The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-19 00:00:00

active interference of the Admirals (of England and France), who have acted hitherto with too much lukewarnmess and leniency." So much for the Russian pacification of Greece ! Morning Herald. Having previously shown the effect of the issue of British Government bills on the several commercial markets of the world, and their ef feet upon the rates of exchange, and the effect of the variation in the rates upon the foreign commercial transactions of the country, from 1793 down to 1815, we will now proceed to show their effect upon the transactions of the year 1816. The •extreme point of variation in the rates of exchange, as shown in our Paper of yesterday, was in April, 1811, when the rate in Hamburg had altered from the par of 13.156 to 8.810, from which extreme point it varied to 11.437 inFeb., 1813 ; to 9.75 in August of the same year ; to 12.4 in September, 1814 ; to 10.437 in June, 1815. We have previously stated that the amount of the Government bills issued abroad in 1814 was 26,405,0281., and in 1815, 20,128,118/.; and it will be remem bered that it was in June, 1815, when the finale was given to the operations of the war in Eu rope; otherwise it is probable that the issue of bills in that year would have amounted to 30,000,0001. The value of the exports to Continental Eu rope in those two years were respectively 44,577,4091. and 34,994,6781., while the value of the imports did not exceed 10,000,000/. in each year. It may be observed, however, with regard to the exports of those two years, that they included from 10,000,0001. to 12,000,0001. value of colonial produce, which had been de posited here from the conquered islands of St. Croix, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Java, &c., which, on their re-export, (lid not enter into the account to affect the exchanges ; that is, it was the property of the Enropean residents, and had merely passed through England in way of transitu : the excess of export, there• f ,re, may be regarded as corresponding, or wady so, with the amount of Government bills issued in that part of the world, while the rates at which they were issued afforded the means of profit to the commercial transactions of those two years. We now come to the fatal year 1816, in which the exports to Europe amounted to 30,645,2201., and to the Americas, Brazil, and foreign West Indies, to 16,165,2261 ; together 46,810,446/. ; while the official value of the imports amounted to only 9,751,6861., and the Government bills to only 7,802,357/. ; leaving near 30,000,0001. to be equalised in some way or other now to be explained. The rate of exchange (taking Hamburg as the basis of illustration), which in June, 1815, had been at 10.437, in October 1816 had altered to 14.250, making the total amount of bills equd to 250,104,363 marks banco, which amount of marks, according to the rates of exchange in June, 1815, would have obtained bills to the amount of 23,963,244/., and according to the rates of April, 1811, to the amount of 28.388,6901., instead of only 17,555,043/., which was all they could obtain in 1816. Now it is that the absurdity and baneful. tendency of the -gold standard of England will be apparent. England had exported merchandise to the amount of 46,810,4461.,_ while only 17,555,0431. appeared to meet it. The supply of hills immediately showed themselves inade quate to the demand ; there was no difficulty in disposing of the merchandise and obtaining cur rent money for the same, but the difficulty was to exchange the current money for bills on England ; and in consequence of the demand for the diminished amount of bills that did offer, instead of 8.81, as in 1811, or 10.437 in 1815, being asked,l4.2s was demanded, the latter rate being above par. Silver might have been de manded, but silver being only an article of iner chandise in England, had it been possible to hate equalised the excess of export in that metal, it being indisposable in England to any such ex tent, it would have led to great embarrassment ; and gold being an article of merchandise over all Europe, to have attempted to have equalised the account in that metal, the price would have risen in proportion to the demand for it : but, the truth is, it was not possible either with silver or with gold to have equalised the account; the issue of Government bills having been mainly suspended, 46,810,446/. value of exports were left to be equalised by depression in price to the level of 17,555,043/. of imports, including such amount of bills as were issued ; 2,731 commis sions of bankruptcy equalised in account full 20,000,000/. of the excess, and profit and loss the remainder ; the present generation must pass away before the desolating effects which that enormous defalcation occasioned can cease to be remembered. History supplies no correspond ing example of devastation, while its singularly insidious character served to conceal the cause. One would suppose that such a defalcation would have checked the operation of export in the ensuing year ; but, strange to say, the ex ports of manufactured products in 1817 exceeded those of 1816 by 5,000,0001., while the Government bills, which in 1816 had amounted to 7,802,3571., in 1817 bad been reduced to 3,404,0711., making a greater disproportion than in 1816. Yet, again, strange to say, instead of increasing the devastation, the country in 1817-18 indi cated signs of recovery from the effects of 1816 ; 014 - now it was in 1817-18 that the foundation was iaid for that order and career of transactions which hac progressively entrenched on the pro fits of production and trading, and the remunera tion for labour, to a degree and to an extent which has deranged all the relations, anti embar rassed all the active operations of society, and which must eventually involve the whole in one common ruin, unless some commensurate ar rangements are speedily resolved upon and re duced to practice. Foreign loans, absentee . ex penditure, and other extraneous operations now enter into the account to increase the complica tion and accelerate the ruin ; the tendency and influence of which we shall show hereafter. — Morning Herald. There is a consistency about some men, which, if it " leaned to virtue's side," would be altogether admirable. An evening contem porary of yesterday contained a letter dated Hammersmith, and descriptive of certain de meanour on the part of a certain personage, to wards a party of ladies on a road adjacent to the metropolis, in the course of Saturday last. How far the nature of the conduct imputed to that personage may be regarded by our readers as internal evidence to the correctness of the state ment, it is not for us to determine ; all we shall venture to hint is, that we have every rea son, upon inquiry, to believe the little narrative conscientiously and critically true. Four young females happened to be walking, unattended by any gentleman, on the Surrey-side of the road between Hammersmith and Barnes, and of course kept the footpath. The personage ? says the correspondent of the evening journal, came galloping along the road in the same direction, and no sooner had he come up to the unpro. tested ladies, than he " struck out of the centre of• the carriage road," and rode his horse upon the narrow footpath, brushing by the ladies at full gallop, and, as the wooden rails prevented their getting out of his way, the hoofs of the person age (of his beast, we ought to say) " came within an inch of the ladies' feet," so that their lives were in imminent danger. The horse did not appear unruly, whatever the creature may have been which bestrode him. Swift assures us, that an untamed specimen of the Yahoo tribe is the most savage and malignant of animals ; we can, therefore, though with dif ficulty, bring ourselves to believe that an offen der of the same species, having inspired a party of helpless women with consternation, by all but a downright assault upon them, would, in stead of making them a manly and respectful apology, turn round, "grin horribly a ghastly smile," " and gallop on !" The " accident," as we have learned in that neighbourhood, of such an outrage occurring to women, with no protectors near, has become a pretty common one—it has grown into a practice. Riding %%id) grooms after them, on frequented foot paths, is not indeed an offence much indulged in by English gentlemen ; it can be deli berately perpetrated by none but those whose habits are not English, and whom nature has not made gentlemen. In Hanover there may not be such things - as footpaths, for aught we know—indeed, a foreigner of the last century remarked their exigence as a proof of the solici tude shown by the constituted authorities of Eng lani for the accommodation of those humbler classes, who are compelled to travel on foot, conse quently clthe importance o f those orders ofour citi zens, or in other words of the reality of British freedom. But in Hanover we are afraid that a footpath might be invaded, or even a life taken, with impunity, provided only that the transgressor were a " personage" high enough to trample upon the laws, and used to undervalue every right but that of the powerful to oppress the feeble. In this country, however, such freaks had better be omitted. People here do not " laugh and gallop on" when they see or hear of an outraged fellow• countryman ; and of all outrages, an insult is the least to be endured. The rides of the personage in question from town used to terminate at Broinpion or its neighbour hood. What business has he so far up the Thames as Barnes-terrace ? His own wife is somewhere thereabouts, which renders the affair more unintelligible. But this we tell tbe person age, only for form's sake,—because lie is as conscious of the fact as we ourselves,--that he has no superfluous popularity to sport with, — nothing to come and go upon,—not a leg to stand upon. He had best, therefore, leave men's sisters, wives, and daughters, together with the footpaths, unmolested. The direct succession 'o the crown of England has been broken by Act of Parliament before now ; and we live in times when Englishmen proceed, without much ceremony, to act upon their moral impressions. " Mr. Editor, —Perhaps through the medium of your respectable Journal some apology or explanation may be ,ffered upon the part of his Royal Highness the Duke of —, for a most indefensible, if intentional, annoyance of party of ladies, on S iturday last, on the Barnes road. The young ladies, four in number, had crossed the rivtr from their house on Hammersmith-terrace, for the plea sure of a morning's walk to Barnes ; two of the ladies were 1 little in advance of the others. The Duke came gal• opiog along at his usual rate, and when even with them, -mdd my struck out of the centre of the carriage road on to the narrow foot-path, to the imminent danger of their limbs or lives. The situation of the path is such, that it is guarded on the marshy side of the river by wooden ro il., which prevented them completely getting out of his ,ray, supposing. there had been time to do so ; hut, how ever, at the peril of their persons, they stood sti:l close up to the railing, while the Duke brushed his horse past them full gallop. The danger of their situation may be ima ined when I tell you the hoofs of the horse came within ,n inch of the ladies' feet, and a black silk apron, worn by one of them, wafted round his knees. Whether acci dental or intentional doth not appear ; we conclude, though, the latter, for his Highness turned round his Lead, laughed, and galloped on.' " The truth and accuracy of these particulars will he confirmed on the terrac- ; and as to the identity of his !loyal Highness, his white mustachios are too well known to be mistaken. " Mr. Editor, such rencontres are all very pretty sport ,1 la Constantine, hut not at all suited or ad.rpted to the feelings of this reforming period. " I am, llr. Editor, " One of your regular suligeribers, and " A FRIEND TO THE LADIES. " P.S. The excuse of his Royal Highness being a lit tle short-sighted (which, by the by, is nothing new), will not stand good here, for I myself, on the same spot last week, bowed to his Royal Highness, who returned the salute from the centre of the road. " To set aside all doubts or want of accuracy of this statement, the name cf the young lady so nearly injured is Miss Perfect, of Hammersmith- terrace, and her companions .v( re I.er sister and the Misses Forties, of B ,rnes. " Hammersmith, Sept. 17."—( Times.) We do not believe that the people of England ,:re sufficiently alive to the evils caused by the unequal distribution of property. Without a regard for property, all civilization would soon he at an end. It is for the interest of the poor, therefore, as well as of the rich, that property should be religiously respected. But if the laws of a country have a tendency to produce an unequal distribution of property, they are at va riance with the object for which property is en titled to respect, for they strike at the security of property. The excess on one side leads to ex cess on the other. The existence of excessively rich individuals in a country has a tendency to make the millions excessively poor. " People,' ~bserves Destutt Tracey, " deceive themselves as to the meaning of the expression poor na tions, for then the population are in easy circum stances ; and it is in rich nations that the people are usually poor. This is the reason why the one are usually strong and the others often weak. The whole reduces itself to this truth, which has not been always sufficiently felt; the multi plication of our means of enjoyment is a very good thing ; then, too, unequal distribution is a very bad thing, and the source of all our evils. On this point also the interest of the poor is the same with that of society." When there is a class in society extremely rich, the scale of expenditure is necessarily high, for the reward of functionaries is not according to the value of the services, but according to the notions prevalent in the class in question from w hich the highest functionaries are taken. In the United States of Nor it America, where labour is of more va lue than in England, and where the very lowest class is equal to our middle classes in the pos session of physical comforts, there are no ser vants of the State who do not receive more than double the rate of those at the bottom of the scale in England. A Custom-house officer in America, for instance, receives three times the salary of a Custom-house officer in England. But the re verse of all this is witnessed as we ascend the scale. Rapacity has no bounds with the upper class of public functionaries in England and her Colonies. The consequence of all this is, the adding enormously to the privations of the mass of the people who have to support this enormous expenditure ; and the money so wrung from the people again perpetuates the inequality of pro perty by enabling the rich class to provide for their children and connections at the expense o the public, and transmit an enormous es tate to one child. Primogeniture and pau . • petism, therefore, are the cause and effect. The effects of our Oligarchical System on the general welfare are happily illustrated by our contemporary (the Scotsman), in the follow ing observations on the Oligarchical scale of pay : " We alluded lately to the ridiculous practice of making the services of one man, as Speaker for some years, an excuse for saddling the country with visions for two generations. From a return lately printed, we find that Mr. Onslow, who wan Speaker thirty-three years, retired in 1761, with a pension of 3,0001. for his own life and his son's. It appears that the son died in 1814, and that in the fifty-three years I , etween that period and 1761, father and son together drew 158,8841. ! If we suppose that the father lived nine years after his retirement from the Chair, the fortunate youth, the younger Onslow, must have received 130,0001. for performing no services what ever, but simply for being born the son of a public officer, who was amply remunerated for his labour during his life time ! Let us suppose farther, that Mr. Onslow's salary was 5 0001.,—it could scarcely be less when the pension was 3,0001.,—it follows that he must have received 165,0001. while he filled the Chair. Adding to this the amount drawn as pension, the country must have paid 324,0001. to a common-place man for thirty-three years' routine duty, in an office which any person of ordinary sense is able to fill ! The Speaker of the American House of Representatives receives for similar labour 3,000 dol lars, or 6601. per annum, and this only while he holds the office, without a shilling of pension after he leaves it. If, then, we compare the scale of pay in the two countries, it stands thus : .• The people of Britain pay a Speaker for 33 years' service £324,000 .‘ The Americans pay a Speaker for ditto 21,780 "In other words, our oligarchy's scale of pay is to the American as fifteen to one; and yet the duty is as well done on the other side of the Atlantic as in Bri.ain ! We defy any one to find a parallel to this, even in what Burke calls ' the heroic ages of Boman corruption.' A single fact, such as we have cited, ' saith more than a thousand homilies.' It bespeaks a system made for the tax-eaters, and over which the tax-payers have hitherto had no control ! The worst act with which Ministers are chargeable since they came into power, was, in our opi nion, the pensioning Mr. Manners Sutton according to this vicious precedent. We can imagine motives that might be pleaded in extenuation of their error, but which cannot entirely justify them. They, no doubt, desired to be rid of a Speaker whose heart was wedded to the corrupt system ; they wished also to treat an opponent with punc tilious good faith, and this might seem to require that Mr. Sutton should be remunerated according to the plan established and acted upon when he entered the office. This may be admitted as an excuse, but not a justification or their conduct. Happily the gigantic system of profligacy we have alluded to has received its death-blew by the fall of the Conservatives, who must be allowed to be, without exception, the most shameless patrons of corruption and peculation which the world ever saw." The prejudices of Englishmen, we are sorry to say, in some respects blind theM to the evils of the system. In returning Members to Par liament, they are too apt to mistake sound for substance. It is easy to deliver in choice terms a set of generalities which may have a liberal sound. But let the people be persuaded that the feelings of the class of aristocrats, liberal and illiberal, are generally in favour of the con tinuance of the system of inequality and high expenditure. Thus, for instance, Sir Francis Burdett is a worthy man, whose honesty cannot be doubted ; but he is full of the prejudices of his caste respecting primogeniture, and the advan tage of having masses of landed property in the hands of a few, with a pauperized population surrounding them. The people ought to be on their guard against the prepossessions which make part of the very nature of an English aristocrat, Tory or Whig.—Morn. Chronicle. We printed a few days ago, for the infortna tion of our readers, the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the propriety of renew ing the Bank Charter, and it is now our intention to offer such observations upon it as have oc curred to us in the course of its perusal. It is possible that in the remarks we may have to make we may greatly differ, not only from those pre sented by our contemporaries, but also from the opinions expressed by men of great practical knowledge, in the evidence before us ; but our opinions, whatever weight they may have, shall be honestly given. And first of all we beg it to be understood that we do not consider the ques tion of the renewal of the Bank Charter as by any means either a very difficult or a very important one. The Bank is a public establishment only in consequence of its doing the business of the pub lic, and transacting the affairs of the Govern ment; in all other respects it stands on precisely the same grounds, and is conducted on the same principles, as any private mercantile or banking establishment. To serve the public, in any other way than by serving itself, is not only no part of its duty or business, but contrary to its end and design ; for were it to act on this Quixotic principle, it would necessarily soon cease to be serviceable either to its proprietors or to any others. The question, in conse quence, respecting the renewal of its Charter, is one ofpure expeuiency,and which may be as rea dily solved by the rule of three—that is, the rule of advantage or disadvantage to the public —as by any other. Having cleared the ground in this matter, we come to another point, which was much agitated in the evidence before the Committee, and respecting which very erroneous opinions are generally entertained—we mean the alleged utility of the Bank in managing the fo reign exchanges of the country to its advantage, when, without its aid and interference, they would certainly turn against it. A more errone ous notion cannot possibly prevail. The Bank of England, or any other moneyed body or private individual, may unquestionably operate for the moment favourably or unfavourably upon the foreign commercial intercourse of the country ; but it can only be for a moment ; for unless it be determined to do that which it is not its business to do, and to sacrifice itself in the cause, it can not for any length of time maintain the attempted and needless control—needless, we say, because it is in the nature of commercial business that the exchanges will always right themselves with out the interference of any one, and the more speedily and safely that no one does interfere with them. They depend on the amount of trade between one country and another, or be tween different countries, which cannot for any length of time be either unnaturally increased or unnaturally diminished, and which, in spite of all attempts either the one way or the other, will soon revert to the standard of the - demands in the respec tive countries between which it is carried on. A third delusion respecting the Bank of England is, that, by the liberality of its discounts, it has sometimes prevented, and a t o th ers a ll a)e d , t h e mischief arising front commercial panics. Here 'also, however, as ni the former instance, it may be truly said that the Bank h as no b us i ness to travel out of its \' ay to do either the one or the other, and that when it does s o , i t not on l y de parts from the spirit ofits charter, but compro mises its own safety and that of those who may have deposited their money. in its hands. It may be liberal in its discounts at particular pe riods ; but it can only be in the disc ount o f goo d bills, from which it realizes an ample profit, and not of those which are doubtful, and from which it might realize an equally ample loss. We see no praise and no gratitude that is due to it in this respect. It is its business to dis count good bills, and in doing so it obliges it self as well as the public ; it is no part of its bu siness to discount either bad or doubtful bills, and were it to do so, it would only oblige the owners of such bills, and not the public generally.— Morning Advertiser. We collect from the Ministerial Papers that the Administration and that portion of their former supporters which assisted their measure of Reform, principally on account of its supposed tendency to secure a considerable retrench ment in the national expenditure, are no longer the firm friends which so long as the Reform Bill was in progress they were, or affected to be. Of this breach there need be no stronger evidence than the abuse poured upon Mr. flume on account of his electioneer ing proceedings by the Treasury Journals.— It is described as a great crime on the part of this Gentleman to recommend an economical Reformer like himself to the electors of Bath, since this recommendation may possibly interfere with the election of a candidate who has already made some progress in his canvass, and whose merits are summed up in the im portant facts that he is brother to the Secre tary at War, and is supported, as is quite natural, by the two Members fur Westminster, and by Earl Grey's Government. For this offence Mr. Hume is unmercifully chastised, cruelly remind ed of the Greek Loan affair, in which he so finely illustrated his economical propensities some years ago, threatened with the loss of his own seat for Middlesex if he presumed to think of such a piece of arrogance and folly as the es tablishment of an independent economical party in the Reformed Parliament, and instructed most dogmatically that the Reform Bill cannot get fair play unless the Reformers combine as one man to secure the return of placemen, or the brothers of placemen, to the next House of Commons. This, to say the least of it, is hard _ _ _ _ treatment towards the n:an who made it his ho nest boast but the other day that he had fifty times voted black to be white rather than leave Ministers in a minority. If he was a zealous Philhellenist until there seemed to be a strong probability of his losing money by the Greek cause, and no one was then surprised at the change which suddenly came upon him, why should he now be so fiercely attacked, if, after voting black white for a whole Session, and getting nothing for it, he refuses to be so accommodating any longer ? Did the conduct of the Honourable• Member in the affair of the Greek Bonds afford any ground for calcu lating upon his gratuitous services for ever? Was he to be prodigal of honour and conscience in support of Ministers for eight months, getting no pay, and then to be expected to complete his unre quited services by teaching the electors of Eng- land that they would best secure the economi ca l objects of the Reform Bill by voting in favour of Government Secretaries and their brothers ? That it is convenient fDr any Ad ministration, and necessary for an Administra tion like the present, to have such partisans as Mr. Flume once was, cannot be doubted. And the mortification of the Ministerial party on the desertion of this Gentleman is natural enough, considering the importance to them of sup porters who will not see the difference between black and white. But their anger, nevertheless, is misplaced and injudicious, for such support is manifestly too valuable to be long given away. They should surely have been so well prepared for the secession of the Hon. Member for Mid• dlesex as to avoid any strong expression of dis pleasure or surprise ; for what is it but the se cession of one whose enmity to good places, at least until he shall attain to the enjoyment of one of them, constitutes his whole system of Parliamentary tactics, from an Administration, of the head of which it may be truly said that, to provide for his family by means of good places, constitutes the chief purpose of his official ex istence ?—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Richard Glazier, an atto►ney, was charged with having forged the signature of Gamlie! Butler, a co-trustee of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, and defrauded the link of England of 436/. 165., lodged in the 31 per Cent. stock. The Justice-room was crowded, the charge being the first of a capital kind brought forward in the city since the passing of the new Forgery Act. Mr. FreshfiPld appeared on the part of the Bank. Mr. Wm. Davis, of No. 21, Ludgate-street, stock broker, deposed that he knew Mr. Gl..zier, the pri soner, and received instructions from him to sell some stock in the 3} per Cents. Witness sold 4361. 16s. stock for him on the 27th or April, 1830. Had done three or four transactions for him before, and had no doubt that the prisoner was the man who had given him the instructions to sell the stock, as he had know►► Mr. Glazier some years before. Witness identified the check paid to the prisoner for the stock; it was payable at Loyd's bank, and in the handwriting of his partner. John Joseph Hulme, a clerk in the 3i- per Cent. Pay-office of the Bank of England, deposed, that he witnessed the transfer of the stock, and identified the transfer. The demand on the back of the transfer was made by the person who ttansferred the stock, and the demand was made on the same day. Cross-examined by Mr. Harmer, who attended for the prisoner—No transfer was male until the demand was made. Mr. George Symea Gascino, a clerk in the Bank, looked at the power of attorney and instructions, and examined the instructions before the power o f attorney was made out, on the 24th of April, 1830, agreeably to the instructions. Mr. William Bowman, agent and accountant, of No. 2, Copthall-buildings, deposed that he had known the prisoner nine or ten years. Had not seen the prisoner's handwriting for four or five years; knew it previously, but would not say that the sig nature to the instructions was his, unconnected with tie other parts of the instructions. The witness was handed a letter from the prisoner to Mrs. Hughes, upon the subject of the dividends arising from the stock, which letter he identified as the prisoner's handwriting. Miss Ann Butler, sister to Mr. Gamaliel Butler, an attorney, who, she said, left this country in Ja. nuary, 1824, for Van Diemen's Land, and resided at Hobart-town, said her brother had not been in this country since that period. He had, since his departure from this country, con stant ly wr it ten to w it ne ss, who did not believe the signature to the power of attorney, authorizing the sale of the stock, to he his handwriting. Cross-examined—Heard from her brother a mon , h ago. He was gone to reside at Van Diemen's Land entirely, and laboured under some pecuniary difficul ties before he left this country. Mr. Francis White, auctioneer, of Hounslow, knew Mr. Thaler well; and did not believe the sig nature to the power of attorney to be his hand- writing'. C r oss-examined—Had not seen him write since inuary, 1821. Believes he went to Van Diemen's Land in 1524. Did not know whether Mr. Butler c tine back since that period: Mr. E. Butler, son of Mr. G. Butler, deposed, that he had arrived from Van Diemen', Land on the 1 7th of last month, and that he left his father there. bid not believe the signature " G. Butler," to the power of attorney now produce& to be his father's handwriting. Mr. Gro — ome, an official assignee, conesponded with Mr. Butler ; received letters from him dated Hobart's-town, the 15th and 17th of April, 1830. Compared the signature to the power of attorney with the letters, and did not believe the signature of the former to be Mr. Butler's handwriting. Cross-examined—Had not seen him write these eight yea's. Did not believe that a change of climate could alter and render more firm the style of writing. Mr. Butler was about 50 years of age. Mrs. Ann Eliz ibeth Hughes resided at Horsham, in Sussex. Knew Mr. Glazier, and had named him as a joint trustee with Mr. Butler. She was to re ceive the interest of 4361. I6s. It was first in the 4 , per Cents., and was afterwards reduced. Mr. Glazier paid her the interest half-yearly ; went to the Batik occasionally to receive the money. The last dividend she received was in July, 1830, which amounted to 81. 14s. Bd. In January, 1831, she applied for the dividend, and wrote to him requesting him to send her 5/. to save the expense of coming to town ; received .5/. more in Sept. 1831; received a letter from the prisoner on the 19th of January, 1832, dated from Worcester, expressing his regret at his absence from town when the interest became due upon the stock, and of his inability to give a power of attorney to receive it, without the signa ture of his joint trustee, Butler. (The hand writing to this letter was proved by Mr. Bowman to be the prisoner's.) Witness did not then know that the stock was sold out. She gave no instruc tions to that effect. Mr. Freshfield said that, from the evidence pro duced, he felt bound to call upon the Lord Mayor to commit the prisoner for the capital offence. Mr. Harmer said that the prisoner had, in fact, paid more than the interest received upon the stock, and that it had been removed in order to lay it out to better advantage; and the prisoner was ready to replace the amount. The LORD MAYOR postponed the case for a few days, and bound over several of the witnesses to prosecute. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday two men, named John Wood and William Smith, were brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with selling the Poor Man's Guardian and the Cosmopolite, the same Cot being stamped. George Colley,a person employed by the Stamp office, stated that he saw the prisoner Smith on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge, with a number of papers. He went up and purchased a Poor Man's Guardian, for which he paid one penny. He then took him into custody. Currie, another person employed by the Stamp office, stated that he saw Wood selling papers, and he also purchased a Poor Man's Guardian, for which he paid one penny, and then took him into custody. A number of papers were here handed to the Mafzistrate, which were found on the defendants. Mr. GREGORIE observed, that there could be no doubt but that the Poor Man's Guardian and Cos mopolite contained articles of intelligence. Colley sail that the defendant John Wood had been convicted three times before fur a similar of fence, but he still persisted in selling the papers as soon as he got out of prison. Mr. GREGORIE asked the defendants what an swer they, had to make to the charge. John Wood could get no employment, and was compelled to sell penny publications to get his livelihood.—Smith made the same defence. Mr. GREGORIE committed Wood for one month to the House of Correction, and Smith for four teen days. The witnesses then got their certificates of con viction signed by the Magistrate, for which they will receive twenty shillings each at the Stamp office. TOWN-HALL. Michael Spence, a young man of fashionable ap pearance, was yesterday charged with intermarry ing with Anne March, his first wife, Mary Slater, being alive. Anne March, an interesting young woman, with a child in her arms, met the prisoner in July, 1831, wh;ch subsequently led to their marriage at St. Andrew's Holborn, on the 19th of November, in the same year; the child in her arms was the issue of that marriage. She had lately received informa tion that the prisoner had been married to another woman, by whom he had a family, and he frequently absented himself. She eventually ascertained that the prisoner had been married in 1827 to his first wife, Mary Slater. Elizabeth Anne March, the sister of the last wit ness, stated that the prisoner and her sister were married at the time stated by the prosecutrix. The witness recognized the prisoner as the party who in termarried with her sister. Mary Ann Slater, the first wife, was married to the prisoner on the 13th of March, in 1827, at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street. The prisoner repre sented himself as a clerk to a merchant in the city. Three children were the issue of that marriage. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY—WeII, what have you to say to this charge ? Prisoner—l have nothing to say beyond this— that my first n ife was with child when I married her, and so was my second. They were with child by me before I married either of them, and from threats I married them. ALDERMAN—I shall remand you until Thursday o prove the marriages. Prisoner—Why not commit me at once ? ALDERMAN—I must act upon the law aslaid down, which requires the production of the certificates, as also evidence of identity. You must therefore be remanded until Thursday next. The prisoner was then removed. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Edward Green, a tall, raw-boned young man, with a large bushy head of hair, and his face adorned with a pair of mustachios, but without either coat or hat, was brought up in custody, charged with wilfully breaking a gas-lamp in the parish of St. Saviour's. The oddity of the defendant's appearance, half dressed, as he sauntered along Blackman-street that morning, attracted much notice, and he was fol lowed by a crowd of boys, who were amused by his pranks as he proceeded forward. At length, he walked up to a policeman, and addressing him, said, " Look out now, for I am on the point of committing an offence." The words were scarce;y uttered, when he flung a brick-bat at a gas-lamp, and smashed it to pieces. He then turned round to the police man, and said, " I am your prisoner—l resign myself into the hands of justice, and am prepared to go before my judges : lead on." The policeman accordingly brought him direct to the office. Mr. CHAMBERS asked the prisonerwhy he broke the lamp ?—And he replied that hunger, which was known before now to break through stone walls, compelled him to have a shy at a lamp, that he might be con victed of the offence, and sent to a place of confine ment, where he would have shelter, and be kept from starving as well. Mr. CHAMBERS—A strong fellow like you appear to be, ought to endeavour to get your. bread by work ? Green—But I can't procure any employment. Mr. CHAMBERS-Why not offer yourself as a re cruit, and join Don Pedro's army? Green—Your Worship, I can assure you that I have not left a stone unturned in my endeavours to obtain employ ment. I offered myself as a recruit to go out to Portugal, as I like the cause, but I had the mortifi cation to be rejected. The pompous manner in which the defendant re plied to each question put to him excited much laughter, as contrasted with his general appearance, which was that of great poverty. When asked how he had subsisted latterly, he answered, " I met with a generous, kind, and sympathizing-hearted seaman, this morning, who treated me gratuitously to a breakfast off tea, ham, and eggs. I enjoyed it, your Worship—it was a feast fit for an epicurean." Mr. CHAMBERS —Have you applied for parochial relief ? Green—l had a shilling presented to me by an overseer, who eompassionated my situation. Mr. CumunEus—What have you done with the shilling ? Green—Your Worship, I soon put it into circulation. My anxiety about the present pre vents me from reflecting upon my future wants ; and when I have happened to have the goad for tune to get a little money, it is soon expended on provision to sustain nature. Mr. CHAMBERS —You seem very fond of using high-flown words; have you ever been in the scho lastic line ? Green—l don't wish to arrogate to myself any pretensions to a knowledge of classical lore ; but I can say, and I think without the fear of contradiction, that I am as well versed in my own language as most men, and I should not be afraid to put myself in competition with many of the stupid schoolmasters who swarm the country. In answer to the question, your Worship, I beg to say tint I have never been engaged to teach the young idea how to shoot. Mr. CHAMBERS said, he had rendered himself liable to be sent to gaol to hard labour for the offence For which he was brought there. Green—The only part of the punishment I dis like is the wheel; that is a machine which I should riot like to be put upon ; for I never was accustomed to work of a laborious nature. Mr. CHAMBERS directed that he should receive emporary relief until he obtained some employment. Green, on leaving the slip, exclaimed—" This, ndeed, is generosity that I never should have con :emplated." DREADFUL RAVAGES BY CHOLERA IN AMERICA. Yesterday a letter was receive i in town in twenty-two days from New York, from 111 r. Wilkiwon, the comedian. The following interesting, though painful intelligence, touching the ravages of the cholera, is contained in Mr. W.'s letter, and corroborated by a letter from another gen tleman of subsequent date:— " Agreeably to your request, I send a few lines by the first packet after my arrival. I hope they may nut he the last I shall ever wri!e. The cholera is raging here, and it is the general opinion that it will increase. The rues of to-day (23d of August), are n-arly one-third more than yesterday. I walked up to the Bowery Theatre last nicht, where Mrs. Hadaway (late Miss Hallande, of Covent Gar den Theatre), was seized and died in the course of a few hours: I have since heard that Mr. Hadaway is dying. Hamblin had a very narrow escape an Saturday last. Blanchard and Barrymore were with him all night, and be is now confined to his bed from the violent effects of the differen• applicati.ins. Our second Steward of the Shef field called here this morning, and informed us of the death of the carpenter, a fine healthy strung young man, I should think considerably under 30 years of age, and whom I met in the street only yesterday morning in full health and vigour. and in less than 24 hours afterwards he was a corpse. Really lam half inclined to he the wearer of this intelligence myself. Mr. Barry accompanied me to Ho boken, where Mrs. Pindar had been residing, and we were inform d she had sail• d for London." EXTRACT FROM A SUBSEQUENT LETTER. " The cholera has been awful. An Italian Company of fifty two has arrived to die, or be starved, I guess. Mr. Hadaway and Mr. Waters acted last n i g ht a t the Bowery, and died this day of cholera. I open this to tell you that poor Hadaway has followed his wife this evening. The Bowery had been closed some time, and they suppo , e that in the present state of the atmosphere —full of what ever this fearful pestilence may be, that the climate of the Theatre engendered the disease, not h icing been lighted and ventilated ; but, good Heavens! they know nothing about it—it is half guess. We have had an unpleasant and dan gerous time of it, but have not stirred from our house.-- The Park Theatre is open with French rope.dancers, but opens with the regular company, and Wallack, on Monday next, the 27th inst. (August.) Horn is at Halifax; Sin clair, hiding from the cholera, and our bead man, Jones, afraid to stir out of the city, and looks the image of terror. Madame Fearon is in town ; Miss Hughes has absconded from fri z lit ; but the disease is spreading, and they will have to return for safety." LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 17. —2,000 bales of cotton are estimated to have been sold to day at firm prices, viz. 1,000 Brazils and Egyptians, the former, in Pernatz,s, at 91d. ; Bahia., Bd. to 81,1.; and Maranhams,'7ld. to 91(1. ; the latter at 88 1. to 911.. and about 1,000 in American descriptions from 6.1 d. toad. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the Huai' phr,:y, from New York; the lialmonie, from Dordt ; the Elwin, from St. John's, New Brunswick; and the Mersey' from London. Arrived yesterday, the Dalhousie Castle , and the Navy, from New Orleans ; the Mary Catherilier from Charleston ; the Nottingham, from Jamaica ; th e Aurora, from Dunkirk ; and the Superb, from St. An' Brews. New Brunswick. ORNITHOLOGICAL CURIOSITY. --Las t Thursday, while two gentlemen were sporting over the moms of Kyn when, near Tummel Bridge, one of cheat -hot a H opoe, a lid which is rarely heard of in Grea t Britain.— Caledonian Mercury. On Friday last as the gamekeeper of Lord SELSEY, at West Dean, was going his morning rounds to examine his traps for taking vermin, he came to one that had struck. With great caution he made the necessary inspection, and to his astonishment discovered, not a sol l ; tary capti ve , b u t th ousan d s . A swarm o f b ees h a d aligbteu on the trap plate, of sufficient weight to cause their ear; ture. Th e k ee p er i mme di ate l y too k hi s pr i ze t o Wes Dean, and hived it.—Portsmouth Herald. A distressing event took place on Monday night last in the family of Mr. WAIGHT, of No. 29, Col' Walbrook, by the suicide of an only daughter , fine young woman, about 22 years of age. Mr. WAIO holds a situation in tl e London Docks, and has a eon s clergyman. On Monday afternoon the Rev. Mr. Watoti l cilled upon his mother, and during his stay some slig ht misunderstanding took place between him and his sister; whom he accused of being fond of liquor. Shortly sf te his departure the unfortunate girl cried bitterly, a nd 'l e i aired she could not bear the reproach of her brother, g ° told her mother she would drown herself sooner than w ee, him again. About six o'clock she went out with , mother on some domestic business, but had not got ~` „, before she made an excuse to return home, leaving "'",, parent in the street waiting her return. The unfortu os . creature took the opp or t un ity, an d purchased at the shi rt of Mr.EnwAßns, the chymist, in Queen•street, Cheaps°ed sixpenny-worth of laudanum, and thus having pose , ' herself of the means of destruction, she returned to mother, who was anxiously waiting her arrival. In ceeding along Bow-lane the unhappy creature suddeo drew the phial from her bosom, and, placing it to her swallowed the contents in the presence of her afflicted Pf, rent, and instantly ran away, leaving her mother eof°o, pletely paralysed, and totally incapable of pursuing be t ' of giving the least alarm. Several persons soon carn e . b i her assistance, and the old lady, on being removed into o, Cock public-house, ultimately recovered, anti was be i n s ea u r n t h w a e p l p y y e veyed home, and the sid intelligence communicated to off family. Mr. WAIGHT, the f a ther, anti several pers . / erg till l t St. BartholoW t o s t Itu minutes afterwards, she expired. It has since "ort e t t n h, t n pt nwat hospital, in nu e d t c t i h o r h e e u e c l ya d t odbonien: agonies s a n v d eo ( i rf o u e of her death,ht heeor: ascertained that after swallowing the poison, A of and in less 1111 0 ,; e 0 miserable girl ran as far as Cannon Street, 111) " reaching iadiEvißs Ka i:iLei Ettosh,e r e move tstep able to proceed farther, and fell exha usted to off' soitifreeret instantly tehae h ouse t N w:a t s . h e 2 ap p lied h 1 s s p h it e a ground, with the empty phial grasped tight in bee ''" 0 ,1 1 , promptly procured medical assistance, but it was ' lee e vbe the stomach pump was sp ee dily resor t e d to, but the ' s o t ful effects of th e l au d anum had acted so powerfully, go/1' every exertion th at h uman skill could dev i se orn'toeils pletely baffled, and the ill-fated girl died under th e th e of her skilf u l atten d ant ,. An inquest will be held 00 a t body this afternoon by Mr. PAYNE, the city c oron er ' the hospital. . . 0 BIRTHS. On the 15th i ns t . a t L eam i ng t on , W arw i c k s hire, t h e John Hampden, Es st. the of a son. son* On the 17th in lady of Sudlow Roots, Esq., of a t, MARRIED. Die!? On the 18th inst. at Trinity Church, St. Marylcbon%, elorp General White, of Upper Berkeley-street, to Elizabe` n d f of daughter of the late Alexander Davison, Esq., of Swarla i „, • Northumberland ; and also Capt. S. E. Cook, R.N. , to v the Rev. Jos. Cook, of Newton Hall, in the same Nom , ' r e, rothy Davison, youngest daughter of the above. „ On the 18th inst. at St. Mary's Church, Bryansta-",,540.-6. of Gt .°. of Henry, third surviving son of J. George Wrench, lit er _et, Camberwell, Esq., to Rebecca Elizabeth, eldest da0g5,„..,0. Nevill Adams, of Alresford Hall, Essex, and of Glouce w" Portman-square, Esq. f the DIED. ter o On the kith inst. at Notting Hill, Mary, only daug h" ell kite J. C. Scott, Esq.,.of Wapping. f his Wst id ' On the Ilth inst. at Dublin, in the 81st year Of ire' ire Rev. William Wooley, of Priorland, county of Loot", 0 .6, Rector of Kilsaron. I 11$r lt e On the 17th inst. at Fairfield, near Biggleswai e,hite wife of A. E. Gregory, Esq., and daughter of th e ciii George Pollen, of Little Bookham House, Surrey. r 'W. On the 18th inst. at Stratford, Jane, the wife 01 Pete ~.------ ,s Esq., of Cheapside, and Stratford-green, Essex. / ........... .r.......... = --- ~" ------ ~, „ PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUP.‘', 51' SUN OFFICE, 112, STaksw, LONDON. j ! l . .