The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-28 00:00:00

.A.GRICULTUIZAL.

With the exception of a few slight showers, there has been
pretty favourable weather of late in Scotland, but the crops, by the
preceding bad weather, have suffered considerably.
In Worcestershire the crops of wheat and barley are represented
as being very heavy and good. The weather, there, however, still
continues fickle.

NAVAL AND NICILITATLY.
- On Wednesday morning last 150 lashes were inflicted by sen-
tence of Court.martial at Woolwich on driver George Barker, of
the Horse Artillery, aged 17, he having been found guilty of steal..
ing a piece of sponge from a comrade. " Methinks" (ride Hume's
History of Charles I.) " the punishment exceeded the offence."

LAW AND POLICE.
An action was yesterday brought in the Palace Court on a bill
of exchange. The defendant pleaded that he did not accept the
bill, and on its being read it was seen that the defendant had writ.
ten "excepted," &c. He did not attend to support his plea, and a
verdict was given against hint.

At the Liveri'ool Assizes on Thursday Girolomo Capella was in-
dicted for the wilful murder of Antonio Capella, by scalding him to
death with hot gruel. Both the prisoner and the deceased were
Italians. The prisoner and the deceased were itinerant musicians.
The prisoner and the deceased had had some words about some
money, but the dispute seemed to have subsided. Between three
and four o'clock in the morning the landlord of the house was
awakened by hearing the deceased on the stairs screaming in
Italian, " I'm burn'd, I'm burn'd, I'm a dead man." On running
to the door they saw the prisoner rushing down stairs fully dressed,
except his hat. They found the deceased naked on the stairs, most
dreaufully scalded in the neck, ace, back, and belly, with what ap-
peared to be a fat kind of gruel. From a dying declaration made
by the deceased, it appeared that he was awake when the prisoner
came to bed, and afterwards slept till awakened by the hot liquor.
On examining the state of the house, there was found a fire in the
kitchen, which had evidently been used to heat the liquid, and at
the foot of the bed a pail, then empty, but which had been three_
parts full, and much of the liquid on the bed. A large iron pot
and a ladle were also in the kitchen, which had evidently been used
in the preparation of the liquid, and a dagger was lying on the
stairs. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended
the prisoner to mercy, on the ground of his former good character.
Sentence was deferred.

At Guildhall, yesterday, Thos. Willams, the preacher, was fully
committed for bigamy, and a police-constable produced an anony.
"nious letter written by the prisoner, in which he exhorts one
of his wives (all three were in attendance) not to prosecute Lim
and expose herself, but "to leave him to his God, who is just
and merciful."

At the Marylebone Police-office yesterday, Mr. Thomas Knox
Holmes, of Grafton.street, Bond-street, was admitted to bail, him.
self in 300/., and two sureties in 250/. ; and the day previous, Mr.
G. Stone, of Chester-terrace, Regent's..park, was also admitted to
bail in a similar sum, upon information that it was the intention of
these two gentlemen to commit a breach of the peace.