The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-19 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Thomas Knight was found guilty of stealing a
truck, value 505., the property of John Hall.
The prisoner borrowed the truck at 3d. an hour,
and then offered it for sale.

Sarah Home was also convicted of stealing a
gown, the property of Elizabeth Williams.
John Girdlcr was indicted for stealing a carpet
and chest of drawers, on the Ist of August, the
property of James Straughan.—Guilty.
Benjamin Frazer was indicted for stealing ten
pair of stockings from the shop of Mr. Castles, in
Oxford-street.—Guilty.
Sarah Hawkins and John Knight were indicted
for stealing three silver spoons, the property of
Thomas Goodeve.—Guilty.
John Ross, a journeyman baker, was indicted for
embezzling seven shillings and other monies, the pro-
perty of William Manning, his employer.—Guilty.
John Roberts and Solomon Taylor were indicted
for stealing 125 pounds' weight of lead from the
house of Mr. John Guinea, of Bethnal-geeen, such
lead being his property, on the 28th of June last.—
Guilty.
William Briant was convicted for stealing a bed
and blankets from his furnished lodgings.
The prisoner's master said that he employed about
twenty Irishmen, and the prisoner, for an Irishman,
was a very honest man. (Great laughter.)

PROVINCIAL MEETlNGS.—Preparations arc
going on with the greatest activity for Provincial Meet-
ings in Connaught and Leinster: The Connaught Meeting
is to be held on some day not yet named during the fain--
We feel ourselves authorised to state that Mr. O'CONNELL
intends to be present.—Dublin Morning Register.
ITALIAN PHYSICIANS.—An English Gen-
tleman at Florence had a fall from his horse ; besides some
slight bruises he felt great pain in one of his thumbs,
which was soon attended with inflammation ; and the
surgeon contianed to dress his thumb after the other
hurts were cured. One day his son attended in his
stead.—" Have you visited the Signor Inglese ?" says the
father to the son in the evening. " Yes, I have drawn
out the thorn, and—" " Pazzo the sei !" cried the fa-
ther, "ecco finata la bottega—Blockhead that thou art!
there is an end of the shop."—Best's
DR. PARR.—After dinner, but not often till

he ladies were about to retire, he claimed, in all his
companies, his privilege of smoking, es a right not to be
disputed ; since, he said, it was a condition, " no pipe, no
Palm," previously known, and peremptorily imposed on
all who desired his acquaintance. Speaking of the honour
once conferred upon him, of being invited to dinner at
Carlton-house, he always mentioned, with evident
satisfaction, the kind condescension of his present
MAJESTY, then Prince of WALES, who was pleased to in-
sist upon his taking his pipe as usual. Of the Duke of
SUSSEX, in whose mansion he was not unfrequently a vi-
sitor, he used to tell, with exulting pleasure, that his Royal
Highness not only, allowesi him to smoke, but to smoke
with him. He often represented it as an instance of the
homage which rank and beauty delight to pay to talents
that ladies of the highest stations eonde-
scendedtote office of lighting
and learning,
bis pipe.
It appears that CADONI, the well-known
mountebank, has not had legerdemain enough to preserve
himself from the fangs of the law. At the conclusion of
Paisley fair, CADONI finding his ordinary tricks beginning
to fail, resorted to the expedient of a lottery, as a means
of raising the wind, the prizes of which were k boll
of meal or twenty shillings, and a fat pig or forty shillings.
The bait took, and the shillings poured in. A barber gained
the meal, and the prize ticket for the pig was drawn by
a female. Unfortunately, however, the woman happened
to be in debt, and her creditors became so clamorous for a
share of the lucky windfall, that she was obliged to divulge
the truth that she was employed by CADONI'S landlady
to be the drawer of the prize, and to make sure of
the mountebank knowing her, on holding up her hand
for a prize, she was to wipe her mouth with her
apron. This was done, and she immediately got the
ticket encircled with the words " the pig." She then
mounted the stage, proclaimed her good fortune, and pre-
ferred the money in cash, which she got, but, according to
previous concert, it was all given back except ss. for her
trouble. The barber who got the meal ticket *as also
found to have acted a similar part iu the deception. The
parties having been congregated before the Magistrates,
CADONI was fined in 151., or 90 days' confinement in
Bt idewell, his landlady was amerced in 8/. 133. 6d., and
the poor barber was fined in 15s.—Glasgow Chronicle.
AN APPARITION.---The streets for some
time past have been much infested by an uncommonly
tall, gaunt, and ugly African, bare-beaded and bare-
footed, and altogether as frightful a figure as Mumbo
Jumbo himself, who calls himself Prince JOHN of the
royal family of Nitro. One evening last week, about
midnight, as a certain undertaker was' going to his home
in the suburbs, along the centre Meadow Walk, he
was accosted by the uncouth salutation of " Holo, Massa,
how do ?" and, turning round, he descried the aforesaid
African advancing rapidly towards him. Raising a cry of
horror, that resounded through the meadows, he betook
himself to his heels ; and, coming up to three gentle-
men, threw himself breathless and almost lifeless into
their arms. Before he had time to explain the cause
of his very strange conduct, the African was close
upon them, howling and blaspheming at a fearful rate;
and as seon as he became visible to them, the whole party
fled in different directions. The undertaker had got but
amesahnos of
short way,
plivng from his sable persecutor, to leaphen he thought proper, as the only
over a hedge ; the consequence of which was, that
he fell into a ditch on the other side, up to his middle
in water. His groans and cries brought the watchman
to the spot, by whom he was extricated from his perilous
sitnation. The African was next day caught begging on
the High-street, and taken to the Police Office, where be
was directed to relieve the town of his presence. Having
set this direction at defiance, his Royal Highness was, on
Monday, sentenced to 30 days' confinement in Bridewell.
—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.