The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-06 00:00:00

HIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn )
LEVY V. HAWKINS.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the proprie-
tor of the Garrick Theatre, Leman-street, Goodman's-ff4d,
against the defendant, late the Keeper of the Antiquities
in the British Museum. It appeared that the plaintiff had
leased the theatre to the defendant, and the dispute arose
out of the rebuil ing of a public-hous a adjoining the theatre,
also the property of the plaintiff.
After the plaintiff's case had been completed, it was
agreed that a verdict of £lO should be taken for the plain-
tiff, beyond the sum paid into Court.

COURT OF PROBITE AND DIVORCE.
The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with
uninteresting motions, Up to the hour of going to press,
no mention had been made of the expected application, on
the part of Colonel Anderson, for a new trial in the late
suit of Codrington v. Codrington.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.
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MARLBOROUGH STREET.

AN UNINTELLIGIBLE PROSECUTOR,—A QUEER
CHARGE OF ROBBERY,—TWO women, named Mary Far-
rell and Eliza Peters, living in the neighbourhood of
Drury-lane, were charged bAore Mr Tyrwhitt with steal-
ing from the person of John Lloyd, a tailor, living at 24,
King-street, Regent-street, a breast-pin of the value of 14s,
and Farrell was further charged with assaulting Police-
constable Walter Applebee, 39 F, and Mrs Jane Smith,
the female searcher at Bow-street Police Station,
After a good deal of trouble the prosecutor's name and
address was extracted from him, and he said—l was going
along Oxford-street last night, and went in to the " Crown"
and looked in a glass—
Mr Tyrwhitt—Go en. What did you look in the glass
for ?
Prcsecutor—For my pin—the two women—
Mr Tyrwhitt—Well, what took place ?
After the question had been repeated several times the
prosecutor said—l missed my pin-1 looked in the glass—
Mr Tyrwhitt —Which of the prisoners did you go into
the house with ?
Prosecutor—The one nearest the Oxford. (Laughter.)
Mr Tyrwhitt—How much was your pin worth?
The prosecutor was asked the same question two or three
times, but made no answer, and appearing to be completely
lost, was told to star d down.
Applebee, 39 F—l was on duty in High. street this
morning, when the prosecutor gave the prisoners in charge
fer stealing his pin.
Mr Tyrwhitt—Could you understand what he said ?
Applebee—Not for a long time. On taking the prisoners
into custody Farrell became very violent, and struck and
kicked me several times. They said they had had nothing
to do with the pin.
Farrell was fined 108 or 14 days for the assault on the
constable, and committed for a week for the assault on the
female, and Peters was discharged•

THAMES.
ROBBERY ON BOARD SHIP,—John Doyle, an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr Paget charged with steal-
ing 2;bs 12oz of soap from the ship Sylph, in the London
Dock, and with having possession of a tube for the purpose
of procuring wine-
Yesterday afternoon an officer, named John Roytell,
stopped the prisoner as he was leaving the London Dock,
and found on him two bars of soap and a tabe. This tube
smelt of wine, and the officer believed it bad been used for
the purpose of extracting wine from the casks in the dock,
an cifence of which many have been convicted. The pri-
soner had been at work on board a ship named the Sylph,
and there were cases of soap an board.
The prisoner in defence said that he kicked against the
soap on board the Sylph, and picked up the tube.
The officer said the soap and tube were artfully concealed

on the prisoner,
Mr Paget sentenced the prisoner to two months' impri-
sonment and hard labour for unlawful possession of the
soap,and one month's imprisonment and hard labour for the
unlawful possession of a tube with intent to extract wine or
spirits from the casks.
The prisoner asked the magistrate to mitigate the sen-
tence for the sake of his wife and family,
Mr Paget—No; I will not mitigate the sentence. I have
treated the case very leniently. You must not steal other
people's property.
ANOTHER ROBBERY ON BOARD SHlP.—Richarcl Cooke
and Thomas Anderson, seamen, were charged with stealing
tins of meat and vegetables from the ship Baron Hamburg,
in the West India Dock.
Adolphus Clarke, a constable in the employ of the Duck
Company, stopped the prisoners as they were leaving the
dcck at the Canal-road entrance, and Cooke took from his
pockets four tins of preserved proviaions—one contained
roast beef, another salmon, a third oysters, and a fourth
lobsters. He admitted at once that he had brought the
tins from the ship Baron Hamburg, of which he was
cook, Anderson produced a tin of mashed turnips,
and said he picked it up in the street. Cooke
said, " It's no use your telling lies, You got it the same as
I did mine." The captain gave both men an excellent
character. Cooke had been with another master tour years.
Mr Charles Young, solicitor, made an eloquent and feel-
ing appeal to the magistrate in favour of the prisoners. who,
he said, had lost their good names, lost their characters, and
lost their situations on board the Baron Hamburg, which
was a steamship, and would leave the dock this day. Both
men had borne good characters, both had wives and families,
and they were very penitent, and regretted what they had
done. He asked that a fine might lie imposed.
Mr Paget was sorry that he could not listen to the sug-
gestion of Mr Charles Young. He could not overlook a
serious robbery like this. He sentenced the prisoners to be
imprisoned for two months and kept to hard labour.