The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-05 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

James Davis, a young lad, aged only eight years, was
indicted for stealing 2ilbs. weight of bacon, the property of
Robert Andrew Boyd. He was found guilty ; and it ap-
pearing that this was not the first offence committed by
the prisoner,
The COMMON SERGEANT said sentence of transportation
should be passed upon him ; but if his conduct, while in
the prison, proved a disposition to retrace his evil steps,
he would, in all probability, not be sent out of the country.
Caroline Gadbuiy and Mary Payne were indicted for
stealing, on the 16th of December, a shawl, the property of
John Nelson Kiddie.

Both the prisoners went to the shop of the prosecutor in
the Mile-end-road, on the 16th of December, under pretence
of purchasing a shawl, and while there the shopman missed
one which he bad been showing them. A policeman being
called in they were taken to the station-house, where they
would be searched, and on their way the shawl was observed
to drop from between them.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, submitting that in this case there was not sufficient
evidence to substantiate the charge against both ; and if
they came to such a conclusion, they could not find either
guilty.
The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty ; and this
not having been their first offence, the COMMON SERJEANT
said the Court would sentence them to a severe punish-
ment in this country ; but if they ever came before him
again, they should certainly be transported for life.
John Huxley was indicted for stealing a snuff-box, the
property of George Durant, from his person.
The prosecutor stated, that on the 16th of December,
as he was going along Cornhill, he felt the prisoner's hand
in his pocket, from which his snuff-box had been just taken.
He saw him hand something to a female who appeared to
be in his company, and she immediately ran away.—

Guilty.
Richard Thomson was indicted for stealing on the 22d
of December a piece of carpet, the property of Sarah
Reynolds.
The article in question was given to a messenger for the
purpose of taking it to a person who wished to purchase
it, and it having been placed on a cart, was stolen there-
from, and immediately found in the possession of the pri-
soner.—Guilty.
John Hood, an elderly man dressed as a sailor, was in-
dicted for stealing 17s. 10d., the property of Ellen Anne
Haggart.
The prosecutrix in this case keeps the George the Fourth
public-house, Whitechapel-road, and on the evening of the
day named in the indictment, the prisoner called there,
asked for some porter, and gave in payment a counterfeit
coin resembling a sovereign, demanding the change, which
was sent to him by a child about seven years of age.
Shortly afterwards he left the house, and the fraud being
discovered, he was followed to another public-house, where
he offered Mrs. Haggart to make the matter all right, and
he was taken into custody by a policeman who was called in
on the occasion. In his possession was found a purse
containing twelve similar counterfeits.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, and called witnesses who spoke to his previous good
character.--Guilty ; recommended to mercy,

A Life Insurance Company is about to be introduced
at Vienna for the first time. It will be upon the French
plan of mutual guarantee and joint-stock shares. The Mi-
nister of the Interior, Count Kallowrath, has given the pro-
ject the sanction of the Austrian Government. The capital
to be about 250,0001. English money.—Frankfort Paper.

The terms for places in the car of the Grand Vaux-
hall Balloon, which is to make its ascension on Monday at
Paris, are—forZ gentlemen, 600 fr. ; and for ladies, 300 fr.
each. These prices may appear to be rather high, but it
should be recollected that the expenses of each assent are
very heavy. There are places for two persons ; four are
already taken.
It has been proposed to consecrate the Queen's
Riding House at Pimlico as a temporary place of worship,
till St. Peter's Church has been reinstated.
The severity of the weather, combined with the lan-
guid state of the silk trade in Macclesfield, Congleton,
Sandbach, Leek, and other places in the neighbourhood,
has produced a degree of distress which approaches to that
of 1835. The silk weavers can scarcely reckon at pre-
sent on more than four days' work a week under the best
circumstances, and the rise in the price of provisions would
render their wages, if fully employed, but barely sufficient
to afford a subsistence.—Macclesfield Courier.
A MEMORABLE BARRING-OUT.—The annual
custom of barring out the master, immediately preceding
the Christmas holidays, took place at the Garstang Gram-
mar School, on Wednesday last ; and as hath been the
immemorial usage, the boys lost no time, after securing
the door, in calling into active exercise all their prescriptive
lawless privileges, one of which bath ever been to raise the
heat of the atmosphere within the school to its highest en-
durable degree, by a sad waste of fuel ; but as their reign
occurs but seldom, and is then only of short duration, these
acts of lavish expenditure of coals and turf have never been
regarded with any marks of severe displeasure, and very
fortunately have hitherto been unattended with any other
loss. On Wednesday, however, by some means which none
of the urchins could explain, the fuel in the recess under
the stairs, got fired, and this was presently communicated to
the stairs, and to a number of books in the room above,
which was used for the Sunday School. An alarm was im-
mediately made, and the town engine was taken promptly
to the spot, and by active exertions the fire was prevented
from doing any further damage than consuming the stairs
and the books mentioned.—Manchester Guardian.