The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-08 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a young man named IVil mot, who al-
leged that he was the son of the female who styled
herself the Princess Olive of Cumberland, attended
to make application whether his mother could not
be compelled to contribute in some manner to his
support in his present destitute condition. He
handed the magistrate (Mr. Murray) a sheet of
paper, which he said contained the principal occur-
rences of his life, as far as his recollection served
him. In this statement he asserts that he is the
offspring of the above-mentioned female, and that
there were living witnesses to attest to the fact,
although she had discarded and disowned him, and
left him a wanderer to seek his own subsistence.
Finding that he could obtain no permanent employ-
ment in this country, and that his unnatural parents
forsook him, he went abroad, first to Gibraltar and
afterwards to the Gambia, where his health suf-
fered to that degree that he was compelled to return
to this country with a broken constitution. He had
since applied to the female upon whose charitable
feelings he had so strong a claim, but he was turned
from her door disowned, and told to go elsewhere
and seek charity. The applicant then informed the
magistrate that he had sought after work since his
return from America, but was qnsuCcessful, owing
to which he had undergone great privations, having
for days together been compelled to go without
either food or lodging. The applicant also men-
tioned the name of a party upon whose sympathy
in his present condition he also considered that he
had a claim, and who was in circumstances to .assist
him if he had the inclination.

Mr. MURRAY-s;dinail;viiig some knowledge
of the individual alluded to he should see or write to
him upon the subject.
Some temporary relief was then given to the ap-
plicant, who was desired to call at the office again
in a few days.

MOTIVES MYSTIFIED.—" Pray, Sir," said
Sir Richard Birnie, " if you were not guilty, why did
you escape from the officer the other night ?"—" Vy,
your vorship, I can explain that ere," said the gentle-
man at the bar, " and you'll think better on me wen you
knows my motives. You see, your vorship, that vas a
Toosday night, and as I vas brought up a Hindepend-
ant Vesleyan, and vas always particlur about chapel, I
vanted to go to a prayer meeting, and as I knowed the
hofficer vouldn't go along o'me cos he varnt no vays
religious like given, vy 1 vent alone sooner nor miss,
and them vas my motives, your vorship."

At Stockport Police-court, on Monday, a
fellow named James Dorton, was charged with having
attempted an indecent assault on Emma Robinson, and
afterwards throwing her into the canal near Bredbury.
It appeared that on Monday evening, about 6 o'clock,
the girl, who is 15 years of age, was on her way to
Stayley-bridge to her sister's, from her father's house
in Churchgate ; and when she turned off the turnpike-
road at Woodley, to go on the towing-path of the ca-
nal, she met the prisoner before she got to the first
bridge. He then turned back and said that as there
would be a storm she had better come forward, but she
declined, and pretended that she was waiting for her
father. He next went forward and concealed himself
about the hedge, 'which so frightened her that she
turned back. He followed and caught her ; when she
told him to take all she had, if he wanted to rob her,
but she prayed for permission to go. He asked her
how much she had, and she answered, " I have only
some clothes belonging to my mother." He replied,
that he would both rob and murder her ; but on throw-
ing her down his expressions explained his intentions,
and on her screaming " Murder I" he took and pitched
her into the canal. The air gathering and spreading
her garments out, she was prevented from drowning,
and she scrambled out as well she could. Mr. May,
publican, of Stockport, who was on his way from
Hyde, discovered the girl on the bank, insensible and
very wet ; having first met a man.with a leathern apron
taking a circuit through the fields. The girl was taken
to the Lowe's Arms, where she described the prisoner's
dress, and he was apprehended. The prisoner is a
shoemaker, living at Hyde, and is a married man. He
was committed to Chester for trial on the capital
charge.—Stockport Advertiser.