The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

and if we like we'll wrench the knockers off every door in the street,
and you can't help it."

The defendants admitted they were rather " merry," but thought
the police bad. no right to interfere and lock them up.
They were ordered to pay a fine of 40i. each, or in default to
be imprisoned to hard labour for one month. Hammond directly
paid his fine, but Hill, after feeling in vain in his pockets, declared
he had no money, and was conveyed to the lock.up
WORSHIP-STREE,T.

RUNNING INTO THE LION'S MOUTII.—TWO coal porters,
named Joseph Nelson and John Pegrant were chat ged with
having endeavoured to obtain charitable contributions by means
of false and fradulent representations.
Mr. Pierce, the Superintendent of the H Division of Police,
stated that the prisoners called on Saturday evening at his house
in Princes-street, Spitalfields, and handed in a petition in
behalf of a coal porter, named Frederick Breed living at No.
21, Macclesfield-street,. Ciry-road, who, the petition stated,
had met with an • accident by falling off a plank ; that
he had been received into the hospital, and that . his wife and
four children were in great distress, and would be thankful for
the smallest assistance. Several signatures and subscriptions
were subjoined, and the prisoners, on being questioned, said
that. they had been employed by the poor man's wife to solicit
for more. A policeman was r'ispatched to the house in Mac-
clesfivld •street, when he ascertained that the whole story was
a fabrication, and the prisoners were taken to the station-house.
Frederick Breed a coal porter, stated that he had known the
prisoners some years, but he had not authorised them to collect
money on his account. He had been recently confine to his
bed, from inflammation in the lungs, and a statement of Ilia
situation was drawn up to excite charity, but it was circulated
exclusively amongst his fellow workmen. He had only one
child, and he was never in an hospital in his life.
Mr. BROUGIITON intimated to the prisoners that they had
incurred the liability of being commi tot for three months,
with hard labour, to the House of Correction, but as they es ere
not known to the police he should mitigate the punishment to
a fortnight's imprisonment.
The prisoners were accordingly committed for 14 days.
A RUNAWAY If ussiarsn, —James Massey, a journeyman
tailor of dissipated appearance, was charged with having de-
serted his wife and two children, leaving them chargeable to
the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch.

Caste, the relieving officer, stated that the prisoner's wife
applied to him for relief about two months ago, stating that
her husband had absconded leaving her entirely without
the means of subsistence. She was taken at once into
the house with her two children, and every exer-
tion was made to discover the retreat of the
prisoner without success until the preceding day, when he was
accidentally met with, and taken into custody. This was the
second time that the prisoner had deserted his family, and the
parish authorities considered it their duty to press for his con-
viction and punishment, as a warning to others.
The prisoner begged hard to be indulged with one more
trial, and promised that he would never again offend, but the
parish officer was inex-rable, and the Magistrate committed the
prisoner for one month to the House of Correction.
Robert Jones, No. 1f of the Rural Police of Weedon,
Northamptonshire, was placed at the bar, for final examina-
tion, before Mr. Broughton, charged with having assaulted and
wounded Joseph Phillips, a canal boatman, lately in the ser-
vice of Messrs. Pickford and Co., the carriers.
Mr. Young, the snperinteindent of the Weedon police, who
had come to town expressly to watch the case, was in attend-
ance, as were also several of the priioner's relations, persons of
very respectable appearance, who appeared to take a warm in-
terest in his behalf.

The complainant (who had been in the hospital since the oc-
rence took place, and who still appeared in a very weak and
languid state) gave evidence to the following effect :—At about
one o'clock on Sunday morning last, he was standing on the
canal bridge, City-road, when the prisoner came up in com-
pany with a boatman, named Richard Wisdom, and as he was
passing him, the prisoner, without the slightest pro-
vocation, pushed him off the pavement. He asked
the prisoner by what right he treated him in that
manner, and the prisoner answered, " I will show you
my authority," and immediately pulled out his truncheon, with
which he struck him a violent blow on the head, and knocked
him down. lie was deprived of consciousness for some time ;
but, on recovering his senses, he fourd that a young woman,
named Caroline Harrison, had seized hold of the prisoner, and
wa. endeavouring to detain him. He got up for the purpose
of assisting, but he was so weak and giddy through the loss of
blood, that he again fell to the ground. A policeman of the G
division soon afterwards came up, and the prisoner was given
into custody.
Mr. 13issuctrrow said, that according to the evidence before
him, the prisoner had acted with a degree of most wanton vio-
lence, for which there did not appear to have been the shadow
of an excuse. As, however, he was wanted at the Northamp-
ton Assizes in several cases to be tried, he should allow him to
arrange matters with the complainant.
The result was, that the defendant agreed to pay the com-
plainant 21. ; and, at the request of the Magistrate, also paid
10s into the poor-box.

JUVENILE SIIOPLIFTING.-4nn Jones and Joanna Warren, two
little girls, aged respectively 11 and 13 years, were charged with
having stolen a piece of bobbinet, containing 105 yards, from the
shop of Mr. Tayne, a haberdasher, in ...thoreditcli.
The prosecutor stated that on the preceding evening the prison_
era entered his shop, and requested to be shown some pieces of
bobbinet, which were accordingly p!aced before them. Witness,
having had cause to suspect them, watched them closely, and per-
ceived the prisoner secrete one •of the pieces under her shawl.
He immediately took hold of her and charged her with the robbery,
upon which the other prisoner made towards the door and attempted
to escape, but she was stopped by the porter, and a policeman hav-
ing been called, both the prisoners were given into custody.
Both the prisoners were well known to the police, and it was
stated that the girl Jones belonged to a notorious family of thieves,
the members of which had for two or three generations lived upon
plunder.
The prisoners were committed to the House of Correction for a
n2ontle.