The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-17 00:00:00

RIOT AT HACKNEY

For some days past the respectable inhabitants of Hack-
ney have been in a state of considerable alarm, in conse-
quence of an anticipated attack upon several acres of corn
growing upon Hackney Dawns, and which is Lammas land ;
the right of entrance open which by the parishioners com-
mences on the 12th of August, and terminates on the 6th
of April. During the other period the property is let by
Mr. Tyson, the lord of the manor, to various persons, and
it consists of forty acres, twenty of which is rented by Mr.
Adamson, the entire twenty consisting of standing corn
ready to come under the hand of the reaper. As it would
take a week to clear that extent of ground, a notice was
issued, calling upon the parishioners to refrain for that pe-
riod sending their cattle on the Downs. But a notion had
got abroad, that not only, whether or no the crops were
ungathered, they could send their cattle on and after the
12th of August, but that also the parishioners had a right of
ownership in whatever was growing there. On Monday last
some parishioners placed their cows on the Downs, and by
force seized some corn, the property of Mr. Adamson. Two
parishioners (Mr. Neale, a fishmonger, and Mr. Ambrose,
a cowkeeper) were apprehended, and taken before Mr.
Broughton, at Worship-street police-office, who, having
heard the charge, dismissed the case, leaving the question
undecided. The parties, with their friends, who had accom-
panied them to the office, returned back to Hackney, and,
believing that they had obtained a victory, they placed blue
favours in their hats and bonnets. The report of their suc-
cess obtained quick circulation in the town, the effect of
which was, that an opinion became generally entertained
that the corn was the common property of the parish. Mr.
Adamson, fearing that some attempt might be made, pro-
ceeded to the Downs, but where he had not been long be-
fore a ruffianly attack was made upon him. He was knocked
down, and while on the ground he was attempted to be
throttled, while several exclaimed " Throttle the --."
The life of Mr. Adamson was saved by some of his work-
men coming to his assistance, and the man was given into
the custody of a police constable. Shortly after this a scene
of the most extraordinary nature took place. Crowds of
persons collected from all parts of the town, consisting not
only of the parishioners, but some of the lowest characters
in the town, who committed a simultaneous robbery of the
property. By about 8 o'clock there were 3,000 or 4,000
persons on the Downs, who were engaged in various ways
taking the property. Some were reaping, while others were
binding up in sheaves, and trucks, waggons, and carts were
being filled. Mr. Adamson was present witnessing the de-
♦astation of his property. Many of the most respectable
inhabitants who surrounded him, exclaimed, " Good God'.
do we live in a civilized country ?" The most extraordinary
part of the affair is, that though there were some police on
the spot, while the station-house is but a short distance from
where the riotous multitude were proceeding in their career
of destruction, that the police did not take strong measures
to prevent it. They brought back above a cart load that
had been taken away, but the depredations continued till
near one o'clock, amidst the wild cheers of the assembled
multitude. Proceedings will be taken by Mr. Adamson
against the more wealthy of the parishioners, who excited
the plunder. The loss of property amounts to above 601.

On Monday morning, as Mr. William Jackson, of
Hereford, was walking along the road, he saw one of those
begging impostors dressed as a sailor dividing with another
fellow a considerable sum of money, the fruits of their im-
positions on the public. Mr. Jackson made a remark upon
the manner in which the public were imposed upon, when
the scoundrel hurled a large stone at his head, knocked him
down, and beat him over the head and chest in the most
ferocious manner. Mr. Jackson being a strong man, on
recovering himself, seized his antagonist, who swore he would
murder him, and after a desperate struggle, kept his hold
until assistance came. He had him conveyed to the city
police-office, where he was fined 11. and costs, which being
unable to pay, he was committed for three months' hard
labour to Bridewell, and the money found upon him (325.)
was ordered to go towards his support in gaol.—Hereford
Journal. _ _ .

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STAFFA.—On Tuesday, the Ist. instant, three
Glasgow ladies, who happened to be on a visit in the
Island of Coll, set off from thence for Staffa in a small boat
with six of a crew. They had no more than time to survey
the magnificent cave of Fingal, when, on a sudden, a com-
plete hurricane came on. The attempt to leave the island
in their fragile bark, in such weather, would assuredly lead
to their being swallowed up by the remorseless waves.
They had no alternative but to remain in the island, deso-
late and uninhabited as it was—without a house, however
humble, to shelter them from the storm—without fire, and
with their slender store of provisions exhausted. The
hardy highlanders hauled the bark ashore, and, with the
aid of the scanty sail, constructed a rude tent, under the
shelter of which the unhappy ladies were constrained to pass
the night. Morning came, and brought hope, but no calm.
The boatman hoisted a signal of distress on the highest part
of the island, but to no purpose ; the storm raged as fiercely
as ever, " return or aid preventing." Towards the even-
ing of the second day, however, five daring islanders from
Gometra, during a temporary lull, ventured their own
lives to rescue the party. But this only made matters
worse ; for scarcely had they reached Staffa when the tem-
pest broke out with redoubled violence, and, balking their
well-meant exertions, compelled them to remain with those
whom they had come to succour. Thus passed the second
night. On the third day their hopes were raised by per-
ceiving- a steamer labouring and snorting amongst the huge
billows ; but when within a few miles of Staffs, she con-
sulted her safety, and put back. Shortly afterwards they
descried a larger one, which turned out to be " the Maid
of Islay." All she could possibly accomplish was to send
four quartern loaves ashore to the famishing prisoners.
Gradually the weather moderated, and in the course of the
same day they were enabled to leave the island in their
boats ; and the ladies have now reached Glasgow in safety.
—Glasgow Courier.
KING WILLIAM.—The following anecdote of Wil-
liam the Fourth will be read with interest by many of our
readers :—A short time previous to the illness of his late
Majesty a poor lad in the employ of Mr. Hitchins, baker,
of Walcat-street, in this city, got possessed of the idea that
he had a taste for music, and determined on making an
effort to obtain some assistance whereby he might acquire
the means of gratifying this taste. He accordingly "screw-
ed his courage to the sticking point," and wrote a letter to
the King, in which he ingeniously set forth his wants, stated
himself to be a poor lad, and hoped his Majesty would take
his case into consideration, and present him with a piano, in
the event of his having an old one which he did not want.
The King, with that promptitude which might have been
anticipated from his business habits, immediately caused an
inquiry to be made, through Lord James O'Brien, respect-
ing the truth of the boy's representation, and his Lord-
ship, finding that no duplicity had been resorted to, re-
ported to his Majesty accordingly. The King at once
expressed a wish that the boy should be sent to London,
to have the advantage of a musical education at the Royal
Academy ; but this munificent proposal was received with
suspicion rather than gratitude by the boy's parents, who
thought that the King only wanted to get their son sent to
London, to punish him for his impudence. They, there-
fore, obstinately refused to sanction his removal. Their
unfounded fears, however, did not prevent his Majesty from
performing an act of kindness, for only a short time pre-
, vious to his death his Majesty ordered a piano to be pur-
chased, as a present for the lad. The instrument was ac-
cordingly placed in the hands of his employer, Mr. Hit-
chens. The circumstance which prompted the lad to ad-
dress his Majesty was his hearing a paragraph read from a
newspaper detailing the success which had attended a simi-
lar application by a poor girl to the King of Prussia.—
Bath Gazette.

The natural slope of the surface for miles above and
below Placentia, is the greatest of any I have ever seen under
culture ; so great, indeed, that the mountain showers, which
fall in torrents, would wash the soil and its crop into the river,
if the farmers had not taken the precaution to throw it into
little terraces at every few yards. These seem, from the
opposite side, to present a countless succession of wavy
steps, up which the spectator imagines he could walk seria-
tim, and which arc in reality so close, that, for the most
part, the arable surface is only four or five yards across, and
in some places a man standing on the edge of one step could
touch the step above him with his walking-stick. The ori-
ginal surface of the slope is nowhere to be seen. The pre-
sent is all artificial, and viewed in profile, at sharp turns of
the road, affords a striking alternation of faces, one set
nearly horizontal, the other nearly vertical, like the sil-
houette of a saw or a stair-case. In many parts the strata
of red iron-stone which compose these mountains stand.
so upright that the farmer spares himself the trouble ?f
building artificial walls, and, having adjusted the soil on their
several edges or landing places, sows his maize thereon, or
leaves it to throw up a natural herbage for the cattle that
traverse these ridges with all the naivete of wild goats. The
general frontal aspect bears a whimsical resemblance to the
wavy pattern that
.Constable has impressed upon the patent
calico binding of his new editions, and would probably re-
mind a fisherman of the ripples of a sandy shore at full ebb.
A Southdown farmer would feel sorely puzzled at the sight,
and perhaps return home in a state of surprise, admitting of
of no increase even if he were to find the face of the cliffs
at Dover cultivated to the summit.—Stephens' Basque Pro-
vinces.
A TURKISH BATA.—The sultry weather ingiced
me to take, for the first time, a Turkish bath, to which I
was invited by a Greek friend: The bath room was situ-
ated in a street at the back of my residence. We were
first introduced into a room which was delightfully cool, and
then entered an inner apartment, which was full of hot
steam, which soon penetrated the pores, so that in ten mi-
nutes the perspiration was dripping from us. 'We then went
through the ordeal of shampooing ; which is, in fact, being
rubbed down by a flannel rubber in a similar manner to a

groom dressing a horse ; and, after twenty minutes' opera-
tions, we were then drenched with luke-warm water. Upon
coming out of the bath, you lay down in a bed, and the at-
tendant brings you coffee, and a pipe if you desire it. The
price is about one drachma and a half—including the
shampooing, the coffee, and pipe.—Cochrane's Wanderings
in Greece.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—In our last we
copied a paragraph, which has been going the round of the
papers, stating that for the last five weeks considerable ex-
citement had prevailed in the neighbourhood of the Edge-
ware-road, London, in consequence of the mysterious disap-
pearance of a female named Sansbury, the wife of a baker,
carrying on business at No. 7, John-street, who left her
home on the Ist of May, for the purpose of visiting a brother
residing in the neighbourhood of the Haymarket, and had
not since been heard of. In consequence of the description
of her person contained in the paragraph in question, and
the recollection of a circumstance which occurred some
time since, inspector Stephens, of the city station, was in-
duced to make some inquiries upon the subject, which have
resulted in the discovery of the lost lady, who, in her own
name, and in her proper person, was joined in holy wedlock
at Christ Church, in this city, on Sunday morning last, to
a journeyman tailor, named Blewer, who has been working
during the last six months at the shop of Mr. D. Peters,
in High-street. It appears that, for some reasons best
known to the parties, Mrs. Sansbury had determined ner
longer to live with her lawful partner, and she accordingly
left London by coach, and arrived in this city on the 2d of
May last, with the intention of sailing from this pert to
America ; but being unable to obtain an immediate passage,
she took up her lodgings at a tavern in the neighbourhood
of Wine-street, where, it is believed, she first became ac-
quainted with her newly-acquired protector, and formed
the connection which has terminated in her illegal marriage.
As soon as these facts had been pretty clearly ascertained,
Mr. Bishop, the superintendent of police, wrote an sec-
count of the circumstance to the injured husband, who has
since arrived in this city, and fully assured himself of the
infidelity of his frail partner ; but what further steps will
be taken on the subject we are not yet in a condition to,
say. We will leave our readers to form their own estimate
of the value of Mr. Sansbury's loss. But there is one me-
lancholy circumstance connected with the affair, which all
must equally deplore—we allude to the suicide of the ser-
vant Eliza Colebury, who, from the dread of being accused
as the murderess of her mistress, put a period to her exis-
tence by hanging herself. It is due to the memory of that
poor unfortunate girl that these facts should become known,
and it is therefore that, with every respect for the feelings
of the abused husband, we have felt it to be our duty to.
publish them.—Bristol Mercury.
THE HARVEST.—In the counties of Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Bedford, and Hertford, wheat-cutting gene-
rally commenced about the middle of last week ; the average
produce is allowed, even by the farmers, to be a good one.
Here and there patches of wheat were beaten down by the
heavy rains and hurricane which occurred about a fortnight
back, but the injury was far less than might be expected ;
the corn was already nearly ripe, and the fine settled weather
that followed has enabled the farmer to cut and stand it in
shocks before any material injury was done, and it has been
allowed to remain uncarted till sufficiently dry and ripe.
The great bulk of corn in the counties above named has
been got in in the finest possible condition. A piece of land
consisting of an acre and three-quarters, at Swavesay, five
miles beyond Cambridge, on the Huntingdon road, affords
a valuable proof of what industry and good husbandry can
effect. The owner has no other land, and has for years
past paid particular attention to the manuring, ploughing,
and weeding this little plot, as also to the judicious selection
of crops alternately grown upon it. The consequence has
been a great general superiority between the produce of his
land, and other land adjacent similarly sown, and of the
same natural quality of soil. This year he sowed it with
wheat, which he had dibbled in. .The produce is amazing
the straw, including the ears, generally is five feet high, and
in some few instances is nearly six feet high. The ear itself
is of well proportioned length, closely set with large and
heavy grains. The whole crop stood well together, but
from the length of straw, and the great weight of the ear, it
it has suffered more than the ordinary crops from the late
storm. The writer, by personal observation, verified the
truth of the description given of this crop. The barley has
suffered much from the rains, and is beat down to a great..
extent. Experienced persons say much of it will be unfit
for malting. Oats are a good crop. Beans and turnips,
which are extensively grown in the open plains of Cambridge-
shire and Hants, look very favourably. The beans are short
in stalk, but well covered with pods. The turnips are a
strong healthy plant, and seem generally in these parts to
to have escaped the fly. Of apples the crop is generally
abundant, pears moderately so ; but of plums there are seve-
ral instances of the failure of the choicer kinds. _ _

THE PROPHETIC DEW-DROP.---A delicate child,
pale and prematurely wise, was complaining on a hot morn-
ing, that the poor dew-drops had been too hastily snatched
away, and not allowed to glitter on the flowers like other
happier dew-drops, that live the whole night through, and
sparkle in the moonlight, and through the morning onwards
to noon-day. " The sun," said the child, " has chased them
away with his heat, or swallowed them up in his wrath."
Soon after came rain and a rainbow ; whereupon his father
pointed upwards. " See," said he, " there stand the dew-
drops gloriously re-set—a glittering jewellery—in the hea-
vens ; and the clownish foot tramples on them no more.
By this, my child, thou art taught that what withers upon
earth blooms again in heaven." Thus the father spoke, and
know not that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after
the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early
wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven. —Jean
Paul Richter.
On Sunday morning last Captain E. Dix, R.N., of
Truro, who had been on a short visit to W. S. Bentall, Esq.,
of Tones, proposed to Mr. John Bentall that they should
just go over the bridge and see the Rev. W. Cornish for a
few minutes before church. They had scarcely reached
the turnpike-gate when Captain Dix reeled gently forward
to the ground, and instantly expired without the least sigh
or groan. Prior to the fatal moment he had enjoyed his
usual good health and spirits.—Western Luminary.
PEDESTRIANISM.—In consequence of some diffe-
rence of opinion respecting the physical powers of the
human frame, and what might be accomplished if a man
felt inclined to exert himself as a pedestrian, Edward Bryant,.
of the Pottery, Parson's-green, Middlesex, undertook,
.for
a considerable bet, to walk sixty miles in twelve successive
hours, and yesterday was appointed for the performance of
the feat, on the King's private road, Chelsea, from Mr..
Steed's, the Man in the Moon Tavern, to Stanley-bridge, a
distance of half a mile. The chronometers of the umpires
being set and locked up, Bryant prepared to start, and was
dressed in light white trousers, dispensing with the incum-
brance of his coat and waistcoat. The first eighteen miles
he accomplished in three hours, and at various times in the
day he halted, for the purpose of taking refreshment. At
twenty-five minutes past seven lie came in, having com-
pleted this unrivalled performance in eleven hours and
twenty-five minutes, and thirty-five minutes to spare, with-
out being in any way distressed ; and so fresh was he at the
termination of the undertaking, that he could have walked
another ten miles without the slightest difficulty, and bets
to this effect were offered, but there were no takers.
WICK, AUG. 10.—The result of the election here
has cast a gloom over the Liberal party in Caithness—a
result not to be ascribed to the real voters, but to the ficti-
tious life-renters and the old parchment voters. Every foul
means was used to corrupt the constituency, and the en-
closed pamphlet will show you the arguments employed to
induce them to break their pledges. The pamphlet allu-
ded to is the substance of a speech delivered by the Re.
Mr. Phin, which we shall notice by and by. It is a fat
subject to come from the mouth of a clergyman. This
Mr. Phin made himself remarkably busy on the hustings
amid the excitement and confusion of party warfare. He is
heartily hated for his conduct. All the Liberals who have
pews in his church have resolved to sell them, and never
enter his church again.—Aberdeen Herald.

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SUITES OF EAR-RINGS, NECKLACE, AND
BROOCH.—A variety in the latest taste, varying in price from
10/. to 20/. the Suite, aro arranged in the upper Show Room for
selection. They consist of Pearls and other real Gems, Amethyst,
Topaz, and other stones.
T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker!.
47, Cornbill, London. N.B.__A Pamphlet, containing a List of
the Prices of l'late, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &C., may be
had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid applicaiion2,

BIRTH.
On the 14th inst., at Elvetham, Lady Charlotte Calthorp7, °f a
daughter.

ARR.
On the 12th inst., at St.M
Panc lED
ras New Church, Dr. D. Thom'
son, RN., to Mary, eldest daughter of A. Thomson, Esq., of the
Navy Pay-office.
On the 9th inst., at St. Luke's, Norwood, Mr. Septimus T€l
kins, to Elizabeth Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. R. Simrs )11, °
Elm-grove, Norwood.
On the 15th inst., at Marylebone Church, Major Bucknall Estt:
court, 43d Light Infantry, second son of Sir T. G. B. Este!ld
Bart., M.P., to Caroline, daughter of the Right lion. Rego,
Pole Carew, of Anthony, Cornwall.

DIED.
On the 13th inst., at Oak-hill, East Barnet, Herta, Cather;oB
Haughton, widow of the late Sir S. H. Clarke, Bart.
~:er
On the 9th inst., at Cheltenham, Benjamin Lea, Esq., of
Islington-terrace, aged 55, and late of the firm of Lea, Greenly°
and Lindop, Great St. Thomas Apostle.
On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Emma, second daughter of the
late C. H. Hancock, Esq. p't.
On the 13th inst., aged 88, Mr. James Marten, of Otford, it
On the 11th inst., at Harrogate, William Camac, Esq., of Mar
field-street, London, and Hastings, Sussex. )os•
On the 14th inst., at Greenwich, aged 67, Mary, relict a TI
Haytor, Esq., of Brixton.

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of Middlesex.—Thursday, August 17, 1537.