The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-15 00:00:00

took him intcieustody. /The complainant was about
a year older than the prisoner.
The prisoner beat her because while in Newgat e
she never brought him no tobacco nor nothing, and
never came to see him, and when he got out he
found she had gone to live with one of his "
This was more than he could stand, and so when
he met her he well " whopped" her, and it served
her right.
He was committed for a month as a rogue and
vagabond, and his " faithless Emma," on leaving
the office, took the arm of the " gentleman" alluded
to, and they toddled off together.
MARY LEB ONE.
James Russell, a stout athletic-looking fellow, was
charged with attempting to commit a felony in the
house of Mrs. Mary Anne Skinner, Nassau-street,
Middlesex Hospital.
Mrs. Skinner, a very delicate-looking young
wurnan, on Friday evening went cut for a short
time, carefully locking the door after her. On her
return she met the prisoner in the passage, coming
from the parlour—ehe seized him to prevent his
escape----a desperate struggle ensued, during which
she cont;!ived to shut the door with her foot. She
then pushed ifim ietn the parlour. Here the struggle
%vas renewed, he doing his utmost to escape by the
window ; but Mrs Skinner handled him so roughly,
that at length he was ftiin to cry out " murder,"
which brought some policemeti to the house, by
whom the prisoner was taken into etWody. When
searched, a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates were
found upon him, which belonged to property stolen
from his lodgings in the Seven-dials.
Mr. HOSKINS paid a high compliment to Mrs.
Skinner for berlheroism in preventing the prisoner's
escape. He was recognized as an old thief, and
remanded to give time for the attendance of the
pawnbrokers.
HATT ON-GARDEN.
On Saturday Mary Ann Somers, a decent-looking
girl, about ten years of age, was brought before Mr.
LAING, the sitting magistrate, charged by Inspector
Lincoln, of H division, with begging.
Lincoln on Saturday afternoon was walking
through Gower-street, Bedford-square, when he saw
the prisoner begging of a lady and gentleman, and
he took her into custody.
Mr. LAING asked the prisoner what she had to
ay for herself ? Prisoner—My father and mother
sent me out to beg.
Lincoln—The parents are outside, your Worship.
Mr. LAlNG—Bring them in.
The father, a sickly-looking man, and the mother,
who has a child at her breast, and two other childre
following her, entered the office.
Mr. LAlNG—Swear the girl.
The girl was sworn, when she stood rather.
alarmed before the magistrate.
Mr. LAING (to the girl)—Who sent you out to
beg? Girl—My father and mother, Sir.
Mr. LAING (to the father)—What have you to
say, Sir ? Father—l was in great want, your Wor-
ship, and necessity alone caused me to send my
child into the streets to beg.
Mr. LAING—What are you? Father—l am a
tailor, Sir; but work is very slack—l have not had
any thing to do for some time past.
Mr. LAING—You are committed to the House of
Correction for one month.
Father—What is to become of my wife and
family, your Worship ?
Mr. LAING—Take him out; you are committed
for a month.
Father—My family must starve, your Worship.

Officer—This way (laying hold of the father's artn.)
Father—What are my children to do, your
Worship ?
Mr. LAING—Take him out.
On being led out of the office, the wife, with the
child suckling in her arms, asked the magistrate
what she was to do to support herself and children
during the confinement of her husband ?
Mr. LAING—Do the best you can.
Mother—l can do nothing; I have three children,
and I can't suffer them to lie down and starve.

Mr. LAING (addressing himself to the mother)—
I should advise you not to send any of your children
out to beg; if you do, and are brought here, you
and your girl will be committed to the House of
Correction.

Mother—l don't know what I am to do.
Mr. Edwards (the junior clerk)—Apply to your
parish.
Mother—My parish, indeed.
Mr. LAING—And then you'll be passed to Ireland.
The mother left the office with her children, and
the father was taken away by Waddington, the
aol, r, to the House of Correction for a month.
THAMES P OLICE- OFFICE.

On Monday upwards of forty sailors who had just
landed from a Gravesend sailing boat, near the
office, applied for summonses against a gentleman
named Phillips, residing in Leadenhall-street, an
agent to the expedition now fitting out by Don
Pedro at Brest, against Don Miguel, for wages due
to them, under the following circumstances:--
The spokesman of the party stated, that in the
beginniNg of last week they were engaged by Mr.
Phillips as able seamen, to navigate the ships fitting
out by Don Pedro, and on the faith of this engage-
ment they provided themselves with proper clothing
for the voyage. On Wednesday last a sailing boat,
hired for the purpose, conveyed them to Gravesend,
where they found four other smacks filled with sea-
men. They remained in the smack off Northfleet,
near Gravesend, until that morning, when a steam-
vessel made its appearance at an early hour, and
took on board nearly 200 men, and started for Brest.
Soon afterwards Mr. Phillips informed them that
Don Pedro had already sufficient men, and their
services would not be wanting, and that the steamer
had taken as many as it could well carry. On hear-
ing this, they demanded something for their loss of
time since they had been hired, but Mr. Phillips told
them he had no funds at his disposal, and referred
them to a tradesman named King, residing in St.
Mary Axe, who has also been engaging men for the
expedition, but that individual had gone to Brest
in the steamer, and it was uncertain when he would
return. They hoped that under these circumstances
the magistrates would grant them a summons against
Phillips, to show cause why he refused to pay them
six days' wages, the time they had been on board
the smack in the river.
Mr. BRODERIP said the case was one of very great
hardship, and the applicant/ certainly deserved to
be paid for their loss of time; but he regretted that
it was out of his power to interfere, or to grant
them a summons under the statute for work and
labour done, as, upon their own shewing, they had
done no work, but had merely waited in the river,
expecting to be called upon to accompany Don
Pedro's expedition. They might bring art action
against Phillips for a breach of contract, or summon
him for some remuneration for their loss of time, at
the Guildhall Court of Requests.
The applicants thanked the worthy Magistrate
for his advice, and said they should certainly act
upon the iatter part of it.

The Wellington Newcastle coach was upset
on Monday evening, between York and Tidcaste!.. None
of the passengers sustained any very serious injury, but
the coach was shattered almost to pieces.. Illanchester
Guardian.
THE EXTINCT AND DORMANT PEERAGE.
Old titles for new Peers—would be the beet system for
Nlinisters to act upon in the anticipated creation.—
,‘ What's in a name?" says Juliet. We answer this
question by another. Who bath not felt " the magic of a
name ?" What Englishman's bosom heaves not with
patriotic emotion, when the rolls of Crecy and of Agin-
court are called over? The names and titles of many of
our ancient heroes, though extinct in the Peerage, are still
fresh in our memories, enshrined in our hearts, shedding a
'daze of glory over the annals of Britain. As a mere
;natter of policy, then, what could be more jndicious than
o revive those names and titles ? They would at once
excite the people's love, and operate as stimulants to
nonourable exertion in their new possessors. We have
been strongly impressed with this idea, by a prusal of
Burke's Dictionary of the Extinct, Dormant, and Sus-
pended Peerages;" a volume replete, fr-om the first page
w the last, with the moat curious and valuable information.