The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

and suspects the tenant, and thus originate the agra-
rian outrages. Some landlords and agents ask their
rents in a harsh and intemperate manner—this ap-
pears to the tenant as if the landlord or agent owed
him some ill-will, and he is, therefore, afraid that
they will evict him. Tenants will make great sacri-
fices to serve a landlord or agent who deals with them
in a kind and courteous manner. I know of some
landlords and agents who are more kind and generous
to tenants of a desperate character, than to their more
industrious and peaceable. tenants.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT. _

(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
The Court was occupied in the early part of yester-
day in disposing of cases of an atrocious character,
the details of which are not fit to meet the public eye.
John Joyce, 20, a young man of very respectable
appearance, was indicted for feloniously demanding
money of Frederick Randall, under a threat of charg-
ing him with an offence of the above description.
Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution, and the
prisoner was defended by Mr. Clarkson and Mr.
Bodkin.
The particulars connected with the charge are unfit
to be published. The prisoner was said to be re-
spectably connected.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Judgment
was respited.
Henry Brown, 41, Emma Brown, 16, and Eliza-
beth Jones, 23, were indicted for feloniously making
counterfeit shillings and sixpences, and also for hav-
ing in their possession moulds calculated to make
counterfeit coin. _

Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution.
It appeared, from the evidence, that, from informa-
tion received by the parties, an inspector, named
Penny, accompanied by Sergeant Brennan, and a
constable named Redman, proceeded to a room in one
of the houses in Broad Arrow-court, St. Luke's,
where they found all the prisoners busily engaged in
the act of coining, and surrounded by the implements
made use of by persons of that description. They all
made a violent resistance, the man attempting to
swallow four counterfeit shillings, and was nearly
choked before the officers could get them out of his
mouth. The women also resisted, and when they
were at length secured, they said they had had quite
enough of this - country, and should be glad to
get out of it.
The prisoners, in their defence, declared that they
were the victims of a plot laid by a woman named
Allen, who had placed the thins in their room, and
who, they declared, had " sold' them, for the sake of
the reward usually paid by the Mint for the detection
of offences of this description.
The jury convicted the prisoners, but recommended
the younger one to the mercy of the Court.
Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced the male prisoner
and Elizabeth Jones to be transported for twelve years,
and Emma Brown was ordered to be kept to hard
labour for six months.
The prisoner Jones was very insolent when the
sentence was pronounced upon her, and she left the
bar declaring she had been " sold" by the police.
Thomas Corby was indicted for feloniously forging
an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 61., with intent
to defraud William Franks.
The case was of rather a peculiar description. The
prosecutor is connected with a loan society, to which
application was made for a loan of 6/. for a person
named Elliott, and the name of the proposed security
was given as John Scott. Application was made at
the place indicated as the residence of this person, and
the prisoner represented himself to be him, and signed
the promissory note as John Scott, upon which the
money was advanced. The real Scott was examined
as a witness, and he of course said that the signature
to the bill was a forgery, but in answer to a question
put by the prisoner, he admitted that he had told the
prisoner he might use his name to obtain a loan;
although he understood that it was not to be done
without his knowledge. It was also proved that
Scott's wife had received 3/, of the money that was
advanced, from the prisoner, in the shape of rent. '
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Frederick Grosgane, a ranting preacher,
was charged with creating a mob and obstructing the
carriage and footway in Covent-garden, at an early
hour on Sunday morning.
By the evidence of the constables it was proved
that about 200 persons had been collected together by
the defendant, who refused to desist when cautioned
by the policeman, and was consequently taken into
custody ; he was, however, let out again by the in-
spector, upon the understanding that he would go
away. Instead of doing so he went and resumed his
harangue, and was dwelling upon the " martyrdom"
which he was enduring when again apprehended and
conducted to the station-house amidst the laughter
and hooting of the mob.
A young man in the Court stepped forward in be-
half of the defendant, and stated that he was present
when the preaching was going on ; that there were
not mot more than thirty persons assembled, of
whom only two or three were seriously listening to
the sermon ; and that no obstruction whatever wad

occasioned.
The defendant, who was respectably dressed, said
he was a tailor, and that he preached in the same
place five years prior to 1838, without interruption.
On some occasions he lectured against drinking, but
generally speaking his mission was to preac the
Gospel. On the above morning, having seen a greit
deal of depravity in the neighbourhood, such as boys
selling newspapers, &c., he felt it his duty to express
his abhorrence of such sinful doings. He wondered
why they who were thus desecrating the Sabbath
were not taken into custody, instead of one who was
enjoined to preach the word of God—for this was his
only offence. The defendant was showing the stri4t
analogy of his own case with that of the Apostle Paul,
who was exposed to similar persecution when preach-
ing in the open air, when
Mr. HALL interrupted him, remarking that he did
not wish to prevent his preaching out of doors while
he selected a proper place, where his hearers might
assemble without annoying the public. If he was
again found haranguing in Covent-garden (whith
was generally as well-conducted a place as any in
London) he would be required to find bail.
The defendant left the bar, declaring, with smile
vehemence, that so long as God gave him strength he
would continue to preach in the open air, in spite of
any punishment that might be inflicted.