others to the
Standard public house, and took Evans into custody. Lord Waldegrave
threw his arms round his friend, and swore he should not be taken.
Witness swung his Lordship away, and, in doing so, his Lordship fell
down. Witness picked him up, and would have let him go had his
Lordship abstained from repeating his conduct. As he would not allow
the police to do their duty, he took him into custody.

Mr. Conant asked his Lordship what he had to say?

Lord Waldegrave: I have nothing to say. Perhaps I had taken too much
that night.

Policeman: His Lordship was very drunk.

Lord Waldegrave: Not very.

Mr. Conant: There has been no complaint of your conduct at the
station house, and I daresay your Lordship feels hurt at being in the
company of a person of the other defendant's description. Taking
into consideration the violence of the outrage committed by Evans, as
a warning, we must inflict a heavy fine. You must, therefore, pay 5
pounds to the Queen.

Mr. Dyer: And because--in our summary jurisdiction--we cannot go
beyond that sum, we inflict it as being the highest penalty in our
power.

The sum was paid, and the noble defendant discharged.

The whole social tone was low, from the highest to the lowest, and if the
police court gives us occasional glimpses of aristocratic amusement, so
it affords us a view of the entertainments provided for the lower
classes. Let us take one.

_Times_, 10 March:

HATTON GARDEN.--For some time past, numerous complaints have been
made to the magistrates of this office of two penny theatres, one in
Mortimer Market, Tottenham Court Road, and the other in a field
adjacent to Bagnigge Wells Road, where gangs of young thieves nightly
assembled. On Wednesday last, several inhabitants of Mortimer Market
attended at the Office to complain of the former establishment, when
Mr. Rogers granted a warrant to apprehend the whole of the parties
concerned, and on Thursday night, Duke, Baylis and Halls, of this
Office, in company with Inspector Jenkins and a body of constables,
proceeded to the theatre, and captured the manager, performers, and
musicians, and the whole of them were, yesterday, brought to the
office, and placed at the bar, when the office was excessively
crowded.

There were twelve prisoners, some of whom were attired in their