OLD BAILEY SES. ,, : They present few ca,,, on Friday on

a ches •e cumstances appeared e the fellow who robbed ther is acquitted.

n:'.—These Sessions commenced on Thursday. at' importance or interest. A female was tried childenerder, but acquitted, though the cir-

nat de rather suspicious. Thomas Garland, l'estris, bus been found guilty; his bra-

FAITLTS OF THE r desire of persons in t authority has been iv at Bow Street, the ot!,.•:•

t' --Two cases, in which the extraordinary • .7,1:::!Lmont to overstep the limits of their . oceurred this week. The one was heard III square. At Bow Street, Mr. Evans, a surgeon of Beak Str . Street, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, by F .2. r:0 case, as proved, not by F 112, for lie had no proof, but by a Evans, and the friends by whom, luckily for himself, he was accom: tiled—was thus. On Wednesday night, be- tween twelve and one o'clock, Mr. Evans, who had just left a friend's house in Cecil Street, titrand, in company with two other gentlemen, saw at the head of the street five policemen, dragging a man along in a way which seemed very brutal and unnecessary. He observed to the keepers of the peace, that the man should rather walk along with them quietly than be dragged after such a fashion ; and no sooner had he dared to make the representation, than he was seized, his shirt torn in tatters, and himself dregged for a hundred yards in the same direction. He was then let go ; but insisted, as he had been arrested, on being taken to the watch-house ; whither, accordingly, he was taken, and charged by the policeman as " being- drunk, and endeavouring to force his way into the Cock and Bottle to see his brother." The policeman, on the impudent falsehood of this charge being exposed, attempted another ; and, notwithstanding the earnest intreaty of Mr. Evans, that the first charge should be entered as given, the Sergeant, Mr. John Stubbs, put down a general charge of "drunk and disorderly." Evans was hereupon consigned to the black-hole ; and, in spite of his repeated request, first to Sergeant Stubbs, and then to Inspector Dobbs, there he was kept, in company with three drunken men, for four hours, when his friends arrived with bail. Of course the Magistrate could give Mr. Evans no relief, but he gave him a letter to the Commissioners ; and Mr. Mayne said he would see about it. The second case was not quite so marked, but, touching the zealousness of intention, as decidedly characteristic as that of Mr. Evans. The sufferer was a Mr. James, a publican in Vauxhall Road; and the charge against him was assaulting the police. He had, it seems, been riding as a smart pace on a small pony ; and, after he had dismounted at his own. stable, two of the policemen went up to him, and remonstrated with

him on the impropriety of his conduct. The publican was irritated, and boxed, or threatened to box, the constables' ears for their impertinence, and was taken to the station-house. Mr. James said it was only a small pony he was riding, and he was not going at a furious rate when the constables hiterfered. •

MR. WHITE.—There is not the slightest occasion for any defence The police constables interfered in a most unwarrantable manner, even

by their ow., showing.—You have (said the Magistrate, addressing the constables) brought all this upon yourselves. If the defendant had done wrong, you had his name and address : besides, he bad alighted from his horse when you go up to him, create a limb, and then take him off to the watch-house, on a charge of assault, brought on by your own in- terfering where you had no business whatever. This case may or not come before the Commissioners, as well as the other ; and we do not say that these gentlemen will not deal with it fairly—but they have no power. They can only discharge the offenders ;

and whatever terror a discharge may carry to an inspector or a sergeant, it is quite evident it carries none to a constable. The grand defect of

the system is, the giving to men who have been proved, on sundry oc. casions, willing and able to abuse it, the power of summary mischief, and not providing for the public at the same time the power of summary remedy. The policeman can do much to injure the public, without the intervention of law ; and the public have no means of punishing him, but through the means of that slow, expensive, and doubtful instrument of redress.

FATHER AND SON.—At Queen Square, on Tuesday, a young man named Sampson was accused of felony by his father. He had been be- fore the Magistrate some ten weeks ago, and was released on promising eendinent ; but he had since, in the absence of his father, carried off - and pswaed every thing valuable that was in the house.

Low PlIOPENSITIES.—AI the Mansionhouse, on Tuesday, a Smith- field drover was charged with stealing the favourite dog of a German.

The dog had been repeatedly lost, and as often recovered by means of an advertisement and reward ; and, by a singular coincidence, the claimant of the reward happened in every case to be the same man. The drover deelered that the dog would not stay away frein him and his sheeP. The Lord Mayor—" The dog is of a bread that can be of no possible use to a sheep-driver or a bullock-driver." The defendant—" Bless your Lord- ship, he's as good a'ter a bullock or a pig as any dog as ever lived. Be- sides, my Lord, the hanimal followed me, and he goes into a publicbouse where I was, and. he stays by me ; and so the landlord says, 'Jim,' says he, 'is that ere dog your'n ?"No,' says I, 'he a'nt none of-mine, but he goes a'ter me." Well,' says the landlord, Jim, if you don't have him, he'll lose himself ;' and so, says I, I'll take him then ; but mind, it is you that gives him to me.'" The German complained bitterly of the expense of advertising, and seemed inclined to part with the dog to

any one who was able to keep him from the contamination of low corn. palsy. He offered him to Mr. Holder, who declined the present ; and ultimately he was obliged to retire without effecting a transfer.

HYDROPHOBIA—A "mad dog," or one esteemed as such, bit two of its sane brethren, in the Borough, on Tuesday. It then made at a don-

key ; but was repulsed in its impudent attempt to graft madness on the patience of the ass, by the stick of its valiant master. It next bit a journeyman mason ; and was then knocked on the head. The mason, - whose leg was slightly scratched, had the fortitude to submit to the ex- cision of the wounded part by the penknife of a passenger, that no time should be lost in seeking for a doctor.