sq., with a riot
and assault. On the 5th April were the Croxton Park races, about five
miles distance from Melton Mowbray. The four defendants had been dining
out at Melton on the evening of that day; and about two in the morning of
the following day, the watchmen on duty, hearing a noise, proceeded to
the Market Place, and near Lord Rosebery's house saw several gentlemen
attempting to overturn a caravan, a man being inside; the watchmen
succeeded in preventing this, when the Marquis of Waterford challenged
one of them to fight, which the watchmen declined. Subsequently, hearing
a noise in the direction of the toll bar, they proceeded thither, and
found the gate keeper had been screwed up in his house, and he had been
calling out "Murder!"

On coming up with the gentlemen a second time, it was observed that they
had a pot of red paint with them, while one carried a paint brush, which
one of the constables wrested from the hand of the person who held it;
but, subsequently, they surrounded the man, threw him on his back, and
painted his face and neck with red paint. They then continued their
games, painting the doors and windows of different persons; and, when one
of their companions (Mr. Reynard) was put in the lock up, they forced the
constable to give up the keys, and succeeded in getting him out. The
jury found the defendants (who were all identified as having taken part
in the affray) guilty of the common assault, and they were sentenced to
pay a fine of 100 pounds each, and to be imprisoned till such fine be
paid.

Motor cars are not the modern invention we are apt to imagine them,
except as regards the power used--which, until lately, was always steam.
As far back as 1769, a Frenchman, named Cugnot, made a steam carriage
which carried four people, and attained a speed of two and a quarter
miles an hour! But it was unfortunate to its inventor--for it came to
grief in a street in Paris, and the unhappy man was imprisoned. In
England our engineers exercised their inventive power in making steam
carriages--Murdock in 1782, Watt in 1784, Symington in 1786--and others
made models, but the first which actually ran in England was made by
Trevithick and Vivian in 1803, and this, in the streets of London (which
were very far from being as good as they are now), attained a speed of
eight or nine miles an hour. Between the years 1827-34 there were
numerous steam carriages built and tried, proving more or less
success