she said; for they had no sooner entered the room, than Mrs. Evans seized a _broomstick_, and without uttering a single word, began to belabour her over the back and shoulders with all her might! Miss Jemima shrieked or _squeeked_, as she called it, for help; but not a soul came to her assistance; and she was obliged to defend herself as well as she could with her hands alone, till Mrs. Evans dropped her broomstick for lack of breath; and then she, Miss Jemima, made her way out of the house, covered with bruises and wonder. This was the unprovoked assault complained of and for this Miss Jemima Jennings claimed redress at the hands of the magistrate. Mrs. Evans made a very voluble defence. She was cursed with a husband, she said, who--though she had brought him twelve children--was continually hankering after other women. On Monday last he went out, taking with him six _goolden_ sovereigns, which she had put by to pay her coal-merchant, and he did not come near home for three whole days thereafter. Some of her neighbours told her that he had been seen courting the complainant (Miss Jemima) with cloves and brandy; and she was so _hasperated_ at hearing this, that she certainly did entice Miss Jemima to her house, and _bansell_ her with the broomstick as she had described. In conclusion, she admitted that she was wrong in so doing, but her passion got the better of her judgment, and she hoped his worship would consider that as an excuse. It was very hard, she said, for a woman at her time of life to be neglected for such _creatures_. The magistrate told her he thought she ought not to have proceeded to such a violent outrage upon the complainant, without better proof that she was the cause of her husband's faithlessness; but as jealousy was an ungovernable passion, and as she appeared to repent of her violence, he would order the warrant to be suspended for a day or two, in the hope that she would in that time make her peace with the complainant, and save herself further trouble and expense. THE COCKNEY AND THE CAPTAIN. Captain J---- F----, a gallant officer, who had lost an eye in the service of his country, and was residing with his family in the pleasant village of Mortlake, was brought before the magistrate, on a warrant, charging him with having assaulted and beaten one Samuel Cooper, who called himself "a London shop-keeper, in a small way, residing in _Vitechapple_."