• A gentleman who bears the honours, not blushing, of

a baronet, was charged at Marlborough Street Office, on Tuesday, with an assault. It appeared that the baronet, in passing down Bond Street, dropped a prescription on the pavement. A footman named Thomas Keerich, passing towards Oxford Street, picked it up, and walked on - which so irritated the baronet, that he ran after him, and having fast damned him for a rascal, finished by knocking him down-

. Mr. Conant—" Who are you, Sir ?"

Gentleman—" Give me a piece of paper and I'll write it down." Mr. Conant—" It would be as easy, Sir, to say what your name is." Gentleman—" My name is Sir Vincent Cotton." Mr. Conant—" I am sorrow to see a gentleman of your rank in life conduct- ing yourself with such indecorum." • Sir Vincent—" A fellow that would speak to me so I'd knock him down, or any one else; I'll be damned if I would not." Mr. Dyer—" We fine you five shillings, Sir, for swearing. Your hnpe- tuosity is extremely unbecoming. We floc you twenty shillings for the assault."

Sir Vincent—" I hav'nt twenty shillings with me. Can't I appeal ?"

Mr. Dyer—" No, Sir : and if it be not paid, commitment must follow."

- Sir Vincent—" I myself have sat on the bench, as well as you ; and I know how to behave to a gentleman, which is more than you do."

The Baronet without twenty shillings, was for this insult to the Bench ordered to find bail, besides paying his five and twenty shillings. In about half an hour, bail appeared. Mr. Dyer did not feel inclined to press for hail, if Sir Vincent would declare his sorrow for the cause which led to its being demanded. Sir Vincent was accordingly re- introduced-

- Mr. Dyer—" I understood that you have said you felt sorry for any intempe- rate language you had made use of."

Sir Vincent—" I don't think I was treated courteously."

Mr. Dyer—" I really, Sir, do not entertain an opinion that you were treated uncourteously." Sir Vincent—" I repeat I was treated uncourteously, and not with that re- spect due from one gentleman to another." Mr. Conant—" My feelings on the subject are with Mr. Dyer's, that of not wishing to press for bail." Sir Vincent—" You act up to your feelings, Sir—/act up to mine."

Mr. Dyer—" In the event of irritation, gentlemen may frequently say things from the impulse of the moment which they may regret afterwards. Here there has been time for the passions to subside."

Mr. Conant—" We have a duty to perform, and there must be proper respect to•the Bench maintained." Sir Vincent—" As Magistrates, you have a duty to perform; but there are different ways of doing that duty."

Certainly; and in doing their duty, Magistrates ought to distinguish gentlemen and mere men. • To fine a baronet for swearing and for knocking down a footman !—a proper story ! How does Mr. Dyer suppose, is a man of rank to keep his tongue and his hands in practice? The two girls Turton, who are charged with stealing seals and pins at Crockford's Bazaar, and about whose apprehension so much has been said and so little done, are, it seems, the daughters of Mr. Wil- liam Tuiton, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery.' It is-said that they i possess in their own right a fortune of 12,000/. each. One of them is twenty-one and the other eighteen. They have the credit of being handsome. " Handsome is that handsome does." The father is S most respectable man, and the-family are highly connected. It is-pretty plain that they have been badly educated.

A map who called himself Captain Beauclerk, against whom and a Captain Nicholls a charge of a very atrocious character had been lodged at Union Hall, was lately arrested and consigned to Horsemonger Gaol; Nicholls, chiefly by Beauclerk's means, contrived to escape. Beauclerk was re-examined on Tuesday, and remanded, with a view of being again brought up ; when certain evidence, it was known, could be produced against him. On Wednesday morning, when the keeper entered his cell, he found the wretched man lying in bed with a deep cut in the neck through the carotid artery, and quite dead. He had effected his purpose with a small penknife, which he contrived to se- crete from the officers. Beauclerk was a Lieutenant on hall-pay of

the 60th. . • • Hollis, whose capture by Mr. Beardsworth, and examination on a charge of uttering forged notes, we noticed last week, was found, on Saturday, suspended by a handkerchief from a hook in one of the cells of the House of Correction. He was immediately cut down ; but life was extinct, and it was evident he had been dead some hours. He ap- pears to have fastened a silk handkerchief round his neck, mounted a chair, and tied the other end of the handkerchief to a hook in the wall. He then, with another handkerchief, tied his bands in such a manner, that after having dropped from the chair it would be impossible for him to extricate himself should his resolution fail. On a table in the cell, were found two letters, one addressed to the Governor of the gaol, the other to the prisoner's wife.

It appears from the latter, that Hollis, in addition to his other avo- cations, was a Portuguese patriot, and had, when captured, all but com- pleted a negotiation with one of Don Pedro's colonels for a majority in the invading army. In his lodging at Pimlico, were found a number of bits of tissue paper, with the numbers fifty and one hundred very neatly written on them ; they were meant to be substituted in genuine notes instead of five and one. The wife to whom the letter was ad- dressed, lives, it would appear, in Belfast ; but he had another at Great Grimsby.