Star.
London, England, 1824-07-08 00:00:00

WESTMINSaR SESSIONS-THIS DAM

This Owning the General Quarter SeselOns etssisisced at the
;lrWestminster. Woe* Fannos Corn, L. Chairman,
as& of Magistrates.
Calendar, we are IstrOpy at state, is by no means Geary; nor
are the efences of a 'seises netere.
As MO as the Grand and Path Juries were sworn, the Court
proceeded es the Traverse Paper.
Ihessosece a respectably dressed female,
was isileted for keeping a disorderly Mabee. Woodeteek.steevt,
Bood.eseeet. The ledietsmot was induced by the Parish Metre
of et; Georges, Hisoveasfeare, an a conspleiet preferred by the
inhabitants retake he the mete street; they stet* it was inipob
Able to teside Is their Yeses if the assiassce, which was of a most
stocking description, was not abated.
A variety of respectable tradesmen were called, who posed the
continual scenes that nightly occurred, and at times it was noticed
that not less than twenty couple of men and women were seen go.
ing in and coming out of the house in an hour. One witness said
it bad the appearance of an entrance to a theatre or show-hooth,
and that the defendant admitted she was the landlady of the
dwelling.
Mr. Amer addressed the Jury for the defendant, whcn the
Chairman summed up, and the Jury found her Guilty.

PRISONERS BEFORE TRIAL.

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Our Readers may remember, that previous to the late
Session of Parliament, the question of setting prisoners
to work before trial was brought before the Court of
King's Bench, by Mr. Martin Stapylton, and that Mr.
Peel, at the beginning of the Session, undertook to set
the matter at rest by a special enactment.
This has now been done by an Act of Parliament (e.
85. of the last Session), which received the Royal Ac.
sent on the gist June; by the sixteenth section of which,
after reciting that by the 4th Geo. IV. c. 64. it was
made lawful for one or more visiting Justice or Justice!
of any prison to which the same extended, to authorise,
by an order in writing, the employment of prisanc-s
committed for trial, with their own consent, in any such
work as therein specified; it is enacted and declared,
that such consent of every such prisoner shall be freely
Riven, and shall not be extorted or obtained by depriva-
tion, or threat of deprivation, of any prison or other al-
lowance; and that no prisoner before conviction ilia,
under any pretence, be employed on the tread-wheel,
either with or without his consent.
The 17th section of the Act is as follows :
" Whereas it has been doubted whether prisoners committed for
trial, who are unable to maintain themstives otherwise that by be-
ing employed in some kind of work or labour in the prison, are en-
titled to receive any prison allowance of food without being re-
quired so to employ themselves ; be it hereby enacted and &claret+,
that such prisoners shah be allowed such food as may be stack-at
for the support of health, without being obliged to perform any
• of work or labour, as the medium of such allowance; and
that any warm or portion of the some, which may become due to
such prisoners from the keeper of awy prison, in consequence of
any seder made by any Visiting Justice or Justices of such prison,
for the omployment of sock prisonrrs with their own comely, shal
be paid to them as directed by such order, in addition to the food
so allowed, and without any diminution of such allowance by re.i.
sax of such payments."

Letters were received yesterday from Alvarado,
dated the 16th of May, which mention the arrival these
of his Majesty's ship CAMELEON with dispatches for'
Mr. Haavrr. No event of importance had occurred
in that part of Mexico, which remained tranquil.
It is said the beautiful Palace of Cardinal Farce, is
the Rue de la Chinook d'Antin (the most fashionable part of Paris),
has been sold to M. %acne; a tailor, for three millions of francs.
The venerable Sir 6/Darla Woon, late one of the Ba-
rons of the Exchequer, long distinguished for his high
legal attainments, is dangerously indisposed at hishouse
in Bedford-square.
A great deal of upland bay is injured by the lee
rains, and much meadow grass is carried away by
floods. The barley looks sick, and wants warm vk
the wheat, on good land, comes well into bloom.
A Meeting of the Subscribers to Lloyd's was yester-
day held, in order to receive the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed to watch the Bill recently introduced
into Parliament for the establishment of a Marine In-
surance Company, and which Bill has already passed
both Houses of Parliament, and also received the Royal
Assent. The Report of the Committee was read, after
which the further consideration of it was postponed to
Wednesday next.
The Sussex Advertiser says—u The fishermen be-
longing to Folkestone have been so very successful
during the mackerel season, that upwards of floe thos-
sand pounds statue& have been brought into Folkestone,
by the boats belonging to that town r
Two such wet summers as this and the last have newer
been remembered. Sportsmen begin to be apprehensive
that the Iring-eontinued rains will have had a destructive
effect among the broods of partridges and pheasants.
EXTRAORDINARY Bstausiny.—Catharine Ward, a fe-
male who lived till lately in the humble capacity of
servant, and who died on the *7th instant, has lefc se
the fends of the Belfast Academical Instinatios, a be-
quest of Two Hundred Pounds.
Tuesdays the ceremony of opening a newly erected
chapel, dedicated to the service of the Reiman Catholic
religion, took place at Richmond, Surrey. There is a
considerable number of Catholics resident in asad abort:
Richmond, and heretofore there has been no place of
public worship for their use. The want of it of coarse
was much felt, and Miss Doughty, an elderly Lady,
whose name we believe stands -high its the list of the
pious and charitable of this country, came to the detee-
mination of causing the present elegant edifice to be
erected at her own sole expense. The chapel is of as
oblong form, with a small tower of stone at one et-
tremity, supported by pillars, and surmounted with a
richly gilded cross. The interior is neat and elegant.
Yesterday morning, as an old blind fiddler, accom-
panied by his faithful dog as hb guide (both well blown be the
neighbourhood et Camberwell, Walsworth, and Peelkbans), was
pasting by Cambeterell New Church, opposite is whisk is a deep
ditch, the mind brag attracted by the appearance of slaw water
rat, made a mass splint towards the ditch, and the wand being
:taitover
dismiss. the poor tiddler lost hit balsam and was thug
ever bead and ears, drank( the antededoss author of the
after him The thug b Mom& from his half
droWned master, ran to some hewers ssie some in an adjoining
field, who. by his moans and lainentations, were Witted to follow
Lim to the spot, where they forennately arrived just all time is
preserve the itinerant nausidan from a watery grave. A Gesukman
of known liberality, With the meet charitable ruching, gave the la-
bourers three chugs fir their prompt exert*, An the cause
humanity, mid made the son of a present or two sovereigns
to replace his lestrunent, which was wangilftly destroyed
We extract the following from a recent Number of
the Gaeta de Colombia:
ftstasioas Marrshs.—We have the pleasure to state, that the
Arms& Clair has hem the arrangement of some private drabs.
hubs Motion to she *ritual wants of -Coloalteia, which had,
through the Waldenses, of the Bishop of Merida, been carried up to
Ms lloillsass. The Ovate agent, who bad these matters in charge,
"'rites fan Rom. Rader date of the 15th November last, that be
had obtained an andience of Pope latoXll. who had assured Ws
of his desire to favour the Bishops and faithful of America as much
as possible, and that he had given orders for the examination, by a
meeting of Cardinals, of the request which be had received from
the Bishop of Merida, and they were thety translating front Spanish
into Italian, in order that each might be carried up to its respectits
place. This clearly proves that the successor of Pius VII. is fol-
lowing the track which the latter bad began, in relatlue w the
ritual matters of Colombia.