The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-17 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE.

On Monday a fire of a very threatening aspect, broke out in
a wheat field in the occupation of Mr. Bradford, of Wenington,
in this county. A labourer, employed in gathering in the har-
vest, made a fire at the bottom of a ditch for the purpose of
boiling potatoes, when the grass on the banks, being per:cetly
dried and scorched by the heat of the sun, took fire, and com-
municated itself to the standing wheat, and ran along the
field in the direction of the wind, with the rapidity of wild fire.
But for once the briskness of the wind stayed the progress of
the 112 mes ; for, blowing towards the side hedge, it prevented
the fire from extending further into the field, while the hedge,
both at the side and bottom of the field being very thick set,
presented an impenetrable barrier to the progress of the de-
vouring clement. An alarm was made at Huntingdon, and
the engines were quickly on the spot, but the fire had happily
thus providentially exhausted itself. About three acres of the.
cropping were destroyed. The field contained about eleven
or twelve acres.--Cambridge Independent Press.

The Opposition Bench is now without its leading
Members. Sir R. Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Sir
H. Hardinge, &c., some days ago took leave of the House for
the Session, and quitted town. The House has now sat 26
weeks, or half a year; and though the Commons expect to
finish their labours next week, they will have to wait a week at
least for the Lords.

FORCE OF IMAGINATION.--During the perform-
ance of The Nernal Machine, at Sadler's Wells theatre,
yesterday evening, in the last scene, at the review of the
troop, as Louis Philip (Dunn), Marshal Mortier (King),
were crossing.the stage opposite the window where Fieschi,
the regicide (Campbell) is stationed—a young man who was
in the boxes, and had been watching the performance with
intense anxiety, started up, and shouted loudly, "Go back,
go back, or vou'i: be shot ! there's a lot of loaded guns at
that window!" The we,;:ing gas, however, unheeded, and
the next moment the machine exploded and Mortier fell—
when the young man evinced such volent agitation that it was
found necessary to remove him. _ _ _

DEATH FROM FR IGH T.—OR Thursday Mrs. Dove,
an independent lady, expired in her house situate in Ci:arter-
house-street. The late dreadful conflagration in Charier-
house-square, which happened on last Monday week, extended
to within two houses of that in which the deceased resided, and
such was the'state of alarm into which she was thrown, that,
for some time, she was deprived of her reason, and from that
time to the period of her decease, although she had lucid inter-
vals, the unfortunate woman was never heard to utter a word.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was
held at the Old Thatched House, New Exchange-court,
Strand, before Mr. Higgs, on view of the body of Mi..thew
Rowe, aged 76. The deceased had formerly been a lighter-
man, but latterly had been unable to follow his occupation
owing to the infirmities of old age. He lived in a miserable
attic, at No. 6 in the above court, and was suffering from the
utmost misery and destitution. On Monday afternoon the un-
fortune old man, in walking down stairs, fell to the bottom and
broke his thigh, from the effects of which he died on Wednes-
day—his dissolution being hastened by the debilitated state of
his frame caused by the want of the common necessaries of life.
Verdict.—Accidental Death.

DREADFUL, ACCIDENT WITH FIRE ARMS.—
Between the hours of nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, a respectable young man, named William Steer's, a var-
nish maker, living at No. 7, Cornwall.place, Lambeth, was
in the parlour of the Crown public-house, at Dulwich, parta-
king of some refreshment, and haVing with him a loaded gun,
with which he had been out shooting at small birds, when, in-
cautiously taking it up from a reclining position against the
side of his chair, the cock struck against the wood, and the
piece instantly went off. The contents passed through the
poor fellow's right band, which at the moment of explosion
Wag. over the muzzle, and then the
,greater portion of it en-
tered his right eye, doppletely forcing it. outof the socket,