The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

LAMBETH- S TREE T.

Yesterday Jeremiah Callaghan and John Leonard,
together with five youths, were brought up under
the following circumstances :

Miller, the officer, on Sunday evening proceeded,
in consequence of information, to a small court off
Blue Anchor-yard, Rosemary-lane, where there are
but one or two houses, and in one of them he

found from fifty to sixty persons, principally boys
and girls from the age of ten to twenty years, some
of whom were dancing to the tune of a violin
player. He questioned the girls particularly, and
found that many of them were young females of bad
character, who had come from different parts of the
town to have a dance, and who had paid a penny
for admission, besides an additional penny for every
time they stood up to dance. Finding that the
prisoner Callaghan was the occupier of the apart-
ment, he had him and Leonard, the fiddler, together
with the other five prisoners, taken into custody.
Mr. HARDWICK read the following passage from
a letter, signed by a respectable householder of
Whirechapel, which he received on Saturday :
" Every Sunday evening, from seven o'clock, until
two or three the following morning, a vagabond
Irish fiddler has a juvenile ball, or innocent hop,'
as be calls it, at which young boys and girls, from
the ages of twelve to eighteen, congregate weekly,
to the amount of from 100 to 200, who pay a penny
each for admission, and a penny each for every dance
they stand up to while they remain, and there is a
convenient dark recess, where the novices are ini-
tiated into the mysteries which lead to their ulti-
mate destruction. Gentlemen, this is no tale of
fiction, it is a melancholy fact ; and I assure you 1
feel it most acutely, for one of the female members
of my family has by stratagem (and totally unknown
to me) fallen a victim to this hitherto hidden scene
of iniquity."
The prisoners were held to heavy bail, to appear
at the sessions. The other persons, not being re-
puted characters, were discharged with a severe
admonition.

The churchwardens of 'Whitechapel have inti-
mated their intention to prosecute.

HA TT ON- GARDEN.

EXTRAORDINARY VISIT TO LONDON.—A coun-
try lad, about 16 years of age, " deformed, un-
finished," with a horrible squint, and exhibiting all
the concomitants of idiotcy, was brought to this
office in the custody of a policeman of G division,
charged with being a " houseless vagrant."
The constable yesterday morning, at an early
hour, found the prisoner sleeping on the step of a
door on Saffron-hill, with scarcely anything to cover
him but an old smock frock, arid dripping wet.
On questioning him, he said that he had no place
to go to, and he took him to the station-house for
shelter.

Mr. LAING—What are you ? Prisoner (vacantly)
—Eh, he ! What be I ? Nothing at all.
Mr. LAlNG—Where do you come from ? Pri-
soner (scratching his head)—Where do I come
from ? Hampshire.
Mr. LAING—What part of Hampshire ? Pri-
soner—Stoneham, Maester.

Mr. LAING—How long have you been in Lon-
don ? Prisoner (smiling)--- Ounly a fortnight, eh, eh.
Mr. LAING—What made you come to London ?
Prisoner—Why I cumd to Lunnun becase I never
teed before, and I want to zee what sort ov a place
it be.

Mr. LAING—What ! was that all that brought
you here ? Prisoner—Na, I want to zee the
soights; besides, down at Stoneham the boys used
to follow I, and pelt I through the town.
Mr. LAING—And it is very likely that the boys
will follow and pelt you here if you do not make
haste back.

Prisoner—Eh, eh ! Thank ye, zur.
Mr. LAING—You had better make the best of
your way back to Stoneham, or you'll find your way
into the House of Correction. He discharged the
prisoner, on which he quitted the office.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT-LEWES, DEC. M.

The Judges arrived from Maidstone on Saturday
evening at nine o'clock, and immediately opened
the Commission.

Their Lordships took their seats on Monday
morning at ten o'clock.
There are fifty prisoners fur trial, and the business
is not expected to be concluded till Wednesday
evening.
John Crawford and George Chapman were in-
dicted for buiglariously breaking open and entering
the dwelling-house of Mr. Huggett, shoemaker, at
Lewes, with intent to commit a felony therein.
They were both found Guilty, and sentence of
death was recorded against them.