The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-16 00:00:00

Mr. PRENDERGAST said it was 10t yet too late.

The CHAIRMAN said it wai.
The conviction under these circumsturuses was
ordered to be quashed.

It appears that this practice of tow row, as it is
called, is a heavy deduction from the hire of these
hard-working poor men, and there is reason to be-
lieve that in one shape or other it is carried to a
great extent. Though the conviction in the above
case was quashed, there is no doubt that it will
have some effect in putting an end to this harsh and
oppressive practice.
ISLINGTON PARISH V. HIGHGATE HAMLET.
This was an appeal against a rate made by the
trustees under the Highgate Hamlet Act (15
Geo. III.), and the question was, whether the pro-
visions of that Act were repealed, as to this part of
Islington, near Maiden-lane, by the Islington Local
Act (1825). The Court, after hearing Counsel
on both sides, decided that the authority of the
trustees under the Highgate Act was not abrogatetd
by the local Act of Islington, end that the rare
levied by the trustees under the latter as o
this particular part of Islington (already rated
and assessed by the trustees under the Highgate
Act) was an illegal rate.—Appeal dismissed.

Elizabeth liolton and William Edward Bailey
were indicted for S 4 n assault on a person named War-
ing, a broker, who had put a distress for rent into
the house of a man named E...lwards, in Bethnal-
green.

They were found guilty, and sentenced, the man
to a month's, and the woman to a fortnight's
priconment in the House of Correction.

This case, simple as it was, seemed to have ex-
cited very great interest in Bethnal-grees, as a very
considerable rumber of persons from that neigh-
bourhood were in attendance. Terrific screams
were *et up in the outer hall when the sentence was
announced.

Henry Panic!' and Ilemy William Patsley, and
John liiance (or Manlx), were indicted for con-
spiring with intent to defraud John ;Matthews and
Leonard Clare Matthews of the sum of 251., and of
conspiring to defraud, and of defrauding, the same
parties of the sum of 10/., by compromising certain
informations laid against them, by Passley, senior,
for penalties under the pawnbrokers' act.
Mantz was declared not guilty; but the Passleys
had a verdict of guilty recorded agailist them.
The COURT, after some short deliberation, sen-
tenced the prisoners to pay a fine of 20/. each to the
King, and to be imprisoned till it was paid.

A few days ago it the neighbourhood of An-
trim, a flight of crows, in their passage across Lough
Neagh, mistook, during the continuance of a dense mist,
the surface of the lake for solid land, and descended upon
:he water. In the course of the day, an immense number

The prisoner then entered upon his defence, at of their dead bodies was driven on the shore by the wind.
which not only the Jury but likewise the gentlemen An individual in the service of General O'NEIL., counted
1,240 of these drowned birds, but a multitude of them,
on the bench laughed heartily.
probably 500, remained unvunted 1 7"
Frees. - *-- 1313e2‘("71 Free
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Your Worship and Gentlemen of the Jury—ln
grave ;
my defence I am somewhat sorry, as I must show up
SINGULAR eiRCUMSTANCII.—As two youna
the tricks of the governor, him wot you seed in
men a short time since were returning home from an
the box awhile agone, and wot as had the impute-
evening party between eleven and twelve o'clock, and
nonce to appear agin me as persecutor this day.—
by the church-yard of the parish of St. Mary Meg-
The only thing as is true is as how I was in his it;naalineg, in this city, they observed by the light of the
employ, and used to go up and down with his
light uns, but there, Gentlemen of the Jury, the 81
uo,o no,.
iau poisonh ii
wsletr
inclement
enwt with the "rosy
truth ends—on Monday morning - I went out as God,"ii) agnd expecting from the .inooclenr of the
usual to serve my customers with bread, as I re- weather,, that if he remained there long he wouldate
ewttedhaodutmaLfutn lengthf upon
a
ceived front our governor's wife; arter I had been they very humanely roused him, when he called oat ~PD%.ins,t'
my rounds I tuk a sovereign wot I chucked down disturb me, lads, for I'm determined to spend the last Ini
I have in Oxford, with my father awl mother." 'kg' ~
upon the counter. I had also got some silver, but
young men, still believing him to be under the infl.,e;lt'e
none from the witnesses ! so says I to the governor
f L quor, resolved if possible to ascertain .14 .;,1 eaciee
I wants a bit of money tonight; he.said very well, o
of his heiog in this "drory h'l r.l
a-o-e n. ~ea+• " .al,v
so I 'hawed on him the 2s. Bd. as he calls a robbery.
1 di . ,
rstev,ered, antdiscovered to their Tent,astsnishnt
Well, I then went out, and meeting two or throe
itece.lmiarncuo•asia sailor, perfectly sewer, and a son of
bakers out of work, I treated them with a bit a thea teaolt-i,,ismuany, yeors superintendent of
steak, and we clubbed up together wot was a pot the picture *allHe had been to
forg many, ery, in
1., 0 nieersity.
or two, and so we got rather jolly. Ott going home sea, and
and I
was
..
we got into a row with some Irishmen, specting his family. As be was returning to I • '
taken off to the watchus. When our governor pace after a long ;oyage, he made his
"tive
arrangements in his
4hisartirmanefeand i .
heard I was there, he trumps up this charge against mind how Ito should dispose of
me. So much for that part of the store. Now, himself Shat n't inducement whatever should previelntilsiemd
gentlemen, I will let you into a secret or two about front spending his last night in Oxford with his father
him. Our governor is the biggest rogue alive, EkrKi and mother. On his arrival here he was grieved and die_
appointed at Ending that his parents had long since " de-
cheats every body he deals with, and I will tell you
weighing 1 ctrtled into the tomb of the Capuso...„" Having aseer..
how he does it. lie has a piece a lead,
st;ti (1 their burying-place, lie scaled the iron paling of the
about six ounces, fastened to the bottom of the 1 turt:4 1 -yar,4, , and chose this cool and singular way of per-
down scale, so when a person comes in for a uotern I .
q I , forming his promise, and paying respect to those who were
the loaf is put into that side, and down • it goes wop i the authors of his existenee.— ar ji)rd Paper.