The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-13 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT ABERDEEN.

The Hon. Lord Kennedy, Sir James and Lady M'Grigor
and family, Sir John Trollops, Bart., Charles Chaplin,
Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Chaplin, Lieut.-Colonel Birch,
Royal Artillery, and Mrs. Birch ; Robert Taylor, Esq. of
Kirktonhill ; Colin M'Kenzie, Esq. and Mrs. M'Kenzie,
of Kilcoy ; Mr. and Miss Airey, Charles Hyde, Esq.
Ernest Leslie, Esq. and family, Rev. J. Vilet, H. Cod-
tington, Esq. and W.,Y. Mills, Esq. from England; Lieut.
Colonel Munro and Captain J. Munro, Archibald Far-
quharson, Esq., Stewart Varqnharson, Esq., Captain
Wilson and family, James Vere, Esq. and Mrs. Vere, -
Forsyth, Esq. from Canada ; J. T. Gordon, Esq.

VAUXHALL.—The anniversary of his Most
Gracious Majesty GEORGE was celebrated last night at
these Gardens in a style of appropriate splendour. In ad-
dition to an extra quantity of lamps, a brilliant star in the
King's Walk attracted very general attention and admira-
tion. The Vaudeville, under the superintendence of Mr.
G. COOKE (whose performance on the violin of "Molly
Astore" was admirable), excited equal attention indeed
the whole evening was passed in a round of varied and
acceptable amusements. About 6,000 persons were present.

AFFAIR of HoNoun.—On Sunday morn-
ing, a meeting was to have taken place near Ennis, between
Mr. and Mr. B x. An amicable arrange-
ment has terminated the affair. The dispute originated
about a pew in the Church at Miltown. The parties re-
side near the latter place.—Dublin Evening
QUAINT BUT TRUE.—" JOHNSON.S mind
may have been comprehensive, bat it Wlll the comprehen-
siveness of a narrow mind. Whatever he laid hand on, he
squeezed out of shape. If he saw far, it was along a pas-
sage the walls of which shut out all light, above, below, on
the right hand, and on the left." The next stems to us
very odd and amusing. " Many now-a-days write what
may he called a dashing style. Unable to put much mean-
ing into their words, they try to eke it out by certain marks
which they attach to them, something like pigtails sticking
out at right angles to the body. The perfection of this
style is found in the articles by the Editor of the Edinburgh
Beriew, and in Lord BYRON'S poems, above all in the
Corsair, deservedly his most popular work, seeing that all
his faults came to a head in it. A couplet from the Bride
of Abydos may instance my meaning :..
" A thousand swords—thy SIELISt'S heart and hand—
Wait--wave—defend—destroy—at thy command !"
Ilow much grander this is, than if there had been nothing
betweu the words but commas! even as a pigtail is grander
than a curl, or at least has been deemed so by many a
German prince. Tacitus himself, when translated, is drest
after the same fashion, with a skewer jutting out of him
here and there. The celebrated sentence of Galgacus be-
comes :

" He makes a solitude--and calls it—peaae !"
The noble poet places a flourish after every second word,
like A vulgar writing master. But perhaps they are only
marks of admiration, standing prostrate, as Lord CAULE.
AZAGN would have termed it. Nor are upright ones
spared.—Guesses at nut's.

SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HEREFORD, A.m. 9.

Elijah Faulkner, aged 11, was indicted on the
Coroner's inquisition, charged with feloniously
killing and slaying John Manwaring, aged nine years,
by drowning him in a certain pool' of water in the
parish of Aymestree.
The prisoner and the deceased were play-fellows,
and With several more of their companions had gone
to bathe together. Having stripped off their clothes
and got into the water, the prisoner began playing
with the deceased, sad pulled him under water.
Shortly after his companions became alarmed at the
deceased not rising, and the water being very
shellow, they lifted him up, carried him out, and
laid him ort the bank. The water ran out of his
tnobth, but they did not think of his being dead till
tbeY found he did irot move or answer when they
called hid). They theit rah away, leaving the body
en the bani of the OA. One of the witnesses
riding by discovered it there,. aid having ascertained
that life was extinct, gave an shindy which led to' the
discovery of the way in which this unfortunate acc?-
e.hl o%ieurred. There was no evidence otrerad of
any malice or ill:'Suiglieritaliding between the prisoner
and the deceased.
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The Jury immediately acquitted a.- prisoner.
Henry Philips was indicted, charged ivPil
tempting to pick the pocket of Thomas Meredith,si
Hereford nice!.

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TliOnnis Meredith, the prosecutor, went to the.
raaesi and while itt a booth heard a cry of
a fight 014 ifac:te: Hediiing it was a neigh-
bour of his going to Eghi; the Witness ran Ott tosiee
it, and when he got to where thel Wereaitenipting
to make a ring, and was leaning forw2r9` io etdi'
glimpse of his butty, he felt a hand in his breeched
poclcAt. Witness immediately seized it, and found
it was the prig'oitt's; The •prisoner, however,
wrested his hand away him and ran off; the
witness called out to " Stop the thkfi stop the
thief !" On being asked if the offender was presetrt
in the witness after look round said, " Here
he: is, Sir (pointing to the prisOner), that is the
man atn quite possit that is the man ; I should
have caught riin again myself, if it had not been for
a cumrag (comrade) othiff*Ne, bekl me till I knock-
ed him down.

Cross-examined by Mr. JUSTICE—I cidnit know
how many people were present ; you would not
know if you had been there; them are questions I
shnald fiat be asked. I had a little drink that day
before the figbt ; I had taken what I wanted, but
was as sober as you are laugh.)—There
might have been 300 people present,' but it is no
use asking me such questions; this boddte Will not
do for me; I ham a too old for such chiltish Wet
now; tat is de man, and tat is all I have to say.
Mr. JUSTICE addressed the Jury on behalf of the
prisoner. The prisoner's wife also came forward,
and addressing the Learned Judge, besought him to
have mercy on her husband, on account of her and a
large small family.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having summed up the evi-
dence, the Jury found the prisoner Guilty; dud the
Learned Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned in
the House of Correction for three months.

PRISE v. BAGGOTT.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the
landlord of an estate in this county, to recover from
the defendant, who had been his tenant, a compensa-
tion for certain timber which he had cut and carried
away on his leaving the farm.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of ss.
far the timber he had cut beyond the custom of the
country.

In the course of the cause it was asserted by one
of the witnesses that alder was equal to deal, and
would last as long; he also considered it as timber.
He said Sir John Cotterell had made use of it in
building- his house instead of deal.

NORWICH, Atm. 11.
LONG, CLERK, V. PRESTON, CLERK.

The plaintiff and defendant in this cause were
both clergymen, both magistrates, and both gentle-
men of fortune in the county ; anti the action, as the
jury had heard, involved a question of the fitness or
unfitness of a certain horse, which the plaintiff had
bought of the defendant, for his carriage. The
transaction out of which the present question arose
took place as long back as 1826. In January, in
that-year, both the plaintiff and defendant had lost
each one of his carriage-horses; and it became a
question, which should purchase of the other his re-
maining horse. At length, however, Mr. Long
bought Mr. Preston's horse for 351. ; and the latter
gentleman, at the time, assured his client that the
horse was tit for carriage-work. In a day or two
after his being sent to Mr. Long's, that gentleman
found that his feet were tender,—that he was lame
and groggy,—and that, in fact, he was any thing
but sound. He was accordingly returned to the de-
fendant, who again sent him to Mr. Long's, by
whom he was once more returned to the defendant,
and with him he has remained from that day to this.
The defendant has more than once attempted to
dispose of him—has used him on his farm, and exer-
cised all acts of ownership over him, treating him as
his own. Under these circumstances, it was a little
too much for Mr. Preston to say, at all events, that
the contract was not rescinded.

Evidence having been gone into in support of
these facts, Mr. Kelly, for the defendant, submitted
that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, after which,
The CHIEF BARON summed up, and the Jury
round for the plaintiff.

JAY V. BESSEY.

The plaintiff by this action sought to recover a
compensation in damages for an assault—violent;
unprovoked, and outrageous. He was, as well as
the defendant, a coal-merchant at Yarmouth. The
transaction of which he complained took place on the
public quay at Yarmouth, on the Ist of August, 1827,
when defendant, who had a first-rate talent for abuse,
which had no doubt been greatly improved by long
study and considerable p:actice, ran through his
whole vocabulary of abuse against the plaintiff; and
then followed up his insulting language by a most
outrageous assault, or series of assaults, on the per-
son of his cljent.
Witnesses were called to substantiate these facts.
It appeared that there was a vast deal of quarrelling,
and much abuse and use of the vulgar tongue on
both sides; or as one of the witnesses said, there
were many " flying" words passed; but it also ap-
peared that the assault was a pretty considerably
sharp one. Under these circumstances, the Jury,
after considerable discussion, found a verdict for the
plain ti ff—Dam ages, 25/.