The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

THE ANEITIIIAN BALL Rooms.—Yesterday Mr.
Henry Gough, a young gentleman, the respectability
of whose appearance was materially detracted from
by a large white bandage encircling his head and to-
tally concealing his left eye, was charged before Mr.
Alderman WAITIIMAN with assaulting a son of Nep-
tune, and ejecting him vi et armis from the Anei-
thian ball-room, Holborn-bars, between one and
two o'clock yesterday morning.
Henry Cox, the complainant, stated, that abotit
half-past ten on Wednesday night he went to the
ball-room, accompanied by a brother and a friend.—
A man at the door informed them that they would
not be admitted without a ticket, and accordingly
they purchased one from him, for which they paid
him three shillings. This ticket was issued in the
name of " Wheeler," and purported to be an ad-
mission to his " grand monthly dress ball." On
entering the room the party received a second card,
issued in the name of " Way," and were intro-
duced into a crowd of men, women, and children.
When quitting the scene of midnight mirth, and de-
manding their hats, which they had been disencum-
bered of on their entrance for the moderate charge of
6d. each, they were required by Mr. Wheeler to stay for
coffee, or, if they preferred going away, to pay 2s. for
the same. The tar demurred to pay for what he did
not, or would not, drink, when Mr. H. Gough
" turned all hands out," and laying hold of Cox by
the collar, the male part of the company pushing
Gough forward, he pushing Cox, and the ladies
throwing themselves in the rear as a make-weight,
the three were fairly bundled into the street. The
tar swore positively that in their progress to the
front door, Gough struck him, and having made a
statement to that effect at the watch-house, the
night-constable, aided by a serjeant of the metropo-
litan police, entered the room and took the prisoner
into custody.

" Was itjin the' bundling out,'" asked the Alder-
man, " that the prisoner received the black eye ?"
" I dare say it was," replied the tar. "It was
given by one of his own friends. No doubt it was
intended for me, but I am just as well pleased that
he got it."
" Neither you nor your friends," said the Alder-
man, "appear attired suitably to a grand dress ball."
" Oh, as to the matter of that," rejoined the
complainant, " they were all a queer crew; some
had frocks, sonic black neckcloths, and my brother
here had boots on him."

" And how were the ladies done up ?" asked the
Alderman.—" Pretty well rigged out. Some on
'em hung out long feathers," replied the tar.
" You drank nothing in the room (luring the
night which could make you intoxicated ?"—" Why,
yes; they had wine; negus, I think, they called it;
but I'd rather drain a barrel after a three months'
voyage. Sad stuff, I assure your Honour, and
nothing like what would make me drunk."

Edwin Cox corroborated his brother's statement

" The card," observed the Alderman, " states
that a grand quadrille band' will be in attendance.
Was that so ?"—" There were three musicians,"
replied the witness.
" A grand quadrille band, indeed !" exclaimed
the Alderman.

The police-serjeant stood forward to give his evi-
dence, but the scene of the ball-room had caught
such hold of his imagination that be found it ut-
terly impossible to command his risible muscles.
He stated that when he went up stairs the scene
beggared description—the ladies fainting, children
screaming, bottles of sal volatile and burnt feather,
every thing in requisition to compose the shattered
nerves of the dear creatures.

The Alderman—What was the appearance of the
ladies ?—The watchman stated that one of the
ladies, a tall dishing female, he knew to be a street-
walker. He added, that the ball-room had been
formerly a place of religious worship.
The Alderman ordered the prisoner to find bail
for the assault, and directed the complainant to
carry the charge to the Sessions.
Mr. Wheeler was accepted as surety for the pri-
soner's appearance.
BOW-STREET.

Mr. William Tyrrell, the landlord of the public-
house known by the sign of the Plough, in Carey-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, appeared before G R.
MINSSIULL and THOMAS HALLS, Esqrs., yesterday,
to answer to an information which had -been laid
against him by Inspector Preece, for having allowed
gambling in his house.
A police-sergeant and constable stated that their
attention was directed to the house by a gentleman
who happened to be passing, and on going to the