The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-26 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET:

.CRUF.I.TY OF A INLiTHER...-MES. Martha Francis;
the wife of a French Teacher, residing in Nelson-
street; Hackney-fields, was charged- by-iteOver-
seers of Shoreditch -Parish with cruelty to her Owrt
daughter, a child only four years old. The child
was in the Office, and was covered with welts,
black and blue, Irons head to focit; one of her
eyes was in a dreadful state, for which the pri-
soner 'accounted by saying she had run against
some thing. The prisoner had three other chil-
dren, all of whom she treated iu a different man-
ner, which was stated to be occasioned by having
nursed them herself; but this unfortunate child
had been sent out to. nurse, and had not been with
her, which; it is supposed, weaned her affections
from it.-7--Mr. MAINWARING, under all the cir-
cumstances; told the Overseers, as the Grand
Jury•were sitting, . they had better bring the child
before them in the state she was in. The prisoner
was committed for want of bail.

THE IRISH FEVER.—A householder, in Cow-
cross, attended before the Sitting Magistrate, to
-ask his advice under the following circumstances:
—He stated, that some days ago_a family, who
had come from Ireland,. hired lodgings .at his
house, but they had not been there long before
they exhibited; evident symptoms of the Typhus
fever, such as is stated to be now raging in Ire
lam. ; before they were- long in the house they
were all affected by it, and Ile, being fearful him.-
orany of his family should catch the con.ta'
gion, wished to have them removed out cat his
house, and applied to the Magistrate for that pur-
pose. The worthy Magistrate said he had no ju-
risdiction ; it, Was a. hard' case.; he had bettFr
apply to the Overseers of the parish, and get rid
of them in the regular way.'„

At Stourbridge. Fair yesterday, there was a
good chew of horses of a middling description,
which sold readily ; horses of a superior
kind were scarce, and Jim few sold. TII6IO
was a small supply of Essex hops, in pockets,
which cold at about 201. per cwt. The prices of
cheese were as follow': Derby 60s. Gloucester
655. Cheshire 84s. and Cottenham 48s. to 50s.
per cwt.
The Court of Assizes of Beauvais has con-
demned to death
.;t woman :ri`itned Truptil, for
having set fire to her house, out of hatred to her
husband, with whom she lived on bad terms.
Tuesdarnight, or early on Wednesday morn-
ing, some thieves burglariously broke open the
coaeh-house belonging to FIELD, Esq. im
Pond-street, Hampstead, and stole the coach
glasses, with all the inside furniture of the coach.
The same night, some thieves broke open the
chaise-house and stable, belonging to Mr. Wamwr
of the same place, and stole a new saddle and all
the chaise harness : a crow bar was found in a
field adjoining the premises on Wednesday morn-
ing, by Read, senior`, of Hatton-garden Police
Mice, ..

Saturday .Joseph Keeth 'was convicted before
the Magistrates of
,Exeter, for having in his pos-
session 222 false or counterfeit three shilling Bank
tokens, fbr which he was fined I,110t.; null not;
being able to pay the same; he was committed to
Southgate-prison, Exeter, for three .calendar
months, and to he kept to hard labour during his
confinement. The penalty :is 51. for each token.

BIRTHS.
On Friday last, Mrs. Ilanunan,Burton-street,Burton-cres-.
cent, of a flanOter.
.On Monday last, at his house, Everton, near LiverpoOl, the
Lady of Anthony Littledale, V.sq. of a daughter.

• •- . MARRIED.
On Tuesday last, at Hendon Church, Mr. Charles Cope,
Solicitor, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of William Godwin,
Esq. of Hendon.-
Yesterday, at •Milton Ernys, Bedfordshire, the..Rev,..rohit
Donne-, to Miss Haslehurst.