Star.
London, England, 1825-07-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ADJOWINED SESSION'S.

Johnnite was indicted for assaulting HenryWif ken.
on the 29th May last.—The prosecutor stated that hini-
self and his brother were going with a horse in the,
neighbriurhood of Kentish-town, and that he left the'
horse at the stables of the defendant's father for a short
time. On his return to ask for the horse, he offered the
ostler 9J. for the keep. The ostler wanted mre ; and,
while they were speakiag, the defendant came eut and
insulted him grossly by words, and then kicked him,
saying that he did not want him or his horse there. He
took him to Hatton-Garden Office, where the defendant
acknowledged his guilt.
Mr. ALUM, for the defendant, said, thst the' sum
charged for the horse, one shilling, was most moderate,
as the horse had been four or five hours in the stables,
and had been well fed and taken care of. But the pro-
secutor, dressed in the pink of the taillian, was going
into the country will his brother, riJe and tie," and
after leaving the hot Sc, with orders that he !night he
well fed and taken care of, had the conscience to offer
otely 6d. for his kels and 3d, for ;he ostler. The de-
fendant !.eating some high words between them, eame
out, and the prosecutor was calling the ostler a rascal,
sw!ndler, and that all about him were the same. It was
too much for an honest tradesman to submit to hear
such opproSrious terms applied to himself and his fa-
mily, and he did assault the prosecutOr, but under cir-
cumlances whith it would Le impossible for a mail to
refrain from. Ile then called the ostler to prove this.
The Ctia rtmtv.4 sail, that if the defendant had merely
taken the prosecutor by the nose, or had given him al
push expressive how cheap be held his abuse, it would
have answered all the parpo:e of a violent assauh.—
%I'm. 1; did not justify blows in law, and the Jury would
say w Le:her they believed the prosecutor or the def..nda nt?
The J..ry found the defendant Guilty, but under very prJvokinr:
circumstances. Fined XS to the King.

tliznorth Pooley was indicted for assaul ing Ann Del-
wa. t theglst May. The prosccutriz sa'd, that tlivre
was a board before her house, in wliich was :t door, vihich
the parish had or deted to be kept shut. The prisoner,
however, would go throng!' that door, althdtol there
was another passage. The prosecutrix put up her hand
across the passage, when the prisoner bit her hand very
severely. (Here site exhibited the scar, and the torn
part of the gown). She gave no provocation whatever.
She had the benefit of very good flesh ; but Ithe. mark
would last as long as the small-pox on ~he other arm.
Mr. Puttr.irs—Well, then, it will do as a set off—(l,aughter).
The prowcutria further said, that the prisoner calicd her a —.—,
and offended with her for locking the door.

The CHAIIOIAN—Ah ! the murder is out now.
Cross-ex .rn i ned by Mr.l3A SKY—Well, then, size hit yeti in the arm ?
ProAe:utrix—Do you doubt it, Sir?—(Laughter.)
Mr. BA 11 ity—Did not your husband interfere?
Prosecu.rix—Wouldn't you help your wife in that state:—
(Great laughter.)
Dowling, a mason, had seen her arm after the bite, and it
seemed more like the bite of a mad dog than anything else. lie
would not have had it fur £Ol.
Mr. Forman—She may go mad yet—(Laughter).

614113—lourteen daysimprisonment.
Robert Walters was indicted for fraed.--Mr.
CIIAIILES PHILLIPS opened the case, and called the
prosecutor, Mr. John Till, a clothier, in' liatinghall-
street, who stated, that on the 4th of April last, the
pri,oner called upon him, and re >resented that he had
recently embarked in business. as A tailor, and I:antes.
sed a-wish to open an account with witness; that he
had served his apprenticeship with a Mr. Hunter, of
Lynn, and had lately martied a Lady, from whose
father he daily expected to receive the.sum of 800 L
Witness told him he could • not Five him credit with-
out hiving a respectable'refere,•ce, when 'the prisoner
.gaie.him the addresses of two persons; whose • account
of the prisoner was so satisfactory; that he let him
have cloth to the amount of 1411: which was sent .to
his residence, 17, Compton-stteet,,Clerkenwell, From
subsequent circunistanees witness suspected he had
been swindled Out of the goods, and again called on
the pea s,:its to venom the prisoner had :versed, when
he Inind the houses shut up, •and .ascertained they
bad both absconded, having .left •the nt ighSouthood
nsiderably in debt; and even sttipl:el the.hottses of
the fixtures, the le4d from the roots; etiphlards, doors,
banisters, acc. He, on ascertaining the fact, waited On
the -prisoner, and demanded his more;, when he found
be was not a t 'nor, as lie had :e ire cute', nor could
he ascertain that he car tied, on any businesL He re-
fused to shew witness: his bo,:ks, or to stare to, whOin he
frAd disposed of the cloth, which he said wis made up.
Witness after wardi procuted a warrant, and had the
prisoner apprehended.
Several other witnesses proved *that the prisoner had obtained
mods from them, represetitiitg himself sometimes as a baker, or
merchant, a ficiur-factor, a private Gentleman, &c. &c.
Mr. ALLEY, for the prisoner, contended that no case
of !laud had been established agaiii4 him, and the prO-
seclitor ought to have shewn that he was not a tailor,
as he s. a, averred in the indictment not to be so. This •
averment thil;ht have been supported by bringing the
person to whom the prisoner said he bad been ap-
. prentierd to deny that wsertion.
The Orals:saxi agreeing with Mr. Attrrohat the evidence did
not support the iudictmenti directed the Jury to acquit the pri-
soner, which they accordingly
- There is ariodivr indictment against the prisoner and several
others; for a conspiracy, the trial of which, at his request, was put
Off until next -Sessions.

Chard iirriakt was cnnyictecl .of assaulting William Lee, an ()ni-
cer of liatten-garden police, while in scarab of a boy who had COM-
mined felony. Sentenced ra 14 days in the House of Correction.

Letters and Papers from H imburgh to the 9:11 inst.
have been received by the new steam-packet established
between London and that port. The Harrbuigh Cor-
respondent of the above date, which has reached us
by that conveyance, contains not a word of news. The
steam-packet made its passage in 58 hours. The ex-
change on London the-Bth instant, was 35. 9i; at two
months, 36k.
BATH Inaxtrovs.—The Mechanics'
Institution lately established in that city, held its first
general meeting of Subscribers, since its formation, on
Monday evening, on which occasion a report of the
proceedings of the Committee was read, and received
with the highest approbation..
Wednesday, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh reported
to the Council, that Government had agreed to erect i
the Westerrf Pier of Leith at the public expense, and
that the £240,000 were now at " the command 'of the
Council, on condition that the city shall carry out the
East Pier, and deepen the Old Harbour.
The present Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Buaosss), on
retiring from the See of St. David's, liberally contri-
buted the sum of 5601. in addition to his former sub-
scription, towards building the Church at Carmarthen
A Gentleman of colour has arrived in town from
Port-au-Prince. He came over in the Sir Robert Bar-
clay, and is supposed t.) be charged with a missim
from the President, on the subject of ti,e new St.
Domingo Company.

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Afqnprp.

A strong sensation has been, produced in the town of
Newcastle-under-Lyme, and its neighbourhood, by the
death of W. Price, whose body was found floating in the
water of the Canal basin, near Newcastle, on Thursday
sennight. An Inquest was held, by adjournment; from
Friday lastao Tuesday last, and the following' is a sum-
mary of the evidence
The deceased, William Price, went with a team antl
timber carriage on Friday, the 24th of June, to Broad
Grove, for a load of tails and posts, but not returning
' as was expected in the evening, his master (Bartley)
set off at a late hour, and met him at Whitmore.—
A man named JerVis was driving the horses at the
• time, Price being in liquor, and unable to take chate
of the team. Bartley swore and said, that the deceas.d
deserved to have.his head knccked off. Toev arrived
in Newcastle at half-past two. o'cleck on S.turday
morning; Jervis went with Par tley into his hoax, and
the deceased weet to pry the horses into the stable,
when he was soon f sllowi;d
.by.. Hartley. In a short
time the latter returned to the (rouse, arid a...lain went
back to the stable: on hi, return swim the last occasion,
he appeared very anxious for Jervis to retire to bed.—
Jervis had been in bed about ten minutes, when he
heard Bartley return again to the stable, and in about
half an hour afterwards. he came back, and his son
fetched same water tur him to wash himself. From that
time Pr ice was not heard of, till he was discovered as
above stated, on The Thursday following.
From the evidence of the ;:lurgeon who examined
the hmly, it arpear, that marks of violence a ere found
on the head; face, and neck, w' ids could not have bee.,
caused by* &awning, and • this injury was o( such a
nature as to have caused -death/ Tise fact of Bso tley
having admitted that he struck the .cleccated, and of
his having beflre the body was found. " that ha
was gone to hell before cleat, or he had made bad use.
of hi, time," to;ether with a variety of Circumatautial
evidence, of a hich it might be premature to give the
particulars, but which tended to pr me that Bartley'
struck the deceased, and w.as the last person who sa:.,
him alive, inducts' the Jury to find a verdict of "
fal Murder against James l.i if tley, who has beeu cum.
mined to take his trial at the ensuing As:,izes.
A rearm:l:able ' ercunattanee, .connected with this
affair, is, that a flannel co.it, which: the deceased had
wi:h hiM, When last see',, was thrown through the
window of his father's house, on Saturday. morning, be- 11
tweeti two and three o'cioc k,and although his father rose
quickly, and went out of doors, he cauld. d sc ,ver no
Me near. Bartley is sixty years of age, and has rea-
lised acme property, by carrying timber, with a good
team of his own. He did not attempt to abScond after
the body was folios!, and 'betrays no sort of alarm.—
Toe deceased WAS only twenty yearS of age, and had
been oa.y three weeks in Bartley's service.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION•.HOUSE.

A Gentleman who is connected with the Stock &change, cams
to the Justice Room yesterday, to request the LORD MAYOR'S ad-
vice and assistance under the following circumstances :
The son of the woman who kept the house in which the
applicant has Acre is a smart boy about 13 years old. A letter
was sent to the applicant from one of the new Companies, con-
taining a cen:ticate entitling the bearer to receive a certain num-
ber of shares, upon his paying to the Sinkers of the Company a
deposit upon each share. The boy, by some means, got hold of
this letter, opened it, and finding it to be a negotiable document,
took it without further ceremony to the Alley, to make as much
money of it as he could. He soon found a man, in the Alley,
who had formerly been a member of the Stock Exchange, and
who readily undertook to negotiate the promised shares, which
were at a premium. The jobber sold the letter,, and gave the boy
live pounds. The deposits were paid st the banking-hotsse where
the Dire:tors did business, and soon; in the rapid transactions of'
what is called property on the Stock Exchange, passed into
hands wholly unknown to the party who in the first instance
made sale of the letter. It was ascertained, after a good deal of
inquiry, that the shares had gone through the hands of ten per-
sons after, the jobber had disposed of the letter, and the applicant
found that he lost by the robbery about 504 • The boy's mother,
who is a very respectable woman, was greatly distressed by the
circumstance, and the applicant did not • wish'to proceed to
punish him, in the hope that he would be placed under a proper
controul.• Ile, however' was determined to do all he could to
punish the jobber, who had acted under the double capacity of
tempter and thief ; for he had every reason to believe that this
Alley-dealer had urged the boy to steal the letter, and theri had
sold it at a such higher premium than be pretended, and put the
over-plus into his own pocket. .
The 14::1 MAYOR said, the case Was one of very considerable
diffi-cul!y, end quite new to hiM. Ile feared that in the eye of the
law this letter would not be considered as property. It was merely
an order entitling a eteeson to certain shares uport paying a certain
sum of money as a deposit at the banker's. The documents obtained
upon the payment ,of the money might be considered as property,'
but he should feel much hesitation in committing a person for a
robbery under the circumstances stated, although it was, morally
speaking, as serious and wicked an offence as if the cash bad been'
stolen. It appeared to his Lordship,.however, that the boy aid the
jobber might be indicted for a conspiracy to• defraud the applicant,
and he rhoaght it a case in which Ilse decision of a Jury might be.
of considerable importance to those who interested themselves in
speculations on the Stock Exchange.
The applicant said be considered the letter property as well as any
other document, inasmuch as he could obtain money for it in the
market, where it was known to have been negotiable.
The Loam Mime asked some questions relative to the evidence
that might be adduced, and the complainant retired, after some pri.:
vote communication with his Lordship, who seemed very anxious to
interfere, if possible, in so nefarious a transaction.

Mary .Arn es and Stroh Asher, very staid and respectable-looking
women, with two men of corresponding appearance, named Morgan
and l'aget, were brought before the Loan Niaroa, by Forrester,
the younger, charged as rogues and vagabonds, found at large,
" with intent to commit depredations" upon his Majesty's subjects.
Forrester stated, that he had seen the four prisoners parading
the avenues of the Bank and the Exchange, backwards and for-
wards, in such a manner as left no doubt in his mind as to the
nature of their intention. They gathered together always very
closely when in crowded avenues, and acted in evident concert.
At length, after watching them a considerable time, he took them
into custody, with the assistance of another officer.
A solicitor who attended for the prisoners said, to warrant a
conviction under this statute, the " intention" must be made mani-
fest by some act. In this instance, the officer had proved no
" sounding" of pockets, nor any other acts from which the intent
to commit depredations might legally be inferred.
Harrison' the Marshalman, here said,. he knew Jones to be an
arrant thief. She had been on the town for many years. She was
one of the most deaterons and successful pickpockets. It was her
practice to wear false arms, with a muff attached to them, whilst
her real arms were at work under a shawl. " You know, Sir,"
added Harrison, "that you were concerned in a prosecution against
her W years ago."
" That might be," replied the solicitor, " but she may have
become a very Saint since then."
The LORD Marna said, it would be to exercise a dangerous
power if he were to convict the prisoners upon such evidence,
although the suspicion against them was strong.—He discharged
the prisoners.