The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

PARTNERSIIII'S DISOLVED.

Charles Day and M. It. Fox, Oxford-street, grocers—
John Gould and James Frederick Ward, Broad-street,
Golden-square—John Fieldsend and Matthew Seymour
Jonn, Oxford-street, linen-drapers—Robert and Saral
Cooper, Bird's-buildings, Lower-road, Islington, slaterer,
—Thomas Blowfield Wharto►► and Hugh George Gibson,
Doncaster, hatters—Nathaniel and Samuel Wainhoust,
Manchester, merchants—Christopher Archbold and Rich-
ard Sibson, Leicester, frame-smiths—George Ebenezer
Cox and George Stanway Bourne, Exeter, wine-mer.
ehants—John and William Thomas, Illingworth, York-,
shire, worsted-manufacturers--Wm. Lea, jun., Thomas
and Wm. Jones, Birmingham, manufacturers of plated silver
—William Sibley and William Bayford, New-road, White-
chapel, wheelwrights—Thomas Luck, Thomas White, and
Thomas Castle, Cornhill, haberdashers—Charles and John
Plumley, Ludgate-hill, silversmiths—John Hare, senior.
John Hare, jun. Robert Leonard, and C. Hare, Bristol.
floor cloth-manufacturers—Richard Marsden, John Carver,
arid Martin Perfumo, Buenos-Ayres, commission-agents--
George Hetherington and Thomas Blume, Friday-street,
Cheapside, lace-manufacturers—Charles Styr and James
Lees, County-end-Mill, Saddleworth, cotton-spinners—
Peter and Edward Gaskell, Liverpool, painters—Lydia
Lewis and Mary Anderson, Wisbeach, conductors of
ladies' seminary—John Dunkerley, Alexander Collings,
and Thomas Wrigley, Oldham, cotton-spinners—Marl
Dewsnap and William Humble, Chiswick, Middlesex, sur-
Q Franci Deacon Wm Billingsley, Thomas Greed,
geon s , Wur.
'and John Wilson, Bermondsey, wharfingers—Thomas
and John Tebbut, Anstinfriars, solicitors—Ner, Lot, and
Addin Gardiner,Manchester,woollen cord-manufacturers—
Joluu Riehard Greases, Birmingham—John and Des-
borough Milford, and John Cunnington, Braintree, Essex,
attornies—Nathaniel Buswell and James Soden, Coventry,
ribbon-manufacturers—George I3lofield and John Harper,
Norwich, bombazine-manufacturers--George Bullock and
Samuel Hutchings, East Coker, sail cloth-manufacturers—
William Smith and Isaac Goodall, stone-masons—lVilliaar
Whitelston and T. Ward, Leeds, builders and bricklayers—
Roda Brown, and Sophin Smith, Park-place, Stockwell,
schoolmistresses—James 'Webb Southgate and Jeremiah
Mitchell, Newgate street, floor-cloth manufacturers—
Richard Ferguson, Peter Dixon, Anthony Halliley and
Thomas M‘Alpin, Wigton, Cumberland, calico-printers—
Robert Slade, David Slade, James Slade and John Slade,
Poole, ship-owners—William Franklin and Charles Robert
Taylor, Liverpool, sail-makers—Elizabeth Giants, Philip
Charlton, junior, and Jeffrey Lewin, Shrewsbury, mer-
chants—Thomas Fletcher and Joseph Brooks Yates, Liver-
pool, dealers—James Darrall and Samuel Parry, Binning-
ham, bone button-makers—Edward Fenton and Hugh
Ford Bacon, Leeds, attorneys at law—Joseph Lamb and
John Start Whitlark, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers—
John Harrison and William Harris, Manchester, calico-
printers—Daniel Orme and James Spencer, Oldham, Lan-
cashire, cotton-spinners—Abraham Wood and Francis
Emary, Hastings, innkeepers—John Ward and 'Milian,
Ward, junior, Birmingham, plumbers—Joseph Howell
and William Chapman, Bristol, snuff and tobacco ►nann-
facturers—John Bennett and Samuel Altus, Limekiln
dock, Bristol, carpenters—Jonas Hull, John Betts, and
James Hull, Oxford-street, tea-dealers—William Clam
and Daniel Baldock, Friendsbury, Kent, millers—
Joseph Bushell and Joseph Armstrong, Manchester„
whitesmiths—Thomas Nalder, Richard Outridp, Joseph
Grout and Francis Nalder, Shepton Mallctt, Sourersetshire,
lace-manufacturers—Johnson Holden and Peter Howard.
Liverpool, wine and !milady merchants—Henry Day an,
Luke Holmes, St. John-street, West Smithfield, .iinen
drapers.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Dove, Leith-walk, Edinburgh, coal-mercbi"t
Jan. 18, at ten, at the Sheriff's office, Edinburgh.
William Robertson, Clyne, Sutherland, merchant,
21, at twelve, at Sutherland's Inn, Brora, Golsie•

MIDDLESEX 8.
MONTHLY RETURN OF RAfIENTS,

FROM DECEMBER 1 TO 3
rs • • "
In-Patients admitted by Letters ....• 1172
_Accident, ........... •• . 40
1.;c2
Ont• Patients admitted by Lett
Accidents •. 114
............ 133

24

Total 399
In-Patients discharged
Remaining in the Hospital

At a former meeting it had been resolved, that a
fund be raised to encourage the establishment of
friendly societies on more just and equitable prin-
ciples than those which had hitherto prevailed ; and
that is committee be appointed to prepare a set of
rules for their government.
The report of the committee, and the rules pro-
posed therein, having been read,
The Lohl Bishop of BATH and WELLS addressed
the meeting. After obserVing that the formation of
friendly societies, on'the plan proposed by the corn..
mittee, would tend materially to relieve the condi-
tion of the poer, his Lordship said he thought the
meeting would concur with him in opinion that
friendly societies were now more than ever neces-
sary,—when crimes before unheard of were polluting
the country,—when occurrences were taking place
at which an involuntary shudder must pervade the
frame of every feeling man,—when murder, theft,
and all the long train of alarming and evil results
which spring from an indulgence in the vicious pas-
sions of the human heart—when, in short, a species
of great moral degradation had overwhelmed the
lower orders of the population of the country. His
Lordship was bold to assert, that one great cause of
this moral degradation was to be found in the pre-
sent system of poor laws, the effect of which was,
that the poor man no longer maintained that firm
and honest independence so long attached to the
character of the English peasantry. There could
be no greater inducement to the meeting to sup-
port the society,,chan a conviction that it would
make the poor man a Iletter husband, a better
father, and a better man. His Lordship then ex-
pressed his approbation of the general rules pro-
posed, but recommended the giving the names of
every local committee; and advocated the principle
of granting the annuity at an earlier ago than 65,
which had been fixed by the Committee. The
Right Rev. Prelate, in conclusion, stated, that he
should be always ready to give his cordial support to
any plan which tended to further the interest, the
comfort, and happiness of the poor of this country,
to which he was attached by every feeling of the
human heart.

H. HOIMOUSE, Esq., begged to explain Arhy the
Committee had given its preference to the age of 65.
It was well known that the House of Commons, in
its Report, had recommended 70 as the most appir-
priate age. The Committee was, however, con-
vinced that an annuity would be very desirable be-
fore that age; and well knowing that if fixed to com-
mence at a much earlier period, it would cause the
burden, which would fall upon the contributors, to
be nearly doubled, by
,demanding a great increase in
their subscriptions, they determined on 65 as the
most proper period. Every local society was, how-
ever, left to its own discretion, whether to fix the
age at 60, 6.5, or 70.

The Lord Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY
was most happy in lending his sanction and support
to a plan so admirably adapted as the present com-
mittee's was, for the purpose in view, and for intro—
clueing the people to a better state than they were
now in.

WM. DictussoN, Esq. M.P., in proposing that a
subscription be set on font to promote the object of
the Meeting, adverted to the evils so which English
labourers were subject from the vat ions contingenries
to which they are exposed. Their condition, he
observed, was such, that it was impossible for them
to retrench, and unless some provision were made
they must, in the event of a scarcity, sit down and
perish. This was an evil which could not be avoide►.
by any means more effectually than by County
Friendly Societies.

After several resolutions had been proposed by
Sir A. Hood, Bart., the Hon. Captain Waldegreve,
R. N., and the Earl of Corp.

The Bishop of BATH and WELLS again rose, to
offer a few observations with regard to the poor-
laws. He was much concerned at finding that his
remarks had been misunderstood. He was far from
being an enemy to the poor-laws altogether; he
wished not totally to abrogate those laws ; such an
idle, such a wild idea, had not for one moment
entered his mind. He admitted the principles upon
which the poor-laws were first designed. He warned
not to undermine their foundation, but he would
purge them of the many crying abuses, which had
crept into them.

The resolutions, which were passed unanimously,
expressed the concurrence of the Meeting in the
proceedings of the Committee, and its approbation
of the rules which had been prepared. Those rules
are to be laid before the Magistrates (at the Quarter
Sessions) for their approbation. It sanctioned
.by
them, efforts will be made in the approaching session
of Parliament to form the plan proposed by the
Committee into a law. The rules, it was stated,
had been prepared from a set of tables constructed
by Mr. Becher. A committee was appointed to
conduct the future proceedings. The Marquis of
Bath was named as President, and the Earl of Cork
and the Bishop of Bath and Wells were appointed
V i ce-Presi dents.

WINTER ASSIZES.,

HOME CIRCUIT-MAIDSTONE, lAN, 7.

Augustus Frederick Goodwin stood indicted for
wilful and corrupt perjury.
The Learned .It-nu: slimmed up the evidence,
apt' the Jury found the defendant " Guilty."
He was immediately sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment in the House of. Correction.
Mr. CLARKsoN, on behalf of the prisoner who
stands charged with the murder of her own child at
Blackheath, stated to their Lordships that he was
instructed by the prisoner to say that she was anxious
to take her trial at the present Assizes. Mr. Justice
BAYLEY said, the prisoner must be present before
any inquiry was sot on foot.
Anne Dale, the prisoner, was then placed at th,
healthyoloured,young woman,
mannerwas perfectly
self-possessed, and free from agitator. By the di-
rather e rS hgeo good-looking. sd
-al oforkeit; c.
Her
di-
rection of the Court, she
was accommodated with
a chair.
Mr. Justice IIAYLEY then addressed her. Pri-
soner, it has been stated to Me that you wish to
take your trial at the present Assizes—is that so ?
The prisoner (in a Jew tone of voice)—Yes, your
Lordship.
Mr, Taunton, the assistant surgeon of the prison,
was then sworn, and stated that the prisoner was
fat advanced i" Pregnancy, and that, in his opinion,
she could roc endure the agitation of a trial, without
probable danger to her safety.
Mr. cLARI:soN.—In calling the attention of your
LordsbiP.to this case, I merely did so in consequence
of die wish expressed by the prisoner; and it was
at neV reyieat that application was made to your
Lordship to take her trial immediately.
Their Lordships then etmaulted together for a
short time, and
Ml. Justice BAILEY then informed the prisoner
that she must remain in prison till the
next Assizes.
Jane Prigg, a wretched looking woman, far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, was indicted for fraudulently
obtaining from the parish officers of Leigh, in this
county, one sovereign and sixpence, under pretence
of her husband being dead, and her being reduced
to extreme distress.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty; but the Pa-
rish Officers suggesting that the prosecution had
been instituted more for the sake of example than
punishment,
The Learned Juncal thought that, in her peculiar
situation, justice had been already satisfied by the
two months' imprisonment which the prisoner had
already had, and directed that she be discharged upon
being fined one shilling..