The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-04 00:00:00

Si uni MAY 4,

Do. on Ilt.mburgir 36 to
Do. on Bremen ... 76i to 80
The rates of freights are, to Liverpool for cotton 3-161.
per lb.; flour and turpentine, Is. to Is. 3d. per barrel;
grain, 4d. to sd. per bushel. To London-2s. per bar-
rel for flour, and other articles in proportion. To Havre,
nominal.

NEW YORK MARKETS.--Arm 19.
FLOUR, &e.—The market for flour is dull; common
western ranges, from 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 25c., sand the
better brands of Genesee from 6 dolls. 25c. to 6 dulls.
37ic.; Georgetown, Baltimore, ke., 6 dolls. to 6 dolls.
25e. R.3e flour, 3 dolls. 50e. Corn meal, 2 dolls. 37ic.
to 2 dolls. 50c. Corn is in fitir request; 10,000 bushels
o• Jersey sold 'in lots at 52e. to 53c., and 54e. tor white.
Rye is taken by tnaltsters and distillers at 75c. to 76c.
Barley, 80e. to 90c. Northern oats are in fair request
at 47e. to 48c.

Cotton—The market has been steady this week as
regards price, but with only moderate sales; 2,800 bales
have been sold as follows :
Upland and Florida. Mo. and N Orl.
1,500 Wes. 1,300 bales.
Inferior ... ••• nominal.
Ordinary to good ordinary 4f to 5a 5k to 51
Middling togoodmiddlitig 6 to 6 6 to 6/
Middling fair to fair ... 6 to 61 4
6i to 7
Fully fair to good fair ... 7to 7f 7f to f
Fine
••• ... nominal. nominal
The sales suite the 7th instant are estimated at 7,500
bales. _ -

The exports, Sic., of cotton since the Ist of September
to the Bth instant, are as follows :
To G. B. Receipts. Stock.
Export...... 1,098,000 640.000 1.814,000 605.000
Last year... 777,000 508,000 1,401,000 565,000
period, by about 364,000
b thus far are in excess of
Year before 911,000 638.000 1,639,000 493,000
Including the excess of stock in the interior ports,
those 5 olasbatit;e,atrhueptot:o receiptsthe same
e

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—My attention having been directed to a report
of the trial of Mr. William Gun Mahon, in the Insolvent
Court, copied from the Taunton Gazette into the London
journals, I perceived with astonishment that a witness
swore, " Insolvent assured him that I had consented to
become his security in respect to the situation of landing
waiter." Knowing that the assertion, if made, was
utterly untrue, and doubting the possibility of the in-
solvent having taken such a liberty with my name, and
recollecting also that, some time since, I bad received a
strange cotnnsunication from a Mr. Hart, to whom I
sent an immediate reply, I resolved, previous to taking
any notice of the publication, to apply to Mr. Hart for
information on the subject, and, at the same time, to
request a copy of the letter I had written to him. The
result of this twofold application I now submit to your
readers. Let me observe that my note (with a copy of
which Mr. Hart has furnished me) was sent on the 2d
of March, in reply to a memorandum left that day at
my residence, stating that he was about to institute
legal proceedings against Mr. Mahon with a view to his
transportation; that he bad been robbed; that my name
and that of my Honourable Friend (Mr. T. Wyse) bad
been employed jointly to his injur); but that, under-
standing Mr. Mahon was a relative of mine, he was
desirous, before proceeding further, to see me and have
my advice. To this singular intimation, Mr. Hart, as
above mentioned, enables me to give the reply then
sent : . _ _

" House of Commons, March 2, 1848.
"The O'Gorman Mahon, in reply to Mr. Hart's com-
munication of this day, has to express his surprise at
Mr. H.'s application for advice on a subject of which the
O'Gorman Mahon is totally ignorant, and with which
he neither has nor-possibly can have any interest what-
ever. Being an utter stranger to Mr. Hart, the O'Gor-
man Mahon begs leave to say that if his name and that
of his friend Mr. T. Wyse have been combined, or used
separately, to the detriment of Mr. Hart, or any person,
such a liberty (being wholly unauthorised) merits
punishment, and, therefore, the sooner parties guilty of
such gross impropriety be brought to justice the better.
" The O'Gorman Mahon is not less incapable of lend-
ing his countenance to misconduct than he would be of
screening for one moment the delinquents, whosoever they
might happen to be."
After the transmission of this note, I heard nothing
more on the subject, until the report of the proceed-
ings in the Insolvent Court appeared in the London

jou-rnals. Mr. Hart states, in- his communication to
me, that the introduction of my name has been the
result of a mistake on the pert of the reporter or
printer; that what he swore was as follows:—" In

solvent told me (Hart) that at his (insolvent's) request,
his brother, Mr. Anthony Staughton Mahon, of No.
16. Gloucester-place, had consented to be my security
in respect to the situation of landing waiter." This is
very clear tied natural between the parties, but in all
the ;journals my name is inserted instead of that of Mr.
ciliate:ly Staughton Mahon, anti there it stands in broad
relict—rather an awkward mistake this, since it affords
ground for the suggestion that I must have had some
Knowledge of the transaction before I could have con-
sented to become security, a just so.d obvit',us interenc.,
it there existed one pUrticle ot truth in the statement as
regards me; but the reverse is the fact; yet, in conse-
quence of that stupid substitution of my name in place of
that of the insolve-nt's brother, I am made to figure in
the detail of matters of which I was totally ignorant, and
with which I had no Wore connexion than the child un

born. Further down the report states that the judge
Didparties? )(1
reply
he
of the insolvent was perfectly true. He would not pre-
wsid." tiitnurgeag..lia(utieidssstfiooir:te:h:;:e.his
lvent
ever
sume to apply to me respecting others, when to an ap-
e, askedylves(r.ll%netanhk:e—aiiilysi,o,
dpt
lication addressed to me on his own behalf, I gin',
positive negative, stating that, unless furnished with
satisfactory testimonials of altered conduct, affording
hope of enduring amendment on his par!, I could know
nothing of him. It may be said, that no intelligent
perm n could read the Judge's question and the insol-
vent's answer to it, without detecting the antecedent
mistake of the substitution of my name for that of Mr.
Anthony Staughtou Mahon; but there are thousands ut
readers who will not take the trouble of detecting a mis-
take, however palpable; and there are other thousands
who, though fully cognizant of it, will close their eyes
to the fact as long as the unexposed fiction should war
rant an insinuation detrimental to a public man, who,
however insignificant he may be, is not yet sufficiently
humble to submit tamely even to the suggestion of con-
nivance at unworthy and dishonourable practices.
I have long been impressed with a conviction that the
lenity of the judges towards swindlers rather operates
as an encouragement than a preventive to their crimes.
The poor unemi toyed wretch who, in a moment of de-
spair, commits some paltry theft, to save perhaps a wife
and children from death by starvation, is condemned to
ignominious banishment, while the dexterous trickster
at cards and dice, or the robber in ruffles, who cajoles
by false pretences the unsuspecting of the hard-earned
fruits of a life of honest industry, and brings whole tarni
lies to utter ruin, escapes with the itnpui.ity of a tew
months' confinement, to re appear again and resume his
careerlof heartlessinquity. The administration of the law
meets not the justice of the .case, nor will it until the
public press arouses the nation and its legislators to the
intensity of the wrong. The Learned Judge at Taunton
says he can hardly pity the parties who so foolishly
allowed themselves to be plundered. I can, and do pity
them. I have been myself robbed to the amount
of several thousand pounds by well-dressed swindlers,
men introduced to me as respectable, and some being
mernbers.of respectable professions. How many such
are to be found at the moment I write in this city !
Cunning to evade the law, and relying for security
against public exposure on that mistaken reluctance of
the plundered dupe to drag their inquity before the
public gaze. On the press depends the remedy for this
crying evil.
To revert to the case at Taunton. It appears in
evidence that a claim to relationship with me was ancil-
lary to the fraudulent practices of the insolvent. This
fact imposes on me the obligation of preventing, to the
utmost of my power, any recurrence of such an event,
and, however painful the duty, I must not shrink from
it ; for, after what has transpired, it would be criminal
did I not publicly announce that insolvent and his
brother, Mr. Anthony Staughten Mahon, have been for
many years past wholly alienatea from my family.
Having detected in this brotherhood a deplorable insen
sibility to the suggestions, or rather a total disregard t,o,
the obligations imposed by equity, truth, and justice, all
connexion, intercourse with, or identification in any
shape, with these indviduals, or their transactions,
has been and is utterly repudiated by your obedient
servant, THE O'GORMAN MAHON.
52, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square.

A ROYAL GRANDMOTHER.—During the troubles
in the reign of King Charles 1., a country girl came up
to London in search of a place as a servant-maid ; but
not succeeding, she applied herself to carrying out beer
from a brewhouse, and was one of those then called
tub. women. The brewer observing a well• looking girl
in this low occupation, took her into his family as a ser-
vant ; and after a while, she behaving herself with so
much prudence and decorum, he married her ; but he
died when she was yet a young woman and left her a
large fortune. The business of the brewery was
dropped, and the young woman was recommended to
Mr. Hyde, as a gentleman of skill in the law, to settle
her husband's affairs. Hyde (who was afterwards the
great Earl of Clarendon), finding the widow's fortune
very considerable, married her. Of this marriage there
was no other issue than a daughter, who was afterwards
the wife of James 11., and mother of Mary and Anne,
Queens of England—The Patrician.
NAtutow ESCAPE.--On Saturday evening last,
about five o'clock, a cat was seen to run into a drain near
Mr. Ratcliffe's mill, Oldham, when a man standing by
seat in a favourite dog after it. As the dog. did not re
turn, the man offered a lad fourpence to go in and fetch
,
him. This the boy did, but when he had gone and 'ew
steps he appears to have fallen into a lower
et him out,
hive gone on, thinking he was getting out. drain,
was found
necessary to open the drain in orderbe
.toadgbeen
.in five
%hien was not accomplished until t b
pro-
hours. Life was almost extincot,tbi! but
and'and is now in a fair
by the use of
per means, he was' partially
way 'of recovery.—Mandeestrereat
(Lord president) returned
Guardian.
Thee-Marquis of Lansdowne
to town yesterday- ' -