The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-30 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

John Bell was indicted for stealing a brush, value
Ss. 6d., and another brush on the same day, of the like
value, they being the property of James Simmons and
William Rayment, his fellow workmen as masons.
After the verdict of Guilty was returned, it was
proved by other witnesses that the prisoner had been
convicted in this Court, and sentenced to six montt,s.
imprisonment within the current year, and that on 11,
enlargement he committed the present felony.
The RECORDER lamented that the prisoner had not
taken warning by the punishment he had undergone ;
the Court was bound to make an example in such a
case, and its sentence was, that he be transported fot
seven years.

The young men who pros• cuted re-ascended the box,
and endeavoured as far as in them kyr to induce the
Court to mitigate the punishment. The mother of the
prisoner, also from the gallery, stated something it:

The RECORDER at length said, that if the friends o'
the prisoner and the prosecutors thought proper, the
might endeavour to show the Secretary of State than
there was a reason why the sentence should be reviewcu
He (the Recorder) would not throw any impediment
the way.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO IV-STREET.

A foreign Jew named George Isaac, was yesterdev
summoned before Mr. Jardine, under the Hawker's Act,
by Skinner, an officer of the Stamp-Office, for having.
on the 14th instant, in the parish of St. Paul, Coven:
Garden, unlawfully traded, under the colour of a license,
in hawking jewellery and other articles, in a box, with
out having his name in a conspicuous and legible man-
lier on the outside, by which he had rendered himsed
liable to a penalty of 101.

The complainant stated that he saw the defendant
enter the Marquis of Anglesea public house, where he
watched him offering for sale spectacles and other arti-
cles, to some persons in the taproom. He also tool;
from a bag a small box, containing a quantity of jewel-
lery, such as seals, watch-guards, keys, and rings.which
he exhibited to the company as he offered them for sale,
and on witness seeing there was no label on the box to
show the public he was a licensed hawker, he told him
who he was, at the same time demanding to see hip
license, which he instantly produced. On asking
he neglected to have the words " licensed hawker" and
the number upon the outside of the box, he said he had
got the bag marked in a proper manner, and he consi-
dered that was quite sufficient. Witness then examined
the bag, and found at the bottom of it, which was not
exposed to public view, a dirty piece of paper with writ-
ing upon it which was not legible.
The defendant, on producing his license, said he had
given the number to the complainant the moment he
understood he was an officer, and he shewed his license
to every person in the room.
The complainant said that no person could dis-
tinguish a single letter on the label at the time he asked
for the license.
The defendant declared that he conducted his business
in the same way for the last twenty years, and the num-
ber was as conspicuous as it then appeared, at the same
time showing the
in a fresh state, o Court a label on the side of the bag,
n which the requisite words and num-
ber had evidently been recently written.
Mr. JARDINE observed that the words as they were
specified in the Act, should be legible in large Roman
characters on a label, to be attached outside every
pack, box, truck, or waggon, in which articles were
hawked for sale.
The defendant called several Jews, who proved that
he was duly licensed, and was in the habit of having
the number and name, with the other words required
by the Act, in a conspicuous place outside whatever he