The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

ROWLAND STEPHENSON.

Three years ago, Rowland Stephenson, the banker,
made an offer of marriage to a celebrated and most de-
servedly popular vocal performer (who still remains a me-
ritorious spinster), which the modest young lady very pro-
perly declined. The rich banker had long been her patron,
and gradually became enamoured of her person. She, •
however, with excellent judgment, .stated her objections to -
originate—first, in the dispai ity of their ages; secondly,
Mr. Stepheuson's Inge family• by a previous wife; and,
lastly, her own attachnient to her father, her sisters, and
her brother, as insuperable bar, to such a union.—Sunday
Times. -

Rowland Stephenson delighted in the society of public
men, especially in the company of actors. Mr. and Mrs.
Yates, Mr. Liston, Mr. Mathews, and Mr. Arnold, were
fox-years his occasional guests, both at his residence in
town, and his three country houses. These gentlemen .
kept their respective accounts at his banking-house : we
hope they are not material sufferers. It is, however,
rumoured that one of them will be a creditor for nearly
two thousand pounds, and another for five hundred pounds.
—Sunday Times.
The Times yesterday, speaking of Mr. Rowland Ste-
phenson, says—" Few of his private friends, of whom there
are many in the city, seem to he at all aware what his pri-
vate habits of living were; but among the servants about
his own immediate neighbourhood, it was so notorious that
he regularly kept the carriage out all night, that engage-
ments in his service have been declined on that account.—
His attendance at businetr.in the city was nevertheless tole-
rably regular ; but those who hail any to transact with
him have remarked that his manner was careless and absent, •
He appeared to have no head, nor thoroughly to under-
stand any thing that was proposed to him. Hence be got
the character of a bad banker, a man not competent to
transactions of that nature
.; but not the slightest suspicion
•
of his honour or honesty existed in any quarter."

[From some private knowledge of the person in' ques-
tiou, we can easily account for his appearing not readily to
comprehend what was proposed to him. - The truth is, his
mind was weigbed down by his dreadful situation. How
he got rid of the money he has stolen we profess ourselves
unable to account, bop we do not believe that he fre-
quented any of the west end of the town Hells. As for his
carriage being out late at night, that is accounted for by •
the fact that he was never easy unless in society, of some
kind or other. He appeared to dread returning home,, as
if he feared to be alone. He once informed the writer of
this article, that for many years he had not enjoyed two
hours connected sleep in die night—and that he was ac-
customed to get up and read, to while away the time.]....
The News.

There is a paragraph in the Journal des
Debats of Thursday, respecting the arrest of a person en-
deavouring
to find the Bilassoa, with much money on him,
powder, ball, &c. and a great knife, whose name and •
country cannot be discovered. If it was not impossible
that Mr. Stephenson could be at the Bidatisoa in time for •
such a paragraph to reach the Journal des Debate' office
on Wednesday, people would have bees disposed to suppose
this stranger to be the above•named gentleman.

The lady of a celebrated Baronet, eminent in
science, and extremely partial to good living, being told by
a very particular friend that he was sorry to see the health ,
of the Baronet in so delicate a state, replied hastily, but
feelingly, " How can any man expect to be well whodines •
three hundred and sixty-five days in the year ?"

The mail bag from Alton to Winchester, was
dropped on Tuesday morning between the above places.
On the loss being discovered, it was immediately adver-
tised, and a reward offered to the tinder. No tidings of it
were, however, received till Thursday, when it was dis-
covered, that a shoemaker of Alresford Cwe believe of the
name of Ward) had been trying to pass some of the notes
contained in the letters, the numbers of which were for-
tunately known, and payment of them stopped. The bag
contained notes to the amount of 651. with a bill at sight
on Glyn and Co. for 201. the whole of which, we hear,
has been recovered.—Hants Advertiser.

The grave-digger at Balfron lately discovered
that the grave of a man, named RlcKean, had been dis-
turbed, and on examining, the relations found the corpse
sitting, or rather leaninc, upon its elbow, half out of the
coffin. The covering of the head and face bad been re-
moved, leaving them exposed, and the neck was twisted
about. The effect upon the spectators was appalling. It
is supposed that the body was beginning to became putrid,
which had iuuced the exlininators to abandon their prey.— ..
Glasgow Chronicle.

COWES, JAN. 3.—Our noble Commodore
hoisted his broad pendant on his turrets at Apnldireombe
few days before Christmas, and immediately threw open
his doors according to the fashion of the good old English
times, when hospitality was so prominent a feature in the
national character. To give a description of his entertain..
ments would far exceed the limits of our journal, and we
must at present content ourselves with observing, that
their splendid and extensive scale is beyond what any in the
Island have before witnessed ; and althongh we have-read
of such things in times long past, and we are well aware
of the noble spirit of the wealthy Baron, we did not anti
cipate so unbounded a display of liberality, which we un-
derstand will he coutinued till the 15th inst. when his
Lordship will proceed to Liticolnabire,—,linnis Advertiser,

On Christmas murning, Mr. John Spence,
Bulkello, was presented with ten fine chickens, by one of
his hens. She had, under a bay stack, at this inclement
season, hatched her brood unknown to any one, and mada
her first appearance with them in the kitchen no the above
morning. This is the ninth time the same hftn has hatched
this season, and the produce has been one hundred and
twenty-five chickens.— Caledonian Mercury.

We
.regret extremely to learn that the Edin-
burgh Professional Society's Concerts, which have, for the
last three or four years, been carried a with egos/ plea.
sure to the public, and credit to the musicians of this me—
tropolis, are now to be discontinued in consequence of the
very discouraging state of their subscription list, and from
having lost about 2001. by their concerts last year...—
Edinburgh Advertiser.

We are told that the 1,-leeligarpe op the heath,
ip the vicinity of Pagshot-par . and the Military College,
is much destroyed, to the great regret of many gentlemen
in the neighbourhood, who have attempted to increase tha
breed. It is not, perhaps, generally known, that by the
13th Geo. 111. c. 55. persons ass prohibited from killing •
or having in use or possession, any heath fowl, commonly
called black game, between the 10th of December and the
20th of August, under a penalty of 20/. for the first
offence, and for the second and every subsequent offence
30/. ; half to the informer and half to the poor, to be re-
covered by information before one justice.—Hants 'Ad-
vertiaer.

DEATH OF STAMP SLITTONCOOKE.—Died
in the Marshalsea Prison, on Saturday week, James Stamp
Sutton Cooke, husband to the celebrated Mrs. Cooke, now
under sentence of transportation in Newgate. Cooke laid
claim to the Stafford Peerage, and served th? terionto
Sir George Jerninghani, now Lord Stafford, with eject-.
meu4, for Whick 4r Was tried at Gloucester, and received
nine months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. •
He was afterwards arrested for a small sum, which being
unable to pay, lie was obliged to go to the Marshalsea,
where he died, after a confinement of one month. The
J uodryf
andetu returned
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interredverdi on Tuesd
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" Diedby the Visitation of
G
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Church, io the Borough. _
SICKNESS IN EDINBURGH.—We have seen
a paragraph in a provincial paper, in which it is stated,
among other things, that Edinburgh is at present suffer-
ing from a sort of pestilence, and in particular that typhns
fever is raging to such an extent, that t.,e gdinbiag)i
Academy and other principal school have in consequence
been shut up. This is a ridiculous and mischievous es-
aggeration. It is no doubt true that sickness has pre-
vailed to a considerable extent, and that there have been
numerous cases of fever, chiefly among the upper classes
of society, which is a very unusual occurrence at this
season of the year ; but no school has been shut up, except
on account of the Christmas recess, and all the other state-
merits paragraph in question are either altogether.
m ts in
untrue or greatly exaggerated.,-- Caledonian Mercury.

THE WESTPORT MURDERS.--It is Dow
certain that no further proceedings
.are'to be taken against
the persons concerned either as principals or necessaries in
the late murders ; at least, we, have seen a document
issued from a high quarter, the gist and I,Jeafirq of >villa:
f.l
lead directly to this infprepee. !it the mater cannot
possibly be'allovo to rest here. The united voice of so-
ciety calls loudly for further, deeper, and fuller investiga-
tion ; and if the Public Prosecutor refuse to obey that
call, and redeem his pledge to probe and sift the whole
system of iniquity to the bottom, there is another place
where the universal cry for justice, which now rings
throughout the land, will be listened to and respected,
and where even that high functionary himself may le
called to account for the mode in which he has exercised
the almost unlitnitO, certainly undefined, powers of his
office.— Caledonian Mercury.