It has- been noticed to the praise of the new

Police, that notwithstanding the crowds collected on Westminster Bridge and in Palace Yard on Monday, to wit- ness the City procession, there was not a single inIhrmation for robbery in that quarter ; whereas at Ludgate Hill and Cheapside, under the guardianship of the City officers, robberies were numerous.

A police-officer was charged at Bow Street, on Wednesday, with having per- mitred a person given into his custody for felony to escape. Ile had allowed the young num to call at the house of his father, and there lost sight of hint. Mr.

Halls told the officer that he must use every effort to recapture his prisoner. • William Joseph Baines and his wife, confidential servants of the Honourable Hyde Villiers, M.P., have been committed at-Bow Street for extensive robberies on their master. Mr. Villiers had received in an anonymous letter intimation of the robberies to which he had been subjected. He found, on examination, that he had lost plate, books, and linen to a very great extent. The male prisoner denied all knowledge of these robberies ; but he and his wife absconded. They were apprehended subsequently, and forty-eight duplicates of the property recovered.

On Monday, William Harris, alias Quesnick, was charged at Bow Street, with having escaped from transportation. He had effected his escape twice before. On his first escape from the hulks, he swam a considerable distance with an iron about one of his legs ; and on effectin,g his liberation front confinement at Botany Bay, he wandered about a desolate part of the country for several days and nights, before he got on board of a homeward-bound vessel. He is fully com- mitted for trial at the next assizes for Surrey. George John Clark, alias Freeman, was committed at Guildhall on Monday, for stealing 14/. 4s. front an acquaintance, in whose cart he had been permitted to ride.

Two young men were committed on Tuesday at the Mansionhouee, for assault- mmiganml robbing a French gentleman, residing at Belvoir Terrace, Vauxhall. A beautiful country girl appeared a few days since at Union Hall, and told the Magistrates that she had been trepanned about a fortnight ago from her mother it Canterbury, by a lady who pretended to have procured a situation for her as companion. She was taken to an infamous house not far from the Strand; kept there in strict seclusion, and betrayed to one of the men who frequented it. She, however, contrived to effect her escape, and now applied to the Ma- gistrates for advice. Orders were given to the officers to discover, if possible, the miscreants who had been instrumental in the poor girl's ruin.

An elderly gentleman, from•Reigate, with a low-rrowned hat, powdered bail; and an old-fashioned coat with enormous silver buttons, appeared on Monday it

'Union Hall, and accused a girl of the town of robbing him of his watch and a purse with sovereigns. The girl was committed, and the elderly gentleman ex- hefted to be more select in his company.

, A Mr. Sullivan was charged at Marlborough Street on Monday with an assault on a Mr. Clark, in whose house he lodged. Mrs. Clarke, it appeared, had con- ceived a partiality for the society of Mr. Sullivan ; and Mr. Clarke having occa- sion about a fortnight ago to use a little of the authority with which law invests husbands, to induce Mrs. Clarke to leave the defendant's parlour, laid himself open to the displeasure of Mr. Sullivan, who forthwith proceeded to reduce Mr. Clarke to a state of insensibility. The defendant was fined 5/.

George Kemp, who was charged some time ago with having stolen paintings of the value of 400/. from his employer, Mr. Hewitson, and Mr. Malcolm, who was charged with receiving the property, were again examined on Monday, and finally committed for trial. It was stated in defence that Kemp had at one time been a partner of Mr. Hewitson, and that there was money due to him ; for Mal.. colm it was stated that Kemp owed hint money, and that he received the pictures in security.

John Evans was charged at Marlborough Street on Wednesday with the rob- bery of a Mr. Norman, whom the prisoner had met in Leicester Square the night before, and helped into a coach. Joseph Powell, a hackney coachman, was charged on Wednesday at the Mary.. le-bone office, with having robbed a gentleman whom he had driven on Saturday from Covent Garden to Piccadilly. The prisoner stoutly denied the charge ; but after a great deal of contradictory evidence had beeen adduced, he was fully committed.

rboy of the name of Lurchin was fully committed at Lambeth Street on Wed.. nesday, on charges of theft preferred against him by his grandmother. His thievish propensities had proved incurable. He had been sent from Edinburgh at five pars old, to have this „bias removed, but in vain. He had robbed his ancient re- lative on system, and arkd of the articles to pawnbrokers. Mr. Phillips of Finchley has addressed a letter to the Editor of the Morning Herald on the subject of his wife's death. He ascribes that unhappy event to a mistake in the compounding of her medicine, and promises soon to put the public in possession of proofs that it was so.

On Friday, William Wright, an apprentice, was committed to the House of Correction by the sitting Magistrate at Marlborough Street, for a gross assault upon a yang lady in the open street.

Mr. Ruding, of Fitzroy Square, was held to bail on Thursday by the Magistrate at Union Hall, for an assault upon his brother-in-law, for encouraging his sister in a suit of separation.

Wary Taylor was committed on Thursday at Hatton Garden, for the robbery of a shop in Holborn.

In the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday, an indictment was preferred before the Grand Jury, at the instance of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, and a true bill found against Thomas Sharples, of Brompton, for taking an insane person under his care without the requisite authority and certificate of insanity, contrary to the provisions of the statute 9th Geo. IV. cap. 41. This is the first public prosecution by the Commissioners under this act of Parliament. At the Middlesex Adjourned Sessions, on Thursday, William Tuttell, a musi- cian, was tried for an alleged criminal assault upon a girl of thirteen, his servant. The Jury found him guilty ; and he was sentenced to pay 101. to the King.

At the Surrey Sessions, it was decided, as we stated, that churchwardens were not entitled to burden their respective parishes with the expenses of lawsuits which have had their origin in the execution of orders issued by the churchwar- dens on their own responsibility; and accordingly, the churchwardens of Christ Church, Surrey, were, on Thursday, successfully resisted by the Vestry, in an attempt to apply the parish funds to the payment of expenses in an action brought against the beadle fur the seizure of certain goods in conformity with their di- rections.

A military officer of rank, of advanced years, and labouring under the disad- vantages of lameness and a broken constitution, was charged at the Marlborough

Street Office yesterday with an outrageous assault upon Julia Kerner' a powerful young woman, servant in the house where the Colonel lodged. The gallant officer, despite his protestations of innocence was committed to Tothill Fields gaol, though the complainant's oath was the only evidence adduced.

Two hundred and fifty articled clerks have applied to be admitted as attornies an the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas next Hilary Term.