The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

GRIFFITHS V. REID AND HARRIS.

This was originaily an appeal from the Consistorial
Court of Llandaff, in a suit in which the office of the
judge was promoted by Mr. Evan Griffith (a proctor
in that Court) against John Reid and Alice Harris,
foe, incest. The articles had been admitted in the
Court below : but on the appeal, they were in this
Court ordered to be reformed before admission, and
the cause was retained.

The argument lasted to a late hour, and was finally
adjourned till next Court day.

POPULATION.—Mr. MERRITT, in a recent
very interesting communication, read before the Liverpool
Philosophical Society, on British Statistics, asserts, that
Great Britain is at present the most populous nation which
has existed since the Christian era. We are inclined to
doubt this gentleman's conclusions if any faith is to be placed
in the accounts given, by most travellers, respecting the
population of China, and parts of Hindostan.—London
lVeckly Review.

COACH ROBBERY.—On Friday morning
week a valuable parcel was lost or stolen from the Don-
caster coach, on its way from Rotherham to Sheffield.—
The parcel, which we understand was given to the coach-
man (GiesoN) in Rotherham, and by him deposited in the
fore boot of the coach, on his arrival at Sheffield, was
missing. There is considerable suspicion that it was
stolen by one of the passengers, during the absence of GIB-
SON for a short time from the coach, at the public-house of
Mr. BANKS, in Attercliffe, on which occasion he gave the
reins to the stranger, while he went into the house, who, it
is thought, took that opportunity of getting the treasure
into his possession : and what strengthens the suspicion, is
the fact, that the person took an opportunity of leaving the
coach previous to his arrival at the inn to which it runs in
Sheffield. The parcel stolen contained bills and hank notes
to the amount of between 1,100/. and 1,2001. (not
12,0001.) as stated in some of the papers. —Leeds Mercury.
A SECOND HAND COFFIN.—The Resur-
rection men have been busy about Lichfield, and Walsall, and
Wolverhampton. Between the latter town and Willenhall,
there has for some time been an arrangement, respecting
the funerals of their respective paupers, by which the
towns exchanged burials, when the paupers of one parish
died in the other ; burying one for another alternately.
Last week a Willenhall pauper (an old woman) dying in
Wolverhampton, the parish officers of the town buried her,
as in duty bound, but it was discovered the next day that
the resurrection men had borrowed the old lady's body,
leaving the coffin empty. The parish officers of Willenhall
claimed the coffin as their property, and took it home!
On the death of a Wolverhampton pauper, a few days after-
wards, the Willenhall men took the coffin and offered it for
sale ! but it. was refused, though an ample discount was
named ; it being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a
large parish, to drive a " Cheap. John " bargain with
second hand coffins for their poor ; the untenanted case is
now " On Sale " in a fashionable furniture shop in Willen-
hall.—Pottery Gazette.

MELANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE BY SW!'"
wnEcK.—Early on the morning of Friday last, a large
brig was seen from the shore to have grounded on the outer
bar of Rosbeigh, at the lower end of Castlemain Bay, in
this county, a fatal spot ; a sand bank, amidst shoals, gene-
rally covered with a foaming broken sea, and as danger-
ous as any on the Western Coast of Ireland. ft being ebb
tide when the vessel struck, many
were of opinion that had
the crew used timely exertion, their lives might have been
saved. It seemed, however, that probably in hope and ex-
pectation of getting the vessel off, and saving the ship and
cargo, they preferred sticking to her until high water. Un-
fortunately, however, as the tide rose, the wind freshened
and became tempestuous—the brig was immediately beaten
to pieces in the surf, and all hands perished. It is con-
jectured she was coal laden ; but we have not learned that
any part of the cargo was driven or washed on shore. We
have seen a letter from a respectable Magistrate of that
neighbourhood,
on shore
frommentitohne wreck, were written or painted,
that, on the stern of a boat
driven
the words " Three Friends of Belfast," which leads to a
supposition that such was the name of the brig—anti ou
the case of a quadrant, also driven on shore, the name
RODERICK MORRISSON was painted, supposed to have been
the name of the master. A report is in circulation, (but
from no certain authority) that some trunks or chests have
been since driven on shore, though we have not yet been
able to learn that any further information as to the vessel er
cargo, has been obtained...Durgin Morning Register.