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The Times, 1824-09-14T00:00:00

The circumstaneces' connected with the suispensRion ofI paymntsby*thebankng-bus ofMarsh5 Stracey, Faunt.. Iea:oy, and raham, 'of, were thiasubject of ver geier.l boveratin ytteda in thle city. From tie. statreo th inormtio cicltedoni the subject, it would be hiighly indlecorous, without proper proofs, to give oubli-f city to themn. The necessity of' suspending paymenits by the firm in question was publicly announced yesterday mnorning by the following notice : " e ver "Berners.street, 8atuxrday night, Sept.' it, 182-4. h"uThe very unexpected.situation in which we sudidenily findo our Ios tpae by the extraordinary condluct of our partner, Mlr. Pauntleroy, has determined us for the present to suspend( our pay- mnenits, tas most just and becoming to ouir ,friend(s in general. NVI. MIARSH. "J. H. STRACEY. G. H. GRAhIAM. A letter was receivedI yesterday from the Aents to Lloyd's at Sinvrna, dated the 2dI of Auguist, which status that the city aiid -neighbouirinig villages had been frequently alarmedI during thiree wveeks by the constant passage of(i Tutrkishi troops towards ScalaNuova,collected fromn all parts i of the country. Thiey are dlescribedi chiefly as an undi(is- ciplinedI rabble, whoi, in the villages, hiad brokein into Greek houises octcasionally, in seeking for lodgings ant,I l,rovisions, anet had also assassinatedl teni or twelve Greeks in the town andI viciinity of Smyrna ; but neither hiad any robberies of money or goodis fromn mercantile travellers ~taken 'pface. nor had Europe-ans or their houses in the country sufflered. Smyrnia had been per-fectly quiet for th'-e last teni dlays, the Pacha having forbidtden the entrance of an more of these mnen, whom he could scarcely expect to con trol by hiis police. Upwards of 60,000 were at Scala- N'uova,waiting'folr the Captain Pacha's fleet to carry tlhei- againist Samos. He was still at MNitylene. The GreeksI are sairl to hiave about .5O armedl vessels in the Archipelago, employed in watchzing the Turks. Yesterday the dcspatcbes, for Bombay, by.the ship Flo- Irenfiit, were close'd at the East Indlia House, and delivered to the: tmaster of-that ship. By the '1'ldlota.re, ar-rived from Java, we hiave letters datd Ari 10atwhih imeth Brtih nterchant., Mr. Thomn"t,m was tiltin ustoy ofthepiraes, y wom he had beeni colnveyed t-o Boreo i epecatonofa lrgr anom. As no direct cominum-: ratin ha licn mde b tht getlean, his friends end( relations arcignran ofthetretmet wichhe receives. The P'bilotuaxe was oarertoffthe~1ret IdiaIslndsby a privateer, profesging to be from Buenos A vree, anti pluinded of a considerable quantit% of coffee andl pepper.-Gkb 01,uytl Traveller. The Active, whose arrival at IPlymouth from Cape Coast has been already mentionied, hiad on board thiree -ladies, the widows of officers killed in action with the Ashiaratees. The enemyv hid aot, at the time of her dlepartuire, approached necarer to the C3astle. than the distance of seven miiles, but their adlvance was expected every hour. It is said that onlv seven or eightof thcchI, lianson thie (lovernment establishen srv'ived the effects of the climiate and the fatigues of the military duities tlaev hail undergone as volunteers. Provisions were so scarce, that thou]gh the Artive was engaged at a premim of1401.per ontho prcur food, &c., she wvas coim- pel~d toleav, an mak herway o Egland in the greatest dlistress. The 'rrkey ail o yestrday iorning britigs accounts fromContaninole f te 1th lt.They f'itroish no news from Smyra; iledate ar tothe th f Agus. The accumiulationi of' troopts in tanegbuhood, for the atckon the islandI of'Samos, was very gratv Te romiise of pluLnder appears to have a great effect on ths babras. Some letters state the numbiers at 70,000. Tw'io or three inurdlers hadl taken place, and five or six hiouses had beea sacked, but the interference of time Pacha-hadf prevented itretler excesses in the city. In the neighibouring villages, however, tite scene of pillage and inurderi.s seporte(to be indescribable. The at. tutck on Samnos was expected ro take place wvithin a week fromi the 4th of Aujgust. NWe hear that some dlisturbances hiave taken place at Cobourg. The public have long since entertained a very bad opi- nion of one of the Duke's fav-ourites, a Pole by birth ; and at last they lhave considered this man as the chief cauise of serious dlifferenices between the Prince and hi'i consort (a Princess of Saxe Gotha.) In ecrnqequence of thesec diffitrences, the Princess went to ati estate in the neighbourhood. These circumstances- were scarcely known, wvhen the mass of the people took a derided part in favour of ithe Princess, who is universally beloved. They repaired in a crowd to the abore-nmentioned estate, took out the hiorses from the &cerriage, whiich was ready -to proceed further, and broughit the carrtage, with thie Duchess in it, in tri'tmph back to the capital. Trhey thecn forced entrance into thie Prince's palace, whither the favourite had retreatedl. and demanded bothi that proper satilti.ction should be matte to the Princes, and that the favourite shiould be givetn up. It is reported that the Duke hiimself wats so) pressed on by the crowd, thiat hie wits obliged to take hiolrt of one of the lea-ders to mnake way throuigh them. It is addled, that the military showed no great zeal io di~,- pursinig the trow(i and that in the endl tranquitlitsy was restore(t t y siome miembers of the Assembly of thie States and some magis~trates who caine up in time. 'What hiappened is not stared but it is, I affirmed the affair will be laid before ttte Diet.-&t'ssel. 1vnier. A heavy failure is statedI to hiave taken place last we(-k i aclhester, whtich is expectedI to insvolve othiers. andwlltrs somire liutiitreds of persons out of ernployment.-NciccasleCie ,ticle. Wilkie is now in Edinburighi for the, purpoeo nkn sdisfor the picture ortdered from thtu by fi ~aet.T, subjecct is the King's arrival at the palace of 1-olyrnod, with hi~ vortrge. (From a Corresporident.)-The funeral procession of A titlrew Lawvrie,EsB.,late of Sydenham ,Kent, and of tuec Ad(ehphii, a gentleman uinIversally respected, mIoved yesterda f'ront hins rest- dtence at Sydenhamn, andi proceedted to St. Liiartin's Church, where lie was interred in liis fatinl v vault. Among the mourners were, M1r. John Lawvrie, General Sir Allan Canieron, Sir Courtt TIrotter, Part., - Small, Esq., --Smnith, Esq., - Blatartd, Bsq., - Le-e, Esq., J. Carden, Esq., Dr. MN'Kinnion, and Sir RichardI Birnie. NoRWICHI SsEIsmIsF's ELECT'otto.-MN-r. C. TFurner. thie Mlavor of thieCatle Club, called acorporation, andlMr. AldermanI Springfieldh, were the persona proposed for the Freemnan's Sheriff. andthereslt asproved favourable to the party of' the formier-thie Purtile and Orange. The numbers a~ttio close of the poll oni Tues- dlay Were-For Mlr. Cliarles Turner, 1,165; - for Mir. AJderman Springfield, 929; majority for Mr. Turner, 23fl.-ANorweichs Post. It is disgraceful to the Magistracy as wellI as to thie fi'el- lngs of hium-anity, to witness the crtieltv practised upon the stnge- coach liorses in the furious diriving of' the rival stages now passing fromn London to Cotchestter. Nie understand that two of these coachies, groaning withi lumber, live and (lead, actttally raced fromi London to Chelmsford, in cite of' tfme lhottest days, of last wceek-, in teas thian two hours anid a hialf, ,a distance of 30 m-iles. Twovau able horses were the victims of this Citristian-like exhlibiti,n.- R.tsexr Mercury. An old Janiissary, ohf the age of 941, hias lately performned on horseback tlie journey f'rom Adrianuople to Teplis. Ilie has never made use of' spectacles, and every dlay lie reads four chapters of tdie Koran without fatigtse. HeI has PO children, including grand.cftild. ren and great grand-children. He knows several languages, leaving served in Egypt, and eveti recites on holyrhays parts of tilte tragedly of Mahomnn61 of Voltaire. He has been presentedi to many foreigners of distindtton."Newes of Literature. Shieridan, a few year's before hiis deathi, paid a visit to an o1ld sportsman in the'sister kiiigtlom, at tite commuencemtent of' thle shooting season, and, hit order to avoid the imputation of being a dowarighit ignoiramns, he was uniter the necessity of taking a gun, and at the I awn of day. setting forth in pursuit of game. Uniwilliniz to expose hisl want of skcill, tie took an opposite course to that of ltis frieppt, and'was accoinpamulet by a gamsekeeper, provided wvirt a bag to receive the birds whichl might fall victims to his attacks, and a I Pair of excellent poltiters. The gamekeeper was a true Plat, and posiessed all those arts of' blarney whiich are known to bellong to his countrYmen -and thinktin1 it imprative on him to be particularly attentive to his mnast5rs a frilelndl helest no opportu'nitY of praising his rowess. Trhe first covey ?and the birds werec abundant) rose with in it few yardsof the statesman's nose, buit thec noise they made was utounexpectedl,that he waited till they were "1out of liann's way"- before lie fired. Par, whio was on the look-out, expresed his sur- prise, and immnediately observed, "1 Faitli, Sir, I see you know wlhat a gun is ; it's well you tvas'nst nearer, or thein chaps wouldl be sorry -You,eicer ctulqe intot the country." Sherislan reloaded, andI went con, .but his seccind'abot ivas not more successful. "Oh h1" cried Pat, " wisat ams escape ; I'll be bound youA rum pled some of their feathers." The gun was loadedi again, and on went our sentator ; but the thirdI shot %eas Rs little oefective as the two former. "Halt I" exclaimed Pat, althoughi astoiiished at so palpable a miss, "I'll lay a thirteen you don't come near us to-slay again. Mlaster was too near youi to he pleasant."1 So he went on shot atfter shot, and always had SOme- tiling to say to cotisole poor Siheridan. who was not a little amused at his ingenuity. At last on their return housie, without a bird in the bag. Slieridan parceiveM a covey quietly feeding on the other side of' a. bed%e, and unwilling to give tlsem 'a charnce of flight, he re- solved 'tohave aL slap at them on the ground. 'He did so; bitt to his mortifleatilol, thQey all flew away uintouecied. Pat, wvhose ex- cusesi were niow almoest exhausted, still liad somnething to say, and -he joyfully exclainmed, looking at Sheridan very, significantly, " By J,you snade'them lave tSta/, any way h " and with this compli- ment to bis sportmsanlike qualities, Sheridan closed his morning's oumusement, laughing heartily at his comnpanion, and rewarding him with half-s-crown for his patienQe and encouragemont.- Dubline Star. 2.- Within' a dozen years, not less thien tens hiousand houses ,have-bten bnuit in and about Stepney-fields. Some years since, a builderi, remarkable- for wealth, parsimony, and me'anness of ap- LPoaralnCe, was erecting j great number of smiall houses ; and being mmtained bef'ore a committee of the House of Commons, in regard .0oia prjed WVater Company, he was asked hiow mnany houses he ha-aistcnlabsrod %lie repekj lied, he did .net kn'sw. "1Himve yat kQ Or our? "J A e;7ore" " Haveyouadozenl?"_"r1e! ..'Elspw? you Rtwenty?"-" MiorcV" .".Have youx fiftyt?"_1' I'll t,5sountrul,vij ep'lied Tbortas Barnes. ".1 knewv kxaetly how -many I. bad wher I came. out this rnorning, but i can't tell, within fiftyj how- many I shaU have when I return t"-Economiet. ,sU CrlD.-sA 'respectably-dressed nmiddle-aged man was sterdaymr'orniug-fouind with lis throat eut in the area of one of the houses 7nA!he T tple ne tr to tile water side. ' In his pockets were found lis. atid some 'iaiFpence, togeth'er wits sone' papers which lea -towe1isbo8ry ofbls'nanme and'residente It appears his naibe rs,q EIDnryU igtlbhry,ehat hc.ws a mnster.builder-and carpenterini ,.llrlseagre,1'pd- istepetted to hlifve;ustained a large pecuniary loss firoesmsoine stensWebi4Rditig atiecaula'itis in,the neighbourhosdxof ,t~igaatields; Fpoa.4his anti other causcs he -becane eniibarrassed, was .,erretted,,joisd'.jrces svcc)cg.ao- was discharged front Whitecros- [sseet itmet .the 'lnsolvent Act. ~Tkrest'viciassturhes are suppozsed to hiaseerey?!ed upoa7sitnind - sndjled to the rash act by which tie has ssidalifc nd-in wridw and nutncrsusfamil Wtholly tinprov. dcd for. ,-