Star.
London, England, 1825-11-07 00:00:00

PA R LIAM EN FA RY PAPERS.

A set of Papers, rimed for the use of the House of
Commons, has been jast distributed, containing copies
or extracts t.f all cniiimunicationi received by the Di
rectors of the East India Company, it relative to the
limning of %%Wows on the funeral piles of their hus-
h Inds," since the 16 h of June, 1824. The Papers
cont.' n the number burned in 1823, is the Presidenciesi
of Bengal and 13,imbay.
The numbers of women who have been burned to
death in the Presidency of Bengal, in the four limit
years for which returns have beet made, are—For
1822 . . . 597 I 1322 . . . .483
187.1 . . . 654 I 110'0 . . . 573
Under the head Presidency of Bombay, the returns
are nct systematic, but there appear to have been SACti•
ficed in

1820 . . . 66 I 1822 . . . 47
IK2I . . . 50 1823 . . . 38
and the practice appears to be confined, with scarcely
a iy excei,tion, to the Southern Concan.
Of the instances of the Sacrifices or Suttee; in 1823,
no le.s than 310 occurred in the Calcutta dorition, iu
eluding Cuttack, and forty-six in the very " suburbs of
Calcutta ;. and it is remarkable that, while in other
parts of India the practice seems to diminish, and in
some-large districts is entirely abandoned, it continues
quite unchecked in that district where B itish influence
might be expected to be most powerful.
It is absurd to attempt to make laws to prevent self-
destruction, dictated whether by religious or by any
other motives, but the burning of the Ilindoo widows is
often a tended with circumstances which make it any
thing but a voluntary sacrifice.
The prevailing opinion of the official people in India
appears to be, that the Government cannot safely pro-
nounce a direct prohibition of these murders; but this
opinion is by no means universal. Mr. Harrington, one
of the Members of the Cctinc.l of Bengal, has recorded
a Nlinute, in which lie details his reasons for adopting
" the opinion expressed by the Second Judge of the
Court of Islizamut Adawlut (Mr. C. Smith) that the
toleration of the practice of suttees is a reproach to our
Government," and that the entire and immediate alri-
lition of it would be attended with no sort of danger.
Mr. Gordon Forbes, Fourth Judge of the Calcutta
Court of Circuit, has not only expressed his opinion,
dm' the practice, " if prohibited by the Government,
might b: effectually supt.ressed, without apprehension
o! airy serious obstacles ;" but he states that this opinion
prevails among the judic,al officers at the stations visited
by him. This, too, is in the very focus of the supersti.ion.

Tux Jews.—Tne Inpl'aoveintient has just restored,
in all their former rigour, the laws against the Jews.—
r rhey are obliged to dwell in the Jews' Quarter (the
Ghetto), and even those opulent members of these tribes
who have purchased houses in other situations. have
found their attempts to be excused obeying this order
all in vain. They a.e ordered to wear a particular mark
of distinction—the a yellovi covering on the upper
part of their hats, and the women a yellow ribbon on
'their breast.—French Paper.
A horse was stolen from a field belonging • to Was.
RAwsow, E-q. of Halifax,- on the night of Thursitay
last. Toe loss was speedily discoveresl, and the fellow
(a native of Haifa:) vias traced to Wigan fair, where
he had sold his booty for 12/. 10s. to a deal r from
•
,Derbyshire. He trier in safe custody.
in the might of Tuesday • se'nnight, the fruit-room,
coach-house, and stables, of the Bev. C. EYRE, of the
Lowe: Park, Dedham, were broken into, and a quantity
,of onions, apples, filberts, two sacks, and servants ap-
parel , st :len therefrom.
A person comylaining th it his mornings were too
much takenUp w ith visitors, was-advised by a friend
to lend money to the poorer sort of them, and to ask
favours of the rich.

Among the night charges at Union-hall on Friday,
was one s. hich carved some mirth. A young Lady, just
returned from boarding-school, was requested by an old
ichool-fellow, now married to a Mr. D. to come and see
her, as she was extremely ill, and was anxious to clear
up some little difference which had formerly existed be-
tween them. The young Lady went and found her friend
se; io.P.ly ill in bed, and was so far reconciled as to pro-
pose sitting ulto i (It her all night. Mr. D. it seems also,
sat up, but became very drowsy, and in his sleep had
got so near to Miss G. who was of course drowsy too,
that half awake, she found Mr. D.'s herd snugly pil-
lowed on htr bosom ; but desirous of not disturbing her
sick friend, she dozed again—presently, half•awake
again, she detected Mr. D. taking still greater liberties.
with her person. Still anxious to pa:s she thing roll as
quietly a, possible, she left the house, and t.ld the whole
story to her father, when she got home. Mr. D. and a
friend afterwards waited on the Lady fur as explana-
tion touching his charicter, when the lather and daugh-
test o dered him off the premises. :Mr. D's friend then
struck Miss J. in the e) e, and knocked her down, for
which he was etdried to tir.d bail, whilst Mr. D. was'
Jtscharged.

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1/1/11ans 3fehlds was charced w:th f tratirg a hutvii„r_3rer
Bullock's, ptintirg oftiCe In Lombaid.ree, Fleet
myreo. eizit
pi Winer, a journeyman wheelwright, 5v.,4 proceeding
Trot le with the paperom Monday evining, 11+,3 clac.st
I lertl,firld, the officer, stared him full in the face, and i„,t.v..b,
chewed alarm, turned round went b Tit, anti was es, rsto,gy '
and que•stioned by the 4.fficrr. He stated he h.:l received
tom Toni James, at Davison's printing office k,pnsite paper
t •
lock's), but un bring confronted with Ton ~ then Pi 4 • ned ad ki's,,
ledge of each other, and it turned
.out th the p• had been
from Bullock's, and not allisolll office.at . Tit; per
pricnnrr stia
pet.?
*Wed that a Tom James, a pritster, whom he had known is",
child, had given him the paper, but several printers declared Vier.
was no such persod in csistcnce, and the plias:tut was cuminitt,.l:l
for tri.d.

130 W-STREET.
La nY nA %Tilton? An IX.--••Afitty Ann Pearce, better kneels 1.,
her slang title of Lady Berryatare. was brought up nit Spare
morning by Lloyd, a watchman, charged by Mr. Dreamer, thr hi;
lord of the King's llead, James-street, Covent.g ordeu, with
on Friday night- created a violence disturbance and groi-17 moue;
ducted herself at his house.
It appeared from the statement of he cpmplainant, that on
day evening, about half-past eight o'clock, this wreteked
mom s
who had been drinking with sumepersmis in the tag.ess,n,
drily started up in a state of great inionticati 111 l , and ',taint 4
the
pewter pots she could lay her hands on. began to throw them
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and left, without the least discrimination, hitting several
v,
violent Nooses, and one man so seriously, that he was unidole ro
tend 1:t the (office.

Lloyd, wbo was passing at the time, heard the noise, ar,d
tered the house, but be had no sooner she All his race that h, con,
a quart pot at himmwinithhivesucbeehnviolence,piac,d a
tltiat the barhaditasitir
tended matt she might
murder. With the greatest difficulty Lloyd, mid sewers; p• ;Ars
ss Ito were present, eouttived tip ICCUTC this furious woman, all to
cony y h:r to the watch-house.
The prisoner, whose
.appearance was sickly and emuittetl, anj
who had a bandage tied round ber forehead, being cal:e.: oe. %.1
deLoce, did not attempt to deny the charge
.rhich Wt, b„,tt,
against hers but complained of being the . mutt ill•used wuir...r,
Er:ll4nd ; and expressed herself anxious to be sent out of the Cell:TrV.
The Magistrate ( Mr. I laa.r.s) observtd that mratts misfit food
to do this; but for his owu part be most contott himself with ati'arisg
her to stand cononatt.4 to prison, to take her trial for the assitlt.

MARRY-LA•BONNR

jam jahlOOK, a young man, in the dress of a groom, wis phisa
at the bar, charged by Frances Wilson With baiting stolea her m,E.
The prosecutrix is an " unfortunate girl." About eleven Weld,
on Friday night last, she was walking with another "
girl," along, Oxford-street, when tih, y ni,t with the pr.:acct.—
They accosted him; and be, eventually, persuaded bliss Vol
Collildn to lend him her muff, into which be put his own
and then gave an arm to each of the girls. In this manlier n.i/
walked along Oxford-street; but nut far, for he watched
opportunity to break from them, and ran a'vay with the mid;
but they crying " Stop thief !" the prisoner threw the miff at it
face of a fishmonger who was passing, and endeavoured to ek.;•:,
but was taken and lodged in the watch-house.

Being called upon for an account of himself, he sail, that
within the last five months he had been in the employ of 61%1
Newbury, as a groom, and that since then he had hren mortal
some dogs to Germany, for a son of the Earl of Aberilern. lie
had no intention, he said, of stealing the muff; be ni:lely tiid it hie
a " lark."

Mr. Gatirmns ordered that he should be locked up fur the FL-.
sent, and Frances Collison and her companion were reeonmendr4
to reform their present mode of life, lest they silo bhuald qu4l:l
themselves for the tread-mill.
UNION HALL

CAUTION TO WORLIIRN.-.-011 Saturday two jr•urnevnas gh
cutters, named John Lee and John English, were hrou.,:it
the sitting Magistrate, L 13. A LIAM, EN. for having utillwfs*Jl
absented themselves from their work ?chin: the comphtion of thcir
contract.

• Mr. James Bailey, a glass-Cutter, steed, that lie hired the Jo
fendanta by the week, by verbal contract. Having wiirite.l
em?loyment ten days, they had quitted it without giving him anl
notice of their intention, and leaving two large glace book n
an unfinished state. Atter considerable dillicti:ty, the defend.
ants were traced to the house of Messrs. awl Green,
in whose employment they had entered subsequent to that vi tb
complainant.
The defendants urged in their defence, as a reason for
leaving Mr. Bailey, the difficulty and hardship they experience/in
consequence of being kept without a sufficient fire in the
and beside, the irregularity with which they received their
Mr. Dailey, however, produced evidence to contradict the :we:.
dons alleged by the defendants.
The Magistrate observed, that the charges were diitiney
proved against the defendants ; and as many complaints of a siatilt
nature had hewn lately made at this office, in oilier to make an in.•
pression upon workmen in general, he would now sentence then
to be imprisoned for two mouths in :be House of Correct/ea
bard labour.

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A letter from Vienna states that the Captains of
Irian merchant vessels have received 0r,1,.s from (lit
Government not to allow their ships to be v by
Greek aimed vessels; but that their lethal v. ill
nnavaling, unless they be escortei by a naval iota
capable of resisting the attacks of the (Ir ek avy.
&turd ly morning, about five o'clock, a fire was 5
covered to be breaking out in a barn, in the occupati.hi
'of Mr. Cross, of Off'rd Darcey, in Huntingdon. Av
.
alarm was immediately made, and a good :u; ply lot
water and other requisites being at hand, it was to.'11•
timely got under without doing any material inkry.
Two young men, about the age of fifteen or siiietn,
at Helton Colliery, near Durham, having 'valid....
one of them struck the other, so as to occasion des;!.,
A Coronet's Inquest was held on the deceased on Sate
day last, when a verdict of Manslaughter was returned.
The follosving account of the South Sea fishery ha.
been receiv,d by the Indian, arrived in tie D
The Seringaptani, PAILICKIIa was at Timor on the 20
February, with '2OO barrels of oil ; the Catherine, Veit., at Taw%
the 27th of March, with 20 barrels ; Ann and lilizaheth, Co'.r%
at Timor; the 28th of April, with 1,000 barrels ; Lady AmbrN.
Luse, at Timor, the.sth of May, just arrived; the Diva, Mar.,
was at Timor in May, with 13 barrels, and shout to sail kir *A,.

AIRETINGS OF cnEurrons, To-mouttovr.
A? Till 4%1U AT OF COMMISSWI4.EILI 01 BANK IV nv, sAsixonaLi-n Lin.

!MIMI 111/6TINCL
John Kincaid, Spital-square, siik•manufacturer
Henry Frederick Coley. Broad-street, wine-me
James Houghton, Manchester, linen-draper

SECOND DIEZTINOS.
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Richard Leonard, Cheapside, warehouseman
Wm. Shelton Burnett, New Loudon-street, merchant •
Wm. Dunham, Culemau•street, victualler

narr anternios.
GeorgeWilson,Constitution•rour, Gray's-inn-road, corn-audio
Wm. Patterson and Wm. Elliott, Basinshall-street, Inertia:us
John Woods and Henry Williams, Hastings, grocers • r
William N' Murdie and Win. Charles Pout, Epping, stationers
Thomas Tattoo, Gerrard-street, Soho, grocer •• ' -
Samuel Green, Bingdand, plumber
Isaac Worley,. Fish- etnet-hill,
Mary Bromley and J. Gibing., Clammarcial-road, chamomile"
John Pritchard and James BortasiOrmasley, brie/L.minute
Williams WM. Pfeemilly, pietemmlialsr: •

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DIED.
October 28, at his Parsonage-house, aged 77, the Rev. Wall.,
Brudengli Barter, Rector of Timsittiry, a Prebentlit y of µr4%04
*se of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county-of tinnier'''

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