The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-10 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOINEV.

John
Dunston, Thomas Dyer, and George Macgregor,
Hoiadschteh, ship fire.. earth manufacturers.

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Thomas Keith Kir:lock -and Henry Wright, check-ma-
nufacturers.

John Fisher and John Wilhoott Bradford, Langford, Sn-
merset‘bire,atterneyEr.. •

Thomo Woolley and William Hague, Manchester, com-
misaion7ageata.

Charles Townsend Procter and John Taylor,
place, Kent-road, surgeons.
Daniel Forrest and William Forrest, Etlinburg,ll, ifler-
!mints

• LANGTON'S. Dicovery Bill respecting the
" Seasoning of Timber by Distillation," •bas passed both
Houses.

lii inirsuing our extracts from this (to us).
.
very singular, amusing, and instructive journal,
we trust our readersgo along with us think-
ing, that for communicating curious information.
to the European reader, the Editor of the Can-
ton Register deserves warm thanks. It. was a
mere chance which placed his journal into our
hands, but we were much struck by its judicious
illustrations of the " celestial etupire;" and
though We may never be known even as his
follower to our Canton contemporary, we thank
him most cordially, and intimate a just compli-
ment to his labours when we state, that though
we have omitted much interesting matter, we
have yet only got through twelve numbers of his
first year's publication, of which we have (to the
13th of December last) 22 remaining ; and out
of which we can promise our readers a fund of
such entertaining and popular extracts as has
never yet exhibited Chinese society in its do-
mestic and true light to-the European 'world.
" On the 9th inst. the TartarUgneral ordered
-anis- officers to assemble in the great hall, that
he might examine them in person, as is the
official duty of the General, when he has to re-
port on then' health and fitness for Wiki'ice. How-
ever, that was only the pretext ;: the real object
was to ascertain the highest bidders for places
at all the custom-houses, which, as a perquisite
for the poor army, usage allows him to fill. For
the Macoa inner haboUr custom-houSe he is
said to receive 1,000 or 1,200 dollars annually.
The Pria Grande custom-house is also farme&
or sold in a similar manner. Fellows pay some-
times more than they can get fairly, and hence
extortions and rows are the consequence.
" EXECOTIONS.-4M the .44. h., instant a'
nailed express was received from Peking. This
nailing consists of two paper threads, passed
through the envelope from side to side and
sealed, which operation .makes it more difficult
for any inferior officer or other person to open
it, till it arrives at the chief officer to whom it is
sent. This tengfungmanshu, as the Chinese
call it, contained an order to execute immedi-
ately two pirates who kid given passes to trading
boats. They were forth With bounkand led out
to be decapitated. One of them, Uhiq,• was
unable to walk ; the other, Chingyawymr, talked
and laughed as if nothing were the matter. He
turned round his head to Uhing, andycalifd
out, Don't distress yourself: we shall onii.
separated a short time ; in 16 years we shall
come back again.' There are Wore executions
take place. in Canton than in any other province
of the empire. About 20 years ago the age'',
tion of government was called to the fact. They
consulted the Chinese geomancers to ascertain
the cause. These impotorsiaid, that the earth
where the executions took place, whether fertile
or sterile, had an effect on the increase or dimi•
nation of crime. It was now in too fertile and
prosperous a spot. It was then at the outside
of the south gate of Canton ; and in consequence
of the sage advice of the geomancers, Tyburn
was removed to the outside of the north gate
for a time. The executions, however, increased ;
and after a trial, government reverted to the ori'••
ginal place of execution, where it still is. It is
a small spot at which there is a pottery for mak-
ing clay furnaces. It if a place of blood, and a
potter's field.- A little lane is sprinkled on the
ground before the execution, and the bodies are
thrown up at the foot of a dead wall, with a mat
cast loosely over them ; while the heads which
have to be exhibited in terrorem, are hung up
in little cages against the wall. * * *
" PEKING.--The Censor Shingszepoon has
reported that two of the common people—one
the plaintiff, and the other the 'defendant—being
confined together previous to trial, the accuser
fell upon the defendant, and murdered him in
the prison. The Emperor has examined into it,
and finds that the matter in dispute was a trivial
one. He 'complains of the officer for carelessness
in confining the two together, and for delaying
the adjustment of the affair several days, as well
as for not placing a guard over these persons.
Sungpooytsow, the officer in-question, is there-
fore ordered to appear before the supreme crimi-
nal board called Yingpow, and be .subjected to:
interrogation by grinding torture, to ascertain
whether or not the ease, be really as is repre-
sented; or whether there be not some circum-
stances concealed.

" CANTON.--Yesterday his Excellency the
Foouue received from his .Imperial Majesty the
bestowment of the word happiness, with a
haunch of venison (deer) from Peking. The
usage is, on such an occasion, to throw open the
gates of the public hall, admit the venisoni,and
perform the thrice three knock-head ceremony
towards the throne of the Monarch, and thank
him for his condescension.
" SPRING SACRIFICES.—The court circular
from the Governor-General's office . announces
daily the act of putting an official stamp on forms
of prayer, paper scrolls, as substitutes for silk,
&c. to be presented with sacrifices in behalf of
government, not by priests but by civilians, to
the temples of various gods—the god of litera-
ture, the god of the wind, the celestial and the
terrestrial gods, and to Confucius. These prayers
and sham silks are, after the necessary prostra-
tions, burnt and passed into the invisible state,
to complimet and clothe the personages to whom
they are offered. On the Bth of the moon, being
Sunday, the Fooune,.and all,the civil and military
officers of the city, assembled before the altar of
the gods in heaven, and the gods on earth, sacri-
ficed and worShipped. Certain inferior scribes
of the local magistrates' offices did hotnagelp
the god of the wind. - After the service they ali
returned to their public offices to issue and re-
ceives despatches. And in the mean time tIIX
Namboyune was engaged in questioning a banl;:!
rapt merchant h6'w he had got rid of so.rouch
cotton in so short a time without•any-zreturn, as
is alleged he did." ,
The following are samples of Chinese popular.
news, hawked about the streets like our ballads
or dying speeches
In the Poonu district dwelt a young woman
of the name of Ling, (which means cold and
cruel.) She was married to a Canton-man of
the name of lwati, to be his wife. Cruelty to
her became, natural. I lived in her neighbour-
hood seven years, and calculated that she beat to
death four slave girls.
.One day I, happened to
meet with two of her uncles, and talked about