The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Referring to the reports in The Sun, under the head
of Bow-street, of Thursday and Friday last, of the case of an
old woman, named Ann King, I beg leave to say that two of
the parish officers of St. James's, Clerkenwell (to me utter
strangers), called upon me on Friday last, and stated that the
same old woman, for her story and description agree in every
particular, had repeatedly imposed upon their parish, by claim-
ing to belong to the same ; I, in consequence, requested they
would accompany me to Bow-street office, which they accord-
ingly did, but as neither of the Magistrates (Mr. Halls or Mr.
Minshull) was then upon the bench, I regret that there was no
opportunity of their statement being heard. I have since re-
ceived a letter, which is copied hereunder, and now trust, that
to assist in guarding against fraud, and in protecting parish
officers from unmerited charges of inhumanity, as well as guided
by a sense of impartial justice, you will consider this entitled to
place in your journal.
I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant,
P. KLEFT,
Overseer of the Precinct of the Savoy.

Vestry Clerk's Office, Coppice-row,
Clerkenwell, Oct. 17, 1835.
Sift,—ln reference to a report in the Times of Thursday
last, relative to the case of Ann King, I am desired by the
Overseers of this parish to inform you she has been in the habit
of receiving relief and clothing from here for some years past ;
the last she had was ss. on the 2d of this month.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
JA. HILL,
Clerk to Mr. Selby, Vestry Clerk of Clerkenwell.
Mr. Kieft, Strand.
[We readily insert this letter in justice to Mr. Kleft, whom
we know to be a very respectable and humane man, and who
would have paid every attention to the claims of the woman,
Ann King, had he found them deserting of notice.—En. SUN.]

SNOW.—Snow fell at Wolverhampton on Saturday
week, and so cold was it in this neighbourhood, that we
looked to have seen the high moors west of Sheffield
whitened on Sunday morning.—Shdfield Mercury.
A new Roman Catholick chapel is about to be
erected in Broad-street, Hereford.
ANATOMICAL DISSECTION.—A Committee of the
Academy of Medicine, in Paris, has lately made a report on
a new method for preserving dead bodies for the dissecting-
room. It consists in injecting the arteries with 12 or 15
quarts of a dissolution of acetate of alumine, concentrated
to 20 degrees. The result has proved most satisfactory.
Other experiments were made with sulphate of alumine,
and with its chlorate, which were found less efficacious than

the acetate.
BLACKBURN.—The Churchwardens of Blackburn
have withdrawn a motion for a church-rate in that town, in
deference to the opinion of the inhabitants ; and the expen-
ses of The church are to be defrayed by voluntary contribu-
tions, as in several other towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

—Liverpool Standard. -
ENORMOUS BEET-ROOT.-.---A grower of native
sugar in the environs of St. Omer forwarded last week to
the Agricultural Society of the Pas de Calais an enormous
beet-root taken from one of the fields cultivated by him,
weighing ten kilogrammes, 5-16ths, or 201bs. 10 oz. French.
FORGED STAMPS.— A person named Pidding,
who keeps a shop in Oxford-road, Manchester, Mary Ann
Crichton, his step-daughter, and a man named Hatfield, in
Market-street, have been taken into custody for selling forged
stamps, and remanded for further examination until this
day. Timms, solicitor to the Stamp-office, has come
down to Manchester, to conduct the prosecution. By the
general Stamp Act the punishment for this offence is
death, but a later statute has mitigated the punishment to
transportation.—Liverpool Chronicle.
A gentleman who canvassed for a surgeoncy at the
Bristol Infirmary waited upon a grocer who happened to
be a subscriber, and making his bow, as is usual on these oc-
casions, said, " Sir, I have taken the liberty of troubling
you to request that you would—" at which moment, per-
ceiving, by the stern brow of the grocer that he was about
to receive a plump refusal, with great promptitude the ap-
plicant changed his tone, and instead of soliciting his vote,
ended his sentence with—" weigh me a pennyworth of

plums! " and laid the money on the counter.
Shot near the village of Sandgate (in its flight) on
the 28th Sept., a carrier pigeon, marked on the broadest
feather of its wing" 51 Ganvde East Coupure, Gand," and
a small note confined by a fine wire between two feathers of
the tail ; one side of the note containing, in French, as fol-
lows—viz.—" Le 23 7bre lacke 2 pigeons it ne m'en reste
plus a Ohs. nun arreest, H. FAVAST."
On the opposite side of the note as follows :—" 125 Sept.
22, H 735, M 559, L 164, 340, N 307, K 142, L 378
443, P 753-304," The feathers and note are in the pos-
session of Mr. John Gill, of Sandgate.
DECREASE OF LAWYERS.—In the time of Louis
XIII. there were 140 notaries in Paris. At the present
day, though the population has since quadrupled, that land
which was then worth only 41. an acre, is now worth 40/.
a fathom, and that the value of all other property is vastly
enhanced, the number of notaries is only 114.
The great number of thieves of all descriptions with
which the parish of Lambeth abounds, are in high glee at
the prospect of the roads and streets of that extensive pa-
rish remaining in darkness during the present winter.
The place on the Uxbridge road near which a high-
way robbery is said to have taken place a few evenings ago,
is adjoining to the point on which the horse patrol and the
new police meet.
The Swabian Mercury of the 14th inst. has the
following from Vienna of the Bth :—" We learn that the
Duke of Saxe Coburg has accepted for his son the proposal
of marriage with the Queen of Portugal, and a courier has
been dispatched to Lisbon with the marriage contract, as
approved by him. The young Prince will go to Lisbon in
April by Brussels and London ; during the winter he will
study the Portuguese language. He already speaks the
Latin, French, English, Italian, and Hungarian languages
with facility and elegance. The Court will return imme-
diately to Schomibrunn."
NAPOLEON'S WIDOW.—The Duchess of Parma
is said to be in a delicate state of health, and to have mani-
fested the desire of being relieved from the burden of public
affairs. In this case the Government of the Duchy of
Parma would devolve on the Duke of Lucca.
SMUGGLING.—On Wednesday afternoon, soon
after the arrival of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's vessel the Attwood, from Ostend, she was searched
by Mr. Ansell, an inspector of Customs, and his boat's
crew, who found concealed under the coals, and in other
parts of the steamer, 325 lbs. of foreign manufactured to-
bacco, and 14 lbs. of cigars, which they removed to the
King's warehouse. The steamer was also laid under deten-
tion, but has since been restored on payment by the Com-
pany of 100/.
COCK-ROACHES.—The Circle of Wolfstein, Ba-
varia, has been so much distressed lately by an insect of
the cock-roach kind, that people have been frequently
obliged to abandon their houses in consequence, taking care
to leave the doors and windows open, as nothing but the
admission of cold air induced the insects to conceal them-
selves. They principally came out at night, especially
during the moonlight. They strongly resemble the blatta
laponica, and between them and the common blatta there
is so great an antipathy, that when one comes out the other
disappears.
A bandit of the arondissement of Corte (in Corsica'

named Prosperi, who has for some time been the terror of
the canton of Pietra, was killed on the 24th September by
Brigadier Acquetella and the gendarme Leandre, of the
brigade of Lingulzetta. Another brigand, named Pietre,
effected his escape. When summoned to surrender, they
replied bf two shots, which the gendarmeras promptly re-
turned, and Prosperi fell, hit by two balls.
The largest of the two bells belonging to the church
of Lanark was rent some time since, while tolling at the
funeral of the late Mr. Lamb, and consequently its sound
in a great degree destroyed. As it was of great antiquity,
being 725 years since it was first cast, and as it had been a
fine-toned bell, the accident occasioned a good deal of regret.
A gentleman in London, who had received part of his edu-
cation in Lanark, having heard of the circumstance, imme-
diately wrote that if the Magistrates and heritors would
send him the old cracked bell, he would replace it with a
handsome new one. The old bell was in consequence taken
down and sent off to London about a week ago. After it
was taken down, a large bowl of punch was set in the
middle of the bell turned up, and a great number of people
regaled from it, who had assembled to see their old friend
before its final departure.—Glasgow Chronicle.
It may be recorded as a sign of the times, that the
dignitaries of the city of London are offering premiums for
a series of essays on its history and privileges. By way of
beginning, the Lord Mayor elect has offered a premium of
ten guineas for the best essay on the Life and Institutions
of Offa, King of Mercia. The Corporation of Liverpool
has this year awarded its first prize of 501. for the best
painting produced at the annual exhibition, to Mr. Hart,
for his picture of Richard Coeur de Lion and Saladin ; and
its second and third to Messrs. Sidney Cooper and Cres-
wick, for a Group of Cattle, and a Landscape in Wales.—
Observer.
Our summer birds and autumnal visiters are hying
southwards, and leaving us to the dullness of a northern
winter. The woods have put on their sallow livery—the
winds are boisterous—and the mornings are bleak, wet, and
stormy. The burns and waterfalls alone are in their glory,
but there few temptations to stir out to see them ; for
hitherto the season has " scattered its departing gleams"
with a sparing hand. Yet the Fall of Foyers and its wil-
derness of birch-trees must be well :worth a morning's ride
to witness. The ash and elm soon lose their leaves, but
our mountain birches preserve them far in the season, and
present an endless diversity of tints, red, brown, and yellow,
mingling with the original green.—lnverness Courier.

MIDDLESEX GENERAL SESSIONS
(THIS DAY.)

These Sessions were opened this morning at Guildhall,
Westminster, before B. ROTCH, Esq., and a Bench of Ml'
gistrates.
The Grand Jury were swoLn and received a charge of the
usual description from the Learned Chairman.
The High Bailiff ( Esq.,) was fined 51. for
non-attendance—he having been duly summoned.
The Court then adjourned till to-morrow, v7hen it sits at
Clerkenwell.