FEMALE POLICE.—One of those sneaking vagabonds, who are ever on
the alert in the outskirts, conlrived, on Wednesday, to get into a house in Camden Town, in which there were nobody but two women. When the fellow was discovered, he endeavoured to get away, but was laid hold of by the youngest of the females, whom he repeatedly struck, and at last compelled to quit her hold. She recovered herself, however ; pursued him up the Hampstead Road ; and getting hold of him a second time, held him fast until a constable came to her assistance. He was sent to the treadmill.
COAXING—At the Thames Police Office, on Wednesday, a fellow named Whewell was charged with beating a horse and a captain of a collier. It appeared that the Captain on the previous afternoon was passing down the Cannon Street Road, when he observed Whewell beating a horse on the fore and hind legs, because it was unable to drag a van, heavily laden, from the kennel. Ile requested the prisoner to put his shoulder to the wheel, and very kindly offered to assist, but Whewell refused; and the poor animal being unable to move the load, he flogged it in the most barbarous manner, under the flank, until the horse fell on its knees. The Captain remonstrated, when the defendant seized him by the collar, shook him violently, and then knocked him down. On recovering his legs, he again remonstrated with him, when Whewell felled him to the ground by a heavy blow in the face. The prisoner said, that the animal wanted coaxing, and would not pull without being flogged. He did not speak with equal confidence of the Captain. He was fined. HOUSE ROBBERIES—While the family of Mrs. Stevens, of Commercial Road, Chelsea, were at church on Sunday morning last, the house was entered by means of skeleton keys, and robbed of Bank-notes amounting to 312/., a silver watch, several silver spoons, and other articles of property. On Sunday, also, the house of Mr. Liverd, at Windsor, was entered and robbed of Bank-notes and sovereigns to the amount of 505/. Mr. Liverd had lately been in business in London as a publican, and went to NVindsor a short time ago for the benefit of his health. On Sunday morning, he and his wife went to church, having locked up the house ;
• and on their return at about one o'clock, found that the doors had been opened by means of false keys, and that the whole of the sum mentioned, together with a silver watch, and six silver tea and two table-spoons, had been carried off.
APPREHENSION OF A AIURDERER.—On the 23rd of December last, Mr James Weston, constable, of Downham Market, Norfolk, was shot by a man named Robert Chapman, blacksmith, of Wimbotsham, a village near Downham. The murderer absconded. On Thursday the 31st ult. the miserable man was discovered and apprehended at the North Forty. foot Bank, about five miles from Boston. He was conveyed to Boston, whence he was on Friday taken to Lynn, to be examined by tl.e Magistrates.
RIOTS AT Goar.—A letter which reached Dublin on Wednesday, nnCons that on Monday about 5,000 men' from the neighbourhood of Gum, surrounded the mansion of Sir John Burke, at Marblehill, and in the open day forced an entrance into the house, from which they took thir_ teen stand of arms and a considerable quantity of powder. From Irma, blehill the mob, five hundred of whom were supplied with fire-arms, pro ceeded to the house of Captain Brunskill, and fired several shots' one of which slightly wounded Miss Brunskill, one of the daughters of the Cap_ tain. From the residence of Captain Brunskill they also took a quails tity of fire-arms,
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