The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-10 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE OFFICE.

Yesterday John Saunders, an unwashed blacksmith, and
Mary Oakes, were charged by the husband of the latter as
follows : . .

Mr. HosraNs (to complainant)—What are you P—Corn-
pLiinant—Vy I'm a thimble-sweeper and nightman, and
vorks for most of the swells at this end of the town.

Mr. HOSKINS—Where do you live ?—Complainant—
I rents premises at No. 1, Devonshire-place, Lisson-
grove ; every von knows me as honest Tom, the clean little
chummy.
Mr. HOSKTNS—Now tell me what you've got to say
against the prisoners.
Complainant—l'm blest if I don't, and I'm sure I shall
lectrify and astonish your Honour completely. Vell, you
must know that. last night I vos called out to a little neces-
sary business, vich I performed particularly clean and tasty,
and returned home about three o'clock this here morning ;
so I yolks up stairs as usual to my vife's bed-room, but found
the door fastened inside. Veil, thinks Ito myself, vot a
prudent voman I've got, to fasten the door cos no unproper
characters should get in ; and with that I gave a gentle tap,
but as nobody answered I busted open the door, vich vos
fastened with a fork ; and 0 dash my vig wot do you think
I seed?
Mr. HosuNs—How should I know ; go on.
Complainant—Veil, strike me lucky if my vile, wot I had
just been praisin, had'nt got another " nightman" in my
place during my absence, the great big ugly prisoner at
the bar. He vos fast asleep under the clothes, as snug as
a duck in a ditch. So I lugs him out of bed in
his shirt, yen I'm blest if he hadn't the himprence to
show fight, telling me as how he had as much right there as
myself. 0, have you, says I, ve'll try that ere pint in a
minuet ; so I catches him a spank with my fist, and brought
him to the ground ; he got up again, and seeing that he vos
arter bolten, I catches him by the tail of his shirt, vich
I tore completely off. Finding the shirt no use I seized him
by the flesh, and in the struggle both on us fell, and rolled
down the stairs into the street, much to the amusement of
the crowd of persons collected, who sang out, "Go it
snowball, two to one on the chummy." And so I did go
it, and no mistake, right and left, and after a few rounds
devil a bit of shirt had the prisoner on him, and that's the
naked truth. So at last a policeman came up, and con-
veyed the naughty pair of them to the station-house to re-
pent of their sins.
Lowcock, 134 D, the constable alluded to, said that he
saw the complainant struggling with the prisoner,
hisisone shirtr,who iwvaltss
as naked as he was born—not a vestige
there to be seen. He allowed him to put
withtonthhise
weloomthaens:
andmtrh.eHn
ocosnKviNeyse(dtohimthteo Station-housetwheife)vvhy
do you act in this
way ? Wife—Cos he don't use me well, and keeps me on
short allowance.

Sweep-0 tricky, how can you say so, don't you have as
much grub as you Call eat, besides hornamenting yourself

with frills, ribands, and other things to make you loo.k
fine? You might have been satisfied with hornamenting
yourself, I think, without " hornamenting" me in this here
ugly way.
Mr. HOSKINS ordered the male prisoner to find bail, and.
discharged the wife.

IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM

NAVIGATION.

The following is furnished by a correspondent who war
on board the Sirius on the occasion referred to :—The
Sirius steam-packet, Roger Langlands, Royal Navy, Cm-
mender, fitted by Messrs. Thomas Wingate and Co., of
Glasgow, with a pair of engines of 300 horse power, on
the principal of Mr. Samuel Hall's patent, went on Thu, a-
day afternoon last, with a party of gentlemen, as far as the
Curnbraes Light, for the purpose of proving her machinery.
The distance from the Quay to the Clough Light was per-
formed in 29 minutes, and from the Clough Light to the
Cumbraes Light (about 22.1 miles) in one hour and fifty
minutes. On her return, meeting the Eagle proceeding to
Liverpool, the Sirius put about and ran in company with
her for about three quarters of an hour, during which time
neither vessel could be said to gain upon the other. Consi-
dering the disadvantages always attending a first trial, and
likewise the well known speed of the Eagle, the above re-
stilt may be considered highly creditable both to the builder
and to the engineer. The main object of Mr. Hall's im-
provements is to prevent the rapid destruction to which
the boilers of steam-packets are exposed, by the great de-
posit of hard matter which takes place when they are
fed with salt water ; and this object he has completely
attained by his apparatus for condensing the steam without
injection, but merely by contact with cooling surfaces, and
returning-back the water resulting from the condensatikon
direct to the boiler, so that they are constantly fed with
pure water, and thus no deposit can take place. A superior
.vacuum is likewise obtained, and from the water in tlbe
boilers never requiring to be blown out, there is a consider-
ble saving of fuel. During the trip, the water, as it was
returning to the boiler, was repeatedly tasted by several c.f
the company, and was found to be perfectly fresh. To re -
place the loss of water arising from the escape of steam a t
the safety valves, &c., there is attached to the boiler a very
compact apparatus for obtaining fresh water from sea water
by distillation in vacuo. We understand that two pairs et
engines, one of 320, and another of 460 horse power, upon
the above principle, are in preparation at Glasgow, as also.
several others in London and Liverpool. The Sirius was-
built by Messrs. Menzies and Son, of Leith, for the St.
George Steam Packet Company, and is the fourth large
vessel which they have had from Scotland within the last
eighteen months. She is upwards of 700 tons, and is con-
sidered a fine sailing model. The cabins, which were fitted
up by Messrs. Black and Kerr, of this town, without being
gorgeous, are spacious and handsome, and afford excellent.
accommodation. She is, we believe, intended to ply on th e
station between Cork and London.—Greenock Advertiser.

HONOUR AMONG THIEVES►.

An honest provincial, who lately visited Paris, has ad-
dressed a letter to the Editor of the Gazette des Tribuncrux,
in which he details the particulars of an affair of honour in
which he played the double part of hero and victim. On
the day before that on which he intended to leave the capi-
tal he had been contemplating the beauties of the barri6-e
de 1' Etoile, after which his evil stars tempted him to lounge
towards the Bois de Boulogne. He bad strolled a little
way into the wood, when suddenly he was accosted by three
gentlemen whose manners and appearance were calculated
to silence even the shade of a suspicion. One of the
strangers, addressing our country gentleman, politely in-
formed him that he had received an unpardonable insult
from one of his " friends," and that a fourth person was
necessary to act as witness to the duel which was instantly
to be fought. Our simple provincial wished to know the
cause of their quarrel. A very plausible story was told
him, and lie accompanied the party in hopes thnt his pre-
sence and remonstrances might serve to allay the excitement
which seemed to have taken possession of the two princi-
pals. They had meanwhile arrived in a secluded part of the
wood, adapted apparently to the execution of their despe-
rate design. Here they halted, and the pistols were pro-
duced, when the poor gentleman was not a little surprised to,
see his principal turn the muzzle of his pistol, not on his
adversary, but on his second. The rest of the story may
easily be imagined. The provincial was soon made aware that
he was expected to pay the recokning of the deferent
that was to follow the bloodless duel, and though he pointed
out to the strangers the iniquity and treachery of their con-
duct he was as little able to induce them to abandon their
present honest design against himself as his arguments had
before been unaviling when endeavouring- to prevail on them
to renounce their " honourable" determination of doing
justice upon one another. The gaping, wide-mouthed
pistol, planted within an inch of his breast was the aro-
nrentuni ad hoininenz with which they met all his admirable
illustrations of the beauty of honesty, and finding all oppo-
sition vain he at last very unwillingly consented to divest
himself of his purse, his gold watch, a valuable gold ring,
and a few other articles of minor value. He concludes his
rueful epistle by saying that he took especial care to keep
the occurrence a profound secret from the police, for having
fixed the following day for his departure he was fearful of
being detained at Paris as a witness against his polite ac-
quaintance of the I3ois de Boulogne, in case of their not be-
ing able to elude the vigilance of the authorities.

A native of the Emerald Isle was the other day
asked how he could tell that a man was a drunkard.
" Faith," answered Pat, " I'd never be after saying that a
man was drunk without I saw him attempt to light his :pipe
at a pump !"
A numerous meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's
took place yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, at which s
letter from Mr. Robinson was read, stating that in conse-
quence of his withdrawal from the representation of Wor-
cester in Parliament, he begged leave to tender his resigna-
tion of the office of Chairman of Lloyd's. Mr. Fenning
then moved that the subscribers were duly sensible of the
talent displayed on all occasions by Mr. Robinson in his
office as Chairman of Lloyd's, and that the meeting did
therefore request that he would withdraw his tender of re-
signation, and continue to officiate at the head of the esta-
blishment, This resolution was carried unanimously.
The ordinary meeting of the Zoological Society for
scientific business was held on Tuesday evening, Richard
Owen, F.R.S., in the Chair. A letter was read from r%lr•
Harvey, corresponding member of Tcignmouth, accom-
panying some preserved radiate and fish from the Devon-
shire coast, the former including a comagilla, tubularia in-
divisa, caryophilla, &c. Some curious notices in natural
history were appended, one of which was the fact of seeing
a carrion-crow kill a duck, after having first drawn it out
of a pond, by trampling upon it, and another having seen
a cuckoo fed by a wryraack, in whose nest it was supposed
to have been hatched. Mr. Ogleby described two nest
species of his new genus climes, which now includes four
species, and Mr. Gould introduced several new varieties of
birds from Mr. Darwin's collection, amongst which was a
raven from California, named, from the beauty of its ap-
pearance and hue, corous splendens. A new ortyx, and
another species of the deudroceta or wandering crow of
authors, so called from its restless disposition, differing'
more particularly from the magpie in more arboreal feet,
shOrter tarsi, &c.

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BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst., at Little Campden House, Kensington, tbs
lady of Sir Henry Willock, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at East Hall, Kent, the lady of Percyvall Hart
Dyke, Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Foxley Cottage, North Brixton, Mrs. A•
Horne, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Haden, Barham Downs, the lady of Sir I
Plaosknetth,eofBtah inst.,son. at Hampstead-heath, the lady of Capt. Gribble'
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the sth inst., at St. Mary's, Walthamstow, Lewis, Yo,,gegt
son of J. Berger, Esq., of Lower Clapton, to Sarah Rodick, e'"e"
daughter of A. Corbett. Esq., of Walthamstovr.
On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Everton, Thomas Hare, E,!,(1":.
of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Mary, youngest daughter
of the late T. Samson, Esq., of Kingston Russel, Dorsetshire.
On the Bth inst., at the Unitarian Chapel, Little Portland-stre.e e,
Mr. S. Hickson, jun., of Welbeck-street, to Jane, daughter of h
late Mr. David Grant, of the Strand.
On the Bth inst. at St. Mary's, Marylebone, Captain Brow
57th Regiment,
Esq., of Shepherd's-bush.
to 'Jessy, second daughter of the late J. Thont

D IE D.
On the 7th inst., Victoria Louisa, the infant daughter of C'
Archibald, Esq.
Lately, at Exeter, Hester, only daughter of the late E. Calanif'
Esq., of Alphington, Devonshire.
On the 26th ult., at St. Petersburgh, Alexander James
Esq., aged 61. 8.
Lately, at Tottenham, the Rev. John Sampson, 8.D., aged - if,
On the Bth inst., in Martin's-lane (City), Mrs. Sarah pre
formerly of Mile-end Old-town, aged 96. idoo
On the sth inst., at Croydon, aged 87, Mrs. Grantham, vr
J. Grantham, of Newbury, Berkshire. Pea'
On the 2d inst., Mr. Jeremiah Bowen, of South-crescent,
ford-square. ace,
On the 6th. inst., James Coggan, Esq., of Gloucester-Plat
Po square.
On John
the 6th inst., Mary Anne, only surviving daughter of
Hoper, Esq., of Lewes. for'
On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Captain Harry Bradburne,
racily of the 2d Dragoon
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of Bliddlesex.—Thursday, August 10, 1537.