The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-25 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

RICHARD ALLMAND, Wein, Shropshire, victualler.
SAMUEL BONSFIELD, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, saddler.

BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM KAYE, Chorlton-row, Manchester, joiner, to sur-
render May 10, 11, and June 5, at two. at the Palace Inn, Man-
chester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford.row,
London ; Claye and Thompson, Manchester.
GEORGE CABORN, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, inkeeper,
May 2, and June 5, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-
upon-Hull, Yorkshire. Bogue and Lambert, John-street,
Bedford-row, London; Prickett and Robinson, Hull.
EDWARD BRICE, Bristol, cabinet-maker, May 9, and
June 5, at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Corn-street, BristoL
White and Whitmore, Lincoln's-Inn, London ; Bevan and
Britian, Small-street, Bristol.
JOHN LAMB GARDNER, Little Tower-street, London,
wine-merchant, May 1, at two, and June 5, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Peile, Old Broad-street.
THOMAS GODFREY WELLS, Newpark-street, South-
wark, victualler, May 1, at twelve, and June 5, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Carter, High-street, Southwark.
WILLIAM TOWNSEND, Brighthelmstone, brewer, May
7 and June 5, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Freeman and
Bothamley, Coleman-street, London ; Benson and Freeman,
Brighthelmstone.
ILLI AM THOMAS, Park-lane, Piccadilly, livery-stable.
keeper, May 8, at eleven, and June 5, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchureh-lane ; M.Beath, Clement's Inn,
Strand.

WILLIAM GILL, Upper-street, Islington, linendraper,
May 8, at one, and June 5, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, Austin-friars; Burt, Mitre-court, :Milk-street, Cheap-
side.

RICHARD LEWIS, Portsea, timber-merchant, May 3, t.'4,
and June 5, at twelve, at the Blacksmiths' Arms, Portsea. Good-
eve, New Milman-street, Guildford.street; Andrews and Min-
chin, Portsea and Gosport.
EDWARD DAVIES, Sheffield, Yorkshire, draper, May 10,
11, and June 5, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester, Lancaster.
Mills, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Walker
and Jesse, Manchester.

JAMES MACKINTIRE and ROBERT WELSH, Cartlett,
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, coachbuilders, May 4,5, and
June 5, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Clarke,
Richards, and sledcalf, Lincoln's-inn.fields, London; Colinore,
Birmingham.

DIVIDENDS.
J. Chittenden, sen. and J. Chittenden, jun. Hay's Wharf,
Hay's-lane, Southwark, hop-merchants, May 16, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Hodgkinson and R. Dyson, George-
street, Hanover square, tailors, May 17, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy—J. Gapp, Seymour-mews, St. Mary-le-bone, job_
mater, May 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. R. de
Alzedo, Bank-buildings, merchant, May 15, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy—G. B. Taylor, Liverpool, linendraper,
May 21, at eleven, at the Clarendon Buildings, Liverpool—R.
Tarlcton, Liverpool, hat manufacturer, May 151, at one, at the
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—W. W. Smith and W. Goode,
Birmingham, bankers, May 23, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel,
Birmingham—J. C. Vickers, Leeds, Yorkshire, printer, May 18,
at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds—T. Farmer, Coventry,
saddler, May 17, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry—
E. Thompson, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, May 31, at ele.
ven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull.

CERTIFICATES, MAY 15.
T. Daliman, Old Bond-street, Piccadilly, tailor—W. Johnston,
Newcastle
-un-Tycnuellindgrafopredr—, ri'a.ryHieabonntey.,Lisneen,
v3iicrmtualnl
Farrah, Hatfield Hide, Hertfordshire, coal-merchant—J. Ward,
W. Statters, and J. Statters, Mellor, Lancashire, cotton-spinners
iFeti—amJl
sword-cutler—R. .
—J. Gale, Manchester, carver.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Robinson and G. Russell, Pancras-lane, attorneys—E. A.
Dickinson and J. Kine, Gracechurch-street, attorneys—E. Low-
man and J. Langford, Southampton, boot-makers—J. S. Hey-
wood and W. C. Harrison, Greenwich, grocers—H. Sherborn
and H. Burslem, Reading, Berkshire, linendrapers--1. Sheldon
and J. Sheldon, jun., Kettleshulme, Cheshire, cotton-spinners—
A. Wise and Co., Shaldon, Devonshire, merchants—J. James
and J. J. Ryall, Hastings, Sussex, mustsellers—J. and A. Do.
naldson, Liverpool, linendrapers—W. Gregory and E. Fallford,
Serle:s-place, Carey.street, law stationers-I'. Rowlandson sen.
and r. Rowlandson, jun., Liverpool, liquor-merchants--j. Gas'
karth and J. Hudd.estone, Kendal, Westmorland, manufacturers-
—J. Axe and P. T. Jones, Chester, coach ro'iri t —T
Myers and Co., Liverpool, publishers—J. and ITHe.H"Warnli,eitikae:rJ. dl.
Lower Tunstead, Lancashire
Ciab'ey, Bear-street, Leicesier-square, tailors—J. H. Allen and
T. Lightfoot, Coegnant, Porthcawl, and Bridgend, Glamorgan-
shire, coal merchants—E. G. Barr and J. Ellis, Bristol, saddlers
—J. Rees and Co. Margam, Glamorganshire, timber merchants
—M. Davison and G. Snowdon, Alnwick, Northumberland, gun
makers—H. Solomon and J. Dunn, Conduit street, Bond street,
dentists—H. R. Hughes and Co. Chester, bankers, as far as re.
gartis 0. Williams.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
THOMAS MACKENZIE, Dundounnell, underwriter, April
2S, May 12, at the Waterloo Tavern, Edinburgh.
HENRY MORRIS and ROBERT EWING, Glasgow, cotton.
gars-agents, April 2A, May 12, at the Waterloo Tavern, Glasgow.
SAMUEL RATHBONE and ROBERT RATHBONE,
Portobello, potters, April 27, May
.11, at the Royal Exchange
Coffeehouse, Edinburgh.

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GRAND PROCESSIONS.-It IS contempla-
tion, that immediately after the passing of the Reform
Bill, processions, upon a most magnificent scale, shall take
place at Lanark and Hamilton, upon different days ; so
that all who are willing may have an opportunity of join-
ing, in both places, if they should feel inclined. The bands
of music belonging to the different parishes, which are now
pretty general, are in daily practice. There will be such
a burst of feeling upon the occasion as never was witnessed
in the memory of min. The name of the hero of Water-
loo will be forgotten, and GREY, BROUGHAM, and Rus-
SELL, will be in every man's mouth, familiar as household
words.— Glasgow Paper.

Three volumes of Tales, illustrative of the
manners and opinions of the early ages,' by the author of
' Brambletye House,' have just been published by COL-
BURN and BENTLEY. Each of these narratives introduces
some important historic event into the usual web of ro-
mantic fiction. In the first, the scene lies in the Holy
Land, at the epoch of the destruction of Jtrusalem by
Tiros, and subsequently shifts to Pompeii. In the next,
the progress of Christianity is denoted by the fate of two
lovers, one of whom sacrifices his own passion, and the
happiness of his mistress, to the austerity of the new
faith. The third presents a picture of Germany in the
third century, and also of Persia at the same period, under
S.tros. The fourth returns to Europe, and brings us to the
times of the Council of Nice; and the fifth is laid in Bri-
tain, after its desertion by the Romans, and when the con-
quering Saxon auxiliaries of the natives had gained their
first victory over the Picts and Scots."...MorningHersrld.

(From the .7'pie Mercury.)
The differences between the coalowners and their ser-
vants, we regret to state, still exist. Since we enumerated
the collieries at which the men have been been bound, o 0
one, that at Killingworth, has been added to the list
There are yet from eight to nine thousand men remainim
unemployed. We last week had to announce as a conse
quence of so large a body of men continuing in a stated
idleness, an outrage committed by a part of them at Soutl
Shields Colliery, by which the owners suffered in their
property a loss of not less than 2001. We have now t‘,
notice a still more atrocious proceeding. A bound pitman.
who did not belong to the union, was shot on S iturday
night last at Hetton by some of the unbound men ! The
pitmen were under obligation by their bonds to quit the
houses they occupied on Thursday, the 19th of April. No
having fulfilled this part of their agreement, about twenty
families were ejected by a body of London police officers
on Saturday. To this no resistance was offered. In the
course of the evening the men assembled to a considerable
number in front of the cottages thus vacated : large fires
were kindled, and guns and pistols were discharged at in
tervals. Between eleven and twelve o'clock John Erring-
ton, a bound pitman, who lived at one end of the houses, in
passing from his o fen door to the cottage of two other bound
men, was fired at by one of the unbound men, but with-
out effect. In returning, he was again shot at by same
person in the crowd and killed ! Can the pitmen ima-
gine that they will be suffered thus to set the laws at de-
fiance, to destroy property, and commit murder ? They
firget, they will not understand, that though the pitmen
hsve rights the coalowners also have rights. They are a,
liberty to offer their labour for sale at what price they
please ; but the coalowners are at liberty to buy labour at
what price they think fit. The pitmen have no right to
say we will sell our labour for this or that sum only, and
we will compel you to buy it at that cost. That is to
exercise oppression towards the owners. Yet this ap-
pears to be the object of the pitmen. They declared
openly at their meeting, attended by 9,000 men, at the
Black Fell, on Saturday, the 14th instant, that they
would have the same terms they had last yeer. We
repeat, we know that in some instances they have re-
quired an advance on last year's terms. But were it not
so, surely if the coalowner found that by buying labour as
be had done lie lost instead of gaining money, he may at
the expiration of the bonds refuse to purchase it at the
same rate. He is not obliged to ruin himself. Both
parties, the pitmen and the coalowners,. are then free! it
is for the one to consider whether he shall sell his labour I
at the price offered for it : it is for the other to decide
whether it is his interest to give the sum demanded for it.
But the pitmen appear resolved that the coalowners shall
not exercise any such discretion. They destroy machinery
at S iuth Shields—they take away life at Hetton—they do
all in their power to effect their purpose by intimidation.
Those who are not riisposed to accept the terms offered,
deter others from accepting them. If they do not choose
to do the work at the price proposed, why do they not
quietly leave the houses which they engaged to quit
rourteen days after the expiration of their bonds, namely,
on the 19th of April, and make room for others who are
willing to accept the terms? The attempt thus to extort
whatever they think fit to demand will no longer avail them.
The owners are engaging lead miners, as they have an un-
doubted right to do, to work their coal; they will he
protected, the pitmen will be obliged to give place to them.
While it is yet time we call on them seriously to consider
the condition to which they are reducing themselves.
Fair, reasonable, adequate wages are offered to them.
Will they, by rejecting them, compel the coalowners to
employ strangers, and thus bring themselves and their
families to poverty ? Will they still continue idle, that,
goaded on by their disappointments, by their wants and by
the prospect of being rendered destitute, houseless wan-
derers, they may be led into the commission of crime after
crime? We sincerely trust, for their own sakes and for
the sake of the country, they will not : we hope they will
now, while they may, get themselves into decent employ-
ment, and despise the senseless advice held out to them by
their pretended friends to rely upon shadows, to depend
on the chance of obtaining a livelihood at collieries yet to
be opened in the north or south !
INQUEST AT HETTON.

We were anxious to give our readers an account of the
Coroner's inquest which is holding this day at Hetton on
the body of John Errington, a bound pitman, who was
shot by some of the unbound men on Saturday night. For
this purpose we sent over a reporter, but the coroner, Mr.
T. C. Maynard, refused to allow him to attend, on the
ground that the publication of the proceedings was calcu-
lated to defeat the ends of justice. We regret that this
gentleman should have proceeded to any such exercise of
authority. We deny his right to exclude the public from
his court. If Mr. Maynard had thought proper to ex-
press to the reporter his wish that nothing should be pub-
lished calculated to deprive any persons to whom suspicion
attached of a fair trial, the request would have received
from us the attention it deserved. But by excluding our
agent altogether, be deprives us of the means of giving,
and the public of receiving, any authentic account of what
occurred. Thus circumstanced, all that we have been able
to ascertain is, that the inquest was held at the house of
Mr. Joseph Elilsborrow, sign of the Board ; that the body
of the deceased was found in a gutter by Corporal Ramp-
lin, that five or six men are in custody charged with the
murder, and that the investigation is expected to occupy
two or three days.

ARLINGTON AND THE CONTRAST.--.;11C
extreme curiosity and eagerness of the public to obtain
these two new novels of Lord MULORAYE and Mr. LISTER,
which have accidentally appeared almost at the same mo-
ment, remind us of a similar feeling which was evinced
some years since, on occasion of the almost simultaneous
publication of Lady CAROLINE LAME'S " Glenarvon," and
Sir WALTER SCOTT'S " Antiquary," when the Booksellers
and the Public Libraries were beset with applications
which they had no means of sufficiently satisfying.
BALOON ASCENT.—Mr. GREEN, the cele-
brated aeronaut, ascended, with a young gentleman, yes-
terday afternoon, i❑ his balloon, from the Mermaid tavern,
Hackney. He took a south westerly direction, and in a
few minutes was lost in the clouds. In consequence of
the unsettled weather, the assemblage was not large.
BURNS'S MONUMENT.—The splendid me-
morial of Coda's Bard, erected on the Calton Hill, is in a
state of great forwardness, and little objection will now be
found to its site, except its proximity to the gas works and
iron foundry, which have such a darkening effect upon the
beautiful masonry, that it becomes quite dingy while under
the hands of the workman in proof of which we may
mention that the columns in the interior of the building
had to be cleaned after they were erected. Twelve lyres,
delicately carved, already ornament the outside, which
will be surmounted by as many lions' heads; and the in-
terstices between the windows will be filled up by pillars
of first-rate workmanship : when finished it will form one
of the most striking ornaments of the modern Athens.—
Caledonian Mercury.
JUDGE LAW.—In the trial of a gamekeeper
for shooting a poacher at the current assizes, the Judge
(VAUGHAN) observed:-_" The witnesses were living by
poaching ; but they were still entitled to the protection of
the laws they were engaged in violating." This a maxim
of law not of universal application. Very different has
been the language of other Judges. Lord ELDON, far ex-
ample, who held that in the case of the piracy of " Cain,"
and other works of Lord BYRON, the author, or his as-
signee, was entitled to no protection from the law which
he had himself violated.—New Monthly Magazine.
PROGRESS OF THE CULTIVATION OF THE
VINE EN THE CRIMEA.--A traveller who has long re-
sided in the Crimea, and has visited the greater part of
Europe, especially the wine countries, gives it as his Opi-
nion, that the trade in wine from the Crimea with Ham-
burg (where he now is) and with England, may in time
become very considerable ; the strong wines of the south
of the Crimea may be substituted for port and several
Spanish wines. The Kokour, a good table wine, peculiar
to the Crimea, may likewise meet with an extensive sale.
As a proof of the rapid progress of this branch of agricul-
ture, it is added, that in 1831 the Crimea produced
600.000 vidros (9,600,000 bottles) of wine, and that the
whole quantity has been sold. It is expected that this
year the produce will be a million of vidros. Even the
Tartars begin to cultivate the vine ; the price of land has
risen extremely, new roads are opened, the population in-
creases, and every thing in the country prospers. To give
an idea of the improvements in the Crimea, it will suffice
to say, that in those parts where traders and others could
pass only with oxen or on horseback, a kind of diligence
is about to be introduced, and will begin running in the
month of June..—Literary Gazette.

The usual loyal toasts followed, accompanied by
the National Anthem, and popular airs, ably performed
by the professional gentlemen present.
The " Memory of Shakspeare" was drank in re-
verential silence, as well as that of Cervantes, who
d,ed on the same diy, but one year later than
Shakspeare.
The " health of the Mayor" was subsequently
toasted, and the usual acknowledgments were paid
to the distinguished guests present.
On returning thanks, several able speeches were
delivered ; but the lateness of the hour, and the
mail leaving Stratford for London, precludes any
detail.

The hilarity of the evening was kept up to a late
hour. The next Triennial Festival, which it is in-
tended shall last four days, will, from present appear-
ances, be on the grandest scale.

TO the PEOPLE of BIRMINGHAM, and to the
REFORMERS IN ALL THE GREAT TOWNS.

Bolt-eoutt, Fleet-street, April 21.
FRIENDS,—Be on the alert I Look out
sharply; or you will, I am convinced, see all the
apprehensions expressed in my Register of this day
verified to the fullest extent. The following letter
has been sent to me, in consequence of the writer
having read, in my Register of this day, that I could
not help having my fears that some at least of the
Political Unions would nor, upon this occasion, act
kv, they ought to do. First read the letter, and the-i
hear, if you please, a word or two from me.

" London, April 21.
" SIR,—I quite agree with you in opinion respecting
the Ministers and the Reform Bill ; that they intend to
exclude the working people there can be very little
doubt ; but you seem to think that the ' Unions' may take
part with the Ministers; this would be very base indeed,
yet I am fearful that your opinion is hut too well founded ;
for on Wednesday afternoon, while I was in a bookseller's
shop, a gentleman came in and said to the bookseller,
Well, what think you now? You see the second reading
is carried;' to which the bookseller replied 'that he had
been so busy that he had not thought about it, but should
be glad when the Bill was carried through ;' I joined in
and said, that I was sorry to see the remarks of Lord Grey
respecting the 101. suffrage, and that I would rather the
Bill should be lost, than that the qualification should be
raised ; on which the gentleman said, ' Why, I do not
know : we ought to take as much as we can get, for it is
impossible to get the whole; and you have no idea how
difficult it is to keep the people together.' I said that I
did not think so; to which he replied, that lie knew
how difficult it was; for that he had a great deal to do
with them :' and then he said that he came from Birming-
ham. Now, if one who has so much to do with the
working people can submit to the alteration in the 101.
qualification, I fear your suspicions are but too well
founded, as I said before; yet I hope that your remarks
in this day's Register will rouse the people, and defeat all
those who would cheat them.

" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

After the Birmingham gentleman had gone out,
the bookseller told my correspondent that the name
of that gentleman was Joseph Parkes. Now, if
Mr. Parkes do not deny the truth of the statement
in this letter, or do not deny that he was the man,
then there ends my duty with regard to the matter ;
for it being notorious that Mr. Parkes has constant
intercourse with several of the Ministers, the con-
clusion to be drawn from his observations is too
evident to need pointing out; and if Mr. Parkes
do deny as aforesaid, then I am ready to give him
the name of the author, who is a gentleman on
whose veracity I most firmly rely, and who will,
if called on, certainly repeat his statement to Mr.
Parkes's face.

WILLIAM COBBETT.

ooLwicli.—The Garrison orders yeterday
gave notice that a guard of honour is to be in readiness
to attend his Majesty, who will, it is expected, be present
at the launch of the Vernon frigate, on the 30th instant—
a superb yacht, built expressly for the accommodation of
her Majesty, will be launched on the same day. The Ver-
non is pierced for sixty guns ; she is built entirely upon a
new construction, and is the largest double-bank frigate
ever built i❑ this country.
We regret to state that the mortality this
week has been very great, no less than six or seven per-
sons having died of the cholera morbus. At this season
of the year we have remarked, that this disease has been
very prevalent always in this colony. There is a very
strong astringent gum, to be plentifully had here, which
it is said is an effectual remedy; but it requires to be skil-
fully used, as its properties are very powerful ; we do not
apprehend, however, that it would be at all difficult to
ascertain the proper mode of administering it.— Western
Australian.

An inquest was held on Monday before Mr.
Gera,' on the body of Mr. ANTIIONY SIIRECK, aged 46, a
German of independent property. The deceased had been
spending the day with Mr. ORANGE BOROSCOSSI, a rela-
tive, residing at No. 16, Prince's-street, Hanover square.
He appeared in his usual good health and spirits till
towards the evening, when he suddenly became depressed,
and complained of a slight pain across the chest, which,
however, at that time, did not assume an alarming charac-
ter. He took leave of his friend shortly after supper, for
the purpose of returning to his residence in Queen-street,
Golden-square. He had not, however, been gone many
minutes before Mr. Bososcossr, who was undressing him-
self in his bedchamber, was alarmed by a succession of loud
knocks at the door, and he hastened down stairs to ascer-
tain the cause, when, upon his opening the door, the de-
ceased rushed into the passage, exclaiming, " Oh, my dear
Boaoscossr, I'm dying !" and immediately sank senseless
in his arms. Medical assistance was called in, but the
deceased was a corpse before it arrived. The jury having
beard the above statement, returned a verdict of " Died
by the visitation of God."

Mr. Deputy Hicks waited upon Mr. Alderman
Lucas yesterday, and stated that it appeared by the
report of this case in the Times, that Mr. Alderman
Copeland had suspended the watchman, recom-
mended the young woman to indict hint, and had
ordered the minutes to be enclosed to the Common
Councilmen, that the man might be discharged. He
begged to state, that the Common Council had in-
quired into the man's conduct, and were of opinion
that he had done his duty efficiently and properly,
and he was sorry to hear Mr. Alderman Copeland
was at Newmarket, and could not examine the gentle-
men now in attendance, to prove the falsehood of the
woman's story. She had sworn the affair occupi>d
but two minutes. Mr. Hoppe, of St. Paul's church-
yard, would prove the altercation continued nearly
half an hour, and Mr. Thompson, a Common
Councilman of another ward, who was aroused from
his sleep by the uproar, said he should have dis-
charged the watchman, not for taking her to the
watchhouse so soon, but for not doing it before. She
had sworn she was carried indecently on a watch-
man's back. Now the truth was, that on refusing
to walk, and lying down on the pavement, she was
carried away by tour men, two at her head and two
at her feet, holding her clothes down. It was the
opinion of those who saw her at the Compter that
she was drunk, and she was in an outrageous state
there for above an hour. He hoped the Alderman
would hear the witnesses, lest the character of the
ward authorities should suffer in the public opinion.
Mr. Teague, the governor of the Compter, spoke
as to the violence of the woman's conduct in the
prison.

The minutes of her statement having been read,
Mr. Thompson, of St. Paul's Church-yard, said
that she was a perfect virago. He never heard such
a row in his life, and, after looking through his
window some minutes,•he opened it, and ordered
the watchman to do his duty. She was immediately
taken away.
Frisby, a private watchman, corroborated Mr.
Hicks's statement.

Mr. Hoppe was about to speak, but Mr. Alder-
man LUCAS said he had heard enough to satisfy him
the watchman did not deserve the blame he had
suffered, and he would mention the facts he had
heard to Mr. Alderman Copeland at the first oppor-
tuni!y.

A boy, named Florence Donovan, was charged
with rending a number of the Poor 211; n' a Guardian,
in Newgate-street, on Monday afternoon.
Mr. Alderman LUCAS committed the prisoner for
the full term of three months.
MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Yesterday a tashionably-attired e, ell-looking young
female was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting
magistrate, and charged with having attempted to
commit suicide. A police constable of the C divi-
sion stated, that at about two o'clock that morning
he was called into a house (a common brothel, in
Whitcombe-street, Pall-mall), and upon proceeding
to an upper room he found the young woman sitting
upon a bed in a very dejected state of mind. A
Frenchman was in the room with her. Upon
inquiring for what purpose his attendance there
had been required, he was informed, that the
female and the Frenchman entered the house
at about one o'clock. The female got into
bed, and while her companion was undressing him-
self, the light went out. In about five rrunutei
afterwards he heard an extraordinary noise as if
proceeding from the throat of a person dying. He
gave an alarm, and upon lights being brought into
the room, the unhappy woman was found sus-
pended by the neck from the roof of the bed-
stead. She was instantly cut down, and with great
difficulty recovered from her death-like insensi-
bility. When called upon by Mr. CONANT to ex-
plain why she bad committed so rash an act, the
young woman stated that melancholy and despair
had driven her to it ; she had had the misfortune to
lose a very considerable sum of money, in conse-
quence of which she was reduced to the necessity
of obtaining a wretched subsistence in a manner
loathsome to her feelings.
Mr. CONANT, in a kind feeling manner, pointed
out to her the heniousness of the act she had con-
templated.

The young woman burst into tears, said the Ma-
gistrate had fully convinced her of the sin of self-
destruction, and declared that she would never again
make any attempt to deprive herself of life. Upon
►his promise Mr. CONANT ordered her to be dis-
charged.