Robert Pate was reexamined at the Home Office yesterday morning,
on the charge of striking the Queen. Sir James Clarke deposed, that on examining herMajesty's temple he found a slight incised wound, from which blood had flowed. The prisoner was decorous in his behaviour, but his eye was restless and wandering. Ile was fully committed for trial at Neegate. Mr. Mayne, Commissioner of Police, was hound over to prosecute.
A country contemporary, the Shcflield Independent, sends back to town the following piece of gossip—" It is said that when her Majesty had an in- terview with Lord John Russell, on the evening of the day on which Robert Pate made his attack on her, that she remarked to him, '1 know the man who struck mo perfectly well by sight ; I meet him oftener in the Parks, and he makes a point of bowing more frequently and lower to nte, than any on* else.' "
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