The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-10 00:00:00

MARYLEB ONE.

THE SNOB AND THE PENSlONER.—Yesterday
William Lacy, a pensioner, was brought before Mr.
HOSKINS, the sitting Magistrate, charged with steal-
ing four pairs of new shoes from George Dix, a son of
St. Crispin : and also with bilking a cabman in the
most ungentleman-like manner out of his fare.
The mender of souls, a natty little fellow, about
two feet and a half perpendicular height, and
with a pekooliar squeaking voice, said, pleases your
Vorship, that ere good-for-nothing warmint is a
countryman of mine, and I meets him yesterday
afternoon, which being Easter Monday ►n course w e
went to have a drop of summer. He told me,
your Vorship, as how he'd got no blunt, and so 1
treats him werry handsomely, and gives him a
friendly consarn of bread, onions, cheese, beer, and
hot sheep's heads, and indeed awl I had. I accorr•
modates him by letting him pig in a bed in my stall,
with four of my young'uns ; but notwithstanding all
my kindness the willain gets up at six o'clock this
morning and bolts with four pair of bran new shoes.
There (violently exclaimed the little cobbler, waxing
t-xceedingly wrath)—there's a piece of ungratefulness,
—(Laughter.) Vell, I sued 'arter him, your Vora.
ship, and nailed him in Oxford-market, in the worry
act of taking his pension, and so I gived him in
charge; for 'pon my soul I thinks he deserves a good
welting, as such wagabones as him doses gemmen'a
hearts and makes 'em as tough as leather, and there's,
an end of generosity.
A cab-driver here stepped forward and said, as
how the gemman at the bar had patronized his
vehicle from five minutes to eight in the morning
up to that 'ere blessed time. His fare was 9s. 4d.,
which the gemman wouldn't tip. _

Mr. HosKrNs—Well, prisoner, what have you to
s'y about stealing the shoes ? Prisoner (turning
his quid)—Not a ha'peth. Pm shot if ever I see'd
them at all. Here's my karakture (holding out a
dirty piece of paper) vich vill last longer than that
'ere snob's.

Mr. HowlNs—Prosecutor, when did you se
your shoes safe ? Dix—Vy yesterday was e
werry arternoon ; and as true as they call me little
Georgy Dix, my customers anticipates them coming
home to eight, to ge to Greenwich fair. .

Prisoner---How could you see them wh'•n yqu
%vas blind drunk ? anylmw's I felt
them, and that's the same thing.
Mr. HOSKINS—Had you been drinking ?
Yes, your Vorship, but I don't consider as ho.vv
was intoaticated, for I could stand on ray legs, and
I'm blowed if I don't think that's werry fair for
Easter.7(Laughter.)

Mr. HOSKIN; detained the prisoner to give the
policeman an opportunity of tracing the shoes, and
(Irdered the knight of the whip to be paid out of the
money found upon the prisoner.

CERTIORARI.—A correspondent expresses
his surprise that, among other law reforms, no inquiry
s'!ould hitherto have been made into the extraordinary
way in which justice is often defeated, by the facility with
which writs of certiorari are at present obtained ; often
(as in a recent case at the Suffolk Assizes) by anticipa-
tion, without its necessity or propriety being known or
examined into by any competent tribunal. I,le adds the.,
while so much form and difficulty exists in changing th.e ve-
nue in civil suite, it is extraordinary that criminal charges
cm lee changed from Court to Court, and pro,:ecu tors of test
htra,sed and worn nut, on little more than the payr,-.ent ot
c rtain fees at the Crown-office.

LITERATURE.—The following new and pe-
p drr Works have la.ely been published by Mr. Burr.,
ti Iles-street, Cavendish.square:-1. " Aims and Ends,"
by Mrs. SHERIDAN. 2. " Lives of Banditti and Rob-
inrs," by C. 11.1.terAuLANE, Esq., 2 vols. 3. " The In-
-Ir:bible Gentleman," by the author of " Chartley," 3 vols.
4. "Records of my Life,' by the late JOHN TAYLOR, Esq.
5. Lights and Shadows of German Life," 2 vols. And,
diortly will be published, 6. " Memoirs of Msrshal Ney;
!"rO,ll his original manuscripts and papers in the possession
M. the family. Editions French and English, in Svc,.

Sunday last a Bull issued by the POPE was
read in all the Roman Catholic Chapels in the metropolis,
exhorting the clergy to bestow all possible attention on
t4eir flicks, and to be unceasing in their insti uctions to
he Catholic community, in warning them of the danger
1 infidelity, which was now spreadingi rasi.duiyr,paon,edd,ati—s
t icking their holy religion. The Bull, t
lirected against the French, a. his 'lnane.) has dee aced in
rivate, that he considered the United Kingdom of Eng:
!and, Scotland, and Ireland, one of the most religious and
moral in the world, and where the Sabbath was observed
with the greatest piety and decor w,

BILL POR THE BETTER ADMINISTRA
TION OF JUSTICE IN POLICE OFFICES.