We present our readers below with a chronological record of the most prominent cases of crime within this City and vicinity, taken from our files for the past year:

Jan. 8. Three colored women named Hannah Jones, Ellen Johnson and Annie Jones were convicted of highway robbery; they pursued a countryman named James Wade, knocked him down in the street and took from him $23 in money. They were sent to the State Prison for ten years.

15. The Grand Jury found a bill of indictment against the Commissioners of Emigration for allowing a nuisance to exist in a building under their supervision, viz: the emigrant lodging-houses in Canal-street.

22. The Chief of Police reports to the Common Council that within the last six years 180,616 arrests have been made by the officers of the department.

26. Verdict rendered in the Forest Divorce Case, Granting Mrs. F. a divorce from her husband, and allowing her $3,000 a year alimony.

27. The body of a German named Charles Grell was found on the ice near the Battery. He had evidently been murdered on the Battery, dragged to the parapet wall and thrown over. Marks of a blow from a slung-shot, or some similar weapon, were discovered on the head of deceased. The murderer was not discovered.

30. Lawrence Riley was executed at Brooklyn for the murder of his mother-in-law, Ann Golding, at Williamsburg. The prisoner became jealous of his wife, and, in a fit of desperation, stabbed her as well as the deceased, who came to her daughter's rescue. Mrs. Riley recovered from her wounds, but her mother only survived a short time. This was the first execution in Kings County since the Revolutionary War.

Feb. 12. Gov. Hunt pardons Antoine Lopez, who had been convicted of the murder of Geo. Foster. The prisoner was recommended to mercy by Judge Edmonds, before whom the case was tried, and also by the Jury. The exercise of clemency was recommended by Mr. Crittenden, Mr. Webster, and the District-Attorney, Mr. Blunt.

27. The execution of Otto Grunzig for the murder of his wife Victoria Grunzig, took place this day. The prisoner was convicted of killing his wife by administering to her arsenic in sugar and water, on the 10th of August 1851. The day before his execution Grunzig drew up a paper, directing his property to be distributed to Margaret Lohrenz, his mistress, and her children, of whom he acknowledged himself to be the father. On the night prior to the execution the cell of the condemned man was searched, and a long sharp pointed knife found concealed in his bed. It was supposed that Margaret Lohrenz carried the knife to the cell in order to furnish Grunzig the means of committing suicide, and thus escape the ignominy of a death upon the scaffold. The condemned, up to the last moment of his life, avowed that he was innocent.

28. The funeral services of Grunzig, the murderer, performed at the chapel of Rev. Dr. Verron, in Franklin street..

March 1, A fracas occurred at the oyster saloon of John Gillroy, No. 390 Second-avenue, which resulted in the death of the proprietor, by a piece of one of his arms being bitten out by William H. Hall.

4. Mr. Magnus Grass, Editor of the New York Aben Zeitung, was arrested on a charge of publishing a libel against P.J. Joachinson, lawyer, and counsel for Otto Grunzig when tried for the murder of his wife.

6. The body of James McCarthy, interred at Williamsburg, January 25, was exhumed, an inquest held upon the same, and a verdict rendered that the deceased came to his death from injuries received by blows inflicted upon him by one William Divan and others, at an oyster saloon in the First-avenue, New York.

7. Abner Baker, aged 60 years, arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit bills on the Bank of Bainbridge.

8. William Kelter, shot by Jacob Rotter while in the act of carrying away some boards belonging to the latter, from his premises in Forty-fifth-street, about 11 o'clock, P.M.

9. William Thomas, engineer at an extensive marble establishment, while passing through Thirty-second street, near Eighth avenue, about 8 o'clock, P.M. was stabbed in six different places with a large knife by James McWilliams.

11. Great excitement occasioned in the upper part of the City by the discovery of a small sailing vessel laden with dead bodies, (supposed to have been taken from Ward's Island) ready for re-shipment to places in New England. Harmon Dorlin, captain of the craft, also a carman named Elias E. Can, were arrested for their participation in the offence.

16. Complaints were preferred by numerous victims against Charles S. Palmer & Co., of No. 80 Broadway, for selling spurious passage tickets to California. Complaints were also preferred against Moro II. Cobea, broker, doing business at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, for defrauding two returned Californians out of $250 worth of gold dust.

17. William Furlong was found murdered at his boarding house at the corner of Third-avenue and Thirty-Second-street. Patrick Smith, the keeper of the house, was subsequently arrested in accordance with the inquest of the Coroner's jury on a charge of having caused the death of Furlong.

19. An attempt was made to take the life of John A. Musgrove, of No. 39 Madison street, by Thomas Brennan alias Brown, by striking him on the head with a large paving stone.

24. A negro, named George Cutler, attempted to take the life of another man of color, named Richard Arthur, by discharging a pistol at him, on account of an alleged intimacy of the latter with the wife of the former, (a white woman.)

26. James Church and James S. Jackson of the steam boat Delaware, were attacked in the evening by a gang of about twenty "Short Boys," and robbed of their gold watches.

30. A colored boy was killed by having a heavy stick thrown at him from the rear of the fourth story of the St. Nicholas Hotel, by one Edward Carrigan, who was held to answer for the offence.

31. Several complaints were preferred against A. H. Pride & Co. for selling fraudulent passage tickets to California.

April 1. Horace Preston, an alleged fugitive slave from Baltimore, arrested on a warrant issued by Commissioner Morton. Charles F. Sturtevant, of No. 12 Stone-street, arrested on a charge of forging checks on the Hanover Bank to the amount of about $650.

2. A number of marble polishers created a riot in the Third-avenue, making an attack upon a party of German marble polishers who had gone to work for less rates than they had themselves demanded.

5. Joseph Leonard, an omnibus driver, was shot and severely wounded by John Sans, grocer, in his store, corner of Tenth-street and Avenue C.

9. An indecent exhibition of Model Artists at No. 598 Broadway, was broken up by order of the Mayor, and the proprietor and his employees arrested.

14. Upwards of thirty persons preferred complaint at the Lower Police Court, against George E. Hamilton and others, for having defrauded them by the sale of spurious passage tickets to California. John G. Marabell, one of the parties implicated, was arrested and held to ball in the sum of $10,000. The Catholic Church in Third-street, was entered and robbed of property valued at $1,000, and then set on fire.

23. A daring attempt was made to shoot Coroner Ives, and his deputy, Dr. Budd, by Henry Tickjew alias Wertebew, grocer, doing business, corner of Sixth-avenue and Twenty-fifth-street, and his clerk, Albert Borfrank, on the latter being required to attend as a witness at an inquest on a boy, whose death had been occasioned by drinking a quantity of brandy.

20. A serious fracas occurred in the Nineteenth Ward, between Hose Company No. 32. and Hook and Ladder Company No. 8. Two man belonging to No. 8, were dreadfully injured by the stones, brick-bats, &c., which were hurled at them. James Porter died from the effects of wounds inflicted upon him by Samuel Kane, at a grocery store in Ninth-street.

May 4. David Brockett, of No. 17 Howard street, was shot and severely wounded by Lawrence Riley, in Mercer street. John Heavy, murdered in a drunken broil by Patrick McCormick.

6. Col. Thomas A. Howard, of the British Army, arrived in New York, in pursuit of Dr. Andrew Plummer, an old friend, who had absconded with L1,900 sterling, of his (lloward's) funds, and brought with him Miss Emma Paulson, the daughter of a wealthy family residing in Brighton, England.

9. A disturbance took place at a beer-house No. 222 Centre street, which resulted in three men being stabbed, two of whom, Henry Peters, of No. 71 Division-street, and__, died from the effects of their wounds.

12. James Doyle, a blacksmith, murdered Mrs. Connery, a Scotch widow, with whom he boarded, by cutting her throat with a razor, and then attempted to take his own life in the same manner. He was convicted of the murder.

30. John Black, James Durfy, Patrick O'Hare, and James McCawley, while walking down West-street, near Barrow, were attacked by Robert Barney and William Lunner, and the two former severely stabbed, from the effects of which Durfy died.

June 9. Mary Welgal (a German girl.) after being seduced in Germany, followed her seducer to this country and immediately after her arrival here gave birth to a child. She was subsequently arrested for infanticide, in having thrown her offspring into a sink in the rear of her boarding house.

14. A gang of drunken rioters entered the porter house of John II. Ellis, No. 19 Coenties Slip and beat the proprietor, and shot Thomas Kelly, of No. 19 State street, Brooklyn, who had been attracted to the spot by the cries of Ellis for assistance.

18. Richard Martin dangerously stabbed with a knife by Patrick Heustis.

19. Michael Finnegan was detected in the act of cutting the wires of House's lirio of Telegraph, in the lower part of the City.

28. Thomas Laween, land broker of No. 111 Murray-street; Horace B. Pike, land broker, corner of Wall and William-streets; Hamilton R. Boone of Broadway; William A. Griswold, lawyer, of No. 118 Nassau-street, New York, and William Merrihue, of Brooklyn, were arrested today on a charge of having defrauded the U.S. Government to a very large amount, by forging land or pension warrants....An affray occurred on Staten Island, near the Pavillion Hotel, between a pleasure party of German and French from new York, and some residents of the Island, which resulted in the death of a government officer, and several others being dangerously wounded.

1) Edward Wiencke, a German importer, was arrested today, on a charge of having defrauded Government to a considerable amount by means of false invoices.

4. A serious riot occurred between a number of Irish laborers at a house in thirty-second street, near Lexington avenue, occupied by about one hundred families. The posse of policemen of the District, on proceeding to the scene of disturbance, were attacked by some of the belligerents, with clubs, shovels, knives, & c., and several of the officers were stabbed, and otherwise severely injured.

15. A murderous attack made by a gang of ruffians in Mercer-street, on officers Leighton and Reid, of the Eighth Ward.

21. Adolphe Nelkic arrested by officer Bowyer, on a charge of robbing Kingsley & Co.'s Express trunk, on board the steamer Bay State.