The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL. —Sarah Vinton, a very smart young
female, was brought before Sir Joint PERKING, Bart., yes-
terday, charged with obtaining, under false pretences,
goods of the value of upwards of 4/. from Mr. Morris, the
linen-draper, at the south end of Fleet market.
Mr. Morris stated that she came into his shop on the
previous afternoon, and selected a silk shawl, which she
asked to be permitted to show to her mamma, who lived
close by, at No. 2, in the Crescent, Bridge-street. Mr.
Morris offered to send his shopman with her, carrying an
assortment; but she declined having them taken, because
her mamma was in a hurry to go out ; if, however, Mr.
Morris, would allow her to carry it over herself, she would
leave her umbrella and muff until she returned. He con-
sented, but watched her until she entered the gate of the
house she had mentioned, which she appeared to go into.
In about ten minutes she returned, with the information
that her aunt (not her mamma, as she had before stated)
highly approved of the shawl, and also of a pattern of black
sarcenet that had been sent with it, and she desired to have
_l3 yards of the latter article, mentioning at the same time
that her cousin, who was then absent from home, would
probably come and purchase another dress off the same
piece. She took possession of her muff and umbrella, and
also of the 12 yards of sarcenet, and requested a bill for the
articles should be sent over in ten minutes, together with
some satin and Italian net. Mr. Morris now directed one
of his shopmen to follow her, even into the house, under
pretence of inquiring whether the satin was to be stiff or
soft. The prisoner went up to the door of the house as
before, and then turned back, and passed up little Bridge-
street, into Pilgrim-street, Ludgate-hill, where she was
stopped by the shopman, and compelled to return to Mr.
Morris's shop. She at first, with an air of consequence,
asked the shopman low he dared to insult and interrupt
her ? Neither the prisoner, her aunt, nor her " Mamma,"
were known at the house in the Crescent. When ques-
tioned what had become of the shawl ? she pulled it out
of her pocket.

A respectable-looking individual asked the Alderman if
he might say a word in extenuation of the prisoner's con-
duct ; he was her uncle.
SirJouN—lf yoU cannot rebut the evidence, I can bear
nothing from you.
Uncle—Will you permit us to speak to the prosecutor ?
It is her first offence, her connexions are most respectable,
and—

Sir Jouw—No, Sir, that is a most impudent remark ;
if this prosecution is suffered to fall, I will cause you and
Mr. Morris to be indicted for compounding of felony. I
should disgrace this chair, if I could suffer such a flagrant
offence to be passed over. She has been guilty of little less
than shop-lifting, and she conducts herself with all the
craft and self-possession of an adept. She obtains first
valuable shawl, and then ahe has the firmness to go a se
cond time, and, by her specious manner and appearance,
obtain a silk dress. This is a character from whom it is
my duty to protect the shopkeepers of London.
Mr. Morris explained. that he had never been disposed to
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The Alderman committed the prisoner (who made no
defence) for the misdemeauour.

BURIED ALIVE.—As Daniel Dell, an as-
sistant grave digger at Watford, Herts, was digging a grave
in the church-yard on Saturday last, about half-put six in
the evening, for the interment of Ephraim Taylor, the
earth fell in and buried him alive, the earth being about
two feet above his head, and the body doubled up. No
person was present ; but having been seen about a quarter
of an hour before it was discovered that the grave had
fallen in, it was examined, and the body found as stated
quite dead. Dell was to have been married in a few days.
The following amusing story, which was re-
lated to me by some respectable farmers of the Tarka, who
were present on the occasion, would make a good figure in
The Lion's History of the Man.' A party of boors went
out to hunt a lion which had carried off several cattle from
the neighbourhood. They discovered him in a thicket, or
jungle, such as abound in that part of the colony, and sent
in a numerous pack of fierce hounds to drive him out. The
lion kept his den and his temper for a long time—only
striking down the dogs with his mighty paw, or snapping
off a head or leg occasionally, when the brawling rabble came
within his reach. But the hunters, continuing in the
mean while to pepper the bush at random with slugs and
bullets, at length wounded him slightly. Then rose the
royal beast in wrath—and with a dreadful roar burst forth
upon his foes. Regardless of a shower of balls, he bound-
ed forward, and in an instant turned the chase upon them.
All took to their horse or their heels—it was devil take
the hindmost!' One huge fellow, of greater size than ala-
crity, whom we shall call Hugo Zwaar-van-heupen (or
Hercules Heavy-stern), not having time to mount his horse,
was left in the rear, and speedily run down by the ram-
pant Leeuw. Hugo fell—not as Lochiel, ' with his back
to the field, and his face to the foe,'—but the reverse way;
and he had the prudence to lie flat and quiet as a log.
The victorious Leeuw snuffed at him, scratched him with
his paw, and then magnanimously bestriding him, sat
quietly down upon his body. His routed companions, col-
lecting in a band, took courage at length to face about ;
and, seeing the posture of affairs, imagined their comrade
was killed, and began to concert measures for revenging
him. After a short pause, however, the lion resigned of
his own accord his seat of triumph, relieved his panting
captive, and retreated towards the mountains. The party,
on coming up, found their friend shaking his ears, un-
harmed from the war—except what he had suffered from
a very ungentlemanly piece of conduct in the lion.—
Thompson's South Africa.
LAMPS WITHOUT WICKS.—Some time ago
we noticed these lamps, which depend upon a principle
discovered by Mr. Blackadder, namely, that oil, if made to
ascend through a capillary glass tube, burns without the
aid of cotton, flax, or any other combustible substance.—
We have little doubt that this invention will by and by
supersede most of the lamps at present in use, and give
to oil lights advantages which belong at present ex-
clusively to those of gas. We need scarcely state, that in
a fountain lamp, it is the wick only which makes the
light unequal, and renders trimming necessary. A lamp
without a wick, therefore, means a lamp which never
waxes dim, but burns as long as the oil lasts, with a flame
of the same size and brightness. This advantage we have
seen realized. One of the new lamps in our possession
was lighted on Monday night, about nine o'clock, and
burned night and day, without intermission tat eight
o'clock on Wednesday night—a period of 47 hours. It
never was touched during all this time, except that about
six hours before it went out, the glass shade was lifted up,
and a small crust which had gathered at the top of the tube
and seemed to produce a flickering motion in the flame,
was broken off with the point of a pin. The operation
was performed in a second, and cost no trouble. The
lamp is now constructed on the hydraulic principle of the
bird's fountain, and has received the name of the Buc-
cleuch Lamp. The flame is from half an inch to an inch
in height, remarkably clear and steady, and so far as we
have observed, entirely free of smoke. It has only two
disadvantages, which we have no doubt will be removed
by future improvements. First, it does not admit of being
freely carried about in the hand, a defect which is com-
mon to some other lamps, and not of very great impor-
tance. Secondly, the flame is too small for reading or
writing by. But were four or six of these small flames
placed in a line, or eight or ten in a circle, so that they
would blend one with another, like the jets of a gas Argand
burner, the lamp would be almost perfect, and would
afford an admirable light for dining-rooms, writing-cliaxn-.
ben, &c. A friend of ours, who is curious in these
matters, thinks that the perpetual lamp in the Tabernacle,
and that which is said to have been used in ancient.cemie-
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