The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-25 00:00:00

Total of Meal andl
Flour

1E35,627 3 21

i 20,67 2 3 19

656,300 3 12

By order of the Commissioners,
C. A. SCOVELL, Secretary.
Custom-house, London, Aug. 22, 1832.

AVARICE PUNISHED.—The immense wealth
of Mr. BOWES, father of the late Countess of STRATI!.
MORE, arose in great part from his mines in the county of
Durham. He paid in tithe to the rector of one parish an
equitable modus of 7001. per annum. The living, exch.,.
sive of this, was worth only 1001. The rector became
covetous of a larger modus, and demanded 1,0001. per
annum. Mr. Bowas desired a few (148 to consider the
(mitten In the interim he sent for his head miner, and
gave him orders to shut up the shaft then in use, and to
open one in the next parish, where there was a poor living.
He then sent word to the avaricious incumbent, that the
shaft was shut up, and should never be opened while the
living was held by him.
THE APPROACHING SESSIONS.—The West-
minster Sessions will commence on Thursday next ; the
Middlesex Sessions on Monday, the 3d September; the
Southwark Sessions on the same day ; the London Ses-
sions on Wednesday, the sth September ; and the 0:d
Bailey Sessions and the Tower Hamlets Sessions on the
following day. The calendars, we believe, are unusually
heavy.

As the watchman was crying the hour of twelve,
on Friday night, the defendant, who was moving
along rather obliquely, asked him whether he be-
longed to the Holy Roman Religion ? " No," said
the watchman, " I arn't Irish;" then said the de-
ftndant, " you ought to be totally --," and hitting
the watchman over the head, covered the poor man's
face with his hat, but without doing him any mis-
chief. The watchman, in pulling up his hat, un-
fortunately dropped his wig, which the defendant
immediately snatched up arid ran away with, disre-
garding all impediments, until he reached a post, to
which, as it would not yield to him, he was obliged
to yield; but not until he had dashed head and heels
together, right over it into the mud. Upon being
conveyed to the watch-house, he was searched, and
in his hat was found, not the watchman's wig, but
a wig of a very different form and character—what
became of the former nobody knew.
The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he
had done with the poor man's wig, the loss of which
was likely to be serious to a head on which there
appeared to be scarcely a hair.
Mr. Ryan never saw the article in question. It
could scarcely be supposed that he would contami-
nate his fingers with a filthy " Jasey." He would
just as soon take a fancy to the old man's worsted
stockings, or flannel waistcoat, as to an abominable
old wig, which might be considered a sort of refit-
giron pedicularium, or sanctuary for what the ignorant
scum of the watchhouse called " warmest."—
(Laughter.)

The watchman, in an under tone, would bet a
pot of beer that the defendant had more of the
particolarums about him than he had.
The LORD MAYOR (to the defendant)—But how
came the other wig into your possession ?—Mr.
Ryan—This wig, my Lord ? It is my own. I
occasionally wear it on account of weakness in my
eyes.

- The wig looked as if it once belonged to some
dignitary of the church or law, but it was cropped
so close behind as to form a ludicrous contrast to
the fulness of the front and sides.

" 1 don't think, Mr. Ryan" said the LORD
MAYOR, " that that wig was ever made for you.
Pray be so good as to put it on."
" I must beg your Lordship to excuse me," said
Mi. Ryan, throwing the wig over to the watchman.
" I am sorry for the accident which has happened
to this poor old man ; and though he has calumni-
ated me by saying that I unwigged him, I willingly
supply the loss he has had by giving him my wig—
pro nzalo bonnie dedi ; that is, according to the
Christian principle, I render good for evil."
The watchman loudly deplored the loss of his
own wig. It a'nt the value of it, please you, my
Lord, said he, but our Halderraan gived it to the
beadle arter he was done with it, and the beadle
he gived it to me arter he weared it for a while,
and I bin wearing of it this two year, and how can
I show myself afore his Vorship with this here rig-
marole ?

Mr. Hobler observed that it would be easy to
make it a respectable watchman's wig, by smooth-
ing it all over with a little goose-grease, of which
every watchman lie ever knew had abundance.—
(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR had hail an acquaintance
with the wig the watchman meant for the last four-
teen or fifteen years, and though it had the advan•
Cage of a few twists at the top with a curling-iron,
it always looked as if it was made of a cow's tail.—
(A loud laugh.)
A genleman suggested to the Lord Mayor that,
as in such delicate times as these certain Members
of the House of Lords might object to the theolo-
gical cut of the wig, as an endeavour to bring reli-
gion into contempt, it would be advisable to avoid
their pious indignation, by clipping it into a more
Whiggish or radical shape.
The Watchman—Piease you, my Lord, I'm
blest if I could wear that 'ere vig, without being
blowed up for it, 'cause if the mob seed me with it
on, they'd swear I was a going down for to vote
against that 'ere Reform Bill.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I'd have you accept the
offer. Indeed, I'm afraid you're an Anti-Reformer,
from vour affection to the old cow's tail.
Watchman—Please you, my Lord, I a'nt no sich
a thing; and I'm blest if I know any one as would
be that 'ere sort of an unfortunate creetur. Why,
please you, my Lord, there a'nt one on 'em as is
vorth an old vig.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Ryan prevailed upon the watchman at last
to accept the wig, upon the promise that it should
be transformed into the likeness of the lost property,
on the next day the Alderman should sit in Guildhall,
when the defendant said he would pop his head into
the Court, to get a glimpse of the original owner's
nob, and give directions accordingly.
The wig is well known in the city, and has long
passed the civic chair."

BOW-STREET.
who gave the name of Margaret Charters, was last
otIAMMING THE CHOLERA."—An Irish woman,
night charged with imposing upon the public, and
obtaining sums of money from passengers, by
" shamming" to have art attack of the cholera. The
impostress laid herself upon the foot pavement in
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields yesterday
afternoon, and screamed in a dreadful manner. Her
cries brought a crowd around her, and a policeman
came up, when she appeared to be suffering from
severe cramps in her legs and pains in her bowels.
She was conveyed to a tavern, and large quantities
of brandy were administered to her, and after drink-
ing two quarterns, she exclaimed, " By Jasus, I'm
better ; give us a drop more." The policeman,
suspecting that she was " shamming the cholera,
took her to a surgeon, who pronounced her free
from all disorder except that of intoxication. The
officer took from her the money that she had re-
ceived from persons who believed her to be affected
with the cholera, and brought her before Mr. ROE,
who sent her for fifteen days to the treadmill as a
" rogue and vagabond."
Last night Mary M.Carty, the woman charged
with killing her sister, Margaret Shields, was brought
before Mr. RoE, when Mr. Thomas, the superin-
tendant of police, produced the Coroner's warrant
for her committal to take her trial, on the finding of
a Coroner's Jury, for the manslaughter of the said
Margaret Shields,and she was committed to Newgate.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Charles Pearson was yesterday brought before
Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, by the parish
officers of Hammersmith, charged with having re-
fused to maintain his wife under rather novel cir-
cumstances. The plea set up was, that there had
been no cohabitation for nearly 18 years, and that
the wife had borne a child during this separation,
which circumstance, from a recent decision of Lord
Tenterden, that a man was not bound to support
his wife if she had been living in adultery, it was
contended, deprived her of the claim on bins for
maintenance.
The woman, on being questioned, about 20 years
ago was married at Ipswich to her husband, and
after living together for about two years, during
.vhich time she had borne one child, he one day
id her good bye, when she asked him if be in-
tended to leave her and her child destitute ; and he,