The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STEEET.

CAPTURE OF A RETURNED CONVlCT.—Yesterday a
young man named John Hall, who had been convicted of
housebreaking at the Hertford Assizes, and sentenced to
transportation for life, was brought before Mr. Broughton
and Mr. Grove, charged with having made his escape from
Chatham Dockyard.
Mr. Pierse, the superintendent of the H division, who
had apprehended the prisoner, produced the Government
Hue and Cry, in which was published a full description of
his person, and also of three other convicts under trans-
portation for life, who effected their escape at the same
time, on the 26th of last month.
The prisoner admitted that he was one of those who had
escaped, and said that no person of feeling could blame
him—a bird confined in a cage would get out if he could.
Mr. BROUGHTON—I don't blame you in the least ; but
how was it you effected your escape ? Were you nol fired
at by the sentinel on duty ? The prisoner said that he was
three times, and so were the others, and they ought to have
their sentence mitigated for the brave manner in which they
risked their lives.

The MAGISTRATES decided that it would be no use
sending the prisoner for trial again, as he admitted being
the person, and as his sentence could not be heavier than it
was already ; but remanded him till Saturday, to give time
to communicate with the Secretary of State.
Mr. Pierse said that it was very likely that he would be
able to apprehend the others by that time, as their wires
all resided within his division.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.-At Butterley Lees,
near New Mills, on the sth inst., as the wife of E. Fearnley
was sealing up the cows, a favourite, which always appeared
very quiet, turned her head, and dreadfully lacerated the left
eye of the unfortunate woman. The sight of this eye Mrs. F.
had lost by the small pox in her childhood; but the obstruc-
tion being partly removed by the cow, and the other part by
Mr. Burkinshaw, of York, she has actually recovered the sight
of her eye which has so long been closed. She is in her 42d
year.— Tyne Mercury.

A man was tried and acquitted, within the last few
days, in the country, for some offence, in consequence of the
party prosecuting denominating himself an Esquire in the in-
dictment, under the erroneous impression that he was entitled
to that appellation from the circumstance of his being a man of
fortune. Those to whom this title is of right due are all the
younger sons of Noblemen and their heirs male for ever, and
the eldest sons only of all Baronets, the eldest sons of the
Knights of the Bath, and the heirs male or next of kin of all
Knights Bachelors, Commanders of the Bath, those who
serve the King in any worshipful calling as the Sergeant Chi-
rurgeon, Sergeant of the E wry, &c., the Heralds, and Ser-
geants-at-Arms. The chief of some ancient families are Esquires
by prescription. Those that bear any superior office in the
Commonwealth, as High Sheriff of any County, who retains
the title of Esquire during his life. He who is a Justice of
the Peace has it during the time he is in commission, and no
loager.

INCENDARISM AT BALTIMORE.—There is an
evident intention by a set of incendiaries at Baltimore, to burn
that city. In addition to the valuable edifices already de-
stroyed, an attempt was made on Thursday afternoon, to fire
the office of the Baltimore Gazette, by placing a lighted can-
dle between some boxes and hampers in the basement story,
which were partly destroyed before the fire was discovered.
So open was Wolff, the German philologist's mind,
to the influence of the pathetic, that—like our own Richard
Bentley—he could not peruse a tender passage in his favou-
rite Poets, without shedding tears. —Cochrane's Foreign
Quarterly.