The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Robert Tuckwell, a waiter at the Trevor, said that
amongst other acts of misconduct of which Kelley was
guilty, and which led to the serious disturbance which fol-
lowed was—that he went up to a young woman who was in
company with a man and "hugged" her. Witness spoke
to subsequent violence of Kelley.
James Jaques, another waiter, also proved his miscon-
duct. All these witnesses deposed as to the state in which
defendant was. They all agreed that he was not sober.
Police-constable Watts, 253 B, said he found Mr. Street
and the prisoner Kelley struggling, and seeing Mr. Street
bleeding from injuries he had received, he took Kelley upon
his charge, when Brown came up, got between them, and
said he should not be taken. Some soldiers and other
people pulled, Kelley one way and witness the other, and
he was rescued, but Mr. Street having run in advance
stopped Kelley, and witness was approaching him when
prisoner holding up the butt end of his riding whip said he
would knock him down. As he attempted to take Kelley
another constable fortunately arrived at the moment and
prevented his carrying his threats out.

Andrew Cluxton, 276 B, said that Brown violently as-
saulted him. He kicked him repeatedly on the legs.
Kelley was intoxicated, Brown had not been drinking so
freely, and knew well what he was about.
Mr. Arnold considered the matter so serious that he de-
clared his intention of sending it for trial.
Prisoners were remanded for the depositions to be pre-
pared.

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE.—Isaac

Oakley, a convicted thief, better known by the name of
"Captain," was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
violently assaulting Alfred Herbert, a police-constable,
210 H.

The complainant stated that the prisoners and others were
turned out of the Yorkshire Grey publichouse this morning
at half-past two o'clock. The prisoner was making a dis-
turbance, and, on being requested to leave, he made use of
very foul language, and said, " I shall not go for you, you
--." He touched the prisoner and said, "Now
move on, and don't get yourself into trouble." The pri-
soner made several blows at him, and at last got him down
and kicked him on the belly. Some of the prisoner's cam •
panions pulled him away, and when he got up he went
after him and seized him. The prisoner got away from him
and fell against the shutters of a house and hurt himself.
The prisoner—Hurt myself, why you beat me black and
blue with your staff. My ribs are dreadfully hurt.
Herbert said he did not touch the prisoner with his staff.
There was not a mark of violence on the prisoner, who
aimed kicks at a vital part and they alighted on his belly.
He had been in great pain all night.
George Walters, 12S H, saw Herbert and the prisoner
engaged in a violent struggle, and assisted in taking Oak-
ley into custody.
Mr. Paget asked if the prisoner was known, to which
Police-Sergeant Barnes, 10 H, replied that he was a well-
known thief, and had been convicted twice or three times.
The prisoner was again tried at the last sessions and
acquitted.

Mr. Paget said the prisoner had committed a very savag
assault on the constable, and sentenced him to be imprisoned
for two months and kept to hard labour.

A PRACTICAL JOKE,

The following is taken from All the Year Round :—The
most astonishing horn-player known is Vivier, who, by
some inexplicable means, by a multiple pressure of the lips,
no doubt, has succeeded in producing flourishes on his in-
strument with several parts sounding at once. If M.
Comettant had not himself heard the artist, in the intimacy
of a private tete-a•tete, he would have refused to believe so
extraordinary a fact. Vivier (an exception to the usual
type of cornists) is no less eccentric as a man than as a
musician. His life is a long succession of jokes. He was

once crossing the Belgian frontier on his return to
France. Whoever has done the same, will have a re-
collection of the French douaniers (customs officers)
probably more lively than agreeable. His luggage con-
sisted of a couple of trunks, one of which he appeared to
attempt to conceal from their prying eyes. Instantly
hands were laid on that trunk and the key demanded.
"Monsieur," said Vivier, whispering in the douanier's
ear and casting an anxious glance around, "do let me
pass this trunk without opening it. I assure you it
contains nothing subject to duty. "The key," snarled

the douanier, "or 1 force the lock." " Monsieur, I
entreat you." " Enough, monsieur. The key, I say."
" No, not enough. If necessary, I will go down on my
knees." " Useless, monsieur. The key I The key I "
"In the name of Heaven, monsieur I In the name

your beloved wife and your darling children,
I conjure you not to open the trunk 1 For—l
swear it on the ashes of my departed aunt—there is nothing
in it liable to duty." Of course the look was forced. A
dozen douaniers' hands lifted the lid ; and the dozen hands
abstained from touching what was inside. For twenty
snakes, of ♦arious hues and sizes, raised their flat heads and
tried to escape. "I told you," said Vivier blandly, "that
there was nothing liable to duty. Snakes, thank Heaven,
enter France duty free." And after caressing his imported
reptiles (he was as fond of serpents as of dogs and cats), he
closed the lid of the box, muttering, "These douaniers
on the Belgian frontier will never believe what a tra-
veller tells them. One of these days they will be de-
voured by wild beasts. That's a matter of certainty." But
the most astounding of Vivier's jokes (because it required,
to carry it out, months of patience and personal sacrifice)
is the trick he played the proprietor of a house in which ho

:cupied apartments. This " proprietairs," who would
suffer no animals to lodge in his property, had given
notice to the cornist that he must get rid of a dog, a cat, and
a raven, which happened to be his pets for the time being.
Vivier appeared to yield. He bade good by, with con-
siderable regret, to both his furred and his feathered
favourites. Some time afterwards several of the tenants
complained to the porter and the landlord of being awak-
ened in the night and at break of day by a strange sort of
moaning which seemed to proceed from Vivier's rooms.
This sound, of which no one could give an exact descrip-
tion, sometimes surprised them by day. An American,
who came to the house, told the landlord the noise was
like the lowing of buffaloes. "I am perfectly ac•
quainted with the buffalo's voice," he said,
" having
hunted buffaloes in the Rocky Mountains ; and I assure
you you have a buffalo amongst your tenants." " A buf-
falo in my house, up four flights of stairs I you are dream-
ing," replied the landlord. " The noise is simply
the curious sounds whi:;h Vivier amuses himself
with drawing from his horn." Six months elapsed.
At last the voce of the buffalo, according to some,
the sound. of the horn, according to others, be •
came intolerable ; and the landlord determined
to see with his own eyes what really was the truth of the
case. He rang at Vivier's door, and was requested by
his tenant to walk into the dining room. After the usual
compliments, the propriotairo was approaching the
mysterious subject, when a protracted and terrible
bellowing was heard in the next room. " Mon
Dieu!" said the landlord, " what have you got there ?"
In my drawing-room ?" asked Vivier, carelessly. " Cer-
tainly, monsieur ; in your drawing-loom, it is a young cow,
monsieur.' " A young cow in my house ! Infamous I
I
give you warning to quit, monsieur ; and you will send
away the filthy creature, immediately." " Gently, mon•
sieur ; that's not so easy." The heifer, which had
grown too big to walk down stairs, was removed through
the window with considerable difficulty. Vivier had never
trusted a soul with his long cherished secret. He had
carried the calf to his room, in the dead of the night,
when it was only a few days old ; and he had carefully
tended it up to the day when his landlord, who would per-
mit no dog or cat,
discovered that his house was inhabited
by horned cattle.

The Belgian Moniteur announces that the rati-
fications of the treaty relative to the redemption of the
Scheldt dues were exchanged on the 27th ult. between the
King of the Belgians and Ciao Sultan.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE AT A TAVERN.—George Kelley
and Richard Brown, two soldiers belonging to the 12th
Lancers, were brought before Mr. Arnold, charged with the
following outrage at a tavern :
Mr. Henry Edward Street, proprietor of the Trevor
Tavern, Knightsbridge, said that at a little before 12 o'clock
last night the prisoner Kelley came into the bar of the house,
and, without any provocation, interfered with customers
there, 'and endeavoured to pick a quarrel with them. Wit-
ness endeavoured to persuade the defendant to be quiet and
go away, but he refused, and immediately struck one of the
waiters over the head with his whip, and then attacked
complainant with his fist, and struck him several blows on
the head. Prisoner Kelley then attempted to get away, but
complainant held him in the street, and while he did so he
was attacked furiously and much injured, being kicked and
beat about by other people, especially some more horse
soldiers, one of whom jobbed his spur through his arm-
Mr. Street's face was much lacerated and disfigured, and he
complained that he was exhausted by the ill-treatment he
had received.

ADVANCE OP THE AUSTR lANS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day,)

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Assignees were chosen by a resolution come to to take
the case out of court.
Messrs. Lawrence and Plews are the solicitors.
RE BROTHERS.
The bankrupt was described as of Braborne, Kent, Vicar
of Braborne, and Rector of Monks Stoner, both in Kent,
The debts amount to nearly £1,000; assets not stated ;
but the cause of bankruptcy is attributed to payments made
to the assignees of the late Royal British Bank, as surety
for one James Hammon, for moneys lent to him.
No creditors appeared to prove, and no assignee being
chosen, Mr. Aldridge will be the solicitor for the officii4
assignee.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT--This Day!

OLD COURT.

(Before the Common Sergeant.)

The Court was occupied the whole of the day with the
trial of a respectably-dressed man, named Oppenheim, who
stands indicted with embezzling various sums of money, the
property of his employers, Messrs. Wilson, of Whitechapel,
The facts were totally devoid of public interest.
The grand jury, in addition to a true bill for murder,
already returned against the eight seamen, formerly to
the vessel called the Flowery Land, this morning brought
in a true bill against the whole of the prisoners for wilfully
scuttling the ship.

The sentence on the Rev. Mr. Birch had not been passed
when we went to press.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
HARROW RACES—Tars DAY.
£4O HANDICAP PLATE.

Flower Safety 1
Reindeer 9
Tiney
a
Fourteen ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

There was a very good attendance this afternoon, and
betting was carried on with some spirit, especially on the
Chester Cup and Derby. For the former 100 to 6 was offered
against Anfield, but nothing would induce backers to invest
at the price. Blackdown was the lion of the day, and after
1,000 to 40 had been booked about him several times 20
"fifties" were accepted, the like odds being also noted in
favour of his stable companion, Accident. Carisbrook and
Muczzin were each in force at 25 to 1, and towards the close
of business Change, about whom there were some warm in-
quiries, would have been supported at 33 to 1, to money.
Whitethorn, the reputed "cock of the north," was in consi-
defable demand, 33 to 1 having been taken kindly. 40 to 1
each was offered against Lord Westmoreland's three, with-
out a response. The Two Thousand was very little touched
upon, the few bets quoted below being only to small amounts.
Scottish Chief continues to improve his position in the
Derby betting, for which he is again first favourite, but al-
though his followers and retainers all spoke well of him,
offers of 10 to 1 would not tempt them to give him any fur-
ther support ; later on, however, 2,100 to 200 was snatched
up and divided between two stanch adherents of " the
Chief." Paris was decidedly "fishy," 13 to 1 being freely
offered. Coastguard was such a hot favourite that all the
14's to 1 were caught up in no time, and as only 13 to 1 was
afterwards obtainable the commission in his favour could
not be executed. The two " dark" cracks, Forager and Blair
Athol,were somewhat mysterious, 1,000 to 55, or a fraction
over 18 to 1, being accepted about Lord St. Vincent's horse
while the northern champion was friendless at 18 to 1. His.
torian was firm at his previously-quoted price-23 to 1
(taken). The retrogression of Paris was followed by the
advance of his stable companion, Idler, who was backed in
quarters where something is usually known at 30 to I
(taken freely). 1,000 to 30 is the pons asinorum over which
Ackworth is unable to pass for the present, while his stable
companion, Copenhagen, seems to be creeping up to him,
as will be seen by the subjoined list of closing prices :

CITY AND SUBURBAN.

1000 to 30 agst Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 4 yrs, 6d 41b
(taken)
TWO THOUSAND.

sto 1 agst Count F. de Lagrange's Fille de I'Air
(offered)
11 to 2 agst Mr. Ten Broeck's Paris (taken)
6to 1 agst Captain John White's Cambrzscan,
(taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Scottish Chief (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Claremont (taken)
100 to 40 agst Fille de I'Air and Paris coupled (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
100 to 6 agst Mr. Grevilles Anfield (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Drewitt's Blgckdown (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Drewitt's Accident (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. E. Hall's Carisbrook (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Day's Muezzin (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Whittaker's Change (offered-4
take 33 to 1)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Jackson's Whitethorn (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lord Uxbridge's Durham (taken)
40 to 1 age, Mr. H. Drewitt's Greenland (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Tattoo (offered)
40 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Marigold (effE red)
40 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Merry mart
(taken)
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Barber's Donne Canno (taker°

10 to 1 agat Mr. Merry's Scottish Chief (offered)
13 to 1 agst Mr. Ten Broeck's Paris (offered)
13 to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Coastguard (offered)
15 to 1 agat Captain John White's Cambuscan
(offered)
1000 to 65 agst Lord St. Vincent's Forager (taken)
]8 to 1 agst Mr. PAnson's Blair Athol (taken)
23 to 1 agst Sir F. Johnstone's Historian (taken)
28 to 1 agst Mr, Hizgins's Coup d'Etat (taken)
28 to 1 agat Mr. Bowes's Claremont (taken)
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ten Broeck's Idler (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Mr. H, Hill's Ackworth (taken)
50 to 1 agst Mr. G. Bryan's Horse Marino (taken)
4000 to 70 agat Mr. Bowes's Baragah (taken)
5000 to 75 agat Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Balornock

(tak)
3000 to 35 agst Mr. H. en
Hill's Copenhagen (taken)
2000 to 2b agst Loid Glasgow's Strafford (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Count Batthyany's Midnight Mass

(taken)
1000 to 5 agat ➢ir. Bowes's War Dance (offered)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

FEBRUARY.

Birmingham
Harrow
Chelmsford l7

Lincoln Spring 23
Hungerford

Nottingham Spring 1
Derby Spring 5
Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Doncaster Spring

Warwick . 16
Durhaut
Northampton '.'9
Catterick 3O

Crorton-park 1
Edinburgh Spring 2
Abergavenny b
Think 5

Epsom Spring ........ 7
Newmarket Craven.... 11
Newmarket First Spring 2,5

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The Liberal party in Holland has just gained an
advantage. The district of Almelo had to elect a
new deputy in the place of M. Van Logchetn, who
had resigned on account cf ill health. M. Vander
Linden had also to undergo a fresh election on being
nominated to a high Government Post. M. Vander
Linden was re elected, and M. Limbourg-Brouwer,
of known progressive priuciples, was chosen to fill
the second seat. Both the members for that district
are therefore Liberal at prezoht.

RENDSBURG, FEB. 1.
The heads of the Austrian columns have just ar-
rived in front of the Kronewerk, which is still
occupied by the Danes, bat will probably be eva-
cuated.

AD Austrian corps is to pass the Eider in con-
sequence of an order of Field-Mark hat Wrangel to
General von Goblenz to advance.

HAMBURG. FEB. 1.
Telegraph communication with Denmark is cut
off, probably at Rendsburg.
The thermometer marks 5 degrees below freezirg
point.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Roche.)
IN RE D. ROUCICAULT.
A dividend meeting was held under tEe estate of this
bankrupt, formerly lessee of the Westruiuster Theatre.
The debts and liabilities amount to £54,704, and the defi-
ciency on which appears to be £22,216. There is at present
£1,372 in the hands of the official assignee, and £1,500 is
expected from the sale of some property at Brompton.
Creditors to the amount of about £9,000 proved to-day,
and it was resolved that the amount in hand should be
forthwith divided. The estate is expected to pay from 2s
to 2s Gd in the pound.
Mr. C. E. Lewis and Mr. Hackwood appeared in the case,
(Before Mr. Registrar Hazlett.)
RE CROSSLEY.
This bankrupt was described as a merchant of Mincing..
!ane and Old Charlton, and this was a meeting for choice of
assignees.
The preliminary statement by Messrs. Hart Brothers and
Hayles shows debts and liabilities to about £95,000, the
greater part of which is covered by consignments on their
way from China.