The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

The fine weather enjoyed in London for several suc-
cessive days seems to have been pretty general through-
out the country, and the progress of the harvest has
consequently been but little interrupted. From Scot-
land and Ireland, too, the reports received are fa-
vourable. In the latter country Connaught, with the
exception of Sligo, seems to have been this year pecu-
liarly exempted from the bad effects of the heavy rains
which fell during the two last months.
The Dun fries Courier says—" After a brief interval,
which promised much, and induced many to open sheaves
which would have remained closed were prescience
granted to erring man, the weather in this quarter was
most distressing up to Saturday last ; and many a time
and oft the thought recurred—

• The rain, it raineth every day.'
This day (Monday) promises well, as the barometer has
now reached a pretty high point. No rain having fallen
since Saturday forenoon, leading has already been prac-
ic,tble ; a result mainly owing to the favourable breezes
of Sunday ; and we sincerely trust that the hopes of all
will not be again damped, as was the case in the begin-
ning of last week."

MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S
EXHIBITION.-Tim seventy-second annual meeting of
this Society for the show of stock, and exhibition of
implements, roots, and seeds, for agricultural purposes,
took place on Tuesday, in the Police Yard, Clarence-
street, Princes-street. The competition was announced
to be open to stock from any part of the United
Kingdom. The members assembled at ten o'clock in
the morning, to elect new members and adjudge the
premiums. There was a dinner to conclude with, at
which Mr. Lech, was in the chair.

NEW POLICE OFFICE.—The spot selected by
Mr. Ray and the clerk of the Thames Police Court,
for the new office, is a piece of ground on the south
-ide of the Commercial-road, opposite Arbour-square,
bout a mile and a quarter from Whitechapol Church.
, The alterations proposed in the erection of the new
Court; and another at Hackney, are these :—The
Court at Hackney will have a district assigned to it,
consisting of Hackney and the places adjacent, and
part of the district of Worship-street, which is over-
burthened with business. The new Court in the Com-
mercial-road will take part of the present Lambeth-
street district, the land district at present assigned to
the Thames Police Office, and the cases from the river
below bridge and the docks. From this arrangement it
ill he seen that the number of Police Offices will not
be increased at the east end of the metropolis, but the
business will. The Tnamcs Police Magistrates will go
to the new Court in the Commercial-road, and those of
Lambeth-street to Hackney. The present Thames
Police Office will be used as a station for the Thames
or Marine Division of the Metropolitan Police.
The Animals' Friend Society, last week, caused
Samuel Evard to be fined 20s. by Mr. Greenwood, for
having cruelly whipped a horse, and Samuel Darnell 7s.
by Mr. Trail', for cruelty to a horse while breaking it
in. Mr. Burrell, however, we were surprised to find,
dismissed two most aggravated cases of two fellows
without badges or number having lashed an omnibus
horse all the way from the Lambeth-road to the north
end of Westminster-bridge, the evidence having beer
given by two e itnesses. Several other cases in London
and Dover were brought forward by its officers during
the week. The Society also held a very large and
hi2hly respectable meeting of its friends in Dover last
Friday evening, Mr. Horsenail in the Chair, when Dr.
Styles (author of the prize essay and member of the
London Committee of this valuable institution), attended
cud eloquently pleaded the cause, as did also Mr. Horse-
nail, the Rev. Messrs. Thompson and Lillicrop, and
Messrs. Elwin and John Mummery, and several other
gentlemen of talent and influence.
COACH ACCIDENTS.—On Monday, the 30th
September, at about a quarter to eight P.M., the Paul
Pry Cheltenham, coach SN as overturned in London-street,
Paddington, at the entrance of the Great Western Rail-
way station, when it was about to be placed on tne eight
o'clock train. As it was passing the gate the near horse
took fright at a man who was passing by, and turned so
suddenly as to run the wheels into the side drain of the
road, in spite of all the efforts of the coachman, who was
a very steady roan, and who has long been in the employ
of Messrs. Gilbert, the proprietors of the coach. There
was a considerable load on the roof, and seven outside
and one inside passengers, who all escaped, with the ex-
ception of one gentleman, who was thrown against the
pier of the gate ; the body of the coach crushed his
head against the brickwork. He was immediately ex-
tricated and conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where
he lies in a precarious state. The other passen-
gers and luggage proceeded on their journey by a
later train.—On Wednesday evening last, when near
Stretford, the axletree of the coach running between
Northwich and Manchester, known as " Ruffley's"
coach, broke, and several of the passengers were
thrown off, but no injuries sustained beyond the inflic-
tion of a few scratches. With a little delay an omnibus
was procured, and the horses taken from the coach
being put to it the passengers proceeded onwards. At
the Unicorn Inn in Altrincham the driver pulled up,
and having to adjust some lugguge on the roof, kit the
horses standing alone. The horses finding their heads
freed, started off at full gallop, taking the Stockport-
road. Some 4,7 the passengers escaped by jumping out ;
but others in doing so were severely injured. The last
passengers in the omnibus were a female and her two
little children. With these, one of which she tied upon
her back, and the other grasped under her arm, she too,
jumped out, and falling upon her head was killed upon
the spot. The horses proceeded at full speed through
Timperley, until coming in contact with the toll-gate,
the omnibus was literally knocked to pieces. The
wheels yet remaining to the horses they continued on,
and were ultimately stopped about four miles from Al-
trincham. The females who thus shockingly met her
death was the wife of a journeyman tailor near North-
wich, and the mother of four children. She had been
away from home a fortnight, on a visit, and was on her
return when the accident happened.—Macclesfield
Courier.
On Tuesday Wm. Merritt, a coal-whipper, was
charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, at Lambeth-
Street, with stabbing his wife with a table knife on the
left arm, in so serious a mrnner that she is considered
in great danger. From the evidence it appeared that
at a late hour on Saturday the prisoner returned home,
and having a slight altercation with his wife, he took
up a table knife and stabbed her in the right arm with
such violence that the blade passed right through the
fleshy part, about four inches from the shoulder. Prisoner,
being asked what he had to say, replied—" lied—" It's all the
effect of jealousy, I was drunyl;P
at the time." Mr.
Norton---" Jealousy,
y'
so prevalent that some serious
indeed This abominable system
of stabbing is becoming
examples must be made to check it The certificate
from one of the medical officers
cer belonging." to the Lon-
don Hospital was here banded in,
and it appearing from
it that the woman was in danger,'andnoti n a fit state
to be removed, the prisoner was remanded
to a future
day.