The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-08 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

In the course of the day a Mr. Whitfield, who described
himself a musician, applied for the Magistrate's interference
and advice. The applicant stated, that some days ago one
of his children was taken ill of the measles, and that he took
it to an apothecary, who administered some medicine. The
child, however, getting worse, he took it again, when the
apothecary's wife, who served in the shop, weighed some
powder, and directed that it might be taken by the child,
which was accordingly done ; it, however, got worse, and
died the preceding day, previously, however, to which, its
head and face swelled up in a frightful manner, and its
mouth was in such a state of ulceration, in consequence of
the medicine, that he had no doubt to those causes pro-
duced by the powders was to be attributed its dissolution.
He added that there was an outcry in the neighbourhood
where he lived on. the subject of the child's death ; that the
clergyman refused to perform the funeral service unless the
case was investigated ; and, under these circumstances, he
(applicant) requested the Magistrate's advice how he was to
act on the occasion.
The MAGISTRATE said that he had only to apply to the
Coroner for the district, who would summon a Jury, if he
considered the circumstances were such as to render it ne-

cessary.
The applicant having thanked the Magistrate, than
withdrew.

THAMES-OFFICE.

Yesterday Captain William Blain, the master of the
ship Clansman, from the Mauritius, lying in the St. Kathe-
rine's Lock, was brought before Mr. BALANTINE and Mr.
BRODERIP, on a charge of violently assaulting John Baxter,
a foremast man on board.
Mr. BALLANTINE convicted him in the full penalty of
51. and the costs.

The money was immediately paid.
Captain Blain was then charged on a summons with re-
fusint, payment of the Steward's wages, the balance of which
he claimed, amounting to 151., for his services on a voyage
to the Mauritius and back.
The Steward's evidence was, that disgusted with the
treatment he met with on the outward voyage, he made
affidavits of the Captain's bad conduct at the Mauritius,
and deserted from the ship. He was given into custody for
that, and remained in custody four days. He afterwards
entered into another contract with the Captain, to come
borne as Steward, at the rate of 21. 15s. a month, being
ss. more than he had going ont. The Captain had offered
him 6/., but 151. was due.
The Captain said that Mealing had forfeited his wages
by deserting from his ship.
Mr. BALLANTINE ordered him to pay the man accor-
ding to the original contract-21. 10s. per month, and the
costs. ,

On Tuesday evening an inquest was held in the
Board-room of Guy's Hospital, before Mr. Payne and a re.
spectable Jury, on view of the body of Ellen r Dick son, aged
25, a married woman, who poisoned herself with arsenic,
under the following circumstances : —lt appeared that the de-
ceased had only been married about two months. Last week
her husband absconded, and the deceased ascertained that he
was living with a young woman whom she (deceased) knew
by the name of Sally. The discovery was a great shock to the
deceased, who, from the time of the intelligence reaching her,
gave way to excessive despondency. On Saturday evening the
deceased was taken alarmingly ill, and on being questioned by
a Mrs. Mullins, who lodged in the same house, she admitted
having swallowed arsenic.—Mr. Harrison, a surgeon, was sent
for, and attended, and endeavoured to administer antidotes, but
the deceased resisted violently, and knocked the medicine out
of his hand. She was ultimately conveyed in a coach to the
hospital, where the stomach pump was used ; but the poor suf-
ferer rapidly sunk, and died a few hours afterwards.—Verdict,
" Temporary. derangement."
An inquisition was taken on Tuesday before Mr.
Stirling, at the Prince Blucher, Twickenham-common, on
view of the body of Philip Plasterer, who hung himself with a
cord. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased lived
with his wife in a'cottage on Twickenham. common. He was
a servant in the family of the late Baroness Howe, but previous
to whose death he left from being too infirm, and was allowed
by her Ladyship a pension of 14s. a week. After her death this
continued; but a few weeks ago he received information from
Sir Wathen Waller, by his bailiff, that the pension would be
discontinued. Since then his manners became greatly altered,
and having been confined to his bed for some months, he ob-
served to his wife that death would release him from all his
troubles. On Monday morning, as he appeared very melan-
choly, he was closely watched by his wife, but on her leaving
for a short time, he took the opportunity of cutting the line of
the clock weight, by which he suspended himself from the
bed-post. When found he was instantly cut down, but no sign
of life remained.—Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."
From the Glasgow Evening Post it appears that a
few days ago the waggon containing the elephants in Womb.
well's menagerie, then exhibiting in Dundee, was discovered
to be on fire. Every effort was immediately made to extinguish
the flames by such of the keepers as were on the spot, as well
as by the people connected with the other shows ; and they
were soon brought under. The elephants fortunately did not
sustain any serious injury; but they must have either suffered
severely, or died of suffocation, had the flames been much
longer in being observed, as they were making considerable
progress when they were discovered, and would have soon
reached the huge and sagacious animals. As it was, the clouds
of smoke in which both were involved affected them not a
little, and it is even thought that the female, lady-like, fainted;
but, by administering a restorative, consisting of a pailful or
two of beer and whisky, to her and her more robust helpmate,
they in a short time recovered from the unfavourable conse-
quences produced. A bear also suffered a good deal from the
smoke, and was for a short time thought to be in danger; but
he ultimately recovered without the aid of' a cordial. Bruin, it
appears, is a member of the Temperance Society, and either
could not or would not participate in the reviving draught
which had so salutary an effect upon his neighbours. The fire
originated in a small apartment at the end of the waggon used
by two young men connected with the menageries as a sleeping
place, and divided from the portico occupied by the elephants
by a partition. On the lads retiring to their dormitory, one of
them, an Irishman, affixed a candle to the side of it ; and,
thinking he would sleep the sounder after getting something
comfortable, went out to visit a neighbouring tavern, leaving
his companion, who immediately fell fast asleep without get-
ting into bed or taking off his clothes. The candle ignited
the wood-work to which it was attached, and on Paddy's return
the flames had gained such an ascendancy as completely to
appal him. On seeing them he vociferated " Murder, mur-
der !" " Fire, fire I" The alarm was thus given, and means
were taken to overcome the destructive element.
SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 6.—Sir Robert Peel, and a
distinguished party, after partaking of the pleasures of the field,
last week, on the estate of Mr. John Fleming, M. P.,
Stoneham Park, dined with that gentleman, when a large party
was invited to meet him. Sir F. Burdett has taken Belle
Vue House for six weeks. The fares by steam to Havre are
now only ss. and 3s. ; and ss. and 3s. 6d. to Guernsey and
Jeisey. At several points between this town and Winchester
the railway is proceeding with rapidity, as well as in other
parts upon the line.
TWO-WHEEL CARRIAGES.—By an Act just
passed, exemption is granted for any carriage with less than
four wheels (not let to hire), drawn by one horse only, what-
ever may be the construction of the carriage—provided the
value of the carriage, together with the cushions, or other ar-
ticles used, shall not exceed 211., and shall be marked with
the name, residence, and the occupation of the owner, in Ro-
man letters of two inches, at least, in height, and of a propor-
tionate breadth. This latter requisition it is intended rigidly
to enforce.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--On Monday morning a
servant girl, about eighteen years of age, at Stamford, went
to milk her master's cows in a neighbouring close, and not re-
turning at the usual time a person went in search of her, who,
hearing a groan near a well in the close, was induced to exa-
mine it, and found her at the bottom. When drawn up she
was found to have her throat cut deeply, and was quite insen-
sible, but not dead, the well having very little water in it.
She was taken to the county hospital, and hopes are enter-
tained of her recovery. It appears that she had made an at-
tempt upon her own life, having first cut her throat and preci-
pitated herself afterwards into the well. Some disappointment
in her affections led to the rash attempt.
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SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening,
between eight and nine o'clock, a shocking accident occurred
in Oxford-street to a respectable lady between sixty and seventy
years of age, Mrs. Mary Lloyd, residing in Mary-street, York-
square, Regent's-park. The lady was in the act of crossing
Oxford-street, on her return to her residence, and when she
arrived about the middle of the crossing two Paddington om-
nibus drivers were racing against each other at a furious and
frightful rate, by one of whom she was knocked down. Her
thigh bone was shockingly fractured, besides several ribs, and
the unfortunate sufferer was immediately conveyed to the hos-
pital. The drivers continued their furious speed, and escaped,
evidently intoxicated.
CHRISTIANIA, AUGUST 25.—The proceedings
against the Minister Lovenskicld began yesterday. He has
not, however, appeared to the summons. M. Sorensen ap-
peared as prosecutor, and M. Petersen as Counsel for the de-
fendant, in whose name he formally objected to the compe-
tency of the Tribunal. The proceedings will be continued
to-day.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS•

TOM-HOUSE, SEPT. 7.
The Chieftain, Moore, from St. Vincent's; St. Leonard'
Whitnall, Dunkirk ; Elizabeth, Kelso, Cape of Good Hope;
Tune, Ellis, Odessa; Julius, Head , St. Lucia ; Avon, Hut;
ting, Sydney and New South Wales ; London, Ball, Balt.
Ayres ; Neptune, Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland; 811 AI e
sure, Wolley, Odessa; Westbrook, Freeman, Jamaica; L'vr-r-1
thusa, Wakefield, Canton; Industry, Lovett, Tobago; l'a"
of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend ; John Pink, Smith, Jamaica.
ENTERED OUTWARDS, SEPT. 7.
The Nesbitt, Simpson, for Jamaica ; Neptune, Bolin, Gage;
Brunswick, Brown, St. Petersburgh ; Ann, Burgess,
Tobag
Tourist, Whitcomb, Antwerp; Tancred, Crosby, Barb,
Dryad, Head, Cape of Good Hope ; Sea Nymph, Sin't
Buenos Ayres ; William, Sanders, Smyrna.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, SEPT. 7:
The Singapore, Loche, for Singapore ; Orontes, Currie'
Rapid, White,
Madras ; Maria Felix, Dutilva, Lisbon ;
Samscri'
Corfu and Zante ; Tourist, Whitcomb, Antwerp; o;

Chadwick, New York.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Sitrr.7'.
The Williams, Mears, for Riga; St. Charles, Beauvais,
Calais; Blackness, Pettybrown, St. Petersburgh; Jarri;
Rickerbash, Elsincur; Vesta, Kruger, Pillau; CharolN°
Clark, Memel; William Henry, Angus, Honduras.

ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 6•
The Sir Walter Scott, Foster, from Africa ; Vere, Edtvarurg'
Africa; Majestic, Mowatt, St. Petersburgh Malvonia, Glll''
St. Petersburgh ; Lively, St. Petersburgh : Columbus,
man, Brahstadt; Twee Gebroedcrs, Antwerp ; Adam Lodge,
Pace, New York ; Boyne, Foster, St. Petersburgh;
Parke, Alexandria.
ENTERED FOR LOADING, SEPT. 6. . s
The Valiant, Bragg, for Barbadoes • Susannah CoIIVP
Crabb, Constantinople ; Stormont, Ibister,' Demerara; .s°l;
blem, Purdy, Elsineur ; Union, Alsen, Loubourg; iraFitikt
13erivic. '
Wade, Lisbon; Hilah, Hammond, Nw York •
Chace, New York ; Victoria, Rusland, Quebec ; 'Caledonia,
Pelcber, Quebec ; James, Copland, Riga; Magnet, Pay
le'
Savannah. Roseau,

CLEARED OUTWARDS, SEPT. 6. ufieldt
The Mary Sharp, Brown, for Singapore; Mary Hig".,;- eve,
Thom, Leghorn; Intrepid, Stewart, Demerara • Ellen, A,el„4
Quebec ; Susquehanna, Bright, New York ; 'George %a";
ning, Timothy, Barbadoes ; Charles Eyes, Muss, Valpsra°7
Victoria, Rossland, Quebec ; Sophia, Ulenburg.
SAILED.
The Lancashire Witch, Grayson, for Rio Janeiro;
Hox, St. John's, N. B. ; Catharine Dorothea, Brake ; '
Cremorne, Henwick, Constradt ; Iris, Rampert, Elsineurt!
Margaretha, Matilde, Rotterdam ; Albertino, De Groot,
terdam ; Lapwing, Osbazu, Syra; British Union, St ue!'
Leghorn ; Vrow Anna, Antwerp; Calcutta, Raisbecky:Jp:
housic; Asia, Hannah, Restigouche"; Vrow Henrietta, Afci;
Rotterdam ; Engelina, Bok, Rotterdam ; Louisa, Freden
Hamburgh ; Industrie, Zellien, Ostend; Borussia, Elsineur;
Margaretha Johanna, Elsineur.
TELEGRAPHED.
Off Holyhead, inward-bound, the Bootle, from Puerto Ca'
bcllo.

EAST INDIA.
Arrivals at Calcutta.-The Lloyd's, from Madras and Co;
long ; Sir John Beresford, Liverpool ,• Lady Grant, APrkilafio:
China and Singsper:; War Witch, kril 23, China ;
April 23, Moulmein and Amherst ; Navarino, April 24, u"'
and Singapore ; Mangles, April 24, China, Singailejle,
Madras ; Children, April 24, Singapore and Penang ; b.
April 27, Havre, Rio, Pondicherry, and Madras ; JA3a.
April 29, Singapore ; Virginie, April 30, Moulmein ; his
jesty's ship Andromache, May 1, Madras. for
Departures from Calcutta.-The Jupiter, April 15, nd
Liverpool; Catherine and Hibernia, April 15, CaPe.lB9-7,
London; Comala, April 23, Liverpool; Hindostan, APrlmo.
London ; Indus, April 25, and Gol, April 26, Bourbon; '4,
narch, April 26, Liverpool ; Dalla Merchant, May 4, Sint'
pore. a pre;
Departures from Saugur.-The Castor, April 21, for l'aAoril
Sir John R. Reid, April 22, Mauritius ; Stirlingshire' '1;y;
22, New South Wales; John Adam, April 26, B° don;
Comala, April 28, Liverpool ; Hindostan, April 30, Lr'n
Elizabeth, April 30, -. The Mangles, Curr, and 1.410Y,„j
Garret, were loading for London ; Sir John Beresford
Monarch for Liverpool. front
Arrivals at Bombay.-The Golconda, March at;
China ; Hon. Company's brig of war Thetis, March 28, Iree
Eucles, April 1, Liverpool ; Childe Harold, London and Li,
of Good Hope ; William Turner, London ; John Stallll4 or,
verpool ; Mermaid, April 6, London and Ceylon ; Govern
Liver
Arrivalfret
London.
at Sydney.-The Abel Gower, April 221
London.
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ACCIDENT FROM INTOXICATION.-AnOtii'
l
those fearful accidents which originate in that debasingftbe
drunkenness, occurred on Tuesday evening to a Man ° 05r
name of John Gibbon, a bricklayer by trade, residing haft
Blackhart-yard, Westminster. The man and wife bad nit,
abroad all day, squandering in drink the money which theA,o
hour of the preceding week had procured, and had left for
protection of the house their daughter, a little girl betviree'ss
the ages of five and six, in order that by their return hent.teil
night a fire and other necessary comforts might be prer in
for their reception. Gibbon, upon entering the apartnien:mf
the evening, in which was burning a brisk fire, with a Pd,
thrust between the bars of the grate, seized the poker' "dot
wielding it with all the carelessness of inebriety, swore
he would murder his wife if she would not fetch hint 9°o
more gin. The woman, herself intoxicated, had yet just see 4
easnoaugr leftehdh ot
poker
t oper
in ceivet b
e
the
hands
dangerof a
of sodr formidableuaken ira roan,
a awnedacre
tempted by main force to wrest it from him. In the strugslllo
which ensued the heated iron was passed across the fib,
dreadful face,rea fui
entering
manner.one i
of his
waseyes,
immediatelyand scorching
conveyedhitn in 06
to a I 1 ei.ool
bouring surgeon's, where his wound was dressed, but,
the peculiarity of its position, and the highly dancierous 46
racter of the injury received, it is more than probable tbas,lo
poor fellow will not eventually recover ; at all events the '
of his eyesight is too certain. delaid6
On Thursday afternoon, the ship Royal A oith,
sailed from Greenock, for St. John's, New Brunswiel/44,00
317 adults, and 23 children passengers, belonging to the le'seot
of Skye, and the other districts of the Highlands at Sir the
suffering from distress. They are most unquestionaloar
poorest class of emigrants that have left the Clyde this 46 of
and, let what may befal them in the interminable Loa
America, cannot be worse off than they appear to have beep
in the land of their nativity. The poor creatures hay father
either lazy beyond measure, or rack-rented, .which we _ 000
suspect, by the Highland chieftains, their landlords, to
dreadful extent, else they could not have made such a
rable appearance.-Glasgow Evening Post.
ip
The brig Sisters was lost by fire off Gorgon is
the bay of Leghorn, on the 13th of August. The 4,1'00
supposed, was caused by the self-ignition of coals, wilt boor' vessel was principally laden from Liverpool to Pecagr
see
The heat from the coals was first felt on the 15th, %°
sica ; and although the Captain and men made every
for two days to keep the fire under, it proved allap'o,
They did not quit the ship until she was totally in flan d llr
a few hours after they took to the boats, they were Pnlcadeheie
by an Austrian vessel, and brought to Leghorn."---4"f-..
Journal. rs tgl‘es.
A correspondent of one of the French papa of
some pains to prove that all the manufacturing wealth" to too
land and citizen prosperity of London is to be trace fit
popular custom of advertising. By his account there eij:
species of fabric, from pinmaking upwards, thati,..icsi: 1)102;
without a systematic operation of advertisement. `-'i/e-elcf,e
ing-maker (he says) not only inserts several in the "- 01 l"
1400
he sends his men to chalk the walls within forty
great cities. One publisher pays 8,0001. a year foil.; thl
his new works, and one great auctioneer expends less
201. a day for making known to the public the Iola?!
estates he has to sell. The writer then goes into a ea, otts.„"
to show that the newspapers which contain those, 6"1,11S
ments are mines of wealth to the proprietors, and a° d to !I_,d
all Frenchmen who are devoted to their country's every tb,,a're
vertise every thing they have to dispose of, and for t 0 pi,.
they want, by which their fortunes will be made,
benefited, and the press, the great support of their liv`
enriched. cle4
One of the most important discoveries connecter, 110'
with the science of geology has been the recent onto.
be
Hopkins, with respect to the phenomena of elevnoont, yst
the mineral veins of Derbyshire, according to his ace eiy, bo
result of his examination had been to this effect-41°0d g 4
the direction of the axis of dislocation which had north
fissures in them filled with mineral matter was true rloagaeo
south, while that of the structure of the work scas betsee
north and south ; thereby showing the connection
magnetism and the theory of mineral veins.
(ADVERTISEMENT.) L+ irlLir°
POWERFUL
cases, 12 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing ogenis
with the music finished in a very superior manner, are wita,,ipif
Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same descriptl,
Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. Cox S.Avoa;i:Loaott
Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornlll,:oue 00.50,
N. B. The small musical boxes, 3i inches long, coni.'„es, st
in tin cases, price 19s. each, or in composition shell
each. of
BIRTHS. the 114
On the sth inst., at Myrtle Hall, Sidmouth, Devon'
G. Manning, Esq., of a daughter. att'
On the 6th inst., at Chelsea, the lady of James SPa
of a son.
MARRIED. the ileSarajj
On the 18th ult., at St. Anne's Chu hc
rch, Kew, -doniaa
H. Ward, M.A., Mr. Frederick Pyne Andrevvcs, to
.00b!
Parkhurst. son 0000
On the 6th inst., at Penshurst, Kent, William, "1 issist_noeti'
Peel, Esq., of Taliaris, Carmarthenshire, to Anne
wino"
daughter of J. W. Lloyd, Esq., of Danyralltrin the
and of South Park, Penshurst, Kent. of
the 'life
DIED.
On the sth inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Charlotte,
jou
Vice-Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake, K.C.73. Esq., f°
eft
riper Atli die
of Openntahneg.4th inst., in Berners-street, Robert Scott,
On the 30th of Ail, drowned whilst bathing ino tracoras'ipo.
Madras, aged 21, James Blanchard, of the “Earl_sf_., of the
last surviving son of the late John Blanshard, q o.
East India Company's Naval Service. of f
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