The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

KINGSTON, MARCH 31.
William Andrewi; aged 19, and Joseph Easton,
aged 21, were indicted for breaking and entering
the dwelling-house of George Michael Wilson, in
Kennington, and stealing therein diamonds and
jewellery to the value of 500/. ; and Charlotte Deans
was charged with reeeiving the same property,
knowing it to have been stolen.
The prosecutor s'atel that his premises had been
broken open and a considerable amount of property
stolen therefrom, between the night of the 27th and
morning of the 28th of December last. He bad
seen the two male prisoners at his shop window
before the night of the robbery.
The case being most conclusively proved against
all the prisoners, they were found Guilty.
Deans, who said that Ann Barrow, like herself,
was a common prostitute, was sentenced to be trate-
ported for 14 years. Sentence was not passed upon
the male prisoners.

TA U 11r T 0 IV, ALI RCH 31.

The Ass;zes commencedi yesterday. Forty-three
causes have been set down for trial iu the Nisi Prins
Court. The whole number of criminal charges for
trial amounts to upwards of 200.

Thomas Searle:, aged 49, was charged with having
cut and wounded his daughter, Elizabeth Searle,
wish intent to murder her. It appeared that the
unhappy prisoner had been in a state of religions
madness, in consequence, as he alleged, of a sermon
which had been preached at the parish church of
Thorn, by a Mr. Watts, and every word of which
sermon the prisoner thought to have been addressed
to himself. He became impressed with the con-
viction that be had committed a sin against the
Holy Ghost, and that therefore he could never obtain '
forgiveness either in this world or the next; and for
months before the commission of the offence he kept
his family in a continual state of arprehension for his
personal safety. On the 25th of September last he
took his (laughter, a child only twelve yews old, up
stairs in his house, and asked her if she would wish
to go to Heaven arid, upon the child saying
the father kissed her affectionately, after which he
cut her throat to a considerable extent, under the
ear, in the muscular part, and inflicted other wounds
upon other parts of her body. Another of his
daughters, nine years old, hearing the cries of her
sister, ran to the room, and in attempting to seize
the knife, was wounded in the hand. It seemed,
however, that the attempt to commit so enormous a
crime had, in some degree, awakened the unhappy
parent from the horrible delusion under which he had
laboured, and in consequence of which he believed
that he had been commanded to kill his daughter by

the express directions of the Holy Ghost. Some
persons came to the assistance of the child, and on
remon,trating with the father, he expressed the
greatest horror at the attempt which he had made.
The child, who was now called as a witness, stated
some of the above-mentioned facts, in a manner
which excited the interest and sympathy of every
person in Court. When her examination had been
concluded, the prisonsr, who had no Couesd, was
asked by the Judge if he had any question to ask of
the witness ? The putting of the question induced
the litle girl to look round, and her eyes no sooner
had fallen upon her father, whom she had not pre-
viously seen, than she burst into tears and instantly
fainted away. Another of the prisoner's daughters
who deposed to some facts tending to show the pri-
soner's insanity at the time of committing the act,
was so much affected as to be scarcely able to speak.

She said that he was the most affectionate of
bands and of parents, and had always been peculiarly
fond of the child whom he attempted to kill.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner upon the ground
of his being insane at the time of committing
the act, and he was ordered to be detained in cus-
tody until the King's plesure could be known upon
the subject. The prisoner is a labourer, and the
father of seven children. He got h most excellent
character from some persons, besides the members
of his own family.

THE KING V. DUNN.

This was an indictment for a libel.

The plaintiff is a Mr. Howe, churchwarden of the
parish of Walcot, in Bath. The defendant is a re-
spectable brewer in the same parish. The libel was
in the form of a letter addressed to the Very Rev.
Archdeacon Moysey, the Rector of the parish of
Walcot, and was in the following words:—
" October 12, 1830.

" I have been informed that you are going to
bring one criminal before the public, I hope you will
bring two more : one for seducing two sisters, the daugh-
ters of a once respectable farmer at Lansdowne, which
brought them to poverty, misery, and affliction. After
investigation you will be expected to give your opinion in
the public papers, which will oblige your", obediently,
" A PARISHONER."
In order to prove this letter to be the hand-writ-
ing of the defendant, the prosecutor and tivo or three
other of the persons engaged in transacting the
affairs of the parish were called. They deposed
that they believed the letter to be in the hand-
writing of the defendant, from the form of the d's
and t's, as well as from the fact of the word pa-
rishioner being spelt without a second i.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.

GL 0 UCES TER, MARCH 31.

The Judges arrived here from Monmouth yester-
day evening, and opened the Commission. This
morning their Lordships attended the Cathedral,
escorted by the ijigh Sheriff, Sir T. C. Boevey,
Bart. There are 28 causes entered for trial at
Nisi Prins; but not one Special Jury case, nor are
any expected to be of any importance. The As-
sizes are expected to last all next week. No case
of public interest was disposed of to-day.

YORK, MARCH 31.

Charles Briggs, James Briggs, and William Mar-
shall, were indicted for having wounded William
Lyall, with intent to maim, wound, or do him some
other grievous bodily harm.
For the prisoners an alibi was set up, but the
prosecutor swore positively to the two Briggs.. The
'ury found those prisoners Guilty, and acquitted
Marshall.

The Learned JUDGE had some doubt whether an
indictment: for wounding, with intent to do some
bodily harm, could be supported by evidence which
showed an intent to murder, and reserved the point.

It is said that his Excellency the Lord-Lieu-
tenant has expressed his intention of visiting the county of
Clare, in order to obtain a knowledge, from personal ob-
servation, of the condition of that part of the country. We
understand that his Excellency wilt take his departure on
Saturday, accompanied. by Mr. Sergeant O'LoannaN.—
Dublin Morning Register.

At the chairing of Mr. MAURICE (MON..
NELL, as Member for Clare, there was rather an Irish
specimen of an appropriate emblem in the dispLy of one
of the banners which had served upon a similar occasion
for O'Goastati MAnorr, and on which was inscribed
" O'GORMAN SIAHON, the champion of his country."

Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed a letter to
the Chairman of an anti-Union n•ceting of the tailors
of the city of Cork, in which the Hon. Gentleman indig-
nantly denies that he has thrown overboard his sale= for
the Repeal of the Union. " Even (he says) if I were to
declare against the Repeal of the Union, there are (►hanks
to God for it) millions of Irishmen who would not submit
to my dictation, or that of any ram, hut who would, de-
spite of every effort of mine to the contrary, continue to
seek for a restoration of that domestic legislature to Inland
which they properly deem essential to her prc.sperity."
WEDDED LIFE.--Two stories illustrative of
this state of existence in the higher circl--s have just been
published under the above general title. The first •of
these, called " The Wife and Friends," exhibits some sin-
olar examples of that spirit of intrigue which, while it
is thought to be fashionable and harmless, too often ends
in the deepest and most irremediable miseries. And the
second story, "The Married Mari," slims that an eager
search after what is called a good match, is pretty are to
lead to a very ill-assorted union. The work is ascribed •to
a lady inferior in rank only to the Rc.yal family. It can-
not fail of popularity among the fair.

777--

. SINGULAR TRIAL OF VIRTUE.
In the the year 1512, Va!4ltitt 'azi::l4-fillinber of
Yucatan, and fell int‘aelfan.
his companions were vfxrti,io-,-*Ahiiaii\oc
whom
ds Of.the aiI:PIN .
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who, being cannibals, iciirted Valdivia-ifrid4o i
his countrymen, save o,lt:a. grand. feaStle d
he
Isityint,hile,orcsacwiqause
Jeronimoantl h Itbje.;(4.s4:iiiril,,,,li4,.
Mr. Washington Irving gives the following
curious account :—" He was a native of Ecija,
in Andalusia, and had been brought up to the
church, and regularly ordained, ani shortly
afterwards had sailed in one of the expeditions
to San Domingo, from .whence he had passed
to Darien. He proceeded in'a different mode
from that adopted by his comrade, he sailor, in
his dealings with the Indians, and in one more
suited to his opposite calling. Instead of .play-
ing the hero among the men, and the gallant
amongst the women, he recollected' his
priestly obligations to humanity and chas-
tity. - Accordingly, he made himself -a- model
of,meekness and obedience to the cacique
and his warriors, while lie Closed his eyes
to the charms of the infidel women. :Nay,
in the latter respect, he reinforced his cleri-
cal vows by a solemn promise to God to
resist all temptations of the flesh, so be might
he delivered out of the hands of those Gefitiles.
The Cacique had remarked his unexampled dis-
cretion with respect to the sex, but doubted his
sincerity.- After laying many petty temptations
in his way, which Jeronimo resisted with the
self-denial of a saint, he at length determined to
subject him to a fiery ordeal. He accordingly
sent him on a fishing expedition accompanied
by a buxom damsel of fourteen years of - age ;
they were to pass the n;glit by the sea ' side,
so as to be ready to fish at the first dawn
of days,
~and Were but allowed one 'ham-
mock to - .sleep in. It was an embarras-
sing predicament; not apparently to the Indim
beauty, but certainly to the scrupulous .Je-
ronimo. He remembered, however, his double
vow, and, suspending his hammock to two
trees, resigned it to his companion ; while,
lighting a fire on the sea-shore, he stretched
himself before it on the sand. It was, as he
acknowledged, a night of fearful trial, for his
sandy couch was cold and cheerless, the ham-
mock warm and tempting ; and the infidel dam-
sel had been instructed to assail him with all
manner of blandishments and reproaches. His
resolution, however, though often shaken, was
lever overcome ; and the morning dawned upon
dm still faithful to his vow. The fishing over,

he returned to the residence of the cacique,
where his companion, being closely questioned,
made known the triumph of his self-denial be-
fore all the people. From that time forward he
was held in great respect ; the Cacique especially
treated him with unlimited confidence, intrusting
to him the care, not merely of his house, but of
his wives, during his occasional absence.

PLEASANT DESCRIPTION OF SPANISH

TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.

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gtiflue sole occupant
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young
girls,
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going
a short distance from the city, partly for the
sake of the ride, but chiefly to take leave of one
of their number, who was to keep on to
Madrid, whither she was going to serve a Con-
desa. I soon found, from their conversation,
that two of them were daughters of the old man.
The eldest, a close-built, fast-sailing little frigate,
with an exquisitely pointed foot, a brilliant eye,
and a pretty arch face,—not at all the worse for
two or three pock-marks,---was the newly-mar-
ried wife of the zaaal ; the one who. was now
about to leave her riorne, for the first time, was
a younger sister of the bride; and 'the :rest were
cousins and neighbours. They had all grown
up together, and now, as they were whirled
furiously down the hill side that leads away from
Toledo, were as merry as crickets, laughing,
giggling, and shouting to such of their ac-
quaintance as they passed. By and by, how-
ever, we got to the bottom of the valley,
and began to toil up the opposite ascent.
The excitation of the moment was over, and
they remembered that, at the top of the hill,
they were to part with Beatriz. Their laughing
ceased, and the smiles passed from their counte-
nances,—a painful expression came instead, and,
when the coach at length stopped, they were all
in tears. Poor Beatriz ! she- cried and kissed
them all ; and when they got down from the
coach, and left her all alone, she sobbed aloud,
and was half ready to follow them. Margarita,
the eldest sister, seeing poor Beatriz so much
afflicted, begged her husband to let her go along
and come back the next trip. Andres would
not, at first, listen to the proposal, but fastened
the door. When she began, however, to grow
angry at the refusal, he took the trouble, like a
thoughtful husband, to explain how inconvenient
it would be for her to go without any prepara-
tions ; if she had but spoken in the morning or
the night before, the thing would have been
easily settled. All these reasons availed nothing.
_Margarita grew more and more vexed, until
Andres was driven from his resolution. He
slowly opened the door, sating, with a half-dis-
pleased air, " Entre usted !" Contrary' to all
reasonable calculations, she stirred not a'step to-
' wards accepting the rifer, and her embarrass-
ment and vexation seemed only to grow greate:
at thus losing the cause of her displeasure. By
this time, the old man, who had thought it was
all over when he had kissed the children,
began to grow impatient, and gave the word
of command. Away went the mules. An-
dres would not part in anger. lie went to
receive a farewell kiss from his wife ; but
Margarita turned away pettishly, striking her
little foot on the ground, and shaking her head
as though she would hare torn her mantilla.
Without more ado, he left her to,her, ill humour,

and, overtaking the coach, caught. the left mule
by the tail, and leaped to the wooden platform
beside his father. Meantime, Beatriz and I put
our heads out of the window ; she from interest
and atrection,4 from curiosity. The girls re-
mained where we left them, throwing up their
handkerchiefs and sending after us a thousand
kind words and well-wishes. Margarita alone
stood motionless in the same place, with her head
turned from us. Gradually, however, she moved
round to catch a sight. of us, and, when she saw
that her husband was not looking at her, seemed
to be sorry for what she had done, shookhcr fan
at him fondly, and cried out at the top:of
voice, " Until we meet, Andrew !"--"' Rasta
la vista Andres !" But it was too late, he would
not hear, and, beating the mule nearest him with
great euorgy, we were soon descending the bppo-
aite
bill. The last I saw of Margarita, she had
hid her face in her hands, and her co nions
mpa .
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