The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-28 00:00:00

premises. Captain- W., accompanied by his man-sdrvant,
immediately proceeded to seArch the garden, and at the
lower end, crouched up in a corner, he discovered his ser-
vant girl Bridget almost frightened out of her wits. It ap-
pears that the imprudent girl had contracted an intimacy
with a soldier ; and, visitors not being allowed by Capt. W.,
the garden was the only place where the gallant son of
Mars could enjoy the society of his beloved. Bridget's
amatory propensities, however, had nearly cost her her life,
for the pistol-ball entered the hind part of her bonnet, aid
actually struck the comb from the back part of her head.

,
DISTRESSING CASE.—Yesterday, morning, ne-
tween seven and eight o'clock, a poor woman, aged be-
tween 40 and 50, was discovered by one ©f the police
belonging to the D division, lying on the gravel path, in
the Regent's Park, in a state o insensibility. On the po-
liceman finding her lying prostrate on the ground, he at
first thought she was in a state of intoxication ; but he
quickly discovered that the unfortunate sufferer was in a
state of total insensibility from cold and hunger. She was
immediately conveyed to the St. Marylebone Infirmary, in
a hopeless state. For the present it is not known who she is.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Thursday even-
ing last, about seven o'clock, as Mr. W. Watts, farmer, of
Uxbridge-moor, was returning home from Uxbridge market,
he was met by two men, who knocked him down, when one
knelt on his chest, while the othei robbed him of a valua-
ble silver watch (maker's name John Share), with a gilt
chain and a gold seal attached, and 15s. in silver. Mr.
Watts has given a description of the robbers, and offered a
reward for their apprehension.

THE ROBBERY AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—
FURTHER EXTENSIVE DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
—Two young men, named John and Thomas Bayley, car-
rying on with their mother the business of plumbers, at
Deptford, were yesterday brought before Adam Young,
Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates, at the Greenwich Petty
Sessions, charged with feloniously receiving a large quantity
of sheet lead, the property of the Commissioners of Green-
wich Hospital. Mr. Young, in remanding the prisoners,
observed that it was evident a wicked and extensive system
of plunder had been carried on in the Hospital, and
the police deserved great credit for their endeavours to
detect it.

WANTON CRUELTY.—On last Thursday night
some evil-minded ruffian cut off the ears of a valuable mare,
belonging to a widow, in one of the town parks, near Moate.
Although active inquiries were made by the police to find
out the perpetrator of this inhuman act, we. regret to say that
he still remains undiscovered.—Athlone Sentinel.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A few days ago a girl,
named Catharine Paffy, while herding cattle belonging to
Mr. Mathews on the lands of Fordrum, near this town,
having approached too near a vicious brood mare with a
foal, which was grazing in the field, received a kick in the
stomach, from the effects of which she died a few hours after.
There was no inquest held on the occasion. Why?—
Athlone Sentinel.

•
STAGE COACH ACCIDENT AND PROVIDENTIAL
ESCAPE.—On Sunday last as the Emerald, Bath and Bris-
tol coach, was proceeding through Marlborough Forest,
the rain beat against the horses with such violence as to
frighten the leaders, and they became quite unmanageable.
The coachman finding such to be the case, was in the act
of getting doWn to lay hold of their heads, when they sud-
denly turned round. Every person was expecting momen-
tarily the coach to upset. Mr. Gould, a gentleman occu-
pying the box seat, unbuckled the reins which held the
leaders, and they running off at a furious rate, soon came
in contact with a gig, and with such violence that it was
broken to pieces, and all three horses lay on the ground in
a lifeless state. The coach shared the same fate as the
gig. In the scramble from the roof all escaped unhurt,
with the exception of a few bruises.
FATAL AFFRAY.—We have heard a rumour tnat
Major John H. I. Wynn, Member elect to the Legislature
from Limestone county, was killed in Athens, on Saturday
night last, in a reneounter with Mr. W. K. English. The
particulars, as we have heard them, are as follow :—Mr.
English had a difference, and perhaps a rencounter with one
of Major Wynn's friends, on some subject connected with
the recent election. Mr. Wynn arriving in town a few
minutes afterwards, went to the house where Mr. English
resided as a clerk, and made an assault on him ; English
finding that he was about to be overcome, drew his dirk and
stabbed him to the heart. Major Wynn was a Member
of the last Legislature. He has left a large and respect-
able family to mourn his loss. We understand English has
left the country.—North Alabamian, Sept. 13.
DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.—A Lieutenant in the
navy, while ascending. the river in a steam-boat, became in-
volved in a quarrel with three persons from Arkansas, two
of them brothers. He was challenged by one of the bro-
thers and endeavoured to " back out," but the other party
insisted upon a fight, and a gentleman volunteering to be
second for the officer, they went ashore to settle their dif-
ference. At the first fire the Lieutenant received his ad-
versary's ball in his hip, and asked if he was satisfied, to
which his antagonist replied, " No, not until one of us is
killed." They took another shot and the Lieutenant's ad-
versary fell dead. His brother then insisted on a fight,
which the second of the Lieutenant •endeavoured in vain to
prevent. They fired and the other brother was shot dead.
The second of the deceased, becoming enraged with thc:
Lieutenant's second, shot and killed him, and was in turn
shot dead by the Lieutenant, who was conveyed from the
field much exhausted by the loss of blood, and is now at
Louisville, recovering, under the care of his physicians.
Thus four men were left dead upon the field. We give the
above as we heard it from a respectable source, but fo-ebear
to mention the names of the parties, as no good collie, result
from it, and we presume their relatives have beets already
advised of their fate.—Cincinnati Post.

MURREL'S ATTEMPTED RESCUED---We have
been shown a letter, dated Marion (Ala.), Sept. 19, from
a highly respectable gentleman of Tennessee, which states
that a daring attempt had been made to liberate Murrel
from the State Penitentiary. The letter says that four
or five hundred strangers gradually, and seemingly without
concert, appeared in Nashville, but that the influx was so
great as to excite suspicion, and eventually public opinion
settled down into the belief that they were confederatr:s of
that arch fiend Murrel, which suspicion was soon confirmed
by an unsuccessful attempt at his liberation. The letter
states that about four hundred were under arrest, and un-
dergoing trial, for their participation in the matte,.., and that
a number had already been sentenced for vari'aus periods
to the Penitentiary.

AWFULLY SUNDEN DEATH.--On T uesday last
Mr. James Richmond, a general factor, residir ig at Wolver-
hampton, left home in perfect health and a, ?irits, for the
purpose of transacting business in Birmingh4,.m, where be
arrived about twelve o'clock. In about hale an hour aftetr-
wards he called at the warehouse of INio 'ssrs. Fiddian.
Brothers, merchants, in Broad-street, and of ter a short cor _
versation with Mr. Fiddian, sin., left for the purp,ase of
procuring a stamp to negotiate the businQss • respecting; wl..ich
he had called. In a few minutes he mtarm ,d, and a' ?pr
,ared
in a great heat. He then sat down, tool : out the %stamp%
stood up again, and handed it to Mr. Fid dian, e' 4 Aaimin.g
at the same moment, " Oh I what a strange p l ia my
'
heart." Mr. Fiddian left for the pw•pose of getting him
some brandy, but before he could return from
Vac. adjoining
room Mr. Fiddian, sen., perceived him reel; o
and re-
' sently went over and took him in his arms, wl, , p
,egn he calmly
turned round, smiled as it were, and instantly •
expired, stand-
ing, without uttering a syllable, or indicatia'
• the least in-
ternal struggle. Two surgeons were instar lily sent for, and
in a few minutes arrived, but life was f0)..-„,
Ito be totally ex-
tinct, and all assistance was unavaili-..
An inquest was
held on Wednesday, when the ahmve6
it i substance having
been given in evidence, the iL,ry r,,t,
g" Died by the visitation of tuod.,,___
Z zrtninahani Journal.
-.611)
EXTRAORDINARY A MELD __ _ rned a verdict of
NCIIOLY OccUR-
RENCE.—An inquest was held, at wk,:
.1?rell, near Chester-
field, on Wednesday, '..in tlid body of : !Ann Cordell, an in-
dustrious and peaccablo -,,,0m„,
.who
with her husband lived
at the toll-bar bans': at Southgate, and whose death was
occasioned by excessive fright. Th a cause of this melan-
choly event wars a man named Ware(ler, who lived in a small
farm house near the toll-bar, and 1 vho has long been ad-
'
dieted to habits of drunk:,nness, v rhich caused great dis-
agreements between ',;;mself and 7 is wife. On the 13th
instant he went 11,
~me very drunk al id began to quarrel with
his wife, and jA•inally to heat her ;sl te fled for assistance to
the tqr,:nar house, when having ‘
~,,alled up James Cordell,
she besought him to gct up and go to her home and endea-
vour to pacify her husband, and o n his promising to do so,
she passed on. Cordell immediat 31y went on his peaceable
errand, desiring his wife to lock tl Je. door after him, which
she did. He had not gone far w belt be met Warener,
armed with a plank, who fiercely le: u.anded his wife, who he
insisted was concealed in the toil. .1 gar Mouse. Cordell endea-
voured to appease him, and asst it ed 1, itn she was not there,
but the drunkard would not lis to e to reason, but going up
to the toll-bar house, began w'
th lion id imprecations to in-
sist on his wife coming forth, a nd batti :red the door furiously
with his plank. At this time t be unfo. Aunate deceased, who
was alone in the house, was h eard to scream violently, and
her husband begged Waren s• to be quiet or he would kill
his wife with fright. Way ~..si* howl ;ver, continued his vio-
lent conduct, and in orde '
eu
'vim. ;e him that he was mis-
taken, Cordell called to . hr. to ce
to • open the door and let
is wife
Warener in to satisfy •1 was not there. The
himself th at 1 ,le
poor terrified woma- t the moment of letting
. *I obeyed, ar a• a and fell
them in, exclaime oh
on the ground. .
Hoi husband '0 imediately raised her up,
but she was
quite dead. Au ' inquest has been held before
Mr- J. Hu' ,chinson, Corone* when the verdict returned
~
was, " Fr.‘glitened to death by John warener. The law
has pro.he did not go
sided no punishment fo: ! Warener, as
with 'a malicious intent, but in . lursuit • of his wife•—Derbii-
shic Courier.

DUN CAN M,NEILL, ESQ., LATE SO-

LICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND.
(From the Edinburgh. Evening Post.)
Mr. M'Neiil having accepted an invitation to dine at the
George Inn with .the Society of Procurators before the
Courts of Law in Perthshire, at their annual dinner on lb:
16th inst., and that having been his first visit to the count:
since he resigned the office of Sheriff, a general meeting of
the Society was held at Perth in the forenoon of that day,
at which it was moved and seconded, and carried by accla-
mation, that the Society should take that opportunity for
expressing to Mr. M'Neill their satisfaction with the mance
in which he had discharged the duties of his•office, and that
an address to that effect should be presented to him. After
dinner, when Mr. M'Neilrs health was proposed by Mr.
Reid, the Secretary, who introduced the toast with much
good taste and feeling, the President of the Society pre-
sented to Mr. M'Nci!l the address which had-been agreed
to at the meeting in the forenoon. We regret that we are
unable to give a report of Mr. I\l'Neill's reply,- which is
described in all the Perth papers as distinguished for feel-
ing, power, and eloquence.
The Perthshire Advertiser adds :—" Mr. M'Nelli's speech
was listened to throughout with the most intense interest,
and made a deep impressien on every one who heard it. It
must have been gratifying to the Society of Procurators, to
find that that expression of their approbation which they
considered it to be their duty to convey to their late sheriff,
was so highly appreciated by him ; and it must also have
been gratifying to Mr. M'Ncill to receive from the mem-
bers of a Court over which he presided for ten years, so
unanimous and unqualified a testimonial of their approba-
tion of his conduct."
The following is the address :

" To Duncan M'Neill, Esq., Advocate, late Sheriff of
Perthshire ;—We, mernberi of the Society of Procura-
tors; practising heft)! e the Courts of Law in Perthshire,
cannot allow the connection which for so many years
existed betwixt you and this county to terminate, with-
out expressing to you our respectful but unqualified
approbation of the manner in which you discharged
the duties of the office of Sheriff of this important
county, during the ten years for which you held that office.
In the civil business of the coanty you, on all occasions,
displayed the most rigid impartiality and profound legal
knowledge, and the general confidence in your decisions
may fairly be estimated by the comparatively small number
of cases in which your judgments were advocated to a higher
court. When presiding in the criminal court, you have in-
variably displayed the strictest integrity and impartiality ;
and it has been a matter cf congratulation to the inhabitants
of this county that they had, as their local criminal judge,
for so long aperiod, one who for his talents, his eloquence,
and his extensive legal knowledge, stands unrivalled as a
criminal lawyer at the Scottish bar. By the alteration which
was made a few years ago in the system of representation in
Scotland, new and important duties were devolved upon you,
and we feel it difficult to express, in language sufficiently
strong, our admiration of the manner in which these arduous
and difficult duties were discharged by you. In addition
to that talent and legal knowledge which you brought to
bear upon every part of your duty, you exhibited in the
registration courts, at times when party feeling had been.
highly excited, an impartiality so pure and so unvarying,
and a determination to do justly between each party, regard-
less of the political opinions of the one party or the other, so
rigidly carried into execution, as to call forth the unanimous
approbation of all. We cannot allow this opportunity to
pass without also expressing to you our satisfaction, and our
gratitude for the manner in which you have discharged one
of the most important of your duties--the appointment
of a sheriff substitute.. When you were appointed to
the office of sheriff, you found in the office of substitute an
individual whose memory will ever be revered in this county
as that of a Judge who was justly consiaered one of the
first sheriff-substitutes in Scotland. You renewed his ap-
pointment ; and when by his lamented death you were re-
quired to appoint n successor, ycra gave us that man upon
whom, when the vacancy occw.red, the eye of every Mem-
ber of this Society turned, the most fit and proper per-
son to succeed our former sheriff-substitute. We have
found our opinion confirmed in the fullest manner, by the
experience which we have now had of that gentleman ; and.
we rejoice to say, that in that we are supported by the ge-
neral confidence in his talents and integrity as a Judge, and
esteem for him as an individual, which are felt throughout
the whole of this county. We beg to assure you that, in
your future career, the Members of this Society will al-
ways take a warm interest. They will ever look back with
pride to the time when this county had the honour of hav-
ing you for its Chief Magistrate. And confidently trust-
ing that you will, ere long, attain to those honours for
which your briP.iaut talents and great legal knowledge so
eminently fit you, we beg to express our sincere and earnest
wishes for your future welfare.

" THOS. DUNCAN, President."
Signed by appointment, and in presence of the Society.

AKECDOTES OF MEHEMET ALI.

(From the German Papers ree;eived yesterday.)
The following fact has been related to me by eye-wit-
nesses. During his tour in Upper Egypt on the breaking
out of the plague, IVlehernet • Ali summoned all the Pre-
fects and Burgomasters (Schech el Belad) of several pro-
vinces, and in the presence of the Court c ailed on them
to discharge an old arrear of debt to the Government. In
vain they represented the impossibility of paying this
d.eht, because after the harvest, scarcely enough was left
for their own subsistence. The Pacha assumed a look of
anger ; cursed, threatened, and swore he must have the •
Money, which be demanded within a fortnight. When
the poor Arabs fell at his feet with tesss, and implored him
at least to wait till after the harvest, I, e said to his officer, •
" Away with these people out of my sight."
'They idmsma
berdeisa,t ealnyd baesg at
hn
et o
doorstr i le/
tthheeappaerotapnleenwt iitnhwthhiecihr
l sticksl
the sitting was held was very P.arr ow, there was a horrible
pushing, crowding, and serearAing, before they could all get
out and recover froth their firigb t and the blows they had
'received. Hereupon troops wr.ge sent into these provinces),
who seized every thing t'ney could find ; provisions, house-
hold furniture, agricultural implements and cattle, which
they conveyed to the 4irovernment Mager:nes. Of course
they all again hastenr.cl to the Paella, some with their re-
ceipts, which proves', that they had long since paid what
they owed ; othe':s with vehement lamentations at the cer-
tainty of their p' arishing with hunger, since all their provi-
sions and imp',lements had been taken from them. The de-
cision of t}...
re Viceroy was as follows :
'
ct A„ .
you are unable to pay your debts, I have a right to
take feorn you all that.you have ; but as in that case you
w(1. lid certainly perish, I will be merciful unto you, will
15- Ave you now, and in future sufficient provisions (i. e. beans,
onions, durra, &c.) to keep you from dying with hunger,
and besides this, you shall have the cattle, seed, and imple-
ments necessary for your labour, that you may work for the
support of your lives, and the benefit of my treasury. But,
properly speaking, you have no right whatever to anything."
The same -scene, with a similar result, was repeated at
Schubra. While the Pacha was in quarantine in
Schubra, one of his Eunuchs died of the plague. The
Pacha was very uneasy, and enquired if any body
had transgressed the sanitary regulations. One of
the courtiers said that the deceased had . a flock of
sheep, and it was possible that he might have communi-
cated with his shepherd. A certain Chassan Beg, Super-
intendent of the Palace., immediately sent for the shepherd,
and asked him what he had brought or sent to the Eu-
nuch ? ' The innocent shepherd protested that he bad nei-
ther seen the Eunuch, nor had any intercourse with him,
since the beginning of the Quarantine ; besides, added be,
"it would. have been quite impossible for me to penetrate
through the triple sanitary cordon." He was, however.,
thrown on the ground, and though the suspicion agahst
him had no foundation whateve'r, he was beaten till he was
carried off without any signs of life. Similar punishment
is daily inflicted, on the most improbable suppositions, at
the desire of the great man, upon inferior persons.
While the plague was at the height, a I\lahometan mer-
chant dreamt that eleven persons would die of the plague
in his house. When lie awoke he remembered. his dream,
and there being exactly eleven persons in his rouse, himself
included, he became very uneasy. His alarm increased,
when on the following day his wife, two ferr.aie slaves, and
three children, died ; but he became certain that his death
was at hand, when on the fourth his turn re maining child-
ren, a man servant, and an old man ser 'ant, sunk into the
grave. He accordingly made his preparations to pass
into eternity, related his dream to some of his friends, and
begged them to make enquiry every morning, and in case
lie should be 'lead, to have him burieet with all the usual
ceremonies. A cunning chief who heard of the circum-
stance took . advantage c- the merchan es fright, to open his
door in the night, aria when the te'rified man called out,
" who's there's:" t(1 answer, " I an'. the angel of death," in
order, while the merchant bid himself under the bed clothes,
and was quite beside himself, to - pack up what effects he
found in the house and carry them a way. Unluckily he
was himself seized with the plague, and died on the stairs.
The merchant, however, did not venture even for many
hours to put his head from. under hi.: bed clothes, till at
length his friends came, heard from him what had happened,
found the effects, recovnised the thief, discovered the truth,
and confirmed the stsange aecomplis'ament of the dream.
The merchant war; then as sure of his life as he was before
of his death, ana be was not mista'iten, for he himself re-
lated this anecdote which his friends and neighbours declare
to be a fact.--All)gcmcinc Zeit ung, Oct. :21..

A duel was Taught yesterday morning at Blackrock,
between two of the olli,,;ers of her Majesty the Queen of
Spain, which ended hi on,e of them, a Lieutenant R—bs—n,
we understand, being snot in the Leg.—Cork Repute). of
Saturday.