The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-08 00:00:00

Q UEEN-SQUARE.

STEALING NEWSPAPERS ~...Yesterday a young man of
genteel appearance, who give his name Edward Gazey,
was charged with stealing two newspapers, the property
of Mr. Joseph Deverell, landlord of the Buckingham
coffee house, Pimlico.
Mr. WHITE fully committed him for trial.
H4TTON- GARDEN.

Yesterday Harriet and Isabella Coates, twin sisters
eight years of age, possessing the most extraordinary ap
pearance, the one having white flaxen hair and red eyes,
and the other long brown curly hair, reaching down to
their hips, accompanied by a girl about nineteen years of
age, who represented herself as their sister, were charged
by Mr. Spranger, Barrister at Law, of Gray's Inn square.
Yesterday morning, whilst Mr. Spranger was sitting
in his chambers, a knock was made at the door, and
on being opened the two little girls rushed into his
presence and took off their caps and bonnets, when
their hair fell loosely about their persons, and they
had the appearance of a couple of youthful visions
before him. The one with the white flaxen hair presented
the most awful aspect ; her eyes rolled about in " fine
frenzy," while the other stared wildly at him. Their
extraordinary and unexpected visit astonished him, and he
immediately called his clerks, who went outside, and found
the young woman, who represented herself as their sister,
waiting there, and on being questioned she stated that the
children were twin orphans, and having no other means
of procuring ssa livelihood, she took them round to the
houses of various gentlemen as natural curiosities, and
received voluntrry presents from them and their ladies,
and lately she had exhibited them before their Majesties,
the Duke of Wellington, and many other Noblemen and
Gentlemen, who were surprised at their wonderful appear-
ance, and had made her presents. Mr. Spranger, con-
ceiving that it was highly improper to intrude such an ex-
hibition upon gentlemen while at their private studies,
and having been frequently annoyed by other vagrants,
sent for the officer and gave them into custody.
The moment the children were placed before Mr. RO•
GERS the presiding Magistrate, they took off their caps
and bonnets, and, as if instructed, they moved about their
heads, worked their eyes in an extraordinary manner,
turned round occasionally, and pulled their hair to show
that there was no deception, but that all were the works
of nature.
Mr. ROGERS inquired of the girl who was with them
who and what she was? Girl—l am a servant out of
place, end these little girls are my sisters, and they were
born so.
Mr. ROGERS—Have they no parents ? Girl—A mo-
ther, but their father is dead.
Mr. Roorcas—What is their mother? Girl—She is a
wash rwoman.
Mr. ROGERS—Where does she live? Girl—No. 12,
Gloucester-place, Westminster-road. The King and the
Duke of Wellington have seen them and made them pre-
sents, and I thought it no harm to take them to gentle-
men's houses and chambers to show them.

Mr. ROG ERS can only tell you that you are liable
to be committed to the House of Correction for such con-
duct. Depend upon it, if ever you are brought here
again for similar conduct, you shall be committed.
The prosecutor said that the appearance of the children
was tiuly astonishing, but a different mode of exhibition
ought to be adopted, if they wished to make a property
of them.

Mr. ROGERS looked at their hair, and remarked thai
it was finer than the finest silk. _

The young woman- expressed her so:row; and the
prisoners were discharged.

THAMES POLICE.

TERRIFIC OUTRAGE.-Yesterday Thos. Batt, an
athletic Irishman, a member of the Coa!whippers' Union,
was charged with being concerned in one of the most
serious outrages that has occurred in the metropolis f.ir

many years.
Thomas Miller, a master lumper, employed Jumpers to
deliver the coal ships in the river, and hired none hot
Englishmen. The delivery of the colliers had been per•
formed for many years almost solely by the Irish, ,lid
they had late:y farmed themselves into Unions Mr the
purpose of preventing the employment of English labour-
ers. The Union men had lately come to the resolution of
demolishing the house and beer-shop called the W. ite

Lion, in Pleasant-row, Stepney, where he was in the
h abit of paying his men upon the delivery of the coal-
ship on which they had been engaged. On the pre-
cedine; night, about nine o'clock, he was in the kitchen of
the White Lion, with a bason containing Si. in silver
before him, when be beard a loud shout, enough
the air, which was followed by a tremendous crash,
and the
neat instant the house was broken into, and a body of Irish
coalwhippers rushed in, swtaring vengeance against the
Jumpers, and breaking and demolishing everything before
them. In his fright he left the money on the table, and
retreated by the back of the premises into the yard, where
he was met on one side by about 500 Irish coalvvhip ers,
p
all of whom were armed with knives and bludgeons.
They uttered the most dreadful imprecations, and
swore
they would have his life. He was severely beaten, and
received a violent blow from a brick which was thrown at
him. He escaped he hardly knew how over a wall on
thrown
other side of the premises, got into a neighbour's yard,
and eventually got away. After the coalwitippers found
be had escaped they went up stairs in search of him,
smashing everything -in their way, and broke op
n
drawer in an upper room, from which they stole Si. 165.
They then commenced throwing the farniture into the
street, and it was carried away by the mob, and after-
wards began to pull up the flooring, and reduced the house
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rioters, and said they had been knocked down and trampled
upon. One man bad been robbed of his hat, and another
of his money.
Joseph Burton and Thomas Shaw, policemen of the IC
division, said there could not have been less than 2,000
assembled, as if by concert. They were pelting the house
with brickbats and stones, and some were in the interior
demolishing the furniture. The witness saw the prisoner
with a brim in each hand, which he threw at the house.
One of the bricks struck Burton on the leg, and he im-
mediately collared the prisoner. At that instant a large
body of policemen appeared at a distance, and the rioters
made a speedy retreat.
The prisoner denied having participated in the riot.
The witnesses clearly identified the prisoner as baying
taken an active part in the outrage, and added that they
could identify a great number of the Irishmen.
Mr. Baonenir remanded the prisoner for a week, and
take
directed the police to adopt the most active measres to
into custody all those who could be identified asu being
concerned in the outrage.

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UNION-HALL.
Yesterday three men, two of whom were fashiona
a bly
nd
dressed, named John Williams, James Nelson,
John Davis, were charged with breaking into the house
of a gentleman named Debaufier, at Doer'Peckharn.rye
Furlong, the officer, identified two of the pri as
belonging to the gang called the " Swell Mob," and 111('
Magistrate remanded them, as other charges are likely to
be preferred against them.