The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-24 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Clare, J. Fowden, and J. Crosfield, cotton-spinners, War-
rington, Lancashire—R. C. Foster, W. C. Foster, and E. B.
Evans, attorneys, John-street, Bedford-row—W. Lund and S.
Woller, manufacturers of stuff goods, Keighley, Yorkshire—
W. Perry and J. Watson, commission-agents, Addle-street,
City—C. Swift and S. Welch, jun., provision-dealers, Nether-
field, Westmoreland—G. Radford and B. Johnson, builders,
Alfreton, Derbyshire—J. R. Powles, G. Elliot, A. Elliot, and
J. Elliot, Manchester and Glasgow (so far as regards J. R.
Powles)—R. Hall, H. Hall, D. Hall, and S. Wrigley, linen-
manufacturers. Manchester—E. Simpson and C. L. Simpson,
tailors, Finch-lane, City—M. Field and C. A. Field, milliners,
Brixton-place, Lambeth—J. Blunden, H. Padwick, and W.
Padwick, chymists, Portsmouth—Z. Lord and D. Birt, plum-
bers, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire—J. Dewes, W. Brad-
ford, and E. S. Harrison, warehousemen, Blackman-street,
Southwark—P. Rigby, M. Rigby, and T. Rigby, rope-manu-
facturers, Freckleton, Lancashire (so far as regards P. Rigby )
C. Allhusen and H. F. Bloch, merchants, Sunderland, fur-
ham—D. Glasgow and M. Dennis. soda-water-manufacturers,
Birmingham—J. Barker and E. Threlfall, commission-agents,
Manchester.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
PATRICK MILLER, cattle-dealer, Forust, Dumfries-
shire, July
25, and Aug. 14, at one, at the-chamber of T.
Ranken, Edinburgh.
CHARLES BROWN, watch-maker, Stranraer, July 29,
anal Aug. 16, at two, at the chambers of A. M'Neil Caird,
Stranraer.

ALEXANDER THOMSON, tea-dealer, Arbroath, July
26, and Aug. 23, at noon, at Bruce's Hotel, Arbroath.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
LOSS OF LIVES AT BLACKFRIARS' BRIDGE.
Under-Sheriff Anderton waited upon the Lord Mayor
yesterday, for the purpose of particularly calling his
Lordship's attention to the dreadful accident which oc-
curred at the temporary pier at Blackfriars-bridge, on
Monday evening. Numbers of persons had, he said,
assembled on the pier to witness a regatta on the water,
and a portion of it having given way, several lives were
lost. The inhabitants of the neighbouring houses were,
in consequence of the frightful occurrence (the full ex-
tent of which they were not yet acquainted with), in a
state of the most painful excitement ; and blame was
attached to the Corporation for having allowed the tem-
porary pier to remain along the shore, occasioning con-
siderable danger to human life, and palpable inconve-
nience to those engaged in commercial pursuits upon the
banks of the Thames. Speaking as one of the public, he
could not help saying he was surprised that more nu-
merous accidents had not occurred. He also begged
permission to draw his Lordship's attention to the state
of the steam-vessels conveying passengers to different
parts of the river. Last night one of the steamers was ob-
served, at Blackwall, to hftve on board upwards of 1,000
persons, so that there the immense mass stuck, deriving
its safety, in a great degree, from the impossibility of
moving from one side to the other ; for if the vessel
dropped a little upon either side, the most awful de-
struction must have taken place. He knew that the
Lord Mayor had felt and expressed great apprehension
of the consequences of thus over-loading when his Lord
ship came into office, and had shown a determination to
remedy the evil, but he regretted to find that the active
exertions of the Chief Magistrate did not appear to re-
ceive that energetic assistance which was so requisite in
circumstances distinguished by such conflicting inte-
rests. The inhabitants of Blackfriars hoped that the
Lord Mayor would visit the river as soon as possible ;
and cause the immediate removal of the temporary
piers, or at any rate, compel those who derived profit
from them, to make them fir.n and secure. The autho-
rity of his Lordship was the more required, as the over-
loading seemed to be upon an equality in all the steamers
plying from London-bridge to Richmond.
The LORD MAYOR expressed his satisfaction at the
manner in which the Under-Sheriff had publicly called
his attention to the melancholy disaster which had oc-
curred, and to the practice of overcrowding the steam-
vessels—a subject which had frequently occupied his
mind.atur e
of He
the
regretted
difficultiesthat
delays, arising from the
n
pressed upon the
subject had taken place ; but the Committee,
tovether with the Waterman,s which
Company, were, with
the aid of the City Solicitor, at the present
moment engaged in framing rules which would
soon be acted upon, and ware calculated to remedy the
hazardous evil of over-crouding, lle certainly con-
curred with Mr. A. nderton, expressing surprise that
more extensive mischief had not taken place. The pe-
culiar brightness of the weather was certainly favourable
to the navigation of the river ;but as fogs might soon be
expected, the danger was likely to become imminent.
The regulation of the number to be admitted on board
each steamer was under consideration, and he trusted
the plan to be acted upon would be well adapted to the
important occasion. As to the piers which had been
temporarily
erected, lie had taken care to throw
out a hint to the Navigation Committee, that all
temporal
•y - erections of the kind must be sanc-
tioned and suf.jected to constant survey. Whe-
ther that hint had been acted upon generally he could
not tell but the accident of the last evening proved the
necessity for interference. He had given orders to the
proper officer to prepare for a survey, which it was his
intention to snake from London-bridge to the extent of
his jurisdiction up the river, on Thursday next, when lie
should cause the removal of everything which he should
consider injurious to the navigation, and direct that the
piers, which the public convenience required, should be
adequately secured and fortified. It appeared to him
that the multitude of piers which had been constructed
for private advantage, constituted a very great incon-
venience to the public., as the steamers were, in the course
of their passage, in the habit of stopping every two
minutes. The trade of people along the banks was like-
wise conslderably affected by the traffic of the steamers,
and one coal-merchant had declared that his loss in wear
ar d tear of barges on account of the ceaseless plying of
the crowded boats, amounted to at least 5001. a year.
Mr. Anderton—My apprehension is, that if we do not
adopt some effective course the Government will save
us the trouble by taking the power into their own hands.
The LORD MAYOR-My opinion as regards the regu-
lstion of the speed of steam-vessels is, that we should
have an authorised agent on board, a sort of City pilot.
We should erect public landing -places ourselves-too, and do
away with those private piers altogether ; but I am con-
vinced the Navigation Committee will make every exer-
tion for the public safety and benefit, and it will no
longer be considered indispensible to pack people toge-
ther like a flock of sheep to insure their security from
drowning. I shall make the necessary representations
to the Committee, and go upon the survey myself on
Thursday next.

CLERKEN WELL.
France► Mary Cass was charged with attempting to
commit suicide.

The prisoner is the wife of a decent mechanic, residing
in Stoke Newington, and the mother of a family. They
have lived for some years in comparative comfort, but
latterly the unhappy woman became acquainted with a
female of loove character, who first led her into bad
company, and then involved her in debt and difficulty.
Remorse and the dread that her husband would discover
her embarrassed situation drove her into a state of
frenzy, and early this morning she strove to drown her-
self in the New River at Stoke Newington. A labourer
named Cashel, who chanced to be going to his work,
heard the splash, rushed to the river side, and saw the
prisoner sinking in the water with all her clothes on.
Ile dashed in and rescued her from a watery grave,
although she requested him "for God's sake not to
save her."

The unfortunate prisoner, who seemed overwhelmed
with grief, did not utter a syllable.
The Magistrate (Mr. Co:KBE) consigned her to , the
care of her friends.
Henry Hutchins, charged with bigamy,
the particulars
of whose case were mentioned in a former number of
this paper, was fully committed for trial ; as was John
Barrett, for obtaining money by fraudulently represent-
ing himself as an agent of the Anti-Corn-law Lesgtp.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday, George Gator, a constable of the F division, ap-
peared before Mr. l'wyford, to answer a complaint preferred
against him by Mrs. Hogg, wife of a hosier and glover, 73,
Fleet-street, for taking her into custody against her will, and
using brutal conduct towards her.
Mr. Corder, the clerk to the guardians, and Mr. Boswood,
relieving officer of the Strand union, attended to watch the