A Polish gentleman applied to the Lord Mayor, on Wednesday,
to request his assistance in obtaining admission to some of the London Hospitals, in order that he might induce the medical men to use a me- dicine which cured the worst cases of cholera, and of which he was the discoverer. Sir Peter Laurie advised him to go to the Borough, and apply to the authorities there; for he was happy to say there were no cases of cholera in the City.
Samuel Biss, the driver of an omnibus, was fined two pounds by the Lord Mayor last Saturday, for using insulting language to Mr. Brooks of the Poultry. The inhabitants of Cheapside and the Poultry are at present much annoyed by a practice which the drivers of omni- buses have lately adopted, of plying in the streets for hire like cabs, and driving up and down in search of passengers. It was for en- deavouring to prevent this in front of his house, that Mr. Brooks was insulted by the man who was fined. Lewis King, and Martha his wife, were committed from the Bow Street Office, on Wednesday, on a charge, the former of having stolen
50/. in Bank of England notes from a letter which passed through his hands as a servant at the Twopenny Post-office in Gerard Street, and the latter with assisting in circulating the same.
John Coulan, a foreigner and a wine-merchant, residing in Snow Hill, was charged at Bow Street, on Thursday, with having committed a most violent assault upon three Policemen, whilst in the discharge of their duty. The Magistrate told the prisoner to be ready with five pounds, but remanded him until another Magistrate arrived.
William Richmond was brought up for final examination at Bow Street on Wednesday, and fully committed for trial, charged with for- ging and uttering a bill of exchange for 109/. with intent to defraud Mr. B. Waddin, of White Lion Street, silk-manufacturer. James Dowlan, a tailor, of Dean Street, Soho, was committed in default of bail, from the Marlborough Street. Office, on Thursday, for assaulting and stabbing his wife, in a fit of rage, because his supper was not ready on the table on his return home the previous night. The poor woman's stays fortunately saved her from receiving much hurt from the knife. •
Mr. Thomas Walford, a carpet-manufacturer of Kidderminster, ap- plied, on Monday, at the Hatton Garden Office, for the assistance of the Magistrate in his endeavours to find out and recover his daughter, a girl of fourteen, whom be had placed, some months ago, under the care of a relative, a married man, the father himself being a widower. This person had told him, that in November last his daughter had de- camped from his house, and gone off—he could not tell whither. Mr. Walford could gain no tidings of her; and he believed that she had been seduced or murdered by his relation. Mr. Laing advised him to apply to a Judge for a habeas corpus, as he could not interfere in the business.
At the Marylebone Office, on Saturday, Edward Cooke, a Police- man, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, for robbing a plum- tree in the garden of Colonel Egerton, Lord Hill's Aide-de-camp, at Bayswater.
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