The Sun. — 1839-03-27 (London, England)

PARTNRSHIPS DISSOLVED. —uthA.raiL 16. W. Southworth and S. Leeming, silk mercers, Great Belton, Lancashire—W. and T. Wilson, ship builders, Liverpool— W. Morgan and G. Paqualin, insurance agents, How fordbuildings, Fenchurch-street—E. Rouse and G. Law, bakers-, East-street, Greenwich—W. and G. Armroyd,cutlers, Liverpool—S. Stannah and J. Green, distillers, Princes-street, Lambeth—W., T., and H. Carass, butchers, Beroughbridge, Yorkshire—J. Reed and B. Miller, dealers in slate, Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire—S. Sansom and J. H. Wardle, lace mamacturers, Nottingham—S. Amory and J. Coles, attorneys, London—P. Speyer and J. Price, tailors, High Holborn— A. Wolfenden, J. Stansfield, arid J. Wolfenden, engravers to, calico printers, Manchester (so far as regards A. Wolienden)— T. Hull and C. Roelants, spirit merchants. St. Swithin's-lane —J. Diver and G. Phillips, tailors, Winchester—J. Hall and. J. M. Dawkin, merchants, anelly, Carmarthenshirc—J. Hattersle7 and S. Bastow, general tool makers, Leeds—J. Hicks and 'I. Bowker, brewers, Wandsworth-Common—T. Duffield and J. A. Squiers, auctioneers, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire—T. Fox, G. Ruppell, G. Rippon; and H. L. Redhead, coal owners, Durham (so far as regards H. L. Redhead)— R., J., T., F., and J. Hollis, gun makers, Birmingham—S. Knight and W. Breaden, tailors, Hyde, Isle of Wight—T. J. Wright and J. Getty, merchants, Liverpool—T. Northwood, Sen. , and T. Northwood, Jun., working jewellers, Newmenstreet, Oxford-street—R. Atkinson, R. G. Chapman, and A. R. Homersham, woolstaplers, Upper Russell-street, Bermondsey (so far as regards A. R. Homersham)—S., J.,. and J. Denton, worsted manufacturers, Horton, Yorkshire.  MORALITY OF THE dALLOW§•  ( From the Bristol Mercury.)  We believe that, in arguing the question of the propriety of continuing the punishment of death, there is not me disputant left who would conserve the gallows on the simple ground of a retaliator; .  punishment upon the criminal who has off society and the law. Death punishment is, it  . . advocated on the principle of its supposed of to deter from the commission of crime'.  :hen is the precise value of this punishment to  ciety, in the light in which its aatocates themselves profess to view it. Do men shrink into their habitations from the. horrors of an execution ? No ; nor women eit!le:.: Does the lesson sink into the hearts of those who read it ? Indeed, no ; for rather it is much be apprehended that executions add to the g,!. neral depravity ; and that the crime is too often forgotten, and the criminal dangerously commisserated with, if he be not even elevated by the act of suffering into the character of an hero. An illustrative instance has this last week occurred at Hertford, in the execution of a man there  for a most brutal murder The malefactof—a youth of 22 years of age, takes his last farewell of his parents ; and his father, while shaking hands with him for the last time, alluded to the firmness with which he bore his trial and sentence, and said, " Good bye, Tom ; keep up your 'Spirits ; make your peace with your Maker; go up to the gallows, and die like a man !" The unhappy son replied, will, father I" And he fulfilled his promise! Here is the spirit of the hero pleading in extenuation of the crime of the murderer ;• and if the heart is thus to be steeled against death when it r looks into the very eyes of the condemned—and this, it must be recollected, is the rule, not the exception—what have we to hope in the distant prospect of this fate as a check to the full career of crime, except the gradual hardening of the heart into that dogged indifference as to the result, which is known to prevail among those inured to crime, until they are entirely reckless as to its con, sequences. So much for the particular effect of death-punishment : let us now look at its operation. In this case—a striking and the latest mample, an intelligent Contemporary—the Hertford Rclermer, says :  " BIRTHS, DEATHS, and MARRIAGES," In 3 vols., post Bvo., MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL, " BIRTHS, DEATHS, and