The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-25 00:00:00

BIGAIVI Y.

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BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Jaw* Hern, a rough lookirg
countryman, was brought before Mr. HALLs on a charge ea'
bigamy.
The second wife, whose maiden name she said was Catherine
Alllcocke, was the principal witness. She was mere than
'fifty
years of age, andit would be difficult to imagine a countenrn:e
and form less captivating than she possessed. She, it appearti,
became acquainted with the prisoner in January 1818, and
its
February they were married at St. Luke's, bliddlesea. They
lived together comfortably enough for some time, but at length
quarrelled and separated, and she found out lately that he had
married another woman at Lambeth in June 1817, only abo..t
eight months previous to his union with her.
'he parish Clerk of Lambeth produced the register of th."
prisoner's first marriage, and identified his person.
The prssoner in his defence said he did not mean to deny
that he bad married two women, and that they were both
living, bat I.e fancied he could make out that he had committ, d
no crane notwithstanding. He had not been married to his firs:
wife long before she took to drinking, sold all his furniture One
day in his absence, and liobsconded away. He found her our,
and she told him to go about hiS business, for she was no wife of
his, she having been married rubric months before to a much
better man, one Jemmy Scott, a dyer, at Carshahon. This was
enough for him, and he left her. When he met his second wife
he told her the whole story, and she said he was undoubtedly a
free man, and might marry; and now, because they fell out,
she had turned round and 'peached against him.
The Magistrate said he must prove the former marriage of
his first wife, and that would entitle him to an acquittal.—lle
was remanded.

SPANISH. SWISCH I PT! ON.---We perceive the
names of some of the friends of :freedom in ti.i City among the subscrthers to the Spanish cause ;
an effort is, we understand, making to esta-
blish a local Cortimitteei and when_ the arrange.
merits are complete, a pUblic meeting will be
1;1%141. AS this cannot be considered a party
gnestion, we trust the amount of the local sub-
scription will be worthy the rank which c•ur
City holds in the Ernpire 'Bristol Mercurs.)
At an early hour on Saturday morning, a well-
dressed female was observed on the biotic of the 'halms, about
Vauxhall Bridge, where it is believed she had endeavour:ll:M'
drown herself in vain. She, however, at low.water, at length
succeeded in leaping over the wall 'before the Penitentiary,
whence she plunged at once into the
river. She very soon go
into the deeper part of the water, and was actually at the Last
Struggle for life (for the body was just risinga third time), when a Gentleman, who was watching her distressful situation, in 4
moment, and at the hazard of his own existence, was so tom,
nate as to succeed in rescuing her from a watery grave.

HOP INTELLIOENOI. __ ___ _
SOtITUWARK, JUNE 21--Our Hop Market is exceedinfly
dull, but the accounts from the plantations are quite 04 bat 44
they have been at any former period Of the year. The duty is
at 70,0901.
.111amproxr., ',Yu NE 4—The condition of 04 plantstticba
in this neighbourhood has by no means itnprond durtng Of
last week; the vermin having increased, and the binc
grown,
but little, in consequence of the cold nights. The bulk of 04
grounds about here scarcely ever presented a worse Or. more uri.
productive expect ; as, from their extreme foulness, the plan;
must be much weakened and injured, and this yill probablyi
in a short time, causeit to become quite blaek. The tnold hat
made its appearance in a few ground*, but at present not to atiy.
extent.

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We are authorized to mate, that the *Li In munic a ti ou from m,, , Treasury, dated the hal instant, respecting the Bop Duty. orir .
gloated Not the Odle wing facts. After several elforti to obtstili
relief' fzzr the Ilnizplantera had hectt made by the Members ti,r
Kent znzi Sussex, and had altogether failed, die urgency of the,
distress made further exertions indispensible. A meeting of up-,
wards of twenty. Noblemen and Oentlemen, most of whom were
connected with the districts interested in the cultivatiOn of
Hops iincludingthe Members for Kent:, Sussex, lierefordshire,',
and 'WoreeiterShire), took place accordingly a few weeks since
in lAmtlon, when tile Marquis Camden Will unanimously re-
quested to place himself at their head. On the following day
the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the box..
chequer, according to previous arrangement with Lord Cam-
den, admitted the meeting to a conference on the subject or re-
pealing the Duty on flops. Au answer to misapplication ivua
not then given, but due consideration of the subject was very
obligingly promised, and also an answer at a future dad,;
which has now been given in the communication from the Tret-
sury of ,the Gth inst.,, and which was sent to the Marquis„:
Camden and to one ot the :Members for Kent, Susses, litre—
fordshire, and IVorcestershire. It is due to Lord Camden, that it
should be generally known throughout the county, that to hays • very able anti zealous exertions, as well as to his uaremittea• attention to their interests on this occasion, the flop planters,
as well as all who are in any way dependant On the prospez.;zy
of the planter, are principally indebted for whatever rebel, ur
benefit they may derive from the measures or oovernmept,—
( Kentish Gazette, June 25.)