The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-24 00:00:00

GUILD HALL.- ('r HIS DAY.)

STABBING A F ATHER.---GCOI ge Baber, a youth
about 18 years of age was placed at the bar charged
with having stabbed his father. The prisoner had
been remanded to this day in consequence of the
father's previous inability to attend, from the injury
which he had received.
George Baber, senior, who seemed still to suffer much,
and to stand and speak with difficulty, stated that he
believed himself to have been as much to blame as the
prisoner in the scuffle which had taken place, and he
hoped the Magistrate would allow him to drop the pro-
secution.
Mr. Alderman HumrtzEav asked the prisoner what
he thought of his father's ferbearance, and whether he
Would promise to lead a better life in future if he were
now forgiven ?
The prisoner, with some degree of feeling, said he was
thankful to his father, and would promise to behave
more becomingly all the rest of his life.
Ho was, on this understanding, eventually discharged

THE MURDER OF MR. G. BLACKBURN.—
The adjourned inquest in this case, after a lengthened
and laborious inquiry, has closed, finding John Mitchell,
s'one-mason, and William Fox, cAlier, guilty of the
murder of George Blackburn ; and George Robinson
and John Cherry, both linen-bleachers, guilty of being ac-
cessories to the murder, all of whom have been committed
to take their trial at the next York assizes. This event
has produced a most powerful sensation, the deceased
having been murdered at seven in the evening, within
thirty, yards of.his own house, during which period the
.aerirant,maid- was washing .barrels at dm door. It. is ex-
.pepte4l that two other persons also were accomplices. It
is one of the most, desperate and daring murders that has
ever been committed in this neighbourhood, being but a
very short distance of the Bank top (Barnsley) barracks.
and the screams of the servant who witnessed the murder
were within the hearing of the sentinel on duty. The
men committed are part of a desperate gang, whose de-
predations in highway robbery and house-breaking have
often brought them before the magistrates.—York Paper.
BUTTER versus BUTTAR.—The following but-
ter case, which was lately tried at the Justice Court, Blair-
Gowrie, excited a good deal of mirth in this quarter.
Buttar, a vintner in Blairgowrie, bought a quantity of
butter from Buttar, a blacksmith in Stratbardie, which
butter Buttar refused to pay, pleading that Buttar's butter
was not gaol. The Justices found, however, that, as But-
tar had used the butter, he was liable for payment of the
same, and decerned accordingly.—Perth Courier.
JEWEL ROBBERY.—Yesterday information was
forwarded to the different police-offices that on the pre-
vious evening, between seven and eight o'clock some
thieves gained admittance into the house No. 28, Regent-
street, and took from the bed-room of a lady, named Wall,
a jewel case, containing several gold watches, rings, brace-
lets set with diamonds, and other valuable property, to the
amount of about 3001. The robbery remains involved in
mystery. A reward has been offered for the apprehension
L.f the thieves and recovery of the property.
CHILDREN ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.

CAUTION To PARENTS AND SERVANTS.—On Friday an
quest was held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Roya,
Standard, Seymour-place, Bryapston-square, on the bay
of Emma Green, a fine girl, aged five years, who was ac-
cidentally p- isoned under the following circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence that the father of the ee-
teasod was a carpenter, living at No. 62, Seymour-place.
On Monday morning the father sent home from his shop
some oil cf vitriol, about three table spoonsful, in a tea-
cup, with which the servant was to clean the fenders, &c.
About one o'clock the servant was so engaged in the par-
lour w hen deceased returned home from school, and, tak-
ing up unperceived the cup containing the vitriol, drank
about a teaspoonful of it, when she was immediately
seized: with most excruciating and burning pain at the
chest. Mr. Edwards, surgeon, of Crawford-street, was
s nt fur, who resorted to the usual means adopted in such
cases, but without avail ; deceased lingered in the greatest
agony till Tuesday morning, when she expired. Verdict,
'' Accidental D ath."—On Thursday an inquest was held
at the Golden Lion, Chatham, on the body of a child
named Henry Johnson, aged seven weeks, which was killed
by its mother administering spirits of vitriol to it in mis-
take for Godfrey's cordial. Verdict accordingly.
Between the hours of nine and ten yesterday
morning a fire, supposed to be the art of an incendiary,
oacurred in Pocock's-fields, near the Liverpool-road, Is-
liegton, which consumed a large stack of straw belonging
to Mr. Pocock. It was not insured.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHATHAM.—
The inque' t on the bodies of the seven unfortunate suffer.
era who lost their lives owing to the upsetting of a boat
in the river Medway, just of Chatham, on Monday last, the
particulars of which appeared in this journal on Tuesday,
was held at Chatham on Wednesday evening ; and, aft( r
an investigation which occupied nearly five hours, the jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death." Several of
the deceased have left wives and families.
BANNERS.—Anciently, banners, either from
being made of some relic, or from the representation on
them of holy things, were held sacred, and much supersti-
tious fai h placed in them ; consequently, the pious and
industrious finger was much occupied in working them.
King Arthur, when he fought the eighth battle against the
Saxons, carried the image of Christ, and of the blessed
Msry (always a virgin), upon his shoulders. Over the tomb
of Oswald, the great Christian hero, was laid a banner of
purple, wrought with gold. When St. Augustine first
came to preach to the Saxons, he had a cross borne before
him, with a banner, on which was the image of our Saviour.
The celebrated standard of the Danes bad the sacred raven
worked on it ; and the ill-fated Harold bore to the field of
Hastings a banner, with the figure of an armed man,
worked in gold thread ; to the same field William boro a
standard, a gift from the Pope, and blessed by his Holiness.
—Mirror.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The Society for
Providing an Asylum for Aged and Infirm Fishmongers
and Poulterers, intend, we perceive, taking a benefit at
the Haymarket Theatre on Monday night. As their
encob-
ject is a charitable one, it deserves every possible
ragement ; and we have no doubt that the theatre will be well
attended oa the occasion, for the performances announced
are of a singularly attractive character; and among them
in which
we perceive Lord Byron's tragedy of Werner,
Macready
_plays his best part—that of the hero of the play.
TIIE ANACIIARSIS CLOOTZ.
Odilcn Barrot is very indignant at the use made by
Mr. Charles Attwood of the private conversation which
took place between ti cm, when a few of his friends were
accidentally present. He complains of misrepresentations
of what he said, and of an official character
nothingh been
given to a meeting which really had aill not bout it of
the kind. He has declared that he wbe present at
the dinner which is to be given to Mr. Attwood ; but such
efforts are bring made to induce him to retract his deter-
mination that I will not answer for his keeping it.—Paris
Correspondent.