The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HAT TON:GARDEN.
Yesterday- a lank, straight-haired, Mawwormish-looking
fellow, presented himself before Mr. BENNETT, for the
purpose of making an affidavit as to his religious tenets, to
abjure the Cal,7olic faith, and to enable him to preach the
doctrines of Christianity, in obedience to the Protestant
faith.

The applicant, whose appearance indicated that he was
a cobbler, Induced a
.printed certificate, which, it appears,
can be purchased for 2s. 9d., and which is necessary to be
read before the Bench :preparatory to the oath being
administered. The fellow, with great formality, put on a
pair of spectacles, and in the course of reading the docu-
ment committed the most palpable grammatical errors, and
his pronunciation of common words was so excessively in-
correct, that the. Magistrates and every person in Court
could nut refrain from laughter ; and Mr. Bennett caused
him to read it twice over, apparently under the impression
that a person undertaking to preach the Gospel could not
be so ignorant. If!, however, repeated the same inaccu-
r.tcies, and did not appear to be at all conscious of his own
ignorance, but took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, and
pocketed them, as if he was about to be regularly ordained
rs a Minster of Christ.

Mr. BENNETT—Have you ever preached? Applicant
(with a nasal twang and affected soleinnity)—l have werry
often.

Mr. BEN NETT—What religion arc you of? Applicant
—I preach in the Protestant doctrine.

Mr. BENNETT—What are you? Applicant—l am a
preacher of the Gospel.

Mr. BENNETT—What have you been ? Applicant—l
have been a shoetnakrr.

Mr. BENNETT—What is your object in making the pre-
sent affidavit ? Applicant (drawlingly)—Why, when I
have gone into fields and narrow places to praich the holy
Word, the backsliders and bop; have pelted me with bricks
and stones, and they have booted and persecuted me, and
1 do this for my own protection in by-places.
The Magistrate, who is bound, we understand, to admi-
nister and receive the oath, ordered the officer to swear him,
and he quitted the office, when Duke the officer told him
he might now go and " praich" us long as he liked.
Applicant would hold forth on Sunday next at No. 20,
Church-court, in the Strand, and the ridiculous proceeding
excited laughter tr:ugled with indignation.
Robert Drawn was charged by Richard Mowlan, a la-
bourer, residing in George-court, Islington, with having as-
saulted him and threatened his life.

The prosecutor some time ago was charged at this office
with an assault upon his wife, whose life was in danger, and
he was remanded from time to time until she recovered,
when he was ordered to find bail. Ever since he was an-
noyed by the prisoner and other persons, who called him
" Grecnaere ;" and the prisoner had struck him and
threatened to have his life.

• The prisoner.denied the charge. He had certainly called
him " Grcenacre,"as he nearly murdered his wife at a time
when his child was l)ing dead, which he took out of the
conin and threw at his wife, and his conduct excited great
indignation.

The prisoner was oalered to put in his own recognizance
to keep the peace towards the complainant.

MJ RLB OROUGII-S7'REET.

henry ll'i/son, a respectably-dressed young man, was
placed at the bar before Mr. CONANT, on suspicion of
felony.

The prisoner gave a very minute account of Cie manner
in which he had employed his time, and in the strongest
terms denied all knowledge of the robbery,
Mr. CONANT said it was certainly a case of suspicion,
and in order to give time to the prosecutor to make full
inquiry, he would remand the prisoner for a week.