The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-15 00:00:00

INCENDIARIES.

A very alarming incident was yesterday mentioned by
Mr. Felix Booth to the Lord Mayor. A day or two ago,
in a garden on his estate at Little Ealing, one of his ser-
vants picked up ten small pieces apparently of wood,
covered over with black oil-cloth, and of the form and
size of a❑ old-fashioned pepper-castor. A strip of papv
was pasted round each end, and contained the words
" Adkins's alarm-shell and protector." It was found
upon examination that the shell was divided into two parts,
and that near the bottom, which was floored with tin,
there was a small plug, upon the taking out of which a
passage leading to the body of the article presented itself.
One of the domestics cut open one of the shells, but it
exploded in his hands like a detonating ball. Mr. Booth
thought it right to bring one of those dangerous curiosi.
ties to the Lord Mayor, in order that, at such a period as
this, the landholders and farmers might be immediately
informed, through his Lordship, of the sort of machinery
which probably was employed to destroy the corn and hay
stacks.

The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Booth whether he had
reason to suspect any particular person, and whether the
shells had been so placed as, in case they had exploded,
;ni,chief might have hee❑ done.

Alr. Booth declared that he had no cause to suspect any
body ; and as to the danger likely' to be produced, if one
of the shells had been placed by an incendiary within a few 1
hundred yards of the place in which they were found, pro-
perty to the amount of 3,0001. must have been consumed.
Tee paper round the shells was quite inexplicable.
The Loau INIAvou said that the paper was probably
put on as a blind, in order to mislead any body who might
have occasion to apprehend the person who should carry
them about his person. He remembered having sect', a
• few days ago, a paragraph in the newspapers, stating that
a meeting had taken place in Kent, to secure property
from the attacks of incendiaries, and that Lord Amherst
and Alderman Adkins were active i❑ promoting a sub-
cription, and other means of preventing the dreadful
operations of the incendiaries. The name of Mr. Adkins
might have been used on tho paper round the shells, to
give the greater currency to the statement that they were
protectors instead of destroyers. It was possible too that
the shells might have been deposited to excite apprehen- '
sion, by way of a joke. It was, however, very neces-
sary to have the fact, from whatever it arose, publicly
mentioned.

STATE OF TRADE.—The woollen and stuff
trade of Yorkshire continues in nearly the same state as
it was at our last notice of it, though if anything there is
luss activity perceptible. "-The demand is moderate, but
the prices offered are low and scarcely adequate to the re-
muneration of the manufacturer. .At Bradford, on Thurs-
day, there was a fair share of business done in the finer
qualities of worsted goods and wool, but there was no
improvement in prices.—Leeds Intelligencer.

A remarkable instance of the effects of religious
enthusiasm is now creating a considerable excitement in
the northern part cf this city. A young lady in a high state
of enthusiasm, suddenly fell into a swoon, and remained in
that condition for several days. All efforts to rouse her were
ineffectual. Her eves were fixed, her limbs immovable, and
her pulse feeble. Her friends, believing her dying, procured
medical assistance, and she was at length, with great diffi-
culty, called hack to a consciousness of life. She awoke as
from a dream—said she had been in heaven and hell, and
told marvellous stories of her discoveries in the course of
her migrations. The living and the dead were seen by her
in their appropriate state of enjoyment or suffering, and all
that was mysterious to her earthly senses was made plain.
These things, of course, have excited much surprise among
the credulous. We understand her vision has been re-
corded, and will shortly be published.—New York Paper•
DEATH OF MR. LEMAN THOMAS REDE.

—This gentleman, who had been several years engaged on
the Press, and connected with theatricals, died on Wed'
nesday last, of aneurism of the he irt. He was the author
of a work entitled " York Castle in the 19th Century," of
a Memoir of Canning," published two months after the
Statesman's decease, and of " Oxberry's Dramatic Bio-
graphy," 7 volumes, containing lives of all the celebrated
actors and actresses. Mr. REDE had been on the stag!
himself, having been at different periods at the Adelphir
the Queen's, and Olympic theatres. His last performance
was for Miss FORDE'S benefit, at Sadler's Wells, when he
appeared as Pluto in the Loves of the Devils. He was
33 years of age, and has left a widow unprovided for.
MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.
At an early period of the evening of Thursday, as an
elderly female, named MARY ANN BROOKES, was pro-
ceeding along St. Martin's-Line, a gang of thieves sur-
rounded her, threw her down, and attempted to rifle her
pockets ; but an alarm having been given which attracted
the attention of the police and other persons, the desperate
assailants made off, leaving their victim on the ground in
an exhausted and almost insensible condition. A policeman
assisted the unfintunate old lady to rise, and on ascertain-
ing she had received several severe injuries by the
daring attack upon her, lie considered it most advisable
to convey her to the Westminster Hospital, which he did
with all possible speed. It was then discovered that
her right eye was discoloured from the effects of a vio-
lent blow, and on her being placed in bed,
several
bruises were apparent in different parts of her body. The
house surgeon and other gentlemen of the establishment
her' all the advice and assistance in their
lower, but notwithstanding she gradually became worse(i
and in less than half an hour expired. She was sup Poe
to be upwards of seventy years of age, and from the P!"
pers found upon her person, and other informations it
appeared that she formerly kept a respectable boarding'
school in the neighbourhood of Pimlico, and was highly
esteemed by al! who knew her. She continued her
blishment upwards of twenty years, when pecuniary di'd
culties, and her advanced age and infirmities, compedeo
her to give it up. Subsequently her situation became I'd
distressing, that many humane individuals, who bar
,d
known her in more prosperous circumst inces, came farsva.
to her assistance, and were endeavouring to obtain for 'e",
a yearly income from the National Benevolent Institution
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in Great Russell-street. She was one of the candidatte,
for the next election ; and we are given to understand :I;
was retut ning to her residence in the Vauxli aftd'e -
soliciting for votes, when the villainous attack was to'.
upon her. There were three or four persons engaged Int
the outrage ; but so instantaneous was their escapeoftr,
the alarm, that it is feared no person is enabled to give
description of them.

MARRIED. to
On the 7th inst. at Dundee, Charles Boase, Esq., Banker, 6,
Helen, the titth daughter, and George Lindsay, Esq., Hon. ba
India Company's Civil Service, Bengal, to Catharine Jannin•
the youngest daughter of William Lindsay, Esq., Carolina

DIED.
On the 12th inst. at Denton Hall, Jane, fourth daughter ofl'ir
William Earle Welby, Bart.
On the 12th inst. at Walcot-place, in the 77th year of her aigtC;
Eliza Slade, wife of Robert Slade' Esq., and daughter of the a
Edward Foxcroft, Esq., of Halsheads, Yorkshire. of
On the 13th inst. in Southfield, Eastborne, Miss Dobreep .
Lower Rock Gardens, Brighton, in the 42d year of her age's

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