The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-08 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court was occupied the whole of the morn-
ing in trying two cases of assault, one by Mr. Sea-
man, a lodging-house-keeper against Thos. Hughes,
the servant of a lodger in his house, and the other
brought by Hughes against Seaman, for an assault
upon him on the same day.
The Jury found both Guilty, and the Court
sentenced Seaman to pay a fine of Is., and Hughes
was ordered to find bail to keep the peace for one
year towards Mr. Seaman, himself in sureties of 40/.,
and two others in 20/. each.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY,

BOW-STREET.

CU TTING AND MA IMING.—John Hodgson and
another butcher lad, were committed for re-examina-
tion, on a charge of cutting the thigh of a cat's-meat
man in Hungerford-market, last night. He is now
in the Hospital, and the surgeon's certificate de-
scribed him as dangerously wounded.

PUBLIC SALES.-(THIS DAY.)

BY MR. MUSGROVE, AT THE MART.

An Improved Rental of 47/. per annum, arising
from a leasehold house and premises situate No. 6,
Gutter-lane, held under the Saddlers' Company, for
an unexpired term of 19 years from Lady-day next.
—Knocked down at 120 guineas.
KENT-ROAD,---A brick-built House and Shop,
situate in Charles-street, let at the yearly rent of
201., held by lease for an unexpired term of 45 years,
subject to a ground-rent of .5/. per ann.-175 guineas.
A LEGACY.—A Three Hundred Pounds Legacy,
payable on the death of a lady aged 87 years, and
in an infirm state of health, amply secured on money
in the Funds, now standing in the names of respect-
able trustees in the Bank of England.-1901.
BY STEVENS AND BRENCHELEY.

DALSTON.—A Leasehold Estate, comprising a
neat country residence, situate No. 1, Bath-place,
Ralston, Middlesex, with numerous out-offices, &c.
also a kitchen-garden and paddock, comprising about
one acre of land, and two houses adjoining, being
Nos. 2 and 3, Bath-place; the three houses are held
on lease for 21 years, at a ground-rent of 18/.-650/.
BY HAINES AND SON, AT GARRAWAY'S.
The Blue Posts Public-house and Wine-vaults,
situate in i',lipert7street, now carrying on an exten-
siir.e. business ; the premises are in good repair, and
are held, of which 171 years were, unexpired last
Christmas, at a rent of 631. per annum.-8301.

A man, named JOHN AGNEW, died last week
at Southsea, near Portsmouth, at the very old age of 104.
He had served many campaigns in the 33d regiment, and
enjoyed a pension during the last fifty years of his life.
A party of gentlernetrwere shooting four days
last week, on the preserves of W. H. WHITBREAD, Esq.,
M.P., in the course of which time they bagged upwards of
six hundred pheasants.—Herts Mercury.
We are sorry we cannot speak of this county
as an exception from that contagion of crime, which,
melancholy to say, appears to be making rapid and alarm-
ing strides in every district in this kingdom. Our County
Gaol and Bridewell are now more thickly populated with
culprits convicted and undergoing their 'sentences, and
prisoners awaiting trial, than has been recollected for a long
period. Of the latter, there are fifty-nine already set down
for adjudication at the next Sessions, being twenty more
than the Calendar contained at the corresponding Sessions
of last year, and which leaves the cases of fifteen or sixteen,
charged with offences of a more serious nature, for investi-
gation at the Assizes. The appeal business at the coming
Sessions, it is also said, promises to be very heavy.—
Worcester Herald.

A GHOST.—For some time back the inha-
bitants at the north end of Montrose have been much an-
noyed and terrified, by the appearance of an unearthly-like
being, standing about seven feet in height, with all the
habiliments which constitute the ghost. Some fellows of
daring courage have given it chase ; but so dexterous is the
spectre, that the pursuers soon lose sight of its flying
skirts. Many conjectures are afloat in regard to its swift-
ness; every old wife has her way ; and the moderns attri-
bute it to spring-heels, &c. Two gentlemen of distinction
not far distant, are named as being the said ghost. The
prank is understood to be played for a wager of a large
amount.—Dundee Advertizer.

To PREVENT DROWNING..--Tile human
body in an ordinary healthy state, with the chest full of air,
is lighter than water. If this truth were generally known
and well understood, it would lead to the saving of more
lives, in cases of shipwreck, than all the mechanical life-
preservers which man's ingenuity will ever contrive. The
human body, with the chest full of air, is so much lighter
than water, that it naturally floats with a bulk of about
half the head above the water; it can no more sink than a
log of fir-wood. That the person may live and breathe,
thn, it is only necessary to exert volition, so as to render
the face the part which remains above water.—Dr.
Arnatt's Elements.

TURTLE HUNTING.—The handle of the
spears with which the Indians strike the turtle, is made of
very hard wood ; the head is a triangular-shaped piece of
notched iron, with a sharp point ; a piece of iron is joined
to this which slips into a groove at the top of the spear
handle, and has a line attached to it which runs through
eyes fixed for that purpose -to the shaft of ,the spear, to
which a float is fastened. The Indian; when near enough
to strike the turtle, raises the spear above his shoulder,
and throws it in such a manner that it takes a circular di-
rection in the air, and lights, with its point downward,
on the back of the animal, penetrating through the shell,
and the point becoming detached from the handle, remains
firmly fastened in the creature's body ; the float now shows
on the surface of the water which way the turtle has gone;
and he is easily hunted up, and secured, by means of the
fine, which has remained attached to the spear head...—
Reber/s's America.

The Swiss dine generally at maid-day, or very
soon after ; so that when the youte, as it is called, arrives,
namely the tea—appetite has become keen, and the stran-
ger is allowed to see the rapid consumption of the many
kinds of substantial cakes with which the plates are loaded.
The meal, as it may be called, over, the assembly, however
numerous, is broken up into a great number of small par-
ties, who continue at cards unwearedly till the hour of
parting—generally a very early one. Let it not be thought
that this passion for cards includes a love of deep play ;
the spirit of CALVIN himself stalking. into the room, would
not startle a Swiss snore than the sight of gold on the
table; he would feel himself on the very brink of perdition ;
a Katz (a safe coin, of the value of three half-pence) a game
is commonly the highest stake at these parties. At Berne
the play may sometimes exceed this, but in the other can-
tons never. Nothing like conversation goes forward ; that
part of the assembly—and it is a very small one—that
does not gamble, from the national and confined turn of
their converse, interest the strangers but little; and the
women, cold, plain, and amiable—good domestic oharac-
ters, whose travels have been along the streets and the
immediate neighbourhood, but little—how little ! in their
own glorious land, whose limits they scarcely ever pass—
,4 doomed to live and die," as a traveller has said, " in the
place where they were born"—can their society be fasci-
nating or brilliant ?.-IVew Monthly Magazine.