The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A CAPTAIN ASHOP.E.—A SCENE IN Coura.—Michael
Murphy, a costermonger, was charged with assaulting and
robbing Captain James Browning, of South-crescent, Bed-
ford-square, of his watch of the value of £3O.
The captain on getting into the box, said—l am the
captain of a merchant ship. That chap gave me a blow
on the nose, (and I gave him another. He gave me an
up-righter. I don't know the street. I never trouble
myself about the names of streets. He smothered me with
blood. I told him if I had him with me for a month I'd
take it all out of him. He damaged my nose, and it won't
be well for a week. If he had not run away, I'd have given
it him. He called me a fool. I gave him no offence, not a
bit of it. (Laughter.) I've got my watch again, thank
God. (The prosecutor caused a good deal of merriment by
the way in which he gave his evidence.)
Sergeant Glass, 3 C, who took the charge, said the pri •
saner overnight was charged with stealing the complain-
ant's watch and assaulting him, but it had since turned
out that complainant when he was first assaulted gave a
person his watch to take care of.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Before going into action I suppose
Laughter.)

The Captain—l dare say it was so.
Mr. Forsyth—Perhaps the defendant will make an apo
logy.
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Captain—l won't accept it. He's a blackguard. He
gave me a regular nor' .wester, I can assure you. (Laugh-
ter.) I should like to punish him myself very much, for
he behaved like a bull dog, and I do like justice.
Subsequently the Captain was satisfied with an apology,
and left the court, having evidently been indulging pretty
freely over night, and the prisoner was discharged.

ST. JAMES'S HALL—Yesterday.

MR. BENEDICT'S GRAND CONCERT.

The leading concert of the season is always Mr.
Benedict's, whether in respect to the superiority
of its contents or its execution. Yesterday it did
more than maintain its old pre-eminence,
owing to the importance as well as variety of
so much that it presented. When we state that
it gave, in the first place, the whole of the
Exhibition Music—Meyerbeer's Grand March,
Sterndale Bennett's Inauguration Ode—and
Verdi's unsung Cantata, as produced at Her Ma-
jesty's Theatre, we afford some tolerable notion
of its substance; and we supply some faint idea
of its variety, when we add, that it gave also
selections from Mr. Benedict's " Lily of Killarney,"
including the two lovely airs, " I'm alone, I'm
alone," and " Eily Mavourneen," sung by Miss
Louisa Pyne and Mr. Sims Reeves ; the " Giorno
d'orrore," from the " Semiramide," sung by the
Sisters Marchisio; the " Brindisi," from the
" Lucrezia Borgia," sung by Signor Trebelli ; the
duet from " The Crusaders," " Ties of Friendship,"
sung by Mdlle. Titiens and Miss Pyne, the
" M'appure to sapristi," from " Marta," sung by
Signor Giuglini, and " The Last Rose of Summer"
by Mdlle. Titiens. The instrumental attraction of
this concert was quite on a level with its merit. It
presented a duo for piano and violin, by Mr. Bene-
dict and Herr Joachim ; a duo for piano and vio-
loncello, by Mr. Benedict and Signor Piatti ; and a
solo on the horn, by Monsieur Vivier, who made
his first appearance on this occasion after an ab-
sence of some years. The other novelty of the day
was the first appearance of the Fraulein Liebhardt
from the Theatre Impereale, Vienna, who, with a
singularly high and clear soprano, produced a
very marked. impression, in a Styrian Forest
melody, in which she imitated the trill of birds
with singular success. Of the excellence which
characterised the performance of the music, whe-
ther vocal or instrumental, the names of the execu-
tants must be a sufficient attestation. It would
be invidious in the least degree to individualise
where all were so superior. It is suffi-
cient if we say the singers were all in admir-
able voice, and not the last Signor Giuglini, who
gave a very welcome proof of his entire recovery
from his recent illness. The hall was crowded on
this occasion with a very brilliant and distinguished
audience ; and Mr- Benedict was welcomed on his
entrance with a very cordial demonstration, to
which, before the performance ended,
he proved
himself doubly entitled, in the amount of gratifica-
tion which he afforded to his friends and patrons.