Star.
London, England, 1831-05-26 00:00:00

7.....

The accident entirely originated through the conduct of the waterta„
in going a.bettel when ordered to keep astern, and afterwards .11:eita
his comae when the steamer did the same, to avoid him. mt. t!ar
!amine said the accident, it was claw, hail originated ...71.0U t::11 ,
drunkenness of the unfortunate man, who was incatmble of lo. 14%;?,,
his boat in ouch a state, and die captain and crew of the steamer
care
exonerated from the charge of having been negligent. Mr. 11:al,
was not called upon for his defence, risen departed, with Ids friends,
HATTON•GAIDEIL—YestertIay, John Cronin was finally examined
charged with stabbing, with intent to murder, Thomas a voi,„:
man, on the 22d of April. Fuller has been ever since a patient is st
Bartholomew's Hospital, in consequence of the wounds which ti
roller inflicted piton him. which he did with a knit'c in the breast, thick
penetrated his lungs. Fuller, in exnicati"g himself from the prim„,
who clasped hint round the neck while he stabbed him, lot wit),
his staff, and on his calling out Murder ! the prisoner Again st4heit
hi a in the back. when he fell from loss of blood, tiud was conve3ed t,
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The prisoner Was fully coi,„„it,ed
for trial.
QUEEN.SQUARE.-A little boy, nine years of age, reisctaitly
titessed, was brought before Mr. Wurre, by police constable Th.aelter
0 ,ha B division, No. 17, who found him wandering &tout Jews' nor,
Chelsea, at two o'clock in tile morning. The poor little fellow proved
to b' boat deaf anti dumb, anti neither by signs or any other writ
could he give any account of himself. On searching him, nothing
was found that could lead to a discovery of who his parents or
friends were.

Mr. WHITE directed him to be taken to Chelsea workhotibe, until
some enquiries could be made respecting him.
liroustar-ISTitErr.—On Monday evening, Charles Crowther, jun,
well known to the police, was charged old. feloniously receiving a bon_
and chaise. the proptrrty of Mr. Macbeth, of Eagle-strect, Lal Lion.
*genre, and a man namial -:ltearman was charged with stealin4 the same,
Three weeks ago Shearmatt htul bircd the horse and gig for one week,
and agreed to pay 71; bet neithiir the property nor the person wa.
heard of till a few days ago, when it appctred that Shearman had left
the horse and chaite at stables in Fore-street, and had bold thus
Crowther.

Shcarman was committed, and Crowther was held to baiL
Monday Was. Jones was finally examined before Mr. Twyford,
charged with a burglary in the house of Mr. Charrington, a coal met.
chant, at Hornsey.
It appeared that on the night of the 16th, Mr. Charrington went to
party, and took the key of a side dour to let himself in ; but upon hit
return home, between one and two. he observed a light in the front par.
lour, and rang the bell. The light disappeared, and presently after.
wards the prisoner jumped over the palings at the side of the house, an I
ran off. Mr. C. pursued him, when the prisoner turned and struck
him with a hone, and cut him in the forehead. A desperate struggle thea
took place, and they fell together into a ditch. Mr. Charrington
caved some severe blows, but succeeded at length in wresting the bone
from the prisoner, whom he in turn attacked with it. Some persons,
who were drawn to the spot by cries of " Murder," and " Ttleeel,”
found them both in a state of exhausdon, and covered with bin:xi. The
was then secured in the cage, where his wounds were dressed
Lwybrseurrgeon, and Mr. Charrington was taken to his home, where lu
was confined to his bed for several days afterwards, in consequence of
the injuries he had sustained.
The prisoner. who had been a week in the prison Infirmary, was fully
committed for trial.

It appears by the latest accounts from Egypt, that the Earl
of Clare, who procceded in August last by way of Alexandria and Cosseit
to assume the Government of Bombay, has been detained at Jeddah,on the
western coast of Arabia. awaiting a supply of fuel for the Hugh Lindsay
steamer. upwards of seven weeks I His Lordship expected to leave
Jeddah on the 23d of February for Bombay, where he hoped to arrive
about the middle of March. Hia friends had been wondering what had
become of him.

MARCH Or INTELLECT.—The following is a literal copy
of a love letter, recently sent by a " tight lovynge swain" to his in.
amorata :—" May Deer.—l received your boind not that affording me
mutch pletcher moy deer 1 docent think that aver i shall Mite you fot
that wosni never bee the Heal with me for as you may put greatest
dependent on me I bop by this time you have got my deter I hope it
will please you for that is all mye Sturdy to please you mye deer for
believe me to be truce for aver and always shall Ontil Deth good day
mye deer from your aver true and affectionlover °mill deth "—Dorset
Chronicle.
Chronicle.
SEA MAN'S COU RTSH I I,•.—A sailor of his Majesty's ship
Windsor Castle, while lying In Plymouth Sound, asked the wife of
his messmate to get him a wife by the time he came on shore, u he
was determined to get married ; and he would have any decent woman
she would recommend. In a few days Jack came on shore, and was
introduced to the " fair one," he approved of the choice, and the next
day they were married. The tar wu paid his wages two or three
days afterwards, be gave his wife the money, returned on board the
Windsor Castle, and sailed contentedly in her for Cork.
A blacksmith in Alabama, having been slandered, was
advised to apply to the Courts for redress. He replied with true eat.
dam, " I shall never sue anybody for slander. I can go into my shop
and work out a better character in six months than I could get in the
Court-house in a year."—eteserican Paper.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—This morning at an early
hour the body of Lieutenant Gulliver, R.N. was found suspended, by
masons opposite Trinity Church, quite lifeless. This untbrtuarte
gentleman arrived here only on Sunday last, in the brig Belle from
Para, after having completed an arduous series of travels on the
neighbouring continent, in the coarse of width be Is said to have trued
the Negro to its source, and to have surveyed most of the branches of
the great Amazons. The lots of a friend and fellow-traveller, who died
about two months since, is reported to hure weighed heavily upon hit
mind, and to have led finally to the melancholy catastrophe. A coati.
derable sum of money was found upon his person, and a letter of
credit upon Messrs. Camino of Barbados, in his desk, which also tea.
tains the notes of his travels, are no doubt highly interesting. Tint
awful and rare occurrence has excited the moat melancholy sensation._.
' Trinidad Gnordiate. Feb.lB.