The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

Mr. Lewis said that certain fixtures which were
to have been taken were not paid for by the colonel,
and that, in point of fact, the marquis was quite jus-
tified in withholding possession till everything was
properly arranged.
Mr. Sleigh called two witnesses, John Morton, in
the employ of Mr. Sanders, the house agent, and
James Wood, the latter quartermaster-sergeant in
defendant's regiment—the name of the regiment
did not transpire—but their evidence was of no
more importance than that the marquis refused to
give up the key till the matter was completely
settled. The key was given up by the marquis on
the afternoon of the day when the language corn,
plained of was used. Mr. Sanders sent a chair for
the lady as sha could not get one from the room.
After some further proceedings,
Mr. Broughton said he regrettd that the case had
been brought to the court, and thought that if the
colonel had expressed his regret at using the words
he did, he might have done so without at all com-
promising himself as a gentleman and an officer,
and if he would now tender an apology, he '(the
marquis) would perhaps accept it.
Mr. Sleigh---Acting under my advice, sir, the
colonel will not do anything of the sort.
Mr. Broughton, considering that langusov calcu-
lated to provoke a breach of the peace had been used
by the colonel, then convicted him in the penalty of
405., or a week in the House of Correction.
The fine was directly paid, and Mr. Sleigh ex-
pressed his intention of obtaining the judgment of
the Court of Queen's Bench as to the legality of the
magistrate's decision.

LAMBETH.—ROBBERY OF WATCHES AT THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Thomas Mahoney, Alfred Irwin,
and John Day, alias Driscoll, three determined-
looking thieves, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Elliott, charged on suspicion with stealing three
watches, and committing other robberies at the
Crystal Palace, on the day before.
From the testimony of Inspector Heele, of the
Crystal Palace Railway Station, Richards, a detec-
tive officer of the Brighton Railway, and other wit-
nesses, it appeared that on the evening before a
gentleman complained to the first-named witness of
having been robbed of a valuable gold watch on the
railway platform, and search having been made
after suspicious characters, the inspector saw Day
and Irwin in conversation. They soon separated,
and the inspector keeping his eye on Day saw him
get into a third class carriage. In the interim the
attention of Mr. Richards was called to Irwin and
Mahoney, and having been informed that several
robberies had been committed, he took them out of
a first class carriage, and also removed their com-
panion Day from the third class. At the station-
house they <acknowledged they had gone to the
Palace "to do something, but they had not been
able." On the arrival of the train in which they
were about to proceed at the'London-bridge Sta-
tion, the searcher found a greatcoat belonging to
Day in the carriage from which he had been re-
moved, in the pockets of which he discovered three
watches, one a double-bottomed silver 'watch,
engine-turned, by E. J. Dent; another, a silver
lever hunting watch, engine-turned (second hands
off), makers, Braithwaite and Jones, Cockspur-
street ; and the third, an old-fashioned silver watch,
winds up in front, Soulmer, London, all of which
had been wrenched from the rings. The prisoner
Day, when asked at the station for the greatcoat
which he had worn just before, said he had sent it
to town to its owner, and though Inspector Mole
swore positively that the coat produced was the
one worn by the prisoner when he first saw him,
Day as positively denied it. The magistrate directed
the prisoner to put on the garment, and the manner
in which he did so was exceedingly laughable. He
endeavoured to puff himself out to give the appear-
ante of a mis-flt, bat it would not do, and an officer
belonging to the F or Covent-gaiden division de-
posed that for the last two years he had been in the
constant habit of seeing him in the disputed coat,
and further, that his name was Driscoll, not Day,
and that he was a member of the most desperate
gang of thieves in the metropolis, called " the Field-
lane gang."
The officers requested a remand, and Mr. Richards
informed the magistrate that one of the watches
found corresponded in every respect with one of
which information had been left at the London
bridge Station by the gentleman from whom i
had been stolen.

Mr. Elliott remanded the prisoners for a week.
The n..?.xt prisoner placed at the bar was a well-
dressed man with a profusion of dark whiskers and
moustaches, who gave the name of Alfred Martin,
and who has been in custody for the last week on
a charge of stealing a valuable gold watch from
the person of Mr. Edward Findley, of the Man-
chester Arms, Manchester•square, on Wednesday
week, at the Crystal Palac.) Station. Mr. Findley,
it appeared, when about to enter a first•class car-
riage, was called to by a person --pho no doubt was
a confederate of the prisoner, and requested not to
press against a lady, and on turning round, the
moment was seized by the prisoner to wrench his
watch from an Albert chain. Mr. Findley at once
missed his property, and, seizing the prisoner by
the throat, charged him with taking his watch.
The prisoner coolly ,replied " I have ; here it is ;
say nothing about it, and I'll give you £20." Mr.
Findley handed him over to the carp of an office•.
Inspector Anscomb said that since the former ex-
amination he had been to Brighton and made in-
quiries. at the address given by the prisoner, but
nothing whatever was known of him there, nor
coted he learn anything of him in the town.
The prisoner said he should plead guilty if his
worship would deal summarily with his case ; but
Mr, Elliott observed t4at the oeence was of too .

MARYLEBONE.—THE "MARQUIS" AND TILE
"COLONEL."—CoIoneI Graham was charged before
Mr. Broughton on a summons with having used
towards the Marquis of Westmeath language calcu-
lated to provoke a breach of the peace.
Mr. Lewis, jun., attended for the complainant;
and Mr. Sleigh for defendant,
At the desire of Mr. Sleigh, the marquis quitted
the court while Mr, Lewis stated the facts 'of the
case, and when he had concluded tihla noble com-
plainant took his place in the witness-bOe.
The Marquis, having been sworn,'said—l reside
at 14, Queen's-gardens, Bayswater. Last month
defendant entered into a negotiation with Mr. San-
ders, TDinent, to take my house. I consented,
and allowed him to put in some furniture. This was
on the Tuesday before quarter-day. It. was put
into the dining-room, I told defendant that his
property would be quite solve, and that I should
put the key of too ppm in my pocket, There
wag an arrangement that defendant was to pur-
chase some things of mine which were on the pre-
mises. On the 28th defendant overtook me in
Queeuls-gardens, and, on my turning round, looked
furiously at me, and said, " yen consider your-
self a gentleman ?" I told him I considered niyself
as goOd a gentleman as he was? and he said, " What
is your complaint ? You have refused to give Mrs.
Graham a ei ej.r. in the house, and have sent your
servant to take the lock off the hail-doer." I said
to him, " IL do not know what you mean," and I
remarked, "I have not seen Mrs. Graham, nor have
I been asked for any chair. As to the lock, I did
tell my servant to take it' off the door, but
Mrs. Graham prevented him from doing so. It
Is a private lock, and one of Bramah's." The de-
fendant then added, " You have refused to give me
the key of the room ;" and I told him I had not
been asked for it, I did not intend to have
given it up till all the arrangements as to
the purchase of fixtures, c., had been com-
pleted. If I had been a younger man (the Mar-
quis is between 70 and 80 years of age) I think
I should have struck him in consequence of his be-
haviour towards me. There can be no pretence for
saying that I acted with any want of courtesy to-
wards his wife. Had he made any apology to me
I should have been quite content. I walked' away.
By Mr. Sleigh-=----Up to the time I have spoken of
I considered his manner to be that of a gentleman.
We were passengers in an omnibus on the day
alluded to, before the language I complain of oc-
curred. We bad not much conversation together.
In the course of that morning I had been at Mr.
Sanders's office, and had promised that he (defend-
ant) should have full possession in a day or two if
he wished it. I did not promise to give up posses-
sion to him early on the Tuesday. On 28th some
one in the employ of Mr. Sanders asked me to give
up the key of the room where the furniture was
locked up, but nothing could have induced me to
give it up. Some of my servants were in the house,
and all my furniture had been taken away. I will
not undertake to swear that I did not refuse the
key in order that the lady might get a chair out to
sit Tipon. The colonel never said to me " You can't
taunt a lady in any way without insulting her hus-
band." I should have applied for a summons upon
an earlier day, the last Monday, but I was not well.
I should have been satisfied with an apology.
In answer to Mr. Lewis,
The Marquis said—l never refused to let the lady
have a chair, but I would not give up the key when
applied for.
Mr. Sleigh, on behalf of his client, observed that
the marquis's conduct towards the lady was any-
Ihing but correct and proper. The age of com-
plainant protected him, and had he been a younger
man the colonel would not, perhaps, have done less
than resent upon the spot the insult which he con-
sidered had been offered to his wife in refusing her
a chair. The colonel never attempted to lay hands
upon the marquis, and he thought that, under all
the cireumTtanees, his lordship would have exercised
a sound discretion if he had not brought the case
before the court.