The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

NEW COURT.
A REGULAR PRIG —George Wyatt, a youth well
known at the prisons and police offices in the metropolis,
was indicted for stealing a silk handkerchief, the property
of Henry Drew, Esq., a merchant in Thames-street, from
his pers( n.
The evidence of the prosecutor was as conclusive as it
was laconic, so that the jury without hesitation returned a
verdict of Guilty.
To an inquiry by the Court, Mr. Jones, the clerk of the
papers at Newgate' reported that the prisoner had been
thirty times in the House of Correction or other places of
confinement.

The COMMON- SERGEANT told the prisoner that his long
career in crime would now be checked. The judgment of
the Court was that he be transported beyond the seas for
the term of ten years.
Tira FLEET RlOTERS.—Yesterday, James Thomas
Russell, David Nathan, Wm. Hazlehurst, three of the
persons charged, with thirteen others, for a riot and assault
in the Fleet pr;son, and against whom a warrant bad is-
sued, surrendered themselves to abide the judgment of the
Court. They pleaded guilty, and were ordered to enter
into their recognizances in 2001. each to keep the peace
for two years, and to appear to receive judgment whenever
called upon.

GREENWICH PETTY SESSIONS.

THE GENTLEMEN LAMP-BREAKERS.—lnformation having
been given to Sergeant Herring :of the R division of the
police, that on Sunday evening, the 10th of June, a party
of gentlemen dined at the Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich,
and that one of them (Captain Hunter Blair, of the Fusi-
lier Guards) had amused himself there by breaking be-
tween two and three pounds worth of glass, by firing at
them with an air gun; and as that was the same night on
which the numerous lamps were broken in the Kent-road,
belonging to the Phcenix Gas Company, suspicion imme-
diately fell upon him and the party to which he belonged.
Inquiries were at once set on foot to discover who were
his associates. In order to procure witnesses of the fact,
and on application to the Magistrates at the public office
being made by Mr. Clarke on behalf of the Phoenix Gas
Company, summonses were issued and placed in the hands
of Hodges, the parish constable, against Captain H. Blair,
as the principal, and Captain Martyn, belonging to the
2d Life Guards ; Captain Bernal, 75, Eaton-square, and
Charles Sheridan, Esq., to appear as witnesses against
him. The only gentleman who attended the Bench was
Captain Martyn, who satisfactorily proved to the Bench
that he had not been to Greenwich on the night in question.
Mr. CLARKE stated that Captain Blair would have been
present had he not informed him there was no necessity.
Mr. THACKERAY—How came you to do that, Sir?
Mr. CLARKE—Captain Blair has agreed to pay all the
damage that has been done, and also give ten pounds to the
Seamen's Hospital-ship, the Dreadnought.
The CHAIRMAN—SO you have compromised this dis-
graceful affair, at which I feel much surprise, after applying
to us to bring the parties to justice.
Mr. CLARKE-Not I, but the Company have, in consider-
ation of ten pounds for a charitable purpose.
Mr. THACKERAY—These Captain-gentlemen have been
destroying the property of the public, and they ought to
suffer for their conduct. He was surprised at the Phcenix
Company compromising the matter, as the public ought to
be satisfied that the delinquents had been properly and
sufficiently punished. They must have Captain Blair be-
fore them. It was only the other day that a person was
committed and fined for a similar offence, and he would not
consent to allow the affair to stop there.
After some further observations it was arranged that
Captain Blair should attend the Bench on Tuesday next.
Captain Martyn and Mr. Clarke then retired, the Bench
informing Captain Martyn that he had no occasion to at-
tend the next hearing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A little distracted shoemaker, named !Hugh Thomas,
was brought before the Loan MAYOR for having per-
formed some pious pranks in the neighbourhood of the
Mansion-house.

The defendant gathered a crowd about him by endea-
vouring to read a Bible to some ragged children, and to
expound to them as he proceeded. His auditors were
becoming very numerous upon finding that he gave a very
pleasing and convincing proof of his sincerity, for he ac-
companied his doctrines with gifts not of grace but of
money—to some he gave sixpence, to others threepence,
and it struck the police that if he continued in that trim
for any length of time, his own family would have little
more than the consolations of religion to "feed and clothe
them." Besides, the growing fervour of his congregation,
who seemed to be greatly struck with so eloquent a mode
of entorcing arguments, began to betray symptoms of con-
tempt for the public peace. This little " child of God"
as he called himself, was therefore whipped up by Smith,
a sturdy policeman, who understands his business well, and
placed before the authorities.
The policeman having stated the means taken by the
shoemaker for making converts, and the enthusiasm Kith
which the poor devils about him accepted the conditions,
The Loan MAYOR asked the little man what oc-
cupation he followed, and whether he had a wife and
children.

Defendant (in a low tone)— As for my occupation it is
that of a shoemaker, but wife and family have I none.
The Loan MAYOR—Come, speak up. You could make
y ourself heard in the street well enough.
Defendant—Yes, but in common matters I am some-
what timid, I can speak out as a child of God.
The Lorin MAYOR—You have been throwing away your
money like a very foalish child.
Defendant—l have still half-a-crown left, and it can-
not be better applied than as I have been applying it, for
" He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord."
The LORD MAYOR—But you must not come into the
City to expound the Scriptures. What induced you to
select so crowded a place ?
Defendant—lt happened that upon a certain day I be-
took myself to the place called Clapham Common, and I
heard there a loud cavilling about the name of our Lord,
and I stood up and opened my mouth, and I spoke as loud
as the rest, according to what the Lord inspired me with.
So before I had done, the cavillers came upon me and `said
that my senses and myself had separated, and gone dif-
ferent ways.—( A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—And why didn't you hold forth on
Clapham Common, instead of coming amongst us ? There
wa3 room enough there for hundreds of cavillers.
Defendant—True, but I found that they had more in-
fluence amongst the people than I had, so I thought the
best way to manage was to put myself under the wing of
the Lord Mayor, that I might obtain from your Lordship
the same sort of influence which those cavellers have, for I
find that as a child of God, I am born to do good.
Toe Loan MAYOR—I suppose you want a licence to
preach.
Defendant—That is the very thing, and the only thing I
want. I received a divine intimation that I was to buy a
bible and open my mouth thereupon, and so I purchased
one, and though I can read but badly I found it quite easy
to explain everything.—( A laugh. )
The LORD MAYoR—But this plan of giving away your
money along with your doctrine can't last long.
The defendant seemed ready to admit that his plan was
by no means orthodox, but stated that as he bad half-a-
crown in his pocket and ten shillings at home, he was wil-
ling to continue the experiment until the whole sum should
be expended.
The Loan MAYOR advised hint to return to his old busi-

ness as soon as his congregation should fall away, which
would no doubt disperse with his money ; whatever profes.
sion he might adopt, however, he must not exercise his
" call" in the City of London.
The defendant—l only sought your Lordship to know
what I should do, for I had nobody to introduce me.
The LORD MAYOR—Apply to the Magistrates at Union
Hall for a license, but I advise you to stick to your trade.
You will find there is nothing like leather.—( A laugh.)
Defendant : No—l am called, lam called 1 I find that
I am a child of the Lord, and that I can smite Beelzebub
with the jaw-bone of a jack-ass.—( A laugh.)
The defendant, who was said to be in the habit of alter-
nating between teetotalism and the other extreme, a state
by no means unusual, and pronounced by some medical
men to be attended by all the symptoms of pious insanity,
then promised the Lord May or to confine his operations to
Clapham Common, for performing in which place he would
immediately apply to the Surrey Magistrates for a license.

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James Fuller was ye,ter-
An apprentice
nan'Sbackell, the
TV. STREET.
officer, charged with
day brought up
wb4h others in stealing a quantity of brass
to
of Mr. Russel Poutifex, brass-founder, Upper
being
and other concernedm et a metal articles, amounting 5001. and upwards,
the property
; George TVestbrooke, Wm.
errtck Barrel, and Francis Simpson, were
also charged with receiving and disposing of the same,
Slvt.eslbarrotoahine:s.mlane,.his master
well knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Dodd conducted the prosecution, and a clerk from
the office of Mr. Flower, appeared for the prisoner Fuller-
The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner Fuller had been
his apprentice for the last five years, and having about two
years back began to miss property from his factory, con-
sisting of metal pumps, metal milk washers, brass taps and
valves, with other article; of a similar description, he re-
p 2atedly mentioned the circumstance to him, 441 as he
plaped much confidence ip hit} he desired he would use