A PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.—Mr, HENRY HUNT appeared at Bow Street the
other day, attended by two whitewashers (rather curious attendants on a man who lives by blacking), to make certain statements against Mr. THOMAS HUNT, his son, for setting up an op- position establishment after the villanous Huskissonian free trade fashion, to which Mr. HUNT is so properly opposed. Mr. THOMAS HUNT has come forward to vindicate himself from Mr. HENRY HUNT'S aspersions. Mr. HUNT junior declares, that "he has menaged his father's blacking concern from its commencement, and stood by hint in all his miefortunes and persecutions." " I still," he proceeds, "cherish the same feelings towards him in politics; but being well acquainted with the process of blacking-making, my object in trade is to vend an article on my own account." There is something extremely ingenuous in this avowal of Mr. THOMAS HUNT, that he is still willing to trade in politics in company with his father, (not being yet well acquainted with the manufacture, it is to be presumed), but that in the matter of blacking, being already an adept, he intends in future to do business for himselE
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