The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-02 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

A DARING Tllll7.—Yesterday Joshua Allen, a young
man of desperate appearance, was brought up in custody
and Placed at the bar, charged with attempting to commit
felony at the ,house of Mr. ,J. Dodd, surgeon, of 12,
Portman-street, Portman-square.
happeared from the evidence that about four o'clock
that morning as police constable Compton, of the D divi-
sion, was passing the prosecutor's house he heard footsteps
down in the area. He immediately got over the railings,
the gate being locked, and on the steps picked up a green
baise bag, and found the kitchen window, NI hich was
guarded with iron bars, partly down, and just inside of it a
stick about two yards long with a hook attached to one end.
On searching further he discovered the prisoner secreted,
who said be had come there for no harm. The inmates
were then alarmed, when the prisoner was recognised as
having formerly lived in the service of the prosecutor, and
it was found that the bag was the cover of a silver cruet
stand kept in a cupboard in the kitchen. The door of the
cupboard was open, and the cruet stand brought forward a
little, and deprived of the green baize, no doubt by the
using of the stick produced.
Prosecutor here stated that the prisoner was in his cm-
ploy as footman about nine months since, and he turned him
away for stealing two bottles of wine from him. He told
him to come the next day and receive his wages, but he
had never seen him since.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was fully committed
to Newgate for trial.

AN ANTI-MALTHUSIAN.--The wife of a man,
named Jones, livingnearly opposite to Stepney Church, was
last week delivered of two fine boys, this being the third
time she has given birth to twins within the last three
years. All the children are in good health. The Rev. Mr.
James, curate of the parish, has presented her husband
with a mangle, in order to afford him increased means of
support for his rapidly increasing family.

A turnip was a few days since drawn by Messrs.
Roskruge, of St. Anthony in Meneage, which weighed
21 lb. and measured 37 inches in circumference.

INCENDIARISM.-011 Wednesday night, about
twelve o'clock, a terrible and destructive fire broke out
upon the premises in the occupation of Mi. William Hamby,
of Wortingham, near Beccles, and adjoining the estate of
the Earl of Gosford, which in a few hours destroyed two
barns, outhouses, a stack of barley, and a large quantity of
dressed corn in the barns. Great praise is due to the inha-
bitants of Beccles and other places for their prompt atten-
tion and united exertions to save the property. There is no
doubt but this is the work of an incendiary, whose aim is
partly lost in the property being insured. No clue whatever
as to the perpetrator of this diabolical crime has at present
been discovered. Mr. Hamby is a man universally liked as a
neighbour and master. A few days since, seven valuable
horses were poisoned, belonging to Mr. Foulcham, of Fras-
tenden, near Wangford, Suffolk, but no information has at
present been made to elucidate any discovery.
A GHOST.—Our readers will not fail to remember,
that some time ago, the dead body of a man, who was known
in the pugilistic circles of this town by the nom-de-guerre
of " the Slasher," was found, in a shockingly mutilated con-
dition, lying on some vacant ground, near Warwick-street,
in Toxteth-park. The circumstances of the case were such
that not a doubt remained on the minds of those who knew
the particulars, that the unfortunate man bad been foully
and brutally murdered, to which effect the coronor's jury
returned their verdict. The murderer has never yet been
discovered ; nor, as far as we can learn, have any very ac-
tive steps been taken to trace him. It would seem that
the perturbed spirit of the unfortunate man, indignant at
this supineness, continues "to visit the glimpses of the
moon," at least so certain " fools of nature " confidently
aver. A shadowy form, which, Proteus-like, changes its
figure every instant, and thereby defies recognition, has
been seen in vehement altercation with the deceased ; a
deadly struggle has ensued ; the victim has sunk in the
agonies of death, and both the vanquished and murderer
have vanished.—Liverpool Albion.
EXTRAORDINARY FISH.—On Saturday a fish of
large dimensions was found en the shore at Ballymultimber.
It is about five feet long, of a dark colour, with a double
row of very sharp teeth, a large mouth, and five excres-
cences where the fins of fish usually are, precisely like hu-
man hands, with five fingers on each, and of a red fleshy
colour, and the appearance of a hard skin like a nail on
each of the fingers ; the eyes are very large, clear, and of
a dark olive colour ; the back strangely marked by bony
protuberances, and five or six long small feelers on the bead
and back.--Derry Sentinel.