The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.)

Edward Parker and Edward Hancock were brought
this morning before Alderman KELLY, charged by one of
the City police, with offering for sale on Saturday after-
noon, in Cheapside, the Poor Man's Guardian. The
policeman stated, that he desired them to go off his beat,
but they would not do so. He did not see them sell any
of the pamphlets.
Hancock had a long written defence, which he com-
menced reading, contending that what he bad been doing
was legal and justifiable, inasmuch as the Act under
which he was prevented from doing so was concocted
by an assembly of men before he was born,—(Laughter.)
Secondly, that the charge ought to have been brought
against him by a person in the employ of the Commis-
sioners of Stamps; and, thirdly, that be was not bound
to obey any law, be being unrepresented.—(Laughter.)
Mr, Alderman KELLY—Do you mean to persist in sell-
ing them. You know as well as Ido that it is illegal to
circulate these things without they are duly stamped, as it
defrauds the revenue.

Hancock—l can prove by the Statute Book that it is
legal.
Mr. Alderman KELLY—I see there are advertisements
in the pamphlet, and that is quite enough to convince me
you are acting illegally.
Hancock still persisted that what he had done was legal,
observing, that if the Magistrate would allow the case to
stand for a d-y or two, he would procure a solictor to
argue the case for him.
Mr. Alderman KELLY ordered the matter to stand over
to Wednesday, observing that what he had already stated
in his defence was totally irrelevant.
John Newberry, an itinerant vendor of black-lead pen-
cils, was brought up under the following charge :
Mr. William Fuller, one of the partners in Childs and
Co.'s, the bankers at Temple-bar, stated that the prisoner
was continually in the habit of coming into the banking..
house, calling him all sorts of opprobrious names,designating
biro a scoundrel, a murderer, and every thing he could think
of, and for no apparent cause that complainant could dis-
cover. This was the third time he had been under the
necessity of having him beforEr a Magistrate. The con-
duct of the prisoner on Saturday was worse than ever,
when he forced himself into the banking-house, completely
suspended business, and showered a volley of abuse on
complainant.
The prisoner said that the complainant owed him 451.
for lawful wages, to get which was all he wanted.

Mr. Alderman KELLY said he had not taken the proper
steps to secure that object. He had no dqubt if the pri-
soner had any legal claim on Mr. Fuller he would pay it.

Mr. Fuller said he should be most happy to dO so, but
the prisoner bad no claim:upon him whatever.

Ordered to find bail.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

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referred c 0 p i 0
Joseph Hyde, a poor boy, was charged with selling the
Poor Man's Guardian this morning.
Currie, the officer, who apprehended him, said he had
but just come from the House of Correction, where he
had been imprisoned 14 days for a similar offence.
The prisoner was closely questioned as to how he got
these publications, and by whom he was encouraged ; and
from his answers, which be gave with evident reluctance,
it appeared that whenever a person has undergone a pu-
nishment for this offence, he goes from the prison to a
who gives him ss. to start afresh with, and he is
gentleman named Cleaver, at some coffee shop in Cow-
lto a shop in Kinsgate-street, Holborn, to put,
chase
of the Poor Man's Guardian, and he then
retails them in the streets. None but persons of the most
destitute condition are BO employed, and if committed to
prison, thty are sure of their ss. at the expiration of their
confinement.
The MAGISTRATE said, as the prisoner had spoken the
truth he would commit him only for seven days.

ALLAN CUNNINGHANf, in his Biography of
Sir WALTER Scorr, in the Athenceum, thus happily
rac-
counts for the early direction of his mind to Poetry and
tßiooinseacnwoemeh —uiohim early, will not be wondered at by
‘n
That a love of poetry and romance should
have
know anything of the lowlands of Scotland,
more particularly the district where his paternal borne lay,
and where he often lived during vacation time. The
whole land is alive with song and story ; almost every
stone that stands above the ground, is the record of some
skirmish or single combat ; and every stream, although its
waters be so inconsiderable as scarcely to moisten the pas-
ture through which they run, is renowned in song and
in ballad. 'I can stand (said Sir WALTER one day to
me) on the Eildon-bill, and point out forty-three places,
famous in war and vase.'"