Star.
London, England, 1825-01-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN.IO.

The Sessions were opened this day by Mr. CONST
(Chairman) and a full Bench of Magistrates.

THE XING, AT THB PROSECUTION OF THE ►IARQUIS OF

STAFFORD V. RICHARDSON.

Mr. ApoLpuus, jun. detailed to the Jury the circum-
stances of this case with great minuteness. It appeared
that, on the 11th of November, two baskets and a par-
cel had been left at the coach-office of the Bell Inn,
Holborn, directed to the Marquis of Stafford. The
porter of the office, the prisoner at the bar, received in-
structions to deliver the parcels at Cleveland House,
and a ticket was given him, as was customary in those
cases, authorising him to demand the sum of 19s. aild
4d. for carriage from the country, and 3s. 4d. for por-
terage. However, instead of making the fair demand,
he presented another ticket to the groom of the cham-
bers of the Noble Marquis, increasing the charge of
carriage to 11. Ss. 4d. leaving the town porterage as it
was before. This sum seemed much too high to Mr.
Gummo, the groom of the chambers, and in conse-
quence of his statement the prisoner reduced the charge
of porterage to ls. 4d. Mr. Gummo desired him to be
cautious what he was doing, for if he was overcharging
he should get into trouble. However, he received the
money, and when lie had been gone some time, Mr.
,Gunitno found in the hall the original ticket, from
which he was entitled to make the smaller demand.—
Accordingly he proceeded to the coach-office, and
upon inquiry, it turned out that the ticket presented by
the porter had been written by himself, and was not re-
ceived from the office, and for this he stood indicted.
Evidence having been given to these facts, the
Chairman summed up, and the Jury convicted the pri-
soner without hesitation.

THE KING V. NEATE AND OTHERS.
This was an indictment against three individuals,
charging them with a conspiracy to defraud a person
of the name of Cor. It appeared from the evidence,
which was very contradictory, that the prosecutor had
sold a horse to a man, at Smithfield,on the Ist of Octo-
ber, and received in payment a country bank-note, is-
sued by a bank which had stopped payment since 1816.
The charge against the prisoners was, that they had
conspired to deiraud the prosecutor, by means of this
invalid note.
With respect to the prisoner Neate, an alibi was
sworn to by several respectable witnesses, who all de-
posed, that on the day in question, he had been em-
ployed in repairing a &fin in his own yard, and that
he could not possibly have been present. The banker's
clerk was called on his subpoena, to prove that the note
was good for nothing, but he did not appear.
The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
The CHAlRMAN—Gentkmen. consider your verdict seriously.—
An alibi has been sworn to in the case of Neate, and no proof is
before the Court, that the bank-note in question was not a valid
instrument.
The Jury persisted in their determination, and a verdict was
passed against all the defendants.

The dedication of the new Masonic Hall, lately
erected at Yarmouth, took place on Wednesday sennight, being
the anniv4sary of St. John, attended by the Deputy Provincial
Grand ;vlaster, J. Ives, Esq. and• the Officers of the Grand Lodge
of this province. The meeting was attended by a vast number of
the Brethren of the dilferenti Lodges in and about Yarmouth.

The soldier, charged with tendering illegal oaths at
O'Brien's Bridge, Ireland, belongs to the 25th Foot ;his
is Stephen Hanley, a native of the County Kildare..—
He underwent an examination betore the Magistrates at
O'Btien's Bridge, on Friday, when four persons named
Guerin, Molony, Ryan, and George, were bound over
to prosecute; they all agreed in charging him with at-
tempting to administer unlawful oaths, and, when
asked by the prosecutors the nature of them, the-pri-
soner is stated to have said, " that it was to be true to
each other, and to kill all soldiers, Protestants, and
Orangemen—that he was at confession a few days be-
fore Christmas, with (naming) the priest of the palish,
and that he selected him as a tit and proper person to
enlighten the people and swear them in." The prisoner
denied every word of the allegation, and insisted that
the prosecutors wanted to swuar away his life—that
the book was taken from the teacher's hat, and the
oath administered to him by the accusers. Hanley was
committed to the Bridewell of O'Brien 's Bridge, for
fur Cher examination, and has since been fully committed
fur t: ial under the Insurrection Act, at Six-mile-bridge.
CANTERBURY, JAN. 9.—ln the evening of Friday
last, about seven o'clock, the servant of Mrs. Tokely,
widow of Captain Tukely, R.N. residing at Sturry, a
short distance trcm Canterbury, was dispatihed by her
mistress, upon some trifling errand, to the house of Mr.
Pinlina, about a hundred yards distant, and on her re-
tut n it is supposed she inclined to the left instead of pro-
ceeding direct to the bridge over the flood-gates of the
mill,and over which she had but a minute betore passed;
the censequence was, she fell into the mill-pool, and was
drowned.