The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-26 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. John Braeken was placed at the bar before
Messrs. GROVE and CODD, charged with having a:saulted two
respectable married females.
The prisoner was fined 51., or two months' imprisonment in
the House of Correction.

A PRECOCIOUS THlEF.—Abraham Burrows, about fourteen
years of age, was charged with stealing a coat.
The evidence was to the effect that he was along with some
other boys in the Kingsland-road, when he took the coat from
a cab, and handed it to his companions. He was pursued
and taken by Sergeant Clarke of the N Division.
The prisoner, in answer to Mr. CODD, said that he could
have an excellent character from his last situation, which he
only left three weeks ago, and where he had been eighteen
months.

Mr. CODD gave directions to Clarke to go there and ask
if any one knew him.
Wallen, G 230, said, " I do, your Worship. I have had
him for felony." Wallen, being sworn, said that on Good
Friday he apprehended him for stealing some lead, when he
was sent to the House of Correction for three months, three
weeks of which he was to have solitary confinement, and he
was to be three times whipped.
Mr. Cone—(to the prisoner)—ls that true? Prisoner—
Yes. It's all right, but it was not on Good Friday, it was
the Friday after.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

By a new arrangement, which it is expected will
shortly take place, the London mail will arrive at Hobb's
Point, Pembroke Dock, half an hour earlier than at present.
This will arise from the coach running over the new line of
road between that place and Carmarthen, which shortens the
distance, and obviates the difficulties of the tremendous hills
of the old route. When the mail is conveyed by the railroad
to Maidenhead, &c. (the parts already passable of the Great
Western Railroad), the arrival at Hobb's Point will be still

two hours earlier.-Lthat is, two hours and a half sooner than it
gets there now—viz., half-past ten at night instead of one in
the morning.—Cambrian.
PENRITH AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.---This
proposed line promises to go on under more favourable aus-
pices than any other yet commenced or projected in the king-
dom. Nearly, if not all the great landowners in the neigh-
bourhood, have cordially engaged in it.—Preston Observer.
Yesterday evening, shortly before eight o'clock, a
lad in the employment of Mr. Davey, a tailor, in Gray's Inn-
road, vas run over in Cheapside by one of the mail carts, as
he was on his way to Billiter.square, where he had been sent
by his master with a suit of clothes. The lad's right leg
was dreadfully fractured, and he was immediately conveyed to
the hospital on a shutter. Some thief in the confusion occa-
sioned managed to decamp with the bundle with which the lad
had been intrusted.

Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock,
as Mrs. Bonham, the wife of H. Bonham, Esq., of White
Lion-street, Maida-hill, was sitting before the fire in her
bedroom, having just recovered from her confinement, her
dressing gown caught fire, and she was in a few minutes
enveloped in flames. The nurse entered the room at the in-
stant, and with great presence of mind snatched the counter-
pane from the bed, and, throwing it over her mistress,
succeeding in stifling the fire. The unfortunate lady was,
however, burnt in a severe manner. Medical aid was in-
stantly procured, but from the peculiarly delicate state of her
health she is not likely to survive.
Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a
young woman named Ellen Fielder, housemaid in the family
of Mr. Burnet, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, while
standing on the top bar of a railing round the back area,
cleaning the parlour window, slipped and fell into the area,
and sustains t a compound fracture of the right thigh. She
was removed in a state of dreadful suffering to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held in West-
minster on the body of Simon Langston, aged 55. About
eight or nine days ago the deceased was driving a cart, con-
taining pigs, down Westminster-bridge ; there was also one
going the opposite way, aid the carts came into violent con-
tact with each other. The deceased was at that time sitting
on the shafts, and his horse started off, when he fell under the
wheel of his own cart. which passed over his shoulder and
chest. He was perfectly sober at the time. He received
very severe injury on the head and face, and died yesterday
morning. Verdict--" Accidental Death."
Last night an inquest was held at the Chequers,
Tothill street, Westminster, OR the body of James Finn, aged
35, who met his death from falling of a scaffold at the Equi-
table Gas Works. The deceased and others were employed
on the 11th inst. in making a railroad for the coals, when one
of the carpenters told deceased to screw up the bolt at the end
of some scaffolding, which he was doing, when all of a sudden
the screw slipped and he fell above sixty feet backwards on
some planks and was dreadfully injured. He was quite sober,
no person was to blame. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock,
a bricklayer named Nicholas Lane, in the employ of Messrs.
Cubitt and Co., builders, while at work on a scaffold in Hen_
sleigh-street, Gordon-square, overbalanc-d himself, and fell
from the second story to the ground. He was taken up ap-
parently lifeless, and covered with blood, and, on being con-
veyed to the University College Hospital, he was found to
have sustained a very severe and extensive fracture of the
skull, a violent concussion of the brain, and a fracture of his
left thigh bone. He is considered to be in a hopeless condi-
tion. The unfortunate man is 38 years of age, and has a
wife and family. .

A shock of an earthquake was felt at Coblentz on
the 14th instant, but was so short in its duration, that the
direction in which it proceeded could not be ascertained.