Star.
London, England, 1831-01-25 00:00:00

POLICB REPORTS. -
OgILDuALL.—The Inquest of Faningdon Within waited upon the
sitting Magistrate,l Mr. Alderman C. SMITH, yesterday, to l h
they sh dispose of some joints of unsound meat, which had been
seised in Newgate market on Saturday night.
Joseph Bates, &patrol of the Ward, stated that, observing some meet
exposed foe sale, which was in his opinion rotten and unwholesome, he
stated the fact to some oCthe Common Councilmen of the Ward, under
whose direction the beadle forthwith assembled the inquest, and witnew,
under their view, seised, at the shop of Mr. Sowton, twenty-seven
joints of mutton, alleged to be the property of a Mr. Bruce; at Mr.
Jones's four legs mutton; at Mr. Macey's four quarters ; and at Hr.
Taylor's six joints.
Mr. Wilton and Mr. Scott, of the Inquest, deposed that in their
kulgment the meat was unfit for the food of man in which opinion Mr.
Ewer, $ muter butcher in the market,
Mr. Fisher, Clerk of the Market, said he had been a butcher. He
bad not seen the meat till this morning. It was not now all unfit for
food.
The Alderman desired him to select such as were still fit to be eaten.
Mr. Fisher accordingly overhauled the lot, and picked out three leg,
of mutton, which were &lima as the mverty of Mr. Druce, and re.
turned to him, by direction of the MaOtrate.
The Alderman said the Inquestmen bad done their duty, and ordered
the condemned meat to be buried, the expenses of interment to be paid
by the Corporation.
Woasnui-asszst.—Yesterday Smith was charged with robbing
his employer, Mr. Hopkins. linen-draper, in Shoreditch. Mr. Hop.
Mu missed sxteen &Many from the till. With a view to the detec-
tion of the thisf,bs limed some marked motley ha the drawer on Sa-
turday, and the fallowing morning found it .had been taken. The
°Seer, on warding the prisoner, found upon hint a half sovereign sad
two halt:crowns of the marked money, beside some other unmarked
diver, and in his box sane gloves and silk, which appeared also to have
been taken from the shop. The prisoner was committed.
Lannerd-rransx.—Moses Levi WAS charged with Keeling va-
rious articles of property, and 17s. 6d. in money, belonging to Alexan-
der Abrahams.
The prosecutor stated that, on Wednesday evening last, he met the
prisoner, whom he had known for some years, and finding that he was
in a state of destitution, he invited him home to his house, and not only
gave him plenty to eat and drink, but provided him with a bed for the
night. On the following morning he got up at an early hour, and de-
camped with the sheets of the bed, several articles of property which
were in the apartment, together with about les. in silver, which be teak
from his (witness's) pocket. From that time, until about an hour be-
fore, he had not seen him, and then, happening to go into the Constitu-
tion Coffee House, in the neighbourhood, of the office, he found him sit-
ting there, enjoying himself with a cup of coffee and muffin, and gave
him into moody of a policeman.
The policeman who apprehended him said that, on their way from
the coffee-house to the office, the prisoner inflated to having coin.
aided the robbery, but said the money he took was only 10s. and
not 18s. .
The prisoner was fully committed.
Quesx-sduad—Mr. Laurie, Superintendent of Police applied to
Mr. (begone for his advice bow to act with regard to a dead body which
lay at the Elizabeth-street statioa-bouse, at Pimlico. Capt. Phillips,
of Grosvenor-street, West, bad beer put down at the White Horse Cel-
lar, in Piccadilly, that morning, and in selecting his luggage, a large
box, with the dirdtia rubbed off, had been put into the coach; on his
arriving at home, Captain Phillips discovered the mistake, and he sent
to them to come and take it back again; but be received answer that
they could not take it away titl the following day. The box was subse-
quently examined, and found to contain the dead body of an elderly
man.

3NGazaoarsirecommended Mr. Laurie to give information to the
Coroner, that be might hold an inquest on the body.
HATTOW.O•II:I2I.—John and Enoch Stocks, brothers, chimney.
sweepers, were charged on suspicion of having robbed the premises of
Mr. Brooke, a watch-cese manufacturer, of property to the amount
of 300 E
Mr. Brooke stated that, on Sunday evening, he lefts gold watch on
a table in his bed-room. About three hours after, on reaming to his
room, themateh was gone, together with about, three hundred poen&
worth of jewellay, articles of wearing apparel, linen, and other pro-
perty. The math of sooty feet were visible about the rooms, and the
prisoners, who Uve at the rear of his house, he suspected as having
robbed him.
Police constable, No. 11112. 0. division, deposed that he had ex-
amined the footmarks, and found them to correspond with the pri.
goners' feet.
The Magistrates remanded the prisoners until Saturday next.
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OPPOSITION 111 TH Z COTTON TRADE: Filimi of Cal-
is Cutts to the 13th of September last, have been received. The
ter mond ,—" An Arab ship, arrived from the Red Sea,
his 289 balms of Cotton yarn, the osanufeessuo of AU l'ems,
a; Ids mills Mar Cairo. It is reported that Its hr sent dm
base so Swat, one thousand so Wants, and that be intends
to mad tied% maddspellnras, !e. having established steam power
loaf T long
hem glob mom puma okoined at 90 per cent. Woke cost,
besides Oyer sent someems.
Tat RIO 0 FAISILINA monument to the Rigg Fa-
many, who wets recently drowned In the Ouse, near York, has been
erected by public subscription in the Church-yard of St. Lawrence, in
that city, on Saturday last. The tablet bears the following lasalp.
don :
" Raised by friendship, in memory of four sons and two daughters
of John and Ann Rim of this city ; vis...—Ann Guthrie Riii. aged
19 years; Eliza Rigg, aged 17 ; Thomas Garwood Riu, aged 18 ;
John Rigg, aged If ; James Smith Rlgg,sged 7 ; and Marin Wm
aged
.6 ; who were drowned by their boat being run down on the river
, near York, August 19,11110 "

Mark the brief story of a Summer's Day !
At noon, Youth, Health, sad Beauty. launched away ;
Bre eve. Death wrath% the bath, sod gessehl their light :
Their Parent's Homo was deviate at sight :
Bath paus'd aim. that gulph no eye can see :
They met. oust matte r 1 i itornkr.
Friend. Klanews, Ilseare,isst thou ask use Where ?
Beek Gob's di* bad, and bops to and them Thom

The poetry is frail the pee 4 James Mootgomety, Eq. of
Shashi.
Gt.ew it en.—The following lines are witten on a
window In the be of Glee Ranee in view of the" Prince's Cams," a
=lgreeted seine date ago(froat'a de of Gillespie by Mr.
er Gliesiedale, ea the spot where Prfoca Charles raised his
stambed le 1745. Olen Ranee is a rensanth Highland sesoe—freeht
wild, end beautibl, and surrounded by lefty mountains. It lies as the
bad al Eisehebeal, a ashes lake twelve miles In *dent. Presidia
seabed lipot, wish only a handful of devoted men, Charles Edward
not his own Me and that of Ma race upon the chancre of war. The
venue me above the average of len window poetry, sod seem to have
bees written by a warm admirer of the eldest race, inspired, no doubt,
by the paled fr—
" Ak 1 when is the heart that so sorrow can feel,
As he wanders along by the hanks of Lochsbeal?
To the sound of His pibroch these mountains did deg,
And this is the spot that eve Scotland her Zing ;
'Twits here that the standard of war was unfurled;
From the Ida of the North, Highland vengeance was burled ;
And brave were the hearts that rusted down is the plain.
Say, Harp of the Highlands--ah, rested they in vale
Bat soft SIPS the turf of green France ee his heed.
And sweet Is the sleep of the warrior's bed ;
And tree were the clansmen that gathered in might—
How kind sow in peace, and how valiant in bgbt!"
lawman Cowin..
HEBDOM ADA EY.
Tali Day.—Conversion of St. Paul, who was emphatically called
" the Apostle of the G)eatiles."—Holiday at the Ban
Wanweanaw.--Buonspartemeagi from Elba. 1816.
Tito asnar.--Birth-day of the he of Susses; born 1773 ; Mozart
born 1768-
Fainkr.—Peter the Great died 1726.
liarnanAwt—George died.—George IV. ascended the Throne
1820. This is afestival with the Jews, being their A new for
t:npfantrio: tehwere yhuited on or after went tithed from

BI RTES.
Os the 1316 curt. at Beaufort Coale, lovernesa-shlre, the Hoe.
Mn. Fraser of Lovar, of a scut.—At co the 19th ult. the
Lady of Mager-Geseral the Hoo. Pa Stuart, of a daughter.