The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-15 00:00:00

A terrible exhibition took place last week at Ro-
gent-le-Rostron, in the Chartrain. Ten dogs, two bears,
and a large ass, were all pitted together, to fight in the
market-place of that town, which was inclosed for the oc-
casion with waggons, carts, &c., and an immense crowd of
spectators were present to witness the disgusting scene.
All on a sudden a panic prevailed through the crowd, on
observing that one of the bears was no longer muzzled ;
although the keepers speedily interfered, and assured the
spectators that there was no real danger, having mastered
the animal, the terror inspired was so great, that carts,
waggons, everything, were upset, and the market-place
presented a scene of unparalleled confusion. Numbers were
very seriously hurt, and it is hoped that this somewhat se-
vere lesson will cure the inhabitants of Rogent-le-Rostron
of a partiality for the sports of bear-baiting, which they
are apt to consider, in France, is an amusement peculiarly
English.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday afternoon, between
three and four o'clock, a female about twenty-two years of
age,* whose clothing and general appearance would induce
a belief that she was respectably connected, staggered into
the house of Mr. Gill, a bootmaker, in Thatched House-
row, Lower-street, Islington, and, after uttering the words
" Oh dear me !" fell down. Mr. Gill finding her insensible,
rendered her such assistance as he and his wife considered
advisable. He also sent off for several medical men, but
before any one arrived, which was as quickly as possible,
the poor creature breathed her last. She was conveyed to
the vaults of Islington Church, in which she now lies to be
owned. The following is her description :—Five feet four
inches high, dark hair and eyes, dark merino dress, white
straw bonnet with white
.ribbon upon it, a scarlet shawl,
linen marked "I. F., No. 5." On her person was found a
silver hatch, with a guard chain, a red silk purse containing
20s. 6d., a pair of silk gloves, a black silk reticule, in which
was a silver pencil-case. She had in an umbrella two chil-
dren's lace caps, and a few apples and cakes, from which
circumstance it would appear she was going to visit some
children.

On Friday evening last, about nine o'clock, a young
man about 22 years of age, suddenly rushed into the om-
nibus' called the Algerienne, when in the village of
Thermes, near the Barriere du Roule, France, and having,
exclaimed " I never believed that they wanted to take my
life," sunk down senseless, covered with his blood. On the
carriage arriving at a traiteur's, the body was taken into a
billiard-room, and every exertion made to restore anima-
tion, but life was extinct. Upon an examination entered
into on Saturday morning, it appeared that he had re-
ceived two wounds in the breast and three in the back, from
a poinard or sharp instrument. He was dressed in black,
and appeared to be of the class of foremen of manufacto-
ries. Some money was found in his pocket. Numerous
witnesses were examined, from whose testimony it appeared
that he arrived in Paris from Normandy on Wednesday,
and had been induced to go to Neuilly, probably on some
business, and was assailed on the road. On being first
struck he called out for help, and even knocked at several
doors for protection, but all were closed against him. The
police are in search of the murderers, but they have not
yet been discovered. [According to a judgment pro-
nounced on Saturday, by the Court of Cassation at Paris,
the omnibuses called Algeriennes cannot be permitted either
to stop, or to'slacken their pace, for the purpose of taking
up or setting down passengers.]

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.--Yesterday
week an inquest was held before Mr. Rutter, at Little
Hulton, on view of the body of Sarah Halliday ,a woman
about 29 years of age, who was killed by a most singular
accident, in a coal-pit at Hilton-lane. It appears that
women are employed in the pits in this district to drag the
coals in tubs from the place where they are got by the
miners to the eye of the pit, where the tubs are fixed to a
rope, and drawn up to the bank. The women thus em-
ployed have a leathern belt fixed round their waists, in the
front of which is a hook, and to this hook a chain about
three-quarters of a yard long is affixed, which passes be-
tween their legs, and the other end is attached to the wag-
gons on which the tubs are drawn. On Wednesday morn-
ing the deceased was thus employed, in drawing coals for a
miner named Joseph Crompton. She had drawn a tub to
the pit's eye, and attached it to the rope, when, by some
unexplained accident, the chain by which she had dragged
the waggon caught the tub as it was ascending, and she was
drawn up by it, hanging the full length of the chain below
the tub. She called out to the banksman to lower the tub,
and he, suspecting her situation, did so, but rather too
rapidly at first. She then called out to' him to go slower,
which he did, but by some means the chain by which she
hung slipped off the hook of her belt, and she fell to the
bottom of the pit (it is believed a distance of thirty yards),
and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate woman had
been twice before caught in the same way, but was lowered
to the bottom on both occasions without the slightest in-
jury.—Manchester Courier.
DEATH PROM EIRE ARMS.—TO the numerms
and fatal accidents which we have recently had to mention,
we regret to have to add one in our own immediate neigh-
bourhood. Yesterday, October 9, about half-past four
o'clock, the family of Robert Rogers, Esq., of Lee View ,
were alarmed by the report of fire-arms in the house, 'and
on Mr. Rogers proceeding up stairs to ascertain the cause,
he found his third son Mr. Michael Rogers, stretc'Aed on
the floor of his room, bathed in blood, and in the ',est strug-
gle of dissolution. The shock which he recei:fed from the
appalling spectacle our readers can imagine more easily than
we can describe. The son, whom but a short time before
he had seen in health and vigour, was breathing in blood
and agony the few faint gasps of a life that was rapidly eb-
bing to a close. Immediately measures were taken for af-
fording him relief, bu tin vain : the wound was fatal, and in
less than five minutes he expired. The cause of this me-
lancholy event, an event which has deprived an amiable and
estimable young man of life, and plunged his family in
sudden and sore affliction, is supposed to have been some
incaution in the handling of a fowling-piece, which he was
preparing for a shooting excursion on which be was to have
set off that morning. He was probably engaged in. clean-
ing it at the moment of the discharge, for part of the cloth
which he used for that purpose was driven into the wound.
The shot entered under the breast, part of it passing near
the heart, and ascending upwards. An inquest was held
on the body on the above evening, and the,Jury returned
the following verdict :—We find and present that the de-
ceased Michael Rogers came by his death from a wound
inflicted upon his breast by the accidental discharge of a
fowling-piece, when deceased was in the act of cleaning it,
for a shooting excursion, which he was about to make to-
morrow with his father." Mr. Rogers, who was brother of
our newly elected Sheriff, was, we believe, about 19 years
of age. Of manners frank and generous, in disposition open
and amiable, he was esteemed by all his companions, and
his melancholy and unexpected end has created a general
and deep-felt sympathy.—Cork Southern Reporter.