The Sun. — 1834-10-25 (London, England)

POVERTY P—His Majesty finds poverty in a resignation of the pension list. The proud Peer will tell you it consists in the inability to rebuild one of his many mansions after the latest fashion, or in being obliged to give up his danseuse and opera box The fat rector will say, it is being obliged to lay down his carriage and horses I The country squire will tell you it is the exchange of a kennel of fox hounds for a couple of greyhounds. The wealthy tradesman will tell you it consists in his change of town-house and country-house for a year round cottage in the suburbs. The retail dealer will tell you it consists m losing his annual visit to a watering place. The mechanic of large earnings will tell you it consists in losing his hot supper and grog, and having it replaced by meagre bread and cheese and heavy wet ; and the poor weaver thinks the times very hard indeed when he can no longer afford a salted herring to season his potatoes. To suffer the privation of warmth, to suffer the privation of cleanly and sufficient clothing, to suffer the privation of wholesome food, to be obliged to reside in a dwelling where the common necessities of nature must be unpleasantly obtruded on each other, owing to want of space or want of arrangement, to be deprived of books, or of intelligent or Moral beings with whom to associate ; to suffer any of these privations is poverty ; and, to suffer the whole of them united, as so many of our unfortunate fellows do, is a condition of the lowest human misery ; and, while any of these wants are ungratified, no human being ought to sit down content.—Monthly Repository.  We regret to state that Thomas Mayhew, Esq., son of Francis Mayhew, Esq., of Fitzroy-square and Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, committed suicide at his chambers, No. 2, Barnard's Inn, Ilolborn, on Thursday night last. The deceased was proprietor of " Barnett's Library of Music," "The Parterre," and a number of other literary publications, and formerly connected with the " National Library." He left his residence at Camden Town, on Thursday morning about nine o'clock, when he appeared in a very cheerful mood. Not returning at night, Mrs. Mayhew, accompanied by her brother and sister, went yesterday forenoon to his chambers, when.they found the door fistened. They then applied to the porter at the lodge, a.nd inquired when he had seen him last ? Ile informed them that Mr. Mayhew had brought him the key of his chambers about nine o'clock on Thursday night, and he had net seen him since. Mrs. Mayhew 's brother having some misgivings from its being known that he was in embarrassed circumstances, determined on having the door forced open, which was accordingly -done. On entering the apartment, they •found the unfortunate gentleman lying on the floor qaite dead. It is supposed be must have been dead some time, as the body was quite cold and stiff ; and from the tonell in the room there is no doubt be had taken prussic adi.. The deceased was about thirty years of age, and ex-, rented next month to have been called to. the bar. It is' siTposed his inability to honour a bill which he had given to a music-printer, and which became due on Wednesday last, was the cause of his committing the rash act.—The nody remains at the chambers until a Coroner's iequest has 1_ eon held.