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London, England, 1832-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1832.

NEW POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS-

HAMBURGH MAIL.

The following petition was transmitted through Sir
Francis Freeling to the Duke of Richmond, about a fort-
night since ; but his Grace, not being then in town,
named Friday, the 14th instant, at 1 o'clock, for an inter-
view wish the deputation of the Merchants :
" To his Glace the Postmaster-General.

" We, the undersigned Merchants trading to Ham-
bur:Ji, Get many, the Baltic, end North of Europe, have
observed with satisfaction, that i: is the intention of Go-
vernment to transmit the Hamburgh mail for the future
by steam, but regret that it will be only once a week,
which we conceive will be highly detrimental to the trade.
" We have hitherto had the opportunity of correspond-
ing with Hamburgh twice a week by the mail, with the
further benefit, latterly, of writing by the steam-boats at
a reduced postage.
" By the new regulation, we have no posoible mode of
holding any intercourse with Hamburg!), &c., besides the
proposed weekly mail-steamers, whereas the Dutch trade
is to tare two a week ; and our humble petition is, to be
placed on the same footing, as it is a well•known truth
that the commerce from England to Hamburgh and the
North and East of Germany is far more important than
that with Holland and the Western parts of Germany.
" The inconvenience of having only one mail a week
will be very greatly felt by the undersigned, for obvious
and various reasons, the nature of which may he more
easily explained if your Grace would he pleased to name a
time for a personal interview for that object.
" Experience has proved that the steam-boats at pre-
sent employed on the Hamburg,' station are, in the winter
months, sometimes five and six days in making the pas-
sage; and should the slightest accident befal either of
them (a circumstance not at all unlikely during the winter
season), we may be weeks without any communication
from the north of Europe; and we need only hint at the
inconvenience which would be felt in consequence by the
mercantile world.

" We trust that your Grace will take the above remarks
into your immediate consideration ; and have the honour
to remain your Grace's most obedient servants,
N. M. de Rothschild. E. Higgingbotham.
J. A. Droop. James Hill and Sons.
Cox, Heish, and Co. John Ord.
J. Barandon and Co. David Morgan.
Holford and Co, Thomas Paris.
J. L. Siordet and Co. J. Smith.
Jacob Hulle and Co. E. Parsons and Co.
J. R. Bourcard and Co. G. Matveiff:
Lobeck, Strong, and Co. John and Chas. Payne and Co.
Robinson, Brooking, and Co. Doxat and Co.
E. Von Braunschweig and Co. Warre Brothers.
B. Hebeler and Co. T. W. Smith and Co.
Trumpler and Buck. Wm. Moberly.
Charles Burgett and Co. Perkins, Schiusser, and Co.
G. M. Von Dadelsden and Co. Godefftoy and Simson.
Thos. Ashmore and Co. Rew, Prescott, and Co.
Schmacck and Co. Anthony Gibbs and Sons.
Palmer and King. !Reid, Irving, and Co.
T. H. Elmhorst. Schunck, Mylius, and Co.
G. H. Wulff: Powells, Son, and Co.
Henry Leader. Barrow, Vizier, and Co.
Wm. Leaf and Co. Hulme and Roth.
Richmond and Vagt. Charles Ogleby and Co.
David Taylor and Sons. !Scott, Garnett, and Palmer.
John Mitchell and Co. Giles, Son, and Sidgwick.
Wm. R. and C. Robinson. G. W. Rohrs and Co.
Astell,Tooke,Thornton and Co. Hays and Douglas.
Samuel Thornton and Co. IGeorge Harri,.
Cattley and Stephenson. King and Melvin.
E. H. Brandt. Richard Harris and Sons.
Garry and Curtis. ;Begbie and Young.
John Hubbard and Co. ;Richard Birkett and Sons."
Thompson, Bond, and Co. I

According to appointment, a deputation of merchants,
consisting of Mr. Jacob Hulle, Mr. Thomas Ashmore, Mr.
Frederick Strong, Mr. J. R. Bourcard (the Prussian Con-
sul), Mr. Schmaeck, and Mr. Henry Leader, proceeded
on Friday to the Post-office, where they were met by a
deputation from the " Continental Society," consisting of
Sir John Hall (the Hanoverian Consul), Mr. Jameson,
Mr. Mertens, and Mr. John Horseman, who were also
to have an interview with the Postmaster-General on
the same subject. They were admitted in one body to the
presence of the Duke of Richmond.
The interview lasted upWards of an hour, in which the
deputation complained of the many legal quibbles, mercan-
tile inconveniences, irregularities, and dangers to which the
merchants were now liable from having only one mail a
week, and prayed for the establishing a regular steam mail
to Hamburgh on the Tuesdays also; urging that they were
now worse off than ever, in being allowed to write only
once a week, and pay double the postage as hitherto by the
steamers, without the work being at all better performed,
which might be the case if the Government would put on
their own steam-boats. A document, being an extract
from a Parliamentary Paper, showing the difference of
trade in favour of Hamburgh and North of Europe, was
put into the Duke's hand, of which the following is an
extract :—.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HO USE.

On Saturday Mrs. Mahony, a gold pin-finder,
was brought up, for the tenth rime, charged with
having endeavoured to prevail upon a boy to pur-
chase a washed pin.
As the boy was walking along., she cried, " Oh,
her e's a beautiful pin !" The boy looked and saw
the beauty. " Ah, then," said Mrs. Mahony, "if
was a young man, and had a sweetheart, it's I
that would stick that beautiful pin in her; sure
some fine quality dropped it." The bey asked her
whether he had a right to half of it ? "To he
sure, my jewel," said she; " but you shall have the
whole of it for the trifle of a shilling." She had
scarcely said so when an officer took hold of her,
upon which she cried murder, and swore that all
England was in a conspiracy against her, because
she was a poor •lone Irishwoman.
The LORD MAYOR—Mrs. Mahony, I told you,
the last time I saw you, that I would tell your for-
tune the next time I should see you. Now I'll tell

you what it is—You were born to spend the whole
of next month in Bridewell.—(Laughter.) Mrs.
Mahony—Well, if God wills it, it must be so; but,
my Lord, I'm very tired, and I can't go to Bride-
well, or any where else, on my feet; they a'nt able
to carry me away from this place; so I hope you'll
order me a coach.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—If you don't choose to walk,
you shall go in a cart, or in a truck, and either of
them will shake your bones pretty well for you.—
Mrs. Mahony at length consented to walk, but
swore that the next time she would insist upon hav-
ing a coach, or she would make the Mansion-house
too hot for those in it.
UNPLEASANT INTERRUPTION AT A CONVIVIAL
PARTY.—John Barton, a poor fellow who had
been formerly in the employment of the Mint, and
carried about with him the memorial of a broken
head which he had received in a mine shaft, was
brought up on a very singular charge :—On Friday
night a party of gentlemen were regaling themselves,
over a punch-bowl of considerable dimensions, at
Tom's Coffee-house, when a gnat bustle was heard
at the door. In a moment in rushed the defendant,
almost breathless, and running towards the com-
pany, he made a spring upon their table, to their
great astonishment and terror. Although the gen-
tlemen were pretty well charged with the " super-
lative infusion" of Tom's, they started up to a
man, and took refuge in some of the other boxes, as
if it was a mad dog, instead of a poor broken-headed
min that had intruded himself amongst them.
The consternation into which these magnanimous
punch drinkers were throw❑ by the approach of
such a guest was, however, not of long duration, for
the police entered, and soon pinioned him. He had
broken the gas lamp and glasses, and done other
mischief, to the amount of fifteen shillings. The
party began, as soon as he was in safe custody, to
recover the use of their faculties, but they retired
each to his own home without replenishing the
bowl, and indeed altogether unfit for that social con-
verse which the circulation of an unalloyed glass
seldom fails to produce.
The poor man declared that it was pure fright
made him frighten ethers. He had, unfortunately,
fractured his skull, and was often ill in consequence;
and, on the night in question, he thought the whole
town was in pursuit of him, whereupon he ran into
the first house he found open, but why he jumped
upon the table he could not for the life of him tell.
The proprietor of Tom's, aware that the mischief
was unintentional, kindly made no demand, and off
the defendant walked, evidently cooled by his night's
lodging in the Compter.
G UILDHALL.

Edward Herbert, a young man residing at a cow-
keeper's in Shoe-lane, attended before Sir PRTER
LAURIE on Saturday, to answer a charge of assault-
ing John Wiseman. Mr. Clarkson, the barrister,
appeared to support the complaint.
Mr. Clarkson stated, that the complainant resides
with his father at Mile-end, and WAS married on
Tuesday last at Shoreditch to the sister of the de-
fendant. Neither of the parties were of age, but
although the marriage was celebrated without the
consent of her friends, it was not against her own
will, as there had been three publications of banns.
There was no disparity of rank between the parties,
and on Thursday last, after they had drank tea to-
gether at the house of a friend, she went or was en-

ticed to her brother's (the defendant) accompanied
by her husband. Here he was received kindly, and
treated with some gin; but when he and his wife
were about to leave, he was pushed out of doors,
and she was pushed in, the door was closed, and he
bad not seen her since.

Sir PETER LAURIE inquired the age of the wife,
and if she had property ?--The husband said she
was eighteen or nineteen years of age. She had no
property. . .

Sri PETER asked if the marriage was consum-
mated.

Husband—Yes ; I have witnesses to prove that.
(A laugh.)
An officer said he must misunderstand his Wor-

ship.
" No, I don't," said the husband.

Mrs. Cordeha Woolmer (who stared she had
been married 12 years, and had an infant in her
arms) could prove the fact.
Sir PETER LAURIE expressed his disgust that the
young man should have treated his bride with so
little decorum as to have allowed the possibility of
there being witnesses.

The husband (laughing) said it was a mistake;
be thought the door was locked.
Mrs. Woolmer (blushing) said she was the wit-
ness at the marriage.
The husband, in answer to a question from the
Magistrate, was a wheelwright, and had known the
young woman, who lived at her uncle's, in Red-
man's--row.

Sir PETER LAURIE asked why the defendant de-
tained his sister ? Defendant replied, his sister sent
him word to meet her at Mrs. Woolmer's. He
sent his wife, to whom his sister said she would not
live with the complainant, and she came away with
her, but the husband overtook her, and they all
came together to Shoe-lane, in a friendly way. He
thought they would go away together in the same
mariner, but on going towards the door the girl ob-
jected, and defendant said to her, " If thou does'rit
like to go, thou shan't go." She answered she
would not go, and he therefore pushed the husband
out, and on the following morning furnished her
with money to go where she pleased.
A young man, a surveyor, was well acquainted
with the defendant, but never saw his sister till
Thursday night, when he was called in to converse
with her about this clandestine marriage, for when
she went to the church she deluded her good-na-
tured uncle with a tale of going to buy a pair of
stockings and a milk-pan. He conversed with her
for an hour and a half. She said she was legally
married, and she knew it was a foolish thing to
leave her husband, whom she did not dislike, but
he had no home to take her to, and could not af-
ford to keep a wife, and she begged her brother to
send her to Paris. He inquired of her if the mar-
riage had been consummated; and she answered
him by asking him another question—if he would
ask her mother if she was a maid when she was
born. He told her that would be an odd question
to put; and she replied, " Well, if I was. born so,
lam so now." lie interrogated her further about
it, and she said

Sir PETER had no wish to hear any thing more
on that point, but her sudden dislike to her hus-

(PRICE 7D.)

band was extraordinary. The hu.band, perhaps,
was to blame in not having attached her to him.
Mrs. Woolmer said she was attached to him. On
the morning they were married witness said,
" Now, if you do not like him, you will not be
happy." She replied, " I shall marry the man I
love." She also told her that a very rich gewle-
man, named Eastby, a retired grazier, who was 85
years old, wanted to marry her, but she would rather
drown herself.

He takes it very merrily (said Sir PETER, look-
ing at the husband, who was laughing), perhaps
that is the best way to treat it.
The surveyor said she had soon changed her
mind ; for on Thursday she was most anxious to
escape from her husband. He brought an (Meer to
her brother's house, and she evaded the search by
staying on the roof of the house all night, and
next morning she walked off in man's apparel.—
(A laugh.)
Mr. Clarkson said, it was not a surveyor's busi-
ness to settle disputes between men and their wives.
The surveyor was called in as a friend.

Mr. Clarkson put a number of questions to sift
out whether there was not a conspiracy among the
relatiens to take the young woman away from her
husband, a humble mechanic, to throw her in the
arms of her wealthy lover. He, however, elicited
nothing to the purpose, and the Leatned Counsel
concluded with threatening to prosecute the de-
fendant for the assault, with the utmost rigour, un-
less he restored the wife to her husband before the
next sessions.

Sir P. LAURIE said, if the defendant had stolen
anything, except his wife, from the young man, he
could have taken cognizance of the charge. As the
matter stood, however, he should require the de-
fendant to find two sureties, in 501. each, for his
appearance.—The bail was immediately given.