The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-18 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

THREATENED ATTEMPT ON THE
LIFE OF SIR W. O WEN.

Tris morning a young man dressed in livery, lately
in the service of the Lincolns' Inn Club, was brought
before THOMAS HA Ll,' Esq, charged with having threat-
ened the life of Sir W. Owen, and with having attempted
to comm►t suicide last night at the Grange Coffee-house,
in Carey-street, Lineolns-inn-fields,

A policeman stated, that about eleven o'clock last night
he was called into the Grange Coffee-house, where he
found the defendant in a state of great mental ex-
citement. The landlord of the house informed him
that he had come into the house and requested a bed
for the night. He was told be could be accommodated,
and he sat down and partook of some beef-steaks that some
of the servants had ly:en served with for supper ; whilst
sitting at the table, he took up a knife, and made a most
desperate attempt to cut his throat, which he would have
effected had not the persons present rushed upon him,
and rescued the knife from his grasp. The witness con-
veyed him to the station-house, where every care was taken
of him for the night.
Mr. HALLS inquired if there were any persons present
who knew any thing of the unfortunate man ?
Mr. Evans, Superintendant of the Lincoln's-inn Chit),
here stepped 'forward, and stated, that up to Monday
last the defendant was in the service of the club, but,
owing to a serious dispute thit had occurred between him
and Sir William Owen, one of the members of the club,
an elderly and very nervous gentleman, he was obliged
to discharge him. On Sunday night, he abruptly en-
tered Sir William's room, threw up the window, and was
about to hurl him head foremost out, but fortunately the
rest of the servants came to his assistance, who protected
him from his violence. He had repeatedly threatened to
blew his brains out, and be (witness) had frequently en-
deavoured to restrain his violence by remonstrating with
bins upon the serious results that might accrue from his
dangerous line of conduct ; and notwithstanding, ho-
ever, on every occasion he has called upon the Deity in
the most solemn manner to witness that he would have
the blood of Sir William Owen the very first time an op-
portunity presented itself.
Mr. HALLS—Is he subject to drink?—Mr. Evans said
a more steady man never existed ; he had been with him
nearly nine months, and only once during that period sv,.s
he tipsy. Mr. Evans continued that he attributed la•
violence to an aberration of intellect, and be felt himself

called upon, for the safety of Sir William Owen, to have
some restraint put upon him.
_ _

Mr. HALLS a'ked the unfortunate man what he bad to
say to the accusation.
The poor fellow gazed steadfastly At the Magistrate and
said, in a low tone, " I don't want to hurt Sir Williau
Owen; if I was to meet him, I :Could touch my hat to
him."

Mr. Evans said that a better servant could not be
found, and he received an excellent character with him
from Sir A. Mackenzie, his former maven.
Mr. HALLS said he was bound, under the circum
stance., to call upon the defendant to find sureties for hi,
good behaviour.

The unfortunate man said he had no friend, upon earth
to bail him.

Mr. Evans said he had a brother-in-law, (Mr. Darling)
a poulterer in Newgate-market, to whom he would imme
diately send to inform him of his situation.
The Magistrate desired him so to do, and in the in-
terim the defendant was locked op.

A man named Bughe,, a bargemastet, of
Edmonton, corrinlitted suicide by hanging himself to the rail
of one of the foot-bridges on the New River on Friday. A
few hours before he had thrown /litnself into the Edmonton
lock, but assistance being at hand, he was rescued and suffered
to go home by himself, on promising not to repeal the attempt
at self-destruction, It was said that he had ordered a new
barge, and, not having the money ready to complete the pur-
chase, had to forfeit forty pounds deposit. This worked upon
his mind, and no doubt was the cause t;f his committing the
act. For days past, he had displayed great aberrati•on of mind,
in consequence of which the Jury, who held an Inquest on
the body, returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.--An
Inquest was held at the London Hospital, on Saturday, on the
body of Richard Murphy, coal whipper, who was at work on
board the Strathfieldsaye, a collier lying in the City Canal Basin,
the preceding day, when the hook used to fasten the chain
round the basket slipped, and in its ascent caught the unfortu-
nate man in the eye, which it penetrated, and drew him up a
great height before the accident was discovered. As soon as
the three men who worked the gear perceived his situation,
their alarm caused them to let the rope go suddenly, and he
was precipitated to the deck with a dreadful shock; before,
however, any assistance could be given him, he had extracted
the hook himself. He was taken to the hospital, where he died
in a few hours,—Verdict, Accidental Death. _ _

An antique octagon-head gold ring, with ar-
morial bearings, was lately found by a pauper in the ashes in
the brick-field adjoining the workhouse, in Exeter. It has
been shown to several of the cognoscenti in heraldry, who
cannot decipher to what family the arms appertain. The ring
is heavy, and worth 11. 7s. as gold. The crest is an armed arm,
holding a tilting spear; the arms are three pheons, «ith a
chevron ermined, field azure— Westernflying Post.

AIR. (LORD) GREY AND REFORM FORTY
YEARS SINCE.—In one part of Mr. Grey's speech at Morpeth,
he observed, that attempts had beets made to suppress his pro-
mised motion next Session, for a Reform, and that a party of
gentlemen in Newcastle had petitioned the King to suppress
it—But says he, " the King dares not attempt it ; neither
King, Lords, nor Commons, nor any man, nor any body of men,
nor any power upon earth, shall prevent me making that mo-
tion ; I feel it a duty I owe to my country, and my constituents,
and, I will do it, though the axe and the block be before my
eyes."—Gales' Sheffield Register, June 20, 1792.

COACH-RACING EXTR AORDINA RY.—The
omnibuses upon the Paddington-road offer sometimes contrasts,
parables, and episodes of a curious and entertaining nature :
for instance, a few days ago the omnibus Reform was seen com-
ing along at a steady pace, having abreast the Adelaide, which
was attempting to cross it : however, the driver of the Reform,
encouraged at seeing the Citizen come up, laid into his horses
and succeeded in getting the lead. The Adelaide found out her
mistake, followed the Reform, and they all three arrived safe at
the winning post ; Reform first, next the Citizen, then the
Adelaide, amidst the shouts of the multitude.—The Parrot.

MARCH OF Music.—A Highland piper
having a scholar to teach, thus initiated him into a knowledge
of semi.breves, minims, crotchets, and quavers—" You see that
fellow with the white round open face (pointing to a semi-breve,
between two lines of a bar), he moves slowly from that line to
this, while you beat one with your foot, and take a long blast.
If you now put a leg to him, you make two of him, and he'll
move twice as fast. If you blacken his face thus, he'll run
four times faster than the first fellow with the white face.
And, what think ye ? after blackening his face thus, if you
bend his knee, or tic his legs, he will hop you still eight times
faster than the white-faced fellow I showed you first. Now,
whenever you blow your pipes, Donald, remember this, the
tighter those fellows' legs are tied, the faster they will run, and
the quicker they are sure to dance."—Literary Guardian.

Sir,"said one of two antagonists, with great
dignity to the other, during a dispute which had not been con-
fined to words, "you have called me a scoundrel and a liar ; you
have spit in my face; you have struck me twice: I hope you
will not carry this any further, for if you do, you will rouse the
sleeping lion in my breast, and I cannot tell what may be the
consequences."

THE FACTORY SYSTEM ILLUSTRATED.—
At the Bolton Petty Sessions, on Thursday, James Barnes,
power-loom cloth manufacturer, of Farnworth, was summoned
by William Greenhaigh for wages, arising out of a dispute
about the notice to be given to a person about to be discharged.
In the course of the investigation it appeared that there was an
arbitrary rule, which was strictly enforced, that any person
found speaking to another during working hours was subjected
to a fine of 3d. !! A little girl, daughter of the complainant,
had 9.d. deducted from her wages, on the day her father was
discharged, for being too long in pulling her cut out of the
loom.—Liverpool Chronicle.
MR. GALT'S " STANLEY BUXTON."—A
weekly journal, speaking of this already popular production,
says, " Mr. Galt has certainly marked out for himself a line in
the composition of works of fiction, which is not only unlike
any thing else of its class, but is not easy, if not impossible, to
imitate. This is the rare privilege of genius, With the ap-
pearance of the greatest ease, almost of indifference, he pro-
duces the most powerful effects ; an extraordinary faculty, be-
longing, we had almost said, to Galt alone." Another critical
review (the Atheimeuin) says, "We read Stanley Buxton '
with the most intense and absorbing interest."
THE CARDINAL.—Ihere is a large breed of
spiders which are found very generally in the Palace of Hampton
Court. They are called there cardinals, having I suppose been
first seen in Cardinal Wolsey's hall. They are a full inch in
length, and many of them of the thickness of a finger. Their
legs are about two inches long, and their body covered with a
thick hair. They feed chiefly on moths, as appears from the
wings of that insect being found in great abundance under and
amongst their webs. In running across the carpet in an even-
ing, with the shade cast from their large bodies by the light of
the lamp or candle, they have been mistaken for mice, and have
occasioned no little alarm to some of the more nervous in-
habitants of the place. A doubt has even been raised whether
the name of cardinal has not been given to this creature from
an ancient supposition that the ghost of Wolsey haunts the
place of his former glory under this shape. Be this as it may,
the spider is considered as a curiosity and Hampton Court is the
only place in which I met with it.—Jesse's Gleanings in
Natural History.

TIIE MORNING AlR.—There is something
in the morning air that, while it defies the penetration of our
proud and shallow philosophy, adds brightness to the. blood,
freshness to life, and vigour to the whole frame :—the fresh-
ness of the lip, by the way, is, according to Dr. Marshall Hall,
one of the surest marks of health. If ye would be well, there-
fore—if ye would have your heart dancing gladly, like the
April breeze, and your blood flowing like an April brook—up
with the lark—" the merry lark," as Shakspeare calls it,
which is "the ploughman's clock," to warn him of the
dawn ;—up and breakfast on the morning air, fresh with the
odour of budding flowers and all the fragrance of the maiden
spring; up from your nerve-destroying down bed, and from the
foul air pent within your close-drawn curtains, and with the
sun, " walk o'er the dew of the far eastern hills." But we
must defend the morning air from the aspersions of those who
sit in their closcairless studies, and talk of the chilling dew and
the unwholesome damps of the dawn. We have all the facts in
our favour that the fresh air of the morning is uniformly whole-
some; and, having the facts, we pitch such shallow philosophy
to fools who have nothing else for a foot-ball.—Timcs' Tele-
scope for 1832..

CHARACTER OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S
GENIUS.—The peculiar character of Sir Isaac Newton's genius,
and the method which he pursued in his inquiries, can be
gathered only from the study of his works, and from the history
of his individual labours. Were we to judge of the qualities
of his mind from the early age at which he made his principal
discoveries, and from the rapidity of their succession, we should
be led to ascribe to him that quickness of penetration, and
that exuberance of invention, which is more characteristic of
poetical than of philosophical genius. But we must recollect
that Newton was placed in the most favourable circumstances
for the development of his powers. The flower of his youth,
and the vigour of his manhood, were entirely devoted to
science. No injudicious guardian controlled his ruling passion,
and no ungenial studies or professional toils interrupted the
continuity of his pursuits. His discoveries were therefore the
fruit of persevering and unbroken study; and he himself de-
clared, that whatever service he had done to the public was not
owing to any extraordinary sagacity, but solely to industry and
patient thought. Initiated early into the abstractions of
geometry, he was deeply imbued with her cautious spirit; and
if his acquisitions were not made with the rapidity of in-
tuition, they were at least firmly secured ; and the grasp
which he took of his subject was proportional to the mental
labour which it had exhausted. Overlooking what was trivial,
and separating what was extraneous, he bore down with in-
stinctive sagacity on the prominences of his subject, and
having thus grappled with its difficulties, he never failed to en-
trench himself in its strong-holds. To the highest powers of
invention Newton added, what so seldom accompanies them,
the talent of simplifying and communicating his profoundest
speculations. In the economy of her distributions, Nature is
seldom thus lavish of her intellectual gifts. The inspired
genius which creates is rarely conferred along with the matured
judgment which combines ; and yet without the exertion of
both, the fabric of human wisdom could never have been
reared. Though a ray from heaven kindled the vestal fire,
yet a humble priesthood was required to keep alive the flame.
Fancily Library, No. XXIV. Dr. Brewster's Life of Newton.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S

DEAL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived and remain
his Majesty's brig Investigator and Woodlark tender, from
the westward. Sailed the Pi incess Royal, Laing, and
Governor, Halkett, for w Stuth
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind light and variable.—
Arrived the Amphitrite transport, from Plymouth.
PLYMOUTH, Aram S.S W.,
rived hi‘ Illajesty's ship Forte, trout Newf,undlanti, with
a mail, sailed the 23d ult. ; and lahelia, Hatchard. from
o,torto. Off port the Wellim, Schap, from Batavia ;
Velocity, Dtrrell, from Jamaica; Indemnity, Woodliall,
fmu Demerara; and Quentin, Odin, from Ter•ravecchia.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind variable light breezes.
—Arriv,d the Champion, B ills, from Zante.

PENZANCE, APRIL I6.—Arrived off Fort the Hythe,
Sheoperd, from China.
SCILLY, APRIL 'G.—Arrived tlf port the Diana, from
the. South Seas; and Ehza, Siggili, from P.,rt,, Cabdlo.
BRISTOL, APRIL 17.—Arrived the illarmion, Adams,
from ZAnte.

Dunurt, AriuL 16.—Arrived the Celia, Jatres, fry m

Lisbon.

XisoALE, ArPic 16.—Arrived the Hersiet
from Savannah.

Hurd., Aram 16.—The Amicus, Holmes, from Goole,
drove athwart the Matilda, Catty, from Sund. !land to
Charente, in Grimsby roads, on the niv,ht of the 13th
ingt ; both sustained damage. The former has put in here,
the later into Grimsby.

Slltinns, Arm 16.—The Alexander, Peart, from
Akerdeen, ran on the rocks at the entrince of this har-
,,our yesterday, but was a.sisted ff this inorninz by a
steam. boat, The Hope, D nken, from NeiccaAtle to
sprung a ieak off Buchan Ne,s 7th
vid put into Peterhead, but proceeded after discharging
the leak.

The Economy, Williams, from Naples to Hamburgb,
was burnt off Lisbon the 25'h ult. ; crew stared.
Arrived at St. Helena, the Fora, Gilkons,in, from
Bombay ; Victni ia, Carus, from Singapore; Fanny, Cur-
rie, from China ; Nisidore. front Bum bon ; and
Aquila, Taylor, from the Cape or G.rorr

THE MARKETS -(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXC•IAN
We have very short supplies of all kin
teration whatever from the prim of Moi
A KKIVALft.
Wheat. Barley.
English '2,036 qrs 587 qrs.l
Irish 638
Foreign

GE.

rids of Grain, and no al-
rnday.

Oats. I Flour.
=qrs., 1,1045ack,7.
21t

-- brIE.

THE FUNDS -(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The only arrivals of consequence as yet are th,. Jainaien
Fapers, to the 4th of March, received at the Nortk and
South American Coffee-house.

The following is an extract of the Governor's sp-eeh,
addressed to the House of Assembly on the 25th of
February :
" GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCILt-Thf, sincere inte-
rest I feel in the peace and tranquillity of a colony to
which I am attached by so many ties of duty and regard,
add infinitely to the sorrow 1 must experience in announ-
cing to you an event which will ever be deplored, as
having brought ruin and devastation to one of the most
fertile districts of the island. The cicse of the Christmas
holydays was marked by a sudden insurrection of the
slaves in the parish of St. James, which afterwards
extended to properties of the adjoining parishes, and
in other parts of the island alarming symptoms of dis-
order also appeared. As soon as these excesses assumed
a serious aspect, I summoned a Council of Wer,
and in conformity with the unanimous opinion of the
Members assembled, I caused martial law to be pro-
claimed; and an adequate force, under the command of Sir
Willoughby Cotton, proceeded to the distutb,tl districts,
and precautions were adopted to meet any attempt at in-
surrection in other parts of this island. These measures
i ad a speedy effect in arresting the destruction of property,
and ultimately suppressing a rebellion which at the com-
mencement, threatened consequences fraught with general
and imminent danger. It is a remarkable feature, and worthy
of particular attention, that the leaders and chief pro-
moters of this insurrection appears to have been almost
exclusively composed of persons employed in confidential
situations on the properties to which they belonged, and
no doubt can remain that by their influence and example
the slaves were encouraged to perpetrate the crimes in
which they have been so deeply ins olved.
" I regret to state that many slaves have perished
in the field, and numbers have been executed alter trial ;
but the audacity of the rebels was so great that striking
examples were found necessary. I trust I can now with
confidence assure you, that the rebellion may be con-
sidered at an end; but time alone and a speedy oblivion
of past offences can heal the wounds inflicted, and restore
confidence between the master and the slave An awful
lesson has been taught to the whole of the slave rpu-
I ttion, of the utter hopelesness of any attempt to resist the
authority of the law with a chance of success. It will
be your province to endeavour to trace this unprovoked
rebellion to its true origin.
" I shall lay before you, at an early period, such in-
formation as may be useful in this iropery.
.‘ I have received his Majesty's commands to inform
you of a proposition for the future regulation and govern-
ment of the slaves.

"MK. SPEAKEII,--I deeply lament the unavoidable
expenses which the efforts to qml the late insurrection
must necessarily entail upon the colony."
It was reported at Jamaica that the Earl of Belmore
was recalled, but this was not believed.
An expression of feeling took place in the [louse of As.
sembly, on the Ist of March, which baffled all devcrip—
tion. On Mr. Lynch submitting a minion to the H iuse
not to entertain any proposition, havinv for its object the
teatero.
ms M
further amelioration of tie condition of the slaves in this
island, Mr. Beaumont opposed the measure.
Extract of a letter from St. Ann's Bay. "We have
accounts from all parts of the parish, and St. Mary, of till
sauml k doggedysorry to
sayp
desperationis
entertained of
the
n
oreurihsche is
feiafr,

brewing."
FALMOUTH, FEB. 29.—The confession of R ,bert Gar.
diner shows that this town was the very centre of ti :e
conspiracy. He states that the whole of the rel)ellit..n
was settled upon in Montego Bay.