The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-20 00:00:00

TV OR SHIP- STREET.

Yesterday Edward Matthews, a dealer in crockery, and
John Matthews, his brother, a scavenger's labourer, were
placed at the bar before Messrs. GROVE and TWYFORD,
charged, the former with assaulting the police, and the latter
with attempting to rescue him while in custody.
Edward Matthews was fined 5/. or two months' imprison-
ment ; and John Matthews was fined ss. John Matthews had
been twelve years in the employ of Mr. Bateman, Holywell-
lane, scavenger, who went to the station-house to be bail for
him ; but it being contrary to the Police Act, under the cir-
cumstances, bail was refused.

A temple of the Doric order of architecture is now
being erected at Kew ; it will not occupy much space, but will
be of a height sufficient, like the pagoda, to form a pleasing
object from distant parts of the surrounding country.

We are glad to learn that Lord Fitzwilliam is grant-
ing leases to such an extent in Wicklow as will render com-
pletely hopeless any designs of the Tories upon its future re-
presentation.

Eighteen members of the Bristol Corporation, con-
sisting of an equal number of Conservatives and Liberals, were
unanimously nominated, at a meeting of the Town Council of
Tuesday, as charity trustees for Bristol.
There are a number of cases of small-pox at present
both in Newcastle and several of the neighbouring places.
Two or three deaths have recently occurred from this dreadful
disease.—Berwick Advertiser.

HORTICULTURAL PHENOMENON.—It was men-

tioned in 1834 that in a body found on opening the ancient
British Tumulus, near Maiden Castle, there was a mass of
seeds discovered in the viscera ; they have been set by Pro-
fessor Lindly, who has reared several plants of common rasp-
berry, now bearing fine fruit. This proves that this plant was
known at a very early period in England.—Dorset County
Chronicle.

There are in Glasgow and its suburbs 310 steam-
engines, viz., 176 employed in manufactories; 59 in collieries;
7 in stone quarries ; and 68 in steam-boats. Average power
of engines, 20 46-100th; total horses' power, 6,406.
A public meeting.* was held at the Town-hall, De-
vonport, on Tuesday, the 13th of September, for the purpose
of forming a Reform Registration Association, to secure the
practical benefit of the Reform Act by preserving freedom and
purity of election, and protecting the independence of the
electors in the exercise of their franchise.

At Avon Bridge mines, by Hamilton, the little Low
Hill clerk office being occupied by a quiet old man, a female
robin often paid him a visit, and when he was at leisure he fed
it. He might be occasionally seen, with his feathered charge
at his elbow, or sitting on his shoulder. In spring she got a
husband, and, in a short time, be was as social as his mate.
They went to work, and, in a short time, constructed a house
for themselves, on the wall-head inside the office door, where
they might safely bring forth their young, and were daily fed
and watched, lest harm came near their dwelling. They have
now brought forth two families, which may be seen flying
around the head of their benefactor, as flies do in summer.
They have been visited by both Peer and peasant.—. Glasgow
Chronicle.

A curious circumstance recently occurred to Mr.
Rutherford, of Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. About eleven
weeks ago he experienced great pain between the shoulder and
the elbow of his left arm, accompanied by a pricking sensa-
tion ; and after enduring it for some time, and finding it as
acute as ever, he consulted a medical gentleman, who supplied
him with an ointment to rub over the affected part, under the
supposition that some of the muscles of the arm had by some
means received injury. This mode of treatment occasioning
an increase of pain, Mr. Rutherford discontinued it, and pur-
chased a drawing plaster at the druggist's, which he himself
applied to the arm. Last week he removed the plaster, and a
needle an inch and a half long was found on it, extracted from
the arm. Mr. Rutherford cannot account for the manner in
which the needle got into his arm, but he is now entirely freed
from pain.—Derbyshire Courier,

Ai Bristol it is anticipated that the advantages of
the railway from that place to London will be immense to the
agricultural interest. The minimum velocity is to be 40 miles
an hour, and therefore, at the slowest rate of travelling, cattle
landed at Bristol at five in the morning may be in Smithfield
market when the clock strikes eight.
TIIE NAPOLEON WILLOW.—Mr. Loudon's in-
quiry about the St. Helena willow has elicited extensive infor-
mation on that important subject. We have already gives the
letters of several correspondents, and we have since been in-
formed that a slip from the large willow-tree which droops
over the grave of the late Emperor Napoleon was brought to
this country in the year 1831 from St. Helena, in the Rouge
frigate, by Corporal Thomas Hague, of the Royal Marines,
and presented by him to his old officer, Captain George
Desbrowe, 10, King-street, St. James's, in whose garden it
may now be seen a vigorous and flourishing plant, affording a
cooling shade to a spring of the purest water. A very fine
slip is in full vigor in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, but the
proprietor of that popular place of amusement does not choose
that the circumstance should be generally known, as it might
prove fatal to the safety of the plant. There is also a very
beautiful specimen (of the weeping species) at 11, Brompton_
grove. A correspondent,
who signs . himself.
" Botanicus,"
explains the reason why so great a difference in the appear-
ance of the different plants shown in this country as the veri-
table Napoleon willow. He says that " there are several sorts
of willows growing in the valley where Napoleon's tomb is
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inquDesEtAvrTasoHrtaken by Mr. St3elbTbEcarOe,r
Binstead, on the body of Chas. Munday. The deceased was
in the habit of travelling about the country employed in the
destruction of vermin, and on the 13th inst., accompanied one
of the keepers of the Holt Forest to the Lodge, to request
permission to catch snakes and adders in the Forest. At that
time he had seven adders, which he kept in his cap on his
head, and had exhibited them to the servants, occasionally ex-
citing them to bite his coat, and immediately after rendering
them perfectly passive or playful only, by passing his hand
over them, on which he had apparently rubbed some oily es-
sence. On their return from the Lodge, the deceased caught
an adder, and a slow worm, which he also put in his cap, and
shortly afterwards told the keeper he thought he had been
bitten, and requested him to examine the back part of his
head, which the keeper did, and found a small wound, like the
prick of a pin, from which the blood was issuing. The de-
ceased then requested him to squeeze the wound hard, and to
rub in some oily preparation which he carried in a bottle, and
which he said would prevent any mischief, as be had been bit-
ten before, and used the same remedy. After this had been
done, he expressed himself satisfied; but in less than a quarter
of an hour he was seized with vomiting, complaining of great
lassitude, and laid down on the ground, and the keeper finding
him unable to walk, and apparently very ill, went as quick as
he could to the village, and sent two young men to his assist-
ance ; but on their arrival, about ten minutes after, they found
him dead, and his face and tongue very black and much swol-
len.—Verdict, " Accidental Death."—Heats Advertiser.
FERTILITY of Frstr.—ln consequence df the
great breadth and depth of the pasture of fish, as compared
with the pasture of land animals, their numbers, and their
powers of keeping up those numbers, are correspondingly
great. The shoals of some of the surface fishes, and also
some of the ground ones—as, for instance, the common her-
ring and cod—are numerous beyond all the power of arith-
metic ; and their fertility corresponds, for a single individual
of the cod produces four millions at a birth, and there are
many other species scarcely less productive ; while land ani-
mals, whether mammalia or birds, arc reckoned exceedingly
prolific if they average a dozen, and some of the more im-
portant and highly developed races have very rarely indeed
more than one.— The Naturalist.
One day last week, the gamekeeper of Robert De-
venish, Esq., of Charininster, shot a female hare, which proved
to be gravid, and on being opened was found to contain the
unusual number of five young ones.—Northampton Herald.