The Marquis of Waterford was brought before the Magistrates at
the Marlborough Street Office on Saturday, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Piccadilly, at five o'clock that morning. A Police- man said— He saw the Marquis with twe or three other persons and a woman in his cab, driving down the Haymarket, and committing the insane freak of making the foot pavement his road. The Policeman had no hope of overtaking the Marquis, from the speed at which his Lordship was driving ; he, however, fol. lowed as fast as he could ; and when the Marquis turned into Piccadilly, he saw his Lordship pull his horse again on the pavement and drive on, to the imnli• neat danger of foot passengers. The cab, however, went against some posts, and this brought the horse to a stand-still. He ran up, and after much diffi- culty and opposition on the part of the Marquis's friends, succeeded io lodging his Lordship in the Station-house. His Lordship was too drunk to allow his being enlarged on bail.
The Marquis said, that his horse was young and unmanageable, and went, in spite of all he could do, on the pavement. The Policeman said that Lord Waterford whipped and pulled his horse on the pave- ment. The Marquis declared, " upon his honour," he did not go more than five yards on the pavement. The Policeman, on the contrary, stated that the Marquis drove about one hundred yards on the pave- ment in the Haymarket, and about one hundred yards more on the pavement in Piccadilly : the concussion against the post was so great, that the woman was thrown six yards out of the cab. Mr. Dyer imposed a fine of 40s. on Lord Waterford ; who paid it with aristocratic nonchalance, and walked out of the office with his friend the Earl of %Valdegrave.
The inquest on the bodies of the men who were killed by the explo- sion on board the Victoria steam-boat was resumed on Monday. Mr. Penn and Mr. Seaward, makers of steam-engines, deposed to tire de- fective construction of the Victoria's boilers. Mr. Hall, for the pro- prietors of the Victoria, requested time to prove that boilers exactly similar to those of the Victoria had been and were extensively used
without accident. Mr. Seaward, it appeared, had made boilers for the opposition company. The inquest was adjourned to Wednesday next. On Tuesday afternoon, as the Red Rover, Herne Bay steam-hoar, was on her return to London, one of the passengers committed suicide,
by cutting his throat. Property to the amount of 101. was found on his person, but no paper or document by which it could be known who he Ws.
Yesterday morning, during a heavy thunder-storm which visited London and the neighbourhood, the lightning struck a room over the
stables of Mr. Crickett, Leonard Place, Kensington. Charles Webb,
coachman to Mr. Crickett, and his wife, were in bed in the room. The lightning set fire to their bed-clothes ; and the shock, it is sup- posed. stunned both. The man was found dead; and the woman, dreadfully burnt and insensible, was taken to St. George's hospital; it is not expected that she can long survive.
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