The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

Mr. Alderman STONE seconded the amendment.

Mr. NEWTON spoke strongly in favour of the mo-
tion, and in reply to some statements nude by Mr.
11. L. Taylor, he showed that the city of London
had received back more in proportion to what they
paid to this beard than any other district. He ob-
jected to the amendment, as he did not see where
the money was to come from unless the ratepayers
were taxed to supply it.

Mr. RicHAßDsos spoke to the same effect.
Mr. Saunders, Mr. Elt, and Mr. llows were in
favour of the amendment.

Mr. Collinson, Mr. Brooker, and Mr. Savage, all
allowed that the improvement would be great, but
they did not see their way clear in adding £20,000
to this year's precept.

Mr. PEW thought the city of London was wrong
in the course they had pursued. The improvement
was not a minor one, as they had called it, but a
major one, and they should have gone to Parlia-
ment and obtained an act to widen the whole o
Ludgate-hill at once. He should vote in favour of
the motion.

Mr. FREEMAN replied on the motion.
The amendment was then put to the board, and
on a division it was lost by a majority of six, the
numbers being—For 8, against 14. The original
motion was then put and carried.
Some other business having been transacted, the
board adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A TRADESMAN CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO A HORSE
—James Easton Monson, iron bedstead manufacturer, of
No. 17, Langford-row, Kentish-town, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt by the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a horse.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 40s. or two months.

A SECOND CASE.—Thomas Souter, of College-street,
Fulham-road, broker, was charged by the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to
a horse.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, on tho defendant agreeing to have the
horse killed, fined the defendant ss.

WESTMINSTER.

AN INGENUOUS DEFENCE.— James Murdoch, a young
man, was charged with stealing a pair of regulation boots,
the property of Sergeant-Major Robert Taylor, of the
Artillery.
Jane Edes, a police-sergeant's wife, living at 12, Prince's-
court, Westminster, said that at a quarter to ten this
morning she met the prisoner, who was a stranger, on the
first-floor stairs, with a pair of hoots in his hand. As sh
felt there was something wrong she followed him, and he
was taken into custody.'

Prisoner—lt's all right, your worship.
Mr. Solfo—All wrong, I think ; you arc charged with
stealing this pair of boots.
Prisoner—lt's a mistake ; I didn't steal them. I went
to get them for another man—George Smith, a young chap
in the engineers. Ile says to me, " You go up stairs in
Princes-court, and if you don't see the sergeant-major in
his room go in, and you'll seo my regulation boots as I
left with him. If they ain't laying about, you'll find them
in a box by tho fireplace; and bring them to me."
Mr. Selfe—Why could not ho go up himself ?
Prisoner—Well, 1 don't know ; perhaps ho was tired.

Mr. Selfo—Whero is ho now?

Prisoner—Well, I can't say.
John Rae, messenger at the stationery office, said he
heard a cry of " Stop thief" as lie was passing through St
James's-park this morning, and caught the prisoner, who
was running.

Mr. Selfo (to prisoner)—Your were running in a hurry,
I suppose, with your friend's boots ?
Prisoner—Yes, I was running. My friend said to me
"If any one meets you, and stops you, run, because I'm in
a hurry."

Prisoner was remanded for a week.
T ['AMES.

VIOLENT ASSAULT OS A DOCK CONSTABLE.—WiIIiam
Onion, a remarkably powerful man, a dock labourer, was
brought before Mr. Paget on remand, charged with being
drunk and disorderly, and violently assaulting Francis
Anson, a London Dock constable.
The prisoner is well known at this court. He has been
lately released from the House of Correction, after nine
months' imprisonment for a savage assault on several
police constables in the execution of their duty. A few
days since a ship was passing through the Custom lock of
the London Dock, between the two basins. The bridge
in Old Gravel-lane, over the bridge, was swung to allow
the passage of the vessel, and chains were p'aced at the
end of each half of tho bridge to prevent accidents. While
the bridge was being closed, the prisoner who was drunk
and noit:y, insisted on passing ovor the chain on the
part of the bridge ho was on. Ansell made
an attempt to prevent him, and warned him
of the danger. The prisoner threatened and abused
him, stepped ovor the chain, and, fortunately for him
reached the other division of the bridge in safety, as the
two halves wore closing. He then made a furious attack
on the constable, and struck him several times with his
clenched fist. Ansell seized him, and*ultimately ho was
overpowered and secured.

Ansell said the prisoner's life was in imminent danger
by his reckless proceeding.
The prisoner had no defence to offer, but, in mitigation
of punishment, said he had boon already in prison a week.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner hat done a very foolish and
a very dangerous thing. It . was necessary that chains
should be placed at the end of the several bridges, and that
all persons should be effectually prevented from going across
them, or remaining upon them while they were swinging.
That was done in the docks at Liverpool, and the same
system was, ho hoped, carried out here. The officer was
doing his duty in a proper manner. Ho sentenced the pri-
soner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour.
Prisoner said ho had been in gaul for a week.
Mr. Paget—l know that, and I have considered that in
the punishment awarded.

"MANNERS AT THE OPERA."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—A statement having appeared in the Owl,
headed " Manners at the Opera,"
reflecting upon
the arrangements made for the reception of his II igh-
ness the Viceroy at If er Majesty's
Theatre, I feel it
incumbent upon me to state the facts of the case,
which appear to have been misunderstood or
strangely perverted.

His Highness having expressed a wish to visit the
Opera on Saturday last, Mr. Mapleson was re-
quested to provide a box and make suitable ar-
rangements for the occasion. Mr. Mapleson Wrote
to Mr. Larking, who had been in communication
with him on the subject, that everything was
arranged for the accommodation of his Highness,
and no reference whatever wa3 made to the fact that
he had appropriated the box of his Royal highness
the Prince of Wales.

An hour before the usual time for going to the
Opera, I received a note from Mr. Knollys, offering
the box of his Royal Highness, in case the Viceroy
shouldiT n d er
tfeelheimpression inclined
that, the Opera that evening.
DI
r mapleson had made
other and suitable arrangements, and unwilling to
deprive his Royal Highness or his Royal Highness's
friends
the use of his box,
which hand nece
beens r
constantly
placed at the
Viceroy's disposal, I took upon myself to answer
usaily o f
that the Prince of Wale3'S box would not be re-
quired. On his arrival at the theatre, much to my
surprise, his Highness was conducted to the Prince
of Wales's box. lat once remonstrated with Mr.
Mapleson on the impropriety of taking possession of
a box which but an hour previously I had declined,
and which in deference to his Royal Highness
I considered ought to be left at his disposal,
aud, feeling that in the possibility of the Prince
arriving the Viceroy
might find himself embarrassed
at occupying a box which so shortly before had
should
bmeoevned
teoc id I
thene hoxofsuggestedor
Lord
thatp hisud lHighnessey, a suggestion
which his Highness approved and immediately acted
upon.
These are the plain facts of the case, from which
I think it will be clearly seen that Mr. Mapleson'is
alone to blame for having on his own responsibility
appropriated the Prince of Wales's box, and without
informing me that he had done so.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant, FRANCIS SENJIGUII,
In attendance on his Highness the Viceroy.
Dudley House, July 18.