The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-08 00:00:00

r ti---Tec-o—unty of Water-
Air. Power, Member fo
ord, has paired for the Session with Mr. Kirk.

The Sandwich Tories dined together on Tues-
day to meet their new condidate, a Mr. Bud worth, who
intends, he says, to come forward for any vacancy there in
place of Mr. Grove Price. One of the most gratifying
symptoms of the proceedings was, that not one clergyman
of any description countenanced the proceedings by his
presence.

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SERGEANT'S INN.—/-1. splendid Banquet was
given on Thursday by the Society of Judges and Ser-
geants on the opening of their New Hall, at Sergeant's Inn.
EXTRAORDINARY DELUSION.—An inquiry
took place on Tuesday before Mr. Wakley, at the Crown,
in Thorney-street, Bloomsbury, as to the circumstances at-
tending the death of James John Fraser, Esq., -ged forty
two, writer to the signet in Edinburgh, who on Monday
morning jumped out of his bed-room window, and thereby
broke all the ribs on his right side and died. It appeared
from the evidence of Mr. Walker, a surgeon, in whose
house the deceased lodged, that Mr. Fraser was insane, and
that on Saturday he was in a more than ordinary degree of
excitement, so much so that it was deemed necessary to
commit him to the care of Dr. Tooke of Chiswick. Mr.
Walker described the unfortunate gentleman's delusions as
most extraordinary. He said, on his return from every
company he was in, that he had seen a nice young girl of
sixteen, and was going to be married to her. On other
occasions he has taken an old woman of sixty or seventy
years or age to the theatre, and offered her marriage. He
was afraid also that every one had a criminal warrant
against him. On Saturday week he left my house with-
out saying a word. I knowing he had received six or
seven hundred pounds, and he being largely in my debt,
had previously asked him for some money, and he replied
that he had not a shilling about him. On Saturday eve-
ning last, between six and seven, he came home in a flan-
nel jacket, and said, " You see I am a true YorkshEre-
man ; I am going to play Liston at Madame Vestris's the-
atre, and I want you and your brother to come and see me."
MR. WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD AND
THE EDINBURGH CHARTISTS..-Mr. Aytoun has received a
letter from Mr. Sharman Crawford, declining the invita-
tion of the Chartists to become a candidate for the city of
Edinburgh :—" I fear (says he) that ray principles would
not be acceptable to the largest portion of those electors
on whom the franchise is at present conferred in your city
and I feel that I should be departing from the honest course
which has received the sanction of your approval were I to
promote a contest for my return, which I did not think
likely by a successful result to forward the great cause of
your political rights." He declares himself favourable to
Universal Suffrage; but at the same time considers it to
be " the duty of every judicious advocate to accede to such
modifications of the details as will consolidate in their
support the great mass of honest Reformers. Holding this
'opinion, he has observed (he says) with the deepest regret
the proceedings of those bodies of Reformers who, by put-
ting forward the prine'ple of physical force as the means
of effecting the objects they demand, had impeded the
formation of that moral power arising from the united voice
of the great body of the nation, which alone can carry, or
ought to carry, any important changes in the Constitution."
_Scotsman.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE ON THE
THAMES—THREE LIVES LOST.—On Thursday afternoon
a very
shucking occurrence took place on the river, near
Battersea-bridge, by which we regret to say three lives
were lost. It appears from inquiry that on the morning of
the day above mentioned, John Graham, a Scotch bag.
piper, who has for many years been known in the metro-
polis, his wife and daughter, a girl of about ten years of
age, went from Lyons', at Stangate, in a boat, for the pur-
pose of having an excursion to Battersea; on their arrival
at Battersea they went to the White Hart Inn, where they
had refreshments, pat taking of more drink t Wan d them
good. On their return down the river, offWandsworth
Meadows, the boat upset, precipitating Graham, his wife,
daughter, and a young man named Hutchings, who accom-
panied them on the excursion, into the water. Their cries
brought several boats from the shore to their assistance, but
lamentable to say, notwithstanding every exertion was
used, Graham, his wife, and daughter perished ; Hutch.
ings was picked up in a state of exhaustion, having clung
for some time to the keel of the boat. Yesterday morninc,
the bodies of Graham and his wife were picked up off the
Horseferry. The child is not yet found. 'The cause of
the calamity has not been ascertained. An inquest is ap.
pointed to be held on the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers
this day. .
DEFEAT OF THE BIGOTS.--A meeting in
favour of the Ministerial plan of National Education 'took
place on Monday evening at Shoreham, and we have to
record the triumph of the Liberal party here over clerical
the more gratifying as it was obtained against the united
bigotry, and political spite. This triul
and Tory R.
-
array of all those who could be beguiled, persuaded,
threatened, or forced to join certain functionaries in their
opposition to the system of National Education announced
by her Majesty's Government. The whole establishment
of the Custom-house was present, from the chief to the
lockers and boatmen ; the pilots also were brought up to
swell the ranks of intolerance and- to join the gentlemen
of the Revenue Establishment in voting against a measure
recommended by the Qtr-en and advocated by her Minis-
ters. Is this a proceeding these public servants would
like to have registered in a statement for the inspection of
the Treasury ? In
" The good old times when George 111. was King"
they would have been suspended or dismissed for suoh dis-
loyalty.—Brig
hlon Guardian.