The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-09 00:00:00

G UILDHALL.

Yesterday James Paul, lately the resident agent
of the Society for Distributing Religious Books
among the Poor, and William Johnston, a master
printer, of Lovell's•court, Paternoster-row, attended
before the Magistrate to meet a charge of having
stolen a quantity of books horn the society's ware-
house. After evidence had been adduced—
Mr. Payne applied for an adjournment of the case
for a few days. His clients had occasion to make
some inquiry.
Mr. Phillips offering no opposition to this course,
Sir PETER LAURIE should at once commit Paul
on the charge of embezzlement, but remand him as
well as Mr. Johnston on the charge of stealing from
the warehouse. On account of Me. Johnston's
previous good character, he should, however, Jibe
ra►e him on giving sureties, but he would take no
bail for Paul.
Mr. Johnston's friends immediately bailed him,
and Paul was remanded.
MARLBOROUGILSTREET.

Marieux St. Martin, a tall stout Frenchman, was
put to the bar before Messrs. DYER and CONANT
yesterday, charged with the following assault :
Mrs. Robson, a widow lady, was passing down
Princes-street, Leicester-square, about five o'clock
the last evening, when her attention was attracted
by seeing the prisoner behaving indecently to a very
respectable young girl, who appeared to be strug-
gling to get away from him. From the apparent
age of the girl, which seemed somewhere about 13,
and her style of dress, which was that of the
daughter of a respectable tradesman, she felt con-
vinced that she was not a consenting party to the
prisoner's proceedings, and therefore she crossed
over to them, upon which the girl threw out her
hand and implored her to protect her. She ac-
costed the prisoner, who turned round to her and
struck her with a stick which he carried. The girl
took that opportunity of freeing herself from the
.prisoner, and ran away greatly agitated. Witness,
on receiving the blow, lifted her hand against the
prisoner, who ran off; but she pursued him, and
saw him enter a French eating-house, at No. 2,
Lisle-street. She went in, and having made known
the conduct of the prisoner towards the young girl
and herself, some females belonging to the house
said the prisoner was well known to be in the habit
of walking about Leicester-square insulting girls and
married females, The prisoner was then obliged to
quit the house, followed by witness, who declared
she would not leave him until she saw him in the
custody of a policeman. The prisoner menaced her
with his stick again, but finding she was not to be
intimidated, he offered her ss. to let the matter
drop. Witness refused this proposal, and meeting
with a policeman she gave him into custody.
The prisoner was employed as French cook at
the Quadrant Hotel. He, however, professed to be
unable to speak English, and stated, in French, that
the female with whom the witness had seen him
was an acquaintance, and he was merely pressing her
to stay or make a future appointment with him,
when the witness came up and commenced an
attack upon him by slapping his face.
This was positively denied by Mrs. Robson, who
was quite sure, from her conduct, the girl was a
stranger to the prisoner.
Mr. Harris, the proprietor of the Quadrant Hotel,
was sent for, and on learning the nature of the
charge, observed, that the prisoner, who was the
principal cook in his establishment, had conducted
himself with propriety during the five months he
had been in his service. lie could not speak Eng-
lish so as to make himself understood.
The magistrates fined the prisoner 41. for the as-
sault, or imprisonment for one month.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, i
JAPr N•
ces7:—
The sales to day are reported at 2,000 bags. are
steady.