Nov. 16,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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reports from Barbadoes, Trinidad, Demerara, and 

 Jamaica, show that the planters looked forward with 

 some expectation to next rear's growth. Political affairs 

 were very quiet, and no great complaints are made of the 

 want of regularity on the part of the labouring popula- 

 tion. The Governor of Jamaica had issued his proclama- 

 tion for the assembling of the new Legislature, and pro- 

 ceeding to business on the 15th Oc f ober. The convo- 

 cation of the House thus early was attributed to the 

 measures taken in England with respect to immigration 

 from India. The census returns in Jamaica had been 

 made, showing a population of 377,433 souls, of whom 

 183,633 were males, and 195,800 females. The excess 

 was maintained in the three classes, white, coloured, 

 and black. There were of the first 15,776, of the second 

 03,529, and of the third 293,128.— The island of Cuba 

 was, on the 2d October, visited with a terrific hurricane, 

 which continued, however, only a few hours, passing 

 over without doing much damage from tf^at time until 

 the morning of the 4th, when it commenced raining 

 and continued so during the day. The wind at first 

 blew right from N.E., veering afterwards to E. ; and at 

 dusk it became a calm. At this time the thermometer 

 was at 19 Reaumur. It begun to blow at 8 p.m., and 

 Iso rained. At 9 and 10 p.m. the wind blew a hurri- 

 cane, and increased during the whole night, with 

 occasional flashes of lightning, accompanied with great 

 destruction of property in the city of Havannah. The 

 principal damage to the houses was sustained in the 

 suburbs, but scarcely a house escaped without injury. 

 — Accounts from Lima, of Aug. 10, state that Vivanca 

 has been defeated, and having been brought prisoner to 

 that city, was banished to Mexico by the Constitutional 

 Council. General Castello has taken possession of Are- 

 quipa, and is now advancing upon Lima, and it is sup- 

 posed that the Council will not oppose his authority. 



CITY. 



Money Market, Friday. ■ 



Consols for account 



99J 



New 

 Ex- 



closed at 100 J ; Red. Three per Cents., 



Three and a Quarter, 102 ; Bank Stock, 204£ 



quer Bills, 56 to 58 pm. 



GAZETTE OF THE WEEK-JBANKRUPT8.-J. Cex, Norwich, 

 cabinet maker— J. Jones, Berners-meet, Oxford-street, apothecary — W. 

 Sawyer, Louisa-street, Stepney, oilman— J. S. Burrows, Wimbledon, Sur- 

 rey, coal merchant — J. D. Bates, Chapmnn-street, St. Gcorges-in-the-East, 

 gimyerbeer manufacturer— A. Hoggins, Apollo-buildings, Walworth, mer- 

 chant— E. Kt.nsky, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, innkeeper— G. Vauohan, 

 Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, innkeeper— J. Vails, Cheltenham, wine mer- 

 chant— H. Oliver and H. Hastings, Cheltenham, butchers— \V. Norwood, 

 Kettering, Northamptonshire, grocer— J. G. But-RVR, Battersea. builder — 

 J. F. Barwick, Oltl-street, St- Luke's, wheelwright- G. F. Davimoh, John- 

 atreet, Adelphi, merchant — .T. Sbdman, Queen-street, Cheapside, colour 

 merchant — T. Bottltkr, Cromer, Norfolk, innkeeper — R. Barry, Worthing, 

 lodging-house-keeper— C Soul, Long-alley, Moorfields.jgrocer— \V. Coi.i.in- 

 80N, East Butterwk'k, Lincolnshire, shipwright— J. Watson. Carlisle , grocer 

 — T. Downing, Chippenham, Wiltshire, brewer— W. Jones, Usk, Man month- 

 shiie, linendraper — J. C. and H. Colvillb, Liverpool, merchants — E. Cot- 

 o-riix, Redditch, Worcestershire, grocer. 



BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED— J. T. and W. Wit.dk, Basing lane, 

 Cheapside, general merchants. 



SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ K. M'Lkod, rortmahomack. Row- 

 shire, merchant — T. Lyhli., Newburgh, manufacturer — J. Wilson, Edin- 

 burgh, general agent. 



jflfletropolfs airtr its FYct'nftg, 



The Lord Mayor s Day. — The ceremony of inaugurat- 

 ing the new 'Lord Mayor in his civic office took place on 

 Saturday, and excited much more than the usual interest 

 from the previous clamour raised about him, and from 

 the expectation that a hostile demonstration would be 

 made. The streets were crowded with spectators. The 

 procession was marshalled in the Guildhall yard rather 

 before the customary time, and was in marching order 

 by h past 11. The police mustered in great force, and a 

 detachment of- Lancers, with their band, accompanied 

 the procession. The advanced ranks of the pageant did 

 not exhibit much difference from the ordinary Lord 

 Mayor's Show, though there were fewer of the City Com- 

 panies with banners and ensigns. When the Lord Mayor's 

 coach approached the barrier, such a complication of 

 noises arose that the horses turned restive, and the hind 

 wheel of the coach got lacked in one of the posts, which 

 detained it for some time, thereby giving an ample 

 opportunity to the dense crowd to express their feelings 

 towards his lordship. Yeils, shouts, and hisses, mingled 

 with cheers, the former, however, greatly preponderat- 

 ing, greeted him from every quarter, amidst which even 

 the kettle-drums and trumpets of the Horse Guards 

 were undistinguished. At last the obstruction was re- 

 moved, and the Lord Mayor advanced amidst a fresh 

 burst of mingled hissing and applause. Next came the 

 late Lord Mayor, when the people called out " Cheers 

 for Magnay," which were heartily given. The police 

 officers and the cavalry gathered round the carriage and 

 kept off the mob ; bat no police regulation could stop 

 the noises of all kinds with which the Lord Mayor wi 

 assailed, In this manner the procession passed through 

 Princes-street, and King William-street. In coming up 

 Walbrook, the Lord Mayors own ward, his reception 

 was somewhat better. A great many handkerchiefs were 

 displayed from the windows of his friends, and some 

 bats were waved in the streets. This scene continued 

 with occasional variations to Southwark Bridge, where 

 the procession embarked for Westminster, amidst re- 

 newed confusion. In his passage up the river, and on 

 bis landing at Palace-yard, the Lord Mayor was greeted 

 with a fresh storm of hissing, mingled with cheers from 

 bis friends. The Recorder then introduced the Lord 

 Mayor to the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and 

 the other Judges, and after the usual complimentary 

 speeches, the oaths of office were adrainistere!. The 

 ^ord Chief Baron then communicated Her Majesty's 

 approval of the election, dwelling particularly on the 

 fact that the Lord Mayor had bten chosen by the Livery 

 jn the exercise of an undoubted right to choose their own 

 ^mef Magistrate. The ceremony was concluded by the 



Recorder, in the name of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , 

 inviting the Judges to the entertainment at the Mansion 

 House in the evening. It is worthy of remark, that, 

 contrary to all precedent, only three of the Aldermen, 

 viz., Aldermen T. Wood, Farncomb, and Challis, none of 

 the City Members, none of the Common Council, none 

 of the representatives of the City Companies, and no 

 members of the Court of the Company to which the Lord 

 Mayor belongs, were present at his inauguration. After 

 the ceremony, the procession returned to the City, pro- 

 ceeding down the river, and landing at Blackfriars- 

 bridge, amidst a storm of hisses and cheers. By this 

 time the crowd had greatly increased. Bridge-street, 

 Blackfriars, and Ludgate-hill were well nigh crammed, 

 and all the windows and every spot commanding a view 

 were occupied. The reception of the Lord Mayor was 

 of the same character as during his progress in the morn- 

 ing. The procession was considerably lengthened on the 

 return by the carriage of the Lady Mayoress, and by the 

 carriages of many of those who had been invited to par- 

 take of the civic banquet. The Ministers and majority 

 of the company, who usually join the Lord Mayor at 

 Ludgate-hill, went to Guildhall at a later hour, without 

 joining the procession. The inauguration dinner took 

 place in the evening at the Guildhall, and was at- 

 tended by two of the Ministers, Sir J. Graham and Mr. 

 Gladstone ; by the French Ambassador, several Judges, 

 and other guests. After the usual loyal and routine 

 toasts, Sir James Graham proposed the health of the Lord 

 layor, and said, u I appeal to this great assembly whe- 

 ther it be not just, whether it be not generous, to anti- 

 cipate that your Lordship, filling the high office which 

 you now hold by the voice of your fellow-citizens, 

 will emulate the example of your predecessor, and 

 honourably and faithfully fulfil the high duties 

 and important functions of that office to which you 

 have been elevated by the choice of the Livery, by 

 the approbation of the Court of Aldermen, and by 

 the full and entire approbation of your Sovereign. 

 Feeling that he whom the citizens of London have though' 

 worthy cannot be unworthy, it is with great satisfaction 

 that I have to propose" The health of the Lord Mayor of 

 the City of London." The Lord Mayor, in returning 

 thanks, said, '« I feel deeply indebted for the very kind 

 manner in which Sir J. Graham has done me the honour 

 to propose my name to your notice. I feel on the pre- 

 sent occasion that I ought to speak with deep humility. 

 It becomes not him who putteth on the harness to boast 

 like him who putteth it off. All I can say is, that all my 

 anxiety shall be to endeavour firmly to discharge the duties 

 of Lord Mayor."— On Sunday morning the Lord Mayor 



attended divine service at Christchurch, Newgate-street, of 



which his son and chaplain, the Rev. M. Gibbs, is the 

 incumbent. The congregation was large, there being 

 scarcely a seat vacant, while the passages were crowded. 

 When the sermon had concluded, and while the collection 

 was being made, a large number of persons assembled under 

 the portico of the church, under the archway in Cbrist- 

 church-passage, and in Newgate-street, though it was 

 raining fast, evidently waiting to see the Lord Mayor. 

 As his lordship walked towards his carriage, which stood 

 in Newgate-street, hissing and other expressions of dis- 

 approbation arose from every side, and remarks far from 

 complimentary were made. Many persons endeavoured 

 to stop these expressions, and cried " Shame, shame. 

 Have respect for the place ;" but the hissing, though 

 subdued, continued as his lordship walked slowly through 

 the crowd to the street. Upon entering the carriage the 

 hissing became much louder than before, accompanied 

 by groans and allusions to the affairs of St. Stephen's, 

 Walbrook, and some men, the most active in these de- 

 monstrations, ran after the carriage, hooting and yelling. 

 Destitution in the Metropolis. —The morning papers 

 record almost daily fresh instances of death or suicide 

 attributed to the repugnance of the poor to enter the 

 Union workhouses. Among the most distressing of 

 these cases reported this week are those of Mary Allo- 

 ways, a poor needlewoman, and Mr. Mason, a decayed 

 merchant. Mary Alloways destroyed herself by oxalic 

 acid, leaving on her table a letter written to a friend 

 shortly before her death, stating that she could no longer 

 bear up against the continuance of her misery. The 

 letter said :— " Dear Friend,— I have spent many anxious 

 days and sleepless nights. I cannot obtain work ; there- 

 fore it is impossible I can pay my rent, and I have pre- 

 served my watch as the only means that I have to put 

 me in the ground. I have had it valued at 10/. I judge 

 that it will not cost more than 5/. to lay me in the grave 

 in a humble way. The life I now live is a miserable one 

 and has been for several years. I have no one to care 

 for me. Heaven is merciful. Yet a little while, and 

 this feverish and unquiet spirit I most sincerely hope 

 will be at rest, with the hope that the Almighty will par- 

 don me. Was I sure of that, I should leave the world 

 without the least regret. I must chance what many great 

 people have done before me. I am obliged to all my friends 

 that have been kind to me. My dear friend, I hope you 

 will let some one follow me to the grave, but that 1 leave 

 to you. I do not wish any one here to know my affairs. 

 You will do as you please'with my clothes. 1 am sorry 

 to say that I owe Mrs. White this day seven weeks rent 

 (Nov. 5). I am verv sorry to leave the world in debt. 

 If my clothes and watch will not pay the expenses of my 

 funeral and rent, it is my wish to be sent to the work- 





is agitated." The poor creature lodged in the back attic 

 of a house in Market-row, Oxford-street. She had made 

 no complaint of illness on the day that she was last seen 



alive, and the extent of her distress was not known in 

 the house. Indeed, Mrs. Jones, a lodger, with whom 

 she had taken tea and sat in conversation until 10 o'clock 

 at night, when she went to bed, stated that she was sup- 

 posed to have a " respectable income," so effectually had 

 she concea'ed her destitution. Mr. Wakley, the coroner, 

 after the inquest feelingly recounted the distresses of the 

 poor woman. " She appeared," he said, " to have 

 been a sensible, high-minded woman, and, seeing that 

 poverty was now treated as a crime, she shrank from 

 making her situation known, and so silent was she in 

 that respect, that even her friend, Mrs. Jones, believed 

 that she* had a small independent income, and the dread- 

 ful privation in which she had lived was not known until 

 after her death. The surgeon had stated to the jury 

 that the body was extremely emaciated, and, to their 

 own view, the signs of starvation mu^t have been 

 strikingly apparent. The body was almost a skeleton. 

 Who could believe that such cases :>s these could occur 

 in the midst of so gorgeous and wealthy a metropolis .- 

 There must be something wrong at trie sources of power. 

 That a charitable ng exi 1 among the rich was u - 

 deniable. It had eotly been shown in a public 

 journal that upwards of 20.000/. were subscribed in Lon- 

 don 1 ■ - . • iter for the relief of the destitute ; but the 

 starving poor 1 the consolation of being told that 

 two-thirds of that sum were safely lodged in the funds ! 

 The cases of destitution were becoming frightfully pre- 

 v i! mt, and if they occurred in such numbers in London 

 and the county of Middlesex, to what an extent must 

 they happen in the remote parts of the kingdom? It 

 was evident from the letter that deceased was a well- 

 educated woman, but it was wholly impossible for them 

 toju »of the misery s'.\e felt when she contemplated 

 r e ded n iner in which she would be treated if she 



made her I istr I. That fear operated very 



strongly upon some minds, for a short time since he 

 held an inquest on a poor labouring man who had cut 

 his throat and died in a ditch, from the fear he had of 

 being compelled to enter a poor-law Union." The Jury 

 returned a verdict '« That deceased destroyed herself by 

 taking oxalic acid, but in what state of mind she was in 

 at the time there was no evidence to show." — The ease 

 of Mr. Mason was made public at the inquest held by 

 Mr. Carter, at Camberwell, on Monday. The daughter, 

 Miss Mason, was the first witness examined : she was 

 clad in a workhouse dress of blue stuff, over which she 

 wore a faded bl ck silk cloak, with an old velvet bonnet 

 and black kid gloves, and upon being sworn burst into a 

 flood of tears, endeavouring with the cloak to prevent 

 her pauper garments from becoming visible. She seemed 

 to be about 40 yean of age. Upon being questioned as 

 to her present residence, she replied with faltering 

 and scarcely audible accents, " In the Cambcrwell 

 workhouse,"" and a further flood of tears almost 

 choked ber utterance. On recovering herself she 

 stated that her father was 70 years of age. He had 

 formerly !>"en the principal partner in the firm of 

 Mason and Meyer, lead merchants and refiners of anti- 

 mony, Hill-street, Klackfriars-road. About two years 

 ago he had been unfortunate, and in consequence had 

 been reduced to the greatest straits ; to support them- 

 selves they were compelled to part piecemeal with every 

 article of" furniture tbey had saved from the wreck of 

 their former home. When the furniture was gone, de- 

 ceased and herself were compelled to remove to a fur- 

 nished lodging in East-street, Walworth. They subsisted 

 at first upon donations of friends who had known them 

 in their prosperous days. These at length failed, and 

 they were'compelled to apply for temporary relief from 

 the parish of St. Mary, Newington, in which they then 

 resided. A friendly parochial order was also given to 

 deceased for his removal to the workhouse of Camber- 

 well, in which parish deceased had a settlement, but de- 

 ceased refused to make use of it from repugnance to go 

 into the workhouse. By the assistance of some friends 

 they were, however, enabled to keep on their lodgings 

 for a time. Their circumstances continued to get worse, 

 and witness was compelled to pawn her trinkets and 

 every article of wearing apparel, until they neither of 

 them had more than they wore. They were obliged to 

 quit their lodgings for a small back room in White-street 

 Borough, for which they paid 4s. a week. They both 

 slept in the same room. Witness and deceased had oc- 

 cupied their last lodgings about a month. They were 

 occasionally without "food. About ten days before his 

 death, d ased, unknown to witness, applied for relief 

 to the parish of St. George's, Southwark. I n the evening 

 the parochial authorities sent them a portion of a quar- 

 tern loaf, some tea and sugar and oatmeal. Deceased was 

 in a very debilitated state, arising from want of food, and 

 had ulcers on both legs. On Friday las fc he kept his bed 

 and became quite sensible. They did not apply for 

 relief to Camberwell parish, because deceased and herself 

 were afraid of being required to go into the workhouse. 

 It was most abhorrent to deceased's feelings, but at last 

 they were compelled. On Thursday last he was 

 accordingly taken in a cab to Camberwell workhouse, 

 where he died within two hours after his admission. 

 Mr. King, surgeon to Camberwell parish, who had made 

 a post mortem examination, said death had been caused 

 by serous apoplexy, which the want of food and proper 

 ventilation of dw, ; would sometimes cause. Deceased 

 would have died if he had not been removed ; though 

 removal had probably accelerated it, as he was not in a 

 proper state to bear it. The landlady stated, that when 

 deceased took her lodgings he was in a very weak and 

 debilitated state. They were very badly off. W itneas 

 often gave them food and firing, as much as she, could 

 afford. Deceased had no shirt, and their whole stock of 



