The Sun. — 1838-04-24 (London, England)

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—The child of a respectable tradesman of Perth, about two-and-a-half years old, swallowed, about nine months ago, a needle, and, as a natural consequence, the parents were alarmed lest something serious might ensue. Under this feeling, physicians were called, who applied respectively emetics and purgatives, in vain, to reproduce the swallowed needle ; but on the child for a number of days making no complaint, they (the parents) did not judge it necessary to persevere longer in a course of medicine. Light months passed over, when the circumstance was entirely forgotten. The other day, however, the forgotten terror of the needle was again revived, by the agonising cries of the child. The father, who was at the time at work, was sent for, 'and on examining the child, discovered and extracted the needle. Digestion had the effect of reducing it about a fifth part, the eye being entirely eaten away, but the point remaining as sharp as ever.—Scotsman. On Friday afternoon Captain Bastard of the Royal .Horie-guards Blue, alighted from his cabriolet at the house of oa nobleman hs Stratford-place, and gave directions to his kroom, who was with him, to adjust a portion of the harness. Nine was in the act of doing so, when the horse, which was a i ft) spirited the ousursdedeolfqtttst started roffult ay vehicle was tremendousneary ashed against one or two omuibusses which were passing long. The alarm excited was intense, as several women and children narrowly escaped being run over ; on arriving at the end of South Moulton-street, the animal ran against and knocked down a fine youth, named May, who was crossing the road. Police-constable Hawker, 106 D, hastened to the spot and found the gig of Captain Bastard on its side, and the horse lying on the ground. He lifted up the unfortunate youth, who was in a state of insensibility, and bleeding profusely from several wounds in the head, and having first taken him to the house of Mr. Ash, Lower Brook-street, conveyed him in a coach to the Middlesex Hospital, where he lies with -but very little hopes of recovery. A young man, named Baptiste Guyon, was brought the Prefecture of Police, accused of the murder of his aunt. uyon, who is twenty-one years of age, was an apprentice to butcher at Boulogne. On Thursday last, he asked permis-: on of his master to absent himself the next day, but was re..l used. lie, however, contrived to obtain a key from a tenant• the house, by means of which he could go out and return' ithout his absence being noticed, and he left the house on riday night. At Cormeil, Seine-et-Oise, Guyon had an unt, seventy-one years old, who was known to be posseaset! considerable property, and on Good Friday evening this 'oman was barbarously murdered. Two wounds were discovered on her body, one of which had cut through the jugular vein, and the other was in the stomach. A sum of three thousand francs had also disappeared from an old cabinet in the house. On Saturday morning Guyon went about his usual occupations, apparently in much better humour than usual ; but being suspected of the murder, a search was made in his room, and after much trouble a blouse, which he usually wore, was found, stained with blood. He could give no satisfactory account of this, nor of where he was on Friday right. This circumstance, and a suspicious cut on his right ha:,d, led the authorities to order his apprehension. Galignani.