The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-24 00:00:00

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WEST ii.tprzG MEETING
.T,ecds .fercury, that . ss:,:visition, at the heed of which stands
the honoured name of Sir Francis Lindley Woor!, Bart., the
father of Reruns.: in Yorkshire ; and the leading Reformers of
Leeds, Bradford, iluddersifold, lislifax, Wakefield, Shef-
field, have either alrcaiy signed it, or are prepared to do
so. The meeting is to be held 0:1 Monday, the 31st August,
at Wakefield.

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SEIZURE FOR CHURCH RATE t.-Several ;mem-
bers of the SJciety of Fri nods were summoned before the ma-
gistrates, on Thursday last, in default of payment of Church
rates for the parish of Edgbaiton, heretofore such
persons have suffered their property to be taken from them and
sold by private contract, to discharge ecclesistical demands,
they no.v feel that the time is arrive:'. when it is no longer ex-
pedient to conceal from public view tb..?full operation of the
means by which the Ecc!csi.,isticl Church is suported—they
now require that the goods, when seized or, behalf of the
Church Establishment, be sold by public auction. As mem-
bers of the Establishment, we regret that it should not be
spared that further degradation in the opinion of its friends,
ad that insult and triumph f(om enemies, which the imposi-
-02 of a rate upon Dissenters for its Luppoi:t, at this time brings
on it. ir mingham .I.9urnal.
OUTRAGE.-011 Wednes:!av, the 12th ir,s;t., Mr.
Thompson, the advocate of Temperance Societies, went into
an inn at Seaton to procure lo•igings for some friends, and en
being observed by some who were drinkieg
there, they forced him into a nor,. and attempted to force
brandy into his mouth, tore his coat ;::f his back, and emptied a
spittoon upon him. In the affray :IL.. Thompson's head was
b.ruised, which afterwards caused deli; lam, his wrist dislocated,
and he was so severely handled as n t to be able to leave his
room for several days, and he still con: aues in a very weakly
state.— Shiehls Observer.

On the evening of Thursday last, a quantity of land
at West Grimstead, principally covered with heath and furze,
was discovered to be on fire, several acres of which were burnt;
and had it not been for the 'timely assistance of the people in
the neighbourhood, the extensive timber-yard of the Earl of
Radnor would, in all probability, have fallen a prey to the de-
vouring element. —Wilts Herald.
The furze on Dartford &era was on fire in two or
three different places yesterday afternoon, and had occasioned
considerable alarm. It was not known whether the fire had
been occasioned b' accident or design. There was a runimr
that several persons had been severely injured in endeavouring
to extinguish the flarnes.—li-entish Observer.
POVERTY OF PRCVINCIAL THEATRICALS, OR
THE INGENIOt'S MANAGEII.—A sheriff's officer, who had been
delegated by a London attorney to arrest a provincial manager,
writes, in the following terms, an excuse for the um-execution
of the writ entrusted to him :—" I have not been able to arrest
him, nnr do I think that I shall. There are other wan.ants
out against him, and executions from the Court of Requests,
besides a magistrate's warrant, all of which ho eludes. He
has made himself very secure in the theatre, where he lives
altogether, and never comes out except on Sundays. The
theatre has been several times searched, but there are so many
trap-doors in most pans of it, which are always kept in readi-
ness for him, and there are secret places with sliding doors,
which render his being taken impossible ; added to which, he
cannot be surprised. The last time I grabbed him was about
two months ago : I then had three warrants agjnst him, and
I was very nearly four months almost constantly watching for
him before I could take him."

" DURHAM TO WIT."—As a well-known musi-
cian of the name of R—i, belonging to Durham, was
plodding his weary way home on a dark night, the following
mishap befel him :—Having drank too freely of the juice of
the grape, be missed his way and strayed into a field where a
bull was grazing : the animal, at hearing a rustling noise,
roared out--the fiddler directly answered " too high I" The
roar was again repeated, when he replied " too low !" but
the words were scarcely uttered, when he was suddenly seized
by the beast, and tossed on the other side of the hedge. The
" man of the bow" then good nataredly said, " D—n your
eyes, you may be a musician, but you are no gentleman." The
above was heard by a person who chanced to be on the spot at
the time.—Sunderland Herald.

CONSEQUENCES OF INTOXICATION.--An inquest
was holden on Saturday, before Mr. Baker, at the Lon-
don Hospital, on the remains of Mr. John Donovan, late a
captain in the West India trade, who died in that institution
on Thursday, in consequence of fractured ribs. It appeared
from the evidence that the deceased, who had latterly, in con-
sequence of some disarrangement of his affairs, indulged freely
in the use of drink, returned to his residence in Alfred-street,
Stepney, in a state of intoxication, and being of an extremely
irritable and ungovernaele temper when in this state, he,
without any apparent cause, struck and knocked down one of
his sons. During the violence of his passion, and in making
a second blow at his son, who was endeavouring to escape
from his vengeance, he fell against a card table, and fractured
three of his ribs. He was taken to the hospital on the follow-
ing day, and lingered in the greatest agony until Thursday
evening, when ath put an end to his earthly sufferings.
-After the medical student who had attended on the deceased
had sworn that the fractured ribs Ive,e tho cause of death, the
Jury retuned a verdict of " Accidental death."