Star.
London, England, 1824-06-16 00:00:00

DISSOLUTIONS CF PAIITNEIZSIIIPS

Dombrain and Co. late of Canterbury, coach.inastcrs. Knowles
and Creston, Wapping and Liverpool, block-makers. Levy and
Ansell, Norwich and Ipswich. Everard and Barter, Spalding,
Lincolnshire, drapers. Scutt and Hill, ihtlininster, Somerset,
ship-builders. Whitehouse and NaA, Surrey-street, Iliaekiejars.
road, grocers. Rubinson and Livesty, Habershant-E.ves, near
Burnley, Lancashire, timber-merchants. E. and S. k'; ge. Wig-
more-street, milliners. Every and Wevtnys, Croyeon, grocers.—
J. S. Webster, Fazeley, Staffordshire, woolstaplers. Lopresti
and Roberts, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square' oilmen. Ford and
Jones, Shrewsbury, grocers. %V. and J. P. Stephens' Bridport,
sail-cloth-manufacturers. Nicholson and Loy, Sheffield, penknife-
cutlers. Ogden and Allen, South Shields, chemists. Newman
and Breavington Harlow, Essex, silk-throwsters. Bradshaw and
Chula, I.ancashire, mechanics. Johnson and Co. Chester-
field, tea-dealera. flutchison and Gay, Tichbarne-street,engravers.
Woods and Foster, Liverpool, builders. Saxe and Co. Conduit-
street, tailors. Pinhurn and Weston, High-street, Southwark.—
Paten and 'France, James-street, Haymarket, timber-merchants.
Streake and Ford, Brook-street, Holborn, egg-merchants. Gates
and Paley, London. Tristram and Knight, Ross, Herefordshire,
builders. Church and Taylor, Glotic,:ster, sacking-manufacturers.
Ikatson and Wilcock, Cawthorne, Yorkshire, wood-merchants.—
E. and T. Lowe, Overton, Flintshire, mercers. Chapman and
Tut tier, Bradford, Yorkshire, wouistaplera Ward and Broadley,
Liverpool, hatter;. J. and S. Ileginhettom, Ashton-under-Line,
tttt els. E. and a Briggs, Leadenhall-street, drapers.

At the Surrey Sessions, yeste►d.ty, a memorial war;
pre:etaed from Mi. Callaghan, who was convicted, as
we stated yesterday, of an assault on the Rev. James
Saurin, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment in
Horsemonger-lane, praying that he might be allowed
to provide himself with other food than the county al-
lowance, which is bread arid water. The Magistrates
present, after same consultation, decided that they could
not interfere in the case, vi hich fell within the jurisdic-
tion of the visiting Justices.
Early on last Fi►day morning, the following prisoners
contrived to make o.eir escape horn the county jail at
Horsham, viz. Henry Bolton, commiced on a charge
of horse-stealing ; and Edmund Brown, who recently
made his escape from the Leviathan hulk.
The King of the SANDWICH lst.Asns possesses seven
lislands! supposed to be nearly equal, in point of extent, to our West
India Islands, and which have been of considerable r.:ivaetage to a
particular CUSS of our shipping, on those lung and tedious voyi,4e,
for sperm whales. His navy consists of five brigs and about twenty
other vessels, some of which trade to India for sandal-wood (which
the island abounds with), and others to Kamtschatka, one of the
Russian settleittents, with salt, tor timber, dtc. His Majesty has a tine
yacht, of tar.o tons burden, called the Cleopatra, the builelh.g of which
cost 80,000 dollars. Adjacent to his residence are two forts, one of lid
guns ; and another, commanding the whoie h.shour, mounted with
thirty-four 24-pounders. This industrious cl:,ss of people have
been it, a state of civilization for the I at torty yeari, have forsio-d
a regular Government, and have resident lisstoi.nies, by whose
exertions places of worship have heen erected. They are supposed
to he words at the least two millions :,f money.
The Dublin Evening Post Cl Saturday states, that
great distress prevails in several pars of Ireland, particularly
Queen's County, ‘Vestinesth, and Connaught. The distress
is
Westmeath is fully as great as in 1822 ; and in Queen's Cu..nty
pouters are seven-peace a stone, being four times the usual

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