The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-04 00:00:00

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marriage must be sealed with blood!' At the same
moment she plunged the dsgger into her breast. But
fortunately ore of the guests having seized her hand,
lessened the force of the blow, end the wound was
not deep. She was not far from 11. D-,
and some of the blood spirted oa his waistcoat
and shirt. Indescribable confusion arose; the bride
fainted ; one of the bridemaids had a nervous
attack: most of the guests went away; and
D--- was so painfully affected that he was for a long
time unable to utter a word. She was conveyed to her
residence, where precautions were taken to preve❑t her
from committing suicide. Yesterday the Commissary of
Police went to her, and obtained from her a promise
that she would not make an attempt on her life. She
was going on well, and was quite calm."

PREVALENT OPINIONS AMONG THE DUTCH.
(From Notes and Queries )
1. A baby laughing iu its dreams is conversing with
the angels.
2. Rocking the cradle when the babe is not in it, is
considered injurious to the infant, and a prognostic of its
speedy death.
3. A strange dog following you is the sign of good
luck.

4. A stork settling on a house is a harbinger of hap-
piness. To kill such a bird would be sacrilege.
5. If you see a shooting star, the wish you form be-
fore its disappearance will be fulfilled.
6. A person born with a caul is considered fortunate.
7. Four-leaved clover brings luck to the person who
finds it unawares.
8. An overturned salt-cellar is a ship wrecked. If a
person take salt and spill it on the table, it betokens a
strife between him and the person next to whom it fell.
To avert the omen, he must lift up the shed grains with
a knife, and throw them behind his back.
9. After eating eggs in Holland you must break the
shells, or the witches would sail over in them to Eng-
land. The English don't know under what obligations
they are to the Dutch for this custom. Please to tell
them.
10. If you make a present of a knife or scissors, the
person receiving must pay something for it; otherwise
the friendship between you would be cut off.
11. A tingling ear denotes there is somebody speak-
ing of you behind your back. If you hear the noise in
the right one, he praises you; if on the left side, he is
calling you a scoundrel, or something like that. But,
never mind! for if, in the latter case, you bite your little
finger, the speaker's tongue will be in the same predica-
ment. By all means don't spare your little finger!
12. If, at a dinner, a person yet unmarried be placed
immediately between a married couple, be sure he or
she will get a partner within the year. It's a pity it
must be inadvertently.
13. It' a person when rising throw down his chair, he
is considered guilty of untruth.
14. A potato begged or stolen is a preservative against
rheumatism. Chescuts have the same efficacy.
15. The Nymphass, or water-lily, whose broad leaves,
and clear white or yellow cups, float upon the water, was
esteemed by the old Frisians to have a magical power.
"I remember when a boy," says Dr. llalbertama, " that
we were extremely careful in plucking and handling
them; for if any one fell with such a flower in his pos-
session, he became immediately subject to fits."
16. One of my friends cut himself. A man-servant
being present secured the knife hastily, anointed it with
oil, and putting it into the drawer, besought the patient
not to touch it for some days. Whether the cure was
effected by this sympathetic means, I can't affirm; but
cured it was; so, don't be alarmed.
17. If you feel on a sudden a shivering sensation i❑
your back, there is somebody walking over your future
grave.
18. A person speaking by himself will die a violent
death.
19. Don't go under a ladder, for if you do you will
be hanged.

SEABORNE MAILS.
(N signifies that the mails are sent front the General PoSt-oltle6
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in ' From what When
PLACES. General Poet-office port dis-
uue.
London. patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N Aug. 8 Liverpool •. Arrived
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Aug. 5 .. • • Liverpool .. Aug. 12
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Aug. 13 .. Southampt. Aug. 7
Africa (West coast) .. N lath of the month 'Plymouth Aug. 3
Alexandria* • N 19th & 30th of mo.' Dover .. Aug. 18
Belgium • . N Daily ......Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. . 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12
Buenos Ayres .. 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12
California(viaChagres) 31 2d& 17th of month 'Southern pt. Aug. 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Aug.l
Constantinople* N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Aug.lo
Central America M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Aug.s
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th.S a
Chili M 17th of the month 'Southampt. Aug.s
France M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greece* N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. Aug.lo
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tuee. Sat.
Holland Wednes. & Satur.,London Mon•Ther
Honduras .. N 17th of the mouth,Southampt. Aug. 5
Ireland .. .. M& NI Twice daily .. ..IHolyhead • • Twleedaily
India (via Southamp.) AI 20th of the month, Southampt. Aug. 23
India (via Marseilles) N,7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Aui, 15
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. 31 20th of the month ,Southampt. Aug. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Aug. 15
Mexico 31,2 d of the month.. Southampt. Aug. 5
Madeira 31,9 th of tke month Southampt. Aug. 12
1„T 7tBhljtthla,olf9tathz2.7titp \ 1 Dover Aug. 10
Naples* .. N;sth 15th 25th olmo Dover • • Aug. 12
Papal States* 1115t1115th25th of mo Dover .. Aug. 12
Peninsular.. • • .. M 7th 17th 27th of mcvSouthampt. Arrived
Peru •• .. .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. Aug. 5
Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo,Dover Arrived
West Indies 17th of the month Southanapt. Aug. 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) 3112 cl of the month .. Southampt. Aug. 5
* The mails to those c ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
French packet viol Marseilles.
CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California, via the United States
are now despatched and due by every American packet.

ILFORD PETTY SESSIONS-Aug 2.

(Before Mr. W. W. MAITLAND, Mr. W. Davis, Mr. J

DAVIS, and Mr. 0. MASSHITER.)
Mr. Edward Ellis, the proprietor of Grove-house,
Chigwell, Essex, and Frederick Wright, James Page, and
Richard Metcalfe, servants in his employ, were placed
at the bar, charged with illicit distillation; the former
with being the proprietor of the stills, and the other
three defendants with working the same.
From the evidence, it appeared that on Friday night,
Mr. D. Scott, supervisor of inland revenue, accompanied
by Mr. W. Bridges, an inspector of the Thames Police,
and who also bolds an Excise commission, proceeded to
the country residence of Mr. E. Ellis, the Grove-house,
Chigwell, which is a most spacious mansion, with a lawn
and garden in front, having all the external appear.
ance of belonging to a family of the highest respecta-
bility. To avoid observation they made their way to
the back of the house; but upon going up towards
the kitchen door, they met Mrs. Ellis, the wife of
the principal defendant, to whom they communicated
that they were officers, and had come to search the pre-
mises. Having gain( d admission they found the lower
part of the house fitted up as a distillery on a most ex-
tensive scale, and iu a very costly manner. One still
was set up in the front kitchen, and another in the back,
both at full work, and running off spirits from the worms.
In the back kitchen they found Wright attending to the
still, and soon after Metcalfe came in from the yard.
While they were in the front kitchen they heard a noise
as of some person making his escape at the back, whom
they afterwards ascertained was James Page, a servant
in the employ of Mr. Ellis. Having left Wright and
Metcalfe in the custody of Mr. Bridges, Mr.iScott and a
policeman went in search of Page, whom they found at
home in bed. They examined his clothes, which by
their smell and appearance clearly indicated that he had
been at work in the distillery. They accordingly ar-
rested him, and took him back to Mr. Ellis's, when
Metcalfe acknowledged that Page had been in
the still-house shortly before. Between one and two
o'clock on Saturday morning, Mr. Ellis came home with
a horse and cart which was loaded with coke, a
large barrel of yeast, and several parcels of empty blad-
ders that had recently contained spirits. He was asked
whether be was the proprietor of the house? He said
there would be no use in his denying it, and et once ac-
knowledged that he was proprietor of the premises, and
that his residence in town, where he carried on business,
was Bostock-street, London Docks. He said that Page
was his house servant, whom he sometimes employed in
working in his gardens, and at other times in the dis-
tillery. He said that the boy Metcalfe was his nephew,
who had been acting under his directions, and sorry he
was for having been the cause of bringing the boy into
the ways of error. They found about 300 gallons of
fermented molasses wash ready for distillation, from
forty to fifty gallons of spirits, a great quantity of barrels,
and all the necessary apparatus for carrying on an ex-
tensive trade. _ _

The magistrate convicted Edward Ellis, Frederick
Wright, and James Page, in the penalty of 301 each, or
three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in Ilford
gaol. Metcalfe was ordered to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.. _
_.

Mr. Briggs, of the firm of Briggs and Gardford, of
Primrose-street, Bishopsgate-street, oilmen, appeared be-
fore Sir P. Laurie, who has been appointed locum tenens
for the Lord Mayor during his Lordship's corporation
visit to Paris, fur the purpose of making a statement, the
public notice of which might be productive of advantage.
It had become, Mr. Briggs said, a common practice at
places of amusement about London, to send up in the
air dangerous combustibles in the shape of fire balloons,
which were calculated to do irreparable mischief, espe-
cially when they happened to fall upon premises in which
there were inflammable materials. There bad been a
fire on Friday night in Clerkenwell, and in about half an
hour after he had heard of the breaking out of the con-
flagration he was informed by one of the servants of the
establishment that the roof of his premises was on fire.
On going up to the roof he found that a fire-balloon,
which had lately descended, was blazing away, and ho
was convinced that if it had fallen a foot or two away
from the spot on which it had dropped, the building
would have been in a very short time in flames; there
were between 200 and 300 tuns of oil on the premises,
the consequences to the whole neighbourhood might have
been dreadful in the extreme. He had learned, upon
speaking to the police, that fire balloons were constantly
falling about Bishopsgate, and that it was generally sup-
posed they had been sent up from the various public
gardens about the metropolis, the proprietors of which,
no doubt, never took into account the dangers to be ap-
prehended from the childish practice.
Sir P. LAURIE—I dare say you come here to make
this representation, because you conclude that it is the
quickest mode of seeking and accomplishing a remedy
to obtain a speedy exposure in the public press? Mr.
Briggs—Precisely so. I consider that my premises, and
es a necessary consequence the whole neighbourhood,
had a very narrow escape. I entertain no doubt that
the moment the police authorities are informed of the
fact of the frequent descent of fire balloons, they will
give directions to the forge to make tuck regulations as