The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-09 00:00:00

I am now k great rat-catcher entirely, and I kilt 42 of um this
rnorninr whin I iteirdditntny *is taken, and then •I kilt more.-
(Loudlauglder, iti which the Magistrate joined). -
Sir °tonna—What ! from a great schoolmaster, to be obliged
to turn rati•catche4', certainly a lad teverseof fottune,. Barney.
Barnaby--,Your Reverence—oh, your Mew I. mane, this will
be put in all the newspapers-. but I don't care ibout um. It's
not than'. as troubles. the, If temild. only do something for my
own poor country. May be your Worship would give her some
relief, fuer see we're all so poor there. St. Giles's and all the
places about is chock fun of us, and a mithy trouble to the‘work-
houses. Only let me tell your Honor's Worship of sweet Ireland's
greevancee and her wrongs, and'l'm sure yoti'll help hur. Its a
fine country, your Lordship, where you could get milk and prie
ties very cheap, if your Reverence—your Honour I mane, would
only have 'the:money to • buy um.—(Laughter.)—Here Barnaby
in the same strain-Went into 'a detail of what he willed the " gree-
vances of Ireland."
Sir Groaos.—Well Barney, I will let your son time;
Ibut you ought to keepfhim'at algebra instead of allowing him to
go begging and lead an-idle life:: •
Barnaby.--.-Oh thank your' Honour ; Jimmy will be a good
boy, and may be a great man too. Jimmy, I say, you down-
looking
'vagabond, go'dotvu on your knees and thank his Lordship's
Reverence. Didn't I-whack you well to-day, you blackguard?
'three times limited you
,with the slate, and I'll whack you: more
if you goer a begging again.'
Jimmy, went onhis knees. Barnaby, Bridget, and .Jimmy,
then left the office. When Bernell reached the'door he returned,'
and said,." Well, your Reverenm—your Honour I moue, sure you
won't forget poor old Ireland ?"
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a man named Thomas Pays was
brought before the sitting Magistrate, R. .1. Citaatazaa, Esq.,
charged under Mr. Martin's act with extreme cruelty to' a horse,'
the property of Mr. Veal, a gentleman raiding near Croydon.
The complainant stated, that on the 24th of July, a team of his
horses was employed in drawing manure. The waggon' to which
they were attached having been heavily laden, the horses could
not draw the load, when the defendant and another man (not yet
in custody), used the following method of torture towards one of
the poor animals. Having beaten the horse most unmercifully,
the man not in custody ran into the, stable and fetched out a truss
of straw, which he placed under the animal's belly, while the de-
fendant procured .a ;light, and immediately set fire to the straw,
which blued ug with great fury, and burnt the poor animal in a
frightfulananner, before it could extricate itself and draw forward
the load.
The defendant—Your Worship, I coiild not get him to go on,
and we were forced to light a little straw under his belly to make
him go forward.
Mr. CHA M BERS-But why not take.part of the load out of the
waggon, rather than put in:practice such horrible cruelty? The
Magistrate then referred to Mr.. Martin's Act, and told the de-
fendant he should inflict a penalty of 61. upon him, and in default
of payment he mutt be committed to the House of Correction for
the space of two months.
A former matter of the defendant here stepped forward, and as-
sured the Magistrate that he was as good a Servant as any in,Bng-
hind ; he therefore hoped the penalty would be mitigated. •
The Magistrate would notlisten to any applicatiou, and the pe-
nalty was ultimately paid.

CORONER'S 'I,I4QUEST.
• Yesterdays at two o'clock, an inquisition was taken at
No. 2, Cushion-court, Old Broad-street, City, before
Thomas Shelton, Esq., Coroner, and a most respectable
Jury, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Marshall, who
put a period to his existence under the following circum-

stances :--,
On the Jury being empanelled and sworn, -they pro-
ceeded with the Coroner to the late residence of the de-
ceased in Cushion-court, for the purpose of viewing the
body. .
James Hannell, a youth of ;15 years of age, exa-
rnined.-1 reside with my mother, who is a widow, at
Hacknerterraee. The , deceased is my uncle, and was
in the habit of visiting my 'mother. On Saturday last
he came to our house, and stopped till Monday morn-
ing, when _he returned to his ,apartments in Cushion-
court, in' the city. I left home about one hour prior
to my uncle; and was at his house on his arrival.
About 11 o'clock he inquired of me if I should not like a
walk. , I replied in the affirmative, and went our, leaving
My' uncle at his desk writing. About one o'cloCk I returned,
the deceased was not in Inc sitting-rooM. I imagined, he
waS washing himself in his dressing room, and opened the
door, when I discovered him sitting ontheground, with his
head leaning against the washing stand; he was without
his coat, and his linen was drenched in blood; I .conserved
he had broken a blood-vessel; and in great alarm ran dOwn
stairs, and told Mrs. Sadler, the landlady, oldie situation
of my uncle;' ayoung man named Hether werieup stairs,
and Mrs. Sadler 'ran off for a surgeon : preiently, Mr.
Hether returned down stairs, and, said that my uncle had
cut 'his throat, and was quite dead. . , •
' Coroner. Pray, bad any part of your family seen a
difference in your, uncle's conduct of late ? .
Witness.,--Yes; Sir, for the last month he has been
very melanCholy.
~ Mr: James Hether was next examined. .
Coroner. --On your entering the -room first was the
deceased; quite dead ?.-Witness.--.-Perfectly so,. Sir'.
Mrs. Ann Sadler was next sworn.
Coroner.—Have you of late observed any thing in the
conduct of the deceased; for you teimagine he-.was not in
his right mind t' - . , ~:
Witness.—Not exactly, Sir; for the list three months
he has complainedof the heat of the weather, and said that
it' made him. very nervous.'
A Juror here remarked, that it had been reported, that
on. ' the tnorning the 'deceased had Committed the dreadful'
act, a letter hadirrived, which seemed to have much dis-
trestied the deceased.
The Coroner questioned the witness as to her know-
ledge of the letter mentioned ; but she denied having
known any thing respecting it. • ,
Mr. Hannell, the brother of the deceased, and several
other witnesses, spoke as to the :depression . of spirits
which the deceased laboured under for above a month
previous to' his death..
concluded, the
onsultoatnieorilladiediuels.isi;dd
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jurye,viwdehaoc,eaftiteeirnag
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a verdict of " Insanity."

Lawyers cannot be expected at the moment. to
answer at least one quarter of the 'questions which are
put to them. The statutes of this country occupy
45,000 Close quarto pages, and tilie reports of coin-
mon law decisions continually referred to are contained
in no less than 55,000 other pages. So that the
standard of evidential books of legal authority consist
of about 100,000 pages. -These books are of course
exclusive of the different abridgments and treatises of
law, and arguments and comments on legal decisions.
Of these, Vesey:s, Comyn's, and Bacons works cow
tarn a quantity dt,type equal to 200,000 common
octavo ges I—Mirror.
Dr. Maine, an eccentric character, who w;ei ejected
rin by Cnwell from ecclesiastical livings which lie held
from Charles 1., preserved, in making his will, the
whimsicalities of his life. He had an old servant, to
Iwiiimi°ltnhathehebewqourldthfienad 11:10Iainectlnig iient family trunk, telling
there "which would
make him drink after his death. "rhe servant,
full
of expectation that his toaster, under this familiar expres,
s
flew to the trunk, when to his great
mortifiCation, he found that the boasted legacy was no-
thing more than a red herring !
i, heel
all-o lwetetil l:im a fair competency, as
i soon as tie-
cency
The Journal of the Two IVorids has the follow-
rn article-in the number of the 18th July The-
exiean Goveniment has forbidden all English shies
of the Royal Navy. to anchor, under the toii of St.
Juan trUlloa, or even, to moor there ; spilt they may do
both at the Isle of Saerificios. It seems that this
measure has been suggested by the fear that they may
upon it, and make it another Gibraltar.
rtain that the city of Vera Cruz has asked, of the Go-
;tvtehieutphte'rto these seize
fears
are
well founded or hot, it is ca..
vernment that this fort should be demolished, but this
request has been rejected.