The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-07 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OBTAINING GOODS BY FRAUD.-A man, who at the
station refused his name and address, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to obtain two guns from
Messrs. Moore and Gray, gunmakers, of 43, Old Bond-
street, by false and fraudulent pretences.

Mr. Fredk. Gray, of the firm of Moore and Gray, said he
received a letter by post yesterday, to send a pair of guns
to the Duke of Sutherland, to Dunrobin Castle, Scotland.
The guns were sent to Stafford House, and an officer com-
municated with, in consequence of the post mark being of
the South London district, while the letter was dated from
Scotland. The porter took the guns, and left them at Stat.
ford House.

Charles Butcher, 137 0, said that about six the previous
evening, he went to the Duke of Sutherland's house, and
after waiting an hour and a half the prisoner drove up he a
cab to the house, and rang the bell, and was admitted by
the porter. The prisoner had at the time a piece of paper
in his hand, and remained in the house about five minutes,
and then came out, when he (Butcher) asked him who sent
him for the guns, and he said he was a clerk at the Euston-
square station, and that he was sent with a telegram (pro-
duced) to hava the guns delivered to him by the porter. He
then asked the prisoner whero ho intended to have taken
the guns if he had succeeded in getting them, and he re-
plied, "to a Man waiting at a public-house on the right
hand side of the Euston-square station. I hope there is
nothing wrong in my coming to fetch them. I am
certainly not a clerk at the railway-station, as I told
you before that I was." lie also said that he was
to have £2 for fetching the guns, and that the
man said that he was to say he was a clerk at the rail-
way station or the porter would not let him have the guns.
He then put the prisoner into the cab and went to Easton-
square, but on their arriving there prisoner said he could
not see the man. He then took the prisoner to the Vine-
street station. He had another case against the prisoner
for obtaining a gun from the Marquis of Lansdowne's house.
Prisoner had nothing to say, and was remanded.
The prisoner was then charged with obtaining a gun
from the Marquis of Lansdowne's.
Mr. Stephen Grant, 73, St. James's-street, gunmaker,
said he received on Sept. 4 a letter, purporting to be signed
by the Earl of Shelburne, and directing that a gun should
be sent to Berkeley-square. The letter was posted in Lou-
don. He sent the gun the same day by a porter. The
value of the gun was £52, with 500 cartridges.
Edward Toomey, porter to Mr. Brown, proved taking the
gun to Lansdowne House about three waeks ago, and leav-
ing it with the porter.

Alexander Leigh, porter to the Marquis of Lansdowne,
said that on the 4th of September last the witness brought
a gun and left it with him at the gate. He (prisoner) was
waiting for it, and said he was sent by Mr. Stephenson,
one of the officials of the Great Western Railway—Lord
Shelburne being the chairman—for the gun. He asked
the prisoner if he was in the service of the Great Western
Railway Company, and he said he was, and had been three
years. On that representation he gave the prisoner the
gun, and he took it away in a cab.
The prisoner was committed on this charge.

—.SSAULT OTNHAAMWESom.
SAVAGE A
youth about 19 years of age,
AN George May, a
was
Abrough—t before Mr. Wool-
rych, charged with assaulting
woman, the wife of a mechanic nanndßenjamin, a young
left named
ethavraHs swollen and
Joseph Benjamin.
The complainant, whose
along blackened, said she was passing oarlasheferry-road,
Ratcliffe, in company with Mr. Thomasg W
street, Shadwell, and his wife, when the prisoner' efHigh-
street, Shadwell,
man accosted them, and the prisoner's companion
threw a lump of bread in Mrs. Welsh's face, and used very
bad language. Mr. Welsh resisted this insult, and caught
hold of the fellow, but no policeman being handy tha ruf-
fian was allowed to depart. At 12 o'clock she was
returning home with Mr. and Mrs. Welsh, when
the prisoner met them and whistled. They were
immediately surrounded by nine or ten men, and believing
their intentions were hostile, a call was made for the police,
on which he struck her a violent blow on the nose and
knocked her down. The black eye was the consequence of
that blow.

Mr. Thomas Welsh, 218, High-street, Shoreditch, con-
firmed the statement of Mrs. Benjamin.
The prisoner said he was not the man who struck the
blow.
Mr. Woolrych—l have no doubt you struck this woman.
You are fined 155., and in default of payment seven days'
imprisonment in the House of Correction.

RIOT ON HOLBORN-lIILL.—Last night a large
number of Irish labourers, who usually assemble against
the hoarding between Field-lane and Victoria-street, got
up a discussion upon the respective merits of Garibaldi and
the Pope, upon which a fight took place between two of
the opposing parties. The police endeavoured to make
peace, but were shamefully assaulted by the adherents of
the Pope. In self-defence tho officers were obliged to draw
their truncheons and sent for a reinforcement. In the in-
terim the rioters were joined by levies of young and old from
Saffron •hill, and affairs began to assume a serious aspect,
the police being greatly outnumbered by their opponents
who used their utmost efforts to crush the police, who;
however, were assisted by some of the bystanders until:a
fresh body of police arrived, which soon turned the tables,
and the police succeeded in capturing two of the ring-
leaders, but not without severe fighting and several of the
Irish sustaining severe injuries.

A Paiis letter, in the Journal du Havre, says :--
" The friends of M. Thiers formally contradict the intention
attributed to him of writing either a history of the Restora-
tion or of the reign of Louis Philippe Thiers, they.
say, entered in April last on his 66th year, and his histories
of the French Revolution, and of the Consulate and the
Empire, are sufficient for his oareer as a writer. All that
may be expected from him henceforth will be the publica-
tion in volumes of his speeches from the tribune, and some
pamphlets (In the Beaux-Arts, to which 1,
e 4 ROW devotes
himself more than eyeri'