The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE,—Lee, Hardy, and Jones, the. three sol-
diers who were acquitted at the last Old_Bailey Sessions, of the
murder of William 'Cogle, were brought up, charged on an in-
dictment found at the last Westminster. Sessions against them,
for being concerned in the riot in which Cogle was killed on the
10th of June. . Captain Druinhicnd attended, and begged 'to
know whether the priSoners would be admitted. to bad. The
Magistrates told him it was certainly a bailable offence, and if
proper bail were produced at any time before the Sessions, they
would be discharged. Captain Drummond intimated that he
would liberate the prisoners, but for the present they were com-
mitted to prison.
HATTON-GARDEN.—EIIen Carty • was brought up from
Brickhill, forty-three miles from London, in the ' custody of
John Bixton North, Guard to the Coburg Stage, from the Bull
and Mouth Inn, to Brickhill, charged with stealing a Male
Infant, four months old; . from • its parents John and Norah
Brady, 8,. Field-lane, on the day of the Coronation. The prisoner
was begging at Brickhill, with the child in her arms, and to ex-
cite charity, used to feign having fits, but from the appearance
of the child, which was a remarkably fine one, and she having
no milk,
.she became suspected, and Mr. Radcliffe, landlord of
the George Inn, at Brickhill, ordered the Guard of the
Coburg coach to make inquiry in London, whilst he detained
the prisoner till his return. The Guard on .his arrival in_Lon-
don, saw a posting bill, which exactly agreed with the descrip-
tion of the prisoner and the child. He called in Field-lane,
and informed the child's mother. Her husband was then gone
to Bristol in search of the'prisoner. The poor mother, without
a penny in her pocket, walked to Brickhill, where she recognis-
ed the prisoner with her child, and dressed hi some- clothes she
had stolen from her. The prisoner was committed for further
examination.
lIANsioN-IIoi; Leonard, a stout hale-looking young
seaman, was-charged with having stolen a shawl from the shop
of Mrs. A. Jackson, No. 87, Cannon-street, linendraper. The
prosecutrix stated, that.on Monday morning last she was sitting
in
from her
the lin shop, e
on which it When the pribunsone.. and
n in. and snatched 2 shawl
ran off with it. He was
pursued with the cry of " stoith ief," when he threw th 2 shawl
away, but after a smart pursuit was taken and secured. The
prisoner conducted himself with the most perfect indifference,
as to the charge that was made, and appeared careless as to.
what was done with him. It was only after repeated questions
had been put to him that he could he got to give any account
of himself. He state], that he was twenty-one years old, and
belonged to Halifax : that he had been discharged some time
from his ship, and could not get another, although he had
tied repeatedly. Having no means of relief•he had been
obliged to wander about the town, catching a day's work where he
could, and -was ultimately reduced to beggina; ; but this having
failed him, he must rob or die, and he had chosen the first.—
The Loan AIAYOR commiserated the Unfortunate situation of
the young man, but whose case, it was to be feared, was that of
hundreds, who bad been driven into a career of crime from si-
milar causes and from having no resource from temporary want.
The prisoner was remanded back to prison, and orders were
given that he should be taken care of.

ORIGIN OF THE APPELLATION, "DOG-DAYS."

On this day the Canicular, or Dog. Days, con-
mente, which are very properly. stated by our
present almanacks to begin on the 3d of July,
and to end on the: 11th of August. Before the
alteration of the style in 1752, some of the airna-
nackS noticed them as beginning on the 19th of
.fuly'and terminating- the 27th of Angtist : 'and
other's made them to commence on the 24th of
JUIY, -and to end on the Bth of August: ' The
early Egyptians had been taught by long obser-
vation and experience,that as soon as a particular
star became visible, the Nile began to overflow
its banks, and they accordingly, upon its first
appearance, retreated to their terraces, where
they renrained until the inundation had subsided.
This star, therefore, was called by them Sihor,
i.e. the Nile : 'as it was Scb-ifist by the Greeks,
and ~S'irius,by. the Latins ; and from the warning
it afforded them, they tipified it as a dog, or, in
most cases, as a man with a dog's head ; that
faithful animal having been, even in those times,
distinguished for its peculiar quality of watching
over many affairs of man, and affording warning of
approaching, danger. The ancient mode of cal-
culating the Caniculas Days was from the helia-
cal rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the con-
stellatiori called Canis Major, or when that
star first appeared after having been hid by the
superior rays of the sun. But if such a rule was
still adhered to, the Dog Days would not take
place in our latitude until near the end of Au-
gust, and would consequently last to the end of
September.;.'but if, as is contended, these days
are calculated to begin from the period when
the sun comes in conjunction with Sirius, and to
last so long as its luminous rays obscure that star,
their commencement and termination are cor-
rectly placed in the almanacks of the present
period. When the ancients first observed Sirius
•emerging,- as it were, from the'sun, so as to be-
come visible to the naked eye, they usually sacri-
ficed a brown dog to appease its rage, supposing
that this star was the cause of all the diseases
that prevailed in the hot, sultry weather usually
experienced at its appearance. The idea, how-
ever, of any such effects, either as to heat, or to
.disorders, from the influence of the Dog Star, is
now wholly exploded. For although Sirius is
the nearest to the earth of any of the fixed stars,
,its distance. is computed to be not less than a
hundred thousand times the earth's orbit ; that is
a hundred thousand times 190 millions of miles.
On this subject we submit to the attention of onr
juvenile readers, whose amusement we take
every seasonable opportunity of consulting, the
folloWing extract from Enfield's Institutes of Na-
tural Philosophy—" The swiftest motion with
which we are acquainted is that of light, which
is at the rate of 12 millions of miles in a minute,
and yet light would be three years in passing from
Sirius to the earth. A cannon ball, which may
be made to move at the rate of 20 miles in a mi-
nute, would be 1,800 thousand years in travers-
ing this distance. Sound, the velocity of which
is 13 miles in a minute, would be more than
2,700,000 years in passing from that star to the
earth !"—(Boston Gazette.)

ANOTHER MOVING BOG.—A small tract of bog
called" Forest Bog," about one and a half miles
from Mountmellick, situate about 16 miles in a
north-east direction from the Bog of Kilmeleady,
has been strangely agitated for some days : it
boils upwards, rising to a considerable height ;
the matter thrown up falls again into the basin
from whence it issued. It has not overflown, but
the people of the neighbourhood are in constant
dread of some catastrophe occurring. Our infor-
mant says, " the appearance of the place is ter-
rific."—There are various concurring accounts
that the eruption of the Bog of Kilmeleady was
preceded by subterraneous noises; we have not
learned that any noise was heard at the Forest
Bog, but from the nature of the phenomena it is
not improbable that such noise might have been
heard.`—(Dublin Evening Post.)

TITUNDER STORMS.-A most dreadful storm of
thunder and lightaing occurred at Marsk and Skelton (in
Cleveland), on Monday last. At the former place, the light-
ning entered the Chimney of Mr. Beardshaw, which communi-
cated with a small room where Mr. B. was sat shaving him-
self, it knocked the,razor out of his hand, and passed out of
the door through a passage, up stairs, and into a lodging
room, where it tore part of the ceiling off, pierced the chim-
ney-piece, and it is supposed wont up the chimney. Mr.
Beardshaw had a yearling colt in a paddock, near to the
house, struck dead ; and Mr. Thomas Errington, butcher,
had four sheep in a field not far from Mr. Beardshaw's, 1,11
killed, it is thought at the same instant. At Skelton, Mr.
Mackereth, surgeon, of Guisbrough, was passing from one
part of the villa,.7e to the other, over some fields, and in the
middle of a pasture, was knocked down and laid insensible, for
two or three minutes. Two women, in the adjoining field;
making' hay, were struck down, hut, providentially, the whole
three have perfectly recovered. On Friday week, a heavy storm
of thunder and lightning visited Holmfirth, and did considera-
ble injury to the premises of Mi. Bates, at Winney-hank, near
that place. An uninhabited house, which was used es a ware-
louse,' was struck about three o'clock in -the morning : the
electric fluid, entering near the ton of the house, shattered a
stone door-way, threw down a chimney, and dislodged the
capping of the roof, which was carried to the 'distance of
twelve yards ; then passing to the shear-room, it circulated
round the room, stripped the walls of their plaster, and finally
found an exit through the window. We are glad to say no per-
sonal injury was sustained.—On the same day, about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, the village of Manningham, near Bradford,
was visited by a tremendous thunder storm. The electric fluid
struck the mansion of E. C. Lister, Esq. of that place, and
threw down a stack of, chimnies—it then passed through the
dining-room, in which about thirty persons were assembled,
many of whom Were slightly struck. Only one was seriously
injured, a female servant, whose' arm was considerably
scorched. Most of the bell-wires were melted, and.the walls of
the dining-room still retain visiible marks of the most alarming
visitation.--(LEEDS INTELLioExcER, JULY 31.)

WM. KERR, Esq. Secretary to the General
Post Office, at Edinburgh, on Friday last, step-
ping from the road to the foot-path, on his way
to his house, slipped, and falling upon his side,
fractured his arm in a very severe manner.