The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-20 00:00:00

UNION.HALL

Yesterday, a man named Dando, who has been
frequently at the bar of this office, to answer com-
plaints made against him by tavern, eating-house,
and coliee-shop-keepers, for dinners and other re-
freshments furnished him, which he afterwards re-
fused to pay for, was brought up again on a similar
charge. The prisoner was convicted some time ago
and committed to Brixton : while in gaol the keeper
was obliged to place him in solitary confinement, in
consequence of his having robbed some of his fe!.
low-prismier of their allowance of bread and beef ;
inlfact, so ravenous was his appetite while in prison,
that nothing in the shape of food, belong to whom
it might, could be left within his reach, that he did
not devour, until it was at length found necessary to
separate him from those whom he deprived of their
vice

The Magistrate, on seeing the prisoner, exclaitned,
" I suppose you are brought here again for gorman-
dizing, and not paying for it ?" Prisoner—l bad a
few oysters, it is true, your Worship.
Here a man named Mason, who keeps an oyster-
stall, stepped forward, and said that Dando walked
up to the stall thst morning and desired him to open
a few oysters, and asked for a slice of bread and a
pat of butter. He commenced eating, and ',ever
stopped until he devoured 11 dozen of the largest
sized oysters, together with half a quarters loaf
and I I pats of butter, and at the conclusion of the
meal he put his hand into his pocket, and pretending
to examine for money, merely said, " Really, Mr.
Oysterman, I have no cash about me ; I must pay
you the next time I pass this way." He was walk-
ing off, with his hands in his breeches-pocket and
whisthog a merry tune, when the oy/sternum stopped
him and said, " But atop, Sir, you are not going off
so easily after eating toy II dozen of oysters and
half a quarter's loaf, without paying," adding, that he
could not expect such a thing. " lint, my good
fellow," answered the prisoner, " what am Ito do,
if I have not got the money? As the saying is, you
can't draw blood from a stone, and where is the use
in detaining me and preventing me from going about
'my business ?" The oysterman then expressed his
determination of giving, him into custody, upon
which Dando made a vigorous effort to get away,
and would have succeeded, had not a policemen very
opportunely come up at the time, into whose charge
he was given.
Magistrate—lmprisonment seems to have very
little effect upon this fellow, who makes a practice
of going about devouring at the expense of persons
who can ill afford it. " What have you to say to
the charge?" inquired the Magistrate. !Ludo—
Nothing, Sir, but that I was very hungry, having
walked up the whole way from Guildford, and had
nothing to eat on the road except a little bread and
cheese and beer, which I purchased with the shil-
ling that was given to me on leaving the gaol.
It was here stated that the prisoner had been
committed to the above-mentioned gaol as a rogue
and vagabond, having been taken to a police-ollice
on a charge of the above nature, the Magistrate con-
victing him under the Act applicable to that offence.
Mr. Staples said, that the last time he was
brought to that office was on a charge of going into
it coffee-shop, and eating and drinking at one meal
as much as atnountid to Wetween aa. and Os.

The oysterman said, that had the prisoner been
at all moderato in his appetite, and eaten u few
dozen of oysters instead of nearly two pecks, he
should have been disposed to let him go away with-
out payment; but when a man came to his stall and
punished such a quantity, the offence could not be
overlooked.

Dando said, that after his imprisonment his ap-
petite was more keen than ever, and that he could
not resist the temptation of having a few oysters
in passing the complainant's stall, although he had
no Money ,to pay for the. treat. " I must have vic-
tuals," said he; " its all nonsense, and if I have
not got the money, why those must suffer who
have. Then:, is one thing," added he, " and that
is, no man can charge me with being either a robber
or a house-breaker. I am here at your mercy, and
prepared to undergo the punishment that awaits me,
whatever it may be ; but I again say, that I must
satisfy my hunger."
Mr. SIYABEY said that the oysterman would have
been justified in taking the coat off the prisoner's
back for not paying the amount of the oysters he
had eaten. 114, however, he had not been deprived
of his clothes, he might basummoned to the Court
of Bequests.
The oysterman said, that summoning such a fel-
low would be of no use, and as for depriving him
of his coat, or even the whole of the garments he
.wore, including shirt", and ally tlie lot would not
fetch a shilling. " I thouldlik-e," added the oyster-
man, ." to give hint a good sound .thrashing with
this cane I hold in my hand ; that would in some
measure compensate me for the loss of my bread
and oysters, and if I thought I should be justified,
I %vivid& carry my wishes into effect before lie
esc;lred out of thiS neighbourhood."
The Magistrate,--" I shall discharge the prisoner
now, hut he must riot meet with any obstruction on
leaving this offiee."
The prisoner was then told that lie might go
06out his business, the Magistrate saying that one
day or another he would get very severely handled
by those whom he treated like the oysterman.
having procured a
The oysterman slipped out of the office during
the time,the Magistrate was giving the prisoner a
amusementnd,
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Last week a large eel was caught in a stake-
met at Loch Stalin, in Skye. On bringing it ashore its
stomach was observed to be very much distended; an I
when it was cut up it was found to contain a very fine
goo, between four and five pounds weight, and an fresh
and entire that the fisi.ertnen boiled it, and deelarei that
they Nei never eaten better fish in their live*.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CARLISLE, Auu.
The-Assizes commenced here yesterday before
the Lnrd Chief Justice of the Common Pleat and
Mr. Justice Rlley. The calendar contains the
names of six prisoners only, of which the Grand
Jury ignored one bill,—that of a man who had mu,
liciou-ly stabbed his wife, but she could nor be in,
duce(' to give such evidence before the grand inquest
as to enable them to return a true bill. The other
five cases were of a' petty and ordinal)/ desaiptien,
and the calendar *as finished this morning by one
o'clock.

John Litre
.was indicted for having, on the night
of the lath of June last, burglariously entered the
house of James Gilkerson, and stolen therefrom
sundry rings and handkerchiefs. Another count
charged the prisoner with having put the prosecu-
tor wife in such a state of bodily fear, as to Nina
him within the statute expressly made against such
offences,---59 Geo. 111.

Ann Gilkerson, the wife, Willi called, and deposed,
that on the night in question, she had sent her hug•
band to bed before her, about twelve o'clock, and
being undressed, was about to join him there, when
she had °cession to go into an adjacent room for
Something; she perceived a drawer, which at seven
o'clock she had left locked, to be open mid rum-
lunged. This excited some suspicions, ►tnd going
again into her bed-room, she saw a shadow of some-
thing under the bed, which struck her as unusual.
Taking the candle, she looked under she lied,
sAw there the prisoner, who WWI lying quie.ly on his
belly. She instantaneouhly set up a continuous
scream, which waked her husband, and sent the pt.:-
seller slinking clown the stairs into the kitchen. On
proceeding in force to the kitchen, he was found
there as described. Her husband end she were
" spirit merchants,"--anglieised a la Tenterden,
" kept a gin-shop."

This evident e being corroborated by the husband,
and some of the pollee, who were called in to,take
up the prisoner,
The Jury found the pi isoner Guilty on every count,
and judgment of death was recorded against him,