The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-04 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

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Yesterday, Mr. Crew, a collector of rents, was brought
up in the custody of police constable of the N division,
charged with having attempted to stab Mr. John Allen,
paperstainer, of the Kingsland-road.
The defendant and the complainant were both attended
by solicitors, and a long examination of witnesses took place
on both sides, when, as it appeared to the Magistrates that
the defendant did not draw the sword, after a very impres-
sive admonition from Air. Broughton that persons of their
respectability should be engaged in such squabbles, the de-
fendagt was discharged.

THAMES-OFFICE.
Yesterday a woman named Jane Brown, better known
by the cognomen of Irish Jane, who appeared far advanced
in pregnancy, was charged before Mr. Greenwood, with
stabbing a man, named Sellers, whose life is now in immi-
nent danger.
The prisoner on being asked if she had anything to say,
exclaimed, "It was only done a larking. Yer honour's
wertchip, sure I had been larking with him all night at the
King William."
Mr. GREENWOOD—And you stabbed him in a lark?
Prisoner—To be sure, I did nothing else.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he should remand the prisoner.—
The prisoner was then locked up.
About two hours afterwards she was again put to the
bar, when Catherine Tennant, a woman of the town, said
she knew " lrish Jane," and was at the King William on
Sunday night. Sellers, the wounded man, came in there,
and directly afterwards the prisoner took up a knife from
an oyster basket and plunged it in his back. She then re-
turned the knife to the basket and made her escape. After
his wound was dressed he rested himself in a hayloft for a
few hours. _ _

Mr. GREENWOOD—WeII, 1 shall remand this woman.
If there is any change in the man let me know. The case
must be watched.

NEW REMEDY FOR DEAFNESS.—In a communi-
cation in last week's Lancet, from Mr. Curtii, the surgeon
to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, who, trom
his situation, must have had great experience in this line of
practice, an account is given of the employment of a new
remedy for diseases of the ear, the value of which has been
exemplified in several cases. After remarkine, on the pre-
valent mistake that these diseases are incurable, and the
consequent neglect of them, to which he attributes the
greater number of cases of deafness, he observes that one
of the principal and most common causes of that malaiy, is
a deficiency of the natural secretion, arising from a want of
action in the ceruminous glands, on removal of which the
deafness generally disappears. For the purpose of effecting
this, Mr. Curtis has lately employed a solution of creosote,
the application of which does not cause any pain or smarting
sensation, the only sensible effect produced being a feeling
of agreeable warmth. This preparation excites the ac ion
of the glands, and causes an abundant secretion of ccrumen,
thereby restoring hearing.

MATCH AGAINST TIME.—On Monday last, a
person well known in Huddersfield as the first Mayor of the
town, undertook for a wager of 5/. to ride his own mare
" Soldier," to York and back, a distance of eighty miles, in
twenty-four hours. As he is a heavy man, and with saddle,
&c., weighed about seventeen stone, it was considered
almost impossible without a break doA n, the mare rising
fifteen years old. He started at eight o'clock on Monday
morning from the Green Dragon Inn, and arrived at York
by half-past four in the afternoon, and after refreshing him-
self and his faithful" Soldier," left the city at eight o'clock,
and finally arrived at the Green Dragon just as the church
clock was striking five ; thus having three hours to spare.
Both rider and mare appeared not to have been distressed.

" THE ONLY DAUGHTER," EDITED BY THE
AUTHOR OF THE " SUBALTERN."--Any work to which
Mr. Gleig would venture to prefix his popular name, must
necessarily command a large share of public attention ; and
in the instance of " The Only Daughter" that attention
will be amply repaid. This production belongs to that de-
lightful and most truly English class of works usually de-
scribed as domestic novels ; and it is worthy to take its rank
at once among the most pleasing and instructive of those
works. As an earnest of the future literary career of
which it forms the outset, it is still more calculated to ex-
cite the public interest. Female readers, in particular,
will, for the credit of their sex, take " The Only Daughter"
at once under their peculiar care.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
he Columbine, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom

Horse on Sunday ; and the John Bull, from Hamburg,
yesterday morning.

That portion of Oxford-street lately selected by
the Marylebone Vestry for the purpose of testing the ma-
terial of the various bitumen and other companies is rapidly
progressing towards completion. Messrs. Robinson and
Claridge have already completed their respective allot-
ments of the space, which is being followed by the plan of
the Bastenne Gaujac Bitumen Company, the principle of
which is similar to that of Robinson's, consisting of oblong
blocks of about one foot in length by six inches wide
studded with pieces of broken granite. It is understood
that when the portion to be done by this Company shall
be completed, Mr. Stead will be prepared immediately to
follow with his experiment of the wooden block pavement,
upon the principle in use at St. Petersburg and New York.
For this purpose a large space has been left between the
Bastenne Company's experiment and the parish stone paving
of the ordinary description, which was commenced being
laid down under the superintendence of Mr. Scaice, the
surveyor. It is to be laid upon a superior bottom, and the
interstices are to be filled up with the usual modern mode
of grouting with lime, sand, &c. The whole work is ex-
pected to be completed and ready for the thoroughfare to
be thrown open within the space of three or four weeks.

An inquest adjourned from Wednesday was held
last night at the Elephant and Castle public-house, Cam-
den Town, on the body of a gentleman, name unknown,
supposed to be a foreigner, who was found in the canal
near that place. The face of the deceased was dreadfully
disfigured, evidently from a pistol-shot, and in making an
examination of the body a medical gentleman discovered a
bul:et lodged in the skull, in a position which it would
have taken up had the pistol been discharged into de-

ceased's mouth. Death must have been instantaneous,
and if inflicted by the man's own hand he must have been
standing close by the water at the time. No pistol, how-
ever, has been found near where the body was discovered,
although a bullet mould and some percussion caps were
found on the person of the deceased. No document of
any kind was in his pockets, the only other article being
a snuff-box of the kind usually called Lawrence Kirk boxes,
with the maker's name on the inside of the lid. The jury
returned a verdict—That deceased came by his death from a
pistol-shot, but how inflicted there was no evidence to show.
From appearances the body must have been in the water
for several weeks, as it was much decomposed. The bullet-
mould, &c., were paced in the hands of the parish beadle
for identification.

THE NORTHERN YACHT SUPPOSED SAFE.--
A Dundee correspondent writes us as follows, in reference
to the Northern Yacht :—" Captain Simpson of the Ceres
of this port arrived here to-day (Tuesday) from Memel,
with flax, and reports that the people of Mandal informed
him that the Northern Yacht had arrived at Christian Sand
safely, and that the crew and passengers were all well. Such
are the accounts entered in the Newsroom Shipping-list of
this day"(27th November). We join with our correspond-
ent, and with our readers, in fervent hope that the news are
true, but yet we sadly doubt the likelihood of them being
so. The first thing the captain and passengers of the Yacht
would have done, had they arrived at a port, would have
been to advise their friends of their safety ; and such letters
ought to have reached this long since by the Hamburg
steamers. It may, however, prove otherwise, and Heaven
grant that it do so.—FVeshire Journal.

An inquest was held upon the body of Mrs. Blayle,
who was shot by Abraham Hilliard, as before detailed, and,
after an investigation of about three hours, the jury re-
turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Abraham Hil-
liard, and the Coroner issued his warrant for his committal
upon the charge.

An inquest was held on Saturday at Spitalfields
Workhouse on the body of William Moss, a pauper, aged
76 years, who was killed on Wednesday evening last by a
stack of chimneys being blown down during the storm. A
verdict of Accidental death was returned.

WHOLESALE ROBBERS.—The Dodds, who are
twin brothers, and have lived in great respectability as far-
mers, at Whithouse Farm, Hatfield Broad Oak, and who
were lately taken into custody for stealing two bullocks
from Mr. Millbank, of High Easter, have been discovered
to be the receivers of stolen property, principally cattle, to
a very great amount. On searching their place, twenty
sheep and lambs, belonging to Mr. Bentall, of Brick-house,
and the skins of three other bullocks, were found in a field
near the house, and nearly sixty stone of beef and pork,
cut up by a person who was not a butcher, was discovered
in an outhouse. Under some pea-haulms were found up-
wards of a hundred turkeys, fowls, geese, &c., some alive,
some smothered, and others with their heads off. Most of
these were recognised as the fruits of recent robberies.
Coe, and Mary Andrews, their housekeepers, were ex-
amined with them at Duinow, but the Magistrates ex-
cluded the public from the Court.—ChelmsforiC'hronicle.
PAUPER LUNATICS.—The subjoined letter was
published by the Times, to the editor of which journal it is
addressed :
Sir—On the 24th instant, in an article relating to the
Kensington Union treatment of pauper lunatics, you state
the Chairman then put the amendment, when there ap-
peared seven for it and seven against it, when the Chairman,
gave a second vote against it, on which it was declared lost.
The Guardian who sent the statement should have ad-
hered to truth. It was lost by eight voting against it, and
seven for it. The casting vote I gave was in favour of a
motion (when it was moved that the names should be taken
down), which enabled the Guardian to give them. To
suit his statement, he suppressed the name of one gentle-
man who voted against the amendment.
Trusting you will favour me by allowing me the advan-
tage of correcting a misrepresentation,
I am, Sir, you most obedient servant,
ROBERT GUNTER,
Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the
Kensington Union.
Earl's-court, Old Brornpton, Noy, 29, 183 e.