr., Birmingham, builder.

D. Osborn, Birmingham, brass and copper tube maker.
Barnabas Faulkner, Horsham Surrey.

Robert Winnifrith, Tonbridge, Kent, assistant to a beep
shop -keeper.
William Onion, Stetchwortb, Cambridge.

James Froud, Childrey, Berkshire, cordwainer.
W. Lowther, Oswestry, Shropshire, furniture broker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

D. Klienzie, Appin, Argyllshire, farmer, to meet
within the Duror Inn, Duror, Argyllshire, Jan. 2, and
Jan. 23, at twelve.
A. C. Thomson, Glasgow, tailor, to meet within the
Eagle Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 2, and Jan. 23, at one.
T. Sloan, Edinburgh, wood merchant, to meet within
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, Jan. 5, and Jan. 26, at one.
W. Brown, Glasgow, dealer in sewed mualins, to
meet within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 5, and Jan.
23, at one.

W. Cochran, Paisley, joiner, to meet within the Sara-
cen's Ut ad Inn, Paisley, Jan. 5, and Jan. 26, at one.
J. Geddes, Edinburgl t, spirit-dealer, to meet within
Cameron's Tavern, Ediltburgb, Jan. 3, and Jan. 27, at
three.

J. and P. Stewart, G. lasgow, ironmongers, to meet
within the Buek'a Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 2, and
Jan. 23, at one.

THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE.
Real esquires are of sev, t:n sorts. 1. Esquires of the
King's body, whose number is limited to four. 2. Tho
eldest sons of Knights, and I ,heir eldest sons born daring
their lifetime. It would seers t that, in the days of ancient
warfare, the Knight often t( sok his eldest son into the
wars for the purpose of giving him a practical military
education, employing him n ieanwhile as his esquire. 3.
The eldest sons of the you ngest sons of Peers of the
realm. 4. Such as the Kini 1' invests with the collar of
SS, including the king of aro is, heralds, &c. The dignity
of esquire was conferred by I lenry IV. and his succes-
sors, by the investitnre of tt ,e collar and the gift of a
pair of silver spurs. Gears tr, the poet, was such an
esquire by creation. 5. Esql sires to the Knights of the
Bath, for life, and their o. Idcst sons. 6. Sheriffs of
counties, for life, coroners and justices of the peace, and
gentlemen of the royal househ old, while they continue in
their respective offices. 7. Bs rristers-at-law, doctors of
divinity, law, and medicines, s mayors of towns, and some
others, are said to be of scutas sal dignity, but not actual
esquires. Supposing this enu moration to comprise all
whe are entitled to esquireshirt 9, it will be evident that
thousands of parties styled esqu, Ares are not so in reality.
It is a prevailing error that per: tons possessed of 3,000/.
a year in land are esquires, b tit an estate of 50,0001.
would not confer the dignity. I Zothing but one or other
of the conditions above mentioned is sufficient.—Curio
Mies of Heraldry.

Mr. Alderman Salomons, , M.P., and Mr. B.
Oliveira have been in Paris for some days, with the objeet of
endeavouring to obtain some arra'', gement by which the
Bordeaux and Cette, and Lyons tnd Avignon caution-
money may be either returned or tai en into consideration
in the concession of any of the great I, (11C8 of railway still re-
maining to be constructed.