The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—ABINGDON, JULI 7.
Mary Rider, a very respectable looking girl, aged 18, who
possessed considerable personal attractions, was charged with
the wilful murder of her illegitimate child. Verdiet.—Guilty
of concealment only. Sentence-18 months' imprisonment.

DOE, ON THE DEMISE OF PULLEY V. KNOLLYS.
This was an ejectment brought to recover a farm called
Battle Farm, which had been a part of the estates of Sir
Francis Knollys, Bart., of Fern Hill, near Windsor, Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow appeared for the claimant ; Mr. Sergeant
Talfourd for the defendant. It appeared that Sir Francis
Knollys, Bart., in 1773, made his will, by which he devised
his estates to Lady Knollys for life. and upnn her decease to
whoever was his heir. at-law. At the time of his death Lady
Knollys survived him, and died in 1795, when advertise-
ments were published, calling on p...rsons to prove them-
selves the heirs of Sir Francis, upon which Mr. Francis
We!dale claimed the estates in right of his mother, who
had been Miss Fiances Letitia Mayes, and was one
of the co-heiresses of Sir Francis Knollys, she having
married Mr. John Weldale, who was a butcher and
publican at Bedford. Mr. Fritheis Wchh.le, who after-
wards took the *tame of Knollys, received the estates
by ejectment and died in 1805, and upon his death
the present defendant, , then about eighteen years of acre,
claimed the estates as son of Mr John Weldale, a brother of
Mr. Francis Weldale. The present claimant was admittel to
be the sister of Mr. Francis Weldale, and the question there-
fore was, whether the defendant's lather, Mr. John Weldale,
was or was not legitimate It was proved by a witness named
Barker that he lived at Bedford, and knew the family of the
Weldales, and went. to school with Mr. Francis and Mr. Jilin
Weldale, and he recollected about that timo having fre-
quently heard both Mr. Francis Weldale and his father cull
Mr. John Weldale a bastard; and the boys at the school had
a notion that John Weldale was a " chance child," and that
his mother was Sus innah Barker, who had been a servant at
his father's, and whoin he had married within a year after the
death of his former wife, Miss Mayes.
Verdict for the defendant.

Lord ABINGER-With respect to the circumstance of calling
the defendat.t's father a bastard, I remember when I was a boy,
Lord Grey would sometimes dr;ve me home from school in a
gig, and if a boy yeas in his way in the road he.would give
him a cut, and say, '" Get oat of the way, you little bastard,"
which was no proof that Lilo boy was a bastard.

Parliamentary Electors in Cities and Boroughs entitled
under the Kt form Act, will lose their votes for the next
year, unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant,
~11 the poor's rates (and window tax, if any) payable from
them, in respect of their premises previously to the 6th
f April last. County voters mu3t send in their claims by
the 20th of July instant.
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BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 6.--The

inevitable consequence of the contemplated act of justice (the reduction
o: the premium on the exportation of refined sugar, called bounty) is
now so generally foreseen, that the sellers, anxious to suffer as little
as po sible by it, are anticipating the decline, partially. We only
wonder they did sot see the expediency of the policy earlier, and were
evally astonished at the readiness with which their demands were
c,sinplied with. Both parties were wrong, and they now perceive and
feel it. The mei chants in this market been so long accustomed to
compel acquiescence in their arbitrary mode of conducting business that
it has led them into a grievous errcr. The London Itstporters are
wiser in their generation, and not being able, at their dictum, to
control the buyers, or starve them into submit ion, have grl the
example of lower prices, which must, sooner or tat, r, be followed in
Bristol; and we think, the sooner the better, for their own interests.
The arrivals of Sugar are very large, and the Stocks increasing re..
pidly ; it is all tending one way.—Bristel Gazeue.
MR. TURTON.—I3ut the grand outcry against the
appointment is founds d on Mr. Turten's divorce from Ills wife, at the
suit of the latter, whose sister he seduced. Of course we shall not
attempt to palliate Mr. Turton's offence; but we loathe the hypocrisy
of the mon who, in the case of that gentleman, would snake private
immorality the ground of exclusion from public employment; when it
is perfectly notorious that their own leaders—the most, able and dis-
tinguished men in their party (it is useless to specify by name several
Mt mbers of the Peel Cabinet)—would, on the same
rule,
be incapable
of re-enteritet any administration. The very subordinate office of
second Secretary to Lord Durham must be filled by a person of un-
blemished private morality; but it matters not who may be the keeper
of the Queen's conscience, or Foreign Secretary, or President of the
Board of Control, or Speaker of the noose of Commons: Verily, the
Tories are not the mess to be fastidious on the score of adultery and
seduction.—lluil Paper.
On Saturday the Duke of Wellington, as Constable
of the Tower, prevented a stand of colours to the 20th Regiments in the
pre once of a large assemblage of the Nobility. The ceremony con,
twericed at one o'clock, in the Broad Walk of the Tower. The Hey -
ment went through various evolutions. The Chaplain having cum-
cr. ted the colours, the Noble Duke addressed the men in a speoch of
twenty minutes' duration, in the course of which he passed a high
eulogium upon the Regiment for the valour it. had displayed in the field
sil battle, and concluded by presenting the colours to the Ensigns
Lachlan Duff Gordon and A. Macpherson, The gallant party and tiw
company then partook of a dejeuner ahs fourchette.' Lord Hill, Lord
Fitzroy Somerset, Sir C. Dalhiac, and several other General Officers
were present. The men of the Regiment were also substantially regaled
THE HA It VEST.—The wheat i
in full ear n th:4
part of the county, and here there will be an average crop, but in some,
parts we hear that it is thin, and deficient in every respect. The bar-
leys and oats are better and will yield a good crop. Tho ha, on the hill
sides has been burnt up, but in the brook mea.loe;a and strong lands it
is abundant. Turnips, especially the Swedes, are doing well, and will
fully compensate fur the deficiency in the hay crop.—Brighton Herald
APPALLING ACCIDENT ON TILE LONDON AND
BI RIM INGH•SI RA ILItQa Do.-011 Saturday afternoon a vei y appalling and
fatal accident occurred to a man of the name of Dent, in the service of
the London and Birmingham Railroad Company. Dent, who was on
the roof of the carriages, had been employed in placing the tarpauling
over the luggage, and which had beets removed from the violence of the
wind. When at a few miles on this side of Watford, Deist was so en.
gaged just as the line of carriages was about to peas under a bridge, while
going at a speed of about thirty miles an hour, when Isis head came in
violent collision with the arch of the bridge, and he was immediately
precepitated from his situation, tailing between the carriages OM one of
the tram rails. Ife was seen to fall, but not its what way ho was struck,
though it is supposed that, at the time, his back was turned to the bridge.
The train, owing to the velocity with which it was going, went on near
a mile before it could be stm pod It then returtteo, when the men tout.
the po ,r fellow's Leidy had been mil over, It was in a frightfully mangled
state, his heart having been (breed out. The body was then taken to
Wat(er4.