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DISTURBANCE AT ASTLEY’S THEATRE.

UNION-HALL.—John Detner, Lydia Detner, and Elizabeth Rose, were charged by the door-keeper at Astley’s Theatre, with assaulting him, and making a riot at the entrance of the Theatre. It appeared that the prisoners went to the door of the Theatre in a state of intoxication, and presenting a cheque, demanded admission; on examining it, however, the door-keeper discovered it was not the regular cheque of the evening, and therefore refused to admit them. Upon this refusal they assaulted him, and another door-keeper of the Theatre who came to his assistance and they were under the necessity of praying the aid of Wortley, the constable, who, on coming up was also assaulted, and it was with difficulty they were secured; the next morning they were taken before a Magistrate, when, on their expressing contrition for the violence they had been guilty of, and upon conditions of their making a public apology, Mr. Astley consented to forego prosecuting them.