The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-13 00:00:00

and that it mould tend to obstruct rather than to torw. ard the.

great ends of justice."--[But for the "additional expense,"
we should perhaps have never heard of this petition. A sym-
pathy, an almost exclusive sympathy, with the pocket, is the
moving motive of many members of the magistracy.]
CATASTROPHE.—A man, woman, and a boy,
from Inverness, attempted to cross the South Esk, on Mon-
day week, opposite the House of Inshewan, about a mile above
the village of Tannadice. The man succeeded iu carrying
the boy over first, and having returned for the woman, she re-
luctantly consented to be carried over (the river being by far
too large for fording); and when about the middle of the
river, the man lost his footing; and both were swept down the
rapid stream, and perished.—lnverness Courier.
A farmer, named Guilloux, seventy-five years of
age, residing in the village of Coisia, in the Jura, driven to
distraction, it is said, by the ill-treatment of his wife and chil-
dren, last week found himself alone with one of his daughters,
and suddenly resolved on revenge. He armed himself with a
hedging-bill, and beat her with it on the head till the skull
was broken into pieces ; he then went into the farm-yard, and
endeavoured to kill their cow by tearing out her bowels with
a pitchfork ; he next went into the cellar, and let all the wine
out of the casks. With the idea, no doubt, of making it be-
lieved that his daughter and cow had perished in the flames,
he set fire to the outbuildings, and afterwards to all the beds in
the house, and then fled. The fire was soon extinguished, the
murder discovered, and the old man put sued and taken. He
at first acknowledged his guilt, and detailed all the circum-
stances, but afterwards, on being examined by the Magistrates,
positively denied every thing.—French Paper.
MATRIMONY.—An eye-witness has informed us
that at the Collegiate Church of Manchester, on Sunday
last, seventy couples were united in the holy bonds of ma-
trimony ; and on Monday last, one hundred and fifty couples
were tied together for better for worse, through life. The
following is the wholesale mode in which the business is
dispatched :—The ,parties are arranged into couples of
twelve ; when the time arrives for slipping the ring on the
fingers of the brides, the word of command is given, and
the bridegrooms are seen busily feeling in their pockets for
the symbol of endless affection ; the women are , then re-
quested to repeat the words' of the minister, which they
" nothing loth" never fail to do ; then the men are re-
quested to follow the example, and their gallantry prompts
them to immediate obedience. The clergyman can thus
dispatch about fifty couples per hour. —Hereford Times.—
[This way of despatching fifty couples per hour may be very
convenient to the parson, but will the public and the religious
portion of the community tolerate proceedings so indecent?
If the statement be true—and from what we ourselves have
witnessed when the remains of the poor are thrust into
their grave, with only a few words coldly mumbled by the
parson, we have no difficulty in believing it—we must say
that the practice above described is but little calculated ei-
ther to benefit our social condition, to advance the interests
of religion, or to elevate the character of its ministers.
Men who thus act are more like the worshippers of Mammon
than the Ministers of our Holy religion.]
The Journal de Perim-Ilan, of the 2nd instant,
relates, that a flock of sheep on the farm of Barrabarn, in the
commune of Keynes, was on the 20th ult. attacked by a wolf.
The shepherd in charge of them, who was only 15 years. of
age, attempted to drive the animal off with no other weapon
than a stick. The wolf quitted his first prey and seized the
lad, stripped the flesh from his legs and arms, bit him several
times in the head, and would have devoured bim but for the
cries of his sister, who came up with a large stone in her
hand, and diverted the attention of the ferocious beast to her-
self. As he advanced towards her, she hurled the stone with
such force that she broke the wolf's lower jaw. Still he
seized her, threw her down, tore her garments, and at length
caused her to roll down a steep descent. Happily the father
of the two young people se* the dreadful conflict, and,
being near his home, hastily caught up his gun, which was
loaded, ran to the relief of his children, and succeeded in
shooting the animal. The wounds of the young shepherd arc
dangerous; those of his sister, who is 20 years old, are but
slight.
Last week, as a number of labourers were removing
a large cairn of stones, about a quarter of a mile on the north-
east of Forfar, about twenty paces from the Roman camp,
they discovered three urns of clay, packed full of human
bones. The urns were surrounded with rude flagstones, and
in one was found a skull almost entire, but it mouldered down
by the slightest pressure. The bones are supposed to be those
of Feredeth, King of the Picts, and his Generals, who were
slain near Restennet, in the war against the Scots, in the
beginning of the ninth ceutury. The foundation of his sup-
position rests upon its traditionary name of " ,Fereeleth's
Cairn," and a notice in the Scottish Chronicle, that " Alpine,
King of the Scots, commanded the bodie of his enemie,
Feredeth, to be laid in Christian buriall not farre from For-
fair." There was also found a piece of rude sculpture, re-
presenting the head of a man, and,a piece of brass, which re-
sembled the point of a spear. A. number of pieces of 'char-
coal were also found beside the r.rns. This circumstance, and
the appearance of the bones, almost lead to the belief that the
bodies, according to the ancient custom, had been burnt on a
funeral pile prior to their deposition.—Caledonian Mercury.
A few clays since a man, liviuv in the Rue du Fau-
bourg St. Antoine, and separated front his wife on account of
bad conduct, which he attributed to her, attacked a child which
he had by her, seven years of ago, and inflicted with a shoe-
maker's knife five wounds in her breast and two in her neck.
Having thus stretched her lifeless at his feet, he wounded
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self three times with the same instrument, and not finding
of
come so quickly as he desired, threw himself from
lie of
story into the court of the house. gave a few sign
life
when picked up, but died before he could be transfeiresd to the
Hospital St. Antoine.—French Paper.