The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-04 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Sarah West charged her husband,
Thomas West, with having horsewhipped her on the
previous evening, being an operation expressly con-
trary to the articles of union between man and wife.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What's your age, good woman?
" Forty-nine, please your Worship, and my husband
is forty-six," replied the complainant.
Mr. CHAMBERS —And do you believe that your
husband is jealous of you ? " Why, your Worship,
I really believe he is," said Mrs. West, with as
pleasing a simper as could be possibly expected from
a lady of her years.
Mr. West, in reply, stated that he had the misfor-
tune to be married to the complainant twenty-four
years ago; that her conduct of late had become ab-
solutely intolerable, having become addicted to strong
liquors, and sundry other irregularities too tedious
to mention; but, upon his honour, as a ruined
man, he felt himself obliged to state to his Wor-
ship that she (Mrs. West) was in the habit of
leaving him for the space of a fortnight and three
weeks at a time, without ever condescending upon
her return to give him the slightest account of her
wanderings ; that although he had no ocular de-
monstration, he had, nevertheless, no doubt in his
own mind but that she cohabited with other men
during those intervals; that the assault had been
committed during a moment of irritation, from the
provoking language which she had previously made
use of in answer to his inquiries respecting her con-
duct during the time she had last absented herself;
and that it was by mere accident he happened to
make use of a whip on the present occasion, having
just returned from an altercation with an ill-behaved
pig which he kept in his back court, when, as bad
luck would have it, he encountered his no less ill-
behaved wife, who had recently returned from one
of her periodical rambles,- and whose language so
provoked him that he felt himself under the lit-Tes-
sa), of resorting to thesarne measures with her
which he had been obliged to do with the other re-
fractory member of his establishment in the back
court.

As >Tr% West did not altogether deny the state-
ment of her husband, Mr. 011131BERS endeavoured
to accommodate matters by advising them to return,
live in peace, and burn the whip. Neither party,
however, appeared to relish the advice of the Wor-
thy Magistrate, who at length disposed of the case
by recommending the husband to allow his wife an
alimony of three shillings per week, which was joy-
fully acceded to by both.

MUNCHAUSEN STORY.—In 1702 there was
an universal complaint among the feeders of cattle in the
fens of Lincolnshire, that they frequently lost a horse, an
ox, or a cow, and could not discaver by what means; when
leeching more narrowly, they observed a horse, and pre-
sently after a cow, go to the river to drink, and suddenly
disappear. On going to the river side they saw an eel, the
body of which was as large as an elephant. They could not
doubt but this was the thief who had so often,robbed them
of their cattle, and they very reasonably concluded, if they
could catch the eel, their cattle would henceforth drink in
safety. A council decided upon the folloWing expedient :
They sent to London and purchased a cable and anchor,
by way of fishing line and hook, and fastened the end of
the cable round a barn, which stood about a hundred feet
from the river, and then waited to see what the morning
would produce. At break of day they repaired to the
river side, when, to their great astonishment, they found
that the eel bad been there and swallowed the bait, but in
endeavouring to disengage himself had pulled the barn
after him into tho river, and having broken the cable, made
his escape.—Cheater Courant.