Star.
London, England, 1830-11-15 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION.—James Orpwood, a fashionably-
dressed young man, described as a surgeon, was opposed, on his appli.
cation to be discharged, by a Ales. Darby, a boarding•house keeper,
who appeared in propria persona, and complained that the insolvent
had practised a gross fraud upon her. She stated that, in April last
the insolvent called at her house in Rodney-terrace, Mile-end-road, and
said he wished to board and lodge himself and wife for three months, as
he should then receive his dividends. He referred her to Mr. Fairhead,
surgeon, of Bow, to whom he wan apprenticed, where she was informed
that he was a respectable young man, and had lately married a widow.
lady, possessed of considerable property. On the faith of these repre-
sentations, she admitted him, his wife, and a step-child, into her house,
and after a short time the wife confirmed the statement as to her pro-
perty. She continued to lodge and board them until the 12th of
July, on which day they wished her good morning and said they
were going to receive their money, but they never afterwards re-
turned, and, on examining the apartments, she ascertained that
their clothes bad been secretly taken away. On the follow.
ing day she received a note from the insolvent, styling her
" Dear Madam," and :stating that he would call and pay the bill,
namely 291. Three weeks having elapsed without his calling, she
caused him to be arrested. The insolvent had left several boxes in her
house, which, and the contents together, she considered worth about 101.
and she still retained them having refused to give them up when he
wrote for them. The insolvent stated, in the course of a long exami-
nation, that his apprenticeship had not yet expired; he had the consent
of his master to marry the widow, who it was currently reported had a
large fottune, but before the honey-moon had expired, he found that she
was supported by her mother, Mrs. Garrick, of Blackwall, who was
the widow of an East India owner, and she promised to asaist him ; she
had made a few trifling advances, but she being disappointed in re-
mittances from India' be was compelled, as a dernier resort, to apply to
this court for mild; his whole debts only amounted to 801. contracted
chiefly for his wife. He flatly denied having ever said he had dividends
to receive.

.51r. Commissioner BOWEN adjudged the insolvent to three months'
imprisonment frt•m the date of filing his petition, under the discretionary
power.

There is no person, in this loquacious age, who delivers
his sentiments in any assembly, whether high or low, that acquits him-
self, at least to his own satisfaction, unless he delivers a speech a yard
long.
There is now lit ing at Pillwell Farm, in the parish of
Tiverton, a respectable farmer, named Woodgates, who has lately at.
tamed his 105th year.
SIR SIDNEY SMITH.—Our gallant Admiral, Sir Sidney
Smith, whom the King lately distinguished with the rank of a military
General also, has brought over with him to England a very ingenious
model of a carriage, so constructed as to remove the sick or the wounded
over the most rugged roads without giving the patient the least jerk or
painful motion. It is the gallant officer's own invention ; and, from the
simplicity as well as certainty of its plan, it bids fair to be a real benefit
to all who may require such care in movement, whether in peace or war.
—Court Journal.

DREADFUL CASE OF SUlClDE.—Saturday afternoon,
between three and four o'clock, the wife of an industrious, hard-work-
ing man, of the name of Peamont residing in Ireland-court, St. An-
drew's-hill, Doctor's-commons, put a period to her existence. The poor
woman had for some years been in the habitof attending prayer and other
religious meetings, and latterly the lectures of the Rev. R. Taylor. She
had been hi a very desponding state, and had kept ha bed for three weeks.
While her husband was out on Saturday, she procured one of his razors,
with which she cut her throat, so that the head was almost separated from
the body, taking the precaution to place a basin upon a chair by the
bedside to receive her blood. The unfortunate maniac was about 60
years of age.
DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Saturday morning, about nine
o'clock, Mr. Eddestone, of Park-street, Camden Town, who is about
60 years of age, was sitting at breakfast with his family, in his usual
state of good health, when he felt a sudden faintness come over him,
and thinking the open air would relieve him, went out to take a few
turns up and down before his door; he had not proceeded above !burro:
five yards, before he was seised with a violent sickness, and stood on
the curb-stone retching, when at the moment an empty dray, belonging
to Messrs. ()oiling and Brosdwood, the ale brewers, passed by, and the
unfortunate man, overcome by his sudden indisposition, staggered fae•
ward a few paces, and fell with his head directly under tfie wheel of
the dray, which passing over it crushed it in a most shocking manner—
the blood and brains spurting for several yards over the road—in fact,
the bead was literally flattened, and he bad ceased to exist before he was
taken up. No blame whatever is attributable to the drayman, as the
horses were proceeding at their usual sloy (walking pace, and the fall
of the unfortunate man was so sudden, that no interference whatever
could have possibly averted the lamentable catastrophe. Mr. Eddsstone
has left a widow and six children to deplore his cruel death.