In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday; Mr. George

Nicholson, .

the Marquis of Salisbury's agent in Hertford, and Mr. F. IV. N. Bailey, editor of a newspaper in the same town, were sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. each, and enter into recognizances to keep the peace, fur writing a challenge.to Baron Dimsdale, and afterwards posting him as a coward for refusing to fight. The quarrel arose out of the Hertford election of 1832; the circumstances were mentioned in the Spectator at the time they occurred.

At the Mansionhouse, on Monday, a gentleman complained that his house, No. 77, Cornhill, had been broken open and plundered of some bills of exchange and other property, on the night of the preceding Friday.

There was no resident in the building, which is laid out in offices. The hall door was found in the morning of Saturday broken open. Indeed it was actor :,y smashed ; so that an opportunity must have been taken when the Police were at a distance from the scene of operations. Every desk and cupboard was broken open, and bills of exchange and other securities, to the amount of about 6001. were taken away. The money deposited in the desks happened to be of very small amount, anti of course that disappeared with the other property. The conjecture amongst the neighbours was, that the thieves calculated upon

being able to pass from the empty house by the skylight to the house of a watch- maker, within a few doors of it, where their labours would be likely to be requited by a very heavy booty, and that, finding the communication between the houses was a matter of insurmountable difficulty, they, from mere spite at the disappointment, took away with them the above-mentioned securities. The Lord Mayor observed, that a mark was set upon all houses which were not left to the care of some confidential person, and that houses without such protection abounded in the City, in consequence of the non-liability of the- owner to serve the various offices.

The complainant mentioned, that the proprietors paid the Police ; and it was most unaccountable how in the most public part of London a burglary should have been committed.

[There is only one way of accounting for the burglary—the Police are inattentive to their duty. On the same day, in Cornhill, a house

is broken into, and a door smashed ; and in the most frequented part of the Strand, a large corner building is nearly burnt down, without either occurrence being noticed by any of the Policemen, who ought to be incessantly on the watch.]

At the Union Hall Office, on Tuesday, two hackney-coachmen were fitted, the one 5/., the other 31., for assaulting a Policeman in the

Waterloo Road, who appears to be much disliked on account of his resemblance to the Duke of Wellington. No ground was stated for the assault, except the attempt of the Policeman to prevent a drunken man from getting into a cab. He said— Some of the low fellows about his beat had a kind of ill. feeling towards him because he had a big nose, which he could not help ; and they always called 'lira " the Duke," by which nickname he was also known to the inhabitants of the Road. One of the prisoners pitched into him right and left, exclaiming at the same time, " I've got the Duke now, and I'm blowed if I don't serve him out before I let him go," while other men of the same fraternity on the coachstand kept calling out, "Give it the Duke," " Go it Touts," " Hammer away at his Grace's nese," " Give him pepper," and using other expressions encouraging his assailants to maltreat him.

The Honourable John Apsley Sidney, an attorney residing in Beaumont-street, Marylebone, was summoned before the Marylebone Street Magistrates on Thursday, for refusing to pay some firemen the usual rewards for their attendance to put out a fire in the chimney of his house. He demurred to the payment, because the fire was extin- guished before the arrival of the engines. But the objection was over- ruled, and be paid the rewards. Messrs. Henry Frost and William Chalman, manufacturing jewel- lers, Denmark-street, Soho, have been twice under examination at Bow Street this week, on Monday and Thursday, on a charge of transfer- ring the marks of the Goldsmith's Company from a gold ring to a gold snuff-box, which they made to the order of a clerk at Storr and

Mortimer's, New Bond Street. The evidence was not direct against the defendants; though there seemed to be no doubt that the 'nark had

'teen illegasqy transferred, and that the snuff-box was of their manufac- ture. They were both discharged.

At the Thames Police.office, on Monday, Lazarus Berne tt, a Jew, living in Coburg Street, Commercial Read East, was, slot g with his wife, charged with being accessory to the death of l3harlotte Waller, the daughter of a Mr. Waller, who described himself as a merchant residing in London. The details of the ease are unfit fit- one columns, but the leading circumstances may be stated. Charlotte Waller was a girl of seventeen ; of a very confiding and simple disposition. She resided with her mother, at Fukenham, in Norfolk ; and came up to London to look out for a situation as a companion to some lady. In the Borough, she met with the wife of the prisoner, Barnett; who enticed her to her house, which is one of the most infamc us descrip- tion. She was forced to the last degradation of ruined ft males ; the woman herself acting the sentinel over her as she walked the streets at night. In a few weeks, the poor creature was sent, incurably ill, to Bartholomew's Hospital, and died there. Her father had discovered her in the hospital a short time before her death.

The Magistrate, Mr. Comhe, admitted that no case was made out againstthe prisoners to warrant their detention; and said, he regretted he was Obliged to 41ischarge those infamous miscreants, -who, when he had questioned them at the commencement of the proceedings, had the impudence to declare that they kept a regular house. Regular ! yes, it was regular in infamy. He hoped, how- ever, the father would indict the prisoners Mr keeping a disorderly house. Mr. Waller, who was deeply affected, said that would not restore his .lost daughter. Ile was obliged to the Bench for their attention to the case. Mr. Combe said, the fatherwould be performing a duty to society by prose- cuting the prisoners, who richly deserved severe punishment. He was obliged to discharge them, and he was very sorry he could not commit them for trial, but the death of the poor girl lay at their door.

The prisoners were then liberated ; and as they were leaving the Office they were saluted with the groans and hisses of the bystanders, who thus expressed their detestation. There were a great number of Jew receivers of stolen property, prize-fighters, and others, who keep similar houses in St. George's, in attendance, apparently much inte- rested in the result. [Surely such a case as this is demonstrative of the necessity of a public prosecutor. The wretches who were the cause of this poor girl's misery and death will escape even the slight punishment the law (itself apparently very defective on this point) awards to their offence, on account of the reluctance, or probably inabi- lity, of the father to prosecute them. It is disgusting to hear the boasts of men in power of their labours in reforming the law, while justice is still in a vast majority of instances too costly for the poor to obtain it.]