The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-11 00:00:00

WINDSOR-SUNDAY.

Their Majesties took their usual airing yesterday in the
Parks. The Prince of Orange has left the Castle and re-
turned to town ; and the Landgrave of Hesse Homberg ar-
rived ) estcrday at the Castle.
The King inspected the troops in the grand quadrangle this
morning.

The Rev. Mr. Gossett performed divine service this morning
in the private chapel in the Castle.
The Queen attended divine service this evening in St.
George's chapel.
To-morrow the King and Queen, accompanied by the
Princess Augusta, the Landgravino of Hesse Homberg, and
Prince George of Cambridge, are expected to go to Kew,
where they will lunch and dine ; and in the evening will re-
turn to Windsor Castle. The Landgravine of Hesse Hom-
berg is expected to proceed to town. On Wednesday their Ma-
jesties will go to town, and will remain at St. James's for
some days.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.--Mr. John Good-
will, of Snainton, near Pickering, on Tuesday the 26th ult.,
died in consequence of several bruises- in his left hand, which
he received during his hiving a couple of swarms of bees on
his own premises at Thornton. He expired within the space
of thirty minutes from the time that this accident befel him.
SUICIDE.—On Thursday the sergeant-major of
the Inniskillen Dragoons, now stationed at Brighton, reported
a private named Paver for being drunk. Paver was ordered
to undergo the usual punishment, which appeared to have had
such an effect upon him that he shot himself through the body.
He survived the wound a few hours only. Deceased had been
in the regiment twelve years.
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Saturday morning a man. named Pearson, living in
Paradise-place, Lower-road, Islington, cut his throat in a
most frightful manner, and was not expected to live the day
out. Although he is upwards of sixty years of age, love, it is
said, had driven him to lay violent hands upon himself—a
young girl to whom he was attached having refused to marry
him.

THE CROPS. —The hay harvest has now pretty ge-
nerally commenced in the West Riding, and though nearly a
fortnight later than usual, will yield generally an average crop.
On dry upland soils the growth is rather scanty. The wheat
crops present a very promising appearance. Indeed the recent
fine weather has had a most beneficial effect on the grain
crops of all kinds.
DEATH OF THE LION NERD.—Died, on Satur-
day, at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, Nero, the
celebrated lion, in the 22d year of his age. Nero, at the
period he was the property of Mr. Wombwell, the celebrated
proprietor of wild beasts, was allowed to be the largest lion
that had ever been exhibited in England.
LORD LYNDHURST.—A correspondent writes a
brief genealogy of the Noble Lord Lyndhurst : we confess
our inability to discover what title lie can derive from pe-
digree to insult the fellow-countrymen► of his poor parents.
His mother'e family (now respectable) live in Clare—the *same
is Singleton (not Stapleton. as we had it yesterday); his
grandfather, by the mother's side, was ploughman and care-
taker to the late Sir Lucius O'Brien, of Dromoland, who mar-
ried a house-painter named Copeley, of the city of Limerick,
who went to America, and begot the calumniator of Ireland.—
Dublin Freeman.

A young woman of St. Lo, named Eliza Leconte,
having had a quarrel with her lover, a young Pole, was so
heartbroken that she died of grief and disappointment. Her
funeral was followed by her lover, who was so deeply affected
by her loss, that when she was vered into the grave, and
the men were beginning to cover her coffin with the earth, he
jumped down and attempted to shoot himself with a pistol.
He gave himself a horrible wound in the head, but still there
are hopes that he may be saved.—French Paper.
The evening before last, about nine o'clock, M.
Dumont, a grocer in the Rue Galande, left his house, but had
scarcely turned into the Rue Bievre when he was attacked by
three men. While he was contending with them, a fourth,
named Serriere, entered the shop, and made an attempt to
murder Madame Dumont with a poinard, but only wounded
her i s the left arm. Her cries brought assistance, but not
till Serriere had given himself eleven, wounds, of which he
died the next morning, in the hospital to which he was car-
ried. It appears that Serriere had been lodged and treated
by M. Dumont as a son for six years, without his receiving
any remuneration, although a fixed sum had been agreed
upon. On the day before, Serriere had received notice to
find himself another abode. This he attributed to Madame
Dumont, and in revenge attempted her life— Galignani's
Messen9er.

On Thursday week, as Mr. John Mower, of Step-
ney, was passing across a field leading from the Commercial-
road to Redman's-row, in company with a female of the name
of Coombes, to whom he was in a few short days to have been
united, when in the centre of the field the lady suddenly com-
plained of shortness of breath, and with an exclamation of
tenderness, desired he would instantly go and procure the as-
sistance of the family medical adviser, who resided near the
spot. Her earnest request was immediately complied with,
leaving the lady in the hands of two of the police to convey
her to a neighbouring publichouse. Words are inadequate to
express the feelings of the ill-fated man on his return to his
intended bride, at beholding her inanimate and lifeless, and
ready to be mingled with her kindred dust. The vital spark
had for ever fled. The Coroner's Inquest took place at the
Greenland Fishery, Redman's-row, Stepney, on the following
day, before Mr. Baker, coroner, and a respectable Jury. Ver-
dict—" Died by the viitation of God."
On Monday an inquest was held by adjournment
from the preceding Wednesday, by C. J. Carttar, Esq., Co-
roner, at the Bexley Arms, Bexley Heath, on the body of
Timothy Taber, a child seven years old, who came by his
death under the following melancholy circumstances. On
the Monday night previous, the deceased and some other chil-
dren were playing near a well, at which a crazy pauper, named
• Maria Kempton, aged 36, was drawing water. After she had
drawn the water, deceased begged a drop, and was stooping to
drink from the bucket, when James Greenwood, a little boy,
nine years old, pushed bim into the well, 185 feet deep, and
the girl closed the cover. The children all ran away, J. Green-
wood desiring them not to say a word about it. About a
quarter of an hour afterwards, deceased's mother went to the
well for water, and the bucket dragging at the bottom, she
drew it up, and poured out the water, which was thick and
bloody. At this instant Maria came out, and was asked by
Mr. Taber, what she had been doing with the water. She re-
plied, " I didn't, Jemmy did." Airs. Taber then asked what
he did? Her reply was, "Jemmy did it ;" and on being fur-
ther pressed to tell what was thrown into the well, she said
" dirty water." Mrs. Taber said it was not water, upon which
the poor crazy creature looked into the well, and saying
" Come no more, went away. Suspicion being aroused, as-
sistance was procured, and a man named Dixon descended into
the well, and to the horror of the mother, fetched up the body
of her son, frightfully mangled, a portion of the brain pro-
truding through a fracture of the skull, and every limb broken.
An ixpiiry having been instituted, and some of the children
who saw the occurrence, having disclosed what they knew,
little Greenwood was charged with the offence, but he stoutly
persisted in denying it, at the same time alleging it to have
been done by Maria. The above facts, however, having been
sworn to and fully substantiated, the Jury, after an investiga-
tion occupying nearly eighteen hours, and a most able and
luminous exposition of the law of the case by the talented
Coroner, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against the boy
James Greenwood," who was thereupon committed to Maid-
stone Gaol for trial at the ensuing assizes.—Maidstone Gazette.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTA NCE.—A few days since,
two young women of Gorran Haven went to look at a duck,
which was sitting in a hedge near that place ; and knowing
that the time for the appearance of the young ones was near,
they wore pleased on their approaching to observe, as they
thought, the head of one of the " little strangers " peeping
from under the duck, but on close inspection they found it to
be a large adder which had coiled itself round her, no doubt
for the sake of the warmth, and on their disturbing her, the
speckled reptile took himself off. The next day the old duck
hatched ten young ones, which, with herself, are all well.—
West Briton.