The Sun. — 1838-08-09 (London, England)

MAGISTERIAL PATRONAGE.—It appars by a return to the Home of Commons that the Middlesex and Westminster Magistrates have the pwronage of 220 p!ares, the aggregate of the annual incomes of which is 22,'250/. Ss 2id.  A veteran, named Mr. John Lusk, aged 102, died lately at Warren, Tennessee, America. lie fought under General Wolfe on the plains of Abraham, was a soldier in the American army .111,ing the neve and rnlainnrd milit.ry ponbiwit't to hi.) &ail.  • _ DRI:N KEN N ESS AND Fun outs Dftl VI NG.— Yesicrilay morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a one.horse fly, driven by a man in a state of intoxication, passed at a most tremend ,us rate along the Edgeware.read, to the great danger of foot passengers. The horse, which was a high.spirited animal, and had several times gal. lopped en to the foot pavement, at length dashed the vehicle against a lamppost, when the driver, by the suddenness of the shock, was preelpitatel heal foremost to the ground, and his skull was fractured in a dread. ful manner. The fly was much damaged, and was, totether with the horse, conveyed to the green.yard.  PHILADELPHIA, JULY 13 —The excessive heat still continues. Indeed, during the whole of July to this day (13th) the thermometer on the shady sides of the streets in this city, has ranged ftom 95 t, 1014—generally 99 and 100 at 3 p.m. A great many deaths have occurred in the Atlantic cities from the sun-stroke (coup dc and from drihking iced water.  A distressing circumstance took place the day before yesterday in the Debtors' prison, Rue de Clichy. An Italian gen. tieman, named Roberti, having retired to his room, a moaning noise was soon after heard to issue from it, and on the door being burst open it was found that he had stabbed himself twice with a knife in the heart. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but he expired two hours afterwards in great suffering. This tragic event is attributed to his grief at hzing separated from his wife.  Between the 28th of July and the 4th inst. twentytwo packets entered Boulogne, with 3,246 passengers, and seventeen wi:h 809 passengers sailed. _ . .  Six men, who were at work a few days since in cleaning a canal at Douai, were crushed to death by the falling of an arch under which they were s!anding at the time.  - THE Moons.—Ntuntrons parties are about to start fur tiler shooting quarters in the Highlands, and several sports. men of ton, with their dogs and guns, have already shipped themselves fur the North, as shooting will commerce on the I • The Glasgow Chronicle states, that one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Lanark is the keeper of a toll_ bar, within two miles of Glasgow. Between five and six o'clock yesterday evening a young man, named James Potter, dropped down suddenly in Gower_ street, Bedford square, and instantly expired. The unfortunate man was conveyed to the North London Hospital. An inquiry which occasioned intense excitement at Rowley Regis and its neighbourhood, has occupied the earnest attention of Henry Smith, Esq., for several days in the course of the last tt ree weeks. Samuel Perry, a nailer, living in Garrett's.lane, it was re. ported, had been poisoned by his wife, and the object of the investigation was to ascertain the truth of this horrible charge. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Susannah Perry, and the Coroner imnv.diately issued his warrant for her committal to Stafford gaol, to take her trial at the next Assizes. The deceased was about forty.five years of age, and the prisoner is the mother of three children, two boys, and a girl About six years old.