snatched his watch and chain, and before he could
recover himself he made his escape. He then met
last witness, and told him he had just been robbed
of his watch and chain; and then he gave information
to the police. He could not swear that the
prisoner was the man who robbed him.

When police-constable 265 M apprehended the
prisoner a mob surrounded him, and would have
rescued him had not another constable come up;
and, after a severe struggle, he was secured.

Mather, 30 M, who had also been in search of
the prisoner, asked for a remand, to enable him to
produce a witness who actually saw the prisoner
steal the watch and chain.

Mr. Woolrych accordingly remanded him for a
week.

Mr. Seymour complained to his worship that
some of the prisoner's companions had threatened
him if he came forward and gave evidence on the case.

Mr. Woolrych told him if he could point out those
persons he would have them before him on a
warrant, and punish them severely.

But the catalogue of rough deeds published
on this particular day is not exhausted yet:

Daniel Briant, twenty-nine, James Bryan, sixteen,
John Donovan, seventeen, and Catherine Flynn,
eighteen, of Rosemary-lane, were charged with being
concerned in a robbery, and with assaulting several
police-constables in the execution of their duty.

Thomas Jones, a ship's steward, stated that on
Saturday night, at a quarter-past twelve o'clock, he
was passing along Rosemary-lane with a parcel
containing a pair of boots and a pair of trousers under
his arm, and upon his arrival opposite the end of a
narrow court, called Seven Star-alley, the parcel was
knocked away from him. He turned round, and
saw Donovan close behind him. The parcel was
picked up by a man in front of him, who ran up a
court. He followed him, and was intercepted by a
mob of ruffians and disorderly characters, who
sympathised with the thief, and who attacked him and
knocked him down. He was obliged to retreat, and
if he had not done so he should have been murdered.

Gully, Watts, and Holmstrong, police-constables,
who apprehended Donovan and James Bryan, said
they were violently assaulted by them, thrown,
struck, and maltreated with bricks and other missiles.
Daniel Briant threw a stone which struck one of
the constables. The woman Flynn threw mud and
rubbish at the police, and as Gully was entering the
station she slapped his face.

And once more:

William Mansfield was charged with assaulting
Henry Lane, rifling his pockets, and robbing him of
a written character near London-bridge.

The prosecutor said he was a labourer, and on
Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, he had been
with his wife to Bermondsey. They passed up the
steps leading from Tooley-street towards London-
bridge. Witness was in front a little way, and just
as he got at the top of the steps the prisoner came
up and knocked his cap off. Witness replaced it,
and took no further notice of him, when the
prisoner struck him and put his hand in his pockets.
Witness then seized hold of him, when he struck
him again and got away. Finding that he had been
robbed, he caught hold of him again, when he was
secured by a City constable. Mr. Woolrych
observed, as he should like to know something of the
prisoner, he should remand him for a week.

A tolerable list this for one day, and for the
metropolis and the suburbs only. Yet on the
next there is something doing at the police-
courts too.

SOUTHWARK.—ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE.—
William Carroll, a powerful-looking fellow, was
charged before Mr. Woolrych with assaulting police-
constable 256 M, and doing grievous bodily harm
to 23 M, while in the execution of their duty.

The prisoner was causing a disturbance in Snow's-
fields, about one o'clock in the morning. He was
requested to go home quietly by 256 M, when he
immediately rushed upon the officer and struck and
kicked him in a violent manner. On 23 M coming
to the assistance of his brother-constable, he, too,
was savagely maltreated by the prisoner. Both
officers were suffering severely from the effects of the
blows and kicks.

It was stated that the prisoner had been
previously convicted of assaults on constables.

Mr. Woolrych fully committed him for trial.

WIFE BEATING.—James Moore, a labourer, was
charged with committing a brutal assault on his
wife, and sentenced to three months' hard labour.

THAMES.—AFFRAY ON BOARD SHIP.—Joseph
Walker, a touter, was brought before Mr. Paget,
charged with assaulting several persons on board the
Duke of Sunderland.

The ship arrived in the London Dock basin,
Shadwell, on Saturday night. On Monday morning a
great many persons boarded her to solicit custom of
the sailors; and among them were clothiers, crimps,
lodging-house keepers, touters, runners, and others.
The prisoner was among them, and he went into the
forecastle to remove a mariner's chest and effects.
A man named George William Gray, the butcher of
the vessel, and now acting as ship-keeper, directed
him to leave the vessel, which he refused to do, and
struck Gray. Daniel Anderson, the chief mate, who
had the command of the ship in the absence of the
captain, went to the assistance of Gray, and he was
violently assaulted by the prisoner, who struck him
on the face and blackened his eye. A dock
constable, named Francis Andus, took the prisoner into
custody, and he was also assaulted and his coat was
torn.

Mr. Paget sent the prisoner to jail for four
months, with hard labour.

There is no possibility, in such an article as
this, of extracting many such cases at length.
One or two may be thus given, but the rest must
be compressed, and given only in the aggregate.

It is an unquestionable fact that the
impression left by even a hasty glance at the police and
trial reports, published during a period of twelve
or thirteen weeks, is dispiriting in the extreme.
Records of violence and bloodshed—more
especially of violence inflicted on women—are
reported on every page. " No day without a
line," says the Latin proverb, but this is a line
which is traced in blood. The list of these
rough doings is a long one, but there is little
variety in it. On one day we read of the
cruelty of William Barrett, accused of
violently assaulting and threatening his wife—
a "mere girl" fifteen months married—of
striking her, as she was sitting on a chair
nursing her baby, repeatedly in the face, of
his threatening to stab her, and to throw her
out of the window, of his trying to do so,
and, failing in that, of his seizing the baby
by its long clothes and swinging it round,
swearing that "he would be rid of it." This
is one day's reading. On another, the story
is of a husband, who, after an altercation
with his wife, throws her down, kneels upon