The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

John Floyd, portmanteau-maker, Wild-steeet, Drury -
lane, was in the Bachelor, and landed at the Adelphi
pier. Saw prisoner after he left the boat in George-
street, and afterwards in the Strand. When witness saw
him in the Strand, prisoner was going towards Tem-
ple-bar.
Richard Haggard, house and estate agent, in Mitre-
court, Fleet-street, and Marchmont-street, was in com-
pany with prisoner on board the Bachelor. Landed
with him at the Adelphi-stairs, Witness took prisoner
away, because there was a general fight. They went
together to a public-house in the Strand. They re-
mained together half an hour after they landed, and
during the whole time the prisoner did not interfere with
the prosecutor at all.

Cross-examined by Mr. DOANE—I never saw the pri-
soner until the day in question, when I saw him ill-used,
and gave him my card. There were a great many of us.
I did not take him away from the general fight, any more
than the rest.

Mr. DOANE—You swore you did, just now. Wit-
ness—l persuaded him to go.
Mr. DoANE—Then, it required your persuasion to in-
duce him to leave the fight ? Witness—l heard the cry
of murder. I never heard the word Scotty used during
the day. There were six or seven of us. We walked to-
gether up George-street and to the Strand, to No. 45, a
public-house. It is towards Temple-bar. I new saw a
Mackintosh.

MR. DOANE having replied,
The RECORDER summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.

The REconiiEu having made inquiries as to the pri-
soner's character, .was answered that the prisoner was an
associate of thieves, and had been summarily convicted
for picking pockets at Ascot.
The prisoner denied that he had ever been an asso-
cial e of thieves, or that he had been summarily con-
victed ; and protested that he was innocent of the crime
of which he had been convicted.

The RECORDER sentenced him to one year's imprison,
ment and hard labour.

NEW COURT

Solomon Levine and Edward Beaumont, were indicted
for having in their possession 2,600 yards of calico, of
the value of 130 L, knowing it to have been stolen, the
property of 4jexander Forbes.
Mr. CLARKSON and Mr. BODKIN conducted the prose-
cution, and Mr. C. PHILLIPS and Mr. ITUDDLESTONE
appeared for the prisoner.
The facts of this case were recently before the public,
when it was heard at the Mansion-house. The pri-
soners, who were represented as commission agents, had
in their possession articles similar to those named in the
indictment, and had disposed of prints to various persons.
A great number of witnesses were, examined, and the
evidence was extremely .dry and complicated. The
mark upon. the calico was proved to be that of the pro-
secutor. The property had been delivered at the car-
riers' wharf, but not by either of the prisoners.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS having addressed the Jury,
The Learned COMMON SERGEANT summed up the
evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty
against the prisoners.

-There was another count in the indictment, charging
the prisoner Beaumont with a former conviction, on
which occasion he was sentenced to nine months' impri-
sonment.

The COMMON SERGEANT then sentenced Levine to 14
years' and Beaumont to 20 years' transportation.
James AlPEtven was ind;cted for having stolen a
pocket-handkerchief from a person unknown.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the Common Ser-
geant sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and
hard labour. On the prosecutor receiving his ;entente,
ho said that he had been sold like a bullock.
The COMMON SERGEANT then asked several constables
in the Court if the prisoner was known, and they all
declared him to be a well-known thief, and the leader
of a gang.

The COMMON SERGEANT then recalled his judgment,
and sentenced the prisoner to ten years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.
A man named Samuel Simmons, who has been some
time suspected of violating the New Police Act, by
selling spirits on Sunday mornings, was brought before
the Lord Mayor, charged with a transgression of that kind.
A Custom-house officer, dressed like a sailor, threw
himself in the way of the defendant, and asked him
where they could get a drop of any thing good ? " I've
got a drop here," said the defendant, and, taking him
aside, filled him out two penn'orth from a bottle into a
glass. Witness immediately seized the flying publican,
and accused him of the offence ; and the latter spilled the
gin about, and dashed the bottle against the ground, de-
claring that no revenue humbug should get the better of
him.
The Lon") MAYOR—I suppose this mode of selling gin
is very generally practised ?—The officer stated that
such fellows bought the gin on Saturday night, and doc-
tored it for Sunday morning, in consequence of the obli-
gation upon the publicans to keep their houses closed
till one o'clock on the Sabbath. A vast deal of rubbish
was sold in that narmer in the low neighbourhoods of the
me trop
The LORD MAYOR (to the defendant)—This trade of
yours won't do. What can you say for yourself ? De-
fefidant—l had only a half-pint in the bottle for myself,
as I was going to travel, and this man tried to get it
from me, so that sooner than he should have it, I spilled it-
The Loan MAYOR —You must pay for this. The re-
spectable publicans who sell good articles, and arc at
great expense in a great variety of ways, are obliged to
close their doors against profit, while you profit by poison.
You must pay the penalty of 251. for this offence.
Defendant—l can't-pay anytking.
The LORD MAYOR—It is not in my power to mitigate
the penalty if I were disposed to do so.
The defendant stated that he was a poor journeyman

The officers stated•that they knew him to -be a tailor
in the week days, and a flying publican on the Sundays.
The LORD M.t.yon—lf he cannot pay he must go to
the treadmill for three months.—Committed to the tread-
mill.

John Hdiert, a journeyman mason, was charged with
having assauited a young man for working for Mr. Fur-
nival, a master mason, some of whose men had," struck"
for wages. He was also charged with having assaulted
the master himself.
The first complainant was, it appeared, at work in Ald-
gate Church, when the defendant, accompanied by an-
other man entered, and asked him whether he was not
ashamed to be at work there. He replied that he was
not, and the defendant immediately said, " punch
your b— head," and proceeded to carry the threat into
execution by knocking him about, an amusement in
which the defendant's companion joined.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether nobody came to
the assistance of tho • young man who was thus knocked
about.
It.was stated that some of Mr. Furnival's men who
were at work at some distance, and who thought it was
all a joke until they saw the young man violently attacked
ran to help him, and the defendant and his friend then
ran away. The defendant having been afterwards ap-
prehended struck Mr. Furnival for attempting to detain
and make him answer for the assault.
The Loan MAYOR—Did ,this arise out of the strike
of some of the workmen ?—An officer stated that it did.
Several of Mr. Furnival's men and other masters' men
had struck, and were about Cornhill idling and threat-
ening the police.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall make an example of every
man of those who may be brought before me for such
gross misconduct. How much does Mr. Furnival pay
die masons he employs ? . Mr. Furnival-4s. Gd. a (lay
each for nine hours work, and those who struck have
been lying in wait fur those who are satisfied with the
wages. Ido not know whether the defendant was em-
ployed by me or not.
The Loan MAYOR—This all springs out of the Houses
of Parliament strike. But that example will not be-
nefit any of its followers. The defendant must find
two good sureties of 251. each, and be bound over him-
self in the sum of 501. to appear to answer for the two
assaults, and he inustgive twenty-four hours' notice of bail.
I hope, too, that the police will be able to get hold of the
man who assisted the defendant in the attack upon the
young man.
Two girls who have been, brought up (as it were) in
Bishopsgate workhouse were charged with haiing broken
thirty-four panes of glass in the house, because they were
not allowed to run about, And disturb the poor old inmates.
The Master of the Workhouse stated that the de
fondants were incorrigible creatures, upon whom neither
indulgence nor ordinary. punishment had any effect.
One of the defendants—Oh, dear me ! Don't you be-
lieve a word that ere old chap says. Please'your Lord-
ship we broke the windows because he wouldn't let us go
to church.
The females were ordered toßridewell for two months.
One (,f the girls—l hope they'll let us go to church
there your Lordship.
LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday no fewer than six lads, the oldest of whom
did not exceed twelve years, while others were not much
more than eight, were brought before Mr. NORTON, for
further examination, on charges of felony. While the
two last, who were charged with stealing a pair of trou-
sers from the door of a draper, were under examination,
Cook, the gaoler, remarked that some time ago a female
named APCarthy had been charged .at this office with
purchasing the plunder of nearly a dozen of juvenile
thieves, and disposing of it at a small chandler's shop
which she kept. This woman, in consequence of what
had taken place, and from the attention of the po-
lice being constantly directed towards her, lie (Cook)
had every reason to believe, discontinued her prac-
tices, but he had no doubt there was some other
person in the neighbourhood of George-yard or
Wentworth-street who had taken up her trade, and
encouraged these boys in the commission of depre-
dations of all sorts. His reason for thinking this was,
that on the arrival of the prison van at the Court on that
morning with the six boys, of whom the prisoners at the
bar formed two, a little prostitute, who had no doubt
been waiting for them, addressed each by name, and af-
terwards sent them a quantity of bread and cheese, and
a pot of porter for their lunch.
The MAGISTRATE endeavoured to learn from the young
urchins who the girl was, or where she came from, but
they all concealed it. Tyeywer
beetvalllereenmtahnediredtoafu
fu-
ture day, and spent the interval
examina-
tion and the arrival of the prison van to take them to
Clerkenwell in singing flash songs and abusing the
gaoler for refusing to let them have more beer.
The drunken charges were more than usually nume-
rous yesterday, and amongst them were at least a dozen
in which the parties were stated to be found in so insen-
sible a state as not to be able to move.

,g Where are you coming to,
.boy?" said a gen-
tleman in an angry tone to a dirty little urchin, as they
met face to face on the narrow pavement in Wych• street,
on Saturday night. " There, Sir, when you move," was
the laconic reply. The gentleman gave him W.