The Sun. — 1836-06-06 (London, England)

SNOW.—There still remain many. immense drifts °f snow on several of the higher mountains in Cumberland' particularly on Scawfell and Helvellyn. Our Keswick 01' respondent informs us that he, in company with some friends, , on the 29th ult., inspected one drift not far from the top 0' Helvellyn, on the Patterdale side of the mountain, near toe place called Swirrel Edge, which was upwards of twenty feet deep.— Whitehaven Herald. The Court of Assizes has been occupied several days with the trial of two Spaniards named Pereyra and Ui' loqui, and the girl Plouvier, mistress of the latter who Weie. arraigned on the charge of having murdered and after cards robbed Juan Ferrer, a Spanish priest. The two latter prisal; ers were implicated by the assertion of Pereyra, %oho first charged them with being the murderers, and afte,ewards Oared that they being all three together at Ferrees house °II to the evening the deed was perpetrated, Ulloqui, attempted strangle the priest, upon which he ( Pereyra) struck at Vll°,l qui with a sharp instrument, which missed him, andkills Ferrer. The testimony of the witnesses did not go against "'a loqui, or his mistress, but bore hard upon Pereyra. Several of them, however, gave both the male prisoners very bad chi. ratters, and it was proved that both of them had before been in the hands of justice. The admission of Pereyra that the blow was struck by him, the fact of divers effects of the deceased having been found upon him, which was fully proved, and the testimony of numerous witnesses that went in corroboration of the principal evidence, determined the opinien the jury, who yesterday delivered a verdict of Guilty again...l4 Pereyra, and Not Guilty in favour of Ulloqui and girls Plouvier. the Plouvier. The Court, in consequence, accrated the two lot ter, and condemned Pereyra to death, Galignani's Mss" senger.  A walking-stick, recently presented to Mr. Sopwithp surveyor, of this town, which we have had the pleasure of inspecting, contains in the dimensions of an ordinary cane the following materials for writing and drawing :—Two inkstands, pens, penknife, ivory folder, lucifer matches, scaling wit'‘ and wafers, a wafer stamp, wax taper several sheets of pos letter paper and card paper, a complete and highly-finish set of drawing instruments, ivory rule and scales, lead an hair pencils, Indian rubber, Indian ink, a thermometer, and ti` beautiful and well poised magnetic compass. The whole are so arranged as to admit of any of the instruments being used with great facility.—Newcastle Journal. A shocking accident occurred Thursday afternocul on the premises of Mr. Raphael, a dairyman, residing at ?I°. 2, Argyll-street, near the King's Cross. Mr. Raphael re; quiring to have a cesspool in ene of the out-buildings clearr out, employed a man of the name of Richard Geary, t° ° it. Geary, accompanied by one of his men, proceeded in the work, having first lowered a candle for the purpose of ascertaining the state of the air below, and, finding that it burnt' the man descended, and was some time engaged in clearing away the surface water; but at the moment of his touching the soil, the effluvium escaped to such a degree as to mos° him to call for help. His master descended to his assistanc°, but immediately fell a victim to the noxious vapour. The_ bodies were taken out with grappling-irons in about half an hour, and medical assistance was immediately procured, but, all efforts to restore life were unavailing. They 'nave WI" left large families. A serious accident occurred on Tuesday evening last, to Rhodes, guard of the London and L,Juth mail. Some malicious wretch had placed a number of large stones in the high-way, near Lingerhouse-bar, for the purpose, it is gene ; rally believed, of upsetting the coaches on that road On t" up-mail reaching the spot, one of the wheels went over a stone, and the shock was so great as to shake the guard. out of his seat on to the road. He was conveyed to SPrAint where he was bled, having sustained much injury.-- osto Herald. 13 I RD-