The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-12 00:00:00

• THE ROMANCE OF EMIGRATION.
(From the Buffalo (United States) Advertiser.)
About three weeks since a pretty and interesting
young woman, with two fine children of the ages of one
and three years, called at the office of our city clerk,
inquiring for the Mayor. That officer was absent,
but her sorrowful demeanour spoke so affectingly
in her behalf, and although evidently in humble life,
she seemed so intelligent and unassuming in her
distress, that Mr. Lacy, the clerk, was led to ask the
cause of her trouble, when she told him her brief
story. She said her husband, whose name was
Evans, left their native place; Brecknock, in Wales, a
year ago, to seek a new home for them in Ame-
rica, leaving them to follow when be should have found
the desired spot, and earned the means to enable
them to make the journey. He finally settled at Oak-
hill, Jackson County, in the southern part of the
state of Ohio, where he worked industriously at his
trade, that of a tailor, until he bad laid by 80 dollars
for the passage-money of his family. This amount
he enclosed to his wife, with directions as to the
best route to reach her destination, which would
be via Liverpool and New York. She accordingly bade
adieu to her birth place, and started on her lone and
distant voyage, cheered by the prospect of soon join-
ing her husband in their new western home. On ar-
riving at the nearest seaport on the coast she was per-
suaded by the mercenary Captain of a trading vesstl that
it would be much cheaper to go by way of Quebec, whither
he was bound, and she, therefore, took passage with him.
It was two long months before the tardy craft reached
port, and during this time, her stock having been ex-
hausted, she was compelled to purchase from the Cap-
tain, at his own rtes, a supply for the wants of
herself and her children. The extortion to which
her inexperience made her an easy prey, and
the increased expenses of the inconvenient route
she had ignorantly taken, left her without a sidling
on her arrival at Buffalo. She was still 500 miles
from her journey's end, without a friend or acquaintance,
truly a helpless stranger in a .strange land, with her
little children looking up to her for food ! The energies
of a woman's nature, 33 strikingly developed by neces-
sity, did not leave her to despair. She obtained
shelter for herself and her children in a cellar-room
in the Towbridge block, for which she had to pay
ss. a week, and succeeded in procuring a little sewing
from a clothing-shop, which barely realised as much
money as paid for their gloomy lodging and coarse
and scanty tare. She wrote a letter to her hus-
band, informing him of their arrival and destitute
situation ; but weeks wore away in cruel suspense,
while she wrote again and again ; and on the
return of each post learned with a heavy heart
that it had brought no letter for her. At length
her employer had no more work for her, and
she was obliged to pledge articles of clothing to pro-
cure necessary food. This wretched resource now
failed, several weeks' rent were due, and in her ex-
tremity she thought of applying to the Mayor for ad-
vice and relief. Tile poor woman's simple statement
touched the manly heart of Mr. Lacy. He commenced
a subscription, and Mr. Williams, a countryman, a
worthy mechanic residing here, with prompt philan-
thropy took Mes. Evans and her little ones into his house,
when a discovery that his guest was born within
half a mile of the old home he left twenty years before,
and the family histories she related, amply repaid the
kind Welchman for his hospitality. Another honest
Welchman soon cheered her with his greeting. Fifteen
dollars, the sum necessary to send her to Oak.hill, were
soon raised, and Mrs. Evans's passage was taken on board
the packet. But while hastening to redeem a shawl which,
during the preparation for the st art she recollected still lay
on the I,awnbroker's shelves, the boat cast off. Lamenting
her disappointment she turned round and her husband
stood before her. He had been in the city ten days in
search of her; had boarded at the United States
Hotel, just over the low and squalid apartment in
which his little family were staying—he comfortably
lodged, and living upon the luxuries of a well-served
tabl., while they were famisking only a few Let distant.
It was a joyful meeting ; the dollars were returned to
the good subscribers, and the reunited and happy
family took boat the next day for their western home.

PAUPER RIOT.—On Tuesday, about forty of
the inmates of the Worcester Union Workhouse, being
refused a Christmas holiday, made their escape by
scaling the wall of the building. At night they returned,
but admission was refused to them except they pro-
duced a relieving officer's order. This led to cansider-
able tumult, which was only suppresSed by the police.
The next morning the disturbance was renewed, -and
about twenty of the most noisy were apprehended. Of
these, five or, six of the ringleaders were sent to-the
treadmill by the Magistrates.—Bristol Mirror.
GOOD 'A DvrcE=ln a letter, written by Sarah
-Duchess of Marlborough,- dated August 16, 1740; in'
favour of two Members for Reading, her Grace says'!_
",Nothing but a good Parliament can save Englind,nea-t:
Session; they are both very honest men, an:l will neter
give a vote to a plaeeman or-a pensioner." .Winild that'
there were '.t. few more such men in Parliament at,the
present time, when " a good Parliament" would do im-
mense service, if not" save England next Session."

,•
In the play. of Brutus, at the Chatham, during
a speech of Scott's there is a thunderstorm, and the
lightning knocks down a statue. Scott, was doing his
lest—the 14.r,htni- flashed, the thunders rolled, and the

st ..110 ,gs .tea, site inutiocr., V.,Vu, ...-
statue sat fast on the horse. " Down with it!" raid
Scott, in the
.pauses of his speech—" down with it, it
must come down." But it wouldn't, nor didn't, till the
storm was over.—New York Herd!.
ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.—
A general meeting of the members of the above charity
was held on Monday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, to receive the report, and to elect 30 children as
inmates of the Asylum, from a list :of 72 candidates.
Alderman Gibbs, one of the Vice-Presidents, was voted
Chairman. The Secretary read the Report. It appeared
that the Society had already been the means of giving, in
the establishment in the lient road, instruction to up-
wards. of 1,800 children, who, without the assistance of
that particular charity, must have remained usekss and
burthensome to themselves, to their friends, and to their
country. The greater number were now, through the in-
strumentality of the Association, enabled to par-
ticipate in the general intellectual advantages of
mankind, to communicate their thoughts as social
and . intelligent members of the community ;
to
understand what was written and expresSed by
those with whom they associated, and to read the ,
Scriptures. The annual -subscriptions from members
amounted to 2,3771. Os. 6d., the life subscriptions to
4361. 175., which with the dividend on stock, legafies,
the balance from the last year, tic., made the receipts
amount to 11,576/. 7s. 6d. The board and tuition of two
hundred and seventy-two children was 3,891/. 19s. 3d. ;
and the entire expenditure left a balance of 8021. 4s. 9d.
in the hands of the banker. The report was adopted,
after which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester was appointed Patroness, and the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Marquis of Bristol, the Earl of Zetland,
Lord Viscount SidinoUth, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Rolle,
Lord Bexley, Sir Wm. Ashburnham, Bart.,_ and nine
others, were re-elected Vice-Presidents. The meeting
next proceeded with the election of children as inmates,
and at three o'clock the thirty successful candidates were
announced. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and
the meeting broke up.
DISTRESS IN TIIE METROPOLIS _lt is
melancholy circumstance that. the number of applica-
tions for relief at the principal charitable institutions of
the metropolis has been much greater this season than
the last, notwithstanding
.its less severity. to Sun-
day night the number or-applications from persons who
were completely destitute, at the Refuge for
~thie Ilohpe
less, in Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-streettyvt A,76?;,
being 457 more than during the corresponding nulailier'
of nights last year. On the' first night of last "yetii;the
number admitted was 40, whilst. on the first of the pre-
sent season they were 112._
,The- nightly average it tun-
ber of inmates has been about 360, and on the -last day,
of the year they were' 391. The great majorifittifathd
applicants are strangers to - London, having no' 'claim.
upon any parish, and. each in9iate receives. a ration of
half a pound of bread night and morning. At the West-
ern Refuge for the HonseleSs, in Market-street; Edisi:are-
road, where admission is. obtained :milk. by tickets :from
subscribers, the -slumber of ayplicant4, has: beam much
more numerous than in previous -years, and although
nightly accominodation is only provided for 100, on one
nighthist week no less than 136 were admitted. The ac-
commodation-here is of a superior order, as straw beds
with a blanket and two rugs are provided for the inmates
who are admitted, two to each bed. Each evening they
are supplied with bread -and soup, and in the morning
with bread and The applications at the Destitute
Sailors' Asylum,
..Doek-street, Wellclose-square, the
other remaining institution for the reception of the house-
less, have been less this season than for some years past,
un account of the great demand for seamen for the navy
nd commercial service.
A report is current in the Ministerial circles,"
says the Courrier Francais, " that General de Rumigny
is about to return from-Algiers. It appears that General
Bugeaud persists in his resolution not to leave Algeria
at present without an express order from the Minister of
'War to return to France. Placed between the ridicule
of recalling General de Rumigny, and- the more serious
inconvenience of driving a man of General Bugeaud's
character to some disagreeable demonstration, the Mi-
nistry has determined to leave at his post, until further
orders, the present Governor of our African provinces,
reserving the power of replacing hereafter the man of
the army by the man of the Court."
Yesterday morning, two large iron boats, each
drawn by twenty horses, proceeded from the Padding-
ton Basin, -forcing the ice along the Regent's Canal to
the City basin, and were- followed by several barges
laden with goOds to Messrs. Pickford's warehouses.

A most unfortunate occurrence took place at
Coimbra on the 26th of December. A student of the
University named Lobo headed a party of the
scholars in one of those freaks which at that period
of the year are customary, amongst mad-cap students in
every country. The military were called out (unne-
cessarily, as I am informed) to quell the disturbance ;
but realized the proverb of " catching a Tartar," having
been immediately disarmed by Lobo's party. Shortly
after, Lobo and his friends volunteered to fraternise
with the soldiery, and generously gave them back
their arms • whereupon these bloodthirsty scoundrels,
with true Portuguese: valour, discharged their pieces on
the body of students, and shot poor Lobo dead on
the spot. This young man was of good property, and
well connected, and the disastrous event has caused gene-
ral lamentation ; but, as they manage these matters in
this country, it is perfectly manifest that the perpetra-
tors of this act rascally cowardice will never be called
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