Star.
London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Mansiox.HormE.—Arc IRISH DESEILTEIL-41 corporal of the
Guards stationed at the Tower brought before the Lord Mayor an
Irishman, who had the appearance of a wive, for having committed
the offence of deserting from the 15th Regiment of Foot.
The corporal stated that the prisoner had called at the Tower, and
mentioned that he came to resigo himself as a deserta from the 18th
Infantry. Witness had orders to take him before the Lord Mayor.
The Loan 51•Toa wished for a little more information ; but the
corporal had received his laconic instructions, and knew no more than
he had already stated.
Why, to say the truth, said his Lordship, I do not think it probable
that this bog.trotting-looking follow could ever have been in a regular
regiment. Only look at him, and tell me what regiment would have
him ? (laughter.)
The corporal turned about his head, but he turned about his body at
the same time, and looked at the deserter from top to toe He then
turned round as mechanically to the Lord Mayor, and said, I don't
think, my Lord, that he would answer us; I fancy we would not have
him, please your Lordship: (loud laughter.)
The deserter was standing in a very unmilitary position during the
examination : he was scratching his bead with one hand, while with
the other he was preventing a pair of breeches, which were never made
for a man of his size, from falling over his hips. Please your Honour,
said he, it's a good while ago that I was serving his Majesty ; it's as
good as eleven years ago that I belonged to the 15th Regiment of Foot,
and I cut away from them from the depot at the Isle of Wight.
By this time the corporal had relaxed considerably from his discipli.
narian appearance, and his prisoner was still removing the uneasy sen-
sation in his head, when

The LORD MAYOR cried out suddenly, in a loud voice, " Atten.
tion r The corporal instantly started up erect, and threw down his
hands to his sides, but the Irish soldier kept his body and hands in the
favourite position, showing a total disregard for the word of command
and well it was that he had no accurate recollection of it, for if he
had obeyed the order, his nether garment must certainly have dropped
to his heels.

Now, said his Lordship, I cannot credit you in what you ay; it is
impossible that you could ever have belonged to the regular service.
The Deserter..-Why then, upon my sowl, your Honor, I did, but I
went into the t'other service after 1 cut and run.

The LORD MAYOI/.—lnto what service did you go then ?
Deserter—l tuck it into my head to be a sailor then, my Lord, and
Bo I went aboord of a ship.
Mr. Nobler said he did not believe that the prisoner was, or bad been,
a military man. It was probable that the man had pretended that he
was what he was Dot, in order to obtain for some time the support of
which he might be in want.
Pray, said the LORD MAYOR, how old are you? The deserter re.
plied that he was just 39 years old ; but the hand of disease, or some
other calamity, must have been heavily laid upon hint, for a stronger
contrast could not have been exhibited to the figure and countenance of
the fine young man who had conducted him before the Lord Mayor.
The LORD MAYOR told the corporal that he should detain the pri.
toner for a few days, and if the officers at the Tower should think it
worth their while to come forward and make any charge, they might do
so, but if they should deem it unnecessary, the man should be discharged.
The corporal seemed to be rather at a loss what to do. He seemed
to be aware that his prisoner was of no use to the service, but his
habits of discipline made him hesitate as to the course be should
pursue.
The LORD MAYOR then desired him to bear the message to his
commanding officer, and assure that gentleman that the prisoner should
I be kept in a place of adequate security.
The prisoner stated afterwards that he had tried other kinds of life,
but found great difficulty in procuring a livelihood. It at last occurred
to him that the ill-luck was visited upon him because he had deserted
from his post, and so he thought it the best plan to give himself up.
The Irish soldier then went in the custody of an officer to the Compter,
where he will, at any rate, have his belly filled.
Mawr-La-sown iirricE.—On Monday evening, the case of
Martha ddas ss. the young woman who was charged with steeling the
child of Mr. Matthews, of Augusta Cottage, was resumed.
Several respectable persons cams forward to speak in her favour, and
her mistress (for she proved to be a servant in place) said she had con.
ducted herself well in her service for eight months; and she believed an
exceeding fondness r r children had led her into the indiscretion for
which she was apprehended.
Under these circumstances, Mr. Matthews did not wish to follow up
the charge, and she was liberated.
Mrs. Arm Waugh, the wife of a young butcher, who lives in Upper
Park.place, Dorset.square, was charged yesterday before Mr. Raw.
LIMON and Mr. GRIFFITH, with threatening to murder Charles, her
husband, or do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Waugh had broken his knee-pan, and came upon crutches. The
dress of his lady was very stylish, and her appearance somewhat older
than his.

" I think," said Mr. RAWLIYSOX to the complainant, " when you
applied for this warrant, you told me, you had been married but seven
months?"

Mr. Waugh.—Yes, Sir, only seven months, and I have spent six of
them in jeopardy.
Mr. Rawittesow—What could you find to quarrel about so soon ?
Mr. Waugh—Nothing in particular; she will have it all her own
way, and she has repeatedly taken up a poker, and threatened to knock
my brains out !
Mrs. Waugh—Never, Charles ! Never, upon my oath.
111 r. Waugh—And I am in danger of being starved by her.
Mr. RawLinsox-1 never heard of such a thing. ‘Vhat starve a
butcher with his house full of meat ?

Alr. Waugh—Yes, sir, after I met with this accident, I laid upon
the sofa, and she refused to give me necessaries.
Mrs. Waugh—Oh, Charles I fie, Charles
Mr. Kawuttsox begged him to relate the particular occurrence
which led him to apply for a warrant.
He said that, on Sunday, she took up a poker and brandished it over
his head, and he expected every moment to be killed by her.
Mr. RAWLISIIO X to Mrs.Waigh.—Why do you do all this?
Mrs. Waugh.—l never did. e fancies it ; I love him to distrac-
tion. lam too fond of my dear Charles to do him harm.
Mr. Rawirwsorr.—Come. then, shake hands and be friendly again.
Mrs. Waugh—With all my heart. Here, Charles, (presenting her
hand.)
Mr. Waugh—No, we must be separated ; my future happiness de.
prods upon it.
Mrs. iVaugh.—Will you part with me, then, Charles ? Well, if
bou wish it, I have too great a regard for your happiness to oppose it ;
ut how is it to be done ?

Mr. RAWLINSOW.—Your husband says your own fortune is settled
upon yourself.
Mrs. Waugh.—lt is, Sir.
Mr. Waugh.-1 want her to be bound over to keep the pease ; will
you hear my witnesses ?
Mr. Rawtaxsorr.—l don't think you are in any danger ; she talks
very kindly of you, and is much less powerful than you are.

Mr. Waugh—l shall go in danger of my life.
Mr. MAWLIIISOII—Not if you part with each other, as you seem

Mr. Waugh and his lady both asked at the same time, how that way
I be done?

Mr. Rawrawsow told them by getting an Mang to draw up a deed
of separation, and with that determination they left the office.
Quitaw-Satroaz.—A young man, apparently in a very diFtres.ed
state, named Frew* Lloyd, was charged with stealing a 41b. loaf of
bread, out of the shop of Mr. Hall, a baker, in the New-cut. The pri.
soner said that he could get no employment, and had not broken big
fast since Sunday morning. He had applied to the Overseers of Lam.
betb, and they had refused to relieve him. Mr. WHITE said that a
hearty-looking young man like him was not a fit object for parochial
relief. The prisoner said that he was willing to work, but be could not
get any employment; he had even offered to break stones, bat the
Overseers would not employ him. He was fully committed for trial.
nemesis Poucs...—William Field, Timothy Donovan, and Jo,
Crawley, natives of the sister kingdom, were charged with being druni
and disorderly, and engaging in a " regular skrimmage" on Saturday
night, in Ratcliffe-highway.
Timothy Murphy, an bish policeman, of the K division, with a rid,
Munster brogue, was the principal evidence against the prisoners, ane.
from his account it appeared " they were having a regular skriminay.
and knocking each other about most unmercifully. He interfereet,,
protect the pace,' but was knocked down for his pains. With th,
assistance, however, of others, he conveyed them to that bugbear to al!
disorderly and drunken persons, the blackhole."
" Pine yer Honour, it was all owing to the cheap beer," said the
prisoner Donovan.
Mr. BALLawerxr..—This New Beer Act, lam afiraid, will add t,
our magisterial duties, already sufficiently heavy.
Field said he bad only been in London six months, and during that
time had only been drunk three times ; but it was the beer, yer honour
did all the mischief.
The female prisoner made a similar defence, and laid all the blame
on Sir John Barleycorn.
a Murphy, the policeman, said the defendants were hard-working pa.
cable folks, except when they got a drop too much, they engaged i
skrimusages.
Mr. Bar.r.auTisur—Well, if I discharge the prisoners you must b,
answerable for their future good behaviour, and not let them drink so
much beer again.
Murphy—l won't be answerable, yer Honour, while the porter's so
cheap, for it's hard to find a sober person now. The prisoners, yer
Honour, while the beer was in them, knocked down every person that
thane in their way.
Mr. BALLANTINZI am not at all surprised at that. An Irishman,
when drunk, will let no one stand upright that lie meets with.
The prisoners declared that they would keep sober until the porter
had another fall in the price, and ultimately they were discharged m.
this promise, on paying one shilling each to the King, in consequent
of having been locked up two nights and a day.

SCINTILLA'.

BATTLE HYMN.

They arc gone like the flash of a star from heaven,
And our beautiful vale is mute ;
Their trumpet its voice to the hills hath given,
But busted is the gentle lute.
They have thrown bright chains from their gleaming hair,
And with blood their spurs are py'd ;
And on they pour with their swords and plumes,
As the ocean pours its tide.
They shall fight as their sires have fought before,
They shall sleep as their sires have slept ;
And violets o'er their graves shall shed
The balm by their blue eyes wept.
Awake the mournful convent bell.--
Sing the requiem in the night;
And the stars shall gleam on each warrior's bier
With the torches' quiv'ring light.
They come ! they come ! they have won the field,
And redeem'd their native dell ;
Then lay their swords on the holy shrine,
And the hymn of triumph swell.
Like eagles at noon to the hill they rush'd,
And their plumes shone like a sea ;
Then trumpet awake thy loudest lay,
And welcome them home to thee.

BIJONAPARTei CANNON COINING FOR THE FIZENCI.
Ktuos.—The cannon taken at Austerlitz were not all made use of t
erect the column in the Place Vendome. M. Gaudin, Minister of Fi-
nance, came to Napoleon to demand a score of these cannon for his own
use. " What, then ! " exclaimed the Emperor, "is our Minister of
Finance going to make war upon us ?"--' No," replied the Duke 'de
Gaits, not upon you, but on some villainous old machines that kill
the workmen in the mint ; and if your Majesty will give me twenty of
these cannon to reconstruct the beams of the engines, I will have the
name of Austerlitz engraved upon them." This appeal prevailed;
Gaudin bad the cannon placed at his disposals and these gines are
still used to stamp the beads on the coin of the present kings of
France Life of Napoleon.
CORONATION CLAIMS.—AIIIOIIg the curious claims set
forth at the coronation of 111. the Lord of the Manor of Bar.
delph. (Surrey) claimed toGirnr, man to make a mess of rota in the
King's kitchen. The Master of the Horse claimed to take assay of the
King'. meat at the kitchen dresser bar. The Earl Marshal claimed to
appease the debates that might arise in the King's house ; the Lord ol
the Manor of Scoulton claimed to have the provisions left after dinner ;
the Lord of the Manor of Heyden was allowed to hold the towel when
the King washes after dinner. Surely most, if not all, of these practices
would be more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

M. GUIZOT AND THE CATHOLIC CLERGY.—Probably
our readers will recollect that M. Guizot, the present Minister of th
Interior in France, was a Professor of History, and an author, before In
became a minister, and that moreover, he was, and remains, a Proms.
tant—a circumstance affording a practicable illustration that in that
country civil and religious liberty, toleration, and freedom of conscience,
is no empty sound. This M. Guinn wrote a work, lntiticd, "
Moyens de Gouvemment et d'Opposition," whereof the following rt.
marbible passage occurs :—The Revolution has stripped the Catholic
Clergy both of liberty and of power. This was too much by more tha.:
one-half. I say one-half...for it appears to me vain to pretend now that
Catholicism, with its numerical force, its internal constitution, its hitt.
archy, its dogmas, and its recollections, is reduced to bare and simpl,
liberty, and does not contract a closer alliance with the State, ahem,
it exchanges a little of its independence for a little power. The Charter
was, therefore, in the right to declare it the religion of the State. le.
my opinion this is the fact, which it would be peurile, and even dar-
gerous to deny—for denying it is by no means destroying it. It has its
dangers; who doubts it ? It is difficult, even very difficult, to deal
with it. But the danger and the difficulty, all this proves the force ef
the fact. If it did not exist—if Catholicism were not what it is. it would
be of little consequence either to admit it into the State. or to 'but r
out; but, such as it is, do what you may, it will still take a part t;
must, therefore, be prepared for it. This, like every where else. is 4
question of limitation of measure, and of prudence—gown:nu HIS meth%
with no others." Liberty of conscience is the prevailing religious iota
of our times. It is on this score that we ought to arm ourselves agairst
aggressive and insulting impiety. Wherever liberty of coma:ace pot-
avails, every religious worship, every religious creed, is justly entitled to
the respect not only of the government, but also of the pub! c. Tit:-
right to protection against outrage is derived from the same principt,
as their right to liberty. The principle of intolerance his not changed
in Its batiste in the eighteenth century from what it was in :he ri:cteoltE.
When unbelievets are convinced, and get masters, they want et,ry one
to believe in them, as they do.
Labourers have for some time past been actively engaged
in forming an extensive range of substantial, dry, and capacious vaults
on the northern, eastern, and southern sides of St. :Um:in% church. The
vaults on the north side, it is expected, will be completed h about
another month, when the graves in the old churchyard (which. in con-
sequence of the recent improvements in that quarter of the town shertly
to be built upon,) will be opened, and the bodies carcfullc ren uved t
the new cemetery.

BIRTH.
On Tuesday, the 28th inst. the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel Uttencr. •
Norwood-green, Middlesex, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at Camberwell Church, Mr. Wm. Prater, of Weber-
den, Suffolk, eldest sou of Wm. Prater, Esq. Dalby-terrace, Tslingter.
to Mary Ann, Sophia. only child of Joel Ray, Esq. of Peckham—The
27thinst. at Winchendon, Bucks, Thomas Hyde, Esq. Aylesbury. r°
Miss Moores, daughter of— Moores, Esq. of Winchendoo.

DIRD.

The 28th inst. in Mecklenburgb-square, Eliza, daughter of the late
J. Chambers, Esq.—The 27th inst. at his house in Artiilery•-plate.
Finsbury, J. 81dward, Esq. in his 95th year, many years an acttre
Magistrate for Middlesex, and a liber.l supporter of the charitable tr-
entutions of the metropolis—The 27th inst. Sarah, the infant daughter
81 Mr. Taylor. Portland-place, Clapham.road, aged two years and
akin months—The 25th inst. Mr. I. Papprill, of Featherstone-build-
lags, Holborn, aged 6S---The 24th inst. Mrs. T. Creed, widow of the
We G. Creed, Esq. of Wentworth-place, Mile-end—The 27th inst. at
.Ratings, aged 40, Edward Frederick, fourth son of Mrs. Lazenby.
of Edward-street, Portman-square—The 27th inst. at his house, Glou
tester-place, J. Jebb, Esq. late in the direction of the Hon. East Intim
Company, 'to which service a great part of his life was honourably
devoted—The 27th last. at Clifton, in his 69th year, I'. Walker, Esq•
late senior Register of the High Court of Chancery, from which eke
he had retired above two years.

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