The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-18 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. H. Swinton and T. Hog, general merchants, Moorgate-
street—E. Butler, W. Beaumont, and R. Harris, factors,
Birmingham—W. Hockley and It. F. Salter, surgeons,
Winckworth-place, City-road—J. Albert and G. Burch,
tailors, King William-street, City—W. blooper, H. Hooper,
W. W. Hooper, and J. L. Ebbels, lime burners, Exeter (so far
as regards J. L. Ebbels)—J. Reeve and W. Cooper, wine
merchants, East Dereham, Norfolk —Bronbill and Co., coal
miners, Newburgh, Lancashire—J. Goodwin, S. Gibson, and
G. Nall, silk manufacturers, Leek, Staffordshire—N. N.
Clark, R. C. Underwood, and T. Nash, Coaley and Harmer's
Mills, Gloucestershire—W. Cross and J. Jackson, leather
dealers, Liverpool.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ANDREW SMITH, coach builder, Paisley, May 20 and
June 10, at one, at the chambers of Reid and Henderson,
Paisley.

JAMES CRAIK, cattle dealer, Aberlemno, Forfarshire,
May 22 and June 12, at eleven, at the Commercial Hotel,
Brechin.
DAVID CRAIK, cattle dealer, Aberlemno, Forfarshire,
May 22 and June 12, at one, at the Commercial Hotel, Brechin.
JAMES CRAIK, jun., cattle dealer, Aberlemno, May 22
and June 12, at three, at the Commercial Hotel, Brechin.
DAVID BLACK, merchant, Dundee, May 20 and June
11, at twelve, at the chambers of J. Anderson, Dundee.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending May 14, 1844, is 365. Hid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

OPERATIONS AGAINST the WRECK
OF THE EDGAR at SPITHEAD.
These operations are superintended by Lieutenant
Barlow, of the Royal Engineers, acting under the diree-
tionsof Major-General Pasley, who, after removing the
remains of the wreck of the Royal George last season,
was desirous of removing the guns of the Edgar
also, which now form the only obstruction to the
anchorage at Spithead, and submitted a plan for
that purpose to the Lords of the Admiralty last year,
which,
having been approved and sanctioned by their
Lordships, is now being carried into effect at the expense
of the naval department. Lieutenant Barlow, according
to his orders, proceeded from Woolwich on the Ist of
May with a detachment of 25 non commissioned officers
and privates of the Royal and Hon. East India Com-
pany's Sappers and Miners, volunteers for this ser-
vice, and conducted them by a river steamboat to Vaux-
hall, and thence by the South-Western Railway to Gos-
port, where they were put on board the Success frigate-
hulk, which still remains in Portsmouth harbour,
the weather having been so unfavourable that she
could not be moored at Spithead on that day, as had
been proposed. Next morning a number of naval pen-
sioners and other workmen were engaged, giving the
preference to those who had been employed in the opera-
tions against the Royal George the year before; after which
the Success was sent out to Spithead, and moored to the
northward of the wreck of the Edgar, but near it, whilst
Nos. 4 and 5 lighters, or lumps, the same that had been
then employed, were moored over it, and the diving com-
menced on Saturday, the 4th, but without success. On
Monday, the 6th of May, Corporal Jones, of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, sent up an iron 18-pounder gun,
covered with an incrustation of mud and pebbles, formed
into a sort of conglomerate by the; oxide of iron, with
oysters adhering to it, on removing which the metal was
so soft, that it could be indented by the nail, and when
cut off and scraped small or pounded, it became
extremely hot, and did not cool again for some hours when
tied up in paper. On the 9th, Lance Corporal Girvan
sent up the muzzle part of an 18-pounder, which had been
broken in two just in front of the trunnions; and on the
10th Corporal Jones sent up the breech part of another
18-pounder, to which the trunnions were attached,
but these fragments belonged to different guns,. The
above-mentioned corporals are now the only experienced
divers employed ; but three other military divers beside
them work daily on the same spot, who are frequently
changed, in order to ascertain those who are most likely
to be useful. Some of them have been much distressed,
for the depth is 131 fathoms at low water, but others are
very promising, the difference between those who fail
and those who succeed not depending, however, upon
physical strength, but upon some peculiarity in the con-
stitution of the individuals, for they are all healthy, ac-
tive men in the prime of life.
On Monday, the 13th of May, Major-General Pasley
paid his first visit to Spithead, and found everything
well arranged and well conducted, as Admiral Hyde
Parker, the superintendent of the Dockyard had afforded .
every necessary aid both fitments, stores, and men,
having sent the same skilful and experienced riggers
in the lumps, and having ordered out the Drake
sailing lighter to Spithead to receive and load the
guns recovered, whilst her master and crew assist in
the work. Including the veteran pensioners, the total
number cf soldiers, sailors, &c., employed daily is more
than 100 ; but the operations will not be so interesting
as those of the Royal George, no great charges of gun-
powder being required, and no large masses of timber
. Mainly&