The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-18 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH STREET

COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE.—BRUTAL ASSAULT ON
THE MESSENGER OF THE HAYMARKET THEATRE.--John
Kennedy, one of a number of fellows who nightly hang
about the Haymarket Theatre, and cause great confusion
by running after and annoying persons leaving the theatre
to know whether they require cabs, &c., was brought be-
fore Mr. Knox charged with the following brutal assault
on Alfred Bell, messenger at the Haymarket Theatre.
Bell said that on the previous he saw the prisoner and
three other men at the dress circle entrance of the theatre
annoyirg ladies by soliciting them to have cabs. He
attempted to move the men, when the prisoner turned
round and gave him a violent blow on the nose, knocking
him down, and on getting up the prisoner gave him another
blow in the face and then ran away.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the complainant said ho had not
been to a doctor yet, but his nose was broken.
Police• constable 300 A proved pursuing the prisoner and
taking him into custody.
The prisoner said he was shoved by the complainant, and
he thought he was justified in striking him.
Mr. Knoi said the prisoner was one of a gang of touters
who hung about the theatre and were a perfect nuisance.
The complainant was only doing his duty in trying to re-
move them, so that persons leaving the theatre should he
allowed to do so without being annoyed, when the prisoner
commits a violent assault upon him and breaks his nose,
He should sentence the prisoner to two months imprison-
ment with hard labour.

CAUTION TO BEERSHOP KEEPERS.--MT Daniel Bard,
the keeper of a beershop at High-street, St, Giles's, was
summoned by the police for opening his house for the sale
of beer before one o'clock on Sunday.

Inspector James Brennan, of the F division, proved
visiting the defendant's house at a quarter pas 12 on Sun-
day morning, the Bth inst., in company of Sergeant Ackrill,
and seeing six men standing in front of the bar, one of
them drinking from a quart pot containing malt liquor.
Having called Mrs Bard's attention to the men being there,
ho went into a room at the rear of the bar and saw some
men sitting at a table, on which were strewed some playing
cards. There was also a quart pot with beer in it. Mrs
Bard represented the persons in the room as her lodgers.
In answer to Mrs Bard, who represented the husband,
Inspector Brennan said the door of the house was not shut,
only closed to.

Sergeant Ackrill corroborated the inspector, and said that
on leaving with the inspector he placed a constable to watch
the house to see whether any of the persons Mrs. Bard said
were lodgers come out.
A constable said from a quarter past 12 to 2 o'clock he
saw persons leave the house and one enter.

Mrs Bard having called some witnesses,
Mr Knox aseertained from the inspector that the defen-
dant had previously been fined 20s and costs for keeping
his house open till a quarter past one.
The inspector and sergeant both stated that bad charac-
ters frequented the house.
Mrs Bard said the police had not told the truth.
Mr Knox said he did not believe two such intelligent
officers as the inspector and sergeant would swear what was
not true.
The defendant was fined 20s and costs.

THAMES.
ROGUES IN GRAIN.—SCANDALOUS ROBBERY.—Thomas
Clark, George 0 wen, and George Wilton, were brought
before Mr Paget, charged with being concerned in stealing
three sacks of oats, the property of Messrs. Sewell and Co.,
farmers, of Carbury, near Woodford-bridge, in Essex.
Yesterday, in consequence off' information received, a,
police-constable named Louis Lambert, 311 K, received
instructions from Inspector Kenessey, of the K division, to
watch Messrs Sewell's vans and carts on their way to
London, as it was believed some of their men were robbing
them of corn to a gres.t extent. Lambert saw a van drawn
by three horses bel.-jeging to Messrs Sewell, and in charge of
Clark, drive to the Bird-in-Hand publichouse in Bow
in the after-,oon. The team stopped there. Owen, who is
employet at the stables atttched to the Bird-in-Hand, took
a sac 7:‘ of oats off the van, carried his load down the yard of
th'd Bird-in •Hand, and was joined by Wilton, who is the
ostler to another publican named Flowers, who is also a
contractor, and lives nearly opposite Wilton, opened a
padlock which secured the stable door, brought out another
sack, and held it wide open while Owen discharged the
sack of oats he took from the van into it. Lambert then
made his appearance and at once captured the two ostlers,
who seemed thunderstruck. Lambert also made a prisoner
of Clark. There were two moro sacks of oats in the van,
and Lambert believed they would have been taken into the
stables of the Bird• in• Hand it he had not been pre-
sent. The prisoners begged most • earnestly of Lambert
to release them, and offered him money. Wilton said,
" I'll give you anything to let me go."
In answer to Mr. Paget, the constable said Clark was
present when Owen took the sack of oats off the van, and
while it was being taken into the stable he stood in the
road close to his horses.

Mr. Henry Sewell, solicitor, and in partnership with his
brother as a farmer, in Essex, said the three sacks of oats
belonged to him and his brother. He looked at the samples
of black oats taken from the sacks, and a sample taken
from a building on his farm. The samples were all alike.
He had a manufactory in London. The van ought to
have come up empty yesterday. The horses were fed
with a mixture of chaff and oats in nosebags.
There ought not to have been any oats in sacks in the van.
Clark had been carter and foreman in his employ at the
farm for three years.

Lambert said that two other men in Messrs. Sewell's
employ had been engaged in stealing their corn, and asked
for a remand.

Mr. Pagot remanded the prisoners for a week.

ANOTHER FAMINE IN HUNGARY.--The Pestic
Hirnok, professes to have learned from reliable sources that
the recent hard frosts have destroyed nine-tenths of the
rape and four-tenths of the wheat sown in Hungary. The
loss sustained is estimated at 40,000,000fi., but the accuracy
of the estimate is questionable.

THE MURDER ON BOARD THE SAXON.—There
is a naval court-martial in session at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, for the trial of Acting Master Charles Danenhower,
of the United States navy, upon a charge of murder on the
high seas, in shooting James Gray, mate of the British
barque Saxon, in October last, off the coast of Africa. The
charges are preferred by Mr. Seward, Secretary of State,
upon the information of Lord Lyons, the British Minister.
The case was submitted to a court of Liquify, after the
return of the Vanderbilt, on which the accused was serving,
and he was fully exonerated from blame, and justified for
the act, and the finding, it was understood, was approved
by ate Secretary of the Navy. His lordship the British
Minister, not being satisfied with the result of the pro-
ceedings, has induced the Government to convene a court-
martial for the trial of Mr. Danenhower, and the case is,
as we have said, in process of trial.--. Yew loric