The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

dan. It being proved that the prisoner had eimittqtxpel' y put
into his pocket a sovereign, which the prosecutor accidentally let
fall when alighting from the stage, he was remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, J. Lloyd, a powerfu/-
looking fellow dressed as a butcher, was fully committed on a
charge of stealing a sovereign from William Beanclerc, a gentle-
man's servant.
Yesterday week the complainant, a very simple sort of personage,
was walking along Old-street, and the prisoner was walking near
him. They saw a man who was before them drop a small mar
which the prisoner picked up, and found it contained two needles.
" This man must be a tailor, and I'll play him a trick," said the
prisoner, and taking the needles from the case, he called to the
stranger, and, sheaving him the case, asked him what it contained?
" Two needles," said the stranger. The prisoner .affected to din&
what he said, and gave a knowing look at the complainant. The
stranger offered to back his assertion by a bet. The prisoner re-
gretted that he had no change, and asked the complainant to lend
him a sovereign till the bet was decided. The complainant said he
bad not a shilling. " But you have a watch, upon which we can
borrow the money," said the prisoner. The complainant yielded
to the suggestion, and pledged his watch at a shdp in the neigh-
bourhood for a sovereign, which he delivered to the prisoner. The
bet was then made, and the stakes deposited in the hazels of one
who appeared to be a disinterested person, when the case being ex-
amined, out popped the two needles. The stranger immediately
snatched the stakes, and the whole party ran off, but the prisoner
was pursued and taken.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a hackney-coachman, named
Richard Ward, was brought before the sitting Magistrates
J. Cuasnixas, Esq., charged with having violently assaulted a
gentleman named Bonfield, his wife, and child, on the preceding
afternoon.
The complainant stated, that on Sunday, as he was returning
into town in his gig, accompanied by his wife and child, on pro-
ceeding along the Kent-road, the defendant, who was driving ar
hackney-coach at a most furious rate in the contrary direct:on,
ran against the wheels of the gig, and nearly upset it. rate,
complainant seeing the fellow bent on mischief, and completely
careless as to what damage be committed, endeavoured to get ow,
of the way, in order to save himself and family, and whilst so
doing, the defendant, without the slightest provocation, cut away
with his whip at those in the gig, by which violence on the part
of the coachman Mr. &infield, his wife, and child, were severely
punished, the lash taking effect each time over their heads anal
shoulders. A gentleman who witnessed the outrage, and attempt-
ed to expostulate with the defendant on his gross conduct, also re-
ceived a desperate blow on the aide of the bead for his pains from
Ward, who is a most powerful man.
The three different assaults being sworn to against the defeud-
eat, he was committed for want of bail.

Sicinararrx, APRIL Io.—About two months since a wed-
ding took place in the neighbourhood of Bantry, to which the
principal part of the relations of the bride and bridegroom were
invited ; unfortunately the fumes of the whiskey soon began to
be felt very sensibly by the guests, and a quarrel was of course the
consequence ; but whether it originated in any former dispute or
not, I have not been able to learn ; suffice it that a blow was in-
flicted upon an infatuated man, of which he soon afterwards died-
No person has yet been apprehended on account of this shocking
deed.'