The Morning Post informs us, that on Monday, at Bow
Street, "two gentlemen, who gave their names Peter Simpkins and Charles Jenkins, were charged with being found drunk and disorderly, and in- capable of taking care of themselves in White Hart Stret t, Drury Lune, at half-past five o'clock that morning. - Mr. Peter Simpkins, on being put to the bar, was recognized as the Marquis of Waterford, the noble Marquis having been in similar scrapes before. Police con- stable Lewis Curd stated, that be saw the two defendants at the time stated in White Hart Street, very drunk, and surrounded by a whole gang of thieves and women, the evident intention of whom was to rob them. They were incapable of taking care of themselves ; and he conveyed them to the Station-house, where they were searched, for their own security ; and upon the Marquis of iVaterford the officers found .59/. lls. 6d. in Bank-notes, gold, and silver, and upon the other gentleman property to a considerable amount. The defendants had nothing to say ; and were discharged on payment of the usual tine for being drunk ; and their property was of course restored to them. [ The noble Beresford is a credit to the " order." Ile is resolved to distin- guish himself in both hemispheres. A short time since, he was " kicking up rows" in New York ; where, if we recollect right, lie was soundly thrashed by a democratic policeman. If he had poverty and rags to excuse his drunkenness, he would make one of Colonel Bruen's " savages ; " but, being a Marquis, he has only a noble penchant for `g a lark."]
A wherry, in which three boys were rowing, was upset on Wednes- day, on the Thames, near Battersea: one of the boys swam to shore, but the other two were drowned.
Martha M'Donald, servant to Mr. Stainton, a gentleman residing in Claremont Place, New Road, was killed on Thursday week, by falling from the sill of a window of her master's house, which she was em- ployed in cleaning. She had been cautioned by Mrs. Stainton not to stand outside the sill.
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