The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-25 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Pratt and G. Warren, Norwich, land-agents—T.
Bratacker, W. Brown, and J. Iken, Leeds, cloth-manufac-
turers—J. Phippen and B. Lloyd, Brighton, grocers—E.
Longridge, B. Barnett, and M. A. Hodgson, Sweeting's-
alley, Cornhill, ship-brokers—T. and W. Harvie, and D.
Myers, Queen-street, Cheapside, wine-merchants—W.
Wilbeam and P. Wales, East-street, Old Kent-road, sugar-
refiners—J. Cheetham and W. Massey, Warrington, Lan-
cashire, grocers—J. Higginbotham and J. Caldwell, Man-
chester, fustian-shearers—T. H. Smith and J. Wilks,
Hatton-garden, tailors—J. Payne and J. Cross, Leaden-
hall-market, hide-salesmen—J. Hodges and H. Norman,
Evershot, Dorsetshire, tanners—J. Griffiths and J. Mackey,
Devonport, grocers—G. Knight and J. Senior, James-
street, Oxford-street, grocers—W. Ewington and G. 11.
Chilcote, Bond-court, Walbrook, attorneys--J. and J. M.
Chaplin, P. Bowen, and R. Williams, Brighton, iron-
mongers.

Many correspondents have importuned us to
give an opinion respecting the regulations said to have
been promulgated by the Benchers of the Inner Temple,
as their conditions of admission to the honour of being
" called to the bar." Till we see some authentic copy of
these resolutions, we shall abstain from making any corn-,
ment ; but we will say at once, that certain persons—and
those not a few—have, during the last ten years, con-
trived to become enrolled among the members of a learned
profession, whom neither education, nor knowledge, nor
talents, nor honourable feelings, nor decorous habits, have
fitted to belong to any decent, much less to any gentle.
manly society.— Times.

Some Continental Papers have lately stated
that the hotel of the English Consul at Bucharest has
been suddenly closed. They appear to attach a good deal
of political importance to that circumstance, and seem
anxious that it should be looked upon as implying nothing
less than an approaching misunderstanding between this
country and Russia. This merely shews how great a
disposition there is in some quarters to magnify trifles
which can be made to bear reference to the war in the
East into events pregnant with great results. For several
years past there has been no British Consul resident in
Wallachia. When Mr. STRATFORD CANNING com-
menced, in 1826, the negotiations relative to Greece, his
communications with Vienna and England became so
frequent, and required so much expedition, that he found
it necessary that some one should be stationed at Bucharest
to accelerate them, and prevent delays. One of his junior
private secretaries was selected to fill that duty. His
functions naturally ceased with Mr. CANNING'S resigna-
tion of the Constantinople embassy; and as, so long at
least as Wallachia and Moldavia remain in the hands of
the Russians and the war continues, the service with which
he was charged was both unnecessary and impracticable,
that gentleman's preparations to quit Bucharest were the
consequence of circumstances which had no political ho-
portance whatever.--Times.

* We perceive from an article in the Courrzer
Francais, that the King of the NETHERLANDS has been
foiled in his object of making philosophical Priests. The
intentions of the KING were, no doubt, good; but we fear
he went too directly to work. To make a philosophical
Priest is a problem of nearly as great difficulty as to make
an honest thief. The best way is to establish an opposi-
tion to the Priests. In this country the Clergy of the
Established Church were generally hostile to the Hanover
family till the last reign. The Government did not compel
them to be rational—no easy task—but they shook their
authority with the people through the press. One pre-
tension after another was assailed ; and the consequence is,
as the Quarterly Review feelingly laments, the last rem-
nant of Apostolical tradition, the venerable shovel hat, is
fast disappearing from among us.—Morning Chronicle.

A very strong sensation was created in the
Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon, by an intimation that
a Mr. SLATFORD, for a number of years an extensive specu-
lator in the Funds, had committed suicide at his lodgings,
in the City-road, having, as ascertained, differences to pay,
which he was incompetent to meet. Not having reached
the market as early as usual on a pay-day, his friends and
creditors began to entertain some suspicion that all was not
right, and sent to ascertain the cause of his absence at his
lodgings, when he sent an answer that he had overslept
himself, but would attend in the market at twelve o'clock.
This, it would seem was the particular hour when lie
destroyed himself by a pistol, the ball of which passed
through his head. The event was not known at the Stock
Exchange until nearly half-past two o'clock ; when Con-
sols for Account, which had been steady at about 893,
dropped to 881—a number of dealers selling Stock against
what they had previously bought, which could not be
delivered by Mr. SLATFORD. His differences, however,
excepting his private debts, it is understood do not exceed
1,0001. Before the termination of business, the Market
became more firm, and Consols for Account left off at
89q. =Morning Chronicle.

•
The new regulations respecting the postage of
letters in France have been recently published. They are
as follows :

" Article 1. The letters carried by regular packet-boats,
at:the expence of the state, to the two American conti-
nents, and to islands attached to them, shall pay, above
the postage fixed by the law of the 15th of March, 1827,
a tax of 15 decimes per single letter. (A decime is equal
to two French sons.) Letters sent to any part of the Me-
diterranean from French ports, by packets, shall pay a
tax of 10 decimes. The increase of that tax shall be pro-
portioned in the same manner as that which is determined
by the third article of the said law. When the letters are
to be carried by mercantile vessels, they shall only be
passable according to the tax fixed by the sixth article of
the said law. Newspapers, pamphlets, printed letters in
the French or other languages, shall pay a sea-rate, whether
going or corning, which shall be four times the amount of
tax fixed by the law of the 15th of March, 1827, in pro-
portion to their carriage on French territory.
" Art. 2. Letters from France, for England, Scotland,
and Ireland, reciprocally, which shall be carried by means
of an extraordinary service of estafettes between Paris and
Calais, shall pay, above the postage fixed by the tariffs in
operation, a ta.x of three decimes per single letter. The
proportion of increase of this supplementary tax shall be
the same as that which has been fixed by the third article
of the law of the 15th of March, 1827."