Star.
London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

BOW. STR.EET.

lasses Hint4ins was yesterday brought before Tuostas MILLS,
ff.q.'hy Morris and Ledbetter, from Hampshire, charged with
being at large before the expiration of his sentence, vie. transporta-
tion. The prisonet: is a short but very stout-built man, with light
hair. In the year 1822 he was connected wit Iva desperate gang of
thieves, and was charged at this office with being concerned in
robbing Mr ;Thomas, a jeweller, of the Strand, of his pocket-book,
containing bills, &c. in the Pit of Drury-lane Theatre, of which
offence he was convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions, and was sem.
tenced to 14 yeats transportation. Two years ago be was found by
Bond, 'an *Meer of this establishment, in the Adelphl Theatre be
having effected his escape from Botany Biy and returned to ing-
land. He was tried, at the next ow Bailey Sessions for the capital
offence of being at large before the expiration olthc period to which
he had been sentenced, and pleaded Guilty. He was sentenced to
suffer death, but the sentence was cominuted to. transportation for
life. He was conveyed with other clitivicts to Sidney, New. South
Wales, and there he remained but a short time before he again con-
trived to effect his escape, and returned to England. Oa Thursday,
Morris and Ledbetter *ent to Weyhill Fair, Hampshire, in conse-
quence of having received information that the prbooer attended
fairs to buy and sell bones, and they found him exercising hie trade
of a horse dealer, and took him into custody.
Mr. Hat s asked the prisoner if he had anything to lay
The prisoner replied, tBht he had a wife and two children, and
affection for them bad caused• him twice, at the basatd of his life,
to make Ms e<cape from transportation. He assured the Magis-
trate, that since he had been at large, he had been industriously
employed in his business. mid could prove, by evidence, that he
had acted as a good husband and father ; he thereto/a trusted that
his life would be spared. He solemnly declared that be had no
participation in the robbery of Mir. Thomas, and since his first con-
viction, his life had been more miserable than it was possible to
imagine._

Mr. Maas said, that the eircunistances he had stated would be
taken into consideration, he had no doubt, in the proper rsarter.—
' He was fully committed for trial.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, several residing in the parish of St. Mary,
Islington, appeared to answer the complaint of the pariah-officers,
for exposing certain goods on the pavement before their houses,
contrary to the Act to Parliament, .5 Geo. LI I.

A petson named Mayor stated, that on the 9th Instant, he passed
the shop of Mr. Walkden, in Hedge-row, Islington, acid saw a quart.
tity of plates, basins, and other article. of crockery, exposed in the
front of his shop window on the pavement. They wete under a
sort of board 4f shelf, which projected from the window.
The Act of Parliament was here produced, and the particular
clause pointed out to the Magistrate.
Mr. Harmer, who attended for Mr. Walkden, suggested that the
Act of Parliantent was never meant to apply to cases like the pre-
sint. His client's shop bad formerly been a butcher's, and In front
there was a show-board; it was under this board that the goods were
placed, and not in any situation to annoy the foot passengers, which
he conceived was contemplated by the Act.
Mr. Itocaas said, that the words of the Act were imperative,
" beyond the line.of, or outside the house:" There certainty must
be a conviction in this case.
Cope, the beadle of Islington, said, the part-h did not wish to press
for a penalty, their only object being to remove the nuisance.

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Waliiken 'aid be t oundered his case as a very hard one: he
bad bees but six months in business, and was now vexatiously
drawn fruni his business to answer this complaint, when the same
nuisance, if such it was, had been in existence for these last ten
years, and was in daily occurrence amongst the neighbouring
tradesmen, without being in the slightest degree noticed by the
parish authorities.
Cope said they would all be summoned in turn througheut,the
parish.
Mr. llamas said, as it did not appear-to be the wish of the pa-
ri.h to press for the penalty, the defendant must pay the cos and
abate the nuisance.—The ethercaaes were similarly disposed oL