The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-23 00:00:00

ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN.

• SECOND OAT.
WARP OF FARRINGDOI
At the dose of the poll this day
31r. Vale - 213
Reeves . - 189
187
. 182

. THURSDAY.
IN WITHOUT-44qm" 16.
• the numbers were, for
Mr. Taylor .
_ •Ranishaw
Crook - •Ohard -
Butterworth . Sou hgate
Tickner . 180 •Bousfield
Savage . . . 180 Beckwith
Griffith . 173 Galloway
BlAcket S 170 • I Ismer . .
Figgins - 166 °Jones -
Roberts 169 °Charles - .76
Several of the candidates returned thanks for thE Support they
had received.
Mr. Haustrit particularly expressed the proud satisfaction it
gave him to stand so respectably Supported on the poll ; he how-
ever attributed it. not to any personal merit which he possessed,
but to those principles of popular reform of which he was known to
be a humble but a sincere and consistent advocate. Happy as he
should feel at the honour of representing a portion of his fellow-
citizens in the Common Council, still could he be assured that six-
teen persons could be chosen in this ward, whose attachment to
the principles he !espoused was equally ardent with his own, and
whose abilities and powers of exertion were better fitted to promote
them, he would not only most willingly retire from the contest,
but use his utmost efforts to insure their election. (Cheers.)

• 162
167
. 186
- L 54
- 161
. 161
149
148

COLEMAN-STREET WARD—Returns G.
°Mr. Hunter . 88 Mr. Bleaden
West . . 79 Allen
Carter 78 Griffiths
•Hale - ,
Jones -
WARD—Returns 14.
' Mr. Glover
/itinerant
Windus
Pher
Dowler -
HOMO
*Stevens .

- 59
an

es
BISHOPSGATE
- 107
- - V 4
- V 2

Mr. Greenaway .
• Dayanun -
Day -
Sir W. Rawlins
Peacock
Midden .
Bennett . 91
Weston . - 87
DREAD-STREET
- 20
20

. ss
. 84
- 7ti
- 74
- - 75
- 74

Mr. Ma.bie
Coleman
Bridge
Burra
Legg - - .20
Davison . 20
Degree* - 19
WALBROOK V
Mr. Williams - 53
Gibbs . 53
Watkins 32
Richardson - 50
Hale . 50

WARD—Returns 12.
•Mr. Frith 18
*Lawrence - - 10
Mallon 19
Cope . - 19
*Scott . 19
•flooper - 17
•Shoobridge - 4
I'A RD—Returns 8.
Mr. AVoott ward . 49
Cope . - 40
*Demos - .
Ftyde 27

ALDERSGATE WA RD—Returns 8.
Mr. Mathews . . 821 Mr. Lloyd
Fisher . . 82 Larkin
Paxton . 87 Walton
Diggens - - 87 *3lattratn
Forrest . - 117 •11un:e
TOWER WA
Mr. Wright 137
Skinner 131;
Cawthorn - 135
Smith 133
S. Dixon - 134
Stuart 134
Drinkald 134
Those marked thus'
The poll will finally close this

- so
77
-

134
- 134
- 133
132'
- 1u

RD—Returns 12.
.Ur. Hunt
Robinson
Noy
Horst
•Rowell .
•lhrtshorne

are new Candidates.

evening (Friday).

SPORTING IN7'ELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S, TIMINDAY, DEC. 22.

It will be maw below that the General is advancing for the
Derby, having -changed places with Bolivar, which is the only
alteration observable in the odds for that Stakes.
DEN BY.
II to 2 agst Monarch 22 to I agst Twatty
13 to 1 apt Tredrilie 22 to 1 apt Zuleika
13 to 1 apt The General 20 to I apt Sophist
13 to 1 apt Bolivar 30 to I apt Pranks
17 to 1 agst Advance SO to I apt Canvass
22 to 1 aJst Graniarie

13 to 2 apt Mignionetto
to 1 agst l'awn
9 to 1 agst hoses
12 to 1 agst Henry
II to 1 apt Elisabeth
tr. t
15 to 2 eget fiedlatioite
9 to I apt Crusader
15 to 1 Net
20 to 1 apt Monarch

FATAL EFFI?CT.I

kas.
to 1 Nest Pansol
IG to I asst 80-peep
16 to I !twit Loni■a(Quadtille)
20 to 1 ag.t Morel
km 1 agar Tears

mtlit
20 to 1 apt Bare!srie
90 to 1 agst Sister tr. Homer
33 to 1 agst lisrefout

OF GAMBLING.

A most melancholy and fatal instance of the ill consequences
that attend the indulgence of • propensity for play has recently
occurred. The painful detail has been supplied by a friend of the
' parties, and who was an eye.witness of the last act of this melan-
choly tragedy.
Some months since Mr. W. R—, the only and idolized son of a
highly respectable gentleman residing near Liverpool, and fur-
-1 merly a merchant in that town, was sent up to London, with a power
of attorney, by which lie was entitled to receive a coneiclerable aunt
of money on account of his father. The business was quickly
transacted, ant! the young gentleman was put in possession of the
whole amount ; but as it happened to be his first visit to the metro.
polls, he thought he might, without fear of incurring hie parent's
displeasure, continue in town a few days longer, for the purpose of
enjoying a scene so new and so seductive to the mind of youth.
In his perambulations he unfortunately encountered some of those
gadflies that buzz in the regions of fashion, whose manners were
sufficiently captivating to attach him to their society; he took
" appearances for true pay," and thought that all were gentle-
men who but seemed to be so. To one of these, who paid him
a marked attention, he, with the inconsiderate trankneu of in-
experienced youth, confided the object of his mission to
town. This intelligence was received by the confidant with
demonstrations of unfeigned satisfaction ; and, in order to prove
that the trust was not misplaced, he hinted to the young novice the
propriety of concealing title matter front every one but men of un-
doubted honour, as London abounded with persons of broken for.
tune aml shattered character, whose whole subsistence was derived
• from spoil drawn from the pockets of the unwary. If any. scru-
ples existed in the mind of Itlr. It-- as to the integrity of his
new-found friend, this disinterested caution put them entirely to
flight. Every day some new scheme of pleasure was proposed for
the entertainment of the young stranger by his acquaintances, so
that lie was altogether detached from the society of his real friends ;
considerable expenses were, of comae, incurred, and before he was
aware of it, a large inroad had been made on the money he was
intrusted to receive, over and above a liberal allowance for travel-
ing charges, Ac. In this dilemma he applied for consolation to his
quondam counsellor, who warmly sympathized in his distress. and
at the same time advised him to tl etw the residue into the bank
of fortune, anti that tere would be little doubt of his mak.
ing good the delizit, with a handsome premium besides. enable
to decide on any more certain plan of recruiting his losses,
he consented, and was introduced at one of the 4. Hells" at the
west end. Instructed by his coui tion, he as Ana staked small
sums, and enjoyed the deceptive si aof the blind goddess. Thus
encouraged, he went the neat nigh‘;' resolved, by one bold stroke,
to secure enough to enable him to return home with credit, but, as
might be supposed, his !tapes were frustrated; lie lost, or rather he
was robbed of all he had, several huudred pounds, and quitted the
house without a shilling in the morning. shocked beyond mm_
sure at what he hail done, he determined to return home no move,
and offered himself to the East India Company as a recruit, but
was rejected, being below the required height. He then took an
apartment in an obscure lodging-house in Oxford-road, where, after
making away with every article that he could convert into cash,
lie would have starved but for the humanity of the landlntd, a
poor but a worthy man. His father, greatly. alarmed at his ex-
trzordinary stay and continued silence, had in the interim written
to several persons in London respecting his son, lint not being able
to get any satisfactory intelligence, lie came off in person, and
caused hardbills to be circulated anti had advertisements inserted
in the public papers, entreating his return. &c. but without effect,
until at length accident discovered his retreat. The Rev. Mr.
M'lllullen and another gentleman, who were employed to collect
subscriptions on behallof one of the iniasionery institutions, chanced
to call on the young gentleman's landlord for contributions ; the
tutor man frankly pleaded inability to contribute, and at the saint
time observed, that as they were religions men, they could not find a
titter object for the exercise of Christian charity than a poor young
wan who was then dying in his house, and who appeared to be
wholly destitute of friends, or the means ot supporting himself. The
gentlemen concurred in the landlord's opinions, and begged to be
introduced to him immediately. They were shown into a miser-
able apartment, where lay the unhappy young wan, on the verge of
dissolution, evidently the victim rather of mental titan of bodily
suffering ; for the poor people with whom he lived had absolutely
forced him to take some nourishment. At first he seemed dis.
pleated at the introduction of strangers, and refused to give any
account of Mantel for his connexions ; however, the pressing °flits
of kindness by these gentlemen, delicately conveyed, fit •ly con.
tittered his scruples, and he gave them his father's addre-s, together
with a succinct account of the circumstances which had placed him
in that eitumion ; a sufficient provision was made for his les-
, miliflptle wants, and his tither was acquainted with the fact of
the dlemeery. He- set off' immediately, and on arriving in town.
his anxiety overcoming his prudence, he drove directly to the
abode of Fria eon, and rushed precipitately into the room ; the re-
cognition was mutual tied instantaneoue, but it was too powerful
for the exhausted fume of the son—he flitted himself an his knees
in rite bed, grasped his tether's hoed in his, and expired ! The
heart-broken father committed the rentains of an idolized child to
the tanth in tearless sorrow. The prop of his declining years being
thus prematurely snatched away. he sunk under this accumulated
load of suiltring—in six weeks afterwards the same ogee see per-
formed fur himself, and out informant followed in the train ul
moult:era on tl c melancholy occasion.