The Sun. — 1844-09-27 (London, England)

NOCTURNAL DISTURBER.An incident, laughable enough (except to the party who was damaged in purse by it), occurred on Sunday night in Harmer-street, Gravesend. At about half-past twelve o'clock on that night, as Penman, the policeman, who was then on duty in Harmer-street, was passing the shop of Mr. Brown, upholsterer, in that street, he heard a heavy tramping in the house, and drawing close to the shop window a strange noise which he, much terrified, believed to be supernatural, issued from within. Suddenly a mighty crash, as of shivered glass, caused him in great alarm to withdraw from his listening position close to the window shutters, and before he could well clear the kerb of the footway in his retreat, another crash and a dash through the window of what appeared to his appalled sight a monster of unearthly shape compelled him to cry aloud for aid. The inmates of Mr. Brown's house, as well as those of the adjacent houses, being by this time alarmed, rushed into the street, and there they found the terrified " guardian of the night" gazing with horror at an animal not far from him, which, upon Mr. Brown's approach, he discovered to be his own horse. It soon appeared that the poor animal had done his master considerable damage, without any intention of burglariously breaking into his house, having, in fact, broken out of it. The horse had been put into an apartment in the rear of the house, as a temporary stable, from which there was a passage leading to another passage, which opened into the shop. The door of the stable having been, through inadvertence, left open, the animal wandered into the passage, and thence entered the shop, when coming in contact with a pier glass of considerable size and value, he with r a kick (it is assumed) demolished it, and by the crash was so terrified, that after plunging and kicking amid the articles of furniture in the shop, he bolted through the shop window, the policeman having narrowly escaped Mr. t. he Brownanimal by y i n this i s violent nocturnal e gfreaesk donecTohmeindgaminagceont contact withof the horse is estimated at 504 or 60/. M TREATIES FOR THE APPREHENSION OF OFFENDERS —ln The Sun of Tuesday appeared the first ease of an alleged French fraudulent bankrupt being committed in order to be conveyed to France for trial. The commitment took place under the Act 6th and 7th Victoria, c. 75, which came into operation on the 22d of August, 1843, on which day another Act was passed in respect to persons charged with offences committed in America, ' or who had absconded into that country. These acts were framed to carry out two conventions between the high contracting parties " for the apprehension of certain offenders." There is a difference in the offences mentioned, and the point which arose in the case reported was on the designation of a " fraudulent bankrupt," which the Lord Mayor held in effect to mean a felonious bankrupt under the English law. With regard to the treaty between England and France the crimes specified for which fugitives can be apprehended consist of murder, attempt to murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy. After a commitment of two months, if the offender is not conveyed to the place where the alleged offence was committed to be tried, he is to be discharged. In the treaty between England and America the crimes mentioned are murder, assault with intent to murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery, or the utterance of forged parer, committed within the jurisdiction of either of the high contracting parties. After two months' confinement., if the party is not removed, he is to be discharged. Only two cases have occurred during these treaties, one in which the American Government claimed an alleged offender in a British colony, where he was refused because the parties had no evidence of the alleged offence, and the case which was brought before the Lord Mayor on Monday last. By the preamble in the two acts it is declared that parties are to be given up " only when the commission of the crime should be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person so accused should be found would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been there committed." Copies of depositions may, however, be given in evidence of the criminality of the person apprehended.