The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-20 00:00:00

FIRE.-PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.

On Wednesday, the 13th May, a house oectiphal
by the family of Captain Peter Stewart, Epp,'
Artillery,..vas destroyed by fire. Captain Ste :Ist
was at Halifax; the family had retired to rest. 'Mr,.
Stewart, alarmed by a dog, discovered the tire. On
the escape of the i!nuates, Led-a (one of the chii,!sen
aged nine years) remained in the burning mass. She
had been asleep in the upper part of the house, and
the stair-case was on fire. Hugh, another of the
Children, t‘velt'e years of age, with an intrepidity
worthy of the son and g±titidmin of British officers,
rushed into the fire to look for his sister; he waS
brought out by the by-stander., when, seizing an
opportunity of an unwatchful moment, the undaunted
bay again rushed into the flames, the roof fell in,
and the heroic youth and his sister perished together.
They Were grand-Children of Mr. Stewart, late
Solicitor-General of the Island, and of Capt.Bakeri
formerly of the 27th Regiment.

The harvest, which was proceeding briskly in
this neighbourhood up to Friday, has, we are sorry to state,
been totally arrested since that day by heavy and almost
continued rains. —Burg Herald.
The stock of sheep throughout the country is
raid not to have been so low as at pres,nt for many years.
For this various causes are assigned—among others the
poverty of the farmers, the loss by the dry rot, and the ex-
portation which has taken place to Van Diemen's Land
and other settlements.—Morning Paper.
The weather has at length become calm and
settled, and the temperature of the last two days has done
much towards ameliorating the condition of the crops,
which have been so dreadfully injured by the late storm
and heavy rains. Many farmers whom we have conversed
with are of opinion that if the weather continue dry for a
fortnight, the harvest will, after all, lie early and abun-
dant. —Du/lin Freeman's Journal.
The weather has been very unfavourable for
the approaching harvest during the past week. On Wed-
nesday the wind got round to the east, when the horizon
became black with clouds, and early on Thursday morn-
ing the rain began to fall very heavily, and continued to
come down with little intermission till Saturday evening.
The crops are consequently much lodged, and fears are
entertained that the wheat will be greatly injured. The
weather became fine again on Sunday.—Tyne Mercury.
The weather on Wednesday last, the first day
of grouse shooting, being unusually propitious, the sport
on the moors was excellent for those who quitted their
beds at an early hour. As the day advanced, the birds
naturally became wild, and few were shot after the sun
passed the meridian. One gentleman of this city, we
hear, killed 22 brace, another 203: brace. Many other
sportsmen, though less successful, bagged a plentirul supply
of game. Among the unfortunates we have to mention
three gentlemen facia Liverpool, who, desirous to give
their friends a treat, had ordered six boxes ta be prepared
at Stanhope, each calculated to contain four brace. The
boxes were made, but, alas ! the trio, on their return to
the inn, after a hard day's fag, could muster only a single
bird amongst them ! Yesterday the weather was so ex-
tremely unfavourable that scarcely a sportsman had the
courage to venture abroad, and the birds, which the day
before escaped tire, were in danger of being destroyed by
the equally destructive element—water. —DurhainAdvert.
We learn that great damage has been done by
floods in several parts of the West Riding. The waters
were out on Friday in the neighbourhood of Ripon, Bo-
roughbridge, Harrogate, &c. to a great extent : at the lat-
ter place many fields and gardens were entirely inundated.
Between Harrogate and Spofforth the country had quite a
terrific appearance, from the extent of the inundation.—
The waters of the Crimp!e were swollen to that degree
that the bridge over that river near Spofforth was com-
pletely blown up, and a large wall, not far from the town,
was forced into the road, and not a stone left standing. At
Skip-bridge, the river Nidd has broken down its banks,
and inundated the country to a great extent. We under-
stand a respectable farmer at Skewkirk has sustained in-
jury to the amount of nearly 3,0001. Others have lost
nearly all their crops, and the damage done is immerse.
The Monk-ton lugs are under water several feet.—Hull
Packet.

At Leominster there is an hospital for poor
widows, founded by Mrs. HESTER CLARK, and in the
centre of the building is a statue, in a cocked hat and a
wig, like JOHN WESLEY'S, brandishing a hatchet. On
one side of the statue is this inscription :
He that gives away all before he is dead,

Let 'era take this hatchet and knock him on the head.

The Tipperary Assizes commenced on Satur-
day evening, at Clonmel, which had been for some days
previously the scene of unusual bustle, owing to the im-
mense number of people who arrived from all parts of the
county. These Assizes are regarded with much more in-
terest than any others on the Irish Circuits, in conse-
quence of the great number of criminal charges for trial,
and the very aggravated character of the majority of them.
The trials for murder are nearly a third part of the entire.
—Tipperary Pree Press.

On Saturday 200 male convicts were em-
barked on board the Sarah transport, Captain COLUM-
BINE, for New South Wales (100 from the York, and
the same number from the Leviathan, convict hulks in
Portsmouth harbour), under the charge and superin-
tendance of Mr. ALEXANDER OSBORNE, surgeon._..
Among the nwiler was CHARLES RODIUS, a foreigner
and teacher of languages, who, it will be remembered,
was convicted of stealing a lidy's reticule at the Opera.
STACEY, the elder, is not yet gone, but will not in all
probability be long left behind.—Portsmouth Herald.

ROBBERY OF THE ST. NEOT'S BANK.-
On Tuesday, a long and most interesting examination of
THOMAS HOLLINSHEAD, alias BUGLY, took place at the
Town-hall of Huntingdon, before JOHN TEATON and
SAMUEL NEWTON, Esqrs., the two magistrates before
whom the prisoner had been brought at St. Neot's,
charged with the robbery of the bank at that place. It
will be recollected that the hank at St. Neot's was broken
open and robbed of between 6001. and 700/. some time
ago. Mr. GATES, the solicitor to the committee of hank-

ers, at the moment he heard of the robbery, sent off the
most active members of the police N scout after the per-
sons suspected. For some time it was supposed that the
thieves had escaped, and the search was believed to have
been relaxed, if not abandoned altogether. There was,
however, a mistake here. HOLLINSHEAD was appre-
hended about a fortnight ago, and sent from the Mansion-
house, where he underwent a private examination, to the
place in which the robbery was committed. As some
other. persons who have not been laid hold of were con-
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cerned in the plun.ler, it has been thought necessary to sup-
press the particulars of the examination, which lasted a
cosiderable length of time. The magistrates, without
hesitation, committed the prisoner for trial.

A laughable incident occurred in the Crown
Bar Court, at Exeter, on Wednesday morning, which for
a few minutes placed an honest-looking and unsuspecting
young countryman in custody on rather a serious charge.—
Among those called to be arraigned was HENRY PRESTON,
on the Coroner's inquisition ; the person charged having
been on bail was unknown to the gaoler or his servants,
and on the name being called, a young man, who had got
into the dock, stood up, answered, and pleaded " not
guilty," and the arraignment being closed, was, of course,
taken into custody. Terrified at his situation, the reason
of which he was unable to understand, it was not easy to
come to an explanation, but this being at length effected
through the gaoler, he was again brought into court, the
circumstance represented to the Judge, when it appeared
that he was in attendance as a witness in another case of
manslaughter, and that his name was PRESTON, and that
hearing something about " manslaughter" and the name
of PRESTON, he had no idea but it referred to himself, and
answered accordingly. The Judge laughed heartily, as did
the whole Court, at the dilemma the young man had got
into, and with great good humour directed his discharge.—
Morning Paper.

At Uxbridge we took in a batch of insides,
of a most lordly and ladylike bearing. From the " austere
regard of controul" with which they scanned the whole
squad of external vulgarians, before ever they set foot in
the Union, it was plain that they meant to cut us all at
the very first point of contact ; and when we stopped for
supper at Oxford, we were cut sure enough—they would
not so much as sit at the table with us, and the old dandy,
who did the Chaperone, made an audible apology for ting-
ing, after our example, his glass of water with a slight
colouring of the thing you Englishers call brandy. They
could not be true noblesse, that's flat ;
for your true noble-
man, or woman either (if she condescend at all to travel
in a stage-coach), will take care not to remind those who
use the same conveniency, of their inferiority. In the se-
quel we discovered that these grand folk were crockery
quality belonging to Wolverhampton, where they bestowed
their absence upon us... Warning Paper.