The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-20 00:00:00

IJAWON-GARDEN.

Mary Ann Grths, alias Stevens, one of the
principal witnesses against Smith, who was tried
for the murder of Long, the policeman, was brought
before the' Magistrate by inspector List, who said,
that at an early hour in the morning she was found
in Eagle-street, Red 'Lien-square, in a state of intoxi-
cation. She sa►d that it was her intention to return to
her friends at Swansea, and lied written to them to
meet her. in a few days. She said she could not re-
main in London, for she was in danger of her life, in
consequence of having. given evidence against Smith.
When ~she left the Court on Friday, she was fol-
lowed by some of Smith's friends, and one of them,
who was attired in the dress of a baker, attempted
to cut her throat with a knife. Some persons came
to her assistance, and the man escaped.
Mr. LAING said, be bad mentioned her case! to
several of the Magistrates, and they had expressed
their readiness to assist her. He recommended
that she should be sent to the House of Correc-
don wail something could be done for her. This
she agreed to. _

ABERDEEN CIRCUIT 'COURT.—The Cir.
quit Court. of Justiciary was opened at Aberdeen, on.
Alfonday, by the Honourable Lord 111Aciusirztre, when
CATHIMItir OAvinsos, or was put to the
bar, uecused .of the murder of her hushand, the deeened
JAstas Humeriartr, Ostler and vintner, in Bowl road,
Aberdeen, hyadministpring to the said Jas Ilusirrrarr
a quantity of sulphuric acid or some other poisonous and
deleterious drug or substance, and,by pouring the said
sulphuric acid, or other poisonous and deleterious drug or
substance, into the mouth and over the throat of the said
JAMES Huttrualy, as he lay asleep within the said house.
After a long but uninteresting trial the defendant MO
found guilty, Lord 1114cxxszti addressed the prisoner,;
and sentenced her tq he executed at Aberdeen, on Friday,
the Bth of October, next, Lind her, body thereafter to be de.:,
livered over to Dr. Citsrmits Slaws, Proftesor of Medi-
eine in the Marisehal College of Aberdeen, to be by him
publicly dissected and anatomised.

WONDERFUL, STRENGTH OF INSECTS.—
..
'rhe employ of the -Doreßeetle is to mine holes in the
soil, remove the earth, and secrete the nuisanees and in-
cumbrances thit may belound upon the surface; and this
no weak animal could accomplish, but the strength of this
beetle almost exceeds critlibility. It has little power as a
draught animal, but his business is to heave up the earth,
entombing matters, and his muscular means appear to be
situated in his legs, the,sapper joint of which is very laige
and firm... Having repeatedly placed one of these crea-
tures, weighing 16 grains, under a weight equal to 4796
grains, sufficient, it would he considered, to crush its
body, 319 times it own .weight ; it heaved it up and
withdrew; and the same pressure, being placed on its leg,
was Immediately disengaged by the powers of the other.
Man effects his objects by the reasonings of his mind, me-
chanical agencies, or the strength of others: bad he de-
pended upon mere animal power to accomplish his wishes,
in order to equal the means of a common beetle, be must
have raised his body from an intiumbent pressure of per-
haps twenty tons! Our glow-nr“rm requires all its facul-
ties, retiring in autumn into the crevices of a attiny or
earthy soil, where it passes its inanimate !IMMO,' befrire
the spring arrives, all these passages by which it entered
would probably he closed by the decomposition of the owe
or mouldering of the other, through the agency of frosts
and rains; and it is thus probably endowed with strength '
and the faculty of contraction and flattening its body, in
order that it may remor►e the weights, or squeeze through
the impediments that cheek the return ,to light and
warmth, and the accomplishment, of the purport of its
being,' " These are but lowly , things to converse upon,
oreatuvat fashiUned beneath in the-earth ; yet, hallowed
their prestor'a hand,' they Asuirest hi!-
and we cannot but revere his 'wisdom and gar-dooms--
Journal of a Naturalist.