The Sun. — 1823-09-17 (London, England)

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--On Wednesday evening, (10th Instant), as two poor women, one aged about 70 (sexton of the parish of Ilingmore), the other a young woman about 20, who lived with hers were gathering sticks on the edge of a tremendous precipice near the Ness, at Sheldon, the younger one missed her footing, and her aged companion, her nurse and friend from infancy, caught hold of her hand to save her, but, shocking to relate, both were immediately hurled to the depth of 200 feet ! The only person near was a woman, a neighbour of the unfortunate sufferers, who procured assistance from Sheldon as soon as her emaciated frame, rendered doubly weak from terror, would suffer her to crawl so far. Some honest sailors, ever ready in the hour of danger, immediately got off' a long boat, and with great exertion brought her round the Nes.a, though a strong east wind was blowing upon the rocks, and the surf ran high ; when at last they reached the objects of their compassion, and were getting the young woman into the boat, a high sea washed her out of their arms; in a second attempt, both she and one of the seamen were washed down, and the poor fellew in struggling to save her was nearly lost himself, but happily two of the other men succeeded in getting them out of the water ; they were then all compelled to return with the boat up the Teign, leaving the bleeding creatures on the rocks. A number of people who had assembled on the cliffs, watching the event, saw that the only means of saving them was to get ropes andhlankets to draw them upi which, with the assistance of lights, (for it was near eight o clock), and at the risk of the lives of those who ventured in a circuitous way, descending from craig to craig, to get to them, theyeffected. They found them living, but in a dreadfully mangled state; anti the poor sufferers are now lying in one house near the church in Ringmore, about a mile from Sheldon. The poor woman who was with them when they fell, lives also just by • she is the mother of five children, and has long been in an ill state of health. The humane efforts of the sailors, too, who evinced all the kindness and fortitude of human nature, will, we hope, be effectually remembered. The Rev. Clergyman of Ringniore, or of any neighbouring parish, would, doubtless, receive any sums for the sufferers, or for those who rescued them from their perilous situation. The women are yet living, and the younger one may possibly recover.—(Exeter Barrette.) HORRIBLE ASSASSINATION%--.ollSaturday (Gth inst.), at 10 in the morning, N. Dclaye, formerly a merchant, was assassinated in his own house. He was pierced by a poniard in various parts of the body. His servant, on hearing his cries ran to his assistance, and endeavoured to arrest the villain in his flight. In the attempt he received two wounds in the shoulder which are supposed dangerous. The perpetrator of this horrible deed is a person named Dupuin, sheendate of law, and formerly a traveller in the employment of N. Delaye, with whom he had some altercation on pecuniary affairs. After murdering the master; and wounding the servant, he made his escape in the direction of the AV:e de Brotteaux.— They began to despair of taking him, when a corporal of the 43d perceived the assassin running towards him. Hearing the cry of " stop," and seeing a man bareheaded endeavouring, at the same time, to turn in another direction, he bravely came up, not considering whether the villain was armed or not, and though much inferior in strengh and size, stopped him until he was taken into custody, and conveyed to the Hotel.deVille. He was soon after brought to the place where the murder was committed, where the King's Attorney and the Judges of Instruction attended.—( Lyons Gazette.)