The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-14 00:00:00

Q UEEN SQUARE.

Ye•terday an unfoi tunatr feinali, named Matilda Neale,
was charged with attempting to drown herself.
The constable ab.ut nine o'clock in the morning was
on duty in Pailiament..street, when he oiiserved the de-
fendant, appal ectly in liquor, surrounded by a crowd ,•1
people.
lie desired her to go on, and elle went in the
direction of Westminster Bridge. When Ihe gut there

she ran down the steps and threw herself into the Thames.
St. vent persons ran to her assistance, and she was got out
of the water with some difficulty. He took her to the
station house, and, on being questioned, she said that she
lived at St. Alban's-place, Cheyne-walk, Lambeth. The
direction proved to be correct ; and a woman brought her
some dry clothes, and also a little girl, about five years of
age, of whom she appeared to be very fond.
Mr. GREOORIE asked her what could have induced her
to attempt such a rash act ?—The defendant burst into
tears, and said that distress was the cause. The girl at
her side was hers, and the father was a master baker at
Lambeth; hut for the last five ,ears he had never contri-
buted one farthing towards her support. She had been
compelled to walk the streets night and day, she had
pledged every thing she had in the world to maintain her
child, hut she was reduced to such a state of destitution
that she should he happy to be rid of her life.
Mr. GREGORIE—Why don't you apply to the overseers
of your parish (St. G,mrgel., Southwark)? Defendant—
I have, Sir, but they will give me nothing. I have not
received a farthing from them these four years.
Mr. GREGORIE ordered a letter to be written to the
overseer s, which she promised to take to them, and on
that understanding she was dischargetl.
EX FRAORDINAILY DIEFENCE.A youth, named John
Downes, was charged with stealing a pair of second hand
trousers Tom the shop of Mr. Higginbotham, pawnbroker,
in the New.eut, Latnbeth.

The prisoner was seen to take down the trousers, which
were hanging up at the door for sale, and run away with
them. He was, however, quickly pursued and captured,
with the rouseta in his poasession.
Mr. GitEGORIE-What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner —rne quite hinnocent, your Vortship. I vas a
vaiking along, and I sees these here trowsers a hanging
up, vich I vishes I'd never a seed at all, and so I looks at
'em a dangling about like a chap at the front of the ad
Bliley, when, I'm bless'd, if they did'nt all of a sudden
drop naturally slap bang into my harms. I had no inten-
tions whatsomdever in stealing them ere things not at all.
Mr. GREGI,RIE-But you ran some distance with them.
Prisoner-1 hat ere is no such a thing; I never runned at
all. I seed 'em come down, as I said before, into my
harms ; bles•ed, your Vort.hip, if ever I see rich a thing
GREGORIE committed him tor trial.
HATT ON- GARDEN.

YestPtday, Sarah Shorter, servant to Mr. Parry, of
Canonbury-street,4ttin, was brought up for re-eza
mination, on a charge of having admi,istered laudanum to
Mr. Parry's infant. It was stated the child was better.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON remanded her to Friday, when he
said he should commit her for a misdemeanor.

THE SONS OF IRISH KINGS,

P 0 LIC.E-DUBLIN.

On Wednesday peace officers Beatty and Montgomery
brought up two coil black looking, hulking fellows, with
bloody visages, to the board room of the police office,
College-rreet, charged with making George's Quay a
battle field, whereon to display the pugilistic prowess of
their b ark brethren, for, not merely content with fighting
in their own proper persons, tney had enlisted the sooty
fists i•f all whom they could prevail on to do battle in
their quarrel When placed at the bar, they entered into
furious critninations and recriminations.
" P.ease your Worship," exclaimed one, " this con
tankerous fellow, who said he's descended from the O'Con-
nells of Iveragh, and is a third cousin of Din's, told me
to lily face that all the breed, seed, and generations of the
old stock of the Royal O'Connors of Belinagar, were no
better than -, saving your favour."
" Aye," said the other, " but please your Worship, ax
him it he didn't first aggravate nie by saying the Princess
of Iveragh lived at the back of God speed ; that there
was only one road into their kingdom, and that one 800
feet overhanging the sea ; that there were only two dawny
quern mills in it, and nei•her car nor plough were ever
seen in the kingdom. You know you did, Tim O'Connor."
" And you know its all true, Darby O'Connell. Ana
didn't you say the King O'Connors paid tribute ever and
always to the O'Conuells ? which is, please your Worship,
a - lie," saiking the bar, which tottered beneath his
illustration, while the magis rates and officers in vain en-
deavoured to obtain silence."

" P 1 age your Worships," shouted the O'Connellite,
" he said in Macy's tavern, that my mother came to town
with the yellow clay sticking to the boles of her fret."
" And please your Worship.," roared Prince Timothy
O'Connor, " he said in Taubman's that the bars of New-
gate were my father's morning spedacles."
" Turn the noisy blackguards out of the office," cried
the Magistrates, with one accord.
" And take :Are they don't fight in the passage," said
Mr. Gibbet.

" We must hind them strictly to keep the peace," said
Mr. Alderman Fleming, " otherwise 'twill be made a
natinnal quarrel, and the citizens he lett without coals
while these patriots are fighting it out."
4. What a daily plague these O'Connors and O'Connells
are," said Mr. Gahb tt; " they should have a wa.ch.
house and police office all to themselve.."—DublinPaper.

An inquest was held on Saturday, on the body
of a ►nan named iinr.s, who fell from a cut in which he
with others was returning home on Thursday night from
Bodmin, and fallin2 on his head, was killed oa the spot.
Verdict—Accidental death. The deceased was about 75
years of a:le.—Falmouth Packet.

REPRIEVE OF PARNELL AND JEFFERYS.
—The two man, PARNELL and JErrEars, who were left
fir exezution at the late Exeter Assizes, tor highway
robber y, have been respited. A very considerable excite-
ment was create I in Exet,r, on the general ground of
hostility to capital punishment, arid a petition with the
names of nine hundred respectable inhabitants, affixed
wto,l y in one day, was presented to the Judge on Monday
morning, on his return from Cornwall, by a deputation
heided by the Rev. Dr. CoLLVNS and JOsitPli SPARIZES,
E-q.--- Western Times.
SHOOTING FLYING.—We have heard of
many extraordinary shots in our time, but the following,
we are certain, is without parallel in the annals of gun •
powder :—ln the month of October last, two gentlemen,
one of them formerly a resident in this town, bent on a
shooting excursion, were travelling in a train of carriages
along the Liverpool and Manchester railway, at the rate of
about thirty miles an hour ; when shout three utiles from
Newton a envy of two brace and a half of moor-game
crossed the line upon the wing. Immediately our Mac-
clesfield friend, woo by the way was always considered an
sehXoceiull,eleort-sfipOrerdtiOnalt, right
~/it his do
nlll
left—and ui,ltehebartir,exl barrelled gun
tm,im entte his
saw
two of the birds sink beneath the deadly shot. On the
stoppage of the train at Newton, the gentleman returned
and sought for his birds, one of which he found and safely
bagged. Our readers may rely that we are not " shoot-
ing with the long bow," but narrating an actual fact.—
Macclesfield Herald.
FATAL ACCIDENT OFF SCARBOROUGH.-
(Fion: the York Herald).—This wateting-place was
thrown into great /alarm on Min lay. About noon that
day. the James Watt steam packet, from London to
E linhurgh, hove in sight, when a c,ible, named the
Friends, of Scarborough, Cr.avanits master, put off
with six passengers and their luggage, to proceed to the
otuhbrey dissatisfaction
~.n
Nzae
mtlugn
adt
understand
pt aec:wduhdti',hlYet
packet. The coble had also on board three seamen, and
nine dogs h.-longing to one of the passengers, proceeding t,,
the moors. When the coble arrived within about 10 yards
of the picket, then about a mile distant from the shore, the
set tieing very rough, the wind N.N.E., caused the packet
to take a sudden lurch, by which she descended upon the
coble, and the paddle-box completely upset her. Two
other cables were at a short distance, and lent all as-
sistance to those immersed in the water. Tne seamen on
board the cooks exerted Themselves, and by their exertions,
and those of Lord W. LENNOX, who was on board, the
lives of all the pass,-ngra, except one, were preserved ; that
one was Mr. G. JOHNsTONE, collector or the customs at
shore
1,,
le:
canoe4l.
o,bi ~
eri t.a:
themef t:
i,
cirawtuhheas iev:"
caused
yuwrapi
Hull, who had come to Scarborough the Saturday preceding,
and was then intending to proceed by the packet to Leith.
This gentleman was laid hold of in the water by CLAY-
juR,N, the master of the cable, hut while bearing him up
the packet took another lurch, and the paddle-box struck
Mr. JOH NiTONE on the head, by which CLAYBURN lost him
nearly a minute. When he again caught him, Mr Joins-
sroisa was floating with his face downward, and displayed
no signs of life though his ey. Ei were partly open. CLAY-
*URN bore him to a coble with the other passengers, but
tie was quite dead. Another sufferer, a gitnekeeptir,
proceeding to the moors with dogs, was with much diffi-
culty restored. The dogs were saved, and the greater
of the luggage was recovered. An inquest Was held
?Tart
on Tuesday at the Town hall,
ti,e
lurching
aelreeifiiert,ei,tfatiliteheC upsettingtipricn keert. foofr
Ittyhhete.
petaxipnrdeesbosayfthtlie picket in not cooling nearer
borough. The verdict was—r' We find that the deceased
ttoitozetnyteoi
widower,
a.ti
d taking
o,
On returning
as left
epa sfisve passengers, geehrtisio,d
children,
tcoa
packet
Lord
a .leottand of 201. on the paeliert,.
Wamast LENNOX came on shore with the sufferers, and
o'v!i'thhe
he also had a narrow escape, for, in :
.vas thrown to the coble in which he was
overboard, and was in the water for seve;alren was dragged
he could be got up, and then was much exhausted.
before

PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 7.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Henry
Brewster to the church and parish of Farnwell, in the pres-
bytery of Brechin and shire of Angus, vacant by the death of
the Rev, Alexander Douglas.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Auu. 9.

Gentleman Cadet W. G. Hanley to be Second Lieutenant,
with temporary rank, Aug. 5; Gentleman Cadet A. Beatty
to be Second Lieutenant, with temporary rank, Aug. 5.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Surrey*
Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia.
H. L. Lyster, Gent., to be Ensign, vice T. Wilson, deceased,
July 29.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Southampton.
Romsey Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.
G. E. Eyre, Gent., to be Lieutenant, August 2.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 23d July last.
Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry.
For J. Simcox, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Molliott, resigned,
read J. Simcox, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Molliett, resigned.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Glou.
tester, and of the City and County of the City of Gloucester,
and of the City and County of the City of Bristol.
The Right Hon K Lord Ellenborough, S. G. Gist, Esq.,
and D. L. St. Clair, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants, June 27.
Royal South Gloucester Militia.—A. Stansbury, Gent., to be
Ensign, May 16.