The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HAT7'ON-GARDEN.
Yesterday a lad, sixteen years of age, named Charles Ro-
berts, was placed at the bar, charged by his father, a poor
tradesman, with having robbed him.
Bayliss, the officer, knew the parents to be poor but honest
and industrious people ; but the prisoner was continually rob-
bing them. If he was willing to go to sea he (Bayliss) could
procure for him a ship. The prisoner expressed his willing-
ness to accept the offer, and he was discharged.

MAR YLEB ONE!
Yesterday George Rogers, Eliza Lardner, and Catherine
Odder were charged with having so seriously injured a poor
woman, named Sarah Rogers, the wife of the male prisoner,
that she is not expected to survive. Rogers, who denied
pushing her down, was remanded, together with the female
Lardner. The other woman, who took no part in the assault,
was fined ss. fur being drunk, and discharged.

On Saturday night a man went deliberately forward
to a shop window in Trongate, and dashed his hand through one of the
panes, valued at 51. Just as he was about to repeat the blow, on another
pane, he was seized, and sent to the police.ofliqe. He there stated that
he was a weaver—that he had lived on very bad terms with his wife—
and that he had left his house with the express determination of doing
what he had done, in the hope of being sent to Bridewell, and thereby
getting quit of his wife, for a time at least. Monday morning he was
placed at the bar, before Bailie Small, and being unable to pay the value
of the pane, his wish was complied with, and he was sentenced to con.
flnement in Bridewell for sixty days.—Scots Times.
JEALOUSY.—James Itcdgrave, a tradesman of
Sibton, was some months ago so affected by the infidelity of his wife that
he went mad, and was confined in the Suffolk Asylum, from which be
was discharged as cured six weeks ago. On Saturday he detected his
wife in an intrigue with the same man who had raised his former jea-
lousy, on which the unfortunate husband went into his bedroom and
hung himself to the tester, On Monday, at the inquest, the frail wife
was called before the jury, and severely reprimanded for her infamous
conduct—Scecilk Chronicle.
On Saturday last Robert Bateson, one of the stu-
dents of the East India College, at Haileybury, met with his death un-
der the following distressing circumstances. It appears from the evi-
dence taken before the Coroner, Mr. P. Longmore, at an inquest held at
the Rye-house, Stanstead, on Monday, the 7th instant, that about three
o'clock on the previous Saturday afternoon, the deceased and three other
students went into the river Lea, near the Rye-house, to bathe, where
the water is about twelve feet deep ; they were all good swimmers, and
had been in about ten minutes, when the deceased was missed by his com-
panions, who thought he was diving, and expected him to come up
again. He rose up as if to take breath, but went down again, and his
companions still thought that he was diving. Not coming up again,
they became much alarmed, and dived after him at the spot where they
last saw him ; but the water was so deep they were unable to reach the
bottom. They then called the lock-keeper, and a man named Francis,
who was near the spot, to their assistance; a drag was soon procured,
but the body was not found till nearly four hours afterwards. Mr.
Evans, of Hertford, and Mr. Gosse, of Hoddesdon, surgeons, were on
the spot to render assistance soon after the deceased was missed, and re-
mained till the body was found, but from the length of time which had
elapsod, all efforts on their part were unavailing. Mr. Evans stated it
to be his opinion that deceased had been seized with the cramp, owing
to the coldness of the water. Verdict—" Accidentally drowned." Mr.
Bateson was a sen of the late Colonel Bateson, of the East India Com-
pany's service, was about eighteen years of age, and a most promising
student. His death is deeply and sincerely regretted by his fellow stu-
dents and by every member of the College, who testified their respect by
following his body to the grave at Amwell Church, on the following
Wednesday. The delay in finding the body was occasioned by its hay.
ing fallen into a hole between some mounds of earth, and so low as to
be out of the reach of the drags. It was eventually discovered close to
the spot where it first went down by a man from Ware, an adept at
diving ; but even then much delay was occasioned by the peculiar situa-
tion of the body. A boat, drags, and complete restorative apparatus, as
directed to be used by the Royal Humane Society, are kept at the Ryc-
house by. the College, as this part of the river has been the accustomed
bathing resort of the students. We understand Mr. Bateson was a
very excellent swimmer, and remarkably fond of bathing.—lter/ford
Paper.

A PLEASANT CONCEIT I—A gentleman of Mont-
gomery county having been requested to furnish some statistical matter
respecting that intelligent and wealthy county, for the pages of a
Monthly Contemporary, in consenting so to do, thus pleasantly alludes
to the polilical feeling of that district —" By the way, lest that fact
should perchance be omitted, in any future account to be furnished
you of our topography, statistics, and characteristic features, you may
say that our soil—deep, strong, and productive as well upon the hill-
tops, as in "the bottoms"—every where over the whole face of the
county—is Clay—excellent Clay. Dig into the heart of the land, and
first and uppermost, wherever you try it, you will come to that. Still
there are other good strata, which, by general consent, if brought to the
top, may be worked with advantage and, success, and will without fail
prove rich and fertile, bearing fruits to bless the country."—Columbus
Journal.

SUICIDE.—A distressing suicide took place at
483, Greenwich-street, yesterday, about two o'clock. Au Englishman
who had arrived there A few weeks ago, put a period to his existence
in the upper story of the house, by blowing out his brains. In commit-
ting the dreadful act, he stood against the window, through which was
found a portion of his brains. It fell on the pavement beneath, where
it lay a lamentable spectacle of the wretched man's untimely fate.
On Tuesday Mr. Hogg carrier at the Meikle
River of Gruinard, Ross-shire, with four men, went out in a small
boat to bring in Mr. Young, manager of the Ardross Fishings, and
Donald Fraser, fox-hunter, who had gone to the island of Gruinard to
look after the sheep of Mr. M`Kenzie of Ardross, and had been stone_
staid in the island for some days. The weather was most inclement, the
wind blew a hurricane, and the showers of drift and snow were most cx
cessive. The boat had proceeded a short way from the shore when it
upset, and the whole crew were precipitated overboard. In a short
time the lifeless bodies of the five mon were washed ashore on the
beach.—Ayr Observer.

LIVING WITIIOTJT FOOD.--A few days ago,
when Mr. Dove, Nithsdale, was removing some hay from a shed, he
found three hens that had been buried beneath it at the time it was
stored. The period that had elapsed, during which they could not
have tasted either food or water, was five weeks and one day ! One
of the hens was dead, and the other two were reduced t• perfect ske.
letons, almost unable to move. With a little careful nursing, how-
ever, they were brought round, and are now moving about among their
companions as well as ever, but they have not )et resumed the laying
of eggs.—Ayr Observer.

CONIMISSION OF LUNACY.—A Commission of
Lunacy was held yesterday morning, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house,
before Commissioners Blunt and 'Murray, for the purpose of determining
whether an elderly gentleman named Varloe was of unsound mind.
From the evidence adduced it appeared that the unfortunate object of
the inquiry laboured under the delusion that he had swallowed, amongst
other poisonous ingredients, gallons of prussic acid and a ton of lead.
He also fancied that he had no bowels, and that he had frequent inter-
views with Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. Upon a recent occasion
he had a delusion that he was possessed of several heath, which grew out
of various parts of his body, and latterly was impressed with the belief
that he was dead. The medical witnesses dated his lunacy from the
28th of March, 1837 ; arid a verdict that ke had been of unsound mind
from that period was returned,

SCOTLAND.—During the whole of last week the
wind was so variable that it bored, to say the least, every cardinal point
of the compass. Sunday and Monday last were equally open to aerial
vicissitude. The barometer is fixed at set fair, and yesterday at 5
p.m., a barometer outside a window, where there might have been a
little reflection, had mounted to 118 degrees. The pastures are be-
ginning to afford something like a comfortable bite. The oat brairds
around town are promising and healthy. If the present weather hohl,
the hedges will be green in leas than a week, and the woods us full
of lesfYness as the birds are of song. After wintry chills so rigorous
and long continued, it is delightful to contemplate the probpect of
warmth, and few who bear In mind their OVill experience can for a
moment doubt that solar heat adds prodigiously to the physical com-
fort of every living thing.—Dumfries Courirr.
On Wednesday, the 18th ultitno, the Stirlingshire
yeomanry delivered up their arms to Serjeant-Major Fumes, Falkirk:
The Stirlingshire yeomanry cavalry were raised in 1803, so that they
have existed for the space of thirty-five years.—Ayr Obscrper.