The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-13 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

BYERS V. THE HUNGERFORD MARKET COMPANY.
—The question already alluded to in our paper, as
to the right of the Hungerford Market Company to
allow the sale of hay, straw, &c., after certain hours
in the day, was yesterday decided by Sir F. Ro E
and three other magistrates against the Company ;
and Mr. Alley, as counsel on their behalf, gave no-
tice of appeal to the Sessions.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT.—A fashionably dressed
young man, who gave his name Matthew Taylor,
was charged with committing a most outrageous as-
sault upon a poor tailor named 'William Banks.

Sir P. ROE ordered him to find bail, and to give
forty-eight hours' notice thereof to the prosecutor
before he could be liberated.
Q UEEN-SQUARE.

JUVENILE DELINQENCY.—Yesterday two wel!.
known young thieves, not more than twelve years of
age, named John Hindman and John Stewart, were
placed at the bar before Mr. Wfirrn, charged
with stealing four snuff-boxes from the shop of Mrs.
Mary Squires, of No. 58, Strutton-ground, West-
minster.
They were committed for trial.

ANOTHER JUVENILE THIEF.—John Mayhew,
another lad about eleven years of age, was placed at
the bar, charged with stealing from the person of
Anne Millar, of Great Peter street, Westminster,
the sum of 103. 6d.

He was fully committed for trial.
HATTON- GARDEN.

Yesterday Jack Scroggins, the prizefighter, was
brought to this office, charged with having been
found in a state of Intoxication in Holborn on Mon-
day night.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON asked him what he had to
say for himself ? Jack replied that it was werry
seldom he got tosticated ; but he happened on Mon-
day night to pop in at Tom Spring's, the Castle, in
Holborn, where he met a few of his old pals, who
treated him so liberally that it made his napper
rarher queer, and when he was about to leave the
champion's house a gemman insisted on his taking a
parting drain, which gave him the staggers, and be-
ing unable to proceed on his road home he made up
his mind to lodge for the night on the pavement,
when the police kindly took him to the station.house.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON said he ought to be very
much obliged to the officer for doing so, and asked
the veteran whether he had 55., the usual penalty
for drunkenness ?

Jack (rubbing down his hair) said that times had
much altered with him. He had fought many hard
battles for the amusement and profit of others, and
now he was left pennyless to fight against poverty,
without a backer. He hoped his Worship would
forgive him this ere time, and he'd try and keep
more soberer for the time to come.

Mr. Sergeant SELLON seemed to sympathise for
poor Jack, and discharged him.

UNION-HALL.

A DISTRESSED POET.—Yesterday John Illetcalj;
a distressed looking object in worn-out sailor's

clothes, was brought be ore the sitting Magistr tett
under the following circumstances :
A policeman on the preceding evening, while
duty in Dover-street, saw th defendant carrying a
large placard, on which w written i large cha-
racters, the under-mentioned appeal to the feelings
of those who were benevolently inclined. The pla-
card was headed—" Written backwards. A painter
out of employ." t then went on thus:—
" Whilst aliens with dogs and monkeys may address
The belles and beaux that on the footpath walk,
A wretch like me must not his state express,
If wanting labour, with a bit of chalk.
Shameful perversion ! Now grown old and poor,
That policemen, at their capricious will,
May drag me here to pass a month or more
In 'durance vile' upon the treading-mill.
Britons, full fifteen years I struggled hard
With foes by laud and storms upon the sea ;
View my sad state, how amply my reward,
Perverted justice, rags and poverty."
Underneath the above poetical effusion, which the
defendant said was his own composition, were the
words, "A free-born Englishman, the admira'ion
of the world, the envy of surrounding nations." It
was stated that the defendant pointed out to the
spectators the words just quoted, at the same time
exhibiting his own deplorable person, ejaculating;
" Here I am, the envy of surrounding nations:
It was further stated that the defendant collected a
crowd, to whose feelings he made a strong appeal,
and alms were given to him. It appeared that
the defendant had formerly served in the navy
as captain's clerk, and since then he had led a
wandering kind of life. Being a bit of a poet
he had had one or two works published,
but finding it a most unprofitable speculation
he determined upon having no more to do with
publishers, and commenced giving his productions
to the world in his own way. With this intention
in view he began to write his verses with chalk on
the pavements of most of the cities and towns in
England and Scotland, and by his own account
made our a very decent kind of livelihood in that
way. He had recently arrived in town, in the ex-
pectation of reaping a harvest here on the chalking
system ; but the first day that he exhibited in public,
which was in one of the streets at the west end of
the town, a policeman made his appearance, and,
having rubbed out the chalk verse-, insisted upon
his leaving that part of the town altogether. He
tried the experiment in other parts of London, arid
met with the same degree of success, until at length,
exasperated beyond measure at the treatment he
experienced, in a fit of rage he composed the verses
above mentioned, and exhibited them on a board
which he carried.—He was committed for fourteen
days.