The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-15 00:00:00

pert ; trade during that period has actually grown worse,
d nothing has been clone ! no attempt has been male
`c relieve !

"We pray you to consider how ill such poverty
brooks delay ; how many miseries and anxieties,
crowding in each successive hour, hare made
cach week an age. Some victims of our neglect
have, in that perio, found refuge in the grave. No
ministration of earthly comfort soothed their last mortal
agony the aid, for which affection yearned, a necessi-
tous poverty denied—they rest—but, to the living is left
the undying regret—that the thousand appliances which
might have restored health, or softened pain, were all
denied.

" The productions of every climate, tributary to our
industry, and plastic to our skill, fill every store with
the means of enjoyment, and yet, English poverty is as.
unequalled as English wealth.
Workmen, with large families, are receiving. from
six to eleven shillings per week, and would be able, if
they could work full time, to earn from 15s. to 30s. per
week. How these families live and pay rent can only be
answered by the poor creatures themselves. I know
they are obliged to crowd together in 'dwellings not fit
for hogs to litter in. Ilmow.places, called Chambers,
wherein different families of both sexes, and of all ages,
are compelled to pass the night at the same time. is
not this enough to make Chartists ? Is not this enough
to demoralize the people ?
"At the Board of Guardians, yesterday, a ~,'young
woman applied for relief, whose husband had been three,
weeks in prison for a debt due for provisions ; de has
nine weeks.longer to remain ; himself and his wife are
steady people ; they have two small children. The
Guardians thought the woman appeared almost lost
for want ; they alloWed her three shillings, and two
leaves, per • Week, r• for.. nine weeks=--not sufficient,
after paying for . lodgings, to:. keep body and soul
together !
.mOre COuld not be allowed to her, as levies
are so high, and many persons who. pay them stand in
need of parochial relief."

" Lase. week a young wife died in. child-birth : her
time was come, but, for want of strength, she was not
able to bring forth—a physician was called in but his
assis!ance was unavailing—he said, he had no doubt her
death was'oecaaiared by deficiency of nourishment."
Now he had been told by. a Honourable Baronet in that
House that his rents were well paid—that he had never
received them better. He (Mr. S.) said when
that he . -thought he. was a fortunate man, but
at the same - time he said that he thought
of his servants were tradesmen, they would have not
been paid, because it was only by profits that
their rents could be paid, and they were not mak-
ing any. A new satte of things had now
arisen, the people out of doors were taking a couree
of there own, they were adopting a plan which they
thought best calculated for their own interest.
He was at a town meeting some time ago, the ob-
ject of which was to petition the House of Cora-
mons- for 'a repeal of the Corn-laws, and the

ZLEFT SPEAKING.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
SPANISH SWINDLERS.
The soi-disant Marquis d'Aibora and Chevalier Joseph
Speroni, of whose condemnation by default, on the 26th
ult., by the Correctional Tribunal of Blois, we have given
an account, having moved in arrest of judgment, were
again brought before the seme tribunal on the 4th inst.,
to undergo a fall trial, and as the summary of the in-
dictment, as given by the. public prosecutor at the hear-
ing, furnished us with fuller details of the extraordinary
and eventful career of these adventurers than we were
before in possession of, we return to the subject. D'Albora
is a fine man, tall in stature, with a martial air, and a
remarkably quick and brilliant eye, He was dressed in
black, and conducted himself with confident assurance,
but without ;nsolen-e. his associate, Speroni, on the con-
trary, was the very, type of our friend Bertrand, the
humble attendant cite the notorious Robert Macaire.
Among the articles brought into court to be produced in
evidence, was a splendid unjform, richly embroidered with
silver, and a cross oPthe order of San Fernando. From
the statement. of the substitute of the Procureur du
Roi, we collect `the following facts:-D'Albora was
born at Genoa, in 1788. In 1812, he was a lieutenant in
the French interial Guard, but in that year deserted,
and was adMitted by the Junta of Cadiz as a captain in
the Arragon Hussars. Here he remained till 1814. when
he was arrested, and -confined in the castle of Badhjoz.
Being released by the amnesty of 1814, he was, in June,
1815, admitted into the King of Spain's ‘Dragoons ; but
in 1816, in consequence of his vicious conduct, he was
discharged from the regiment, and sent out of the country.
In the year 1819 he appeared in Paris, .and for the first
time assumed the title of Margins, and the military rank
of colonel. In December, 1819, he was a prisoner of
state in Ivree, and in 1823 in the fort of Saint Charles,
at Fenestrelle. Vrom 1824 to 1828 he wee travelling at.
Jerusalem, Napoli .de Romania, Alexandria, Beyruth,
Samos, and Smyrna. He pretends that during this pe-
riod he was serving under General Fabvier, but this
officer denies any knowledge of him. In 1828 he
returned to Genoa, and id December of the same year
he received a passport for America. At the
same time the Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs
wrote to his Consul at Bordeaux, warning him that
D'Albora was no marquis, but a man of bad and immo-
ral character. In 1829 he fell in at the Havannah with
Speroni, who was his fellow countryman, and was sent
by his friends out of Sardinia to save him from the con-
sequences of some political delinquency. From this
time the two have been inseparable. In March, in 1830,
they were at New Orleans, whence they went to Chiapas
in Mexico, under pretence of serving against the Spanish
expedition then in preparation. At Parisapa, being
taken for a spy in the service of Spain, he was assailed
by the populace, and so severely treated that. he lost his
right hand, which was carried in triumph through the
streets. Being rescued at last, he went to Tonald, where
he obtained letters of introduction to Santa Anna, and
went to Mexico to solicit means to go into Greece to
join, as he stated, his old companions haarms, in fighting
for her freedom. In this it appears he failed, as in
June, 1831, D'Albora and Speroni embarked at Vera
Cruz for Bordeaux, where they arrived the following
August. Here they contrived Co delude and obtain from
the Sardinian Consul a certificate that they were po-
litical refugees, and thereupon received the Government
allowance of three francs a-day. They went to reside at
Moulins, where D'Albora was admitted into the first
society, and excited great interest, by affirming that he
lost his hand in fighting for the Polish revolu-
tion. In 1832, D'Albora obtained permission to come
to Paris with his Fidus Achates, and for a time made a
great display cif fortune ; bat at length it was ascer-
tained that they lived by swindling, and in May, 1833,
they received orders to quit the capital. In July they
embarked at Calais for England. How they contrived
to live there is hut khown ; but in March, 1834, a
passport was granted to Colonel the Marquis D'Albora,
as a native of Corfu, hut a subject of Britannic
Majesty, to go to Spain through. France. They, how
et; tnbk t eiteuitetis route, and went by America.
At Philadelphia, the Sei-itiSaht Marris took the first
steps for becoming a citizen of the trilted States.
•At New York he proclaimed a resolution to go fti
Texas, and lend his aid in maintaining its indepen-
dence ; and as artful enough to obtain letters of re-
cOnthithdatinit to that ntintry from several American
Generals of celebrity and infiuetlee. D'Albofts and Speroni,
however, did not avail themselves of them ; for they stopped
at New Orleans, thence went to visit Charlestown, and
afterwards traversed the island of Porto Rico, in every
direction, In :Vovetnbet; 1830, they embarked at Cabo
Rojo j htid Oak; lh kOrOrY, 187, reached Gibraltar,
afterwards visited Cadiz and &Vine, -AM they were
again stopped. and sent back to Gibraltar. They next
made their way over to Algiers, where they at first were
welt received, and allowed rations ; but were soon de-
tected, mid iriado tiff to Toulon, and thence to Marseilles,
where D'Aletira, by assuming the character of an Ame-
prOeutted from the Consul of that country a pass-
port for Spain, 'Which enabled him and his companion to
reach Madrid. Being once more routed out, they
again went to England; At the close of 1838, being
at POrtaintintli, Captiliil Of a French chasse-marec
agreed to take them on laoliktl, And On the 2cl Ja-
nuary; 1839; the vessel was driven, by strag Wert-
aher, into a Small putt on the eoast of Finisterre. From
this moment D'Alhorit begati to ptITVrIn a new charac-
er, and declared himself to be a Spanish reltige
in the setvite of ThM OHO, and it devoted victim. to that
Prince's cause, having, he said, made grant Sacrifices to
:t of advantages arising from his birth as the sal tif it
Viceroy bf Pail, a ictiiitht of the Order of- San Fer-
nando, and other hijrl. distinctitnia, ttesmning all the
haughty demeanour .Of a Castilian grarideq and thus
presenting himself at Arethishaals'NoibieniOn 's
chateaux, and other elevated mails:Raj, 'UU feeeii,ed
urge contributions, but uniformly through the medittin
Hof his confederate Speroni, who every where appeared
as his nephaa, Thits, forbid himself installed for
weeks at a thino in the hehisea at Moriaba Often,
Dunkirk, and Lille, at which last Mee;
he found his star on the wane, as the Prefect gave
him an order to leave France. Not many months
afterwards, he made his re-appearance in Brittany,
'where he married the
.gitl Victorinea who, dazzled
by the title of Matchione4 folldnied hie fortunes
till his arrest at Blois, where, as we have stated, she
was involved in the prosecution, but, having shown that
she was an innocent dupe, was acquitted. flaying, in his
last excursion, run through Belgium, Cologne, 3.4ayence,
Manheim, Cassell, Altona, and Hanthurgh,, be once more
ye-entered 'France, and, in August last, was at Itettena
where he formed even- more brilliant Connections than
before; The Duke de CrillOtt not only supplied him with
.noncy, but permitted'him to bury in hiS Own family vault
a And, of which the unfortunate 'Victorine was delivered
at Altona. ' Many other legitimists lent their -aid to the
support of his establishment, in commisseration of his
ea:rings, as they believed, from his fidelity to his
rightful- king. At last he reached the end of his
present career. Leaving Rouen for Bordeaux, they
gassed through Paris, and arrived at Orleans,-where a col-
lection to a considerable amount was made for them on
dre faith of the letters they brought, but, on reaching
this stupendous bubble burst, and they were all
arrested as they were entering the diligence to go to
Tours. D'Albora, with his wonted assurance, maintained
as identity as marquis and colonel, and denied every
e;int that made against hiizt, but all his allegations were
insupportcd by evidence, and most of them contradicted
'my unimpeachable documents. His acts of swindling in
h,rermandy, and the other parts of France, were proved
,y personal witnesses, us well as the actual though sub-
irdinate complicity of Speroni. The Tribunal wage-
auently declared them both guilty, and condemned D'Al-
bora to be iMprisoned for tevo years, and Speroni for one.

LARGE FAILURE IN WlGA.N.—There has
deer, a stop, aZo here of the Sovereign Mills, carried on since
•ho failure of Air. • Thomas Darnell by Messrs. John Heron
and Co. A meeting of creditors is called, and proposals NVill
he macro to resume work. Their liabilities are reckoned up-
a....ds of 101,0001. • Numters of poor people arc thus thrown
ut of employment, and some banks ‘llll, it is feared, be large
•
-offerers.