The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1841

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
A diminutive lad, named George Withers,
about 12
years of age, who had been an errand boy in the service
of Messrs. Spottiswoode, the printers, was charged with
robbing his employers.
William Wild said the prisoner had been for some
time employed with the Messrs. Spottiswoode, and seve-
ral books having been missed, an inquiry was instituted,
when it was found that the prisoner had sold a number
of books to other persons employed on the premises.
The witness produced a number of books, which he de-
scribed as office copies, or works kept for reference, and
which had been taken from a room to which alone the
prisoner had access.

- The prisoner having refused to say anything in his de-
fence, was remanded until this day week, and ordered to
be kept solitary.
Three young paupers, named Owen, Murphy, and
Roehuck, were charged by Alexander Lamb, the master
of the West Lond3n Union, with refusing to work at the
wheel.

In reply to the Bench the complainant said the wheel
was used to grind flour, and he did not require the pau-
pers to work more than six hours a day.
The prisoners in their defence said they refused to
work unless they got some slight increase in their allow-
ance of food, as all they Low got was twelve ounces of
bread daily with a small quantity of gruel, and they
found their strength quite inadequate to hard labour, like
that required at the wheel.
The sitting ALDERMAN ordered them to be discharged

GENERAL MEETING AND RE-
HEARSAL OF MR. MAINZER'S PUPILS AT
THE MUSIC HALL, STORE-STREET.
In this age, so rife with precocity and improvement,
the feeling of wonder is all but dead within us, and those
events and things which would have made the hair of
our forefathers stand on end with astonishment pass by
us now as idle things, " which we respect not." If
we did not feel astonishment last evening we at least felt
pleasurable surprise at the degree of accuracy attained
by the pupils of Mr. Mainzer. The vocal performances
were confined to choruses, which were admirably exe-
cuted considering the short space of time, only 16 days, the
pupils have had for instruction. The gem of the evening was
a preladio fuyalo by Mr. Jones on the organ, which was
indeed an elaborate performance, and was most enthu-
siastically applauded. The performances concluded
with " God save the Queen," and we have seldom
heard it given with finer effect, and here the good
instruction of Mr. Mainzer was indeed conspi-
cuous, as the voices, 1,200 in number, were as one.
Amongst the audience, which was an elegant and
fashionable one, we noticed Lord Brougham, Mr.
Robert Owen, &c. Mr. Mainzer delivered a short address
explanatory of his object, which, as he stated, is toes-
tablish a national singing institution, each pupil paying
the sum of sixpence per month towards the expenses.
Ho stated that he proposell extending it to the provinces;
and he had established a class at Brighton, which num-
bered eight hundred. The evening's entertainment ter-
minated at ten o'clock; and there was but one complaint,
which was the want of room, as the boxes only contained
room for six tickets for a dozen that had been issued.