Star.
London, England, 1808-10-04 00:00:00

A CONSTANT READER.

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.

AYR, SEPTEMEER 26.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here
on Saturday the 24th instant, by the Right Honour-
able Lord MEADOWBANK, and proceeded to the trial
of William Burnside and Thomas Taggart, shoemakers
in Kilmarnock, accused of going into the house of a
woman who kept a huckster shop in that town,
and murdering her servant maid by means of stran-
gulation, and thereafter robbing the house of a sum
of money and various articles. After a trial, from
ten o'clock in the morning, till seven o'clock in the
evening, the Jury returned a verdict, all in one voice,
finding the libel not proved; in consequence whereof,
the prisoners were assoilzied rimpticiter, and dismissed
from the bar, after receiving a suitable exhortation
from the Judge respecting their future conduct in life.
The Court met at ten o'clock this morning, and
proceeded to the trial of Hugh Anderson, prisoner in
the Tolbooth of Ayr, accused of entering a church
in the town of Maybole, and stealing therefrom a
number of tools belonging to carpenters working in
said church. The prisoner confessed his guilt, the
libel was restricted to an arbitrary punishment, and
the Jury having found him guilty accordingly, he re-
ceived sentence of transportation for the term of seven
years.
Mary Johnstone, also a prisoner in the Tolbooth of
Ayr, accused of theft, was, in consequence of her
own petition, and the consent of the Advocate De-
pute, banished from Scotland for life.
Motet M'Kean, labourer in Maybole, Mary M'Kean,
his wife, prisoner in the Tolbooth of Ayr, and Rosins
Dorien, otherwise Dorman, also prisoner in said Tol-
booth, were also accused of theft, and receipt of theft.
Moses M'Kean, the principal offender, failed to
Appear, and sentence of outlawry was pronounced
against him. The diet was deserted pro loco et tempore,,
so far as respected Rosina Dorien, otherwise Dornan,
and in consequence of a petition from Mary M'Kean,
and the consent of the Advocate Depute, she was
banished from Scotland for life.

John APlVilliam, smith in ChaHoch, in the county
of Wigtown, had been indicted for murder or culpa•
ble homicide, but the diet was deserted pro loco d tem-
pore. He was committed to prison upon a new war-
rant, but afterwards liberated on finding bail. And
the Court having heard counsel in two appeals, the
busi*ess was concluded at this place.

The French funds have fallen to 80 francs, 55 cen.
times.

At Uxbridge Fair, on Friday, a Gentleman en-
gaged two young women, sisters, as servants. On
referring for character, &c. he discovered them to be
his nieces, to whom he was unknown, he having for
many years been in India. He carried them home to
a condition more happy than they had anticipated.
A t Barnham Mills, near Chichester, on Friday
se'nnight, a young man of the name of Pkdger, hav-
ing got too near the wheel, the cogs caught hold of
his clothes, and, shocking to relate, he was dragged
into the works, and instantly killed.

In consequence of directions having been given to
some of the Police Constables at St. Andrew's watch-
house, Dublin, not to suffer Divine Service to be in-
terruptred by horsemen and carriages passing that way
during the time of service, one of these Constables
placed there on Sunday se'nnight, in order to do his
duty, gave a horse upon which a servant was riding
through St. Andrew's-street, a violent blow upon the
head, and on being asked what he did that for ? an-
swered, " he was placed there to keep the peace,"
upon which the rider in order to do hi, duty, rode his
horse against the Peace ()Per, knocked him down,
and rode off.-Next day, Alderman Hoz:a and Coun-
sellor GVINNPSS, on hearing the complaint of the
servant above-mentioned, immediately received exa-
minations against the watchman, and sent him to
Newgate to abide his trial.
Friday night a man and woman who were asleep in
a barge laden with bones, off Pickle Herring Stairs,
between two vessels, were miraculously saved from
1 being drowned, in consequence of the mate of one of
the ships dreaming that the barge was sinking with
the people on board. He awoke at the instant, jumped
upon deck, found the barge actually sinking head fore-
most, and was just in time to save the man and woman.