The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.-Mr. AS'

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north, in his speech on Saturday, stated that in seven of the
principal branches of trade, there had been a falling off in wages
to the amount of 170,0001. (not 1,7001.) a-year, and that the
amount altogether might be reckoned at 320,0001.; a diminu-
tion of comfort equal to 1,0001. for every working day. The
wool trade of Westmoreland alone was estimated to be 10,000/.
a-year worse than in 1838, as wool bad fallen from 17s. to 12s.

per stone.
SUICIDE OF A MANIAC.—On Saturday even,
ing an inquest was taken before Mr, Wakley, M.P., at the
Dudley Arms Tavern, Harrow-road, Paddington, on the body
of Priscilla Pain, aged forty. William Piper, a labouring
man, living at No. 25, Carlisle-street, Paddington, stated that
on the morning of Thursday last, about seven o'clock, he was
proceeding along the towing. path of the Grand Junction Canal,
when near a bridge, called Gutch's-bridge, he saw something
in the water he thought was the body of a female, and pro-
curing a hitcher, succeeded with it in bringing deceased to
the shore. Lugo Button, a painter, of Ne. 15, Brown street,
Edgeware-road, said that he had identified the deceased, who
was his sister. She was a widow, and for the last six years
being occasionally deranged, had been an inmate of several
lunatic asylums. About a month ago she was discharged
from New Bethlem as cured, and certainly appeared to
be so. Three days afterwards she went out for the first
time subsequent to her release, on ass errand in the neigh-
bourhood, and had not been seen since. Verdict—" Tempo-
rary Insanity."
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Saturday the
proceedings wore resumed before Commissioners Plant, Mur-
ray, and West, to inquire into the state of mind of Daniel
Gundry, Esq. Mr. Sergeant Shee made a powerful appeal to
the Jury on behalf of Mt. Gundry, and contended that any
eccentricity of manners arose from the haughty feeling of his
client, and the severe treatment he had experienced in the
cases of assault which had been preferred against him. The
Chief Commissioner, having summed up the evidence, the
Jury, after consulting together, returned a verdict—" That
Mr. Gundry was of unsound mind, and that he had been so
since the 25th of Sept., 1841."
DIVISION OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUITe--
An arrangement has just been decided on by the Judges, by
which the heavy business 'Of the Northern Circuit will be
sooner brought to a termination, with less haste in transacting
it, and consequently less dissatisfaction in the suitors than
heretofore, York and Liverpool will form in fact, though not
in name, a distinct circuit of themselves ; while by the Nor-
thern Circuit will be understood the counties of Durham, Nor-
thumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and North Lanca-
shire. Mr. Baron Park and Baron Rolfe go to York to try
prisoners, While Mr. Justice Wightman proceeds to Lancaster,
Appleby, and Carlisle alone, sitting in both Courts, civil and
criminal, for the trial of prisoners arid the hearing of causes.
At Durham and Newcastle he will be accompanied by Mr.
Baron Rolfe.
A party of sportsmen were a short time ago out in
the forest of Othe, near Aix, in the Aube, when one of them
who was unarmed, end beating for game at a considerable
distance from the rest, roused a wild boar. Though taken
by surprise, he did not lose his presence of mind, but hal-
looed to his companions, and determined to keep the beast
in view until they came up. The boar, enraged by his shouts,
sprung upon his disturber ; but having a stout staff in his
hand, he struck the animal on the head and stunned him. He
then kept his fallen foe down with one band, while with the
other he got a clasp-knife from his pocket, opened it with his
teeth, and, stabbing the boar repeatedly with it, killed him
before assistance arrived. The grisly game and its vanquisher
were carried home in triumph.
A non-commissioned officer in garrison at Antwerp,
whose period of service had expired, recently entered into a re-
engagement as a substitute, for which he received r 3 thousand
flutes. As soon as he had received the money, he distrihnted
it among the suffering poor.
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with shot, in the head of a boy eleven years old, and killed
him on the spot. .
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT TIM SONNING-
ntu. CUTTING.—Charles Russsell, Esq., M.P., as Chairman
of tke Great Western Railway Company, has forwarded 114
to the Berkshire County Hospital, as a testimony of the deep
tense which the Company entertain of the humane and im-
sortant services rendered to the sufferers by the medical gen-
en of that establishment.
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