The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-07 00:00:00

LOVE'S DISGUISES.

An affair of rather an extraordinary nature is
at present being investigated by the Bombay
Magistrates, in which a Parsee youth of a pleasing
exterior is defendant. The young man is charged
with having induced the fair wife of a friend
to elope with him from the house of her husband
at Poonah, and bring away with her several
articles of jewellery. It appears that the injured hus-
band was for some time previous to the elopement
laid up with sore eyes ; the defendant introduced him-
self as a physician, and was engaged by the plaintiff
as his medical attendant, during which time he ma-
naged to seduce the affections of his patron's wife,
and planned the elopement, which was ultimately
carried into effect, under the guise of the profession,
which he had assumed ; he made thz credulous hus-
band believe that he would insure him a complete
cure in one night, if he would submit to his eyes
being bandaged for that time. The bandage was ac-
cordingly put on, and kept on till the next morning,
when he himself removed it, and found too hite that
he had been hoaxed. Ile called for the doctor,
who was not, of course, to be found ; he then called
for his wife, but she likewise not being in the house, he
inquired of the neighbours if they hail F., ,
his astonishment may be conceivid
she had, the night before, been seen in co,,,p'.n) with
the doctor on the road to Bombay. lie imme-
diately set out in search of the runaways, and
succeeded in reaching Bombay a day after them, but
did not meet them. On Saturday last he met the
defendant in the streets, and itnntk diatt‘ly g•.:ve him
into the custody of a policeman ; ,•ealch warrants
were shortly issued, but his wife has not as yet been
found, and the prisoner denies :ill know ledge of her
after his leaving the bowie of tit( comphlirant. There
is no doubt but that the lady is well sati,Ji.,4l M i h In r
situation, and is in concealment. —Agra Akbar.

MISDIRECTED INGENUITY.—Mr. Waroer, :pi iege-
ttious watchmaker and jeweller, mho occupies a stand
at the Polytechnic Institution, has comp:eted tio•
model of a high-pressure steam-engine, so small that
it stands upon a four-penny piece e ith ground to
spare ! It is the most curious specimen of minute
workmanship ever seen, each part being made
according to scale, and the whole occupying so small a
space that, with the exception of the flywheel, it might be
covered with a thimble. It is not simply a model out-
wardly, it works with the greatest activity by meals of
atraoipheric pressure (in lieu of steam), and the
motion of the little thing as its parts are seen
labouring and heaving under the first influence
is indescribably curious and beautiful. Some months
have been expended upon the structure of this Lilli-
putian engine by Mr. Warner; and the difficulty of
the undertaking may be easily conceived when it is
remembered how minute the valves, piston, sockets,
screws and hidden apparatus must be, and how
accurately they must be moulded and fitted, to in-
sure unbroken functional motion. It is altogether
a pretty toy, and an extraordinary instance of what
patience, persevereance, and expert artisanship, can
accomplish. But Mr. Warner is a practised hand
at such curiosities. His cases abound with arti-
cles manufactured for elfin use. lie has scissors
so minute that some hundreds of them go to the
ounce ; and there are knives belonging to the same
family, which, small as they are, open and shut with a
smart cliek. Quantities of other things are there of e
like kind, made with the greatest Neatness, requiring
eyes of microscopic clearness to ascertain their full per-
fections, Mr. Warner, we should imagine, works ex..
elusively for the fairies—no doubt he is entitled, by let-
ters Intent, to wear Oberon's arms over his door.—
Mechanic's Magazine.
SoUTHEND.—A singular accident occurred here a
few nights since. The commander of a brig bound froze
Colchester to London, mistaking the lights at the new
pier works for that at " Mount Misery" point, ran upon
the piling, and was completely transfixed by one of the
piles penetratinagtehaerebd aboutofottomf
the
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were landed in safety.—Essex Herald.
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A WINDT DEATH.-A few days 10;. 'Mr. J
Tickyll, accompanied by the organist of Uockeeritiouth
1 church, proceeded to examine one of the pipes of that
i . instrument which did not " speak," when they discovered
in it the body of a dead bird, with its head ont of the' 1
WWI of the pipe.— Tyne iltcrcurV.