The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-15 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

On Saturday a poor emaciated being, who gave his name
Parker, applied to the sitting Magistrates for relief. The
applicant, who seemed ready to drop from exhaustion,
stated that he had once been a respectable tradesman in
Marylebone, but had become reduced by misfortunes. A
short time ago he broke his right arm in two places, so
that he was now totally unable to work. When he applied
to the parish authorities for relief, he was sent to the sur-
geon, who reported him fit to work. It was in vain that
he represented the weakness of his arm, and therefore he
was supplied with a ticket to,break stones, which, of course,
he was unable to do, and all relief was withheld.
The MAGISTRATES told the poor fellow that they had
no power to interfere.

Several other miserable-looking creatures made similar
applications, and met with the same answer ; the Magis-
trates observing that they could only order temporary relief
in food or medicine.

Q UEEN- SQUARE.
The man Hill, who has for some days been in custody
on a charge of committing various depredations at St.
James's Palace, while in the capacity of assistant table-de-
corator, was on Saturday morning re-examined : and the
evidence against him being deemed sufficiently strong to
send him for trial, he was fully committed.
A flying pieman, named John King, was charged with
assaulting Mr. C. Mackintosh, a surgeon, from the country,
under the following circumstances appeared that be-
tween two and three o'clock in the morning, the complainant
and his brother were returning home, when passing down
King Street, Westminster, they were accosted by the pie-
man, who urged them to purchase some of his penny mut-
ton-pies, which, he assured them, were made of the finest
mutton in London. The savoury repast was politely de-
clined, and they passed on. The pieman, however, who had
been partaking pretty freely of some of Hodges's best, was
not going to lose a customer so easily, and he followed them
with his pies as far as Westminster Abbey, expatiating on
the excellent qualities of his mutton pies ; but it was all in
rain—and finding that his eloquence was thrown away, he
commenced a volley of abuse. No notice was taken of
this, and at last the pieman struck the complainant a blow
on the mouth which cut his lip open. A policeman came
up, who took him into custody, mutton pies and all.
" Please your Vortship," said the pieman, " this here is
a very hard case. I jist civilly axes these gemmen to buy
one of my mutton pies, when they says to me, " Are they
bow-wow pies ?" " Hell and d n," says I, " what do
you mean by that ?" and says they to me, " Vy, there vas
a pieman before the Lord Alayor the other day, and it was
proved that all the mutton pies sold in Lunnun streets were
made of cats and dogs. Here was my kracter gone at once."
Mr. Mackintosh said that this was quite a new defence,
for at the station-house, as an excuse for his conduct, the
prisoner said that himself and brother had been drinking
with him, and that they had eaten a quantity of his mutton-
pies, which they refused to pay for. The impudence of the
accusation annoyed him more than anything else ; for he
was ready to swear that he would not eat one of the pies
for ten sovereigns. The smell of them was quite enough
for him, and he used his utmost endeavours to get out of
the way.

Pieman.-111 make an affidavy the pies are made of the
very best Southdown mutton ; its worry hard that 'cause
there be some bow-wow muttoners about the streets that
these gemmen are to pick me out, and call me a bow-wow
dealer.

The Magistrate fined the pieman 205., and in default o:
payment he was sent to prison for 14 days.

LAMBETH.- STREET.
George Walden, a ragged old man, who stated that he
had a wife and five children, was charged with having vio-
lated the person of Elizabeth Jones, aged 69.
The complainant stated that on Thursday night she lost
an order which the overseers of St. Trinity, Minories, had
given her for admission into the farmhouse for paupers in
Stepney-green. She happened to meet with the prisoner,
whom she asked if he could direct her to a lodging for the
night. He then took her to an uninhabited house, where
he committed the offence with which he was charged. She
screamed " murder," and her cries brought the assistance
of the police.
The prisoner did not deny what had taken place, but
said it was with the prosecutrix's consent, and that she
had screamed only in consequence of his having no money
to give her.

The prosecutrix denied this statement.
It appeared that she was a notorios drunkard, and the
Magistrates, therefore, despairing of any conviction, dis-
charged the prisoner with an admonition.

THAMES POLICE.
On Saturday Captain Hodnett, of the Julia West India-
man, was charged with assaulting John Ellis, on the 6th of
August. The complainant stated that he was steering the
ship one squally night, when the Captain told him he was
steering wrong, and struck him with the dog-vane-staff
"upon the head. He fell upon the deck, when the Captain
struck him several times.

Captain Hodnett said the defendant steered the ship so
badly, as to endanger its safety. He was sensible of the
bad steering by the rolling of the ship as he lay in bed.
He was held to bail to answer the charge at the sessions.

EVADING EXCISE DUTY.-EXTENSIVE

SEIZURE.

A great sensation has been excited, more especially
among those connected with the distillation of spirits, in
consequence of the Excise having recently made an exten-
sive seizure at an eminent distiller's in the vicinity of the
metropolis. The circumstances which brought about detec-
tion, and the manner in which the seizure was made, have
been variously reported among the inhabitants residing in
the immediate vicinity of the establishment ; but from in-
formation derived from other sources, they appear to be
nearly as follow :--It is perhaps well known that distillers
are obliged to give notice to the Excise, whenever they may
deem it necessary to manufacture spirits, and an officer is
appointed to watch the process of distillation, in order to
protect the revenue. The premises during these particular
occasions are considered, to use a technical phrase, in the
possession of the Excise, and the officer from the Board, on
leaving the establishment for the night, places the apparatus,
&c. under the Government seal, to break which is felony.
An Excise officer was consequently called upon to perform
the necessary functions of his situation at the distillery al-
luded to, and for a length of time all went on apparently
satisfactory, until a short time since, when, from private infor-
mation, a suspicion was entertained that the stills were clan-
destinely worked. The officers were therefore determined
to effect an entrance privately at a time when it was con-
sidered the parties were illegally pursuing their avocation.
This was carried into effect a few nights since by armed
men proceeding to the roof of that part of the premises
where the distillation is carried on, and pouncing upon the
violators of the laws by letting themselves down through a
skylight. Considerable consternation, as may be supposed
was the result ; but one man, almost instantly regaining his
self-possession, was about to thwart the exertions of the
officers by " letting off" the spirit, and was only prevented
resorting to the apparatus, peculiarly adapted to that pur-
pose, by being threatened with the contents of a pistol at
his head. It was then discovered that, among the ramifi-
cations, a secret pipe had been ingeniously introduced,
from which a great quantity of spirit found its way into a
vat either never deemed necessary to be visited by the
Excise officer, or which he knew nothing at all about. All
the spirit on the premises, amounting to about 12,000 gal-
lons, together with the manufacturing property, were
instantly seized, and the officers took the usual necessary
precautions to prevent the removal of any portion of the
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amount to about 50,0001.

DUTIES OF A CABINET MINISTER.—MuIIer
was one of the few instances of a married man permitted to
hold the situation. " I propose to you," said the king to him,
to immolate yourself to the service of the state. Consider
well whether you have the courage to do so. I had resolved
never to employ a married man m my cabinet, and I know that
you have a wife and children ; it is therefore an exception to
a very
important rule, that I determine myself to make in your
favour. Idoit in consequence of the particular esteem I have
for you, and of the firm hope I entertain that your wife and
your children will never approach the room where you write,
that they will know nothing, and will not meddle with any
affairs. In a word, you will never forget that, for the good of
my service, you must neither have family, nor relations, nor
friends !"—Lord Dover's Life of Frederick the Great.