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POLICE.
GUILDHALL.
Jeremiah Coressey and Timothy Donnenen. two ttewly imported
specimens of the rude I►ish peasantry, were charged with an can.
provoked assault upon a young man who is both deaf and dumb.
The complainant, David Ruben Thompson, being able to read
and write well, was sworn by exhibiting to him the form of oath,
and hi. aoonunt of the affair, as communicated by signs to the Ma-
gistrate and to his mother, was, that about nine o'clock on Tues-
day evening he was returning from his employment as a smith,
through Barbican, when, without the slightest provocation, he was
assailed by the prisoners, one of *horn pushed him down, and the
other kicked him most severely. As soon as he could recover him.
sell, he seized both of them, and handed them over to a watchman
who happened to come up to the spot at the moment.
The prisoners, in -their defence, alleged that Thompson struck
them first.
Mrs. Thompson, of Holland-street, Surrey-road, the mother of
the complalnant, said, he was one of five children who had all the
misfortune to be afflicted in the same way. He cos-. by no means
of a quarrelsome disposition, and she was sure could not have com-
menced the fray in the manner described by the prisoners, but she
had no wish to press the case farther against them.
Mr. Alderman Cox, however, was rot disposed to suffer them
to escape unpunished. They had, by their own account, but just
arrived in this country, and severity seemed necessary to assist
their civilization, and lie should therefore call *upon them to find
bail. If they did not, and Mrs. Thompson should not carry the
prosecution farther, they would be discharged in a few days,
upon the rising of the Grand Jury.

BOW-STREET.
Mrs. Powell, s woman of very portly personage, and very
fashionably attired, was yesterday brought up under a warrant, by
Thomson, of the Bow.street patrol, charged with assaulting Mrs.
Henderson, a decent-looking woman, residing in her own neigh-
bourhood, Clare-market. It appeared that, in consequenceof some
jealous feeling, on Monday last, as Mrs. Henderson passed Mrs.
Powell's shop, she flew out, beat her unmercifully, and nearly bit
the eye out of a child which she carried in her arms.
Mrs. Powell, when placed before Mr. fillicsnui.t., immediately
threw herself down, apparently in a fit of hysterics. When suffi-
ciently recovered, she proceeded to give a detail of her husband's
infidelity—" the cruel man whom she had served faithfully for
eight years." At intervals she attempted to pounce upon the coin.
plainant, and was with difficulty restrained by the officers. The
husband was then sent for. A feeble old man was brought in, in a
tottering and agitated state.
Mr. Aftwsuut.x—llow long have you been married to this
woman--have you been married eight years ?—No. Sir.
Mr. 31188IIULL—Have you been five?—No, Sir.
Mr. Mixsaut.L—Then how long, Sir /—A little better titan a
year. Sir.
Here Mot. Powell seised her husband, exclaiming," But have
I not lived with you eight ears? Oh ! you villain, you only dis-
grace yourself by letting the cat out of the bag."
Mr. MIX/HULL then called upon Mr. Powell to endeavour to
give some explanation of this strange proceeding.
Mr. Powell—Please your Worship, as regards that ere woman
crorin.iiit to
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mcoymanawntitnls'imte.sassoinnoeber fti,tavoef
nhoeras
complaintotar
against her ; but she is always in a state of inebriation, and when she
is so I knots she is affected with hydrophobia, for she is always for
throwing herself over Waterloo-bridge. No later than last night
she was brought home to me by a watchman, who said she had told
him she was going to drown herself; and in a very short time she
was again brought in by two of the Thames police-officers; in
short, your Worship, you must take care of her.
During Mr. Powell's statement Mrs. P. stood by his side in a
genuine 11Irs. Oakly style, stamping her foot, and now and then
exclaiming, " Hem ! dear me, how badly off you are; 'thank your
w--- for it ;" and then, turning round to the spectators, "Gentle-
men, did you ever witness such a combination of a husband against
a wife ?"

Mt. 3lntsitut.t.—My ood woman, lam afraid you are either
mad or drunk; I fear the latter.
" Drunk !" exclaimed Mrs. Powell, "Oh, good God ! what a
word. Send for my friend Mr. Barker—my friend—ask him if
l'm drunk. Gentlemen all (giving herself a peristrephic motion)
look at me; do you think me drunk?"—There war a strange in-
flammatory appearance in her face which made the decision doubt-
ful, and she received no reply.
Mr. Al rwsuur.t.—Vou must find bail. The Magistrate then
asked the husband. " Will you go bail for her ?"
The very question threw Mr. Powell into fits.
Mr. MaxsauLL—Then she must be locked up
When the Akers acre conducting her to the lock-up-house, she
laid herself down very quietly in the passage, and commenced a
very fit.c display of hysterics. The officers were obliged to lift her
up and carry her by main force into the place of confinement ; there
her howlings and bellowings were such that many passengers
imagined some of Money's bears were in custody.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Charles IlraTit, a gentleman of the sooty tribe, from
whose dimensions we are at a low to guess how he could have ever
surmounted a chimney-pot, was brought up under a warrant, by
Lee the officer, charged with assaulting Mrs. Matilda Virginia
Freelnve, a lady residing in his neighbourhood.
Mrs. Matilda Virginia, a lady " fat and forty," but not fair, was
dressed in the pink of fashion, and accompanied by a number of
equally elegantity-attired ladirs. The complainant stated, that on
Monday last, as she aru returning to her residence in Mabledon-
place. Burton-crescent, she perceived the defendant, and as she had
frequently suffered before from his "opportunities," she turned tier
back, and ran a. fast as she could. The sweep, however, pursued
her, and on coming up to her, planted himself before her, called her
a D. B. U. W., making free with some other letters of the alphabet,
and, putting himself into a fighting attitude, challenged her to
combat.: (Here files. Matilda Virginia Freelove, to illustrate the
matter, put herself into a position that would have afforded instruc-
tion to the candidate for the championship.)
Magistrate—Are you married ?—" Oh yes, Sir, and have six
beauti•ul children."
" Pray, Madam, what is your husband?"—" A sweep, Sir; and
a more genteeler man there's not in the profusion. (Her com-
plexion was a fair proof of her conjugal attachment.)
Here Hewett was called on for his defence. He protested he
never attempted to strike until the lady had called him a teef; at
all events, he only threatened is strike, while she not only threat.
ened, but executed. Ile then presented his profile to the Magis.
trate. On his cheek was a swelling the size of a goose egg, the
dusky inflammatory redness of which made a very pleasing cootrast
with the surrounding shade of skin.
As a witness he called him Flaherty, an apple-woman, who
protested she never saw any poor man in her lite get such a poll-
higne.
This " polihogate" pleaded powerfully for the sweep, and ac.
corilingly the Magistrate discharged him on his paying the expeares
of the warrant.

Mrs. 51aitlds Virginia Freelove then withdrew with her suite.
evidently indignant, and expressed her conviction, that had the case
been heard at Bow-street. Sir B. Birnie would have shown more
respect to "female women."

MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.
ROBBERY AT THE FlRE.—Yesterday Margaret Sulivan, an
elderly woman, was charged with plundering borne of the unfortu-
nate sufferers by the dreadful fire on Tuesday evening. in Well.
greet. _ _ .

It appeared from the evidence, that in the general confusion some
of the poorer inhabitant+ flung their property into the streets, and
there were tho+e in die crowd who moat readily availed themselves
of the confusion to plunder the unfortunate sufferers, and, under
pretence of rendering service, cleared away any tl.ing on which they
could lay their hands, The prisoner was observed very active. and
was taken into custody, and in her pocket was found the pawn..
broker's duplicate for 'shawl which had just been pawned, and
which was stolen float one of Mr. Wolley's grooms, named
Watson. _ . .

Mr. BARLIssow censured the conduct of the pawnbroker (Mr.
Aklons) in receiving a pledge from a stranger at such a moment
when co:,fisgration was raging close to his house, and he might sup-
pose tnany robberies were committed. The prisoner was remanded.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TURF-ROONS, BAZAAR, WV:011E11MT, Juxr 22.

The Subscription Room was exceedingly well attended, at
betting extensive The July-Stakes obtained dos greatest
Lion, on which more horses than usual are brought up.

JULY 'TAX Fs.
3i to 1 apt Goshawk to 1 apt Octaviana
7i to 1 sgst Sister to Tickle I II to 1 agst Jerboa
Toby 10 to 1 apt Jerboa
8 to 1 apt ()whale. 12 to 1 apt Mite
ST. LEGIR.
2i to 1 apt Memnon 23 to 1 apt Doke of Leeds
7 to 1 agat Itedgauntlet 30 to 1 apt Altialdora
74 to l apt Alderman 33 to 1 apt Trinculo
14 to 1 apt Cleveland 33 to 1 apt Pastime
17 to 1 apt Homer 40 to 1 apt Rothelan
20 to 1 agst Defiance SO to 1 apt Skipper
High odds apt any other.