Star.
London, England, 1825-03-29 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZES.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S, MARCH sa.
John Singer was indicted for manslaughter, in M-
int and slaying Robert Evans, by stabbing him with a
knife in the lower part of the stomach, on the 28th of
September last.
Daniel Cr,ift said he lived at Halesworth, and was a
shoe-maker. The prisoner was coachman to Mr. Gor-
don, of Rendlesham Hall, in Suffolk. Witness was
there on the 28th of September last, in the afternoon of
that day. He was in the servants hall, and the pri-
soner laying the dinner table. The prisoner and the de-
ceased, a fellow-servant, were quarrelling, and Evans
was giving the prisoner a good deal of bad language,
and beckoning at him, as if he would kick or strike
him ; he did not do either, but he went up and col-
lared the prisoner with both kis hands; and keeping
hold of him, shook the prisoner twice. The prisoner
had a case-knife in his hand. He saw him make a stab
at Evans's side below the ribs, but he cos ld.not tell whe-
ther it went into his side. Evans then let go his hold,
and took up a poker and struck at the prisoner, who
warded off the blow. He then got into the middle bf
the hall, behind witness, the deceased still following him,
threatening him with the poker. The prisoner went out
of the hall, and as he was going out, Evans said, 44 he
has stabbed me."

Cross-examitied—Evans was not very violent in his manner.
John Kettle was also present.—Evans was abusing
the prisoner very much about something he told from
the servants hall in the kitchen. The deceased having
collared the prisoner, he (the prisoner) then made a
push at the deceased with a knife at the lower part of
his body.
Mr. Crokewood is a surgeon at Beccles.—He was sent
for to attend the deceased. He found him lying on a
bed in the servants'-hall, apparently in great pain, and
suffering much ; he was feverish and pale, and the pulse
very inactive. He found a wound of an inch and a halt
on the lower part of the belly at the left side; it ap-
peared to have been caused by a sharp instrument. The
instrument had entered the cavity of the belly, as part
of the omentum was protruding out. He dressed the
wound superficially. It appeared to him, horn the
vomiting which was caused by the wound, that some
vital intestine organ had been injured. The deceased
died the next morning, and he had no doubt that death
ensued from the wound.

The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence.
Several respectable witneues gave the prisoner a most excellent
character for humanity and general good conduct.
Mr. Justice GASELEZ left it to the Jury to say, al-
though there was a provocation, whether the pri-
soner was in such a situation at the time, that he could
do no other than what he did, and that the instrument
he used was one he was justified in using, and that he'
had no other means of defending himself from the at-
tack of the deceased ?

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to
mercy, on accoum of his good character, and ui consideration of his
previous confinement for six months.
NU. Justice GASELIZ told the prisoner that he was very happy
he had it in his power to acquiesce in the recommendation of the
Jury, from his previous irreproachab:e character, and the contri-
tion he had shewn for his crime whilst in prison. The Jury had
found him very properly guilty—they could do no other; and he
hoped it would be a lesson to him for life, and he therefore
thought, that without any compromise of the justice of the coun-
try, he was justified in only sentencing him to a period of fourteen
days more imprisonment.

Robert Baker stood charged on the Coroner's Inquest
for the manslaughter of John Alexander. by riding fu-
riously against him, whereby he received a wound
which caused his death.

From the evidence it appeared, that on the evening
of the 9th of August last, a Mr. Pattie, residing at
Braswell, was returning home from Bury, having
gained a cause there : he was met about a quarter of a
mile from his house by a concourse of his neighbours,
who were shouting with joy for his victory. He had
been riding a young mare, and he got off her and gave
her to the prisoner's brother to take to his house.—
The prisoner, however, got on the mare, and set off
in a gallop on the road, which was then rather crowded',
with people, who were rejoicing and blowiag a horn.!
It appeared the mare got irritated by the noise, and
that the pi isoner could not manage her, and she went
forward at a very quick gallop. He endeavoured to
stop her, but to no purpose; and he called out to the
deceased, who was a poor old man who used to sell
matches, and who was in the middle of the road, to
get out of the way ; but before he could do so, the
horse came in contact with him and he was thrOWn
violently to the ground, whereby his death was caused.
The prisoner was immediately acquitted ; and the Court cau-
tioned him nut in future to ride horses he could not govern, to the
danger of his Majesty's subjects.

COVENT-GA RDIE24.—•-FAWCZI T had a brilliant bumper
at his benefit, on Saturday night : a just tribute to distinguished
profes.iional talent, and acknowledged private worth.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.—Mr. MATHEWS'S Enter-
tainment continues, if possible, to become more and more attractive
every night. The House overflowed, on Saturday, at an early
hour, and laughter and applause accompanied the whole of the
performance.

MINOR THEATRES.—The Adelphi, Surrey, and
Olympic Theatres, closed successful seasons, on Saturday, on which
occasion, neat and appropriate addresses were delivered by their
respective &age Managers.

Saturday night, Mr. SOANN, with that liberality
which ever distinguishes his conduct, again opened his house in
Lincoln's-inn-fields, for the exhibition (by lamplight) of Baczones
sarcophagus. The rooms were splendidly illuminated, and the
company found a great source of pleasure in the examination of the
numerous paintings and pieces of antiquity which were every
where to be met with. The sarcophagus was so illuminated as to
Am its transparency to advantage, and attracted universal attention
and admiration. The company, among whom was his Royal High •
mess the Duke of Suss►x, was composed of the most distinguished
fashionables and literary characters.

By the line proposed for the Ship Canal between the'
Engtisis and Bristol Channels, a distance of more than 300 miles will
be saved, besides the dangers of a sea voyage round the Land's F.nd.
The course intended is from Beer Harbour to Bridgewater Bay,
which will be something more than 44 milts.

Notice of a Bill for granting a provision to the Ca-
tholic Clergy of Ireland, and likewise of one for abo-
lishing the forty shilling votes in that country, will, it
is expected, be given in the House of Commons this
day or to-morrow.
The following dialogue took place last week at the
Assizes at Caen, between the Judge and the prisoner:
Lecoertois, I have caused inquiries to be made respecting you at
the Prefecture of Police, and here is the result :—You have been a
powder-monkey, or cable-boy (smile) ? Tes' Slr.—A hackney
coachman? Yes, Air.—A stealer of dop for tits School of Medi-
cine? 'Tie true, air.—Again a hackney coachman? Yes, &L
A dealer in foundered horses for tbefiscres Yes, Sir.—A Bayer
of bases in Paris? Yes, yes, fine, you bare been driven
front Paris? Yes.—Your certificate of conduct is thus expressed—
' Incorrigible vagabond." Lecourtois (with ani-
' Mak anythhig Ina dap ; it is not a dog that
konosir. It is mammary, moreover, that the
wits *ow folmals."

Accounts from Mexico of the 2211 Dee. Ism, state,
that since the vigorous measures taken to destroy the
machinations of Iturbide, party politics bad been si•
lenced, and these neither was, nor was expected to arise,
any struggle between the people and the present Go-
vernment authorities.

There are several English houses established in the
City, and all kinds of English manufactured goods find'
a ready sale; :he consumption of which, there is no
doubt, will increase when the duties are lessened ; at
present the duties are exorbitant and inconsistent, being
the same on the common kind of English cottons
(which article is in the greatest demand), as on the best
manufactured articles. These duties, it was expected,
would be taken off on the acknowledgment of Indepen-
dence by this country being known.
The agriculture of the country is at a low ebb, yet
every article of food is reasonable. No safe opinion
can be formed as to the production of the mines which
British enterprize is about to attempt to work. There
had been no progress yet made in any of them ; but
the Valenciana Company daily expected the arrival of
a Mining party from England.
Guatimala, comprehending the four Provinces (in
the narrow part of the South American Continent, in
the neighbourhood of the Isthmus of Darien), of Nica-
ragua, Costa Rica, Veragua, Panama, had declared its
independence of Mexico, and had been acknowledged
as such by the latter. The Minister from that State
was at Mexico. The Minister of Colombia was there.

The Grand Duke NICHOLAS, of Russia, and his con-
sort, arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 9th ult. in good health.—
The Grand Duke CONITANTIttE had also arrived.

HILLINGDON, MARCH 28.—An affair of honour took
place on the Winmoie, early this morning, between
Captain A—ER—on, of the Royal Navy, and a Mr.
C..—TT—LL, a Gentleman holdin+. an official situation
in one of the Public Offices ; after the first fire, the
Captain was satisfied, but Mr. C—Tr insisted
upon having fresh pistols, and stated that he was not
brought there for nothing, and that he should shoot
until blood was drawn ; whereupon the pistols were
procured, and Mr. C—Tr—u. shot his antagonist
through the left arm, when the affair terminated. The
charms of a certain young Lady ate said to have been
the cause of the quarrel.
It appears from the Cambridge calendar, that the
number of members on the boards of that University i.
4,700, being an increase of 210 in the last year—of
1905 in the last twelve years. The number at Oxford,
is 4,660 ; so that those at Cambridge are now, for the
first time, the greatest.
During the course of the last week, as the Earl of
WESTMORLAND Was I iding towards Chelsea, he dropped
the ring of his watch, to which was attached a seal of
exquisite workmanship, and particularly valuable from
the beauty of its engraving. together with three keys
one of which belongs to the Cabinet (as we have heard)
containing the Privy Seal ; the custody of which is
vested in his Lordship, by virtue of his Ministerial office
of Lord Keeper. The inconvenience arising in the
transaction of public business to his Lordship from its
loss, was great in the extreme; and he at once applied
to Bow-street, in order to its recovery. He, however,
in the interim, luckily discovered that Lord HA !MOWRY
could remedy the temporary inconvenience. Hand-
offering a liberal reward for its recovery, were
widely distributed, and a moat minute examination of
the different roads his Lordship had traversed in the
course of his ride, took place under the superintendence
of the Otlicers of the different Police Establish ;.cos of
the metropolis, but all to no purpose. Every hope of
its recovery had completely vanished, when a young
man, in shabby gente:l garb, presented himself to the
Magistrate; of Queen-square Office, and stated that he
had found on the Chelsea road, a ring, seal, and three
keys, and that being ignorant of the person who had
lost them, lie wished to know from their Worships if
they could inform him who it was; and it not, what he
'Maas to do as to their disposal ? The Magistrates, on ex-
amination, discovered from the description in the hand-
bills, and the arms on the seal, that they were the objects
of the late anxious search, and transmitted them to his
Lordship, who, it is unnecessary to add, rewarded the ho.
nest principles of their finder in the most liberal manner.
DREADFUL Acctnem—Saturday afternoon, Mrs.
GEORGE, wife of Mr. Geonua, coachmnker, of Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was sitting by the fire,
when some wax, which was melting in a pot for the-
purpose of polishing some of the furniture, boiled over
and blazed very much ; she instantly took it off the fire,
on which a portion of it fell flaming on the carpet ; in
endeavouring to put it out by stamping on it, her clothes
caught fire, and in a moment she was enveloped in
flames. Her screams soon reached the ears of the ser-
vants, who on proceeding to the room found her with
her clothes literally burnt off her back, and the whole
of her person dreadfully injured. She expired yesterday
morning, after suffering the most excruciating agony.
Saturday afternoon last, George H utchinson,who was-
one of the men employed in conducting the steam-
engines used in conveying coals from Middleton to
Leeds, was blown to pieces by the bursting of the boiler.
At the Norfolk Circuit (Bury St. Edmund's), on Sa-
turday last, a tithe-case was tried Collyer, Clerk, v.
Jacobs. It was an action brought by the Rev. Plaintiff,
the Rector of the Parish of Gillingham for 28 years,
against the defendant for not settling his tithes in alegal
and proper manner. The defendant insisted on setting
them out, by throwing aside a sheaf out of every tenth
shock, into which the defendant at that time had made
up his corn, the plaintiff only claimed to take every tenth
sheaf from the ground. -Mr. EAW.I, for the defendant,
called evidence to prove that the plaintiff had made a
.waiver of the legal mode of having his tithes set out at
a Vestry Meeting, before harvest, and the Jury returned
a verdict for the defendant.

Johnson, the informer, has been at work with the
pawnbrokers of the metropolis ; is great number were
summoned to Mary-la-bonne Office on Saturday, for
various informations in their business, in not•asking the
names of the pledger, according to Act of Parliament,
&c. All the defendants were convicted in the penalty
of 40s. for each offence.
Soon after the recent executions at Winchester, the
two brothers, J. and W. Dewy, were interred in the
Cathedral chnrch.yard, withodt further knell or funeral
service than that which themselves had heard and taken
a part in. Greater honours, however, were paid to the
remains of Smith, the Gipsy horse•steaier ; his body was
conveyed from Winchester in a cart, and received at
some distance from the city by an immense concourse
of his former associates in the profession of sAreyisso,
and, after due ceremonials, according to their peculiar
6 rites, was buried in the chtweblard of Lubin.

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