The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-25 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

John Norton was indicted for the manslaughter of his wife
on the 2d of August, in the parish of Islington. I
The prisoner, in his defence, had no recollection of having
struck the deceased.

Mr. Sergeant ARABIN summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—The verdict will do no harm, gen-
tlemen. _ _ _ _

Jacob Myer Levyson, aged 38, and described in the calen-
dar as an oculist, was indicted for feloniously forging and ut-
tering an acquittance and receipt for 891. 13s. Bd., with an in-
tent to defraud William Henry Stephens.
The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury
found the prisoner Guilty of the uttering.
The prisoner was then sentenced to be transported for life.
The trial occupied nearly six hours.
THE SENTENCES.
The trials having terminated, at a quarter to five o'clock, the
RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence upon those prisoners
who have been convicted during the present Session.
DEATEL—DanieI Bryant, burglary ; Thomas Wright, bur-
glary ; John Williams, alias Wetherstall, burglary ; Robert
Higgs, burglary ; Richard Lahie, maliciously wounding ;
Thomas Hobbs, robbery ; and Thomas D. Feetey, for forging
a will.

To BE TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE.—John Marr, Henry Ser-
geant, Sarah Davis, John Smith,-John Mills, Robert George,
John Wilson, William Hoyle, Mary Foster, alias Goodriche,
John Smith, Daniel Smith, alias Donovan, John Slaith,
Thomas Wakeman, William Capen, John Morris, George
Wilson, Joseph San Martin, Edmund King, Augusta Bennett,
alias Jane Jones, and John Orchard.
To BE TRANSTORTED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.—John Smith,
aged 16, John Welch, William Jones, and William Smith.
A great number of prisoners were sentenced to slighter
punishments.

Belfast Election is fixed for to-morrow (the 25th.)
It is generally rumoured that Mr. Dunbar will not go to the
hustings after all, but that the Conservatives will put forward
some man of greater influence. A special emissary has been
in Belfast on behalf of Mr. George Robert Dawson (who is at
present at Castle Dawson) to try and negotiate a start for him.

COMMEMORATION OF THE INVENTION OF
PRINTING.—The secular celebration of the invention of print-
ing was held at Haarlem on the 10th of July last with great
pomp. The houses and streets were covered with decora-
tions, and at half-past 10 o'clock an immense collection of
persons met at the Great Church. The ceremonies began
with several pieces of music, after which Professor Vander
Palm delivered a discourse, in which he demonstrated that
Haarlem was the cradle of printing, and pointed out all the
advantages which bad resulted from this important discovery.
The poet Tollens succeeded him in the tribune, and recited
some very appropriate verses. The assembly then adjourned
to the Town-hall, from whence it marched in procession to the
Hout, to inaugurate the monument which had been erected
to Lawrence Koster. The poet Artzenius then recited a
beautiful poem on the occasion of this inaugural festival. The
principal persons who engaged in the ceremony were invited
to a grand banquet at the residence of his Excellency the
Governor of North Holland. The celebrations were conti-
nued the following day, and the whole terminated with a
grand illumination.

The committee appointed to conduct the erection of
the Watt monument and public library at Greenock have,
with the approbation of the Provost and Magistrates of Gree-
nock, and the most worshipful the Provincial Grand Master
for Renfrewshire, resolved that the foundation stone of the
monument be laid with masonic honours on Tuesday the
25th instant. The mason lodges, corporate bodies, and trades,
desirous of doing honour to the memory of Watt in his native
town, have determined on a public procession, and the neces-
sary arrangements are being made.

After a continuance, of hot dry. weather for many
weeks, a beneficial change was experienced in Winchester
and the surrounding neighhourhood last night and this morn-
ing, when some warm refreshing showers fell. The long ab-
sence of rain has been productive of serious inconvenience to
many farmers in this neighbourhood. The springs and ponds
being completely dried up, many have been obliged to send a
great distance to obtain a sufficient supply for their cattle.
The dry state and scanty growth of the after-grass affords so
little pasture fur cattle, that in some districts they have been
obliged to resort to winter provender, in addition to which,
the crop of turnips will in all probability be exceedingly light,
as the fly has been very destructive.—Hampshire Telegraph.

CLAPIIAM CONINION ON FlRE.—During the last
two or three days, the dry shrubs on Clapham Common have
caught fire, and burnt somewhat alarmingly. The common
is densely covered with brushwood, which, in the summer
months, gets so thoroughly dry and sapless, that the applica-
tion of a single spark has once before occasioned a result simi-
lar to the above. It appears that the ignited brushwood can-
not be extinguished save by its own agency in consuming it-
self, and this the authorities of Clapham have allowed it to do.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM LIGHTNING TO
THE NORTH MAIL.—We regret to state that the Glasgow
and Liverpool Mail-coach was struck by the electric fluid about
ten o'clock, on Friday evening. The coach was much shat-
tered, and, it is believed, that three outside passengers were
killed on the spot.
SILENT SYSTEM OF PRISON DISCIPLINE DE-
FEATED.—The plan which has lately been adopted by the Me-
tropolitan Magistrates, to prevent prisoners under sentence
from holding conversation with each other, is likely to prove
abortive, so far as communication is concerned. Papers have
lately been circulated at a penny each, to instruct persons in the
system of conversation by signs, as at the Asylum for the Deaf
and Dumb, and some of the more expert thieves have tho-
roughly learned it, and become schoolmusters to their brethren
of the craft• As the restriction does not extend to prisoners
committed for trial, an excellent opportunity is afforded of
their becoming proficients in the art, so as to enable them to
converse with each other when undergoing the punishment
which awaits them on conviction, and they might thereby form
the most diabolical plots without chance of detection. The
system has begun to work already, for prisoners who never see
each other except at chapel, embrace that opportunity of mak-
ing their wishes and determinations known.

EXECUTIONS.—On Saturday the two unhappy
men, Richard Sheppard and John Sparshott, who were ca-
pitally convicted at our last assizes, the former of burglaries
of an aggravated nature, and the latter of an abominable of-
fence, were executed at Horsham. At 11 o'clock in the
morning, the unhappy malefactors attended the chapel of the
gaol, in the presence of all the prisoners ; and at the con-
clusion of the service, the Rev. Mr. Torbutt, the chaplain,
administered the sacrament to both the culprits. Shortly
before 12 o'clock they were delivered over to the Sheriff and
his attendants, and appeared resigned to their approaching
fate, bath praying fervently. The executioner having per-
formed the ceremony of pinioning, Sheppard fell upon his
knees, as did Sparshott, and both prayed aloud, neither appear-
ing to notice anything that was passing around. They were
then led to the scaffold. Sheppard first appeared on the
platform, and Sparshott immediately followed, both exhibit-
ing much fortitude and resignation. After hanging the usual
time, their bodies were taken down and delivered to their
friends. Sparshott was only 19 years cf age. Sheppard,
who was 33 years of age, after his trial, and up to the period
of his execution, conducted himself with the utmost decorum.

Ile was a native of Westburton, in the parish of Bury, and
had formerly lived in the service of a dignitary of the church
for 14 years, who was so pleased with the.correctness of his
conduct, that he procured for him the situation of verger in
Salisbury Cathedral. The silly custom of passing the hands
over the necks of two or three females, as a supposed cure
for glandular enlargements, was upon this occasion had re-
course to.

OUTRAGE AT VICKSBURG.-SEVERAL LIVES
LOST. The Louisiana Advertiser of the 11th instant says:—
We have just learned the particulars of this horrible affair re-
ported by one of the steam boats yesterday. It appears that
some persons had kctipt a gambling house in Vicksburg for
. .

some time, and as usual in similar: establishments, had their
pimps and their decoys employed, inveigling inexperienced
young men into the lion's den, where they were invariably
fleeced of all they possessed, and frequently ill treated by their
conductors.—The inhabitants determined to abate the nuisance,
held several meetings, and given notice repeatedly to the
offenders to quit the city by a c:rtain time, or suffer the con-
sequences of an outraged community. The day at length ar-
rived when the committee waited on them, and told them,
that their passage was paid on board a steam-boat, and quit
they must ! They positively refused—the committee retired to
deliberate and again returned, but the house was closed, and
whilst endeavouring to gain admittance, several shots were
fired from the windows, one of which struck Dr. Bodley, the
chairman of the committee, and caused his immediate death.
Another gentleman of respectability was severely wounded,
and the rest of the bullets passed through the hats of the other
members of the committee. The towns-people immediately
assembled, broke open the house, seized five men, the only in-
mates, dragged them to the public square, and HANGED
them INSTANTER ! They posted sentries, and gave notice that
any person wbo approached them for twenty-four hours would
be served likewise. All the money, which was of a large
amount, was piled upon a table before the suspended bodies,
and the committee paid it away to all who could prove they
had lost money at the house. About twelve or fifteen per-
sons in connection with the house, started for this city in haste
to avoid a similar fate. These are the particulars as we have
heard them—we shall make no comments upon so dreadful an
occurrence, hoping the account has been exaggerated.
Since the above was in type, we have heard that Dr. Bodley
was murdered in the gaming house, after having won a con-
siderable sum of money at the table, which was the original
cause of this execution of summary justice, or Lynch law, as it
is called. The persons executed wore, Mr. North, who kept
a tavern, Dutch Bill, his barkeeper, Mr. Samuel smith, Mr.
Cullum, and Mr. M'Cali.—/Vcw York Paper."