The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-20 00:00:00

MALICIOUSLY CUTTING.

Amy Clebrd was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act"
for wilfully and maliciously cutting Sarah, the wife of John
Worger, at Ashford, on the sth of October, with a hand-bill,
with uncut to murder or do her some grievous bodily harm. •
Evidence was given that the prisoner had suffered In her in-
tellects from the brain fever.

The Jury found her Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity,
and she was ordered to be taken care of, pursuant to the Statute.

Some friends of Sir WU. AMCOTTI Imuntsr,
hut individually unknown to him, have, since
the election, sent to the Hon. Baronet the sin-
gular present of a box containing upwards of
3,000 handsome medals, struck in commemora-
tion of Sir WILLIAM'S victory. The medals
are of a mixed metal, washed with silver,
and bear on one side the inscription. " Sir
INOILBY for ever—with, on the other
exergue, the words " Elected for the County of
Licoln, December 1823." On the other side,
the words " No white feather," surrounded by a
wreath of laurel. Sir WILLIAM INGILUY has
presented many of these medals to the active
friends of his cause.--(Lincoln Illercuu.)

CLIMATE OF LONDON.--It Is a CllTlMllinnee
not perhaps generally known, that the temperature of the air in
:he metropolis is raised by the artificial sources of heat existing
in it, no less than two degrees on the annual mean aboVe that of
its immediate vicinity.—Mr. Howard has fully established this
fact, by a comparbon of a long series of observations made at
Plaistow, Sun-Word, and Tottenham-green, (all within four
miles of London,) with those made at the apartments of the
Royal Society in London, and periodically recorded in the
Philosophical Transactions.—His explanation of the causes of
this difference is simple and convincing. " Wjnaever," he
says, " has passed his hands over the surface of the glass hive,
whether in summer or winter, will have perceived how much
the little bodies of the collected multitude of bees are capable of
heating the place that contains them. Butt the proportion
of warmth which is induced iu a city by the population,
must be far less considerable than that emanating from fires,
the greater part of which are kept up for the very purpose of
preventing the sensation attending the escape of beat from our
bodies. A temperature equal to that of spring is hence main.
tallied in the depth of winter, in the included part of the atm-
spltere,which, as it escapee from the houses,is constantly renewed.
Another, and a more considerable portion of heated air, is
.constantly poured into the common mass from the chimnies ; to
which, lastly, we have to add the heat diffused in nil di.
rections from the foundries, breweries, steam engines, and
other manufactories, and culinary fires."—lloteard matt,
ii. 104,100. When we consider that all these Artificial sources
of heat, with the exception of the domestic fires, continue in
full operation throughout the summer, it should seem, that the
excess of the London temperature must be still greater in June
than it is in January ; but the fact is otherwise. The excess
of the city temperature is greatest in winter, and at that period
seems to belong entirely to the nighis, which average three de-
grees and seven-tenths warmer than the country ; while the
heat of the dips, 'owing, without doubt, to the intercention of
e portion of the solar rays by a constant veil of smoke, tails, on
a mean of years, about a third of a degree short of that on the
open plains.