The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-20 00:00:00

G UILDHALL.

Thomas White, a general dealer, residing at Edmon-
ton, was charged with stealing a check on Messrs. Robarts
and Co., for 751., the property of Mr. Bonsor, a sales-
man in Newgate Market.
The man, in his defence, said he could not read, and as
he found the parcel, and did not steal it, he thought he had
a right to the contents.

The Alderman eventually admonished and liberated the
prisoner.

BOW-STREET.

OFFENCE AGAINST THE STREET tCT.-Mr. Bunn,
lessee of the Theatres Royal Covent-garden and Drury-
lane, was summoned to attend to answer to an infor-
mation laid by John Richard Carter, a common in-
former, which set forth that he caused and permitted a
certain nuisance and obstruction, to wit, three carriages
to be laid on the footway pavement in Hart-street,
Covent-garden, contrary to the provisions of the Act.
A gentleman was in attendance on behalf of Mr. Bunn,
who pleaded not guilty to the offence.
Carter, the complainant, now stated that on Monday
last, the 13th instant, be saw four men place a car, which
he believed to be the same used in the procession of the
spectacle of St. George and the Dragon at Drury-lane
Theatre, on the footway pavement in Hart-street, opposite
Covent-garden Theatre. The car was on four wheels
and completely obstructed the passage. Shortly after-
wards be saw two other carriages brought and placed
on the same spot, and in about half an hour the whole
three were removed into the private courtyard of the
Theatre. lie subsequently saw them hoisted over the
stage-door into the Theatre. He understood from the
conversation of the men who moved the carriages, whom
he knew to be employed about the theatre, that their
original intention was to have carried the carriages through
the stage door, but, finding the entrance too small, they
placed them on the footway until they could hoist them
over the door.

It was submitted on the part of the defendant that this
evidence did not prove the offence to have beets committed
by his order or permission, nor did it prove that the car-
riages were his property.
The complainant said that he inquired of one of the men
whether the car before mentioned was not used in Drury-
lane Theatre, to which he replied in the affirmative, adding
that they had just brought it from that Theatre.. He
conceived that the act of the servant was, in point of law,
the act of the master.

Mr. MINSHULL was of opinion that the informer ought
to have taken the workmen into custody while in the act
of committing the nuisance, as he was empowered to do
by the Act. He should dismiss the case, leaving the com-
plainant to take any further proceedings against the work-
men he might think proper.
The parties then left the office, the informer expressing
his intention of summoning the workmen forthwith.
At the evening sitting a man of mean appearance, who
gave his name Giles Coaltes, was placed at the bar,
charged before Mr. MnismuLL with having on the 20th
of October last maliciously shot • and wounded a man
named Simper, gamekeeper to Lord Stowell, in Chedworth
Woods, Gloucestershire.

The prisoner was remanded till to-day, when he will be
again brought up.
The prisoner made no observation, and he was removed
in custody.