At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, a Policeman weo
fined 5/, and in default of payment ordered to be imprisoned three months, for an assault on Mr. Austin, a solicitor residing at Chelsea, and Mrs. Austin. This fellow's conduct was so infamous, that we presume he has been since discharged from the Police.
At the Quern Square Office, on Saturday, a private in the second battalion of Scotch Fusileer Guards was committed for trial, charged with an assault on Mr. Frankenhert, a French gentleman, in Hyde Park; whom he robbed of some silver and other articles. The pri- soner fought desperately with the Policeman who took him into cus- tody. .At the blarylebone Office, on Wednesday, a young gentleman, "son of a rlergyinan of high repute," whose name did not transpire, was exemined on a charge of forging checks on Jones Lloyd and Company. In consideration of the respectable connexions of the prisoner, the Magistrates thought proper to exclude the reporters from the office durrne the examination; and few particulars of the charge were ascer- tain d. According toe return laid on the table of the House of Commons of the accidents and offences on the day of the coronation at the Hyde Park fair, it appears that only twenty persons were brought to the Station; seven charged with picking pockets, twelve with gambling, and one with a felony committed some time ago. A gentleman fell down in is fit of apoplexy in one of the dancing. booths, and upwards of a hundred children were lost; but being taken to the station, and notices having been posted up stating where the parents might apply, the children were all restored.
Mr. Robertson, of Devonshire Street, Lisson Grove, on Tuesday evening between the hours of nine and ten, while passing up the New Road, was robbed of a purse, containing three Batik of England notes for two huudred pounds each, and two for forty pounds each.
A forgery to a considerable extent has, we hear, been committed on a West-end banking house, in the name of a gentleman of large fortune in Wiltshire.— Globe.
On Saturday, a fire destroyed two newly-finished houses in Ebury Street, Pimlico. They had been insured by the owner a few days before.
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