The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-17 00:00:00

NEWSPAPERS-BANKS.

(rams A CORIMPONDIENT.)
There :is not a daily newspaper published in all Great
Britain, out of London—nor in Ireland out of Dublin, but
one—in Cork. Thus, it would seem, that LindOn, Dublin,
and Cork, are the only cities in the empire that possess
any loCal daily source of political or mercantile intelligence.
But that Cork.should take the lead of Edinburgh, with its
ten, periodicals, and its fifteen. banking houses, is not a little
singular. The following statement will show in what ratio
.newspaper intelligence is afloat in the different principal
Cities in the empire
London Daily Morning
Daily Evening 6

Total..

Dublin Daily
Cork ditto
Total number of papers p
and towns

iblished, in the principal cities

London ..... 50
20
Edinburgh
Liverpool 6
Afaneherter ...... 6
Cork

Brlfitst
Bristol
Leeds
York
Coderbury
Chelmsford 1

Exeter . . o Galway s 3
Glasgow
Bath
After London, there are only eleven towns in Englank
that publish more than one or two papers. After Dublin,
there ary only three in Ireland—namely, Cork, Belfast,
and Galway,. that publish ,more than one or two; and,
setting aside Edinbiughand:Glasgow, there is not a single
town in Scotland that does.
England and Wales, 74 Cities and towns, publish 168 paper..
Ireland 2r,
Scotland
In 1824, the three Islands' had employed SS
banking-
houses. There are ten newspapers pu in Edin-
burgh, while it has employment for fifteen ing-houses.
Edinburgh Newspapers 10 Banking-houses ..... I 5
Glasgow
Dublin 2O .••. lO
6
How much more the Scotch are employed in accumu-
lating and storing up money, than reading the public jour-
nals ? This, it must be allowed, is not saying much for
the industry of the Irish. Liverpool has but six banks,
and Manchester the like number. Quere—Doee Edin-
burgh or Olaigo* possess a more extensive trade- than
Liverpool ?
Fashionable watering places also abound with banks.---
Bristol claims ten, Bath has five, and Brighton', as many
more: the city of Oxford also has five, one of which is
claimed solely .by the University, to deposit its learned
treasures. The Dublin University, allowed to be the
wealthiest' in Europe, has no, such establishment under,
its Wing.
* Nenz......1n the year 1824, thirty-6es Mail and stage coaches
started almost daily from London to Brighton, being about the
same number that were employed fir the entire service of Ire-
land. —.Freeman's Journal.
[The above account is full of errors. Cork tines not publish a
" Daily Paper," hut tyro papers on alternate days ; and Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and other places, publish daily papers in this Irish
Way. -:The Correspondent of the Freeman's Journal ought to
have collected more correct inforMatiori before he published his
ignorance to the world. Edinburgh has 1,2 papers • Glasgow,
six ; Nottingham, four; Birmingham, three; .Stafford, three,
&e.—but we presiime the " Correspondent" founded his calcula-
tions upon an old Almeria* and thought that by the mere dint
of genius, he could 'strike out anniethmg new to enlighten his
readers.),—En.

POETRY.

EPITAPH ON A TUFT-HUNTER.
Lament, lament, Sir Isaae Heard,
Put mourning round thy page, l)ebrett,
For here lies one who ne'er prefered .
A Viscount to a Marquis yet.
Beside him' place the Cod of Wit,
Before him Beauty's rosiest girls,
Apollo for a star he'd quit,
And Love's own sister for an Earl's.
Did niggard fate no peers afford,
He took, of courite, to peers' relations;
And, rather than not sport a lord,
Put up with ev'n the last creations.

Ev'n Irish names, could he hut tag 'em
With " Lord" and "Duke," were sweet to call ;
And, at a pinch, Lord Ballyraggum
Was better than no Lord at all

Heavtn grant him now some noble nook,
For, rest his soul, he'd rather be
Genteelly d-d beside a Duke,
Than sav'd in vulgar company.

1 PUBLIC DISTRESS.--STATE OF THE CITY OF CORK.
The condition to which the Poor of this City are reduced is at
~ .
length about to be taken into consmerattoo. At ameeting of what
is called the Relief Corninittee, held on Friday, a -Requisition to
the Mayor was originated, to call a Meeting " to take into con-
sideration the extremely 'distressed state of the poor inhabitants,
being ettarhed to the retti-
and to adoptmeasures for their prompt relief."
,Ifia Worship was
Chairman of the • Committee at the time,' and
,expresshtt hi,
willingness end anxiety to- convene tilt-meeting, ' whibli he'did
neat:three:
the
measure should have been
gone through in• a few minutes:.. and
from this circumstance, and the admission upon all *idea that tht
.imitimioanedin.,gie_tTenliihietilli.)p:innerteosinfou,aossnigd
dirtress was great, anti tl.e necessity of immediate relief urgent and
pre , .. . . ,
so tong delayed. :--Dabliit' Atli. iting Regi at,

An acedlitd, -win ich s verycircumstantial in its tie_
tails, has been transmitted to ere from a south-lvtatern County,
regarding a horrible connection stated' to exist between a • man
(whose mama is mentioned to us) and hit own daughter !--both
balongjog to the Methodist body. It appears' that..this revoltin
intercourse has had its consequences, and that
still the gcriminal
parties continue their guilty .enhabitation—and, like the Devi,
rilote scriptisre to their purpose ! When we embody this 'tate-
meat, which we have every reason to is P. etirrect One,
we would not wish it to be understood that ore mean to impugn
the morality of the Class to which these wretched persons belong.
_we will, however, adduce it, and the.argumenta ueed to mac-
tion'it,. it- another additional viroof of the lamentable and irtil
quitouseicesies, to which•modern fanaticism too frequently leads
itt rotaries..--,Duhlin' Morning Regigter.

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