The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

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ENGLISH BENEVOLENCE.

To renew the expression of our admiration or
gratitude at the unequalled and noble liberality of the People
of England towards the suffering Poor of this Country, dur-
ing the late season of deep distress, is equally unnecessary, as
would be any attempt to. increase the fervour of the feel-
ings which such conduct has excited in every class of our
Countrymen. In nothing was the conduct of our English
benefactors more noble, more exalted, or deserving praise,
than in the high disdain of every sectarian, political, or na-,
tional prejudice, by which it was distinguished. So happy
was the effect oethis bright example, that if no other result
was consequent, the tone and influence which it, imported to a
certain class at this side of the channel, so different from what
was usual with them, would have been itself a national benefit.
But to expect unmixed perfection in human concerns, would
be to indulge in the visions of the Optimist.
So it is with pain that we learnt during the last week, from
various correspondents, of a leaven of Sectarianism having
found its way at length into the mass of hitherto untainted
Charity; and our regret was the more sincere, when we were
told that the Ladies' Committees were the first and only in-
stances of its manifestation.
The evil has happily been checked in its germ by the good
sense and benevolence of the Ladies named in this City, as
the instruments arid mediums of the benevolent London As-
sociation. In the printed lists of the General and Local Com-
mittees which we have seen no one Catholic Lady was named ;
this, we must profess, struck our minds as a dereliction of dis-
interested benevolence. We are happy. in having been in error,
as we learn from the followinar demi-official announcement,
which appears on the . Constitution of this morning, that an-
other more agreeable and more worthy system is about to be
immediately acted on :

LADLE? SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION

OF THE POOR.

" We have great pleasure in perceiving that the Cork Ladies
Society, recently formed under the sanction of the most respect-
able patronage, are proceeding with a zeal, vigour, and liberali-
ty, in the prosecution of their benevolent objects, which pro-
mises fair for ultimate success. Theleading feature of the Society
to unite and direct the energies of the Ladies of all Religions
Denominations, in promoting moral, orderly, industrious, and
cleanly habits amongst the female poor, without any interfer-
ence whatever with their religious opinions—These most desira-
ble ends, are to be carried into effect by domiciliary visits, use-
ful and affectionate advice, seasonable assistance, and thk offer
of Rewahls.—Thus the higher and the lower orders of Society
will be brought nearer to each other, and the character and
habits of the latter be necessarily elevated and improved. At
the suggestion of the London Society, a Central Committee has
been formed for the County and City of Cork, which will act as
a medium of communication between the various minor Socie-
ties which may be formed in the County, and the parent Society
in London. This Central Committee will meet the last Friday
in every month, or oftener if necessary, at the Assembly-rooms,
George's-street, for business.—( Cork Mercantile Chronicle,
Oct. 28.)

We have heard of two places of worship within
the verge of our paper, which, by long neglect, had been allow-
ed to accummulate dust until the beadles, not being possessed
of the powers of Hercules, shrunk from the Augean task
of cleansing them. .Last week, however, much to the satisfac-
tion of the lieges, the Magistrates ordered a strong body of
amazons, furnished with the proper equipments, to commence
the undertaking, and to labour day after day until both
structures should be as clean as -if the Nith, or the Peneus
itself had flowed' through them, and they have now, we be-
lieve, nearly fulfilled that duty. In the course of it they made
many curious discoveries—a cambric handkerchief, whose
beautiful texture became an impalpable powder in their
grasp—bodies; and other old world coins—one of them gold—
which have not been acknowledged as a circulating medium in
the memory of man—scent-bottles and snuff-boxes, whose
contents were more inefficient stimulants than the dust in which
they lay buried. No inhabitant of the parish can say if either
of these places ever, was thoroughly cleaned before. The
sweepings of one of them alone, we are told, were sufficient to
fill six dung carts !—(Duntfries Paper.)

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

FOR THE SUN.

ADULTERATION.

Mu. EDITOR—This letter is written by a.
Gentleman, who was ill for ten days, and forced
to have medical advice, in consequence of drink-
sing-white wine at an inn in the country, where he
remained a week. There was not a copper uten-
sil in the kitchen of the inn, and it was-ascer-
tained .to be-sugar of lead in the white wine.
The honest innkeeper purchased this wine by
the pipe, -which he rendered clear with whites
of eggs. Wine is too bulky to be smuggled ;
but the fabrication and adulteration of wines are
carried on to a great extent, for the duty on all
wines produced to the revenue only 892,0351. in
the year 1821, which is less than the duty on
16,250 pipes of port wine, though 25,000 pipes
of port wine are annually imported. The fol-
lowing punishment for frauds on the revenue will
perhaps prevent their recurrence. The man
who smuggles teas is an honest man compared
to the man who adulterates teas. The smuggler
sells the best of every thing ; but the latter
mixes deleterious articles which undermine the
human constitution. Adulterated teas are chiefly
consumed by -the ppor, who are too ignorant to
discover the fraud. If to adulterate teas, foreign
wines, or to make foreign wines for sale, and to
adulterate porter, ale, or beer, was for the first
offence, three months solitary confinement, in
prison on bread and water only, in addition to
the present penalty ; for the second offence 13
months solitary imprisonment on bread and wa-
ter only, in addition to the present penalty ; for
the third offence to be made felony without be-
nefit of Clergy; a stop would be put to the fa-
brication and adulteration of those-articles. The
third offence never would be committed, perhaps -
not a second offence, as a check would be put to
such frauds by the first punishment. This law
in the first two offences makes the culprit drink
water in return for the poison he makes others
swallow, and cannot be considered •as severe,--
though letters, newspapers, hooks, drawings;
pencils, works of art, paper, pens, and, ink, are
included as forbidden in solitary confinement in
prison. A TRAVEL...IAR.

From the LONDON GAZETTE of Nov. 2.

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[This Gazette contains notifications from the Speaker of the
deaths of Sir J. K. Powell, late M.P. for the county of Salop;
Thos. Mackenzie, Esq., M.P. for Ross-shire; and John Henry
Smyth,. Esq-, for the University of Cambridge.
• ' BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
W. Tomlinson, Chester, wine-merchant.
BANKRUPTS.
'G. Rivers, Judd=street, Brunswick-square, cabinet-maker, to
surrender Nov. 5, 12, December 14, at the Bankrupts' Court,
Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Hall, Great James-street,
street, Bedford-row:
G. Fitze, Totness, Devonshire, grocer, Nov. 9. 23, Dec. 14,
at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors, Messrs.
Amory and Coles, Throginorton-street.
E. Radford, High Holborn, draper, Nov. 6, 16, Dec. 14, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors, Messrs.
Wird and Johnson, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
T. W.Baley, Basing-lane, wine-merchants, Nov. 9 19, Dec.
19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors,
Messrs. Amory and Coles, Throgmorton-street.
H. Bowman, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, haberdasher, Nov.
9, 16, Dec. 14, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. So-
licitor, Mr. Holt, Threadneedle-street.
DIVIDENDS.
Nov. 25, M. B. Hughes and J. Horton, Dudley, Worces.
shire, ironfounders-Nov. 25, 0. Skinner, Gorleston, Suffolk,
grocer-Dee. 10, R. H. F. Williams and M. Wilson, Liver-
pool, merchants-Nov. 30, M. B. Schlesinger, Church-court,
Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, indigo merchant-Nov. 26,
J. Travers, Lambeth, coal-merchant-Nov. 30, T. and 1).
Asquith, Bermondsey, and T. Mellish, New Kent-road, ship-
owners-Nov. 12, J. A bernethie and F. Henderson, 'Loth-
bury, merchants-Dec. 10, J. w. Major, Frome Selwood, So-.
mersetshire, clothier-Dec. 4, A. Parker, Cheltenham, builder
-Nov. 30, R. Noble, Clarke's-terrace; Cannon-street-road, mer-
chant-Nov. 23, P. Murphy, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury-sq.,
wino-merchant-Nov. 16, P., P., J. and B. Dixie, Falcon-
square, smiths-Nov. 12, C. C. Doorman, Weildose-square,
sugar-refiner-Nov. 12, T. D. Latham and J. Parry, Devon-
shire-square, merchants-Nov. 19, C. Mayor, Somerset-street,
Portman-square, carpenter-Nov. 16, C. L. Spitta, F. 'and G.
Moiling, and H. A. Spitta, Laurence Pountney-lane, mer-
chants-Nov. 16, G. Pardon, Plymouth, linen-draper-Nov.
23, J. Lutter, Windsor, oilman-Nov. 23, E. Nicoll, Hemel
Hempstead, wine merchant-Nov. 26, T. T. Gray, Wardour-
street; Soho, coal-dealer-Nov. 23, 11. It. Abbott, Throgmor.
ton-street, stock-broker-Nov. 23, J. Paradise, Newcastle-
street, Strand, jeweller-Nov. '23, J. Adcock, St. Mary Axe;
druggist-Dec. 5 T. Leigh, Manchester, plumber-Nov. 25,
W. Wild, Sheffield, merchant-Nov. 23, Wells, Dunstew,
Oxford-street, tailor-Nov. 30, T. Porthous, Wigton, Cumber-
land, dyer.

CERTIFICATES, Nov. 23.
W. Elwell, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, chymist—C.
Parker, Colchester, merchant—T. and 'l'. Gidden, Princes'-
square, St. George's in the East, curriers.
PARTNERS II IPS DISSOLVED.
G. Barlow and J. Horrocks, Over-Darwen, Lancashire,
wheel-wrights—A. Hagell and S. Roberts, bud gate-hill.,
wholesale furriers—T. Peck and T. Clark, jun., Welling-
borough, Northamptonshire, surgeons—T. and H. Ilardley,
Whitweli, Isle of Wight, maltsters—D. and S. J. Morgan,
Grafton-street, Soho, surgeons—A. and E. Beck, Great Mas.
singham, Norfolk, farmers—D. Cooks and W. Waller, Water-
lane, Lower Thames-street, lightermen—A Cochrane, R.
Scruton, A. W. Light, N. Horn, R. W. Darnell, J. Wood,
W. L. Smart, J. Dunn, W. Stobart, jun., and W. E. Coch.
rane, getton Colliery, Durham, as far as regards W. Stobart,
jun.—J. Winter and B. R. Barton, St. Martin's-lane, sawyers
—T. Elliot and D. Cannon, Crown-street, Bishopsgate-street,
mathematical instrument-makers—J. Boden, W. Morley, J.
Farey, and R. W. Grace, Milk-street, lace-manufacturers, as
far as regards J. Farey—T. Gill- and W. Thomas, London,
bankers—P. Lingham and T. Plant, Holmes-Chapel, Cheshire,
liquor-merchants--W. Wilcox and C. Davis, Bristol, ware-
house-keepers—J. Smith' and 0. Morris, Rumworth; Lanca-
shire, farmers—J. and J. B. Lobb, Southampton, woollen-
drapers—W. Price and T. E. A. Griffith, Parsonage-place,
Newington Butts, medical practitioners—R. Burton, E. Deere,
and J. Whitehead, Wood-street, Cheapside, warehousemen—
C. Williams and B. Baldwyn, Duke-street, St. James's, artists
—R. and A. Taylor, Shoe-lane, printers.

FORTY-FOUR PEOPLE ROBBED !—On the re-
turn home of several from the fair, a gang of
villains, armed with blunderbusses, pistols, and
bludgeons, attacked all they met, to the num-
ber of forty-four ! near lioathtown, County
of Meath, and plundered them of the fruits of
their day's industry. The miscreants mal-
treated many of their victims. The greatest
sufferer is Mr. BROOKS of this town from whom
they took 1421. ; one of the gang examined his
pocket-book, and returned him some memo-
randums they considered useless ; a fellow who
appeared to have a command, ordered his watch
to be restored.—(Drogheda Journal.)