tat the Mansiont ouse, on Tuceday, a Chelsea pensioner was
charged with being droll and assaulting a coostalle. His sister, a poor-look- ing W1J10811, W11,4 pit'SC111.; 1111d SiA that they WV1.e the children of Ad- miral Altus, who died in lad 6 ; and that they had Item defrauded of their share of their father's pro)po Hy, by an elder brother, Ada) was a neneral in the Army. After sonic conversation, in which the Lord sciityor expiessed his doubts of the truth of the story told hi the woman, they were allowed to depart, upon payment of the damage dune to the constable's clothes.
At the Guildhall, on Monday. a further examination of Mr. John- stone, the printer, and Paul. the s( rvant to the Religions Tract Soo lett- ;r: Paternoster Row, terminated ill the committal of Paul, mod the di, charge of Mr. Johnstone ; who, it appeared, believed that he was as- :I-sling Paul in removing his own goods, not those which he is cloargo with having stolen from the Society.
On the stone day, Mr. T. lwgman, of Paternoster Row, charged rub-driver with assaulting him. As Mr. Longman was riding 1111 Inruseback up Holborn, about eight elto on Friday evening, the ith- 'nom, who was standing by his cab in the rank, struck his horse ower the hank with a whip. The horse, whieh was walking steadily at the rime, retied up, and fell backwards. Air. Longman fell limier a ebb in the rank ; and escaped with a severe bruise over one of his eves, which struck against the steps of the cab. The cabman now hugged his pardon, and protested he did not mean to do it. He paid .2/. into the poor-box, as well us the costs ; and was then discharged.
At the Msrlborough Street Office, on Monday, Mr. Conant, after disposing of many complaints against people who sold fruit on a Sunday in the streets, addressed the following remarks to the Polka inspector on the subject.
Ile did not think the Police. ought to take indiscrimilotely all those who might be found in the streets with baskets of fruit. It appeared from the evi- dence, the fruit sellers did not put their basl«gs on the pavement, and thus ovate an obstruction ; and he could not think t Itea• was ouch harm in the e'ssize to sell a little fruit on the Sunday, provided it was done in an orderly way. Ile thought the Police should have instructions not to mokst those who con- ducted themselves quietly ; but in those cases whet e they %Vat, nui.y, so as to interrupt divine service, drunk, or annoying and obstructing fing passengers, the Police ought to take the (offenders into cusl.aly. Ile wished this tlisfiectien to be represented to the quarter from whew,' the ditections tut the Police emanated.
At the I Tnion Hall Office, on Wednesday, irony Vince, a linen- draper, residing at Stockwell, awl two awn aid two youte; we:11WD in his employ, were charged with having grossly maltreated a :Miss Caro- line Amelia Newman, of Clapham I■i4e. Miss Newman, who came attended by her brother in his carriage, stated, that she had called at Vitive's Shop on the Thursday evt Ling previous, to make some pur- cluese, but was dhssitistied with t he mire asked, and said that they asked two prices at that shop. She left it withont buying any thing, but had not proceeded far before one of the shopmon, Thomas t011oweol her, and said, " We have lost a piece of handkerchief from the shop." Ow said that site bad not taken it ; awl returned with him to the shop. A Polieeman was sent for. and Vince insisted upon her being searched. 'This search was conducted in the most abominable manner: she was obliged to insist upon the absolve of the men ; and then the two women took her up stairs and completely undressed her. Finding 'nothing, she was allowed to depart.
Mr. Hawes, who was on the bench, said that the conduct of the de- fendants was of the most infamous description ; and ordered the de- fendants all to find bail to take their trial at the Sessions ; but after- it aids it was represented to him, that Miss Newnan was much too ill to give evidence in Court against them ; and be Mildly sentenced the three men to pay 5/. each, in default of which they were committed to vol. The women were discharged, on the ground that they acted by antis roaster's orders.
At the Tomato% Southwark, on Monday, a young woman was alleged with stealing a pair of tsousers and a handkerchief from a plasterer ; who gave the following singular evidence,
On Saturday evening, after finishing his wink, he went to see some friends at l'Ontico, and returned front thence about tun o'clock; and in passing through thee Borough, be was accoofed by a fouale ; he had at the time a bundle on his arm. Ile knew no more of what passed until between one and two o'clock on ttanday morning.
Alderman Thorp—" What ! were you so ohotak that you cannot tell what Laments I ? Complainant—" I was not drunk. pout Worship ; I was fast asleep."
thitiertuan Thorp—" You cannot be scri:ons. I never heard such a thing as knon w.dking through a crowded thou oughfare, like theilowagh High Sti-ect, without being distill bed." arouse myself when in such a state of excessive lethargy, yet I can retaiu the sound of persons' voices in my mind ; and from the voice of the prisoner, I have not the leant doubt she is the patty."
Alderman Thorp—" Bow do you account for the lapse of hours from being accosted by the prisoner up to the time you discovered your loss ?"
Complainant—" I run in the habit of walking for hours in my sleep ; and if ant attempt had been made to forcibly take the bundle front my aria, it would have aroused tne. My hankerchief was cut, and thus the bundle was easily taken away."
Alderman Thorp—" I never heard such a case before : was the bundle found ?" A Policeman sad—" Yes ;" and added, that what the complainant had stated about walking in the streets and roads was true ; he had made inquiries, and found it to be the fact ; it is well known to the Police. Another Policeman mentioned, that he had gone the next day with the com- plainant to a house in the Borough, where they found the woman and the bundle.
The Magistrate ordered the bundle to be restored to the complainant, but discharged the woman.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, an inquest was held by one of the Co- roner's for Aliddlesex, to inquire into the death of a female child, mune unknown. The case excited much interest the character of a very respectable man having been alluded to in such a manner as to render it necessary for him to employ Mr. Humphries, the solicitor, to watch the evidence, which was certainly of an extraordinary kind. The body of the infant had been finuld, slightly nailed up in a deal lox, at the foot of a common stair, in Type ('oust, Type Street, St. Luke's. The evidence adduced tending to show that its death took place in Loth:fairy, the Jury were discharged without coming to a verdict ; and the further investigation was referred to Mr. Payne, the City Coroner. On Thursday, a verdict was found by a Coroner's Jury in the City, that the child had died in consequence of certain injuries it had received, but that there WaS no evidence to prove who had inflicted them.
Yesterday, a further examination relative to this case took place before the Lord Mayor, who held, that although the charge of murder was disposed of by the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, that of concealing the birth was It subject for trial. lie therefore ordered the woman, arm Breslau, to be committed, and held Mr. Phillips, the gentleman referred to in this transaction, to bail, to answer at the Sessions, any charge that might be made against him, as a party to the conetalment of the birth.
On Wednesday night, the residence of Sir W. Clinton, Queen Anne Street, w::s entered from the trap-door, through an empty adjoining hoase, and a huge booty, consisting principally of jewellery was carried on: