The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-15 00:00:00

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( Hear, hear, and cheers.) But it did not, I solemnly 'effirrn"'
even that scene of almost mystical horror in the hosp.itak4
the nuns of St. Clare, in a city which I love, and wli i -
have a right to love, did not make one half of the dint up ---
my heart which was often made bv witneasing the scenes o sl "
dreary desolation, and poverty, and nakedness, and hunger,
and disease, and despair, in the forlorn habitations in the
old town, before we could have them brought into the hos-
pital. Take an example—and it was not a remarkable one,
but most simple. and one of every day's and night's occurrence
during the baleful time. A wretched mother discovered by
the officers of health, in the dead of night, in a little room
high up in one of the old and almost tumbling ruins called
houses, in one of the dismal alleys near St. John's-gate and
the ancient citadel. The wretched mother, lying on the
floor in cholera and collapse ; no bed or any article of
food or furniture, not even straw, in the filthy room ; two
wretched and half-starved and half-naked children sitting
crying near their mother on the floor. This, I say, was a
mere common place example of human misery, and is, by
the mere substitution of other diseases, a common place
everyday example of human misery ; but I select it above
all others, because it was after viewing it that I first made
the remark which I now repeat here, and repeat :it for the
express purpose, if my medical friends who listen to me do
not dissent from me, of laying down as a general principle of
human feeling. I made the remark to my friend Doctor
Franklin, after we had her brought into the ward of St.
John's Hospital, where in some days she died. Her
wretched orphans, of course, were not left to perish at home.
I said to him as we sat with Doctor William Geary by the
fire, in the ward of the cholera hospital, after we returned,
and after everything was done which skill and humanity
could achieve for her recovery, that" it was quite a matter of
repose of the heart's feelings to sit in the hospital even among
a crowd of patients under agonizing suffering, in comparison
with the scene of dreary anguish from which we had returned
and scenes of the same character ; because no Matter how in-
tense the sufferings of the unfortunate patients, or however
great their number, they were under human care, and obtain
ing the benefit of human sympathy, and of the medical science
which had been accumulating through the progress of long
ages of investigation." Dr. Franklin and Dr. W. Geary, my
fellow-citizens and friends, both agreed with me to the last
.extremity in the position I laid down ; and I am confident that
there is no dissent from my position among the medi-
cal men of Clare.—(Cheers.) Mr. High Sheriff and
other gentlemen who do me the honour of listening to me
with so much patience, the cholera and other hospitals,
the sea-fights, the bloody battle-fields, the bombardment,
the storming, the sacking and burning of towns and cities,
are parts of the awful moral machinery by which the
great and complex system of human society is carried on
by inevitable fatalism in its progression—and we recon-
cile ourselves to them, however tremendous, 'necause we
find them a part of that great system of society. But we
cannot reconcile ourselves, and our souls recoil with vio-
lence from the ghastly and appalling and heart-freezing
spectacle, even of a single fellow-being perishing in want and
desolation, and allowed to endure the baleful agony of the
death pang, and to give up the ghost, without human sym-
pathy or human succour. Men of Clare; and men of Ire-
land possessing property, you must either support the prin-
ciple of poor-law for your country—l do not speak of de-
tails, nor do I speak as a precedent of the English poor law
superabounding in abuse: ; I only speak of the principlet--or
you must make up your minds to endure the retribution
which will be wreaked on you by desperate men, flung out
of the pale of the social system by your reckless want of
sympathy for them—desperate men to whom you will have
placed yourselves in the state of nature by your recklessness
of what may be their destiny, and who, of course, will be
quite justified in considering themselves in a state of nature;
and not only in the state of nature, but of war, to you, to
your properties and your lives. Mr. Steele concluded
amidst long and continued acclamation.
The resolution proposed by Mr. STEELE was seconded
by the Rev. W. A. ADAMSON ; and all the resolutions were
unanimously agreed to.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.
Major Macnamara was prevented attending the meet-
ing in consequence of a severe cold ; but he wrote to the
High Sheriff very warmly in favour of the object of the
meeting.

LOSS and RECOVERY of a BANKER'S

PARCEL.

Some accounts were lately published relating to the loss
of a parcel belonging to the Northern and Central Bank of
England, which were, in many important particulars, erro-
neous. The following statement will be found to be correct :
On Tuesday morning, the Gth inst., Mr. Evans, the ma-
nager of the head office in Manchester, arrived in town by
mail, having with him a parcel containing about 96,0001. in
good bills, 5,000/. in Bank of England notes, 400/. in the
notes of country bankers, and 10,0001. in American and
other securities. The parcel was placed in a crimson bag
and locked. The bag Mr. Evans took with him in a cab
from the New Post-office, to St. Paul's Coffee-house. The
bag, with its contents, was lost, but the loss was fortunately
discovered before daylight, and was immediately made known
to Mr. Braidley, one of -the directors, who happened at the
time to be in London. Immediate steps were taken by Mr.
Braidley and Mr. Evans to recover the property ; their first.
efforts, however, were unavailing, and Forrester, the officer,
was consulted. Mr. Braidley and Mr. Evans thought of of-
fering a high reward for the recovery of the parcel ; but, b♦
the judicious advice of Forrester, it was determined to offer
by band-bill a reward of 10/. only for the delivery of a crim-
son bag, describing it, and the manner of its being lost, at
St. Paul's Coffee-house, no mention of banker's parcel, or
banker's office, or any idea of the value of the parcel being
given. The bag was found by the horse-keeper in the stable-
yard, some hours after the cabman had put his horse, and
gone to bed, his duty being night-work ; and it was thrown
by the finder under some straw in a vacant stall. When
the cabman went to take out the horse again, the horse-
keeper told him of the booty, and they together determined
to keep the bag the three days allowed by law, and then,
if no reward was offered to take it to Somerset House. Two
men then knew of the loss, and it could not be wrongly ap-
propriated by either without their joint privity. ' The cab-
man had taken his fare out of his turn, and was complained
of by the cabman whose turn he had taken, as he repassed
the stand near the Post-office ; and the former, to excuse
himself; replied, " Oh, it was no great catch, for I only
got a shilling-fare for taking a gentleman to St. Paul's Cof-
fee-house." It happened that one of the hand-bills fell into
the hands of the disappointed cabman, who, putting things
together, concluded that it related to his rival of the morn-
ing, and forthwith went to him with the news, and finally a
bargain was struck, that the two cabmen and the horse-
keeper should share the reward among them, and the par-
cel was delivered at St. Paul's Coffee-house by the three
men, about 8 o'clock in the eyening,being within 13 hours of
the time when the parcel was lost.
It is right to mention that 10/. was given to each of the
.hree men who aided the speedy delivery of the parcel to

its owners.
In the course of the day, when the loss was made known,
rumour magnified the disaster, as far as the result to the
Bank was concerned, and on Wednesday its credit became
exceedingly shaken in quarters vitally important to its sta-
bility and efficiency. A consultation upon the affair imme-
diately took place between the principal London agents and
the chief manager in London, when an intimation was
conveyed to them to the following effect :—That if they
were pressed, the Bank of England was ready to advance
them any sum to carry them over their temporary difficul-
ties. The offer of the Bank of England was finally ac-
cepted, and the doubts and fears occasioned by the rumour
soon subsided.

We stated in our last that the Reformers of the
county of mid-Lothian contemplated inviting W. Gibson
Craig, Esq., to a dinner, and it will be observed that the
day is now fixed for the 22d current. Mr. Craig nobly and
closely contested for the county with the present Member
at the last election ; and, we believe, when he enters the
lists again, as he assuredly will in the event of a dissolution
of Parliament, he is as sure of a seat in the House of Com-
mons as he is of one on the right hand of the Chairman at
the dinner in the White Hart Inn, Dalkeith, on Thursday
week.--Caledonian 'Mercury.
AIR. BULWER's NEW DRAMA TIIE DUCHESS
DE Lfr. VALLIERE.—We are requested to state that the
publication of Mr. Buliver's new Drama the Duchess de
la Valliere, is postponed to the 4th of January, on which
day it will be issued by Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Con-
duit-street, to orders addressed to them or their agents in
Dublin and Edinburgh, or to the booksellers throughout
the kingdom.
On Friday last, while the Maid of Morven steamer
was
lying at Bannavie Locks, two of the crew were engaged •
in carrying bags of meal on shore ; owing to the darkness of
the night they did not observe the indentation made for the
gate when opened, and they unfortunately fell into the
lock, in which there was at the time seventeen feet of
water. The accident was observed by the rest of the
crew, and lights instantly procured ; but all the exertions
made to save the men were vain, one of them having gone
to the bottom immediately on falling, and the other, though
struggling above the water for about three minutes, ere as-
sistance could reach him, also sunk to rise no more.--4n-
verzess Courier.
DRESS.—In the reign of Henry VI., the ladies
forbore their trains, and substituted borders of skins, velvet,
or other materials, equally wide, and sometimes wider than
a whole breadth of velvet. Their heads were decorated
with stuffed rolls in the shape of round bonnets, gradually
diminishing, to the height of half or three-fourths of ara ell,
with loose kerchiefs or veils at the top, hanging down liehind
as low as the ground ; they had large girdles of s;.lk with
expensive clasps, and round their neck collars or chains o I
gold.—Minor.