The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-27 00:00:00

THE IRISH METROPOLIS.

A Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary pre-
sents the following picture of Dublin :

The Irish metropolis now presents a capital deception
to strangers. Never were its leading streets finer, nor
its principal shops more superb. A constantly patrol-
ling police, similar to that of London, preserve order
and decorum with almost reprehensible particularity,
while the spread of teetotalism has made the apparition
of drunken folk a rarity. There are more people than
ever in the frequented ways, and some how or other,
though brilliant equipages are scarce, there is such a
throng of " covered cars," floats, carts, and other ve-
hicles, with equestrian (male and female) promenaders,
as altogether, especially at Carlisle-bridge, to give
some idea of noisy London. But, notwithstanding
this appearance, the shops are, with a faw exceptions,
literally doing nothing, though their business is, at
best, only selling British or French goods, for there
are no manufactures. Very often the most appalling
wretchedness is found close adjoining the best places,
as for instance Arran quay, whence you have to turn
up only some yards into the parallel line of Tighe and
Phoenix-streets, where the sudden contrast of low>.
someness and misery is almost incredible. Then as to
that large district, the Liberty, it is impossible to ima-
gine a more melancholy scene. Many of the houses are
in a dangerously neglected state, because the owners
have been long accustomed to get no rent, for, where
there is no property, law has neither force nor terror.
What use in ejectmcnts when solvent tenants cannot be
had to • replace the non-payers ? One meets but few
andre arypsoovleitrutydet,oao faithfullygene-
rallyndthasefewpearrseonified.
exaggeration, it
would not be be-
lieved peo
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description given of Rainsft!rd and Poole streets,
without the slightest
in London, though that city ha; its distress also.
This great section of the Irish capital contains about
sixty-five streets, lanes, alleys, and courts, and was for-
merly, which here means " before the union," the busy
seat of various manufactures, particularly weaving. But,
since that measure abolished the protecting duties, Irish
industry sank before British wealth and machinery, and
the common assertion that the Earl of Meath, who is
ground landlord of the Liberty, would derive more profit
from having it under corn or meadow, seems too well-
founded.

Besides the Liberty, there are, throughout, the city,
extensive portions in an almost equally miserable state,
but the Dubliners, who have most seeisitive pride about
their capitat,are always anxious that the passing stranger
should avoid them, and go away under the impression
of Dublin being a beautiful place. This is not sage
policy. Surely it ill accords with the strong representa-
tions, at popular meetings, of the impoverished condi-
tion of the metropolis since the " accursed" union.
But what we do, and what we ought to do, are two
different things. All great congregations of people have
their peculiar weaknesses ; and you cannot offend a
Dublin citizen more than by disparaging his city. A
sure mode for the stranger to gain favour, and to be
asked to dinner, is to extol the streets, squares, public
buildings, and quays ; and, if he affirm that London
and Paris have the advantage in size only, he may
probably get port where humble punch was before in-
tended.

The same appearance of depression is visible in the
shipping. Here are docks capable of receiving a great
number of vessels, and yet it is common to see them
with only twelve or fifteen altogether. There is indeed
a good show of steam-packets and colliers on the quays,
but take them away, and Dublin would seem to be
hardly a tenth-rate sea-port. Foreign ships arc now
rarely seen, almost everything coming in British bottoms.
Teetotalism has worked fearfully against the business
of Dublin. It was never before suspected what a great
number of persons the brewers and distillers either
directly employed, or were indirectly the means of sus-
taining. Hundreds, nay thousands, who lived com-
fortably, are now reduced to indigence. While the
moral advantages of teetotalism cannot be ques-
tioned, every one asks, what trade or business
has it served ? The demand for even common
labour has most alarmingly diminished, and there
seems to be only one perceivable commercial benefit
from the abstinence system—the increase of old clothes
shops. This is conspicuously visible to every observer.
'Whole streets arc now devoted to that purpose, inso-
much that the frontage of shops and walls occupied in
the business would certainly measure little short of two
English miles. But in that are included those marts
in the womens' line, which are sometimes truly miser-
able exhibitions. It is common to see a few rags,
apparently fit only for the paper-maker, attractively dis-
played before an empty house, a yard enclosure, or any
place wherein nails can be driven, and, in default of
such convenience, the pavement often serves for a show
shop. When one considers how trifling the profit must
necessarily be, and that a day frequently passes without
receiving a single halfpenny, is it not then a cruel libel
on the Irish poor to say that they are idle, or not in-
dustriously disposed ? The truth is that inactivity is
foreign to their nature. When they drank, they should
have been either working or drinking, and, now that
they are sober, they would walk the streets twelve
hours, for the chance of selling a shilling's worth of
some low-priced article.
A melancholy procession of unemployed working men
took place here on Thursday last. They marched three
abreast, and, though very poorly clothed, they were all
clean and orderly. Misery and privation were strongly
depicted in their countenances, and, as they preserved a
mournful silence, it was a most distressing scene for
humanity to witness. A marked dislike to the work-
houses is already manifest, and few of even the most
destitute will remain there a week. It is observed that
beggars are more numerous than ever in the streets, and
the benefits anticipated from the Poor-law are certainly
Most unpromising. The Irish are extremely averse to
confinement, and would generally prefer their liberty,
though without lodging, or any prospect of food. No-
thing could tend more to excite insurrection than a
compulsory or Vagrant Act, and yet, without it, the
Poor-law will be in a great measure inoperative, and a
profitless burden on an impoverished country.

prison .

Cumous FACT.—In the wide range of Cally
Park a spot is pointed out where stood a clump of trees
that were completely wrecked during the fearful storm of
the 7th of January, 1839. Flocks of daws built in the
said trees, so long as their branches waved buoyantly
above ; and it seemed odd to the wood forester and others
that the daws should remain in their old howf after the
trees had disappeared. Althcugh no nests met the eye,
there the daws were in full feather, as active, pert, and
cunning as ever. At length it was discovered, by sheer
accident, that their dawships now breed in the burrows of
rabbits, taking care to encamp a little on the one side, so
as to allow the original class of tenants, who, although
they eat his grass, pay no rent to the Lord of the Manor,
a free passage out and in. The rabbits, on their part, arc
equally courteous, neither breaking an egg nor molesting a
bird; and between• the two the best understanding exuts
imaginable.—Dumfrics Courier.

PENSIONS TO TIIE POLICE.—Some time since
in consequence of representations made by the police Com-
missioners at the Home Office, it was sanctioned by Go-
vernment that all members of the force who had belonged
to it a stated time, having arrived at a certain age, and
against whom no 'serious complaint existed, should be su-
perannuated on a pension granted from the police fund.
That course has recently in a few instances been acted
upon. Two inspectors have been pensioned off, each on
an allowance of 741. per annum, one or more sergeants at
361. per annum, and several privates at roportionate sums.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY -Be:4 had been informed,
through the offices of the Turkish High Court ol
Justice, of an alleged kidnapping, by Jews of a child at
Rhodes. Afterwards, I became acqua;nted with Mr.
Isaac Pincherle, of Trieste, the head of the house
Isaac Pincherle and Co., which has for ten years ranked
among the first and most respectable of the commercial
houses of Smyrna. On the .sth of July Mr. Pincherle
introduced to me the four Hebrew Deputies from
Rhodes, Messrs. Abraham Amato, Baruch Benatto,
Isaac Capclato, and Jaltia Misrachi, who have come
here in consequence of this unfortunate event. The
Deputies wished to make known to Europe the un-
worthy conduct of several Christian Consuls with re-
spect to the oppressed Jewish community in Rhodes.
The following is the statement, which I wrote down, in
the presence of two sworn interpreters, and afterwards
compared with the original complaint made to the Go-
vernment, with which I found it to correspond :
On Monday, the 18th of the month Mar (period
of the Jewish Passover), the report was circulated in
Rhodes that a Greek child, of the age of twelve or
thirteen, had been sent ky his mother to buy some
cotton-yarn, and had never returned. The mother
compla;ned of her son's disappearance to Jussuf Pacha
of Rhodes, who ordered two kavasse (gendarme police
to assist her in socking the child. Every exertion was
made to find the boy, but all in vain. Meanwhile the
Paella summoned before him the four elders of the
Jews, and ordered them to have the houses of their
people searched, as perhaps the boy might be in one of
them. At the same time it was everywhere asserted
that the Israelites must have murdered the boy. In
consequence of this report, the Pacha sent, at sunset,
a kavasse to the Jew Stambouli, with notification to come
to him immediately. When he made his appearance,
the Pacha thus addressed him :—" Attend, Stam-
bouli ! Two Greek women and a Greek priest met the
missing boy on Monday ; he was carrying in one hand
a basket with eggs, and in the other a turkey. On
their asking where he was going, be said, " Stam-
bouli, who is gone on before me, bought these things,
and I am carrying them home for him." Now,
Stambouli, tell me what you have done with the child ?"
The Jew, all astonished, replied that he knew not the boy,
nor had he ever seen him. The Pacha then ordered 500
bastinades to be given him on the soles of his feet, his
legs and arms to be afterwards tied to his back, and in
this state of torture the unfortunate man remained for
four hours. When the poor wretch, overcome with
pain, was about to give up the ghost, he muttered that
they might tell him what they wanted of him, for that
he would do anything. " You must say that you gave
the child to another Jew," was the Pacha's intimation.
On promising so to do, he was unbound and conveyed
to the Kiaja-Bey (the Lieutenant-Governor), with
whom he found the Swedish Consul Stephanak. Both
sat as judges on the examination of the delinquent, and
both said to him—" If you wish to save your life, you
must declare that you gave the boy, through another
Jew, to the English Dragoman, who has recently ar-
rived from Smyrna. Do this, and you shall not only
have a considerable sum of money, but we will also help
you to the Saraf."
Here it is proper to make the following intercalation,
as it will contribute to the better understanding of
the whole. Some time ago Mr. Davis, a Jewish mer-
chant established in London, came to Smyrna. Being
recommended to the house of Isaac Pincherle and Co.,
he did business in sponges in a short time through them
to the extent of 20,000 florins, When he had con-
cluded his transactions in Smyrna, he was desirous of
going to Rhodes, as the staple mart for sponge, and
there, with a view to the future, to establish for himself
a regular agent ois the spot. Elias Kalamai accom-
panied Mr. Davis to Rhodes in the quality of a (frame-
man, and instructed him in the sponge trade. All the
Consuls, who are for the mostpart merchants, were now
thrown into a state of alarm, from the fear that Mr.
Davis, who was known to be a rich man, would easily
draw all the business in this article to himself. The
English, Swedish, and Austrian Consuls, were more par-
ticularly violent. They first went so far as to cast
suspicion of defrauding the revenue on the house of
Davis. The English Consul Winkelson, who had
already once failed, owed again considerable sums,
chiefly to Jews, and who had had on the eve
of that day bills due, was the most outrageous.
By the conjoint contrivance of the Consuls and
the Pasha the alarming case of the murder at Damascus
was turned to account in the getting up of a charge of
an almost similar offence against the Jews of Rhodes.
It has been shown that the Jew Stambouli was compelled
to say that he had transferred the alleged stolen child to
the English dragoman lately come from Smyrna. This
was supposed to be the only and the most certain plan
for driving the Jewish house of Davis, through the
person of its agent, Elias Kalamiti, for ever from the
island.

Unfortunately for the one party, the Danish drago-
man, David Misrachi, had arrived at Rhodes only a few
days before. The tortured and half-dead Stambouli
believed that his tormentors meant this man ; as de-
sired, he put his declaration in Hebrew, the only lan-
guage ho could write, to the effect that he bad given
-the child to Lazarus Levy, a Jew, to be by him placed
in the hands of David Misrachi. On Sunday the Kiaja
Bcy and all the Consuls assembled at the residence of
the Pacha, Here the change of the name was first dis-
covered, in presence of the implicated Lazarus Levi,
by the Pacha, during the examination, putting the
following question—" Do you know, Stambouli, what
has become of the child which you gave to this man to
be delivered to the Dragoman David Misrachi ?" The
English Consul 11 inkelson immediately called Stam-
bouli to him, and in the most violent anger said,
" Wretch, what have you done? You were told to
point out the English Dragoman Kalamiti, not Miraschi,
the Danish Dragoman." It was now too late to correct
the mistake, for the Kiaja Bey, who could not read
Hebrew, had been guilty of the imprudence of allowing
several Jews to obtain a sight of Stambouli's declaration,
and the report had thus been spread not only in the
Jewish community but through the whole city. Even
the Paella himself, who was well aware that the English
Dragoman was aimed at, yet had so indistinct an idea of
his name that he believed Misrachi, as written in the de-
claration, to be the right appellation. It was therefore re-
solved that the inquisition must proeeed,and at all hazards
be brought to a close, even if the innocent should suffer by
the result. On Lazarus Levi beitr, questioned as to what
had become of the child given to'l\lisrachi, he answered
that he was totally ignorant of the matter. Stambouli was
then asked, " Is this the man to whom you delivered
the child ?" His reply was in the negative, upon which
the Paella and the English Consul could not contain
themselves. " What, have you not given in a written
declaration ?"—" Yes, it was forced from me ; for I
could no longer endure the pain of the torture." The
Pacha immeiately ordered both Levi and Stambouli
to be bastinadoed, and during the infliction of the
punishment the Danish Dragoman, David Misrachi,
was called in. On his entrance ho said—" I know
what you want. I am the father of a respectable
family, but I am a feeble old man, and cannot support
the torture. I will give you all my little property, and
besides I can offer you my wife, children, and relations,
as hostages, until you can be able to convict ma of the
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slightest-degree of participation in the alleged offence."
No answer was given to this offer, but it was followed

by the commitment of the unfortunate Dragoman to

Three other Jews, Moses Hassan, Israel Samaria,
and Bechor Pelosof, who on the day of the alleged kid-
napping had passed through the village of Trianda, on
their way to the City of Rhodes, were arrested. Like

the others they were also asked what they had done
with the child, whom, it was said, they had met on the
road between the village and the town. Great was the
astonishment of the poor men ; they protested that they
had met no boy. In return for this negative answer,
the terrible bastinado was administered, and, still refusing

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to confess,- they were sent to prison. After these three
Jews had undergone this cruel martyrdom, the Rabbi J.
Israel, and the four elders of the Jewish community, were
brought up ; on this occasion the English and Swedish
Consuls were the chief inquisitors. Theexamination began
thus :—" Confess, now, how you disposed of the Chris-
tian child, whose blood you used for your Passover
bread?" The answer by the Rabbi was, ~ We know
nothing of the child. Moreover, by none of our laws or
sacred books is such a horrible and unnatural sacrifice
prescribed as that of which it is wished to make us ap-
pear guilty. The Rabbi was proceeding further,
whenthe English Consul Winkelson thus interrupted him:—
‘, silence! we did not send for you to hear your
the
ds a
ch al
am-
justification, tell us where the child is."
On
ration being repeated that they had no knowledge what-
ever of the child, they experienced much ill treatment
from the Consuls, being driven from the chamber and
insulted with reproachful language,, as—" Away with
youdnfotrhtehseampreessenutn,dayyouevJoenwindgogthe . dogs i
Pacha, on the ap-
plication of the Consuls, ordered
lsthat
no
individual
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psuarsrsoiunnodrtohuetJ. N
Jewry in Rhodes,othing
could exceed the consterna-
tion of the unfortunate community, for the besieged
Jews, being unprepared for this act of arbitrary power,
without
eg to aan sufficient
poorerwere stock of provisions. The
starving people, feel the pangs of hunger. Subashi,
the ka
the head of vasses, taking compassion on the
purchased two baskets of bread, and
distributed among the poor imprisoned Jews. The
Christian, the Protestant English Consul, Winkelson,
on being informed of this benevolent act, treated the
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generosity of the IniinL;ll7l-a.h—oni-etan, "Subashi, as an

EVINNI ~:
NG EDITION-
, offence, and denounced him to the Paella, ivEle.4der,ies.
the compassionate Turk to be bastinadoed anitestli*azt
the service ! To fill up the measure of th ‘stilesteitie
fresh water was not to be had in the Jewish 161? --- .
titztthe only two springs there arc brackish, and sery \> ' •• '
for boiling or washing. The besieged, therefokl: 'Val
fered greatly from thirst, but all their prayers for water
were made in vain. The use of the brackish water was
followed by a burning thirst, and children and the
aged soon lay perishing in the streets and in the pas-
sages leading out through the gates of the Jewry.
On the fourth dear of this etric t bleckade a court wen
again held at the Paella's. There wero present the '
Consuls, the Mollah (the Turkish Civil Judge), and
the heads of the Moslem religion. The Rabbi, the
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four Elders, and the accusers (two Greek women and
the Papa), were introduced, but the other accused
Jews were not brought up. The Paella de-
sired the women to declare what they knew re-
specting the loss of the child. They replied
that they saw the boy go into the town with a basket
of eggs and a turkey, and that, as he had net
since been heard of; they conjecturad that the Jews
had murdered him. The Mollah ordered the gate-
keepers and the custom-hciuse officers established at
the gates to be brought in .and confronted with the
complainants. All the gatekeepers and custom-house
officers declared that they had seen no such boy, and
that consequently be had not entered by any of the
gates of the town. After this and many other centre-
dietory explanations, the Mellish and the heads of the
Mahotnetan religion declared that it by no mee.ns ~Pe
peered that the complaint could be followed up, end
that the Jews should be immediately set free and no
longer persecuted by harassing proceedings. Neverthe
less, in spite of this decision, the blockade of the
Jewry was continued, and in the mean time the Cori
sul Winkelson went to a Jew, and with the grossest
sanctimonious hypocrisy said to him—" Pray to God
to make the child ever again in Heaven and send hint
to you, for otherwise you are undone. Such a miracle
can alone save you, for you murdered the child—that
is certain."
After the Jews had been shut up in their quarter o
the town for twelve days, enduring hunger, thirst, arid
every privation, a Muhassil (Finance Director and
Intendant-General) happened to be sent from Constan-
tinople to Rhodes to be the receiver of the whole of tlie
imposts, as he had. to: pass by the blockaded Jewry,
and when he learned the ground of the measure, he told
the Paella that it was most unjust thus to punish a
whole population for the alleged guilt of perhaps only
two ; and that if the blockade was not immediately
raised, lie would send a representation on the subject
to Constantinople. This did the business, the kavasses
were withdrawn, and the half-starved inhabitants rushed
from their quarter to the fountains and the bakers' shops,
happy, after twelve days of misery, to get a morsel of
bread and a draught of water ; however, as they passed
along they were pelted with rotten lemons by the
Christians, that is, by the Greek Christians. Every one
now believed the affair ended ; but on the fifteenth day
after the raising of the blockade, the Austrian Consul
Giuliani, and the English Consul Winkelson, entered
several Jewish stores, mid told the owners that it was
disgusting to wait so long, and that if the boy was not
found by to-morrow morning, the Rabbi should be hung
up at the door of the synagogue.
Next morning, several kavasses carried the Rabb
and the four Elders before the Paella, with whom all
the Consuls had assembled. A new trial commenced,
and after the interrogatories the Pasha gave notifica-
tion that no further indulgence would he granted. The
Rabbi solemnly repeated his asseveration of the inno-
cence of himself and of the community under his charge,
and appealed to the judgment pronounced by the
Mollah. The English Consul retorted—" So ! you
still persist in your lie ! What signifies the Mollall'e
judgment to us, after what has happened at Damas-
cus, and it is proved, that according to the precepts
of the Talmud, Christian blood must be used in
making y.ur Passover bread !" The following was

the answer of the Rabbi :—" The same delusion pre
vails here as at Damascus, but since Mr.Winkclson says

that the Talmud commands us to use Christian blood in
making our Passover bread, will he be so good as to tell
me where we got that blood before any Christians ex-
isted ?" Nobody was prepared to solve this difficulty,
and, instead of a reply, the Jews were all scourged and
committed to prison in separate cells. The English
Consul urged the Pacha to apply the torture again, oh-
serving that without it no confession could be obtained
The Pacha gave his assent and ordered the Rabbi to he
suspended from the roof of one of the halls in the fol-
lowing manner :—A rope passed under the arms was
tightly entwined around the chest and over the ab-
domen, and thus attached by the rope to a hook
he was left swinging. But this was not all ; two
large chafing pans, full of burning coal were placed-
under the priest's feet. In this way he passed
the whole of the night, and on the following
day the inhuman Consuls amused themselves with the
barbarous spectacle. When the Rabhi was aware of
their presence, ho cried out—•" Giuliani, Austrian
Consul, have pity on me ; I am an Austrian subject Y'
Giuliani's heart-lacerating brutal answer was, " What,
Rabbi! what do you complain about? So you aro
not dead yet?" After the martyr had thus passed
forty-six hours swinging in the air with the dreadful
chafing pans under his feet, the blood gushed from hie
extremities ; and the priest was on the point of giving
up the ghost, without any confession being extorted by
this horrible and infamous cruelty. When the Paella
was informed of the condition of the Rabbi, he ordered
him to be taken down and returned to his prison, where
he was cast upon a heap of straw. Tile unfortunate
Danish Dragoman, David Misrachi, was brought out,
and suspended and tortured in the same manner.
Misrachi being, however, a far less vigorous man
than the priest, he was, at the end of six hours, in 3.
dying state, and yet no confession was extorted from him.
There was scarcely time to inform the Pacha of the
apparently rapidly approaching dissolution of the victim.
When taken down he was quite insensible, and in that
state was carried back to his dungeon.
Meanwhile the Grand Rabbi in Constantinople being
informed of the accusations and of the cruelties practised
on the Jer:s in Rhodes, made application to the Porte
on that subject, and claimed the benefit of the Hatti-
Seherilf.; In about a month after the totture the Rabbi
had sustained, an order was despatched by the Govern-
ment to the Pacha of Rhodes requiring him to send to
Constantinople the mother of the child, the three Greek
complainants, and four Jews, elected by that community
as deputies. Before their departure Juesuf-Pacha called
them together, and admonished them to say nothing
against him to the Sublime Porte, as the whole of his
proceedings in this deplorable affair had been dictated
by the Consuls.
Thus far you have the genuine narrative of the Jens}
corresponding in substance with the criminal complaints
preferred by their accusers. I learn that the affair ha*
been made the subject of three conferences by the Porte.
I can, in the meantime, warrant the following facts. The
dragoman and agent, Elias Kalamiti, lost no time in in-
forming his principal, Mr. Davis, in London, of the
terrible atrocities as they occurred at Rhodes. Mr.
Davis, with the most respectable Jews of London, made
a representation to the English Government, in which
the memoralists prayed for protection against the vio-
lent and arbitrary acts of the English Consul, Winkelson,
requested an investigation, but no steps will be taken
against the Consuls by their respective; Governments
until the judgment be delivered by the Porte, which I
can assure you will be entirely in favour of the Jews.

GAME.—The moors during the last few days
have produced much more plentifully than they did at the
outset; but from all we can learn, the anticipations at
abundance which were entertained six weeks since have
not been realised. Almost all the accounts agree in re-
presenting the birds to be strong and shy, and this, no
doubt, is one of the causes why they baac not been bagged
in such largo numbe ries has wont to be the case.

Yesterday afternoon, about half-past too, as a
youth aged 16, employed at the Royal Brunswick Qar-
dens, Vauxhall, was pushing off a barge from the pier,
fell into the river, and before assistance could be rendered,
although in the presence of a number of persons, he sank
to rise no more. Throughout the afternoon the drags
were employed, but the body was not found till nearly
six o'clock in the evening embedded in the mud under
the pier.

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THE GREAT -WILL CAUSE.—The great cause
Blundell v. Lord Camoys, brought to try the validity of
the will of the late Charles Blundell, Esq. of Ince, W
fixed for Monday next. The Attorney-General, Sit
John Campbell, is retained in favour of the will, and the
Solicitor- General, Sir Thomas Wilde, against it. We
believe that from the nature of the cause the defendants
will have to begin, so that we hope to give the Attorney-
General's speech in our next paper, and as the cause it
expected to last at least a week, it will probably not bo
closed much before the publication of our succeeding
number. It is expected to be a highly interesting cause,
and if it should prove so we shall give a very full and ac-
curate report of it in a supplement. The property at
stake is immensely greater than that involved in the cele-
brated Hornby will case, and it is said 'that the number
of witnesses will be as great. The question to be decided
is, whether Mr. Blundell was of sound mind at the time
when he made the will in dispute.—Liverpool Times.
From Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen.waters,
Herts, to Messrs. S. and B. Solomon', 39, Albemarle-street,
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Piccadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of England,.
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ablel have passe(
to read, &c., by candle-light with the neatest ease
n e
and comfort to myself.—Gentlemen, I return you my bed
tried ; the transparency
thanks, and remain your most obedient servant, HENRI
CowrEs.-22d of June, 1839.—1 n consequence of Mr. Bent,
Cowper receiving applications from all quarters to kn 4; who.
ther the above letter is authentic or not, he has addressed a
letter to the Standard, which was inserted in that paper
the 6th of April last, stating that it was so, and that in co
quence of his extreme age and increasing infirmity, request
he might not be troubled with any further inquiries. No con-
nection with persons of the same name.

E'i/ENING EDITION.'

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