The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-19 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.--SATURDAY.

James Ross, grocer, was indicted for assaulting his house
maid, Mary Daly. The prosecutrix, who is an Irish Ro-
man Catholic, after having devoutly crossed herself, said
that, for some days before the assault was committed, she
had been constantly employed in cutting bread, and spread-
ing it with butter, for the defendant's son, a little boy who
had newly returned from a visit to some friends in Scotland.
The RECORDER—Then the distance he had come must
have given him a good appetite.—( Laughter.)
Prosecutrix—And sure it's your Honour that speaks the
blessed truth ; there was no satisfying the boy's appetite.
It's himself that would have thought nothing of ating a
half quartern loaf at a time.—(Loud laughter.) Well,
your honour, as I was one day feeding the hungry boy the
wife of this man (the defendant) said to me, says she,
" Why do you give him that hard bread to eat ? That
slice would not be fit for the pigs in Ireland to eat."
" Mem (says I), the pigs in,my country, nor in your coun-
try, nor in any other country, at all at all, gets mate of that
same kind to ate."—Loud laughter.) Well, your Honour,
this man (pointing to the defendant) then took me and
kicked me, and called me —. I'll not be after telling
your honour what he called me, and then he knocked me
down stairs.—(Renewed laughter.)
RECORDER—Did he leave any marks of violence on you ?

Prosecutrix—ls it marks of bating me /our Honour
manes? Sure, if that's your maning, he did lave a mark
on my wrist, and here it is to this blessed day. (Here the
prosecutrix showed a mark on her wrist.)
The defendant denied the assault.

The RECORDER advised the defendant to give the prose-
cutrix a sovereign and pay the costs, to which the latter
agreed, and the case was then dropped.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

George Edwards Peacock, a young man of very respect-
able connections, who was brought before the Lord MAYOR
upwards of a month ago, charged with having forged a
power of attorney for a transfer of stock in the Three per
Cent. Annuities, to the amount of 7,814/..55. 9d., was
brought up for finalexamination. The prisoner was joined
in a trust account with William Addison Fountain and
William Wilkins, for the abovementioned sum in Three per
cent. Annuities. The power of attorney, which bore date
the 30th of November, 183.5, was handed by the prisoner
to Mr. Clarke, a stockbroker, who transferred the stock on
the 7th of November, and gave to the prisoner a check on
the bank for 7,081/. I Is. 6d. Mr. Wilkins swore that the
signature purporting to be his was a forgery. There was
no additional evidence ; and Mr. Hobler having read over
the testimony, the prisoner was fully committed for trial.
An old Greenwich pensioner, named March, who ap-
peared to be nearly eighty years of age, appeared to com-
plain of having been robbed on the preceding night in a
three-penny lodging-house, where one bed is generally oc-
cupied by three persons. The pensioner had been to
Kingsland, on Friday morning on a visit to an old friend,
who, upon his departure, made him a present of 11. Is. 6d.,
which he stowed away safely in his fob. As be had a trifle
of money besides, he thought he would look in at the Bull
in Aldgate, where he had been waiter fifty years ago, and
he there smoked his pipe and enjoyed himself till it was too
late for him to start by Ike steamer. Upon leaving the
old house he found that his timbers were not so staunch as
they had been a few years since, and he also found that he
was very much disposed to take a snoose, so he made the
best way he could to a lodging-house " for gentlemen," to
which he had been recommended by a lady whom he met
in the street, and who volunteered the introduction for a
glass of gin. After he had paid for his bed, the landlady
told him that in consequence of the departure of the peo-
ple from the west end of the town, the east end was ne-
cessarily crammed, and requested that he would make room
for a gentleman who had just come to town. He expostu-
lated, but in the midst of the conversation in walked a big fel-
low who pulled off his coat and brogues, and laid down. The
pensioner, finding it useless to complain, stretched himself on
the bed, and was just falling into a comfortable sleep when
the landlady, after gently tapping at the door, entered, fbl-
lowed by a second gentleman. who begged to be allowed to
occupy a third of the bed, and observed, as the prisoner was
the first guest, he had a right to lie in the middle, or most
eligible berth. The landlady approved of the suggestion,
but the pensioner shouldered his crutch, and swore that he
would knock down any ma❑ who should dare to encroach
upon his. moiety of the bed, and he made so much noise
that the third candidate withdrew. In the morning, to his
astonishment, the pensioner found that he was so much alone
that even his cash had abandoned him.

The LORD MAYOR—You see what grog will do ashore.
Pensioner—Please your Honour, I knew long ago what
it would do, but it never served me such a trick afore as to
put me in bed with a thief.
The LORD MAYOR—Suppose I give you half a crown to
buy tobacco with, will you promise ,not to take a drop of
grog ? Pensioner—Depend upon it I'll make the best use
of it ; I don't like grog.
The LORD MAYOR—How often do you take it ? Pen-
sioner—Only morning, noon, and night, when I can get it.
—(A laugh.) Ah, you laugh at me, but I assure you I
tell the truth. Some people are always muddling—now
that's bad.

The LORD MAYOR—Don't they put a badge upon you at
the hospital when you make these mistakes ? Pensioner—
They shove us into yellow jackets, and you can't move about
without being remarked upon. It's disagreeable enough ;
but what can a poor battered old fellow do when a drop is
in his way, and not 'a cross to pay ? Mind you, I don't do
it +myself.
The LORD MAYOR desired an officer to put the old man
on board the steamer to Greenwich, and gave him half-a-
crown.

Pensioner—Long life to you ; I served under Nelson,
at the Nile, and I served with the present King, who said
to me at one time, " March, don't you forget to speak to
me ;" but I never said a word to him, although I have been
a good one in my time.