The Sun. — 1836-01-29 (London, England)

THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND.—The po2ular author of "A. Year in Spain" has just put forth another amusing book under the above title. The Quarterly Review, in noticing the " Year in Spain, observed—" That it abounded in those familiar scenes of life, and in those groups and characters by the way-side, which place a country and its people immediately before our eyes. We think we can give the author no better advice than in any future work he may undertake to let us have as much as possible of his personal adventures, and of the scenes and characters around him—assuring him that when he is most egotistical he is most entertaining, and, in fact, most instructive. We anticipate further and still more copious extracts from our gay and shrewd Lieutenant's log-book. May he survive to record all his adventures in a book, and we to have the pleasure of reviewing it." This author has now produced a new work full of amusing anecdote. .He has regarded us and our manners and customs in a spirit of insatiable curiosity, and has detected qualities and characteristics among us of the existence of which we are ourselves scarcely aware. About three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a waterman's boy was rowing his father's wherry near the Towerstairs, close to a barge that was lying alongside, when he missed his scull, and in attempting to reach it he fell overboard, and immediately disappeared. An alarm was instantly raised, the drags were procured, and about five or ix minutes afterwards he was dragged from under the barge's bottom, and conveyed to the Nelson's Arms publichouse, the landlord of which promptly rendered every possible assistance, by affording blankets, &c. Mr. Brown, a respectable surgeon, instantly attended to the case. He found the boy quite insensible and apparently lifeless, but by means of friction and other remedies he succeeded in restoring suspended animation, and within half an hour after the boy fell into the water he was so far recovered that his parents were enabled to take him home, and whea Mr. Brown visited the lad yesterday afternoon he was going on well. The Courrier du Bas Rhin records a horrible attempt at crime, and the suicide of the criminal. A wedding was being celebrated at the village of Duttleheim. The uncle of the bridegroom, who partook not in the general joy, was heard to exclaim, " You arc all very gay this evening; perhaps the case will be altered." Previous to the feast a plate, containing some of the provisions that had been boiled in the water of the village well, was given to a cat, and the animal shortly after eating them expired. The alarm was instantly given.; the well was found to be poisoned ! Suspicion fell on the uncle of the -bridegroom. He was arrested, and on comparing his shoes with recent footsteps traced to the well, they fitted them to a nail. He at first denied it all, but when in prison he confessed to a priest, in the presence of witnesses, his horrible intention, and declared he had no accomplice. Next morning he was found dead in his cell, having made away with himself with some of the poison which he had concealed in a snuff-box. A Garde du Commerce, named Encelin, having, a writ of arrest against a foreigner named Smith, and hearing that an Englishman of that name resided at the Hotel Bristol, Place Vendome, entered the apartment of Mr. John Abel Smith, on Saturday morning, and, notwithstandinr, the protest of the latter, forced him to rise from his bed. He was on the point of being conducteds to the prison in the Rue de Clichy, when a commissary of police, and for whom the mistress of the house had sent,came prevented the arrest. Mr. J. A. Smith, a merchant of very great wealth in London, was not the person for whom the writ was intended ; and he has applied to the proper authoritieseiPolice for reparation has nut thefor businessthi this arbit raertye thehands of proceeding The Prefect Procureur du Roi, and proceedingshave been commence . thed into against Encelin, who, it appears, acted contrary to the law, as he was not accompanied by a Juge de Paix.—Galignani's Mesrenger,