The Sun. — 1838-09-04 (London, England)

THE BITER BIT.—On Sunday morning, a railroad man, called Jem, went into the inn at West Haddon, and, leaving his basket in the kitchen, went into the tap to drink a pint of beer. The landlord, being tempted by curiosity, opened the basket, in which he found a leveret, and, doubting Jem's either being licensed or allowed to shoot, he thought he ran no risk of being publicly complained of if he rung the changes upon his guest, which he did by abstracting the hare and putting a dead cat in its place. On getting home, Jem found out the fraud, and returning with his basket to the inn, he found mine host had gone to church, and being past 11 o'clock, the servant refused to draw him any ale. After much persuasion he induced the servant to leave the kitchen to get him some spring water, and in her absence he opened a large pot on the fire, in which was a fine leg of mutton, and very ingeniously exchanged the tabby for it, carrying home the prize. Jim sent his brother there after church time, making him fully acquainted with the facts, and the landlord, wanting some broth, ordered a basin out of the pot ; not liking either colour or flavour, he caused an examination, and instantly detected the cause and its author on witnessing the cat's mortal remains. " Oh," said Jem's brother, " I dares for to say that there cat first eat the mutton, and then committed suicide to avoid detection I"—Northampton Herald.  A woman was found dead by one of the sportsmen on Inehgroundle-hill on Monday the lath current. Tile body was so much decayed that it could not be removed, and was consequently interred on the spot. She had black hair, a full set of teeth, and seemed to have been a middle-aged, stout-made woman. She had on a grey woolsey gown—a light blue upper woolsey petticoat—a secoad one, not particularly described—and an under one of woollen, woven on wires. Above her stays, she had a man's vest, with an inside pocket, in which were found 16s. 6d. in silver, neatly rolled up in a piece of cloth. She had on one stout shoe, and the other lying a few yards from her. She had also a basket, in which were two tea-spoons, a pair of scissors, and several neatly rolled-up packages, but all empty ; in the basket, there were also fourteenpence halfpenny in copper. She had a black and red tartan shawl, and a merino cap, which seemed to have fitted tight, and was drawn down upon her face. All her clothes had been good but by the time she was found, they were so much decayed that no swatches could be taken. Three or four weeks ago, a man was found about two miles farther north, in the head of Glenmuick parish, and buried where he was found. It is probable that they had been travelling together; and, in endeavouring to cross the Caple Mount from Glenmuick to Clove, they had perished in the storm about the middle of January last. This is more likely, because the two tea-spoons had been evidently used ; and two knives were also lying near the place where the woman was found. After the middle of January, the snow was so deep that no person could have gone to the hill. —Edinburgh Courant.  THE M•N OF MANY WlvEs.—On Wednesday Captain Willmett had the hardihood to visit Rochester, so lately the scene of his disgraceful conduct, when he and his father were subjected to the indignant chastisement of the mob, particularly the women. On the above-named day these gentlemen arrived at the .Crown Inn in a carriage and four, where they ordered a dinner for several people at eight O'clock, and went out into the city. The news that Willmett, the husband of a dozen wives, was there, spread like wildfire, and the Captain and his father were surrounded by hundreds of people, principally females, who proceeded front one assault to another, until they rolled them both in the mud, stole their watches. jewellery, and money, and ultimately tore their clothes from off their backs. The Captain ran up the Bull-yard, and cliptbed over a high wall, having a large quantity of glass bottles on the top, by which he must have cut himself greatly. .The landlord of the Bull took the old gentleman back and put him into the custody of the polies', who conducted him out of the town. In the evening the father and son returned to the Crown inn ; but the landlord turned them out of the place, and they were under the disagreeable necessity of going back to Gravesend after twelve o'clock at night. It had been their intention to have shown off at Canterbury races. On Saturday, Mr. Wooler, the solicitor, applied to the city magistrates for a search warrant against Rachael.Larnb, who had stolen Captain Willmett'agold watch and geird chain, but the bench refused to grant it; they granted a warrant against Miss Lamb for taking the watch, &c., but she could not be found. John Alexander Willmett appeared, and stated that he resided at George-street, Bryanstone-square, and was formerly a captain in the 17th Lancers, and stated that the riot occurred on the preceding Wednesday, when he and his father were robbed of their watches, chains, money, shirt .pins, &c., by the ladies of Rochester. The Magistrates said that if the parties complained against were not produced, they could not act. Mr. Wooler made inquiry of Mr. Birch, the solicitor, as to where Lamb eas to be found, who refused to give the information. After an acrimonious and personal conversation between the legal gentlemen had subsided, the case was adjourned to Wednesday.—Maidstone Journal.