The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-09 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A PRIVATE STILL IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.-Mr.
Garrett Treitner, the landlord of the Ben Johnson
public-house, in Pelham-street, Spitalfields, and court
Smith, :1 bricklayers' labourer, was charged with having
set up a private still for the purpose of illicit distillation,
upon the premises of the first-named prisoner.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner Trietner, who
is a German, merely said that he had derived no profit
frorri the apparatus, as it had not been set to work
at all.

The other prisoner said that Mr. Treitner employed
him to do the job, and he had no idea that he was act-
ing wrong.

The prisoners were amerced in the penalty of 301.
each, or three months' imprisonment.
EMBEZZLEMENT.—John Nilson, a lad lately in the
service of Mr. Bell, the extensive news agent in Sweet-
ing's-alley, was charged with having embezzled the sum
of /. 10s., the monies of his muster.

The prisoner, it appeared, absconded on Saturday
last with the amount, with which he had been entrusted
to pay for Sunday newspapers. He was apprehended
on the preceding evening by a policeman, to whom he
stated that he had squandered away all the money
excepting a sovereign, which he had lost. The prose-
cutor appeared to be unfortunate in his servants ; the
boy whom the prisoner superseded having likewise
robbed him.
The prisoner was fully committed.

COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—A correspon-
dence is published between the Council on Education
and the Rev. Mr. Campbell, of Paddington. The Rev.
Gentlemen, it appears, applied to the Council for a grant
of 5921., in aid of the erection of school-rooms in his
I parish, but was unwilling to comply with the regulation
under which alone it could be obtained. He is for
education under " the superintendence of the Bishops
and clergy" or none at all. All other plans of educa-
tion are, of course, execrable, " inconsistent with the
principles of the British Constitution, and repugnant to
the feelings of the great body of the people !" Good
and true man is Mr. Campbell, void too of any the
least wish to monopolize the manipulation of monies
set apart, for the education of the people.

ELOPEMENT.—An affair of gallantry of this
nature, in high life, has recently taken place in the
neighbourhood of ;Mahon, a circumstance of very rare
occurrence, and which, we understand, has plunged the
father and family of the young lady in the deepest
distress. Though we have not heard the particulars of
the " flight by night," we are confident we are quite
correct in stating that the gentleman is the younger
brother of a certain Baronet, residing not one hundred
miles from Ganton, in the East Riding, of small pecu-
niary pretensions ; and the young lady, who is lovely,
amiable, and very highly accomplished, is the eldest
daughter of a worthy 'Squire, living not far from Bird-
sall, of large landed possessions, and who may be said to
be in daily expectation of succeeding to the title and
estates of a certain Noble Lord, to whom he is next
heir. This " affair of the heart" appears to have been
the result of mutual attachment, for so close had the
secret been kept, and so noiselessly had the escape been
effected, that though (as we are informed) it was only
three o'clock on Saturday morning last when the elope-
ment took place, the fugitives having a chaise and
four in waiting, no alarm was created, nor was the
" fair one" missed till the family met in the morning,
The circumstance has caused no little talk in the neigh-
bourhood.—Doncaster Clii onicle.

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quest was taken before Hawes, upon
the body of Mr. Matthew-
aged 47, at his late
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evidence that the
Park. It appeared from the
from severe
residence, the Plume of Feathers, Maize-hill, Green-
wichdeceased had suffered for some time past .
attack of rheumatic gout, and that
i• t red the former
some colchicum for an aperient, admit 'se
consultation,
poison. The jury, after a few minutes'
his wife, mistaking
returned a verdict, " That the deceased w
accident-
ally poisoned by Mary Hawes, his wife ; andas that no
blame was attributable to her or any other person."
A FISH CAUGHT BY A CAT.-One night last
week a cat belonging to a family in the Townhead of
Ayr, was observed coming into the house dripping wet,
with a live fluke in her mouth, evidently procured from
the water which skirts the foot of the garden. Puss
was on her way to her kittens with the spoil, but being
instantly deprived of it, the fish was put into water, and
preserved alive for a day or two, to attest the fact
of the manner in which it had been caught.—Glasgow
Chronicle.