The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-22 00:00:00

MANSION-HO USE.
Amongst several gin palace cases which were brought
before the Lord Mayor, was the following :
A young man named John Oast, a tailor, and his wife,
were brought up charged with having paid attention to the
gin-shops, to the peril of the life of their child.
Mr. Booker, one of the officers of Bishopsgate parish,
stated that the young couple had of late given themselves
up entirely to the gin-shop, and if they disagreed upon other
topics held but one opinion as to the necessity of devoting
themselves to that deity who is most fervently worshipped
in the dirtiest parts of the metropolis. In Bishopsgate, in
consequence of the intensely warm nature of the adoration
the votaries were called " fire worshippers." Upon the
occasion alluded to in the complaint, while the defendants
were swallowing the devoxing element, their infant was
very near " finding a watery grave."
A woman who lodged in the house in which the defen-
dant also lodged, stated that she heard, on Sunday morn-
ing, the cries of their baby in their room overhead. At
first it was loud, but it became gradually weaker, and the
brother of the infant (a child not two years old) cried,
" Oh, baby, baby," and lamented most piteously. Wit-
ran up stairs and opened the door, which was locked from
the outside, and upon entering saw the poor infant strug-
gling in a tub of soap suds, and the other child looking on,
without, of course, being able to do anything else. The
infant, on being taken out, threw up a quantity of filthy
water, and was with difficulty recovered, and the father
and mother were found at a neighbouring gin-shop, having
left both children naked and unprotected.
The male defendant said that he had accidentally called
in at the gin-shop to see and get work, and his wife called
in to see whether he had succeeded, and they happened to
meet a friend who gave them .a glass of something, as,,they
hid had nothing all day. They had not a farthing to buy
bread, and would have refused the gin if they coud have
got the more substantial necessary of life.
Hogarth's celebrated scene would have been perfect if
this incident had been represented in it, but the present
day abounds in circumstances of more ludicrous horror
even than the experience of that master supplied him with.
The very bed of straw, the only furniture in the room with
the exception of the old tub, in the filth of which the child
was found kicking, looked as if it had been taken from the
dog-kennel.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether work could not be
got for the wretched couple at their trade ? The officer
replied that a master would be afraid to entrust any article
to the unfortunate man, as the pawnbroker was sure to be
called in to act as master of the ceremonies to the pub-
lican.
The LORD MAYOR was about to commit the male pri-
soner to prison, when the wife's mother promised to take
the whole family under her protection.
Yesterday a medical Jew, named Gawthon, was brought

before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having obtained a
plate of meat and appendages in an eating-house, from a
female waiter, for the payment of which be left a pencil-
case as security, which pencil case he afterwards induced
her to put into his hands, and sold for Bd. in the room,
after it had become her property. Upon being asked by
the Lord Mayor what he meant by such conduct? he in-
sisted that there was nothing in the proceedings, which he
admitted was correctly stated by the girl, that could sub-
ject him to any penalty to be inflicted by a Magistrate.
The LORD MAYOR said that he considered the case to

be one of gross fraud, and that a man who attempted to
defend it, well deserved the punishment which was affixed
to an offence of the kind.

The prisoner said it was quite impossible to make any-
thing of the business, in whatever way it might be viewed,
except a mere debt. It was not like a fraud at all.
The LORD MAYOR—I think it is, and so like a fraud
that I shall send it to a Jury to decide upon the resemblance.
Prisoner—Very well, my Lord, you'll see which of us is
right. I'd lay any wager that my opinion is the correct
one.—(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR—Let the commitment be made out.
It strikes me that you have been guilty of a very gross de-
ception upon this poor young woman, and I think that others
will be of the same opinion.'
Prisoner—Oh dear, not at all. There's no legal ground
at all you will soon find.
The prisoner was then taken to Ncwgate, and in going
thither he seemed to anticipate with satisfaction a triumph
over the Lord Mayor.

Yesterday, to the surprise of his Lordship, the prisoner
appeared before him again, charged with having obtained a
plate of meat and vegetables, upon the (with him) usual
terms. He had not any money ; and he argued that the
want of it was a good reason for going in debt to a stranger.
The LORD MAYOR—So you have got off at the Central
Criminal Court, sir ? Prisoner—Oh dear, yes. The grand
jury never found the bill. They understood too well what
they were about.
The LORD MAYOR—And their decision has apparently
given you confidence.
Prisoner—Why I know I never did anything against
Old Bailey law. It is nothing but a debt, and if I was to
go on till doomsday, nobody could make any more of it.
Depend upon it, lam right. (Looking about the _room for
approbation.)
The LORD MAYOR—We must make you known to the
eating-house people at any rate ; and I shall remand you
till to-morrow.
Prisoner—Very well, my Lord, you'll find I'm right, and
no mistake.
The prisoner, who is a spare, long-featured, dark visaged
man, and has been for some finite running " the boiled beef
rig," was then remanded. He remarked, upon going out of
the justice-room that the citizens were by no means sound
lawyers.

BOW-STREET.
THE BEDOUIN ARABS.—These persons, who have been
" astonishing the natives" at Mr. Braham's establishment,
the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park, for some time past,
came to this office, accompanied by a French gentleman of
rank, and by Mr. Graves, one of the attendants at the ex-
hibition, to complain that the proprietor of Astley's Theatre