The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-10 00:00:00

EAST INDIA.

The Reform, Selkirk, from the Cape at Liverpool, sailed
the 23d of October, St. Helena the 7th of November; the
Parsee, M‘Kellar, from Bengal in the Downs, sailed the 17th
of August, Cape the 27th of October, St. Helena the 10th of
November. Passengers per Parsee, Miss Stockwell, G. Stock.
well, Esq., Mrs. Disandt, Miss Fleming.
Arrivals in Table Bay (Cape).—The Maria, Oct. 15, from
Liverpool ; the Georgians, Oct. 16, from Portsmouth, and
sailed the 21st for Calcutta; the Friends, Goodwill, Oct. 17,
from Algoa Bay ; the Rio de Janeiro packet, Oct. 17, from
Algoa Bay.
Departures from Table Bay (Cape).—The Maria, Oct. 11,
and Bon Henri, Oct. 12, for the Mauritius ; the Lowestoft,
Oct. 14, for Launceston ; the Malabar, Oct. 15, for the Mau-
ritius ; the Caroline, Oct. 19, for Algoa Bay ; the Olive
Branch, Oct. 19, for Ruysna.
Departure from Algoa Bay.—The Cornet, Oct. 14, for
Table Bay.

Departures from Calcutta.—The Hero, Aug. 6, for China;
the Sovereign, Aug. 6, for the Mauritius.
Departures from Saugur (Bengal).—The Kellie Castle,
Aug. 12, for China; the Nerbudda, for the Mauritius ; the
David Scott, for China ; the Sovereign, for the Mauritius ;
the Hero, for China; the Daniel Wheeler, for Liverpool; the
St. George, for the Mauritius ; the Seine, for Bourbon ; the
Thetis, for Singapore and China; the Eamont, Aug. 14, for
the Mauritius. _ _

Arrivals at Madras.—The Orient, Aug. 6, from London ;
the Samuel Brown and Edmond Castle, from the Mauritius ;
the Caledonia, from Launceston and Swan River.
Arrivals at Batavia.—The Elora, Sept. 3, from Glasgow,
and sailed the 12th for China ; the Stratfieldsay, from New
South Wales, and sailed the 7th for Samarang ; the Hon. Com-
pany's brig Tigris, on the sth, from New South Wales, and
sailed the 11th for the North.

' Arrivals at Sourabaya.—The Mary Ann, Aug. 28, from
China and Manilla ; the Canton, on the 29th, from China ;
the Egyptian, Sept. 1, from Lombock ; the Argo, on the sth,
from Sydney, the Charles Kerr, on the 6th, from China.
Arrival at Samarang.—The Juliet, Aug. 31, from Liver-
pool and Rio, and sailed Bth Sept. for China.
Departures from Batavia.—The Royal Saxon, Sept. 4, and
Jane Brown, for Singapore ; the Enterprize, on the 13th, for
China.

Various communications have reached us, relative to
the effects of the snow, but some are more calculated to
excite a smile than a tear, at least with those who shared
not in the disappointment. In one instance, two lovers,
who had settled all the preliminaries for entering the warm
and joyful temple of Hymen, had a mountain of confounded
snow thrust between the cup and the lip, and left them
freezing for two days. So confident were they that neither
wind nor weather could alter their intent, that the an-
nouncement of the union was forwarded to us last week,
and prematurely published ; a post-chaise was not able to
travel with the party from Braintree to Weathersfield.
All's well, however, that ends well, and the knot was at last
firmly tied.—An aged woman, named Mead, residing in
this town, slipped into a ditch filled with snow, on her way
to Waltham, on Monday, and laid there four hours, when
a person passing extricated her. A poor sick woman of
the name of Archer, living at Weathersfield, was com-
pletely blocked up in her cottage for two days. Her
neighbours supposing that she had gone to visit her daugh-
ter, but as soon as her situation became known, she was
extricated ; the snow had completely excluded the light
from her rooms, and fancying that it was all night time she
had not partaken of any food. Mrs. Shead, landlady of
the Dog Inn, kindly supplied her with nourishmeut, and
money to purchase other necessaries.—Essex Herald.
On removing the snow in front of the ball door of
Thomas Le Blanc, Esq., at Northaw, on Wednesday, the
28th ult., the body of an individual was discovered en-
tombed in the drifted element, having lain therein, as is
supposed, since the preceding Monday night. The de-
ceased, who had lived a long time in the neighbourhood,
was about fifty years of age, and was the son of a Clergy-
man named Cranshaw;formerly officiating Minister of the
parish of South Mimms, and himself occupied a respectable
position in society some years ago, being at that time a
schoolmaster. An unhappy predilection for drinking, in
which his wife also participated, proved their mutual bane,
and she eloped from him with another man four years ago,
since when he has dragged out a miserable existence in a
state of beggary, sometimes labouring on the highways. He
was last seen about nine o'clock on Monday evening by a
gentleman, from whom he solicited a " Christmas-box."
but who declined to give him anything in consequence of
his being in a state of intoxication ; and in subsequently
endeavouring to make his way across Mr. Le Blanc's pre-
mises, it is conjectured lie missed the track, and got over a
dwarf iron fence into an area, which was completely filled
with snow. The discovery of his hat, which was recog-
nised by a by-stander at some distance from the body, was
the first circumstance that caused apprehension of his fate.
An inquest was held on the body on Friday, the 30th of
December.—Hertford County Press.
On Tuesday morning last a most melancholy acci-
dent occurred at the Gas Works, Gainsbro. One of the
men, Airy, was engaged in making some alteration towards
the top of the tar well, which Mr. Brown, the lessee of the
works, was superintending and directing ; and it is sup-
posed that the man being alarmed, called for help, which
Mr. Brown, in attempting to give, most probably lost his
balance, and fell in, when both perished together. Although
immediate measures were taken, and every means adopted
by Mr. Cook, surgeon, life was extinct. What augments
the calamity is, that Brown's wife was then on the point of
being confined, and was, in the course of the day, delivered
of a boy, and we are glad to say both mother and child are
doing well under the melancholy circumstance.—Sheffield
Observer.

Last week a marriage took place in the neighbour-
hood of Beauly. Many were invited ; but another party
assembled in a hostile guise, armed with sticks, to rescue
the bonny bride, who, it was said, was pledged to another
swain. John Barleycorn, however, obtained an ascendancy
over the latter ; for while they were preparing themselves
for the onslaught, the nuptial knot was tied at Kilmorack,
and the successful wooer bore off his bride in triumph.—
Inverness Courier.
BREATHING or VEGETABLES.—The pneumatic
organs, which serve as a reservoir for breathing air, are ge-
nerally placed on the under side of the leaves, and when
leaves that are intended by nature to remain in a certain
position are reversed they will die, that is they will cease
to produce the respiratory oxygen, and will be suffocated ;
though it is not yet ascertained why leaves, in order to pro-
duce this oxygen in a healthy and durable manner, should
necessarily have that side exposed to the light which is op-
posite to their reservoirs of air. The direct and healthy
manner of breathing in vegetables consists of the production
of oxygen under the influence of light ; therefore darkness
is unfavourable to vegetable light, and injures the durabilitynd
of the plant. The life of the corolla 3 is ephemeral, because
these parts do not manufacture respiratory oxygen, and
consequently breathe by absorbing oxygen from the atmos-
phere. This mode of respiration is closely allied to that of
insects which breathe by trachea).—Dutrochet.
A letter from Hamburg of the 24th ult, gives the
following :—The police of our city have just succeeded in
arresting a swindler who has been practising his schemes in
almost every city of Europe. He always assumed respec-
table names and decorations without number. Whilst in
Portugal he passed as Major Stanhope, at Vienna as Sir
Freemautle, at Berlin as the Marquis of Dundas,
and at Venice as Lord John Lowther, under which latter
title he was arrested here, for endeavouring to impose on
some of our commercial houses by means of forged letters
of credit, bearing the signature of Masterman and Co.,
bankers in London. He has already undergone several
condemnations. In 1819 he was sent by the French Go-
vernment to the galleys for five years and branded, for a
forgery on the house of Perrigaux Lafitte, _and Co. Four
years afterwards, the last year of his sentence having been
remitted, he went to Brussels, where he again committed
forgery, and Was again sk2ntenced to five years' hard la-
bour and to be branded. He was subsequently sent from
Ostend to England.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

TIIE MIIRDER IN OXFORD-STREET,—Jonathan Bayley,
the man who was brought to this office last week on the
charge of having ill-treated his wife in such a manner that
her life was considered endangered, was yesterday brought
before Mr. CONANT, his wife having died during the inter-.
val of his being remanded, and the Coroner's Jury having
returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him.
The prisoner appeared very much altered since his first
examination, and seemed to be deeply affected at the awful
situation in which he was placed.
The MAGISTRATE, addressing the prisoner, said the Co-.
roner's Jury having, after a full investigation of all the facts
of the case, come to the conclusion of finding a verdict of
Wilful Murder against him, he had nothing further to do
than to perform the painful duty of committing him to New-
gate to take his trial for the murder of his wife.
The prisoner was then asked whether he wished to say
anything? and he replied, " Not at present."
He was then committed to 'Newgate, upon the Coroner's
warrant, to take his trial for the murder of his wife at the
next ensuing session of the Central Criminal Court.

As a proof of the stir created by the county elec-
tion, a farmer from the country was complaining sadly on
Thursday last that his colly dog could do nothing these three
days past, from barking at writers and bill-posters.—Ren-
frewshire Reformer. _ _

Typhus fever is spreading with a terrific velocity,
throughout Glasgow. Its victims are not the eiekly or the
pre-indisposed, but the young and vigorous, the matured
and healthy man, the veteran, whose iron frame, after having
braved all the accidents of flood and field, were yet as
likely to stand as many winters more, are the first to fall
before the grim and pestilential destroyer. The alarm
produced by the awful visitation of cholera was doubtless
great ; but the alarm now beginning to be felt for the ef-
fects of fever are likely to be still higher. We understand
the deaths in the fever wardsof the infirmary have amounted
to upwards of one hundred weekly, independent of the vast
numbers who have died in the various quarters of the city
and suburbs.

A partial thaw has commenced in Inverness and
neighbourhood, and the late snow storm has gradually sub-.
ided. It seems to have been infinitely more severe in Eng-
s land and the south of Scotland than in the northern coun-
ties. The mails here are still very irregular. The south
mail yesterday was about fourteen hours behind. On the
Saturday previous, the bags were forwarded with the guard
in a gig, from Aviemore ; but this arose chiefly from the
want of horses, an extra number being employed during the
storm. The Aberdeen mail keeps its time pretty well,
being yesterday only an hour too late. North of Inver-
ness, the roads are heavy, and the mail was this morning
an hour and a half behind. No accident has occurred from
the storm.—lnverness Courier, of Wednesday.
THE MURDER IN THE EDGEWARE-ROAD.—The
head which was on Saturday morning found in the chamber
of one of the locks of the canal at Stepney, and which was
at the request of the parish authorities of Paddington,
taken from the Stepney bonehouse to the Paddington
workhouse, was yesterday morning compared with the
mangled trunk of the body recently found in the Edgware-
road, and it was immediately discovered beyond a doubt to
have belonged to it. It corresponded in every respect
with the neck, from which it had been rudely severed. The
opinion of the surgeons, Mr. Girdwood and others, who
examined the head, is most positive and explicit on this
point. There is very little doubt that the body will now
be identified, and the identification of the deceased will go
far towards the detection of the murderer.

DEATH OF A MisEß.—On Saturday morning an
old man, between 60 and 70 years of age, well known for
the last twenty years as a sweeper of the crossing in Scot-
land-yard, Parliament-street, expired at a miserable lodging
in Westminster. After his death, documents were disco-
vered of property, which was invested in the funds, amount-
ing to the enormous sum of one thousand six hundred pounds,
which ho had accumulated by his avocation of street-sweep-
ing. The general appearance of the deceased miser was
most abject, and his living most humble. It is stated that
he has bequeathed the whole of his property to his relatives,
who are particularly respectable, residing at Colnbrook,
near Uxbridge, where, at one period of his life he resided,
and kept an extensive farm. His relatives have determined
on buryinc, him most respectably, for which purpose a hand-
some leaden coffin is being made at Mr. Holroyd's, plumber
to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Scotland-
yard. The only name he went by was Old Joe.
ACCIDENT TO THE BATH AND EXETER MAIL.
—On Thursday last a very serious accident happened to
the Exeter via Bath mail. When about seven miles from
Exeter, the ground being then covered with snow, the
coachman made way to pass a waggon, and came upon a
concealed dirt heap. The shock threw him from his seat,
and the horses started off, and the wheels passing over the
legs of the unfortunate man fractured one and much
bruised the other. The horses kept on their furious
course for half a mile, when sharply turning a corner they
upset the coach. The guard was in the act of alighting
at the time, and sustained no injury beyond a few smart
bruises. There were no passengers either inside or out.
The horses were very slightly injured.
On Wednesday Mr. Charles Pearson submitted a
proposal to the Commissioners of the town of Brighton, on
the part of the Directors and subscribers to Cundy's line.
Its object was to put an end to the expensive contest going
on between the different Companies whose applications are
still undecided by Parliament. With this view be sug-
gested
that the questions at issue between the parties
should be submitted to three respectable engineers, who
should report their opinion to a Committee of the Com-
missioners. The practical points being thus determined by
competent and impartial referees, he had no 'doilbt but that
the subscribers to the different places would abide by the
decision. He was willing to pledge himself, on the part
of those kir whom he acted, to withdraw if the decisiOn
should be against him ; and he had no doubt but the agents
of the other applicants would be brought to do the same.
It was understood that the subject would be resumed on
Wednesday next.

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