The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-05 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A few days ago Edward Jones and Elia. Janes, his wife,
and John and Airy Taylor, husband aid wife, were brought
up in the custody of Baker. II 2-6.
The prisoner=, and a man and his wife, of the name of
Oughton, livcd in the same house, in Swan•ailey. Bethnal-
green. Oughton, who is a i.icharged soldier, was in the
habit of gaining his living by matches, and picking
up bones in the street and disposing, of them. Or, Boxing
Day, the 26th of last month, he received a communication
from a solicitor residing in a market town in Staffordshire,
stating that a brother of hi 3 had died, and that he ( Oughton)
in consequence, came into the possesion of above three
thousand pounds ; and he transmitted five 9overcigns, for
the purpose of assisting him down. Upon the re-
ceipt of thii and on the same night he imited the pri,-oners,
two others ni,t is custody, to make merry upon his good
luck. They were piiling themselves till about one o'clock
in the morning, when 'lre of the party induced Oughton's
wife to absent herself from the room. She had nut been
long away before :“,rne one put the candle out. Tile table
and the chairs were then scattered about, and in the midst of
the confusion Oughton was knocked down, and the pocket in
which he had placed his money was cut off; that and the
money bong taken away. The following day (Wednesday)
Barker heard of the robbery, when he apprehended the above
prisoner, who, haring bi,en examined, was remanded ; but on
the day when they were to appear Oughton was not fortta
coming. In consequence, Mr. Grove again remanded the
prisoner, and directed Barker to bring Oughton up at the
next hearing ; lint, though several days have elapsed, Barker
h' s not succeeded in obtaining any information of hem. A
notice had been inserted in the police report. Great fears are
entertained that he has been violently disposed of ; the more
particularly Si, as nothing has been heard of the too men who
were also in the room.

METAL IN CANDLES.—Much having been of
late before the public respecting the making of candles, we
venture shortly to bring the question before our readers. To
produce a candle that requires no snuffing it is necessary that
th_ whole, of it, siiek included, should burn away in flame ;
very fine wax and well refined spermacki seem to be best
suited for this purpose. To render other candles equally vote-
tile arsenic has been used with success; hut the health of the
community does hot seem herein to have been regarded.
Some candles have a small portion of the metal called bismuth,
introduced into them, which metal is perfectly harmless ; it
has the property of rendering the combustion of tile candle
more perfect, producing a white flame, and preventing the
unpleasant sm.AI that is observed on entering a room lighted
with common tallow candies. Bismuth, in the form of a
white powder, is sold by perfumers as a cosmetic. —Repository
(or Arts.

MR. O'CONNELL.—We are happy to announce
that Mr. O'Connell is now quite convalescent, and that in a
few days he will be able to resume his active duties in lublic.
It has been stated in the Mail that the Surgeon-General and
Dr. Marsh have been in attendance on Mr. O'Connell. We
are authorised to state that the only medical attendants of the
Hon. Gentleman, during his illness, were Surgeon White, of
Dawson street, and Mr. O'Connell's domestic physician, Dr.
Nugent.2.-Dublia Evening Post of Tuesday last.
At the Greenwich Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a
travelling bookseller, in good circumstances, named James
Steward, residing in East-street, Greenwich, was finally exa-
mined on a charge of attempting to commit a rape upon Ellen
Hart, a pretty interesting girl, aged 13. The prisoner, it ap-
pared, formerly lodged with the girl's aunt, and on the 26th
of December he invited her to tea at his house, and afterwards
sent her out for some snuff. During her absence he went to
her residence, and called the girl, whom he had previously
observed, into the back kitchen. A man named Lambourn
was in the house at the time, and the prisoner gave him Is.,
with directions to ,go and stay at a public-house in the neigh-
bourhood fora friend of his. As soon as Lambourn was gone,
the prisoner attempted to commit the capital offence, but was
interrupted by the entry of the girl's aunt. The prisoner, on
being discovered, offered Mrs. Jutton, the aunt, 51. and a
quarter's rent, not to say anything about the matter, but she
gave information of it to the police, who apprehended Steward.
The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Jones, of Furnival's-
inn, was committed for trial.

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.—The rumoured dif-
ficulties attendant on the acquisition of Chinese, from the
great number and variety of the characters, are the mere ex-
aggerations of ignorance. The roots, or original characters of
the Chinese (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called
its alphabet), are only 214 in number, and might indeed be
reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and
analysis. To aszert that there are so many thousand cha-
racters in the language is very much the same thing as to
Say that there are so many thousand words in Johnson's
Dictionary; nor is a knowledge of the whole at all more
necessary for every practical purpose than it is to get all
Johnson's Dictionary by heart in order to read and converse
in English.—Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Vol. 11.
—Davis's Chinese.

SUICIDE OF Ma. R. CHILDS, OF BUNGAY.—
On the 29th ult., an inquest was held at Bungay St, Mary,
before Mr. E. Lawrence, Coroner, on the body of Mr. Robert
Childs, who put an end to his existence by throwing himself
out of an upper window of his residence on Sunday se'nnight.
Mr. F;sher, surgeon, deposed that about February last, he
was called to see the deceased, and found him in a state bor-
dering upon idiotcy ; but in a few days he resuraed his usual
health. ile was subject to periodical bilious attacks, and wit-
ness had frequently observed his declining health. Last Sun-
day week, at nine o'clock in the morning, he was called
in to see the deceased, and found him covered with dirt,
and very mush bruised. The lower half of his body had
entirely lost sensation and motion ; about the Tuesday
after, and on several subsequent occasions, deceased spoke
to the witness on his throwing himself from the window as
the act of a madman—that he had been mad, and nothing
could prevent his being so in future. He attributed his
symptoms of insanity to the state of his mind antecedent to
the act, and not consequent upon any injury he had received
from the act itself. He died abont nine last Monday morn-
ing.—Mr. Charles Childs, nephew of the deceased, deposed,
that about a wionth before the decease of his uncle, he sud-
denly declined in health, and appeared to be is a condition of
the deepest despondency. He was placed with Dr. Dalrymple,
of Norwich, and witness learned from that gentleman that
his malady consisted mainly in exceeding debility of the
nervous system. On the day after his return from Norwich,
he desired a private conference with witness, and stated that
he was suffering under apprehension that he had mismanaged
an estate of which he was trustee, and wasted the whole of
the property. Witness knew there were no grounds what-
ever for the statement, and explained to him that there were
none. This was a fortnight before the act. He seemed to
yield to his explanation ; but, not satisfied himself, he re-
lied on witness's judgment. During the following week he
was in a state of the most agonising despondency; and en the
following Saturday witness sent an express to Dr. Dalrymple,
who declared it was a case of insanity as distinctly marked as
any he had ever witnessed. There was no cause whatever to
produce that state of mind—the whole was mental delusion.
Every precaution was taken to prevent any act of self-destruc-
tion. Hannah Silverstone, servant to the deceased, stated that
about nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday night, having left
the room for tn,t more than half a minute, she found the de-
ceased gone. Jonathan Fenn, servant of the deceased, stated
that he was at svo,k in the warehouse, and wait alarmed by
hearing a noise, followed by groaes. He proceeded to the
garden, where he saw his master lying on the ground in a state
of insensibility, and saw one of the upper back room windows
open. Verdict " Insanity."—Essex Herald.

A barrister, blind of one eye, pleading with •his
spectacles on, said, " Gentlemen, in my argument I shall use
nothing but what is necessary." " Then," replied a wag,
" take out one of the glasses of your spectacles."