The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-07 00:00:00

HATiON:GARDEN.

Saturday Mr. Irried, the proprietor of the Bull's
Head, Wellington-street, Clerken well, appeared to
answer the complaint of Murray, the informer, for
serving during the hours of divine service.
Mr. Wright pleaded a misnomer, on account of
tl.e parish having been improperly averred in the
summons. The case was dismissed.

A-iwher information was laid against Mr. William
Winder, a licensed victualler, of the Fox and Pea
cock, Gray's alleging a similar offence.
Mr. Winder did not deny having served one per.'
son, hut he did so under circutrstances which he had
no doubt the Magistrw es would view as reproach•
able on the part of the informers, who had inveigled
him through a trick.
Aaron Riwlins, the informer's witness, who re-
presents himself as a disinterested informer, and
formerly a hairdresser " by trade," deposed that on
Sunday, the 234 of Dec tuber, he was passing by
the defendant's house, when he asked a little girl to
go in and get some gin in a mug, and he gave her a
shilling. She was admitted by the defendant, who
served her, and shortly after she brought the liquor
and change.
Purton, another witness, corroborated this evidence.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Are you in the habit of
sending children in the way you have described to
lead licensed victuallers into an infringement of the
law ? Wi,ness--I certainly gave her a shilling to
purchase the gin.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON said such conduct was
highly reprehensible.
Mr. Winder—l saw the informers lurking about
my premises, your Worship, and I watched their
maricelivres until I observed them give a girl a
shilling, and direct her to come to my house. I did
admit her, and I then went to the informers and
told them I would mention their trickery to the Ma-
gistra e.—The case was dismissed.
Robert Bragg, of Elder-walk, Isljngton, appeared
to answer the complaint of Johnson, the informer,
for suffering the game of dominoes.
Mason, the informer's witness, deposed to having
went to the house of the defendant on the evening
of the 22(1 of December, when he saw persons play-
ing at dominoes. Some one knew him to be an in-
former, and the company disused him, beat, kicked,
and turned him out. On the Sunday week follow-
ing (having been confined through the chastisement
he received) he attired himself so as to resemble a
countryman, and the disguise was so naturally as-
sumed thut he was admitted during the hours of di-
vine service, and served with " a pint of yeale.."
Mr. Bragg said that the witness entered his house
in un impudent manner, and took his seat, and, be-
ing recognised as a common informer, he certainly
was turned out, hut not by him. "Pray, may I
ask him a question or two, your Worship ?
Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Certainly you may.
Mr. Bragg—Did you not call for liquor and offer a
bad shilling in payment ? Witness—Yes, I did.
Mr. Bragg—You were insolent and turned out ?
Wnness—l know I was turned out.

Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Then you own that you
offered a counterfeit shilling ? Witness—l do, your
Woi ship.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON —The case is dismissed.
Johnson—l have another case against him for
serving during the hours of divine service.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON—The case cannot be en-
tertained upon the testimony of the witness.
Witness—There's the drinking on the premises
and assault.

Mr. sergeant SELLON would not hear either, and
the thrashed disappoinied informer quitted the office
with his master, quite chagrined.
0 her cases were brought forward, but dismissed,
leaving Johnson, Murray, and Co. minus the costs
to a considerable amount.

Three girls, the eldest, not more than fifteen or

bixteen years of age, were charged with havitig corn•
mitted a violent assault upon Mary Holder, a pauper
in Si. Andrew's workhouse.

The prisoners, it appears, were girls of the most
refractory and violent conduct, and formed a dislike 1
towards Holder, who had reformed in her conduct
so as to become an example to others. While the
church service was going forward they would pelt
her with cinders and other articles, and being com-
plained of, they determined on " serving her out;"
and, on finding her alone in the ward, they made a
furious attack upon her; swore they would take her
life, which they would have done had not some of
the inmates interfered to prevent further violence.
The prisoners laughed, and exhibited the most
hardened conduct. They. mere sentenced to four-
teen days' imprisonment and hard labour in the
House of Correction.
B OW- STREET.

Mr. Collins, the proprietor of a Hammersmith
omnibus, was summoned by Captain Halswell, who
is a county Magistrate, for insolence used by the
conductor of the vehicle, under the following cir-
cumstances :—The Captain got into the omnibus at
Knightsbridge, and said, " Drive me to Waterloo-
place." The conductor made no answer, and on
arriving at the Circus, in Piccadilly, he opened the
door, and told the Captain that that was the nearest
point to Waterloo-place. The complainant, who
considered that the conductor had, by his making
no answer to what he said on getting into the coach,
contracted to take him to Waterloo-place, hesitated
to p iy the 6d. fare, upon which the conductor jeered
him, and made several offensive observations, such
as he had not got a sixpence in his pocket.
Mr. Christian, a land-surveyor, of King-street,
Covent-garden, on- the part of the defendant, did
tint think he had acted with any insolence; and Mr.
MINSHULL, under the circumstances, and the doubt-
ful nature of the alleged contract, advised Copts n
Halswell to withdraw his information, which he did.

-I.IARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Just as Mr. DYER,

jun., had closed the evening sittings, two boys,
named Thomas Gatehouse and James Goodall, in
the employ of Edward Coxhead, the Greenwich and
Blackheath carrier, were brought to the office in
custody of policeman No. 10, division C, tinder the
following ci cumstances :
The policeman stated that about seven o'clock
his attention was directed to a crowd of persons in

front of a surgeon's in Oxford-street, and on pro-
ceeding into the shop he ascertained that a respect-
able female, named Antrim, residing in Titchfield-
street, Soho, had been ran over by the horse and
cart which the prisoners had charge of. Several of
the unfortunate woman's ribs were broken, and she
was otherwise so grievously injured that the sur-
geons at the Middlesex Hospital, to which place she
was squbsequently conveyed, could give no hope
of her recovery. He (policeman), therefore, under
the circumstances, took the prisoners into custody.
The prisoners said they were very sorry, but the
occurrence %.% as entirely accidental. They had twice
called to the woman, and she made a stop, and then
all at once proceeded forward, when the horse
knocked her down arid trampled on her.

Mr. DYER said it was highly improper that two
such boys should be allowed to have charge of a
horse and cart, and he should detain them until fur-
ther inquiries were instituted.
On the application of one of the prisoners a
policeman was sent with him to deliver the remain-
ing parcels in town, after which the boy was to be
taken to the station-house, and the horse and cart
to the green-yard.