The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

GREAT RIOT IN CUPAR.

A riot, accompanied with assault on a magistrate, was
raised on the evening of Tuesday last. Mr. Crichton
had on that evening assembled a meeting about what he
pleased to call county reform. The meeting, during
the greater part of the evening, was miserably small.
He congratulated the whole of Fife that they yet pos-
sessed him—that they had yet one magistrate and one
gentleman who looked after the public interest. Hitherto
there had been nothing worse than words, but now Mr.
Crichton, galled by the thinness of the meeting, pro-
c !eded to handle the delinquencies of the Herald. He,
therefore, proceeded to called the editor of that paper
an infamous liar, a low drudge, a dirty tool, a filthy
calumniator, &c., &c., till Mr. Brown, of the Herald,
who was standing in the end of the hall, said he would
go up to the fellow, and stepped forward. As he was
doing so, some of the ruffians in the meeting endeavoured
to hold him, while others were calling out, " Put him
out," " Knock him down." On this Bailie Tullis, along
with the quiet portion of the meeting, passed in behind
Mr. Brown, who got sale up to the platform. The
pressure was now so great that some of the stage
scenery was overturned ; and Mr. Crichton himself
knocked over, and dashed to atoms, the decanter out of
which he drank his water. When Mr. Brown, in the
heat of the fray, ventured to take a little out of the
tumbler, Mr. Crichton turned fiercely upon him, called
him " a dirty dog," and ordered him to " let alone my
things." Mr. Crichton now began to call Mr. Brown
and. Bailie Tullis " dirty dog, filthy blackguard, low
scoundrel, infamous liar, dirty drudge, low blackguard,
Aberdonian, mean hound, too bad for kicking, too dirty
to be touched with a tongs," &c., &c. ; grinding his
teeth all the time, and beating Bailie Tullis on the head
with a copy of his own Fife Herald. The row now got
pretty hot, on which Bailie Tullis, as a magistrate, re-
quested the town-officers to take Mr. Crichton into cus-
tody. This they refused to do, and Bailie Tullis took
witnesses. The riot now got better and better, but Mr.
Crichton was the first and only man that drew blood,
which he did from the Bailie's countenance. After Mr.
Brown had concluded, Mr. Crichton commenced again,
and showered another fresh storm on Mr. Brown, Bailie
Tullis, and Mr. shopman, who created a good
deal of amusement by popping up his head above the
screen behind Mr. Crichton, and quietly warning him to
take care what he said about him, as he would perhaps
not be inclined to let him off. Ile concluded by making
a challenge to all the three, to come forward and reply
to what he said. This challenge was readily accepted
by Mr. Brown. In the end the deputy-lieutenant and
magistrate was led off by the town-officers. At the
door I.e gave directions to them where to carry the col-
lection ; on which a gentleman, who had annoyed him
considerably during the evening, remarked that this
would not be a but densome task. The rent collected at
the door on this occasion, we are told, was 3s. 6d. ; but
deduct for broken decanter (exclusive of its contents),
say 93.-2 s. 9d. And thus ended the proceedings.—
Fife Journal

THE SWINDLER WYNDHAM.
The truth of Wyndham's death, which was recently
published, having been questioned in a letter signed " J.
C. Dowsing, late manager," the Glouce..ier Journal,
which originated the account of the swindler's exit from
the stage of life, gives the following further particulars:
—"After reading the above letter, we deemed it abso-
lutely necessary to make some more minute inquiries as
to the truth of our original statement, the result of
which has been to satisfy us of the general correctness
of the paragraph, with one important exception, namely,
an inaccuracy of date. The death of the poison Page,
Wyndham, or Wellesley, took place. not on the 20th of
June, as previously stated, but on the 29th of August,
at an inn on the banks of the Wye, between the towns
of Hay and lluilth, and he was buried on the Ist of
September. At the time of his death he was, as we
stated, accompanied by a woman who passed as his wife,
but who, when her companion was seized with sudden
and mortal illness, acknowledged that she had no claim
to the title. and had only known Mr. rage a few weeks,
having met him in London, and agre:d to accompany
him into Wales. On death taking place, a highly re-
spectaLle gentleman of the legal profession was sent for
to examine the deceased's papers and effects, and
amongst them found the names of Wyndham and Wel-
lesley, with bankers' vouchers in both those names.
Particulars as to his family and connexions were also
obtained, arid communication of his decease made to
I them, as we mentioned in our former paragraph. We
onght perhaps to state that we have obtained these facts
through tl e medium of gentlemen connected with an
extensive banking establishment in this city, who have
been in correspondence on the subject with the attorney
who made the examination of the dead man's papers,
and supplied the bank with the particulars. The de-
ceaFed, we understand, will be remembered in the city
of Hereford from his exploits there a few years ago,
where, as Captain Page, he created a great sensation in
the character of a military man and man of fashion, but
left the place very considerably in debt. That the de-
ceased Mr. Page was identical with Captains Wyndham
and Wellesley we think there can be no doubt—the
bankers' vouchers alone, accompanied by the names, af-
fording tolerably circumstantial proof. But though this
particular gentleman may have finished his swindling
career, he is not the last of his class ; and the suspicions
of Mr. Dowsing are not, therefore, at all misplaced.
Captain Wyndham's mantle will, no doubt, fall upon
some other brother of the trade,' against whose plau-
sible contrivances for carrying on fraud and imposition
the public cannot be too much on their guard."

SINGULAR HALLUCINATION.—A respectable-look-
ing man, past the middle age, was placed at the bar of
the Court house, on Saturday last, charged by Edward
Smith, with having committed an assault upon him.
The defendant, whose name is William Horne, and his
residence at Holbeck, appears, by the statement of Mr.
Naylor, solicitor, and the complainant, to have imbibed
the extraordinary notion that a lady residing near him
has defrauded him out of considerable property ; and he
takes every opportunity of annoying her, by shouting
after and assaulting her servants and work-people, and
other species of annoyance. Early last week the com-
plainant was employed to repair some railings for the
lady in question, when defendant rushed from the house,
armed with a poker, claimed the rails as his property,
and dared the complainant to repair them, and by way
of enforcing his commands, he " helped" Smith to a
" crack" with the weapon. Mr. Horne, in defence, still
persisted that tue property had belonged to himself, and
unjustly taken from him, and for the truth of his aver-
ment appealed to a gentleman in court, who protested
that it was an idle chimera. The consequence was, that
Mr. Horne was hound over, in his own recognisance of
201., and two sureties in 10/. each, to answer any charge
preferred against him at the sessions. But the matter
(lid not end here; Mr. Horne had scarcely reached home,
when he renewed his attack upon poor Smith, who has
especially fallen under his displeasure ; and on Monday
morning he again made his bow to the bench, this time
in the character of a prisoner. Mr. Sanderson, solidi.
tor, defended him, and the bench bound him over in
two sure ies of 251., and himself in 501, to keep the
peace.—Leeds Times. _

HIGHWAY ATTACK.—On Saturday night last, about
nine o'clock, a man came to the Gloucester police-station
with his head tied up, and much bruied and bleeding,
from a very savage attack which had been made upon
him about three miles from this city on the Bristol-road.
He appeared to be an itinerant stationer, and had a
bundle of paper with him. His statement was, that
he was joined on the road by a young man apparently'
not more than fifteen or sixteen years of age, who en-
tered into conversation with him, and walked in his
company for some distance. The man remarked, he
wanted to hasten to Gloucester to buy him a pair
of shoes, for he was almost barefoot. His com-
panion inquired what sort of shoes he intended to
buy, or how much he intended to give for them. The
man replied he could not afford to give much for
them as he had not much money. Soon afterwards
the young fellow, who was armed with a stout stick,
dropped a little behind, and struck the man three
tremendous blows on the head, and one on the left
hand, as the poor fellow held it up to defend his
head. Although almost stunned by the blows, he closed
upon his assailant, and in the course of a desperate
struggle, he bit off the fellow's nose, with the loss of
which important feature the juvenile highwayman made
off in an opposite direction to Gloucester. The man's
story was somen hat extraordinary certainly, but his
badly- wounded head and hand plainly showed that he
had been engaged in au encounter of extreme violence.
Nothing more, however, has been he ard of the robber,
although the loss of his nose will be very well calculated
to make a marked man of him for life, if it does not lead
to his detection at present. If any youth in the neigh-
bourhood should be found without this necessary as well
as ornamental appendage to " the human face divine,"
it would be right he should be called upon to give a
good account of the missing member.—Gloucester
Journal.

The long projected marriage between the Earl of
Waldegravo and Mrs. Milward, of Hastings, was cele
brated on Tuesday morning at All Souls Church, Lang
ham-place. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chi-
chester officiated. The whole proceedings were of a
most private nature, only the more immediate members
of the respective families being present.