The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-29 00:00:00

UNION'-HALL.

Yesterday a man named Lamb was brought be-
fore Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with endangering the
lives of several Persons by shooting at birds in an
enclosed piece of ground.
Mr. Lister having affirmed that the lives of other
persons, as «e:1 as his own, were endangerel by
the careless manner in which the defendant dis-
cliarged his fowling-piece, the Magistrate held Lim
to bail.

The defendant hoped that his fowling-piece would
be delivered to him again. His request, however,
was not complied with, end he was told that lie
might bring his action for its recovery.
A Mr. Knight, a stable-keeper in Blackfriars-
road, was charged with having assaulted Clarke, a
consti,ble, appointed street•keeper of Nelson-square.
Defendant was discharged.
Thomas Cooper, the schoolmaster of Newington
workhouse, and Eliza Bond, an inmate of the same
place, were brought up on the following charge :
One of the overseers, with great gravity of counte-
nance, stated that he attended t here to complain of the
immoral behaviour of the two personsat the bar. The
man, who was a pauper in the house, had been se-
lected to superintend the education of the boys, and
was well qualified for the situation, having been
educated in Merchant Tailors' School. The female,
who was also an inmate, although a pauper, yet be-
longed to a family of high reepectabil!y, her father
having been a Colonel in his Majesty's service.
Both these persons, although reduced to the neces-
sity of seeking an asylum in the workhouse, were
treated w:th great kindness there, and would have
still met with every indulgence the place could have
afforded, if they had conducted themselves with de-
corum and decency. Instead of behaving them-
selves in a proper manner and setting a good ex-
amele to the rest of the inmates, the defendants
were recently discovered to have been carrying on
an intrigue together. The overseer here commenced
describing the interior of the workhouse, and in the
course of his description, said that the women's bed-
rooms were a considerable distance from those of the
men's, vet the woman at the bar had contrived, on
a hard frosty night, (Sunday night,) to walk along a
gallery, on gaining the extremity of which she had to
explore sereral apartments in the dark before she came
to that of the schoolmaster, who it appears was
wrapped in the arms of Somnus when she got into
the room. The noise, in awakening him from
his slumbers, disturbed some boys who were
sleeping in the same room, and they instantly got
up, and seeing a gaunt figure ►tslking at the foot
of the sehoolmeseer's bed, they seized tl:e female
defendant, and crying out for• a light, one was
brought, when the " nightly spectre" nes found to
be no other than Eliza Bond, who, on being disco-
vered in the situation, declared that she was in the
habit of walking in her sleep, and that she had
strayed from her bed while under its influence. The
schoolmaster pretendedeot to be aware of the nature
of the visit paid him at so unseasonable an hour of
the night, and declared that she must be a sleep-
walker, otherwise she never could have pas•ed from
her side of the building to that of his on a tremen-
dous cold night, with nothing on but her chemise.-e-
She must therefore, added the schoolmaster, be a
sleep-walker. The overseer said that the school-
master was a man of most immoral character, and,
as the female was shortly to come into the posses-
sion of some property, he sought every means to se-
cure her affections, for the purpose of getting hold of
her money.
Mr. CHAMBERS said that it was highly improper
the workhouse was constructed in such a manner as
to render it easy of access to both men end women's
wards. While that was the case, instead of its being
what it should be, a receptacle for aged and infirm
persons, it would be a brothel.
It having been found that the schoolmaster was
drunk on the preceding night, he was committed for
21 days to Brixton. The woman was discharged.

Our correspondent at Barnsley describes the
state of that town in a deplorable manner ; lie says that
the number of looms is 3,710 ; that there arc in full em-
ploy, 314 ; partially employed, 1,202 ; and totally un-
employed, 2,l94.—Leeds Patriot.

We have the pleasure to communicate to tha
geological world the discovery, by Miss MART ANNING,
of an entirely new specimen of fossil organic remains, em-
bedded in the lies of Lyme Regis. It is about a foot and
a half long, has t...v0 immense sockets for the eyes, a long
snout ; a series of the finest vertebrae that have ever been
seen in so small a creature, chtws, fins like wings, and
some beautiful fluted thorns like those of tie tay, with
the exception that in the fish they are nut fluted. —F,xeue
Flying Post.

Yesterday morning, suspicion was excited
amoag the workmen at Cartaburn grain-mills, by the ap-
pearance of some fragments of female clothing coiled round
various parts of the great wheel of the upper mill, and also
by a small bundle, containing scraps of bread and cheese,
having been found in the lead between the mills, and which
bad apparently been washing down—all tending to the cln-
jecture that some person bad perished by getting entangled
with the upper mill wheel in the dark, and being destroyed
by its successive revolutions. Fan ther search was accord-
ingly instituted, and two pieces of a human skull and por-
tions of the brain were discovered in the bottom of the
wheel, and other indications which left no doubt that some
one had there met a melancholy death. Nearly the whole
of the clothing, it would appear, was collected, but in frag-
ments. An old coarse grey:cluth cloak, having a hood at-
tached to it, with blue lining, was found almost entire;
likewise a muslin cap and blue riband, and the remains of
a blue and red striped wrapper, petticoat, shift, &c. A
woman was seen on Wednesday, at two o'clock in the af-
ternoon, in the vicinity of the mill, whose exterior dress
corresponded with the above, and who said that she be-
longed to the neighbourhood of Ballantrae ; and as she also
had a bundle in her hand, it is probable that she may have
been the luckless sufferer, though how she came by her
death can only be conjectured. It is supposed that she
might have wished to seek shelter in the mill during the
night, and that in attempting to get access by a door, under
the threshold of which the gearing from the great wheel
runs, she had, by stepping upon it, been thrown forward
within the rim of the great wheel, and thus met her death
in a manner too horrible to describe. The circumstance of
the body not having been found may arise from its having
passed under the covered lead between the mills, and been
there stopped in its progressdown.— Greenock Advertiser.

On Tuesday last a hardy woman, about 30
years of age, the wife of W. DUNMTER, a butcher in
this town, left Manchester to go as far as the neighbour-
beurhoo4.l of Astley, for the purpose of returning with a
cow. Though she was in that happy state in which
" ladies wish to be who love their lords," she had no ex-
pectations of being early confined, and felt perfectly com-
petent to her Laborious journey. She reached the place
(slankin's-wood, about nine miles from hence), obtained
the cow, and in the evening was about three miles on her
return home with her charge when she became suddenly
unwell ; she seated herself by the toad side, and was then
immediately delivered of a fine male child amongst the
snow, which had previously fallen pretty densely. A
gentleman, however, passing about this time, and find-
ing the unfortunate state of the poor mother and her baby,
roused two old women in a neighbouring cAtaiee, who
came with all alacrity to her assistance. They supported
her to the White [horse Inn, in Woraley, about 50 or 60
yards from the place where the event happened, and a little
girl brought the " illustrious stranger" in her " bishop."
Here mine liii.tess received them with a promptitude and
kindness which does her the greatest credit. She put
Mrs. DuasTra to bed, and afforded her every comfortshe
required. The followir.:; morning she was so well that
she wished to proceed to Manchester, but Mrs. SMITH
'sore prudently dissuaded her from so rash an undertaking.
She is now very well, and the I oy declared to be one of
the finest ever pres•nted to a husband. Mr. SMITII, the
landlord, insists on her remaining with her baby till she
can remove with perfect safety : and he so 'midi admires
her hardiness, and the extraordinary circumstance that
made her his guest, that he has given orders that not a
farthing should be charged while she remained the inmate
of the White Horn inn,—Mauchester dldvertiser.