The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

MARLBRU-STREET.-(THIS DAY

Thomas APGrath, Jo'm Lennard, Dennis Bryan, Da-
niel Daly, and Patrick Bryan, were placed at the bar,
charged with assault and riot, after committing a rob-
bery on a coffee-house keeper.
Helen Gillham, a young girl, said her mother, a widow,
kept a coffee-house in Buckingham-place, Fitzroy-
square, and yesterday, when her mother was out, the
five defendants came in and ordered dinner, which was
given them, to the value of 4s. 7d. After dinner they
called for tea. The defendant refused to let them have
tea unless they first paid for their dinner, which they
would not do. She therefore called in the aid of a po-
liceman and some of her neighbours.
Timothy Madigan, S 293, said, when called in to re-
monstrate with the prisoners for refusing to pay, Len-
nard rose and showed fight. A scuffle ensued, four
other constables were called, several of the neighbours
entered, and a crowd gathered about outside, so that the
shops were necessarily shut up. Four of the defendants
fought policeman and neighbours, one square of glass was
broken, and several plates. They were all brought to
the station.

The proprietor of the Collegiate Coffee-house, in
Tottenham Court-road, recognised four of the defendants
as having been in his house on Tuesday night last, in
company with another, when they called for refresh-
ments to the value of seven shillings, and refused to pay
the money.

Mr. HIRDWICHE said he was amazed the proprietors
of those houses would give credit to such persons, who
knew %ell nothing could be done with them in criminal
law, and that no body would be at the trouble of sum-
moning them to the Court of Requests. The Magis-
trate then said, the four defendants who had been proved
guilty of assault should pay 51, or go two months to the
House of Correction, and M`Grath, the other defendant,
who was an accomplice in the riot, should enter into his
own recognizances in 501., and find two sureties in 251.
each, with twenty-four hours notice of his bail, for his
good behaviour for the next two months.

CLERKEN WELL.-(THIS DAY.)
George Crosbie was charged with stealing a quantity
of brushes, silver pencil cases, rules, and other articles,
the property of Joseph Lambert.
Mr. Lambert stated that he carried on business as a
pawnbroker at No. SO, Old-street, and the prisoner was
in his employment as an assistant. The missing pro-
perty was traced to the possession of a general dealer in
St. John-street, who identified the prisoner as the person
from whom he received it.

The prisoner was remanded till next Tuesday, in order
that further inquiries might be made as to other pro-
perty alleged to have been removed.

- A-most respectable, gentlemanly looking man, about
60 years of age, who stated his name to be Robert Mat-
thias Parker, and his residence to be in Cloudesley-
square, was placed at the bar on the charge of letting off
a squib or cracker yesterday evening, in High-street,
Islington, under the following singular circumstances :
Mr. Hill, the Inspector of Postage-stamps at Somerset-
hou3e, stated that he was driving along the road on his
way home to Tottenham, when he saw the defendant,
who was walking with a little boy on the footway, light
a squib and throw it into the road, and it flew right
across to the other side, and caused his (Mr. Hill's)
horse to take fright, and placed him in considerable
jeopardy._

The defendant, in explanation of the accident, said his
nephew having purchased a cracker in a shop, he took
it from him, and in order that no danger might arise
from it he lit it and threw it under his feet.

Mr. GREENWOOD said this was a lame excuse, espe-
cially from a person of the prisoner's age and ex-
perience, and he should therefore order him to pay a
fir.e of 6s.