The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OUT. '-22.

The sessions commenced to-day. The traverse
list was unusually long, and the felonies are, we un-
derstand, proportionably numerous. Since the last
sessions the court has undergone additional altera-
tions; the bar seats having been brought consider-
ably nearer to the bench, an alteration with which all
the counsel present expressed themselves very much
pleased. The Grand Jury, however;--were not so
well satisfied with the accommodation provided for
them, and, stating that their room was too damp and
too small, they took possession of the coat sel's
robing-room. The latter gentlemen complained of
this invasion to the Court; upon which_ the Chair-
man told them that it was done by mistake and that
the Grand Jury should -be accommodated in the
Committee-room, until a proper room should be pro-
vided for them.

Two constables, named Jordon and Reynolds, were
indicted for an assault upon Mr. Fenton, the at-
torney. a a

On the day named in the indictment, the prose-
cutor had a horse cause tried in the Court of King's
Bench, in which he had the good fortune to obtain
a verdict. He took his witnesses and one or two
friends to dine at a house called " The St. John of
Jerusalem," from which they proceeded in the even-

is to Sadler's Wells Theatre. Whilst one of the

party was purchasing tickets at the pit-door, the
defendant Jordon came up to the prosecutor, who
was standing in the passage with both hands in his
breeches pockets, and pushed_ him out of the way;
and.upon his remonstrating, he was seized by both
Jordon and Reynolds, dragged into the race-ground
of the theatre, and from thence taken to a public-
house. Here he was told he would be allowed to
depart on paying the constables 10s., to which he
replied he would not pay them tea farthings. They
then carried him to the watch-house, where he was
locked tip in a cell about seven yards square, with-
out fire or light, and' subject to other and worse in-
conveniences, from half-past ten o'clock at night
until half-past eleven next day, when he was taken
before a justice and held to bail for an alleged assault
upon the constables, for which be was tried at the
last sessions and acquitted. The prosecutor then
preferred this indictment against the defendants, and
also commenced an action against them for false im-
prisonment. He stated most positively, and so did
the other witnesses on his behalf, that he and his
party were not in the slightest degree intoxicated.
The Jury found both defendants Guilty.

The CHAIRMAN severely censured the gross mis-
conduct of the constables, and sentenced Jordon to
pay a fine of 151., and Reynolds 101., to the King,

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, OCT. 22.

These sessions commenced this day before the
Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Alderman J. J.
SMITH, and the Recorder.

Thonias Penny was indieted for assaulting Mrs.
Sarah Braham, the wife of David Braham, Esq., bill-
broker, residing in Temple-place, Blackfriars-road.
The defence set up was, that the prosecutrix had
committed the first violence by pushing the defend-
ant. This was positively denied, and the Jury
finding the defendant Guilty, lie was sentenced to 1-1,
days' imprisonment in the Borough Compter,