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 R. F. Salter, surgeons,
Winckworth-place, City-road—J. Albert and G. Burch,
tailors, King William-street, City—W. Llooper, 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, •Aberletnno, Forfarshire,
May 22 and June 12, at one, at the Commercial Hotel, Brechin.
JAMES CRAIK, jun.,
l eattle dealer, Aberlemno, May 22
and June )2, at three, at the Commercial Hotel, Brachia.
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. llid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

OPERATION SAG AINST the WRECK
OF TILE EDGAR at SPITHEAD.
These operations are superintended by Lieutenant
Barlow, of the Royal Engineers, acting under the direc-
tions of 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
them employed, wore 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 those
fragments belonged to different guns. The
above-mentioned
corporals are now the only experienced
divers employed divers beside
them wer4loyed hut three other
daily en
the same spot, who are frequently
changed, iniordor to ascertain those who are most likely
to be useful. Some of them have been much distressed,
for the depth is 13i 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 so-ae peculiarity in .the con-
stitution of the individuals, for they are all healthy, ac-
tive men in the prime of life.
and found
Pasley
found everything
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Parker, the supOrnitellcient of the Dockyard had atßirded
every neeessary aid both in fittneuts, stores, and men,
having sent the same skilful and experienced riggers
in the lumps, and having ordered out the Drake
lighten to Ppithoqd to rteeivp and. load the
guns recovered, whilst her master and crow 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
ttis ehose a. the. Royal George, no great charges. of gun-
quired, and no large massFs of timber
being