The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, John Miller,
indicted for feloniously assaulting J. S. Fisher, a lad
fifteen years of age, at the Custom House last Saturday
week, was convicted and sentenced , to hard labour for
one year.

' The Rev. Louis Waters, a Swiss Catholic Priest, re-
manded on a former occasion on a charge of obtaining
money- under fraudulent pretences, was again brought
before the Magistrate at Marlborough-street, when it
was discovered that the unfortunate man was insane, and
arrangements were made for-sending him back to Swit-
zerland.

SPOUTING.
On the Lammer-moors, the Cheviots, and other hills on
the border, grouse shooting has been, for the most part,
poor ; and this not from scarcity of birds, but their
strength and wildness.

The Duke of Rutland arrived at Longshawe, his
shooting-lodge, in Derbyshite, on Thursday last.
Grouse, in the Kendal preserves, is less abundant this
year than heretofore, and much of the heather has
withered, pined, and died from frost or some other cause.
The Dent Moors were once considered the best breeding
ground in this part of the country,-- and on Whernside
eight or ten brace might have been killed a-dad but now
the Moors are barren, and a day's work on Whernside
will scarcely bag a brace. On Grisdale Fell, once a fer-
tile field, there is not this year a single brood to be
found.

COUILT—FASIIIONAILLE.
The indisposition of Viscount Beresford has taken a
favourable turn, and we unders.and he has been pro-
nounced entirely out of danger by his medical attendants.
The Duke of Bucclettch has left Whitehall for Dal-
kei th palace.
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The Duke of Bedford has left town on a visit to the
Duke of Rutland.

The Earl and Countess of Minto leave the Admiralty
at the close of the present.wcek, for their seat in Scotland.
Lady Peel and illmily arrived in Whitehall Gardens
last night, from Staffordshire.
The Earl of Maccle: field still continues in a deplorable
state of health.

MISCELLANEOUS.
On Saturday evening an inquest was held in St
George's Hospital, on the body of Louisa Rockley, aged
sixteen, a remarkably fine girl, daughter of Mr. William
Rockley, upholsterer, No. 9, Mills's-buildings, High-
road, Knightsbridge, who was burned to death on
Thursday evening. It appeared that her apron caught
fire while she was standing in front of the copper fire,
the door being open, and thereby increasing the draught
of air. It was, according to the surgeon, the most shock-
ing case of the kind he had ever seen. The unfortunate
girl, after severe suffering, expired in the hospital the
next clay.
It is generally acknoWledged that Brighton was never
so full as at the present'time.
Letters have been received in town stating that Mr.
Justice Bosanquet is considerably improved in health.
Lord John Russell was loudly cheered on his way
down to the House yesterday afternoon, by the crowd
tissetnbled in Palace-yard.. His Lordship was in a car-
riage, accompanied by his Lady.
To-day is the anniversary of the death of John Bun-
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yaBn, author of the " Pilgrim's Progress," who died in
1,

'he Rev: George Francis, of the Baptist Chapel, We.-
terloo-foftd, Lasitheth, has been distrained on for church-
rates to the amount of les. Bd. The property selected
'consisted of 13 volumes of the " Baptist Magazine '! 3
ditto of " Henry on the e att-to-ur -
ley's Body of Divinity."
One hundred and fifty whales were caught on Satur-
day, the 22d inst., off Stromness. All the boats in the
harbour, to the number of about 60, were put in requisi-
tion on the occasion. The whales average about et each,
making the aggregate value of 4501.
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PRESS FROM PARIS

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.—The census was being taken very
quietly throughout France. Three-fourths of Paris has
already undergone the treasure.
The praise so unanimously bestowed on M. Guizot's
speech by The l3titish press has become the occasion of
some violent articles in the opposition papers of Paris.
At the earnest desire of Queen Christina, says La
Revue de Paris, King Louis Philippe is about to nego-
tiate with the Spanish Government for the withdrawing
of the interdiction laid upon the young Queen Isabella,
and the Infanta, her sister, from corresponding with
' their Royal mother.
The defeat of the Whig Ministry was received by tele-
graph in Paris on Sunday night. It afforded general
satisfaction to the Court organs.
The speech of ,Sir Robert Peel, which arrived this
morning, confirms that feeling, and the small rise which
has taken place in the funds is attributed to the proba-
bility of a More cordial feeling henceforth to subsist be-
tween the English and the French Governments.
The idea of a customs union between France and Bel-
gium has been for some time abandoned by the French
Government.

The King, Queen, and the rest of the Royal Family
arrived at St. Cloud on Sunday last. The Duke and
Duchess of Orleans preceded their Majesties by a few
hours, and the King and Queen of the Belgians were ex
pected on Monday.
Paris Bourse has slightly improved ; Five per Cents.
1161.45 c.; Three per Cents., 77f. 25c. ; Spanish, 21.

country, but on the contrary, everything to defile and
defy it."

MONEY—TIZADE—COMITIZECE.
At Edinburgh, on Monday last, the high-priced bakers
raised the price of the 41b. loaf one halfpenny. It is now
ninepence halfpenny ready money, or if paid within a
month; and tenpence credit.
Large shoals of the nutritious pilchard-fish have been
seen off the Cornish coasts, and great quantities taken
by the drift-boats. There is every promise of a suc-
cessful fishery.

AGRICULTURAL.
The weather at Cambridge has been heavenly; nine-
tenths of the wheat is cleared and carried, and the crop
is above an average. From Gloucestershire, Worcester-
shire, Northamptonshire, and Windsor, the same de-
lightful accounts have arrived.
At the beginning of last week, a heavy thunder-storm,
with rain, passed over Lancashire and C'heshire, and did
much damage ; but since then there has been splendid
weather. At Bradford, on the cold lands of the east,
fear is entertained that the quantity of wet fallen will
make crops fall short of the average.

N.FIVAL IIND MILITARY.
The Hardy steamer, which sank off Wapping on Sun=
day with two hundred persons on board, was raised
yesterday. The 'vessel has received considerable damage.
It is ascertained that the accident was caused entirely by
the anchor of the brig Marmion, which, it is said, was
without a buoy.

LAW AM) PO:LIG:M.
At the Liverpool Assizes, on the 27th . August, James
White, charged with the murder of William-Cranmer,
keeper of an improper house in that town, was convicted
of the manslaughter, and sentenced to be transported
for life.
In the civil side, the Apothecaries Company in Lon-
don obtained a verdict against Henry Greenaugh, of St.
Helen's, for having practised as any apothecary, not being
duly licensed—damages, 2C/. The case had been' heard
at a former Assizes, and the ruling of the Judge was
afterwards reversed by the Court above, who were of
opinion that the preparing and dispensing of medicine
by chetnists and druggists meant the preparing and dis
pensing from prescriptions previously given, and did not
enable them to administer medicines on their own au-
thority.