The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREE7'.

A young man of powerful athletic appearance, named
Clark, was this morning brought before Mr. Broughton,
the sitting magistrate, charged with making a great
disturbance at, and endeavouring to force his way into,
the boxes of, the Britannia 'Theatre, and also with
violently assaulting several constables.
Wm. Butler, jun., box-check taker, stated that the
prisoner endeavoured to pass him to go to the boxes.
Seeing him, however, in his dirty working dress, and
being assured that he had not previously paid, he stopped
him. He had no sooner done so, however, than thi
prisoner lifted him from the ground, as if he had been
a feather, and threw him heavily, as he did also several
other persons who came to witness's assistance. He was,
however, prevented from going into the audience part of
the theatre by witness's father, who is a constable
stationed at the theatre.
William Butler, sen., had no sooner arrived at the
scene of noise and disturbance, which the prisoner had
been the occasion of, than the latter struck him a violent
blow in the eye. He, however, with assistance, detained
him until the arrival of two of the metropolitan police-
constables, and he was altogether ejected from the
theatre into the street.

Poltce•constable, N 388, deposed to his having, aided
by a brother constable, taken the prisoner from the
theatre. They-had no sooner, however, arrived in the
street, than the prisoner became excessively violent, and
kicked and threw both. witness and his companion. He
was, however, with considerable difficulty conveyed to
the station-house.

The prisoner merely said he was very tipsy at the
time, and was very sorry for what he had done.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Yours is a very bad case. You are
liable to be convicted in a penalty for each assault. You
must pay a fine of 405., or be imprisoned for six weeks
in the House of Correction.
The prisoner, in default, was conveyed to a cell.
SOUTHWARK.

CONFESSION OF ROBBERIES.—John Gordon, a tall
military-looking man, was charged on his own eonfes-
sion with having stolen various articles of clothing from
persons lodging in the same houses with himself.
Polieeman Gadden stated that, while on duty in Tooley-
street on the preceding night, he was accosted by the
prisoner, who asked him if he had received information
of the robbery of a quantity of wearing apparel from
the house of a Mr. Waggener in that neighbourhood.
The reply being in the affirmative, the prisoner said, that
he was the man who had committed the plunder, and, he
added, that he had only been a week out of prison.
When he was taken to the station-house, he delivered up
a silver pencil-case, and at the same time mentioned that
it belonged to a person whose clothes he took away from
a house in which he had lodged one night.
A witness was then called, who stated that, about a
fortnight ago, the prisoner came to lodge in the same
house with himself, and that one morning the prisoner
got up at an early hour, and while witness was asleep
possessed himself of his coat, trousers, waistcoat, and
shirt, and also a sum of nine shillings, with which he
escaped.
Another witness, named Reeve, stated that he lived
in Morris's-court, Tooley-street, and that while there the
prisoner came and took up his abode there. One night,
on a recent occasion, witness went to bed early, leaving
his clothes on a chair by the bedside., When he awoke
in the morning he found that they had been stolen, and
that the prisoner bad abscon,led. Some of the articles
were found in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. SECKER said he should commit the prisoner on
the 'two charges, and that the other parties who had
been plundered by him could attend before the grand
jury, and prefer other bills against him, if' they consi-
dered it requisite.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN AN OMNIBUS.—James
Morris, a mathematical instrument maker, was charged