Marlborough Street Police-office, in hackney-coaches, and under a • strong

escort, charged with an offence against the act for illegal training to arms. They had been found in a room in Glasshouse Yard, Mino-

ries, performing the broadsword exercise with sticks and wooden swords. Five of them were pupils, or intended pupils ; the sixth was a tobacco-cutter, an old soldier, their instructor. The following is the evidence of the Police Superintendent, who made the capture of this regiment of 5 men and 1 officer—

In consequence of information, he went to Glasshouse Yard [this was on Tuesday night]. At the hour of eight o'clock he passed a house or shed in the

place mentioned, and heard the word's "right face" or "left face," he could not say which. He listened for a few minutes, and then thought he heard the words " right check—left cheek." Seeing a policeman, he sent him to the Station-

house to bring other constables to assist in effecting an entrance to the house. At a quarter before nine o'clock, a party of police arrived ; and he and they en- tered a sort of shed or coach-house. While there he heard the words—" right

protect, left protect." They then proceeded up two ladders, and got into an apartment situated at the top part of the building. Upon going into the room, he saw one of the prisoners, Thomas Strickland, in company with five other 'persons, some of whom had in their hands sticks and wooden swords.

They were conveyed to the watchhouse, and thence, with all due ceremony, to the Police-office. One of the men, Thomas Strickland to wit, said be was an ivory-turner ; lie went to the room to learn fencing ; he was to pay two shillings a quarter, or one penny a lesson ! Ifc had not begun his studies. Walker, an engraver, had been at the

fencing-room once before ; his only object was a little amusement after

the labours of the day were over. Cowie, a Scotchman, had made his first appearance on Tuesday. He did not pay any thing, for the Police came in and "upset " them before lie entered on his lessons. He

knew single-stick, and wished to add broadsword to his other accom- plishments. Sparkes, a carpenter, was equally communicative. Peck,

another carpenter, had taken four lessons. Mr. Murphy invited him . to the place of meeting; and he was induced to listen to Mr. Murphy's invitation from the persuasions of a Mr. Watson, whom he met at the Rotunda. When the privates had been examined, the wooden swords were submitted to the examination of the Magistrates. Some of them were broken, but the fragments had been carefully preserved. The sight of such bloody weapons created a strong sensation on the bench,

and in the reporters' box. Captain Murphy, the tobacco-cutter, was last called on to explain ; but all that he could say was, that he had nine pupils, and had not yet received a fee from any of them. Mr. Dyer said, that it ryas impossible for him or his brother Ma- gistrates to define at present how this matter might terminate; but he and they felt convinced there were . sufficient grounds to warrant the detention of the prisoners for a further examination.

The captain and his army were marched out accordingly. Murphy has since been admitted to bail.

At the Westminster Sessions yesterday, a common informer, named George Biss, was convicted of having conspired with two men, not in

custody, to defraud a Mr. T. G. Jordan of 3/., for the purpose of com- promising certain informations under the Victualling Act. He was sentenced to a twelvemonth's confinement in the House of Correction : he promised Mr. Jordan immunity for a year, and will be kept to his word.

A fashionably-dressed young woman, who called herself Barbara Gandy, was charged at Marylebone on Saturday, with defrauding • Messrs. Sewell and Cross, of Compton Street, and Messrs. Jones and Bancutt, of Soho Square ; the former by a forged order from Lady Clive, the latter by a similar order from Lady Auckland. A letter from Lord Auckland. put one order to rest, by showing that his Lord- ship lived in single blessedness, with the Misses Eden, his sisters ; that his mother was no more; and in point of fact, there was no such

.lady as Lady Auckland in rerun natura. So much for the ignorance as well as gullibility' of London shopkeepers. Had Miss Gandy car-

ried a note from the Countess of Catchflat, it would have done the bu- siness quite as well. She was again examined on Thursday; when the order of Lady Clive was also proved to be forged. She was then com- mitted for trial.

On Monday, a man, named William Benbow, a bookseller, was taken to M irlborough Street Police-office, charged with having headed a mob of persons unlawfully and riotously assembled on Wednesday, the day of the General Fast. The offence charged against him was sworn to by several policemen and others. The Magistrates held him to bail in two sureties of 100/. each, or four sureties of 50/. each, to an- swer any charge that might be brought against him at the ensuing sessions.

A Magistrate's good humour is seldom exerted except when he has the opportunity of letting some egregious rogue loose upon the public. On Monday, a scoundrel, dressed as a Preventive Serviceman, was ap- prehended for collecting mobs, and picking the pockets and poisoning the stomachs of the poor, by the sale of quack nostrums for the cho- lera. The rogue was stripped of his sham Government uniform ; and what then ?—" The Magistrate," says the police report, " good-humour- edly told him to go home."—Sun.

A riot which wore a formidable aspect, took place in the beginning of the week, respecting the disposal of the body of a woman named Anna Maria Sanderlands, who had died, as the man with whom she lived asserted, in childbirth, but as the parish authorities asserted, of cholera. Mr. Ainsworth, a surgeon who attended the female, was anxious she should go to the hospital, but the man opposed it. He after- wards opposed the removal of the body ; and anumber of Irish, always ready for a row with law and its executors, joined in the resistance to authority. The case had made so great a noise, that our preeminent statesman Mr. Dawson thought it worthy of anotice in Parliament. To satisfy the poor people of the neighbourhood where the woman died—a court in Duke Street, Manchester Square—Doctors Dann, J. John- ston, Sigmond, Clarke, Hope, and Evans, examined the body on Tuesday. The following was their opinion—" Having carefully ex- amined the body of the deceased female, we are of opinion that death was not in any way connected with pregnancy, as labour had not com- menced. There were no symptoms or appearances by which we could conic to a decided opinion as to the disease that terminated existence ; but many of the symptoms were similar to those of the present epide- mic." This, by the by, is the first time we have seen the term " epi- demic" applied to cholera, by any of the cholera doctors ordinarily so called. The Inquest Jury were on Wednesday called to sit on the body of a child of the woman Sanderlands, which died on Tuesday in the Hospital; and on the same day they sat on Sanderlands himself, who died in the same place. The verdict in each case was correspondent to the report of the attendant medical men—that the deceased died by the visitation of God, of the prevailing epidemic.

A riot took place yesterday afternoon, in Edward Street, Portman Square, in an attempt to remove a sick Irishman, named Heron, to the Cholera Hospital, by the messengers of the Marylebone Board of Health. They were assisted by five policemen ; who made a very free use of their staves, in repressing the opposition that was made to the re- moval. They had, however, proceeded but a short distance, when the mob, whom they had irritated but not dispersed, set upon the party, wrenched the staves from the policemen, broke the hospital sedan to shivers, and carried back the patient to his lodgings. If the man him- self were averse from the removal, or if his immediate relations were averse from it, nothing could be more illegal than an attempt to remove Iliad by force. In filet, the parties have one and all made themselves liable to an indictment for assault and false imprisonment.

On Sunday evening, as the carriage of Sir Willoughby Brant was coming towards town with Lady Brant, two of her children, and the nurse, the horses suddenly set off at full gallop ; and the carriage being drawn against the footpath, upset. Lady Brant received a severe con- tusion on the left temple ; and her face was dreadfully cut, by coming in contact with the window-glass. The coachman had a leg broken in two places, and his right thumb torn off. The children and the nurse escaped with trilling injury.

On Wednesday afternoon, a man named James Cox threw hiMself into the Regent's Canal, near Hackney. He was observed by one of the men employed in the adjoining Gas-works, who immediately plunged in after him and brought him to land. He was then alive, but died soon after. He left his hat on the bank. [It is a curious proof of the strong attachment that men feel to the things of earth, at the moment even when they would seem most to despise them, that hardly ever does a suicide take place, in which the party has not laid some train for the discovery of his body—clinging to the casket and throwing away the jewel !] Mr. N. R. Bruin, son to the City gauger, died on Friday, from swallowing a quantity of laudanum and brandy, which his father was in the habit of taking as an antidote to cholera.

A respectable married female, crossing the Pegwell Fields, near Hack- ney, a few nights ago, was set upon by two women, or men disguised as women, who stripped her of every particle of b-er clothes except her stockings and boots, and then ran off with their plunder. Luckily, in the struggle, her cloak fell off, and escaped their notice ; which served her as a covering till she reached home.