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sieve to the external carotid Mena Captain Brown is of course unable to speak ; and in all probability will be for a number of weeks, should no greater harm accrue to him. A Mr. Bourne' who saw the cut and the flowing orthe blood, immediately laid hold of the assailant ; who strug- gled violently to escape, and struck him repeatedly. He kept his hold, however, until he was joined by a policeman, by whom, after a despe- rate resistance, Ryland was secured. The knife which he had dropped was picked up, and produced at the office. The fellow pretended he had been drunk, and did not know what he was about ; but this defence was completely refuted by all the parties examined. It seems most probable that he had mistaken Captain Brown for another. He was fully com- mitted for the capital crime.
On the same day and at the same office, a female named Winifred Jones was committed for the same offence. It appeared that Mrs. Wini- fred had become jealous of a man named Watigh, with whom she had lived for a number of years. On Saturday night, after getting his wages, Waugh went to a public-house ; and was seen, as she alleged, with an- other female ; and the virago swore she would be the death of him. She let him go to bed, and even to sleep, before she gave way to her vengeance : she then took a dinner-knife, and cut him in a most despe- rate manner across the right arm, so as to divide the whole of the leaders and sinews of the arm. She was about to repeat the gash, when Waugh sprung out of bed and escaped. He remained, after his arm had been dressed, in the house of a friend all Sunday ; but on Monday, though cautioned of his danger, he ventured haene again. He told the woman that he was weak and ill, and asked her to make some tea for him, and she readily assented ; but a moment after, when his atttention was ac- cidentally diverted from her motions, she suddenly dropped the bread she was cutting, and exclaiming, " There's tea for you !" drew the knife across his nose, and before he could recover himself, across his forehead. Waugh ran out of the house, and meeting a sergeant of po- lice, gave the female fury in charge. She was taken to the watchhouse with great difficulty. The parties have hitherto passed for a singularly honest and industrious couple. The knife, when produced, appeared to have been recently sharpened. The Herald reporter says that Mrs. Winifred is a good-looking woman, but possessed of very strong feelings.
THE LATE LIEUTENANT CROWTHER.—MT Maloney, the officer who acted as Lieutenant Crowther's second in the duel in which he fell, sur. rendered himself to the Magistrates at Bow Street on Tuesday. He was committed, on his own statement and the affidavit of the brother of the deceased gentleman.
ORDERS EXTRAORDINARV.—A man was brought to Marlborough Street Office on 'Wednesday, charged with calling pease for sale in Re. gent Street. The policeman said he had received orders not to allow such doings. The man was discharged, the law not having given any orders on the subject. Another man was brought to the same office for standing before a shop in Regent Street. There being no law which suited this case more than the other, he too was discharged. We hope Sir Robert Peel will introduce a bill or two next session to provide against these and similar embarrassments. • If people who are charged by police-officers are to be discharged after this fashion, we may as well not be watched at all. The best way, perhaps, would be to allow the Commissioners, or failing them, the Superintendents and Inspectors, to meet once a week, and settle what should be deemed an offence during the next : in that case the officers would not be liable to mistakes, and the magistrates would have a better and briefer guide than musty acts of Parliament.
THE SEAMEN OF TIIE Ixams.—These men, along with others of the China fleet just arrived, . to the number of four hundred, proceeded on Monday from the " Sailors' Home," in Goodman's Fields, to the Ad- miralty, to petition their Lordships on the brutal usage they had expe- rienced on their voyage home. They left statements of their case at the India House, the Mansion House, and the Navy Office. The best state- ment they can make, will be to a respectable attorney. THE JEws.—A bookieller named Chubb, who has a shop in Holywell Street, has had a placard pasted up in his shop window for some days past, which has, not unjustly, given much offence to his non-Christian neighbours. It ran thus—" Who are the most impudent people in the world ?—The Jews. Who are they who never deal with Christians ? —The Jews. Who are they who demand 20s. for an article, and take 5s. for it P—The Jews. Who are they who keep barkers' at their doors instead of dogs ?" There was some more, of which the abuse was equally bad, and the spelling not so good. We saw the placard on Tuesday. It had attracted some six or seven idlers to Mr. Chubb's shop-window, and thereby rendered the street—at no time very clear —rather more difficult to thread than usual. The gazing at his win- dow was probably what Mr. Chubb aimed at—the placard looked ex- tremely like a Christian puff ; but the crowd was not equally relished by his neighbours. They tore down the libel; and in the course of the tearing it down, a Mr. Goodman was said to have committed an assault on Mrs. Christian Chubb. The parties came before Mr. 3Iinshull on Thursday; when Mr. Chubb attempted a defence of his bill, and Mr. Goodman of his blow ; but neither successfully, for both were bound in recognizances. We think the Jews had the worst of it. Had a Jew put up so insulting a bill in a street where there were a majority of Christians, we opine his head would have been broken, as well as his window, in something less than five minutes—and de- servedly.
Ronnenr.—Information was received at the police-offices yesterday, of a daring and extensive robbery committed on Wednesday night last, on the premises of Mr. Halsall, a watchmaker and jeweller, near the drawbridge at Bristol. The property stolen, great part of it contained in an oaken box, consisted of twenty gold watches, forty silver, and also about forty second-hand watches, and others which bad been left to be repaired ; a number of fine gold neck and watch chains, sixty gold seals, and the same number of watch keys, two hundred pearl, diamond, and other rings ; a great number of pearl, diamond, ruby, garnet, ame- thyst, and other brooches, pins, and lockets, and a number of Mordan's patent and other pencils, three silver snuff-boxes, twenty pair of ear- rings, two gold guard chains, twelve silver ditto, and a handsome suit of very large pearls.
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—William Henry Smith, a collecting
clerk in the firm of Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and as been charged at Lambeth Street Office with embezzling upwards Co.,Of two hun- dred pounds, which had been collected by him on account of the firm. The prisoner appeared to be labouring under great dejection. Mr. Aveling, one of the partners in the firm, stated, that he had a number of witnesses present, who being called, proved the payment of various sums to the prisoner, which had not been accounted for to the cashier. He was committed.
Sanaa ALEXANDER.—It was stated on Saturday at Bow Street, that a nobleman had enclosed to Sir Richard Birnie, for the behoof of the female who devoted herself to worse than death for the affection she bore her brother, a twenty-pound note ; and a still higher and more con- siderate act of beneficence—that a respectable tradesman in the City had offered to take the girl as a domestic servant, with all her failings on her head. The blessing of them that are ready to perish descend upon his house ! The story of this girl is one of the most pitiful and extraor- dinary of the moral exhibitions that have occurred in our career as chroniclers; it is with singular pleasure that we notice its happy denoue- ment. We should be wanting in our duty, di .1 we not observe, that the conduct of Sir Richard Birnie has in ti; case been most humane ; and that the Police Sergeant, M'Sweeney, is also entitled to the greatest praise.
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