testimony of Mr. Treble as to the prisoner's brutality
towards his wife. The wife was absent, and, when sent
for by the magistrate, was not to be found. The magistrate
was informed, that when the woman appeared at
the station-house to give charge of her husband, it was
observed by several of the constables on duty that her
face presented the most decided proofs of her husband's
brutality. The prisoner said, carelessly, that she had
only got a black eye, and added that they lived "very
comfortably together!" The magistrate convicted the
prisoner in a penalty of £2, or in default of payment, to
twenty-eight days' imprisonment.

At Clerkenwell, a similar charge was made against
William Bennett, a master ivory-turner. It appeared
from the evidence of Richard Tavell, a police-officer,
that on the preceding Sunday morning, at about 3 o'clock,
he was on duty in St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell, when
his attention was attracted by the cries "Murder," in a
female voice in a kitchen. He proceeded down stairs,
and found the kitchen door fastened. The prisoner
refused to admit him, on which he burst open the door,
when he saw the prisoner, a boy, and a woman (the
prisoner's wife), who was sitting on the bed bleeding
profusely from a dreadful wound on her arm, which she
said had been inflicted by the prisoner. Witness found
a knife covered with blood near the bed. The woman
said to the prisoner, "You have done it." He took the
prisoner into custody and locked him up. He took the
wife to the hospital, where she was attended by the
surgeon, who said he could not tell at present the extent
of the injury, or what the result might be. It was
stated in defence that the woman, contrary to her
husband's wish, remained from home until 3 o'clock in the
morning, when he remonstrated with her, and she
seized the knife, which he was endeavouring to get from
her, when she received the wound on her arm. She
stabbed him in the ball of the eye and on the face,
and there was a question whether he would ever
recover the sight of his eye. He exhibited his eye,
which was severely wounded; also the second stab.
The magistrate, in these circumstances, said he would
expect bail for the prisoner's appearance on a future
day.

At the Worship-street Police Court on the 12th, James
Taylor, an elderly man, of respectable appearance, who
was stated to be a person in independent circumstances,
was charged with an unprovoked and violent Assault
upon a Married Woman, named Amelia Manning,
residing in Anne's-place, Hackney-road. The
complainant, who was in such a state of suffering that
she was scarcely able to give her evidence, stated
that on the evening of the preceding Saturday, she was
proceeding through the Hackney-road in the company
of a female friend, when she accidentally met the
defendant, who was the landlord of a house formerly
occupied by her husband, and she availed herself of the
opportunity to apprise him that her husband had been
compelled to take out a summons against him to recover
the amount of certain rates which they had disbursed
on his account during their tenancy. She at the same
time expressed her hope that he would liquidate the
debt to save him from the expense and annoyance of
legal proceedings, but the moment she had uttered the
observation, the defendant, who was partially
intoxicated, exclaimed, with an oath, "Yes, I'll pay you
at once; take that, you——," and, instantly raising his
stick, struck her a terrible blow on the head, which
felled her to the ground in a state of insensibility. On
recovering her consciousness, she found herself supported
in the arms of her friend by another woman who had
witnessed the assault, and observing that the defendant
was in the act of making rapidly off, she called a policeman
and gave him into custody. The complainant
added that she had been confined to her bed the whole
of the previous day, under the care of a surgeon, and
had been ever since in a state of excruciating pain from
the effects of the prisoner's violence. A respectable
married woman, named Elizabeth York, gave corroborative
evidence. The magistrate said that it was a case
of such brutal and vindictive violence, that he did not
feel himself justified in imposing a pecuniary penalty
upon the defendant, but should order him forthwith to
be committed and kept to hard labour for six weeks in the
House of Correction. The prisoner appeared
staggered by the severity of the sentence. He ought rather
to have been astonished at its utter inadequacy to the
offence.

A most brutal and fatal Assault on a Woman, was
perpetrated at Shepherd's Bush in the night of Saturday
the 10th inst. The woman's husband James Hays, a
bricklayer, was charged with the crime at the Hammersmith
Police Court on the 12th. From the evidence it
appeared, that Hays, his wife, and two men named
Taylor and George, were in Shepherd's Bush market
between eleven and twelve o'clock. Hays had left his
wife to live with another woman, but he allowed her
some money weekly, and to obtain this she was following
him. He replied to her demand with blows. Taylor
saw Hays beat his wife with his fists, and when she
sought refuge behind Taylor, that person told her to
get from behind him, lest her husband might think he
was harbouring her. Mrs. Hays ran through the
market, her brutal husband running after and kicking
at her, and loudly threatening that he would "do for
her" that night. Serle, a policeman, deposed, that
about one o'clock he heard a noise which seemed to
come from the ground newly dug out for the foundation
of some houses, close by the market. He went to the
spot, and found Hays standing there, pale, trembling,
and much stupified. Serle ordered him to move on: at
first he would not move, but stood there sighing and
shivering. At length he went away. Next morning,
soon after six, a policeman, directed by some women to
the spot, found Mrs. Hays lying in a hole, apparently
lifeless. On being turned over she opened one of her
eyes—that was all. She was taken to the station in
Brook Green; thence, later, to the house of her brother-
in-law, where she died. She had been kicked and
beaten very much. Hays was remanded for a week.
An inquest was held on the body of Mrs. Hays, on the
14th; the evidence given in the Police Court was
repeated; and the inquest was adjourned. The two
men, George and Taylor, who did not protect Mrs. Hays
from her husband, gave as an excuse that they feared
the hundred Irish within a stone's-throw. Mr. Brent,
the coroner, warmly expressed his indignation at their
conduct. On the 19th the proceedings before the
Coroner and the Police Magistrate terminated; the
prisoner Hays being separately committed by both
courts on the charge of wilful murder. The prisoner
was not present at the inquest, the governor of the
prison to which he had been committed by the
magistrate having refused to produce him before
the Coroner. In his address to the jury, the Coroner
commented on the anomalous state of the law in this
respect, and his hope that the legislature would apply
a remedy.

An Extensive Seizure of counterfeit coin has been
made at Hull. For the last three or four months past
the town has been put to much inconvenience in consequence
of the large amount of such coin in circulation. The
police had had some information that a notorious
character of the name of Gill had had a small heavy parcel
sent to his house, addressed for a "Mr. Brown." It
had come by the Great Northern Railway from London,
and the porter at the Hull station was, therefore,
requested to inform the police immediately in the event of
any similar occurrence taking place. Accordingly, on
the arrival of a parcel which was rather weighty, and
addressed to "Mr. Smith, to be called for," information
was given to the police, and a detective was sent to the
station, and remained there until the evening, when
Gill came for the parcel. It was given to him, and
he walked away, but was followed, and taken into
custody. The parcel was then opened, and found to
contain 600 bad shillings, wrapped up in sixty parcels of
10s. each. The delinquent's house was then searched,
and a number of bad half-sovereigns were found. He
refused to give any account of the transaction, and was
remanded by the magistrates in order to communicate
with the Mint.

A Coroner's Inquest was held on the 17th inst, on
the body of Mrs. Catherine Grieve, aged sixty-seven,
a lady of fortune, lately residing at Douro Cottage,
Southampton-street. It appeared that on the evening
of the 15th she had been out to a party, and returned