Star.
London, England, 1825-12-16 00:00:00

WINTER IJONIE CMCCIT.

KINGSTON, 1/Ec. 15.

ltril,c7l ffeiicli and torell were indicted for a
burglary and robbery in the dw•eliing house of Elias
Simmons, in the night of the 24,th November, at St.
George's, sntuthwai k.
The prisoners said nothing in their defence:
The Learned Juocue thought the case against Lovell too light for
conviction, but Veitch was found Guilty of grand larceny.
Velich was again indicted for a burglary hi Mrs.
Holmes's house. It appeared that Mrs. Holmes being
disturbed in the night, stse got up a•rd found the pti-
sone' in the room. She seized and held him until her
cries for help brought a next door neighbour to her
assistince, who secured the prisoner with a pistol in his
hand, which 'he had brought from a lower :apartment.
He had entered the house by breaking the belt of a
bark door. On him were found some himiebt caking
implements.
Verdict—Guilty. Sentence of death recorded.
mos Hill and John .Voy were in.licted for assault.
iris Thom. Luck, on the 7th of D.:cember, on the
King's highway, at Newington, and robbing Nan of lour
1. Ellnk of Eni,land notes, twoaTotibridge notes, and
three :sovereigns, his prope•ty. The proseentor had ac-
companied tfe- prisoners t: several public houses, and
w•l.ilrt on the areshold of one of them, Hill knocked
lii;n down, and May seized hit pocket book.
Both prisoners -solemnly dea ed the robbery. The
p: isrn►er M .v exiled a great nunaber of w•itne)ses, who
'save him an excellent charge er. The Jury, unJrr the
I.:arned Judge's direction, found the prisoners Guilty,
arid sentence of death was recorded.

Antes Fuj and John .simmons were indicted for steal-
ing three pockets of hops, the property of Messrs. Price
and Tnomas, at St. Saviour's, Southwark. It was proved
th:rt the prisoners were very intimate, but there was no
direct evidence against Foy. Neither of the prisoners
called any w:tnesses. The Jury, under the Learned
Judge's directions, found Foy nor Guilty, but convicted
Simmons, and sentenced him to 7 yeats trans; ortation.
John Jacobs, a person of gentlemanly dre,s and ap-
t earance, was indicted fur feloniously intermarrying
with Catherine Fitzgerald, spinster, on the 23d January,
1816, at Walcot,\in Somersetshire, his first wife, Doro-
D..novan, to whom he kid been married at Cove,
Cork, rm the Gth of April, 1813, being still alive; but
the trial was postponed, Pt the instsn:e of prisoner's
Counsel, to gite time lOr the prodUcti,m of ss itnes,es.
Robert wit, iadic:ed for fels,kinusly intermar-
rying uith E•tlier Prlp, widow, at-N:sington, his first
fe being rie-prisoner, who appeatel to
be in ins, had 'been-married to his first • wile
s-nce 1818, and hadspartelfrorn her on account of this-
condact. in 182% Ite'rriairied trgain to his second w fr,
a widow advanci ci -n .yeArS. Since his separation frOor
his first wife, he had rep. atedly sent Ler relict... Boar
marriages were clearly- proved, and the prisoner was
found Guilty. Under all the circucastarces, arJ con-
s-de:nig his infirm bea'ah; be was sentenced to-three
toontlie•imprisonment.
MiClenei Wood and Benjantila Ita»cOck • were con-
.,
ofitealing at St. George's, Southwark, on the 1:t
of November, a hamper, containing several books and
other articles, the property of i'lr. Thomas Dallimore,
lie occupier of the Globe Tavern, Feet-street. They
were sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard
The Assizes fur this County ended this afternoon about three
o'clock. Nom of the capital convicts were left for execution:

A young L :dy of the name, of nottiluncts, who
resides %ids her aunt,' hi 'King's-I-rad, Chel,ea, met
with a setions accident on Wednesday evening. She
ss-ao teaching a miniature from the mantleshelt, when
Ler clathes to k fire, and she was in an instant enve-
loped in flames. There were One.: other Ladies in the
room, and one of them had 01: presence of nri,lJ t )
snatch a eh:fa from a chair b.:ck, which she wrariek
round the suffercr, but it is ferir e.I toe late to sate her:
Saturday se:might, as some of the junior Members
of the-Uaiversity of' CambriJge were shooting pigeons
in the neighboushu d e f llarnwr.ll, a bird being
wounded,.a fine lach, of about thirteen, the son of re-
spectable preii•siran to catch it, v.hen a gun werrt-off,
and shot out the eye-of the potri little.fellow.
An old man, named Tnomas Davies, uas found suf.
located, -on Satat day night law, on the edge e:f a lin:e-
killyon the S rand, Swansea, having one of his feet li-
terally burnt off, anJ other parts of h's body dikifitlly,
scorched. Monday an loqUel:t aas held by C. Collins,
E.l. on the body of the deceased, when a verdict to the
atove effect was returned.

'lle Menai Suspension Bridge belts now every ap-
pearance of a weedy completion. Ti e carnage roads
an! footways through the centre are all firrnlylplanked.
WeJnesday was lemarkably fine, and if it continues so
!or a few days, the whole ss ill be completed. The
opet.ing is positively fixed for the 2d of January, the
Ist falling on Sunday:--Shrewskry Chionide.
In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, SVeduesday,
C4efikman, Ike of Grafton-street, Fitzropsquare, the
wife of Lee Speakman, late of Liverpool,- cOttOn.breiker,
wavbrought up on het le ition. The pentionet:Wai'a
young woman, fashionably 'attired, and appeared' niuThli
affected ; but the COURT, without putting a single in-
terrogatory to the insolvent, ordered her discharge.
At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, Mit coller.,
Perkhiniereascomricted ofah.outragtous assault on*Mrs.
Garland, and her set V 413 t, of Carmarthen-suet t, Totten.
ham-tow-mid, and bound in tecognizances. to keep
fis psessis:•