POLICE OF LONDON. — John Appleward was brought to Queen-square office on

Saturday, charged with having insulted and abused the Duke of Welling- ton. Lord Fitzroy Somerset stated, that as he was walking with the Duke of

Wellington in St. Jaines's Park, across the Parade, between eleven and twelve o'clock, they were interrupted by the defendant, who called out, "Here, Lord Wellington I I want to speak to you a few words." The Duke was surprised at being accosted in this manner, and turned round to the man, and told him he could not speak to him then. The man continued following them, and asked for payment of some money which he said the Duke owed him for his services in Spain. The Duke asked him to what regiment Inc belonged: he said the 4Stin, and commenced the most abusive language, tell-

ing the Duke he was "an old rascal, S:c." The man still followed, until

they got to the entrance-gate of the enclosure opposite to tine Horse Guards; when the Duke called for an officer, and gave the man into custody. Mr.

Marriott asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself? Defendant- " There has been no answer to my charge. The Duke owes me money. He insulted are first by not listening to my claims. What can he say for insult- ing me ? I will prove to you that I am a lineal descendant of Henry the

Ei,ghtle and herr-presumptive to the Crown of England, and the Duke is aware of it, is it then proper that I should only be allowed 7d. per day ? " Mr. Marriott told the defendant Inc must find bail. Defendant—" Sir, I shall find no bail ; you cannot compel the heir-presumptive to find bail. I defy you, Sir, to do it, or the Duke of Wellington, or even his

Majesty ; hitt I will settle fire Duke before I have done with him." With amine difficulty the officers retnoved the defendant, and locked him up ; and in the evening he was sent to Tothil-fields prison.

FIRE, AND DEATH Fnom FRIGHT..--On Thursday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Captain I3urder, in Portman-

square, occasioned by the nurse of Mrs. Border, who had lately lain in, having fallen asleep and placed her candle in such a position as tu set fire to the sofa, which communicated to the bed. Mrs. Burner awoke and discovered

herself surrounded by flaineseand the infant's clothes nearly consumed, though

the child was untouched. Alarm was given, and Captain Burder, who slept in an adjoining room, carried her down stairs, and had his wife and the child

conveyed to a friend's in Oxford-street, where sine is doing well, having, re-

ceived no other injury than that of her arms being scorched. The nurse, however, was most severely burnt; and a Mr. Rose, a very infirm old gen- tleman, lodging at the adjoining house, hearing the alarm, fell from a chair in which he had been placed, and died in the course of the night from exces- sive fright. There has lately been a dreadful fire at Linton, in Cambridgeshire. The principal inn and about twenty other houses were burnt to the ground. No lives were lust.

ACCIDENT AT FIYDE.--.We last week gave the particulars of the lamentable loss of life occasioned by the fall of a floor in the Norfolk Arms Inn at Hyde. The loss of life turns out to be greater than was then ascertained; no fewer than twenty-nine persons having been taken out dead. A Coroner's inquest has been held on the bodies ; and it appears from the evidence, that tire beams were sound, and the floor sufficiently strong for the pressure of any ordinary meeting; but that some of the beams had an insufficient hold of th wall at one end. The verdict was 41 Accidental death." On Monday week, a labouring man. in the parish of Templeting, Clonmel, endeavouring to save a pig which had got into a lime-kiln, fell into the kiln himself, and was almost instantly suffocated, a fresh charge of culm and stones having been put down a short time before. His wife, a wretched lu- natic, had sufficiest presence of mind to hasten to one Cahill, a neighbour, where her son was, and under feeliugs of increased delirium apprized him of what had befallen his father. The boy rushed to the spot, followed by Cahill, who entreated him ttot to approach the kiln if he valued his existence. The lad, regardless of danger, plunged into theliln, under the delusive hope of sitting his parent front a frightful death, but in an instant the pangs of life were over. Both the bodies were taken out of the kiln next morning, ap- parently uninjured by the fire. ROBBERIES.—OD Monday evening a gentleman had a diamond pin snatched from his shirt as he was entering the Surrey Theatre. The thief, a well- dressed young man, was immediately seized, and has since been committed for trial. I .e was probably one of a gang, who on Thursday surrounded an infirm old gentleman. passing along Fleet-street, and robbed him of a diamond ring from his shirt-ft ill, and his gold watch.

On Monday evening, some ruffians knocked at the door of Mr. Eldridge, carpenter, Kentish-town, and on its being opened they let loose a dog with a lighted torch tied to the hind-quarters, and left the house. The dog immediately New through the passage to the workshop at the back of the house; where a large quantity of timber, shavite,°s, &c. were deposited, to which the fire from the torch communicated, and the whole was instantly in a blaze. The lire was soon extinguished ; but it is likely that the robbers effected that for which their plan was intended, as in the confitsion a valuable time-piece and some silver-spoons were stolen.

A son of Mr. Denison, of Newington-green, thirteen years old, lost his life on Thursday by showing two younger brothers " how they hung men at the gallows." lie suspended himself by a rope to a hook in the ceiling, and kirked away the chair. The children seeing his features distorted, asked him if be was only "making believe ;" and receiving no answer, gave the alarm, but too late. He was cut down dead.

A YOUNG INCENDIARV.—William Cattermall, aged eighteen, was tried at the Bury Assizes, for having set fire to Ft stack of clover, in the parish of Letheringham. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, because he was the only person seen near the place. The prisoner said it could not be he, as he had not the means. It was proved, however, that he had a flint, steel, and tin- ier, about him on the day of the fire. He was found Guilty and sentenced to be hanged ;—a doom which Baron Vaughan told him would assuredly be executed. The prisoner heard his sentence umuoved.

As two labourers were lately digging on a piece of land at Shottisham, they found the skeletons of two men, a woman, and a child, about two feet be- neath the surface. The female appeared to have been laid on one side with the child in her arms.

DUEL AT Boehm: NE.—Captain Crowther arrived at Boulogne-sur-Mer, a short time since, for the purpose of taking a house for the season, for his mother and sister, who are in England. Desiring amusement, he applied to be admitted a member of the Pigeon Club' but was black-balled, in conse- quenCe of a report spread by Captain Helsham. That gentleman having refused to apologize, a meeting was appointed to take place, on the third day following. This was publicly known, and though so late as Thursday night the two gentlemen met at a ball, no attempt was made by the friends of either party to bring about an accommodation. After having spent the night in the vain expectation that justice would be done to his character, Captain Crowther

on Friday morning proceeded to the ground, accompanied by his second, Mr. Illelloney, at the appointed time, and remained there for more than an hour before the arrival of Captain Helshant, and Mr. Grady his second. The

ground was first measured at six paces; but Captain Crowther having stated that firing at that distance was little better than murder. the space was doubled, and the parties took their places. From sonic unknown cause, Captain

Crowther fired before he had raised his arm to a level, and continued stand- ing with his head turned as he had fired. In the mean time, Captain Helsham turned reund and shot his opponent dead, his ball having broken the

neck, and come out on the opposite side. Captain El elsham and his second im- mediately mounted their horses and proceeded to Calais, where they were pre-

vented sailing in a packet about to leave, as they had no passport : they, how- ever, escaped to the frontiers, and are supposed to be in the Netherlands.— Morning Chronicle. The body of Captain Crowther has been brought to England.

ROWLAND STEPIIENV/N IN ANIERICA.—TIliS fugitive is in New York. It DOW appears that Stephenson and Lloyd effected their escape from the shores of England, on board the Kingston, from Liverpool, bound to Savannah, in Georgia, where they arrived atthe end of February, or the beginning of March. The reason of Stephenson being so speedily transferrel to New York, will be learnt from the following narrative in the New liirh Herald, said to have been gleaned front himself. " Ott the afternoon of Monday, the 9th of March, he left the city of Savannah, in company with Mr. Lloyd, fur some place in the interior, with a horse and gig. After proceeding about sixteen miles front the city, the gig was accidentally overset, in consequence of Lloyd (who was near-sighted) driving over a stump at the side of the road. The gig having been broken, and Stephenson considerably bruised by the fall, it was judged expedient to put up at the first Louse they came to. This was done about two miles further on, where they remained until Tuesday night. About twelve or one o'clock of that night, Stephenson was alarmed by the entrance into his room of an armed man, who presented a pistol to his breast and bade him surrender, as he was his prisoner. The first was im- mediately followed by three otherrujians, armed with dirks and pistols, who forcibly seized him, with a threat that he must be silent, and speedily prepare to follow them. After a few minutes allowed to dress, he was deprived of his papers and :trunks, and forcibly placed into a carriage which they had in waiting, along with Lloyd. Finding the vehicle unable to contain the whole, Lloyd was taken out of it and left behind, three of the rogions gettity,° into the carriage, and the others getting on the box, with the coachman. They had not proceeded fir when the carriage broke down; it was temporarily re- paired, and they continued driving towards the city. The carriage, as alleged by Stephenson, broke down the times in the course of the ride to Savannah, and was again repaired by the ruffians, who resigned the inside of the carriage to him, two of them getting behind, and the other two on the box. Those behind kept each a loaded pistol presented towards the carriage-windows, and severally threatened to shod him, in the event of any noise or alarm. They hurried on in this way, -fearful that day-light might intercept them, un- til they reached the rear of the city, where Stephenson was taken out, and carried over some floating logs to a boat, into which he was placed, and carried down the river. The ruffians never pretended to have any writ, or legal process, against the prisoner, or at any rate would show none. One of them, who said he was High Constable Hays, of New York, said he had au. thority enough, and that the prisoner must submit. About eighteen miles down the river he was transferred to the pilot-boat Savannah, of which Mr. White was toaster, which vessel immediately sailed for this city, where she arrived on Monday afternoon about two o'clock. On the passage his pistols were taken from him, his hands tied, and he was otherwise barbarously treated. It has been asserted that the ill-treatment arose from an attempt being matte by Stephenson to destroy himself on the passage ; but this fact he absolutely deities, lie states that there were six or seven persons on board the pilot-boat besides the captain, the names of whom he partially re- collects, as follows:—Mr. Proctor, .a pilot ; Mr. Oaks, a deputy-gaoler; Finch, a sailor; and Edward, a cabin-boy. Shortly after the arrival here, the pilot-boat was hoarded by Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul, who was followed by Jacob Hays. the High Constable. Mr. Buchanan recommended Stephenson to place himself under the protection of Hays, and advised him to return to England. He submitted to Mr. Hays, and accompanied him on shore, when they proceeded to the residence of Mr. Goodhue, where he re- mained until about nine o'clock, and was conveyed from thence to the resi- dence of Mr. Hays, in Lespenard-street."—The manner in which Stephenson had been brought to New York soon transpired; and it seems to have exs cited no little scandal in the Republicans, that the sovereignty of their law- should have been so grossly violated. 'flue British Consul, comes in for a good share of the public odium attached to this transaction, from the part which he was supposed to have taken in it ; and it was pretty generally be- lieved, that notwithstanding his ostensible kindness to Stephenson, he had covert designs against him which were highly repugnant to American notions. Mr. William Wiley, an advocate at New York, undertook the " meritorious and patriotic service" of suing out a habeas corpus to set Stephenson at liberty. Preparatively to this, Mr. Ex-Sheriff Parkins swore an affidavit, to the effect that Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul, had told him he had instruc- tions from the British Government to seize Stephenson and send him forcibly back to England ; and further, that Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Jouathan Good- hue had forcibly seized Stephenson against his will, for the reason aforesaid. The habeas was issued ; Stephenson was brought to the Recorder's office, and as it was found that Mr. Hays, the HighiConstable, in whose custody he was, had no authority to detain him, the Recorder ordered that he should be set at liberty. Stephenson was, however, immediately" taken into custody by the Sheriff of the city, and committed to the debtors' gaol, upon the civil process issued in favour of Joseph Wilfred Parkins, where he now remains." The law having thus been vindicated in regard to the person of Stephenson, the American Magistrates set about securing the aggressors who brought him to the shores of New York ; but the Savannah had sailed a short time before the officers went with the writ, and a customhouse boat was sent after her. The master, it seems, told Stephenson that Ile was to get five hundred dollars' for bringing him to New York.