The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

MIXSC"LIZa..&I7ZOITS.

Ti' North Lancashire Election took place yesterday.
:41r.(;lifters, the Conservative, was returned without op-
positi on.
IV e hear that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bri4 e, with his son-in-law, the Grand Duke of
Med lenburgh Strelitz, are expected on a visit to the
Earl of Mansfield, at Scone Palace, in the course of next
neck.

It i s currently reported in the City that Alderman Sir
John Pine has received an intimation that he will be
appoit ted a Commissioner of Excise.
We are requested by the Messrs. M'Cracken, Custom-
house a gents, to state, that the marble statue which htts
arrived by the ship Effort, from Leghorn, for her Ma-
jes.`.y the Quf:en, is not a statue of her Majesty, but of
Yer telope, kr..ecuted by Richard Wyatt, an English sculp-
tor, resid' rig at Rome, and who, when in England two
years an, was honoured by her Majesty with the corn-
miss. ion .

By -yirtue of a very old custom in Belgium, particu-
larly in Brussels, the reigning Sovereign of this country
becoms godfather to the seventh consecutive son of any
family, however humble their situation may be. The
other. ni zht, the wife of an honest mechanic residing at
No. 17, Rue de la Betterave, gave birth to her seventh
son, who will accordingly have the honour of becoming
the g odson to his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
A I very large meeting of medical men was held on
Thurs day 4.1) the Guildhall, Norwich, to consider the
provis: ions of Sir James Graham's recently introduced
Medic al Bid. The several speakers viewed with alarm
Sir Ja mes Graham's Bill. It was unanimously agreed
that 1 ietitions to the House of Commons should be
adopt( d, and to the House of Lords, should the Bill be
brougl at under consideration there.
Large amounts of new copper coin, or half-farthings,
are, a.; :already intimated, now issued. It is a neat
piece of money, bearing the bust of the Queen, with the
inscripti, on " Victoria," &c. ; on the reverse the words
"Half a Farthing." Many street speculators took ad-
vantage of the curiosity of the passengers, and sold them
at the r ate of four for a penny.
Thee frequenters of St. Paul's will doubtless be re-
joiced t o learn that the precise time for the re-commence-
ment oi •Divine service has at length been fixed upon, as
appea rs. by the following announcement at the Cathedral
door : ---" The service in the Cathedral will recom-
mence • on Sunday, the 29th inst."
On Tuesday last the out-pensioners of Chelsea Hos-
pital, commencing with the Royal Horse Artillery to the
6th bt ittalion of Foot Artillery, attended before a board
of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, for the pur-
pose o.f being identified by Captain Forbes, who has
been a ppointed paymaster of the Woolwich districts.
The pe:lsioners will be paid monthly in future, com-
mencing-. sit Christmas next, but those who prefer it may
be paid weekly, and a similar arrangement will be
made with those who may become a burden to the pa-
rishes, tad enter the union poorhouses.

JAMES COCKBURN BELA NEY.

The excitement created by the trial of this person on
the ch..irg e of murdering his wife, at Stepney, still pre-
vails in ,orth Sunderland and its neighbourhood, where
the misel :able man resides, and has been living since his
acquittal . On Monday evening last the populace col-
lected in great numbers about eight o'clock, and paraded
the strec is and lanes in and near North Sunderland,
with thr de effigies, the first representing Belaney, the
second "the archfiend," and the last one of Belaney's
friends, who resides in Newcastle, and who took a very
prominent part in the late trial in favour of the prisoner.
On the prc.cession reaching the gates of Belaney's house,
about nine o'clock, they began to set fire to the effigy
outside the gates, upon which Belaney rushed out of the
house, and fired Off a pistol in the direction of the crowd,
but he was glad to make a hasty retreat, dropping his
pistol on the way. His conduct so exasperated the
popul: ice, that they commenced a general assault on
Belau ey's house, battered in the shutters, and
demol ached the glass frames. Having effected an en-
trance, they destroyed everything that came in their way.
In the, 'confusion Belaney effected his escape, and he con-
trived. :to elude the vigilance of his pursuers by secreting
himself in a neighbouring cornfield, otherwise there is
little ch aibt his life would have been sacrificed. The
crowd t hen set fire to the gates and to two of the figures,
and fine fly suspended that representing Belaney by the
neck frc .m the chimney-top of a house on the opposite
side of :the road, where it remains attracting the atten-
tion of the curious. The house on the following morn-
ing had all the appearance of a place that had under-
gone the fury of a military assault, the walls being
battered as if struck by hundreds of cannon-balls. But
the wort aof destruction did not end here. The populace
again as sembled on Wednesday night, and burnt the
premise: ; completely to the ground. The situation of
Belaney's home was a very romantic one. It is at the
end of tl ie village, near the edge of the cliff overlooking
the sea, the drawing-room windows being only a few in-
ches froti the summit of a fearful precipice. It was built
actor din to a plan laid down by himself, and has long
afford trig food for gossip among the rustic population of
that locality. It is not true, as stated in some of the
Newt: sstle papers, that Belaney had ensconced himself at
Clead on, near Sunderland. His brother, the clergyman,
had boon on a visit there, and hence the mistake arose.
We: have received the following additional particulars
from an occasional correspondent residing in the neigh-
bourh ood.