The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-17 00:00:00

UNION.HALL,

A man, named Hose, was charged with having se-
creted himself in one of the upper rooms of the Bricklayers'
Arms, in the Kent-road, for the purpose of committing
felony. The prisoner, when taken into custody, pretended
to be insane. He rolled his eyes about, and looked wildly;
began to pray with a loud voice, and when asked what
business he had there, he replied, that the Lord had sent
him, that be had executed his commission, and that if be
was permitted to walk down stairs, he would depart in
peace. He declared that he was inspired, 'that his name
was " Holy," that he bad just lunched with Jesus Christ,
and had been in company with the Virgin Mary. The
fellow, however, exhibited great consistency in his pre-
tended paroxysm of insanity; for while Crow was pre-
paring to convey him away to the lock-up-place, Mr.
}lase availed himself of an opportunity, and struck the
constable a severe blow on the head, and then ran away ;
he was, however, secured. The Magistrate ordered his
head to be shaved and blistered, to allay the irritation of
his mind, and to be brought up again in a few days.

WORSHIP-STREET.
CHARGE OF ARSON.—Yesterday Josiah Tozer was
charged before Sautigt. TWYFORD, Esq., with having
wilfully set fire to a house belonging to a person named
Hill.

James Brown, an officer at this office, stated about one
o'clock yesterday morning, he was alarmed by the spring-
ing of rattles, and a cry of " Fire," near York-place,
Kingsland-road, he immediately proceeded to some new
houses that were uninhabited, one of which he discovered
to be on fire, he went into the house, and found in one of
the rooms a quantity of wood piled up and burning ; he
was informed that the prisoner was in the employment of
a person mooed Hill, the owner of the house, and had the
care of it ; he asked the prisoner how the fire happened ;
he replied, he could not tell, and that he did not get a
light from any person that night.
Evan Jones, a watchman, stated about a quarter before
one this morning the prisoner came to me and said there
were thieves in the house, and asked me for a light, and
I gave him one ; and about a quarter of an hour after-
wards the prisoner came running to me, and said the house
was on fire ; I went with him and helped to extinguish
the fire ; it is the second time it has been on fire.
The vrisoner was remanded.

A Correspondent, who dates fionl Hackney
tells us, that about five o'clock on Tuesday, p. in., after
several hours of hard rain, he observed from eastward to
NAY., eland., passing with the most astonishing rapidity.
In a few seconds be observed bebiml him, at S.W., an
awfully black cloud, such as precedes a tremendous thumr
der-storm, going N. or N. E. Looking N., the clouds
peepled to increase in their pace, and going at different di..
rectiono, ascending azjd descending, and separating, as if
with force. The scene then became lama awful? the Clouds
met from all directions with the greatest agitation ; they
then seemed to rebound, as the waves from a rock in a gale
of wind. This grand scene lasted about five minutes, when
the sky became calm and clear, almost without a cloud.—
Tin.

TIIE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—At Bristol
assizes a man named BLOCK was examined as a witness in
a case of arson, whose evidence afforded a fine display of
the rapid strides which intellect and science have made in
these dzys of enlightenment. In answer to a question flout
Counsel, relative to the marks made on the boards by the
smoke of a candle, the witness said lie had observed
" marks of the traits or rays of the concentrated colloric."
This singularly scientific answer convulsed the Court
with langhter. The witness could not be prevailed upon
to explain the meaning of the term to the Learned Conn,
sel, but on the Recorder confessing that he himself was
ignorant of the precise meaning of the term, the man of
science and member of Mechanics' Institutes condescended
to state that the " rays of concentrated colloric," meant
" the flame of the candle or torcb.".►Bath Chronicle.