The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Thomas Cornish, a weather-beaten sailor, was
charged with stealing a coat, the property of Thomas
Blake, the landlord of a public-house in High-street,
Shadwell.

The prisoner was paid off from a vessel just arrived
in the St. Katharine's Docks, from Sierra Leone, and
upon getting ashore, he met some others of
the crew, commenced " a cruise " until he
spent the whole of his hard-earned wages,
amongst the loose fish in the locality of Ratcliffe-
highway. He afterwards went to the complainant's
house, without a " shot in the locker," and having had
a pint of purl on trust, he made free with a coat that
was hanginr, up in the room, and, putting it on,
slipped out of the house unperceived, and was subse-
quently taken into custody, having " spouted" the
watch to " raise the wind."

The prisoner said that he was groggy, or he
should not have put on a long tail coat. The
fact was that he had not been sober since his arrival,
and to prove it, he had spent the whole of his wages
on a spree.

The MAGISTRATE said he had no other alternative
than to commit him for trial.

DEATH OF TIIE lION. CAPTAIN JOHN H. PERT....-
The family connexions of the Earl and Countess of
Limerick have received the mournful intelligence of
the death of the Hon. Captain John H. Pery, who ex-
pired on the Bth ult., at St. John's, New BrunsWick,
after an
,illness of about seven weeks. The gAlant
Captain was in command of a company of the 30th
Regiment on that station. He was third son of
Henry, the late Lord Glentworth, and grandson of
the Earl of Limerick, and had just entered his 30th
year. The Earl and Countess of Limerick, Dowager
Lady Glentworth, the Hon. Mr. Spring Rice, Sir
Henry and Lady Frances Calder, Lord and Lady
Glentworth, Lady Caroline Russell, Mr. and Lady
Cecil Delafield, Mr. and Lady Louisa Pole, and seve-
ral other families, are placed in mourning by the
death of the Hon. Gentleman. His mortal remains
were to be interred at St. John's.
GRACE DARLING.—The admirers of this departed
heroine have resolved to perpetuate her name, and
with it a record of her bold and humane exploit;
with that view they will erect a monument to her
memory over her remains in Bamburgh ; and they
will also insert a tablet in the lighthouse adjoining
the Fern Island, whence she departed with her father
to the rescue of the Forfarshire steamer. The tablet
will merely contain her name, with the number saved,
and the date when they were rescued. It will be re-
collected that there were nine saved by her on the
7th of September, 1838. His Grace the Duke of
Northumberland is quite favourable to the intended
memorial to Grace Darling.
SINGULAR PLEDGE.—We have just heard the fol..
lowing story, but cannot vouch for its truth. A young
woman went into a pawnbroker's establishment, not
many miles from Kilmarnock, the other day, with a
basket containing a quantity of china, which she
wished to pledge with "mine uncle " for 2/. After exa-
mining the contents of the basket, he gravely stated lie
could only advance the half of that sum. In reply to
his statement she said she was a servant, and that the
articles were the property of her mistress, whom she
would require to consult before taking the money.
She .therefore left the office for that purpose, and in a
short time returned with the basket, saying that
her mistress would take what was offered. " Mine
uncle" again glanced into the depository of the precious
ware, and saw that it apparently contained the same
goods that he formerly examined. The cash was then
paid to the woman, who immediately left the house,
and the case was then carefully set aside. In a short
time afterwards a feeble cry was heard by the broker
issuing from the basket, which he again examined, and
in which, to his utter astonishment, he found a fine
child carefully wrapt in flannel, and over which a
slight covering of china had been ingeniously placed
for the purpose of deception. The pawnbroker, it is
said, applied to the authorities for a nurse to the little
pledge, but was told that, like other pledges, he was
bound to keep it for 12 months, and if not redeemed
at the end of that time, to bring it to the hammer, like
other pawned property!"-- Ayr Observer.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A gentleman in this
town has received a letter from his sister, at Dublin,
who embarked on board the City of Limerick steam-
packet, from this port, on Monday morning, the 17th
of October, bound for Dublin, with a number of pas-
sengers on board. They passed the Land's End about
twelve o'clock at night, and soon after that time, on
entering the North Channel, a great noise and con-
fusion was heard upon the deck, mingled with the
cries of " Stop the ship—stop the steam," " A woman
is overboard." The captain, who had turned into.his
berth, hastily ran upon deck, and immediately Or-
dered the boats to be manned, and the steam to be
turned off; but after the most strenuous exertions,
nobody could ix.. found. There were a number of
deck passengers on board, who saw a female conic
up the companion stairs, and instantly throw her-
self into the sea, over the ship's side. The sea *as
running very high at the time, and the vessel going
at the rate of seven or eight knots an hour. The un-
fortunate deceased was a respectable middle-aged
woman, who, with her husband, was a cabin pas-
senger, and had stolen from his side in the stillness
of the night, and perpetrated the fatal act. She had
been liable, it seems, to temporary fits of insanity,
but had exhibited no symptoms of the kind during
the time she had been on board. The husband, on ''be-
coming acquainted with the circumstance, was so
overcome with horror and amazement, that he became
frantic in his grief, and it was with the greatest diffi-
culty he could be prevented from plunging into the
deep ; and it became imperatively necessary to lash
him down, in order to restrain him from throwing
himself overboard.—Plymouth Journal.
STUTTGARD, OCT. 24.-1 he works for the fortifi-
cation of Ulm are proceeding with great activity,
under the direction of M. Von Prittwitz.