The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-22 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. William Frost, a genteel-looking
man, a plumber and glazier in the Kingsland-road,
was brought before Mr. TWYFORD, upon a charge
of attempting to defraud Messrs. Hoskins and Loyd,
of Canon-street, in the City, of a quantity of wine
and brandy, arid also assaulting their porter, Wil-
liam Bighton.
The porter went that morning at 9 o'clock with
wine and brandy, to the amount of 151. to the
prisoner's house, but with strict orders not to leave
the same unless paid for in cash. Witness accord-
ingly, on arriving, and having deposited the goods
in the house, presented the invoice, and requested
payment, when the prisoner, instead of making any
reply, began to unpack the wine, and, knocking the
bottles together, broke one containing sherry, which
his friends in the room partook of. Witness again
said that unless be was paid he should takeit all back.
The prisoner then, having taken all the wine and
brandy out of the baskets, flung the baskets in to
the road, and, seizing a crow-bar, told him that if he
dared to move a bottle from off his premises he
would suffer for it, and called his clerk, who was in
a back counting-house, to bring a bill of 601., " and
let the porter (said he) give you the difference, or
take it to his master." Witness said he would have
money, and began to take the wine away, when the
prisoner instantly closed the shutters in the room,
leaving him completely in the dark, and shut in with
the property.

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Mr. TWYFORD, in ourprise—How did you get out?
'itness—By the assistance of a mob of persons
outside, who, having collected, cried out " Don't
leave the goods," and theyi sent a policeman to
my assistance. _

The police-constable asked the prisoner, after
gaining an admission into his house, why he did not
pay for the wine ? In reply to which he said that
Mr. Loyd held a bill of his for 30/.

Mr. -TWYFORD—Is that true ? Mr. Loyd—
Yes; I have a bill for 301., with his name indorsed
upon it, unfortunately for us—.(a laugh)—but I
never received a bill from him in my life.
Mr. TWYFORD—In the case before me, I can
hardly call it a criminal offence, although indictable,
and—

Solicitor for the prosecution—l submit that the
taking of the bottle of brandy and wine makes it a
felony.
Prisoner—l'll pay for those, and also the remain-
der, if Messrs. Loyd and Hoskins will give me a
little time.—(A laugh, in which the Magistrate
juined.) I (lid not take the wine nor the brandy.
Mr. TWITORD—You gave it to the people. My

" By the side of the bottle lay a few cocoons
with caterpillars, which Goethe expected would
shortly appear, as one could feel them move in
the hand. He took them up, looked at them
very attentively, and then told his boy to take
them into the house, as they would hardly come
out so late in the day. It was then four o'clock.
At this moment Madame Von Goethe entered
the garden. Goethe took the cocoons again from
the boy, and replaced them on the table. How
beautifully the fig-tree has got into blossom and
leaves I' she called from afar, as she approached
us ; then, after the usual compliments having
passed between her and me, she asked if I had
seen and admired the tree closely. Pray let
us not forget,' she added, addressing her hus-
band, to secure it against the winter.'—
Goethe smiled and said, Pray let her show you
the fig-tree immediately, else we shall have no
peace the whole evening. But it is really a fine
tree, and deserves to be taken care of.' What
is the name of the foreign plant,' resumed the
lady, which was lately sent to us from Jena ?'—
You mean, perhaps, the large hellebore ?'
' Exactly :it is thriving wonderfully.' I ant
glad of it. In the end we may be able to make
a second Anticyra of this place.' Here are
the cocoons, too ; have you not noticed anything
yet ?" I had laid them aside for you. Look,'
added he, taking them up again, and holding
them to his ear, how it knocks, and jumps,
and struggles unto life. I would call these
transmutations wonderful, if the wonderful in
nature were not that which occurs every moment.
Be this as it may, our friend here must also see
the sight. The insect will be out in a day or
two, and it will be as fine a one as you have
ever seen. I invite you to be here in the gar-
den to-morrow afternoon, if you desire to see
something more remarkable than- the most re-
markable things Kotzebue saw in the most re-
markable year in his life, in his distant trip to
Toblosk. In the mean time let us place the
box in which our fair sylphide is still dressing
herself in some sunny window of the sum-
merhouse. There you stand, my good,
pretty child. No one shall hinder thee in
this corner from finishing thy toilet.' 4 But,' re-
sumed the lady, glancing at the serpent, how
can you bear such an ugly creature about you,
and even like to feel it with your own hands ?
It makes me shudder to look at it.' Don't say
a word,' answered Goethe (who, although calm
by nature, had no objection to this kind of
lively prattle); then, turning to me, continued,
Yes, if the serpent would do her the favour to
spin, and to become a pretty butterfly, there
would be nothing said about his horrible ap-
pearance. But, dear child, we cannot all be
butterflies and fig-trees full ofblossom and fruit.
Poor snake ; they neglect thee—they should
look more kindly on thee. How it lifts up its
head, and looks at me, as if it knew that I was
pleading its cause.' * * Having said
this he began to lay aside his pencil and the
paper on which he had been drawing all the
while some fantastic landscape, without inter-
rupting himself in his discourse."

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.—The number
of claims given in for registration up to 2 o'clock this day,
amount to 5,300. Only one day, and that the final one,
is now left for giving in claims. Electors of Edinburgh !
we shall next week see how many of your number have
proved renegades to the cause of Reform, and bowed the
knee to Baal!—Scotsman.

TORY STRATAGEMS.--We learn, on good
,authority, that a number of Tory electors are entering
their sons as voters, though residing in the same houses
.elth themselves. Whether there be ally loophole in the
;i•t which renders such voters admissible, we have ❑ot
to inquire at present; but if a doubt exist, the
iyeral electors must meet their opponents with their own
weapons, low SWUM an