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that they had strictly examined the premises, and--, • , --. j
found that the front parlour and the dravvilOkr-One 2,::: r., i
in which no one slept, contained property--or,cong-f:.-j,
derable value, consisting of plate and jewg,,;:l::446.ee i' • '
remained untouched. The door, which Ovals.foltvitle:2---%‘"
unbared and open, had r v'dent ly not been fore vl 0 :-1-
op-ned by thieves, and the parlour window had the
same appearance, a few marks having been perforated
on the edge of ir, with a view to induce a belief that
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the thieves had resorted to a forcible entry; bur it
was plain that it was an effort of some hand to make
it act as a blind; and the desk and the chisel were
so placed as to excite a similar belief. They imrue-
iiatele, from all the circumstances, concluded that
-orne one in 'the house had committed the robbery,
and on questioning the prisoner her answers they
Nought justified them in apprehending her on sus-
aicion of the robbery.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON remanded the prisoner for
a few days.
Nisbet said that he had made inquiry at the p6r
:otter's previous Indaings, and he anticipated a dis-
covery of the parties.
UNION-HALL.
AN IRISH WAKE.—Yesterday Mike Quinlan was
charged with committing a violent assault on a man
named Scully, whose life is considered in danger,
owing to the violence of the attack made up)n him,
r certificate to that effect having been produced.
It appeared that an Irish wake took place in a
dirty lane called the Rookery, leading out of Tooley-
atreet, and a great number of the deceased's coun-
trymen and countrywomen assembled to mourn over
their departed friend. Beer, gin, pipes, and tobacco
were of course introduced, of which the company
partook very freely, and when the liquor began to
operate the " ullagone" commenced over Paddy
Byrne, and loud shouts of his having been a " broth
of a boy" resounded through the Rookery.
Unfortunately, however, there happened to be men
from different counties in the room; and in the
course of the evening a row began, which ended as
usual in such cases, the deceased being tossed aff
the tressles on which he was placed, the candles
were extinguished, the liquor was spilled, and
the empty pots began to fly about in all ditec-
tions, until at length the room was cleared, and
nobody left in it but poor Paddy Byrne, whose corpse
lay stretched along the floor. Scully, the man in
the hospital, it seemed had given offence in the
room to Quinlan, and when the former quitted the
wake he was followed by the latter into the street,
and struck a tremendous blow with a stone over
•fie right eye, which cut him to the bone, at d he
fell senseless and bleeding to the ground, Scully
was borne away to the hospital, and his assailant
was taken into custody ; and close to where taie
on r ge took place the stone with which the injury
wee done was found.
Mr. WEDGWOOD said that it was evident that a
ferocretis attack bad been made upon the man in
the tiospiial, and until he was pronounced out of
danger the defandant should remain in custody,
THAIIIES PnLICE.
BRUTAL VIOLENCE OF A POLICEMAN.—Yeqer-
day John Dwyer, a ballast-getter, a youth, who had
been ii here. ed on his own recognizance ee the previews
day, appeared before Mr. BALLANTINE arid M.
COMBE, to answer a charge of assaulting Timothy
Deuevan, a police constable, No. 1.54. K.
The case created some interest metre the inha.
birants of the district, owing to the prisoner having
been dreadfully wounded by the policeman with
his truncheon, and the Magistrates poarporied the
hearing 'of the case on Monday, and allowed the
prisoner to go at large on his promise to appear
yesterday, which he kept. His head was covered
with plasters, and appeared to have received three
severe cuts. He was altogether in a very weak
state from the injuries and the loss of blood.
It appeared from the evidence of Donovan, that
while on duty at Rareliff, on Saturday nigh?, the
prisoner, who was very drunk, stumbled tag 'hist
him, and then turned round and accused him (the
policeman) of having done so. Donovan told him
to go home, on which the prisoner struck him in
the face, and immediately afterwards threw him
down. On recovering his legs, Donovan said he
should use his truncheon if he did that again, but
the prisoner threw him a second and third time;
and he then pulled his truncheon from his pocket,
and struck the prisoner twice on his back. He
armed a third blow at the same part of his body, and
by accident it fell on his head, au I cut it open.
Another policeman said he heard the noise of a
mob, and on proceeding to the spot found his
brother officer without his hat and covered with
Intrd, as if he had been rolled in the mire. The
prisoner was a short distance off, and bleeding pro-
fusely, In answer to questions, the witness said
the prisoner did not say he had been struck by Do-
novan. He might have been stunned by the blows,
but he did nor know that he had.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he met the
policeman Donovan coming out of a public-house
with two women; and if he had trot got behind
them and saved himself, his head would have been
cut to pieces, for the policeman " slashed" at his
head and body right and left, and he bled like a pig.
Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. COMBE were of opinion
that there was no occasion for the policeman to
hove used his truncheon, and that he might have
captured the prisoner without using such extreme
violence.

The former worthy Magistrate mentioned the
extraordinary fact that during the twelve years he
had been a Magistrate sitting at that office he had
never known an instance of a Thames police officer
having used his truncheon, and they often hail
desperate characters to deal with, both on land and
water. F►rmness and temperance, not violence,
con..tituted a good police officer.
The Magistrates then postponed the further
hearing of the case, and ordered Musgrave, a ?olice
sergeant of the same division, to institute some
inquiries about it.

Yesterday all the parties appeared, and Musgrave
reported that, from the best information he was able
to obtain, Donovan bad been assaulted in the
manne► he had stated.

Mr. BALLANTINE said that the policeman's con-
duct was unjustifiable, and that the prisoner had
been sufficiently punished. lie was therefore dis-
charged.
The prisoner thanked ihe Magistrate, and left
the bar.

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TAhtenesr
ti caannd a
rn,oi nn,otunethleeda
THE WATER WITCH.—The singular story
pas
rdtihti'linneuXt
Cooper's works, printed uniformly with those of the author
of Waverley, could not fail to obtain a very wide circula-
tion. As pictures of life of the ocean—of the society,
customs, and scenery of the new world, and of the
aborigines of the American wilderness, Cover's tales are
unrivalled. Of the present new edition, seven volumes
have already appeared, namely, " The spy," "
Pioneers," •‘ Prairie," " List of the Mohicans,"
" Lionel Lincoln," and " The Borderers," e.icn of which
stories, complete in one volume, is ptesented to the , u'ilic
for six shillitte., less than one fif h of its original cos-.
This is certainly a phenomenon in the history ttf 'ter Awe ;
and we ..re not cut piis d to lean Ow Near y 40,000
volumes of the foregoing hive been circulated.

SUICIDE IN WHITECROSS-STREET PRISON.
—Yeioeriloy morninv,, at ten do ii Iva%
~ken in Whitecinsiii-vr-et Pri.on, hetnre Mr. Payne, the
City Coroner, and a most revecr ible Jutv, on view of the
',oily of Mr E lwird Wittingham, aged 50
ye in ivy
years as.istant overseer of Paddington priah. It appeal d
titan thv evidi-nce that the unfortunate man, who wits
universally respected, resided in Cirn ridge,terrae,, Pad-
:tington, and that latterly be had fed en in o pecuniary
dlffi:unri es. On S iturilav evening he was arre,reit tut a
debt, and consign, d to the above prison ; and such w,s the
pungency of Ins grief at his aered coi.,:ition that he re-
signed himself whoiy to dtspontleocy. On the I. i 1
morning (tionitay) an inmate of the ri-on, n oiled
Harvey Cuitle, happened to enter one of the water..l
where he beheld the body of the unhappy :Lan extended nn
the fi saturrtel with Wool, hr having tieai ly severed
his head from hi-, :ghoul/iris with a razor. Inch Ile
held firmly grasped in his rigi.t hand. M •cd in was
promp ly contained, but. proved ',,~less. %erd
inpor iry wan . I ity " Hr, has lrfi a fam •y to deplore
his lose.