The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-02 00:00:00

,18,5`1ZE'.

On Thursd# last the Hpn. r instice7LANy.ar
and the commenced ‘rhe
business of th.eir cikcui4 g Abingdon., where the. fol•
lowing Prisoneis were to take then: trials:— .'
Mary Hill, for
~the murder :of her- ,Int,,lnt male
baStard child; George Tenant, for stealing four shil-
lings from the brew-house of', R..Cornpron, Esq. of
Newbury ; dnd Mary Lay, for' having feloniously
stolen a seven-shilling pieee, the property of Moses
Pike. •

Their LlordShip Caere to open their. C,ornmistion
at Oxford,
.on Saturday., The following
,prisoners
afe in custody in. the Castle Gaol for trial,
lames Quartermain, re-committed by the Court
at the last Asslies, Charged with having broken
open the escritOir of josephJones, Esq: at Magdalen
College; and of having stolen therefrom sundry bank
notes, hiS:propertyi James Xing and Sarah King,
charged .pn supicion of having broken open the
ofThomas Lewenden, in the parisl
of, GOring, and stolen, from thenCe divers articles of
wearing apparel, the property of the said Thomas
Lewenden Sarah Gibbard, charged with ha,,ing
stblen one Irish linen shirt, and other
wearipg apparel, the property .of
HeadingtOrti Jarries Williams, charged with a tnis-i.
deniednor,.in having "obfalned the King's Monci'un-
der false, pretences • and Thomas 'Biddle, charged .feloniously killing and 'slaying John Lamb, in
the parish of Dunstew. • - •

At the Northampton assiz.:s, which ended oriTh urs-
day last,_ Henry Buckland, fOr stealing a bay mare.'
was capitally! convicted, and received sentence of.
death'. J'atries Butler„convited of grand larcenY„
was ordered t6.be imprisoned and kept' to hard la-
bour in the House of Corre&ion for two years, and
fined 18. Daniel Smith,for stealing a sow andlottr'
pigs, and William Collier, for stealing.` a Intintity,
hay, were seyerally.ordered- to be imprisoned
'kept to hard labour for twelverriOnthS, and nay„ a line',
rpf Richard Lovell and John thsforcl were ac-,
i,juitteti ; "and`Thomas Allen
.was liberated: by liio-
clamation. In.
_tile charge against Basford, a fliw,
was • discovered the yvArtljng of- the indictment,
which was a bar toitigoingbefore the Juryr it bbing
-generally expreSsed " for stealing -a ten 13OUntl, no
of the Northampton, Bank." he Learned in tge
observed that the:ta,tilt of Eughind eXisied ;,;;:,tic
-Charter, and was acknowledged Os .
land ; but the law' knew nOtning Of " i'n,y 7`.1
ampton .Bank ;".there might, be two, or there
be twenty Northampton BankS.
The - sale of the .breeding stack of the late Sir
`GEO. STRICKLAND, Bart. of fleynton, near Brid-
lington,.on Friday. se'nnight,was attended by a nu-
merous assemblage Of
,gentlemen farmers attd.anfi-
teurs from the sufroundmg neighbourhood, and ti,c
other parts of yorkshirei as' well ,as from Several' di
the adjoining. Counties. The stock was in high
andfetched,great prices, a; might Co. el-
pe6ted from the.,high cliarafter of the dt.tceacedoWner
for a judicious ,and intelligent breeder., Ode eow,,
sold at the very great price of 11.11..65. and another,
13 years old, for forty guineas. The: Whole, W-Li
informed, produced near 2.2001, althoigh 9c) ile4l
had been reserved out of the stock by the fattlily.
, After the sale, a bull belonging to Mr.GEo. COATA, ,
' of Driflield, whose reputation as a .breeder of stock
is. well known,, was sold for the enormous suer, ut
five hundeed•glineas I -
Portsdown Fair, whiCh excites such general attea-
tions produce either cheese or hurries eqAtal to
-:former fairs. , The cheese sold very high, and rt cis s
not, generally, very good.. There were -bbt-
horses, and 'they were of the loweSt breed. The..-4.--
Cond day-of the fair was remarkable for the torrents
of rain-which- fell ; and we are sorry to notice, sever-.
ral ,accidents which , happened in consequence.
man had his shoulder dislocated ; a wothan
Lake-lane broke her arm ; another I,vonaill 16(.1 her.
leg broken ; and, what• is still more melarichelY,
,a
infant child lost its life in its mother's dams, bivint;',.
to her wrapping it up too close, to preserve it from
the -rain. . . -

, , Within these last fourteen days the town awl
neighbourhood of Leeds have received more crderi
for cloth than have been given for the last two years
past ; and the, town of Hull, in consequence of the.
probability of Russian trade being augmented,'
is.beginning to shew more life and bustle.
YeSterday morning, a gentleman in King's-row,
Pentonville,, put an end to his existence, by cutting
his throat with a razor. No cause is at present as-
signed for his having committed this rash ad,
A fatal,accident occurred on Saturday evening
to Lady ANNE SMITH'S' groom, after setting her
Ladyship 'clown at the Duchess of YORK'S, at Oat-
-lands. On his return home to Mr. Smith's house,
Woburn Lodge; near Virginia Water, a spirited
mal on which he rode, suddenly took fright bo-
tweet] Weybridge and IThddlestone, and threw him
With great violence Upon some timber. The back
of his head came with such force against a piece of
timber that it 'shattered his skull to pieces. , General
FITZPATRICK'S groom was close behind the un-
fortunate man, arid took hirri up. He expired iu
his arms without a groan.
A 'most sanguinary circumstance occurred, in
Swansea on Sunday se'nnight, . Watkin
(better knoWn by the appellation of Wat the Tinker)
having had some angry words with his wife, John
Williams, their son, about 15 years of age, inter-
fered in favonr'of,his mother, which so enraged the
father, that he instantly seized a large butcher'to
knife which was on the table, and stabbed him un-
der the shoulder ; the knife went through the sub-
scapulares mtiscle and axilla into the thorax, slant-
ing towards•the:collar-bone; had it not taken that
diredion, it must have entered his heart. The depth
•of the Wound, which diVided a branch of the artery,
was nearly seveninches;.and he discharged upwards.
of fOur quarts of , blood .before Mr: Thos.. Williams,
the Surgeon who attends him, vas enabled to dilate
and tie. up the artery, which he did accbrding to
Sergeon Curca's new'plan, to prevent its slipping.—
The father was immediately taken into custody, and .
put in confinement, until the poor boy shall be de-
clared Out of danger, bit which is not likely to be
for some time, as he -now lies in a very bad condi-
tioo, although hopes are-entertained that a recovery
will take pace.
On Friday'a remarkable large hem was seen on
the manor of Lord TEMPLE, near Alresford, in
Hampshire. The size exceeded that of any hera
seep Pefoie in this country.