The journeymen tailors have resolved to return to their work
en Monday. " Wisdom," says the Morniny Chronicle, "conies ssith the lack of food."
So numerous are the omnibuses which now run in about Lsndon, that the mileage duty alone amounts, it is said, to lieu' ly •200,04ii1. per annum.
At the Queen Square Police-office, on Thursday, Lord W'ynford was fined 5s. and I5s. ca, costs for not having his name and place of abode
properly painted on one of his carts. His Lordship appeared in per- son, not to resist the complaint, but to explain to the Magistrate, that he had not knowing17 broken the law, but that the fault was the painter's. He exclaimed against the absurdity of the lava ; and as lie went out, said—" Well, I can now say that once in my life I have lean before a justice of the peace for an offence."
Elizabeth Ebers, a young woman of r spectable appearance, applied to Mr. Minshull, the Magistrate at Bow Street, on Monday evening, for a warrant against Lord William Lennox, for assaulting and beatilig
her. The complainant stated she was in the service of his Lordship; and related the circumstances under which the assault NV,O; committed,
but in so low a tone that her tale could not be distinctly heard. A warrant, however, was granted, and placed in the hands of Fletcher the officer; and on Tuesday, Lord Lennox attended at the Office, and was shown into a private room ; where he was joined in a short time by Mr. Bodkin the barrister, and a solicitor from Hatton Garden. The com- plainant was called into the same part of the Office ; and, after sonic conversation, she went away with her friends, and shortly after Mr. Bodkin and the solicitor also quitted the place, followed in a few minutes by Lord Lennox himself. It was understood the affair was compromised between his Lordship and the complainant.
Edwards and his two accomplices in the assault on Mr. W Gee, the solicitor, were committed to Newgate, from the Lambeth Office, on Tuesday, to take their trial for the offence.
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