The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-23 00:00:00

Mr. Win. H. Sleigh, treasurer at the Princess's Theatre,
Oxford-street, said—Last night this gentleman occupied
one of the four seats in the upper circle which had been
booked by a gentleman in the morning. First of all, the
boxkeepers requested him to leave the seat, and as he re-
fused to do so I was called by a boxkeeper. I told the
defendant that persons had booked the seat in the morning,
and that he must leave it, at the same time offering him
another seat. The defendant caused a disturbance by not
leaving the seat, and causing persons to stand up to see
what was going on. The defendant was very quiet, but
obstinate. I had no other alternative but to give the defen-
dant into custody. It is the duty of the box-keepers to see
that persons who book seats have them.
By Mr. Lewis—Until I spoke to the defendant he was
perfectly quiet, and, in fact, he was so, all the time. All thei
seats in the upper circle were not booked, but a good many

were.
Mr. Mansfield—lf a person takes a place already let the
proprietor has a perfect right to turn him out ; but I do not
know that he can proceed any further with ft. I should
be guilty of false imprisonment if I kept the defendant any
longer in the dock, and he is therefore discharged.
Mr. Lewis—lt is a gross case of interfering with the
liberty of a subject, and I do not think for a moment that
Mr. Sleigh could be acting under the authority of the re-
spectable manager of the theatre, Mr. Vining, in giving
Mr. Griffiths into custody.
Mr. Sleigh—l gave the defendant into custody on my
own responsibility.
Mr. Lewis—Then you will have to answer for it. The
matter will not end here, you may rest assured.
Mr. Griffiths, with much indignation, exclaimed as ho
was about to leave the dock—" What have I done ? I
have been dragged here and made to tread ground I have
never trod before."

THAMES.
SHOCKING DESTITUTION.—Timothy Flinn, a poor, miser-
able creature, apparently about the middle age,was brought
before Mr. Cooke charged with vagrancy.
Childs, a police-constable, No. 193 H, stated that he
found the prisoner yesterday evening in Well-street,White-
chapel, near the Sailors' Home, and he was begging of
every person he met. He took the prisoner into custody,
and a more wretched creature he had never met with. He
saw the prisoner on Monday last and gave him a ticket for
the workhouse of the Whitechapel Union, and showed him
the way there. The prisoner said ho was turned out of the
workhouse. He believed the prisoner had seen better days,
and had been a mariner.
Mr. Cooke—What is the matter with the poor man?

Childs—He has had a sunstroke.
The prisoner, who was shivering and seemed half pal-
sied, said he would rather be in a workhouse than out of it,
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was in
a most deplorable condition, barefooted, and his clothes, or
rather the remains of them, were very filthy and ragged.
Mr. Cooke said be would remand the prisoner until
Monday, and directed inquiries to be made as to whether
he had been turned out of the unionhouse or left of his
own free will. It would be unfair to blame the parochial
authorities until the truth was known.
DOCK ROBBERlES.—Cornelius Guinan, an Irish labourer,
was brought before Mr. Cooke charged with stealing a
bottle of beer from the ship Sidney Hodges, in the East
India Dock.
The prisoner had been employed with others in loading
cargo on board the Sidney Hodges. Yesterday afternoon
Mr. Nunkell, the chief officer, saw the prisoner and another
man descending into the lower hold. He inquired their,
business, and they said they were going below for their
coats. He watched them, and when they came up again
he saw a bottle of beer in the prisoner's breast coat pocket.
He immediately gave him into the custody of Charles
Douglas, a dock constable.
Douglas said there were 500 or GOO casks of bottled beer
in the lower hold of the Sidney Hodges, and produced a
bottle of beer taken out of a cask. It bore the same brand
and mark as the one taken from the prisoner. These rob-
beries were very frequent in the Docks. The labourers
who had access to beer and spirits plundered them to a
great extent in loading ships.
Mr. West, the prisoner's employer, aaid he had been in
his employ nine years and upwards, and he never heard of
his being in difficulty before.
Mr. Cooke said, in consideration of the high character
received of the pri s )ner, he should sentence him to 21 days
imprisonment only.

SURGEON TO THE QUEEN FOR SCOTLAND.—We
understand that Mr. James Spence, F.R.S.E.,
F.R.C.S.E., Professor of Surgery in the University of Edin-
burgh, has been appointed .Surgeon in Ordinary to the
Queen in room of the late Dr. David Ilaelagan.—Edinburgh
Courant.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT A MUSIC WAREHOUSE.—
Yesterday evening a boy, named Thomas James Clark,
about 3.4 years of age, in the employ of Messrs. Novello,
the music publishers, of Dean-street, Soho, lost his life by
the following means. It appears the deceased was engaged
in raising some bundles of paper to the top floor of the
building by moans of a lift, and while on the fourth floor
he fell through the opening to the basement. Dr. Rogers
of Dean-street was immediately sent for, and on arriving
pronounced lifo to be extinct.

GREENWICH HOSPITAL OUT-PENSION.—A va-
cancy has occurred in the list of officers on the out-pension
of Greenwich Hospital for a commander R.N., value £65
per annum, in consequencb of the death at Cheltenham of
that gallant and distinguished officer, Captain George
Hillier. The deceased, who had attained the advanced
age of 89 years, entered the navy in 1787, on board the
Alfred, 74.