The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-02 00:00:00

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,

ROME ClRCUlT.—Gulzpron.o, Juzr 30.
Thomas Harris, aged 28, labourer, and James IVood,
aged 20, labourer, were indicted for having, on the Bth of
December, 1833, feloniously and maliciously set fire to a
barn, belonging to Robert Hart, a farmer, at Ash Farm,
Wick, Worplesdon.
At about five o'clock in the evening of the Bth of De-
cember, 1833, the barn in question was discovered to be on
fire by James Hart, the younger, the nephew of Robert
Hart, and the prisoners were seen helping to extinguish the
flames. It appeared that some ill will existed between the
father of James Hart and his brother, Robert Hart, and
lie and his son were taken up on suspicion. The two
prisoners were also apprehended, but all the parties were
subsequently discharged. A reward of one hundred
pounds was offered, but no clue was obtained to the per-
petrators of the fire until a short time since, when a man
named John Christmas was charged by the prisoner Wood
with having stolen a fir tree. Christmas, when appre-
hended, told Mr. Waterer he would tell all about the fire ;
and he subsequently stated and deposed at the trial, that be
was smoking his pipe on the evening in question near Ash
Farm, and saw the two prisoners in a lane near the barn.
Wood told him they were going to set Robert Hart's barn
on fire, and asked him to go and help them. He said he
did not mind walking with them, but he would have no-
thing to do with setting the barn on fire. When near the
barn he turned his head round, and on looking back lie
saw Wood striking a light into a tinder box, which Harris
held in his hands. Shortly after that he saw the barn on
fire. He was very much frightened, and ran away as f'ast
as he could. He did not run far, but came back, and
helped to put out the fire.

The prisoners, on being called on for their defence, said
they were innocent, but left it to their Counsel.

The jury delivered a verdict of Guilty.
His Lordship passed sentence of death in the usual form

The following from Naples, of the 12th instant, is
extracted from the Augsburg Gazette :—" Every thing an-
nounces that a new eruption of Vesuvius is at hand. The
smoke is not, however, as yet very perceptible ; but the in.
clined plane near the crater is burning, and the excessive heat
of the soil can hardly be endured. The general opinion is,
that eruptions always succeed very hot summers; it is a phe-
nomenon tht has been remarked. Vesuvius, however, is
thought to be in a state of decline ; during the last 20 or 30
years the elevated cone that, surmounts it has been lowered by
more than 300 feet, and the coming eruption must lower it
still more. The last calculations give the mountain an eleva-
tion of 3,460 feet. Prince Charles of Capua, with his charm.
ing wife, showed himself on the Neapolitan frontier, and was
refused admission, by order of the King. Nothing can yet
be said of the approaching oil crop; the trees have less fruit
on them than was expected ; but nothing positive can be said
before the end of August. The exports of oil from Gallipoli,
for the first half of this year, have amounted to 50,000 salmes,
of which 14,650 were for the Baltic; 8,850 for the North
Seas, Hamburg, Bremen, Rotterdam, and Antwerp ; 20,870
fur England ; and 2,000 for the Black Sea."
CAMPAIGNING AT ALGIERS.--A letter from
Algiers, given by the Toulonnais, after speaking of the suf-
ferings of the troops from the intense heat, gives the following
as an extraordinary effects of its influence :—" During the
first day's march from Oran to Tremecen, four soldiers shot
themselves, three of them at the same place, and immedi-
ately one after the other. They belonged to the 24th Regi.
ment, their day's march had been short, they had plenty of
provisions, had reached the camp, and were on the borders of
the river, and consequently free from any present sufferings,
nor had they any reasonable apprehensions for the future.
Their suicide, therefore, can only be attributed to the effect of
the sun's rays upon the brain, which must have become
deranged."

CAPTURE OF A TORTOISE.-_A few days ago, a
large tortoise was taken at the edge of the Carr Dam, Water-
loo Road, by some batters, who had promiscuously congre-
gregated there. This amphibious animal had several times
been seen about the same place, and parties had as often en-
deavoured to secure it. However, on the above occasion, it
was buccaneering a few yards inland, when the above party,
running up to the animal, stepped between it and the water, to
which it was making very rapidly, and, turning it over, took it
captive. There is no ordinary mode of accounting for the pre-
sence of the tortoise in the Carr Dam ; the only probable cause
assigned is, that Mr. Jones, of Churchgate, brought several
of a like species from America some time back, and they have
all effected their escape, but whither or how has never been
ascertained.--Stockport Advertiser.

TILE `WATERY SAlNT.—Friday, the 15th, was
Saithin's, and it having rained copiously throughout the day,
the believers in ancient augury expect it to rain forty s
more or less ; but let us hope the weeping saint has expended
too much of his watery stores on the onset, to be able to con-
tinue the deluge. There is no need of a miracle to account
for forty days' rain at the period of St. Swithin's festival.
Experience has amply shown, that whenever a wet season sets
in about the middle of July, when the heat of the sun is
usually the most intense, it generally continues to nearly the
end of the summer, when the action of that orb has considera-
bly abated ; the rain affording matter for exhalation, always
naturally the strongest at the hottest period of the year, and
those exhalations yielding, in return, matter for rain.
RUSSIAN CA RELESSNESS.—I have frequently
seen a Russian waterman climb down the granite banks of the
Neva to reach his boat, or to fasten it to the iron ring of the
shore. Clinging with the tips of his hands and his feet to the
almost imperceptible divisions of the morticed squares, the
fellow seemed to stick to the stone. Erring, even a finger's
not
convenient
still singing', he
for him. He will
width, would have precipitated him into the waves ; this,
even take his siesta upon the parapet of the river, which is no
more than about a foot broad, and here tranquilly repose in
thinksholy however,
matters he
crs does
could n o
tfear
b e more i n
the sunshine, though a single restless motion in his sleep would
wake him in a cold bath. But, according to his ideas, this is
clearly
v impossible. Should any one warn him of his danger,
he replies very tranquilly, " Neboss l" (do not fear 1) and this
" Neboss 1" always bears him through. It is a fact, that when
the sun in the spring had already rendered the ice very unsafe,
so that police were placed on each side of the Neva to prohibit
the crossing, a
• common Russian, singing his ballad, undertook
the perilous pass.
Upon arriving at the opposite side, he ob-
served that the police were preparing to greet him with stripes.
"Neboss l" says he,
laughing, and turning round, and recross-
ing the crackling surface to the shore he had come from, he
escaped the attentions of the guards. Upon the raising of the
column of Alexander, one of thei rollers used in the operation
caught the hand of a labourer, and threatened to draw the
whole body of the man slowly beneath the terrific weight,
which would inevitably have crushed him. A Russian carpen-
ter, standing close by, instantly seized his sharp axe, and call-
ing out " Neboss 1" at one blow struck off the poor creature's
arm; he was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where he
speedily recovered; and, as well as his resolute amputator, re-
ceived a life annuity of five hundred rubles elach.— Tiet's St.
Petersburg&