The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-02 00:00:00

PC;LitE INTELLIGENCE;

Bow-STREET.-•-Xesterday, 117iIlium Dark), 'and Del ??;
M'Carty, were examined on a charge of stealing a large an,
city of pia ti, the property of Lady An Dashwood.
The prisoner Darby was formerly in her Ladyship's service
as Butler, and M'Carty was in the habit of serving the fan fly
with fruit, and also, it appears, pawned the various iirticLa
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of platbay purloined by Darby. They were remanded • ununtil'hursd.
John ill3.Carthy, the Servant of the celebrated astronomer.
Mr. Herschel, Who absconded a short time back with property
to the amount of nearly 2001. belonging to his master, Wall
brought by Taunton, the principal officer of this establishment,
who bad traced and followed him to Dublin, where be appre,
hended him, on Tuesday hitt. No property was recovered;
and,' from the prisbner's o*n amount, he appeared to have dis-
sipated his ill-gotten effects in the most licentious extravagareet
having been in a state of inebriation for a fortnight previous to
his apprehension. lie was remanded.

CiiIiLDHALL.—BuItGLAur.-Yeitettlity John Pearson, a
young man of wretched appearance, was brought before Alder-
man Cox, on a charge of telony..
Mr. James Chown, residing in Mr. Voriest's lime-wharf,
Earl:street, Blackfriars, deposed, that hating been out. on Sa.
turday night, he returned home at about one o'clock on Sun-
day morning, and caught the prisoher in the countinghouse,
whele lie had packed up a number of cabinet:makers'At ols,
in readiness to take off; previous to which he had Sawed the
desk, in order to get off the lock, but had failed in so doing ;
he bad also opened two cUpboards, but nothing appeared to
have been dirtied away. Witness seized him, and obtaine:i
other assistance. Mr. NV. Archer, manager of Mr. Forrest's
business in town, Was Called to assist in securing the prisoner ;
the lock of the desk had been nearly sawed off, the cupboards
had been opened, and the spring lock of the back door had been
forced ; tke tools, which were the property of witness's son,
had been all packed up, ready to take out, but there was not a
possibility of the prisoner's getting out without the assistance of
a ladder. Ile missed a variety of articles, which, on tit :viand,
the prisoner restored. A number of burglaries and felonies beret
been committed along that side Of the River, and he had no
doubt the prisoner was the depredator.
A watchman, of Castle ilaynard Ward, said, when he took
the prisoner into custody, he sold him that he entered the yard
at eight &chick, before the gates Were shut, and secreted him.;
self till the family were gone to bed.
Matthew Foy identified the prisoner as an old offender, hav-
ing-once taken Min into custody for burglary.
Aldernitm Cox, without hesitation, committed him for trial.

SURREY Skistorts.--These Sestions began yeaterday. At
a quarter before eleven o'clock the oreman of the Grand Jury
returned into Court to say, that no parties were in attends Ice._..
The CHArttaMAv war sorry to hear the (ientlemen should have
had to attend for nothing, particularly ac the consequence
would follow, that the Court would also be delayed—however;
he certainly would entreat every party's recognlzanc2s who
might not be in attendance at eleVen o'clock.— William Knight
( whose trial was adjourned from the last session till the pre.
sent) was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously stealing.
2 pieces of marbles of the value of 101., the property of Chi rles
Font.—The Jury returned a verdict of Guitty.—The Court
sentenced' the prisoner to six months' imprisonment at Brixtoo,
and to be kept at hard labour.—Several other unhhportant
*lse took place._

Between five and six o'clock oilguoday-mOrn-
log se'nnight, a house belonging to a man named Henry Nor.
they, in the parish of Kenwyu, near Truro, was struck by light.
ning. Northey, his wife, and nine children, were in bed at the
time: a ball of fire desceritlbd the chimney, 11nd immediately
exploded with a tremendous noise, forcing otit all the windows
of the house, and detaching a grate and iron oven from the
chimney, carrying them into the Middle of the room : . all
the earthenware In the kitchen was broken, and an aper.
ture made through the floor into a chamber in which two young
men, sons of the owner of the house, lay. The head of th,)
bed was shivered to pieces, but happily.. without injuring
either of the young men, though the head o the eldest was not
Mare than six inches from a post' that was tit Entered. The
lightning finally made its
•way through the end wall .of
the house, which is built of earth, and which it pierced through
in several places, making apertures resembling raf.holes. The
house watt filled with smoke, which being strongly .itiapreguat:
ed with sulphur, neatly suffbeated the alarmed family, on their
rushing down stairs. Parts of the glass of the demolished
windows were found upwards of fifty yard,/ /Wn the house,
Provid,ntially, the whole of the family escaped. tmhurt.
On Monday se'nnight, as a young gentleman
was walking near the sea, about a mile from Falmouth, he per.
ceNed a wdman on the rocks at a little distaree, and auspecing
she was about to drown herself, he wilt into a field near the vet.,
in order to call two met) who were working there, to endeavour
to prevent her from making the attempt, or to tissist in reitrui her if she did make it. Ile *as enly trait of sight of the maid.g tunate female a few mintites, and .on his return she was
seen in the water, and though immediately taken out, was
quite dead. She proved to be the wife of a sailor named
Dtinn, who some years since left one of the packets in a foreign
port, and had not since returned I she had for some time
shown decided indimtions of derangement.,—( West Briton.)
Last week, as some people were engaged in
pulling down the roof of a very old thatched tenement in the
Casde.wynd, St. Andrew's, Scothuid, they disedvered a pair
of pistols which had been thrust .into cha thatch, for die sake of
Meeithnent. They are evidently of foreign make., neatly two
feet in length, silver indunted, but very Muth corroded, and no
ii to can be traced upon them. What renders them ohicets of
:nter-fat to Vie curious, is the singular peculiarity in the con.
tart c :on t f the locks, very different from those of, nloqern
manufacture.
Plr.cilafto Fist' boat 150 ft msiteads
rif)i4tiswheewke
itAkweenenbyfinthy!ansdaanstrity)cloinl4,inffem: jr.aevovagtert
' taken by die scans belonging to Gerrans; about sixty 11(4414
heads were taken by the Loots scans on 'I iii. night.—
The driving.hoats have been very active, ti,ntl they generally
obtain some fish every night. /it Mounts,-flay some of the
scant Were shot on Monday last, bait they wtik very few fish
the driving-boats in the hay have not this Week been very suit
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