The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT BURY.

On Wednesday last William Twitchett was executed
without the walls of our gaol, in pursuance of his sen-
tence at our late Assizes, for burglary at Stradishall work-
house, and for inhumanly beating Mrs. Biggs, the mis-
tress. From the time of his conviction Twitchett per-
sisted in asserting his innocence of the crime. The wife
and three sweet children, and the brother of the unhappy
man, took leave of him on Monday. On Wednesday morn
ing Gilly, the accomplice, was confronted with him, when
he repeated the statement made in his confession, that
Twitchett and himself were the only persons concerned.
Twitchett reiterated that he was innocent, when the boy
exclaimed, " Don't die with that story in your mouth,
Billy." Twitchett, however, per,.isted in his denial, but
shook hands with Gilly, and said he forgave him. 'The
boy cried very much. As he passed the grating of the
yard in which Gilly was confined, the boy was addressed
by Mr. Merest, the Magistrate, and conjured, if what he
said was false, to speak now, before it was too late. Thy•
boy, however, most solemnly asseverated the truth of the
former statement, and remained intently watching the
door which leads to the scaffold, until all was over.
After some time spent in prayer, Twitchett addressed the
crowd in a firm voice, nearly as follows :—" All you that
are standing by, take warning ! What I am going to
suffer for I am innocent of—the Lord knows it, and I hope
the Lord Jesus will receive me." Ti e culprit died with
out a struggle. The number of spectators was very large,
and a great proportion were fetnales.—Bury Post.

There was launched on Wednesday, from the
navy docks at Cherbourg, a very superb barge, built for
the King of FRANCE. It is 35 feet long, measuring be-
tween six and seven tons, and has a cabin of about twelve
feet long by eight wide, and six in height, rising about
five feet above the gunwale. It is painted white, and
richly gilt inside, and enclosed with plate-glass windows.
The top forms a platform, which is ascended by a light
and elegant staircase placed at the stern. It is to be
rowed by ten men, and steered by a man stationed at the
stern. It has been towed to Havre by the steamer La
Ramseur, which also conveys for the Naval Museum the
model of the Rivoli 74-gun ship, built in the Lagoons at
Venice in 1811, with all the frame-work and apparatus by
which she was launched, and which raised her seven feet
above her water-mark, though completely armed and pre-
visioned.

The total amount of known British insects
(according to the last census) is 10,012, which is equal
to nearly twice the number of ascertained birds, aril to
more than ten times the number of ascertained quadrupeds
throughout the whole world.— Quarterly Review.

Harvest in this part of the country may almost
be considered general. The produce is turning out much
better than was anticipated.— Glasgow Chronicle.

The weather has proved unusually propitious,
and the agriculturists have taken the advantage of it, by
housing, in excellent condition, a considerable portion of
their wheat crops. There have been some storms, accom-
panied with showers, in this neighbourhood, but the rain
has not fallen in sufficient quantities either to retard the
operations of the workmen or to injure the corm—Lewes
Advertiser.

The Post•oflice regulations to establish daily
communications with London and Paris will not, it seem•,
take place before the Ist of April, a de!ay which in Paris
is attributed (we trust unjustly) to the English Post office.

The assize ball at Exeter, which usually boasts
an assemblage of 400 or 500 persons, was last week,
owing to the prevalence of the cholera, attended by only
thirteen, who, on ascertaining their exact number, were
seized with alarm, and immediately separated, in obedience
to the old saying, which declares that, of such a party, the
whole of the members never outlive the year.

BEES.—Heather honey, we suspect, will be
very scarce and high in price this year, the bees not having
swarmed as usual. In the neighbourhood of Callender,
and in Balquhidder, no more than two out of the score of
hives have swarmed. We know one individual who had
twenty-one hives this summer, and this only increased to
twenty-three.—Stirling Advertiser.

SCOTCH WOOL FAIRS.—The great northern
wool fairs at Inverness, Kelso, St. Boswells, &c. are now
all over ; they were better attended than was expected.
The wools were generally in excellent condition, and as
between 20s. and 30s. per pack of 2401b5. below last
year's prices was readily submitted to, there was much
more business transacted than had been anticipated.
RECRUITING FOR DON PEDRO'S ARMY
IN PORTUGAL.—Since Monday the agents for Dos; PE-
DRO in this country have been most actively employed in
obtaining recruits for his army. Some hundreds have
already enrolled themselves : each man, when he enrols
his name, receives 18d., which is paid to him daily, un-
til he can be sent off to Oporto ; and as soon as he has
embarked lie is to receive 2/. 10s. per month, besides
provisions. Yesterday hundreds of persons were at the
house of Mr. HETTINGER, the Old Star and Crown, in
the Broadway, Westminster, applying to be enrolled, and
each man receiving his 18d. There appeared to he no
want of money, and the recruits are to embark in a day
or two in steam-boats provided for the occasion. The
recruits will go out under the command of an officer of
great bravery and experience, who has sold his commission
in the British army for the purpose of aiding the cause of
Dox PEDRO in Portugal. At a number of other houses
in the metropolis, Dox PEDRO'S agents are recruiting
with great success, and arms and equipments for the men
are already provided.
CURIOUS COMPLIMENT TO SIR C. WE-
THERELL and Mr. CROKER..—.At the late Reform dinner
given at Presteign, Wales, the Chairman (Sir Jousr
WAL-
sttASI) gave the following toast, after a suitable apology,
and alluding to the opposition made by same of the Anti-
Reformers to the Bill :—" The healths of JOHN WILSON
CROKER and Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, and thanks to
them for their successful opposition, as by their exertions
every clause and particle of the Bill was carried and made
the law of the land."

We understand that the announcement in the
French Papers of the postponement of the new estdfette
arrangement is premature. Nothing has yet been decided
on the subject, and it is still hoped that the arrangement
will take effect from the Ist of January. A little delay
has arisen from the neglect of the Post-office authorities in
this country in not taking immediate notice of some com-
munications from the French Government; but it is not
of such a nature as to make it absolutely necessary to
postpone the execution of the new plan.
The German Governments are about to try
the power of money in repressing the growing spirit of
reform in Germany; an attempt is to he made to buy up all
the writers on the liberal side ! "We are assured," says a
French paper, " on good authority, that Austria has ap-
propriated a million of ducats to this species of commerce."
GROUSE.—The sportsmen who have visited
the moors in the Peak of Derbyshire, for grouse shoot-
ing, have been very successful, and scarcely any tolerably
good shots have been disappointed in producing a respect-
able bag of game. The birds are very forward and strong.
and more numerous than have been witnessed for many
seasons past. 'We are glad to bear that the moors set apart
by his Grace the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, at Buxton, fur the
accommodation of gentlemen visiting that salubrious
watering place, are likely in future to produce a good
supply of grouse, as it is intended that the utmost atten-
tion shall be paid to their breed and preservation.--Derby
Reporter.

ELOPEMENT AT RAMSGATE.—An occur-
rence at Ramsgate, on Saturday last, gave rise to much
conversation among all to whom the circumstance became
known. A lady and gentleman arrived at the Crown
Hotel in a post-chaise from Margate, and ordered dinner
to be prepared. The gentleman represented the lady to
be his wife, and informed the landlady that it was theii
intention to proceed to Dunkirk by the Royal George
steam-packet, which started that morning at 11 o'clock,
but that in consequence of the stormy state of the weather,
his companion had declined to cross the water that day.
The lady retired to her chamber at 11 o'clock, and the
gentleman seated himself in the coffee-room, where he was
smoking a cigar, when an individual, who proved to
the " injured husband," entered, and, under the influence
of strongly excited feelings, demanded if a couple, whose
appearance he described, were then staying at the hotel ?
He was answered in the affirmative, and, in an agitated
tone, he directed the landlady's niece to conduct him in-
stantly to the apartment of the lady, who, he lamented to
say, was his wife, and had eloped that day from Margate.
The consternation of his faithless partner on beholding het
husband can- scarcely be conceived. After she bad been
keenly reproached by him for destroying his domestic bliss,
she consented, at his request, to leave the town ; and a
chaise having been obtained, the husband and wife de-
parted in company for Margate. In the meanwhile the
Lothario disappeared, neglecting to take with him a hand-
some travelling cloak and a curiously formed knife, which
seemed calculated fur any desperate purpose. At an earl)
hour on Sunday morning the gallant returned to the hotel,
and took away his cloak, apparently very dejected at the
" untoward" event of the preceding evening. His exterior
was highly fashionable, as was also that of the lady, who
appeared to have scarcely passed her premiere jeunesse.—
Morning Paper.