The Sun. — 1833-11-18 (London, England)

NATIONAL TRIBUTE.—The general election of all the parishes in this city, for the O'Connell fund, took place on last Sunday. The sum will, we understand, amount to nearly 150/.—Kilkenny Journal. At the Cheltnsford petty sessions Mr. Jesper, miller at Stebbing (Essex), was s ummoned by Mr. Overall, overseer of that parish, to show cause why he had not paid 21. I6s. 3d., due from him for the labour rate. The overseer produced the rate-book, in which Mr. Thomas Jesper stood rated to that amount. Mr. Jesper said he considered the demand very unju.t. " I went (he said) to the vestry, and having no labour whereea to employ a man, inquired whether, if I found work for a labourer belonging to our parish elsewhere, thit would be considered a compliance with the rate. They were agreeable to my doing so, and I found one of our labourers, who was then at work for a farmer in an adjoin. g parish, who was about to leave his master. I agreed t give that farmer one shilling a week to employ him, an continued to do so for six weeks, after which they raid I should not go on upon that system." Bench—Did the par' o refund the six shillings ? Mr. Jesper—Yes. The Bench were about to order a distress warrant to be issued, when Mr. Jesper observed that some magistrates had refused to take that course under similar circumstances. The Act was then referred to, and, after some discussion, the magi!. crates were of opinion that they bad not the power under it to issue a warrant.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AT KfisoISTON.--• It is our painful duty to record a deliberate a tempt at murder, which took place at Kingston fair on Wednesday afternoon last, under aggravating circumstances. The unfortunate victim, who up to last night remained in imminent danger, and, as far as medical judgment goes, it is almost impossible for life to exist many days, is Jas. Gardener, a young married man, about 28 years of age, of somewhat respectable connections, residing at Westminster. It appears that the unfortunate sufferer, who was brought up to the business of a plasterer, it being his father's trade, who (the latter) had been many years foreman to Messrs. Francis Bernasceni and Company, plasterers to his Majesty, and other branches of the Royal Family, in Tottenham-court-road, arrived at Kings on Town on Tuesday evening, in company with his wife, for the purpose of visiting the fair, which commenced the following (Wednesday) morning. On Wednesday afternoon, as he was passing along that part of the fair ground where cattle are exhibited for sale, he met with one of the known thimble speculators,oambol enrg, he lower orders of society by the nickname of Cobbler Will,"named James Williams, but better when, after some little conversation,. words arose, after which they parted. About three o'clock they again met in one of Groolay'e accommodating booths,' elien other words of an aggravating nature on both sides ensued, consequently it was finally arranged that the dispute should be terminated in a pugilistic contest or one sovereign aside the following Tbursday morning, to come off at or bear Kingston, and as Gardener (the 'offerer) was about to lay down his stake-money, the fellow (Williams) ran to the bar of the booth, a distance of about ten yards, and seized a large sharp•pointed carving knife, which he instantly, in a most deliberate manner, plunged into his (Gardener's) left side, just below the heart. The poor flow immediately fell senseless on the ground, bleeding profusely. The prisoners who was attired in the first style of fashion, is about 30 years of age, sallow complexion, and stands at least six feet high. On Thursday the prisoner was taken before Shrubsole and Thomas Fricker, Esquires, the town Magistrates, who assembled At the Town•hall expressly to hear the circumstances connected with the atrocious act, when witnesses were examined in confirmsoration of the foregoing statement, after which he (the prisoner) was committed to the Bridewell prison for reexamination next week, aed, if in the mean time death should occur, to await the result of the Coroner's inquest. The sufferer, wh „se agonies are great, still remains at the Harrow public-house, where every attention is p iid to his perilous situation. His wife is, unfortunately, pregnant with the seventh child.