The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-01 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

ASSAULT BY A THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL AGENT.
—Charles Roberts, well known in the musical world
as an agent, was charged with an assault. —James
Hollier, cab-driver, said last night ho was called to..
the Marylebone Music Hall to take up a fare. On his
arrival the prisoner had his trap outside, and induced
his fare to enter, and then he drove off. •Ile fol-
lowed and asked for a shilling for being fetched off
the rank. Instead of complying with this request,
the prisoner struck him more than a dozen times
about his head and body with his whip. He had
to put his arms over his face to prevent
the whip cutting it. He gave him in charge. John
Edward Naylor proved seeing the prisoner strike the
cabman with the whip. Another witness gave corro-
borative evidence. For the defence prisoner cal!.
John McCoy, who said, last night be slept eorme where
near Westminster-bridge. He did not; send for a
cab. Mr. Roberts said he would drive him to the
Sun Alosic Hall at Knightsh'.'lClge, where he had an
engagement. He lost 15s. last night on account of
not being able to appear there through this matter.
He gave some one sixpence to give to the cabman.
The cabman said he had not received a fraction. Mr.
Mansfield said that the prisoner had no right to take
the law into his own hands. He would allow him ii he
thought proper to settle the ma'ter with the cabman.
Prisoner gave the cabman 10s.

THAMES.
Trn BLACK SWINDLER. —Henry Allen alias Jacobs,
a man of colour, was brought before Mr. Paget for
the fourth time, charged with fraudulently obtaining
money, and entertainment of 300 persons, under
pretence he hal brought home goods and valuables
from th:ir fritnds and relatives in the United States,
South America, Canada, Australia, and other places,
and that he wanted money to pay the dock dues and
Customs' charges. There was a multitude of cases
against the fellow. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner
for trial on four charges of swindling and felony,

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOA': RACE.

(THIS D4Y
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P UTNEY, 12 Noon.

In spite of the cold and the hazy morning both
crews took tLeir matutinal breathings, after which the
°l(tans went up the Reach, while the Cantabs
walked up the barge walk accompanied by their
trainer, Mr. George Morrison, intent upon the
doings of their confreres.
The Oxonians made their appearance at half-past
eleven, and embarked in their last year's boat with
Ayling's oars. They went as far as the Crab Tree,
accompanied by Mr. Willan on foot, and their style
and time was excellent ; indeed so near perfection
that little can be given in the way of improvement,
save, perhaps, the inclination of one or two of the
crew to throw their heads too far back, and thus
mar the splendid piece of oarsman's art presented
but the moment before ; the boat went capitally, and
we should judge from appearances-that they will
disown their new one (which is said to be too small)
for her. They turned at Crab Lee and came back
against the first of the flood, the water being dea
low when they started.
Betting is 5 to 4 on Oxford, in consequence of
the vast improvement the other crew have made
since Monday.
The Cambridge crew go out at three o'clock, and
will probably row the entire course at their best
speed. Their opponents will most likely do the
same.

PUTNEY, Thursday Afternoon.
. The wind chopped round this afternoon to the
westward, and making an agreeable change the tow-
ing path was early crowded with spectators. The
Oxonians launched their old boat at a little after
two, and rowing down to the Aqueduct, started up
to Mortlake at 37 and 38 strokes per minute, vigo-
rously pulled fore and aft. Their boat went very
fast, but, compared with the new one, looked very
large. They continued at a rattling pace through-
out, and, after a rest, rowed their boat down to
Putney.
Cambridge al.so rowed down to the Aqueduct,
and resembled their rivals in their form of starting,
with the difference of a stroke or two per minute.
It was admitted on all hands that their rowing was
much improved, although it was still open to amend.
ment. The boat slipped along very fast, and when
they had finished the distance, so close were they in
time with each other that their friends hardly knew
which had the advantage in speed.

THE SPANISH BULL FIGHT AT ISLINGTON.
Yesterday, the seven Spaniards were brought up on
remand at the Clerkenwell Police Court, charged with
having unlawfully and cruelly,ill-treated four bullocks, at
the Agricultural Hall, Islington. Prior to the commence-
ment of the case Mr. Anderson asked that a compromise
might be effected. He said that the defendants were
perfectly ignorant of the English law, and they had placed
themselves entirely in the hands of their Consul, and were
now willing to relinquish the entertainment and return to
Spain.

Mr. Harris could not concede to the proposition. Indi-
vidually he would be satisfied with the promise, but as
the object of the society was to punish offenders who
committed a breach of the law, he submitted that the
proposal of Mr. Anderson was not consistent with the
dignity of the Court, nor the administration of justice in
this country.
Mr. J. Colam, secretary of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was examined and
related the circumstances that attended the exhibition on
the night in question, which have been already men-
tioned.
Mr. J. Broad, a veterinary surgeon, stated that he had
visited the Agricultural Hall on Saturday last. He said
the bulls were very small, and totally unfit to undergo
fatigue. The animals must have suffered intense pain,
not only from the darts, but from the manner in which
they were driven about. The animals made manifesta-
tions of great pain.
Professor Pitcher: of the Veterinary College, agreed
with the previous witness.
Mr. Anderson, for the defence, remarked that the
defendants had been undoubtedly guilty of imitating
a Spanish bull fight an exhibition that was
totally unsuited to this country. At the; same
time he thought the proper way W.-I.o°k at
the case, was from a Spanish point of vieNy, Those men
were Spaniards, brought over from Spain by a speculator,
to place the exhibition before the English public, and if
any person was to blame in the matter, it was the indi-
vidual, by whom they were engaged, and he only ought
to suffer. Every nation had its pastimes. 'an amuse-
ments, and the defendants did not think they were guilty
of cruelty more than did those jockeys 'virho rode horses at
the Derby, for the amusement of the thousands who
assembled to witness the event.
The Chairman in giving judgment, said no one who had
heard the evidelic4,', could doubt for a moment that all the
bulls, and esl;ecially the fourth introduced into the arena,
had lottli very much tortured by the proceedings of the
defendants. The animals seemed to have been in an
exceedingly poor and dejected condition, and to drive
them to combat under such circumstances was in itself.
an act of cruelty. The position in which the defen-
dant's were placed, however, caused the case to assume
an exceptional aspect, because if it had been shewn that
the cruelty had been perpetrated by British subjects who
were cognisant of the law, he should have inflicted the
heaviest penalty the law would allow—imprisonment for
a considerable period. But the defendants had been
brought from Spain, where they had been accustomed tcl
regard bull-baiting as a sport, it having not been ton-
demned, but rather upheld, by society. He )19 `-ti been
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unnecessary to do so, for there was no rloubt whatev' almost
upon
the matter: they were moat
de'fiaedly illegal. The de•
fendants were each fined 20, ,
and costs or the alternative
of seven days' imprisninent.
was subsequently
A summons
Holland,granted against Mr.
proprietor of the Canterbury Hall, and late
...,ssee of the Agricultural Hall, for causing the cruelty to
be perpet;ated.