The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-06 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. K. Murphy and W. IL Dutton, Hull—G. S. Archer
and W. H. Cane, surgeons, Notting-hill—R. Addison
and 'P. F. Beale, music-.fellers, Regent- street—R. Stuart,
J. J. Smith, and S. Ackroyd, stove-manufacturers,
Sheffield (so far as regards S. Ackroyd)—J. Lord and
J. Whitworth, grocers, Burnley, Lancashire—S. Ward,
D. Gomersall, W. Gomersall, and J. Rayner, fulling
millers, Leeds (so far as regards S. Ward)—T. Oldham
and J. Williams, coal-merchants, Cheltenham—W.
Woods and M. Jordan, Ossulatun-street, St. Pancras—
M. and W. Shackleton, letter-press printers, Manchester
—M. and S. I. Samson, commission-agents, Manchester
—C. Maequley and F. H. Halpen, ship- brokers, Liver-
pool—J. Mush and R. D. Clarke, paper-stainers, Man-
chester—J. F. Moore, T. F. Moore, and J. Moore, iron-
merchants, Manchester—E. T. Meredith and H. Walker,
surgeons, LudloWW. Lakin and W. Fletcher, soap-
manufacturers, Tipton. Staffordshire—S. Wray and L.
Day, apothecaries, Salisbury-square—G. Wilson and M.
Clegg, Liverpool—J. Capel and T. S. Parry, coal-mer-
chants—G. Proctor and W. H. Trow, lucifer-match ma-
nufacturers, Leeds—W. Tarbuck and W. Henderson,
starch-manufacturers, Liverpool—T. Acester, E. Green,
and R. Dales, linen-drapers, York.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

JAMES SCARTH, commission-agent, Aberdeen,
April 10, and May 1, at two, at the Lemon-tree Tavern,
Aberdeen.

WALTER DICKSON, millwright, Jedburgh, Apri:
11, and May 2, at eleven, at the Spread Eagle Inn,
Jedburgh.
JOHN MURRAY, ship-owner, Dunfermline, Apri'
11, and May 2, at twelve, at the Spire Hotel, Dun.
farmline. _ _

DAVID MOWBRAY, jeweller, Edinburgh, April 8,
and April 29, at two, at the writing-chambers of George
Gray, W.S., Edinburgh.
WILLIAM PURSELL, cabinet-maker, Dunbar,
April 11, and May 2, at two, at the writing-chambers
of William Watson, Haddington.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending April 2, 1844, is 345. BNd. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Osprey and Daring,
,wo of the new 12 gun-brigs are in the basin -and

and masted, and are only waiting orders for the com-
pletion of the others, when they will all be commis-
sioned without delay.
There are no ships in harbour except the guard-
ships, tenders, &c.
APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. F. Rooke, Mate, to St. Vin-
cent; Hon. H. Moreton, Midshipman, to ditto, vice
Mr. T. B. Reid, Master's-Assistant, to Speedy ; Mr.
Knapp, Naval Instructor, to Armenia.
We have received Cape papers this morning to the
10th February. The Winchester and Thunderbolt
were lying in Simon's Bay, and the American sloop
of war St. Louis, and the French sloop Favourite, in
Table Bay. The Enriguetta slaver, a prize to the
Thunderbolt, in charge of Lieutenant Hon. F. Kerr,
arrived on the 2d February with 213 slaves. A third
had been also captured by same vessel.
The New Naval Regulations, promulgated by the
Admiralty, contain many most salutary changes and
improvements, calculated to confer lasting benefits on
this branch of her Majesty's service.
The Right Hon. Henry Corry, one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, accompanied by Captain Brandreth,
R.E., has proceeded in the steam-yacht Black Eagle
to Cowes, todetermine on the immediate erection of a
pier opposite her Majesty's conte:nplated marine re-
sidence. Norris Castle will, it is said, be ultimately
purchased for her Majesty. The Osborne estate, it is
understood, has been taken for one year only at 1,000

guineas.
The noble ships Rodney, 92, and Collingwood, 80,
at this port, are fast progressing for commissioning.
Both will be masted in a few days, but will not hoist
the pendant so early as reported. The former goes to
the Mediterranean, and the latter to the Pacific, as
flag ship of the new Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Ad-
miral Sir G. Seymour.
We have just heard that a large naval and military
promotion has taken place—but it is not yet officially
declared ; also an extensive one in the Royal Marine
corps. A day or two will give particulars. Rumour
says that twenty captains are made rear-admirals.
The Hastings, 72, at this port, has been selected to
relieve the Illustrious, 72, on the North American
and West India station. She will not be commis-
sioned, however, until June next as Sir Charles
Adam's period of service does not expire before
August.
The Fantome, 16, and Cygnet brigantine are being
hastened at Chatham for immediate service. Both
will be commissioned shortly, the latter for the coast
of Africa.
The following ships are in dock here :—Prince Re-
gent, 120 (ordered to be cut down to the class of the
Rodney, 92, also in dock) ; Lily, 18, and troop-ship
Athol. _ _ _

The new 12-gun brig, Flying Fish, is daily looked
for from Milford, to be completed for commission.
She will be brought round to this port by the Master
of the Victory, harbour guard ship.
The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, had not arrived
at Lisbon on the 17th March, although hourly looked
for from Malta, on her way home. The Albion, 92,
Captain Lockyer, C. 8., was the only ship of war in
the Tagus at the above date.
The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts,
Bart., arrived at Jamaica on the 16th February, from
Madeira, which she left on the 26th January, and
immediately transferred the Minister for Mexico to
the Inconstant frigate, for a passage to Vera Cruz,
where she will remain in the room of the Pique
frigate, ordered to rejoin the Admiral.
PLYMOUTH.—SaiIed on the 28th ult., the Lame
sloop, for the Western Coast of Africa, and the Tor-
toise, with Governor Finlaison, for Ascension. Ad-
miral Sir D. Milne has returned from leave, and re-
hoisted his flag on board the Caledonia. The Black
Eagle Government steamer arrived here on Sunday,
with the Lords of the Admiralty, on a tour of in-
spection, to report upon the site of a projected new
dock for steam-vessels. Captain Boldero, Clerk of the
Ordnance, is expected here, on business connected
with the barrack department.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.

The public have already been made aware of the
general features of this important line. As it is an-
other link of the great chain of railways by which it
is intended to traverse the length and breadth of the
country, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to
give some further particulars regarding it. It is now
a matter of certainty that, in the course of about two
or three years, a continuous line of railway will be
completed from London, or we may say from Land's
End, to Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Scottish
Central Railway is proposed to branch off from
the Edinburgh and Glasgow line near Falkirk ;
and passing through the towns of Stirling, Bridge
of Allan, Dunblane, Blackford, and Auchterarder,
will terminate at Perth, thus forming about forty .five
miles more of a great trunk between London and the
north. The journey from London to Perth may then
he performed in about twenty hours. The line will
not only command a vast passenger traffic from and
to the south of Scotland and England, but also that
from and to the west of Scotland and Ireland, being
both a south and north line and an east and west line ;
in fact, being to Scotland what the York and
North Midland or Manchester and Leeds lines
are to England. Besides the constant and tho-
rough trade arising from commerce, it will also
derive much revenue from the pleasure-going
part of the community, as it lies so far on the
route between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the
Trosachs, and many other places of summer resort,
such as the Bridge of Allan, Spa, Pitcaithly, Wells,
&c., and the numerous shooting quarters of the
English and Scotch nobility. As to the heavy trade,
it has the advantage over almost every other line in
the country, in so far as it will have no direct water
conveyance to compete with, either by sea or canal.
It will thus not only secure the large trade in manu-
factures between Dundee and other 'northern towns
and Glasgow, as well as that arising from cattle and
sheep on their way from the north to the great
Falkirk markets, but will also be the means of sup-
plying the whole of the district through which it
will pass, and the towns and country east and north
of Perth, with coals and lime from the rich mineral
districts of Falkirk and Lanarkshire.--Scotsman.

STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND
LACE TRADES.

The hosiery workmen in the midland counties,
like other parts of the kingdom, are actively form-
ing themselves into confederacies, some for a general
end, and others only to protect their own branches.
Many large villages have agreed to pay a penny a
week per frame to support the colliers upon strike, on
express condition that the colliers are to relieve them
in case they have to turn out. The Derbyshire
union has been extremely active in sending parties
round to examine the glove frames, and those that
are set on above the regulated statement have been
induced to narrow their frames to the proper standard.
The silk glove trade in this vicinity becomes worse,
but in Derbyshire it has rather improved. The
cotton glove trade keeps brisk, and the Bulwell
union having discovered that the hands at Ikeston
are working considerably under price, have re-
solved to strike them next week, and also he hands of
a Nottingham hosier, who has had such long disputes
with the drawer and pantaloon hands. This latter
branch is still pretty well employed but the hosiers at
times give out the material with a cautious hand.
Were it not for the extreme vigilance of the union of
this branch, the wages at times would suffer. The
wrought cotton hose branch keeps in a very steady
course, the hands having full employment. The cut-
up hose branch is not quite so brisk as it was some
time since, but the frames were fully employed, and
at better wages. The fancy bobbhroet trade is rather
getting better, and complaints are in some measure
subsiding. The cotton warp lace trade is extremely
brisk, and is extending in all directions, every frame
is placed in requisition, and the price of them has ad-
vanced rapidly. A deputation from a general meet-
ing of the lap and press warp trade, in con-
nexion with the fancy silk blond tra le waited
upon the manufacturers on the 25th Ultimo, to
solicit them to give the statement price, which
price the trade had agreed to receive. Mr. Wild,
with his usual alacrity to assist the workmen, pledged
himself to give that price on the following Saturday,
and has since fulfilled his promise. The rest of the
manufacturers connected with this branch of trade
pledged themselves to give the advance the following
week, together with the advanced price upon that
work taken in on the 30th of March, if Mr. Wild
paid the advance on that day. That gentleman has
performed his portion of the agreement, and we have I
no doubt the other manufacturers will now fulfil their
promise.—Nottingham Review.

DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL AT

CORK.

As the day approaches the interest in this demonstra-
tion increases. Post after post brings accounts of the
feeling in the country. Nothing can be more gra.
tifying than the spirit with which it is taken up both in
Limerick and W aterford. In 'Waterford the enthu-
siasm is represented as unprecedented. Too much
praise cannot he given to the Waterford Secretary,
Thomas P. Meagher, Esq., son of the excellerlti
Chief Magistrate of that city. He has been i-ode,
fatigable in discharging the duties assigno to
bi his fellow-citizens. He has already sent
up to Cork the names of slNty Waterforc's gentle-
men who propose to attend the dinner•, Amongst
others we are happy to mention the name of Sir
Henry Winston Barron, But., 11I.P. This gentle-
man has not yet joined the Repeal ranks, and he
comes to Co-4 with the view of testifying his respect
and gratitude to Mr. O'Connell, and his abhorrence of
the prosecution instituted against him. His example
will be followed by many who entertain similar opi-
nions, and we will take their presence at the banquet
as a proof that tile. be peps of swelling the popular
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