Captain John Hanchett, R.N., was brought l:z fore the Marlborough
Street Magistrates, on Tuesday, on a peace warrant, obtained by Mr. Stephen Rumbold Lushington, M. P., in consequence of certain hostile manifestations towards him on the part of time Captain. The affair re- lated to some civil situation which the Captain alleged to have lost through Mr. Lushington's means. A long ard angry discussion took place between the parties. It wits, however, ultimately arranged that Captain Ilanthett's ease should be revised ; Mr. Lushington stating that he was perfectly willing to do so ; but adding, that, after what had passed, he could not be expected to make any exertions in his favour either in Parliament or at the Admiralty. The following is the letter written by Captain Ilanchett to Mr. Lushington, out of which the proceedings arose : •
" Sir —Yon have, I understand, sent a description of my person to Bow Street. As E0011 as I hate sent a copy of our correspondence to etch ul the Menthe's or the house of Commons, and to each Club, I shall walk for three days bethre s !iota. You will know me by a whip which I shall carry, which hip is well adapted ter horses, stern posts, and cowards' backs. It has o..ly been used tc flog a mangy dog with, and therchtre it is quite fit for the purpose to which I note oe; wed it. and which purpose you shall have a sat isfactot y knowledge of, if you will come to me in person."
" Cale de urope."
On Tuesday, a private of the Coldstream Guards was found guilty, by a Court of Inquiry, held at the Portman Street Bairacks, of draw.. ing his bayonet at a public-house in Westminster upon a woman, and behaving in a riotous manner. The punishment awarded was not made known.
The accident at the London and Birmingham Railway Tunnel, which we mentioned last week, turns out it much more serious affair than was at first stated. An investigation has been made by the officers of the Company ; frotn which it appears, that ten men were buried in the ruins, and that four of the bodies have been recovered, so much crushed and mangled that it is impossible to recognize them. The immediate cause of the accident is not known.
On Satmday, a stage.coach had turned the center of St. James's Street, when a child, who had been allowed by its nurse to wander off the footway, endeavoured to run across, and became entangled among the horses. lti a moment more it would probably have been under the wheels or trampled to death ; when Lord Nugent, who happened at the time to he crossing Piccadilly, rushed between the leaders, and seizing the infant by the arm, threw it forward to it distance into the tains of some bystanders on the footway, who caught it unhurt..
On Wednesday-, a large dog mad, rushed into a house in Tom's Build- ings, Somers Town, the door of which was open, and seizing two chil- dren who were playing in the passage, bit them severely. The parents, hearing the shrieks of their children, hastened to their assistance ; when the dog flew at them, inflicting very severe injuries, and had just fastened on the nein's throat, when two police-constables arrived, and despatched the ferocious brute with their staves. Time sufferers were then conveyed to a surgeon's, who dressed their wounds.
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