The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

On Tuesday evening, as Mr. Tvrwhitt, the presid-
ing magistrate, who sat for Mr. Yardley, was about
to leave the bench, three masters of foreign ships,
who were accompaLied by Mr. Bonom, complained
of a gross outrage on the flig of Schleswig-Holstein
under which they sailed.

Mr. Bonom said, there were two ships lying in the
South West India Dock, and another in the export
West India Dock, named the Lucia, a schooner,
Captain Bomholdt; the Elbe, galliot, Captain Pe-
ters ; and the Pax, Captain Hanck, all belonging to
the port of Blankanese, in the duchy of Schleswig-
Holstein, and sailing under the flag of that place. The
masters and crews of some Danish vessels in the river
took offence at the German flag being hoisted on the
Schleswig-Holstein vessels, and came on board and
ordered the people to strike their colours, and on
their refusal to do so hauled them down, partially
destroying the flags, and carried away the shreds.
Mr. TYRWHITT—Did they proceed from ship to
ship and do this ?
Mr. Bonom replied in the affirmative, and said, the
Danes made a good deal of noise, tore down the
Schleswig-Holstein flag and ill-used every one who
obstructed them. A man on board the Elbe protected
the flag he was sailing under, and endeavoured to
prevent the Danes carrying their intentions into
effect, on which the Danes knocked him down and
gave him a black eye. The colours were then hauled
down amidst loud cheering on the part of the Danes.
The people of Schleswig-Holstein and the Danes
were equally under the Danish Consul, the duchy still
forming part of the kingdom of Denmark, and the
Consul was anxious that such an outrage should net
go unpunished.
Mr. TYRWHITT was surprised that the Danes and
the people of Schleswig-Holstein should extend their
quarrels to a neutral port.
Mr. Bonom was as much astonished as his Worship
at the proceedings of the Danes, who acted under an
erroneous impression that the vessels of Schleswig-
Holstein ought to sail under the Danish flag instead
of belonging to the duchy; but whether that was so
or not, no one had any right to interfere with the
complainants, who were justified, as he conceived, in
hoisting any colours they pleased.
Captain Bomholdt said, if he had been on board his
vessel he would have sooner lost his head than his
flag, and there would have been bloodshed.
The other captains said, advantage was taken of
their absence by the Danes to seize the flags.
Mr. Bonom said that ,such proceedings, if perse-
vered in, would end in bloodshed, which the Danish
Consul was most anxious to prevent.
Mr. TYRWHITT saw no occasion to issue warrants,
and said that the best.course to pursue was to apply to
the Thames police, and point out the alleged offenders
to them. He supposed the police had power to enter
ships.
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, said the Thames po-
lice had the power to do so. _ _ _

Mr. TTRWRITT then directed Mr. Bonom and the
German captains to apply to the Thames police, and
they at once proceeded to the station in Wapping,
when the superintendent refused to act in the matter,
on the ground that no officer saw the assaults com-
mitted, and there was no reason to suppose the Danes
carried off the flags with a felonious intent, but only
to display their national feeling on the subject, and to
make it appear that the Schleswig-Holsteiners were
still the subjects of Denmark. Under these circum-
stances the German captains consulted Mr. Pelham,
the solicitor, on the subject, and that gentleman went
before Mr. Arnold, of the Worship-street Court, who
presided in the absence of Mr. Ballantine, but
owing to the absence of the principal witness,
who was beaten by the Danes in defending his flag,
the application for assault warrants could not be
made, and all the parties were directed to attend this
day. The ringleaders in the affray were Clemens
Gorgenson, and Adlipsum Elipsum, of the Betsy and
Susannah, and Carl Emil Schmidt, of the schooner
Soceridden. The crews of the vessels under the
Schleswig-Holstein flag have taken measures to pre-
vent any further surprise from the Danes.

Henry Samuel Chester, a porter in the employ of
Messrs. Druce and Broadhurst, upholsterers, of the
Baker-street Bazaar, and 200, Regent-street, was
brought before Mr. Arnold, charged with stealing
silk damask and silk and worsted damask, value 401.,
and a quantity of carpeting and other property, be-
longing to his employers.
Two men, named Thos. Armcut, sen., greengrocer,
of 10, Tenter-street, and Thomas Armcut, his son,
formerly a dock labourer, were remanded on Thurs-
day for further examination, and upon that occasion
a man named Wall, a commission agent, of 42, Great
Chart-street, Hoxton, who was previously in custody
as a particeps criminis, was examined on the part of
the Crown, and he proved receiving several parcels of
silk damask and silk, and silk and worsted damask,
from the Armcuts, which he sold for them on com-
mission to several upholsterers who carry on an
extensive business, and whose reputation is deeply
involved, they having purchased the damask at
less than half its real value. The Armcuts were
remanded, and yesterday Chester, who was appre-
hended on the previous night, was placed in the
dock. It was proved by Mr. Fray, who manages
the business of Messrs. Druce's branch establishment
in Regent-street, that Chester had been in their em-
ploy three months, and that 100 yards of damask, the
average value of which was about ss. 6d. per yard,
carpet►, and other property, had been since missing.
The solicitor for the prosecutor prayed that Chester
might be remanded until the day the Armcuts were
to be brought up, and said he expected that more
persons would soon he in custody on suspicion of
being concerned in robbing Messrs. Druce and Co.
Mr. ARNOLD said, the request was a reasonable
one, and remanded the prisoner.

It is an extraordinary fact that while Mr. Fray and
Cobley, the police-constable, have been engaged in
tracing Messrs. Druce and Co.'s property, and look-
ing after the thieves, they have brought to light
several other robberies of Manchester warehousemen
and others in the City, and the parties are in custody.

HAMMERSMITH.

On Tuesday, just before the close of the Court,
Lady Boothby (Mrs. Nesbitt), who was accompanied
by one of the Misses Macnamara, her sister, entered
the Police-court, followed by a decently dressed
young Iri,hwoman, and claimed the attention of the
Magistrate, under the following circumstances :
Her Ladyship said that, as she was just before
walking along the Great Western• road her attention
was drawn to the young woman, who was standing
outside the door of the Hammersmith Workhouse.
On asking why she was standing there, she said she
had been applying for admission, being in a destitute
state, but had been refused, being teld that the work-
house was quite full, and there was no room for her.
She also stated that she had applied on the previous
night, and had then been refused, and had conse-
quently been compelled to sleep in a ditch at the back
of the workhouse, where she must again sleep that
night if not admitted. As (her Ladyship remarked) the
rate-payers paid so largely out of their pockets for
the support of such institutions, she thought some-
thing ought to be done for the poor woman, and had
thought it her duty to bring the case under the notice
of the Magistrate.
The young woman, in answer to questions by Mr.
Beadon, said she had been in this country about a
twelvemonth, and last lived in the neighbourhood of
Whitechapel. The night before last she slept in
Whitechapel workhouse, but was turned out the
following morning, when she came out into that
neighbourhood to see if she could get into some em-
ployment. Policeman, 92 T, had applied with her
at the workhouse that afternoon, and heard her re-
fused.

Mr. BEADON then directed Bradshaw, one of the
summoning officers of the court, to take the young
woman to Mr. llaskard, the relieving officer of the
Fulham Union for llammersmith, and see that at-
tention was paid to the case; on which her Ladyship,
having thanked Mr. Beadon for his attention, left
the court.