Star.
London, England, 1825-06-02 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, JUNE 1.

Thomas Collins and John Gutman were indicted for
assaulting George lingers Barrett, Esq. of Stockwell,
on the 14th of May last. The defendants were in the
prosecutor's service as coachman and footman.
George Rogers Barrett, E q. deposed, that on the
morning mmtioned in the indictment he was returning
from Covent-garden Theatre to his house at Stockwell,
in company with Mrs. B. and tuo daughters in tl•eir
carriage; on art icing at Ste-.kwell, the Ladies entered
the house while witness remained near the carriage.
The defendant Lutman was shutting the carriage door
without putting up the steps; witness remonstrated with
him, when he still persisted in endeavouring to force
the door. Witness pushed him away, when he struck
him a violent blow, at the same time making use of
the foulest language. Witness struck Lutman in re-
turn, when Collins jumped off the box of the carriage
and knocked him down, and, when in that situation,
both the defendants continued kicking and striking
['Actress. The priiate watchman of witness's premises,
and the rest of the set vants, rescued witness from fur-
ther violence. The defendants, after witness entered
the house, continued the grossest language, and endea-
voured to break open the house door. Witness gave
the defendants into custody, and tie following day they
were conveyed to Union Heti. Witness's face was
mnch disfigured.
The ptiv'ate watchman and severs} female servants corroborated
the above evidence.
The Jury having consulted, returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Casteacan sentenced *e defendants, the former to six
weeks and the latter to one month's imprisonment, in the:Countyl
Jail, and to find sureties to keep the peace, themselves in 401..'
'each, and two sureties in 20i. for twelve months.
E. Packer was convicted of stealing a pocketbook,
containing nineteen sovereigns, a silver watch, and
other articles, the property of Robert Brighton, and
sentenced to six months imprisonment ; as was Mary
Anderson, for stealing some linen entrusted to her by
;her employer, and sentenced to eighteen months im-
prisonment and bird labour.
Bassase Asture's Tae en&—Jahn &auk was indicted for
stealing from the lesson of Charles Gray the sum of two sovereigns
and four shillings, in the pit of the above Theatre, on the Seth of
May last.—. The prosecutor proved the fact.
John Banks, an Officer of Queen-square Police Mice, confirmed
the whole of the prosecutor's testimony.
Verdict, Geary.—Sentenced to transportation for life.

Mr. Hums has given notice of a motion for the 9th
instant, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend '
the Acts regarding the Discipline of the Navy ; also
regarding the power at present exercised of flogging
without the previous sentences of Courts Martial.
• A Brussels .1.-urnal announces, that. among the pro;
ductions of industry which will be sent from Western
Flanders to the exhibition at Haarlem, is a piece
of cloth which has in its breadth 4,200 threads, so
fine that they cannot be discerned but by a magni-
fying glass. This piece was spun and woven by a
brother and sister. There is also a spindle of thread,
imperceptible through fi, eness, which is valved at
400 Dutch &tins per pound,.
The rage for building is greater the, ever in Paris.
New hotels, streets, and elegant passages, are building
in many quarters ; and in the suburbs the amount of
capi al so employed is very great. It is supposed that
seven millions. of capital (francs) have been appro-
priated to building, by one man al tile, in the Faux-
bourg St. Denis. The new passage in the Rue Vivi-
enre is nearly finished, and is cue of the handsomest
things in Europe.
A new mode of lighting theatres has been adopted in
Italy. The lamps are above the ceiling, and send forth
light through a plate of glass, whica distributes the
rays around the t!.eatfe.
Tux PRESENT GAY SEASON. .. The approacbin
Drawing Room, the Coronation of Charles the Tenth, has.
new stimulus to the Fashionable World; and the enhancement
personal charms is an object of anxious solicitude. The two greets*
Auxiliaries and Promoters of Beata', are Itowt.asn's Kamm, ,
which possesses incomparable virtues in removing all imperfeccione.
of the skin, arrayinithe neck, hands, and arms, in matchless white.
nets, and communicates a Celestial and Juvenile Bloom to the
Complexion. •l'lte Beauty of the Countenance is also illumined by
the tasteful arrangement of the Hair, produced by the the of
liowt.sttD.S NACASEAII Ott.. The teanseendant excellence of this
admirable article impart, to thy flowing tresses a delightful, smooth,
and beautiful gloss, tendering the Head Dress: ruly enchanting.