The Sun. — 1829-09-30 (London, England)

UNION-HALL  As the office was about being dosed on Monday, a respectable-)ooking man, named Brockbridge, entered in great agitation and affliction, accompanied by his daughter, whose countenance was bathed in tears, to exhibit a complaint against , an athletic young man, with pleasing features, who was in custody. The prisoner was confronted with the accuser, who was so overcome by his wounded feelings, that for a short time he was incapable of making himself understood. When be had in some degree recovered his faculties he entered into a statement, in disjointed sentences, like a man who has suffered great agony of mind, and who attempts accounting for it, respecting an evil which had befallen him in the loss of a beloved daughter, who had committed suicide that day, " in consequence of that villain's base treatment," he said (glancing- at the prisoner), " who is now before your Worship. My happiness is gone for ever," sobbed the accuser, " to-day I have been robbed of my daughter. I never knew that she had an acquaintance with such a wretch ! She has this morning swallowed poison. I got home in time only to see her close her eyes for ever." The young woman who accompanied him now proceeded to state some circumstances, but her narrative was presently interrupted by tears. [The particulars of the suicide will be found, as collected from her own lips in the course of yesterday, in another part of our paper.) Mr. SWABEY, the Magistrate before whom the parties appeared, having collected sufficient facts to shew that in a legal sense the prisoner had not been instrumental either in procuring the poison or wishing the deceased to take it, whatever moral guilt might attach to him, expressed an opinion that he could not detain him. His Worship, however, seemed desirous of assisting the afflicted relatives; and having cautioned the prisoner, lest he should say any thing which might possibly criminate him, he told him that he was at liberty to offer what he pleased. The prisoner denied having acted in the base manner attributed to him, and said that he was a married man. This latter assertion he used, as if, because he had a wife, he could not have been guilty of the shocking outrage. The Magistrate told him that his own conscience best instructed him whether or not he had maltreated the unfortunate deceased.  The prisoner again declared that he had not. After some further remarks, it was arranged that he should remain' in the custody of the constable, who had brought him to the office, until the inquest, (which will be held to-day), as it s% as by no means improbable that the Coroner or Jury would wish him to undergo an examination. The heart-broken father and (laughter then retired. Charles &mart Jthe young man who has been a week in custody, charged with stealing a silk pocket handkerchief from the person of a Mr. Casey, a fruiterer, when at Astley's Amphitheatre, on the 21st instant, was yesterday fully committed to take his trial for the offence.  In Consequence of the publicity given to the case, a Journeyman printer, named Abel, who likewise lest two pocket. books the same night at:that place of amusement, now came forward, and, having inspected the books taken from the prisoner, be recognized his own. A detainer will be lodged against the prisoner on the second charge.