The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-24 00:00:00

PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED.

Thomas Shaw and Thomas Searle, Marlborough-square,
Great Peter-street, Westminster, cabinet-makers.
Francis Grace and George Rowland, Manchester,
tailors and drapers.
John Dorrington and Benjamin Smith, Birmingham,
steel toy and tool makers.
Joseph Whalley and John Whalley, Holbeck, Leeds,
woolstaplers.
George, Bangley, William Nott, and George Tennant,
Budge- row.
Richard and Christopher Maile, Keppell-row, New-road,
Fitzroy-square, masons.
John Edward and Henry James Hall, New Bond-street,
copper-plate engravers.
Samuel Martin and Joseph Baker, Cheltenham, coal
merchants.

Joseph Wayland and Jas. Bishop Peters,Bristol, plumbers.
Berton Gottheimer and George Novra, Liverpool,
merchants.

Sarah, William Crotch, and Edward Bowly, Cirences-
ter, corn-dealers.

Benjamin Arthur Heywood (deceased) Thomas, Benja-
min, and Richard Heywood, Manchester, bankers.
William Franklin and William James Hamilton, York-
street, St. James's-square, tailors.
Peter Greenall, William Pilkington, jun., James Broil&
low, and John Barnes, St. Helen's, Lancashire, crown-
glass-manufacturers.
Thomas Black and Arthur Cromar, Aberdeen, druggists.
Thomas Parish, William, and John Scatters, Mellor,
Lancashire, cotton-spinners.
Archibald Richard Francis Rosser and Robert Henry
Jones, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square, attorneys.
John Sims and Thomas Salthouse, Preston, builders.
Robert Watson, Francis Broughton, and John Hayward,
Falcon-square, attorneys.
Thomas Binns, senior, B. Hadwen, junior, and John
Binns, junior, leather-factors.
Richard Yates and William Walker, Preston, haber-
dashers.

Thomas Vickress, sen. and Thomas Vickress, jun., Al-
dersgate-street, wine-merchants,
Thomas and John Beale, Winchester, linen-drapers.
Richard Wahnesley and Wm. Frederick Louis Matthie
Dejean, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, wine-merchants.
George Thomas and John King, Pudding-lane, spirit-
merchants.

ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 3.—The cold
contiuues severe, with a sharp east wind and fine weather.
The thermometer (Resumer) 21Q below zero.
COPENHAGEN, JAN. 10.—Evert in the
stormy month of November SO3 ships passed the Sound, of
which 321 were English.

STOCKHOLM, JAN. 6.—On the 30th ult.
there was a very warm debate in the Chamber of the
Equestrian order, between the defenders of the system of
prohibition and that of reciprocity on the occasion of M.
Lefren's motion, relative to trade and manufactures. M.
Thant spoke for one hour and a half, and defended with
general approbation the system of free trade.

Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, a
porter, while proceeding along Paternoster-row, fell down
dead. He was carried into ➢lr. Beveridge's, a surgeon,
and the usual remedies to restore animation were had re-
course to, but without effect. He has left a widow and
four children.

Mr. O'Connell has received one hundred and
fifty pounds, Catholic Rent, from Baltimore. Mr.
O'Connell's departure for London is said to be fixed for the
13th proximo.—Dublin Evening Post.
A correct thermometer has shewn that in the
course of Tuesday night it was 19 degrees of Fahrenheit
being 14 deg. below freezing, and Wednesday night it was
below 18.

At a Court holden in the Great Hall, at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, on Wednesday last, the 21st inst.
Thomas Helps, Esq. was unanimously elected the Trea—
surer of that Royal and Ancient Institution.

We have great pleasure in learning that the
Kidderminster carpet weavers arc now fully employed.—
Worcester Journal.

" What a string of excellent moral mandates
is the decalegue !" said a young preacher. " Aye, Sir,'
responded his clerk, "but some folks would like the string
better, if it were not so full of mots !"

" Is Jack dead ?" said a publican, observing
a brewer's servant lying on the beer butts in his dray.—
" Dead drunk," replied a brother dray-driver ; " Ah ! I
thought be was lying on his beer," quoth Boniface.

A REJECTED PLEDGE.--Wednesday evening
a male infant about five weeks' old, was left in the entry
of Mr. Dry's, pawnbroker, St. Martin's-lane. Mr. Dry
having no nursery, for living pledges, the poor infant was
conveyed to the workhouse.

The rot has made its appearance among the
sheep in Romney Marsh to a very great extent. Whole
districts are affected, and the consequences will be very
serious to the graziers.—Bath Chronicle.

One of those rare occurrences of old people
recovering their sight, is just now exemplified in the case
of a respectable individual residing in Kintulloch, parish
of Dunibarney. He is upwards of seventy years of age;
and since last harvest has felt his sight gradually improv-
ing, till be can now read the smallest type without the as-
sistance of spectacles.—Caledonian Mercury.

IMMENSE TURNIP.--A red-topped turnip
was last week gathered in a pasture belonging to Mr.
Fawcett, of Leverton, which weighed 12 pounds, and
measured 40 inches in circumference. A leg of mutton
might he conveniently enclosed in this huge vegetable !
Boston Gazette.

The marriage of Captain Byng, with the Lady
Agnes Paget, fifth daughter of the Lord Lieutenant, it is
now determined shall not take place in this country. The
ceremony will be performed on the arrival of the distin-
guished parties in England.—Dublin Evening Post.

The common bat, or flitter-mouse (vespertilio
murina), sometimes flits about on fine evenings, though
the crepuscular moths, which are its favourite prey, are
still scarce ; and it must often, we should suppose, hawk
for a whole evening without taking one. We once caught
a bat which did not refuse any sort of insect, grubs not
excepted; and, perhaps, those bats which appear so early
as January have other pray besides moths to pursue.—
Companion to the Almanack.

'TIS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY
GOOD.--One of the largest steamers was lately obliged, by
stress of weather, to put into Beaumaris, short of provi-
sions. Sixpence a piece was demanded for eggs ! nor
c, ad they get one piece of meat without purchasing the
ik de sheep, and that at an exorbitant price !—Liverpool
.

The following facts indicate very great com-
mercial activity, and even general prosperity, in this coun-
try, during the last year :—The revenue of Great Britain
and Ireland was improved to the amount of 2,000,0001.
The consumption of cotton and indigo was greater than
has ever before been known. Of cotton the quantities
consumed were, in the respective years-1822, 550,800
bags ; 1825, 615,940 bags ; 1827, 662,900 bags; 1828,
732,700 bags. Of Indigo, the quantities sold lOr home
consumption were as follows :—Year 1825, 2,066,938
chests; 1826, 1,766,470 chests; 1827, 2,143,773 chests ;
1829, 2,910,053 chesta.--Livc/pool Times,