The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, ISB6.

ings that have already Lean .adopted under the Bill in
one _town alone. In Liverpool, as -we learn from the
Liverpool Standard of Tuesday, the reformed corpo-
rators have, in forty-eight hours, by the measures they
have pursued, saddled the town with a debt of from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand
poundsbeing, in the words of our Contemporary,
more than the whole surplus revenue of the town
for-the next two years." Nor there is reason to hope
that the mischief will be allowed to stop short, even
at this frightful point. It is the open boast of the
Liverpool Reformers that they will. make " a clean
sweep ; ' that is, that they will continue to do as
they have already done—dismiss from their appoint-
ments public officers against whom no charge has been
so much as insinuated, only that they may nominate
some of their own creatures in their room. These
dismissal's will involve new compensations; and thus
the debt will continue to accumulate. And here we
come to the point, out of which it is not difficult to
foresee that the demand for an amendthent of the
Bill will arise. " The Corporations," we still quote,
" must pay this money out of their income, and if they
do, how are the public improvements to be prose-
, euted ? How are the families of 5,000 masons,
carpenters, bricklayers, and other artisans, to be sup-
ported ? They, we saw from the first, would be the
victims of this pernicious Bill. Some few hundreds
called for it, but little did the whole fraternity of
operatives know that they would have to pay for it."
The operatives (there can be no doubt of it) will grum-
ble, and then the Whig-Radicals must do something to
put a stop to the grumbling. Whatever nonsense may
may have been talked about the Parliamentary influence
of Ministers being strengthened by this Bill, the real
intention of it was to give them popularity ; and
rather than endanger that, especially now when the
Government can so ill afford to lose what little is left
to them, any sacrifice must be made. The Municipal,
like the Parliamentary, Reform Bill, it will soon
be found out, will not " work well;" and mischief,
that years of suffering will not be able to remedy, will
have been produced, in order to purchase for a political
faction a short-lived popularity—a popularity which
that faction could hardly have sought with so much
eagerness; if it had had the wisdom to look at the sub-
ject—as a celebrated writer did, when he said—

" Let the man who is vain of public favour be humbled
by the reflection that, in the midst of his success, he is min-
gled with a crowd of impostors and deceivers, of hypocrites
and enthusiasts, of ignorant pretenders and superficial rea-
soners, who, by various arts, have attained as high a rank
as himself in temporary fame."—Morning Post.

ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between
twelve and one o'slock, a fire broke out in the drug ware-
house of Mr. Freeman, Seward-street, Goswell-street, and
from the inflammible nature of the immense stock on the
premises the utmost consternation prevailed in the neigh-
bourhood for some time. By one o'clock the fire-
men had succeeded in gaining an entrance to the ware-
house, when they ascertained that a great quantity of the
stock was consumed, and considerable damage done to the
building. Mr. Freeman is insured in the Sun Fire Office.
The origin of the fire is unknown.

THE LATE FIRE AT BISHOP STORTFORD
UNION WORKHOUSE.—A fire broke out in this establish-
ment on the night of Christmas Day, but was quickly sub-
dued, and the injury sustained but trifling. The following
morning a Board was convened at an early hour, and cer-
tain of the inmates of a suspicious character being brought
before the sitting Magistrates, John Arthur Houblon, Esq.
and the Rev. C. S. Bouchier, after a long investigation,
three of the ringleaders have been committed to Hertford
Gaol, to take their trial at the, approaching Assizes.—Herts
County Press.

DUNDEE SHIPPING.—The trade of Dundee is
extraordinary beyond all former example, and its manufac-
tures are forcing themselves into every corner of the g'obe.
The number of shipping belonging to the town is 302, and
the tonnage 3,059. During a period of thirty-two years
from 1792 to 1824, there was an increase of 9,495 tons►
which is scarcely equal to the increase for the next five
years, from 1824 to 1829 ; and in the succeeding four
years, from 1829 to 1833, was almost equal to what it had
been during the previous five, being 9,:323 tons. The in-
crease goes on progressively, and will of course keep pace
with the trade.—Dundee chronicle.

THE DEPOPULATING SYSTEM.—On Saturday
morning we informed our readers that this system of slow
murder was taking its rounds—it was then in Newry—it
is now in Limerick. Upwards of two thousand people met
at Greenhill, near Kilpeacon, in the county of Limerick,
for the purpose of relieving by subscription forty families,
on whom notices of ejectment were served. While the
meeting was being held, some one announced that the mi-
litary were approaching with a man to serve the law orders,
upon which the screams set up by the unhappy people
(women and children) became truly heart-rending. '1 he
militarY, however, did not arrive, and the meeting separated
between-twelve and one o'clock, in the most peaceable man-
ner, having entered into resolutions, &c. We have the
demon of extermination now walking with giant strides
through:Carlow, Newry, and Limerick.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

BRIGHTON.—Such was the intensity of the frost
on Friday night that a vagrant was found early on Satur-
day morning, at the western extremity of the town, frozen
to death. In the course of the week no less than three
children have been burnt to death, through the negligence
of their parents, in three adjacent parishes., One child was
two years and a half ; a second, four ; and a third, six
years old.
HORRIBLE ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Tuesday
morning, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, a
young man jumped into the ThaMes clgse to Irongate-stairs,
Tower-hill. A waterman hearing a splash, instantly threw
off his jacket, and (notwithstanding the inclemency of the
season) plunged into the water, and after some difficulty
succeeded in taking the young man on shore. He then
called for the assistance of the police, and the body, which
was apparently lifeless, was conveyed to the Nelson's Arms,
adjacent. A respectable surgeon, residing in the neigh-
bourhood, was sent for, and on his arrival be was almost
horror-struck on discovering that the patient was his own
brother, who in the course of the previous night had been
to his house. By extraordinary perseverance animation was
restored. The medical gentleman had a suit of clothes sent
from his house to the sufferer, who on being sufficiently re-
covered, was, at the request of his brother (who stated that
the consequences of retaining him might prove fatal) allowed
to go home. From the statement of his brother, who is of
the highest respectability, it appeared that the young man is
a continual annoyance to his friends, that this is the second
time he has attempted self-destruction, and notwithstanding
all they do in assisting him in every possible way, he has ne-
glected every opportunity of going on steadily, and getting
his living in a respectable manner.

CHANCERY COURT.-WEDNESDAY

DONOVAN V. DONOVAN.
The question in this cause arose on the construction to
he put on a codicil of the will of Mr. James Donovan, of
.Fitzwilliam-square, in the city of Dublin, who died in 1830.
The codicil in dispute gave a sum of one thousand pounds
to each of his grandchildren, but as it proceeded subse-
quently to declare that this sum was in addition to one
thousand pounds already bequeathed to one of these grand-
children,. and alluded also to his brothers, it. was contended
that the -subsequent words limited the bequest of the
thousand pounds to each of the children of one of the sons
of the testator, and did not include the whole of the grand-
children, as from the language at the commencement it
would appear to do. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor
was of 'opinion that the testator intended to give one
thousand to each of all his grandchildren, and not to each
of a class, Against this decision the residuary legatee ap-
pealed.

Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the argument, in-
timated their intention to dispose of the point to-morrow
morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-=WEDNESDAY

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday a res-
pectable Jury was -empannelled in the Board Room of
Middlesex Hospital before Mr. Stirling, Coroner for Mid-
dlesex, to inquire touching the death of Mary Smith, aged
22, who committed self-destruction by swallowing vitriolic
acid under the following distressing circemstances :—Mr.
Barnard Gregory, of No. 69,, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-
square, on being sworn, said that the deceased, about five
months ago, was engaged by Mrs. Gregory to fill the situa-
tion of cook in his family. They bad a good character with
her as a servant, and' she answered their expectations. On
Sunday morning last, a little before nine o'clock, he was in
his dressing-room, when he was alarmed by a lady who was
spending the Christmas with the family, and who knocked
at witness's door, stating that the deceased, who was in
the kitchen, had taken some vitriolic acid. Witness
hastened there, and discovered her seated in a chair. She
was in the most excruciating agony, and with great diffi_
culty, upon being questioned by witness, said she had taken
some vitriolic acid. Witness instantly sent another of his
servants for a surgeon, when in a very short time Mr. Cray-
don called, and applied antidotes to relieve the deceased,
who. having become a little easier, was placed in a coach,
and conveyed to Middlesex Hospital. In answer to ques-
tions from the Coroner and Jury, Mr. Gregory stated that
for some weeks past he had perceived a great alteration in
the deceased's conduct, who did not perform her duties in
'her customary manner. She appeared thoughtful and me-
lancholy. Witness heard that she had formed an attach-
ment to a young man of the name of Charles Smith, but who
was not related to her, and who had promised to marry her.
In expectation of such an event, the deceased supplied him
with her wages, and occasionally pledged her clothes for
him. Her violent attachment for him led to he: ruin, which,
together with the subsequent desertion and neglect of her
seducer, in witness's opinion, led to the unfortunate ea-
tastroPle. Mr. Gregory here placed in the hands of the
Jury several letters written by the deceased. One of them,
and which was read, was to the following effect :—" Dear
Ernma,—Atter the misfortune I have met with, my life is
a burden to me, and I have come to the determination of
fate ; and this is all caused by my too great
is:0:0 v ofor
od meeting, my
rr„yrogv
man.ui.pgmeiand all my friends adieu for ever/
had a kind master and mistress.
From the lost, unfortunate Mary Smith." Mr. Corfe, house
surgeon to Middlesek Hospital, sworn—Said that he did
the
arid she Mat
t.he fiftrppon of the clay she was adtriitted.
evviterrioyltilciinagcidi.n his
All power
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Verdict—" Mat the dec.palo 44tive.t1 herseTfily Yitrio*
acid, being in a state of temporary derangermt? b,rpught on
b 7 the ill usage she had received."

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