Star.
London, England, 1826-02-08 00:00:00

DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.

John Shepherd and George Hodson, Liverpool, hide-merchants.
William Rushton, Joseph Rushton, and Josiah Rushton, Liver-
pool and Oporto, merchants, so far as regards the said William
Rushton. Joseph Gatley and Abel Hyde, Portwood, Stockport,
wood-turners. William Birkhead and John Pottinger. Birkhead,
%clinician, Oxfordshire, surgeons. Barnett Isaacs and B. Farmer,
Stratford, Essex, pawnbrokers. John Hare, Charles Hare, John
Hare, jun and Ruben Lennart, Bristol, iloor-cloth.manufacturers,
so tar as regards the said Chalice Hare. Thomas Powell, William
Powell, John Powell, and Joseph Powell, &ogursey, Somerset-
shire, millers. Godfrey Drake, Joah Drake, and Hamar Drake,
Moor-park, Haddenfidd,woollea-manufacturers. Joseph Hemsley
and Thomas Hemsley, King-street, Tower hill, mathematical in-
strument-makers. William Hallewell, Mayfield, bricklayer, and
Francis Holley, York, innholder. Samuel Thompson and John
Butler, Boltea-le-Morses, ironfounden. John Oldham and John
Butler, Benson, Oxfordshire, drapers. John Higginson and
Richard Higginson, Leicester, hosiers. William litimer. James
Wooden Mai tyr, Richard Moser, and Charles Mama, Southwark,
ironmongers, so far as regards the said Charles Marion. Richard
Donovan and William Edward Talton Liverpool, merekante.
Edward Marckant Page and Edward Mat:chant Page, jun. Bristol,
boasellers. William Witt, and G. D. BalLchey, Manchester.
James Eaigiebert Teschemacher and Arthur Apish. James
Bradshaw and John Taylor, Manchester, hatters. Richard
.Gutteridge and William Gutteridge, St. Alban,, auctioneers.
Henry Willett, Edward Willett, and James Oxley, Norwich,
wholesale drapers. Henry Wylie and Adam Gerard, Minting-
lane, wine-merchants. John Grattan Guinness, John Bewley, and
Joseph Nevill, Liverpool, porter-brewers, so far as regards the said
Jahn Grattan Guinness. Andrew Wabh and John Burbidge,
Bread-street, ateapside, swarehousemen. John Larcome, Crew-
kernei and John Edwards, Shepton Beauchamp, Somersetshire,
sail-cloth-manufacturers. Thomas Clayton, sen. and Thomas
Clayton, jun. Manchester, cheese-factors. Matthew Harrison and
Thomas Harrison, Neweastle-upon-Tyne, 'tobacconists. Daniel
Backhouse, Joshua Woodcock, sand Jones Robinson Spring Mill,
Yorkshire, dyers, so far as regards the said Jonas Rubinson. Thomas
James Breeds, 'Mamas 3dattington, and John Manington
coal-nlerchants. Thomas Manhattan and John Manington,
Hastings,ironmongers. Jdhn Wade and William Lucas Scamtt,
Cateaton-street, cloth-factors. George Browning. Tower-street,
looker, and Robert Griffith, Whiteshapel, grocer. James Cran-
dall and Isaiah Millen, Great Dover.toad, ironfounders. Richard
Masters, James Christie, and Baynham Jones, Cheltenitain,brewers.

MR. COWlit R.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose. pursuant to notice.
to discharge a duty and make a !notion, which he had
the satisfaction to think would meet with no opposition
from any snarter of the House. Their Lordships had
heard yesterday a letter from the Gentleman who had
Discharged the duties of Clerk Assistant of Parliament
for a period of furty-one years, requesting, on consi.
derations of health, that they would accept his resigna-
tion. In no instance bad those duties been discharged
with more merit, diligence, assiduity, and regularity,
than by Mr. Wm. Cowper. Their Lordships, who had
attended to the business of the House, knew how im-
portant in all its bearings was the situation which Mr.
Cowper had filled : whether connected with the judicial
duties of their Lordships, which formed the first and
highest branch of their functions, or with their legis.
lative proceedings. The constitution of the House
was such, that it was important, in reference to its or-
ders and proceedings. that the individual charged with
the duties of Clerk of Parliament, should not only dis.
charge them with fidelity, but with a thorough ac-
quaintance with every form and privilege. No personbad
ever been more carefully atteutive to what was due to
the dignity of the House, the regularity of its proceed.
ings, and the keeping up of its (triers, than the officer
who was now retiring. He had also discharged his
duties with so much temper and urbanity, that he
(Lord Liverpool) was not aware, in the course of the
twenty years that he had sat in that House, of Mr.
Cowper having given offence to any one. After staling
facts like these. he had nn doubt that their Lordships
would be anxious like him to record on their J.surnals
their sense of Mr. Cowper's merits. This would be the
object of his first motion. With respe:t to his second,
he would only say a few words. When, some years ago,
the duties of the situation had come under cousidera.
tion, and their importance had been acknowledged, it
had been settled, at the secoallitendadon of the late
Earl Ross'yn (originally Lod Loughborough), that a
pension of 10001. should be granted to the person by
whom they were filled as a provision for him after he
should no longer be 4b e to discharge them. When,
two years ago, the subject had again been.submiited to
Parliamentary investigati•n, Mr. Cowper had expressed
himself perfectly satistizd with that provi,ion, and, in
factvwould be so now, if nothing loather should be
done for him. But their Lei: thiliips he (the Earl .fLiver-
pool) was Convinced, wiltilJ n. t think it becoming their
dignity to avail tit, mstives of such disinterestedne s,
and would not suffer Mr. Cowper's liberality to prevent, on tbeir
part, an act, nut of liberality but of justice towards him. ' He
should first move a Resolution, declaring that the House had seen
with concern the resignation of William Cowper, Esq. and that it
thought it tight to record the just sense which it entertained of the
seal, ability, and diligence, with which the said William Cowper,
Esq. bad elevated the duties of his office for more than forty years.
lie should then follow up this motion by an Address to his Ma-
jesty, laying copies of Mr. Cowper's letter, and of the &solution,
before him, and leaving the subject to his Majesty's consideration.
On the "Resolution kss Mg cut,
Lord ELLENISOItOUsiH said, that had Mr. Cowper been
present, the Ites.*:,tion would not have been drawn up in so un-
grammaticil a manner.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL admitted that it might not be per-
fect grammar, but then the Noble Baron must allow that it was
perfectly conformable with the language of the House of Lords.
The Resolution and the Address were then unanimously agreed
to.—Adjourned till Thursday.