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wept bitterly when put on the table and while under
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NMexamination. In reply to the SOLICITOR- GENERAL
she deposed that she heard a shot on the day Mr. Roe
was killed, and looked towards the plantation.
[PR IC.T_', SOLICITOR. GENERAL—Did you see smoke there 2
Mr. ROLLESTON—You have no right to ask_ he r
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compel persons to . SOLICITOE-GENERAL—Indeed I have a right to put
and lfith Georg , the question.
-'t authorises just f . Mr. ROLLESTON—WeII, I submit it fo the Court.
suspected of The CHIEF JUSTICE said he saw no objection to the
't, to examine question.
at the assiz The question and others were then put to the wit-
'tion, or to 1 ness, but she continued to cry and asked to be let down.
• authorisei Cum' JUSTICE—You must have done with this-
-..ourse of you must remain there until you answer.
'ention SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Did you see any person in
'for- the plantation ? Witness--I didn't.
ay SOLICITOR-GENERAL—YOH did, is that it?
Mr. ROLLESTON—No, but that she did not.
SOLICITOR. GENERAL—WeII, leave it to herself.
The question was repeated, but the witness, who
still wept bitterly, would not answer.
The CHIEF JUSTICE then ordered her to be re-
moved for the present, arid that another witness
should be called in the meantime.
John Elliot deposed that on the day of the murder,
about eleven or twelve o'clock, he saw a man he took
to be the prisoner coming from the direction of Boy-
tonrath towards the Golden-road •through the fields.
He pulled up one of his stockings and appeared to-be
a little red in the face, but he always thought him to
be a little red.
Cross-examined by Mr. ROLLESTON—The man he
took to be the prisoner had not his coat off; he wore
a grey frock coat. '
Mary Lonergan, the little girl, was here placed
upon the table again, and asked by the Solicitor-
General if she saw any person in the plantation whom
she knew, but she still continued to cry, and-made-
no answer.
After being reminded by the Chief Justice that she
was sworn to tell the truth, the question was repeated,
and she said, "I did not."
CHIEF JUSTICE—Let her go now; she has made
up her mind to swear that, and there is no use in con-
tinuing this. some. - _ _ . __ . - - _ .
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—WeII, if you did net
see any person in the plantation, did you in the field
near it 2—The witness made no reply.
Cater Jusiics—Come, stop crying; you must
answer the question.
The auestion was repeated a number of times, and
every effort was made to obtain an answer, but she
still refused to reply. 4
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL told her that she should
be sent to prison unleds she answered the question.
Mr. ROLLESTON objected to any coercion being
used towards the witness.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said there was no coercion at-
tempted. It was perfectly plain, from her informa-
tions, and what now appeared, that this was an at-
tempt to defeat the administration of justice.
The witness was then removed, and ordered to be
brought up again in the morning.
Michael Cantwell, a boy about eleven or twelve
years of age, was next called, and examined by Mr.
SAUSSE.
He deposed that, on the morning of the murder, he saw John Lonergan, the prisoner, lying on the ..
ditch between his brother's field and James Kirby's.
He left that, and was going towards James Loner-
gan's gate, when Mr. Roe, who was walking, came
along the road with a gun in his hand. In ten minutes
after that he heard a shot. He saw Mr. Roe on the
road after dead.
Cross-examined by Mr. ROLLLESTON.—I live with
the police now, but they did not tell me what to
swear. Constable Connor gave me an orange as I
was coming on the table to swear, but he never gave
me one before. I never told any person that Mr.
Roe shot himself. It was before my breakfast I
saw the prisoner in the ditch. It was after breakfast
when I saw him again.
The case is still (six o'clock) being proceeded
with. It is likely to occupy a good deal of to-morrow,
if not the whsle day.

[PRICE 3D.

A POLICEMAN MURDERED.
NORWICH, JAN. 26.--A case of this description, in
which-an assault has been made on a police constable,
has just occurred in the county of Norfolk, and it
seems impossible, according to the opinion of Mr
Cricktuay, surgeon, who was called in to attend, that
the man ca❑ live the night out.' The Catton division
of the rural constabulary extend to the separate
jurisdiction of Norwich, and about one mile from this
city is stationed police-constable Emms, No. 109.
Another village in this division is Ilasford, and here
reside a family of labouring men, named Willemot;
one of this family was robbed about a fortnight ago of
a considerable sum of money, and suspicion fell upon
two of his nephews Application was made to a
neighbouring magistrate, and warrants were granted
to apprehend the younger Willemots, on
suspicion of having committed this offence.
These warrants were given to police constable
Emms, and he, in company with another officer, named
Garrod, went a few mornings -since, very early, to
the house where they resided, for the purpose of
apprehending them: They found them at home,
and in bed ; but they refused to let in the officers,
who in consequence broke open the ,door, and pro-
ceeded to take them into custody. The Willemots
prepared for active and determined resistance, except
one, who made his escape by the chamber window.
Even the mother, it seems, resisted, though she re-
mained in her bed, and was observed by Emms to
have armed herself with a bludgeon. The remaining
sons commenced a desperate fight, from which
Garrod fled, leaving his comrade to battle it with his
opponents. Emms succeeded in capturing them, but
not until he had received a severe blow ou the head,
which, however, at the time, was not considered
mortal. The two Willemots were taken before the
magistrates, and remanded to the Castle, until the
evidence should be more complete, and Emms should
be able to appear against them. He has since been
getting worse, and is dying. The magistrates, with
their clerk, Mr. Kerrison, are about to proceed to
Emms's house to take his depositions, and the
relatives of Emma, who reside in this city, are also
about to proceed to Spkowston, to take, as they ex-
pect, their last farewell of him. The Willemot who
absconded has not yet been apprehended, nor are we
aware of any reward having yet ben offered for his
capture. .

LOSS OF Two LIVES AT Bow BREWERY.—Yes-
terday Mr. Baker, the Coroner, received information of
the following melancholy occurrence, which took place
on Tuesday evening last, at the brewery of Messrs.
Abbott and Son, Bow, by which two men of the names
of Wm. Clark and Richard Simms, who were in the
employment of the firm, unfortunately losttheitrle vatives
It was their duty to clean out one of the vats, in the
department, which contains about 291 barrels, prepara-
tory to being filled with ale. They were last seen
about five o'clock, when they were going to the vat to
remove the grain in it. About an hour afterwards, as
they were not to be found anywhere, it occurred to a
man named Tabes, who observed their candle in the rat,
that they had fallen in. He looked down, when he ob-
served them both lying at the bottom of the vat, which
is a depth of twenty-five feet. He gave the alarm, upon
which several men ran to his assistance. He (Tabes)
was lowered by a rope tied round his body, when he got
them both out, but at a great risk of the loss of his own
life. They neither of them showed any signs of life.
By this time Mr. E. Abbott heard of the distressing ac-
cident, upon which he sent for several medical gentle-
men, who were promptly in attendance, but could afford
no assistance. It is supposed that, as Sims was in the
vat under Clarke he must have gone down first, and
that being overpowered by the mephitic or carbonic
acid gas, that Clarke went to his assistance, when they
were both overcome. Clarke was foreman of that de-
partment, and had been in the service about five years.
He was well acquainted with the danger, and was often
cautioned to be careful. He has left a widow and three
children.

MEMOIRS OF MADEMOISSELLE DI MONTPBNSTER.
—WRITTEN BY HERSELF.—An English version of this
remarkable work has just been published by Mr. Col-
burn, The chronicles of Courts have always a strong
and peculiar attraction. They enable the humble many
to dive into the recesses of palaces, and to obtain a cor-
rect idea of the every-day life of the great and privileged
few. Among the treasures of this kind no work perhaps
could be fould more likely to interest the general, or
instruct the curious reader, than these "Memotrs of
Montpensier," niece of Queen Henrietta Maria,
with whom she was on terms of close intimacy, and
whose sayings and doings ske frequently records. Her
memoirs are so full of the stirring incidents that arose
out of the cabals of the Court, and the political and love
intrigues of the time, that they may be said to present
one of the most striking pictures of the period ever
given to the world. The frankness, too, with which this
high-spinted Princess relates all her own remarkable
adventures, and the curious anecdotes she relates of so
many royal, noble, and distinguished personages in•
eluding in particular Charles the Second, give an irre-
sistible charm to the work.

ADVENTURES OF A MEDICAL ►STUDENT.—The
lovers of the wild and wonderful will peruse with great
interest the reinarkable'work just published under the
above title. It is the production of a surgeon in the
Royal Navy, embodying his own experiences and adven.
tures, which appear to have been most singularly striking
and romantic. Certainly nothing more graphic and ex-
citing than these " Ad%entures of a Medical Student"
have been submitted to the readQr since the celebrated

" Diary of a Late Physician."
THE GREAT BRIDGE ON THE RIIINE.—The waters
of the Rhine are at present so low, that the foundations
of the piers of the great bridge, which the Emperor
Constantine had built over the river in the year 308,
are visible. Active search is at present being made .to
discover some remains of the bridge thiown over the
Rhine by Julius Caesar, but hitherto without result.

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