The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-28 00:00:00

UNION-BA LL.

Yesterday two men, named Brooks and Pearson, in the
employ of Messrs. Christie, the hat-manufacturers, of Ber-
mondsey, were brought before Mr. TRAIL', charged with
an extensive robbery on their employers' premises.
Both the prisoners were fully committed.

The Members of the School of Designs met at the
Board of Trade yesterday at two o'clock.
The Gertraq Journals arc engaged in a wordy war
on the credibility or incredibility of the following ghost-
story :—ln 1814, a priest named Anton, who lived at Bau-
renlaustern, in Wirtemborg, having made away with the
patrimony of his brethren, was condemned to the flames of
purgatory. A widow named Elizabeth Eslingerin, now
confined in the prison of Weinsberg for fraud, stated that
she had been visited by father Anton. As the apparition
made more noise than was consistent with, prison regula-
tions, an inquiry into the fact was ordered. Several per-
sons, and among them Dr. Kerner, a Judge, and a Re-
ferendary of the Superior Tribunal, Professor Papf, Dr.
Schierer, the Advocate Faas, M. Megin, a Pastor, and
Baron de Hurg,el, slept in the prison, and all aiErm that
they had ocular proof of the truth of the widow's asser-
tions. They state that a white light preceded the appear-
ance of the ghost, and that the whole building was shaken
by a supernatural noise, while at the same time a sound
was heard like the falling of drops of water. The Regis-
trar, M. Ekhard, received a most str*Ong testimony of the
existence of the ghost on his shoulders. All these pheno-
mena are recorded in a narrative written and published by
Dr. Kerner ; but sceptics are found to assert their convic-
tion that the worthy widow is capable of explaining the whole
mystery.
Tuesday morning Mr. William Harding, aged 75
years, and who has for many years held the situation of
head porter at Coopers' Hall, Basinghall-street, expired in
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, after a protracted endurance
of extreme suffering, from.the injuries he received in being
run over by one of the Paddington omnibuses. It appears
that on the previous Friday the deceased was about to
enter one of the Paddington omnibuses in Moorgate-street,
when a contention arose between the conductor and that of
another similar conveyance as to which should obtain the
deceased for a passenger, ir. the course of which Mr. Hard-
ing was pushed, or fell, down, and the fore and hind wheels
of the second omnibus passed over his legs. He was con-
veyed in a cab to the hospital, and promptly attended by
Mr. Lawrence, the house surgeon. The unfortunate man
hal sustained a compound fracture of the right thigh, and
an extensive laceration of the left leg, the bone in different
places being left quite bare. Some hopes were at first en-
tertained of his surviving ; but the severity of the shock
the whole system had received, coupled with his advanced
age, caused him to sink gradually, until death terminated
his sufferings. The parties inculpated in this lamentable
occurrence are at present unknown ; but a strict investiga-
tion, which will no doubt lead to their discovery, will be
gone into on the holding of the customary inquisition by
the Coroner.