The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-19 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(MONDAY.)

These sessions eOtntiimked this moriling, before the Loft D
MAYOR, RECORDER, SCC.

There are 218 prisoners for trial, of whom 1,1 have been
committed from ALL'le.ex, 28 from London, 18 from Kent,
19 from Surrey, and 2 from Essex.
Thd following is rt summary statement of the offences
with which the prisoners stand charged i—Maoslattglitcr, 1 ;
rape and assault with intent, 1 ; cutting and wounding, 3 ;
burglary, 8 ; forgery, 2 ; uttering counterfeit coin, 7 ; em-
hettlement, 4 ; misdemeanour, 7 ; receiving stolen goods,
6 larceny, 171,
The RECORDER delivered the usual charge to the Grand
Jury, but it embraced no point of general interest.
The persons who had been summoned to serve as Petty
Jurors were then called. The excuses made were various
and numerous, and some of them excited considerable mer-
riment in Court.

Amon et the gentlemen called was a dancing-master,
who said—My Lord And Gentlemen, my being detained
will most materially affect me, but will be of greater im-
portunte to my pupils.—(A laugh.) I have to attend
schools d lily' In four different counties ; and if I am obliged
to give my attendance here, my business will be completely
at a stand still. I assure your Lordship that my duties are
most pressing and important.—( Laughter.)
The RECORDER, after some consideration, said that he
thought the applicant might be permitted to continue to
perform the duties which appeared to be so important among
his pupils without their being broken in upon by the more
grave and anxious ones of a juryman.
The rotary of Terpsichore then " tripped it on the light
fantastic toe" out of the witness-box, and, having performed
sundry graceful motions on the floor of the court, made a
most finished bow and then retired, evidently well satisfied
with the sample he had given of his professional compe-
tence as well as with
.his success in having so cleverly
escaped from the confinement of a jury-box.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

An inhabitant of the vicinity of Brackley-street, Golden-
lane, Cripplegate, complained to the Lord Mayor that al-
though a malignant and pestilential fever was raging in
Willis's-court, Brackley-street, the parochial authorities
neglected to make any inquiry or representation on the
subject. Within a very short time twenty people had
fallen victims to the disorder, which evidently arose from
the horrible filth and the crowded population of the neigh-
bourhood. There was an adjoining Court which, being
the subject of a dispute in Chancery, was daily adding to
the nuisance, which the complainant believed would, if not
checked, speedily extend itself fatally over the city. Two
men, each of whom was about forty years of age, had died
on Monday in a state of madness, and the wretched place
in which they expired had all the evidences of misery and
want about it. It was true the parish-officers sent a medical
man to examine the patients, but nothing at all was done
to correct tho destructive nuisance, or to relie►e those who
were sufering._ .

The LORD MAYOR said that the statement shocked and
surprised him exceedingly, and directed that the relieving
officer of the parish should be immediately sent for. His
Lordship ultimately desired the relieving officer to give
notice to the foreman of the inquest jury, so that a pre-
sentment might be made on Tuesday to the Court of
Aldermen.

A man named Simmons was brought before the Loan
MAYOR, charged by the agent of the Diamond steam-
packet with having traduced the character of that vessel.
The agent said, that on Saturday evening, in the neigh-
bourhood of the wharf from which the vessel started, he
saw the defendant with a bundle of papers in his hand,
crying out, " A full and true account of the love transaction
which took place in the Diamond steamer." A crowd of
persons had gathered round the man, who sold the trash at
a halfpenny a sheet ; and after all it was a gull upon those
who purchased it, for it contained nothing but what ap-
peared ,to be the copy of a letter addressed to a faithless
lady, but having no reference to any particular place at all.
It was only a few days before that one of these hawkers of
Catnach's publications sold a great many sheets, at " only
a halfpenny," of an account purporting to be a list of per-
sons destroyed by the bursting of the steam-engine on board
the Diamond, in which vessel it was well known no acci-
dent had ever happened. As such conduct was likely to
do great mischief, the interference of the Lord Mayor would
be very desirable.
The LORD MAYOR—HOW do you pay for this trash ?
Defendant—We pay two-pence a dozen, and we gets six-
pence. Sometimes it tells in so-so, but it's not often we
have an out-and-outer. They're a trying down about Rat-
cliff-highway to get up a bit of a go about Mrs. Frazer.
They're a going to paint one of these here girls black,
and to show her for Mrs. Frazer along with the savages,
for " only a penny."
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, if you arc brought before
me for this conduct again, I shall certainly commit you to
Bridewell under the Vagrant Act. As you have been con-
fined in the Compter since Saturday night, you may go
now, but don't let me see you again.