The Morning Post has an account of the investigation before
the Bergen police of the circumstances attending the thump on the Mar- quis of Waterford's noddle. It appears that the watchman, seeing him in the street with a girl wearing a man's (the Marquis's) hat nod kicking up a disturbance, had thought it his duty to interfere ; that the .Marquis picked up a stone and flourished it close to the watchman's nose ; that the latter then, in self-defence, struck him a blow on the head with his " morning star," or club,-a formidable weapon with a spike at one end and a bullet on the other. He hit the lord so hard that the bullet was broken into two pieces ; but be had only intended to have struck him on the arm. Two friends of Lord Waterford, Mr. John Lewis Ricardo and Mr. John Jesse, came up and carried him to his yacht. The Stockholm Gazette, after highly eulogizing the spirited young Irish nobleman, says-
" There is something most barbarous in arming watchmen with morning. stars to knock people's brains out for a slight infringement of police regula- tions."
The good journalist mistakes Lord Waterford's for a common bead-it has no bruins.
The Marquis, according to the last accounts from Bergen, was out of danger.
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