The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--(THIS DAY.)

CHARGE OF FALSE IMPRISONMENT.-- William
Matthews, proprietor of an eating-house in Soho,
and Thomas Mellows, a constable, were indicted for
assaulting and falsely imprisoning William Matthews,
a butcher. The complainant went to the shop of
Matthews, the defendant, to take his supper, and
because he did"not like what was cut for him, ob-
jected to it; on which the latter collared ail(' struck
him several times, and ultimately sent him to St.
Ann's watch-house, where Mellows was the night
constable, and by whose order the prosecutor was
locked up in the strong-room, and for a considerable
time bail refused.

Under the direction of the Chairman, the Jury
acquitted Mellows, but found Matthews guilty, who
was sentenced to pay a fine of 5/. to the King.

LIES OF THE DAY.

The subject of the London University Prize Poem, which
is to be recited publicly in Guildhall, on the ensuing Lord
Mayor's Day, is " Whittington and his Cat."
An opposition Almacks, under the patronage of six fat
Aldermen's Ladies, is to be started at the Bull and Bag-
pipes, Little St. Alary Axe. No black cotton stockings to
be admitted.

Maacx or Finn.-.-A gentleman in the Strand has
bought a quarter of an ounce of Snuff, wrapped up in
" Lord Londonderry's history of the Peninsular War."
" To what base uses may we not return, Honvrto."
A Committee of Unmarried Ladies, have presented a
petition to the House of Lords, requesting that Gretna
Green may not be put without the pale of the law.
Sir Thomas Lethbridge has been crowned in the Capitol
at Rome, for delivering a Latin Oration in honour of the
Pope.

ittr. Dawson, has evinced symptoms a returning sense.
Mr. Hume is collecting his speeches for. publication,
under the title of " Flowers of oratory."...—Pundit humus
flores!"
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The Morning Post and Standard may be relied on as
good authorit:es on the subject of the Peerage ; for the
Editors of both Papers are to he included in the new hatch.
SPREA D OF THE REFORMATION.—Lord Grey read yes-
terday a public recantation of his early principles at the
Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, in the presence of Lord
Eldon and some others who had been mainly instrumental
in effecting this conversion. Lord Eldon was deeply affeetad.
_ .

CONSI;TIMCY.—Bets have been made at Tattersall'a
that the Courier advocates the Catholic Question before
the year 1828.

MARCH OF MIND.—We last week over-
heard a conversation (very witty) which passed
between a coachman and his companions, an
Irishman and a Scotchman, and which was
nearly to to the following effect :—Coachee wa3
to give a ride gratis to the one that „could in-
stanter produce the best two lines on the spot—
Paddy began—" I would rather ride in Chaises
Than walk by Jaais."
§cotchy.—" How beautiful are the breezes,
That blow between the treeses."—ln-
verness Journal.

On Saturday evening, as the Liverpool mail
was taking its stand in Cornhill, waiting its turn
to receive the mail bags, the horses became res-
tive, broke out of the line, and brought the
splinter-bar in contract with one of the gas lamps.
The consequence was that the splinter-bar was
shattered in pieces, and one of the horses much
injured : an aged fruit woman, whose stand was
adjoining the lamp-post, had a most fortunate
escape. Yesterday evening the same poor
creature had another equally lucky escape, as a
chaise, driving furiously up from the Poultry,
came in contact with the same post without at
all injuring the woman.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, as two
young men were bathing in the Regency Canal,
at Hackney, they were informed by a steersman
of a sand barge, heavily laden, that he had turned
up the body of a man with the rudder of his
barge, near Hackney-road-bridge. They imme-
diately proceeded to the spot, and, after search-
ing the bottom of the canal by walking and div-
ing for about a quarter of an hour, at last suc-
ceeded in finding him. He was quite dead, and
was so far discoloured as to be of a deep blue
colour. The landlord of the Rose and Crown,
Hackney-road, refusing to receive the body, a
plank was procured, and he was conveyed to the
bone-house at Hackney-church, to await the
holding of the coroner's inquest. He is a young
man about 17 or 18 years of age, was dressed in
a blue coat and waistcoat, drab-coloured cloth
trousers, white stockings, and quarter shoes.—
He had a mark on his right cheek, and was
without either hat or neckerchief. The only ar-
ticle found on his person was a child's pocket-
handkerchief.
Neither bells nor any other sonorous instru-
ment are made use of by the English in Bengal
when they summon any of their numerous atten-
dants into their immediate presence. Some one
is always within call. The master of the house,
therefore, has only to raise his voice slightly, and
call qui hi? or, Who is there ? In the twink-
ling of an eye his ready domestic stands respect-
fully before him, and with an air of profound
humility, salaams, and exclaims, cc My Lord,
a slave waits your pleasure! " To those who
have resided many years in India, and have ac-
quired the usual habits of an Indian life, who
from apathy indolence are exhausted by the
slightesto
of mind or body, who call for
assistance when they would change the position
of an arm or a leg---who would be puzzled in
the absence of their Sirdar Bearer (or valet),
bow to put on a stocking, or button a waistcoat ;
to those, in fact, who have forgotten England
and English customs, the more youthful and
spirited portion of the British-Indian commu-
nity apply the opprobrious nickname of QUI Rl*