The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-14 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZtS,

HOME CIRCUIT.
Before Lord Chief Justice BEST and Mr. Justice Ma.-
ROU GII.

Hertfordshire----Wednesday, March b, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, March W, at Chelmsford.
Kent—Monday, March 17, at Maidstone,
Sussex—Monday, March 24, at Horshatn.
Surrey—Monday, March 31, at Kingston.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
'Before Mr. Justice GASELEE and Mr. Justice LITTLE-
DALE• )_ _

Southampton—Monday, March 3, at the Castle of Win-
chester.
Wiltshire—Saturday, March 13, at New Sarum.
Dorsetshire—Friday, March 14, at Dorchester,
Devonshire—Tuesday, March 18, at Exeter.
City and County of Exeter—Same day, at the Guild-
hall at Exeter.
Cornwall—Tuesday, March 25, at Launceston.
Somerset—Saturday, March 29, at the Castle of Taunton.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

'Before Sir WILITAn ALEXANDER and Sir G. S. HoL-.

ROYD, Knights )
Northampton—Saturday, March 1.
Oakham—Friday, 3larch 7.
Lincoln and City—Saturday, March S.
Nottingham and Town—Friday, March 14.
Derby—Wednesday, March 18.
Leicester and Borough—Monday, March 24.
Coventry and Warwick—Saturday, March 29.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Durham—Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Durham.
Town of Newcastle and County of the same Town—
Monday, March 3, at Newcastle.
Northumberland—Tuesday, March 4, at Newcastle.
Westmoreland—Friday, Feb. 29, at Appleby.
Cumberland—Monday, March 3, at Carlisle.
Lancaster—Saturday, March 8, at Lancaster.
Yorkshire—Saturday, March 22, at the Castle of York.
City of York—The same day, at the Guildhall, York.

A few evenings ago, a maid-servant in the
house of Mr. SMITH, farmer, of Barnwell, in drinking a
cup of tea, swallowed a small nail which had been put into
the cup with the sugar; the nail getting into her wind-
pipe, threw her into strong cenvulsiona, which would
speedily have terminated her existence, had not a medical
gentleman succeeded in extracting the nail just in time to
save the girl's life. —Hull Packet.
- - -

Near this place a man, named MICHAEL
NEILL, lately married a widow, whose former husband.
named MAGRATII, left four surviving brothers. Some
family quarrel saving existed respecting a few acres of
ground left by the deceased, in consequence of which NZILI
had been threatened, he took the precaution of sleeping in
an outhouse with a servant boy, in order the more easily to
make his escape in case of attaok. On Thursday night
party of men, with their faces blackened, came to the (loot
of the cabin where he slept, and induced him to come out
in his shirt, when they, with swords and a scithe, attacked,
wounded, and maimed him, cutting off his thumbs, and
chopping his arms whilst holding them up to save himself.
They cut off the cap of one of his knees, by which he must
be a cripple for life, if he should even survive the horrid
treatment he received. lie was also wounded in various
other parts of the body, limbs, and head ; and, but for the
zeal of the above mentioned servant-boy, who ran off and
alarmed the neighbourhood, they would have doubtless cut
kin. to pieces. Mr. FORSYTH, chief constable, who sent
a surgeon to poor Nrat's assistance, arrived at the spot in
a short time, asid arrested MAGRATII, one of the brothers.
named DANIEL. Next day Mr. Bowe took informations,
and had the remaining MauxaTkis taken into custod3.
There is little hope of NelLL's recovery, from the lose of
blood and the excruciating agony of his wounds.— Clon-
met Advertiser.

::b.DR° ul°°Pc ''''
sorwryhsoicfthowbhhadaatgvwe:ta,t,i
lying
}ni
roundnt DUNDEE,hge
olhnvoitilihsi
se:
smallf
aw
record an atrocious murder perpetrated here last night. ,A
little before seven o'clock in the evening a man said t.,
a boy, on the street at the West Shore, "Go and tel
DAVID Moattica's wife to send to the smithy for him, a•
he is asleep there." The boy went to Mounrez's house.
in Butcher-row, and delivered his message, when Moe
eeel' n'ciEthuaßtinold Bkt
ihe.nie.sechsamNi
seNii;eixeyv.a,b arc
ccaihnl and found
afso
beadupni
enelr
in
eleiaia
was
al
RICE'S daughter and a mason of the name of Ton, a lodge,
ewxoaumnidnsinogn Itibi se bfoorde.sh',eiatdw, was
efoaubondveheeachial receivededye,
who heel
ed int() protuberances of about the size of a dove's egg,.(b!_t ‘
several other wounds about the bead, apparently Wl,' 't ".
arm p u to
a hammer. The poor man was carried home
bed, and Dr. 'WEBSTER, and Messrs. Ch I;
ALEk
ihm ; but he died
ANDER, and GREIG, surgeons, attended
rfito:ece'uestody, ahalpitptelenebderobreein;ntakoecnlotcok.theOPnoliincetelOilni►
took Davin ANDERSON, blacksmith,
been working in the smithy all day with the deceased
On putting questions to ANDERSON, it appeared that t
blockmaker, also residing at West Shore, had quarrelle,i
with the deceased yesterday, and some circumstances led it
suspicion against him, when Serjeant Dow was despatch, ‘:
to apprehend him. He found bim in bed, with part of hi
clothes on. It is understood a precognition will be take.,
into the case to-day.—Dundee Courier.

If , •
/-41 V,•,
GUILDHALL MOENINd C(l4' f:74,
?OR TRH BENEFIT OF TIIE SPAN ISH fit INZ
REFUGEES.

SO early as half-past I et. yest erdayn3f C 7
were thrown of ,en to the holders c)l.-
11 every seat in that part of the spa:.otts
to the public was occupied; ye say in zdr.:
because w • found a larg. space in the - •-' -•-
by a railing, and reserved for the c-ty a. 'h"-
their families, the patrons
and
patrare., Fax, TLe
orchestral and musical arrangemeat., un,ler (I:-
rection of Sir George Smart and Mr. E.
were -Upon a scale of grand, urperl aps a e.
The number of instrumental Perforrierc-
was understood as amounting to 20`). Tha co
was commenced at twelve precisely, wi h a qclecti
music,s
pofastoacni,•edmissWilkinson,and
Braham,
other thiii3llcn N:] u 1 .N
eti
native vocalists, took a part.
The second part was opened with the overture. :«a"
Freischutz," which was most admitably exeetite.
and encored. None but modern music faroweal, it
P,i
we may call an exception the style of Pep •se!‘4
" Alexis" sung by Braliam, and accompanied ott the
violoncello by the incomparable Lindley. The ohli-
gato accompaniment to this " Cantata" elicited, a it
always does, a sort of enthus astic applause. 1
know of no concerto-piece better calculated to show
off all the beauties of Lindley's execution than this
concertante accompaniment, which almost leads on
to suppose it expressly written for that perpose, Ma-
dame Pasta, Mrs. Peron, Sitratora Miser
Bacon, Phillips, Curioni, andPellegrini, distittgutili-
ed themselves in various arias, duets, ; and
Madame Pasta's substitution of " Umbra adarila
aspetta" to Paccini's " II aoave a bel canteato,"
gave great satisfaction, and received its usual share
of applause. Mr. Nicholson's fantasia on the fitite
deserves beiag mentioned in terms of high praise.
This gentleman appears to us to improve, if possible,
every year. His power of execution is almost
astonishing. The performances closed at aboas four
o'clock, with the national anthem " God save the
King."
We calculated there must have been at least
1,200 persons present. The number of "man was
certainly equal to that of ladies. It is asserte I that
the net amount of profit from this concert will ex-
ceed 1,000/.

~~r