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state of efficiency of the corps, and said that in
taking leave of their drill instmetor they were de-
sirous of marking their estimation of the progress
which they had made under his able direction by
offering him some solid testimonial which might be
useful to him in his future career, and which would
remind him of their gratitude for his attention and
kindness. LiPut. Blockley then came forward, and,
after some concise and appropriate remarks express-
ing the entire approbation of the corps with his
services on their behalf, presented him with a mag-
nificently wrought Artillery sword, on the blade of
which was engraved in capitals, " Presented to J.
Osborne, Esq., by the gun division of the H. A. C.
,1860." The testimonial was accompanied by a
well-filled purse of sovereigns.
Mr. Gibbs, late military storekeeper at Edin-
burgh, has relieved Major Agnew of his charge of
the powder magazines at Tipnor, near Portsmouth,
after a service there of more than 40 years. The
gallant Major embarked from Portsmouth in 1808
for the Peninsula, and after following the late Duke
of Wellington through some of his greatest battles,
lost his leg at Vittoria in 1813, and was subse-
quently appointed by the Duke to the post he has
filled for so long a time.

P. Bv. `SPED. 51.1.

P OLIC T.? INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 9

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Daniel de la Cherois
Gurley, a physician, having a residence at Wilton-
house, Regent's-park, and also in Edinburgh, was
brought up on remand on a charge that, being a
trustee of the sum of £2,490 4s. sd. for the benefit
of Henry Wadham and Elizabeth his wife, he did,
with intent to defraud them, unlawfully convert
and appropriate the same to and for his own use
and purposes, contrary to the statute.
Mr. J. D. Farrell, a clerk in the Western Branch
of the Bank of England, in Burlington-gardens,
identified the pass-book found among the prisoner's
papers, and proved that on the Bth of March last
£1,409 10s. 4d. was paid in to his credit by a
cheque of Messrs. Simpson and Cook.
Mr. Cooper said he could not carry that part of
the case further at present, but if a remand were
granted he would do se on a future day.
Mr. Humphreys said he should also be prepared
then to prove that Mrs. Wadham, at whose in-
stance the prosecution was instituted, had been paid
by the defendant a sum of money in settlement of
any claim she had under the will.
The prisoner was then remanded until Friday
next.

B OW- STREET.--CHARGE OF DOG-STEALING.
—A young man who gave the name of Joseph
Sarson, but whose real name was Black, was
charged with stealing a dog, the property of Mr. F.
Shackle, of the Duke's Head, 56, Museum-street.
It appeared that the prosecutor missed his dog,
a terrier, which he valued at £2, on Friday last,
and having given information of the fact to the
pclliee, with a description of the4inimal, nolice-cz,n-
-' stable Bampton, F 97, was directed to look out for
such a dog. On Saturday night last this officer saw
the prisoner with a terrier answering the descrip-
tion given, and followed him to 28, Charles-street,
Drury-lane. On going up stairs he saw the pri-
soner and asked him to show the dog. The prisoner
said he had not got one. Witness heard a scratch-
ing in an adjoining room, however, and insisted on
seeing the animal, which was then brought forth.
Witness said, " I believe I know the owner of
that dog, and I will go and fetch him, if you
promise to remain here till my return, if not I must
take you into custody." The promise was given,
and witness went to the prosecutor, but before their
return both the prisoner and the dog had disap-
peared. Subkquently the constable traced the dog
to another house in the same street, and it was at
onu identified by the prosecutor, and a day or two
afterwards the prisoner was also discovered and ap-
prehended.
Mr. Shackle stated that the dog had a collar on
when it was lost, but it was not upon him when he
was found. _ _

The defence was that the dog had strayed, and
prisoner had been asked to take care of it by the
person who found it.
The prisoner's father said, although be had given
a wrong name, with the view of sparing the feelings
of his family probably, he was nevertheless a very
respectable man, and had come by the dog
without dishonesty. He (the father) had the ap-
pointment of " Queen's ratcatcher," and his son,
therefore, was highly respectable.
Mr. Henry fined him £lO, and in default com-
mitted him for one month.

MARYLEB ONE—DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT
SUICIDE.—John Huntly, living in Prescott-place,
Paddington, was charged with the following deter-
mined attempt at suicide.
It appeared that on the previous night the pri-
soner went into the Chalk-farm Tavern and had
two glasses of ale at the bar. He suddenly ex-
claimed, "I see my mother standing by the foot of
her grave," and, rushing into the kitchen, he laid
hold of a dinner knife, with which he was about to
inflict injury upon himself, but it was wrested from
him. He then ran into the bar, and seizing a large
carving knife, was about to draw it across his throat,
but after considerable resistance on his part he was
prevented from carrying his suicidal intention into
effect. He was conveyed to the station-house by
Welham, 400 S, and other officers who came to his
assistance.

The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re
manded till Thursday next.

GREENWICH.-ASSAULT ON A WIFE AND AT.
TEMPTING TO SHOOT TWO POLICE-CONSTABLES.-

Mr. Thomas informed the magist.
debt upon which he now stood arra
Gauqualin's own, but one for which
surety for another person, and that pc a
derstood, bad swindled him out of large sums of
money. He also added that he believed the pri- •
soner was a respectable and well-conducted man,
generally speaking, and that what he had d.Jne he
(Mr. Thomas) believed had been done through mo-
mentary excitement.
The prisoner, Gauqualin, through an interpreter,
said he was extremely sorry for what had happened,
and that in a moment of excitement he had quite
lost, or forgotten himself. •
De Veri.; said he thought the parties were fight-
in., and he only interfered to separate them.
Mr. Norton observed that if the prisoners had
not been. foreigners, and as such might not be suffi-
ciently acquainted with our laws, he should have
felt it tc, be his duty to deal much more severely
with them. As it was, however, Gauqualin must
pay a penalty of £3 or six weeks' imprisonment,
and Da Vere, 10s. or ten days.
The latter
refusing; id'
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the former ref-
lane Gaol, where the writ against him was lodged,
so that he cannot get discharged until he pays the
£23, in addition to the penalty, or serve his term
of imprisonment.

KENSINGTON GARD_ENS.

The momentous question of the Ride in Kensing-
ton-wardens has not been so well understood by the
publi cas it ought to be. To be sure, people gene-
rally know rather more about it than they do about
the (Jhina question, or the Syrian massacres, or the
French Treaty, but it is.not well got up. We have
ourselveleetet folks wandering about the gardens
an t I asking the keepers where the new Ride was ;
amid persons ambiti, -a -7esirrdom, and purposing
to. exemplify in their o rsons the certainty of
being trampled to death by thoroughbred horses, or
levoured by thoroughbred bloodhounds, have lost
themselves in their pilgrirnegee We are not :ill so
fortunate as Lord John Manners's old lady in her
• wheeled chair, who, although drawn by two men,
could not be forced into this Ride, and was under
the cruel necessity of being taken back into the
greensward and woodland. Even the Marylebone
vestrymen, who were so eloquent upon the wrongs
they were suffering, were deficient in their geogra-
phy. When we were last in these gardens, not one
man in a hundred of those who had the most excel-
lent reasons for seeking sequestered glades and
wilds which might accord with their souls' sadness
seemed to have any very distinct idea of the wrong
he had. suffered. The sentimental vestryman and
the lovesmitten guardian of the poor still wandered
beneath the great trees, undisturbed by the gaudy
crowd of chattering equestrians. In fact, although
that Kensington Ride was talked of in every pot-
house in Marylebone, the exact grievance was only
known and felt by a few nursemaids from West-
bournia and by the fall privates of her Majesty's
Guards, and even these found consolation and pri-
vacy no great way off.
To dissipate this deplorable ignorance there was
a lively debate yesterday in the House of Commons.
It was a pretty and a very interesting little debate.
People spoke of what they knew something about ;
and if there was some claptrap and considerable
selfishness, and a vast quantity of exaggeration,
the whole matter was well ventilated. We now
know that this is a question whether there shall
be a road set out for horse exercise in a piece
of public ;;round containing 268 acres of woodland,
lawn, and flower-gardens. We know, also, that
those feroisious Democrats who call upon the people
to put down this incursion of the bloated aristo-
cracy are, in fact, the mildest of sheep in the fiercest
of wolves' skins. At the Marylebone Board, and
in deputations to Mr. James, they are fire-breath-
ing Radicals ;at home at Notting-hill and in West-
bournia they are the most respectable of citizens
and the most exclusive of monopolists. At the
Marylebone Board they bold that 'Kensington-
gardens is all for the people who walk ; at Notting-
hill they hold that these gardens are all the private
property of their ten little darlings. They tell Mr.
Cowper that they have a vested right in the soli-
tude and seclusion of this public place of recreation,
and when they write to us they think it a sufficient
reason that all equestrian London should be kept
from their neighbourhood, if they can show that
they are now compelled to send their children only
once, instead of twice, a-day into these gardens.
Happy Paterfamilias to have such a beautiful
place at his house-door ! but miserable Paterfami-
lias that he cannot have it kept up at the public
expense and exclude every one else from it ! This
is the common vulgar English feeling of excluding
the public and turning every place of public en-
joyment into a private
_property. It is common
enough to find that people wadi to'llitit out a
crowd. The Exhibition was a bore, because it
drew the masses to an aristocratic part of the town ;
the flowers near Park-lane are not popular in that
vicinity, for they attract pedestrians ; to drive away
a crowd, whether on foot or on horseback, is the
natural wish of the householder, who likes the air
and the view, but likes it all to himself. But never
did we see democracy so befooled as in this case,
where the denizens of the courts and alleys of the
metropolis are made to complain that there is no
" privacy" in our public Parks, and that they
are not turned into appendages to the nurseries
of a few houses in the immediate neighbour-
hood. Fancy a Marylebone vestryman roaring for
privacy ! It does, however, so happen that the
privacy is increased by the very fact of the public
enjoyment being increased. If the gentle swains
and ruddy shepherdesses who now seek these sylvan
spots cannot find ample room and verge to exchange
their tender vows, it will certainly not be the fault
of the ridge ; for the nursemaids are all gone to,
look at the riders, and the Guards are gone to
shield the 'nursemaids from harm, and the privacy
of the gardens is more complete than ever. Yet
the Londoner, who loves a show, and who above
all things 'has an eye for a horse, and likes eo see a
cavalcade of pretty women bounding in a breezy
gallop, is actually represented to be up in arms be-
cause the privacy of Kensington-gardens is increased
in one part by an object of attraction in another
part, and because their gaiety is increased by a scene
of animated enjoyment ! If it be true that there
has been any real demonstration of the poorer classes
against this ride, and in favour of " the vested
right in tlae neighbours to seclusion and solitude,"
democracy never looked so silly or was so ridicu-
lously duped.
We are ashamed of this little quarrel. It could
have happened in no other country but England,
where social intolerance is thought to be an evi-
dence of independence, and a vexatious interference
with your neighbour's comfort is mistaken for a
spirited vindication of right. Here are nearly 300
acres of ornamental public grounds, not one-tenth
part of which is ever visited by Cockney foot.
The ladies and children, not aristocrats alone, but
of all ranks, who, in accordance with a healthful
fashion, have taken to exercise themselves on
horseback, want a little bit of shade. They have
in reality as much right to a fair share of this
public property as any other people have. A
worthless strip is alloted for this purpose, and
the residents of Westbournia and Notting-hill
immediately try not only to cut off this little
facility for innocent enjoyme:at, but get up a
sort of empty sham popular city against it. The
whole thing is essentially un.gentlemanlike ; it
shows a lack of consideration fox: each other's com-
forts ; a total absence of that spirit of mutual
concession which is the soul of ciiilisation. It can-
not be other than a bad spirit shich makes Mr.
Smith angry because his cousin is: able to ride under
the shadow of a Kensington-gard, ens tree, after an
accurate examination of the till he. s shown that the
thriving business can afford the tre at. But what a
fool Smith must be to be made a cat's-paw of by
the gentleman in the large house close by, who in-
sists that all the Smiths are intru d,ers, and that he
only has a right to the enjoymei It of that slreel
which he wants for his two little g. 'xis to play aD ul
in ! The House of Commons, by a m sajority.off nearly
two to one, has held that a public Carden is. o h
enjoyment of all classes, but it is a end d greediness
pity that
all this jealousy and intOlerance ELn _ .
to be thus pub-
has shown itself, and has required
licly rebuked.—times.

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William Bromell, a young man of independen
means, residing at Worton-road, Deptford, and who
was suffering from the effects of delirium tremens,
was brought up on a warrant, charging him with
assaulting and threatening to murder his wife, Jane
Bromell, and also with presenting and attempting
to discharge a pair of pistols at police-constables
Holman, 47, and Kendal, 318 R.
The wife, a good.looking young woman, on being
sworn, said, that the prisoner was her husband, and
was greatly addicted to habits of drunkenness. For
some time past she had been subjected to acts of
ill-treatment, and had been frequently threatened
by him to have a bullet put through her head. On
Sunday last he struck her, seized her by the hair
of her head, dragged her to the ground, and taking
up a dinner knife, declared he would murder her.
In consequence of these threats she had been com-
pelled to leave ber home with her four children,
and to remain away, being in fear of her life.
The prisoner, in reply to the magistrate, said he
had suffered a great deal of aggravation, but he
knew he was throwing himself away.
Mr. Maude—Any one who now sees you can see
that you are throwing yourself into a coffin.
Constables Kendal and Holman here said, that
they had the warrant of the Court to take the pri-
soner into custody. Ou going to the house and
knocking, they were answered by the prisoner, who
appeared with a hammer and a brace of pistols, and
threatened to murder them or anybody who might,
attempt to enter the house, and on their endeavour-
ing to secure him, he snapped four caps on the
pistols at them. After waiting nearly two hours
they saw the prisoner leave the house, and they
then took him into custody.
The prisoner said he merely snapped the pistols
at the constables in order to frighten them, but
that they were neither loaded nor had he any
powder in the house.
The wife here said that the prisoner had also
frequently presented the pistols at her, and said he
would put a bullet through her head.
The prisoner promised that he would not mis•
conduct himself again.
Mr. Maude observed that from a person in his
condition, who was evidently rapidly depriving
himself of life by excessive drinking, he could not
think of taking any such promise. He should
therefore require him to find two sureties in the
sum of £5O for his good conduct during the mit
three months. •
The prisoner said he did not think he could get
bail, and, from his helpless condition, he was
assisted out of Court to be conveyed to gaol for
the period named.

LAMBETH.—ATTEMPT TO STAB A SHERIFF'S
OFFICER.—M. E. Gauqualin, a Frenchman and
currier, residing at 16, Moore's-terrace, Park-road,
Peckham, was charged before the Hon. G. C. Nor-
ton, with attempting to stab Mr. Keene, an officer
of the Sheriff of Kent, and also Mr. Thomas, an
auctioneer; and Mr. Augustus Be Vere, a lodger in
his house, and also a Frenchman", was charged
with rescuing the other prisoner from the lawful
custody of the officers.
From the evidence, which was somewhat
lengthy, it appeared that on that morning Mr.
Keene, accompanied his man, Henry Bromley, and.
Mr, Thomas, an auctioneer in the Kent-road, pro-
ceeded to the house of the prisoner Gauqualin, to
execute a warrant for a debt and costs, amounting
to £23. On obtaining admission, Mr. Thomas, who
had been the plaintiff in the action, explained to
him as well as he could the nature of the proceed-
ing, and the prisoner offered £lO in part payment
of the debt, bat was told that this could not be ac-
cepted, for that the officer having made his cap-
ture, was bound to take him to his office, and ascer-
tain whether there were any detainers lodged
against him before he could release him. :1 He was
assured, however, that everything should be done
to procure his release from custody on that day;
but he seemed to become much excited, arid ex-
claiming, " No prison, no prison," he rushed to a
table about two yards off, snatched up a knife
which he used in his business, and grasping it in
his right hand, with his thumb placed on the end
of the handle, raised his arm as high as he could,
and was about to make a downward stab at Mr.
Thomas, when Bromley, the sheriff's man, fortu-
nately seized his arm, and prevented the blow: Mr.
Thomas retreated from the place, and the prisoner.
attempted to stab Mr. Keene, but he, by the exer-
tions of Bromley, averted it, and was kicked out of
the place. The prisoner next attempted to stab
Bromley in the throat, upon which he threw up
his hand to save himself, and had the top of one
of his fingers nearly cut off, was bundl&d out of
the house, and the doors closed against him.
The police were then sent for, the door forced
open, and the prisoner captured. The prisoner,
Guadqualin, when captured, expressed much con-

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