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11)0tirn• FAREWELL. Fsauwatly how bitter is the sound When oke by friends sincere ! And yet own I've sometimes found Bliss in these partings drear. For I have seen the tear-drop fan From beauteous maiden's eyes, When lingering o'er the word `• Farewell," She strove to drown her sighs. And feelings I have seen arise Which ne'er 1 thought had been ; Feelings of somewhat closer ties Than friendship weaves I ween. I've felt the pressure of her hand Thrill thro my every vein ; And oft I've thought in distant land, From love we bliss may gain. V. E. P. P. A DREAM OF SUMMER. Witbbreath of balm and cheek of bloom, o'er mountain and o'er main, A gracious visitant from Heaven, the summer comes again ; The woodlands with her welcome the valleys wake with song, And peopled are the lonely hills with' voices silent long. And oh ! the blossoms and the beams, and incense-breathing air, Methinks from heavy thoughts might wile the spirit bowed with care ; Methinks, forgetfulness of grief to aching hearts might bring, And sooth them back into the dreams of hope, love, youth, and spring. Blest season of sweet nature's prime, why pass away so soon Thy golden days and azure nights, that melt beneath the moon ? Would I might stay thy raving wing, and chain thee to our strand, Or like the cuckoo join, thy flight, on—on from land to land ! I long to leave the homes of men—the hot and toiling town, And mid the summer's fail'y haunts alone to lay met own— 'Mid some sequestered dim wood-glen, where musiemaking streams Would cheer my waking reveries, or carol through my dreams. With soft and low, but happy sounds, while passing to the flood, And where its silvery gleam would break upon the twiliht wood— Where, tranced upon the glad green earth, begirt with grassy waves, I might forget her seas had storms, and that her shores had graves ! Or turning from the world away. where I might lift mine eyes Beyond the hills, where hope hath reared.her bowers amid the skies, Till fancy traced the promised land, in sunbright clouds of even, And through their glorious vistas gained a pawing gleam of Heaven ! Edlnburgh Observer. 414 VARIETIES. ANIMAL COMBATS AT THE COURT OF THE RAJAH OF Mv sona.—On one side of the space within the ring two beau tiful leopards stood, chained to separate posts. As these ani mals had been caught in the jungle the day before, nothing could be more sleek and glossy than their coats. Near these noble beasts, as if in contrast, were turned in, quite loose, two jackasses, each of which drew behind him, tied - to his tail, a globular empty leathern bottle, called, I think, a dubbah, about as large as a man could grasp in his arms. Into these machines a handful of gravel or dried peas had been inserted, to make a noise as the poor donkies moved about. On the other side of - the arena two painted wooden figures of men were placed in a leaning posture against stakes fastened in the ground. Exactly opposite to the Rajah, at the further side of the ring, a huge cage, composed of strong wooden bars, had been wheeled close to the ropes. A door on that side of the cage which faced us being now drawn up, we discovered a large royal tiger sitting in the attitude of the sphinx, apparently all ready for a spring. He looked exceedingly fierce, and no wonder, for the poor wretch had been kept with little or no food ever since his cap ture in a pitfall in one of the great teak forests of the Malabar Ghauts upwards of two days before. The royal animal seemed very ill disposed to afford sport so folks who had treated him so uucourteously, for not an inch would he budge even when the netting was drawn up, and a clear course opened for him into the ring. Perhaps he felt alarmed at the dreadful hullabaloo of so many thousands of people bawling out, drums beating, and horns sounding, rows of elephants tossing up their trunks, and horses snorting and prancing all round. Possibly, too, he might not have felt much tempted by the dainty company of the jackasses with their bottles of peas. At all events, no poking of sticks or thumping on the cage could make him start tack or sheet, till his hind-quarters were blown up by a handful of squibs and crackers cast into his den. The Instant the explo sion took place the tiger gave a tremendous roar, and sprung forwards with great•violence into the circle, where he stopped suddenly, and then glared his eyes round and round with a molt suspicious scowl. After surveying the ground for a few caeondg, ho turncd tail, and, in moat cowardly fashion, ran back; but observing the door of his den closed, he swerved on one side, and leaped. with prodigious violence against the ropes. Had the cords not been let so loose that his force became ex panded before they were drawn tight, I verily believe he might have broken through the meshes, or pulled down seine of the posts. Instead of this he merely got entangled with the lines, and losing all his patience, if he ever possessed any, he raged and roared, lashing his tail about in the most furious style till he got free. Then turning round, he shot across the area like a Congreve rocket, and after making an immense cat-like spring, pounced upon one of the mock figures of men, the head of winch he twisted off in an instant. During this proceeding he gave utterance to a fierce growl, or, murmur of satisfaction, enough to make one's blood run cold. As soon as he detected the trick, he first flung the head violently from him, and tore the figure all to pieces with his claws, then made another at tempt to break through the enclosure, but with no better suc cess than at first. I really thought at on time he would have effectedhis escape, by climbing over at the place where his cage stood. Both his fore paws were actually.upon Abe roof, and, with no great• struggle, he might have gained the top, from whence his leap into the midst of the crowd must have pro duced' a pretty tolerable sensation, I guess! Fortunately, a courageous little boy, about twelve years old, who had perched himself on the cage to see the fun, stood quite firm when all his older companions scattered to the right and left, in terror of the tiger's open jaws close to them. 'lbis bold young fellow held in his-hand a short stout club, and the instant the tiger skewed himself above the ropes, he let him such a sound rap on the nose, that the animal fell back again into the enclosure, heels over head, with a sort of inverted somerset. While a shout of applause rung over the whole space, an old Mahometan soldier, an officer of the extinc t dynasty, remarked to us in a whisper, that this exploit was just the sort of thing which his former master, Hyuer Ali, might have been expected to do in his youth. The baffled tiger now attacked. the other figure of a roan, and wrenched off his bead•as be had done that of the other; but instead of getting. into a passion, as he had dune on the first occasion, when he discovered the cheat, lie stood per fectly still, with his tail on the ground, his head drooped and turned away from the figure, as if he felt ashamed of having been twice deceived. In this attitude he remained several minutes, with his eyes half closed, slightly moving his head from side to side; after which he deliberately laid himself down. A dozen yelping dogs were now turned in, some of which pru dently contented themselves with taking a distant look at the. royal beast. Not one of them approached him except au Eng lish greyhound, and even he was not such a fool as to press matters too tar, but merely barked and snarled; once or twice he came so close to the tiger's nose that we wondered the mon ster had not.laid his paw upon hint, and crushed hint at a blow. Meanwhile, the rest of the dogs, in a body, attacked one of the chained-up leopards—a most unfair contest; but as he had the good fortune to catch one of them on the hip, he gave such evidence. of his capacity, that the barkers, leaving the nobler game, one and all scampered off in chase of the donkies. These poor beasts, terrified by the sound of the bottles at their tails, and worried by the dogs, were soon dragged to the ground, after which a distant action was recommenced against the leopards, with,no results, as-military men express it. By this. time, pro bably the Rajah, and certainly his company, were pretty well tired - of so much nonsense; and his highness, turning to one of his courtiers, desired him to co down to the court with a bow and -arrow which was handed - to him. Tlie officer descended accordingly, awl having passed round to that side of the ring, where the tiger lay, very deliberately shot an arrow at the un offending animal. He immediately sprang at the ropes; but upon receiving another arrow in the breast, the poor creature fell back, and stood looking reproachfully at his opponent. 'rids gave the unconcerned courtier time to draw a third arrow from his quiver, and so on, till the wretched beast was literally bristled all over like a• porcupine; yet, to our great • surpise, he still kept his feet. As•the arrows pierced his side, he merely turned round his head, and broke them off with his mouth, leav ing the barb far within. We observed one arrow pass clean through his body from side to side,- and-could not but remember the old song of Chevy Chase, wh*re the grey goose-quill, a cloth yard long, is wet with the heart's blood of a warrior. As no ihing could be more disagreeable than this method of putting so noble an animal to death, some-of us sent up a petition to the Rajah; that one of the party might be allowed to go down for the purpose of despatching him l'Anglaise , . This favour was r, , adity.granted ; and it was curious to observe how instentatie oasiy 'ath followed the passage of a single musket-hail, though eight or ten arrows had already gone through and through' hint without producing any visible eifect,"—ffit4ilßaa't reirti Segies Voyage: and 7', a i./. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR.U; A RECIPE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF A COUNTRY.—In order to prepare the body politic, and put it into the best possible order for taking the following dose, it. must be kept fur some time pre vious.to the administering of it in considerable heat and agitation. This-will be greatly promoted by keeping the spirits in a ferment by exciting opposite and contending passions. The different sentiments and views of different friends, some strongly urging one line of conduct, others proposing one diametrically oppo site: one party preaching patience and submission, the other rousing the spirits and exciting to revenge; and all urging their opinions with zeal, with vehemence, and with obstinacy. These circumstances will greatly contribute to put the patient into the desired state. Hence will ensue a certain restlessness and dis quietude, yet accompanied by indolence and love of ease—an incli nation to change, in hopes that some favourable circumstance may thence ensue, yet an aversion to personal exertion in our own behalf, an expectation and reliance that fate will do for us that which we are unwilling to do for ourselves. No Knight of the Lancet, nor of the Pestle and Mortar, need ever hope to find a paient more pre pared for his operations,than our patient is now for complete ruin : ti Ozs: self sufficiency. 8 ditto ignorance or inexperience. 3 ditto doubt or indecision. Mix these three ingredients care fully together till they are completely amalgamated and incor porated with each other, then pour them into a quart of mix ture, one part milk, and three parts water, and let it boil well on a slow fire for eight hours. In the meantime, you must carefully fling into the liquor, every half hour, one quarter of an ounce of a powder made up of the following ingredients, all in equal quantity, viz.: pomp, flippancy, and passion; after this mixture has boilded for some time, it will be reduced to a thin poor jelly of weak substance ! Let it be well sweetened by a pro portionate quantity of places, pensions, and reversions of places, and ornamented on the surface with painted emblems of candour, flattery, and smiles—openness of conduct and gentle manners, from gentle bluid! This jelly, though thus sweetened and decorated, will suit hut few palates, it must be therefore forced down the throats of unwilling patients, by great and high sounding pro fessions and assurances—even then it will not always be quietly taken. In that case it must be reduced to the shape of pins, and covered with a double coat of leaf gold. The dose is sure to take effect, at least several eminent, physicians have assured me they never knew it to fail. It operates at first gently and kindly—it spreads itself over the whole frame, soothing its cares and assuaging its pains ; but at the same time, it weakens and enervates prodigiously! Soon, however, its effects grow quick, painful, and terrible. Colics and gripings ensue, and the strength of the frame being already impaired - , the constitu tion is unable to make any effectual resistance, till at last a violent dysentery succeeds. and the patients, as Parker says, go off in a state of COLLAPSE.—Jamaica Paper. EPIGRAM. STANLEY ON THE BUDGET. (ALTHORP loquitur.) " Pray what does Budget come from, Ned ? About that word I racked my head. While trying to arrange it." Why man, you haven't far to go ; From budge, to move, or shift you know, You always have to change it." Edinbuigh Evening Post, JUVENAL, Jun. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. ,_ ing, and dispassionate men—both of those who heard him, and of those who have read—the language which he employed—and a large majority of such men, hold opinions the reverse of his own. Was it evidence of temper or of discretion to ransack the vocabulary of opprobrious epithets, and selecting the most violent that it afforded, or of which the forms of the house would permit the use, to apply them in rapid succession to a body of men absent from the discussion, and there fore incapable of defending themselves, but as respecta ble in all the relations of life as the right hon. gentleman himself ? Was this wise, was it discreet, was it just There are men who, beset by the grievous sins of self avowed sanctity—of hot-headed zeal—of craving vanity —and a never-satisfied appetite for false and mock popu larity—there are men of this cast, and but few of them, we would hope, who would come down to the house, " sweltering in their venom," and there, reckless of con sequences to the world, if their point could be but carried, would have indulged with freedom in language like that to which we refer. Such men there are—but that Mr. Stanley should expose himself to the chance of being placed upon a level with persons of that character, is a matter which his greatest enemies could hardly desire, and which his friends grieve to witness. We will not, on the present occasion, enter upon the argumentative part of the right honourable gentleman's statement. That is a course which, is open to us with more leisure to undertake, and, as we think, accomplish the refutation, as we know we can show the exaggeration of many points on which he seemed to rely. The Guardian is essentially a /commercial. paper. It is our duty to watch the commercial interests of the coun try. No question of equal importance has presented R- I self for discussion since the journal was established; and we are, therefore, satisfied that we shall stand excused in the estimation of our subscribers if we return frequently to the affairs of the colonies. Our next article will pro bably be an analysis of the "minutes of proceedings be tween his Majesty's government and the West India bo dy ;" which, as it is the immediate antecedent to Mr. Stanley's expose, will be referred to in the after proceed ings, as embodying the general sentiments of both parties. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SAVINGS' BANK. ABSCONDING OF MR. GIBSON. A strong sensation was created in Manchester and its neighbourhood last week, by the sudden disappearance of Mr. William Gibson, the agent of the Savings' Bank, and of his son, Mr. William Gibson, jun., who was em ployed by his father as a clerk in the bank. As Mr. Gibson, up to the time when his departure was known, had maintained an excellent character for in tegrity in all his dealings, and possessed the full confi dence of the committee of the Savings' Bank, no small surprise and alarm was created amongst that body, when, on Monday last, their usual day of meeting, a letter ad dressed by Mr. Gibson to a relative residing in this town was laid before them, announcing in very incoherent terms, that his misconduct had compelled him to leave home, and that he had appropriated to his own use a sum of £lOO belonging to the bank, which he was allowed to keep . in his own hands as a fund to answer any contin gencies which might arise. As soon as a sufficient num ber of the committee had assembled, they determined to make arrangements for carrying on the business of the bank without interruption; but, on inquiring for the keys of the safe, they were informed that those had been carried away by Mr. William Gibson, junior, and that he had not since made his appearance at the bank. They also found, on further inquiry, that on Saturday, Mr. 'Gibson, jun., had received a parcel (since ascertained to have been sent by hisiather),4after which he appeared to suffer under a very great depression of spirits. At the con clusion of the business on Saturday, he had locked up the safe in the usual manner ; and the other clerks employed entertained no doubt that he had deposited in it the cash which. had been received from depositors on.that day, and which appeared from the cash book to be about £630. The committee immediately sent for a workman to break open the safe ; and he was proceeding to do so, when the duplicate keys, which had been in the possession of Mr. Gibson, sen., and had been sent with the letter which conveyed the first intimation of his departure, were brought to the bank. On opening the safe, it was found to contain no money ; and it seems probable that the younger Gibson had not deposited the receipts in the safe when he appeared to do so, but had carried them away with him. Under these circumstances, the natural impression of the committee in the first instance, was, that the disap pearance of the father and son, and the carrying off of the respective sums with which they had been entrusted, arose out of a deliberate plan which had been formed be tween them ; but a little consideration of the circumstan ces, and especially of Mr. Gibson's letter, tended to re move that impression. The letter, as we have already stated, was written in the most rambling and incoherent manner, and filled . no less- than 17 pages of letter-paper. It bore no date, except the word " Saturday," written at the head of the 13th page, but, from other circumstan ces , it seems to have been begun at Liverpool on the 9th of May, the day after Mr. Gibson's departure from home, and continued at-different intervals, and probably in dif: ferent places, until it was finally despatched in a parcel from Dumfries, and brought by the Carlisle mail to Man. chester on Monday morning. The extreme length of this letter, and the many repe titions and frequent allusions to family affairs contained in it, must prevent us inserting it at length ; but we shall give a few extracts from it, tending to tf.row some light on the real nature of Mr. Gibson's delinquency. In the first place, however, it may be as well to state, that the parcel contained what appeared to be part of a letter ad dressed by Mr. Gibson to his son William, and which the Writer had in all probability mixed by mistake with the sheets composing his other letter, and which, as it is of moderate length, we give entire, suppressing only a few names, and a few lines relating to his family, the publi cation of which might give unnecessary pain to the parties. Liverpool, May 8, 1833. My dear William,—l hardly know how to write to you ; I cannot state my feelings; but here I am, not knowing my future destination, but I have for some time been so circumstanced that misery has been my portion, though I have endeavoured to ap pear cheerful ; but want of economy has brought on my present distress, and distress to all my family—not being able to find Steele's books, I was obliged to ransack my cash books for ent. ries, and I found to my utter, astonishment that I was indebted to his assignees far more than I expected—l thought the balance against me was £3O or £4O, but found it much more, and the heavy penalty attached for keeping above £lOO being so great, and which I was liable to, would have increased it so much that I could not have paid it, and I had not confidence to appear be fore the commissioners this day—l had no alternative but to live disgraced in Manchester or leave it; the latter alternative I have in-an evil hour taken. I have not taken any part of the money belonging to the bank, except the £lOO I had for contingencies —my account against B. and M. will be considerable, say about £6O; this will go against any deficiency there may be in the other estates, the money of which I have received. Mr. and estate. In the accounts I left in my desk, it appears I still owe them about £74 ; but the attornies in London want more than £lOO. Mr. has to pay the other £3O; he will write to his agents respecting it. I have written to them by this post, saying t was detained in the country. I feel now how un worthily I have acted ; I should - .have faced the situation I was placed in as a man, instead of shrinking from it as a fool, but my evil genius prevailed; and I ant now an outcast from my dear family and friends. Oh how my heart bleeds when lam think ing of your dear mother and children ; how I now feel for your bereavement far worse than death, and shall I never see you again; n0, . 1 tun not worthy of .your tender regards; row nrust PROM THE GUARDIAN AND PUBIC LEDGER. I t has been our duty, as it was our inclination, to pe ruse with attention the speech which Mr. Stanley made on Tuesday night upon the most important question that has been discussed in the House of Commons since the oldest member first took his seat within its walls. We had yesterday hopes—faint ones, it is true, but still we had hopes, that when this question came to be discussed by the legislature, the minister whose duty it might be to bring it forward, would do his duty as a member of the executive, with calmness and with discretion. Admit ting, as we do, the great talents for oratory of the indivi dual who now holds the office of Colonial . Secretary, our hope has been stronger, since his accession to that parti cular office, that when this momentous question might be introduced, it would be treated with discretion and with temper. In proportion as our hope was created, in that proportion, or, to speak our sentiments more unequivo cally, in an infinitely greater degree has been. our disap pointment at the course which the right honourable gentleman took on Tuesday night. That he discussed the question in eloquent strains, no man will venture to deny ; that he discussed it with the temper and wisdom which the importance of the subject demanded, no man, we think, will be bold enough to contend. If any one declare his opinion to that effect, with that person, be he whom he may, we declare ourselves at issue. We assert with a firmness which a second perusal of the language employed by Mr. Stanley has only rendered more de cided, that, of all modes of treating a question of such paramount importance as that which he had in his hands on Tuesday, the mode which he adopted was the least likely to effect his objects, if any one of those objects was the reconcilement of conflicting opinions, or a soothing down of irritated feelings. His speech had pathos, too frequently resting on false or exaggerated statements-- it had force, but, in many parts, it wanted the force of truth, and was, throughout, full of exaggeration; it mounted high in eloquence, but, in proportion as it rose in that commanding and, not unfrequently, misleading quality, it sank in that more powerful, more essential quality, wisdom. In this effort of the right honourable gentleman it may be truly said that there was " Satis eloquentiae, sapientin parum." Was it wise, we ask, in the right honourable gentleman, to open upon the whole body of the colonists, almost from the first sentence in his speech, in a tirade, the equal of which we have scarcely ever heard or read of in the most infuriated address of the blindest zealot in the cause of abolition; and to continue that course, with little interruption, through considerably more than half a speech occupying some hours in delivery ? Was it wise, when " it devolved upon him, in the discharge of his official duty, to bring under the consideration of Par liament a question of unparalleled magnitude and im ,portance, involving greater interest perhaps than any question which had for many years been submitted to the legislature—a question surrounded with difficulties of a peculiar nature, owing to the time at which it was brought forward—in the safe and satisfactory solution of winch were involved not only a maritime commerce amounting to 250,000 tons of shipping annually, and a revenue of between five and six millions—not only the interest of a vast body of proprietors resident in the Colonies and this country, whose very existence de pended upon the issue of the question, but also the tem poral interests of between 700,000 and 800,000 of our fellow subjects, and of their descendants throughout ge nerations yet unborn—not only this, but it was impossi ble not to perceive the influence which the successful or unsuccessful issue of the mighty experiment now about to be tried must have upon millions of foreign subjects—difficulties enough to appal any man who ven tured to bring the subject forward :"—w as it wise, when the right honourable gentleman introduced his subject by these sentiments, containing admissions which were exceedingly understated in many of their details, and where omissions were made of other interests of equal or greater importance—admissions of the prepondera ting weight and magnitude of the question—admissions of probable ruin to our shipping—of ruin to the reve nue—of ruin to proprietors resident and non-resident— of ruin to hundreds of thousands of our fellow subjects —and of ruin to millions of foreign subjects—with all these admissions upon his lips, hanging upon a single contingency, which lie is pleased to describe as " the successful or unsuccessful issue of the mighty experi ment about to be tried,"—was it, we again ask, wise in Mr. Stanley to make such language as this the mere pre lude to an almost unbroken mass of vituperation against those whose melancholy position he thus forcibly de picted ? We think, if Mr. Stanley had questioned him self, as he rose yesterday morning from his pillow, as to what was the predominating characteristic of such lan guage, the last term that lie would have ventured to ap ply to it would have been—wisdom. If Mr. Stanley do not tb.ink_sc,, we. tell him plainly, that sensible, .re&ct- consider me as an alien and an of your tender regards which hay( the thought is agony, but the alien from you for ever. Oh, your mother and Emma will leave them, but give them all and trust you will be confirm( Gibson will now be a disgra( I must expect his curse upon it now in the agony of my ml of returning and throwing m , but I could not, for immediately transpire on 'Chi and my situation lost : could o d o u e ri h ng o t r h , the w re h v o o l e l v o e f d last ove rnai and over for I againdi not sleep at I ourao°:.leti but the horror I felt in being pointed at by ;41 in coll et ' e 'il o of my bad conduct in respect to Steel's business, Un a me on the course I have done. I shall leave this , to rectly and proceed to some port in America; Perl r r e 1 1 you receive this I may be on my way thither, ‘VUt:, end my days in misery and wretchedness. .17_10.01 return and throw myself on the mercy and forgir..ejt„. v i creditors. I owe Messrs. I sincerely regret, considering the uniform ki n • s itu° has always shown me. cannot think of ni) orsi , and yours without a feeling of deep regret and! e l i d l t! in the forfeiture of all my fa m ily comforts ; I %ot' taken more money but I could not, and shoul ha ilV taken what I have but from absolute necessity.. 1b get into some way and endeavour to procure a hv 113 505' and trust your diligence and attention, which has a l te, so conspicuous, will enable you to do what, alas. °t it out of my power to do, and that the name wl in ea r , you. I hope andemploy r: 4l - 0 1 I in' their books, you could do it without interfering •, situation in the bank. • AO _ . It will be seen, that, in the above, letter, stance which appears to have weighed on mind was his inability to make up his accounts , the estate of a person na m ed St ee l e , who 1 , 1 ! bankrupt, and under whose commi ss i o n he a ' accountant ; and he says that he did not su self to be indebted to the estate more than X but he found, on searching the different ent cash-book, (not being able to find the book 0 1 regular account was kept,) that he was indeb larger sum, which he was not prepared to_pay , would subject him to heavy p ena lti es . We fact turns out to be, that his impression as being only £3O or £4O, was perfectly corral mainder of the money received under the being now lodged in a bank; and he must, have laboured under some strange delusion WI posed. that the debt was much larger. The I seems to be (being, as was tolerably well kill, of indolent and procrastinati ng h a bit s ,) he it 0 1 ..! the making up of his accounts relating to the estate until immediately before the meeting , to take place on Wednesday week, and being ' pelled to search amongst a great number of general cash-book, without any clue to guid e ., had formed an extremely erroneous opinion °- amount of his liability. In the long letter addressed to the relative t' have before alluded, he says, " I had no conception of the magnitude of my I could, years ago, have remedied it; but when mistakes I had committed, I was thunder struck, then any means of retribution. * * * I am the circumstances of my leaving the office yesterdi I did not contemplate it, and left without even linen, but resolved to meet my destiny as a man, al l , result of the investigation, and have acknowledge'' quency; but one of the -- my declared ell e, have sounded through the exchange, wifai exultal feiture of esteem and confidence. What could I The committee of the S. B. viewing my conduct diCed eye, would have said, that, as they could my integrity, (and justly so) I must resign. Who, have trusted me? Not one; and I must have fallen the high notion of public estimation, and have 1 ' staring me in the face. * * * I might have but. my remaining spark of principle would not aIV returned bank notes to the amount o f £5O, to Will' hope he has received. Poor fellow! what must to be an outcast from society for the crime of his With respect to the statement in the above he might have taken £lOOO if he had chosen, it is perfectly correct, as money to a considerab l was lying in different banks subject to his or' checks would have been honoured without Ilk the bankers. What he did actually take awn sent uncertain ; but nothing is known of excel belonging to the savings' bank ; and of that to have returned £5O to his son, no doubt for the family. We come now to the case of the son, whose e appears, at present, to have b een o f a muc h more nature than that of the father. When his fitg`' carrying off the £630 received on Saturday w 3s covered, officers were immediately dispatched , shire, where he had r ecen tly b een on a v i s it f°` days, and where it was thought some informa l be obtained respecting him. Nothing, hower covered, except that there was a young man 11 with whom he was on terms of intimacy, and proceeded to him to make inquiries. The , said that he had not seen Mr. Gibson, jun., had beard from him ; and he produced a letter him by Gibson, and which he stated had been him by some person whom he did not know. the following effect : Liverpool, May , To Mr. —.—l would yesterday have addressed dear friend, but now I am not worthy of. that name' I think when I left on Friday last that I life would have had such a turn. Ye - sterday morfl' a letter from my poor deluded father, stating in lt, the country to end his days in a foreign land, an settle with his creditors as well as I could, and to wife and family. I, poo r cowar dly b e i ng , could " this, but must follow his example, by getting P' little cash, and leaving my poor mother to do the in the world—l•hope it may not break her heart. I be prosperous in life. May God bless you. I dare your friends at —, the thoughts of their kind me. Perhaps you may never hear of me again: 1 late sincere, but now degrad e d and-wretch e d frien ; Wivl. G 1.13:", The coolness with which the writer of the a' speaks of his wholesale robbery as « getting of a little cash ;" and of " leaving his poor the best she could in the world." presents a trast to the heart-breaking anguish.which pet every line of the letter written by the father. Although the savings' bank will not from the misconduct of the Gibsons—(the - they have carried off being more than coi e red. l curity given to the bank)—the committee st i it right to make' every exertion for the a' the offenders ; and police officers were London, Liverpool, Hull, Glasgow, and ese' which it was thought probable that either 0 1 have fled ; but hitherto, we believe, no tau. discovered of either of them. The officers, t!' - o . main at the different sea-ports, with the 1 1 e cepting then if they should endea vo u r to leave , which it is believed they have not yet succo complishing. We understand that arrangements have—. carrying on the business of the bank without and we are glad to learn that the occurrence' have related do not appear to have created amongst the depositors. Indeed any suel l be perfectly absurd, as none of them will slghtest loss on the occasion. From the Inaao the funds of the bank are kept, and the Iva,' 11 :: accounts were checked by, other parties, it wa for the Gibsons to get possession of any 11 " i the balances known to be in their hands; not leave falsified the books:without:acertai n ' detection. Ekg, l I A ' lt 1 ANN, kd ed • • Al klAu 1) 11 4 4 'IA ( ;tN :q PA . . I \ep 84.. Lat, FR] ..k% `4ll:!'th ttip, 4l , (' 4, 141%4' qv rtti kh ° 4 ; , -,4 - 1 •04 Sr „...,:„... -.A. -- N ° 'e lltc be a e s n t f s m o rt l i o "u ng ;deraftliolvli? e die is cast, and I am te ci e h, my dear William, th e d o 1 fall heavily upon you; Ibi tt lhero is it 1 the protection you can' Plessibie ted in the bank, but the (j..,sihti,o,rt Lee. Oh, God, what have :i chic Pik reari t LI my head wherever I e t ' ho hli o ; Pack rind. 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