The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(IBIS DAY.)

Two young men, named Burke and Craton, with a
young woman, named Williams, were charged with
having created a diturbance in Drury-lace, and as-
saulted the police when engaged in the execution of their
duty.

The disturbance arose in this way. Yesterday fore-
noon a butcher, who was bleeding from the mouth,
called upon constable F 47 to take Burke into custody
for an assault, and while he was in the act of doing so
Burke kicked him most desperately, and Cronan, coming
to the assistance of his companion, attempted to rescue
him. A struggle took place, which attracted a mob to
the spot, and, as is too often the case, the mob sided
with the offenders, and a general row ensued. Eventually
other constables came up, and the two male prisoners
were after some further resistance safely lodged in the
station. In the course of the struggle Burke and the
constable fell with great violence to the ground, and the
prisoner being the undermost the back of his head came
in contact with the curbstone, and a dreadful gash was
inflicted on it. While the prisoner and the constable
were kicking and rolling together on the ground, the
female took the opportunity of throwing farther difficul-
ties in the way of the constable, by pulling and tugging
vigorously at his hair, but luckily she was captured in
the act by another constable, and marched off to the
station amidst the yells and jeers of the mob, which,
of course, was composed of the lowest grade of
people, who looked upon the whole affair as a capital
joke. The constable sta'ed that there could not have
been less than 300 or 400 persons present, and it tilts
with considerable difficulty that he and his colleagues
succeeded in securing the prisoners. The two male
prisoners were too drunk at the time of their arrest to
admit of their being at once brought before the Court,
and consequently they had been locked up all night.
Mr. Wontner attended on behalf of the prisoners, but
finding that the evidence could not be shaken in the
least degree, he left it fur his clients to give their own
history of the transaction.

Cro-nan, who described himself as a printer, said the
butcher struck his companion first, and they had: sereral
rounds before the constable came ur.
Burke, who was also a printer, said he would hare
gone quietly to the station had he been the aggressor in
the first instance; but it was the butcher who ought to
bare been taken, and not himself.

The female denied the charge against her. She sim-
ply cried " Shame" when the police began to use their
truncheons, and she was immediately pounced upon by
some of the force.

Mr. HALL sent Cronan to the House of Correetion for
a month, his companion for fourteen dam, and the fe-
male he fined 20F. or ten days.

They were then removed in custody.

WESTMINSTER.—(THIS DAY.)
Ellen Collins, a middle-aged, iespectably•dressed
woman, whose face bore evidences of recent ill•usage,
was charged before Mr. Burrell with assaulting and
threatening the life of Thomas Cross, a cow-keeper, re-
siding at 5, Alfred place, Chelsea.
It appeared from the statement of the complainant,
whose face was cut and scratched in several places, and
who gave his evidence in an offensively flippant manner,
that the prisoner was his housekeeper. On coming
home to dinner yesterday, about one o'clock, he had oc-
casion to find fault with the prisoner for allowing her
children (for she had had children), as well as his on,
to make away with some old iron from his premises.
Some high words ensued, in the course of which the
prisoner snatched up the poker and attempted to strike
the complainant with it, but he got out of her
way, having, however, intimated to her that she
was to leave her service. The complainant returned
to the house again in the course of the after-
noon, when he found the prisoner packing up
her clothes, and preparing to leave; angry words were
renewed between the parties, during which the prisoner
said she would not leave the house until she had beeu
revenged in some way on the complainant. The com-
plainant then " pitched" a basket belonging to the pri-
soner at her; whereupon she seized a large dinner plate,
and smashed it over his head, wounding him slightly on
the cheek. The complainant wee again malting off
when the prisoner seized a sword-stick u hich stood be.
hind the kitchen door, and commenced belabouring his
head and back soundly with it. A struggle ensued be-
tween the belligerents, in the course of which the com-
plainant broke the sword stick in two, and threw the
prisoner down on the stairs. Contriving to get away
from her, he went for the police, and gave her in custody.
The complainant's son, a boy barely eleven years of
age, partly corroborated his statement as to the assault.
The prisoner in her (Hence said she bad prepared
the complainant's dinner comfortably for him yesterday,
and on his coming into the house to dine he complained
of her allowing the children to take away some old iron
from the house. She replied that she had her domestic
duties to perform, and could not always be answerable
for what his boys did. The complainant then began
abusing her, ending with giving her notice to leave the
house forthwith. Shortly afterwards, on hie return to'