The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-09 00:00:00

THE OLD BAILEY.

To be seen to the greatest advantage, one should visit
tl-c place on a Monday morning when the Courts open.
Ou the street outside, in the place • leading to the New
Court, and in the large -yard then thrown open, opposite
the stairs leading to the Old Court, there is always, at such
a time, _ a great concourse of what may be called mixed
society with a propriety I have seldom seen equalled in any
other case. There you see both sexes in great numbers.
There are persons of all ages, of -every variety of character,
and in every diver.iity of circumstances. There arc the
'prosecutors and the witnesses for and against the prosecu-
tion. The Judges and the persons to -be tried are the only
'parties you mss=.- A coasid Table number of those you see
are the ,relations...and friends of the prisoners ; but, per-
haps, a still larger. number consist of confirmed thieves,
whose moral feelings; if they ever had any, arc so com-
pletely blunted by a long aml daring perseverance in crime,
that that they can be present at the trial of others witholt
ever troubling themselves about their own guilt. It
is amazing to see the number of such persons in the
galleries, when the proceedings have commenced. Seine
of tin m go from a sheer love of being present at the
trial of criminals like themselves. Others, and a con-
siderable part of them, are attached to the place because
some of their acquaintances—their coadjutors in some
previous crime—have got themselves, to use their own
phraseology, into trouble. But on other days as well as on
the first day, at the commencement of the proceedings in the
courts, the place outside is more or less crowded with all the
varieties of character to which I have adverted. As the
sessions draw towards a close the numbers diminish. It is
not, however, only at the opening of the Courts in the
morning, that there is a crowd of persons outside the Old
Bailey ; a great number are to be seen hanging on all day
long. These chiefly consist of parties who are either pro-
secutors, witnesses, or the relatives of the pr:isoners to be
tried. In the area leading to the New Court, that area
being much more comfortable than the place leading to the
Old Court, the attendance is alWays greatest. There is
nothing but bustle and confusion. Every one is walking
about, and every one is talking, if not to anybody else, to
himself. A silent or motionless persons would be quite a
curiosity there.—The Great Metropolis—Second Series.

At a meeting of the Grand Council of Switzerland,
on the 22d ult., the debate turned chiefly on marriage. The
principal article modified was, that instead of giving the age
of fourteen as the lawful period at which marriage might be
contracted by men, and twelve for women, the period was fur-
ther postponed to sixteen for the former and fourteen for the
latter. At the sitting of the 24th, upon the subject of pa-
rental authority, it was agreed that a young man should be
declared free from such authority at the age of eighteen.

On Sunday, while a number of people were col-
lected on the roof of a house in the Champs Elysees, to see
the procession pass, a child about nine years old, having been
allowed to thrust his head through the balustrade, lost his ha-
lannce, rolled down the roof, and disappeared. The mother
fainted. Tho child, 'with extraordinary presence of mind,
caught fast hold of the lead of the gutter, and remained sus-
pended. A young workman, at the risk of his life, crawled
down the roof, and, seizing the child by its dress, assisted it to
retain its hold until a ladder was got out of the fifth floor win-
dow, whereby it was saved. The poor- mother, on recovering
herself, was nearly fainting again with the joy of finding her
child unhurt at her knees.

Mr. Hedworth Lambton has written an address to
the electors of the Northern Division of the county of Durham,
in which he states that it is his intention, in case of a dissolu-
tion, again to offer himself for that division. Mr. Lambton, in
this address, expresses his conviction that the Liberals of that
division of the county will ,again defeat the Tories whenever a
dissolution may take place.

The finest cedars in England are to be found at the
following places :—The Royal Gardens at Chelsea, which
contain many very picturesque specimens ; these were planted
in 1683, and there are still more magnificent trees of this
kind at Whitto Park, Sion House, Painshill, Warwick Castle,
Stowe, Blenheim, &c. • The gardens at Hopetoun House, in
Scotland, also contain some fine cedars.

On Monday afternoon the neighbourhood of
~Roc-
hester was visited with a thunder-storm, taking a direction
from north-west to south-east, and apparently following the
course of the River Medway. The electric fluid struck the
spire of Hoo church, and then glanced off into the farmyard of
Henry Everist, Esq., adjoining the church. About ten mi-
nutes afterwards Mr. Everist saw smoke issuing from the spire
of the church. The inhabitants quickly assembled, and by
ascending the steeple with buckets of water contrived to ex-
tinguish the fire which had broken out in the lower part. It
had, however, caught fire nearer the top, and above where
any one could ascend. On the arrival of the Sun and Kent
engines from Rochester it was found that neither of them
could throw the water sufficiently high to extinguish the
flames. The men at length established themselves with the
hose on the roof of the tower, whence they played with good
effect on the fire, and extinguished it at about eight o'clock,
but not before from forty to fifty feet of the spire had been
consumed. It is calculated that the damage will be repaired
for about 6001. The clerk of the parish had a narrow escape,
having fallen from the roof of the church into the churchyard,..
a distance of eighteen or twenty feet, without sustaining any
njury. It is not a little remirkable that fifteen years ago
Hoo church was struck by lightning.
In the retired and pastoral counties of Merioneth
and Caernarvon, there is scarcely a glen, a wood, or a moun-
tain, that has not its due quota of fairies and spirits ; and
every district in North Wales can boast of no scanty number
of supernatural inhabitants. But of all the popular supersti-
tions prevalent among the Welsh, their idea of fairies is the
most poetical ; at all events it is the most ancient. In Wales
there appear to have been two distinct species of fairies—the
one sort of gentle manners, and well disposed toward the
whole human race ; the other maliciously inclined, and full of
mischievous .Sportiveness. The former is denominated Tyl-
wyth Tog, or the Fair Family; the latter, Ellyllin, Elves or
Goblins, The Tylwyth Teg are a mild and diminutive race,
leading a life completely pastoral, and befriending fond and
youthful lovers, pretty dairymaids, and hospitable and indus-
trious housewives. They are the inspirers of pleasing dreams
and the assiduous encouragers of virtue and benevolence, and
never fail to reward the faithful servant, or the affectionate
child.

An individual named Paul Bernard was a few days
since brought before the Correctional Tribunal of Dijon, on a
charge of having broken from his surveillance. Before the
entrance of the judges he turned round to the audience, and
exclaimed, " I am not guilty ; if thety.eondemn me, I will be
revenged ; I will work upon the public ; I belong to a family
of brigands ; my father died at the hulks ; I mil die there
also." On his cause being called on, during the requisitory of
the public minister, he gave way to the most violent language,
such as " You lie; you are drunk," &c. He was found guilty,
and sentenced for the sixteenth time for similar offences. On
leaving'the court, he thus addressed the president :—" Mr.
President, will yott hear me ? I wish to speak'; I wish to
defend myself. Ah, you will not hear me ! Well, you will
repent of it. I shall end on the snit' Ad. I know a good
many farms where there is plenty of money ; I w;11 enter them
in the night, and I will assassinate in order to obtain it. Yes,
I will die on the scaffold ; lamof a family of brigands ; I will
live and die like my father." He was with difficulty removed
by the gendarmes.—French Paper.

In passing along the South Bridge yesterday after-
noon, our attention was arrested by a great crowd of gentle-
men at the gate of the Royal Infirmary,pressing iaward
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Thee we have described was occasioned
Brim —age that an operation never performed in Great
was to be done upon a voung man by Professor Lizars:
The, Valid WWI Must 15 technically called aneurism of the sob-
attery, su near the heart, that the first large trunk
required to be tied—=namely, tt:e arterla innorninata. The
young mar., a tarter, from Dalhelth, was placed upon the
tablet anti !be professor commenced by making an incision
ld the neck, and progressively cut down to the artery, when
the ligature, was applied. The operation was Completely
successful. The patient, who bore It with uncommon for•ie
tude, was only on the table for its minutes altogether, This,
as we have already said, is the first operation of the kind
which hai been attempted Great Britain. We understand
that it was once sttqessfully perforated in Derlin by Dr.
tlritlfc, Mid ()tide in New York, by Dr. Mott.—Culedonian
Mercury.
A brace of sparrows built their nests this year in a
tree at the foot of an inclosure near this town. The little
architects had composed the irigetiloits strtietitit principally of
hemp and straw, the former material having been abstraded
from a loft at a short distattee from their temporary domicile.
A few days ago on* of them Was obierVed to be hanging out:.
side the nest, and on closer inspection it was found that the
neck of the female bird had, from some inexplicable circum-
stance, got entangled in a fibre of the hemp. and that strangu-
lation had in consequence ensued The male bird scorns in-
consolable for the loss of contort; perching himself on the
nearest branches, and expressing his sorro.y by the most plain-
tive cadences, and occasionally attempting to break the attenu-
ated filament by which tho bereavinj catastrophe has beeq
produced I—Sandsrlancl Herald.

The new mails have a piece of machinery attached
to the hind part of the mail, for the purpose of Inching down
the steep hills without the guard getting down, or, to case of
the horses running away down a hill, of stopping the mail in-
stantly. The contrivance is very simple, and is done by the
pressure of two pieces cf wood against the wheels ; the con-
necting rod, going to the
.top of the coach, is turned by a
screw, and the effect on the wheels is immediate.

On Tuesday se'nnight, as Ann Farrell, a young
woman residing at Finchelev, was walking through Hornsey-
wood, and adder stung her left leg so severely, that before
she could reach home the limb had swollen to double its usual
size, causing most intense pain. Medical advice was promply
in attendance, and every assistance was rendered for the relief
of the poor sufferer, but, notwithstanding which, it was not
until Tuesday last that the symptoms took a change for the
better, and that a prcepcct of her recovery presented itself.
Sweet oil, it cannot be too generally knsQ7ll2 it the best
plication to the bites of venomous reptiles. r

JUNE 9, 1837.

IiVIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Ju 8.

•
The SPEAKER tool; the chair at the usual hour.
Sir G. STRICKLAND moved the further considera-
tion of the Report on the Barnsley Water Works Bill.

The Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. MILES brought. up the Bioport of the Committee
on the Bath Gas Bill.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
Lord W. BENTINCK brought up the Report of the
Committee on the above Bill.
IPSWICH DOCKS.

Mr. MORRISON moved the third reading of this Bill.
On the motion that the Bill do pass, Mr. MACKIN-
NON said he had been requested by many parties to op-
pose the farther progress of this Bill. It contained
many clauses which were iniquitous ; for instance—it im-
posed a tonnege on all vessels arriving at the port of Ips-
wich, whether they used these docks or not. It also gave
a power of greatly increasing and adding to the duties now
paid there. If this clause was struck out he would not
object to the passing of the Bill ; but, if not, he would be
obliged to take the sense of the House as to its passing
in its present shape. He did not mean to say it offensively,
but it appeared to him as if the Bill had been smuggled
through the House. He had not before heard of it, or he
would have opposed such clauses as he had pointed out,
before the Bill had arrived at its last stage. The Hon.
Gentleman then presented three petitions against the Bill.
Mr. MILES wished to ask the Hon. Member for Ips-
wich a question relative to one of the petitions which had
just been presented. It alleged that by a former Act of
Parliament the sum of 25,0001. was directed to be applied
to the improvement of the river, and that by the Bill before
the House that sum was to be vested in the Dock Com-
pany. if that allegation were true, the House could not
give its sanction to the Bill.
Mr. MORRISON said he believed tint the sum of
25,0001. was still to be applied to the improvements. He
should have no objection to withdraw the Bill if the sense
of the House was against him! . _ _

, Mr. PRY ME objected to the Bill being withdrawn after
the Committee had made their report.

Mr. WILKS thought the 13111 was one that was cal-
culated to do a great deal of good, and he should therefore
support it

"Mr. PRYME considered that the Bill was calculated to
make a great public improvement.
Mr. 'MACKIN NON withdrew his amendment, and the
Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. BROTIIERTON, the Glossop
Reservoir Bill, was read a third time and passed.