The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-24 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Sarah Adams, a young and good-looking woman, was
charged with an intention of destroying her child, and then
committing suicide. The prisoner, who lived in William-
street, Waterloo-road, told a fellow-lodger that she intended
to destroy herself and child, the latter being a boy two years
old, but the son of a person whom she knew before her mar-
riage. Her husband was in a situation, but she said she could
not expect him to maintain the child of another man, a circum-
stance which preyed upon her mind. She was watched by her
fellow-lodger, and on being seen to go into three chemists'
shops and purchase laudanum, she was given into custody. She
admitted that she contemplated suicide, but denied any inten-
tion of destroying her child. The child was sent to the work-
house, and she was locked up in default of bail.

TILE LATE FATAL DUEL.—When Mr. Elio
left England by the General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Brockelbanh, he stated to the Captain of the ves-
sel—as a correspondent informs us—that he should surrender
in November, when the excitement would be in a great mea-
sure passed.
THE ORATION AT CHRIST'S HosPITAL..--The
collection at the conclusion of the proceedings on Friday last
for Messrs. Eberidge, Minchin, and Frederick Gifford Nash,
who are about to proceed to Pembroke College, Cambridge,
was 13W. On former occasions it has generally amounted to
1801. and 2001. The cause assigned for the smallness of the
collection is that the Chief Magistrate subscribed only two
sovereigns; and the Governors, from etiquette, were unable
to be more liberal. We understand the late Lord Mayor
presented five guineas, and his predecessor ten.—From a Cor-
respondent of the Observer.
According to a letter of the 10th instant, from
Naples, Captain Rolland, of the brig-of-war Ducouedic, ar-
rived there on the 31st ult. On the following day he was
presented at Court, and was graciously received by the King
and Royal Family, who made earnest inquiries as to the health
of the Royal Family of France. On the receipt of informa-
tion of the birth of Count de Paris, the Ducouedic fired a royal
salute, which was repeated by the Neapolitan fleet. Prince
Louis, who is a midshipman in the Neapolitan navy, paid a
visit to Captain Rolland on board the Ducouedic, and partook
of an entertainment, during which complimentary toasts to
each nation and their Sovereigns were mutually exchanged.
On the day of the fete of the Piedi Grotta. Captain Rolland
was invited to the palace of Prince Leopold, and was pre-
sented to the Princesses, his consort and daughter, and also to
the Prince of Saxe Weimar, cousin of the Duchess of Orleans.
At the royal review held on this occasion, while the troops
were filing before the King, the Ducouedic fired a salute of
twenty-one guns. A grand dinner was given on the following
day by the Neapolitan squadron to the officers of the French
brig, at which complimentary tcasts were interchanged, ac-
companied by salvos of artillery.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.—We deem it proper to
apprise all owners of ships that, by an Act of Parliament
passed last month, they are required, under a penalty of five
pounds, to give immediate notice in writing to the collector
or comptroller at the port of registry of the loss of any British
vessel, or if taken by the enemy, burnt or broken up, or
otherwise pre;,ented from returning to the port to which she
belongs, or shall have, on any account, lost the privileges of
a British ship, or shall have been absent from her port of re-
gistry for the space of three years, stating the cause of such
absence.—Liverpool Standard.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—In the Sheriff's
Court, on Saturday, a case (Tarbuck v. the Blackwall Rail-
way Company) was tried, which involved a point of consider-
able interest. The plaintiff claimed 455/., the value of two
houses belonging to him, and the sum of 1201. for the antici-
pated injury that would be done to two other houses belonging
to him, and which would be deteriorated by the works of the
railway. The defendants offered 3201. in satisfaction of the
former claim, and denied the right of the plaintiff to compen-
action for any prospective damage. On evidence being ten-
dered to prove the latter claim, Mr. Hill, for the defendant,
objected to its being received, on the ground that no action
could lie for damages that might accrue in future ; in further-
ance of this opinion he cited several cases in point. Mr.
Jones (for the plaintiff) contended that he had a right to com-
pensation now. The Under- Sheriff decided that the right to
call for damages for an anticipated injury did not exist, and
that when the injury accrued the plaintiff had his remedy at
law. After hearing evidence as to the value of the property,
the Jury returned a verdict—Damages, 3601.
Messrs. Fielden of Todmorden, have contributed
2801. towards the fund for raising an annuity for Mr. Oastler.
—Halifax Express.
There are no less than seventeen families almost
ruined by the late disastrous conflagration in Pancras-street,
Tottenham-court-road. Everything that they possessed was
consumed. The inhabitants living in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, and the jury who sat upon the inquest on the body
of Mary Thornton, who perished, have taken up their condi-
tion and set a subscription on foot for their relief, which we
trust will be successful.
On Friday, at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, a per-
son of the name of White pleaded guilty to a charge of having
beaten for game, and was fined 31., with 13s. ed. costs, just
the amount, the Bench told him, of a game certificate. The
defendant said he must " live and learn," and when recom-
mended not to go to the spot again, he said he would not for
a week.
On Saturday an inquest was held at St. George's
Hospital on the body of a man named Barrett, who died in that
institution of erysipelas supervening on the amputation of one
of his feet. Deceased had been engaged with a threshing
machine on a farm near Hounslow, when, through his own
carelessness, his foot got entangled in the machinery, and
crushed it so as to render amputation necessary. Verdict
" Accidental death," with a deodand of one shilling on the
machine.
The following robbery was effected at ten o'clock
on Saturday evening by a shabbily-dressed short man in a
brown coat, with only one eye, or a defect in the vision of
one :—A handsomely-bound purple morocco copy of the pic-
torial edition of the " Book of Common Prayer," valued two
guineas, from the shop of Mr. Lovelace, bookseller, William-
street, Regent's Park. The police were made acquainted
with all the particulars within five minutes after the robbery
took place.
On Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the house
of a gentleman named Peechey, residing on Clapham Com-
mon, through the carelessness of some carpenters employed on
the premises. About half-past ten on Saturday night another
fire broke out in the house of a grocer, named Burnard, in
Little Pulteney-street, Soho, the snuff of a candle having
fallen upon some linen. Neither fire did much damage.
On Saturday morning, a respectably-dressed man,
about sixty years of age, expired at the University College
Hospital, from the effects of a very extensive incision in his
throat with a razor. The rash act was perpetrated in Chalk
Farm fields on Wednesday evening last, and he was acciden-
tally discovered by the side of a ditch by two labouring men,
who gave information to the police.
On Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock,
a girl named Martha Salter, nine years of age, while crossing
King-street, Holborn, was knocked down by a carrier's cart,
and one of the wheels passed over her right leg about two
inches above the ancle, fracturing the bone into splinters.
She was removed in a state of great agony to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital.
One of the sailors taken at Emden, in Hanover, be-
longing to the Bragenza, has hung himself in the prison at
Bremen. His name was John Adams. He was a native of
Hamburgh.
The beautiful village of Heiden, near Appenzell, in
Switzerland, running a length of nearly half a league, and cen-
taining upwards of 100 houses, together with the church, was
totally destroyed on the 7th inst. by fire, originating in an iron-
foundry established there.