The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-09 00:00:00

LAMBETILSTREET.

Yesterday John Brooks, the driver of the cabriolet
No. 75, was charged with the following offence:—
The prisoner was stopped by two watchmen, at four
o'clock yesterday morning. They saw him driving
a cabriolet ftniously, and having seen him driving
in the same direction on the previous morning, at a
most furious rate, suspected that all was not right.
On searching the cab they found a sack, which,
upon opening, they discovered to contain the body
of a matt.

Lydia Ann Chester, who appeared in a state of
great affliction, stated that the body found in the
cabriolet was that of her husband, who had been in-
terred the previous day in Cannon-street-road burial-
ground. She attended her husband's funeral, in
company with her sister and other relatives, and
witnessed the closing of the grave, which appeared
perfectly secure. They had since visited the burial-
ground ; the grave was open, and the lid of the coffin
taken off.

The prisoner, in defence, said he was engaged by
two gentlemen in Cornhill, who stepped into his
cabriolet, and told him to drive to the Commercial-
road; after which they took him down a street,
where they alighted and brought a sack, which they
said contained luggage, and they were going a little
further for some time, and told him to follow, when
he was stopped by the watchman.
The Magistrate said he must convince a jury of
his innocence; but there could be no doubt, ac-
cording to the testimony adduced, that he was con-
caned in disinterring the body, and he was commit-
ted for trial for the misdemeanour.
TOWN-HALL.

A sailor, in his holiday trim, appeared to charge
an elderly woman of the town with robbing him of
a 1004 Bank of England note and two silk handker-
chiefs. Jack, it appears, no sootier landed from a
voyage to India, where he had taken the note in the
way of trade, as he said, titan, like the rest of his
thoughtless tribe, he commenced a cruise in search
of a wife, an article so plentiful in the Tooley-street
market, that he was not long in finding one to his
mind, with whom, having spent some time, and
drank himself more than half-seas over, he was about
to depart, when he missed his note and two silk

handkerchiefs, one of which was found upon her per-
son, but not so the money.
The woman said he gave her the handkerchief,
the note she knew nothing of; and the number of it
not being known, she was remanded to see what
could be done for its recovery.

On Friday, while an elderly woman, residing
in the OH Vennal, was preparing the dinner, she suddenly
fell down and expired. Her husband was buried on the
preceding Sunday ; and her son was also consigned to the
grave about a fortnight since.—Glasgow• Chronicle.

1 On Thursday week the attention of the good
people of St. Helen's and its neighbourhood was excited
by the following °ecru tence t—A person near the canal
heat d a sudden plunge in the water, and on looking to
ascertain whence the noise proceeded, saw a man floating,
whom, svith assistance, be immediately rescued. The
poor man's face was pale and woe-begone, his eyes were
shut, his lips closed, and his hands tied fast together. For
a While he stood shivering on the shore, mute, and in all
the majesty of grief; but at length exclaimed, with great
pathos, " Ah, why did ye pull me out? Och, why didn't
ye let me be drowned ?" Upon inquiry, it appeared that
"love was the cause of his f 011.5." A few hours before
he had been " popping the question" to a young woman,
who, for the present at least, declined to " buckle t 0.,"
and in a fit of despair he determined to bury his grief in
the waters of the canal. It is whispered that the ducking
of the sWoin has mehtd the obdurate heart of the fair,
who, lest he should be induced to make anather attempt
upon his life, has consented to be led by him to the altar
of lipneo,--Ataneliester Mercer .