The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

even to lay their hats upon the table, a convert"
denied to no other persons. Owing to a defect in
construction of the court, the difficulty of hearing,
very great, and one of the magistrates, at least, t°,l
plains of the defect almost every day he sits; be%
porters are now placed at a greater distance from:
applicant, the witness, the prisoner, and the 006;
trate, than before. The applicant and witness nre
one side of the court, the reporters' seat by the oft
site wall. In addition to the inconvenience of:
tance, the new seat has been placed directly beta'
the gaoler's door and the magistrates' fire-00%f
that there is a current of air constantly rushing !,,d
the cell-yard, which, in cold weather, will beL
prejudicial to the comfort, if not to the health, ofd
who sit there. The reporters, in the first innt';
remonstrated with the chief clerk on the subject,
finding it fruitless, memorialised the Secrets
State. The subjoined answer has been return
the application :
"
" Gentlemen,—l am IdVi
rheict eha l I , t
edb
y Aug.s Secret
cr2,
et
t
James Graham to acknowledge the receipt 01.
letter of the 17th inst , complaining that an alters
which has been recently made in the position of
reporters' box at the Clerkenwell Police-court a'
e
inconvenience to the reporters in the discharge °lt
duties. And I am to inform you that Sir ;oJ
Graham is desirous that every opportunity nb°
given for affording to the public accurate info
of the proceedings at the Police-courts.
" Sir James Graham has made a full incluirlot
the magistrates respecting the alteration, and.
the report which he has received, it appears OP
change has been made with a view to the on
nience of the public and of those engaged in the,,r
duct of business in the Court; he directs me, fr
fore, to inform you, that under the circumstanTty
must decline issuing any instructions to disturuov
existing arrangements.—l am, Gentlemen, /511.„s
dient servant, " H. MANNERS SU'Llv
" To the Reporters, &c."
WORSHIP-STREET.
Two men, named John Hunt and James Ifa';:f,
the former a journeyman locksmith, and the la",te,
weaver, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Breisfill
ton, charged on suspicion of having stolen a
quantity of jewellery and other articles, the Fr°
of Mr. Joseph Burns, landlord of the Black
public-house, in School-house-lane, Mile-end. ,40
The prosecutor stated that the prisoners
i;j6:
members of a Society called " The Old Fri' 04
the meetings of which were held at his ho 'ft
they both attended there at a general meeting °tip
members on the previous night. On going o_4
soon after the company had dispersed, he foull°e
the door of his bed-room, which was situated
diately over the club-room, had been broken
and that a quantity of jewellery, consisting of 01
gold brooches, several rings, seals, breast-plug:4
other articles, had been abstracted from the dinesy
compartments of three chests of drawers, the vise
of which had been forced with some iron I,oegi
ment. In consequence of the equivocal conlk
the prisoners during the evening, he imp:lo'll.to
suspected that they were implicated in the rob
and caused them to be taken into custody.
Mr. BROUGHTON inquired if anything was er
as to the habits and general character 0`
prisoners ?
Sergeant Barker said that he knew nothingtiot
all prejudicial to the character of Waterloo, batfol
Hunt had been known to the police for solo°
as a suspected person. *O.l
Mr. BROUGHTON said that there was no no or
to inculpate the prisoner Waterloo; but he
dered the conduct of Hunt was so full of suss
that he should certainly remand him for t
inquiry.
The prisoner, Waterloo, was discharged, 011
other prisoner was ordered to find substantill
for his appearance on Wednesday next.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
George Smith, alias Samuel Beevington, was 0110
with having on two occasions fraudulently.obt7oe
the enlistment money as a recruit, he having 44
sealed the fact of his being a discharged soldier,
the 2d Life Guards.
Prisoner enlisted with Sergeant Greaton 00
Grenadier Guards, on Friday, and in answer t°oo,
interrogatories of whether he had ever been a s°, dye
or discharged on any prior enlistment, replied let ha
negative. It was subsequently ascertained thisofe
had been dismissed for bad conduct from the 2ate
Guards, and he was brought before the Magistrasetll
this Court on Saturday. On reference to the ofo
section of the Mutiny Act, Mr. Burrell felt 9 tie
doubt upon the interpretation to be put uP°r!th s
words of the clause, and dismissed the man with
caution. On Wednesday the prisoner again eni is
nil
with Sergeant Philips, of the East India Corn o
service, and was brought to this Court
be sworn in. He had answered the several quests
10
put to recruits in the outer office, and was takeno_. d
before the Magistrate to be attested, when some
the officers of the Court recognised him ",,L1:1 ire
first had been charged on Saturday. The 'el °ore
first stoutly denied it, but finding that there 0,
three or four persons ready to swear to his identitim.
admitted the fact, and added that he was now
posed to make a good soldier.
the
Mr. BURRELL, on turning to the latter part of d
yesterds&ol
section in the Mutiny Act, before referred to, was
opinion that the concealment of his having beet./
soldier before the justice at the time of his eOIF,
for attestation was clearly an offence, and cowry!:
defendant for one month as a rogue and vagabond
MA R YLEB ONE.
Att'
ASSAULT ON TOLL.COLLECTORS.—Yesterday
Henry Dawes, a veterinary surgeon, residingbe
Stephen's-mews, Fitzroy-square, and John &Tip
wood, a man in his service, were charged before
Rawlinson with the following violent assault
Thomas Staples, a toll-collector, at the HaMr_Asl
turnpike, deposed that on the previous Wedne''ty
the defendants, who were in a gig, drove up t°
gate, gate, when Mr. Dawes asked for change fora 511"
Complainant gave him a sixpence and three lied be
pieces, expecting of course that the shilling Yien Boti
handed to him. He, however, did not receive it, t,
Mr. Dawes was in the
act of driving on when c.,40
plainant laid hold of the horse, and asked for theill'ej
to which he was entitled. Mr. Dawes then ,ded,t),
that he bad had ninepence from him (compla!hinlie
and flogged him with considerable violence wit" 0
whip. He (Mr. Dawes) then knocked him doW,010:1
did also the servant, who in addition thereto lac
him as he lay on the ground. Ales
'William Easum, another toll-collector at the,,,,,ies
stmt
was stated that on seeing the way in which `4lbo
was treated he spoke to Mr. Dawes, telling hiril.cod
he was acting wrong, when he (Mr. Dawes) in° the
a flogging upon him ; he was also struck by

servant. -
h°
Mr. Dawes, in answer to the charge, said t"5 a A
gave Staples 6d., and received from him 3d• 104
ticket. He (Staples) seized the horse by, the P,
and used language of a most disgusting descriP,oll'hits
and he then got out of the gig and knocked l'oys
down. His servant used no more force then,toro
necessary towards Staples to remove his band '
the reins. • ge
The defendants entered into security for the bed
pearance at the sessions, in the event of their uw
indicted.

CHICKEN MANUFACTORT.—Nature is getting
;Of
perfluous. We rather think she will soon be vote(l,°"-or
fashion, and dispensed with. There's a chap just Oirity
publication-office hatching chickens in a big box, 13,7er
day, having a thousand eggs always doing. Theilttie
ble of attending them is slight ; the heat costs very P,beit
and the chickens crack their shells and walk up to.; of
dough and water like wood-choppers to their dinteli;
sailors to their grog. They are clean, strong, and '",„"tigb
grow fast, and rarely die (not being draggled th"
the grass) ; and whoever has a hatching machiped ot
have " Spring Chickens" every week in the year,
small expense. If we could only invent a machine jot.
eggs, now, hens would be done with.—New York 10_,,,,0e,

BIRTHS. ife 4
On the Ist ult., at St. Vincent's, West Indies, the,Wicis4
Alexander K. Wight, Esq., manager of the Colonix '
there, of a son. 3f
.On .
On the 23d inst., at Upper Harley-street, Mrs. PI-

Anderson, of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Bedford-row, Mrs. C. J. Shoubridge'
a son. •
On the 22d inst., at Stoke Newington, the lady d
Miller, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., at Holmwood Parsonage, Surrey, tile
of the Rev. J. S. Utterton, of a son.

MARRIED. ~
On the 22d inst., at Streatham Church, John, yoaelytiligsr
of Joseph Dawson, Esq., of Streatham-hill, to Mal, /
daughter of the late William Bousfield, Esq. 'a-
On the 22d inst., at St. John the Evangelist's, ,it,
ster, Barnard Wight Holt, Esq., of Abingdon-streeDeo, 0
minstsr, to Sarah Margaret, only child of Dyer
Walcot-place, Kennington, Esq. icess,r6
On the 22d inst., at St. George's Church, Hane,vers; ficauoi
Giles, eldest son of Giles Redmayne, Esq., of e Esq.,
street, to Eliza, third daughter of Francis Sadler,
Highgate.

On the 22d inst., at Tewkesbury, William
DIED. of
Hawkes, the infant son of W. M. Richards, surge°°' f
town.
On th 3d ist., at Cronsdt, Wurtembrg, the Bev" O.
Parsons,eVicar of Sanderton and Arundel,e and late Fell°‘
Magdalen College, Oxford. south
On the litth inst., at the Grand Hotel de Rouen, south
Maria, the wife of G. Suttor, Esq., of Sydney, Neff
Wales.
On the 20th inst., Sophia, widow of G. W. Lyndon, Eros*
On the 22d inst., at Connaught-terrace, Bage"re-
Luke Wade, Esq., aged 77.
On the 21st ult., at Otte Suffolk, the Rev. J. Youlfiier
On the 22d inst., at Haver-court, near Gravesena
rietta, the youngest daughter of Mr. C. A. Becket' „flip Per
On the 23d inst., at Hornsey, John Cooper, Esq.,
Bedfor
thed lace.
On -p2U inst., at Tredegar-place, Bow, Mrs. Dm.
cher, relict of Mr. Henry Fulcher, aged 76.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUZI is
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Bun Office, 14°' of
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the
Middlesex, Esaturday, August 24, 1544.