The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-21 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mary Paget, an elderly woman, respectably dressed, was
brought before Mr. DYER for final examination, charged
with having robbed several stands in the Pantheon Bazaar,
Oxford-street.

Louisa Rotheray stated that on Friday last the prisoner
came to her stand and took up an article, as if to inspect it.
Fancying herself unobserved, the prisoner walked away
with the property. Witness followed immediately, and de-
sired that the article should be restored to her. The pri-
soner denied having anything, but, on witness opening her
cloak, a quantity of silver tooth-picks fell down, and wit-
ness also found the book, worth about a shilling, which had
been purloined from her stand. The prisoner's reticule was
taken from her, and Mace, an officer of this establishment,
searched it, and found other articles, which had evidently
been stolen in a similar way.
Martha Drew, the holder of another stand, identified the
tooth-picks as being her property. They were worth about
fifteen shillings.

Eleanor Smith identified a scent-bottle found in the pri-
soner's reticule.

The landlady of the prisoner said the prisoner had lodged
with her for some time, and had given her no reason to sus-
pect her of dishonesty. She could not account for the pri-
soner's conduct otherwise than by imputing it to insanity.
Mr. D YER said the evidence was sufficient to show that
the prisoner was a systematic pilferer, and her offence was
aggravated by the fact that those whom she plundered
were earning an industrious livelihood, and mostly unable
to sustain such losses.

The prisoner was fully committed.
Henry Bradenback brought Jo/in Carriero, a ladies'
French peruquier, living at No. 25, South Audley-street,
before Mr. CONANT, on a charge of assault.

The complainant said he had occasion to pay a visit to
" Madame," who kept the house in which the defendant
lodged, and, while sitting in her drawing-room, the defendant
came in and forcibly ejected him from the house.
The defendant said he had previously forbidden the com-
plainant to call upon him. When he found the complain-
ant sitting in his room he turned him out.

The complainant replied that he was in " Madame's "
room at the time. The defendant had no right to the room
himself, the use of it being only allowed to him when
ladies came to get measured for wigs.
Clements, the officer who was charged with the execu-
tion of the warrant, said he had very great difficulty in tak-
ing the defendant into custody. He was some time in
searching through the house in South Audley-street with-
out effect ; but, at length, on opening a cupboard in the
kitchen, he discovered Monsieur tightly squeezed into it.
The defendant refused to go with him, and, in his efforts at
resistance, he was ably seconded by " Madame," who fought
tooth and nail to prevent the capture of the wig merchant.
Defendant—Bah ! He say dat I have hide some of my-
self in de cupboard. Dat is very not true. Madame have
von very littel cat, vat you call de kitten, vich I play vid
every day ; so I go into de cupboard for play wid de cat,
but noting else.
The officer told Mr. Conant that the cupboard was hardly
big enough to conceal the defendant.

Mr. CONANT observed that the defendant's excuse about
playing with the kitten was not worthy of belief. As his
behaviour had been very bad in the resistance shown to the
officer, and as the assault had been proved, he should call
on him to put in bail.

Ax IRISH DISCOVERY.—A correspondent of
the Bath Herald writes—Your readiness on all occasions, to
promote whatever may conduce to public instruction, and ad-
vance the progress of the national mind, will, I feel assured,
incline you to give a place in your popular journal to the fol-
lowing communication. Some days ago I happened to read
in an Irish newspaper, a statement of a very curious and in-
tere,ting nature. I refer to an account of a novel and most
useful discovery, which, indeed, the sequel will show it to have
been. The writer of the paragraph observes that if glass
utensils are boiled in milk, they lose their brittle character,
and may bid defiance to all ordinary accidents. It will easily
be supposed that, without any particular fondness for my glass,
I am sufficiently an economist to be desirous of doing every-
thing which might, at least, retard the destruction of
that species of property as long as possible. I accordingly
prepared, with no small anxiety, to make the experiment;
and forthwith directed my servant, who is, by the bye,
full of enthusiasm in matters of the kind, to put down a sub-
stantial beer-glass, value eightpence, to boil in a saucepan full
of milk, the cost whereof was about fourpence more. The
boiling process was allowed to continue for nearly five hours ;
when, taking out the glass I proceeded to try the effect in the
presence of several members of my family, and pushing it from
the margin of the dining table, caused it to drop on the carpet
beneath. You are, Sir, too firmly a friend to science not to
share heartily in the tumultuous gratification enjoyed by the
bystanders, when I inform you that—falling from a height
which had before been fatal to sundry dozens of fragile articles,
and exceedingly pernicious to my pocket—tile beer-glass in
question, to our inexpressible astonishment as well as delight,
was immediately perceived to be subdivided into about one
hundred and fifty fragments; in fact, to be the most decidedly
broken glass, which, in my long experience, I think I have
ever seen. I believe I need not add any more than that lam
simply yours.

EXHUMATION.—In a dam forming in the mud
land, in front of Messrs. Summers and Co.'s foundry at Mill-
brook, a skeleton has been dug up ; it had been buried four
feet in the gravel, and must obviously have been that of a mur-
dered person. Strange tales are bruited about in the neigh-
bourhood. Meanwhile the workmen have pocketed the teeth,
one person has secured the skull, and an old woman near the
spot has possessed herself of a thigh bone, and the ribs and
other remains are left on the beach over which the tide ebbs
and flows. Altogether the conduct observed by the persons
on the spot has been excessively repulsive.—Hampshire Ad.
vertiser.

On Thursday last, about four o'clock in the after.
noon, a flock of nearly thirty wild swans were observed flying
in a very compact body, and almost within gunshot, over the
town, directing their course southward, with the intention
perhaps of visiting during the winter months some of the tarns
situate in our inland mountains. These feathered strangers
inhabit the northern regions of the globe, and seldom leave
those inhospitable climes to visit more southern latitudes un-
less compelled by the severity of winter. The wild swan has
been poetically called " the peaceful monarch of the lake,"
because he does not prey upon any of the feathered tribes,
living wholly upon roots, seeds, and small insects, and fears no
foe that wings the sky. From these birds making their ap-
pearance in our country at this period of the year, it no doubt
indicates that winter has already commenced in their northern
home with much intensity, and consequently there is some
probability that we shall experience a very inclement season.
In the winter of 1835 three of these gigantic birds were killed
at a single shot by a person in the parish of Ochiltree.—Ayr
Observer.

A new Catholic Chapel, dedicated to St. Edmund,
was opened at Bury, on Thursday last. It is described as a
very handsome piece of architecture. The interior dimen-
sions are 87 feet by 41 feet 9 inches in length and width,
and 35 feet eleven inches in height. The Count de
Survielliers (Joseph Buonaparte) was present, and every scat
was filled principally by Protestants.

THE BALLOT.—We trust Manchester will place a
petition, signed by 25,000 persons, in the hands of its members
before Mr. Grote makes his motion on the 15th February.
The real ground of opposition to the Ballot is the fear of the
aristocracy that it will be the means of obtaining other reforms,
and consequently cheap government and cheap corn,—M-vr-
Mester Times.