Star.
London, England, 1830-10-18 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Maxerox-uovsz.—Broasay.—A stage coachman named Shaer,
was brought before the LORD Maxon, charged with bigamy.
Considerable interest was excited, the coachman being a very steady
good sort of man, and the first wife having been what is called a "loose
fish," and having stood a trial for housebreaking.
Frances Taplin stated that she acted as bridesmaid to Elisabeth
Thwaites, the second wife of the prisoner, who was married on the 34th
of Sept. 1820, at Mitcham, in Surrey.
The certificates of the two marriages, the first of which was cele-
brated in Bishopegate Church, with Sarah Webb, on the 17th Feb. 1824,
were produced.
Sarah Webb, the first wife, stood forward and appeared very undoes
for the prosecution, and upon being checked for her eagerness, by Mr.
Holder, jun. she declared that her husband deterred her, and she was
completely pesinyiess.
Mr. Mohler, jun. asked her whether she bad not run off with a man
from her husband's house, and whether she had not been caught in a
very odd situation by her husband
The lest wife declared, after some hesitation, and a cathodes that
she had been obliged to do what ebe ought not to have done on scams
of be beam' -having taken up with another woman, 'iota be hid
sines made his second wife.
Mr. Roble:, jan. stated that the unfeetunate man was anted in a bad
wife—she bad abandoned Wes kw the greets, and bad been allowed n.
Wally but it was all imam; MI saw she came forward to deeiroy
him, if posible.—lassariell.
Bow-swastw,rfieerp Cliesamte, a led about 16 yew at age, was
brought up as the fellewies dose '—
Mr. Hasbatos biaboseam, in Totteshisucatut.tood, good the
the Edam bog ben *sat ewes pen le his serial, and that ea the 7th
lemma be pashas I& Ie leis of esebisse t bat the prima,

instead of doing so, absconded with the money, and he saw no more
of him until Satutday morning last, when he tound him in the custody
of an officer.
Gardener, one of the Bow-street officers, stated that he apprehended
the prisoner at a public-house in Rochester, where his manner bad ex-
cited some suspicion, which induced the landlord to detain him. The
prisoner, after living there a day or two, was observed to load a pistol,
and soon afterwards to leave the house. The landlord seeing such a
dangerous weapon. in the hands of so young a lad, followed and stopped
him when the prisoner stated, that having no money left, he was de.
termined to try his luck on the highway. On examination, the pistol
war found to be loaded, and in the prisoner's pocket were found a quan-
thy of powder and several bullets.
The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence, and was re-
manded.

HAT Tox-GaRDEN.--Susan Reynolds, a tall genteel-looking woman,
was charged with numerous robberies. The prisoner had entered the
service of a Mrs. Marks, in Euston-square on the 24 of September, and
left on the 2d of October. The prisoner had nut been there more than
three days, when her fellow _servant, Frances Smith, missed a gold ring
and a pair of gold car-rings, and after her leaving she missed some caps.
Co the Monday following the prisoner came to visit Mrs. Marks, and
Smith had her taken into custody to the station-house, where they ascer-
tained, notwithstanding her giving several false addresses, that she had
lived servant in Gore-place, St. Pancras, where they found her boxes,
and on searching, discovered a number of articles that had been stoko,
and a letter addressed to he: in Argyll-street, and numerous duplicates
of table-linen ; the table linen alone amounted to 151.
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The prisoner was committed on three charges of robbery; and she
was remanded in expectation of others being brought forward.
WORSIIIII.IITIMET.—Mr. Marsden, a grocer, and member of the
Society of Friends, was summoned, at the instance of an informer named
Wyse, under the paving act.
It appeared from the statement of the witness that an empty sugar
hogshead had been placed outside of the defendant's shop, and suffered
to remain there for about three quarters of an hour ! The defendant
said the hogshead had been sold to a pawn, and merely remained in
the place mentioned until he could take it away. He was convicted in
the lowest penalty, 40s.
Defendant having intently looked at the informer, and carefully
surveyed him from head to foot, said, " I must comply with
the law ; " and he then paid the 40s. half of which was pocketed by
the informer.

BAIIRTMORE AGAIMoThe unfortu.
tunate woman Nary Ann Pcarec, better known as Lady Barrymore,
was brought up amongst the d6orderlies, charged with being very
drank and riotous on the previous evening, at Chasing-cross, and
creating a snob.
Her Ladyship, it appeared, was in one of her desperate moods,
and was thr,Atening destruction to all around her. It took no
less than six of the new police constables to convey her to the station
house.

Poor Mary Anne, on being asked what she had to say to the charge,
sighed deeply, and said that she was quite broken hearted, and she had
only come out of prison on the previous day.
Mr. WHITE said, that he regretted she had not got into some better
mode of life, but u she had not been before him for a considerable time,
he would discharge hcr.
She then left the Office, supported by four police constables, but soon
recovered herself when she got outside.
MINOR THIATRICALS EXTRAORDINAHTe-•.011 Friday six as
hopeful youths as can well be imagined were placed at the bar before
Mr. WHITE, charged with performing a play in an unlicensed theatre
and taking money at the doors.
On the stage-stvu:k heroes being arranged at the bar, the police con-
stables produced a number of swords, helmets, and a variety of tinselled
dresses, captured in the storming of this theatre.
Mr. Smith, the Inspector of the L. division, stated that information
had been given by the inhabitants that a number of idle and disorderly
persons assembled at a house in a place called Hoskin's-yard, High.
street, Lambeth, which they had converted into a theatre, and that they
wished the police to interfere to put a stop to the nuisance. One of the
prisoners acted as money-taker, and three-pence was the price demanded
for admission to the boxes.
It now appeared that, on a signal being given, the police rushed in,
when a scene of great confusion arose, and both the audience and the
performers endeavoured to make their escape. One policeman narrowly
escaped going throu4h a trap-door into a cellar about twelve feet deep;
another got his neck entangled in the folds of the drop curtain, and was
nearly being hoisted into the clouds. Several of the young lather went
into hysterics, or pretended to do so, and they were allowed to depart,
and with some difficulty the prisoners were secured.
Mr. Smith said they only wanted to abate the nuisance ; and the pri.
soners promising not to offend again, they were discharged, after a
caution from the Magistrate.
From one of the papers picked up, it appears that the play of" Fran.
kenstein" was getting up. The following is a verbatim copy of the
business of one of the scenes :—" Splindid Banottling Hall ini the
Pallas of the Prinse--frankensten rushes in, and Claims Protecting
from the Alonlster—the Monistcr Dashes frankastein to the Earth, and
about toeseape, When the Ptinse ordr his men to Fier. But the klo-
Mater make his escape, and the Solder follows the ]Moister !''

PIINISHMENT Or Alt ALDERMAN.—In Strype's
Stow,' voL p. 238, is the following extract from the City Records:—
" Nicholas Wyfforti, an Alderman, having neglected to line his cloak,
which he ought to use in procession, therefore it Is adjudged by the court
that the Lord. Mayor and Aldermen shall breakfast with him. This
penalty is awarded on him as a punishment fur his covetousness."
The Lynchburg, Virginia paper, for tho 19th of August,
gives a long account of the execution of a man named Jones, and of his
extraordinary conduct on the scaffold, in the following words :
" About three o'clock he signified to the town.serjeant his readiness for
the last act of the affecting tragedy. ills hands and fret were then,
as is customary, tied together, the former behind Um, and the rope
adjusted to the transverse beam of the gallows, when, with a calmness
and indifference, equalled only by his firmness, he pulled off his shoes,
stripped off his coat, partially unbuttoned his vest, and unfastened the
collar of his shirt, and then with an unshaken step mounted the scar.
fold !"—These are extraordinary performances for a man with his hands
and feet tied ; but the Americans are snarvelknis people. We once
heard of a Kentucky man, whose amazing strength was attended with
very fatal consequences. He was cutting a slice of bread and butter, j
when the knife di ped, and cut himself in half, and two men behind
him._,Mornj era d.
DINNER AT THE BARON DE ROTHSCHILD'B.—II
on a lovely July evening that we set forth on our dinner visit to the chit.
teats de Boulogne, the beautiful villa of Monsieur de Rothschild; and
from the moment when the gates of the domain were thrown open fur
our admission, we found ourselves enclosed within a paradise, to which
no one enjoyment incidental to the first Eden seemed wanting. Flowers
of all regions, fruits of all climes, tropical birds, English verdure,
French sunshine, living waters sparkling on marble basins, and fresh.

" As the dews which deck the morning flowers,
Or rain-drops twinkling in the sun-bright showers,"
delicious music self-played, with ready not obtrusive services noiselessly
performed, were the preludes to admission in that salon, where we found
the lady of the enchanted palace—not, as my heated imagination ex-
pected, another Annida, but, in all the simple, honest charm of mother.
hood, surrounded by her lovely children. A large society of distin.
guished persons of all nations introduced a very desultory and amusing I
conversation, during that swamis quart (Mauro wnich precedes the
dinner. We proceeded to the dining-room, not, as in England, by the
printed orders of the Red Book, but by the law of the courtesy of
nations, whose only distinctions are made in favopr of the great-
est strangers. The evening was extremely sultry; and, in spite
of Venetian blinds and, open verandas, the apartments through
which we passed were" extremely close. A dinner in the.
largest of them threatened much inconvenience from the heat.
But on this score there was no ground for apprehension. The dining.
room stood apart from the house, in the midst of orange trees.
It was an elegant oblong pavilion of Grecian marble, re-
freshed by fountains, that " shot In air through scintillat-
ing streams and the table, covered with the beautiful and
picturesque dessert, admitted no odour that was not in perfeetconformity
with the freshness of the scene and the fervour of the season. No bur.
nished gold reflected the glaring sunset; no brilliant silver dazzled the
eyes. Porcelain, beyond the price of all precious metals, by its
beauty and fragility,-.every plate a picture,—consorted with the
general character of sumptuous simplicity which reigned over
the whole and showed how well the master of the feast had
" consulted the genius of the place in all."—As I was seated
next to Monsieur Rothschild, 1 took occasion to insinuate after
the soup—for who would utter a word before ?—that I was not wholly
unworthy of a place at a table served by Carew*, (the Baron's cook,)
that I was already acquainted with the merits of the man who had first
declared against " la cuisine spires et aroma's* j" and that though
I bad bean accused of a tendency towards the bonnet rouge, my true so-
=don was the bonnet blame, I lad, I said, long gook in memo de
Monsieur Carom theoretically, and that now a practical acquaintance
with them filled me with a still higher admiration of his unrivalled ter.
bats. "Rh biers f" said Monsieur Rothschild, laughing, "be on his
side has also relished your works, and here is a proof of it." I really
blush, Eke &erne's accusing spirit, as I give in the fact; but he
pelltiod to a column of the most ingenious confictionery arehi.
astute, in which any name was inscribed in spun sugar. My name
mum beagle I Ye Quarterlies and Blackwood,. and Ns Brute,
-. am I flees Westminster ! ye wholese never traced my pro.
media usso but as gel, think of Lady Morgan in sugar; and that
too at k table esnounded by some of the gnat porters of the
Holy Mins I—Je *dew rewresid rot ! All I ecedd -do under my
sostioas, I did. I to be introduced to the celebrated
aid inlet, and Amid I Ow apin trouble else
prep with up Nesseetto dorms a Wilettery pegs to his genius, and to
WI sense etils Sid% Man sad oal=tisme was not for after
was, and we pressmed So me, is 41111 el the chateau by his'
smoke. Ha was a wellAssiln= pmesetly free hem
sad Asa we hod menma ash y other on our =re
weeklOs bowed hipistilfewli god awriage, which woe wait:
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