The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
STREET RUFFIANISSI.—DougIas Crawford, of Lower
Phillimore-place, Kensington, engineer, was charged, be•
fore Mr. Tyrwhitt, with assaulting Mr. Henry Brock,
butcher, of 4, Hooper's-court, Knightsbridge, and also
Mrs. Hannah Brock, the wife of the complainant.
Mr. Brock said that at half-past eleven the previous night
he was on his way home with his wife, in Piccadilly, when
he saw the defendant and another young man going along
in front of them. One of the young men caught a female
in his arms and insulted her. Not wishing to have any-
thing to do with the defendant and his companion, he with
his wife stet ped aside to avoid them ; the defendant dropped
his walking stick off his shoulder into his wife's bonnet.
On expostulating with the defendant, his friend said " Let
him have it," and the defendant then struck him in the face
and knocked him down, and while on the ground struck him
several times, cutting the inside of his mouth. An omnibus
man called out to the defendant that he was a coward not
to let him (complainant) get up, and a soldier then came
up and pulled the defendant off, and on complaining to a
constable whom he had previously warned of the defendant's
conduct, the defendant struck him again.
Mrs. Emma Brock proved that defendant put the stick
on her bonnet, and she was afraid that it would have gone
in her eye.

A constable proved seeing the defendant strike the com-
plainant.

Defendant, in answer:to the charge, said that a female
rushed upon him and his companion, and they afterwards
went on, when the complainant seized his stick and broke
it, and he felt exasperated and struck the comp'ainant.
Mr. Francis Gilbertson, a clerk in the office of the Recife
and San Francisco Railway Company, was called by the
defendant, and said that while in Piccadilly a female rushed
up to him. He, with the defendant, left her, and then
went on. While passing the complainant and his wife the
defendant's stick was suddenly seized by the complainant,
and a scuffle ensued, and the defendant struck complainant-
and on the complainant speaking to a constable the defen-
dant struck complainant again.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defence was a very meagre one.
The witness wanted him (Mr. Tyrwhitt) to believe that
complainant seized the defendant's stick without any pro-
vocation a very unlikely thing. The defendant had acted
very roughly towards the defendant, al d he should fine
him £3 for the assault on the female, or two months, and
£2 or two months for the assault on the complainant.
ROBBING A LIEtTENANT.—A private of the Coldstream
Guards, named Walter Sharpies, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing a breastpin of the value of £2,
the property of Lieutenant Brabezon Harlowesr The
evidence of the prosecutor was to the effect that he met two
soldiers in the Haymarket and treated them to drink, and
lost his breastpin, of the value of £2, while in their com-
pany.

William Ballend, employed at the Black Horse in the
Haymarket, deposed to seeing the prisoner put his arm
round prosecutor's side and take out his pin, and then go
out of the house.

A young man said he heard the prisoner say that he had
taken the pin but thrown it away.
Stephen Smith, 326 A, proved taking the prisoner into
custody, and that he was very violent on the way to the
station, kicking him several limes.
The prisoner's sergeant gave him an indifferent char-
acter.

The prisoner pleadeti
guilty, and Mr. Tyrwhitt, in com-
mitting him for two months, with hard labour, said he
could not understand how a gentleman—a lieutenant in
the army--could treat soldiers to drink in a public house

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning:
There is no truth in a report circulated this morning
that the Inman steamer Eta is in Belfast Lough disabled.
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning,
Arrival, Dec. 28—X, L., from Bulogne; Elizabeth
Ciceley, from Guernsey ; Snow Bird, from Quebec; Dela-
ware, from Philadelphia ; Polynesia, from Pugwash;
Bonada, from Charlotte Town • Adam Whie, from St.
Michael's William IV., from gaffil; Aitems, from Kol-
ding ; Flying Fish, from Demerara; Cornelia Anna, from
Gothenburg ; Assyrian, from Shanghai.
Arrived, Dec. '4—Northfieet, from Canton; Piden
Elina, from Alexandra; Ballarat, from Shanghai.
Anchored—Mathilda DEAL, Monday Morning.
Kami, for Swansea , from Sunderland, for New York ;
from London. ; East London, for Port Natal—both