The Savvy Quarter-sessions commenced on Tuesday. There - were no fewer
tenn seventy-three cases of' felony, although the last session of the Court bad terminated only three weeks ago. At the Manshmhonse, on Thursday, Mr. Mashy, a merchant of' Broad Street, obtained a warrant for the apprehension of Thomas Harris, merchant. of John Street, America Square, who had abaconded, Laving pre N mushy defrauded Mr. Cleasby of 3,00o/. by means orchecks upon a hailking-house, where lie had no efffcts.
At the Lambeth Street Office, on Wednesday, Andrews, a Policeman employell to discover and arrest the " gentleman " who had assaulted
Mrs. Cullum in a carriage on the Eastern Counties Railway, reported to the Magistrates, that he had been unable to discover the oftender, although he was satisfied that many who denied all knowledge of hint knew well enough who he was. Mr. Hardwicke said, the Policeman must not relax in his inquiries, and, if he needed it, obtain snore assist- ance from his Superintendent.
On Thursday evening, Mr. Roberts of Clifford's Inn applied to the Magistrate to bail Mr. Bradshaw, " the gentleman," who had been at
length arrested by the Policeman. Persons of' property atul respecta- bility- were ready to be his sureties. Mr. Norton refused to take bail, but allowed Mr. Bradshaw to sleep at the Mile-end Stationhouse, in- stead of sm.diug him to Clerkenwell Prison.
Yesterday, Mr. Bradshaw, who described himself as a gentleman living on his 1,eoperty, and occupying apartments at No. S-lst, Regent's Quadrant, was again brought before the Magistrates. Mrs. Cullum staled p..rtividors of a grossly indecent assault which the " miscreant," es she eell‘.1 Lim, had committed. This woman gave her evidence in a bold ele1 menner. On cross-exnmination by Mr. Phillips,
she admitted, 1,i unwillingly, some fitets respecting her former life.
Bail was given Mr the prisoner, himself in 2001. and two sureties of I50/.
A coriot,s ease came on Monday before the Thames. Police Magis- trates. Dona Id 31.N al, a seaman, claimed 1 5/. s. bd., the balance of -wage • to him on a voyage to Madras and back to Etightiol. Among
other d, net nq,s insisted on by the agent of the owners, was 2/. 5g., or
SI montit's Itecaltse M'Nab, a Scotch Presbyterian, refused to attend
divine service on board according to the rubric of' the Church of Eng-
land, agreettitly to a regulation made by the owners. The deduction 'was Or CulliSe ei11:11110tVed ; and the case governed another, that of a Bomau Cetholie seaman on board the same ship.—Merning Chreniete.
A 1111111111e11 1,1y 121 elit occurred on Tuesday at the Bank of' England, in the sudden death of Mr. Miles Stringer, of the respectable firm of Stringer and Co., of Monument Yard. Mr. Stringer arrived at the Bank, appearing rather flurried from being beyond the time of his ap- pointment, in consequence of Magisterial duties elsewhere, to execute a transfer of stock eeejointly with a co-director in his capacity of one of the directors of the Equitable Assurance Company. While waiting the arrival of the party interested also in the transfer, and in conversation -with a friend he had casually met, he suddenly dropped down dead. The event excited much interest, as he was highly respected by a large circle of City friends.— Times.
On the 1st instant the range of the Metropolitan Police was ex- tended to a circle of from ten to twelve miles round the Metropolis : it now includes Hendon, Barnet, Croydon, Woolwich, Hounslow, and Itomford. On the same day, the Police in London commenced the Seizure of carts and trucks drawn by dogs, and prevented men from !ettrrying poles along the side-pavements.
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