The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

A young man named Carr, the keeper of an oil-
shop, in the Liverpool-road, was charged with having
broken a number of windows under the following extra-
ordinary circumstances :
Mr. Miller, of No. 6, Mount-row, Islington, stated
that for nesrly twelve months his windows, and the
windows of his neighbours bad been almost daily
broken, and although the stones, brickbats, &c., were
known to have come from the defendant's premises, and
a watch litrl been kept day and night, no proof could
be obtained that the prisoner was the mischievous and
malicious delinquent until yesterday morning, when he
was seen by witness to throw from his garret window
a stone, which broke three panes of glass.

Mr. Steele, who attended oa behalf of the defendant,
here addressed the Magistrate, stating that his client
would not deny the charge of breaking the three squares
of glass. He regretted the act, and would make any
compensation.
Mr. GREENWOOD said then there was an end of the
case. If the money had not been forthcoming, he
should have committed the defendant to the House of
Correction.

The scene at this stage was most extraordinary ; up-
wards of twen'y ladies and gentlemen rushed towards
the Magistrate, exhibiting bags containing stones, which
they said had smashed their windows. Some of the
missiles were of a very largo and dangerous description,
and had broken heads as well as glass. The damage
done was immense, and for a long while the neighbour-
hood had been is the greatest terror and excitement.
_ _

Mr. Steele—Here is only one charge proved against
my client; he has admitted his guilt and nude atone
ment, and I will answer that there shall not be a rcpt•
tition of this.

Sergeant Pagan, of the N division, remarked that
injury to an immense extent had likewise been done in
Islington by the explosion of packets called infernal ma-
chines. The front of the house of Mr. Ladd, of the
Penton Arms, Pentonville, and several others, were
partially destroyed by the ignition of these instruments,
and there was good ground for charging the accused
with these fiendish acts, he having been seen near Mr.
Ladd's a few minutes previous to the explosion. The
prisoner's house was so situated that he might easily
have committed all the damage that was so justly com-
plained of by the ladies and gentlemen present.
Mr. Steele—You cannot go into the matter further
without proof. I again repeat that this conduct will
not occur any more.

Mr. Greenwood—lt is a most abominable thing that
the lives and property of respectable persons have been
so endangered ; I, however, cannot now proceed further
in the matter.

The defendant having paid the damage done to Mr.
Miller's property, left the Court amidst the hisses and
groans of a very crowded Court. There were at least
500 stones produced which had been flung throngh
windows.

REFLECTING TELEsCOPES —Unfortunately Sir
William Herschel never made public the means by which
he succeeded in giving such gigantic development to
this telescope, and the construction of a large I%l:lector is
still a perilous adventure. According. however, to a re-
port by Dr. Robinson to the Irish Academy, Lord Ox-
mantown has overcome the diffiulties, and carried to an
extent which even Herschel himself did not venture to
contemplate, the illuminating power of this telescope,
along with a sharpness of definition little inferior to that
of the achromatic : and it is scarcely possible, he observes,
to preserve the necessary sobriety of language in speaking
of the moon's appearance with this instrument, which Dr.
Robinson believes to be the most powerful ever constructed.
However, any question, about this optical pre-eminence is
likely soon to be decided, for Lord Oxmantown is about to
construct a telescope of six feet aperture, and fifty feet
focus, mounted in the meridian, but with a range of about
half an hour on each side of it !—Atheneeum.

MINISTERIAL REFORMS.--We have the sa-
tisfaction of thinking that we see, in the measures proposed
by Ministers, a general move in the direction of reform:
The Chancellor's Bill for the improvement of the admi-
nistration of justice in the Courts of Equity; Lord
Normanby's measure for draining, so important to the
comfort and health of the poor ; Mr. Fox Maule's County
Courts Bill ; all these are schemes of improvement for ends
of great public utility. The last, the County Courts Bill,
will have to contend with the jealousies of the unpaid Ma-
gistracy. Already the question has been raised in Parlia-
ment, not whether the general effect of the measure would
be advantageous or not to the public, but whether it
would not trench on the authority and consequence of the
unpaid Magistrates, as if the importance of the Great
Unpaid were an object paramount to the administrationof
justice. These modest gentlemen would in effect say,
" This plan may be all very well for the public; it may
bring home cheap justice to the doors of the poor, but
that is not the main thing to be considered ; if it take any
p in cle from our authority and importance, if it supersede
us in any ckgree, or promise to do so by presenting the
comparison between better and worse tribunals, the benefit
to the public must kick the beam when weighed against
the detriment to the consequence of the Magistracy."—
Examiner.