The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-13 00:00:00

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Mr. Montague, Secretary to the Marquis Wellesley, yes-
terday attended at this office, with his groom, to prefer a
charge of assault and gross misbehaviour against Charles
Southgate, an omnibus man.
Defendant was fined 20s. for the assault, 15s. costs, &c.

MARY LEBONE.
Yesterday a ruffianly-looking fellow, who gave his name
Shippey, was charged at the instance of the Society for pre-
venting Cruelty to Animals, with being implicated in a dog-
fight. He was fined 50s.

WORSHIP- STREE T.
Yesterday Sarah Bray was brought up for re-examination
before M. GROVE, charged with having put Richard Johnson
in dangyr of losing his life.
The complainant stated that he lived at No. 11, Turvill-
street, Bethnal-green, and that the prisoner lived in the same
house. On Tuesday week he was at tea with his wife and
children, when the prisoner came into his room and abused
him shamefully. He had been out all day, and his wife told
him that the prisoner and her mother had been annoying her.
He went to her room, when she struck him a very violent
blow upon the head, which stunned him. She then seized a
knife, with which she cut complainant's head. He bled pro-
fusely, and was taken in a very dangerous state to the London
Hospital, where he remained till the preceding night, when he
left, as his family were without support.
The prisoner was committed for the capital offence.

THE LATE OCCURRENCE IN ALDGATE CHURCH-
TARD.—The bodies of the two men who perished on Friday
were yesterday interred about twenty yards from the spot
where they lost their lives. There was an immense concourse
of spectators. We understand that the subscriptions for the
benefit of the widows and children of the deceased amount to
about 1501.

TIIE LATE FATAL DUEL.-In the course of
Tuesday Mr. Carttar, the coroner, before whom the inquiry
arising out of the late fatal duel came on, received a commu-
nication from Messrs. Harmer and Co., informing him that on
the first day of the next sessions of the Central Criminal
Court Mr. Broughton, who acted as the second to Mr. Mirfin,
the deceased, would surrender for the purpose of taking his
trial on the Coroner's inquisition for the wilful murder of Mr.
Mirfin.

Yesterday's Hue and Cry gives information that on
the evening of the 4th inst., Dr. Humphreys was hustled by a
female at Barnet-hill, and robbed of a sovereign, together
with four shillings, and a gold mourning ring, marked " The
Rev. Dr. Humphreys, 1837."
The adjourned inquest on the body of one of the
two women who were recently drowned off Wapping, from a
collision between the Rose steamer and the boat in which they
and others were sailing, was resumed on Wednesday. In the
course of a very lengthened investigation, it was proved satisfac-
torily that the steamer was proceeding at a very moderate pace,
and that Captain Tucker, who commanded the vessel, had
repeatedly called to the persons in the boat previous to the
collision, as well as done everything in his power to assist the
sufferers afterwards. Several witnesses gave it as their opinion
that the collision resulted from the circumstance that the per-
sons in the boat, being unacquainted with the River, did not
understand the signals made and terms used by the people in
the steamer. It was stated, also, that if the women had not
stood up at the time of the collision, they would probably have
been rescued. The jury, in their verdict, declared the occur-
rence to have been purely accidental, and that the conduct of
Captain Tucker was highly praiseworthy.
ANOTHER FATAL OCCURRENCE FROM FOUL
AlE.—Joshua Denning, a well-borer, lost his life last Saturday
afternoon, in a well 118 feet deep, from the effects of carbonic
acid gas, although no doubt the position in which the deceased
was found tended to his death, by keeping him so long in the
foul air, which was generated by the charcoal, and which would
be worse in a damp than in a dry place.
During a violent storm which passed over the town
of Dunmow, on Wednesday morning last, about one o'clock,
the electric fluid struck a poplar tree, near the Dunmow Farm
House, occupied by Mr. Andrews, and the shock broke be-
tween thirty and fourty panes of glass in the farm house, but
no further injury was sustained.—The same tree was similarly
struck on the 29th of May, 1837.—Essex Herald.
THE MURDERER KIRKB Y.—A rumour has been
current in this city, that Kirby, the youthful murderer, was
dead. We cannot trace the origin of this report, but it is
nots
unlikely to be true. On arriving at Woolwich, with the other
convicts, there were special orders for his destination, and he
was removed in less than an hour, to some section where extra-
ordinary rigour is exercised, and it is probable that he has
sunk under the seasoning,—Lincoln Gazette.
On Saturday week, a fisherman at Parkgate, Liver-
pool, on hauling in his net, found in it a live- turtle. It
measured
ounds five in
.ches wide, fourteen inches long, and weighed
thn p
RATEABILITY Or FURNISHED LODGING'
HOUSES WHEN UNLET.—In reply to a question on the above
subject, the Poor-law Commissioners have stated that the
keeping the houses furnished is an occupation i law, which
subjects the party so occupying to the liability to pay the rate
on the whole of the tenement so occupied.lt is wholly im-
material whether any part of such tenement be underlet or not
for any portion of the year—the rate being made, not on the
value of the tenement as let out to lodgt;ors,yebut
,u upon the value
of the whole tenement to let from year