The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-23 00:00:00

MARYLEBOIVE.

Mr. Nesbitt, a perit-a-ner:;;dinginNVigmore-street, Ca-
vondish-square, attended at the office to resist a claim made by
ccitain firemen, for having been present with their engir.es on
the previous day, at a period when one of his (Mr. Nesbitt's)
chimneys %iris, as alleged, on fire.
In support of the claim a chimney-sweeper, named John
Ratcliff, was put into the witness box.
Mr. RAWLINSON-NOW, what have you to state? Sweep—
Vy, I yes a going past Mr. Nesbitt's house at one o'clock
yesterday, ven I seed more nor a yard of flame cum bang out
of the top of von of the chimleys; that ere's all I knows about
it, my Lord.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Did you go in doors and apprise the in-
mates of their being in any danger? Sweep—No, my Lord,
not by no means votsomdever, I did'nt consider it vos busi-
ness for to do so; but I did this here, I fetch the ingin.
Mr. RawuNsoN—You were quite pleased to see the flame
were you not ? Sweep—ln course I vos, so I vont tell a lie
about it by saying I vosn't.
Mr. RawwlsoN—Well, you are at all events a very candid
witness. I dare say you wouldn't have any objection to see
all the chimneys in London on fire? Sweep—No objection in
the least, and that's the blessed truth.
Mr. RawuNsoN—You're a very pretty sort of a fellow,
stand down. .

Other witnesses pro and con. were examined, and the fire-
men ►•ere granted the "third scale" reward.

THAMES OFFICE.

Yesterday Captain Eyles, master of the ship Malcolm, ap-
peared to answer the demand of Robert Sherard, a seamen,
who claimed a balance of 181. 17s. wages, due to him for his
services on a voyage from London to Calcutta.
Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, appeared for the complainant,
and the case set up was this:—The seaman was taken ill at
Calcutta, and by the advice of the surgeon and the captain of
the ship he went ashore to an hospital, where he was laid up
for one month, and the captain wished to deduct the sum of
51. Bs. for hospital expenses, which the seaman refused to pay.
It was contended on the part of the sailor, that as he bad fallen
ill in the performance of his duty, he had a right to be cured
at the expense of the ship.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that unless the captain could show
that the seaman had brought on his illness by his own in-
discretions and irregularity, he was bound to pay the medical
expenses.
Captain Eyles said he bad no doubt the man was attacked
with dysentery in a severe form, but the owner thought he
ought to pay the hospital dues.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the man had a right to medical at-
tendance and medicine at the expense of the ship, and the
owner must be satisfied the complainant's illness was not of
his own seeking. He ordered the sum claimed to be paid,
with costs.

THE LATE MURDER IN GLASGOW

Thomas 3l‘Kinnis, the prisoner, has undergone a long
examination before the proper authorities, and the only won-
der now expressed by those who have seen him is, that he
should have been able to conduct himself with any degree of
propriety, and that he should have been allowed to go at large,
there being no room for doubting tlAt he labours under a se.
rious hallucination of mind. He has made the fullest con-
fession of his guilt, but does not view it in a criminal light.
He states in substance, with the incoherence of a lunatic, that
for the last six years he bad been in a dreadful state of
distress; that things were come to a crisis, and having
had the greatest love for his sister, who was a most vir-
tuous girl, and for whom he would hay.e, travelled the
whole earth, he had, after mature reflection, come to the
determination of removing her from want and misery.
Every means he had tried to preserve her without effect ; and
on the Saturday night previous to the commission of the
deed, he had resolved to save her by putting her out of the
world. With this intention, he rose about one o'clock on Sun-
day morning, after his sister was in bed asleep, and having
put on his trousers, he struck a light to see the position in
which she lay. that he might the more effectually put her out
of the dreadful pain in which she was. After this he extin-
guished the light, because be would not for the whole world
have let his sister see who it was that touched her. He said
he did not know the best place to strike, as he had never wit-
nessed a murder committed before, although he had seen a
man of the name of Hare armed with daggers. He then got
his knife, and just gave her the slightest stab, because he
thought whenever it touched her she would have expired at
once. He would not for thousands have done it had
he thought otherwise, as it was all for her good ; but
she got up, jumped "out of bed, and grasped him by
the neck, which irritated him, and he then saw that the
business would have to be completed. In the struggle
his hand was cut by the knife, but after repeated stabs, his
sister fell, and her head striking on a tub, he saw all was
over. After this he laid her out, and covered the body with
a sheet. He then took off the shirt he had on which was
bloody about the neck, where his sister had grasped him,
and put on a clean one. He afterwards went to a friend's
house in Salt Market, where he told what he had done,
and where he was apprehended. When asked by the Su-
perintendent of police, after the examination, whether he
would wish to be confined in gaol or bridewell, he scorned
quite startled, and declared that such gross tyranny had never
been witnessed in time. He bad done a great deed, in which
he was justified, by saving the poor woman whom be loved ;
and would he be sent to Bridewell for doing so ? The body of
the unfortunate young woman has been interred, and her
murderer committed to prison. If anything had been is ar t-
ing to convince us of this man's insanity it has been furnished,
as we above noticed, by a mass of his writings, which have
been found in the house since the commission of the horrid
deed. From these papers, and, indeed, from his conversation,
it appears that lie had thought himself super-human, and he
describes with endless proxility how he walked in glory with
the pretty " girls," and instantaneously descends from his pa.
radise to describe the movements of a fly on the wall, or the
flight of a crow in the air.—Glasgow Herald.

Sunday morning last, about three o'clock, the report
of as t a
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Best,
Cuckow, proceeded in search of the poachers, and discovered
two men, one named John Ireland, having a gun. Cuckow
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seized the gun, and while the muzzle was in the direction of
the keeper's body, Irelar.d is said to have pulled the trigger,
using at the moment most violent language. Fortunately,
however, for the keeper, who would probably have been shot
dead, the cap snapped without commuaicating to the powder.
The gun was afterwards found to be very heavily loaded. The
other poacher ran away and escaped, but, assistance being at
hand, Ireland was handcuffed, but so violent was his resistance,
that it took seven men to do it, and they then wheeled him
in t'. barrow to a place of security. He bit the hand of Cuckow
so violently that they were obliged absolutely to choke him off.
PARISH ABUSES.—In the course of the hearing
of a case, under the Street Act, at the Queen-square police-
office yesterday, against a slop-seller, in Strutton-ground,
Westminster, the defendant declared that while he continued
to purchase milk of the inspector of nuisances for the parish,
he was not interfered with, but on his bestowing his custom
upon another he was complained of.
About six o'clock last evening as a man of the
name of Lemon, an assistant engineer at the Royal Hospital
Brewery, Greenwich, was attending to his duties, his apron
became entangled with one of the cranks, which drew him into
the machinery, and before he could be extricated he war so in-
jured that life soon became extinct. Lemon had been many
years employed in the establishment, and was much respected.
He has left a wife and numerous family.
For some time past the Clutton Union has furnished
the applicants for relief, with bread at the undeviating price of
sixpence for the 41b. loaf, and has given the option to each per-
son, above 60 years of age, to so take this quantity weekly.
The effect is, that a man and his wife at ss. per week, who take
81b. of bread for ls. are benefited, at the present price, about
Sd. per week.--Bath Journal.
GANG OF ROBBERS.—An extensive gang of rob-
bers have been discovered at Hampton. They have not only
committed most extensive depredations of lead, copper, hares,
and other articles in the above vicinity, but have likewise ex-
tended their predatory visits to Heston, and even to Kew-gar_
dens, without any clew to their detection being discovered
until the night of Monday, the 14th inst.