The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-31 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, OCT. 30.

C. Lane and J. Claylon Were indicted for stealing
a fowl and tame chicken, from one Leonard Bald-
win, and from one John Baily, a baker, near the
Portland-road.

C. Lane was a well-dressed lad, of about twelve
years of age, of genteel appearance, and whose
juvenile looks gave a character of a boyish and
truant indiscretion, rather than of a felony, to the.
transaction. Ilk companion was about two years
older, and of a more common appearance.
Mr. C. PIIILLIPS took an objection to the two
prisoners being included in the same indictment,
which was overruled by the Court. • It appeared
that the boys bad taken the fowls in open day light,
in order to make them fight ; and when they were
apprehended the birds were alive and fluttering, and
making a noise under the arms of the juvenile
bailers of these two intended combatants. The
whole prosecution seemed to create a great disgust
in the Jury and the audience, that two such boys
should have been confined in a gaol, and subject to
a legal process for such a juvenile trespass. The
prisoners had•been committed to gaol ky Mr. Grif-
fiths, at High-street, Marylebone,, on the 17th of
October, and Emil, consequently, been confined 14
days, As soon as Bally, the baker, and Baldwin,
the ptiblican, hail given evidence, the Jury exprersed
their wish that the case should not be proceeded in,
and the indictment was consequently withdrawn.
The Learned Judge (ARABIN) dismissed them,
advising them not agairsto set other persons' cocks
to fight ; and the younger boy, with a school-boy
simplicity, replied that he would not.
Thomas Miller was indicted for robbing his
master, George Watkins, a coal-merchant, of Isle-
worth,' of 36 bushels of coals.—Verdict, Guilty.
William Johns was convicted of stealing from his
ready furnished lodgings two sheets, value 10s., the
property of Rebecca Chievell.

SURREY SESSIONS.-KINGSTON, OCT. 30.

• Gabriel Lamb, a stout young man, was convicted
of assaulting William Marr, an old man upwards of
70 years of age.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to pay a fine of
20s. to the King.

The defendant paid the money immediately, and
left the Court. The prosecutor then had to pay the
fees of Court, which he n•as unable to do, and he
was placed in the dock till he could raise the money.
This mottling these Sessions terminated, having
commenced on Monday morning. Nine prisoners
have been sentenced to be transported fur life, viz.:
—Thomas Jones, John Davis alias Phillips, Eliza-
beth Temple, Benjamin Webb, Thomas Lake, Mary
Anne Lewis, James George, Charles Spradbury, and
James Fianna. Two to twenty-one years' trans-
portation, viz., Daniel and James Cartwright,
brothers, who were sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation upon each of three indictments.—Three to
fourteen years' transportation, viz. :—Henry-Lincoln,
Charles Stuart (two indictments—seven years upon
each), and William Edmunds. Five to
.seven years'
transportation, viz. : John Johnson alias Epworth,
William Evans, James Briggs, James Foulks, and
John Tyce. Eleven were sentenced to six months'
hard labour, two to three mouths', two to one
mouth's, and four to fourteen days.

PLUCKING FOWLS ALIVE.—A Liverpool
Paper states that a woman was lately seen plucking a living
fowl in one of the mark-to, regardless of the agonizing cries
and convulsive struggles of the tortured sufferer—and that
the cruel and disgusting practice is by no means uncom-
mon. The Editor threatens to keep a look-out for such
offenders, and to summon them before a Magistrate, and
publish their milts.

A most distressing accident occurred in this
town on Monday night, at a little after nine o'clock. A
woman of the naive of GLovzie, who resides in King.
street, and whose only neighbour was absent at the time,
left the house for a few minutes, for the purpose of pur-
chasing a whitening brush. Her only chill, about three
years of age, was dressed in i* night clothes, though not
in bed, and was amusing, i self on the floor near a tab'e, on
which a lamp was left burning. During the mother's ab-
sence, which was not long, it endeavoured to help itself to
a bit of bread which was lying on a book-case above the
table, and while thus employed, its night gown had come
in contact with the flame of the lamp. In an instant, as
is believed, the little innocent was all in a blaze, and most
unfortunately no one heard its piercing cries, or was ne.kr
to offer aid at the critical moment. Before the mother.
returned, her darling was no more, being literally burnt to
death,---a eight that almost drove her to distraction...
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