Star.
London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Bow.userv.—Butastr.--Yesterday, Masa:James Berry, a young
man, was charged with feloniously intermarrying with Jane Jaques,
his lawful wife, Charlotte, being at the time alive.
Jane Jaques, a girl of about 19 years of age, aid rather pretty, de-
posed that she became acquainted, about twelve months ago, with the
prisoner, and on the oth of April last she was marled to him at St.
Mary's, Islington. In a very short time he began to treat her extremely
ill, and she discovered that he had a wife living at the time he married
her. She consequently returned to her friends, but he iU-treated her
even there, and refused to let her have her clothes, so that she could
not go to service, which was the only means she had of obtaining
her living.
The prisoner stood laughing at the bar while she was making this
statement, and seemed to treat the matter altogether with great levity.
The clerk of the parish in which the prisoner's first marriage was
said to have been contracted, produced the Register of Marriages, by
which it appeared that Thomas James Berry was married to Char-
lotte Jackson on the 4th of June,lB24, and to this entry the signatures
of the bride and bridegroom respectively appeared along with those
of the clerk and acetone's of the parish, who, it appeared, were the
only witnesses, the clerk having given away the bride. The clerk
was asked the question if he could identify the prisoner as the man
who was married on that occasion ? and he said he could not. lie
(the clerk) gave away many young women in the course of a year, and
it was next to impossible that he could identify parties.
The acetones* gave a similar account.
Mr. HALLS asked if any one was present who could identify the sig.
natures to be the handwriting of the prisoner, and was answered in the
negative, upon which the worthy Magistrate observed, that the case
must fail for want of proof, although there could be no moral doubt
that the prisoner was guilty. The practice which prevailed in churches
for the Clerk, and other persona employed therein, to act as witnesses,
and the only ones, to marriages, could not be too strongly condemned.
It operated very often, as in this case, to defeat the ends of justice most
completely' and he hoped to see it totally discontinued. The prisoner
must be discharged.
Maket.aonouoti.STitsyr.—Blkn Hariell, Sarah diking, and
John Wilkinson Allen, a carpenter, were placed at the bar, before
the presiding Magistrate, F. A. Ron, Esq. charged on suspicion of
stealing a gold watch, and several other articles of jewellery, together
with 10L 10s.

Mr. Curtis, of the firm of Harrison and Curtis, of Soho square,
stated the following 3articulars relative to the robbery. On Saturday
evening, about six o'clock, Mrs. Curtis left her dressing room, with bee
bureau and things secure, and after passing a few hours down stairs
and on her retiring to her chamber for the night, she discovered that her
bureau had been forced, and a gold watch, a silver watch, two gold
rings, some gold medals, ten sovereigns, some silver, a miniature, and
other articles, had been stolen. Mr. Bates, an Inspector of the C di-
vision, was immediately sent for, and he, accompanied bp a Sergeant of
Police, Lacy, No. 8 C, went to the house, and after having examined
the premises and the parapet, the Inspector took the two female ser-
vants into custody.
Mr. ROE inquired the ground of suspicion against the other prii.
saner

Mr. Bates replied that having fully examined the place, it was his
firm opinion that those only intimately acquainted with the locality of
the premises could have committed the robbery, and having questioned
the parties be discovered that the male prisoner was in the habit of fre-
quently visiting the cook, Sarah Atkins, and his suspicion attached it.
self more particularly to him, as in his examination he found the
drawers had been forced with a chisel. He subsequently found a chisel
on the parapet and two keys, and the chisel precisely fitted the marks
on the bureau.
Mr. Curtis fully concurred in opinion with the Inspector as to the
ground of suspicion mains: the prisoners, from the circumstance that
those drawers only had been forced where Mrs. Curtis usually deposited
ha trinkets, and not one article of Mr. Curtis's had been stolen, although
his diamond ring and other valuables were on his table.
Mr. Ron inquired if it was possible, from the situation of the house,
that any person could have got in at the window from the parapet ?
Mr. Bata replied in the affirmative ' - ho could himself have got in
that way; and the key and chisel were found near an angle where the
footing was very narrow.
Bk. Ron inquired whether the prisoners wished to say any thing ?
The females totally denied the charge, and the male prisoner declared
that he did not even know the prosecutor,
Mr. Ron—That cannot be when you have been backwards and for-
wards to his house.
Prisoner—l meen I had never seen him, nor did not know him by
Bight.
Mr. Ron—l believe you do not deny having been to his house to
the servants lb_ _ _ _ . .

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Prisms —I was there once or twice, I admit, bat I am entirely in-
nocent of this charge. I know nothing whatever of it.
Mr. Bates inquired if the chisel produced was his ?
The prisoner declared he had never seen b before.
Mr. Box thought it a ease of strong suspicion, and ordered the pri-
soners to be remanded until Wednesday.
DIIIIMJCZN CRIDIT...-A well-dressed man, about 50 years of age,
with a pair of very large green spectacles, was charged with being drunk
and disorderly by West, a Police Constable.
Mr. Ron—You are fined be for being drunk.
Defendant--I am very sorry, but perhaps you will give me credit for
the money. I had credit when I was here before, and I came and paid
it honestly.
Valentine, one of the officers, remembered the defendant's punctuality
on the fanner occasion ; and the worthy Magistrate, with a smile, ob-
served he would try him again.
The defendant promised to bring the money very soon, and was dig.
charg ed.
QUEII3O3QUAZZ....DAZING RosintaY.—Yesterday James Prier
and /Board Camaelly, alias King, were charged with the following
dada sebbeily at the shop of Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, in the West-'
mfamonmsel, vastly opposite Astley's Theatre
It iNS:ei the evidence, that several persons bad seen the pri-
Bones *boot Mr. Jones's shop, between seven and eight o'clock
in die Wood, the shopman, beard one of the windows
smadesdomd sea own and followed the prisoners, who ran down the
York-road. Connelly ran into Mr. Smart's timber-yard, near the
Wataleo-road, and afterwards got away from the shopman. A man,
noosed Taylor, however, stopped him, when he drew a knitc and threat-
ened to stab him if he did not let him go, as he said he bad only broken
a window. Ile behaved in the most violent manner, and assaulted
Taylor, and bit him severely in the ann. Search was 'made in the tim-
ber-yard, and three gold watches were found hid in the yard. The pri-
soner Price was stopped by another person, and threw a watch into a
garden, which was afterwards found.
A number of witnesses were examined, who saw the prisoners break
Mr. Jones's window and seise the watches.

Three gold watches and one sliver one were produced, which Mr.
Jones Identified as his property, and worth 3fil.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
Ainaexn lluanza--A man, named lifortios Flynn, was charged
with the murder of James Parker, a carrier at Fulham, in the month of
September Ina
George Charles stated that the deceased was his brother-in-law, and
about two years ago be came home about eleven o'clock at night. There
was a row at a publie-hottee at Fulham amongst lane Irishmen, and the
deceased was induced to go out to be one of the seconds. In a short
time he was brought home most dreadfully beaten and kicked, and quite
insensible, and was taken to St. George's Hospital, where be expired
in about a week. The prisoner absconded at the time ; and yester-
day a man. who lodged with the prisoner, amused him of the mur.
der, and he was given in charge. The witness made his statement
at the wetchbouse.
Mr. Gazooatz ordered the prisoner to be remanded, and directed
the Inspector to make an application to the Coroner to know the remit
of the inquisition upon Parker.
Saturday, at Union Hall, at the instance of the Hon. Scarlet', of the
Society against Cruelty to Animals, the driver of the can of Wm.
Harden was fined los. and costs, for having cruelly treated the boron
with the bit, and whipping it on the head, while it was overloaded.
The master was also deed in costs for not having a proper number
on the cart.

ORIGIA of the TRI-COLOURED INSIGNIA qf PRANCE.

When Philip Augustus, King of France, instituted the college of
the Echevins de Paris in the year 1190, he directed at the same time,
that the city itself should thenceforward bear a coat of arms, consisting
of a ship of silver, on a red field, the ground or chief of the shield to be
of an metre colour, strewed with lilies ; 'melee an %oars d'aryent,
elle tremor, sews de Aura de lys dor. The ship of silver was de.
signed to imply, as Fclibieu has recorded in his history of the city of
Paris, that Paris, being the mistress of all French cities, was a vessel of
affluence and abundance. The chief or ground of these armorial bear-
ings represented the coat-of-arms at that time bornteB7 the French
aown ; it was not confined to three lilies displa on a blue
field, but was strewed with an indefinite number of flower.
The colours peculiar to the city of Paris were consequently blue and
red; it would have been natural, therefbre, for the militia of that mt.
tropolls, or civic guard (garde bourgeoise), as it was called before the
title of National Guard was adopted, to have retained those colours.—
But a green cockade was at first assumed by tMs corps; and it was, in
fact, wan by the citizens when they appeared under arms on the man•
log ot the 13th of July, 1789; on that very day, however, an order 01
the permanent council, which superintended the organization and arm-
ing of the civic force, and was under the presidency of de Flesselks,
the Provost of the Trades directed that every member of the militia of
the French capital should mount a cockade of rod and blue, as correspond-
ing with the colours peculiar to the city of Paris. We find it stated in the
Mealiest of the twenty-third of July of the same year, that "u it is
requisite every member of the said militia should bear some distinguish.
ing symbol, the colours of the town hare been adopted by the general
assembly; and for these reasons, every one will wear a red and blue
cockade." The green cockade, as is mentioned in the official report
of the taking of the Bastille, contained in the Allonitner of the some
day, was abolished because the adherents of the Count d'Artois, (late
Charles X) who was considered the principal mover of the conspiracy
attributed at that time to the French court, rallied under a green co.
lour. " Ritands," says the Morsiteur in another paragraph, "of pink
and blue, b dft the colours of the city, are assumed as marks of distinc-
tion by the Mien isiesiy."
Accords gds the teedueny of a variety of French writers, Lafayette,
who wee oppolowd cainerander-in-chief of the militia of Paris on oh,
fifteenth el July, was the party who introduced the use of the tri.
coloured aukade this new symbol was, in all probability, brought
forward by his en the day following, when he proposed that the
corps should some the appellation of the " National Guard." This
adoption tithe's three colours into the cockade arose from the blending
of white, which was the royal colour, with the red and blue, which had
been the ccdoun of the city of Paris. Regnault Warin, and others of
Lafayette's biwaphers, claim the invention of the tricoloured cockade
b of hero, and assert, that when he proposed its adoption,
he remarked, " that it would make the tour of the world."
The first official mention of this cockade, which became the national
insignia of the French from the moment the Parisian militia assumed
the name of the National Guard, occurs in the Moniteer's account of
Louis the Sixteenth's appearance at the Hotel de Vile on the 17th of
July, 1789. Bailly, then mayor of Paris, tells us himself, that he pre-
sented the "award* aus tress couleur." to the King, with these
words.—." Sire, I have the honour of placing in your Majesty's bands
the distinguishing symbol of the French." A few lines before, he had
termed this symbol, " the Di-coloured cockade, which the Pariaians
had borne ever since the revolution ;" by which be implied, ever since
the sanguinary days of June, 1789 ; but in a subeequent page he is
found designati the cockade as the " cooarda nationals." W.