The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-12 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

James Walker, a costermonger, of most forbid-
ding appearance, and who supported himself with a
crutch, was charged by Forbes, a street-keeper of
St. Sepulchre Without, with cruelly and wantonly
beating a poor hall;starre•! •,- . with the said crutch,
It appeared that he was driving a curt through

SmithAeid•bars, in a state of intoxication, and the
poor animal not being able to go so fast as he
wished, he commenced beating it with his crutch',
about the ribs and head in so cruel a manner, that
Mr. Glover, a respectable tradesman, living on the
spot, and other persons, interfered. His conduct
became then so violent that a mob collected, which
he immediately proceeded to disperse with his
crutch, and actually knocked a boy down with a
violent blow on the back. Forbes was then sent
for, and he was given in custody, and the pony and
cart taken to the green-yard.
Mr. ROGERS ordered him to pay a fine of lOs. for
cruelty, and in dt fault committed him to the House
of Correction for ten days.
The defendant was then moved by Lee, the gaoler,-
muttering threats, " not loud but deep," against
Forbes, who also accompanied him out ; but who,
in less than three minutes, returned into the office
with the blood streaming from his right ear, and a
very severe contusion immediately beneath it.
Forbes then informed the Magistrates that when
they had got Walker within u few paces of the
lock-up place, he suddenly turned round and ex-
claiming, " There, you struck him a tre-
mendous blow under the ear with his fist, which
knocked him against the wall on the other side of
the yard.
Walker was again brought up, and fined a further
sum of forty shillings. Not being able to pay the
money, he was committed for one month, and ordered
to find good bail for his future behaviour.
-ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.—An apple-woman
who had been sitting with her basket of fruit at
Clerkenwell-green, was brought before Mr. LAING,
in custody of Catman, a constable of Islington, and
charged by him, under the Street Act, with ob-
structing the footway pavement.
Mr. LAING discharged the defendant, but ordered
that the fruit should '-be forfeited and taken to the
workhouse.

Carman, loaded with the basket which contained
between 4s. and ss. IA orth of apples and nuts, pro-
ceeded to Clerkenwell workhouse, followed by the
poor woman, still anxious to take a last and linger-
ing look of all she possessed in the world ; when as
they entered Crawford-passage together, she caught
hold of the basket and protested that she would
not submit to be robbed, and struggled to recover
the only means she bad to keep herself and her chil-
dren out of a workhouse. The constable instantly
laying down the basket, took the poor creature
again into custody, and bringing her back to the
office, charged her with an assault.
Mr. LAING fined her, in the penalty of 205., and
in default of payment, ordered her to be committed
to the House of Correction.

Samuel Moss, tailor, of No. 108, Hatton-garden,
came forward and stated that be witnessed the
transaction, and never saw anything in his life so
cruel as the conduct of the constable to the defend-
ant. She never attempted to strike him, but he
violently siezed her by the throat, holding her till
she was actually black in the face, and then beat her
with his stick across the shoulders, until the stick
fell in fragments out of his hand. During the
struggle the poor woman's bonnet fell off, and was
lost in the crowd. Witness, indignant at the con-
stable's behaviour, and pitying the wretched woman,
attended to state these circumstances.
Mr. LAING asked the witness if he knew that the
defendant had been previously charged before him
with another offence.

Mr. Moss replied in the negative.
Mr. LAING—Then she shall find bail, and in de
fau't thereof she was locked up.

THAMES POLICE-OFFICE.

A decent-looking man, of middle age, who gave
his name John Hamilton, was charged with swind-
ling a number of shopkeepers, in the following
manner :—Upon being brought to the office, there
was a host of chandler's-shopkeepers, and other petty
tradespeople attending, who, the moment they clap-
ped their eyes upon him, exclaimed, " Oh ! that's
him—that's the willin." lie looked at them with
a very unaltered countenance, and exclaimed," Poor
mistaken people !" and mistaken surely they were
to be diddled by such a fellow.
It was stated by some of the persons in attend-
ance, that a night or two since the prisoner was
observed to enter several shops, as if in a great
hurry, and having obtained some article, he darted
off, saying, " Set.d round the corner to my house,
and I will pay—l am in a hurry now." In one of
those flights, with a couple of Yarmouth bloaters, he
was stopped by the watchman, taken to the watch-
house, and in his pockets was found a collection of
articles of almost every description. Around his
body was a leathern belt, in which five sovereigns
and some silver were concealed, and he had fifteen
shillings in his pocket.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked if there was any evidence
of fraud against the prisoner.
Here an old woman bustled through the throng—
Yes, your Worship, I charges him ; he comes to me
and sail he was mate of a ship, and borrowed
eighteen-pence, had a dozen of eggs, and four rash-
ers, amounting to three-and-sixpence. He said,
when he got the things, it was all right, and he went
to get change of a 201. note, as he said, but I never
laid eyes upon till now, your Worship.

Mr. BALLANTINE—What a foolish old woman
you must be to give credit to a vagabond fellow
whom you never saw before.
Second shopkeeper—Sir, I was foolish enough to
be done out of some pork sausages and pig's fry in this
way by this very man. He ran into my shop some
months since, and said, " Dear me, Mr. King, these
sausages and that pig's fry looks delightful; let me
have a pound of the sausages and a dish of the fry,
it will please the old woman. Send round to my
house, and I'll pay you ; I have no change. Egad,
A'll surprise the old woman."—Well, I served him,
considering from his respectable appearance that he
was a tradesman.

bird shopkeeper, a grocer—He diddled me out
of some sugar, a cake of chocolate, and some coffee,
in the same way; he came without a hat into my
shop.
Fourth, a publican (from the body of the crowd)
—Yes, he left his hat at my house. He came in,
drunk a glass of brandy and water, and suddenly
darting from his seat, said, " Bless me, that's the
postman; he ran out, pointing to the door, saying,
"lake care of my hat. Postman ! Postman.' " Sure
he never came back; and the hat, why, your Wor-
ship, it was not worth two-pence.
Fifth, a baker—He entered my shop !wady in
the same way, took a couple of French loaves, and
saying he lived round the corner, desired me to
send for the money, but upon inquiry I found I
was—" Done," responded a voice in the crowd;
that was from —, a butcher, who said, "
about four months since he tried it on with me for
some veal cutlets, but it was no go."
Sixth, a merry little Irishman—An please your
Worship, he came into my little shop, and said he
liked the look of my salt fish ; sure, lie purchased
half a cod, and tould me to call upon him for the
money ; but the receive the helfpennyll ever
got from him.
Wayling, the officer—Why, your Worship, this
ere chap was here before for trying on the very same
game. He had thirty-four or thirty-five sovereigns
in the belt about his body then, and said he had
just come from America.
Deverell and Ames, two of the Shadwell officers,
also recognized him, and the office-books being exa-
mined, it was found that be gave upon that occa-
sion the name of Samuel Aldridge.

Adams, a constable, was sent to make inquiries,
and he returned from a lodging held by the prisoner
in Rotherhithe, with two boxes filled with cloches,
tea, sugar, coffee, soap, biscuits, tobacco, dried fish,
red herrings, bacon; salt, &c.
The prisoner was rigidly exan:ined by Mr. BAL-
LANTINE, but gave no account of himself that could
be relied upon.

Mr. BALLANTINE considered him a rogue and va-
gabond within the full legal scope and meaning of
those terms, and therefore committed him to three
months' hard labour in the House of Correction—
and to prevent the county being put to any expencb

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WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Oct 9.

The supply of Wheat here to-day is large, bbtlr frail"
the farmers and up the river : the finest samples, of 014
are Is. per quarter lower, am! other descriptions, witty
all sorts of New, are offering at a decline of 2s. per Val:
ter, at which reduction the millers buy very sparingly, Ow
the market clones excessively dull. Oats are very hesoie
and scarcely maintain the rates of last Friday. Barley
has met extremely dull sale, and may be considered gs'
per quarter lower for the best descriptions, and more aspoo
the damp inferior samples. Beans go off very slowly, and.
aro Is. per quarter lower Malt is Is. per load cheaper.,
Wheat, Rod, Norfolk and Suffolk 50s. 544. to 60s. fine 631..
New 475. 56a. fine 555. to Ws
Whit:.‘ Old 545. 58s. to 635. tine 67

New 49x. 6:1; to Eii: ii;;;iiiv
- Foreign, Red t7B. 53a. to 58s. fine 635.
Ntibite .545. 58a. to R3s. fine Mop
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 284. to 324. fine 3401
- Lincolnshire 284. to 335. fine 355.
-- Yorkshire Wold 2Bs. to 31s. fine 335.
- Foreign --s. to --s. fine --O.
Beans, Old '32s to 38s. fine 438,
- New 375. to 395: fine 401.
Oats, Potato 23s. to 274. fine 245.'
- Poland 204. 225. to 264. fine 216;
- Friesland and Small ... .... .. ... lBs. 20s. to 295. fine 248
-- Mealing ll3id. to 13d. per Stone.
Shelling 294 to XX Od. per Load.
Malt Xs. 43. fine 445. per Load.
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