The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-19 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

An apparently half•crazed younr, man, named Francis
William Crisp, was brought up charged° with carrying a
board, on which was stuck a placard relating to Mr. Roe-
buck, M.P., and thereby creating a crowd of persons in
Tavistock-street, near to the office where the Hon. Mem-
ber's pamphlets are published. The prisoner was appre-
hended by the policeman on the beat, and it appeared he.
did not confine himself to exhibiting the placard, but bawled
out sundry denunciations of the Hon. Member for Bath.
On one side of the placard was :the quotation from
Burns :
. .

• " Man's inhunianity to
Makes countless thousands•pourn."
To,tbis:was added, " Justice versus ROtherk and his trash.
,A challenge is left for the trashtnongeliflg M.P., at the
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office; No. 14, Tavistock-strect.".
- Tim prisoner, when asked_ what he had to say, com-
menced a long string f abUse against Mr. Roebuck and
his,patnphlets, .artcl said there was no such thing as justice
in the land. If he were Mr. Roebuck, he would throw
himself off Waterloo-aridge ; Lord Brougham ought to
look to it. It was a pity Mr. Black did not shoot Roe-
buck ; and he would have done so, only that he was near
sighted.
The prisoner was going on in this wild way, when the
MAGISTRATE stopped him, and ordered him to find bail.
Yesterday afternoon, after the usual hours of business, a
number of solicitors and gentlemen connected with the
theatrical profession came into the office, and a charge, the
nature of which will be found described in the following
statement, was preferred against two gentlemen, named
Samuel Grenville Fletcher, otherwise -Farrel', and Thomas
Charles Forbes.

The charge was made by a Sheriff's officer named Levy,
who was acquainted with Mr. Forbes, and had known him
for some time. On Thursday, the 10th instant, be came
to witness's house, and took the bill of exchange now pro-
duced from his pocket, and said he wanted it cashed. It
purported to be drawn by Mr. Farren upon a person
named M'Cabe, and was duly accepted by the latter, and
endorsed by Miss Elizabeth Taylor. He had previously
told witness that he had taken three bills in payment fer
the letting a place he had in Kensington (the Kent Theatre)
and witness had already lent him 4/. on one of those bills.
He said that M'Cabe lived at No. 15, College-street,
Westminster ; that Miss Taylor lived at No. 19 in the
same street, and that Mr. Farren resided in Duke-street,
and declared they were all housekeepers. On Thursday
evening witness advanced him 40!. upon the second bill,
but he had since ascertained that the name of the drawer
was Fletcher, and not Farren, and that the acceptor and
indorser were not housekeepers, and did not live at the
place described. Witness believed the bill to be a forgery,
and that fraud was intended. Mr. Farren called on wit-
ness on Thursday last, and stated that his theatrical name
was Farren, but that his private name was Fletcher, and
admitted that he had signed the name of Farren to the bill.

A solicitor who attended for Mr. Forbes asked Levy if
he was not a partner with that gentleman in a theatre, and
he said he was not.

The solicitor for Mr. Forbes said his client, being anxious
to let the Kent Theatre, had received several letters from
Mr. Farren, the defendant, and at length an agreement was
drawn up, and duly executed, by virtue of which Mr. Far-
ren was to become the tenant, and Mr. Forbes thus became
possessed of the billS in question, of tho,genuineness of
which he could have no manner of doubt.

Mr. Barton, who attended for Mr. Farren, said that this
was merely his theatrical name, and nothing, it was known,
was more common than for a Gentleman when he had de-
termined upon:the stage as a profession, to appear under an
assumed name.

Mr. Farren—l have been on the stage six years in that
name, and some time ago I brought an action in that name
against the proprietor of a London theatre for breach of
contract, and recovered heavy damages.
A very long and warm discussion took place amongst the
different parties, and the investigation of the charge termi-
nated in Sir F. ROE discharging Mr. Forbes altogether,
and holding Mr. Farren, or rather Mr. Fletcher, to bail to
appear at the Sessions.
The parties then retired.

GALLANT CONDUCT ON THE PART OF A FE-
MALE.—On Saturday night last, an attempt was made to
rob the house of Mr. James Webster, at Natland, near
Kendal. One of the servant girls had been a little later
than usual in seeking her pillow, in consequence of a part-
ing interview with her lover, who next day was about to
leave the neighbourhood for a distant part of the kingdom.
Some time during the evening a noise, as irof the breaking
of glass, was heard, which excited a little alarm, but led
to no investigation. The moment having arrived when the
lover must leave, he was accompanied a few yards from the
door by the young woman. On her return to the kitchen,
the first sight she beheld was a hulking fellow, with soot-
begrimmcd face, and with a lighted candle in his hand,
walking towards the interior part of the house. On hear-
ing a foot, the fellow stopped, turned round, and stared
upon the young woman, who had so inopportunely intruded
upon his midnight labours, In a moment, however, he
made a dart towards the door, as if to escape ; to prevent
which the girl laid hold of him, and called out lustily, A
struggle ensued, and the noise having reached the ears of
the young woman's sweetheart, he returned ; the sound of
his footstep tiltitta4 intreated the sable visitor's cfrorts to
be reintittl ; but still the young woman retained fast hold
of his clothes. At length, however, the fellow broke away,
leaving the hinder part of his nether garment in the pes?es-
sion of the girl, as a trophy. of her spirited and courageous
conduct. The lover and the young woman proposed giving
chase le the thief, when another or two of the gang came
from their hiding places, and scampered off. They were
pursued a short way, but we are sorry that neither them
nor since have any of them been apprehended, and put on
the road to that signal punishment which their crime so
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Stt4autAß CIRCUMSTANCE.—On, the . 4
inst. the brig Margaret, owing to the tempesttions state cif
the weather) was driqtt hO shiird fit DrUMrdothatiki en the
coat fit CnlVatl. After eketting themselves to the utmost
to get the vessel off, With no, prospect of ultimate success,
the crew took to their Sit all heat, and ktilddd at &lather-
ness, As the evening approached the weather ealtned, and
as the prospect was the much more favontable, three of the
men re-embarked, with the vier of reaching and righting
the vessel. By the way, however, while the cook, whose
name was Haliday, was employed in adjustin4 the tackle of
a tiny mast, the boat upset and plunged all within it into
the open deep. Two of the three fortunately got hold
each of an oar, and swam towards the shore, while Halliday
clung to the bottom of the boat, and with a knife in hand
still busied himself in endeavouring to right the mast. One
of the two made right for the shore, but the other, after
swimmine, a little way, returned to the boat, at which time
he found it so much under water from the weight of Halli-
day's body, that he despaired of seeing it raised, and re-
swain towards the land. But his deceased companion was
more persevering, and it appears that after stripping to pre-
pare himself for the worst, he had succeeded in righting the
beat, which, strange to say, was found next clay " high and
dry," with the naked corpse of Halliday, not only within it,
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but under the spars on which the men sit while engaged in
rowing.----Dumfries Courier.
A fellow ate two pounds of live eels on Saturday
night, in the butcher-market at Crowland ; the Cormorant
swallowed the bones and skins, before a large concourse of
people. His name is Cooper, and he is a, mason,—
Lincoln Mercury.