The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-13 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Queen Mab, Ireland, from Liverpool to Calcutta, May
31, lat. 5., 30. N., long. 20. 19. W., with loss of topmast;
same day, the Frances Ann, Hay, from Liverpool to China;
same day, the Mazeppa, from London to Algoa Bay, June 2 ;
the Mermaid, from London to Bombay, lat. 2. 53. N.,
long. 22.

Lord Holland intends to take a trip to Paris, as
scon as his Lordship is well enough to travel.
A very painful sensation was created in this town on
Wednesday in consequence of a report that Mr. John Raby
(lately a Lieutenant of the Bth Scotch Regiment of In-
fantry in the British Legion) had been killed on the Hinck-
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ley-road, about four miles from Leicester. Mr. Ruby's
youth, and fine handsome figure (standing six feet two

inches, though he had not completed his 19th year),
toge-
ther with the fact of his having been in service in Spain
(where he was twice wounded), occasioned almost universal

sympathy on the dreadful report of his untimely fate being
confirmed. The inquest was held at the Red Cow (Ng,
K. Walker, Esq. and several friends of the deceased being
present), when the following particulars were elicited :
Owing to the privations of the campaign (the forces fre-
quently having to subsist on brandy and cigars alone for
nearly two successive days), Mr. Raby had contracted a
habit of smoking, which he was unable to indulge in at
home in consequenco of the illness of one of his brothers,
who is in the last stage of a consumption. On this account

it was his practice to ride to a neigtl;ouring village, once or
twice a week, where he could indulge his propensity without
annoying any one ; and among other places he often called
at the Red Cow, on the Hinckley-road, about four miles
from Leicester. On Tuesday afternoon he came on a grey
mare, about four o'clock, and after enjoying his cigar, he
left the Red Cow, soon after seven o'clock, being perfectly
sober, to return to Leicester. William Branston, servant
to Mr. Raby, stated that he had examined the mare, and
found a wound on each hind hock, as if she had been down
on her haunches, and then fallen on her near side, and
wounded her hip. He had never seen the mare rear, but
be was of opinion that she bad been pulled up sharply, and
that she had fallen on her rider, having noticed while un-
dressing the body, that the outside of the deceased's left
knee and ancle were much lacerated and swollen, which
would correspond with the wounds on the mare. After a
few minutes consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Death," and the body was shortly afterwards
conveyed to Holy Cross Chapel, where it was yesterday
consigned to the family vault, constructed a few months ago
to receive the remains of the father of this lamented youth
—Leicester4hire Mercury.
FIRE AT BROMLEY.--011 Sunday afternoon,
about half-past three o'clock, intelligence was received at
the chief station of the Fire Establishment, -in Watling-
street, that the farm belonging to Mr. Wells, at Bromley,
Kent, was on fire. The farm was but a twelvemonth back
destroyed by fire ; the work of an incendiary, who has
escaped the vigilance of the police. It appears that the
fire was discovered as early as ten o'clock in the morning,
and then by one of the labourers employed on the pre-
mises ; it was perceived raging in a stack of hay, which
contained upwards of forty loads, and in the farm-yard,
which was adjoining, on either side, by twenty ricks of
barley, hay, wheat, clover, and pease. In a short period
the flames, added by a strong wind from the south, rapidly
extended to the stacks, and very quickly assumed such a
dreadful aspect that the destruction of the whole farm was
anticipated. By six o'clock in the evening of Sunday, the
flames were so far under that all tears of their extension
were at an end. The property destroyed must be (Treat,
to the amount of 3,0001. Five large
and, we believe,
stacks, one of clover, one of hay (this year), one of pease,
and two of oats, arc entirely consumed, and seven or eight
ss•riously damaged.
FANATICISM IN GERMANY-At the small but
populous city of Falkenstein, about six leagues from
Zwickau. in Saxony, a woman was found, about three weeks
ago, drowned in a well. There was nothing to prove that
this woman had been the voluntary cause of her own death,
nor anything to lead to such a conclusion, unless it lie the
circumstance that she had I),.en observed by her acquaint-
ance to manifest some dejection for several days previously.
On the day of her funeral an immense mob assembled in
the church-yard, to resist the interment of the body in
consecrated ground. . All remonstrances on the part of the
magistrates and the clergymen of the place proved fruitless,
cud on the arrival of a small detachment of military, the
rioters prepared to offer resistance. Under these circum-
stances the magistrates deemed it advisable not to proceed
to extrcualtks, and the body was buried outside the church-
yard. The Governmont, however, disapproved of this con-
cession, and sent a higher magistrate, with a stronger de-
tachment of military, to inquire into the occurrence. Seven
of the ringleaders were arrested, after which the body was
I dug up again, and buried in the church-yard, without any
1 further attempt at opposition,