The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-14 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Robert James Hall, James Townsend, and Robert
Bartlett, three young medical students, were charged
with creating a disturbance in the Adelphi Theatre.
It appeared that late on Friday evening the defend-
ants entered the pit of the above theatre in a state of
intoxication, and conducted themselves i❑ such an im-
proper manner, that there was a general cry among the
audience of " Turn them out." A policeman was called
in, and on his attempting to take Hall into custody, the
latter struck him, and Townsend endeavoured to pre-
vent his being apprehended. Bartlett, who was the
most sober of the three, did not interfere after the ar-
rival of the policeman.
The defendants pleaded the usual excuse of having
taken too much wine.—(Query, brandy and water ?)
Mr. Tw YFORD discharged Bartlett, and fined the other
defendants 40s. each, which they immediate!), paid.

Sarah Matthews, charged with stealing a variety of
articles of linen and wearing apparel. the property of
Sir Joshua Rowe, the particulars of whose case have
recently been pablisbed, was brought up for final exami-
nation. A great number of pawnbrokers were in at-
tendance, who produced a number of articles that had
been pledged with them by the prisoner, and which were
identified by Sir Joshua as his property.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

Q UEEN-SQUARE.
On Friday a Iternoou Mrs. Arnold, a widow lady of •I
property, applied to the Magistrate for his advice. She
,stated that in June last two persons, one of whom repro-
• scnted himself to be steward to the Earl of Strathmore,
applied to her to take a house which she had to let, fur-
,pied, in the King's-road, Chelsea. They stated that
it was fol. his Lordship who had just arrived in town, and
was then staying at the Hutnmutns, and an arrange-
ment having been'made to get the house ready as early
as possible, they agreed to give the price demanded,
159/. per year. She was so hurried with getting the
house decorated and put in proper order for the Noble
Eari's reception that she entirely overlooked the neces-
sity of inquiring at the Hummums, and the steward and
the other man, with the wife of the latter, and " a bit of
a girl," took possession. His Lordship she had never
seen nor heard of, and finding that the house was being
much dilapidated, she went to the parties and offered
to forgive them the rent if they would vacate possession.
One of the gentlemen in reply, told her, " that if she
would come down with a good round sum they might
be induced to leave the place, but not without."
Mr. BURRELL inquired whether she had had any rent ?
Mrs. Arnold replied their terms were a: quarter in ad-
vance. They gave her 251. when they cause in, observ-
ing that they had no more at the moment, and she had
not received any money since.
Mr. BURRELL said he could not assist the lady.
She must go to a solicitor.
Directly after the Magistrate bad taken his seat on Sa-
turday, a well-dressed woman, who described herself as
one of the persons in possession in Mrs. Arnold's house,
complained that when she got home late on Friday night
she discovered that Mrs. Arnold had affected an entry
into the house, and she (the tenant, or late occupier)
was obliged to proceed to a friend's in London to sleep.
She wished to know whether she was justified in re-
entering ?
Mr. BURRELL said he could give no opinion. She
must consult her legal adviser.
In a few minutes afterwards Mrs. Arnold again ap
peered, and said that, acting by the advice of her soli-
citor, she had taken possession of her house on the pre-
vious night.; but within the last half hour the persons to
whom she had before alluded had contrived to regain
• possession, and were there at that moment. She wished
to know whether the Magistrate could not eject them ?
Mr. BURRELL agein declined interfering, and recom-
mended the lady to pay another visit to her attorney.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Wonter, the solic;tor, with Mr. Duckett, pre-
sented himself before Mr. Dyer, in pursuance of an ar-
rangement made the previous Saturday to meet a charge
preferred against the latter gentleman, for having
threatened, as Lord Huntingtower asserted, to give hi:n
(Lord Huntmgtower) a b--y good licking. Mr.
Wontner told Mr. Dyer he had received an intimation
from Lord Huntingtowcr's solicitor that his Lordship
could not possibly be in town in time sufficient to meet
the charge at the appointed hour, and, as the Magis-
trate would probably recollect, the intimation given from
the Bench last week was, that the warrant would be dis-
charged if Lord Huntingtower did not comeforward. He
had now to beg the Magistrate to release his client from
further attendance, as Mr. Duckett had already been
put to serious inconvenience in coming more than once
to town expressly to meet the charge.
Mt. DYER remarked that in cases where persons ob-
tained warrants for threats of personal violence, they
generally followed up the proceedings with vigour ; but
Lord Huntingtower, in the present case, not having ap-
parently put himself to much trouble to appear against
Mr. Duckett, it might be fairly presumed his Lordship
did not experience any very great bodily fear.
The clerk to Lord Huntingtower's solicitor said his
Lordship was most anxious to follow up the charge, and
he would certainly have been in town that day had inti-
mation of the arrangement been conveyed to him in
proper time. His employer and Lord Huntingtower
had been all the week in Hampshire on business. That
would account for the absence of his Lordship.
Mr. Wontner said the policeman who had the
charge of the warrant, would prove that he had been
daily at the solicitor's office during the past week, with
the intelligence that the case was peremptorily fixed for
Saturday. As to the statement of the solicitor having
been out of town all the week with his Lordship, he
had a gentleman present who would prove that this
was not true.
A gentleman named Mitchell came forward and de-
clared he saw and spoke to the solicitor in town on
Thursday last.
The clerk said the witness was mistaken, for he
pledged himself to the fact of the solicitor not being in
town on that day.
Mr. Mitchell said he not only saw the solicitor in
town, but spoke to and shook hands with hi.n.
Mr. DYER said, under all circumstances, he should
be willing to let the matter stand if Mr. Duckett would
pledge his word of honour that he would do no personal
violence to Lord llunti►igtowcr.
Mr. Duckett said he would willingly comply. He
begged further to state that he solemnly denied ever
having entertained the idea of beating Lord Hunting-
tower. .

Mr. Wontner then said he had another application
to make, regarding an acceptance of Lord Hunting-
tower's for 150/., which had been obtained from Mr.
Duckett, under the pretext of getting it discounted, but
which had been kept from Mr. Duckett. The facts
were these :—Lord Huntingtowcr gave an acceptance
to Mr. Duckett for 1504, for which he had received
consideration. Lord Huntingtower's solicitor promised
if the bill was left in his hands to get it discounted by
three o'clock that day or to return the bill, his Lord-
ship at the time giving his undertaking to meet the bell
when clue. When Mr. Duckett called at the appoill
nted
time, a letter signed Huntingtower was handed to him,
authorizing the solicitor to retain possession of the bill.
Now, as the bill had been thus in:properly obtaint.d, he
( Mr. Wontner) wished the Magistrate to point out the
best mode of proceeding to recover it.
Mr. DYER said the amount was so inerrnously beyond
his jurisdic.ion that he must decline giving an ()pinion
on the matter.
Mr. Wontner said he considered the whole transaction
was of the nature of a conspiracy to defraud Mr. Duc-
kett of the bill, and he sbould take proceedings accord-
ingly.
Solic;tor's Clerk said the bill was citained, be-
cause Mr. Duckett had no actual property in it.
The parties then retired.