The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A number of American sailors were taken before the
sitting Magistrate at Thames-street police-office, yester-
day, charged with outrageous assaults upon a woman
and a British sailor. They were all. remanded ex-
cept one, who was discharged.
At Guildhall, a man of the name of M'Donnell, who
keeps a book and print shop in Long-lane, was com-
mitted by Alderman Humphery, to the House of Cor-
rection, for one month, for exposing in his shop-window
five indecent pamphlets. The information was laid by
the Society for the Suppression of Vice under the Va-
grant Act, passed in the first year of the present reign.
At the Brentford Petty Sessions yesterday William
Fuller, a tailor, about fifty years of age, having a wooden
leg, was committed to Newgate for having stolen and
stabbed a horse belonging to Mr. Racklitf, of Ealing.
Numerous horses and cattle have recently been stolen
from the neighbourhood of Hanwell, and stabbed and
afterwards sold to the slaughterers.

11.i.ZCTZONEEILING.
The Right Hon. Henry Corry was re-elected on
Tuesday last for the county Tyrone.

COURT-FABBZON4LBLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford returned to Wo-
burn Abbey on Friday last.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for
Bowood.

The Earl of Radnor arrived in Grosvenor-street on
Saturday.
The Marquis of Waterford arrived in Waterford from
Bristol on Saturday.

THEATRICAL.
The English Opera House will open with promenade
concerts, a la Musard, on Thursday evening.

MISCELLANEOUS.

This day, the festival of St. Michael and all the Holy
Angels, commonly called Michaelmas Day, has long
been dedicated to the election of the governors of towns
and cities, the civil guardians of the peace of men, be-
cause at the feast of angels, according to the old opinion
of tutelary spirits, they are thought to have the particu-
lar charge of certain bodies of men, or districts of coun-
try. On this day the Lord Mayor of London is elected
for the year ensuing.

A numerous and respectable party (amounting, as was
said, to 180 persons) left Nine Elms station in seven car-
riages on Monday morning at seven, reached Southamp-
ton at nine (seventy-seven miles from London), embarked
on board the Grand Turk steamer, and having per-
formed the circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight, a
circuit of seventy-six miles, in seven hours and a half,
returned to Southampton, stopped at Winchester for
some time to visit its antiquities, and arrived in London
about ten in the evening, having thus performed a jour-
ney of 230 miles in about fifteen hours.
The report of the death of M. Laporte is confirmed.
He died of apoplexy at Corbeil, near Paris, on Saturday
morning at five minutes to one.
The band of Drury-lane take a benefit this evening.
They have been great sufferers by the deficiency of sa-
lary, and we trust their appeal to the public will not be
without effect.

BLAKESLEY THE MURDERER.
This morning a report was circulated throughout the
Neighbourhood of Eastcheap, that Blakesley the mur-
derer of Mr. Burdon, had expired in Newgate during
last night, but on inquiry at the proper quarter
it appeared that the report was at least premature, though,
from his altered and emaciated appearance as well as
general health, it is not expected by some in attendance
on him that he can survive till the day of his trial. As
the prisoner with others will have to attend the chapel
next Sunday to hear the service, many applications have
been made for admission by the curious to see the unfor-
tunate man, but the civic authorities have resolved to admit
only those belonging to the gaol. Mrs. Blakesley is
ills: recovering from her wounds.

CITY or WESTMINSTER REGIS.
TRA rION.--(THIS DAY.)
• (Before Mr. ARNOLD.)
The revision of the lists for the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square, was continued to-day.
The Hon. Wm. Booth Grey, the brother of the Earl
of Stamford and Warrington, claimed to vote in reapect
of a house in Charles-street; Berkeley-square,
which he
had let to Captain Martin, but in which he had retained
a bed room, in which a ser;Ant of his slept, together
with a store-room.
Mr. HUGGETT, on behalf of the Reformers, contended
that this was not a sufficient occupation to satisfy the
statute, and that if it was Mr. Grey did not reside within
the limits of the city, the Hon. Gentleman living at
Berkhampstead.
From the evidence of a Mr. Harford it appeared that
Mr. Grey had apartments in the house of his brother,
the Earl of Stamford, to which he had at all times ac-
cess, and to which he could bring his lady and family.
Mr. SCORE, on behalf of Mr. Grey, submitted that this
was sufficient residence to give Mr. Grey a vote, even if
the occupation by him of the house in Charles-street
should be held to be bad.

Mr. ARNOLD was clearly of opinion that sufficient re-
sidence had been proved. but with respect to the occupa-
tion of the house in Charles-street, he would reserve his
judgment.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT•

(THIS DAY.)
A number of town and country bail cases, and unop-
posed applications, came before Mr. Commissioner Rey-
nolds, in which there appeared no feature of public in-
terest.

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GUILDHALL.—(THISDA
Wm. Johnson was placed at the bar. before the sitting
Alderman, charged with stealing a handkerchief, the
property of Richard Wilson.
It appeared that the prosecutor was going through
Fleet-street, when a policeman saw the prisoner follow-
ing Mr. Wilson, and knowing him to be a bad character
he watched him, and saw him take the handkerchief
from his pocket.
The prosecutor said he was unaware he had been
robbed uttil informed by the constable.—Committed.

TUE WEATHER.—NooN, SEPTEMBER 29.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELATDE-STIIEET.
Barometer
Thermometer... L 9 f Highest 59 1 Lowest ... 43
Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

DISTRESSING SUlClDE.—Between six and
seven o'clock this morning, Richard Malian, a master
coach smith, residing in Grosvenor-mews, New Bond-
street, committed suicide, under the following circum-
stances :—A little after six o'clock this morning he got
up, telling his wife that he should go to work, but at
seven o'clock, on her corning down stairs, she was struck
with horror at discovering his lifeless body suspended by
the neck to a cord fastened round a beam in the shop.
The deceased was about forty years of age, and has left
a family of four young children. For the last two or
three days he had been in a very low and desponding
state of mind.

The course of the river Cann on the west side
of this town, has been diverted by the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company, and the old channel being rendered dry, work-
men are engaged in excavating therein fur the piers for the
viaduct to be erected over the river. When completed the
liver will resume its original course.—Essex Herald.