The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-03 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.-TUESDAY, DEC. 2.

Yesterday the Sessions were continued at Guildhall,
before the Recorder and a Bench of Aldermen. There
were several paltry cases of assault. The following was
the only case worth noticing :
William Hines, a sturdy beggar, aged about twenty-two,
was indicted for having violently assaulted one of the ser-
vants of the Mendicity Society.
The prosecutor's statement was to the following effect :
He had been directed to clear the street of those worst of
nuisances, the able idle begging population. The defendant
was particularly distinguished amongst that troublesome
fraternity, and was in the habit of adding the argument of
threats to solicitations. One day when Hines was begging,
as ;ard'asTie m Chancery-lane, the defendant went
up to him and asked him to go to Red Lion-square (the
Mendicity Society) for relief. The defendant rejected the
invitation with great contempt. " Why won't you go ?"
said the prosecutor. " Because they want me to work for
my wittles" said the defendant, " and I'm blowed if I stand
that nonsense." The prosecutor's object in asking the
beggar to go to Red Lion-square was, that if he were really
destitute, he might receive relief at that place. Finding
that the defendant was an incorrigible ruffian, he told him
that he must go to the compter, and exhibited his staff of
office. The defendant, however, disregarded the authority
of the prosecutor, and most violently attacked him, but the
fellow was soon apprehended, and dragged, powerful as he
was, to prison.
A very solemn looking witness then stepped forward and
said, " Please your vorships, I was a walking along when I
sees this here beggarman rise up his leg and kick this here
gentleman, and this gentleman said nowt a word but
What's that ere for, young man ? ' With that, this here
prisoner or beggarman, or votever you please to call him,
does no more but he pitches into this here gentleman as be-
longs tq the Begging Society, and kept a striking of him in
a unproper manner."
The RECORDER—What degree of force did the defend-
ant use ? Witness—l can't say exactly as the degrees was
any way in particular, but I should'nt like for to give or
take 'em. They could'nt do good to nobody.
The RECORDER—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say
to this? Defendant—Vy, my Lord, it was the first time I
ever begged, and I never meant for to do it again, for it is a
poor thing to live by, let people say what they will; so I jist
stood in the street when this man came up, and he wanted to
lug me up to Red Lion-square. " No thank you, Sir," says I,
for they'll work a man for six or eight hours as hard as a
horse, and then they'll give him a pennoth of bread and a cup
of what they call soup, but what I calls bone water ;" so
when I hesitated about it oat he pulls his staff, and he
makes a wipe of it at me, but I vould'nt have it, and you
vould'nt blame me for that ; so I catches his harm and
down we comes together, and this sober body comes up ;
so here I'm sarved out between 'ern.

The RECORDER, in addressing the Jury, said that any-
body might apprehend a prisoner begging in the streets.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty.
The RECORDER—Prisoner, the Court is of opinion that
you are one of those violent ruffians who go about under
pretence of begging, and that you ought to be restrained.
The sentence of the Court upon you is that you be impri-
soned for three months.

Defendant (leaving the Court)—Here's a pretty go ;
sent to quod because I don't like the soup-shop in Red Lion
Square.

CRUEL CASE OF SEDUCTION.

A case of gross seduction came before the borough Ma-
gistrates at Grantham in the early part of last week, which
involved a creditable young woman in great difficulties and
peril. It appeared by her statement that a man named
Maitland had induced her to marry him, and in order to
make it appear to her that he was of good family connexions,
he produced a sheet of paper with a seal in the margin as
large as a crown piece, purporting to be an extract from a
will which enabled him to provide for a wife ; and to make
this document appear genuine, he forged the name of a so-
licitor of eminence at Grantham, to certify its being a true
extract, and that he was the son of a clergyman. The of-
fender brought the young woman down on foot from Lon-
don, and on the road disposed of all her clothes except what
she had on. He proceeded with her to a village about
a mile from Grantham, and left her there, whilst he went
on, as he alleged, to his father, the clergyman, to inform
him of the marriage. He stated that he resided at a place
within five miles of Lincoln ; and he desired her to wait
for three days, and if he did not then return to her, she
was to follow him. The poor girl went in search of him
and his father, but could find neither, though, to her ex-
treme distress, she discovered he had a wife living not far
from Lincoln, whom he married in June, 1827, and had
then two children by her. The poor girl made the best of
her way back to Grantham, and called on the solicitor
whose name was forged to the pretended extract, and who
kindly entertained her case but the marriage having taken
place in Surrey on the 16th of August last, the Magistrates
of Grantham could not take her complaint with proper ef-
fect ; they, however, stated that they would render every
assistance in getting the man brought to
%Voice after she
had laid her complaint ip
right quarter. The young
wonlau wbiln 411 e 041110 back had not 'a sixpence in her
pocket nor a place to go to, and was 140 miles from her
home. The Alderman (John Brooks, Esq.), the rest
the justices, and the town-clerk, entered ipte
for getting her home, and sgpt op@ ofthU sergeautp-is,_rnace
roypil to tieveral ptuions, who subserib.3 •
also, so that in a
few ours she had sufficient'o take her comfortably by the
coach to her friends. sinco gho has returned home, she
has sent a letter to
_i tbt Wil-vicrk; couched n very feeling

and grateful terms, thanking all her friends at Gra!itha:
for the relief she received as a stranger upon so trying
occasion.—Stanford Mercury.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MARITIgt
SERVICE.

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Yesterday a meeting of the commanders and officers id
the East India Company's late maritime service, was
at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, for the purpose of laying ue;
fore the officers the report of the committee appointed I.
watch over the interests of tLe service, and to obtain
higher rate of compensation than that proposed by ,:
Court of Directors of the East India Company. CaPtal f
Hinde took the Chair, and baying opened the business °
the day the report of the committee was read.'
The report referred to the exertions that had been mane
by the committee to obtain a compensation for the maritime
e
officers for losses which the service had sustained by t,
cessation of the East India Company's trade. It 811°1e0
to the many interviews the committee had had with `.l
Board of Control to obtain the object in view. After golf
through the whole of the proceedings before the Court u;
Proprietors of East India Stock, the committee return,e4_
thanks to those who had forwarded their cause, and to 0°
press, which the report states, " with a kindness that na"
not be appreciated by the service, had afforded it their nap:
deviating support by constantly giving opinions emine,2t
favourable to their interests." The report regretted On
the subscriptions to sustain the unavoidable expences
curred for promoting the interests of the service had bee
much below what the committee had a right to expect'
The report was unanimously adopted, and the followl7,
resolution was proposed :—" That this meeting acitn°,,''
ledge with pride and gratitude the services of the o:er
mittee in establishing the important fact of every (46' ,
being actually the servant of the Hon. East India CI
pany, whether afloat or ashore, from the date of his al3r3i;
ment ;—for having strenuously urged, and judiciously et
forced, the amendment of the 7th section of the Indian -Ac,;
whereby the claims of all persons are to be considered 'll°_,
or heretofore employed by or under the said comParlY Li
for their zeal and ability in seconding the character ;is
merits of the service, and its just claim to reward•
meeting have, however, to deplore, and to express tbeir re
gret and disappointment, that the committee should b
submitted a proposition to exclude the old members of y 5,
service, whose laurels the junior officers were proud tr),„ie
play for the common good, thus abandoning the prio'Lr
upon which the committee was formed, and sacrificing fror
brother officers who had not been able to obtain recente.,,
ployment, thereby entailing additional injury, and afforg!"
just grounds for withholding unqualified praise."
After some discussion this resolution was negatived, 811.1c1
a vote of thanks was passed to Captain Hinde, CO*
Probyn, and the committee, for their exertions on bey
of the service.
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The committee were authorized to watch the proceei 16
in Parliament during the passing of the act legalizing' tellt,
scale of compensation which has been agreed to by the
neral Court of Proprietors of India Stock.
The meeting then adjourned.