The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-08 00:00:00

MAR YLEB ONE.

TIIE LOVESICK CARVENTE ft.-An elderly decent-
looking man was charged by Mrs. Adsey Thompson, a
sprightly widow, about thirty years of age, carrying on
the business of a dress maker in the neighbourhood of
Manchester-square, under the following circumstances :
The complainant said that, about ten months since, the
defendant, who was a carpenter, was her tenant ; since
the death of her husband, he had annoyed her with his
addresses, and she could not get rid of him, as he had
got her street-door key, with which he obtained an en-
trance whenever he chose.

Mr. HOSKINS said, if the widow did not choose to
receive his addresses any more, he must not annoy her.
—He was then discharged, with a caution not to offend
again.

HORIUBLE DEATH OF AN INFANT.-
On Friday evening as FREDERICK PARItETT, a fine child
about two years old, the son of a cheesemonger in Ton-
bridge-street, New-road, adjoining Mr. LORD'S soap-
boilery, was playing in Mr. LORD'S warehouse, he fed
through a small trap into a vat underneath, containing
boiling tallow. Mrs. LORD ran to the poor child, who
was up to his chin in the boiling fat, and rescued the poor
sufferer, whose screams were agonizing. On removing the
fat the skin of the poor child peeled off, and he died after
six hours' agony. Mrs. LORD was severely burnt in res-
cuing the child.

A PERILOUS SITUATION.—Captain CROW
in his memoirs, relates the following perilous adventure :
---" One afternoon, when we were ten to twelve hundred
miles from any land, and were sailing at the rate of seven
or &girt knots, the alarm was given that the ship was on
fire in the afterhold. I was in the cabin at the time, and,
springing upon deck, the first persons I saw were two
young men with their flannel shirts blazing on their backs;
at the same time I perceived a dense cloud of smoke issuing
from below, and looking round rne, I found the people in
the act of cutting away the stern and quarter boats, that
they might abandon the vessel. At this critical juncture
I had the presence of mind to exclaim, in an animated tone,
" Is it possible, my lads, that you can desert the at a mo-
ment when it is your bounden duty, as men, to assist
me ?" and observing them hesitate, I added, " Follow me,
my brave fellows, and we shall soon save the ship." These
few words had the desired effect, for they immediately ral-
lied, and came forward to assist me. To show them a
proper example, I was the first man to venture below, for
I thought of the poor blacks intrusted to my care, and
who could not be saved in the boats, and I was determined,
rather than desert them, to extinguish the fire, or perish
in the attempt. When we got below, we found the fire
blazing with great fury on the starboard side, and as
it was known to the crew that there were forty•five
barrels of gunpowder in the magazine, within about
three feet only of the fire, it required every possible
encouragement on my part to lead them on to extin-
guish the rapidly increasing flames. When I first saw the
extent of the conflagration, and thought of its proximity to
the powder, a thrill of despair ran through my whole
frame ; but by a strong mental effort I suppressed my dis-
heartening feelings, and only thought of active exertion,
unconnected with the thought of imminent danger. We
paused for a moment, struggling, as it were, to determine
how to proceed. Very fortunately for us our spare sails
were stowed close at hand. These were dragged out, and,
by extraordinary activity, we succeeded in throwing them
over the flames, which they so far checked, that we gained
time to obtain a good supply of water down the hatchway,
and in the course of ten or fifteen minutes we extinguished
the flames. Had I hesitated only a few minutes on deck,
or had I not spoken encouragingly to the people, no exer-
tion whatever could have saved the ship from being blown
up, and as the catastrophe would most probably have taken
place before the hands could have left the side in the boats,
perhaps not a soul would have survived to tell the tale. I
hope, therefore, I shall be excused in assuming to myself
more credit (if, indeed, credit be due) for the presence of
mind by which I was actuated on this occasion, than for
anything I ever did in the course of my life. The acci-
dent I found was occasioned by the ignorance and careless-
ness of the two young men whose clothes I bad seen burn-
ing on their backs; through the want of regular officers,
they had been intrusted to draw off some rum from a store
cask, and who, not knowing the danger to which they ex-
posed themselves and the ship, had taken down a lighted
candle, a spark from which had ignited the spirits."
The human remains discovered; at Kirton
Holme, a few days since, have excited extraordinary at-
tention in the neighbourhood ; and the following is a more
detailed statement than we were able to obtain in sufficient
time for our last week's publication :—A person was dig-
ging a pit in an orchard near the road side, when, at about
a foot below the surface of the e-irth, he discovered a
hogshead, which, on rising, he observed had been puddled
round with clay, nearly three inches thick. On
of
it there appeared to be about three or four sacks lime, in
which these was a distinct impression of the skull ut a
human being ; there was also a part of the back-bone
lying in the lime. When the hogshead was opened a
dreadful stench issued from it, which lasted for several
days afterwards, to the great annoyance of the neighbour-
hood. An old man, who resides at Kirton Holme, re-
members that during the Fen riots, on the enclosure t f
Holland Fen, a man named NORRIS LINEIIAM, a village
poet, who used to write songs on the subject of the riots,
and was supposed to be well acquainted with the persons
and proceedings of the rioters, was suddenly missed about
that time; and as he had a house on the spot where these
remains were discovered, there is a great probability that
the unfortunate poet was murdered for fear of his betray-
ing the rioters, and buried in this spot.--Boston Herald.