The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A DESPICABLE FELLOW.—AntoIo Mullen, a well-
dressed man, was brought up before Mr. Knox, at the
Marlborough-street Police-court, charged with disorderly
conduct in the Haymarket. Daniel Palmer, 31 C Re-
serve, said that a little before one o'clock that monring,
he saw the prisoner following a French prostitute along
the Haymarket. The woman spoke to a gentleman, ana
on leaving him went up to the prisoner and gave him
something. A man seeing what was going on told the
prisoner that he ought to be ashamed of himself to live
on the prostitution of a woman, and an altercation then
took place between the man and the prisoner. He got
the man to go away, but as the prisoner refused to go
and caused a large crowd to collect, he took him into
custody, when he became very violent. In reply to Mr.
Knox, the coustable said he knew the prisoner to live on
the prostitution of a French woman, and to be in the
nightly habit of following her about and receiving money
from her. Robert French, 13 OR, gave similar evidence
as to the prisoner's conduct last night, and as to his
mode of life. Mr. Knox fined the prisoner, who de-
scribed himself as a traveller, 405., or a month. As soon
as the prisoner heard the decision, he either fainted or
pretended to faint, and was carried out of court.
A STRANGE CASE. —Mr. John Turner, the man who
was given into custody for assaulting two ladies in a rail-
way carriage, while they were travelling from Dudley
Port to Birmingham, was tried at the Staffordshire
sessions. He said, in defence, that the women, who, it
will be recollected, jumped from the train while it was
travelling, had got up the charge for the purpose of
extorting money from the company. The jury acquitted
him.
CAUSING DISTURBANCE IN CHURCH. —At the Dublin
Northern Divisional Police Court, three young men,
Thomas Ayres, confectioner, Wm. Anderson, stationer's
porter, and William Martin, brass-founder, surrendered
to their bail iu answer to a charge made against them by
Mr. Thomas D'Arcy, churchwarden, Grangegorman.
The charge, as it appeared on the sheet, was as follows :
" Being three of a number of persons who conducted them-
selves in a disorderly manner calculated to disturb Divine
service in the Grangegorman Church between twelve and
one o'clock p.m. on the Ist inst., by stamping their feet
on the floor of the church while leaving it in a body ; also
the prisoners Ayres and Martin with being two of a
number of persons who were conducting themselves in a
disorderly manner in the yard of the church by shouting,
so as to interrupt Divine service then going on in the
church under the direction of the incumbent, the Rev.
Dr. Maturin. The court was extremely crowded,
and the case attracted a great deal of attention.
Mr. Purcell stated the case for the prosecution. In the case
before the magistrate a handbill had been freely circulated
within and without the parish. The following was the
handbill, which counsel read :—" Fellow Protestants.
Attend Grangegorman Church on next Sunday
(New Year's Day), the first day of their dis-
endowment, and receive with scorn and indigna-
tion the Popish procession that is to march singing
from the schoolhouse to the church. Be sure to secure
front seats, and do not fail to read aloud the responses.
Leave the church as soon as St. Maturin commences his
sermon. Attend evening service as well. 'No Surren-
der.' " His worship commented strongly on the conduct
of the accused, and said he sand his brother magistrates
would do their utmost to prevent such occurrences. He
could see a distinction in the case of the accused
Martin, and would only inflict on him a fine of £3,
or six weeks' imprisonment. With respect to the
other prisoners, who appeared to have been ringleaders,
he should inflict a fine of £5, or three months' impri-
sonment.

The Liverpool steamer Leeming has been totally
lost on the coast of Portugal, whilst on a voyage to
Gibraltar. Ail on board perished, except an engineer
named Robertson. .1
EIGHT THOUSAND PERSONS FROZEN OUT OF WORK
—lt is roughly estimated that from 10,000 to 12,000 per-
sons are daily employed at the London, St. Katherine,
Commercial, Grand Surrey Canal, Grand Junction, and
other docks in London, but owing to the continuance of
the frost, with the exception of those employed in the
warehouses, they have for the past few day_
been thrown
out of work.