29 MARCH 1856, Page 8

- Mr. Hardwick, the Marlborough Street Police Magistrate, took his

fare- well yesterday from his public duties. He has been thirty-five years on the bench. " As a Magistrate," says the Times, " Mr. Hardwick was honourably distinguished by the inflexible uprightness of his judgments; in no instance allowing himself to be swayed in his decisions by the rank or influence of the parties before him; his decisions being also remarkable for a clear perception of the real merits of the case. The casual poor,. whose claims more particularly come out in police courts, will lose a discriminat- ing friend, the funds of the poOr-box having been always freely resorted to- = meritorious cases."