Star.
London, England, 1830-09-18 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

lilaxmos-Housz.—Thursday evening, El:Jar:suing contest took
place between some of the police and the of a funeral, in
Hishopegate-street, and the whole neighbou was thrown into con-
sternation from a very trivial cause.
Sprig**, Hudson, and Hersent, three mutes in the employment of an
undertaker, were returning, in company with another of the same esta-
blishment, from a funeral, in their seance and hat-bands, and bolding
their long poles, which ware soon converted into instruments of offence.
They had received from the family left behind by the individual they
had just deposited in the earth rather too largos pardon of gin, and they
showed symptoms of its effects as they bustled along, slinging about
their poles, to the great annoyance of the passengers, and the disgrace of
their calling. At last, Spriggs shoved his pole through the window of
Mr. Castles, a grocer ; and here the mutes were checked in their ca.
leer. Mr. Castles's porter went out to demand 4s. 611. the price of
the pane of glass ; but Spriggs denied that be had done the mischief,
and then Mr. Castles backed the porter in the demand, collared the
offending party, and sent for Sapwell, the officer, who endeavoured
in vain to induce the mute to pay. In fact, the proposition was very
ungraciously received, for Spriggs instantly struck at Mr. Castles,
and the officer was treated in so rough a manner by the awful look-
log asesilants, that he really thought they wanted to give their master
another job. The two other defendants endeavoured to rescue=,
who resisted most desmately, and an immense mob gathered
and seconded their efforts. After, however, a three hours' laborious anti
dangerous conflict, during which Sapwell and others of the police were
knocked down and kicked, and almost stripped, the defendants were
secured. They were ordered to find bail.

Clutz.nnau.....-Yesterday, a hone-dealer, Maid Binder, attended
before Sir C. HUNTER, to claim a horse Which be speed to sell the
day before in Smithfield Alarket..

Mr. Pracocz, a corn-dealer, in Warwick-lane, stated that he sold a
horse to the claimant for 131. on the 2:141 of May, but all he could
obtain in the shape of payment was an acceptance for the amount,
which was dishonoured. On Thursday be went to Smithfield, and
purchased from the claimant *terse at the price of 131. and the claim-
ant having, in booking the sale, represented himself to be the owner of
the animal, he thought it quite fair to pay him for it with his own dis-
honoured bill.

Sir CLAUDios intimated that he thought too that this anuceeding
was perfectly fair.
honie.dealer said be should have considered it fair, if the bone
had bum really his own, but in fact it belonged to Mr. Dickenson, of
Edmonton, and he had to sell it on commission.

Sir Claudius said that perhaps altered the case, and he would defer
adjudging to whom the horse (now in the care of an officer) should be
delivered, to give the claimant an opportunity of proving his statement.
Binden promised to produce Mr. Dickenson on Monday.
HATTON-GARDE/I.—Evan Gwyllin, who was remanded on Thula.
day on a charge of bigamy, was yesterday brought up for final exami-
nation before Mr. Serjeant SZLLON and Mt. LAING, and was WM.
added for trial.

NVORSHINSTRELT.....-WW. Collins, aged 15, and John Farrell,
aged 16 or 17, who have been frequently charged with felonies, were
finally examined.
The prisoner Collins, on the 20th of July, was sent with two pieces
of cloth to Mr. Rush, in Bridge-street, Westminster. He delivered
them, and received from Dir. Rush two other pieces, worth 401. with
which lie absconded. Returning through the Strand from Westmin-
ster, he said he met with another boy, who persuaded him to sell the
cloth, and they accordingly took a hackney-coach and drove to the
house of a Jew in Whitecrou-street, who said he would give 12L
but his offer being accepted, he refused to pay more than 10 sove-
reigns. This sum prisoner divided with his companion. They pur.
chased some clothes with part of the money, and after passing the
night In a lodging, for which they paid Gd. each, started for Graves-
end, with intention of going to sea. Prisoner Collins, however, could
not procure a ship, and having then 30s. left, he returned to London
by steam-boat, and left his companion, who was also disappointed.
They were committed for trial.

LANIETR-STREZT.—Yesterday, Was. Sheen, Wm. Stewart,
Jaime Lyall, and Mix. Smith, charged with being concerned with the
husband of the female in stealing property amounting to over 600 L be.
.longing to Mr. Cohen, a merchant, in Great St. Helen's, were re.exa.
mined. In consequence, however, of a number of duplicates being
found on the prisoners, and the officers not having had sufficient time
to make the necessary inquiries about the property, the prisoners were
remanded until Tuesday.

Towx-HALL.--John Smith, was committed for trial, with
stealing a silk handkerchief from the person of Mr. Benjamclintild.

THANES POLICILYCStettiIiy a young man named Charles M•Fer.
lame, a coal-whipper on the river, was brought before Captain RICH-
BELL and Mr. TwTroiD, the sitting magistrates, charged with the
commission of a very brutal assault on Andrew Sullivan, a lad, aged
15 years, by thrusting a tobacco-pipe into his right eye, by which he
bad forced it out of the locket, and deprived him of the sight thereof.
The unfortunate complainant, who appeared in a very weak state,
was brought from the London Hospital.
The magistrates said the assault was a most atrocious and unprovoked
one, and of too serious a nature to be disposed of summarily under Sir
R. Peel's Act. They ordered the prisoner to find two good sureties to
appear and take his trial at the next sessions for the outrage he had
committed.

The witnc,sses were bound over to give evidence against him.

JEws AT SHIRAZ. —The following is the desertion
which Sheikh Ahmed Abu Khamees, a Persian Mussulman of S iras,
gave to Missionary Wolff, of the state of the Jews at Shiraz :-1. Every
house at Shims with a low narrow entrance is a Jew's. 2. Every man
with a dirty woollen, or dirty can hair turban, is a Jew. 3. Every coat
much torn and mended about the back, with worn sleeves, is a Jew's.
4. Every one picking up old broken glass, is a Jew. 5. Every one
searching dirty robes, and asking for old shoes and sanaals, is a Jew.
6. That house into which no quadruped but a goat will enter, is a
Jew's. Mr. Wolff states, that he afterwards visited the quarter which
the Jews of Shiraz inhabit, and that the description was no joke or ex-
aggeration of the misery of his brethren. He there saw old and young
men, and old and young women, sitting in the street and begging;
their heads were bowed down to the ground, and stretching out their
hands, they cried after him, with a faint voice, " Only one pool (penny),
only one pool. lam a poor hmale—l am a poor Israale !" And others
eat in the street, and ate onions, and begged bread, and exclaimed,
" Only one pool. lam a poor Israrde." Hewes affected even to tears,
and distributed some trifle amongst them ; on his road home be re-
peated the words of his brethren, "only one pool. lam a poor Israale."
—Wor s Journal.
ENGLISH WARS.—Of 127 years, terminating in 1815,
England spent 65 in war, and 62 in peace. The war of 1688, after
lasung nine years, and raising our expenditure in that period to thirty.
six millions, was ended by the treaty of Ryswick in 1697. Then came
the war of the Spanish succession, which began in 1702, c0u..1
eluded in 1713, and absorbed sixty-two and a half millions of our mo-
ney. Next was the Spanish war of 1739, settled finally at Aix-It.
Chapelle in 1748, after costing us nearly fifty-four millions. Then'
came the Seven Years' War of 1756, which terminated with the treaty
of Paris in 1763, in the course of which we spent 112 millions. The
nest was the American War of 1775, which lasted eight years. Our
national expenditure in this time was 136 millions. The French Re-
volutionary War began in 1793, lasted nine years, and exhibited an ex.
penditure of 464 millions! The war against Bonaparte began in 1803,
and ended in 1815. During those twelve years, we spent 1159 mil.
lions ! 771 of which were raised by taxes, 388 by loans. In the Revo.
lutionary War we borrowed 201 millions; in the American, 104 mil.
lions; in the Seven Years' War, 60 millions; in the Spanish War of
1739, 29 millions ; in the War of the Spanish succession, 32& millions;
in the war of 1688, 20 millions s—total borrowed in the seven wars,
during 65 years, about 834 millions. In the same time we raised by
taxes 1199 millions ; thus forming a total expenditure of 2023
millions I

CHANGES IN ANIMALS.—An interesting paper WWI
read some ago, by Mr. Retain, to the Academy of Science at Paris, on
the changes which the domestic animals undergo when transported to
the equatorial regions of the new world. The author's observations
were made in New Grenada and part of Venezuela. The mammiferous
animals brought from Europe are pigs, sheep, goats. asses, horses, cows,
and dogs. The hog, in the warm valleys of South America, wandering
in the woods, and subsisting upon wild fruits, becomes very ferocious,
and assumes almost the character of the wild boar. The larger animals
were first introduced into St. Domingo, where, for some years, they did
not appear to thrive ; but, by the persevering management of the co-
lonists, they began to multiply prodigiously, and great numbers were
sent to Mexico. Herds of 4,000 head of cattle were very common in St.
Domingo 27 years after its discovery. In 1587, the exportation of hides
from that island was 35.444; and in the same year 64,350 hides were
exported front New Grenada. In these climates the cow undergoes a
material change. It no longer furnishes the supply of milk which we
obtain from it in Europe; and when the calf ceases to suck, the milk
immediately dries up. The ass undergoes less change than any other
' animal, and, unlike the cow, never becomes wild, but in situations
where the labour is excessive. The horse, on the contrary, readily runs
wild, in which state it assumes the characters of the wild horse of the
old continent, and is remarkable for the great uniformity of its colour,
which is bright chesnut. Dogs were first imported by Columbus, and
employed against the natives. They are now used principally in stag
hunting, but they also occur wild in great numbers. Sheep have and.
tiplied abundantly in the temperate climates, but in the burning plains
they do not propagate so freely. The wool of the lambs grows at first
as in more temperate climates, but rather slowly. When in a 8t state
for shearing, there is nothing remarkable about its quality; aid when
removed, it grows again as in Europe; but if the proper time fa shear.
ing is allowed to go by, the wool becomes thick, falls off in patches, and
leaves underneath a short, shining, and close hair, exactly like *char of
the goat in the same climate; and where this hair once appeals, there is
never say return of wool. The goat, notwithstanding its form, which
appears adaptedsto:mtaintainous situations, thrives much better hi the
low valleys of South America than on the high points of the Cordilleras.