Star.
London, England, 1825-12-22 00:00:00

CRIPPLEGATB•WITHOOT

In this Ward, which yesterday exhibited some symp-
toms of not being completely filled in its Representa-
tive Departments, a sudden opposition arose. It returns
no more than four :llembers, and the old one;, Messrs.
Pullen, Yallowley, Brogden, and Jones, ate very popu-
lar in the Ward. Them was a very large attendance
of Constituents.

Mr. Pullen, Mr. Yallowley, Mr. Brogden, and Mr. Jones,
were elected; the thew of hands for every one of them being very
considerable.

WINTER HOME CIRCUIT.

LEWES, DIECIINIZR 20.

The Assizes for this County commenced here to-day,
before the Hon. Mr. Baron HuLLocx and the Hon.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE. In the calendar there ate
the names of fifty titre,: prisoners commit:ed fur trial.
(-harks ;Kalman, alias Wilson, was indicted for steal-
ing, at Brighton, on the 17th of August, a gold watch,
the property of Edward Buck well, in his dwelling-
house. There were two other indictments against the
prisoner for similar offences. - .
The prisoner was a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, and of good connexions in Londol. On the
17th of August he went to the shop of the prosecutor,
who is a silversmith and watchmaker at Brighton, and,
desired to be shewn some gold watches. S:s gold
watches were accordingly placed before him on the
counter. He looked at them, but objected that pone of
'them were sufficiently high priced. The pro ecutor
'then turned to the window, and was proceeding to
chew him a watch worth 45 guineas, when he imme-
diately missed one of the six which he had previ-
ously &hewn. Upon taxing the prisoner with hissing
taken it, the latter pulled it out of his breast coil
pocket, and put it on the counter. At this moment Mr.l
Vfilmshurst, another watchm iker, one of the prosecu-
tors of the other indictments, came in, and in conse-
quence of his information, the prisoner was taken into
custody. Tne watch was identified.
The prisoner positively denied his guilt, and called several wit-
nesses, who gave him a good character from his infancy. •
Mr. Justice Lamaism,' summed up the evidence, and the Jury I
found the prisoner Guilty.
Me prosecutor strongly recommended him to mercy, on account
of his previous good character.
.Sarah Warmer was indicted for stealing, at
!lig h. on, on the 25th of August, a 501. and a 101.
Bank of England n !te, the property of Adam Bell,
Esq. in the dwelling-house of Sarah Peckhao ; and if
ii-
liam Wormier was indicted for receiving the same
property, knowing it to have been stolen.
The prosecutor is a Gentleman of fortune, residing in
Thayer-street, Manchester-sqiiare. In August last he
was staying at the Gloucester Hotel, B:ighton. Olt the
morning of the 25;h he gave a pair of trowsers to th.
chamber-mad, for the purpose of being sent to the
wash, inadvertently leaving a s'l. and a 101. Bank of
England note in the fob. The tiowsers were vent is
Mrs. Peckham, the !mind es,, and by her given to the
prisoner, Sal ali ‘Va!rener, to be washed. Nat morn-
ing the prosecutor missed his money, and in consequence
of, information received, he went to Mrs. Pealham's
huuse, where he saw Sarah Warrener, arid charged her
with having possession of his notes. She strenuously
denied any knowledge of 111.-m. A warrant being
procured, a constable went to the house where she and
her husband, the other prisoner, resided, and made an
unsuccessful search. In the evening of the same clay he
made another search, and at length found the notes
concealed in the bottom part of a rush-bottomed.chair,
in the prisoners' sleeping apartment. The prcsecutor
did not know the notes by any marks. He had received
them from his banker's, but there was a person from
the banking.house to identify them.
The male prisoner was not called upon for his defence, and his
wife said nothing.
Some witnesses were caned to her character.

Mr. Baron BULLOCK charged the Jury that they
must acquit the man prisoner, these being no evidence
that the notes were ever in his possession; and that,
they must also acquit the woman of the capital part of
the charge, as there was no evidence that the notes'
were taken in Mrs. Peckham's dwelling-house. He
then left them to say whether there was sufficient evi-
dence to satisfy them that the female prisoner bad
actually stolen the notes ? The evidence of identity was
certainly very loose,but it was for them to say whether the
notes found in the chair were the prosecutor's property?
The Jury delibiratod a considerable time, and found the female
prisoner Guars of grand larceny. They acquitted the husband.
The prosecutor strongly reconansended the woman to mercy, on
amount of his own culpable negligence in leaving the money in his
trainers. The temptation was, be feared, ton strong for resistance.
The Learned Judge concurred with the prosecutor in =Making
that his conduct was extremely culpable; and, under all the cir-
cumstances, sentenced the prisoner to three months imprisonment
in the Muse of Correction.

. -
. FATAL ACCIDENT AT NIENBURG.
On the 6th of this mnnt~
h,.-t fatal accident folk place
at Nienburg, in the Doehy of Anholt. The citizens
had resolved, on a visit of the Duke and Duchess, to
illuminate the new suspension bridge. At eight o'clock,
with a numerous band of music, they went- to the
bridge with torches; half the bridge sunk into the
river-(the Saale), at half-past eight o'clock, ss ith all
the people on it, and was carried ds,wn the stream.
The Duke immediately went to the spot to direct
the means of saving those persons who ss ere on the
bridge at the mercy of the wave s. Of six or seven
hundred pe sons who were in this alarming situation,
about thirty have not been found. The Borsen-hall
List has the following account :
" HER LI N, Daeriasset to.
" Letters from Kalbe, on the Saale, say, tl►at of the
persons who perished by the breaking down f the bridge
of Nienburg, f 36 dead bodies h Id been taken out of the''
river up to the 7th in the evening seven had died of
the injuries they had received, and the number of
wrunded was 41. A dreadful loss for a place contain-
in-, only 2ro

THE THEATRES.

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DRURY-L INF.

The llmpe was excessively crowded last night, on
I.tyros's first appearance for the season. His Alatinvorm
and Lubil: log kept the audience in c nstant mats of
laughter. DowroN's Cant well, as usual, was sterling.