The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, FEB. 18.

Jane Taylor was indicted for killing and slaying Isabella
Richardson on the 7,h of the present month.
The particulars of. this case have so fully appeared in
the police reports within the last few days that they will
be fresh in the tecollection of our readers.
The prisoner was f iund
Three men,
named Gadd, 'lran, and Roberts, were
indicted, the two former fur stealing three trusses of mea-
dow hay,
the property of their employer, Mr. Walker, a
farmer at Enfield-highway ; and the latter, who was the
ostler at the White Lion Inn, in the same village, Was
charged with receiving the property knowing it to be stolen.
re-
heated losses in his stock of hay, which induced him to
The prosecutor bad suffered to a great extent by the
keep a look out, and in order to detect the robbers, he
put a piece of paper, marked, into forty-one trusses of
his hay. One of his servants on the night mentioned in
the indictment saw the two prisoners carrying three trusses
of the marked hay, and pitch it into the yard of the
White Lion, and saw the prisoner Roberts remove the
same into the stable, upon which he caused the whole of
the prisoners to he apprehended. Ott searching the hay
the marked paper Was found. Mr. Walker stated, that the
losses he had sustained by the peculations of his labourers
had been immense, and he hail been a visiter at these ses-
sions upon three successive oce talons.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and the JUDOE
told them they would he transported. •

THE OPERA.—One among many
of the
amusing features of the highly-popular novel designated as
ahove, the p;cture give!' of the rivalry of several of our
young Noblemen to obtain the smiles of a prima donna,
whose beauty, talents, and mysterious history, ad create,'
a _neat sen,lation at the Kin,g'i Theatre. In reading this
piquant " tale of the times" the public will no longer
ponder how fortunes are lost and won in the English me-
tropolis.

JEANIE DEANS.—A handsome monument
to the memory of the female who was the model Sir WA L-
TER SCOTT took for the character of Jeanie Deans, is to
be erected in the church-yard of Irongray, Dumfries-
shire, at the expense of the talented Baronet. The mono-
ment,'Whicia is of a sarcophagus shape, with a flat top for
the inscription, is now finished, anti may beseen in the mason-
shade to the west of Sr. Giles's church. 'rile monument
is of Cullulo stone, and has been executed by Mr. RAst-
SAY, the gentleman whose taste and knowledge in the
execution of Gothic architecture, is so conspicuously dis-
played in the repairs of St. Giles 's church. The follow-
ing ii the ittheiiption, from the pen of Sir WALTER
SCOTT :—" This stone was erected by the Author of
Waverley to the memory of ll.Ef.r:s WArkea, who died
in ihe year of GOD 1'79 I. This humble individual prac-
t;sed in real life the virtue+ mit) which fiction has investe'
the imaginary character of Jean Deans. R-fusing the
slightest departure from veracity, even to save the life of a
sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude,
in rescuing her from the severity of the laws at the expenee
of personal exertions, which the time rendered as difficult
as the motive was lawasble. Respect the grave of poverty,
when combined with leve of truth anti dear effegtion.”