The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

quietly going his rounds, when on a sudden he
heard a most tremendous noise in the street like the
braying of donkeys; the noise increased to such a
degree that the neighbours thought, as well as the
constable, that all the costermongers' donkeys in
Westminster had assembled together. He hastened
to the spot, when he found the two defendants bray-
ing away like regular donkeys; it was impossible
for him to make them desist, for the more he re-
monstrated with them the louder they brayed, and
finding they were both very drunk he took them to
the station-house.
Nicholas Gilbert, in reply, had no recollection o f
what occurred.
Mr. BURRELL—And what do you say to the
charge ? Mayes—l has a good bit to say, your
Vorship. I vishes to know as how vether ven a
man gets a little bit tosticated a common constable
is to say as how he brays like a donkey. Jist lit any
man answer that ere ?
Mr. BuratELL—Never mind that, but answer the
charge.
Mayes—But I does mind it, and I can't help ir,
your Vorship; people "vill say I speaks like a don-
key; I consider as how this is not justice.
Mr. BURRELL—What do you say to the charge ?
Mayes—Vy, I says I considers myself werry
much insulted by that ere constable.
Mr. BURRELL—You must both of you pay a fine
of ss. each for being drunk.
Mayes—May be, your Vorship, the constable is
the greatest donkey of any on us; he is the biggest
of the lot at any rate.
The fine not being forthcoming the pair of donkey-
imitators were locked up.
HATTOIV-GARDEN.

Yesterday James Goody, Thomas Hayes, and
William Everett, the eldest of whom was only 16
years of age, were brought before Mr. LAING, in
the custody of Sergeants Bayliss and Murphy, of
G division, charged under the following circum-
stances :
It appears that under the Police Act the officers
are justified in entering any public-house where they
suspect that thieves are in the habit of resorting,
and apprehending all suspicious characters. On
Saturday evening Bayliss and Murphy proceeded to
the Salmon and Compasses in Brooke's Marker,
Holborn, where they found the prisoners sitting in
company with several other thieves, when their ap-
pearance caused the utmost confusion, and the whole
of the party escaped, with the exception of the pri-
soners, who were taken into custody.
Johnson, a policeman, identified Everett as being
the constant companion of thieves, and was out at
all hours of the night. The whole of the officers
had no doubt whatever but the prisoners had assem-
bled at the house for the purpose of planning some
robbery which was to be committed the same night.
Mr. LAING (to Goody)—Pray what took you to
that public-house ? Goody—l only went there to
take a pint of porter.
Mr. LAING—Who are the other prisoners ?
Goody—l don't know; I only met them there,
your Worship.
Mr. LAING—How often have you been in the
House of Correction ? Goody—Never, your
Worship.
Waddington—Why, you have been here three
or four times, and you know it.
Mr. LAING—Come, Sir, how often have you been
in the House of Correction ? Goody—Only three
times, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—What were you sent for the first
time ? Goody—A goose, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—What were you sent for the second
time ? Goody—For a handkerchief, your Worship.
I picked it up, but they swore I stole it, your
Worship.—(Laughter.)
Mr. LAING—And what was your sentence then,
eh ? Goody—l was deliberated, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—And what next were you sent for ?
Goody—For nothing at all, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—I again ask you what took you to
the Salmon and Compasses ? Goody—l went to
see a dance.
Mr. LAING—What sort of a dance ? Goody—
Why, two people get up and dance, and we pay a
penny to go in and see it.
Mr. LAING—And who receives the penny for
admission? Goody—The blind fiddler, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—And where does the dahce take
place? Goody—ln the taproom, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—In the taproom ! How in the tap-
room ? Goody—Why, the tables are moved, and
when the fiddler is paid he strikes up, and we jump
up and dances, your Worship.
Waddington explained that the taproom was very
small, and before the ball commenced the company
provided themselves with beer, pipes, and tobacco.
It consisted of every kind of character, and a penny
each was paid for the support of the fiddler. The
tables were moved, and dancing was kept up till a
late hour, principally by couples, who jigged it in
the same style as Dusty Bob and African Sal in
the drama of Life in London, with pipes in their
mouths, and ahhough the perspiration would roll
down them in " thick profusion," still he assured his
Worship that they seemed to feel as much delight
as a more aristocratic party would do at Almack's.
Mr. LAING—We must look after their dancing a
little.

Hayes told a similar story to that of Goody, and
said that he had been once convicted of robbery.
Everett lived with his friends, and he simply en-
tered the public-house to have a pint of beer.
Mr. LAING again asked the officers whether they
could swear that they suspected the prisoners of
having assembled at the house for the purpose of
planning a robbery ?
They answered in the affirmative; when Goody
was committed for two months' hard labour to the
House of Correction ; and Hayes for one month.
Everett was discharged with a suitable admonition.
WORSHIP•STREET.
A JUDGE AND JURY PLACED AT THE BAR.--
Yesterday upwards of eighty persons were brought
to the Office by the G division of police, under the
orders of Inspectors Brundley and Perry, who
charged a great number of the prisoners with being
thieves, and the others with having been found in
their company, at a new beer house in Whitecross-
street, known as the sign of " Daniel O'Connell—
The Patriot."—The whole of those persons had
been captured on Sunday evening by virtue of a
clause in the Metropolitan Police Acr, 3 Wm. IV.
c. 19, which empowered the police to enter public-
houses and apprehend suspected persons. The
police inspectors alleged, that repeated com-
plaints had been received with respect to the
Daniel O'Connell, where the proceedings of
Courts of Justice are travestied on Sunday even-
ings, by the appointment of Judge, Jury, Counsel,
&c. for the trial of offenders. On Sunday evening
the inspectors went to the house with a large body
of constables (about 100), and upon their entry
into the parlour they found the business of the
Court at its height, with a Judge upon the bench in
grand costume, and Counsel in the act of addressing
the Jury.—The company were all seized with the
exception of some five or six who escaped out of a
window. Amongst the few who escaped was the
Learned Counsel in his wig and gown, the O'Con-
nell of the evening, who very characteristically con-
trived to get out of the difficulty, and left in the
lurch those whom he had been agitating by his
eloquence.

Slyly of the prisoners were mere boys; but the
greater part of the defendants appeared to be about
twenty years of age. The constables identified 2.5
of them as reputed thieves, and several others as
their constant companions. Some decent-looking
apprentices were among the defendants.
The Judge, who appeared in a purple silk gown
and full bottomed wig, gave his name Joseph
Palmer, and said he had been a strolling player.
For some time past he had assisted in the business
of the beer houses. He received half-a-crown per
night for presiding three times a week in the Judge
and Jury Club to preserve order. Nothing indeco-
rous was ever allowed, in proof of which he produced
a paper containing the rules of the Judge and Jury
Club. Amongst them were the following:—" Thai
no person be allowed to sit as Judge until he shall
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