At the Queen Square Office, on Wednesday, five footmen, in
the eer• ice of the Alenjuis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Normaubv, Lord 31elhourne, the Earl of Tankerville, and Lord Ellenborongh, were e1iereed with assaulting the footman of the Earl of Galloway. It ap- eetrec'el that since 1759 the practice has existed among footmen attend- lee their masters at the House of Lords, of demanding their footing " front new coolers for the use of a room set apart for theee servants. Samuel Lento'', Lord Galloway's servant, would not conform to the title. Being menaced with pertemal injury by one of the footmen, he went to his master's carriage ; front which he was dragged, and placed a:nide a long piece of wood with a cross ta it : this was called "horsing" him, The defend:tote pleaded the custom of footmen; but the Ma- eistrate could not recognize the custom as a defence to a charge of as- 'seek ; and they were fitted ten shillings each.
At the Kensington Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Mr. Frederick Welsh, a young man of fashionable appearance, was charged with stealing a gold watch, a diamond brooch, and other valuables from Mrs. Goring, of Canning Place, Kensington, whose husband is a son of Sir William Goring, and brother of the Member for Shoreham. The war- rant was obtained five weeks ago, when Mrs. Goring swore distinctly to a charge w hieh if true amounted to felony : but on Tuesday it ap- peared that she was reluctant to press the charge, and she authorized Mr. Pownall, her solicitor, to state that she was excited when she made it, and was now convinced that Mr. Welsh never intended to rob her. As the lady was not present on 'Pttesday, the prisoner was remanded to the next day ; when Mrs. Goring appeared. She repeated her former statement when pressed by the Magistrates, but declared that she cer- tainly would not prosecute the prisener, as Mrs. Weieb. the prisoner's mother, had given her a bond to restore the property, which had in fact been pledged to raise money. The 3Ingistrates said, this looked very like compounding a felony but, under the eircumetances, they fined the prisoner 5/. under the Pawnbrokers Act ; which, with other ex- penses, madeethe sum to be paid 11/. 15s.
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