The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-28 00:00:00

In the Press,

THE MARTHAS ; or, the Varieties of Female Piety.
THE HANNAHS ; or, the Power of Maternal Influence.

Also, edited by the same Author,
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR'S LIFE OF CHRIST.
With .Notes. Complete in one handsome quarto volume, with
plates. Price ISs. or in Ten Parts, 2s. each.
Y.

To the Christian Churchea. A Complete System of Family

. .
Devotion.
By the Rer. A. FLETCHER.
Just published, Second Edition, neatly bound in cloth, gilt,
price l/. 65.,
A GUIDE FOR FAMILY DEVOTIONS ;

Containing aHymn—a portion of Scripture, with suitable Reflec-
tions—dtid a Prayer, for each Morning and Evening of every Day
in the Year. The Work consists of 730 Hymns, 730 Portions of
Scripture, with Reflections;• and 730 Prayers. The History, is
illustrated by beautiful Engravings from the most eminent Masters.
In the Appendix will be found a variety of additional Prayers, to
suit particular days, circumstances, and events of Providence.

VI.
Just published, in one volume, Bvo., price One Guinea, neatly
bound in cloth, lettered, or in Ten Parts, price 2s. each,
EVERY MAN HIS OWN ATTORNEY.
By THOMAS JONATHAN WOOLER, Esq.
Comprising the Law of Landlord and Tenant; Bankrupt and In-
solvent Laws ; Liw of Debtor and .Creditor, Law of Wills, Duties,
Customs, and Criminal Jurisprtidence ; together with an Abstract
of the Acts relating to Publicans, Carriers, Beer Shops, Coach
Proprietors, &c. Tables of the Stamp Duties, New Game Laws,
Agsessed Taxes. To • which is added - the Parish Officers' Guide,
with Instructions to Churchwardens, Overseers, Constables, Ves-
trymen, Guardians of the Poor, &c., with every information neces-
sary to be known by the Man of, Business or Housekeeper. A new
edition, corrected to the last Session of Parliament.

London . George Virtue, 23, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row.

Two men, lately employed in raising gravel at Whit-
tingham in this county, discovered, about twenty inches be-
low the surface of the ground, the bones of a full-grown fe-
'male, and of a child, which appeared to have been buried
about fifteen or twenty years ago. The discovery has ex-
cited great consternation, there being no record or recollec-
tion of any murder, or sudden disappearance of any person,.
about that time.—Salopian Journal.
EXECUTION IN FRANCE.—The Journal de Con-
lances gives an account of the execution of a young
woman in that town on the 12th instant, and relates some
circumstances connected with it which are of interest at
a time. when so stroag a feeling prevails in favour of the
abolition of capital punishment. The name of the culprit
was Piel, and she was convicted, with her mother, of
causing death by poiscn. In consequence, however, of
some favourable circumstances in. the case of the mother,
her sentence was commuted. The execution was to have
taken place at the usual hour, twelve o'clock in the day,
but it was delayed several hours, in consequence of the
difficulty of finding any workman to erect the guillotine,
for although a great many applications were made, the
most tempting,offers met with refusal. When the unfortu-
nate .young woman was first informed that her death was
near, she did not display much emotion, but only burst
into tears. The executioner went into her cell at eleven
o'clock on the morning of the execution, to perform
the usual ceremony of cutting off the hair, and while he
was doing this she sobbed loudly, and protested her inno-
cence. Although it was an intensely cold day, the crowd
assembled was immense, and they had been waiting several
hours to witness the horrid spectacle. The culprit went
all the way from the prison on foot. She was extremely
pale, and appeared almost insensible. At her trial she ex-
hibited the greatest effrontery and violence, but her as-
surance bad now completely forsaken her. When She ar-
rived at the scaffold, she became so faint that the execu-
tioner was compelled to assist her up the steps. When
she was about to be strapped upon that portion of the
guillotine which slides under the axe, she screamed out,
" Oh, my God," and became so violent that it was found
necessary to use considerable force to place her in the pro-
per; position ; at length all the arrangements were com-
pleted, the axe fell, and her head rolled upon the scaffold.

" MONARCHY Or THE MIDDLE CLASSES."—
Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer's new work, under this title, is
a continuation of his popular work on France. In the
present publication be treats of the existing state of politics
in that country, of the Court of Louis PhilFppe, of the li-
terature of the day, of the domestic manners of the Pari-
sians, of French jurisprudence, &c., all of which subjects
are enlivened by numerous personal anecdotes and curious
facts, which a long residence in Paris,. under circumstances
unusually favourable for observation, brought under his no-
tice'. To much sound and valuable information the present
volumes unite the entertaining qualities and brilliant style
of the writer.

GALLANT CONDUCT ON THE PART OF A FE-
MALE.—On Saturday night last, an attempt was made to
rob the house of Mr. James Webster, at Natland, near
this town. One of the servant-girls had been a little later
than usual.in seeking her pillow, in consequence of a part-
ing interview with her lover, who next day was about to
leave the neighbourhood for a distant part of the kingdom.
Some time during the evening a. noise, as if of the breaking
of glass, was heard, which excited a little alarm, but led
to no investigation. The Moment having arrived when the
lover must leave, he was accompanied a few yards from the
door by the young woman. On her return to the kitchen,
the first sight she beheld was a hulking fellow, with soot-
begrimed faced, and with a lighted candle in his hand,
walking towards the interior part of the house. On hear-
ing, a foot, the fellow stopped, turned round, and stared
upon the young woman who had so inopportunely intruded
upon his midnight labours.
.In a• moment, however, he
made a dart towards the door, as if to escape, ; to prevent
which the girl laid hold of him, and called out lustily. A
struggle ensued, and the noise having reached the ears of
the young woman's sweetheart, he returned ; the sound of
his footstep naturally increased the sable visitor's efforts to
be released ; but still the young woman retained. fast hold
of his clothes. At length, however, the fellow broke away,
leaving the hinder patt of his nether garment in the pos-
session of the girl as a trophy of her spirited and coura-
geous conduct. The lover and the young woman proposed
giving chase to the thief, when another or two of the gang
came from their ,hiding places, and scampered off. They
were pursued a short way, but we are sorry that neither
then nor since have any of them been apprehended, and put
on the road to that signal punishment which their crime so
richly merits.—Kendal Mercury.
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A superstitious notion prevails in the western parts
of Devonshire that at 12 o'clock at night on Christmas-eve
the oxen in their stalls are always found on their knees, as
in an attitude or devotion ; and that (which is still more
singular) since the alteration of the style they continue to
do this only on the eve of Old Christmas-day. An honest
countryman, living on the edge of St. Stephen's Down,
near Launceston, Cornwall, informed me, October 23,
1790, that he once, with smut others, made a trial of the
truth of the above, and watching several oxen in their stalls
at the above time, at 12 o'clock at night, they observed the
two oldest-oxen only fall upon their knees, and, as he ex-
pressed it in the idiom of the country, make " a cruel moan
like Christian creatures.":7--Brands Popular Antiquities. •

A pantomime, entitled Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross,
or Harlequin- and the Lady with Bells to -her Toes, was pro-
duced on Saturday, to the great delight of. the holyday visi-
tors. In the vicinity of Banbury proclamation is made that
the mayor of that corporation had brought his daughter to the
cross of the town, seated on a white horse, with the para-
phernalia described in the rhymes referred to, and that he
promised her as a wife to the most worthy swain, a hint being
given that money would be esteemed his greatest accomplish-
ment. Gaffer Crowsnest (Mr. Flowers) cockers up his son
Jacket' (Signor Bolent)) to go to Banbury, in the hope of
securing the lady. With tho same view Dame Clump urges
her son Simon to put in his claim. The Crowsnests depart
on their steed, which carries double ' • pbor Simon Clump is
obliged to trudge it, with nothing to help him on his journey
but his mother's-blessing. and a silver penny. On his way he
meets with the Fairy of the Magic Well (Miss Brookes),
who favours him with a sight• of the lady he is in pursuit
of, which is very prettily managed. He reaches the cross
just as the Mayor is about to surrender. the lady on the
horse to Mr. Crowsnest, jun.. Simon Clump clams her,
but offering nothing but a pledge of constancy and truth, he
is about to receive rough usage from the Mayor, when the
Fairy appears, and transforms Simon into Harlequin, and the
two Crowsnests into Pantaloon and Clown. Estelle, the lady
with bells to her toes (Miss Gilbert), descends from her white
steed, equipped to perform the part of Columbine, and now
the business begins. Capering, rolling, leaping, and face-
slapping become the order of the day, scenes follow scenes,
and adventures come thick, till the fairy re-appears and a re-
conciliation takes place (rather inappropriately) amidst a
"terrific" shower of fire. Amongst the best scenes were a
cheap dancing academy, where the pupils included dustmen
and coalheavers, and where the master disappears through a
bole in the floor ; and the closing scene. The feats of Mr.
Juan de Castro on the slack rope, and his companions, the
equilibriits, excited much applause.