At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, Captain Grant of the

Royal Sovereign, (a steam-bout belonging to the Steam Navigation Com- pany), was sentenced to pay a tine of one shilling for running down a small skiff, which belonged to some gentlemen who were bathing two or three weeks ago off the Isle of Dogs. It appeared that the Company had compromised the affair out of court by the payment of SOL ; which Sir William Curtis, who was on the bench, said was an exorbitant com- pensation ; but Mr. Charles Phillips, on behalf of the Company, reminded the Magistrate that the plaintiffs had lost their clothes, and a gold watch, besides money, and moreover the Company avoided an ac- tion, by this compromise.

Yesterday, Mr. Rayner applied for a licence for the Strand Theatre. Sir Charles Forbes arid other liberal Magistrates supported the appli- cation; but on a division it was rejected, by 8 to 7.

A worshipful member of the Common Council appeared at the Mansionhouse on Monday, to prefer a charge against a cabman for an offence which was eloquently enlarged upon by the civic orator in the following terms.

" Ire was riding a waluable mare along the streets; there was a homnibus before him, and a cab behind him ; and there was two fellows and the driver in the cab ; and one on 'mu was laying acrm,s the splinter-bar. seemly drunk, and very much intoSsi- eated, indeed. So tlw cabman which was driving. driv with an inthrnous welocity up against the bind-quarters of his beast ; rum as she a-as a spirited beast, she was mach annoyed ; for a hanimal as had spirit did not like fur a cab to poke her behind ; and so the danger was most injuri,ms, and might have proved fatal both to matt and beast. So he, in course, eilled out to them to mind what they ,s as about ; but insleadit doing so, they set up a horse laugh, all on 'em, at him ; and they thiv cu, and seemly Ilitint Cu consepteuces tither to haw or his marc."

The cabman denied that be was the offender, as another person was driving for him when the assault on the mare was made. The Lord Mayor thought the offence was a very serious one. The Common Councilman said it was " aggrawating ;" for that he and his mare were within a " pip of eternity." In conclusion, the cabman was fined ten shillings and costs.

John Rae, who robbed Messrs. Alston and Co. of Glasgow, of property worth a thousand pounds, was reexamined at Bow Street on Monday, and sent off in custody to Glasgow. Another person is said to be the contriver of the robbery, and to have escaped with part of the plunder.

Information was given at the Bow Street Office on Saturday, that a desk in the office of Messrs. Clarke and Medealf, solicitors, of Lin- coln's Inn Fields, was broken open on the previous night, and a cheek and cash to the value of about 700/. stolen out of it. No clue has yet been found to the thief.

Mrs. Catharine Hillyer, a person whose external appearance was re - spectable, was charged on Monday with forging the name of the Earl of Stradbroke to a cheek on Drunonond and Co. for 403/. She said in her defence, that the check had been paid her by a Mr. Percy, ncw in Paris; who represented himself as Lord Stradbroke's agent. She was re- manded for another examination.

A rather curious case under the new Poor-Law Bill came before the Magistrates on Wednesday. A woman had a bastard child born early on the morning of the 14th of August, the day on which the bill was passed. The question was, whether the new law was applicable to the case or not.

Mr. Halls, after referring to the Act, said it appeared to him that the child xnust be considered as having been born under the old law ; inasmuch as at the time the birth took place—naniely, at twenty minutes to four o'clock on the morning of the 14th of August—the new law was not in existence. Mr. Minshull considered, that as the Act was finally passed on the 14th of August, it took :effect from that (lay; and the child having been born in the morning, which, of course, included a poi tion of the day, the birth must be considered as coming within the provisions of the new law. In law there was no fraction of a day ; and therefore the whole of the day on which the Act passed must, in his opinion, be included. Mr. halls said, that if the question referred merely to the day on which the Act was made law, it would admit of. no doubt ; but the question was one of time ; for the Act said, "from and after the passing of this act,"—which at once fixed the tune, without reference to a day, or the fraction of a day. Now, at the time the child was born, the Act had not passed ; and therefore he con- sidered that the case must be taken as one falling within the old law.

Mr. Minshull having repeated his former opinion, it was then agreed by the Magistrates that the qeestion should be left open for further consideration.

At Marlborough Street Office, on Tuesday, Mr. Conant sentenced a cabman to a fine of twenty shillings, or a month's imprisonment, for using the most obscene and utterly unprovoked language to some gen- tlemen and a lady in Regent Street. The Magistrate said, that he would punish him severely by way of example: and then merely in- flicted this paltry fine on the ruffian.

The reporter who was excluded from Marylebone Office on Thurs- day last week, for an alleged misrepresentation of some expressions used by Mr. Shutt the Magistrate, attended there again on Saturday. Mr. Shutt's notice being called to his presence, lie desired him to re- tire ; which the reporter declined to do, and offered to justify what be had written. Mr. Shutt then ordered the officers to remove him ; which was done.

On the same day, Charles Adam Corbyn, the Midshipman charged with the robbery at Sir Charles Forbes's, Mr. Rose's, and several other places, was examined again ; and, after a good deal of evidence, which proved his numerous rogueries, lie was committed. On Thursday, he was arraigned at the Old Bailey, and pleaded "guilty."

The Churchwardens of St. John's parish, Hackney, complained on Monday to the Worship Street Magistrates, against a Mr. Dennis, a resident in Hackney, who offered violent resistance to a Coroner's Jury, summoned to inspect the body of one of Mr. Dennis's children, lately deceased under suspicious circumstances. Mr. Dennis, whose cottage is of antique fashion, with battlemented parapet and turret, and forti- fied with a small piece of ordnance and other fire-arms, the reports of which have several times of lute alarmed the neighbourhood, peremp- torily forbade the entrance of the Jury ; declaring that there was not the slightest occasion for any such inquiry or intrusion, his child having died naturally, of consumption ; and he threatened to resist, by force of arms, any attempt to force an entry. He offered, however, to admit the Coroner alone ; who went to the spot and was admitted to a parley with Mr. Dennis. The latter (who maintained his position inside, while the Coroner remained without) asserted his right, as an English- man, to provide and carry what arms he pleased for the defence of his person and his " castle ; " and explained, that the discharge of the piece of ordnance and other arms, which had caused so much talk, was partly in honour of St. Denis, the patron saint of his family, but chiefly to show that he was prepared to defend himself, and to intimi- date people from breaking in upon him. After sonic hours of nego- tiation, he consented to admit the Jury ; who viewed the body and in- spected the place. Several pistols, a quantity of bullets and powder, a cutlass, daggers, &e. were found upon the floor and table in the apart- ment. There was no reason to believe that the child had come to its end by violent means ; and another of the children said that their father was kind to them. Under these circumstances, the Magistrates forbore to interfere.

At the Queen Square Office, on Thursday, the Honourable Mrs. Ann Hely Hutchinson was accused of an assault on a maid-servant. It appeared that the servant had been impudent, and would not make a bed when ordered by her mistress ; so Mrs. Hutchinson took her by the shoulders and turned her out of the kitchen : the woman ran out of the house, and the lady bolted the door. The Magistrates dismissed the complaint, and told the servant she ought to have done as she was bid.

At the Union Hall Office, on Thursday, a Pole, calling himself Count Sansvouski, was charged with being concerned in several rob- beries committed by another Pole bearing the sounding title of General Konstantin, who was in the habit of calling at gentlemen's houses with a petition for relief, and carrying off bats, coats, &c., whenever he found an opportunity. Sansvouski also disguised himself occasionally as a Turk, and hawked rhubarb about the streets.