A number of cabriolet and omnibus drivers have been sentenced
to fine and confinement, by the Police Magistrates, during the week. Their offences were, as usual, furious driving, extortion of illegal fares, insolent language, and assaults. There is nothing new or interesting in the details of their examinations.
At the Mansionhouse, yesterday, Robert Elliott, who lately resided in St. Martin's Lane, as a wine-merchant, and who has undergone one or two examinations before the Lord Mayor on several charges of obtain- ing large quantities of wine under fraudulent pretences, was again placed at the bar for reexamination ; but as there was no further evidence ready to be produced, he was again remanded, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Edmonds, who appeared on his behalf, and contended that the prisoner should be either discharged or admitted to bail. Charges are already preferred against the prisoner to the amount of 6001.
Two sellers of unstamped newspapers were discharged from tlic Hatton Garden Office on Monday, with only a reprimand frotn the Magistrate. On the same day, at the Marylebone Office, three others were discharged, because though guilty of selling unstamped papers, they were not prosecuted by the Stamp-office.
Mr. Luton, an extensive flannel-manufacturer at Welshpool, ap- peared at Union Hall, on Monday, at the instance of the parish officeis of Lambeth, for the purpose of having an order of affiliation made upon him for the maintenance of an illegitimate child. The investigation possessed some interest, owing to the parties moving in a respectable sphere of life, the relatives of the female carrying on business in the same town as the defendant. The complainant, on seeing the defend- ant in the office, immediately swooned away ; and when she was suffi- ciently recovered, she stated that he was the father of her child, wi ieh was born on the 22d of last March, in the parish of Lambeth; she also added, that she had recently applied to the officers of Lambeth for parochial relief for the child, the defendant having refused to maintain it. In her cross-examination by Mr. Clarkson, who attended for the defendant, she gave such an improbable account of her acquaintance with him, that the Magistrate refused to make any or r.
A case of affiliation mine before Mr. Walker at Lambeth Street Police-office on Saturday, in which a woman was charged with burden- ing the parish with a fifth illegitimate child. Mr. Walker took oc- casion to observe, that the laxity in administering the old law arose from a disposition which prevailed during the late war to promote the increase of population. It was then no uncommon thing for country Justices to say to a woman, "Well, is it a boy or a girl ?" If the latter, the rejoinder would be, "Never mind; perhaps it will be a boy next time, and the King must have soldiers : you shall be taken care of."
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