The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-09 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

A. Caig and J. AlWee, tailors, Liverpool—W. Ford, J.
Bright, W. Irving, and S. Hooper, proprietors of Irving's pa-
tent tile machine (so far as regards W. Ford)—A. Bill and N.
Briant, papier mache manufacturers, Birmingham—J. and G.
Graham, linen drapers, Carlisle—T. Bernstein and W. W.
Bamford, booksellers, Liverpool—R. Poole, A. Haymes, and
W. S. Poole, attorneys, Kenilworth, Warwickshire—A. Car-
rick and R. J. Pollock, surgeons, Bath-place, Kensington—
H. and A. Drake, attorneys, Barnstaple, Devonshire—J.
Booth and F. Perry, grocers, Oldham, Lancashire—C. Foster
and R. Grantham, joiners, Hull—W. von Alelle and J. C.
im Thurn, merchants, Mark-lane, City—G. B. Phipps, 'l'.
Tapling,.and W. Morrison, carpet warehousemen, Leicester--
A. A. Harvey and S. F. Underhay, surgeons, Bath—G. Pert
and W. Hale, aerated liquor merchants, Upper Thames-street
—C. Swainson, sen., and C. Swainson, jun., calico printers,
Blackburn, Lancashire—l. Rogers and H. Myles, coach
painters, Hunsworth-mews. Marylebone—W. Mackintosh, R.
O'Dwyer and A. P. Maher, general merchants, Liverpool—
W. M. Williams and E. A. K. Edgar, lock manufacturers,
Fenchurch.street—J. W. Glover, T. Robinson, and J. Had-
dock, rope makers, Escleston, Lancashire-1. Law and J.
Erving, merchants, Rio Grande, South America—E. Chesnay
and J. B. Wilkinson, artificial florists, Bouverie-street, Fleet-
street—J. and R. Meet, drapers, Frame Selwood, Somerset-
shire—E. Leece, sen., and E. Leece, jun., coach builders,
Preston, Lancashire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
MUNGO CHAPMAN, mill master, Bathgate, March 14
and April 4, at two, at Johnston's Inn, Bathgate.
DAVID DOUD, newspaper proprietor, Edinburgh, March
14 and April 6, at one, at the Old Signet-hall, Edinburgh.
HUGH DOUGLAS, merchant, Greenock, Marsh 14 and
April 4, at two, at D. Crawford's, writer, Greenock.
ROBERT BROWN and JAMES SMITH, general iron-
mongers, Edinburgh, March 14 and April 4, at one, at the Old
Signet-hall, Edinburgh.
WILLIAAI HOUSTON, dyer, Greenock, March 13 and
April 2, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock.
JAMES KIPPEN and WILLIAM A. LINDSAY, mer.
chants, Greenock, March 14 and April 4, at twelve, at the
White Hart Inn, Greenock.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending March 5, 1844, is 365. sd. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

THE PROPOSED COAL TAx.—On Monday evening
a meeting was held at the Town Hall, Hertford, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the proposed addition to the
tax on coals coming into London. The meeting was very
respectably and numerously attended. The Mayor (J. Gil-
bertson, Esq.) having been called to the chair, said that
the attention of the inhabitants of Hertford had been called
to the proposed tax, because it was considered to be a
very unjust impost. He, for one, could not conceive why
the inhabitants of Hertford should be called upon to pay for
the improvement and embellishment of the City of London.
The City should tax itself for that purpose. Thousands of
the people of Hertford would never see the banks of the
Thames, and he could not see why they should be called upon
to pay for its improVement. He objected to the tax on prin-
ciple, and he hoped the meeting would petition the Legisla-
ture to refuse an impost so manifestly unfair. Mr. Crawley
moved a resolution declaratory of the injustice of the tax,
and of the determination of the meeting to oppose it. He
said it would be about as reasonable to make the inhabitants
of Bishopsgate-within pay the Hertford lighting and paving
rate, as to make-the inhabitants of Hertford pay for the im-
provement of the City of London. The resolution having
been seconded, was unaimously agreed to. A form of petition
to the House of Commons was then agreed to, and resolutions
passed, :calling on the borough and county Members to
support it. Mr. Lawrence, an extensive coal merchant at

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Hertford, expressed his apprehension that, should the City
tax on coals, which is already 13d. per ton, be further in-
creased, the coal trade with London would be materially
injured, as the inland navigation would be able to
enter into competition by the river Lea, and sell
coals cheaper than the present Hertford merchants
could do. It appeared, also, from a statement made
by the River Lea Navigation, that the amount of
of coals brought by the Lea during the past year was 93,558
tons, of which quantity 15,359 tons were for the consumption
of Hertford, and 13,724 tons for Ware; so that, should the
result of an additional tax on coals be the closing of the trade
with the port of London, the City itself would be a con-
siderable loser, as it received on each of the 93,558 tons a
duty of 13d. .

REPORTERS NOT SPIES.--The Liverpool Times, in
an article upon the subject of the employment of newspaper
reporters in the late Government prosecutions in Ireland,
has the following remarks, which, in justice to a gentleman
whose great services have not always been so handsomely
acknowledged by a portion of the press, we have much plea-
sure in extracting :—" All parties have joined in bearing
witness to the skill, impartiality, and great public usefulness
of the reporter of the London Times during the recent dis-
turbances in South Wales. He went everywhere, reported
everything, and discharged his _duties with so much fair-
ness, that nothing was concealed from him, so that the Go-
vernment obtained infinitely more useful information from
his letters than from the inquiries of its own Commissioners.
We should like to know how much information he would
have been able to obtain, if it had been even suspected that
he had received a 50/. note from Sir James Graham before
leaving London, or that he was collecting evidence with the
intention of going into the witness-box to prove the guilt of
those with whom he was living on the most open and
friendly terms? Can there be a doubt:that, under such cir-
cumstances, he would have been shunned as if he had got the
plague ?—that every door would have been closed against
him ?—that all grievances would have been discussed in se-
cret conclave, instead of under the eye of the public ? (for
the presence of one good reporter is, in fact, the presence of
the whole people), and that the Government would have been
kept in ignorance of nearly all that it ought to have known?
This is so evident, and yet so important, that no statesman
worthy of the name would have overlooked it, or have at-
tempted to procure information by means which are calcu-
lated to destroy all confidence in the honesty of the reporter
of the preo."—Times.