The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-23 00:00:00

" BITILKING" SYSTEM CONTINUED.

'ln our paper of Monday last we inserted a para-
graph copied fram the refs° Mail, stating that on
the night of Saturday week preceding, about ten
o'clock, a violent outrage was committed upon n
woman wined Gowenlock, at Wooden Lint Mill
in the parish of Kelso, but giving almost no parti •
ciders as to the nature or extent of the alleged out-
rage. 'We have learned the circumstances from good
authority, however, and they appear to be nearly
these:—About the hour in question the woman
Gowenlock had left a neighbour's house, and pro-
ceeded for a short way along the road in the direc-
tion of Kelso, when she was suddenly seized by two
ruffians, who instantly crammed her mouth with tow,
and then tied her wrists with cords, after which they
threw her down and performed the same operation
on her legs. From that moment extreme terror
rendered her completely insensible, but before her
senses forsook her she heard one the ruffians say to
the other, " Bring the sack." It appears, however,
that when these desperadoes first sprung upon her
she had screamed out and made a considerable noise,
for the inmates of the house she hail left, hearing
sounds indicative of distress, immediately repaired
towards the spot whence they proceeded, scared the
villains ere they had time to bag their intended vic-
tim, and found the poor woman in the state we have
described, her mouth filled with tow, and her legs and
arms firmly tied with cords. She was recovered
with difficulty from the swoon into which shu bad
been thrown by this sudden attack with its appalling
concomitants, and has ever since been in a state of
high delirium, with very few intervals of returning
sense and reason. During these, however, she men-
tions the words used by the one to the other, when
the operation of binding her hand and foot had been
nearly completed. When the intelligence of this
horrid atrocity reached the . authorities here, they
immediately despatched an active and zealous officer
to the spot ; and he has pursued his inquiries with
such ability and perseverance, that he has been
able to trace the perpetrators of this atrocity to
.Edinburgh, where we have little doubt that he will
succeed in apprehending them. In the course of
following out a clue which he had found, this in-
dividual, a few nights ago, came in contact with six
notorious resurrectionists, all of whom asserted, that
the " 13urking" system was still going on; and the
facts we have mentioned seem to corroborate the
assertion.—Edinbtagh Paper.

HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Tuesday
last, as one of the Carlow coaches was on Its'way to this
city, when a little on this side of Kill, a large stag cleared
the wall which bounds the road, pursued by the high-
mettled buck-hounds belonging to the Officers of the Bth
Hussars, stationed at New-bridge. The stag being nearly
knocked up, as were also hounds and horsemen, took the
road for about two miles. The horses which drew the
coach being some of Mr. Purcell's best, set off at full
speed, and kept close on the dogs until the stag was caught
near Black Church. In fact, the passengers by the coach
may be said to have been "in at the death." The coach-
man, with great skill and dexterity, guided the horses in
such a way as to insure the safety of the coach and passen-
gers, to the surprise of every one who witnessed this extra-
ordinary spectacle.—Dublin Morning Register.

WANT OF SPRING.-Ludicrous words and
phrases, happily applied, often survive arguments. A
country witness once styled the late Sir Vicary Gibbs,
Sir Vinegar Gibbs, and the nickname stuck by the sour
cad Judge till his death. Cobhett used to annoy Lord
Erskine by styling him " Laird of Clackmannan," a pa-
tronymic which the Ex-Chancellor was by no means ambi-
tious of retaining. When Sir John Sinclair was compil-
ing his elaborate Statistical History of Scotland, it is well
known that the clergy were among his principal assistants.
One gentleman, the incumbent of a small parish near Peter-
head, after describing the extent, natural productions, &c.
of his parish, remarked that the people were " sober, in-
dustrious, and plodding, but they wanted spring." This
phrase caused a good deal of merriment at the time, and
is still a bye-ward in the district. One day after the pub-
lication of the history, a party of gentlemen happened to
dine with the minister, when one of the company having,
like Dr. Johnson, forgot that in using wine there is such a
thing as moderation; experienced some difficulty in mount-
ing his horse to depart, when, with one foot in the stir-
rup, he turned round and stammered out—"
I am like your parishioners, I want spring."—lnverness
Courier.

Such is the bustle in the Post-office at Ox-
ford, that several extra hands hive been called in to assist.
One Committee paid thirty pounds postage for letters one
night.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTA;\CE•--IU a family
of which there were three sisters, (two of whom are now
married ladies in the parish Of Arbuthnott,) the whole
three were born on Candlemas morning ; there were five
years between each of their births, and the same time al-
most to a day between each of their marriages.—Perth
Courier.

BURKE IMPROVED.—A clergyman in Kir-
riemair, a parish in Forfarshire, has been " improving" on
the crimes of this wretch and his as,ociates. As to the
foture state of the murderer, thus saith the preacher :—" I
do not say that it impossible that his soul may go to heaven,
bnt it is altogether improbable, for the holy angels would
not keep company with sack a criminal."

A gentleman having called for small beer
during dinner, the lady of the helve remarked that she
teas afraid it IV di dead. " That I should not be surprised
at," observed the gentleman, " fir the list time I Was
here it:was very bad indeed."—allacclesjield Herald.=

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France of Feb. 21.)

PARIS, Fxs. 20.—The Duke de Mortemart, Ambas-
sador of France to the Court of Russia, arrived at Frank-
fort on the 10th, and set out the next morning fur St.
retersburgh.
A Journal of to-day speaks of the departure of the Rus-
sian Ambassador from Turin in such a manner as to make
it appear that it has some political cause; but we know
th it Count Woroneow has left Pitdrnont only to go and
see his mother, who is ill.

It is affirmed that the French frigate stationed in the
Tagus will receive orders to quit that coast, or at least to
cease to be a focus of conspiracy against the Government
of Don Miguel.

(From the Jottrnal du Commerce of Friday.)

19.---Letters from Madrid, of tlfe 9th
ihstant, say that the paragraph in the speech of the King
of France, concerning the new states in America, has
produced a painful sensation. In fact it is easy to abserre
in it a decided inclination formally to recognise the new
governments.

It appears besides that the frequent communications
between the Cabinet of Madrid and that of London are
not confined to the arrangement of the affairs of Portugal.
It is affirmed that they relate also to the old American Co-
lonies ; the Spanish Government flatters itself that the
sacrifices it may make in America will be amply com-
pensated.
An express was despatched yesterday frrom Paris for
Vienna, by Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador at
the French Court.

FRENCH FUNDS, PARISk FEB. 20.—Five per Cents.,
110 f. Ioc. sc. ; Three per Cents., 76f. 40c. 45c. ;
Rank Stock, I,Blof. ; Neapolitan Renter, Cert. Fal. 82f. ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 78a; Interminable Spanish An-
nuities, 481 48. •

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE 0-CLOCK.
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Buenos Ayres Bonds 31A Portuguese Bonds —
Chilian Bonds — Prussian, Old
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Ditto, 1821
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Greek Bonds —-- 1821 _ ...._

Ditto, 1825 — French Rentes, sp. c. HOE —c.
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Mexican Bonds . — 3 per cent it. 75c.

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