The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

CH EsHIRE

THE 88TH REGIMENT.-The same reasons
which last week• induced us to withhold publi-
city of the particulars relative to the conduct of
several individuals in this regiment towards the
inhabitants still operate ; and we have no dispo-
sition to agitate questions likely to produce mis-
chief. Sir James Lyon, second in command of the
district, has been for several days in the city dur-
ing the last week, between whom and the Magis-
trates some consultations have taken place._ His
conduct has been represented to us as highly cre-
ditable, both in reference to the regiment and the
civil authorities ; and we sincerely trust the in-
terposition of his authority will effectuate the ob-
ject of his special tnission.--(Chester Courant,
Sept. 19.)
At the Chester Sessions, Ralph Jackson, aged
41, a labourer, from Minshull, was indicted for
an assault and rape upon the body of Sarah Pol-
litt, of Stockport, aged eleven years, and found
Guilty.. In passing sentence, Mr. Justice WAR-
REN did it with great feeling. The Jury, he
said, had returned a verdict of guilty, and, in-
deed, he thought they could not return any other.
The prisoner had now but a few hours left, and
he exhorted him to use the short time allotted
him in prayer to God, with whom there was'
mercy, for there Was no forgiveness for him in
this world.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—AS John
Cole, formerly a schoolmaster of Fingriaghoe,
in Essex, who is now in the 66th year of his age,
was sitting with others in a field belonging to
Mr. Elijah Clark, farmer, of that parish, while
viewing the late eclipse of the sun with his right
eye, he being stone blind of the left, partially
shaded by his hand, his left eye was instantly
restored to sight, and he can now lee with it as
perfectly as he did 30 years ago.

STAFFORDSHIRE.
• MURDER.—On Tuesday last (the sth instant),
John Wright, of this town, locksmith, was taken
into custody for drowning his son, James Wright,
a boy about five years of age, in the Birmingham
Canal. An Inquest was held upon the body of
the boy, on Wednesday, before Henry Smith,
Esq., Coroner, and we extract the following par-
ticulars of this distressing circumstance from the
depositions. Wright's wife, who has been from
him some months, attending a sick person, went off
with another man to Darlaston, on Sunday, the 3d
inst. where Wright found them, and brought her
borne to his lodgings. They slept together, and
appeared perfectly reconciled; but as soon as he
went to his work on the next morning, his
wife left the house, and did not return. When he
came home to his dinner, and found she was again
gone off, he became extremely agitated and fran-
tic, and continued so during the day. He that
night slept with the boy, and on the following
morning got up about seven o'clock, and taking
the boy with him, proceeded to the Wyrley ca-
nal, into which he threw him, but relenting,jump-
ed in after him, took him out, and went to a
cottage to dry themselves; when he was desired
to take the child home and put him to bed. He
went away with an intention of doing so, but
feeling at a loss to account for the state in which
they were, he again resolved upon effecting his
purpose, which he accordingly did. He then
came back to the town, and very shortly after-
wards communicated what he had done to two
of his relations, who went with him to the Bir-
mingham canal, near Autherley, when one of
them want in and found the body. Upon its
being taken from the water, the prisoner mani-
fested the strongest markS of affection towards it.
Witness spoke to the uniform kindness with
which the prisoner had treated the child, and to
the agitated and confused state of his mind, be-
fore and after the perpetration of the crime. Tile
Coroner's Jury returned •a verdict of TVilful
Murder, and Wright has been committed to our
county gaol thereupon.----(fVolverhamptazz aro-