The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-11 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JULY 10.

Edward Collins, of No. 4, Prince's-street, West-
minster, was indicted for assaulting John Crow, one
of the beadles of St. Margaret's parish, and throw-
ing in his face a saucepanfull of boiling logwood die.
The prisoner, such was his desperate conduct, was
forced to be brought into Court handcuffed, and
held in the dock by three men.
_Crow, on the 9th of June, went to the prisoner's
lodgings, to serve an order upon him for the main.
tenance of his daughter : he knocked at the door of
the prisoner's roam, who opened it, and threw the
boiling contents of a saucepan over his face and
neck; he was dreadfully scalded; he said to him,
" You villain, what have you done this for ?" when
he replied, " If you come back, I'll serve you worse."
Witness went to the hospital to have his face
dressed, and the surgeon told him that if the con-
tents had touched his eyes, it would have totally
blinded him.

By the CHAIRMAN—The prisoner, I believe, is
a shoemaker by trade, but is in the receipt of a
pension of 20s. per week from the Irish office.

Another witness corroborated this statement.

Joseph Cooper, an officer of Queen-square, de-
posed to going to the prisoner's lodgings, with Pace,
to apprehend him; his conduct was most violent ;
he threw glass bottles at them, and struck at them
with the poker ; and with the greatest difficulty
they secured him.
The prisoner made no defence, but blackguarded
the witnesses and the Court.—The Jury found him
Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said, it was very fortunate for
him he was not indicted for an assault with an
intent to commit murder. The sentence was, that
he be imprisoned for six calendar months in solitary
confinement.

HOBART TOWN, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

JAN. 31.—" In the name of wonder what
do the merchants in Great Britain mean, or
what spirit of delusion can have induced them
so enormously to overrate the wants of this and
our neighbouring colony ? Are the adventurers
not aware that the whole population of New
South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land does not
exceed 80,000 ? At this port (Hobart Town),
where we have not above 10,000 consumers to
supply, we have this month imported 2,600 tons
of British goods ; and we have before us a list of
'25 vessels expected in February and March.—
We do not see where their cargoes are to find
store room, and are quite sure that they cannot
be consumed for three years to come. We can
now command every article at a cheaper rate
than at home : and, what is more remarkable, our
wools are selling for the English markets at
much higher rates than are got for them in
England. The immediate cause of this is the
over-supply Of goods and shipping on the one
hand, and, on the other, the scarcity of money.
• The farmers, by getting such high prices for their
wool, are reserving their money for the increase
of their stock, and they can at all times get their
implements in barter for their wool. While this
state of things continues it will greatly enrich
our farmers, who certainly have better means of
becoming rich here than in any other part of the
globe ; and at no period was this more eminently
true. They get land for nothing, and their arti-
cles of husbandry are kindly brought to them
from England, and sold under the English Whole-
sale prices. They don't, as at home, require to
go in search of buyers ; the buyers come to them ;
and the demand being much greater than the
supply, prices are kept very high. This did not
use to be the case. We were obliged to send
home for what we required, or to pay extravagant
prices for them here ; and thus it is that, when
great prices arc got in any market, you folk at
home, heedless of the actual wants of the market,
and of the shipment of others, send ten times
more than is required."— Gla sgorty Chronicle.

PART sor.s.—The celebrated LocKE, When
in Fr,:nee, in the year 1675, speaks, in the journal which
thn kept, and which has been lately brought to light,
of " par.Lsols, as a pretty sort of cover for women riding
in the snn, made of straw, something like the tin • overs
for dishes." . •