The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-08 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Frederick Dawson Bundick, with a number of
aliases attached to his name, was brought up for re-examina-
tion, charged with the following robberies :—The prisoner is
the son of highly respectable parents, and a young man of
remarkably genteel appearance. For some length of time
he has been discarded from his family owing to the dissi-
pated and disgraceful life he has been leading. On a recent
occasion he won the affections of a young female, the daughter
of respectable parents, and having married her, almost imme-
diately afterwards abandoned her, taking from her father's
house some articles of dress belonging to a young gentle-
man living there. He next went to an eating-house, from
whence he took a table-cloth, which he contrived to fold
about his person in such a manner as to elude the observation
of the person belonging to the house. In the course of last
week he met with a recruiting party of the 12th Lancers, and
having intimated a desire to become a soldier, he enlisted in
regiment. Ac the Sergeant was taking him to his quarters
the prisoner requested the loan of his military cloak, which,
on being complied with, be took an opportunity of slipping off,
and it was afterwards discovered that he had pledged the
cloak and spent the money, together with the bounty he had
received on enlisting. Evidence of the prisoner having stolen
three coats, a table cloth, and the Sergeant's cloak, having
been taken down, he was committed for trial. In the course
of the examination it was stated that the prisoner was tried
at the Central Criminal Court for robbing a lady of a gold
watch, and sentenced to be transported ; the sentence, how-
ever was commuted to imprisonment in the Penitentiary ; that
in the month of January last he was again tried for stealing
some articles of dress, for which he had also suffered impri-
sonment, and, in fact, that be had been for a considerable
length of time leading a most dishonest life.
When the prisoner was asked if he had anything to say in
answer to the alleged charges, his reply was that he should at
present decline saying anything in his defence, which he should
reserve until he was tried.
He was then removed.

FAMINE.—THE DEVIL'S LAWS.—The price of
Wheat, notwithstanding the large supplies, continues to ad.
vance in the Wakefield market. There call be no doubt that,
before Christmas, prices will have reached a famine rate. The
question is, whether the manufacturing interests will submit to
have trade annihilated in order that a small fraction of the
community may have high rents. The question is one of life
or death. It is nuw to be determined whether cur trade shall
be gradualiy withdrawn from us, or whether by an united
effort it shall be retained.—Manchester Times.

THE RETORT UNCOURTEOUS.—A few days ago
a gentleman was summoned to the Court of Requests, when
the Learned Commissioner, through some confused notion
that he was the proprietor of a public-house, asked defendant
if his wife was at the bar ? The defendant answered that she
was too young ; but, as several old women bad been called to
it he thought his wife might yet aspire to that high honour.—
Liverpool Standard.
DEATH OF MR. J. P. WOOD.—We regret to re-
cord the death of this distinguished and excellent individual.
Mr. Wood was deaf and dumb from his infancy, and yet at-
tained to no mean eminence as an author. His " History of
the Parish of Cramond," his " Life of Jobn Law, of Lauri-
ston," and his edition of " Douglas's Peerage of Scotland,"
have placed his name in a high rank as an antiquary, genealo-
gist, and biographer. Minute research and severe accuracy
mark every page he wrote. He was descended from an old
and respectable family in the parish of Cramond, and long
held the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland, the duties
of which he discharged with fidelity and success.—Edinburgh
Chronicle.
ISLE OF SKYE.—The hurricane which seems to
have been so severely felt throughout all Scotland, on the 11th
and 12th of October, was felt most severely in this quarter, on
the 11th. It was accompanied by heavy showers of snow as it
fell, except on the mountain tops. With the exception of a
few green patches, the crops were previously all cut, and in
some instances secured in the corn-yard. Generally, how-
ever, the corn was in huts and stooks on the fields, and in con-
sequence of the violence of the gale, it was scattered in all
directions, where it was allowed to lie for some days, until the
weather became somewhat moderate to enable it to be collected.
It cannot be said that the crops suffered much injury in conse-
quence, except in a few cases where it was drifted into the sea.
It is found in most places that the potatoes will be consider-
ably deficient, both in bulk and quality, yet it is hoped that
they will prove a fair average crop. The gale proved very
destructive to the fishing boats near the Island of Raa,say,
many of which were broken to pieces, and it is supposed that
no fewer than five men perished, who were that morning en-
gaged in lifting their herring nets. Many more had most
miraculous escapes, who had been drifted on the rocks where
their boats were broken into fragments. The sudden shift-
ing of the wind proved very dangerous at sea, When the
hurricane was at its highest pitch the Western Ocean!rolled in
a manner truly terrific. The lofty billows were enveloped in
dense spray ; and the whit,. foaming sea, as far as the eye
could penetrate, appeared like a huge flat of drifting mow.—
Inverness Herald,