The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-08 00:00:00

NEW YORK PAPERS.

(From the New York Evening Post of July 16.
Had the Bank consented to pursue the course which it is
mow about to take, three or four months ago ; had it never ex-
•erted itself to create pecuniary embarrassment, and to spread
panic and confusion among commercial men ; there would have
been some ground for the fulsome praises which are bestowed
on it now, for adopting a course of policy absolutely forced
mpon it by the prosperity of the country and of all surrounding
institutions. Mr. Biddle comes forward to relieve the com-
munity when they have been relieved without any assistance
from him, and do not care a fig's end for his aid. He is willing
to extend his loans when money is so plenty that merchants
can get what they please from other sources—that is to say, he
is willing to step in and share the profit of lending money,
when he finds his grand scheme of coercion wholly without
avail, and that the country prospers in spite of him.

DREADFUL RIOTS.
Saturday Morning, Two o'Clock.--July I.
The worst anticipations of the day have been realized. For
ye hours our city has been the prey of an infuriated mob, or
ether mobs, who have been carrying destruction before them
every direction. All the efforts of the watch and of the
military, as they were conducted, have not availed to stay the
work of desolation, nor scarcely to retard its progress. Pro-
bably not less than 1,000 troops have been on duty, including
two squadrons of cavalry—but so general was the impression
among the mob of the illegality of firing upon them without
the presence of the Governor, that they were rather disposed
to laugh than to tremble at their approach.
Mr. Tappan's store was attacked at half-past nine last even-
ing, by a number of boys and men, who fired volleys of stones
and broke the upper windows, but did not attempt to force
the doors.

On the first appearance of the watch they scattered, and
after standing about in squads for some time, dispersed, and
before eleven o'clock had all withdrawn to other scenes of ac-
tion. The missiles, only in one instance, were sufficiently
powerful to break the window-shutters.
Between ten and eleven a large mob assembled at Doctor
Fox's church in Laight-street, and smashed in the doors and
windows, and demolished the interior of the building. From
the church they proceeded to Charlton-street, where he re-
sides, but a strong detachment of watchmen was placed in a
line across the east end of the street, and prevented all ingress
to it. After remaining some time about Charlton-street, the
mob proceeded to Spring-street, and attacked the Rev. Mr.
Ludlow's church, the doors and windows of which they began
to batter in, when a small party of watchmen arrived and put
a momentary stop to their proceedings, and took one or two
of the ringleaders into custody. Thoir companions, however,
soon liberated them, beat the watchmen off, and maltreated
some of them. They then recommenced the work of destruc-
tion, broke in the doors, shattered the windows to atoms, and
entered the church. In a short time they broke up the inte-
rior of it, destroying whatever they could. The Session
House adjoining shared the same fate. About half-past 11
a strong detachment of cavalry and infantry arrived on the
ground, and the cavalry charged at full gallop against
the fret barrier, which gave way, and they passed on to the
second, against which several of the horses fell before they
got through it. They then cleared the middle of the street,
and the infantry took possession of the church, the interior of
which was already nearly demolished.
Between 11 and 12 o'clock, a detachment of the mob pro-
ceeded from Spring-street Church to the Rev. Mr. Ludlow's
house in Thomson-street, between Prince and Houston, broke
the windows and doors, but were prevented from going in by
the arrival of a squadron of cavalry. Mr. Ludlow and his
ftmily were out of town.
About 11 o'clock, another mob attacked St. Philip's Afri-
can Episcopal Church, in Centre-street, Rev. Peter Williams,
a coloured man, pastor, and demolished it almost entirely, in-
cluding a fine organ. The furniture they took out, and burned
it in the street.

The windows of the African Baptist Church in Anthony-
street, were broken to atoms.

The African school-house in Orange-street, which is also
used as a Methodist meeting-house was totally demolished.
About nine o'clock a detachment of the mob at the Five
Points commenced an assault upon a small wooden building in
Orange, near Bayard-street, occupied as a barber's shop, by a
coloured man, named Marsh, the front and interior of which
they soon demolished. The black intrepidly kept possession
of his premises, discharging a pistol three times at his assail-
ants, the last of which unfortunately took effect, and severely
wounded Elisha Spence in the leg, as he was passing on the
opposite side of the street, on his way home. The rioters then
joined the main body in Leonard-street. A strong body of
the watch shortly afterwards arrived at the spot, and succeeded,
with little difficulty, in putting the rioters to flight, • and dis-
persing a much more numerous body of spectators.
We learn from Newark, New Jersey, that a tumultuous
proceeding of a kindred nature with the riots in this city took
place there last evening. The Rev. Mr. Weeks; it seems, the
Pastor of the fourth Presbyterian Church, was about to
preach a sermon in favour of immediate abolition, and had
ascended the pulpit for the purpose, accompanied by a black
man. A mob, following the example of the rioters here,
broke into the church, put the congregation to flight, tore
the interior of the edifice to picces, and dashed the windows
to fragments.