The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

George Lilly Johnson was indicted for stealing sixty-two
pound of lead, the property of Sir Matthew Wyat.
Mr. Phillips appeared `for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson
defended the prisoner.
William Ellis said he was clerk of the works in the employ-
ment of Sir Matthew Wyat, the eminent sculptor. On the 17th
of July last, went into a yard attached to some new buildings
which Sir Matthew was erecting near Hyde Park, when he
saw the prisoncrin the workshop, and suspecting his honesty
from previous circumstances, he caused him to be searched,
when a kind of girt was found strapped round his
loins, supported by straps over the shoulders ; to the
girt were ingeniously attached nails, so as to support a great
weight between it and the person, and by this means the pri-
soner had contrived to secrete the property named in the indict-
inent.l Sir Matthew Wyat employed four plumbers, to one of
whom, named Jackson, the prisoner was apprenticed.
Mr. CL kRKSON, for the defence, called
Jorge Jackson, who stated that he was a plumber, residing
in Queen-street, Edgware-road, and on the day when the pri-
soner was first charged with the robbery he was standing out-
side the workshop, which was scarcely more than 10 feet square,
and in his opinion no person could have taken the property in
the manner in which it was stated to have been done.

The prisoner was found Guilty and sentenced to be im-
prisoned for one year, and kept to hard labour.
George Brown was indicted for stealing fifteen sovereigns
from the person of Thomas Hunt.
The prosecutor deposed that he was a cotton spinner belong-
ing to Manchester. On the 3d inst. he was walking through
Fleet-street, when he met the prisoner, with whom he entered
into conversation, and went into a public-house in Chancery-
lane. The prisoner said he-came from Warrington, and
was about taking a shop in London. In about half an hour
after they entered the house a third party came in, and as if
accidentally, spilt some ale, for which he appeared to pay,
but the prisoner refused to allow him to do so, and showed
him some money to prove that they were quite independent,
and urged him (the prosecutor) to do the same. The man who
came in pulled out some money from his pocket and said he
would pay for all the ale they could drink. Soon after he began
to talk of the liability of strangers to be. taken in by the London
sharpers, and desired him to be sure that his money was safe,
as they did not wish him to loose anything in their company.
The prisoner then said, here is some paper, roll up what-
ever money you may have about ydu. Witness did so, and
the prisoner pretended to put it into his (prosecutor's) fob for
safety, They then walked out, and prosecutor was sent to get
some cigars, and on his return found the other two gone, and
instead of fifteen soveregns, which he rolled up, he found six
halfpence.
Air. BALLA STINE, for the defence, cross-examined the wit-
ness at great length, but nothing was elicited to shake the prin-
cipal facts of the case.
The RECORDER said, for the security of the less crafty and
guilty portion of the community, it was necessary that the pri-
soner should be removed to a place where his ingenuity would
have less scope than in London. lie should, therefore, sentence
him to be-transported for ten years.

POLICE fisITE'LLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—Mr; Hicks, the Chairman of the
Markets' Committee, waited upon the Lord 11ayor on the
subject of the memprial of the inhabitants of West Smithfield,
praying that the approaching Bartholomew Fair might be re-
gulated according to the arrangements of 1839, or wholly
abolished.

The Chairman stated that he had read the statement of
what had taken place before Aldermen Wilson on Wednesday
with peculiar satisfaction, as it was calculated to show, without
any application to the Committee at all, that the measures
adopted upon the excellent advice of the City Solicitor were
in vigorous operation.
The Loan Aaron said that with every disposition to ren-
der service to the memorialists, he could not think of acting
in opposition to the legal authority to which reference had
beeen made on this important subject. All he had to do was
to Rroceed in the ordinary course, taking care that there
shoal be no infringement of the Charter.
The Chairman informed his Lordship that the Special Com-
mittee had met that day for the purpose of making the neces-
sary preparations for the fair, with the intention of making
them conformable to the excellent report drawn up by the City
Solicitor.

The LORD MAYOR. supposed from these observations that
it was the intention of the Committee to exclude what was
called "dramatic entertainments" from the fair?

The Chairman said that was most decidedly the case. They
had adopted the popular alteration proposed by the City Soli-
citor, of " abridging the duration of the fair to two clear days,
and by refusing to lot standings for show booths, thus pre-
paring the way for its natural death." The Corporation had
abolished " Ladye Fair " in Southwark, and the nuisance of
Bartholomew Fa►r, which infinitely surpassed any other public
abomination of the kind, would be every year dim►nished until
it should at length become a scarcely legible record.
The conversation here dropped, and the odious fair of St.
Bartholomew will soon sink into nothing. The :police will
receive directions to pay very particular attention to the move-
ments of the class of persons to whom the deputation of the
inhabitants of Smithfield especially referred in their memorial.