The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

LAMBETH STREET.

Yesterday John Sandell, a journeyman painter and gla-
zier, residing at No. 124, John-street, Charles-street,
Cornwall fields, St. George's-in-the-East, waited on the
Hon. G. C. NORTON, and a county Magistrate, and en-
treated their advice and assistance in recovering his daugh-
ter, who had left her home on Tuesday last in a most
mysterious and unaccountable manner, and had not since
been heard of.

The applicant, who was in a state of mind almost bor-
dering on distraction, stated that on Tuesday last his daugh-
ter, Mary Anne Sandell, a girl of nine years of age, had
been sent by her mother, who was confined to her bed for
some time through indisposition, to a public-house in the
neighbourhood for a pint of beer. This was about twelve
o'clock, and she returned with the beer, but went out again
immediately afterwards, and had not since been heard of by
any of her friends. On returning home on Tuesday even-
ing, about seven o'clock, he was made acquainted with her
absence, and had spent the whole night in search of her but
could not obtain the slightest intelligence about her. He
had since been to almost every station-house, hospital,
workhouse, and prison in the metropolis, but could not get
the slightest tidings of her, so that both himself and her
mother were in the most unhappy state of mind as to her
safety.
Mr. NORTON expressed a hope that the child had got
into the hands of some person of character, who would
restore her uninjured to her distressed parents, and assured
the applicant that every assistance which the Magistrates
could afford would be rendered to find the child.

The applicant was really despairing frnm the length of
time which had elapsed without hearing a single syllable of
her, and knowing that she had not the slightest reason to
leave her home voluntarily.
The MAGISTRATE observed that be did not think that
the abominable system of " Burking" was now resorted to,
so that the applicant was relieved from the dreadful appre-
ile,;:on of his child's being made away with in that 'dreadful

manner.
there was an end to " Bucking,"
Mr. MILLER tbougLt th
everything necessary would
and assured the applicant ttit:.
be done.
The applicant, after cordially thanking the Magistrates
for their kindness and attention, left the office.

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE.—In Africa,
particularly in the neighbourhood of the Egyptian pyramids,
the heat is so intense, and the sand appears so parched and
burnt, that it seems impossible for either plant or animal to
find sustenance, and yet Hasselquist found both here, -viz., the
Condrilla juncea, a small species of lizard, and lion ants in-
numerable. Scheuchzer and Pallas both observed plants and
animals in sulphureous springs. Forskal, in Arabia, Barrow,
at the Cape of Good Hope, and Hooker, in Iceland, found
different species of Conferva and Ulva growing in boiling
springs. The most remarkable account of vegetation at a
very high temperature is mentioned in Staunton's account of
Lord Macm tney's embassy to China. They found, at the
island of Amsterdam, a spring, the mud of which, hotter than
boiling water, gave birth to a species of Marchantia. The
Turbo thermalis, a shell-fish indigenous in the Adriatic, is
found also in the thermal springs of Abano, at a temperature
of 120 degrees....-Dr. Graves's Introductory Lecture.