The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

Yesterday a General Meeting of Magistrates
was held, when W. MAINWARING, Esq. was una-
nimously re-elected Chairnvin.
John 4e,. JOhn•Thompson, James Thompson, and
Wnr. Davies, all boys under fourteen years of age,
were,nut to the,Bar, charged with stealing a fire-'
ball from the shop of Mr. Corsair, of Sloane-
street.—John Lee was found guilty, the others
were acquitted.
The Chairman adverted to the frequency of
these sorts of depredations byjuvenile offenders,
who, he said, seemed to think their youth .would
prove their excuse. It was become the ~duty of
the Court to correct this erroneous opinion, and
to mark their sense of this description of offence
with some severity of punishment. The Court
had directed him to sentence the prisoner to one
month's imprisonment, and be publicly whipt.
Richard Chapman, a boy under fifteen, was in-
dicted•for obtaining-a leg of pork from Mr. James
Brunkill, a pork-butcher, in Crown-street, Soho,
on the 7th of NOveMber last. It appeared from
the statement of the. prosecutor, that the prisoner
came to his shop on the day mentioned, and. ob-
tained the meat by pretending that it was for Mr.
Welsh, one of the prosecutor's customers. The
prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the Jury
found him guilty.
Win. Singleton was indicted for a brutal assault
on the person of Dinah Goff, a child abeiut eight
years of age, on the 4th of December last. It
appeared, that the prisoner had been invited to
dine with a person who lodged in the house of the
"child's parents, and having been- left alone with
the child, be took that opportunity of effecting
his diabolical purpose. No. discovery was made
till three or four days after, when the state of the
child's health caused an investigation to take place,
and the child then related all the circumstances.
The Jury, without hesitation, found hint guilty,
and the Court sentenced him to twelve months
imprisonment in the house of correction.
Simpson, who was yesterday convicted 'of -as-
saulting Westcott, a constable, in IlyciF Park, on
the 2d of August, was sentenced to be -imprisoned
three Months.

Eliza Jones, who was yesterday found guilty of
keeping a disorderly house, Crown an Sceptre
court, St.James's-street was this morning brought
into Court, and permitted to go at large on her
own recognizances, upon condition that the nuis-
ance shall be abated.

On Monday night, as two soldiers of the Wex-
ford Militia were escorting the, baggage of a (le,.
tachment of that regiment to Nine-mile house,
they were met and attacked by a large party of
misguided wretches,-.who took from the%n their
muskets and a bayonet. On this tutelligence
reaching Lieutenant Hatton, of that regiment, he,
lsth Hits-
with another Officer, and a party of, the
sars, set out in pursuit, and took• four or five fel-
lows into. custody, who, however-, could not be.
identified. -: Bat the folios-,ping morning, the
Rev. John Ryan, Parish 'iciest of arangre and
Ballyneil, being informed, of this outrage, imme-
diately set out, and g‘oing through the parish,
admonished the rpeo4ie not only to refrain from"
the corruption of some abandoned ruffians, who,
he said, it was clear had got amongst them7-but
to use their utmost endeavours to arrest them in
.their clinics, and deliver them up to justice. He
decla,:ed to them in the most solemn and impres-
sive manner, that if order was not restored in the
parish, he should feel it his duty to make such re-
presentation of their conduct as would oblige them
to be More alert in banishing from among them
sedition, tumult, and disorder. The admonition of.
the worthy. Pastor had the desired effect : the same"
evening the two muskets and bayonet were deposit-
ed at a cottage near SouthlOdge, and sent off to
Nine-mile-house, next morning, hy the Rev. Father
Ryan, who had them safely delivered (here to the
military detachment.—The conduct of the Rev.
Gentlemen is its best eulogium ; while the event
spews, that the operation of the Peace Preserva-
tion Bill Makes every man an interested party in
the conservation of public tranquillity-: for if we
now wink at passing disorders, we must assuredly
pay hard for them when they-come to an insufferf
able height.—(CloAmet Advertiser.) •