Star.
London, England, 1824-07-09 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CUTTING ANI/ 31•1111N0.—Sarah Paine was charged With cutting
the rhroat of Patrick Parker, a tailor, with a sharp instrument.
The prosecutor lives in Brewer-street, Golden-square, and the pri-
soner is a female who infests the Park at night. The offence was
stated to have been committed during a conversation between the
parties. His neckerchief was cut through, and his neck and chin
deeply wounded, and he bad lost a good deal of blood. She posi-
tively denied having InSicted the wound, and said that she could
have no motive for doing 14 ar the proseeutor was an utter stran-
ger to her. She was remanded.
4n* allko, a servant in the family of Mr. Bower, a jeweller, in
Oxford-street, was charged with robbing her master, and disposing
of the property at the shop of Mr. Boyd, a jeweller in the same
street. She had exchanged the property for a brooch.—Committed.

THE NEW BREAD ACT.—Among the other provi-
sions of the Act passed during the last Session, for
amending the Act of the .53d George 111. relative to
fixing the Assize of Bread, it is provided—u That, by
reason of the great decrease which has taken place in
the price of the several articles used in the making and
baking
.of bread since the passing of the Act in ques-
tion, it. is become expedient that the bakers and makers
of bread for sale should receive a less allowance for
their charges and profit than is given by that Act.; be
it therefore enacted, that from and after the Ist day of
July inst. the Mayor, Aldermen,and Magistrates, in cities
and towns corporate, and any two or more Justices in
towns where there is no Mayor, or in counties generally,
or in their respective jurisdictions, shall set an assize of
bread, in execution of the provisions of said recited Act.
The allowance to the baker to be, when the assize is set
from the average price of wheat, 135.10 Y4d. per quarter,
and when set from the average price of flour, the al-
lowance
to be lls. Bd. per sack, being in each case a
decrease of one-half the assize, or one farthing in.a guar-
tern loaf, of the allowance given to bakers by the Act
of the 53d George III." This Act does not extend to
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but is in all
respects to be considered as a public Act.
We are informed that the exemptions in a late Actof
Parliament from duty en shepherds' dogs will only ex,
tend to farmers of estates ender 1001. a year keeping
sheep, and to the owners and occupiers of estates under
501. a year keeping sheep, and that such estate or farm
must be the sole livelihood of those claiming exemption.
RHN•AWAY HUSBANDS.—A long placard, headed as
above, was received yesterday at the different Police-
offices,frorn the township of Sheffield,descriptiveof thirty
or forty run-away husbands who have deserted their
wives and families: a reward is offered for the appre-
hension of each of them, by any person ; as, being guilty
of an act of vagrancy, they may be apprehended
without a warrant.
To the list of resemblances already mentioned may be
added the following :—The brother of the present Lord
Harewood, whose likeness to his present Majesty was
such as to give him the name of Prince Lascelles. The
present Sir Alan Parke, in his Nisi Prim wig, is the very
counterpart of our late revered Sovereign; and Mr.Vil-
lebois and Mr. Nunez, two masters of separate packs of
fox-hounds, used to be continually taken for each other,
and the most ludicrous mistakes occurred amongst
persons who hunted with their respective establish.
ments. Mr. John Lavender, Governor of Worcester
Castle, who when clerk at the Queen-square Office, and
Superintendent of the Police at the Opera-house, was
noticed for the similitude of his profile to that of his
present Majesty. Rees, the celebrated imitator of Quick
and Munden, and Desborough, the well-known singer
of llabdiu's songs ; and Mr. Adamson, the auctioneer,
and Mr. Blanchat d, the Comedian, of Covent-garden.