their corporation into trouble.

Ann Boyle, charged with being too _lively_ in the street. Let off on
condition of being quiet for the time to come.

Thomas Dixon, charged with petty larceny. Guilty.

_Dixon_. I wish to have judgment suspended.

_Recorder_. It's a bad time to talk about suspension; why do you
request this?

_Dixon_. I've an uncle I want to see, and other relations.

_Recorder_. In that case we'll send you to Black well's island for six
months, you'll be sure to find them all there. Sentence accordingly.

Charles Enroff, charged with petty larceny--coming Paddy over an Irish
shoemaker, and thereby cheating him out of a pair of shoes.--Guilty.

Sentenced to the penitentiary, Blackwell's island, for six months, to
get out stone.

Charles Thorn, charged with assaulting Miss Rachael Prigmore.

_Recorder_. Miss Prigmore, how came this man to strike you?

_Rachael_. Because I wouldn't have him. (A laugh.) He was always a
teasing me, and spouting poetry about roses and thorns; so when I told
him to be off he struck me.

_Prisoner_ (theatrically). Me strike you! Oh, Rachael--

"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs?"

_Prisoner's Counsel_. That's it, your honour. Why did she kick him
down stairs?

This the fair Rachael indignantly denied, and the prisoner was found
guilty.

_Recorder_. This striking of women is a very bad crime, you must get
out stone for two months.

_Prisoner_. She'll repent, your honour. She loves me--I know she does.

"On the cold flinty rock, when I'm busy at work,
Oh, Rachael, I'll think of thee."

Thomas Ward, charged with petty larceny. Guilty. Ward had nothing to
offer to _ward_ off his sentence, therefore he was sent to the island
for six months.

Maria Brandon, charged with petty larceny. Guilty. Sentenced to pick
oakum for six months.

_Maria_. Well, I've friends, that's comfort, they'll sing--

"Oh, come to this bower, my own stricken deer."

_Recorder_. You're right, Maria, it's an _oakum_ bower you're going to.

The court then adjourned. See Note 4.

But all these are nothing compared with the following, which at first I
did not credit. I made the strictest inquiry, and was informed by a
legal gentleman present that it was correct. I give the extract as it
stood in the newspapers.

_Influence of a Pretty Girl_.--"Catherine Manly," said the Recorder
yesterday, in the s