At the Marylebone Office, on Monday, Mr. William Allen, a
'gen- tleman of very patriotic feelings. was charged with creating a disturb- ance in the streets ; of which the following evidence was given by the Policeman who took him into custody.
About three o'clock on Sunday morning, as witness was en duty in the Port- land Road, he observed the defendant alight front a cab, and having divested himself of his cloak, hat, coat, and waistcoat, which he threw in the gutter, tuck up his shirt-sleeves, and coturneace throwing his fistsinto the air, as fhough he was engaged with some person in a pugilistic coning, at the same time ex- claiming, in an exulting tone, " Wood's floored !" "!;lame for ever ! " " Bravo, bravo ! " " lies-re!" " Down with the Tory rascals! &c. These sentences he continual no repeat for some time; when witusits, seeing that he was intoxi- cated, mut feaziog that the warmth of his matinee might lead him into trouble, or that 'at might be robbed, conveyed him foe safety to the Station.-kouse,
The defendant said that he had partaken too freely of the bottle, and had no recollection of what had occurred. And Mr. Rawlinsen, after remarking that he supposed his strange conduct was to be attri- buted to "election excitement," fired him five shillings for being drunk.
At the Queen Square Office, on Monday, a poor woman in great .distress was charged with putting her basket of spats on the footpath in Great Chapel Street, Westminster, for about three minutes, while she went for some straw to stand upon, the weather being excessively cold. Her basket and fish were taken from her, and she was discharged, crying bitterly. The 7'rue Sun has the following just remarks on the conduct of the Police in this and other cruel cases of the same descrip- tion.
" There appears to be the greatest partiality evinced by the Police constables in the daily seizures of fruit and fish from tile poor creatures in Great Chapel Street, who have no other mode of getting, at the best, but a mast miserable exist- ence, which must be apparent to every one, and which we doubt the .Magistrates are nut at all aware of. The tradesmen in the same street, and within a few yards of the same spot, keep the pavement in a constant state of obstruction, by placing their goods for sale not only on the footway but also on the carriage-way ; yet never do any of the constables take the slightest notice of these offenders, who are under a heavy penalty every day."
At Worship Street Office, on Tuesday, a young man named Gillett was accused of steeling a shovel from a shop in Old Street ; and was committed on his own confession. He was an cad witness against thieves, with whose tricks he is well acquainted ; but having, as he said, been crossed in love, was anxious to go to " Bottony." He had com- mitted a theft some months ago, and was tried last Old Bailey Sessions, but had the misibrtune to be acquitted.
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