The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

YESTERDAY the London Sessions , openeq• at
Guildhall, before the Loan MAYOR, . Aldermen
NEWNIIAM, Sir BROOR. WATSON, the RECORDER,
&e. •&c. After swearing in the Juries; only one •
assault was tried.
Lazenby, a Constable, and Petters, a Wat4inan,
were inditied for assaulting and falsely-irriprisoning
William. Haman, d Patrole from Bcw7street Office.
Several Witnesses .were called to substaptiaie this
,charge ; but it appeared, that -the Prosecutor. had •
been attempting to force himself into a public-7.i
house in Chancery-lane, in November last, at. a Lite
hour, and was obstruaed by
.the Watchman,
was ,on his duty. The
,Jury acquitted both the
'fendants.

Friday se'nnight an affair of honour •iook!.placfr
between G. C. 3-, Esq.-,and
Esq. near the New Barracks,. Cork. . lannediately.,
after the ground was measured,. the for Mer fired, bye
which his antagonist was, slightly.
,wounded in the•
shoulder, who then fired his pistol in .
_ _

The Emperor of Russia has established .the
lowing provision-for the Professors in-the New.Ujii-
versity of Charkow : After twenty:five years duty,
or in case of incurable sickness, they 'are to-receive
their pensions for lite, and may, even receive, them
while resident in other Countries.: On the death of.
a Professor, his widow and children continue to 1.67
ceive his pension, until the widow marries again, or
the children attain the age of 21 years.- The Em=
peror has granted a yearly revenue to the University
of 130,000 rubles.

On the 15th inst. at Godalming, Surrey, the
Lady of Captain SAMUEL JAMES BALLARD, of the
Royal Navy, was safely delivered of a Son.
Married, on Sunday the 16th inst. at St. George's,
Hanover-square, by the Rev. ROBERT HODGSON,
WILLIAM YOUNGIIUSBAND, EST of the Hon. Last-
India Company's Service, to Miss' YOUNGRUSBAND,
daughter of thelate THOMAS YOUNGHUSBAND, Esq.
of Tuggle-Hall, Northumberland.
Married on Thursday last, at Preston, near Yen.-
vil, Somerset, and on Friday, at the Russian Cha-
pel, LEO'S TIKANOFF, Esq. of St. Petersburgh, to
Miss PESTER, of Preston.

At Candlemas Fair held at Stamford on Tuesday
last, there was a small show of stock. Meated
beasts were dull of sale at reduced. prices ; lean stock
went off readily at exceedingly-high rates. The show
of horses was very indifferent.
Early on Friday morning an. alarming fire broke
out in the casting shops of Mr. Joseph Willmore, in
Bread-street, `BirmingliaTll, which destroyed part of
the building, with a number of stoves, patterns, and
other steel: in trade, beldre it as got under.
A melancholy accident happened at. St:lves, in the
morning of yesterday sesnnight. A Boat, with nine
men on board, went out 'to pick:Up sotrie.:wreck
floating on the water, some distance frOm the land,
and in parbuckling a puncheon `of
.spirits 'into the
Boat, she upset, and eight Men 'of the nitre were
drowried. The survivor was brought on shore al-
most lifeless. They have all left widows and
Children.

Between Saturday se'nnight and Sunday rip'onolg-
a fire broke out in the mansion-house of Baracilov,
Scotland, Which, with the furniture, was totally do-
stroyed.
Last week a girl employed in the cotton works in
Brent Brow, Oldham, being engaged to clean- the
place dining'the absence of the workmen at dinner,
inadvertently approaching too near the upright shat
of a part of the machinery, was literally' crushed to
pieces. Itf: •
Last Friday, as a Vauxhall coach stopped at the
end of Norfolk-street, in the s4tind, while the
coachman was Jetting out sorn4.4 giSsengets, the
horses started, and ran throlagh 97eMple Bar : the
coachman ran after them, and-got hold of the cni-
; lar of one of the horses, wlieri -:he was thrown
down: one of the wheelo4-oed over both his
legs, Of which one was .brolenf in two places, arid
the. ancle of the other was crushed to atoms. ile
was taken to St. Bal-tholoniew's Hospital without
-liopes -6f recovery: The.lio;ti.s. were secured \kith-
i out doing further injury.