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London, England, 1838-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 183 S.

apartment in the workhouse, and had the society of his wife and children,
with sufficient food and clothing, how many men would be fourd to
support themselves ? or who would eventually be fcund to support
them P

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The diet tables have been stated to be at the starving point, and in-
sufficient to support life long together. That that is not the intention,
or the nrce,sary consequence of the law I run perfectly sure; what other
Unions may do I know not, Int let any person examine the workhouse
at Lincoln ; let him compare the food, in quantity and quality, with
that in which very many of the rate-payers live. Let him compare the
condition of the inmates, with an equal number of persons in
the same situation of life elsewhere, indiscriminately taken.
Let him examine the paupers themselves, and ascertain whe.
ther any well-founded cause of complaint exists. My con-
viction, from strict personal examination, is, that they live much better
than many of the rate-payers can atnrd to do. Statements are made of
the rate of mortality in the workhouse, compared to that of the convicts
in the hulks. The parties making them forget to mention that the con-
victs are generally in the prime of life. The inmates of the workhouse
are almost all children under fourteen years of age, or old and infirm
people. It is quite evident that victory, not truth, is the object on those
occasions.
Great complaint has been made of the medical treatment of the pau.
pers. The impossibility of their having proper attendance has been
argue,l, front the price paid for it, and instances have been given where
lives might have been saved by better attendance and more expensive
medicines. Are those who think the paupers soneglect;.d acquainted
with the habits and circumstances of the cottagers and artizans, who are
struggling hard to pay their poor-rates, to prevent their becoming pau.
pers themselves ? Where and how are they to obtain the attendance
afforded to paupers? Where are they to get the port wine, bark, sago,
and other articles, which we are told we ought to find for paupers ? Can
it be tree charity or justice to wring another shilling front the hard
earnings of these poor and industrious people for such a purpose ? Is it
likely to encourage industry, and discourage improvidence ? But I will
not stop here, I will look at small farmers occupying or owning forty or
fifty acres of land. Let us consider what medical attendance they can
afford for their wives and 'amities. 'I hey constitute a class which has
quite escarted the notice of the wealthy and the charitable, as they never
1 esk assistance, and do not come in contact with them. I will venture
1 to stete, from my own knowledge, that we are finding better medical re.
lief for the paupers, in the Lincoln Union, than many of the rate-payers
are able to find for themselves. What we pay for it rests between the
guardians and ourselves. Neither the poor nor the opponents of the
New Law have any thing to do with it. Many lives may be loot
amongst the poor, which alight have been saved by daily attendance and
expensive medicines, but that is not confined to the class of paupers.
1 It is one of the evils assigned by Providence, in some degree, to all

classes, who aro not opulent, and one to which the very class of sual

farmers I have mentioned are liable. And a parish pauper has no more
right to expect daily attendance, and expensive medicines for his wife
or family, than a clergyman with a small income has to winter at
Naples or Florence. The consolation in e,.ch case must be that the
remedy is out of the reach of the party requiring it. .

The Bastardy clauses are considered cruel and iniquitous, as punishing
the victim, not the seducer, and as lading to infanticide. In this case, as
in all others, the law must be regtrele as applying to the many not to the
few, Let any active Magistra'e be asked, how many of the women brougl.t
before him undrr the old law could property be considered as the victims
of unprincipled men ? Would the answer be one in ten, or one
is
twenty ? Women who have, as it is said, lost their characters, are ex-
cluded from ; encral society in the upper classes. Punishment might as
far as possible to be proportioned to the guilt of the parties upon whom
it fa:ls ; and many instances of this kind may be found where it would
be almost reduced to nothing by particular circumstances : and in those
cases it must be cruel and unjust in its operation. If some women
should commit infanticide, or even suicide, to avoid such disgrace,
would it be a good argument that society were wrong and cug,lit to ad-
mit such women to prevent similar calamities ? Surely not: but you
must admit all or none ; you cannot institute an inquiry into each case.
Nero again, what may be very hard upon the few, may he positively ne.
cessary for the welfare of the many. Lord Wynford considers that
where a woman must be very uncertain who is the father of the child, it
is a great hardship that she should, be obliged to take an oath upon the
subject, or at least, that it should be put to her to the best of her belief.
Can there be a person found who could deliberately object to any woman
in such a situation being compelled to maintain the child herself? The
expence of rnaintainance applied as a punishment to the putative father,
is of all method a the worst and most ineffectual.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of
Friday and Saturday. They contain some statements of
considerable interest. It was reported and believed in
Paris that King LEOPOLD, who was to leave that capital
yesterday for Brusseli, bad been prevailed upon to consent
to the cession of Luxemburg and Limburg to Holland.
His MAJESTY, however, positively refused to grant any
indemnity to King WILLIAM, though strongly pressed
by Louis PHILLIPPE to sign the twenty-four ar-
ticles, and leave England and France to take
measures for guaranteeing the honour, independence, and
pecuniary interests of Belgium.
Sir GEORGE VILLIERS, the British Ambassador at the
Court of Madrid, arrived in Paris on Thursday evening,
on his way to London. On the same day the Duke de
NEMOURS arrived at the Chateau at Neuiliy. The Royal
dinner-table was graced on Thursday by the presence of
every member of the Royal Family—including those
branches by affinity, the King of the BELGIANS and the
Duchess Of ORLEANS.

The Liberal Journals complain loudly and bitterly of the
official war which is now carried on against the Press. It

appears that at no period since the Revolution of July was
public opinion in France so arbitrarily restricted. On
Thursday the Police seized and sealed up the printing
presses of the Liberal, of Douay, under-the pretence of
their being employed in the printing of seditious pamphlets.
This despotic act was preceded by no form of trial, accu-
sation, or even inquiry.

A letter from Rome intimates that Marshal BEAUMONT
is at the head of a Miguelite and French Legitimatist ex-
pedition, which is preparing to sail from Sicily for the cap-
ture of Madeira. We cannot conclude the Marshal to be
such a madman as to attempt anything of the sort.
The Landammann of the canton of_Schweytz, and
another individual, have lost their lives in an affray
between the two factions whose struggles have all but
kindled the flames of civil war in Switzerland. We
greatly fear that these disorders will furnish a pretext for
the sinister interference of the Prussian and Bavarian

Governments.
The following are extracts from the French Journals
The Journal du Havre of the 20th says—" The Marquis d'Eyraques,
Secretary of Legation to Marshal Soult, arrived here yesterday on board
the Phoenix steamboat.
" It is affirmed that Marshal Soult will leave London on the 29th to
return to Paris, and that he will come through Havre. The Marshal
is to make the voyage on board the Government steamboat the Meteore.
" Orders have been given in this town for the reception of the
Marshal."
We have received the Barcelona journals to the 13th. Baron de
Meer left that city on the 11th with his staff. It is affirmed that he is
going to attack Belga, where the Count d'Espagne is, who lately arrived
from France, and has taken the command of the Carlist troops of the
principality.
A strong convey, accompanied by four howitzers and several pieces of
heavy cannon, left Barcelona on the 7th. An attack to bring about a
final union seems to be imminent. Every thing announces that it will
be this time carried on seriously.
If we may believe the accounts which we receive from the frontier
the Count d'Espagne is not the person weak in body and mind that he
has been represented. He should seem to have acted his assumed part,
with great skill. The old Captain General of Catalonia is said to be now
with all his faculties as he used to be, and displaying his natural activity.
Numbers of the defenders of the cause of the Pretender continued to
desert ; not only privates but officers of all ranks ; some go to their
homes; others present themselves to the authorities to make their sub-
mission. To supply the deficiency this occasioned, the Junta of Berga
has ordered a general levy of all young men and widowers, from the
age of seventeen to forty-five, in the principality of Catalonia. It re..
mains to be seen how this measure will be executed, which is a counter.
part of the general blockade ordered by the same junta. Baron de
Meer has answered this order of a blockade by a prohibition for pro-
visions or goods of any description being sent from Barcelona, or any
of the fortified places in Cata7onia, unless they are destined for a place
occupiedby the Queen's troops. Those who transgress this order will
he punished, for the first offence, by the confiscation of the goods ex-
ported ; and for the second by ten years' banishment to the Philippine
Islands.—Le Commerce.

FRENCH FUNDS-PARIS, JULY 21.
Five per Cents.. 111 f. 45c. 30c. 40c.
Four and a Half nor Cents. 106 f. 50c.
Fourh per Cents., 8
1001. 9 c
735 c..
i re p, tn
sic
Bank Actions, 2,,i30f.
dente tie Naples, :M. gc. 25c. 20c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102.
Spanish-Actives, 2.3.
Spanish Passives, 4%.
Belgian Five per Cents., 103%.
Belgian Three per Cents., 75f. 15c. lec.
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f 1,417 f. 50c.
IVCCH•Nati. ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 45c.; money, 251.
lisree months, paper, 23f. 30v.; money, 251. 30C.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 111 f. 40c.
Three per Cents., SOf. 050.
Bank Actions, 2,6301.
Romans, 102.
Belgian Loan, 103"4.
Belgian Bank, 1,4 i 7 f. 50c.
Spanish Actives, '23.
Spanish Passives, 47%.

Letters and papers from Madrid of the 14th inst. have
reached us this morning. On the 12th MENDIZABAL left
the capital for France, accompanied by M. HEaAs, who
goes as Ambassador to Brussels. One of the Journals
gives the details of a " Grand Carlist conspiracy discovered
in Madrid on the 13th," but as the Gazette says not a word
about the matter, we may safely conclude it to be a very
it, the Bank of
trumpery affair indeed. The loan contract continued in
abeyance, although,Fernando
advanced o
eight
he t strengthm
millions
o o s
ooff
reals, which were
transmitted forthwith to the bead quarters of ESPARTERO.
Various ehanges in the Cabinet were talked of, but nothing
certain was known upon the subject. The Government
had received no recent accounts of any fresh laurels ga-
thered by the army.

The Brussels and German Journals, received to-day,
contain no news of any interest.

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AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 12.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Ai igemeine Zeitung, July 17.

STATE OF TRADE.—The business of the week
has far exceeded in amount that of the few last previous ones. Several
descriptions of power-loom cloths have been in more request, and con-
siderable mks efn.cted, where a slight reduction in price has been con-
ceded. There tr:s also been a more extensive el,yliry for

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pally fur the export market, and some heavy lots 11,4% e beet,
but at extremely low rates, and which we fear will scarcely remunerate
the spinner.—Preston Observer.

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN

ST. PANCRAS.

The adjourned inquest on T. D. Pow, the circumstances attending
whose death have already been the subject of such prolonged investi.
gation, touk place this morning at twelve o'clock, at the Globe, London.

street,

From the groat number of persons assembled round the house, it
was evident that tke excitement concerning the unfortunate event is
still undiminished. The inquest room was crowded to excess.
Mr. BODKIN appeared for Dr. Miers, with a solicitor.
Mr. T. Maber, landlord cf the Crown, New Cut, Lambeth, dcposrd
that he had known the deceased for about two years to be very sickly,
but about three-weeks ago saw him rather better. Since the death of
deceased had some conversation with Mrs. Pow, who used expressions
calculated to ra,ke him believe that the death arose from excessive
drinking. But his (witness's) reply was, "Your conduct has been
infamous." Had seen the newspaper accounts then ; but, knowing Mrs.
Pow to Le a married woman, he should have made the same remark
had he not seen them.

Mr E. Eatt, an assistant of Westminster Hospital, stated that de.
ceased had beeo admitted into the Hospital on the 21st June, for deli-
rium tremens, and was treated for that disorder. On the 3d
of July left the Hospital rather convalescent, but against witness's
recorrmendation.

Cross.examined by Mr. BODKIN—In cas2s of delirium tremens gin
and. wine are administered in the hospital ; thrce ounces of gin or
four ounces of wine per day, more would be dangerous. But he had
known larger quantities given. Would not be surprised to find a pa-
tient who had laboured under this disease becoming after a time bad
again. _ _ .

Examined by the CORONER, at the instance of Mr Treedy—Spirits
ought not in such a case to be administered by an ignorant person ad
BLitt nt. Ehould not think a patient under delirium tren,:ens bhoull cat

lamb and pEas. Stimuli ought not to b, given where the patient com
plained of pain in the stomach, or if there was inflammation in the

stomach,

By a AMOR —Considered Weeding wrong in a case of delirium tre.

MC224. eil.ecially in convulsions,

By Mr. BODiIN-1 should do nothing to a patimt in convulsions, but.
leave it to nature. After the patient recovered from the paroxyrn, I
should most likely give stimuli. Had ,een 4oz of spirits given in such
a case, and thinks he has heard of 6 oz.

SHIPPING.-(TillS DAY.)

DEAL, JULY 21.—Wind, , fresh ; -22, N.N.W., moderate.—
Came down from the river and proceeded the Malabar, Pollock, for
Bombay ; Madagascar, Walker, for Calcutta ; Favourite, Brooks, for
Cadiz ; Bailey, Orfeur, for Malta; Gulnare, Murphy, for Baltimore ;
Warrior, Louthwaite, for Ceylon ; Medusa, Purdie, for Sydney ; Royal
William, Francis, for Quebec; Melville, Cornforth, for Trieste;
Thames, Allen, for Quebec ; Jason, Ferguson, for Constantinople.
Arrived and proceeded for the river the Catherine Elizabeth, Merritt,
from St. Vincent; Tobago, Bull, from Tobago; Richmond, Trick, from
Swansea. The Express, from the Mediterranean to Newcastle and
Kingston, from Jamaica, remain. The body of a seaman murdered on
board the Kingston was Lunched overboard in the Dawns.
PORETMOUTU, JULY 21.--Wh to N.N. E.—Juts 22.—Wind,
N.E , fine.—Arrived the Alfred, Lidstone, fr.nn St. Übes; Conserva-
tire, New, from Dantzic ; Mary Hudson, Johnson, from Licata, for
Newcastle. Sailed the Stray, on the 14th instant, in lat. 43, long. 10,
30,in a sudden squall lost main and topmast yards, sails and every thing
attached; Sir John Rae Reid, and Trident, for the Mauritius; St. Croix,
for Honduras; Mediator, for New York ; Everthorpe, for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 21. Wind N.—Arrived the Reliance, Waters,.
from Stettin; Cora, Legrand, from Halifax. Sailed, Prescilla, for Que-
bec ; Hens. Savage, for Spain.
FALMOUTH, JUIN 20.—Wind W. to N.N.W., fesh breezes. JULY
21.—Wind, N.N.W. to N.N.E., dry and fine.—Arrived the Tagus,
steamer, from Gibraltar and Cadiz, lett 15th instant, Lisbon, 17th, Op-
porto and Vigo, 18th Weodmansternc, Pernambucca. Sailed Sth June,
President, De Ruyter, for Jacmel ; Perseverance, for Quebec; Ornen,
for St. Ives ; Bragela and Albion, for Quebec.
LivnerooL, JULY 21.—Wind N. 22.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrived
the Arid, and Union, Hudson, from Memel; Fortune, Ahrens, from-
Stettin; Lydia, Ellington, 'from Jamaica; Laurins, Kirk, from the
Coast of Mexico; John and Rohert, M`Kechny, from New Orleans;,
Garrick, Palmer, and England, Wail!, from New York ; Pactolus, from
Savannah; Indefatfgable, from Richibucto ; John Walker, from Dal-
housie; Charlotte, Mann, from Riga. Arrived off port the Eliza
Johnstone, from Pernambuco; Edward Thorne, from St. John's, New
Brunswick; and Fanny, from Quebec.
MARGATE, JULY 22.—Arrived off port, the Andrea, Helfram, from
Gefle, after being on shore.

RYE, JULY 22.—Arrived the William, Blyth, from Memel.
BRIDPORT, JULY 22.-Arrived the Phoenix, Blntlemau, from Memel.
SALCOMBE, JULY 21. Arrived off port the Louise Sophie, from
Bahia; Holonet, Hoofman, from Batavia.
GUERNSEY, JULY 20.—Arrived the Venus, Zillmer, from Stralsund;
'Hansen, Lowes, from Stettin.

Jcascx, JULY 21.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Rieke, tom Stettin.
BRISTOL, JULY 22.—Arrived the William Miles, Pike, from Jamaica;
Harvey, Rees, from Dalhousie. The Great Western steamer left King
Road last evening at eight o'clock, with 118 passengers.
Ma avpour, Jui.Y 20. Arrived off, Cherub, Duggan, from Quebec.
CLYDE, Atm. 20.—Arrived the Favourite, Hay, from Sicily; Minerva,
Berrie, from Trinidad; Jane, Ritchie, from New Orleans.
DUBLIN, JULY 21.—Arrived Wilhelmine, Krcplin, from Memel.
CORK, JULY 20.—Arrived the Vulture steamer, from London ;
Robert Noble, Ranken, from Pictou. Arrived , Of, Catherine Ann,
Palk, from Newfoundland.

A;ERDEEN, JULY 20.—Arrived Waller, Hamilton, St. Petersburgh,

PETERHEAD, JULY 20.—Arrived the Jicsolution, Hogg, from Green-
land, 90 tuns; Superior, Manson, from GreNdand, 100 tuns.
MONTROSE, Jutr Ill.—Arrived, the Globe, Sherrall, from Quebec.

LEITH, JULY 20.—Arrived, the Pomona, Morrison, from Qutbec ; the
Columbus, Pearson, from Miramichi.
SHIELDS, JULY 21. Arrived. the Elizabeth, Usher, from Pictou ;
the Trusty, Porter, from Lieban ; Amelia, Albrecht,from Dunzez.
LISBON, JULY I6.—the Arrow,
.Moray, from Cadiz, put into
this port on the 11th instant leaky, having shifted her cargo, and
must discharge. • _ .

CAINZ, Tuw 13.—The Sirius (strainer). Moody, from London to
Morselllea, put in here in the gale tiorn the Eastward yesterday for the
purpose of repairing some of her tubes ; she will be ready for sea in two
or three days.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY),. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

By the England and Garrick, New York packet.ships which sailed
on the 2d instant, and arrived at Liverpool, New York papers to the 3d
instant have been received, but they do not contain any news of im-
portance, with the exception of a confirmation of the total defeat of the
rebels in Canada, at Short's Hill.

We also have received Montreal papers, to the 30th June :
Comparative statement of Vessels, &c., arrived at the port of Quebec
in 1837 and 1838 :

1838 June 25
1837 June 25

Vessels, Tonnage. Passengers.
466 159,713 1,433
436 136,612 12,094

More this year 50 23,101 11,231 less.
A Gibraltar mail has arrived by the Tagus. By this conveyance we
have received Gibraltar chronicles to the 13th July. Exchange on
London—Private bills at 90 days' date, 50,1 to 50} premium; on
Spanish dollars I per cent.
The Lisbon mail received this morning states that all was tranquil
there. The New Cortes were to assemble sooner than was expected.
Their first object would be to discuss the state of their finances.
LisaoN.—The Governmett being assisted with a loan of 2,500 contos
by the Confiancia Company (which by the Cortes were deemed sufficient)
up to the month of August, and to reckon from that time that the
revenues of the customs would be free, also upon the proportion of the
direct contribution ; if the necessity of providing for the payment of
the dividends in London ; if the pressure of various demands upon the
treasury are imperious as we truly believe, having no other constitu-
tional means of relief from such embarrassment, the immediate con-
vocation of the Cortes, called for by the true friends of the country,
ought to be proclaimed. The rumour of the convocation of the Cortes
Was general in Lisbon, but the day is not fixed. We have a report
that the Queen of Portugal is put to bed with twins.