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onstable and get a civil warrant, and I will hear it. I know of no criminal law applying to such a case, and the magistrate had no authority to issue the warrant for his arrest. Michael Leary, charged with making a felonious assault upon John Stevenson, and breaking his leg. This case was continued for witnesses. The circumstances as reported are that Leary knocked Stevenson down, and that in falling the latter broke one of his legs. He was carried to the Globe Hospital, on 19th street, aStevenson down, and that in falling the latter broke one of his legs. He was carried to the Globe Hospital, on 19th street, and the Mayor has requested one of the officers to make inquiries into his condition. John Curry, charged with fighting in the 2d Market on the 25th of December, and John Finn, charged with fighting and firing pop-crackers in the same place on the same day, appeared, (although rather late for adjusting a Christmas frolic,) and the examination proceeded. Mr. Tyler, Clerk of the market, could not say who fired the crackers; there was a perfect blaze, and as he would turn to see who fired one