The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-16 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday, Win. Currall was brought before Mr. Traill
for final examination, charged with inflicting a wound with
a stone on the head of William Bryan, of which he has since
died.

The deceased's wife stated that on the 7th of March she
and her husband got tipsey, and that on their return home
some words arose between him and the prisoner, during
which the latter called him " monkey face," and challenged
him out to fight. They had a struggle together, but were
eventually separated, after which the witness saw the pri-
soner snatch up a stone and throw it at her husband, who
was then standing at the door of their house. The stone
struck the deceased on the head, and he dropped to the
ground as if he was shot, and when he was carried into his
room it was found that the stone had inflicted a wound on
his skull, from which the blood flowed in quantities. He
was conveyed from thence to the hospital in a state of in-
sibility, where he died in a few days afterwards.
The prisoner was committed for manslaughter.

The Roman Catholics of Ireland are taxed to
well :rwo Protestant establishments, the Presbyterian as well as
the Episcopalian, for the Presbyterian Church is supported
by a tax drawn annually from the Treasury under the name of
regium donum. It is even said that the worst abuses in the
Establishment have also extended to the Presbyterians ; and
that, while within the pale of the former, there are tithes paid
where no churches exist, it has also been for years the fact that
regium donum is drawn for clergymen who are not alive.
WAR.—We admire the pageantry of war—love to
gaze upon the splendour of military array, forgetting the while
that it ever has been, and never can be, any thing else than
productive of private misery and national impoverishment.
The richly decorated and well -accoutred soldier, who spends
more than half his life in a .state of mental vacuity, lounging
in listless idleness along our fashionable promenades, is reck-
oned a being far more deserving of our admiration and esteem
than the humble schoolmaster, the " vulgar shopkeeper," or
any other "mean-spirited animal," who is engaged in honest
labour, and by his industry contributes to the said soldier's
support.-- Chambers's Journal.

EXECUTION.—On Wednesday morning George
Pulham, aged 22, was executed at Bury gaol, for incendiarism.
The prisoner, since his sentence, had exhibited deep and sin-
cere repentance, and, up to the moment of his exit from the
world, displayed a due sense of his situation, and a moral cou-
rage in meeting his fate, which, in a better cause, would have
done him honour as a man. A large number of persons assem-
bled to witness the execution. At nine in the morning service
was performed in the prison chapel, during which the whole
of the prisoners were present, and a sermon was afterwards
preached. On leaving the chapel the sacrament was admi-
nistered to the prisoner. On_ a question being put to him as
to the state of his mind, he expressed himself, as he had done
several times previously during the morning, as being perfectly
happy. On the drop, after looking round upon the multi-
tude, he said, " Good bye, good bye, and God bless you all;
I hope my fate will be a warning to you, and I hope you gen-
tlemen farmers will give the young men work; it was the
want of work brought me to this." - The prisoner made a full
confession of his crime before conviction, and confirmed it since.

FIRE.—A fire of the most alarming description
broke out on Tuesday'night, about a quarter before ten o'clock,
in the cellar of the extensive warehouses occupied by Mr.
M'Mahon and others, wholesale silk merchants, hosiers, &c.,
No. 6, Wood-street, Cheapside. At the time above stated,
Mrs. Brown, who lives in the upper part of the premises, was
alarmed by a quantity of smoke issuing from the warehouses.
She immediately gave an alarm to a watchman named Johnson,
and he repaired to the engineer of the parish for the engine,
but by some mismanagement or delay the fire had attained
such an alarming height that in the course of half an hour the
front and back warehouses were in flames, and property of the
most expensive description reduced to ashes. Messengers were
sent to the different engine stations, and through their quick
arrival and the well-managed exertions of the firemen, the de-
struction was fortunately confined to the lower part of the pre-
mises. The loss of property is estimated at least at 3.0001.,
which is luckily covered by an insurance in the Sun Fire-office.
How the accident originated is at present unknown. The con-
duct of tho watchman underwent strict examination by the
authorities of the Wc.rd yesterday, as great blame has been at-
tubed to him for not procuring assistance sooner.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ADVICES, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURES A'

THE SCOTCH -WHARFS;- APRIL 15.
HORE'S WHARF.—Advices : the Banff and London Ship-
ping Company's smack Medora, Alexander Watson, master,
sailed from Banff for London on the 10th of April, with a
general cargo. The Peterhead smack Courier, John Ross,
master, sailed from Peterhead for London on the 11th of
April. The Bubona, Alexander Munro, master, sailed from
Banff for London on the 11th of April, with cattle. The
Craig Elachie, Andrew James, master, sailed from Fraser-
burgh on the 9th of April, with a general cargo. No arrivals
or departures.
DowNE's WHARF.—No advices. Arrivals—the Bridport
Shipping Company's schooner Lark, R. Swain, master, from
Bridport ; and the Robert, R. 4. Vass, master, from Cro-
marty, both with general cargoes. Departures—the Dundee,
Perth, and London Shipping Company's steam-ship Dundee,
John Wishart, commander, for Dundee, at nqpn yesterday,
with a large cargo of merchandize, and several passengers.
LEITH AND BERWICK WHARF.—No advices Or arrivals.
Departure—the Berwick Shipping Company's smack Tweed,
John Crow, master, for Berwick, with a general cargo.
The Banchory, Matthew Smith, master, from Aberdeen,.
arrived yesterday, with a cargo of grain ; she was run foul of
in the river by the city of Glasgow steamer, and received con-
siderable damage.