The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

had been found against Davis, and in a few days the case would
be tried. This information had been brought by Davis merely
for the purpose of gratifying private malice.

As soon as Sir IL fltitstiiannouticed that the information was
dismissed, there was a clapping of hands, and shouts of approba-
tion by the crowd assembled to hear the ease. •
UNION-HALL—Yesterday a respectable-looking man, who
save his name Bones, was summoned before the presiding magis-
trate for assaulting bis brother-in-law of the same name.
,The complainant, in commencing his statement, called the
magistrate's attention to a black eye which he had received from
his relative that morning. He then proceeded to state that be
was a married man, and that- his Wife having taken a freak
into her head to abscond front home, " very naturally," said
he, " I went to seek after her, fearful that she might have flung
herself into the river or done some other naughty trick." In the
course of his search he called at his brother-in-law's house,
and the first object that presented itself to his astonished
senses was his wife, whom he bad almost given up as lost.
She was sitting behind a screen in the parlour, and he no
sooner caught a glimpse of her, than running forward for the
purpose of embracing her, the defendant met him half way
and gave him a " douse in the eye" that closed it, and during
the confusion that arose in consequence, his wife, instead of
remaining where she was, made a precipitate retreat, leaving
her euro sposa in the hands of a man that, in point of size, was
able to annihilate him from the face of the earth. He added,
that he made an attempt to follow his wife, hut the person who
had assaulted him in the first instance swore most bitterly that if
he " budged" any where but out of the house, his other eye should
meet with the same fate. Consequently he was obliged to depart
without his wife, to whom no one had so much right, he said, as
himself.

The defendant interrupted him by saying that. he was jus-
tified in treating him in the manner he had. " The fact was,"
said the defendant, " the person who now makes the complaint
treated his wife very barbarously, and the poor woman, disgusted
with his behaviour, left him and sought protection under his (the
defendant's) roof. Thither thelmsband followed her, and in a state
of intoxication, demanded that she should instantly leave the pre-
mises. Defendant remonstrated with him on the brutality of his
conduct,'in the course of which high words ensued, and the result
was, that the defendant struck him on the eye.
The complainant declared that he was as sober as a judge when
he went to look after his wife. This assertion, however, was
contradicted by two witnessesu, who bore testimony to his having
been blind drunk on the occasion.

The Magistrate therefore discharged Mr. Bones, the defendant,
and advised his namesake, the complainant, to behave better to
his wife in future, and be would warrant she would not abandon
her home.

The Lord Chancellor has sent to the Six Clerks'
Office to inquire whether any material inconvenience
will result to the public if the office of the Master of
the Rolls should remain for some time vacant. This
circumstance has induced the profession generally to
suppose that it is the intention of those with whom
the power of appointing to the situation lies, to offer
the place to Sir
at'
Leach, the present Vice-Chan-
cellor, who is present in Italy, and that the con-
templated delay is intended to afibrd sufficient tine
for communicating with' his Honour on the subject,
and to ascertain whether lie is disposed to quit the
office which he at present holds, and to take, in re-
turn, the Mastership of the Rolls. An answer has,
we understand, been returned to his Lordship's appli-
cation from the Six Clerks' Office ; the precise terms
of which we have not heard, but we understand it was.
in substance, " that no public inconvenience will be
occasioned by a short delay."
AN ODD FISH, OF THE MUNCHAUSEN SPECIES.
—Kilburne, in his survey of Kent, says that near this
place, Bradstow, Isle of fhanet, " on the 9th of .July,
1574, a monstrous .fish shot himself on shore, on a
little sand called Fishness, there ; fbr want of water he
died the next day, before which time his roaring was
heard above .a mile. His length was twenty-two yards ;
the nether jaw opened twelve feet ! one of his eyes was
more than a cart and six leorses could draw ! a man
stood upright in the Owe from whence his eye was
taken ; the thickness from his back to the top of his
belly (which lay upward) was fourteen feet ; his tail
of the same breadth ; the distadce between his eyes
was twelve feet ; three men stood upright in his mouth ;
some of his ribs were sixteen feet long; his tongue
was fifteen feet long ; his liver was two cart loads, and
a man might creep into his nostrils." This, is also
tratisc,ibed by Mr. Lewis into his history of the Isle
of Than et.—Devonport Telegraph.
FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Friday the Ist
instant, two:men, the one a tailor and . the other a
blacksmith; with a boy about ten years of age, took a.
boat from Treveen Cove, the eastern part of Mount's
Bay not far from Marazion, to go a fishing. Un-
fortunately it came on to blow hard in the night,
and,the men knowing as much of the boat as she
knew of them, they were unable to manage her,
and were consequently driven to sea:without any
provisions. They drilled about, till Monday, when
they were fallen in with by a frigate and received every
nourishment they required. They were. about fifteen
leagues from the Lizard, when met by the ship of war,
and had caught but one fish, a hake, and that they eat
as it was, undressed. The frigate brought too a cut-
ter who took them in tow, and landed them on Tues-
day at Prussian's Cove in the bay near their home, to
the great joy of their friends, who had given them upl
for lost.—Corntvall Gazette.

A STRIKING FACT.—In the early part oC this
year, in a village in
the North,, lived two women, who
were neighbours, their husbands were labourers ; the
men kept in tolerable good humour and harmony
with each other, being constantly engaged at work in
the fields, except on Sundays, and in the evenings ;
but between their wives many bickerings and quarrels
existed. These jars were at first restrained within the
bounds of moderation, but they gradually increased to
a violence and frequency that disturbed and alarmed
the whole neighbourhood. Both the women became
pregnant, and in giving vent to their malicious passions,
they uttered many bitter wishes and imprecations upon
one another, not infrequently invoking a curse upon
each other when they should be in labour. A
short time before the first women was brought to bed,
the clothes of her daughter, a girl about nine years old,
took fire, and she was burnt to death. The mother
was safely delivered some time after, but, although
she recovered very well at first, in about a fortnight
she and the child both died. This awful removal
did not affect the heart of her enemy. She still re-
mained a stranger to benevolent feelings, she showed
no signs of repentance, nor any desire to lead a more
peaceful and religious life. Her time, however, soon
arrived. She was
also safely delivered, and did well
for about ten or fourteen days. After that period she
sickened and
gradually grew worse. Perceiving her
critical hitUation, she became terrified at it; her past
ungodly life, and particularly the recent enmity
Ebe-
tween her and her neighbour, now deceased, inces,
sandy hung upon her mind. She seemed given up
to,despair.very thing was done to convey to her
the consolations of religion, but she could not embrace
theth. As long as her voice was audible, her cries for
mercy were incessant and vociferous: through weakness
alone, at last she remainedsilent, but from the agita-
dons, which it was evident she underwent; it was
feared by the persons present, that even in her last
moments she endured the horrors of desperation. This
awful fulfilment of bad wishes struck many with terror,
andeast 4 gloom Over thi whole village ;, and for
some time after, few of the villagers liked to discourse
about the unhappy' -of their two quarrelsome and
malicious neighbours,