The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Mr. Day, whose name appeared at the Mansion-
house as having practised the cruel hoax of sending to a
literary gentleman in great necessity a fictitious check
for 201., addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor, enclosing
a Post-office order for two guineas, to counteract the
notion which he feared might get abroad, that he was
actually the hoaxer. He considered it part of a syste-
matic attempt to ruin him.

Information was given at Hatton Police-office on
Friday that a girl of the name of Stanley, who had lately
made five attempts to drown herself in the New River
had at last succeeded. She threw herself from Camden-
bridge into the New River on that day, and in less than
ten minutes shg was taken out dead.
-- At the Norwich Assizes an action was brought to
recover the sum of 1,5001. upon a policy of insurance
on the life of one Thomas Howes. The case occupied
the Court for two days, and towards the close of the
second day, it being clearly ascertained from the evi-
dence of the surgeon, that deceased had made a false

representation of the state of hig
directed to find a verdietfor the defendant.

SCIENCE AND ART.

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The proceedings of the British Association for t.
:advancement of Science openA on Thursday lust,
?Iymouth. The expenses of the last meeting were ei
ered into, and resolutions passed that their proceeding
thereafter should be cheapened. The officers of the di.
:Perent sections were. t'ien elected, the sections from
G appointed, and the official programme read for tt
order of the week's meetings.

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Lord Brougham is in treaty tor a villa at Riehinon,
rbr two months, where Lady B. will reside with Ins
Lordship until the month of October, when they intend
going to Brougham Hall,

R. D. Giacomo Traversi, canon and parish priest of
St. Angelo, in Pescheria, was appointed Bishop of Segni
some time ago. Previously to his appointment, he
.vaited on his Holiness,. to tell him that sd. was all l►e
i)ossessed ; but this was rather a recommendation with
his Holiness, who must have been long acquainted with
its extensive charities. A Bishop with only sd. in hi;:
pocket indeed recalls the days of the Apostles. In Eng-
land such a phenomenon would be followed like a wild
beast.

Signor Puzzi has been playing with great success
at Woburn Abbey, and received high tributes of eulogium

raxsCELLAINCZOITS.

On Friday last, the Reform electors of Bury gave a
splendid entertainment to Lord Charles Fitzroy in cele-
)ration of his triumph at the election.
An instance of true magnanimity lately occurred off
Ramsgate. A boat's crew of four had upset, about four
niles from land, and were spied from shore, clinging to
oars. Boats immediately pushed off to the rescue, but
one of the men sank before the boat reached him. The
irst man to whom the boat came near called out, "Never
nind me, my brave fellows, I am well enough; pull away
and save the others."

Friday week a deputation from the parishes of
iewtownards and Comber, including the Ministers and
nembers of eleven congregations, waited on the Mar-
luis of Londonderry to present him with an Address of
,jondolence on the loss by fire of his magnificent man-
ion at Wynyard-park. His Lordship's answer included
opics both on religion and politics.
The Irish Judges, in their addresses to the Grand
furies, continue to give the most favourable accounts of
he state of the country.