The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-01 00:00:00

complained of. It is said that this is done in gonseclue nee
of a question introduced into the cross bill ill equity tiled
by the Directors of the London and Westminster Data
against the Bank of England, which atU how the Litter
can possibly sustain any injury by the acceptance and taking
up of hills by the former Company, when they (the Bank
of England) never do any business of that kind ? The
Bank Directors, it is imputed, are preparing then el to
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put in an answer to that question, by this ""jw practice of
,
accepting bills from the country .4anawtaii It is so diffi-
cult to believe, however, that a step of this kind can have
been taken by a great Corporation with no other view than
that of keeping up a hostile contest with a rival with a
small capital, and a very remote chance indeed of ever be-
coming formidable, imposing at the same time very unne-
cessary trouble on the public, that this view of the eine
ought not to be adopted except upon the strongest and
clearest evidence. Some explanation seems, however, to be
necessary.—Mornixg Paper.

The farce of revising the Whitehaven Borough
Lists was enacted, in the presence of a dozen or two parish
officers. atomics, agents, and dependants.— Whifekm•
,en
Herald.

A few days since, we had occasi(7.l to complain of
the high price of bread in this 'taxed island. Bacon is
also much dearer here than iu many parts of the country.---.
Jersey Argus,

There is scarcely a vegetable which we now employ
that can be found to grow naturally. Buffon states that
our wheat is a fictitious production, raised to its present
condition by the art of agriculture. Rye, rice, barley, or
even oats are not to be found wild, that is to say, growing
naturally in any part of the earth, but have been altered
by the industry of mankind, from plants not now resm-
bling them, even in such a degree as to enable us to recog-
nise their relation.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED RAPE.—On Wed-
nesday, Richard Blanchard was brought up under a war-
rant, charged with having committed a violent and brutal
assault on the person of Ann Rtvill. A similar ' assault
was committed last winter, in the same neighbourhood,
upon a female who has since died.—Hull Okerver.
CURIOUS CUSTOM.—" THE LAWLESS COURT."
—On King's Hill, in Rochford, the couutty of Essex, on
every Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, at
cocks' crowing, there ;:rs by ancient custom a Court held
by the Lord of t.te Manor of Raleigh, which is vulgarly
called the " Lawless Court." The Steward and suitors
whisper to each other and have no candles, nor any pen
and ink, but supply that office with a coal ; and he that
owes suitor service thereto and appears not, forfeits to the
Lord double his rent every hour he is absent. The Court
is called " Lawless," because held at an unlawful or lawless
hour, or quia dicta sine lege. This Lawless Court is im-
perfectly mentioned by Camden, in his description of Essex,
who says this servile attendance was imposed on the tenants
of that manor for conspiring, at the like unseasonable time,
to raise a commotion.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.---A gentlemn ar-
rived in town ye.sterday afternoon from BruP:sels states
while travelling to that city in the Aix-la-Chapelle dili-
gence last week with twenty-six inside and outside passen-
gers, among whom 'were several I.j;nglish, they were over-
taken by a tremendous stem of thunder and lightning,
which caused the horses to take fright and overturn the
carriage in a ploughed field below the road. In this di-
lemma they remained five hours for want of assistance
during the raging tempest. The lightning deprived five
of the passengers for some time of their sight, but fortu-
nately after a short time it was restored. The diligence
was struck and partially injured by the electric fluid,
while the passengers lay in the field, and when the storm
abated, they found that the lightning had struck the
ground near them also, and tore it up a considerable
way as if a plough-share had passed over it. The gentle-
man describes the escape of the party as truly miraculous,
and the storm as the most terrific that can possibly be
imagined.

INCENDIARISM.—Monday night, about eleven
o'clock, a fire was discovered in a wheat rick, at Salmon
Bridge Farm, in the parish of Tillington, about three miles
from Petworth, in the occupation of Mr. Farrell ; and
about a quarter of an hour afterwards a large barn, the pro-
perty of Hasler Hollist, Esq„ of Lodsworth, about a mile
from the former, also burst into flames. The latter (con-
taining the produce of about four acres of oats) was, from
a deficiency of water, totally destroyed, as well as some
adjoining outhouses. The former, by the prompt arrival
of the engines of the Earl of Egrernont, and that of the
parish of Petworth, was confined to the single rick in
which it began, although situated between a large barn,
full of new wheat, and a thatched carthouse, and not
above four feet distant from either of them. The pro-
perty in both cases is insured. It is supposed that both
fires was the work of the same person, but no clue has at
present been obtained to his discovery.
At about eight o'clock on Monday evening the in-
habitants of Kensington-gore were much alarmed by the
loud cries of " Murder," uttered in a female voice, proceed-
ing from Hyde-park. A number of persons, among whom
were several soldiers of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars (wto
had just returned from the review at Windsor), tm.ne..,
diately proceeded in the direction of the cries. Afcer going
some distance along the wall of Kensington _gardens, they
were met by a respectable female (who"..c name we forbear
to mention) in a state of great agitaton, who informed them
she had been grossly insulted 1a,.; a man who she said had, on
hearing their approach. 0_,„:1 towards the bridge over the
Serpentine. Two bi the soldiers immediately offered to
escort the I.P.'!.ty to her residence at Kensington, while Ser-
jeant-major Simmonds proceeded in pursuit of the fellow,
whoul 'ne overtook near the bridge. There being no police-
, man near, the Serjeant-major inflicted a severe personal
chastisement with his riding whip on the fellow, who cried
lustily for mercy, and who, on being released, fled at his
utmost speed. It is surprising respectable females venture
to pass alone through the Park after nightfall, as .they may
rest assured they will be insulted by fellows lurking about
the Park for that purpose.
THE CENSORS HUMBUGGED.—The censors em-
ployed under the new law in Paris received, a few days
since, a somewhat bulky manuscript, signed with the names
of two authors already successfully known. It was retained
for examination fin- two days, and then returned to the
author, with upwards of 1,500 erasures. They were re-
quired to modify 300 lines, replace 500 words, shorten 12
scenes, and change 20 names, which were considered ob-
noxious to the public tranquillity, political order, and dra-
matic propriety. On receiving the manuscript the pre-
sumed authors immediately transmitted the following reply
to the censors :—" Gentlemen, we have the honour to ac-
knowledge the receipt of our censured manuscript, with the
accompanying letter. 'We agree with you in thinking. that
the passages marked for erasure may be of that perturbs.-
five character which you have supposed ; but as we do not
dare to cut or modify the verses of Pierre Corneille we
prefer foregoing the representation of Nicomcde at, flie Co-
medic Francaise."—Entr' Acte.

DARING OUTRAGE BY A FEMALE.—Yesterday
afternoon a desperate-looking female wall a child in her
arms, entered an eating-house, No. 38, High-street, St.
Giles's, and asked for some soup, when the child commenced
crying, and she uttered the most horrid language, to the an-
noyance of the customers. She was requested to desist,
but she became more violent and annoying, when Henry
Snowdon, the waiter, proceeded to put her out of the place,
which she resisted with desperation, and her screams alarmed
the whole neighbourhood. She eventually extricated her-
self from him, and seizing on a table knife, she made a rush
at him, and stabbed at him several times, but he warded off
the blows. She at length made another stab at him, and
the point of the knife stuck in his forehead fast above the
right eye, and she no doubt would have taken his life had
not several persons seized hold of her, and taken the wea-
pon from her. Snowdon proceeded to a surgeon, bleeding
profusely, and had the wound dressed. The prisoner was
conducted to Hatton-Garden Police-office, where she gave
her name Mary Roach, and said that her husband had gone
to fight for the Queen of Spain, and she sold things in the
street to support herself and family, She did not deny
having stabbed Snowden, saying that he tore her clothes,
and was about to turn her out before she had finished her
dinner. ShS was ordered to find bail, and in default she
was committed to prison.
CATASTROPHE.—Two DEATIIs.—The follow-
ing dreadful occurrence took place at Down Ampney, on
fuestlay last. Mr. Pinniger, of that place, had purchased
some oxalic acid at Cirencester on the 'Monday, for the
purpose of cleaning boot tops, which he placed in a cup-
board near some Epsom salts. On Tuesday morning, his
brother complaining of slight illness, Mrs. Pinneger, h;•
mother, intended to give him the salts, but by mistak.'e sub 6
stituted half an ounce of oxalic acid. As soon.
drank it he exclaimed, " 1 have taken po;- as he had
...,on !', His bro-
ther, on being informed of the eir--
mounted a very powerful h 0,.. ..;umstance, immediately
se, and galloped to Cricklade
for medical assistane,.
met an old .... On his road, when near Latton, he
de.- -an who was travelling with a donkey, and en-
-
_.oured to pull up to avoid him ; but the old man being
rather confused, moved first to one side of the road, and
then to the other, and the animal being fresh Mr. P. could
not pull in time to clear him ; when, as if to render the
former event more appalling, the horse went over the old
man and killed him on the spot ! Mr. Pinniger also was
much hurt, but be recovered sufficiently to pi oceed for me-
dical assistance, which arrived too late, as his unfortunate
brother died within a quarter of an hour after taking the
poison. Through the effect of the shock, and the injuries
he received, Mr. P. is at present extremely ill. As Down
Ampney is in this county, and Latton in Wiltshire, though
adjoining parishes, it will be necessary to have two coroners.
—Chellenh ant. Chronicle.