The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. D. R. WARRINGTON, Chairman, Mr.
ADAMS, and Mr. CURRIE.)
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A LADY 01
FORTUNE.—Mrs. L tvinia Pratt, the wife of a gentle-
man of fortune, residing at Woodmanstono, was charged
upon an information under the Game Act, with having,
on the 21st of August, unlawfully taken, with a certain
engine, to wit, a trap, a partridge, she not being autho•
rized so to do, for want of a game certificate, by which
she had forfeited a sum not exceeding 51.
When the case was called on, Mr. W. Drummond,
the solicitor, said be attended on behalf of Mrs. Pratt,
to answer the extraordinary charge that had been made
against her of poaching. The lady was in attendance in
her carriage, ready to wait upon the Magistrates if they
wished it, but he begged to request the Magistrates
not to put her to the inconvenience, but to allow him to
appear for her.
The Bench said that as Mr. Drummond was there as
her solicitor, they did not think it necessary that the
lady herself should be present.
Alexander Chambers was then sworn. He deposed
that he was game-keeper to George Read, Esq., of
Woodman's House, and whose estate joined that of Mr.
Pratt. On the 2.lst of August, he was out with his
dogs, looking after the game, and as he was walking up
a hedge-row which divided Mr. Pratt's land from his
masters, he heard a peculiar sound made by a partridge,
and he went in the direction from whence it proceeded,
and saw a partridge caught in a trap. He watched to
see who would take it out, and at length Mrs. Pratt
came to the spot, and he saw her take the partridge out
of the trap, and then set it again. He immediately said
to her, " You have got a bird there," and she replied
that she had, and asked him what business it was of his,
and he told her that he only wanted to see who took
the bird out of the trap. Mrs. Pratt then went away
with the bird.

The witness was then cross-examined by Mr. DRUM•
MONO, and it appeared that the snare was set upon Mr.
Pratt's land, and not upon Mr. Read's. He denied
that he had put the bird into the snare himself, and
also said that he was not at ull aware who set the trap,
in the first instance. The trap was more calculated for
rabbits than partridges.
William Huck, another gamekeeper, was then called
to prove that he did not put the bird into the snare.
Mr. Drummond then addressed the Bench, and said
he should submit that the evidence did not support the
information, inasmuch as there was no proof that Mrs.
Pratt had set the snare in the first instance. The pro-
ceeding arose out of some disagreement between the
gentlemen upon the subject of the game, but he hoped
the Bench would consider the improbability of a lady
becoming poacher, and setting snares for game.
The CHAIRMAN said that ladies had been known to
follow hounds before now.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Drummond said that such conduct was, how-
ever, very rare, and it ought not to be made to tell
against Mrs. Pratt. He added that he should be able
to show by the evidence of Mr. Pratt, that he himself
ordered the snare to be set for the rabbits, which com-
mitted great injury to his garden.
The BENCH said they did not think they could allow
Mr. Pratt to give evidence, as he was not a competent
witness on behelf of his wife.
Mr. Drummond said be was aware of this difficulty,
and therefore he had no other alternative than to leave
the case in the hands of the Bench, reminding them
only of its peculiar circumstances, and that there were
many more delicate means to resort to, between gen-
tlemen, to settle any differences, than to drag a lady
before a Bench of Magistrates upon a charge of
poaching.
The BENCH then consulted for a short time, when
The CII4IRMAN said that the Magistrates were of
opinion that the case was one that ought not to have
been brought before them ; but as the offence under the
Act of Parliament had been proved by the evidence,
they were bound to convict Mrs. Pratt, and they should
inflict upon her a fine of one penny, and the costs.

It is understood that the Stockton and Hartle-
pool Railway will be ready for opening early in October.
A Correspondent of tl Semaphore de Marseilles
states that M. Jourdain had arrived in Tunis. This youe
architect was sent out by Loui.; Phillippe, to erect on the
highest point of the hill of Carthage, at the spot which tra-
dition points out as having been the tomb of St. Louis, a
monument to the memory of that martyr-king, the cost of
which is to be defrayed out of the Civil List.
AFFECTING CATASTROPHE.—An occurrence
of a most melancholy and affecting character took place on
Tuesday last, off the coast between North Berwick and
Dunbar. The boat Sun, of Buckhafen, Fifeshire, em-
ployed in the herring-fishing on this coast, was bearing
down under a smart breeze for Dunbar harbour, with a fa-
ther and son on board, naraed Thomson. When not far
fron► the Bass, the younger Thomson, while employed in
adjusting the sheet in order to take a tack, was, by a sudden
concussion of the sail, pitched overboard. His father, in
the impulse of parental affection, instantly sprung to his
assistance ; but, alas I only to share his unfathomed grave.
Father and son sank like lead among the waters, disappear_
ing for ever locked in each other's arms.—,Berwick Adver.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A poor author named John Darwin, whose condition
was very much pitied, was brought before Alderman
Gibbs, who sat for the Lord Mayor, charged with
having broken a gas lamp in Lombard-street.
The policeman stated that as he was on duty at half
past two o'clock on Sunday morning in King William-
street, the defendant approached him, and requested to
be taken into custody. Witness refused to comply with
so strange a request, and the defendant then flung a
stone at the gas-lamp in Lombard-street, and smashed
it. To comply with the request then became a duty,
and the defendant was taken to the Compter, where he
received the blessings of food and a bed, to Which it
was evident he had not for some time been accustomed.
Alderman GIBB3—Was he sober? Policeman—
Quite sober. He did not appear as if .he had taken
anything at all.
Alderman Gress (to the defendant)—How can yon
account for this piece of mischief ? The Defrmdant
said that the statement of the policeman was perfectly
correct. He (the defendant) had broken the lamp
exactly as the man had described, and he had no inten-
tion of remonstrating against the infliction of the full
measure of punishment for the offence. But he begged
to be allowed to inform the Alderman that his misfor-
tunes bad so distracted his mind, as to leave him at the

time without the power of reasoning► upon the impro-
priety of the act.
Alderman GIBES observed that idle and desperate
fellows had sometimes, atter wearying the parochial
authorities by their importunities fur the supply of the
means of procuring drink, resorted to such a mode of
attracting notice. He should never countenance any
trick of the kind.

The defendant was perfectly aware that his motives
were liable to be misconstrued, but he would take the
liberty of giving a slight outline of the necessities against
wl►ich he had to contend, and which would prove that
he was not chargeable with idleness, however culpable
the offence was of which he was accused, and to which
he pleaded guilty. He had been for a considerable
time deriving a ♦ery precarious support from. unwea-
ried, in fact, intense, application as an author. He had
borne the disappointments to which many men who wrote
for their bread were subjected with, he hoped the ordi-
nary degree of resignation, for it had been his hard lot
to pass two days without taking a mouthful of food, and
three nights without stretching his limbs upon a bed, al-
though his pen was scarcely ever out of his hand. These
privations arose, in some instances from the want of prin-
ciple in those for whom he laboured, and in others from
the want of the means of remunerating him. For a

length of time he had struggled in the hope that industry
would prove more than a match for ill-luck, and he sat
down to a task of more than usual severity last week,
with the certainty that on Saturday evening he should
receive an instalment. He was, however, again fated to
disappointment. Hungry and wretched, and in despair,
he wandered about the streets, and it occurred to him
that the policeman might take him into custody at his
request, and give him a temporary ,respite, but finding
that he could get nothing by that alternative, he com-
mitted the unworthy act, for which he did not presume
to solicit pardon.
Alderman GIBBS—Upon what parish have you a
claim ? Defendant—l was born in Staffordshire, and
have, I believe, a claim there. I have been in the ser-
vice of the Queen of Portugal, and have a claim upon
that Government, and I received 21. from her Majesty's
agent, 1/. of which I laid out in purchasing the clothes
you see upon me, and the other in paying for the neces-
saries of life.
Alderman Giszs—Have you been connected with
the newspaper press of London ? Defendant—Not at
all. My chief employment has been in periodical lite-
rature ; and I can refer your Lordship to respectable
persons who will willingly testify as to my powers of ap-
plication, my ceaseless endeavours to be employed, and
the afflicting contingencies to which I have been tied in
my effortsto provide for the day that was passing over me.
Alderman GIBBS—WeiI, you can write to any per-
sons who you think will come here to speak about you.

I regret very much to see a person with such capabili-
ties reduced to so deplorable a condition without having
brought himself to it by misconduct of his own. But
surely there are ways of obtaining temporary relief
without compelling a Magistrate to mix the disgrace of
punishment with the grant of it. The defendant should
be taken care of in the Compter until Wednesday, when
he shoal:I be again brought up, and those who knew
him might appear to confirm his statement, and so far
palliate the offence he had committed.
The poor author, whose manner was characterised
by remarkable humility, buts most grateful for the refuge
thus afforded him, and said that he would at once write
to a gentleman who knew that he was not an impostor,
and would, no doubt, have the humanity to attend at
the next investigation.
A young man on crutches, named George Godfrey,
was charged with having stolen three half-quartern
loaves out of the basket of a journeyman baker.
The baker, it appeared, had left his basket, which
contained a number of loaves, in one part of the street,
in a very poor and populous neighbourhood, while he
went to another to serve some customers ; and the
prisoner whipped out three half-quartern loaves, slipped
them under his coat, and was hobbling away, when the
baker, who, on returning to his basket missed the: bread,
caught him, and charged him with the robbery.
Alderman Glens asked the prisoner how it happened
that one loaf did not satigfy him ? The prisoner said
that he had just purchased the loaves in Bishopsgate-
street .
Alderman Grass—What, the whole three! You
didn't mean to eat them all in one day ? The priso-
ner—No, Sir ; but I am obliged to eat nothing but
bread, because I have a bad asthma on tay lungs, and
the doctors say that meat won't do far me.
Alderman GIBBS—But why buy so much ? The
prisoner—To have it stale.—(A laugh.) As I am
allowed to eat nothing but bread, I always lay up a lot
of it.

ALDERMAN-But you must not lay it up in this way.
Now, I don't think that bread is the best remedy for
an asthma. We'd try a little of the medicine of Bride-
well.

The prisoner—That won't cure it.
Alterman Gtuus—lt may cure the disease of dis-
honesty ; at all events, it will caution others.
Committed for a month.

INSUBORDINATION IN THE

ROYAL NAVAL ASYLUM.

For several days past a spirit of insubDrdinatioa hes
manifested itself amongst. the boys of this institution,
and although there has not been any decided outbreak
on the part of the boys in the upper school, they evi-
dently sympathise with those of the lower school, in
which there are 400 sons of British tars clothed, fed,
and educated, principally for the naval service.
On Friday last four of these youngsters scaled the
wall into the Park, and proceeded on their way to
Portsmouth as far as Kingston-upon-Thames, where
they were apprehended by the police and brought hack
in a chaise to Greenwich on Saturday morning, and ar-
rived in the asylum-yard at the time the boys were re-
turning from breakfast. The policeman had no sooner
delivered them over to the mate, than they made their
escape into the midst of their comrades, and were soon
lost sight of. The boys generally commenced pelting
the officer with a volley of stones, and the four refrac-
tory urchins again made their escape over the walls.
Several others, in the course of the day, followed their
example, and deserted the asylum.
On Sunday morning, immediately after breakfast, up-
wards of forty scaled the walls, and made their way for
Shooters-hill, where a numb.r,r of them provided them-
selves with bread, milk, and apples, expressing a deter-
mination to proceed to Chatham and go on board ship
rather than remain in the Asylum and be ill used, as
they said they had recently been. Within the last three
days upwards of seventy hare deserted the Asylum, and
at sunset last evening there were upwards of forty ab-
sentees. Those who have been re-captured are placed
in charge of the main guard of the Royal
Hospital until an investigation of the circum-
stances takes place. The mutineers generally com-
plain that they have not a sufficient quantity of food,
and that which they do get being of a bad quality,
that they are severely punished f:ur the slightest
offences, and that the drills and gymnastic exercises
have recently been more strict than usual, and further,
that instead of being allowed to go out once a fortnight,
they have only permission about twice in three months,
and their friends have only leave to visit them for about
two hours on the first Wednesday in the month.
There are 500 boys in the upper school, sons of naval
officers.

Lord Minto intimated at the last inspection, that it
was the intention of the Board of Admiralty to appoint
a greater number of them to the naval and packet
services, as well as to the engineer department in steam-
ships of war, than heretofore had taken place.

A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian,
of Saturday week, states, that lately " a friend of his
travelled in one of the ' stand-up' carriages on the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway, in company with tiro respect-
able, well drcised females, several mechanics, and two
Pigs." Our contemporary attempts to justify this ar-
rangement, on the ground that " if people will travel in
the leweA class of carriages, they have no right to be par_
ocularly squeamish as to their fellow-travellers;" brit
surely a decent respect ought to be paid to the feelings of
the poorer class of passengers, of whom the majority of
travellers on the Manchester and Leeds line consists.—
Railway Times.
HOWDEN GREAT HORSE FAlR.—Great pre-
parations are making by the innkeepers and others for the
approaching fair, it being confidently anticipsted. that the
attendance of foreigners, dealers, farmers, graziers, Ste.,
will he very numerous. This fair is probably one of the
most ancient chartered horse fairs in England. In the
year 1200, King. John granted to Bishop Philip a license
to hold an annual horse fair at Howden, which is held on
September 25th, and seven following days. and is one of
the most celebrated horse fairs in England, a London
defier obierving last year there were more horses to be
seen at Howden fair than any other fair its the world.—
Doncaster Gazette.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL

CALENDAR.

46,seripti‘e of the vationi
A S.immary ..Statement d
Offences withwhich the Prisoners committed for Trial
severally stand charged, viz. :
• Cutting, wounding, and beating persons ...•
Stealing goods and modes in dwelling-
houses .. .........
Stealing goods and monies from the person I
1
Stealing goods and monies by domestic
19
P e r v a n t s
_ . . 1 '
- - __-

Obtaining the like by false pretexts .........
Forgery and uttering a forged instrument... I
Uttering and unlawfully possessing counter- s

feit coin
Receiving stolen property with guilty know-

ledge
Counting house breaking
Manslaughter
Fraud
. '
Misdemeanour 6
Larceny
Bigamy 1
Bestiality
Burglary -
Embezzlement 1
Horsestealing
Rape 2
Perjui y _ -

' London prisoners
•
Middlesex ditto 110
I(,,nt ditto 9
8
Surrey ditto .

Total 144

O'
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S GAOL OF N
GATE, SEPTEMBER 12.
Prisoners for trial at the present sessions.M 110 Fern3'll4lei:
Prisoners whose judgments stand respited 2
Prisoner acquitted on the ground of insa-
nity, and remains ..... 1
Prisoners committed by the Insolvent
Debtors' Court 2
Prisoners under sentence of tranportation
for life 2
Prisoners under sentence of transportation
for 15 years 2
Prisoners under sentence of transportation
for 14 years
Prisoners under sentence of transportation
for 12 year::

Prisoners under sentence of transportation
for 10 years
Prisoners under sentence of transportation
for 7 years

Total

• 3;

6 i;

5
4.
132
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