One surety in 500 pounds, would, perhaps, answer as
well as two in 250 pounds each, if it meets with your approbation.

Mr. Jardine said he had no objection to such a course, and, if the
other defendants were prepared with bail, it might be taken.

Col. Ratcliffe said his surety was present.

Mr. Jardine: The bail I shall require is, that each of the other
defendants enter into his own recognizance in 100 pounds, and two
sureties in 50 pounds each, to keep the peace for the same period,
with the exception of the defendant Kien, who may put in his own
recognizances in 100 pounds.

Mr. Joshua Bates, of Portland Place, having offered himself as surety
for Prince Louis Napoleon and Col. Parquin, was accepted.

Mr. Fenton was accepted as bail for Le Comte Leon, and the Hon.
Francis Baring, M.P., became surety for Col. Ratcliffe and Count
D'Orsay.

The Chief Clerk having conducted the parties into the Magistrate's
private room, where they were furnished with the requisite notices,
returned to the Court to take directions respecting the disposal of
the weapons and other articles which were found upon the defendants
on their being taken into custody.

Mr. Jardine said he could make no order about them, but he thought
that, as the defendants had put in bail, there could be very little
apprehension of their committing a similar offence, if they were
restored to their proper owners.

It appeared that the two letters had been written by the Comte Leon
to his cousin, as he was styled, demanding that he would retract
certain expressions respecting their relationship, which he was
alleged to have made use of; and, his not complying, gave rise to the
quarrel.

On the 10th of April the offer of Messrs. Grissell and Peto was
accepted, to erect the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square, within two
years, for a sum of 17,860 pounds.

There is a curious police case as to the habits and customs of
Noblemen's servants, which may be interesting to my readers. It was
brought before the Magistrate at Queen Square on 14 April, when the
House Steward of the Earl of Galloway applied for summonses against
the footmen attending the carriages of Viscount Melbourne, the
Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Tankerville,
for assault and damage.

It appeared from the statem