The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-23 00:00:00

11' OR SHIP- STREET.

John .14rne, the youn man who stood charged with
having sfabbed Edward Llewellyn, a theatrical perfor-
mer, was placed finally at the bar before Mr. Broughton.
The several witnesses in the ease were in attendance,
pursuant to directions given to them on the preceding
day by the Magistrate, who then expressed it to be his
intention to send the prisoner for trial when their depo-
sitions were taken down.

Mr. Hunt, the prisoner's solicitor, now renewed his
application that the case might be disposed of without
going before a Grand Jury, chiefly on the grounds that
Llewellyn had confessedly received money to compro-
mise the case, and that his account of the transaction
was toolfavourable to the prisoner for a jury to convict
upon it.

Mr. BROUGHTON said, that after having maturely
weighed the subject in his mind, he had arrived at the
same conclusion as that entertained by the Learned.
Gentleman, and he should, 'therefore, contrary to his
original intention, dispose of the case in a summary
way. He must also take into account that the com-
plainant had received from the prisoner's friends the
sum of 51., with an 1 0 U, for the same amount, to
withdraw the prosecution. After admonishing the pri-
soner in forcible terms upon the consequences of giving
way to such ungovernable passiow, the Magistrate or-
dered him to pay a fine of 405., or to be imprisoned-for
six weeks in the House of Correction.

STEAM PLOUGII.—On Saturday last, another
trial was made on the lands of Possil, near Glasgow, of the nevi
steam plough, intended for cultivating the sugar lands in Bri-
tish Guiana, and unlike the former exhibitions, this was emi-
nently successful. As has been explaiued in a former notice,
the lands in that colony are now thickly intersected by
ditches or canals, and it is intended that a }dough or ploughs
shall be placed on the soil between these canals, and be worked
by a steam engine placed on a punt or boat, which gives power
and motion to a reversing pulley, or endless rope, that will be
worked round a drum, placed on a punt in the canal imme-
diately opposite. So far as we can judge, there is extremely
little difference between this and Mr. Heathcote's steam-plough,
exhibited at the Highland Society's show in Dumfries, in Sep-
tember, 1838. The plough intended for British Guiana, pos-
sesses this advantage, that the moving and resisting power can
be easily shifted by a boy simply propelling the punt a few inches
forward in the water; in Mr. Heatheote's,'the extremity on
which the drum was placed had to be shifted by levers, so
often as the filth was made, and the house containing the en-
gine was moved by the self-contracting of the spars or ribs, of
which the outer fabric was formed. This inferred a consider-
able expenditure of steam-power, which will be entirely hus-
banded in the plough which has been made by the Messrs.
Edington. under the direction of Air. APRae. No one *rho
has seen it in operation doubts the perfect applicability of Mr.
M'Rae's plough to the abject intended, for, independent of the
West Indian soil being as level as a bowling-green, it is entirely
free from stones or hard roots, which would otherwise damage
the cutters and render the working of the instrument impossi-
ble. This new plough is worked by an engine of eight-horse
powee, and, if followed by others, will supersede manual or pea-
cant labour to a great extent in this description of tillage, and,
independently of its intrinsic usefulness, it will have the effect of
making the free blacks much more reasonable. The engine
must be fed by coals carried from Britain. Sometime ago,
ploughmen, ploughs, and horses were taken out to the West
Indies to be employed in this species of labour; but. we under-
stand that both horse and man quailed under the burning heat
of the climate, and the experiment was in the majority of in-
stances unsuccessful. The first hint of this new machine,
however, we consider to belong to Mr.
Tleatheote, and it is a
pity his invention has not been subjected to a wider
for triato;,,,earoef
experiment in the bogs of Ireland or elsewhere
i _owHerald.
not mistaken, his plough and apparatus stillremai :uiem
afterpl os•ed
in Locher Moss, exactly as it was laid up in ordinary :
the
great meeting at Dumfries in 1838. Glos g
Laval! t and
Sainte Etienne, has just taken place between_ • .a
A melancholy suicide, says the Journal de
lh,a7nacondemned by the
fine for some in .
Council ofßessat. Apfraerfmecetroroef
who was of the same name, was a neigh-
bour the*a ren
tLa Osier e t hado
really offending party,.i
fraction of the law, but the condemnation was an error, as the
. of the farmer, notwithstanding the assu-
rance of the person nio had been condemned. Tke decision
of his friends
that as soon as the error could be khOwn to
- • -•t would be rectified. The dread of seizure and
the authorities I
preyed upon the mind
imprisonment had such an effect upon him, that he quitted his
home at night in a state of insanity, and half naked, and fled
to the woods. Two days afterwards he was traced by the
1 marks of blood, which he had lost as he forced his way through
the bushes, and was seen praying at the edge of a precipice.
He fled from the persons who were in search of him, and on the
following evening was on the road to Bessat, where he met a
waggoner, and asked him for the loan of a knife, which was
refused. The poor fellow then returned to the wood, and
tearing up his shirt, formed a rope of it, with which be hung
himself. The body was found soon afterwards perfectly cold.
The order for revolting the judgment had been received two
days before this melancholy affair.-- Galignani.

DR. LARDNER.—When he was lecturing in
Sheffield, he preached (certainly once, and we believ. oftener)
in Attereliffe Church. No doubt the Rev. Mr. Blackburn.
the minister of that church, must have known 1)r. Lai-doer to
be in holy orders, or he would not have invited him to preach.
The Standard's slapdash denial of the clerical character of Dr.
Lardner, is a fair specimen of the zeal of this pious journal in
the service of the Church.— Sheffield Independent.