The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-04 00:00:00

GREENWICH PETTY SESSIONS.

John Thomas was placed at the bar, charged with steal-
ing two asses of the feminine gender.
Previous to the witnesses being examined, the Magi-
strates ordered the donkeys to be brought in that they might
be identified, and in a few minutes they made their appear-
ance, braying and frisking their tails, and with more than
the usual intellectuality inherited by donkeys, playfully trot-
ted up to the Justices, and rubbed their noses over the
police charge-sheet on the table in a very sympathising and
friendly manner. This breach of good manners was, how-
ever, promptly checked by Colonel Forman giving them a
sharp whack over the muzz!e, and saying, " There was no-
thing for them to cat there ;" while half a dozen voices
screeched out, " Wo back."
The Clerk endeavoured to look serious, and the Magi-
strates inquired of Mrs. Marsh, the owner of one of the
ass.,s, whether either belonged to her ?
Mrs. Marsh in an instant pounced forward, and hugging
one of the, donkeys most affectionately round .the neck,
exclaimed, " Jane, Jane, oh you pretty etetur ; this is my
donkey, it is indeed, Sir." This sudden ebullition of fed-
i.); excited much laughter ; and while Mrs. Marsh conti-
nued to fondle her " dear Jane," a little boy named East
was descanting on the notch in the other donkey's tail.
Mr. Young, who, up to this time, had been nearly
cooked with laughter, said he wished donkeys could speak.
The intellectual animals stared the worthy Magistrate in
the face, and simultaneously gavo an expressive nod of
concurrence.
The evidence was then taken, from which it appeared
that the prisoner had stolen Miss Jane from Mrs. Marsh,
of Dragmore-lane, Streatham, on the 17th of August,
and bad exchanged it for an titer and a shilling with a
person, named Per: in;;, residing- near Lewisham-bridge.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial. •
A second ch4rge was preferred against the prisoner for
stealing the other donkey,. nenied "-Fanny," from 4Tr.
East, of Clapham.—llt was also committed on this charge.

ATTEMPTED MURDER of a WIFE an
lIElt PARAMOUR-ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

BOLT LOGNE-SUR-MER, AUG. W.—Considerable excite-
ment was crested in this town yesterday morning, in con-
sequence- of the following occurrence :—lt appears that for
some time past Mons. Robeir Volant, the Maitre des Postes,
residing at the termination of the Rue Royale, on the Paris
road, has had some suspicion of the fidelity of his lady,
whom lie bad long narrowly watched, but without making
the anticipated discovery. The suspected party was M.
Genoux Courtenier, a married man, and an extensive and
wealthy corn merchant, residing in the Rue de l'Hopital,
wl:o had been observed to pay Madame Volant those at-
tartions which were incompatible with propriety and deco-
rum. The result of those attentions at length became so
apparent (the injured party not haying cohabited with his
wife for the last eight months) that the husband bit upon
the following expedient to arrive at the truth of his con-
jectures. He pretended to his frail rib that he was under
the necessity of proceeding to his father's at St. Omer, on
most urgent business, and that he would be absent from
home three or four days. He left Boulogne on Monday,
and was bade adieu in the most affectionate manner by his
young wife. He remained a short distance from the town
until about three o'clock on the following morning, when,
determined to be convinced of his wife's infidelity, and to
punish her betrayer, he returned home, armed with 3 pistols
loaded with ball. Upon entering his chamber, he there dis-
covered Madame Volant and her paramour together. The
first pistol he fired at his wife, which but slightly wounded
her in the abdomen—the agitation of her husband prevent-
ing him taking the deadly aim he intended. The report
awakened Monsieur Courtenier, vshn thereupon flew to the
window to escape. The second pistol, aimed at the se-
ducer, flashed in the pao, and he was thus fortunately
enabled to make his exit from the window in a whole
skin, "sans everything," with the exception of his drawers,
and took refuge in a neighbouring wine and beer-house,
where he procured some clothes to enable him to return
to his own residence, in the Rue de l'Hopital. The re-
port of the pistol alarmed one of the po,tillions, who slept
in the house, and who entered the room just in time to ar-
rest the arm of the excited husband, who had raised the
third pistol to his head, with the intention of blowing out
his own brains. An alarm being given, the police imme-
diately repaired to the spot, and a p;•oce,s verbal of the af-
fair was drawn up by the Commissatre, who took possession
of the whole of the apparel left behind by M. Courtenier.
The husband was removed to the house of a friend in the
greatest anxiety of mind ; his frail partner was sent home
to her parents, and the gay Lothario is non est invenius.
It is the intention of the wife of Monsieur Courtenier to
commence immediate proceediAgs against her husband for
infidelity in the Cours d'Assizes ; he having rendered him-
self liable to three years' imprisonment, and the woman,
Volant, to two years' solitary confinement. The brother
of the seducer was to have been married to a young lady
of high respectability and great beauty ; but in consequence
of this unfortunate affair the ceremony has 'been postponed,
and, it is feared, will be entirely broken• off.

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The Scotch Papers announce the death of Mr. J.
D. Carrick, well known in the North as the author of some
exquisite comic effusions, and as the editor of " Wbistle-
binkie," a lively collection of songs, and " The Laird of
Logan's Jests." He seems to have been greatly beloved
by his friends.
COVET-GA iIDN T
NNif EA TRE.—Mr. Macready
has accepted en opera by Mr. Rooke, in which Miss
Shirreff, Wilson, and H. Phillips will sustain principal
parts, supported by Stretton, Manvers, and we have heartl,
the p riebcosxe of
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that offers have been made to Mr. Boisragon, of Ckwiten-
liam, for the opera requires three(hb4seses
shillingsr he
admission are to be,
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" Fatally, Sir, to all those who impugn the prudence or
utility of in coreuct, who put the question to me cvi bond,
I answer, that the very question proves my justification.
When there is such a shrinking under truth—when there is
such a call for the suppression of truth—there must be soree-
; hing wrong, which requires to be revealed. I touch not
private character—l dealt not in personalties—l impute no
etotives. My object is to reveal and censure political in-
trigues, or politic:el follies, whichever my questioners
et:ty be pleased to call them ; and it appeers to toe,
Sir, that this is the most fisting moment to censure
the pa-t, in order to correct the future. A new reign has
commenced—we have a youthful Sovereign, prepared, as
I trust you have truly, stated, to seek after her people's
happiness, unpolluted by former prejudices, in close and
cordial co-operation with the ministry she has selected.
This demand for the suppression of truth, under such
circumstances, satisfies me, incontestably, that 1 am now
performing a sacred duty to my country ; and, when I exa-
mine the inmost recesses of my heart, I have the response
of a clear conscience, that the pure and unadulterated love
of my country and ray kind is the only impelling principle of
my conduct."
IVe unaffectedly hope that Mr. Sharman Crawford will
at length open his eyes to the inevitable ten lency of the
course be is so unaccountably pursuing. We join the
Freeman in entreating him " to forego his own imprac-
ticable theories, and devote himself to the attainment of
practical good—the present is not a time for cavilling
about details. -If the friends of Ireland were in a positicrn
to demand all tteey beve a right to expect, or if the Mi-
nistry were in a position to grant it, we would insist as
strenuously as Mr. Crawford (and Mr. O'Connell would
de the same) on instant justice ; but so long as the Mi-
nistry are obliged to contend against rank Toryism on the
one hand, and Tory-Radicalism on the other, the cause of
Ireland must suffer, and the designs of her enemies become
wore and more certain of success."

VIOLATION OF PLESBYTL.ZIAN RIGHTE.—The Northern
iVhig says th,t en individual of highly respectable charac-
ter, who had been appointed to the office of elder in Towns-
end-street meeting-house, Belfast, voted at the late election
for Mr Gibson, who is hUtisAl an elder in the Synod of
Ulster, to v.hich the congregation in question is attached.
No sooner was this fact known than an outcry was raised by
certain Tories in the confraternity, and a demand made that
he excellent man who bad dared to think and act for blip-
self, and vote for the Queen's Government, should be ex-
pelled from the eldership because of his dire offence. Hay-
ing failed in their first demand, they resorted to a petition,
which they accompanied by a threat, that unless the ex-
pulsion should take place, they themselves v,ould withdraw
from the connection. This demonstration alarmed the mi-
nister (the Reverend Josias Wilson), and he prepared a do-
cument which he requested the elder to sign, and allow it
to be read -in his name from the pulpit. The purport of
this paper was to affirm his detestation of Popery as a
system of superstition and idolatry ; his sorrow fin- having
given a vote that seemed to countesiance that system and
dist ur', the peace of the congregation : and it was proposed
to add to it a pledge never to vote for the Liberal party
again ! The worthy elder repudiated the proposal with
scorn, and in a manly and consistent letter ho not only re-
signed his eldership, but all connection with the congrega-
tion.

NEWSPAPER NV ORLD.—A great revolution in the news-
paper world "will commence here on Tuesday next, ';hen by
a recent Post-office arrangement, we expect to have the
London papers of Monday morning by five o'clock on the
afternoon of the ne%t, day, and so on, until some moving
powers be discovered to distance the operations of steam.
THE BATTLE OF THE
the reply to Mr. Drutninond's inquiry respecting the pre-
sence of men holding a public trust at the dinner given by
Colonel V,rner, when the toast of " The Battle of the
Diamond" was given :

" CiLtlediflon, Armagh, Aug. 23, 1837.
" bad the honour of yours of the 2.2.1 inst., and
I beg leave to state, for the information of his Excellency
the I.ord Lieutenant, that I was not present wilen the toast
Vnu mention—' The Battle of the- Diamond' was drunk at
Colonel Verner's dinner (if it was gi% en) ; and am not in
the habit 'of drinking toasts commemorative of the civil
discord of my country.

" And I beg you will further state, for the information of
his Excellency, that I believe he has received a very erro-
neous statement of the circumstances under which the
above conflict .took place, as it was totally caused by the
hostile incursion of a band of Roman -Catholics, who came
over the Blackwater, from the county of Monaghan, and
the counties to the west of it, for the-purpose of attacking
the peaceable inhabitants of this county, who were, fortu-
nately, met and repulsed by a very small body of yeomen,
at a place called the Diamond.'
" I am convinced there is no man living knows mare of
the transaction than I do myself, as I was then in command
of a Highland regiment, which was ordered from Glaris
camp into this county the day after the affray took 'place ;
and I can confidently assert that no manner of disturbance
took place afterwards, at least for the eighteen months that
my regitnnt remained in the distriet.—l am, &c.
THOMAS MOLYNEUX.
" T. Drummond, Dublin Castle."

BRIBERY.—It is said that Mr. Mahony is about to
commence actions against several newspapers for copying
from one of the Cork papers an article charging him with
bribery at the Kinsale election.

EX.C6JSIVE DEALING.—In reference to Mr. Lynch's
losing the agency of Mr. Fitzgerald because he gave his
vote'to the popular candidate at the Kerry election, the
Dublin Erening Post says, "We must, iu spite of our-
selves, we are afraid, begin to retaliate."
CORK.—A gentleman named Geeran, the coroner of
Cork, has had informations tendered against him for per-
jury,it having been alleged that he voted out of a freehold
where his interest had ceased. He voted for the Liberals,
and the case was got up against him by the Orange party,
who brought him before a Magistrate, who took the in-
formations. Mr. Geeran gave bail, and says, that he has
no doubt of showing the thing up as a base conspiracy.
Loan LIEUTENANT.—In his Excellency's answer to
the recent Address of St. Michael's Parish, the following
important truth is enunciated :—" The unexampled po-
litical contentment on the part of the great body of the
people which has marked their confidence in the impartial
protection of the executive must have convinced the ob-
serving portion of your fellow-subjects in Great Britain
that the real oliject of the Irish nation is only to be treated
in the true spirit of the Constitution, as an integral por-
tion of a great people."
GAMBLING-HOUSE.—Yesterday morning, about two
o'clock, as' peace-officer Caffrey was passing through
Nassau-street, he saw several gentlemen coming out of
a house, and suspecting that play was going inside, had
temerity to enter, and on going up stairs saw several gen-
tlemen round a table playing at hazard ; he made prison-
ers- of two of them, and took the dice and castor into his

possession. He thought to call out the watch for as-
sistance, but before he had time to do so, the prisoners
were rescued from him, and he was severely assaulted. All
the parties made their escape.

The MiSs Goddard to whom the Duchess of St.
Albans bequeathed 400/. per annum, tirmerly resided
wiitl her Grace wheu Mrs. Coutts, i 0 the capacity of com-
panion.

THE WEATHER.—We are happy to inform our
friends at a_distance, that the weather in this quarter con-
tinues remarkably favourable. Indeed, we seldom remem-
ber a season in which there was so happy an alternation of
rain and sunshine (so much so, that an inhabitant of the
west of Scotland is said to have remarked, " that, had he
had the sun in one hand and a watering-pan in the other,
he could not have produced a' better summer)," and the
result, so far as the harvest is concerned, is of the most
gratifying kind. The fields around Edinburgh, and firm
our own observation we are enabled to include a circuit of
many miles, are now dotted with stooks, and although sew.-
, ral which rettain uncut are a good deal beaten down, they
are :till unusually abundant. Crowds of Irish reapers are
busy in all parts of the country.—Scohoian.
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