The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-18 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday the recent Act, enabling magistrates to
deal summarily with juvenile offenders, was put into
operation at this court by Mr. Jardine, in the case of
three boys under eleven years of age, named Brian, Hut
chinson, and Sulivan, who were charged with stealing
pieces of iron from some of the unoccupied houses in
Now Oxford-street.
The charge was clearly established, but his Worship
considering it useless to commit such children for trial,
ordered the restoration Of the stolen property, and sen-
tenced the boys each to one day's imprisonment and a
private whipping.
The prisoners cried lustily nn hearing the sentence.
CLERKENWELL.

Mr. David Allen, a young man, carrying on the busi-
ness of a schoolmaster, at No. 7, Corporation-row, Cler-
kenwell, was charged with arson.
On Monday night last, about eleven o'clock, an alarm
was raised that a chimney was on fire in the prisoner's
house. The police instantly proceeded there, and on
their attempting to enter the place to render assistance
the prisoner resisted them, and acted in a most violent
manner, threatening to shoot them if they dared to enter
the house or interfere. Berryman, a constable, forced
his way into the kitchen, when he found the fire in the
chimney and the burning soot falling down. The en-
gines were sent for, and Waller, the parish engine-
keeper of Clerkenwell, arrived with his engine, and the
prisoner opposed and threatened them if they inter-
fered. On leaving the house, about an hour subse-
quently, another alarm was made, when the police again
entered it, and in the kitchen they found a quantity of
clothes burning near the fireplace and part of the floor
burnt ; and they hAt themselves in.titied in 4.lri"e• die
„;cr,„„.. 4- station-house on a charge of setting fire
to the house.
Nichols, 166 G, said that when he wept to the house
first, on the chimney being on fire, the prisoner was very
violent, and said, " I'll be d—d if I don't set fire to the
house, or do what I like with my own house." He would
not send for sweepers.
By Mr. TYRWIIITT—The prisoner did not make any
attempt to put out the fire. He was sitting quietly
by the kitchen window when the clothes were burning,
and when they were in the apartment he was lying on
the bed. _ _

Mr. Wooller said that there was a mere scorching of
part of the floor. The prisoner had been quarrelling
with his wife, and in revenge he took her clothes out of
her trunk and was burning them, when the chimney
cuught fire, and part of the boards was simply scorched.
There was no foundation for a charge of arson. It was
a praiseworthy interference on the part of the police, but
he would be able to show that there was a quarrel be-
tween the prisoner and his wife, which was renewed, and
he burnt her clothes in revenge.
Mr. George Allen, the prisoner's brother, residing at
55, Margaret-street, Wilmington-square, deposed that
on the afternoon of Monday he was with the prisoner
and his wife, when they quarrelled. He drank some ale,
and afterwards some brandy ; and when he left him he
was not sober. Saw him again at nine o'clock in the
evening, when he was much excited. Saw him again
at eleven o'clock at night when his wife said she would
not go in, as she had had high words with the prisoner,
Mr. Wooller said it had just been suggested to him,
as a matter favourable to the prisoner, that the pro-
perty he was burning was his own, and he was not
insured.

Mr. TYRWHITT said that it was said to be an act of vio-
lence and revenge on the part of the prisoner, and there
were many motives to be attributed to violence. Under
the circumstances there was an end to the charge of
arson.

Mr. Wooller thanked his Worship, and left the court
with the prisoner and his friends.

THAMES.
Yesterday Thomas Richard Abbott, the landlord of the
Britannia, licensed ale and beer house, in Rateliff-high-
way, appeared before Mr. Yardley to answer a com-
plaint, under the 11th clause of the Act for the Pro•
tection of Seamen entering on board Merchant Ships,
the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 116, for unlawfully de-