The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAms and a Bench of Magistrates.)
These Sessions commenced yesterday at the GUild-
hall. The Calendar did not contain any cases of a serious
nature, they being chiefly petty larcenies.
Edward Hill, aged 13, was charged with stealing 7s.
from a person named Hurst, and pleaded Guilty.
The circumstances were rather curious. The prisoner,
who is a decent-looking lad, was found by Hurst almost

starving in the street. Hurst, who is -a very poor man,
and sells baked potatoes in the street, took him home,
and his wife fed him and gave hini a bed, but he most
ungratefully robbed her of the whole of her little store,
is., and decamped the next morning.
The prisoner said he was a good scholar, had been
educated at a boarding-school, and was an orphan. He
had been lately going about with travelling showmen.
He was remanded in order to make the necessary
inquiries.

John Stone, William Warren, and James Warren,
three little boys, the yonngest apparently not more than
seven years old, were charged with stealing two glasses
of sweetmeats from a shop in Tothill-street, Westminster.
The evidence against the young culprits was conclu-
sive ; one of them, Stone, who seemed to be about 12
years old, had been " in trouble" before.'

The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
One of the officers of the Court stated that the poor
boys (the Warrens) were very much to be pitied; the
Father was living with a female in a very disgraceful
state, and had actually turned these poor children out to
starve or steal in the streets. If they were discharged
that moment they had no home to go to.
The CHAIRMAN said it was melancholy to think that
there were vast numbers of children in that metropolis
who were thieves from absolute want. The present
state of these unfortunate children was most appalling,
and it appeared to him that something must be dune by
the Government. As the prisoner Stone was still very
young, \ there was some chance of his being re-
claimed, and the Court would sentence him to seven
years' transportation, in order that he might be sent
to Parker's prison in the Isle of Wight. The other two
would be sent to the House of Correction for two months,
and taken care of, in order that, in the meantime, some-
thing might be done for them.

The bide fellows, who cried bitterly, were then removed.
Arthur Clarke, aged twelve, was charged with stealing
a show case and six brooches, value 25., from a shop in
Bridge-court, Westminster. • '
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but his former
master having given him a good character, and ex-
pressed his willingness to take him back again, the
Court sentenced him to 14 days' imprisonment in solitary
confinement.

William Alders, aged 35, a hatter, was charged with
assaulting Catherine his wife.

The piesecutrix, a delicate-looking woman, said she
bad been married to the prisoner thirteen years, and had
three children living out of eleven. On the 15th of No-
vember the pri§oner came home rather tipsy. He was
in arrear with his landlaly. When he came home he
began to drink and smoke. He told his wife she might
go to bed, and that he would not molest her. She went
up-stairs, and he followed her, and caught
her by the throat, and told her that night
would be her last. She was nearly strangled, and cried
out" Murder!" The landlady and her son came up, and
took him away. From questions asked by the Chair-
man it appaared that he had frequently ill-used her on
former occasions.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but he having
agreed to allow his wife a sum of 1/. a week, and not to
molest or go near her again, the Court held him to bail
in his own recogniaances, and one surety of 20/. to come
up and receive judgment whenever called upon.
John Williams, a man with one arm, was charged with
being a rogue and vagabond, and with having violently
assaulted one of the officers of the Mendicity Society.
The record of the prisoner's previous conviction was
put in, but the Chairman thought the conviction should
have been for being a rogue and vagabond, instead of an
incorrigible rogue and vagabond, and the prisoner was
discharged.—The Court then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

CAUTION TO CARRIERS.—The Bay. Mr. May, of
Brompton, summoned Messrs. Deacon and Co., carriers,
for extortionate charge in forwarding a box to his resi-
dence, which had been sent from the country to their
office.

It appeared from the statement of the Rev. Gentleman,
that the box had been sent, by Messrs. Deacon from their
office to a carrier in quite an opposite direction to his re-
sidence, and was thence forwarded to Brompton, whereas,
if it had been left at she Parcels Delivery Company's
office, a short distance from the Messrs. Deacons', it
would have been conveyed for half the price.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER ordered the defendants
to pay the costs and overcharge, which was handed over
to the Rev. Gentleman ; but he kindly ordered it to be
given to the first poor person that should come before
the Court.