The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-12 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

THE OMNIBUS NUISANCE.—SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE ON
Two • FEMALES.—Yesterday John Tarrant and Samuel
Miers, the driver and conductor of Bennett's Mile-end
omnibus, No. 220, were charged before Mr. RAWLINSOM
with the following aggravated outrages :
Mrs. Louisa Davis, a highly respectable married woman,
residing in Mitre-street, Aldgate, on the previous after-
noon, left home, accompanied by her sister-in-law, for the
purpose of visiting a friend residing near the Wheatsheaf
public-house in the Edgware road. They had proceeded
us far as Leadeahall-street when the defendants hailed them,
and the vehicle having stopped the conductor asked the
complainant where she was going. She replied that they
wanted to. be set down. at the Wheatsheaf in the above
road ; upon which the conductor replied that it was
all right, he was going there. Just at this moment a,
gentleman who had heard what had passed stepped up
to them and informed them that the defendants
were deceiving her, as the vehicle did not run so far
as the Edgeware-road, and advised them not to go by it ;
upon which they were about to walk away, when both the
defendants seized hold of them, and forcing them violently,
against their will, into the omnibus, shut the door, and
drove off. On arriving at the top of Oxford-street the
vehicle stopped, and the conductor then opened the door
and told them to get out, as they weregoing no further, at the
same time demanding the fare. They refused to pay it unless
taken to the place they wanted to go to ; whereupon both
the defendants, after making use of the most disgusting
language, shut the door, swearing that they should be
locked in and not suffered to come out until the demand
was satisfied. They were much alarmed at this ruffianly
conduct, and, by dint of crying out, a policeman came up
and released them, and by their desire called a cab for
them, that they might proceed to their friend's house. The
defendants, however, prevented them from getting into it,.
and collected such a mob that their lives were in danger..
At length, with much difficulty, they escaped into a Pad-
dington omnibus, and proceeded on their journey.
Mr. RA WLINSON fined Turrant, the driver, three
pounds, and the conductor forty shillings, remarking that
it was one of the most audacious outrages he had ever
heard of.

OLYMPIC THEATRE..--A new burletta, entitled
The Ringdoves, was prodticed here last night with decided
success. It is an amusing little piece, and was not only well
w ritten, but exceedingly well acted by the whole dramatis.
personae. The surerstructure on which this burletta is foun-
ded is slight enough to be stated in few words, and comprises
only the embe,rrassments caused to an old uncle on the point
of marriage, by his own repugnance to tell a nephew whom
he loves of the step 'he is about to take, and the manoeuvres
of the 'tatter to prevent the match, as soon as he hears of it.
from another source, and learns that the lady is one towarri.s
whom he also has conceived a tender attachment. This plot
seems old enough, and has, in fact, no claim to original:sty ;
hut it is so skilfully worked up in its minor incidentty and
aided by a dialogue so rich in humour, that it kept the house
in a continual glow of approbation. Mr. F. Matthews acted
the old uncle, Sir Henry Ringdove, with great spirit ; and
Mr. C. Matthews, as the lively, frolicksome, and good-natured
nephew, seemed to play perfectly con amore. Mrs. Orger
performed the part of Miss Longclackit, the aunt of the bride,
a spinster who it constantly repeating that she is a woman of
few words, but keeps up all the while so eternal a din with
her tongue as to be voted a public nuisance by everybody
around her. This lady always plays with rare judgment ;
and although the part of Miss Longclackit is one hardly
worthy of her powers, she made it more effective than it.
would have been in any other hands. The curtain fell in the.
midst of undiminished applause, and the piece was announced)
for repetition item. con.
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MR. HORACE SMITH'S NEW NOVEL.—There
are no combinations of circumstances so fraught with, strong
end stirring interest as those in which a great and startling
crime springs out of the every-day occurrences of every-day
lite, and blends its consequences with the present or future
fate of those with whom we are accustomed to live in habits
of daily intercourse. It is on a knowledge of this truthehat
the author of " Brambletye House" has constructed the ad-
mirable novel which he 'aas just given to the world, under the,
title of " Jane Lomax. and we are greatly mistaken if ths
principle he has her;; adopted and worked out with such care
and ikill will now command for his new work a degree of
popularity whicl the ordinary resources of fiction would have
tailed to com.mand.
We are hatipy to find that a number of gentlemen in
elis town. have formed themselves into a provisional committee,
to promote the entire and immediate abolition of the appren-
tice syst em, and that in furtherance of this important object.
they int end to call a public meeting of the inhabitants at the
Town Hall, on Thursday next.—Devonpoi t Independent.