The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-26 00:00:00

operated as an encouragement to crime, and petty
potsteale-s and bonepickers stole them with impunity
Mr. LAING thought the practice bad, and it ought
to be checked. lie remanded the prisoner, End
gave orders that Mr. Jameson, the owner of the pot,
should be brought forward, and, if possible, to ap-
prehend others of the party.
John Sullivan, a labourer, and Mary Dale, about
eighteen years of age, was charged by Jas. Simpkin,
a diminutive fancy article, with having woilantly
salted him for nothing wotsurndever, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
Simpkin, with all his blushing honours thick
upon him, rubbing his left cheek bone, which was
swollen and discoloured, stated that on Sunday he
went out to take a cup of tea with the young
woman wot keeps him company ; and after they had
tea and a few glasses of rum and water at the White
Condick House, they were going home arm.in.arm
through Saffron-hill, when the gentleman at the bar
came up, and, in the most unpolitest way, put his
arms round the shoulders of Sally, his intended
better half, and he thonght as how he was going to
take unproper liberties. " I said, 'Do you know
that 'ere gentleman, Sally ?' your Worship, and
says she, No, James; I knows nuffen at all about
him.' With that 'ere, says I, Do you know that
lady, Sir ?' and without any more cause he hit me
over the eye, and down I went in the mud, your
Worship; and the lady at the bar began kicking me
and drew out a knife. Sally, as was quite natral,
screamed out, seeing as how I was in danger; and
when I got up I sarehed my pocket. I missed six-
pence three farthings your Worship."
Mr. Simpkin was asked whether he gave no pro-
vocation ?
Simpkin—No, pon my honour; I was never so
grossly " salted," and here is striking proofs of his
woilance, your Worship.
" Where's Sally," inquired the Magistrate?
Simpkin—She's under the doctor ? she's so wery
narvous that she can't attend. I have taken my
haffidavey, and I assure you I did nothing watsum-
derer, your Worship, to be mauled and kicked.
Sullivan insinuated that Simpkin forgot to tell
the whole truth. He didn't tell how be insulted him
and some friends the night before. On meeting him
he did go up to him and hit him on the eye.
The girl denied the " salt," saying she good-na-
turedly went to pick up Mr. Simpkin, after he was
knocked down. Her foot might have touched him
somewhere, but she positively denied having kicked
him.

The Magistrate's impression certainly was that
the prosecutor had been, as he said, most woilantly
saltcd," and in order to convince the defendant and
his fair companion that they were not "to
take the law into their own hands in future," they
were ordered to find bail, for which Sullivan and
his fancy article were consigned to durance vile.
Q UEEN- S Q UARE.

UNSTAMPED ALMANACKS.— On Monday evening
two miserable-looking fellows, named Richard Price
and William Cochran, were brought before Mr.
WHITE, by Colley, one of the Stamp-office agents,
charged with selling an unstamped airnatiack, called
the People's' Almanack, which purported to be
printed and published by John Doyle, No. 12, Li-
berty-street, New York, price four cents.
Colley stated that he saw the prisoners in the
Westminster-road offering the almanacks for sale
to every person they passed. He purchased one
from each of the prisoners, and paid twopence. lie
then took them both into custody, a►ad seized the
almanacks.
Colley here handed to the Magistrate a bundle of
almanacks.

Mr. WHITE asked the prisoners where they came
from ? The prisoners replied that they came from
Birmingham.
Mr. WHITE asked them what they had to say to
the complaint ? The prisoners replied that they
could get no work, and they sold the publication to
earn a few pence to keep them from starving, in
preference to thieving for a livelihood.
Colley said that both the prisoners must have
known that they were doing wrong, for they had
been convicted at Marylebone Police-office for a
similar offence, and had only that morning come
out of prison.
Mr. WHITE committed them both for two months
each to Kingston gaol.
IMPUDENT ASSAULT.—Geo. Wheeler, of No. 57,
Chatham-street, Chelsea, was charged with assault-
ing Mr. John Gilpin, the landlord of the Mitre and
Dove, in King-street, Westminster, under the fol- '
lowing circumstances :
The prisoner, it appeared, entered the complain-
ant's house, and walked into the bar parlour with
very great assurance, sat himself down on a chair,

and in a few minutes lighted a pipe and began smok-
ing ; he was told with the greatest civility that no
smoking was allowed there, and requested to desist,
upon which he struck the landlord a blow. Mr.
Gilpin, however, made very short work with his
customer, and soon ejected him from the parlour to
one of the cells of the station-house in Gardner's-
lane, where the police took charge both of him and

his pipe. _
The defendant, who had not much to say, was
fined 20s. for the assault.

A SHOCKING BAD CHARACTER.—A young► mar-
ried woman, named Ann Jones, was charged by her
brother, Daniel Healey, a seaman, with robbing him
of a purse, containing ss. 6d.
After a patient hearing there did not appear to be
the slightest ground for the charge, and Mr. WHITE
ordered her to be discharged.
Ann Jones now charged her brother with being
a deserter from his Majesty's service.
Healey, who appeared rather startled at the charge
declared it was false.

Mr. WHITE asked her when he deserted ? Ann
Jones replied that he was a deserter from his Ma-
jesty's frigate Vernon.
A police constable of the L division, who took

heyo.ung woman into custody, said that, from what

he had heard, he itelieved the brother to be a de-

serter.

Healey, to his great astonishment, was ordered
:o be detained, and Mr. WHITE ordered the con-

stable to go to Somerset-house and make the neces-
sary inquiries.
On the return of the constable he stated to the
Magistrate that it was perfectly true that Healey
was a deserter from the Vernon; but he bore such

a shocking bad character in the ship, and was so in-
corrigible, that they did not wish him to be de-
tained, and he was at liberty to go where he liked,
for they would not have him again in the navy.
Healey was of course discharged, and left the
office, declaring that his character was the best friend
he had got.