The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

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A. Moss, High-street, Shadwell, Sproston,
Okla-altar, snerchant —F. Fisher, Bristol, coal. merchant—A.
Webb, Hammersmith, coach props ietor—W. Morzon and W•
Matthews, Newport, Monmouthshire, connuon breWers—A.
Hart, Little Alie-street, Goodman's-fields, .slot, seller—S.
Armst rang, New Mills, Derbyshire, cotton spinner—J. Block-
house, Liverpool, merchant—Sir J. Jell, Gloucester, banker
-T. Roberts, Kingston-upon4lutl, merchant—F. H. Chop-
pin, Whetstone, and Foley Place, Middlesex, horse dealer-
1. Orchard, London Terrace, Hackney-road, merchant.

PARTNERSHIPS' DISSOLVED.
C. Green and J. Inglefield, Winchester—T. Cbisman and
Co. Castle court, Bitchin lane. ship-brokers—A. Willi
and R. Williams, West-street, Seven Dials,' fishinotigers--..
H. Bouts and J. Sutton, Stoke' Newington, carpenters—
C. Bayley and G. Wyndham, Shorter's-court, Throgidorton-
stteet, stock-brokers—A. Watson and Co. Rio de Jao,i..
ro—E. Neale and E. -Kevin, Liverpool, milliners-4'. F.
Behrends and Co. London, merchants—D. Stable and
F. Baildon, Wood-street, Cheapside, wholesale druggists
—M., Jefferys and J. ,DaVie, Salisbury-square, watch-
S Tidmas and C. Tidinas, Ilishopsgate-street,
drapers—R. Lucas and E. Lucas, Nlatichester, dry-
salters—R. Diocan 'and Co. Liverpool, timber-merchants—,
H. Benham and W. Prentice, High-street, Borough, iron
Mongers—J. Burrows and. W. NVl.eeler, Gloucester, linen-
•drapers—J. Lomas and J. Nightingale, Manchester, uphol-
sterers—J. Ashton and. It. Walton, Liverpool, veterinary
surgeons—.l. Cologan and D. Barry, Broad-street-buildings,
merchants—J. Baitint and J. Barratt, jun. Bath, booksellers
—R. Brant and It. Dc L-Annoy, Cheapside, silknien--F. W.
Slurry and J. R. Fryer, York, proctors—E. Player and. Co.
Bristol, wine-nierchantS-7J. Parr' and J. Lloyd,. Great Trini-
ty4ane.

The Rev. T. CoLE, Hector of Warburton,
Sussex, was on iday last eleeltd naster of the
Grammar School in Maidstone, vacant by the re-
signation of the Rev. E. M. ALt.rattr, who is
appointed one of the Minor Canons of Rochester
Cathedral.

CogONRR'S INQUEST.—An Inquisition eras held
last night at the Blue Last, Great Distaff lane,
Doctors' Commons, on the body of Mr. Green,
the landlord of the Louse, whose death was caused
by the following melancholy occurtence
Saturday the deceased was taking a pot of porter
to a person's house in the neighbourhood of his
oavntitvelling,opposite the Old 'Change. A Houn-
slow svaggOn was turning the corner at the time,
and the deceased got upon a step (the road being
very narrow and dangerous), to avoid coming in
contact with the horses. Unfortunately, as the
fore horse of the waggon passed the &ceased, it
stumbled, and the shalt of the waggon struck
against his breast and broke several of his ribs,
and injured him internally, which caused his
death. The Jury found a verdict Acciden-
tally killed by the shaft of a waggon ;" and-or-
dered a'deodand of lOs.
DIABoUtAL OL,TRAGE.—The detachment of
Police s:t:itioned in Ballintubber, succeeded, on
t)loti.day be'nnight, in apprehending tour Ribbon-
Aeir, charged vsith offences of the most heinous
tnaligni!y, in the vicinity of Ballirdough
flaying broken into a house where arms
were kept bo the owner for his pFutection,
to extort a discovery, they heat and, abused
the .poor man untnercifully with clubs ; they
then proceeded to tortme him, barroWing and
hackling. h's naked body with a strong thorny
bush, until his flesh was torn and mangled to a
; they had recourse to the novel pu-
nishment of impaliir;, and actually forced a shad)
wooden instrnmenl into the rectum, and a consi-
derable Way up tiprough his, body. 'fliese mon-
sters n-cre ideotified by the man and his wife,
who swo;e_informations against them before Ma-
jor WILLS, by whom they were committed to Ros-
common Jail.—(4thlune Herald,)

POLICE INFELLIGnNcr...

IMPORTANT TO THE SILK TRADE.

GUILDHALL. --A question ennSder4hie
poita.,ce, both to masters and lourneyrnen silk-
manufacturers, came On for hearing at this Office
yesterday, before the Aldermen IItrYGATB and
MAGNAY, upon an information exhibited by the
journeymen silk•weaeets against - Mr. Woolley, a
silk-manufacturer of some eminence, in Bread-
street, Cheapside, for having paid to ‘Villiatn
Great, one of his journeymen, a-Smaller sum per
yard for the manufacture of an article than the
slim allowed by tnefAct of Parliament. The in-
formation was laid (ender the Statute 13th Geo.
111. cap. 68, which empowers the Justices in
Sessions to set the prices to be paid by masters in
the silk trade, to their ionrneytnen', for etch
specific article to be ma.nufactured, and inflicts a
penalty of filly pounds "lion any master paying
't'it titan the price so fixed and iet by the Mdgis.-
crates. •

As the question was consilered of gretst im-
portance, both parties appeared with Counsel,
%iz, 11r. Alley, for the informants, and Mr. Bol-
land, for the defendant ; and, the &Dee was
crowded to excess by persons in -the trade, Inas..
ItIA ai Well as jOclrneyinen.
-Mr. ALLEY. stated, that the object of the infor-
mation was not to enforce any unreasonable
de-
tnatnl itpOn the part of the juarneyineu weavers,
but to obtain that price for their labour which
the Legislature nllowed• them, and which had
been fixed le'gaily by the Ma.,',lstiales in.Sest,ions ;
loe was -not aware whist answer his LealuedFr;end
was prepared to make to the in!ormation, and he
could not but think that it was unjust mid nowitke,
in such times as'the present, or even at any time,
for masters to attempt at pay the poor manufac-
turers less than the rice by law allowed' them.
lle wished it to be understood that this was all
his clients :contended for ; they could have no
view towards the penalty, as, in case of 'convic-
tion, the money was directed to be paid to the
Master. of the IVeavers' Company to. be disposed
of as 111, statute directed..

Mr. Unwin, front the office of the. Clerk of the
Peace for the CoOnly of Middlesex, prod need the
last list of prices as set by she Magistratts in the
April Sessions, 1805, from which it appeared that
900 tour single halt ell cotton.mantua, was set at
Sd per yard, and with half inches or bars neon
-the ground sd. per yard extra, making a total
1311. Ver yard ; and the object of the 'com-
plainants was,to slow that the article manufac-
tured by Great for Mr. Woolf y, and for which
he bail been. paid only 11. d. per yard, came-pre,--
4:l§ely within the meaning of the above quoted de-
scription. TO establish-thisfact, Mr. Alley
ed four journeymen_ weavers,
.all of whom c.onsi-
tfered. the ..article pioducet!.. as coming under the
4soliption of At..cotton Mantua and within the
ruoaniog, -of the article priced 13d: in the settled
list ; ,and. one of them said he had been paid-1311
per.yard by another .house for. manufactuting
simihr article. It was, however, allowed by
these witnes,es that this particular spevies of
goods had not bee It • manufactured in this comAtry
till within the last.l2 months.
Mr. Bin-LAND defewded•his client from tbe_im-
. potation or wishing to pay his workmen less titan
they wete :entitled' to. .I:he article in tioestion
was entirely new in this conn•ry, 4nid the price to
be paid to the men had as yet never bee
He 'must, however, .inform the Magis•rates, that
-at the rate of • 11d. per yat 11, a jou:nit-yin-air tni;;llt
with ease earn 50s. per week, which, lee con-
ceived, would.fnlly actptit the masters-of ally' in-
tent ilmt of imposing.• hard --terms-upon their, men.
—lle then proceeded to state, that the article in
tptcsbion had been Introduced from France ,ahnut
a year ago, and teas called '`..Soye de Pars,7 or
Paris Cord ; it. is as an elegant -sort feshion,ble,
article of female dress, and not to, be ranked
under any description of work enurateated itt r-lie
settled list of pikes.
Several sew kitten, who-had been many years in
-the-trade, were then called, who desi:ribed techni-
cally the meaning of the words '' COtton Alan-
ilia," or Shot Cotton, as applyiog.only.to
the greater part of which were co•ton ;
the Soye,de Poi-is the tinoeber of _threads- of nilk
and Cot tott Wel e equal, and the cold was produced
by the cotton threads being coarser than those of
the silk, and that in point of technical description;
and labour in 'the manufacture, the article ap-
proached much nearer to a mode than. is Cotton
Mantua, tint that they considered it, as to price,
an unsettled article.

Upon this evi►lence the "Nlagistrates immediately
acquitted the defendant, and recommended the
Journeymen to apply -to
,the Sessions, to set the
,proper price for the future.
CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS AND AUCTIONEERS.

TOWN-I-CALL, SOUTHWARK.--A 111,111, who gave
his name IV. J Hank::lts, was 'nought up for le-
examination, charged by Mr. Field, auctioneer
and appraiser, No. ISS, Borough High•vreat,
with a team! of rather a novel description, which,
it appeared, lie bad exercised in a wholesale way
throughout the trade.
Mr. Field stated, that a few clays ago the pri-
soner called at his house, and presented an Its-
ventory, which purported to be a cot rect. list of
a lot of household furniture, about which the
prisoner said two respectable brokers (A.hi,m he
named) %Vele in litigation Hs to [)flee ; anti as-
their agreement bound them, in case they could
not agree between themselves, to call in a third
.appraiser, whose decision should be final, they
had mutually agreed to select him (the prose-cti-
tor) for .that purpose. As the practice 13 a very
common one in the trade, he had not the least
suspicion, but presented the prisoner with 3s. 6,1.
the usual fee in such cases, and immediately re-
paired to the place named in the Inventory, wit, n,
to his great astonishment, he discovered that there
had been no sale, nor dispute between the brokers
mentioned, and consequently that the whole was
an imposition.
Mr. Wick, auctioneer, of King-street, and Mr.
Cockerel), of High-street, preferred similar
,charges against die prisoner ; and it was further
added, that about one hundred brokers had het.n
defrauded in a similar way, thirty of whom had
been in on,: day sent to tqretttliant, .a distance of
eight or nine miles, upon one awl the same bu-
siness.

Uu the first examination of tLe prisoner, he

atttibtifeil his conclutt to, the kilsery and want.
to which his wife and - fausily were reduced,
of which he drew such a wrerched picture,
:bat be. was principally rekoinded to ascertairL
the truth of his story, which being found
collect,. the prosectilion was abandoned; on ,
condition that the prisoner would make, in the
shape of an affidavit, a full disclosure of something
which he had hinted on a former day. lie then
confessed that a man, whom he knew as-a pauper
in St. Giles ' sw:Vi
14stitkpliortilvsre„ to vain':
auctioneer
olil) ieneirui:"tht:
this ode of obtaining money,. the man alluded
to having,
city, obtained considcrable money by such means.
His confession 'WAS taken down, and the prose.i
cutors stated -that they won't! cause copies of it td
be distributed amongst the trade. At thkir request
the miserable delinquent was discharged.

A TRUF: STORY OP A GHOST AND CONJUGAI.
DRLITY —Mr. Samuel Fisher, the inventor of the
Gulden Snuff, was acquainted with a widow Lady
of excellent character, who resided in Cork. This
14t!'y was inconsuluble for the death of her bus.
band : the'day was spent•by her in sighs and
cessant lAinentatious, nod her pillow at night was
moistened with the teats of her sorrow. Her hits•
band, her dear husband, was the. continual them,*
of her disconrse, .rind she seemed !o live for no
:ether object but to recite his praises and to deplore
his loss. One morning., tier friend Fisher found her
in a state of inntal agitation, bordering on ibis.
trac,ion. tier departed loVe, she said, had ap.
peared to kur in the night, and roost peremptoril
order -her to enter the vault, where his remains

were tieposited, and Ittve the coffin opened. Mr.
Fisher temtmstrated with her on the absurdity of
the idea ; he said that Cite intensity of her sot rote
had impaired her intellect ; that the phantotriseas
the mere creature oilier imagination.; and beg-
ged of her at least to postpone to some future
pet loci her intended visit to-the corpse ot her lilts-
bgod. The lady acquiesced for that time in his
r ,quest ; hut the two. succeeding mornings, the
aito-y spirit of 'her spouse stood at her bed-side,
'and with loud menaces repeated. his command.—.
S. Fisher, therefore, sent to the sextet}, and mat.
ters being arranged, the weeping wickw and her
friend attended in the dismal vaulty the coffin was
opened with much solemnity, and the faithful ma-
tron stooped down and kissed the clay-cold lips
of her.adored husband. Ha%ing reluctantly parted
front the beloved corpse, she spin( the remainder
'of „--the day in silent anguish. On the sorceedio
morning !Wirt (whointended In sail for Eng!anti
on that day) Called to bid his afflict ed-triend
The maid-servant told him that the la-toy- hod not
yet arisen " Tell- her get up," said Fister,
I wish to give her a few words of advice and
consolation before my departure." " .qh,
said the smiling girl, " it mittld tre a pity to ois-
cnrb the new married couple so early-itt the mom.
ingl"—" What 11l W Mat tire! couple 1."—" My
.mist revs, Sir, was married-last„night."—". Mar-
tied ! linpossible What.-! the Idtly whr so adur.
eft her deceased husband, who was visited nightly
by his ghost, and who yesterday so fervently kiss-
ed his col pse Surely you jest !" " Ott I Sir,"
slid the maid, " my 'late maver, poor man, on.
leis death-bed, made my mistress promise that she
.wonld never marry any man after his decease tilt
be and she should meet again (4.hicit the w I
.090/
matt, no doubt, thought would Dever happen till
they met in heaven ;) and you know, my dear
you kindly introduced them to each whet.,
face tci face, yesterday. My mistress, Sir, sesols
you her compliments and thank, together will).
bride-caky, to distribute among your young
friends."

A charge of the most atrocious character haj
berm preret:red befoic the Alagistratei agai!istthu
Alate of a ship lately arrhed at He 11
accused of haying canscd the death of', .a si(
boy, by starvation and. other crud treat tucnt, an I
of 'having Hogged a black titan till he actually
died !