The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-04 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Jackson and S. Jones, Chester, linen-drapers--E. Brennan d
and E. Donnison, West Derby, Lancashire, grOcers—lt. Dixon
and Co., Wickham Bishops, Essex, milers, as far as regards R.
Dixon—H, Stevens and T. Elam, Newaigton-causeway, dra-
pers—J. T. Egan and E. N. Sackett, Rotherhithe, shipwrights
H. Francis and A. Urquhart, Monument-yard, attorneys—W.
Thomas and J. Brougham, Burslem, Stattbrdshire, colour-makers
—W. Swift, jun. and J. Brettell. Birmingham, steel toy-manu-
facturers—T. Murch and E. Wakeford, Southampton, wine-
merchants—C. Lowe and Co., Hardsbaw, Lancashire, confec-
tioners—J. S. and J. S. Baily, jun., Boston, Lincolnshire, grocers—
G. Marriott and Co., Sheffield, merchants—M. Rowley and S. A.
Bullock, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, dress-makers—W. Hey_
wood and G. Johnson, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, masons—C. ar.d
F. Spence, Lockwood, Yorkshire, grocers —T. and C..Raynton,
Bedminster, Somersetshire, maltsters—P. C. Byne aced J. Eliot,
South Molton, Devonshire, attorneys—T. Brooke and J. Cooper,
Birmingham, coal-dealers—J. Sellers and Co., Burnley, Lanca-
shire, cotton-spinners—T. Webb and Co., Bristol, wine-mer,
chants—S. Minshull and J. T. Race, Manchester, muslin-menu-
' facturers—J and G. Stockman, Prtsmouth, linen-drapers—T.
and H. Paul, Fakenham, Norfolk, stine-merchants—R. W. Bar-
ton and J. Armstrong, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
LOU ND ES ROYL A NCE GO W, Falkirk, Stirling, cloth-mer-
chant, April 9, 24, at the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk.
WILLIAM STEWART WATSON, Edinburgh, picture-
dealer, April 6, 20, at the Rainbow Cofti,e-house, Edinburgh.
HUGH MORRIS and WILLIAM KIRKWOOD, Glasgow,
merchants, April 6, 20, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow.

The forthcoming novel, entitled " The Con-
trast," from the pen of a Noble Earl, Consists mainly, we
understand, of incidents consequent on the ill-assorted mar-
riage of a young Peer who, suspecting the fidelity of women in
his own class of life, allies himself to a peasant girl, and finds,
too late, that in so doing he has fallen on more disastrous con-
sequences than could have attended an union of a more con-
sistent description. The idea is new and piquant, and seems
admirably adapted to the pen of the author of " Matilda."
A patient recovering from a bad accident,
which had deprived him of his nose and one eye, was congra-
tulated by the surgeon upon his improvement and reformed ap-
pearance

" My face is quite reformed, you say,
And by the glass I see—
My nose is placed in schedule A,
My eyes in schedule B."
The first introduction of women to the stage
resulted from mere necessity. We have already given in.
stances of boys playing female characters previous to the Civil
Wars; those boys had been regularly trained to those perform-
ances, and at the Restoration they had grown too manly to re-
sume the petticoat with any degree of propriety. Mrs. Hughes,
who was the first English actress, previous to her appearance in
Desdemona, spoke a prologue, wherein the following lines were
introduced for the occasion :

" Our women arc defective, and so sized,
You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ;
For, to speak truth, men act, that are between
Forty and fifty—wenches of fifteen :
With bone so large, and nerve so uncompliant,
When you call Desdemona—enter giant."
Gentleman's Magazine of Fashion.

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.-THE GEN-
TLEMAN IN BLACK.-Yesterday afternoon a very respectable
looking man, genteelly dressed in black, entered the shop of Mr.
Austin, haberdasher, of No. 22, Hathbone.place, under the pre-
tence of purchasing some goods. After looking over several
articles, he selected several pieces of silk handkerchiefs, four
dozen pair of black silk stockings, two valuable black lace
veils, and a quantity of black silk, which he ordered to be taken
to No. 16, Alfred-place. He then entered into conversation
with the shopman, and looked over some more goods, during
which time the shopman had to go into the back parlour for
something. He was gone but a few seconds, and on his return
found that the gentleman in black had vanished, and also all
the goods which he looked out, to the amount of between 301.
and 401., and although prompt measures were immediately
adopted to discover the black gentleman, no trace of him could
be found.

PREVENTION OF CONTAGION.-HIS Grace
the Duke of Bedford has given orders for the whole of the
fruiterers and green-grocers shops on his estate in Covent.
garden market to be newly painted, and a number of workmen
are now employed on the work, which will be finished in a few
days. Strict orders have also been issued that all filth and
rubbish shall be immediately removed, and not allowed to ac-
cumulate in heaps.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHOLERA.—
On Tuesday or Wednesday last one of the workmen at Calder
iron works was seized with what was considered the premoni-
tory symptoms of cholera ; and such being the alleged state of
the patient, no time was lost in procuring surgical assistance
from the neighbouring village. The treatment practised on
this occasion did not, however, seem to better the poor man's
condition, and the attending Esculapius pronounced the case
hopeless, and, bundling up his utensils, precipitately fled the
premises, leaving the poor man to toddle to the next world the
canniest way he could. Meantime the death of Wat-
son was reported at the public office of Calder iron works An
order was forthwith sent to an undertaker in Airdrie to prepare
a coffin express, a surgeon from the same place was sent for to
fumigate the house, and the poor man's family were busied at
home dressing his corpse! Alas for the frailty of human na-
ture ! shortly after the white stockings, the head-dress, and the
tape, had been properly adjusted, the coffin prepared, and all in
readiness to hurry the unfortunate cholera patient off to his
long home, up he starts in the bed, and cries, "Lassie, mak
me some tea, for I'm wonderfu' dry." " Na, na," quoth the
lassie, "I daurna do that, father, for ye're dead!" Atter ex-
amining his dead habiliments with feelings of surprise and
tdis-
trust, Aweel," quoth he, "if ye winna do it for me, I'll e'en
doe' t
;"Cut th
souephegot, drew off' the white stockings and
h tape that tied his legs, seized a twopenny
loaf, cut it, toasted it, prepared the tea, and in presence of his
aflrighted family took a hearty meal. The man is still living
at Calder iron works, though weakly from inanition. The cof-
iin still in Airdrie, which we have seen ; and the truth. of
Lite circumstances narrated in the foregoing may be tirinly
re-
lied o:l.—Glasgow Free Preys.