The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-17 00:00:00

WORSHIP STREET.

THE EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKE —On Thursday John
Willis, Ails Hutton, and Sarah Jaa,es, alias Willis
very good looking young persons, we'e broudht up on -a
ch age of having b,-en cone rned in a daring and ex -erotive
r, bbery omtni t.d up n t e pte uises o 1 .11r.
ban, a
silk-mercer at Uxltridg,

The circumstances under which the prisoners now ap-
peared at the bar were wholly unprecedented. They cad
been Eli. d at tie laver Old H.iley sessions and convicted of
another rota:wry; but that conviction baying been nullified
by the ex raoidinary mistake" at the 51ohliesex
S salons House, they wire re-indicted for the same • fferice,
and tried tinder the Special Commission on Wednesday,
when they were acquitted, but were immediately after-
wards taken into custody by an rrffic.er. • ,
The following anpeired to be tr a facts in the present
c s-: Mi. Goodman's shop was broken nvo Si,urilay
night, the 20th of April, and plundered of property ro the
amount of between 4001. and 500/ , but no evidence
.r.o
fix the prrpetrators was discovered until June, when a
rrieec of si•k and come other articles, identified by Mr.
G o ,roan, were traced to the prisoners, then in Newgate
upon another charge. They had pawned the piece of silk
a. 51. Lew's in the Commercial-road six days df er the
robnery.—The prisoners were remanded.

THE CHOLERA MORBUS.—The Commis-
si,,rters of tin- Near P.'ice hdve issued orifeis to all the

superintendents of the different divis,ons to collect and re-
p rt to them the number of dean s, since the re-apperr-
ance of the cholera, which have t k n plice Irmo that
in4ligaint disease in their re.pec•tve distrie2i. We un-
derstand than the number i• truly alarming in one division
oniy (H), comprising the parishes of Sr. Margaret's and
St. John'•. The return is considerably ,hove a hundred,
,Itt this is not considered anything near the numb, r
Ye-t Iday an inquest was held at the Duke
of York, Salmon's-I ,ne, itatcliff., on the body of a mile
child woich was found ne .1- the Duke of York, on Wed
ni.sday night. '1 he of the child presented a meat
romble appearance, his little ihroat h. ing cut in two
places ; ere w- re at least 18 punctured wounds in the
chest, the hick, and the abdomen, and both his arm•+
were broken, one being nearly severe from the body.—
Edward Taylor, son of tie lamilord of the Dok- of Ymk,
sail he wr• returning home from an errand, when his dug
kid hold of a bundie, which. on examinati n. appeated
to he the murdered infint Witness saw aw- Mal stand

ing on the opp•ite side of the IN dles•el in (NO(
c,othes ; but he sboul I not know her agun. —The Jury
was ;nljourne I it Tuesday t,ext, to o rain fur tier evi Ir nee..
MATRIMONIAL HOAX, OR THE BITER
BIT —Although we by no mein4 appro.e of that speci, s
of practie,l joke, which is commonly known by the term
' hoot," yet where the in"ent is user ly to have a passing
.hot ar. " lolly as ir fl and the suff-ter hinnsrif

the way of it by kis own conceit or indiscretion, we are
not disposed to judge to verely of such proceedings, if no
Hury is inflicted beyond the etreets of well deset ved I idi-
male. In this light we are inclined to view an occurrence
which has reeenty taken place in this city, mid r the
I .11„„.i
,g~flecunrtaln the Cheltenham Chro
niele of the Ist in.t., a ' gallant gtv L i,,,' tired, it
would appear. of the solitary tediousness of eelibtey, aaver.
ri•ieil fur d wife in terms to the following fleet A
middle-seed Literary Gentleman, (3t A.) eildowed with
hartnoni us Ueollll PI )a)..11 eS ind high cons xinns, wishes

for a p trtner to join him in the holy nand• of matr►mony.
Any pripioiy site may have wi I be .settbil on hersilf,
;dung with what he may accumulate." In answer to tois
invitation, a letter was sent to the ai:vertiser'• atltlr tis at

the p .st-offi,e, Ch,lt,nh un, purp rt.ng to corne fitun a
Ails+ LAURA WINDHAM, who deNcri, ed fSrli as the
datight., of an 01,1 naval offic,r dec,as,d, and stared that
she possessed 1,900/. in her own name in ti e 4 p..r cents.,
besides an annul?) of 100/ arisfog out of an ~state near
Exe..r. This utter was drawn up with much s
,feitcaey, and modestly expr.....fefi a wool for further kn

, .
ledge of the advertiser, by whotu the . bait w 8 ta.erly
awn) lowed, anti a corn spandence was forthwith esta-
blished, 'which ended in an appaintinent betwes•n th-
parties, the gentleman eagerly acc.iling to a pioposal to
come over to Gtrut•ewer to meet the I oly and , er guar.
Gans. At the stated hour he accordingly mad, Ili•
app miler ; but old Time seemed to have c,immittel sad
dilapida,itins birth up n .4e person and the wardrobe o;
the " middle aged g• ntlentan," whose years were cer ainly
on the Wrong side , t seventy, anti his garments, a suit oi
:01).1 black, considerably the worse hit Weil. A pr,..imi.
narY treeing Was held with the young
lady's trusters,
When the rent roil and other document., produced were o
so tempting a nature, that es en a v.ry intehigib e hint,
,vitieli the guar .faits found' thetiaselveri hound in htiotiM
to gm., id a misfortune which hal befallen the lady a few
years 0
befire hid no offset in damping the ardour
of the
eager swain, esiaci illy as there was no living Witni times uf
the little iii:shsp; and a copy of the agreetnen of the writ'
ridge articles was
allforthwith
nforthwithsigned. The gentlttnan w„
anxiety to ,•ee tits ienited, and the i10Ani,,,,. ,alt
now'
one was speedily introduced, when the enamoured youth
made an attempt to lift her viil in o,der' to tot.
-haste s.iltre, a favour which the Ivy modeStly
print a t,
detained. The farce %vas now at its Neigh', and alt
h,.h,.
xceptilig the victim himself had much difficulty
prudes, e
preserving tit-
ir gr ivity. Alter a very satisfactory in-
*ti
Iterviescr the parties._ separated, anotior m,rting• beim,
fixed, at which suety to mg was to be fi t
—n- hiy arranged.
Accordingly It, ag .in rain,- 'wet yesterday, but in ihe
(lira
time the lady had determined to break off the correspond
ence, having received an anonymous letter, which take,'
• . to its c •ntinuan •
an in,uho,r tide obi coon tr. The un-
rleasant task of making thi. communteation she deputed to
her "
gu4rd0„,,,," who bad much difficulty in t„„o,„„h„.
t ,is sufferer from. `tunrequited love" iii the heart,
i•reakng disappointment, the, ” mititile.aged literary geu
knout" not being .ensinie, even up to the last moment, oti
iliej.ike which was being played ,ffupon hi
--W. •-•.• Gloucester
Journal.