MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-Edward Trelawney, Esq.,

was brought before Mr. Dyer and Mr. Courtoy, charged by Miles Hunt, servant to Mr. Leader, M.P. with an assault.

The complainant said the defendant was on a visit at his masIter's house in Eaton-square. A day or two ago complainant was walking in Hyde-park, when the defendant passed him in a cab. Complainant was laughing at the time, and he noticed that the defendant turned round and looked at him hard in the face. The defendant, on his return to Eaton-square, complained to Mr. Leader that his servant had laughed at him in the park. The defendant is very dark, and wears a large quantity of black hair, cultivated in all the peculiarities of whiskers, moustache, imperial, and tip. Mr. Leader sent for him (complainant) and made some angry observations on his alleged want of good behaviour. Complainant, knowing the charge to be quite unfounded, on seeing the defendant asked him if he had told his master that he had laughed at him in the park. Mr. Trelawney replied that he had, upon which he (complainant) said he had told "a story," "for it had never entered into his mind to laugh at him. The defendant immediately seized him by the throat, and swore he would kill him. The defendant continued his violence, and struck complainant over the head repeatedly.

The defendant did not deny the assault, but he justified it by referring to the provoking expressions used towards him by the complainant.

Mr. Dyer said had the complainant not told the defendant he was asserting " a story," which was in effect saying he told a lie, he should have made the penalty higher.

The complainant said he applied the words to Mr. Trelawney because Mr. Trelawney, in speaking to Mr. Leader on the subject, had intended to do him some injury.

The penalty of 40s. and costs was inflicted. 12. July 38

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STANDARD

NOVELS.

N° XLVIII.

"No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of
life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by
the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be.
APULEIUS is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by
his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of BOCCACCIO has out-
lived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author."

RICHARD BENTLEY, 8. NEW BURLINGTON STREET
(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN):

BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH;

J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.