The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-18 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 17.

John Barkley was indicted for bigamy. Mr.
BOLI.AND conducted the proSecution.
Mr. W. Williams, parish clerk of St. Mary, New-
ington, Surrey, proved that on the 16th December,
1824, a marriage was celebrated at the parish church,
between John Barkley and Elizabeth Comelitec,
Spinster.
Eliz. Brand, who was present at the first marriage,
proved that the prisoner was the person then married.
The Clerk of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, proved that
on the 25th of June, 1827, the prisoner wits married,
to Mary Phillips, spinster. This witness identified
both the prisoner and Mary Phillips as the persons
then married. .

Mary Phillips, cross-examined by the prisoner,
admitted she had told him that a Vestryman of the
parish where she lived had said, that if a first wife
was living in adultery, the husband had a right to
marry again.
The prisoner read a written paper, stating that his
first wife was living in adultery, and admitting that
he had contracted the two marriages. He threw
himself upon the mercy of the Court.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEPT. 17.

The Rev. Henry Morgan Say, late of Sutton
Ira Hence, heat, was brought •up this day for re-
hearing and adjudication, when his discharge was
opposed only by Mr. Cooke, on behalf of Nicholson
and others.

This. day it appeared (from the endorsement of
the schedule) that the ease was adjourned to file a
new special balance-sheet, and produce accounts
from the London Annuity Company (see his paper
of the 20th June), and from Messrs. Bowles and
Chitty, to show the sums received since the seques-
tration of his curatesltip.
Mr. Por.tocti, who held Mr. Heath's brief (the
latter gentleman being on the Continent), informed
the Court that the case would not occupy their time
long, inasmuch as the Counsel had addressed the
Court on the former hearing.
The Rev. Petitioner stated in his examination,
that he had compared his former balanee-sheet with
his latter, and he perceived that there was a differ-
ence of about 400/. Before he left Rochester be
deposited with Mr. Thomas, of that town, several
books, and chests of books, but could not say how
many. . .

Mr. CooKE said, that his only object in asking
the petitioner this question was, that his clients, as
assignees, had obtained possession of some chests.
of books, but were of opinion that they were not
all, inasmuch as some of them were not perfect:
The petitioner replied, that to the best of his re-
collection they were perfect when he left them, and
consequently there must be others.
In answer to further questions, the insolvent stated
that Messrs. Bowles and Chitty's debt was 80/. for
law charges, and 50/. money lent, which was in
favout of his draft on a French lady named Dechera.
Mr. COOKE said his clients, as assignees, wished
to get possession of his papers as early as possible;
and he hoped that he would at any time give all the
explanation in his power.
The insolvent replied, that he would always,
even at a moment's notice, give all the assistance
he could.

The CHIEF COMMISSIONER Observed, that it cer-
tainly was his duty to give every explanation he was
able. There being no case of remand made out
against the Rev. Gentleman, he was declared en-
titled to the benefit of the Act, and ordered to be
discharged forthwith.

A singular and nearly serious accident oc-
curred in this town, on the afternoon of yesterday week.
A post-chaise came down the Butter-market, and in taking
the corner adjoining the Ahheygate-street, at a sharp pace,
the pole came forcibly in contact with a pony-chaise which
stood at a door opposite, before the postilion could rein up
his horses. The back part of the pony-chaise was carried
away, leaving the seat and a man upon it uninjured.
S ufrolk Herold.

The trade of Wallachia and Moldavia, not-
withstanding that it labours under a variety of
restrictions and partial prohibitions, is one of
their most important sources of opulence. Its
details are little known, and less noticed beyond
the neighbouring countries, although they arc
by no means deserving of inattention.
Of the common productions of the soil, the
most abundant is wheat, of which the two prin-
cipalities are supposed to give an annual return
of ten millions of killows, ± although hardly
one-sixth part of their extensive and fertile plains
is cultivated, and that a certain space of this is
sown by Indian corn, barley, and hemp.
The other productions, proportionably impor-
tant in a commercial point of view, are the bees'-
wax, honey, butter, cheese, hides, timber, staves,
and ship-masts of all sizes and desciiptions ; and
an annual supply Of five hundred thousand hare
skins, six hundred thousand okes t of yellow
berries, and forty thousand kintals § of sheep's
wool.

The three last-mentioned articles are alone
perfectly free of exportation ; the remainder are
kept at the disposal of the Turkish government ;
and it is only in times of abundance, after the
usual supplies have been fixed upon for the gra-
naries and arsenal of Constantinople, that leave
can be obtained to employ in foreign trade any
portion of them. The exportation of wheat
alone is considered as under a permanent prohi-
bition ; it is not in the power of the Hospodars
to suffer any of it to be taken out of the country
on private speculation ; they must be authorised
so to do by Forman, kpermit which is never
granted to Rayahs, and very seldom to other
Europeans, as the foreign ministers accredited
at the Porte, aware of the difficulty of obtaining
it, and the value that the Ottoman government
would set in the gift of it, prefer abstaining al-
together from applications on the subject, more
especially as their success would only be profit-
, able to some individuals, without being produc-
tive of any permanent good to the trade at large.
The quality of the Wallachia!: wheat is
in-
ferior, but it is far from being bad ; that of MOI-
- davia is better, and not differing much from.the
Polish wheat. Their ordinary price stands be-
tween 2 and 21 piastres per killow. As an article
of general trade, the charges upon it from
the Danube to Constantinople, would hardly
amount to one piastre more. The Turkish go-
vernment send their own ships every year to
transport their share of it, which is each time
axed at 1,500,000 killows, as well as the other
articles necessary to their use, the quantity of
which is not fixed, though generally very con-
siderable.

The Moldavian timber is far better than that
of Wallachia ; it is of the finest oak, and per-
fectly well calculated for the construction of ves-
sels. A great number of ships in the Turkish
fleet are built of it, and fitted out ‘N ith masts and
ropes of Moldavian growth and origin. In the
two provinces, these articles are sold at the
lowest possible prices, and indeed the same thing
may be said of all the prohibited articles : which,
restricted as they are, from the monopoly arro-
gated by the Porte, have but little demand, ex-
cept for the local consumption.
The hare-skins commonly stand at 35 parasll
each, in large purchases, and the yellow-berries
may be had at 40 or 45 paras per oke. The

'l' In 1811, mineralogists were sent from St. Peters-
burgh to explore the Carpathian mines. They discovered
some large veins of gold, silver, and quicksilver : time,
however, was requisite to put the work into proper train ;
and when it offered the best prospect of success, peace was
concluded, the Russian authorities withdrew, and the mines
were filled up again, to remain in their former state.
t A killow (Constantinople measurement) is equal to an
English bushel.

One oke is equal to 2 4-r the lb. English.
§ The kintal weights 44 okes.
II 40 paras make a piastre.

Galatz is the great market for the produce of
the two principalities, and the only landing-place
for.some principal articles of importation. Hav-
ing all the resources of a seaport, it is apparently
a very flourishing town. Its market is always
well stocked with the productions of the interior.
The timber, masts, and staves are conveyed to it
along the small rivers, that come from various
parts of the country, and fall into the Danube!
nearest to it. There are public granaries for the
wheat, and a great number of large ware-houses,
belonging to private merehatits for, all articles.
It is chiefly inhabited by commercial men, who,
notwithstanding the rigour of the prohibitive
measures, often find the means of exporting some
quantity of wheat, and other contraband articles ;
but their principal trade is that Of- importation.
The town and its dependencies are governed-by
two deputies of the Prince of Moldavia, called
Percalabi. The number of the fixed inhabitants
does not exceed seven .thousand, but the great
concourse of people occasioned every year by
commercial pursuits, gives it the appearance of
being very populous, and all the bustle of a place
of great trade. The presence, in particular, of a
great number of commercial vessels, increases
considerably that appearance.
Although Galatz is the general dipot for many
goods of importation, it is not the principal mar-
ket for them : they are conveyed, to those of
Bucharest and Yassi. Coffee, sugar, pepper,
rum, lemons, oranges, and foreign wines, are the
principal articles of this description. The local
consumption of the first, in both provinces, is
calculated at 800,000 okes every year ; of the
second, 900,000 okes ; and of the third 35,000
okes ; that of the others is merely eventual.—
Their importation, however, surpasses this quan-
tity, and might be carried to a greater extent, as
the provinces of Galicia, Boukovina, Transylva-
nia, Tcmesvar, and Suvia are partly supplied
with those articles by the markets of Bucharest,
Yassi, and Galatz.

The general system of this import trade is ill
contrived, and it is subject to many income-
niencies. The purchasers have recourse to the
markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where,
of course, they buy at high prices. The goods,
which have already paid custom-house duty' in
Turkey, arc taxed with a new duty of the same
kind, of three per cent., on being landed or
brought into the principalities, as well as with
other charges of an arbitrary nature, which amount
to as much more. The latter are not, indeed,
established by the local governments, but merely
exacted by the officers, and as they are tolerated,
they become unavoidable, unless the proprietors
of the goods happen to be subjects of European
courts, and as such, receive protection and assist-
ance from the consuls residing in the country.
Wallachia and Moldavia are at present sup-
plied by Germany, with all kinds of cotton and
woollen manufactures and hardware, either by
land or by the Danube.
The plain and printed calicoes, the chintz,
glass, and earthenware, brought to their markets,
are, without exception, German ; but they are
called English, and as such sold at higher prices
than they would fetch were their origin Zdekno«'n.
The consumption of the woollen cloths is very
extensive ; that of the superfine
qualities alone
is valued at 200,0001. every year. Some French
cloths are brought into the country, but, as their
prices are considerably higher than those of Ger-
many, they do not meet with much demand.—
French cambrics and En
(dish tnuslins are always
profitable articles to speculators; and never remain
long on band. -
As furs of all kinds form a part of the national
costume,
to
the natural rigour of the climate, they arej an
article of
and are, besides, necessary, Owing
vast _tnportation. Russiasupplies the
principalities with them, and takes
prt in return
brandy and wine, and imperial ducats.
Most of the merchants carrying on trade in

* Galatz, it will be remembered, was set fire to by the
Turks when they abandoned it to the Rwsians, at the
breaking out of the present War,

_ .
We very frequently hear the inattention of the
street-keepers, and watchmen complained of in not
freeing the decent portion of the public from the
intolerable nuisance of those abandoned females that
crowd the footpaths of the Strand and elsewhere,
which they might effect by a very slight exertion of
authority; but we confess we think that the case
which we are about to mention is one of a much
more serious character, and one in the suppression
of which the public are much mere deeply inte-
rested. In the street we may get away hom the
nuisance • but in the boxes of a theatre to which
we are alluding, a modest female has not only her
eyes and her ears offended, but is actually pressetl
on 'and shouldered by the most infamous of her sex.
In theatres that admit of half prices such an evil
might naturally be expected, but, strange to tell, it
is not there that it.is most severely felt. The Eng-
lish is a model in that respect, partly
from the careful superintendence of its respectiihle
proprietors, and partly fronn the character of its en-
tertainments.ry he EllistoWs theatre also is extremely
clt
.
his
pieces
i es
arct' from
ele e heed. great good
is
suc-
ceeded to Liston, and Miss Bartolozzi to Vestris,
and which is fast sinking, in consequence of the loss
sttthetaste
of most of the artists that gave it character and
value, to a level with Richardson's caravan—that
these pests of London now pour like filth to a com-
mon sewer. That theatre, the public are /old, for-
sooth, is select ! and yet it is impossible to. stir in
any part of it=the dress circle not always excepted,
without being insulted by the contact of three or
four of those wretches. It was only a night or two
ago-whena friend, of ours was induced to take his
place in the first circle on the assurance that no ire.
proper company would be found there; and he had
not sat five minutes when a couple of disgusting
females, With rose-pink complexions and Monmouth-
street gowns, planted themselves in the box, with
their knees in the backs of the young ladies by wham
he was unluckily accompanied. On his remon-
strance with the box-keeper, he was told that they
had been let in there accidentally ! He was near
the stage, and the regular place of such personages
it seems was in- the centre boxes. The Haymarket
people, be it remarked, allow of no half price; they
must be well paid for insulting decency. We think
the best way would be for the respectable part of
the public to leave them to the company fur which
the regulations of the house and the nature of the
representations are both so excellently adapted, and
seek entertainment elsewhere.