Star.
London, England, 1824-07-29 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Dogs are among the animals which the criminal law of ri
land considen maims oalo•is : to steal a dog therefore is tot a
felony. An adventitious value, however, has been given to them
by the statute of 10 Geo. 111. cap. 18, under which 7'. Baps and
H. Niglaingok were yesterday charged before the Loan llatos
and Alderman LUCAS, with stealing a curious little anim il,
more than tea inches in length, though two years and a half
the property of Mr. Collerton, of Hawkeshury Cottage, INalwnrth.
Mr. Collerton was walking, accompanied by two Ladies, hi Fle.t.
market, when the prisoners snatched up the dog and ran up 1/Ink
Horso-court. The Ladies [allowed him, crying " Stop thief!" and
Mr. Collerton ran to Fleet-street, to meet them at the other end a
the Court, but they got clear off; not, however, without being ob-
served by a lioy named Isles. From his description, the prisoners,
who were notorious dog hawkers, usually to be found on the North
side of St. Paul's Churchyard, were apprehended; and, on the
evidence of Isles, were committed for six months each, hi default
of paying a penalty of £2O. Mr. Collerton had previously regained
his little favourite, by paying a reward of two solaces.
HATTON-GARDEN.
j. Norris, a Mulatto, was charged with stealing a cart, containing
haberdashery, and other goods value 5001. from a barn detached
from the Cross Keys Inn, at Caxton, Cambridgeshire, the property
of W. Steward, a hawker. The circumstantial evidence was suceez
against him, and he was remanded.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Mrs. Hells was summoned for cruelty to animalf. Mr. Abraham•,
of Peter-atreet, built a stable at the back of his house, the entry to
which was through a court. On Monday. evening, in leading his
horse up this court, it was attacked by Mrs. Halls, with a pieced
wood about the head, until the blood ran in torrents. In defence,
Mrs. Halls said, the defendant assailed her with many opprobrin3
epithets, and struck her; it was a paved court, and the horse bad
no right that way. Mr. Maaat.mos believed that she had been
urged to it by the inhabitants •f the court, but that was no reason
why the poor animal should suffer ; and, as a caution, she should
this time pay the costs, 9s. 6d. and be discharged.—A female then
said, Mr. Abrahams bad backed the horse through her window.
How was she to get reparation?—" Get it repaired," said the Ma-
gisuate.—The parties withdrew, about forty in number.

UNION-HALT.
The new Vagrant Act was yesterday (for the first time) put let"
operation by the Magistrates of this office, and it was extremely
well applied. Upwards of seventy cadgers (beggars) and prostitutes,
who have long infested Kent-street, in the parish of Newingter,
and been in the habit of sallying out in the night to commit all sacs
of depredations, and in the day to practise begging, were the per.
sons judiciously selected for the experiment of the new Act. The
acridicers of the establishment, wick Hall, the chief
their head, besieged the head-quarters of this gang of despe-
rate vapbonds. The scenes hitherto exhibited of " Life in Leaden,"
ill infinitely short of the exhibitions of Kent-street, yesterday
morning, between the hours of twelve and three.
Inn Wallace, a girl of fifteen years of age ; Maria Doris, an et.
deny woman ; a girl turned fourteen years of age; and Mary ra•sy,
an incorrigible prostitute, nearly forty years of age,were sommitted
to Brixton mill for a month each.
Two very decent looking young women were nest examined.—
The officers stated, that they had apprehended them together in
bed, at one of those vile houses in Kent-street; they behaved very
well en being taken into custody, and were not known to any of
the °Seen present. The girls stated, that they bad only just istt
their situations, and were enticed into the house by some women,
who described the life of a girl of the town as a life of pleasure
and gaiety; they had a mind to try the experiment, and this was a
specimen of the pleasures. If they were suffered to depart nue
they would take care in future and keep their places.
The Magistrate, in discharging these two young women, point'rl
out to them the destruction which inevitably attends a nate aro-
'citation; they that day saw sufficient examples to deter them Iron
embarking in inch a We of misery.
On leaving the bar they shed tears, and appeared to feel deeply
impressed with the advice they had received.
Several women were committed for one month each to Bilges,
and those who had the advantage of a peaceable character in dux
" calling," were discharged with an admonition.
The men were now putt. the bar, most of wham were identifiPi
as rogues and vagabonds; they were committed for one meE
each to the House of Correction.

An action for breach of promise d marriage was
tried at Danville, in Vermont, on the 11th ult. and

after a trial which lasted twelve hours, the Jury gave a
verdict for the fair plaintiff of 825 dollars damages, and
costs, which was considered the full amount of the de•
fendaut's property.
About two centuries ago, the Sheriffs of Yorkshire
were often attended to the Assizes by 300 horse; all their relatives
and dependants malting a point of joining the procession. Even
in the frugal and unshewy period of the Cotnrnonwealtb, it se-
'pearethat the train of a Puritan Sheriff of Lancashire consisted
of 140 horse. _ _

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Swlss•Hanotass.—ln 1499, during the wars of Sol-
Ma., an heroic act was performed in a skirmish near Werdenberg, by
a Swiss named Jehan Vonvals. This gallant _soldier made head
alone, and defended a pass against twenty men at arms. He bad
already overthrown three of them with his pike, when the others,
usturdshed at his valour, promised him good quarter, took his
tack with them into their camp, and returned him without doing
him the least harm. He had more generous foes to deal with tips
Ulric Rothac, of Appensel. In the wars of his country agaisc
the House of Au a, this brave man, being surprised by twelve
Austrians, fought alone against them, and killed five; the sever,
itief limey, set lice to the cabin on the top of which be
Idlatalft and basely destroyed him in the limes. A
.lims.slas. haulm& on the spot.

an!- BIRTH.
PAW, at Coavray. North Wales, the Lady of Sir David Er
akiaa.:*ut. of a en and heir.

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•.a.) a .4. MARRIED.
lar, at Kensington, the Ilishop of Jamaica, to Miss Pope,
r of the lite E. Pope, Esq.
y, at Barking, the Rev. W. It. fiklitoo, li. A. of
John's College, Cambridge,. to. Maria, third .600ter of 14'1'
.111110,. . the Maim.

DIED.
At ,Cilltass, Mrs. Tobin, relict of James Tobin, &q. and
sitar of the lamented author 9f The Homey Mane.
Timely, at Winstead, Mr. Aaron Purkess, aged 75, one of the.
eseendants of the faaiUy of Parkes', who conveyed the boklY
William 'talus (sibtrwarallin,whilst haating•io the New Foraq
to the eadwdral March of Winchester. .

IIARIEBT, JULY 88.
price.
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Od. to 383.

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