A private in the Scotch Fusileer Guards was taken to
the Ken- sington Station-house on Saturday, after a fierce struggle with the Police, for creating a disturbance in the streets at Brompton : the man was very much intoxicated. He was subsequently delivered up to his commanding officer at the Portman Barracks.
A few evenings since, a cab was observed coming down the Bird- cage Walk, in which there was a drunken soldier. When the vehicle arrived in the middle of the walk, the soldier ordered the driver to stop ; and upon his doing so he got out, and was walking away without paying his fare, when the cab-driver stopped him and asked him for it. The soldier replied that " be would see him d—_-..d before he would pay him." A scuffle ensued ; and the soldier threw the man down, drew his bayonet, and was in the act of making a thrust at him, when a gentleman passing by seized him by the arm, and prevented him. An alarm was then raised, and a Policeman arrived, and the soldier was secured and taken to the barracks.
A number of chandeliers, lamps, and gas-fittings, were stolen from St. Martin's Church on Saturday morning. Much alarm has been excited for the last few days in Lambeth, in consequence of the firing of several air-guns, and breaking the win- dows of shopkeepers.
A Coroner's inquest was held on Monday at Chalk Farm Tavern, on the body of William Odwell, who was killed on Friday, whilst employed with other workmen in excavating a shaft on the line of the London and Birmingham Railway, near Primrose Hill. He was removing some of the timbers which supported the side of the shaft, when a large -mass of earth fell upon him ; and, although he was extricated in two minutes, his life was found to be extinct. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
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