The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-29 00:00:00

quently deprived his wife of those connfo..ts to whicli sht
considered she was entitled. Toese circumstance,' led to
frequent quarrels. Cu one occasion, it appears, that this
woman remained with them six or seven days, sleeping
in the same room with NICHOLS and his wife, and Nrcuots
threatened to cut his throat or hang himself when she was
absent. The deceased was not ill until Monday, the 9th
inst., when she was seized with vioLtnt voinitings, after
eating some bread and cream given her by her husband.
On the next day (Tuesday), NrciroLs went to the sister,
saying, " Make piste up to your sister, she's very ill, and
I don't think she'll be long." SUSANNAII CREWS accord-
ingly went to 1%14c1-ions' house, where she found the de-
ceased, as on the former occasion, vomiting and evacuating
slimy matter. The sister looked for the bread, anti the
cup in which the tea had been token, but could find neither,
and the deceased then said, " He has not given me arsenic,
tilos he ?" She continued ill during the whole night, and
about six o'clock on Tuesday, the 10th, she expired, and
was very decently interred, but in consequence of strong
suspicion as to the cause of her death, the body was dis-
interred, and a coroner's inquest was held at the White
Lion Inn, Tavistock street, before R. J. SQUIRE, E q.,
on Wednesday, and continued by adjournment to Thursday
and Monday, when the above facts were substantiated.
After a short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of
Wilful Murder against WILLIAM NICHOLS, the husband of
the deceased, who was taken into custody on the coroner's
warrant, and on Thursday committed to Exeter to take
lila trial at the pre.ent assizes.—Devonport Telegraph.
DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.-OD Satur-
day evening, as two young boys, natives of India (placed
by their parents under the care of Captain PEEVOR, of
Church-street, Chelsea) were bathing in the river, near
the Red House, they unfortunately got out of their depth,
and notwithstanding that every exertion was made by
several watermen to rescue them, when taken out life
was extinct. We understand that they had obtained per-
mission to go to Battersea-fields to catch butteries, their
object being, as it would seem, to bathe; hence the me-
oncholy resnit. The father of one is expected in town in
a short time to visit his son, iu whom, we hear, his only
earthly hope is placed. Captain PEEVOR is almost dis-
tracted.

The interment of the Duke of SLITHER.
LAND is expected to take place at Dornoch, the county
town of Sutherland, in the fami'y mausoleum of the
Duchess's ancestors. The present Duke and the Countess
of SURREY were expected to reach Danrobin, on Friday,
from the South. His Grace will remain in the North
until after the funeral.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 27.
—The business of the cotton market this week is again
very extensive, and, with the exception of Thursday and
Wednesday, when the market was quiet, but without say
depression in prices of moment, the demand has been
exceedingly spirited throughout. The impart this we •k
is 10,097 bags, and the sales 47,010 bags, viz., 500 Sea
Island, 14 I. to 2s. 6,1. ; 50 Stained ditto, 12d. to 131t1. ;
14 690 Bowed, 9d. to 12d. ; 10,540 New Orleans, 9d.
to 12d. ; 14,270 Alabama, &c., 91. to 10d. ; 1,740
Pernatns, 12.1. to 13d. ; 900 B ihias, 98d. to lid. ;
1,930 Maranhams, 1 lid. to 1241. ; 30 Barhadoes, 15d. ;
30 Eityptiau, 14d. ; and 2,370 Surats, 611. to 71d.
per lb. To-day the market is quiet. The sales reach
2,000 trigs, at the prices of yes.er lay.
AN INCORRIGIBLE THigF.—On Tuesday
an incorrigible female thief was tranSierred from the Po'ice
Court to the Chamber, for breaking into a dwelling house
in New Vennal, about a couple of weeks since, and tar •
rying off several pairs of blankets. Upon the nearest
computation, the abandoned criminal has already spent
between 13 and 14 years of her life in Bridewell, having
been convicted and imprisoned for variaus misdemeancrs
between 50 and 60 times.— Glasgow Courier.
A CURIOUS COMPLIMENT.—FAsm was
the ugliest man in Biodad, but was not aware of his defi-
ciencies. One day, while conversing with a friend in the
streets, a lady covered with a veil stopped before him, and
for a long time contemplated him very earnestly. Gratified
by such attention, he went and asked her why she gaz-d
at him so earnestly. " I have violated the laws of
Mahomet," she reelied, " by looking with pleasure on a
beautiful youth ; I must therefore punish my eyes, and I
trust that my voluntary penance of looking at you for so
long a time will save me from the tortures of hell."—
Mollad.jtimi.
for
Gtioirveeern_mtheonutsionrddermsen to hold themselves inwere on Saturday issued
readiness to embark at Plymouth for foreign service. The
transports are already there. Of the ultimate destinati in
of these troops, although the Ministry take every precau-
tion to conceal it, there can be no doubt. They are in-
tended for Portugal to support the cause of Donna MARIA,
S'lOUld Spain attempt to mike a movement in favour
of Don Moues.. PAL\IELLA S anticipated success in the
,nth has, it is said, revived the doubts in the mind of Don
PEDRO which originally led to their quarrel--PEDKO's
object being to share the sovereignty with his daughter;
while PA LMELLA and his partisans, having bad enough of
the Ex-Brazilian Emperor, are determined, should they
succeed upon Lisbon, on 'declaring Donna MARIA sole
sovereign in Portugal.
A COMMENDABLE INSTANCE OF BRAVERY
IN A FEMALE. —A few days since, the Lady of Mr.
BARNES, residing near Knowle, on entering her parlour,
about eleven o'clock in the d my, discovered a strange fel-
low there, who hid entered the house with the intention
of plunder. She immediately seized a pistol, and, threat-
ening the thief with instant death if he dared to move,
called for assistance, and the ruffian, intimidated by her
manner, remained on the spot until be was taken.—. Path
Herald.
CORRUPTING UNUSUAL WORDS.—It is
DUGALn STEWART who remarks, if I remember, in his
Dissertation, " That ideas are often conveyed to the:mind
through the senses by very meagre and mutilated signs."
Thus a parson who reads rapidly does not, most probably,
see more than a very small proportion of the letters, or
even of the words, whose meaning at a glance he appre-
hends ; this is proved by the pains required to be taken to
analyse the orthography of any new or unusal term when
it occurs. A steam-boat on Loch Lomond bare the classic
name of Euphrosyne, which the Highlanders regularly
corrupted into the Hugh Fraser. A very pious puritan,
who kept an inn in Holborn in CROMWELL'S time, put
as a motto to his sign, " God encompasseth us." In
the course of years the sign became obliterated ; and when
it came to be renewed, from the treacherous recol'ec-
tions of those amongst whom its designation was remember-
ed, it was entitled " The Goat and Compasses," a blazonry
being given to suit the motto. In Fifeshire there is a
farm, which, from stinding on the limits of the cele-
brated ground of the boar hunt, near St. Andrew's,
received the Latin appellation of Apri Cursus. This,
in process of time, was first corrupted into Upper
Carus; and then, to find a counterp la to its new
name, the next farm lower down the valley was
called Nether Curus. A beautiful villa, near Loch
Lomond, was named by its travelled posse‘sor, " Belle
Retiro." The country people called it " Bullrutter."
Perhaps the most thorough transmutation of a Roman
expression of any we possess, if the classic antiquary be
correct, is that of Hilariter Celcriter into our Scotch
helter skelter. A celebra•ed philosopher once received a
note from his Italian v,,let, addressed " Soznfridavy." It
may be necessary to explain, that it was meant for Sir
HUMPHREY DAVY. —Dundee Constitutional.
SWALLOWS.--A further proof of the migra-
tion of tie four British swallows to South-Western Africa
has been afforded of late years by the circumstance that
their earlier or later arrival depends on the period of the
prevailing south-west wind. The present year we had a
few days of that wind early in April, and the swallows
were all early this year. On the same wind returning, in
the end of the same month, the Chartlets and Sand-
Martins arrived ; and the same wind, about the Bth of
M ty, brought the Swifts. Dr. Foster has observed that,
during upwards of ten years past, the first of these birds
have come with south and westerly winds:
EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF BEES.—

This year has been a very excellent one for those who
keep these little laborious and profitable insects. A gr. at
number of honey-dews, accompanied by a fine and dry May,
June, and a part of July, have enabled them to collect im-
mense stores of honey, and caused them to swarm more
frequently than usual, so much so that even the late
swarms are now very heavy. SHORT, a game-keeper f
Lord SUFFIELD'S, at Gunton, has had no less than sixteen
swarms from four old stocks ; each of these stocks swarmed
thrice, and the two first swarms also swarmed twice each.
This is a most extraordinary increase, and what is still
more singular, all of them seem sufficiently provided with
fool ti stand through the winter.
BONE MANURE.—An immense breadth of
bone manure has this season been used in the adjacent dis•
triets ; but a very general complaint is heard from the
f trmers, that in proportion as the demand has increased
the quality has fallen off, in ea far as the bones are not
sufficiently subjected to the grinding operation of the mills,
sod from this cause effectually resist a steady amalgatna
tion with, or benefit to, the soil. This complaint is not
a new one, and we have been informed, that when in the
course of rotation, what was once a turnip field, become-
, pasture one, the unpulverized fragments are disinterree
by the beeves, and have been productive of serious inju.)
by being transferred to and lodging in the throats of th,
cattle. Many farmers have introduced machines for how.