The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

XIARLBOItOUGH-STREET.

ORGANIsED STREET Ftams.—Three lads, named Thos.
Oran, William Bragg, and James Flanagan, were charged
before Mr. Knox with violently assaulting John Foster,
a plumber.
The prosecutor, whose head was bandaged, said that
about ten o'clock the previous night he was passing
through PortlmA-street when some stones were thrown
at him, and directly afterwards he was surrounded by
about 50 lads with sticks, led on by Oran, who was called
the "captain," and struck several times, Oran striking
him on the head with an iron bar.

Charles Willows also proved being assaulted by the pri-
soners.

Oran was committed for two months, Bragg for one
month, and Flanagan was discharged, the evidence against
him being but slight.
AN HABITUAL OFFENDER WARNED BY THE MAGISTRATE,
—John Press, Stephen Dean, Mary Wilson, and Ellen
Wheatley were charged before Mr. Knox with loitering
in Tottenham-court-road, and Press was also charged
with assaulting Sergeant Dowdell and Robert Carter, de-
tectives of the E division, and Dean was also charged with
assaulting Chamberlain, a detective of the E division.
The officers said the female prisoners go up and accost
gentlemen, and the male prisoners then go up and ti ouble
the gentlemen. The prisoners seeiug the officers coining
made off, and on being caught assaulted the officJrs, who
were surrounded by about 30 or 40 thieves, and they had
great difficulty in getting Press to the station, ho Whaving
in a very violent manner, and threatening to rip Carter
open.

In answer to Mr. Knox, Carter said that Press had been
committed several times—ho was senteneed to one month
at Marlborough-street, six months at Marylebone, three
months at Wandsworth, 12 months at the Central Crimi-
nal Court, the latter sentence being for robbing a mail;
and he was also tried and acquitted for a burglary at
Percy Chapel. The prisoner (Press) was living with one
of the female prisoners, who formerly lied with a man
who was now doing 7 years' penal servitude.
Mr. Knox said ho would like to say a few words to
Press, not that probably he would pay any attention
to him. Penal servitude for life was such a dread-
ful thing—it was staring him (Press) iu the face,
and sooner than undergo it he had better be out of this
life. Ile (Mr. Knox) had been a witness of what it was.
A new law had recently been passed which would touch
Lim, and the only chance for him when he next came out
of prison was to leave this country. He was known to
all the officers, England was too hot to hold him, and he
(Mr. Knox) would advise him to ship himself off or there
was little doubt what would be his end.

Tho prisoners were then committed for three months
each.

INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE.

PUTNEY, 12.30 p.m.

Tho American gentlemen are having a new boat con-
structed for them in Messrs. Simmons's shed, under the
superintendence of Mr. Elliott, the American boat builder;
and although the public are excluded from the shed and
the crew seem determined to have everything American,
we can fairly say that the boat is the ordinary class of out-
rigger, built of cedar, bottomed upwards, and in her they
intend to row tho race, the date of which is not yet
fixed, but will probably do so this evening, as the Oxford
gentlemen, and very properly too, require (we hear) four-
teen days' notice. The Oxonians are expected to arrive
in the afternoon and go out at about 5.30, and their new
boat was housed at the Leander Boat house this morn-
ing. The Americans all went out, Messrs. Bass
and Rice in the pair ; and Messrs. Lyman, Faye,
Simmons, and Loring in the four in the order named
They went in the same rough style, splashing
and rolling the boat about, and getting as far as Hammer-
smith on the three quarter ebb ; the time, too, was bad,
but as their notions are entirely American, and their boats
and oars too, they are not at liberty to borrow English
style, &c., and consequently slow. Even though our
Transatlantic brethren may beat us in other matters, a
foitnight hence will, with little doub, show that Oxford
University can produce one of the finest fours in the
world.
Betting-3 to 2on Oxford.