Star.
London, England, 1830-06-25 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Bow-STREET.—In the STAR of yesterday we gave a narrative
of the preliminary argument, down to the conclusion of the address
of Mr. ADOLPHUS in the unprecedented and most extraordinary
action of "the Major Tutrernits against the Minors." Ater
looking over the various reports which have been given in the
Evening and Morning Papers, we do not find occasion to cortatet
ourselves in one word of the narrative—rather than the " pollee
report" which we laid before our readers, down till half past two
o'clock yesterday afternoon. We are aware that this is a case
which must awaken a lively interest amongst classes of opposite
grades : the higher and the humbler classes are equally interested
in its issue; and if our first-rate stage. weights are to be copyists at
all, they would do as well to copy from the French In liberality
towards their rivals, as in copying translations of the lowest
and most mawkish French interludes and farces, which the
pretended best of our bleaosts pawn upon the public. The
question foe an tmglishman to decide is this :—whether he would
rather have "A Cure for the Ilearl.4ehe" performed at a TOT-
TENHAM PLAYHOUSE' at the rate of One Shilling, than have the
same cure performed by an inferior operator at a THEATRE for
floe shillings. It is, we believe, in the name of the thing, that the
inconsistency lies—like: the old story of calling the rose by any
other name—" still it will smell as sweet." With these in-
offensive preliminary remarks, we follow up the perform..
anise of bir. Atoot.rmus at Bow-street, and the result of his
exquisite defence for the MMoas. When our representative left
that notorious office at Bow-street, which, without lowering our
own respectability,we are obliged to attend, the following result took
place; which proves that sometimes Minors have an equal--not
to say a better—right than the Majors:
Thomas Brown was called and sworn. He said he was re-
tained
at the Tottenham-street Theatre. lie did not know who the
acting manager was in March last. He never heard Mr. Chapman
say he was the acting manager. Witness's situation was in another
department. He had seen Mr. Chapman at the rehearsals in the
company of Mr. W. Vining, the stage manager. He certainly
saw him there in March last, but he could not fix upon any par.
ticular day.
Mr. ADOLPHUS—Did you not see him there many nights during
the month.

Mr. Pinta.trs objected to the question being put, except as to
the nights named in the informations, because, as Mr. Chapman
was liable to a penalty for every night's performance in whirl he
could be proved to have had a share, and upon the witness answer.
ing the question generally, other informations might be laid and
penalties multiplied. Mr. Chapman might have been acting many
nights in Blarch without having acted on the particular nights men-
tioned.
Sir R. Maxie-1 think the question ought to be confined to the
nights mentioned, for any man may be a manager one day and not
the beat. 1 have been informed, but I know not how truly, that a
very popular actor once made it one of the stipulations of his en-
gagement that an the nights he played he should be stage-manager.
rho objection was allowed.
Mr. ADOLPIIVII, after a few questions on indifferent points, again
endeavoured indirectly to draw front the witness that he had per.
famed himeelf, and after a great deal of ingenious sparring on

sides, he succeeded in obtaining that acknowledgment from him, on
which Mr. Phillips complained that Mr. Adolphus should by aside
wind obtain an answer from the witness criminatory of himself:
Mr. HALLS thought that as a matter of delicacy Mr. Adolphus
ought not to have put the same question in various ways, in order to
draw a criminatory answer from him. It was unfair. (Applause
' front the crowd.)
Mr. A DOLPHUS then resumed his examination of the witness
at very great length, and again endeavoured to fix him upon the
particular nights mentioned ; but he answered uniformly that al-
though he knew Mr. Chapman had played in March, he could not
remember any precise date on which he did or did not play. Seve-
ral questions were put in such a way as to call forth objections from
Mr. Phillips, upon which Mr. Adolphus again got warm, and said
he was astonished at such frivolous and unnecessary interruptions.
Mr. PHlLLtirs—You may be astonished now if you please, but
I can tell you that you will be more astonished by and by—(A laugh
and applause.) lam surprised you should persist in such improper
questions.
The examination of Mr. Brown was then continued at great
length, but he stated nothing material, except that he believed as
far as he had understood that Mr. Chapman was acting manager in
the month of March.

Mr. ADOLPHUS then handed him an affidavit, filed in the
Chancery Court, and asked him if he believed the signature" John
Kemble Chapman" to be in the hand-writing of the defendant?
and after looking at it for a long time, and the question being seve-
ral times repeated, he said I believe that it is not."
Mr. Percival Farren sworn— I know Mr. Chapman, and have
had transactions with him. I have received two letters from him,
and am acquainted thus far with the character of his hand-writing.
I do not think that this signature is his hand-writing. I knew Mr.
Chapman on the 10th of March, but I was not then connected
with the Tottenham-street Theatre. I was engaged from November
to January, but I knew nothing of its affairs in March.
Mr. Richard Goodyear Perry, a performer at the theatre, said I
know Mr. Chapman, and have seen him write an order now and
then, but am but slightly acquainted with his hand-wridng. I
should say that the Ch. is in his hand-writing, but not the whole.
Looking at it again, however, and viewing the whole, I think it is
his hand-writing. I was engaged in March at the theatre, and Mr.
Chapman and Mr. Melrose were there, as, I believe, acting mane.
gers. I cannot, however, swear that Mr. C. was a manager, on the
particular nights mentioned.
Mr. Luke Facade, a printer, No. 72, Fleet-street, proved
printing the bills produced, by the directions of Mr. Chapman.
The bills had the words " Acting-Manager, Mr. Chapman," and
these were put in by his desire. Witness had been paid for the month
of March, but he could not say Mr. Chapman paid him that bill.
It was likely the bill was sent by a messenger.
Mr. (hay, copyist to the theatre, was called by Mr. Adolphus,
and on booking at the signature he said he believed it was not the
hand-writing of Mr. Chapman.
Mr. W. W. Massingbam was called, and he also said he believed
the signature was not Mr. Chapman's hand-writing. Witness said
he took Mr. Chapman to be Treasurer of the Theatre. IVitness paid
over to him all monies that be received in the course of the day.
Mr. John Cathie, copyist and librarian to Drury-lane Theatre,
stated that he went to the Tottenham-street Theatre on the 10th,
12th, and 16th of March last, by order of his employers. He went
to the Boxes, Pit, and the Gallery, and paid 4s. 21. and Is. for his
admission. He saw a piece called The GyNy's Prophecy, in which
Mr. Chapman played Henry Bertram. The piece was substan-
daily the same from beginning to end as the one played at the other
houses under the title of Guy Mannering. He bought the bills
now produced in the house. He saw a farce called The Irish
Schoolmaster, which was in all other respects the same as The Irish
Tutor. These pieces were decidedly, entertainments of the stage. I
saw also a piece called The Maid of Milan, which was no other
than the one called Clari at Covent-Garden. He saw a piece called
Father and Son, or Push along, keep mooing, which was the
comedy of 4I Cure for the Heart-ache under another title. He
also saw The Beggars' Opera, in which Mr. Alexander Lee played
Captain ifaciseatis ; and there was a farce called Master's OW,
which was the old one of High Life Below Stairs.
By Mr. PHILLIPS—You say Captain Macheath was played by
Mr. Alexander Lee. Pray, is that the gentleman who is now lessee
ofdDrury-lane Theatre ?
Witness—l can't say—l believe he is the new lessee. I applied
to him for a renewal of any engagement, and have not yet received
an answer.

ML ADOLPHUS objected to this course of examination, because,
be said, he could perceive that the object of it was to lay a founda-
tion for casting obloquy and reproach upon a gentleman who did not
deserve it, and who, as he had already stated, had nothing to do
with these proceedings. This is my case.
Mr. Purwrs—.Thert, Gentlemen, I submit that my learned
friend has made out no use it all. It is alleged in these informs.
tons, and indeed it forms the very gist of the case, that Mr. Chap.
man had no authority by letters patent from his Majesty, or any of
his predecessors, at by license from the Lord Chamberlain's Office,
to cause entertainments to be performed at his theatre. Now Mr.
Adolphus has not offered any proof that we are not at this moment
in reunion of such authority.
DIL ADOLPHUS said perhaps they would postpone the case, and
take time to consider of their judgment.
Sir R. Brawn—l want no time, nor does my colleague. lam
decidedly of opinion that having set forth this allegation, you were
bound to prove it in evidence, which you have not done, and the
informations are dl missed.

A tremendous burst of applause followed this decision.
The cam lasted until nearly six o'clock.
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UNION ItlALL.—Yesterday, two Irish haymaker named Dan.
O'Connell and Patrick Kelly, were charged with being drunk and
fighting' at Camberwell.
A police constable stated that, on the preceding afternoon, the
defendants excited great commotion at Camberwell, owing to their
outrageous conduct. They bad pitchforks in their hands, with
which they struck each other, but fortuately the points of the wea-
pons were secured by pieces of cork, otherwise bloodshed must have
taken place. The quarrel originated in consequence of one of the
combatants charging his adversary with robbing him of Ils. the
greater portion ofwhich he admitted having collected by begging.
They were fined bs. each for being drunk, and in default, were
committed for 14 days to Brixton.
In the course of the day, two able-bodied men of the same ann.
try, applied for relief, declaring that they were unable to procure
work, and that they were in a starving condition. They had only
been eight days from Cork, and came over with the view of better.
iag their condition. On their way to town they had applied every-
where for work, but all those who had work to do had hundreds of
applications for it, and they (the applicants) had come into London,
where they had met with as little success as in other places.
The Illagistrate said they must get back again as well as they
could ; and when they arrived in Ireland they ought to point out
to their countrymen the folly of bending their way towards London,
for however distressed they might be is Ireland, yet half a loaf was
better than no bread at all.

The applicants then withdrew from the office.
Laststrrit-srassx.—Yesterday William EvaMS, not more
than ten years of age, and Margaret Wilmot, a rather respectable
looking frmale, were placed at the bar, before Messrs. WYATT and
Hannwicxx, upon the following suspicious charge :—Mrs. Davis,
of the Blue Anchor public house, Cable-street, Wellclosc.square,
stated that about half past 11 o'cick on the night before, as she and
her husband were preparing to go to bed, she thought she heard
some extraordinary noise in the tap.room. On looking up the
chimney, they found the boy secreted In it. They instantly drew
him down, and gave him in charge to a policeman.
Christian, a sergeant belonging to H: division, said, that when
the boy was brought to the station-house, he acknowledged that he
was desired to secrete himself in the chimney by the woman, until
the family retired to rem, and at three o'clock in the morning to
unbolt the 'meet-door, and let in a party who would be waiting
outside. In consequence of this, and the boy saying that the
female had actually assisted him to get Into the chimney, he had her
apprehended.
The woman, hi defence, declared that what the boy had stated
was perfectly groundless, as she had not even seen him on the night
or evening in question. Her husband, she said, was a bonekeeper
at the Belle Sauvage Inn, Ludgate-hill, and she could get a cha-
racter from several respectable individuals.
The boy still persisted in his story ; but it appeared that he has
been more than once charged with theft.
The Magistrates said they had strong doubts as. to the innocence
of the femme; but as there was only the mere statement of the boy
to implicate her, they would for the present discharge her, advising
her, at the same time, to be very particular for the future; for it
she was again brought betore them under similar suspicious circuit).
stances, she would not be let off so easy. The boy was committed
for two months to the treadmill.

TOWN-HALL..—JOISCI Goodwin was summoned for assaulting
his apprentice, Henry Poplett. The complainant was a turn-over ap.
pencil:4 to the defendunt, whom be charged with continual ill
usage. Yesterday he was combing his hair before the glass, when
the defendant said he should not curl his Bair there, and pushed
him. He threatened to push in return, when the defendant struck
him over the loins with a poker with such violence as to break It,
and afterwards wounded him In the hand with a knife. The de-
fendant said he had been provoked to passion by the complainant's
Insolence.—Sir JOHN Pzattwo said no provocation could justify
such conduct, and held him to bail.

Ttr•xes l'ocics.—Yesterday, Jane Roeerts was charged with
robbing 31r. Robert Burn, an elderly tradesman, of Shadwell Mar-
ket, of one sovereign and a half in gold, twenty shillings in silver, a
silk handkerchief, &c. at a house of ill-fame in Shadwell. The
prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.
Yesterday, Hairy Knott, wbo had lately attired from Barnstaple,
and was about to emigrate to New York, gave information of the
following daring robbery. On his way to the vessel with his pro-1

petty, he was met by a man, who, observing the trunk was vtq
heavy, offered to carry it for him. lie committed, and so, ,n at
wards went into a baker's shop to purchase some bread, lt.,‘ iaR th,
stranger outside. On coining out he found the man had ti. d, ar.l
he had not been seen or heard of since. The trunk conthirtd 4.
sovereigns in money, several new coats, and other wearing aprert.
and a quantity of linen.

SCINTILLA.
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FIGS.—The medicinal use of figs is of great armpit:,
The first cataplasm on record is that which was %Ind by
who lived 260 years before Hippocrates. 66 And Isaiah said, •T,i
a lump of figs, and be took it and laid it on the boil: and
covered."

A celebrated traveller, in speaking of the Bedouin;
observes—A, It will appear almost incredible to us, but it is an u 3,
doubted fact, that the quantity of food usually consumed by
greatest part of them does not exceed six ounces a day. sh
seven dates soaked in melted butter, and a little sweet milk or curd
serves a man a whole day ; and be esteems himself happy %he,. Ie
can add a small quantity of coarse flour, or a little ball of !if

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Du'rc it WON DE R.—Among many stories, then. 1,
one, rather singular, and yet generally believed, of an event, E:Aia
have occurred at the great inundation of Dort; 1420, which in oo
night destroyed seventy-two villages, some of which, on theit
are now one hundred and fifty feet below water. One hundred
thousand people perished ; but the wonder is the preservation of
child, six months old, who happened to be asleep in a cradle, tr
common with an aged cat, which latter had the sagacity to pots,
the vessel, by running to the side opposite to that to which it i:,.
dined, and, persevering in this sailor-like conduct for some tlay.
the quadruped pilot saved herself and the child, to the great word,-
of all all who heard the story !—Mirror.

FECIJNDITY OF INSECTS AND FISIIES.-A
plant-louse may be the living progenitor of 5,904,000 deseendatib.
and the queen of the warrior white ants produces 31,536,000 eggs
in one year. Compared with the rest of animated nature, infusiot,
animalcule are the most numerous; next are worms, insects, ei
fishes; amphibia and serpents, birds, quadrupeds ; and last is man.
How prodigious Is the difference between fishes, amphibia, reptiles,
insects, and worms. A scorpion will produces 6.5 young ; a corn.
mon fly will lay 144 eggs ; a leech 150; and a spider 170. A fe-
male moth will produce 1,100. A gall Insect has laid 5,000 ems,
a shrimp 6,000; and 10,000 have been found in an aseztides.
Twelve thousand eggs have been found in a lobster, and in antabei
above 21,000. An insect very like an ant, has produced 80,000
in a single day ; and Leuwenhoeck computes four millions in 1
crab. Above 36,000 eggs have been counted in a herring ; 38,00
in a smelt ; 1,000,000 in a sole; 1,130,000 In a roach ; 3,000,00 c
in a species of sturgeon; 342,000 in a carp; 383,000 in:a
tenth ; 546,000 in a mackerel; 992,000 in a perch; and 1,357,000
in a flounder. The cod, however, has been computed to produce
more than 3,686,000 eggs ; another 9,000,000; and a third
9,444,000. Here, then, are eleven fishes, which probably, in the
course of one season, will produce above thirteen millions of cggs
—Lib. Ent. Knowledge.

The severity of the winter in part of Hudson's Bay, 1,
such, that the ice on the riven is eight feet thick : brandy hems
and, in consequence of the cold, the rocks split with a tretnendou.
noise, fully equal to that of heavy artillery, (the expansive force of
the water, when converted either into ice, or steam, being probably
more than double that of gunpowder), and the fragments fly to
astonishing distance.

BLOW FLY.—The checkered blow-9y carries its !aryl.
in a pouch resembling a watch-spring, or roll of ribbon. About
20,000 young have been computed in one of these coils, so that we
need not wonder at the countless swarms which appear, u if by mt.
gic, upon a joint of meat during hot weather.

TUE MICROSCOPI.-14r. Thomas Carpenter has
hibited the circulation of the blood of the young of the newt, in the
projecting fringes, which are found on each side of the body, near
its head, and before its legs are formed; the blood circulating mos:
briskly throughout all their ramifications, and being very distinctly
seen, under a moderately magnifying power on account of the great
transparency of the skin covering those fringes. "We cannot,'
observes the writer, " too strongly call the attention of our readers
to this interesting subject at the present time, when only the young
of the newt are to be found in great abundance."
An unfortunate Irishman, hearing the Sphinx alluded
to in company, whispered to a friend, " Sphinx ! who is he now
" A Monster, man 1"—" Olt ! Moinsterosan! I thought he was
from Connaught," replied Paddy, determined not to seem totally
unacquainted with the family.

ON GAMING.—In gaming distinction is lost; the
wealthy sad the weak are upon an equal footing ; the illiterate
blockhead and the sparkling, well-taught and 'polished man, whose
learning and genius would in every other place procure him admire.
don, are here upon a level. The highly-horn and the cottager share
the same respect and honour. Only the brave and the honest op.
posed to knaves, must have the disadvantage, because they disdain
to use those jugglings to which others owe their fortunes.
OItIOIK ov EVIL.—The first person who, having in.
closed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying " This is
mine," and And people simple enough to believe him, was the real
founder of civil society. From how many crimes, battles and mur-
ders, from how many horras and misfortunes, would that man hay,
saved mankind, who should have pulled up the stakes, or filled up
the ditch, crying oat• to his fellows, " Beware of listening to this
imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the
earth belong to us all, and that the earth itself belongs to imbed.: !"
...Rousseau.

Cnnizak SHOP-BILL.—The following is a literal
translation of a Chinese shop-bill, which enveloped a packet of In.
dian ink. It will prove that the art of puffing is as well understood
and practised in China as by any of the most celebrated quacks ir,
this country.--,, Very good ink, very fine; very old shop; grand.
father, father, and self, make this ink ; fine and hard, picked out
very fine and black, before and now. Sell very good ink, pilule
cost is very dear ; this ink is heavy, so is gold ; no one can make
like it ; the others that make ink, do it for money, and to cheat ; I
make it good foe a name. Plenty of gentlemen know my ink ; my
family never cheat, always a good name. I make ink for the Em.
' peror and all the mandarins round. All gentlemen must conic to
I my shop and know my name—Usretwaxemi LOCEE."
BAZAARS OF CONSTANTIISOPLE.—The bazaars and
besesteins are very extensive ; some of them are merely open streets.
but the greater part are lofty vaulted cloisters, lighted from the roof,
and closed when the hours of business are over with iron gates.
Those low-fronted shops, without glass in the windows, and with s
shutter falling half down, and serving in the daytime to place the
wares upon, which are now fast disappearing from our English
towns, are the true representatives of the stall of a Turkish artificer.
On this shutter he sits at work ; and though his tools arc very rude
and inferior, be noes them with great dexterity. I have ettrn
stood to admire the skill with which a Turk, with no other in.
strument than a very long gimlet, which he turned rapidly by
means of a bow and cat-gut, would bore the tube of a pipe ti rough
a cherry or jessamine stick, perhaps more than six feet long The
pipe bazaar is a favourite place of resort ; and many a Tartar and
Jannissary may be seen there looking wistfully into the glass our
which contain the enamelled amber. The Tusuk banar:(the Pa.
ternoster.row ofConstantinople) is well worth visiting ; several hen.
deed scribes are to be seen there employed in copying ; and even
those persons to whom the Eastern character is not legible, may
still admire the neatness and beauty of their manuscripts. Th,
Koran, with its commentators, is the chief obect of their labours.
but they condescend sometimes to fancy-works; and the link
luminated almanacs which are to be bought in this bazaar, are
without elegance. The workmen of Constantinople excel too In
embroidering on eloth or leather siih gold and silver thread; but
their designs, though rich, are unvaried. A large bazaar isappro.
primed to the sale of embroidered silk handkerchiefs, which arc
made in the ammo, and are sometimes very rich and beautnul...-
Fuller's Tour in the Turkish Empire.

BIRTHS.
At Carnew Castk, county of Wicklow, on the 18th inst. the lad)
of the Rev. Henry Moore, of a daughter—On the 22d inst. at High.
field Howe, Whichniore.hill, the lady of P. P. Filth, Esq. of a soy.
Friday, at Berlin, in the county of Kent, the Hon. Mrs. Net ill.
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 13th inst. 8. A. Austen, of Leeds, Esq. Barrister-at-Las,
to I..lisabeth, eldest daughter of T.Teanant. Esel• of the same ph"'
—On the 22d inst. at St. George's Hanover-square, R. Burord,
Esq. of Leicester-square, to Miss Shepley, of the same place.—Or
the 22d inst. E. R. G. Robertson, Esq of the Inner Temple. u
Sarah Ann, youngest daughter of the late R. Edmond', L tr.
New Cross, Surrey.

DIED.
In Carlow, on Friday, aged 21, Bliss Mary Muldowney, &tighter
of Mr. D. Aluldownay.—At Webbville, in the vicinity of Crib. J.
Tuthill, Esq. eldest son of the Rev. C. D. Tuthill—At Fairbroos.
county Waterford, Char/ea, third sun of Jeremian-Hardum. Esq.—
On the 21st inst. In Montague-street, Portman.square, in the 13th
year of her age, Sophia Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Wm.
Garnett, Rector of Ti'stone, Cheshire.

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