The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-05 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday James Lee, the driver of a cabriolet, was
brought before Mr. Alderman Harmer, charged with driving
furiously through Cheapside on Sunday afternoon.
Smith, a policeman, stated, that when he saw the cab
coming up at such an improper pace, he called to him to stop.
No regard being paid to this, he succeeded in catching hold
of the reins, when he found the driver was drunk inside
the cab, and a strangei-, who was sitting by his side, was
driving, while a second stranger sat in the dickey. The
latter person was bawling, " Keep out of the road." The
pace was fully ten miles per hour.
Mr. Alderman HARMER asked if the speed was such as
to endanger the public ?
The complainant replied in the affirmative.
The prisoner said he was a poor man, and he hoped the
Alderman would be as favourable as possible.
Mr. Alderman HARMER said if he were a poor man, and
unable to pay the fine, he should be doubly cautious, when
he drove through great public thoroughfares, not to incur
penalties. He could not fine him less than 10s.
The defendant paid the fine.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday a lad named John Rowbottom was charged
before Mr. HALLS, by Carter, a Marlborough-street officer,
with having in his possession thirty-six quires of Cleave's
Weekly Dispatch, and thirteen quires of Hetherington's
Twopenny Dispatch, both bearing date Saturday the
2d instant.
The defendant was seen by Carter, between seven and
eight o'clock on Saturday morning, carrying the papers in
question along the Strand. The witness, upon examining
the parcel, and finding it to contain unstamped newspapers,
took the defendant into custody.
He now said in his defence, that he had received six-
pence to carry the parcel to Bride-lane, Fleet-street.
Having been previously detected carrying
unstamped
papers, the magistrate observed that he could not plead ig-

norance of the law, and-ordered him to be committed for
tw6 months to the House of Correction.

V William
itaddly, due crt the regular newsmen, who keeps
a shop in King-street, Pimlico, ths charged by Shackell,
the gaoler, with having in his possession four numbers of
the Weekly Times, an unstamped newspaper.
The defendant was seen by Shackell in the Strand, ttt
seven o'clock on Sunday morning, carrying a quantity of
stamped newspapers, but, on searching the parcel, the four
unstamped publications in question were found concealed
amongst them.
Th defendant declared that he did not deal in unstamped
papers, and that the four numbers of the Weekly Times
found upon him were not meant to be sold by him, but were
merely intended for his own reading, and .to oblige some
friends. He begged hard to be let off ; but
Mr. HALLS said, that if he overlooked the offence in
him, he should be (loin,* injustice to others whom he had
convicted. The defendant must have been aware of what
he was doing, and of the penalty to which he had subjected
himself, and he must now take the consequence. He was.
then sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the House
of Correction.

In the course of the day a respectable looking old man
applied to the, Magistrate on his behalf to remit the sen-
tence, but he was informed that it could not be done, ex-
cept by an order from the Secretary of State.