The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-18 00:00:00

wished to recover ; and hence their own armies
have uniformly fallen victims to famine rather
than the sword, while the Greeks have betaken
themselves with all their portable stores to their
hill fastnesses. The excitement which the first
rumour of this intelligence gave yesterday on the
Stock Exchange is indescribable. We can state
it as certain, that one eminent Banking-house in
the Strand, yesterday purchased through their
Broker, 59,0001. of Greek Scrip. Such is now
the promising aspect of Greek affairs.

[THE TIMES.]
A Meeting has been advertised for Friday
next, of the shopmen and others employed by a
certain class of shopkeepers in the metropolis,
the object of which is to concert measures for
obtaining some moderate abridgment of the hours
of business exacted from them. From seven
in the morning until eleven at night, our
correspondents inform us that many of those
individuals in the trade of linen•drapers are
kept are work, without a longer interval than of
one hour, all meals included, thoughout the
day. This seems undoubtedly a hardship. We
are surprised that young men can be foun.l who
will submit to such severe confinement. We are
more surprised that the sedentary, or rather sta-
tionary business of shops, is not very generally
intrusted to women. Why should men intrude
at all into modes of industry which those of the
other sex are equally capable of exercising? It
is a sort of robbery of destitute females.

A report has obtained some credit in the city,
that Lord Cochrane has made an arrangmeut
with the Greek Committee, by which he is to
attach himself to the Greek cause ; also that his

Lordship has planned an expedition, the charges
of which the ,Committee have undertaken to
defray, and which is to be carried into effect
immediately. That • part of the report which
makes the Greek Committee act as a body for
this purpose, and propose an advance of money,
we conceive to be erroneous, but incline to lend
more belief to another statement—that some mem-
bers of the Committee, retaining their zeal for the
cause, have expressed as individuals a wish that
Lord Cochrane should give his assistance to
the Greeks, and that his Lordship has expess-
ed his willingness to accede to their wish, if a
mode could be pointed out for rendering his ser-
vices effectual. Some difficulties appear to have
been thrown in the way of the negociation by
persons whose functions should have led them
most zealously to promote its success ; but it is
understood that they have been removed. Whe-
ther such an explanation on the subject of Greek
affairs can he adduced to Lord Cochrane as will
determine the propriety of his proceeding thither
at once, still remains, we believe, to be ascer-
tained.—(/bid.)

LMORNING HERALD.]
We are much pleased, and we dare to say that
the public will be so too, that Wheeler, Mr. Mar-
tin of Galway's Secretary, has laid some infor-
mations against those pests the brutes who drive
the Paddington stages in the furious manner-they.
do up the New Road. Unfortunately for the
public a Mr. Burgess, a solicitor, came forward,
and, lawyer like, found out some hole in the
Act for these drivers to creep through. The
Magistrate, it would appear, gave it as
his opinion that the information was informal—
but he recommended Wheeler to get another in-
formation prepared, which Wheeler, upon the
appearance of Mr. Martin, said he would do ;
and thus the matter rests. These brutes will be
brought up again before the Magistrate, and we
hope the latter will have as little mercy on them
as it would appear they had upon their horses'
" backs. It will give us much pleasure to hear that
they have been 'sentenced to the tread-mill for
three months. These audacious creatures sadly
want to' be brought to their senses, and both the
Honourable Member for Galway, as well as his
secretary, deserve the thanks of all who are
fated to get into the Paddington stages, as well
as of those who have occasion to travel along that
line of road. We hope'Mr. Martin will follow
these fellows up with his usual perseverance and

From our Mansion Ilou;e report, it appears
that some of the better part of human nature have
been applying to the Lord Mayor respecting the
cruelty of some part and parcel of our agricultural
interests, in suffering cattle and sheep in Smith-
field to go from Saturday to Monday without
water. We should like to hear of some of the
Chairmen of the Agricultural Dinners going from
Saturday to Monday without any thing to quench
their thirst, and then they might perhaps think of
these same cattle, which they yearly send to
Smithfield to be slaughtered, and of the suffering
they must endure from thirst, after being driven
• from morning till night by an iron-hearted drover.
It would be a good thing if that abominable nui-
sance, Smithfield. Market, were put an end to al-
together, and Oat butchers were obliged to go
out of town to:purchase their cattle.—(tbid.)

LAND WATER-SPOUT.—(LYNN, AUG. 114—Yesterday
we witnessed a phenomenon, which, though frequent at sea, is
rather unusual on shore ; what is termed a water-spout was seen
a few miles to the westward of Lynn, first appearing at about
a quarter past one o'clock, it seemed to be excited over Marsh-
land; and it exhibited the appearance of a mass of light clouds
in the midst of a very dark one, in the form of an inverted
cone4ising from the earth, on which its apex rested, to the ele-
vation' 'of about 48 degrees ; the edges of the cone assumed a
very dark hue, and were clearly defined. We have not as yet
heard whether any damage has been sustained from it. It gra-
dually blended with the clouds in about a quarter of an hour,
by which time they were immediately over Lynn, and poured
down torrents of rain in so violent a manner, as to choke the
drains and inundate several of Coe streets.

FATAL ACCIDENT. -Last night an Inquest was
held at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of Elizabeth
Capps. The deceased had cohabited with a person nald
Capps, at the corner of the Coal-yard, Drury-lane, for many
years. They were persons of veryiow condition, and. demo-
ralizing habits. When she was in liquor, Capps used to occa-
sionally chastise her, and 011 such occasions the neighbourhood
was thrown into a state of alarm by her screams. On Thurs-
day
last, when in liquor, she put her head out of her chamber
window to reach some flower-pots, and she fell headlong into
the street. Her skull was cut open in the fall, and she expired
on Sunday last. A report became prevalent in the neighbour-
hood that Capps threw her out of the window, and an inquiry
took place before the Coroner, to investigate the truth of such
rumour. It was proved to be totally void of foundation, and
the Jury returned a verdict of." Accidentally killed by falling
out of a window."