The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

DDLESEX SESSIONS.

The Novembermenced this THIS DAY.)
general session for the county
and abe is morning, before the Assistant-Judge
Clerkenweil of magistrates, at the Court-house,
The ecei;igareen.
of whom twenrt contained the names of 101 prisoners,
write, ieteenYt-nine
scribed as being were unable to either read or
o read, and the remainder were de..
—not one being described
to read and write imperfectly
of even an ordignareseribed as possessing the benefits
Boners charged wy education. The number of pri-
and the same ith misdemeanour were fourteen,
years of age. number were stated as under sixteen
The A ASSISTANT-
JUDGE
having Baker,
stonnumber
at the last sessions of
. Lewis, and
of curtains, the property of
forward evidence remanded, to afford him time to .
bring
bar for
Two
judgment as.
to character, was placed at the
witnesses, one of who
public-house in Oxford-street,nl had formerly kept a
known the prisoner as carryingßotnatt,d' that they had
maker, but their knowledge of riziness as a pipe-
eieiteen months was very imperfect. mfor the last
The ASSISTANT -JUDGE warned the
prisoner that if
again convicted of a thing of this kind, be would be
transported. He was sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for six months.
John Williams, indicted for stealing the sum of
18s. from Ellen Brexnalan, was ordered to be dis-
charged from custody this morning, under the fol-
lowing singular circumstances :
A true bill was returned against the prisoner at the
last sessions, but before his trial the prosecutrix was
taken up on a charge of felony, of which she was
convicted, and being now undergoing her sentence on
that conviction, she was unable to attend to give evi-
dence against the prisoner to-day, when the Learned
Assistant-Judge ordered him to be discharged.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John and Mary Malloy, husband and wife, were
charged before Mr. Henry with assaulting Mr.
Snowden, the keeper of an eating-house in Maiden-
lane.

The prisoners entered Mr. Snowden's shop last
night and called for tvto basins of soup, on being
supplied with which they said they would not pay
for one as it was not good. The complainant insisted
on being paid, and the female prisoner, snatching up
a knife, said she would " run any one through" who
should come near her, at the same time making a
thrust at the complainant, and his fingers were se-
verely cut. With the assistance of the waiter and
waiteress and of a policeman the prisoner was over-
powered and disarmed. Her husband struck the
landlord and a waiteress several times.

The female prisoner simply said that the soup was
sour, and she could not eat it.
The male prisoner thought himself justified in
taking his wife's part.
Mr. HENRY would fine the female prisoner 41., or,
in default of payment, sentence her to one month's
imprisonment ; and the husband 2/., or three weeks'
imprisonment. He made this distinction because the
female prisoner had used the knife.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
George Srwth was charged with stealing several
brass water-cocks and some lead pipe, from the
water•butts belonging to the inhabitants, residing in
the Hackney and Kingsland districts.
The prisoner was found in a privy at the rear of a
house in the occupation of a Mr. Cousins, with a
number of brass cocks and the piece of pipe produced,
in his possession, and in addition to which he had
about him rags and plugs (his feet being also covered
with rags, and his shoes lying by his feet), and all the
parapharnalia necessary for the carrying on his work
of plunder.
The prisoner said that the cocks were his own.
He was, however, committed for trial.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
John Costello was charged with wantonly destroy-
ing a wax image, value 10s., the property of Henrique
Meyer.
The prosecutor stated that he keeps an exhibition
of wax figures in St. George-street, Ratcliffe-high-
way, amongst which were two beautifully executed
" images" of the Queen and Prince Albert. Yes-
terday evening, amongst the visitors was the pri-
soner, who appeared to be very dissatisfied with his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and after pulling his
Royal Highness's nose, with sundry other freaks,
before he could be prevented, he broke the image all
to pieces.
The prisoner, in defence, said he considered him-
self to be the aggrieved party. That feller, said he,
pointing to the prosecutor, kept calling out, " Walk
up, ladies and gentlemen, here's the Queen and Prince
Albert all alive."—(Laughter.) Well, your wor-
ship, up I goes, and he points out the Prince. Thinks
I, you are a mighty stiff old chap, and I axes him
how all the little uns were.—(Loud laughter.) Well,
if he wur alive he didn't make no answer whatsom-
dever, which I thought wery ongenteel—(Renewed
laughter)—especially after I had forked out the tin,
expecting to have a word or two with the Queen.
So I says, I be mighty glad to see you—tip us your
fist. I might just as well have talked to a
post. He • stared with his great big eyes,
and they looked a kind of glossy-like as if he was
drunk—(Roars of laughter)—but deuce a word
would he speak, so I thought may be a blow will
make you say something, and I gives him a tolerable
rap in the face, when off rolled his head, and I sees
it was all an imposition, and so I smashed him up
into little bits.

Mr. YARDLEY—YOU don't mean to say you ex-
pected to see the Queen and Prince Albert alive ?
Prisoner (with an air of comic gravity)—l did then,
and when I fust spoke to Prince Halbert, I puts
my hand on him as tender as if he was a hinfant.—
(Loud laughter.)
Mr. YARDLEY—WeII, you treated his Royal
Highness very unceremoniously; you must pay this
Ios. damage.
Mr. Meyer—l should wish the money put in the
poor-box, your Worship.
The prisoner was ultimately fined ss. for being
drunk.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
THE QUEEN V. MELENDEZ AND DARIO&

SIR,—I have to request the favour that you will
allow me to correct a statement which is contained
in yesterday's paper, in your report of Mr. Martin's
application to discharge the rule nisi obtained by him
in this matter.

It is stated that the Learned Counsel said that
during last Trinity term he obtained a rule against
the above-named defendants, calling upon them to
show cause why a criminal information should not
be filed against them for a libel reflecting on the cha-
racter of the Peruvian Minister residing In this
country. I beg leave to state that the fact is not so,
and that as against myself the Court of Queen's
Bench refused the rule.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. MELENDEZ.

64, Old Broad-street, Nov. 10, 1847.

[Our report stated that the application for a cri-
minal information had been made at the suit of the
Mexican Minister. It appears that it was the Peru-
vian, and not the Mexican Minister, who was the
party concerned.—En. Sun.]