Star.
London, England, 1830-11-26 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Jort.datosx.—Yesterday Eleanor Wailing was t 4
imp
Mt 11 instant,
before Sergeant SELust and Mr. LAING ille
ampistsly assaulting William Burn.
The complainant stated, that he lodged at N 0.49, Liqueepsistislesst,
gray's Inn-lane, and this the defendant b servant in AID
On Monday night last, about 12 o'clock, after he had mad
bed, the defendant thundered at his door, and in an espy isms le.
modal admittance. Not knowing any cause for so extracodlnsay •
visit, and supposing the woman to be mad, he refused to epos the
door, upon which site resolved to carry his apartment by storm; sod
accordingly having procured a poker she commenced base/leg
down the opposing barrier, until at length she effected • breach. i
unable, however, to force the lock she had recourse to stratagem,lehJ
brought up the landlord to request of him (the complainant) to open the
door by pretending that he wanted to speak to him. This succeeded,
and the instant the door was opened, the defendant rushed desperately
at him (the complainant), and striking him with a two pronged bistro.
mem, a fork he believed, in the face, nearly cut the eye out of his bead,
and, at the same time, swore vehemently that she would never Os oar
hostilities until she saw the last drop of his blood flow.
This statement was corroborated by the landlord, who added, that es
the previous night the defendant, with a knife in her hand, threatened
to take his life, and so alarmed was he at her violence, that he sent for
two police officers to take her into custody.
Several other witnesses corroborated both statements.
The defendant alleged that the complainant struck her in the first in.
stance ; and, with regard to the landlord, she stated that she had four
children by him, although being a married woman, and that
sow he wanted to 6, whistle her off," which threw her into a state of
ion.
.e Magistrates observed, that the conduct of the defendant was not
the effect of sudden passion, but evidently of malice, and they ordered
her to find bail.

Woasatr-SraszT.—Yesterday Wiliam Davey, a retailer of beer,
appeared before Messrs Butts T and &maim., upon an information
laid by Foster, a common informer, for not having his name, &c. over
his door, as required by Act of Parliament.
Baker, the informer's witness, stated, that on Sunday afternoon last,
between one and two o'clock, he went to the house of the defendant, in
Wellingion.street, St. Luke's, and was served with half a pint of
beer, for which he paid one penny. Over the door be observed a large
board, with the words " William Davey, named to sell Beer by Re-
tail," in gold letters, upon a rosewood colour ground, contrary to the
Act of Parliament, which required that the words should be painted in
black letters upon a white ground, or In white letters upon a black
pound.
Mr. BEXETT referred to the Act, and said, that he was not aware
until now that the words were so peremptory : he feared he had no al-
ternative but to convict. He at first thought the information frivolous
and vexatious; the penalty was very heavy—it was 101. and he had no
power to mitigate it, or he would gladly do it. The offence was evi-
dently not done with any Intention to defraud the revenue.
The defendant said, before the put up the board, he applied at the
Braise Office to know whether be would be liable to a penalty for put-
dug up such a board, when be was informed that the intention
of the Legislature was only to hove the letters of suffidont dimen-
sions to be conspicuous; he had conformed in every respect with
the words of the Act, except the colour of the board, and substituting
gold letters for painted ones; the letters were even larger than the Act
required, which did not thew any fraudulent intention. It had coat
him much more money for the board he now had, than a plain black
or white painted board would have done, thinking it would appear
more respectable, and having seat many others of a similar de.
seription.
Mr. Buauxxx said, he thought the dstiodant bad acted strictly
within the spirit of the Act, although not prarisely to the letter of
it. It could sot have hoe done faiths pureed evading the law. If
the letters were of proper ribarnsisas, ad wog tbig done which the
Act required, except the osisnrot the varsly that would be within
the spirit of the Act; the Isamu being in pia would reader them more'
conspicuous than in black or white. He (Mr. Burnell) would rather
defer giving judgment for a few days.

Mr. BIRNETT perfectly agreed with his broths: Magistrate as to it
being within the spirit of the act, and that it had not been done to evade
the law—but the words of the act, which were imperative, had not been
complied with, he, therefore, felt bound to convict ; but if his brother
Magistrate should differ with him in opinion, of course the case must
be dismissed.
Mr. ButtxxLit. said he would give judgment on Wednesday next,
and in the meantime would :commend the defendant to put up another
board immediately, in strict conformity with the words of the act.

UNION-HALLrFINAL EILIMISATIOX OP WITH 414.--Yester-
day, Thomas Witham, the husband of the unfortunate woman who
was murdered at Lambeth, in August last, was brought up for further
examination. _ _

Ever since the murder was perpetrated, notwithstanding the result
of the Coroner's Inquest held on the body, various rumour were
propagated in the neighbourhood &alma to be of serious injury to
4Vitharn, who, it seems, all along, as well as his employer, was
anxious, if evidence could be obtained to implicate him, that he might
Ibe committed to undergo the ordeal of a trial, which would esta.
bilsb his Innocence, and remove the stigma which had 6o undeservedly
been Ailed to his character. Several of the parish officers having also
expressed a wish that the case might undergo a more minute examine,
don, and Mr. Cdunbers having been apprised of the wish of all parties
on the subject, undertook to silt the lustiness to the very bottom, and
with this view he has been for the last three wean closely engaged in
taking the depositions of all persons whose evidence was likely to throw
any light upon the subject, and relieve Witham from the imputation
under which he had laboured for such a length of time.
The whole of the witnesses =embed at the inquest were re-examined
again at this office, and their evidence did not vary from that which they
had given on the former manic&

Mr. CZAIIIIZIN having (=mined Into the whole case most minutely,
and only finished yesterday, after a most laborious inquiry, discharged
the accused, observing that no jury maid peesibly convict on such evi-
dence, and that the imputation spinet Witham would be removed by
the steps which had been adopted.
Mr. Filmy, std other gentlemen connected with the parish of Lm.
beth, expresAd their thanks to Mr. Members for the attention he bad
bestowed on the case.

QUEEN-mean!.DZITZRATZMERL? ox a him POLICE
CONSTABLE NT Inc MlLlTAlTe—WednesdaychiGil,ir Smith, a pri-
vate in the 3d Regiment of Foot Beards, wu with a violent
assault on John Hines, a pollee constable of the B vWca.
The constable stated that be was on duty on the previous evening in
York.street, Westminster, when the landlord of the Crown public-
house gave the prisoner in charge for breaking a window ; he, however
, paid the Latticed for the damage, and it was settled. He then broke the
window of Mr. Williams, a grocer,who gave him in ebmge,and witness
was conveying hint to the station-Moss, when he stopped at a butcher's
shop, and said he would go no further. A crowd collected around them,
and several persons called out to the prisoner " Hit him knock him
down !" The prisoner, finding himself backed by the mob, knocked
witness down three times, and then ten or twelve other soldiers made a
rush at him. Witness, in his own defines, then drew his truncheon,
and knocked the prisoner down I and then sprung his rattle for assistance,
but no person came, and wino= was knocked down again several times
by the prisoner, and eventually the soldiers made another rush at him,
and rescued the prisoner from him. Witness then went to the station.
house, when the superintendent sent a sergeant with hint to the barracks
at Knightsbridge, and the prisoner was delivered up.

Bannister, the inspector, said that when the constable came to the
station-holm he appeared to have been much injured, and was in a faint.
in g state t and
?Award Williams, grocer, of No. 56, York-street, corroborated the
constable's statement.

The prisoner, in reply, said that he was in liquor, and had no cool.laden of what he had done.

'Mr. MARMOT? Sad that the cue was'of far too serious a nature to
be settled before them. Re trusted that those soldiers who bad dis-
graced themselves by rescuing the prisoner, would be discovered.
The prisoner was then delivered into the custody of his serjeant ; and
the depositions were sent to the commanding omcer of the regiment,
with a letter from the magistrates.

QUELIF.IIQUAIIa —Jaw Merril. a servant to the Rev. Robert Ly.
nem, of Lower Belgraen*ls r, Pimlico, was charged with stealing a
puree, containing four sovereigns and a half, and four half.crowns, the
property of Mr. Archibald Campbell, a pupil of ben master's. On
being questioned, she denied any knowledge of the purse or money. A
search was made, and in the Finances work-box ihe rim of money was
found. Mr. Campbell identified one of the sovereignty which had been
marked with his initials, A. C.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Leassurx.rrarwr.--Anthany Lewitt a Herculean.looking black,
wencher's& with M= several sendesOten out of mousy, clothes,
&c. The prisons: ly aosemilhlmod Ids object by peesentlng
tidous orders from different earins, Ise clothes mid money, and In
most lustiness succeeded in obtaiing them. Boned the parties
evinced a great want of caution, and the prisoner was ordered to And
'bail to appear at the sessions to answer any einarge that may be preferred
against him.

TOWN-HALL—. Wit Hess Casey was rammulned on the charge of a
most desperate assault upon flannel Wald, now lying In a precarious
state In St. Thomas's Hospital. The prisoner, with a part of a flag.
staff which had been broken, struck the wounded man whh it with plat
savage violence, that he had only dim to exclaim—" Oh Ono !" be.
fore he fell senseless on the stones, and was taken to the hospital.—
Itamanded.
In the course of the two last days, the Magiehleeast this dies have'
committed 36 persons, more or lees coneemed lit es helitainhe ; lune
for want of ball, and others to Mites tie throe ritiedia.

lin_E

SCINTILLA.

THE PLEASURES OF THE PEDESTRIAN.
No sad vacuities his heart annoy ;
Blows not a zephyr but it whispers joy :
For him lost flowers their idle sweets exhale ;
He tastes the meanest note that swells the gale
For him sod seats the cottage door adorn,
And peeps the far off spire, his ev'ning bourn.
Dear is the forest frowning o'er his head,
And soft the green sward to his velvet tread ;
Moves there admit o'er mid.day's flaming eye,
Upward he looks mad 'trolls it luxury;'
Kind charities Wa amp attend,
In every bubbling brook he finds a friend ;
While anemia, dteughts of sweetest use, bestow'd
By wisdom, asemaliss his pensive road.
Host of his welamme inn, the noon-tide bower,
To his spare meal be calls the passing poor
He views the sun uplift his flee,
Or sink, with heart alive, e Menmon's lyre ;
Blesses the moon that comes with kindest ray,
To light him, shaken by his viewless way.
With bashful fear no cottage children steal
From him, a brother of the cottage meal ;
His bumble looks no shy restraint impart_
Around him plays at will the virgin heart;
While unsuspended wheels the village dance,
The maidens eye him with inquiring glance,
Much wondering what sad stroke of care,
Or desperate love, could lead a wanderer there.
Werdstrertl.

MAJOR. LONG-Bow OUT-DON z.—The inhabitants of
Ceylon affirm, that the salt lake on the mountain of Colombo =um,
wholly of the tears which Eve shed for 100 years together, because of
Abel's death! "'Pon my soul it's true; what will you lay it's a lier
QUICK WORK.—Dr. Nares, in his new volume of the
Life of Lord Burghley, tells us that his Lordship used to receive
" three.seore, four-seore, or a hundred petitions, which he commonir
read at night, and gave every man an answer next morning as he we,
to the HalL" A fine lesson this to modern Chancellors !—a hundred
petitions read and decided at night, and answered next morning going
to the Hall !

INDIAN HOSPITALITY.—The observance of this virtue
even towards an enemy, is inculcated by a Hindu author with great
elegance. " The sandal nee," says he, " imparts its fragrance e,„,
the ale that hews it 1"

- - -
—A
HIT;-42 Irish Counsel being questioned by a Judge
to Mew "for whom he was concerned,' replied as follows :—.4 1
am ammemoed, my Lord, for the plaintiff, but I'm employed by the
defendant:l

ADVICE AND GOOD NATURE.— Madame de la Vapau•
lista once pre to her husband, who was much addicted to gambling,
a fish tray richly worked, with her own portrait on one side, and on the
other those of their children, with the motto " Think of us."
ANOTHER RIVAL TO LONG.—Over a door at Cricidade
in Wilts, is the following notice .—" Shoes mended according to the
latest and most approved method. Drowned persons, on application,
immediately restored, so as to raven! the complaint returning.—
N.B. The person must not be dead !"
A COMPARISON.—It is with narrow-souled people .
with narrow.necked bottles—the less they have in them, the more noire
they make in pouring it out.
t NDU PUNCTILIO.—The young Rana of Mewar hay.
tog inadvertently inquired of an uncle, the natural brother of his father.
the name of a particular tree, it was construed into a reflection on that
respectable gentleman's pedigree, his mother having been a carpenters
daughter, and the Rana was in conkquence assassirated A.D. 1419.
This is even a refinement on our English proverb, which says " It
ill talking of halters to a man whose tither has been hanged."
SCOTCH NEWSPAPER.—The first newspaper which Wl9
printed is Scotland, appeared on Tuesday, 6th August, 1661, and
inUtuled " A true Character of Affairs in England, Ireland, and Scot-
land: printed at Leith."
Prince Talleyrand has, it appears, acquired so intimate ,
knowledge of our language, that at least half tne jokes he daily cracks
are English. The following is his last :—An aristocratic friend was
condoling with him on the accession of the Liberals to power, when
the Prince gaily observed, " Oh ! I don't despair ; their administration
cannot, in the course of nature,_ezist very long."—" Why so?" in-
quired the other in surprise, " Tis plain enough," replied Talleyrand,
" Is it not a Grey-headed administration ?"
LACONIC ORDER OF THE DAT..—Frederick 11. wrote
one day to Gen Salmon, Commander at Cleves," My dear Salmon,
if the Austrians come into my territories, tell them they have mistaken
their way; if they begin to argue, make them prisoners; and If they
make any resistance, cut them to pieces."
Loss AND GAIN.—A Minister of War (the Count
Germain) having said that to obtain a prompt promotion it was neces-
sary to have lost either leg or arm, Carlin made as addition to this, a
few days after, at the Theatre !Wien :—" My dear Scapint I am going
to make a rapid fortune; I shall cut my arm off, then I shall be a
Captain a leg, then I shall be a Colonel ; and then my head, for them
to make me a GennaL"

HORSY-RACING By MACHINZRY....—The August Num.
bee of the Americas Turf Resister (on our table) contains an article
with the above title. But we have seen something more ingenious in
New York. At the counting.room of a French gentleman, who has just
returned from Paris, we saw a horse which a person mounted and
11 moved rapidly over thilloor, by the simple operation of turning a pair
of cranks, fastened in the neck of the steed. It was on the plan of
velocipede, but far more ingasions.—Albany, Advertiser.
Tun CHZROKSZII.—The United States' troops hare
again lately scoured the gold mines. At the upper mines, we under.
maid, they arrested upwards of one hundred, including whites and
Cherokees. The Indiana were released on the ground, after being kept
raider gum& one night, and peremptorily forbidden to dig any more.
The eddies were driven across the Chestitee, and they also were re-
leesed. At the Six's no Cherokee was arrested, but they were ordered
en desist It now appears plainly that our great Fathers eon.
eider as Itierght of intrude,,.
A few weeks ago the principal Chief received a commu-
nication teem the Secretary of War, through the agent, which we pn
sumo was intended for the benefit of the Cherokee people. kis a silly
pseisotin fors great man. The Honourable Secretary rays, rou
right well expect to see young turkeys domesticated as to see the
become civilized where they are." 4. True enough," PA.{ :4 One
of the Mean pondents, " if you are continually setting dugs
mad sassy begs urn them."
fbe following curious comliment to the ftir
sex is extracted from an old play, indtled Cupid'. Whirligig'
Wbo would abuse your sex that knows you ? 0, woman! were we not
born of yos--sheuld we not then honour you ? Nursed by you, and
net reguid yew lb Made for you, and not seek yon ? And since we
wee unit kw you, should we not live and admire you as the last and
mew point work of Nature ? Mao was made when Nature wu but an
apprentice, but Woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. By
your love we live in double breath, even in our offspring after death.—
Are not all vices masculine, and virtues feminine ? Are not the Masts
the loves of the learned ? Do not all noble spirits follow the Orem
because they are women ? There is but one phoenix, and ghee a fends.
Was not the princess and foundries of good arts, Minerva, born dike
brain of highest Jove, a woman ? Has not woman the face of love, the
tongue of persuasion, and the body of delight ? 0 divine perfeetismg
woman, if to be of thy sex is so excellent, what is it then to be a nom
enriched by nature, made excellent by education, noble by birth, dont
by virtue, adorned by beauty !--a fair woman, which is the esaamotef
Heaven the grace of earth, the joy of life, and the delitlit of Ammo
even the very summum bonum of man's existence." This di rhy
written in 1907. sad falsely ascribed to Shakspeare, is rarely met
and is not likely to have fallen into the hands of Burns who, bonen".
in mettof his songs, has hit on the same ides, and almost the rem
words, as in the preceding passage. Burns, speaking of Dame Now.
says, Her 'prentioe han' she tried on man,
And them she made the lames, 0 !

BIRTH.
The 14th ult. at Haringey House, Middlesex, the Lady of Sir
A. hleekensie, of Hairloch, Bart. of a son ad Mk.

MARBLED.
Col. Tikes°, of Watlington Park, Oxfordshire, to ilisobsdir sliest
daughter of J. Blackstone, Bac. ut Castle Priory, WallingibeL-101
lath inst. J. T. B. Bellew, Req. of Newton-avenue, county 1 DM%
to Flora, only daughter of the late G. Passmore, Beg.

The 184 lest. at Windsomer DIED.
race,laithrthW, Maria Coarsest
aged 28 years, daughter of she late Hon. Basil Cochnne.—Thernibir
se'nnight, at Peterborough, M. T. Whitworth, formerly of the OW
coke and Newark Company of Comedians—At Nice, In Italy,
M.D. for nearly thirty years an eminent physician or Dublin—
lhaerdyi Mrs. Lieveski. ninny yews many to the Foundling Ha.
plod— he Ilith Inst. at skendleby, Llagelsehire, Frederick Chariot
Imam son of Major E. 13rackenbury—Sunday, at Nowstead Abbey.
Mrs. Wllimen, mother of Col. Wildatait—Hooday, at Dublin, the
lady ofd. 8. Townsend, Esq. blaster in Chancer—The Ist inst. t'
Aver and iellanwastion, at Killlaure, in the count yy of Cavan. in the
alidt pew of Me, U. F. 8011, Esq. The deemed was a member of
1810 Ikketels bar, and be purposed being called to the Irish bar io the
Persont term.

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