The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-09 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Fisher, sen., and R. Fisher, jun., attorneys, New-
port, Shropshire—R. Fisher, sen., R. Fisher, jun., and
IV. Washbourne, attorneys, Newport, Shropshire (so far
as regards R. Fisher, sen.)—J. A. Turner, J. Garstang,
and W. Garstang, cotton spinners, Manchester (so far as
regards W. Garstang)—W. B. Howitt and E. E. Ever-
rett, linendrapers, Edgware-road—C. Ward and J.
Janes, bottled-beer merchant, Hungerford-market----
W. L. Wood and R. Waygood, furnishing ironmongers,
Gracechurch-street—W. M. Cobb and J. Eastwood,
tailors, Liverpool—J. Barnes, C. 11. Barnes, and E.
Rovrntree, milliners, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square—
J. Sorby and Sons, merchants, Sheffield—W. Bell and
R. Cowen, iro❑ founders, Nottingham—Js. and Jn.
Ainsworth, booksellers, Manchester—W. C. C. Humph-
reys and W. T. Gawthrop, attorneys, Newgate-street—
H. Breet, jun., and J. A. lliggs, hotel keepers, South-
ampton—J. Grimond and R. 11. Warden, merchants,
Manchester—J. J. T. Schlutow and F. D. Burmeister,
ship agents, John-street, Minories—J. Leverett and J.
Francis, sack manufacturers, East Dereham, Norfolk—
G. Hillhouse and C. Hill, merchants, Bristol—W. Shep-
pard and J. Wilson, manufacturing chemists, Wakefield
—T. and J. Rhodes, machine makers, Morley, Yorkshire
—C. James, S. Cheetham, and .J. Lancaster, dyers, Sal-
ford—P. Taylor and H. Jenkins, flax spinners, Chadder-
ton, Lancashire.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JANET •CRICHTON, Kincardine, Nov. 13 and Dec.
13, at one, at Dewar's Inn, Kincardine.
JOSEPII READ, bleacher, Caldercruix, Lanark-
shire, Nov. 13 and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the chambers of
Murray and Galloway, Glasgow.
THOMAS LESLIE and CO., stone merchants, Port
Dundas, Glasgow, Nov. 15 and Dec. 6, at twelve, at the
Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow.
lIECTOR M• 1.
)ONALD, grocer, Merkinch, Inver-
ness, Nov. 14 and I;ec. 9, at twelve, at the Union Hotel,
Inverness.

PRICE (30;." SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown
r Muscovado Sugar, for the
C.
week ending Nov. 1844, is 295. 2 lid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or paya;lo thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain
... •

DUBLIN, Nov. 6.—Chief Justice Pennefather was
again absent from the Court df Queen's Bench this day,
and it is stated there is yet no Improvement in his health.
CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY.
The Tories are again in a minority, notwithstanding
all their struggles to raise a stock purse, and to induce
the discontented Orangemen :to co-operate with the
place hunters at the Registry Court. The following is
the result of the city of Dublin registry yesterday :
Liberals admitted, 15 ; Tories, 11. Three Liberal claim-
ants stand over, and one was admitted from the previous
day, which makes the Liberal majority, yesterday, five.
Thus the Liberals, who had gained so extensively at the
recent registry sessions, are still adding to their majority.
MURDER OF ARTHUR GLOSTER, ESQ.
Another appalling murder has been committed, the
victim being a landlord who had taken legal steps for
the eviction of some of his tenants. The scene of this
murder is the county of Clare, which, for several years
past, has been remarkably free from agrarian crime.
The Limerick Reporter, received this morning, contains
the following account of this dreadful outrage :
" We regret to have to record the death of Arthur
Gloster, EN., of Moylish, yesterday (Monday) evening,
by the hand of the assassin, instigated, it is supposed, to
the appalling and direful act by the wild justice of re-
venge. Mr. Gloster, a few years ago, purchased, under
the courts, an estate at Toonagh, between Kilkeshan
and Spancahill, in the county of Clare, for which he
paid from ten to twelve thousand pouilds. The tenants
on the lands have been for several yeti's in possession ;
and report goes to say, that deceased had notices served
on some of them with large families, whether for non-
payment of rent we have not been informed, and had
proceeded there yesterday, preparatory to eviction, and
was to have gone to-day also for the same purposes.
But on his return home last evening, between four and
five o'clock, at a short distance from Kilkeshan he was
shot dead in his gig. This is an appalling state of things,
and calls loudly upon the Legislature for the enactment
of some measure to interpose between landlords and
tenants in this country. Mr. Gloster was unmarried,
and was considered wealthy." '
LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION.
A recent letter of Mr. Edward Pennefather (son
of Baron Pennefather), to the Secretary of the Land
Commission, stated his refusal to return to the
office of the Commission, without publicity, cer-
tain statements given in evidence before the Com-
missioners by the Reverend John Mackey, a Roman
Catholic clergyman, respecting Mr. Pennefather,s
estate. Upon this proceeding, and the general conduct
of the Commissioners in regard to privileged communica-
tions made to them by tenants examined as witnesses,
the Tipperary Vindicator has the following remarks :
" The Land Commission is not only a mockery and a
delusion, but a snare. In the confidence of honourable
secrecy, the people, or the friends of the people, com-
mitted facts to its keeping, which it now appears, have
been revealed, with the names of those who gave
them, to the parties to whom they bore particular refer-
ence. The announcement made in the Secretary's letter
to the Cork land agents, that the Commissioners sub-
mitted all complaints to the persons complained of, in
order that explanation should be given, was sufficient
exposition of the principles by which Lord Devon and
his fellow-labourers were actuated in their hurried pere-
grinations through Ireland. But no one could have
supposed that to deceit would have been added
treachery, and that the names of individuals who had the
humanity to speak of the land system as it is, would be
handed over to those who have an interest in protecting
that system from an imperative reform. Such, however,
is the fact. Not only has the evidence given in reference
to the relations between the hindlord and tenant been
laid before the landlord, but the name of the witness
who contributed that evidence has been likewise aban-
doned to the discretion of the latter. That such a prac-
tice is calculated to do more harm. than good ; to in-
crease rather than to remove the difficulties of the land-
lord's and tenant's respective Ositions, and to make the
one an object of hatred and jealousy to the other, is, we
think, perfectly obvious. These observations are sug-
gested by a letter of Mr. Edward Pennefather to the
secretary. Whatever may be thought of the conduct of
tho Commissioners, we think that Mr. Edward Penne-

father cannot be condemned for acquainting the public,
even at the eleventh hour, with the mancruvres of those
personages ; and though the Rev. Mr. Mackey stated
nothing in confidence that he is not prepared to avow
publicly, yet, what has been done with respect to him
has, of course, been done in reference to many who can
far less afford to speak boldly the accents of undisguised
truth than that respected clergyman."
THE FEDERAL MOVEMENT.
The Northern Whiy of yesterday contains the fol-
lowing:—" As some contemporaries, at a distance, have
been asking about a federal meeting said to have been
held in Belfast, we deem it right to state that, on the
26th ult., the Hon. H. Caulfield, Mr. Sharman Crawford,
and one or two others, met at the Royal Hotel in this
town, and drew up a form of federal declaration, which
has, we understand, been sent to Dublin for the con-
sideration of the federalists there. The meeting was
private, and for that reason, as also because we really
did not take much interest in it, we omitted noticing it,
at the same time thinking it better to await the publica-
tion of the declaration, should that take place."
COURT OF CHANCERY.--(TIIIS DAT.)—Mr. Joseph
Napier, and Mr. Richard Nunn, assistant-barrister of
the county Tyrone, were this day called to the inner
bar, and took their seats accordingly. The absence of
these gentlemen on the first day of term—the former in
England and the latter being engaged in the discharge
of his judicial duties—prevented their being called along
with te other newly-appointed Queen's counsel.
T. M. RAT, ESQ.—The Secretary of the Repeal As •
sociation arrived in Limerick this day (Tuesday) from
Derrynane Abbey, where lie had been for the past month
on a visit with the Liberator recruiting his health after
his incarceration. Mr. Ray leaves for Dublin to-morrow
morning, to resume his efficient services at the Associa-
tion.—Limerick Reporter of Tuesday.
Tim LIMERICK BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND TUE
COMMISSIONERS.—It will be seen that the despots of
Somerset-houso have brought the Limerick and Rath-
keel° guardians into the Court of Queen's Bench. We
have reason to know that the wholo business will be
brought before Parliament in the ensning session. Even
should the decision of the Queen's Bench be adverse,
they can only be compelled to attend ; but how will they
be forced to discharge the business of the board ? We
have learned that yesterday (Monday) the Limerick
board of guardians held a full meeting, the Earl of Clare
in the chair, when it was unanimously resolved to fight
the Commissioners while there was an inch of ground to
stand on. We understand that the opinion of counsel
has been obtained, and is most decisive in favour of the
guardians.—Limerick Reporter.
THE LATE STORM.

TIPPERART.--The floods caused by the late rains have
inflicted considerable damage, particularly in the moon=
tainous districts. In the neighbourhood of Shalee, and
along the Keeper range, the roads are in a deplorable
condition—the bridges on the upper and lower roads
towards Newport and Limerick are swept away, and
much inconvenience is felt by the population of that dis-
trict.—Tipperary Vindicator.
KILKENNY.—WO could not, within any reasonable
space, detail a tithe of the disasters occasioned to the
poorer inhabitants of this city by the flood on Friday
night, which was not paralleled since that of 1763. Up-
wards of five hundred persons were doomed to all the
inconvenience arising from having their places of resi-
dence flooded front five to ten feet depth of water ; and
their furniture so drenched and otherwise injured that it
was hardly worth while to make any attempt to save it
from the torrent. Persons residing in the Horse Bar-
rack, Water Barrack, and Black Mill-streets, were the
principal sufferers. In one of these localities, the rooms
of Mr. Grace, publican, presented a strange scene.
Kegs, bottles, and decanters, floated about. In the house
of a man named Cody, the water reached the upper
apartments, and the occupants, as we are credibly in-
formed, were standing on the tables to escape the stream.
The exertions of Constable James Campbell to save poor
Cody's family were beyond praise. lle was aided in his
benevolent efforts by Mr. Murphy, of Irishtown. We
have not room to detail the." hair breadth 'scopes" of
these two adventurers on a floating raft. After taking
two boys from the window of Cudy's house, by means
of a pole, one of them, from fear of the raft sinking,
clung to the pole, and was pulled back—the other was
left on the raft, which sunk, and owed his life to the
conjoint efforts of the constable 'and Murphy, both of
whom could swim. Tho danger to the experimenters
may be judged of when we state, that in some places
there were from 10 to 14 feet of water. Constable
Campbell was drifted into it: 'scent brewery, and gave
himself up as lost, till he found an ening at top, which
led to a loft, and ultimately he ma e his way to the top
of Mr. Grace's house, and after sustaining severe suffer-
ing and trial, was again seen on terra firma. We know
not in what terms to speak of our excellent Mayor, who
was seen in every quarter where suffering was expe-
rienced. Such folks generally superintend, but do not act.
The Mayor, on the contrary, not only superintended, but
acted; and when constable Campbell, in his dangerous
position, lost the pole, and was dislodged from the
floating raft, the Mayor was the first to come to his
aid, and was seen more than once with little more
than his head over the water. On The morning after the
flood, when the poor creatures were fireless
and foodless,
the Mayor's goodness and consideration were at hand.k
tlloisreliWorship
h
t e suppliedvictims lfosauddsdnoefcalm,
uannfodre
ebreaden
calamity.and u)
Straw was also supplied by the same munificent hand ;
andL on Sunday Mrs. Smithwick ordered three cwt. of
beef, had soup made of it, and administered
it with bread
to the victims of temporary destitution ; and in very
many cases Mr. Smithwick gave money, when the supply
of food was in any way deficient. The sufferers from
the flood are many, and their case one which commands
the sympathies of all. In John-street, and other parts
of the city, there were sad scenes of suffering and con-
fusion. In Freshford, and many parts of the county,
numbers of poor families have sustained what to them are
serious losses.—Kilkenny Journ .1.
LIMERICK QUARTER SESSIONS, MONDAY.—RIOT ABOUT
LAND.--Michael Crowe, and twenty-one others, were in-

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE
WEST LONDON RAILWAY.
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the P
etors of the above railway was held yesterday,
offices of the Company in Abchurch-lane, King
Liam-street, City.
Mr. WIIITCHURCII, one of the Directors, to(
chair, and in opening the business of the dal
that negotiations had been entered into wit
London and Birmingham Railway Company, f
purchase or lease by that Company of the West
don Railway. Those negotiations had not as yet
successful, and so many difficulties had arisen
respect to the West London Railway, that it we.,
considered desirable, for the benefit and Intel
the Company, that the present Directors shou
sign. A large number of them had sent in thei
signations already, and he understood it w;
intention of the others to do so likewise. He ri
mended the Proprietors to nominate a committ
the purpose of forming a ife,tv direction, and he al
commended the Proprietors fa take steps for the f
sion of their line to the Thames' as the only me:
making their property profitable. _
Lord KENSINGTON ,warmly protested against
steps being taken to extend this line, which
already a most unprofitable concern. lle cont,
that the Company had broken faith with the
tractor, who had been obliged to file a bill in (
eery in order to assert his rights. lie declared 1
that meeting, and before the public, that if the
pany should attempt to extend their line, he vi
both as a landowner, through whose estates th
would pass, and as a Shareholder, oppose t 4
utmost of his power the proposition when it
before Parliament.
After a lengthened discussion, during which
Kensington indignantly left -the meeting, it ws
solved that Messrs. Lord, Richardson, and Eh
any two of them, be appointed a committee ft.:
purpose of taking the necessary steps for the f(
tion of a new direction in conjunction with the
Chester Shareholders and the resigning Dire,
The Directors were then empowered to take
steps as might be necessary in compliance wit)
standing orders, for an application to Parliam,
the next session for an Act to authorise the cite
of the line to Knightsbridge and the Thames.
meeting then separated.

WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOI
RAILWAY.

BIIIDPORT, THUESDAY.—A public meeting
yesterday held at the Town-hall, Bridport, to rf
the report of a Provisional Committee which had
recently formed, relative to a proposed railway
Bridport Harbour to Maiden Newton, in cony:
ivith a line from Southampton to Dorcheste
Wareham and Poole, and with the Bristol and F
Railway by a branch from Sherborne to Y
South Petherton, Lang►port, and Darweston,
Bridgewater. In Wiltshire, the projected line
extend from Corsham, near Chippenham, to M
ham, Bradford, and Trowbridge ; and in Somerf
Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, and Yeovil. The
was taken by the Mayor, W. Battiscombe, Esq..
on the platform were Messrs. S. B. and 11
Gundry, T. Hounsell,-J. find 13: 'Gundry, J. 11.
0. K. Templer, E. and A. Nicholetts, W. Colfo3
Swain, sen. and jun., J. Pope, Lieut. J.
R.N., Rev. 11. Fox, with many other respe,
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood.
The report gave great satisfaction to the me,
and

Mr. TEstrr,En-sen., pointed out the various at
tages, both national and commercial, 'Which the
posed line would afford ; as, in case of war with
neighbours on the other side of the Channel, a rai
along this part of the coast (which at present v
ill prepared to resist an enemy) would be most e
tial, and went so far as to say, that the Govern
would oppose any other plan than the one now
posed—and the commercial advantages would be
extensive, as from Southampton they would 1
direct communication with Brighton and Dover.
Several routine resolutions were unanimously
Tied, a committee named, &c., and the meeting
informed that the whole of the shares would be
vided for by the Great Western Railway Com/
but who would set apart a limited number to be
posed of along the proposed lino—they would
50/. each, for which that Company would guar:-
4 per cent. interest, and a divisional share of one
the profits when the shares yielded 8 per cent. t
holders.

SUICIDE AT KILMARNOCK.
(From the Birmingham Advertiser.)
In our last page, under the head of " Scotland,
hare given full particulars of the determined suic
two persons unknown at the place where they coma
the fatal act of self-destruction. There being good
son to suppose that the parties were from this neigh]
hood, we made every possible inquiry on the subject
discovered on Monday tact that they were in all p
bility old inhabitants of Birmingham. tinder then
curnstances we felt it our duty to prosecute the lug
further, and are now enabled to lay the following,
ticulars before our readers

The deceased, Mr. Joseph Barker, was 61 yes
age, his wife was somewhat younger. They re:
previous to leaving Birmingham, at No. 54, Vit•
street. Mr. Barker was born at Preston, in Lancet
from which town he married for his second wif
partner of his romantic, but melancholy exit.
resided in Manchester, London, Malta, and several
of the continent, being at one time most extens
engaged in business as a foreign merchant. A
burning of Moscow he estimated his loss at 500,0
from that time his fortunes were reversed. His
wife died on board a ship. His only child, a sor
whose memory he appeared to dote, also died wh.
years of age. Six years ago he entered the servl
Mr. Samuel Kempson, tioor-cloth manufacturer, Cc
tution- hill, where he remained as chief clerk and tray
until May last, when he entered into partnership wit'
James Archer, who had also been with Mr. Kern
and the firm was opened in Summer-lane, as J
Archer and Co., table-cloth manufacturers. In
arrangements there was nothing to disturb the
nimity of his proverbially even temper. Ile appear(
excellent terms with all around him ; and when,
months ago, be left home, as he alleged to his pat
on a visit to Manchester, there was nothing to Ind
the fearful resolve to which subsequent circumstt
lead us to suppose he had made up Ins mind.
On leaving their house they told the servant girl
were going to see a relation at a distance, and ghoul
bock in eight or nine days. When he parted from
Archer, he shook hands heartily; saying, " God
you, Archer;" and it was observed by Mr. Archer
he turned away and seemed affected. It was after%
found that he had, previous to his departure, called
discharged every tradesman's bill against the firm.
was supposed that he had about 40/. on him whe
left Birmingham. In a pecuniary point of view t
was not, as we can ascertain, any embarrassment,
we have met with no satisfactory solution to the mys
of their self-destruction.

Mr. Barker was of most gentlemanly habits and r
ners, speaking fluently the Italian, French, and Ger
languages; and of kindly disposition, creating regard.
love in those with whom he was associated in bus]
and in private life. Mrs. Barker was a woman of n
amiability and suavity of manner, highly accomplis
and a proficient in music. •
The gold watch found on Arr. Barker was an
fashioned family relic, and the knife was a present i
a young and esteemed friend, in Mr. Kempson's emi
The description of the knife led to the identity of
unhappy deceased. On seeing the account in the Lot
papers, Mr. Archer sent his fureMan over to Kilmarn
to identify the parties. The body of Mr. Barker
alone disinterred, and was immediately recognise,
the foreman.

COMFORT FOR PAUPERS.-Dr. Handysidet
designates himself secretary to the Association
obtaining an Official Inquiry into Pauperism in t:
land, in his examination before the Poor-law Corn
sioners, stated, that he could say from observation
regard to a father and mother with four children ty
ten, at the working period of life, that 3s. Gd. or 3
week might make them comfortable. The Doctor r
that is. a week might do for a single man, of whicb
is allotted weekly for nourishment. He considers 2s
the lowest sum on which a man with a family of
children might be supported, exclusive of house
clothing. Dr. Handyside's ideas of comfort and sup
for paupers seem to be based on homeopathic princi
We would advise the Doctor to try the system 1
week personally, and then give his opinion. In all
hability, the sum he so generously allots. to support
individuals, for seven days, would not prove sufficiei
pay for a dinner for himself alone.—Medical Times.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 21• minutes after 0 I Evening ... 43 minutes after 0.

SOMES, SMALES, TANNER, SMITH, and Hutt (au-
thorities specially entitled to respect), showed that for
many years past the depression has been progressive,
perhaps more so as regards the north of England dis-
trict than the other parts of the kingdom; but whilst
some of these gentlemen persuade themselves that its
lowest point has been already passed, others are of
opinion that this extreme has not yet been reached.
It has been shown by some of these witnesses, on the
authority of carefully prepared and diligently con-
sulted documents, that within five years the decline of
marketable value of mercantile shipping has ranged
from 25 to 50 per cent.—within the last five years
from 33 to 50 per cent. Freights, in most instances,
have run down in a similar proportion. Mr. BRODIE
WILLCOX (a very intelligent witness), the Managing
Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi-
gation Company, speaks to the "very deplorable
condition of our shipping" on " the result of his own
voyages ;" and further, he should say that freights
have declined at least one-half within the
last three year's. For our own parts, we are
reluctantly disposed to concur with this experienced
gentleman in looking for the more immediate cause
of this enormous depression, to the general depression
of the commerce of the world, and especially to the
injury which the character of British shipping has
sustained in foreign ports by the building of low-
class ships in our North American possessions, and
at Sunderland, in this country. Mr. G. F. YOUNG,
however, who must be always heard with de-
ference on any points connected with a business
in which he is at once one of the largest owners,
the most experienced traders, and the most scien-
tific and successful builders, expresses an em-
phatic opinion that the changes effected in one
Navigation Laws from 1822 to 1824 have been the
main cause of this depression. He goes boldly and
at once to the advocacy of the principle of protection
in this case ; for, while he admits that the consumer
would derive some little benefit from the removal of
all protection from our shipping, he stoutly contends
that its maintenance under the existing forms and li-
mitations is absolutely essential to the safety of this
country. In support of these views he adduced
before the Committee some very remarkable data,
undoubtedly, to show that wherever British
shipping is without 'protection in any trade,
the average of British shipping employed in
it has been in a less ratio than that of
British tonnage. With great submission, we
should argue that this result may be attributable to
many other causes ; some of a local, some of a poli-
tical, some of a mere technical character. Mr. AN-
DERSON supports the opinion of Mr. YOUNG, for he
deposes that, under the old system of Navigation
Laws, British shipping was
.continually progress-
ing; and that, since the change in them, it has
gradually fallen into its present state of depression.
But then the judgment of Mr. STRAKER,
a shipowner and builder at South Shields,
and of Mr. S. HULL, a shipowner and
broker of London, regards the operation of the
Navigation Act as having been extremely_ prejudicial
to British shipping; that though decidedly a protec-
tion in time of war, the Navigation Laws, with a view
to the interests of commerce, should now be departed
from. On the other hand, Air. SOMES (probably the
most extensive individual shipowner in Europe, own-
ing no less than 23,100 tons, his own private pro-
perty) considers that the alteration of the Navigation
Laws in 1824 " was the first great blow which was
struck at the shipping interest of Great Britain."
Surely, if any reason were wanting for an appeal
to the mercantile interest of this country to urge
upon the attention of the Legislature, at the earliest
opportunity after the re-assembling of Parliament,
the paramount duty of investigating further the
causes of the decline of this noble interest, such a
conflict of opinions between very able and influential
members of that interest should prompt them to the
most careful :aud assiduous discharge of so high
a duty.
The length to which we have already extended this
article obliges us to postpone the examination of the
effect of Reciprocity Treaties to a future opportunity.