The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

GREAVES V. GRAY AND OTHERS.

This was an action against the defendants, for breaking
and entering the plaintiff's dwelling-house, assaulting him,
and Continuing in his house for a long space of time. The
defendants pleaded they were not guilty of the trespass.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
ls. ; and his Lordship refused to certify.

ANTI-CATHOLIC OUTRAGE AT INVER-
NEss.—On Friday evening a number of boys and disor-
derly lads assembled at the Castle-hill (a fine green emi-
nence which overlooks the river Ness), for the purpose of
burning a sort of effigy expressive, of their hatred of Popery.
They afterwards adjourned to the High-street, and en-
camped in front of the Exchange, directly before the Po-
lice Office. Here they continued some time, shouting and
huzzaing, till one of their number procured another effigy,
or scarecrow, which he hoisted up, and immediately the
whole party set off en masse down Church-street. They
turned up by New-street, and, we regret to state, broke
the door and windows of the Catholic Chapel. On return
to their former position, their number had greatly increased,
and the authorities began to be alarmed. With a view to
intimidation, a boy, who was rendering himself conspicuous
in the affair, was suddenly seized and clapped into the Po-
lice Office, This, however, operated but as a signal to
the mob, and in a few minutes the windows of the Police
Office were demolished, the door broken, several of the
watchmen hurt with stones, and the culprit liberated.
The street continued in a crowded and agitated state
for some hours after this, but no further violence was ma-
nifested. On Tuesday night some little disturbance took
place, and an attempt was made to set fire b a wooden
shed op the
school Hill, but the constables were on the
alert, and frustrated the project. The Magistrates have
offered a reward for the discovery of the persons who broke
the windows of the Chapel and Police Office, and have
very properly issued an address to the inhabitants, request-
ing that fieiuls of families, masters, and employers, may
look diligently to those under their dial-v.—lnverness
Courier,

NENVGATE AND LEA DENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
a. (.1. to a. cl. a. d.tos. d.
Beet 2 2 3 10 Veal
sbutton 2 8 4 4 Pork 4 0 5 4

The Incorporation of Goldsmiths met
Thursday, and resolved to petition both Houses of Pi
_ . _

ment in favour of the Catholic Claims.--Scotsman.

A common garden leek was this week gathe
in the neighbourhood of St. Quithiock, measuring eis
inches in circumference, and weighing:2l ounces.—Deo
port Telegraph.

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LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.—The sales
Cotton to-day amount to 2,500 bags, bearing the advat
of the circular of this date, and the market is steady.

The town was once more enveloped in a et*
approaching the " darkness visible" on Tuesday night, eitli
through a failure of gas, or some defect in the machinerl
the works.— Windsor .Express.

The bleak easterly winds which generally 1.41,
company the Ides of March have occasioned severe col
and much indisposition prevails generally, and more pall
milady among children.—Devonport Telegraph.
On Sunday se'nnight, as the sloop Trafa
of North Shields was standing for the Tay, and W_4llll
about eight miles from the Buoy, a dove came in coor
with the foresail, and fell on the deck. It was takeoli
by one of the crew. Round one of the feet there wsl
paper addressed to a gentleman in Arbroath, requesg,
him to send off bread to the Bell Rock. The master{
the sloop sent this information to the gentleman it was)"
tended for. He has the dove still in his possession. It
beautiful rings round its eyes.—Scotsman.

SUPPLY OF Fistr.—During the last weele
large supply of cod fish was imported into Liverpool fIO
the Isle of Man. In one day six cargoes were landeca
the Dry Dock, each containing, on an average, threes
four hundred fine fish, weighing from 1.51b5. to 251.
each. Notwithstanding a large quantity was sent to e
neighbouring towns, salt fish is now selling at Liverpl
at three farthings per pound.—Macclesfield Courier.

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It was false, as mentioned in the House
Commons, by some of the Titus Oates members, the otf
night that the Association had sat the 3d March, or t)
Rent is collecting. Rent collected it as been paid in,
there is no law in existence to prevent it, or even the
lection of it, until ten days after the King sanctioned 1
Bill. We acknowledged rent last week, from various r 1
of the country, to which we have to add 161. Bs. Bd., •
ceived from the Churchwardens of Galway.—Dul4
Morning Register.

We understand that Dr. Chalmers and
Andrew Thomson will take part in the meeting on Sate
day in favour of Catholic emancipation, although tbr
names do not appear at the requisition. The names(
these ornaments of our National Church, united with the
of Sir Walter Scott, the Solicitor-General, the Dean
Faculty, Messrs. Jeffrey, Cockburn, and Murray, prool!,
to render the meeting one of the most interesting 100.
has ever taken place in Edinburgh.—Edinburgh Adv.'

Among the many respectable signatures a'
pended to the " Anti-Popery" petition, we yesterday el'
served one of more weight, and more venerable for yea
than any old lady we know, not even excepting the e
Chancellor himself—namely, that once influential personal'
" Mons Meg, Edinburgh Castle."—Caledonian Afereur•
A worthy imitator of the far-famed spouse
Socrates was fined 10s. 6d. last week for beating 01
abusing her husband, an infirm old man. The evidena
adhibited instructed various acts of cruelty. On onus'
casion the poor old man wanted his night-cap, when
clapped it on h
Xantippe immediately
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and Y ne
cent
week an unusual quantity of wild geese have passed owt
this county, supposed to be, from the direction they tool,
returning to their native abodes in more nothern climate.'
A few days since our informant saw a flight of more thane
hundred pass over Chelford, and flights of fifty have bee
seen many times in a day pass over this town.—Maeclay
field Herald.
MUSCLES.—Some of the most extraordinarf
large muscles were brought this week to Mr. Thomas
rymple, from the Isle of Man, that we ever remember
seeing. Three of them weighed 15 oz. The shell me
cured five inches in length and seven inches round tb
middle. One of them had a few &trail barnacles on a psi
of the shell ; they were procured about the Calf of Man hio
dredging. It is rarely that any are obtained of so large
sine ; these do not seem to be of the same species as the
common muscles, the fish contained within the shell beiag
much differently formed.— Westmoreland Advertiser.
As a proof of the exaggerated state of feelii4
among the lower orders in this quarter, relative to the Or
tholic question, we may mention the followtng fact :-06
Friday a decent man, a small farmer and Elder in a neigh:
lbouring parish, .while pricing some seed oats in a grocer',
shop here, suddenly stopped and observed,—" What's
use of my sowing oats or any thing else, when the Pof6
will be over to plunder and murder us all !"•r---rnvtroeil
Courier.
This afternoon a child's funeral proceede
from Bridge-gate under rather melancholy circumstances;
—A brave old soldier of the 71st Regiment has reside'
in that quarter since the Peninsular war. his habits
tion was not the most comfortable; but he had 1)1
too well used to hardships to complain. On a nig,o
lately, his favourite female child, while reposing in ;1,
mother's arms, was attacked by rats, and the forehead
scalped, and the nose and face dreadfully lacerated by
tusks of the vermin. The mother was awakened by t
piercing shrieks of the infant, and the canine assaila6,
were dispersed. The injuries clone to its infantile rj
never healed, and as the parents say, " it never aft
wards did any good."—Glasgow Chronicle.

PITCAIRN ISLAND.—The most recent se'
counts from Pitcairn Island describe the little c010n1.5,
existing in great harmony, and in full contentment wt;
its produce. That which is now grown upon it is plaintail
bananas, cocoa nuts, bread fruit, sugar cane, potatoes,
ger, and a plant from which a spirit is distilled'
number of individuals who landed from the Bounty
nine Englishmen ; and of natives from Otaheite and 11'
benis, six men, twelve women, and one child. The poptir
tion now comprises, of English males and their descendal
thirty-eight, twenty-six females descended from the same*'
tion, and five females, natives of Otaheite. It is a retina'
able fact, that not one individual who landed with Christiso
not numbered now with the living, met with a natuo
death ; each arrived at an untimely end by assns'
nation or other violence, the fruits of internal bre
in this little community. The offspring of Chr
tian are represented to be very handsome, their
tures strongly partaking of the English : the beauty of le
of them, a girl named Mary Ann Christian, for which she
termed " the Maid of the South Seas," is said to invite e
same admiration which is offered to the most favoured
our own fair country-women. Their habitations, wlO
are thirty feet in depth, and twelve feet wide, 0
construced with boards. It is computed 60 P
island is sufficiently extensive to afford, by mita
maintenance for its inhabitants, allowing for ti
iucrease, for at least one hundred years. An Americo
the only stranger among them, had landed lately ie
settled there. He is a carpenter, and one likely to b'
the greatest untility to them. He had alseady began
teach them to build, and to enjoin them to acts of indui
(a work in which he had been very suseessful,) and 1
established a school for the children. John Adams NO
good health, but rather infirm from old age. He expres
a dasire to return to his native land.