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

MANSION-HOUSE-(THIS DAY.)

A WHOLESALE THlEl.—Francis Jervis was brought
Wore Mr. Alderman Gibbs upon remand, charged with
having stolen a time-piece, a watch, and other articles
from Mr. Watley's distillery at Battersea, the property
of various persons employed about that establishment.
There were also other charges of stealing a bed•quili
and a bird, which showed that the prisoner had car-
ried on an extensive series of depredations from every
house he visited. Many articles had been ti aced to dif-
ferent pawnbrokers; but there was reason to suppose
that there were many others of which no trace could be
discovered. More than twenty duplicates were found in
his possession. The prisoner was fully committal.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Two young men, named Burke and Cronan, with a
young woman, named Williams, were charted with
having created a disturbance 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 aided
with the offenders, and a general row ensued. Eventually
other conrables 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
Ii took the opportunity of throwing further 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 coune, was composed of the lowest grade of
fieople, who looked upon the whole affair as a capital
joke. The constable stated that there could not have
been less than 300 or 400 persons present, and it was
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 for his clients to give their own
history of the transaction.
Cronan, who described himself as a printer, said the
butcher struck his companion first, and they had several
rounds before the constable came up.
Burke, who was also a printer, said he would have
gone quietly to the station had he been the aggressor in
the first instance; but it was the butcher who ought to
have 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 Correction for
a month, his companion for fourteen days, and the fe-
male he fined 20s. or ten days.
They were then removed in custody.

WESTMINSTER.—(THIS DAY.)
Ellen Collins, a middle-aged, respectably•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 oae 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 own,
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 been
on the complainant. The com-
a basket belonging to the pri-
rpelaviennagnetd
theni n some,:pjt 7haeyd
soner at her; whereupon she seized a large dinner plate,
and smashed it over his head, wounding him slightly on
the cheek. The complainant was again making off
when the prisoner seized a sword-stick which stood be-
hind the kitchen door, and commenced belabouring his
lead 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 sor, a boy barely eleven years of
age, partly corroborated his statement as to the assault.
The prisoner in her defence said she had prepared
the complainant's dinner comfortably for him yesterday,
and on his coming into the house to dine ho 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 wha'; his boys did. The complainant then began
abusing her, ending with giving her notice to leave the
bowie forthwith. blicrtly afterwards, on his return to