The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-20 00:00:00

WESTERN CIRCUIT, JULY 18.

George Blab, stood indicted for stealing, on the
night of the 17th of April last, from the dwelling.
house of a person named William Crockford, under
circumstances of great violence and cruelty, 205 so
vereigns, several bank notes, a bill of exchange,
some silver spoons, and other articles, his property.
During the trial the prosecutor's clothes were
produced, and from the quantity of blood by which
they seemed to be besmeared, he must have been
very brutally ill-treated. The prisoner, from infor-
mation, was taken into custody, when one of his ac-
complices came forward to give evidence against
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ncing the prisoner
to tran-portation for life, told him that transportation
by a late Act of Parliament (the Abolition of Death
Bill), which now saved his life, was rendered much
more formidable as a punishment than it had hitherto
been. That Act enacted that no remission of hard
labour should be granted by the authorities abroad
to any person transported for life under this Act,
until such person had served eight years of actual
hard labour. He should inform him that hard labour
abroad was more like that of is slave than
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lie might have seen in this country. His. Lordship
then sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life.
Shortly after this trial was over, Mr. Serjeatit
Coleridge came into Court, and proceeded to the
the bench, where he made a communication to his
Lordship.
Court to be adjourned for. an
.hot.ir, and departed in-
stantly frotuCourt. Upon inquiry into the nature of his
Lordship's so sudden departure, we were informed
serious indisposition of one of his Lordship's
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tacked with epileptic fits. An express was immedis
ately despatched to Salisbury for medical aid.
Mr. Serjeant BOMPAS sat the rest of the day in
the Crown Court for his Lordship, but no other
case of any interest was tried.
The cases on the civil side to-day were altogether
unworthy of notice, being of the most trifling de-
scription.

NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JCLY 19.

GREAT NOVELTY.

John Thomas Colson, an ambitious member of
" the Buskin," and late proprietor of the New Royal
Kensington Subscription Theatre, Brown's-build-
ings, which he introduced to the world as a " Great
Novelty," came before the Court yesterday on his
petition to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr.
Wetherall, proprietor of the premises, and creditor,
in person, for a sum of 1601., 1501. of which was for
rent of " the Novelty," which, unfortunately, the
insolvent did not find a very remunerating one; for,
after having incurred a weighty expense in fitting it
up, he was soon obliged to close it; and whether
the failure was attributable to a want of taste in
the good people of Kensington, or to something else
that was wrong, he is himself the best judge.
It appeared on his examination, that he expended
about 1601. in the fitting up of the Theatre, includ-
ing labour and property, and that the latter, which
was considered worth SO/. as it stood in the house,
was seized under a distress for the landlord's rent,
arid valued by the broker at only worth 25/, when
torn down ; and for his own fees on that sum he
charged the insolvent V. An action was in conse-
quence brought against him by the insotvent, who
had himself ken once an appraiser, on the ground
of an illegal charge.
In answer to questions by Mr. Commissioner
LAW, the broker described the theatre as a perfect
" novelty," with seven scenes, and one of them
painted " on both sides," with the amazing capa-
bility of presenting either with the utmost velocity.
In the stage there was a trap-door, through which
the performers were reduced to make their "entries
and exits," which had a most ludicrous effect ; and
as it was also, as we understood the witness, " the
grand entrance to the boxes," it may easily be con-
ceived it was not unfrequently the up-and-down trap-
way of confusion and of incidents.
The accommodation for the audience, never
troublesome because of its extreme fulness, was in-
e tided in the two words—" Pit and boxes." Gallery
there was none, which may be considered as an esti-
mate of the insolvent's then notions of the select
constitution of the "Gentry of Kensington." They,
however, did not patronize his effort=, and " The
Royal Kensington" has, in consequence, once more
become what it originally was—an undignified
riding-school.
One of the insolvent's " Bills of the night,"
which was for his own benefit, and professed to give
the contents of " the Bill, the whole Bill, and
nothing but the Bill," was exhibited by his oppo-
net►ts in Court, and amongst various promised
" novelties" which it contained, was " the part of
Richard the Third, after the manner of Mr. Kean, by
y oung gi ntleman," which was followed by "Lovers'
Quarrels," the part of " Sancho" by the insolvent,
with a song.
The case was adjourned for further investigation.