The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-14 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and family, from the London Hotel,
for Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Collingridge, from ditto, for
Clifton; the Hon. Mr. Petre, from ditto, for Cambridge.

A second inquest was held at the Sportsman Ta-
vern, City-road, on the body of Mr. G. Prescott, whose
death was occasioned by his having eaten of a herb called
monkshood, which he had mistaken for horse-radish. The
wife of the deceased also partook of the poisonous root, but
not in such quantity as her unfortunate husband, and, after
suffering severely for a few days, she recovered ; but all at-
tempts to restore Mr. Prescott, who had partaken plenti-
fully of the herb, were fruitless. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental Death."

POLITICAL OBITUARY FOR 1836.—During the
past year, death has laid h's hands upon three crowned
heads—the King of Naples, the King of Saxony, and the
ex-King of France. Fourteen deaths have occurred in the
British Peerage ; viz., two Dukes—Gordon and Montrose ;
four Earls—Egmont, Cathcart, Fingal!, and Dunmore ;
Viscount Clifton ; Lords Stowell, Hood, Sondes, and De
Saurnarez ; Baroness Rayleigh ; and Lords Dufferin and
Massey of the Irish representative Peers ; also four Pre-
lates—Durham, Lichfield, Ely, and Killaloe. Eleven Mem-
bers of the present Parliament have deceased, viz., Wad-
ham Locke, Esq., Viscount Milton, Lord Robert Manners,
D. Ronayne, Esq., E. Ruthven, Esq., R. W. Hall Dare,
Esq., E. R. C. Sheldon, Esq , Sir M. W. Ridley, Earl of
Kerry, Lord Forbes, and Sir M. S. Stewart.

FICTITIOUS VOTING.—It is plain that a system
every way so hollow, and so subversive of the rights of re-
sident Constituencies, will go far to reconcile thousands to
the Ballot who are at present opposed to that measure.
To tell us that collusive voters are manufactured by Whigs
as well as Tories, is no palliation of the existing evil ; and
such as arc acquainted with the recent history of Roxburg-
shire know well the parties by whom the example was first
set, and is still continued. Mr. Fergusson, whose means of
observation arc equal to these of any gentleman in the
country, looks forward to the Ballot as the only cure for
so inveterate a practice, and, however much opposed to
secret suffrage formerly, intends to vote for its adoption on
the first opportunity. Mr. Horsman, however, is less Ra-
dical, and merely proposes in the meantime the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into and report as to the
extent of the alleged evil ; after which the House will be
invited to take the subject into its own hands, and deal
with delinquents as to its wisdom may seem meet.—Dum-
fries Courier.

SHEEP WORRYING.—This serious injury to the
flocks of the farmers of this and the adjoining counties has
lately taken place to a fearful extent, in the neighbourhood
of Derby and of Chesterfield. It is supposed to be effected
by the numerous dogs kept by poachers and paupers. A flock
of sheep, belonging to Mrs. Hinde, of the Grange, were
worried, thirty of which were killed by the dogs, and others
so injured that it is feared they will die. On Wednesday
night 29 sheep, belonging to Mr. Lancaster, of Walton,
wore bitten ; five died in the morning, and there are no
hopes of saving the others. On the same night Mr. Old-
field lust five, and four were drowned in trying to escape the
dogs ; Mr. Haslem four ; and Mr. Cocking four. It is
curious that all the animals are bitten in the front.—Derby
Mercury.

On Sunday evening, as Mr. William Geary, a gen-
tleman of property, was returning homewards from Stan-
well, where he had been dining with Mr. Carpenter, and
partaken rather freely of wine, he by some accident diverged
from the high-road, and, it is conjectured, while in the act
of dismounting from his horse, must have fallen backwards
into a small watercourse, not exceeding two feet in depth,
from whence, by reason of his being under the influence of
wine, he was unable to extricate himself, and was suffocated.
The appearance of a horse without its rider, and a hat
being discovered floating on the stream, led to the dis-
covery of the body. An inquest was held at the Swan
Inn, Stanwell, on the unfortunate gentleman. Verdict—
" Accidental Death."

The laws of the Cadi, so well known for their cor-
ruption on the one hand, and their inflexible severity on
the other, remain to this day much the same in both respects
as they were ages ago. " When the Mohntesil finds," says
Mr. Lane, " a shopkeeper has incorrect scales, weights, or
measures, or that he has sold a thing deficient in weight,
or above the regular market price, he generally punishes
him on the spot by beating or flogging. Once I saw a man
tormented in a different way for selling bread deficient in
weight. A hole was bored through his nose, and a cake of
bread, about a span wide and a finger's breadth in thickness,
was suspended to it by a piece of string. He was stripped
naked, with the exception of having a piece of linen about
his loins, and tied, with his arms bound behind him, to the
bars of a window of the mosque in the principal street of
Cairo, his feet resting upon the sill. He remained there
about three hours exposed to the gaze of the multitude, and
to the scorching rays of the sun." The same writer men-
tions an instance of a butcher, who had sold sonic meat
wanting two ounces of its weight, being punished by cutting
off two ounces of flesh from his back.

On Saturday afternoon last, the Times, Bcdford
and London down coach, while going at a brisk pace along
Langley Bottom, near Hitchin, came, at a sudden turn of the
road, in violent contact with a waggon. The coachman and
some of the passengers were thrown off. The splinter-bar
splintered, land the horses broke away. Fortunately nobody
was seriously hurt. Another coach was procured from Hitchin,
in which the passengers w^re conveyed to Bedford. And on
Sunday evening the Peveril was upset, from the darkness of
the night, and the coachman not being well acquainted with
the road. Neither coach or passengers were injured.—Hunt-
ingdon Gazette.

The loss of the occupiers of land in Bourn North
Fenn, owing to the late rupture in the river Glen bank, will
be almost ruinous. Upwards of 6,000 acres are under water
—one-third part of which lard is sown with wheat ; the in-
jury to the green food, too, will be fatal ; and the damage to
the corn-stacks (some of which are immersed two or three
feet deep) will be set-ious. Some of the inhabitants have been
driven to migrate to the town, whilst others are content to
take refuge in the chambers of their respective houses.—
Huntingdon Gazette.

The family of Mr. Andrews, of No. 5, Devon-
shire-street, Bloomsbury, is plunged in the deepest distress
by the absence of that gentleman's children under most mys-
terious and unaccountable circumstances. They were some
time since consigned to the care of an apparently respectable
female, in whom the utmost confidence and reliance were
placed, and who was then living at Avranches, in France.
They were to have been sent home in September last, but in
consequence of their non-appearance Inquiries were made, and
it was ascertained that the person in whose cystody they were
had left France with the children, since which time no tidings
respecting them have been received, although Mr. Andrews
has offered a handsome reward for any information on the sub-
ject,
and given public notice of his determination to prefer a
criminal indictment against all persons aiding and abetting in
their detention. It is believed that the unfortunate children
ai e now secreted in London, and it is hoped that the following
Oes..;ription of then: persons may assist in effecting their reco-
very by their anxious and bereaved parents. The eldest
hild, a girl, named Emma, is eleven years of age, with full
(lark eyes, and inclined to be stout ; the next, a boy, named
Richard, nine years of age, rather tall and thin, with blue
eyes ; and the youngest, a boy, named Edward, aged seven
years, inclined to be stout, with full dark eyes and high
forehead.