The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

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A gentlemen residing at Camberwell gave information of his
house having been robbed of a considerable quantity of plate.
He stated that his cook was in the habit of receiving the visits
of a man who was paying his addresses to her. O❑ Saturday
night last the man called as usual, and left the house, or at
least was. supposed to leave the house, between nine and ten
o'clock. The following morning, however, when the family got
up, it was discovered that the pantry had been forced op,n, and
plate to the amount of between 701. and 801. taken. S►nce the
robbery the man alluded to has not been near the premises; but
several anonymous letters have been sent to the complainant,
which were proved by the cook to be written by that person.
A search warrant was immediately granted against the cook's
sweetheart.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY I9.—Wind this day at Noon, E. to S.E.
DEAL, JULY 18 Wind W.S. W., moderate.—Arrd. from
the River, and remains, the Thomas myth, for Mauritius.
Po aTsmount, JULY 18.—Wind W. S. W. to S. S. W.—Sld.
Eddystone, Nassau, N. P.
FAL-moon!, .1111,Y 17.—Wind variable and light.—Sld.
Menway steamer. West Indies. Arrd. off, Sancho Panza,
Smith, Mogadore.
BRISTOL, JULY 18,—Arrd. Racehorse, Fish, Smyrna.
LIVERPOOL, JULY l&—Wind S. S. E.—Arrd. Windsor
Castle, Glover, Mobile. Arrd. off, Columbus, Pernambuco ;
Mary Muir, Airey, Princess Victoria, Samaritan, Stirling Hill,
and John Horroe.ks.
WHITEHAVEN, JULY 17.—S1d. Whitehaven, St. Thomas;
Wilkinson, Bermuda.
CORK, JULY 16.—Arrd. Loyal William, Newfoundland.
MILFoan, JULY 17.—The Thistle, Page, from Swansea to
Yarmouth, has put in here with loss of mainmast, at.d leaky.

A disgraceful altercation took place a few evenings
since between two valiant Knights in her Alajesty's service, not
a hundred miles from the bath rooms, occasioned, we under- '
stand, by some disagreement between the ladies, ' when one Gal-
lant Knight told the other that Lady and her sister were
two d—d blackguards. What is to be the end of such a quar-
rel, we know not.—lpswich Express.
A SUICIDAL FAMlLY.—Yesterday afternoon, about
half-past four o'clock, one of the most extraordinary attempts at
self-destruction ever known was made by a family of the tame
of Daly, who, though usually residing at Safforon-hill, or the
neighbourhood of Smithfield, Ave no settled habitatiin. The
father John Daly, who is about forty years of age, and now in
custody, has been one of the most incorrigible beggars on the
town for many years. His left lea has been amputated
at the thigh, and he consequently has to use a crutch ; his
right foot has lost all the toes, as he says, by exposure to the
fr"st, in Quebec ; and one of the two children, always aceom-
panying him, is suffering from the same cause. Yesterday
afternoon, soon after four o'clock, he act:, sted, accompanie4 by
his children, police constable Casson, 339, who was-on duty
near the late Alderman Waithman's shop, and addressed him
in the following strange way :—" Policeman, I beg your par-
don for what I have done." Casson could not understand
what he meant, and told him and his children to go away, which
they did, In ten minutes after, Daly and his family were on
the centre of Blackfriars Bridge, and taking an opportunity,
cripple though he was, he got on the balustrade over
the centre of the middle arch, and leaped into the middle, of the
stream. His son was about to do the same desperate act, but
was caught by a passenger over the bridge who had witnessed
what the father had done. Robert and Richard Ware, who
ply at Blackfriars-bridge, saw something falling from the para-
pet, and thought it was a cat that had been thrown over, until
they saw the arms of a man above the water; They instantly
nut off in a wherry, but Daly had got off Paul's-wharf, in
Thames-street, before he could be rescued ;. he wa4 then taken
to the Fortune of War in Thames-street, where every attention
• was paid to him, and afterwards on a stretcher to Bartholomew's
Hospital ; here also the surgcons rendered every assistance,
and when sufficiently well he was taken to the station-house.
He stated to Inspector Martin that his reason for committing
the act was because his wife was confined, and that he and his
children were in such a state, of destitution that he could bear
it no longer. The whole occurrence did not occupy ten minutes.
EFFECTS OF DR IT NKENNESS.—On Tuesday after-
noon some fishermen at Fisherrow observed a chaise a consi-
derable distance out at sea, and nearly immersed in the water.
They immediately manned thciir boats and pulled off to rescue
the driver, who was seated on the coach-box, though little
more than his head was above the water, and another man
seated on the top of the carriage. On coming near, they found
that the horses had got entangled in the harness, and were
nearly drowned : the fishermen cut the harness, and with great
difficulty succeeded in bringing horses and men safely to land.
The driver of the coach, whose name was Laing, had been at
Haddington, and on his return, when in a state of intoxication,
had left the main road and gone into the sea, where he, with
the other man and the horses, would inevitably have been
drowned but for the exertions of the fishermen,Edinburgh
Witness.