The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-05 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Frederick Poynter Paul and George Crow,
two young men of respectable appearance, were brought
before Mr. TRAILL, charged with stealing upwards of 200/.
worth of furniture and other articles, the property of Mary
Cooksley. The former prisoner is an attorney, and son of
a gentleman who served the office of Mayor of Canterbury;
and the latter prisoner has been what is termed a general
agent.

A witness. stated that he was employed by the prisoners
to pledge the various articles now produced, consisting of
mahogany chairs, beds, looking-glasses, pictures, &c., all of
which were identified by the complainant as her property,
and to have been taken under the circumstances above-
mentioned.
The prisoners were fully committed.

The first lecture of the Islington Literary and Sci-
entific Society was delivered on Thursday evening, to a
crowded audience, of which a great portion consisted of
ladies. Mr. Sheridan Knowles, in tracing the rise of the
drama, was most happy in his illustrations, and was re-
ceived with enthusiasm.

It is not generally known that a juvenile painting
by the celebrated Wilkie is in the possession of a gentle-
man of Cupar, who purchased it for ten guineas a short
time, since. it is said to be the very first essay of this
great master. The brief history of the production is this :
'‘ Wilkie, during his pastime from school hours, was ever
exercising his genius in the rudiments of that art in which
he was he was destined to hold so unrivalled a place, and,
from the chalking out of anything, however trivial, that
struck his fancy, he at last took for his subject a boy lead-
ing a ,grev horse to water." This is the painting now alluded
to. The Grey Horse was originally sported as a sign-board
to a tavern at Flolekettle-bridge, latterly as such in Cupar.
and it finally came into-the possession of its present owner.

APOTHECARIES.-Names of gentlemen to whom
the Court of Examiners granted certificates of qualification
on Thursday :—Wm. H. Peacock, of Simmington, York-
shire ; Thomas Hanley Barker, of York ; William Atkin-
son, of Leeds ; John Hare Gibson, of Hull ; John Roberts
Hogg, of Brighton ; Samuel Maberley,of Farnham, ; John
Dymock Scale, of Cardiff ; Thomas Jones of Cwn Neath,
Glamorganshire ; Wm. Hibbert Moore, of Woodbridge ;
Richard Vicary Gorham, of Wollesley, Suffolk ; David
Antrobus, of Betley, Staffordshire ; John Morley, of Bar-
ton-upon Humber ; James Drew, of Cambridge ; John
Dungate Watt ; Samuel Farrow, of Loughborough ; Au-
gustine Valentine Dennis, of Wells, Norfolk ; Wm. Dea-
kins, of Leicester ; Edward Smith Walters, of Cheadle ;
William Gifford Everett, of Devizes, Wilts.
Two curious circumstances are related by the Salem
Gazette as evidence of the dryness and coldness of the pre-
sent season. A peat meadow, back of Chapman's Tavern,
in Salem, on the old Boston road, has been burning nearly
a fortnight, until several acres have been consumed. A
part of the meadow had been planted with potatoes, which
have been destroyed. In some instances they have been
taken from the ground roasted, in a state perfectly fit for
eating. The fire took place from the burning of some
bushes at the edge of the meadow.—Boston Transcript.
The magnificent suits of armour which were worn
by the Dukes of Burgundy, Henry 11. of France, Francis
1., Henry I V., Sully, and Louis XIII., formerly in the
gallery of the Prince de Conde, at Chantilly, have lately
been placed in the Cabinet of Medals at the Royal Library.

Mr. Summersgill, watchmaker, of this town, has in
his possession a small circular box, formed from the two
sides of a double crown silver coin, of the reign of Charles
1., on which is engraved inside the following inscription
" From G. Mc. Iver to Rt. Burns For auld Langsyne
1791." The box contains a crown piece of the same reign
as the double crown. Both were coined at Oxford, the
the latter in the year 1642, and the former in 1643. The
box and its contents were purchased at a recent sale of
coins at Norfolk, but how or when they passed from the
family of the Scottish bard is not known.—Preston Chron.
NEWS FOR THE LADIES.—Three-fourths of the
inhabitants of Cattsville, Wisconsin Territory, are males,
the other fourth are married. Some merchants there offer
to pay the freight of a cargo of girls, and will insure them
before starting a handsome log hut each, and as much
hominy and bears' meat as they can eat. All they will have
to do is, to hoe corn, dig potatoes, and do the house-work in
general.—New York Paper.
The Chevalier Flynn, who was despatched by the
King of Naples on a mission to Paris last week, is an Irish
gentleman, and in right of, we think, a foreign order, is
styled Sir James Flynn.
SNOW STORM.—On Thursday last the thermome-
ter suddenly fell to the freezing point. A piercing wind
blew from the north-east throughout the day, and during
the evening the pools were crusted with ice. On Friday
the cold was equally rigorous ; a slight drizzle of sleet fell
in the morning, and in the afternoon a snow storm com-
menced about four o'clock, which lasted till eight in the
evening, covering the streets to the depth of six or eight
inches. A keen frost succeeded the fall, which rendered
the streets extremely slippery and dangerous to walk upon.
Saturday the frost-wind continued, and the whole
face of the country presented an unbroken desert of snow—
a truly dismal sight at this season of the year, especially
while so much of the harvest still remains exposed to the
contingencies of the weather. There can be no doubt that
the potato crops will suffer greatly from the severe frost.
Such a storm in the month of October is, as far as we re-
collect, quite unprecedented in this country.—Scotsman.
The alterations in the House of Commons are
rapidly approaching towards completion. The library is to
be considerably enlarged by taking in the Sergeant-at-Arms
and Ushers' rooms, the new apartments for whom are con-
structing in Palace-yard. The French Parliamentary do-
replace those consumed, have arrived from
cuments, to

France.
A gentleman of large landed property in this county
has declared his intention of requiring all his tenants keep-
ing beer-shops to give them up, under pain of notice to
quit, and he has given directions for clauses to be inserted
in all leases which he may hereafter grant, prohibiting the
lessee to keep a beer or spirit shop.--gonmouth Paper.