"Ward, the complainant, said that he went there for the purpose of asking for his money, but could not gain admittance. He accidentally broke the window, and gained admission as far as 'the tiger.' "Mr. Dyer asked what was meant by 'the tiger?' "Ward replied that it meant the second door at a gaming-house, which was a very strong one, which enabled the persons inside to shut out any one they did not like to admit. "Mr. Dyer asked the person who made the charge why it had not been brought forward before?--He replied that it was so paltry, that he did not think it worth while to bring it forward. "Mr. Dyer said that, whether it was a paltry one or not, it would have looked much better if it had been brought forward before a charge had been made by the complainant. He then said that the defendant must find bail for the assault, and, with respect to the counter-charge which had been made, he should not interfere in it, but leave the parties to take their legal remedies." In this year was finished a monument to the memory of George IV., which was erected at Battle Bridge, now known as King's Cross. It was a composition statue of the king, about eleven feet high, and it stood atop of an octagon building of brick and cement, which was used first as a police station, and afterwards as a public house, whilst the pediment of the statue was utilized as a "Camera obscura." It was demolished in 1845, and it is said that the basis of the statue's nose was a draining tile, and that it was offered to a gentleman for sixpence! We come across a curious superstition. Two men were executed for burglary, at Horsham, on August 22nd, when the silly custom of passing the hands of the dead men over the necks of two or three females, as a supposed cure for the glandular enlargements, was upon this occasion had recourse to. And the _Times_ of April 24, 1837, quoting the _Gloucester Journal_, has in a paragraph headed "REVOLTING BEHAVIOUR OF A HANGMAN," with which I will not horrify my readers, the following: "Several women were on the platform to have their necks charmed by rubbing the dead man's hands over their wens as a cure." But if we get horrible paragraphs in the papers, we also occasionally meet with amusing ones, as this from the _Times_ of September 22nd-- "MARCH OF INTELLECT. "We can vouch (says the _Bristol Mirror_) for the authenticity of the following copy of a letter from her late servant, to Mrs.---- "'Dear Madam, I cannot enter into the family of the Hon. ----, without returning you many thanks for your unsteady and dishonourable character. I am truly sorry that you have been so unfortunate in your four cooks since I left, and trust the fifth will be as indifferent; but your cruel and _unladylike_ insinuations could have no weight where my _real_ character was so well known.