The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 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 the 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 late that
he had been hoaxed. He 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 neighbonrs if they had seen her, when
his astonishment may be conceived at being told that
she had, the night before, been seen in company with
the doctor on the road to Bombay. He imme-
diately set out in search of the runaways, and
succeeded in reaching Bombay a day after them, but
did not meet theth. On Saturday last he met the
defendant in the streets, and immediately gave himi
into the custody of a policeman ; search-warrants.
were shortly issued, but his wife has not as yet been.
found, and the prisoner denies all knowledge of her
after his leaving the house of the complainant. There
is no doubt but that the lady is well satisfied with hiur
situation, and is in concealment.—Agra Ahbar.

MISDIRECTED INGENIIITY.—MT. Warner, an inge-
nious watchmaker and jeweller, who occupies a stand:.
at the Polytechnic Institution, has completed the'
model of a high-pressure steam-engine, so small that,
it stands upon a four-penny piece with 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 means of
atmospheric pressure (in lieu of steam), and th‘st
motion of the little thing as its parts are seem
labouring and heaving under the first influence
is indescribably curious and beautiful. some months
have been expended upon the structure of this UM-
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, eau
accomplish. But Mr. Warner is a practised hand
at such curiosities. his cases abound with arti-
cles manufactured for elfin use. He 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 click. Quantities of other things are there of a
like kind, made with the greatest xeatness, requiring
eyes of microscopic clearness to ascertain their full per-
fections. Mr. Warner, we should imagine, works ex-
clusively for the fairies—no doubt he is entitled, by let-
ters patent, to wear Oberon's arms over his door,—
Meehan ic' s Magazine.
SouTHEND.—A singular accident occurred }sere a
few nights since. The commander of a brig bound from
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 penetrating the bottom of the vessel, and which the
next morning appeared about four feet above her deck.
The crew were landed in safety.—Essex Herald.
MB BISHOP or EXETER.—The Rev. C. V. Le
Grice, the venerable and deservedly beloved clergyman
whom Harry of Exeter prays for so spitefully in his
" Judgment," has addressed a letter " To the Members
of the Protestant Reformed Church of England," vin-
dicating himself (it was scarcely necessary) from the
Bishop's aspersions, and conveying at the same time s
lesson to the proud Prelate, which he will not act wisely
in despising.—Patriot.
A WINDY DEATII.—A few days ago, Mr. J.
Tickell, accompanied by the organist of Cockermouth
church, proceeded to examine one of the pipes of that
instrument which did not " speak," when they discovered
in it the body of a dead bird, with iti head out of the
mouth of the pipe.—Tyne Mercury.