The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT AND SUICIDE.

Yesterday, Mr. Blizard, the proprietor of the Brick-
layer's Arms, Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, committed
suicide, under the following distressing circumstances :
—During the last week deceased was deeply grieved by
his wife's elopement with a man named Bentley, late in
the employ of Mr. Sloman, the sheriff's officer, in
whose service, however, he had only been a few
months. This person, not content with having seduced
another female, whom with her two children he de-
serted, leaving them paupers quartered on the parish,
also seduced the frail wife of deceased. Last Monday
week Mrs. Blizard left home under the pretext of
business. Her husband begged she would not be
long absent, as he was not well. But instead of
returning, she sent her husband a note informing
him that she would not return home, and that if
they met again it Would be as strangers. The
heart-broken husband instantly went in search of
his faithless spouse, whom he traced to a house
in Oxford-street, where she met her parainour with
her trunks and apparel, which she had been for
weeks preparing, and thence they drove off together in
a cab with the property which she had so stealthily

taken from her home. But whether they fled remains
a secret, with the exception of a vague report that they
sailed for Australia. Although deceased was very low-
spirited in consequence of his wife's conduct, yet no
idea of his committing suicide was entertained, not-
withstanding his having exhibited to his brother one day
during the week a rope with which he said he intended
destroying himself, but which the brother flung into the
fire, still keeping a strict watch on him. Thursday night
he appeared in much better spirits, and retired to bed at
a late hour, apparently greatly eased in mind. Upon the
brother going to call him the following morning, he was
horrified at seeing deceased hanging by a new piece of rope
from the bed-post, and quite dead. He was instantly
cut down and medical aid called in, but as a matter of
course unavailingly. A few months ago Mrs. Blizard
eloped with the same man, when her husband, finding
that the guilty pair resided at Margate, followed them
thither and brought her home. Deceased was thirty-
six, and his wife, who is only twenty-four, possessed, it
is said, in her own right, an income of 1101. per annum.
Her paramour is described as a tall, well-looking man,
about forty years of age. Unfortunately, there is left a
hapless orphan to bewail its mother's disgrace, and its
father's unfortunate end. A cousin of deceased's hanged
himself some years ago. Up to a late hour last night
no clue to the whereabouts of the wretched guilty pair
was obtained.

THE AMERICAN STEAM-SHIP GOLDEN AGE.—It appears
that this steam-ship is intended to sail for Australia from
Liverpool about the 10th of next month. It is contem-
plated to limit the number of passengers to about 400,
and the terms have been fixed at 70 guineas, 40 guineas,
and 30 guineas. She is to call at the Cape Verds and
Cape of Good Hope for coals.
THE JEWS AND AUSTRIAN BANK NOTES.—The Hebrew
money-changers of London, Messrs. Spielmann and Co. ;
Monteaux, Brothers ; Bauer and Co. ; and Baum, Son,
and Co., have agreed, it is said, not to purchase any
Austrian bank notes so long as Jewish disabilities are
maintained in Austria. It is hoped that the other firms
will join them in their resolution.
THE DIVIDENDS.—The features of the Bank return
may be alarming to those who are not familiar with the
working of the Bank, and who might think that the
diminution of the reserve to the extent of 1,349,4101.
is but one week's effect of a settled drain. This, how-
ever, is not the case. On the 10th of October Bank
Stock and Government dividends become due amount-
ing to more than seven millions, and the payment of
th's total involves an addition to the circulation, and a
corresponding diminution of the Bank reserve, more
or less extensive, according to the value of money
and the rapidity of action on the part of the public
in drawing out their dividends. The payment of the
April and October dividends has, in times of pres-
sure, caused a diminution of nearly three millions
in the reserve of the Bank, but with the third week
of the month the tide usually turns, and the reserve
(owing to the action of the Exchequer in the collection
of the revenue) gradually increases up to the close of the
year. The probability is, therefore, that 5,012,4901. is
about the lowest amount at which we shall see it.
Money, at the existing rates, is in good supply in Lom-
bard-street, and has been refused on call by some of the
large dealers. There have been no sales of gold
.by the
Bank for some time, and, although that institution is
understood to have recently refused loans, this was
merely in the case of bills upon which advances had
been made during the shutting—the redemption of
which was naturally required when due on the 15th—
and it did not even imply that similar advances will not
again be made when the usual period arrivee.