The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-22 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL.

A woman of the town, named Prudence Barton, was
brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, charged with robbing
David Morris, a Scotchman, of three half-crowns and some
odd half-pence.
Divie stated his case in the mother tongue of sweet
Edinburgh, and did not disguise that he was unto fou, or
thcreaway, between twelve and one yesterday morning,
when the lassie at the bar made a dead set at him, and
whilst he was merely desiring her to gang her gait, she, by
some deevlish trick or other, contrived to ease him o' his
siller.

Prudence denied the fact, and said she was far too pru
dent a woman to do a thing of the kind.

Sir PETER (turning to Davie)—l'm afraid you're a little
loose in your morals, Davie. How came you, so far north
as you are, to suffer this woman to rob you ?
Davie—Loo.e in my morals, Sir Peter ? Was the like
ever heard ? It's not in probabeelity that my thoughts could
wander in the direction your Worship is aiming it, a man o'
my years. I'm pairfaitly shocked at the suggestion.
Sir PETER—WeII, I thought it was impossible, too, that
you could fall in love with a woman with one eye (the case
with the prisoner). What would you have me do with her?
Davie—Why, I'm ready to tell your worship—send her
till the gaol, and I'll bargain she'll be no long there till she
catch a Southran that has two, and then there'll he three
between them.

Sir PETER—I can hardly believe you, Davie, but you
parleyed with this woman longer than you ought. Now,
as a Scotsman, tell me the truth.-

Davie—You're Honour touches me noo. I will no deny
that when a woman talks to a man, if there's life in a muscle
it will move him, as your Honour kens.—( Loud laughter,
in which Sir Peter joined heartily.)
Sir Peter inquired if the woman was known to the offi-
cer, and being answered in the negative, and no money
found upon her, she was discharged, and Davie admonished
to abstain from entering into temptation for the future.

The offence of sheep-stealing has, during the last
five or six weeks, been greatly on the increase in the neigh-
bourhood of Ruislip, Hillingdon, Tottenham, Harefield,
and the adjoining villages in the counties of Middlesex,
Hertford, and Buckingham. Scarcely a farmer has escaped
a visit from the nocturnal depredators, and several of them
have, during the above period, had five or six stolen. On
the morning of Saturday last, Mr. James Ewer, of Hill-
farm, Brookmcath, near Ruislip, on entering his fields,
discovered that during the previous night a fine south-
down ewe had been slaughtered, the legs and shoulders
having been taken away, and the rest .of the carcass left
behind. Mr. Ewer has offered a reward of 101. for the
discovery of the thieves.
THE LATE WRECKS.—A considerable degree of
iaterest is kept up at Gravesend by the different processes
that are now pursued in raising the two vessels, the Apollo
steamer, and the Jane, of Sunderland, wrecked off Tilbury
Fort last winter. The first is to be raised by the means
of large India-rubber air-bags, which, after being sunk and
attached to the vessel, will be inflated with atmospheric
air, and which it is expected will float the vessel. The
Jane, which is a collier of the largest class, and had on
board when sunk about 400 tons of coals, is to be floated
by means of large tanks, which arc sent down full of wa-
ter, and after being secured to the wreck, the water is to
be drawn out, the buoyancy of which is to float the brig.
A great number of boats are off both wrecks with parties
❑early all day, to witness the novelty of the descent of the
men without the use of' the diving-bell. The watermen
will reap a rich harvest by the curiosity that the weighing
excites. There is much difference of opinion as to which
is the best plan. The majority seem to be in favour of the
t ks.—Maidstone Journal.

REMA RKABLE REcovERY.—A- female in the
parish of Aldborouth, lately in an act of frenzy, took an
ounce of mercury (white arsenic), with an intention of de-.
stroying herself; but immediately disclosed what she had
done. A surgeon was shortly afterwards procured, who,
before the poison bad been upon the stomach an hour, suc-
ceeded in removing it both from that viscus and the bowels.
Appropriate means were diligently used, and, wonderful to
relate, she is now in a hopeful way of recovery. The
quantity of poison which had been taken was sufficient to
destroy more than a hundred healthy persons ; this was
proved to be the fact by the analysis of matters taken from
the stomach, and also the bowels. The above case proves
that if timely aid is procured, even when the most deadly
poisr,n has been taken, a perfect recovery may be brought
about.—Mill Observer.

Abernethy used to say, " Give the stomach a fair
chance, and Health will win the race I" To cleanse it, there-
fore, and so purify the system by such a Medicine qs M'o
rison's ligh iq regular doses, must be highly important.