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[BY THE HERALD’S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON, March 21. — The determination of the police to put down stock dealing in Throgmorton-street kept the city in a state of excitement yesterday, as up to the present the operations of outside brokers have been conducted under the supervision and control of the police.

Guildhall was consequently packed with brokers and their friends yesterday when the four men who, as already stated in the HERALD, were arrested on the previous evening, were brought before Alderman Phillips.

Two of them, Mr. Arthur McBrair, of Greenwich, and Mr. Alfred Hicks, of Bromley, were charged with being drunk and disorderly, a charge which created a little sensation in Court; and the others, Mr. Frank Saunderson, of Bedford Park, and Mr. Alfred Silverston, with being disorderly and assaulting the police.

Sergeant Ballard said that on Tuesday evening at six o’clock in Throgmorton-street, there was a great crowd of stockbrokers. They were shouting and he asked them to get into the carriage way. Mr. McBrair, who was drunk, refused to get off the footwalk, and he put him off three times.