The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

COWARDLY ASSAULT • trON WOMEN.—Richard Law-
rence, a young man, was brought up in custody, charged
with assaulting two young women without the least pro-
vocation.

Alice Smith, a smart looking-girl, said she had been on
terms of intimacy with the defendant, but having refused
to continue it, had not been with hint or spoken to him
fora fortnight. She was at the Duke of York Tavern with
a friend last night, when..he attempted to engage her in
conversation, but she declined and made no reply to him.
Subsequently she was going home with her friend when
be came up, gars her two or titres blows on the face and
knocked her down. Her friend came to har assistance,
and then ho also ill-used her.

Defendant said ho had taken a little drink, and com-
plainant very much provoked him by her conduct.
A young woman, who had accompanied Alice Smith,
said that they wore quietly wending their way towards
their homes when defendant came up and, without any
provocation, knocked complainant down. 'Witness assisted
to prevent any further assault, when the defendant struck
her and afterwards kicked her. She thought it a great
shame, as she was a perfect stranger to him.
Defendant said he could not have meant to assault her,
and it was in consequence of the drink he had taken.
Mr. Selfe said he had committed a very cowardly attack
upon the young woman, for which ho should commit him
fora month to the House of Correction.

THAMES.
ROBBING A SAlLOR.—Michael Crawley, aged 18, James
Donovan, 15, and John Mahout 15, wore charged with
stealing two sovereigns, and 4s. or 55., in silver from the
person of James Robinson, a mariner, stopping at the
Sailors Home, in Well-street.

Tho prosecutor wont out yesterday in quest of adven-
tures with about £5 in gold and silver in his pockets, and
his cruise turned out very unfortunate. He was staggering
along Cable-street, Whitechapol, when he was beset by a
number of young ruffians who struck him, knocked his hat
off, and tripped him up. The gang then rifled his pockets,
and although he caught one boy's hand he was too help-
less to hold him. Tho sailor'smoney was dragged from his
pocket, and there was a general scramble for it. This
scene occurred in broad daylight, and no one interfered on
behalf of the helpless sailor. The boys ran away with
their Foster, No./207 H, to the White Hart public-house, Rupert-
and they were traced by Floyd, 199, and
square, booty
Nv h,
itechapel. There were six boys there, but
only three of them could be identified.

John Caison, of No. 94, Lucas-street, St. George-in-the-
East, stated that he saw the boys about the sailor. They
beat him and tripped him up, and he saw them pitching up
money. The prisoners were three of the gang. He saw
each of them pick up something, and then run away.
Floyd and Foster said 2s. 4d. was taken from Donovan,
.ss. Bd. from Mahoney, and 2s. from Crawley. They were
all persons of bad character.

Tho prisoner; in defence, said that other b .ys in the
public-house had more money than was found on them.
Foster said that three boys were released because they
were respectable, and could not be identified. They were
searched, and 7s. Bd. was found on one of the other boys,
aid on a second, and nothing on the third.

The prisoners, whose garments would not produce ss.
at a rag shop, said their mothers gave them the silver and
halfpence found on them.

The prisoners were committed for trial.

APOTHECARIES'-11ALL.—The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in
the science and practice of medicine, and received certifi-
cates to practise, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 1867 : —Henry
Franklin Parsons (St. Mary's Hospital), Frome, Somerset-
shire ; Anthony Herbert Martin (University College Hos-
pital), Evesham, Worcestershire; Charles Dorrington Batt
(St. Bartholomew's Hospital), Witney, Oxon:; John San-
Thomas Abraham Jerningham Cooksedge
de t•soni
cs Wymanre (St. Bartholomew's Hospital), Alcoster,
Warn h i;
(St. George's), Kensington Dispensary ; and Herbert
Ridley (Newcastle Medical School), Hood-street, New-
castle-on-Tyne.
TllE GREAT BULLION ROBBERY.--Some clue to
the secret of this bold and skilful piece of nefarious enter-
prise has been found, and it is not unlikely that we shall
soon hear of an arrest or two in connection with the affair.
The chief mate of the Waterloo, whose name is William
Richardson, not Robinson, as stated in the earlier reports,
was again interrogated yesterday by tho directors of the
General Steam Navigation Company, at their offices in
Lombard-street ; and ho then disclosed his reasons for
suspecting a lighterman as having borne a hand in the
robbery. It appears that only two men belonging to the
Waterloo were detained when the vessel left the pool on
Wednesday morning. These were the chief mate, already
mentioned, and the Dutch sailor who kept watch, or was
supposed to keep watch, during Tuesday night, on dock.
The surnamo of " Walsh"—not very often met with in
Holland—was stated to be that of the seatnan in question,
whose true names, proper and common, are thus written,
Lauronse Olyehooke. It is scarcely questioned that this
man, assuming him to be clear of the plot, must hive slept
during the night ; though we are now informed, on the
authority of the chief mate, that throe Customhouse officers
were also on deck throughout the hours in which the
daring scheme of plunder was so successfully accomplished.
The missing barge was found early yesterday morning
above bridge. Beyond the mere circumstance 'of the
booty's having weighed more than two or 'even three men
could well have managed to remove, there are appearances
which induce the belief that a party of at least six in num-
ber was engaged in the felonious operations.