Star.
London, England, 1830-09-24 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Mari-LaqKnrine..—YesterdayEfiza Bintearbare was charged with
felony.
Hannah Maria Martin, Mr. Martin's daughter, of the King and
Queen public-house, in Foley-street, Portland-place, stated that on
Tuesday the 14th of this month, she missed the key of her jewel-box,
and, after making a strict search, she found in the trunk of the pri-
soner, who was her father's servant, a key which would open it,
and when it was opened, a gold neck-chain, a gold watch chain, and
live rings, were gone. She afterwards found duplicates relating to
some of the articles in the prisoner's possession, and she was given into
custody.
Edward Dyer, sborium to Mr. Dobree, a pawnbroker, in Charlotte.
street, produced one of the rings, and stated that the prisoner pawned it
in his master's shop, on the 18th of August, for 9s. He also pro-
duced the neck-chain; she pledged that for 301. on the 23d, as she
said, fa her mistress, Ann Morris, of No. 46, Foley-street and on
the let of September she got an additional 10s. upon it, because, as
she represented her mistress wanted a bottle of wine; and another
10‘ on the 13th of September, to furnish her mistress with one
bottle more.

She was sent to Newgste for triaL
Maturosounit.svazzv.—Yesterday a very tripectable.looking
young man, dressed ass sailor, named Joseph Clarke, the mate of sWeA
Indlaman, was brought before Mr. Roe, the sitting Magistrate, charged
with stealing s hat under the following rather singular circum.

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Mr. Stuart, a hatter, residing at Lambeth, stated that he had known
the prisoner for some time as an intimate acquaintance, and on Tues-
day last he agreed to accompany the prisoner to his ship at the West
India Docks, as the latter was shortly to sail on an outward voyage. On
his return the prisoner accompanied him back again on his way home r
but when they got as far as Soho-square, they found it so late that they
took a bed at the house of Mr. Shelton, a Licensed Victualler, in
Compton-street, where they also supped and breakfasted the nest
morning. The prisoner persuaded witness to accompany him again
that day to the West India Docks, which witness agreed to do, and
having a hat with him that he intended to take home to a customer,
rather than be carrying the hat again to the docks, he gave it to Mr.
Shelton, the landlord, to take care of for him until his return.
When they got a good distance on their way to the West India Docks,
witness missed the prisoner, who suddenly quitted him, and he saw no
more of him until he was afterwards taken into custody on this charge
but when he, the witness, got back to Mr. Shelton's, and asked for his
hat, he found that the prisoner had called for it in his name, and
had taken it away, which witness gave him no authority what.
ever to do. - - - - _ - _

Mr. Shelton said, that a boy first called for the hat that Mr. Stuart
had left in his care ; but he, Mr. Shelton, refused to give it, until
shortly after the prisoner called for it, and knowing him to have slept
at the house the night before, and to be the friend of Mr. Stuart, be did
not hesitate to give him the hat, and did not know there was any thing
wrong until Mr. Stuart himself called for the hat soon after. The pri-
soner distinctly said that he was sent by Mr. Stuart for the hat.
The boy who first called for the hat at Mr. Sheltan's stated, that he
was sent by the prisoner for the hat; but on Mr. Shelton refusing to
give it to him, he returned to the prisoner, who stood waiting at the
corner of the street, and then the prisoner went himself for the bat,
which he brought out with him from Mr. Shelton's, and then directed
the witness to go with it to a pawnbroker's shop in Princes.street, and
pledge it for what he could get, which witness accordingly did, and
pawned it for lfts. which be gave to the prisoner.
The pawnbroker produced the hat, which he said the last witness
pledged; and Mr. Stuart identified it as his hat.
The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence, and was fully
committed for trial for stealing the hat, the Magistrate being clearly
of opinion that this mode of gaining possession of it was, in law, a
stealth.
Tows-Ifai.r..—Rver Sweeny and Dania Mahon', were charged
with stealing a quantity of iron pipe, the property of the Gas Company,
and of the value of 20s. The prisoners were committed.
William Rippe* and Richard Anderson were charged, the first
with stealing 321bs. of lead, and the latter with receiving the same.
Rippon was committed for three months to Brixton. Anderson was
discharged.
Willians Smith was committed for stealing a silk handkerchief from
the person of 111 r. Gaitskell.
Peter Camel was brought before Mr. Alderman Ansley, charged
with a most aggravated assault upon policeman DI, No. 02.
The policeman stated that while on duty on Tuesday evening, in
Union-street, one of the inhabitants required his assistance to quell a
tumult in the neighbourhood. On arriving at the spot, he found the
prisoner, ales householder, endeavouring to force his way into the
house of his next door neighbour, with whom he had been previously
quarrelling. A considerable crowd had assembled, and the'prisoner, on
being remonstrated with, became still more violent, seised hold of him
(the policeman) and" floored him ;'• but considering that he was some.
thing the worse for liquor he looked over the violence offered to him,
upon the prisoner's promise to become calm. About twenty minutes af-
terwards he was passing the same way, when the prisoner flew upon
him, and again took him b the collar, while his wife, from behind, en.
deavoured to prevent him from defending himself, and between them be
was forced again to the ground, and while prostrate, the prisoner nearly
tore his great coat from his back. On regaining his feet, the prisoner
desired his wife to bring him a knife, and he would run It "through his
—.. heart." She did bring him one, but it was wrested from her hand
before any injury was indicted. The prisoner then struck him a des-
perate blow with a candlestick, which his wife bad brought out.
Thinking it then high time to lose sight of clemency, with the ass
sistance of a brother °lbw he conveyed the prisoner to the station.
house.

The other policeman corroborated this statement, and charged the
prisoner with assaulting him also in the station house..
The prisoner pleaded that he was under great excitement at the
time from his previous quarrel with his neighbour, and baring drank
too freely.
Mr. Aldermen Awst.zr told him that unless he made ample re-
compense to the complainant he should be sent to Brixton.
Inspector Manning informed the Aldermen that no policeman was
allowed to come to any settlement.
Alderman Aim:Y.—Then what's the value of the coat ?...The In.
lapse:tor said Ws.
Alderman Awnsv.—.Which sum shall be paid, or the prisoner
!nand committed.

The prisoner was then locked up, but released in about twenty mi.
mates, the 20s. being forthcoming.
Ustrox-HALL.—In the month of July last, a man named Povey
was committed from this office on a charge of bigamy; he was con-
victed at the lest Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to six months' impel.
'moment and hard:labour. Since his conviction, it has been ascertained
that he has no less than five wives now living. Two of them, whom he
had deserted some years ago, attended before the magistrate (Mr.
Hone) yesterday, and stated that they had recently heard of the
punishment awarded to him, which they considered inadequate to
the offence; and they now cams forward to give evidence against him,
in order that the term of his imprisonment might be prolonged.
The Magistrate said that Povey was now undergoing the punish.
mot awarded to him; and at the expiration of his imprisonment, if
evidence was adduced of his having committed an offence, a detainer
could be lodged against him.
Both the wives then withdrew, apparently on very good tame with
each ether.

A number of men went on last Wednesday night to the
home of the Carey'', who live near golden, and who were, about a 'year
ego, attacked at night by an armed party, and illegally executed a de-
an ; Seven of the party have been apprehended, and are fully committed
to take their trial forte offence.--Cionmai Herald.
Informations have been preferred before the Prorint ana
Magistrates of Train, against a 501. freeholder who voted at the last
' election, charging him with wilful and conupt perjury. The-sacand 1
a gentleman of highly respectable connexions, and of hitherto unbie.
miahed character. The infonnetiom were read in open court. • The
(unbar Considerations of this ease were adjourned to Thursday, when
the Bench decided against taking the inhumations. The amused
parry was Daniel lkyan Wriweeny, and the person charged With
suborning him, Mr. Maurice Brennan, et it Limerick
(Aroniele.
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THE YOUNG MOTHER,
TO HER FIRST-BORN.
My sweet wee nursling ! thou art sweet to me,
As sun to flowers, or honey to the bee!
Music in summer bowers, the freshening stream
To bright wings dipping from the sultry beam !
Hope to the mourner, to the weary rest,
To the young dreamer visions of the blest !
What art thou like ? nestling in slumbers there,
So meek, so calm, so innocently fair,
What art thou like? a dormouse, sleek and warm ?
A prhurose duster ? or a fairy charm ?
Yes, thou'rt a charm, a most mysterious spell !
Birds, bees, and flowers, can just as ably tell
Why sunshine, scent, and streams, their pinnace lx
As thy young mother why she dolts on thee
With such unmeasued, fond, intensity.
I cannot look on thee but springing thought
Perfumes the air with blossoms fancy-fraught !
I cannot think on thee but life seems bright
With gushing sun-beams, ever-new delight !
Thou daring simpleton ! thy vacant eye
Can yet, to my long gaze, make no reply !
Breathing and crying are thy only speech—
But oh ! for me what eloquence has each !
Sounds of my first-born ! bow my heart they thrill t
Like the sweet bubblingg.s of a hidden rill !
A well of future blearedneas art thou—
My morning star—my crown of gladness now !—R.
Dumfries Cann

On the mail-road near Blackthorn, Oxfordshire is
lie-bouse, the sign-board of which has the following inscription ;
John Uff;
Sells good ale, and that's enough ;
A mistake here,

Sells foreign spirits as well as beer.
Ili PROPRIA Pansolvm.—A farmer recently received
very polite note•from a neighbour, requesting the loan of an ass, for
few days. Being unable to decipher his friend's hieroglyphics ant
wishing to conceal,)lll,,ignorance from the servant, the termer hastily
returned for answer, " Very well; tell your master I'll wait upon him
ruysejf presently I"
CLERICAL WlT.—The Sunday succeeding Mr. Jonathan
Peel's defeat at Norwich, a divine of that ;city took for the text
a very excellent discourse, " I am grieved for thee, my brother In.
nathan I"

ALEXANDER'S HORN.—In a scarce work entitled " Se-
crets Secretorum," and falsely ascribed to Aristotle, there occurs 0.,
following description of a very extraordinary born belonging to Al,t.
ander the Great :—" With this brazen horn, constructed with wonder.
fit! art, Alexander called together his army at the distance of GO mike.
On account of its inestimable workmanship and monstrous size, it ws.
under the management of GO men. Marty kinds of sonorous rn,tst.
were combined in the composition of it."
CATALOGUE OF POPES TILL DOOMSDAY.--Tile ROM
Catholics possess, by anticipation, a catalogue of all the popes frxr
A.D. 1143 till doomsday. It was framed by St. Malachi,-who war
born at, and Archbishop of Armagh, and was the first saint wtv
received regular canonization.—See p. 472 of Burton's Antiquities
Rose, ed. 1821. _ _

POPULATION AND GENERATION.—Father Peters, OA
Jesuit, calculated that in two hundred and sixty years four men might
have 208,719,000.000 descendants. Enough to people many sue/
worlds as ours. Sir W. Blackstone shows that in twenty generatim*
every man actually has 1,048,576 ancestors. Thus the provisions r
nature are made against every contingency. In the animal world,
342,144 eggs have been found in a carp only eighteen inches long snd
600,000 have been reckoned in the toe of a salmon.
Tux JEws.—The Jews, it has beon commonly tartnet
by historians, were introduced into England by William the Conqueror.
This. however, is erroneous; for the industrious D'Bloissiers Tom?,
LL.D. has proved in his "Anglia Judaic'," printed at Oxford in 1733
that they made a settlement in England a considerable time before th,
Conquest. The earliest mention of them in the annals of Great Britain,
is in the "Canonical Excerptions," published by Egbricht, ArchbiAo;
lof York, in 740.

ACT OF' PARLIAMENT IN Vettsze—At p. 150 of Dr.
Cotton's History of Editions of the Bible, Bvo. 1821, may be seen tiv
act for enjoining a public thanksgiving on the fifth of November, "win-
ted into easie meter. a song nicete for young and old." It is entrain:
from H. Dad's translation of the Psalms. No place or printer's namt
is indicated in either of the copies which are found in the Bodleian ant'
Lambeth libraries; and Dr. Cotton states that the volume has much th,
appearance of having been printed in Holland.
THE SUN A BODY OF Ice.—Many opinions have beer
formed concerning the sun which philosophers have sometimes ridiculed,
land sometimes seriously refuted. But of all the paradoxical assertion,.
Irespecting that luminary, none equal Mr. Palmer.,' for that gentlemar
positively asserts it to be a body of ice I The following is the title of
Mr. Palmer's books " A Treatise on the sublime science of Heliorn•
phy, satisfactorily demonstrating (I) our great orb of light, the Sun. ti
be absolutely no other than a body of ice. By Charles Palmer, Gent'
Bvo. 1799.
SCHOLARS NOT ALLOWED TO DEG WITHOUT r.
Licxxes.—By the act 1449, c. 22, in the reign of the Second Jame
of Scotland, it was ordained, " That all somas, ovalayens, and master-
ful beggars, should be imprisoned, have their ears nailed to the treat
or till erne other tree, have their ears cutted off, be banished the country,
and if they returned that they should be hanged." The later statute.
1579, e. 24, declares who should be reckoned vagrants ; and it is not ..
little curious to find among them, "all vagabond scholars of the uni-
versities of St. Andrew's, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, not licensed by et
rector and dean of faculty of the university, to ask alms."
CsitocePnaLus.--" The imaginary animal, called
cynocephalus by the Egyptians, was supposed to be an apt, with
dog's head. It is mentioned twice by Pliny, and, I think, ow. b:
Solinue."—Drummond's Peraius, p. 127, notes.—A lengthened ac-
count of the cynocephali is given by Clerics, op Pholium, 72, de but •
cis. He says that their complexions are black, and that they occupy
tract of country in the mountains as far as the Indus. He estimate.
their numbers at 120,000, and says they frequently attain 200 years
age. They are mentioned four times by Pliny. See 1. 6. c. 33 ; 1.7-
c. 2; L 8. C. 80; 1, 37. c. 42. See also licrodolus.l. 4. c. 191. £l:en
Ilia. Ass. 1.10. c. 25; L 6. c. 10. Ciccro's Kpist. ad. Attic. t.
ep. 1. Horapollo's Hieroglyph lea, Ll. c. 14, 16. Bryant states tb:
the eynocephali wee persons of great learning, and members of a inert.
college I—An. Mythol. IL 26.
INVENTION OF THE SPIIERZ.--14 The peoplo of CA.r.
tyre attributed the invention of the sphere of the heavens to Namtess,
daughter of Alcinous, King of the Plumes, in that island ; and it h
most probable that she had it from the Argonauts, who in their mar
home sailed to that island. and made some stay there with her father:
—Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, p. 86, 4to. For this extraordiusr:
discovery Newton refers us to Suidas, who states that " Attagallis, t
female grammarian of Corcyra, ascribes the Invention of the spurs
Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous."—Now if our learned astronomer Inc
turned to Athenaus. (1.1. c. xii.) from whom Suidas copied the abet-,
passage, he would have found that this astronomical sphere was really
nothing more than a sort of tennis-ball, with which the daughter et
Alcinous and be fair companions were wont to amuse themselves, ad'
to which practice Homer alludes in the Sixth Book of his Odyssey.
100,101, 115.—This strange blunder was, we believe, 61.14 detected and
pointed out by Dr. Chapman, in his " View of the Expediency art.
Credibility of Miraculous Powers among the Primitive Christians,'
4to. 1752 • to which learned production the reader is referred for fur-
ther particulars.
CORONER OF WEST MINSTRR. —lt appears that, tr.
consequence of some neglect on the part of some of the officer;
connected with the establishment of St. George's Hospital, the Co.
roue of Westminster has latterly been subject to much lace:
venience, as well as trouble, in procuring necessary evidence ups
inquests attached to his district, whereby the euds of justice have net
received that full and complete elucidation which was requisite toe pro-
per verdict. In consequence he has felt it a duty, incumbent upon
him, in the execution of his authority, to write to theßoard, requestir,
that it would order a more strict inquiry for evidence, in order chi,
Juries might be able to give a satisfactory verdict.

BIRTHS.
The 22d inst. In Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Mrs. T. Moore.':
a son.—The 21Id inst. at Albion-place, the lady of Dr. B. O. Davis,
a daughter.—Yesterday, in Great Coram-street, Russell.aquata
lady of F. Allen, Req. of a daughter.—Yesterday, in Great Cumberlszti
ease. Mrs. Leonard Currie, jun. of a daughter.—The 22d inib at tkr
Vicarage, Tottenham, Middlesex, the lady of the Rev. H. Arm:arm--
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
The 91st Inst. at the Church of St. George the Martyr, 3liddleert
the 1t.,. J. !limey, of London, to Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. M
Graterlek, of Erich Parsonage, Kent.—At Lambeth, ou the Slut. ins►
Lieut. S. Baker, R.N. to 3largaret, eldest daughter of toe late S. Bur-
nett, of Lloyd's Colfee-houst.

DIED.
The bth Inst. at Lenten, Nottingham, Mrs. I. Sharpe, aged 80•••••
The 22d inst. Mr. R. Weller, Threed.beedle.street, and eldest min of
W. Weller, Esq. of Amenham, Becks.—The 22d ham Mr. Crofts, Of
Brlck.lane, Spital.fields, in the fad year of his age.--Tueedai;atry
residence in Lower tiernour.etreet. the Dowsget Loy
relict of the Rey. Sir John Knighdey, of Faireley-parlt, is the mom
of Northampton, Bart.

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