The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-04 00:00:00

THE ARAI Y.

The following movements of the Foot Guards will take
place to-morrow
The lgt Battalion of the Grenadier Guards will leave
Dublin for Portman-street Barracks.
The 2d Battalion will move from Portman-street to
Knightsbridge.
The 3d Battalion from the King's News to Windsor.
The 2d Battalion of the Coldstream Guards from the
Tower to Westminster.

The Ist-Battalion of the 3d Guards from Knightsbridge
to the Tower.

The 2d Battalion from Windsor to the King's Mews.

The 17th Foot will arrive at Chatham, from Rochdale,'
on the 17th inst.
The 56th Foot will arrive at Weedon en the 14th.
The depot of the '77th is at Clonmel ; and the depot of
the 86th at Fermoy.
The 34414 Foot embarked at Woolwich, on the 50th,
for Quebec.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ROW-STREET.

A gentleman named Warner, who lives at N 0.32,
Gower-street, was summoned by the driver of the
hackney-coach No. 798, for refusing to pay him the
fare.

It appeared from the coachman's statement, that
the defendant and a friend took the complainant's
coach at the corner of Regent-street, with directions
to drive them with all speed to East Acton, where
they were engaged to dinner. They stipulated with
tile complainant that he was to wait for them
where they dined, and said they should return
by half-past eleven or twelve o'clock, as they
could not be certain to half an hour. For this
they agreed to give the coachman 155., and he con-
sented to take it. Having set them down at East
Acton at a quarter past six, he waited for them
until past one o'clock in the morning, when he took
them up again, and drove them to Oxford-street.
Here he demanded IBs., but the defendant refused
to pay him more
,than the 15s. for which he had
contracted.
Sir R. BIRNIIt Said that the coachman's demand
was fair and reasonable. He had been detained for
more than two hours beyond the stipulated time,
and had a right to the additional 3s.
Mr. Warner insisted that the coachman had
broken his agreement, and was-only entitled to re-
ceive 15s. He had consented to drive himself and
friend to East Acton, to wait for them there, and
drive them into town again for that sure. No men-
tion was made as to what hour they should return.
Sir R. BIRNIE said he knew nothing of agree-
ments made by coachmen. The Act of Parliament
was silent upon the subject, and no coachman had
a right to keep an agreement if he were a loser
thereby.
Mr. Warner—Then, Sir Richard, am I to under-
stand that hackney-coachmen are not bound to per-
form a contract whereby they agree to take a certain
sum of money for a stated service ?

Sir R. BIRNIE—I tell you, Sir, I know nothing
of such agreements. You must pay the full de-
mand and costa.

LUDICROUS. EVENT. ,1

THE ARTIST AND THE COUNTRYMAN.
The following laughable story, though the
circumstance happened some time ago, has 1104,,
that we know, yet got into print. It will Olt
some amusement to the lovers of fun. At t,h,l
time when the disclosure of the atrocities ofilt!
monsters Burke and Hare painfully engroasen:
the public attention, an artist residing in the 101*
mediate neighbourhood of Soho-square had oCd,
casion to advertise for a man servant, who,
addition to the usual requisites " honesty atni
sobriety" was to be " from the country." One
morning a raw country lad presented himself
a candidate for the vacant situation, and well
shown into the artist's painting room. One
readers of course know that this apartment in an.,
artist's house is in general very gloomy, the lie',
being admitted only through a small portion 0' I
the upper part of one window, whilst all the
other casements, if there be any, are kept per'
lectly closed. Upon being left alone in this
dark room, (for the artist, whom we shall call
Mr. W., was not present), some feelings of
easiness began to steal .upon the countryman e
mind, whose vague and incipient apprehensione
were not diminished by a closer observation 01,
the apartment. The first object that arrest
his attention was the easel, which unluckily hap-
pened at this time to have no canvass upon it to
denote its use, and which to his excited imagi`
nation appeared an instrument of torture. Car
vying his investigation further, he perceived in,
a corner of the room a canvass cloth spread over
an object which from its form evidently could he
nothing but a human body. This was whet
artists call a lay figure—a perfect representation
of the human figure, which they employ as
model when it may be inconvenient or unnecer
sary to procure a living model. It now ne'
cuffed to the poor fellow that he had been de'
coyed into the house for the purpose of beins
Burked," and that the canvass cloth covere
the body of some wretched victim who had Ps;
been murdered and not yet removed. Fillet
wit!, this horrid idea, he endeavoured to open
the door by which he had entered, but found 1
fastened. He then crept softly to another door,,
which was glazed, and covered with a curtain'
Drawing the curtain aside he beheld a spectacle
which seemed to offer the verification of his
worst fears. He saw Mr. W. in the ante-worth
holding in his hand a large knife, covered with
blood, and a dish full of the vital stream stand;
ing by him. Mr. W. was mixing up lake, 00
the knife he used was a pallette-knife. When
the countryman recovered from the momentary
stupor into which this horrid spectacle had thrown
him, he determined to attempt his escape from n
place which he conceived to be no better than
human slaughterhouse. Watching, therefore,
the opportunity when Mr. W's back was turned,'
lie opened the door suddenly, rushed out, struck
the artist a blow on the head, which brought him
to the ground, and then, passing out by another
door, made his way down stairs with all the
speed in his power. Mr. W., who happens to
be deaf as well as to labour under an impediment,.
in speaking, was not aware of the proximity 01'
the countryman, until he felt the blow whoa
knocked him down. In falling he broke the
plate containing the colour, which became
smeared over his hands and clothes. Mr. W''
conceiving that the man had been robbing
pursued him instantly down stairs, and overto4
him in the passage, where a struggle ensued
bei
tween them. The countryman, who suppose
that his life depended upon his exertions at Oat
moment, put forth all his energies, and heal
overcome the artist, he ran out into the street
screaming " Burke" and " murder." In the
.
scuffle some of the crimson from Mr. W.'s pet;
ton was communicated to that of the clown, an', ,
gave some colour to the dreadful cries which h,e.
uttered. Of course a mob soon followed at
heels, until, overpowered by terror and exhans:
tion, he sank down in Soho-square. At tine
moment the artist ran up, and was about to oil!
him. The sight of this tormentor " steeped in
the colours of his trade," and his knife "un
mannerly breeched in gore," threw the poi
countryman into fresh agonies. He appealed to
the bystanders for protection against the artist'
who he said was in the habit of killing a dozen
men every day, and now wished to despatch 1
Appearances were against the artist. He 01,
immediately seized, and cries of " Burke him
resounded on all sides. Some of the crowd, ill
the height of their indignation, proposed to sacra'
five him on the spot with his own knife ; but
others, more knowing, thought it better that, I°t
the sake of example, he should undergo OD
ceremony of trial previous to execution • '
death, however, with or without law, was a ;hill
determined. Nothing can be imagined greater
than the astonishment of the artist at being
taken into custody under such extraordinelle
circumstances, and unfortunately being, as before
stated, afflicted with an impediment in his spool
his abortive attempts at explanation were Tooke;
upon as so many proofs of his guilt. He wet
being dragged off to Bow-street, when some °
his neighbours interfered on his behalf, and e 0"
deavoured to explain the mistake. With coo'
siderable difficulty the mob was persuaded t°
carry the artist to his own house ; but it was 1)0,
till a deputation from the crowd had inspected
the premises and tasted the colour, to 85t'
themselves that it was not blood, that he was sel •
at liberty.

KINROSS.—As the fishermen upon Loch'
Leven were drawing their nets on Monday the 21st instant:
found something heavy detaining the meshes; hauls
ing their nets nearer they brought up, to their surprise, .h
corpse of ARTHUIt CONLAT, a travelling hardware WT.
chant, who has resided for some time in Dunfermline. Po
was seen last in a house at the south end of this town, g
in the evening of the Thursday before, when he left 041,
on purpose (as he said), to go to Kelty, which i 5 ab°ll.
five miles distance. His wife died some time ago, and
has rather been in a desponding state of mind aince•"
Fife Herald.

BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst. nt Creedy, Devon, (the seat of Sir
Humphry Davie, Bart.,) the lady of Lieut.-Colonel re"
guson, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst. at Sandhurst, the Right Hen. Lad(
Harriet Paget, of a daughter.
On the 29th ult. at Stamford-hill, tho lady of W°
H. Hooper, Esq.

MARRIED.
On the 3d inst. at Woodford, Alexander More, fs„;
of South-street, Finsbury, to Elizabeth, second (laugh,
of the late William Goodman, Esq. of Burley-house, o'B
Leeds. £l. •
On the Ist inst. at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, R. k
Davis, Esq. eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Davis, of Pend°lP;
Worcestershire, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the 111
C. Stable, Esq. Bedf4d-streeti

DIED.
On tlae 31st ult. at Lambeth, William Gilpin, 4.
aged 48. r
On the 3d inst. suddenly, Anne, the wife of 11.1.'
Lee, jun. Chiswell-street.

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