Star.
London, England, 1824-08-27 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE

A borse.dcaler in Montague-street, was cluirgeti with defrauding
Dr. Coyne. The Doctor sent a mare to the defendant's stablei fur
sale on commission, and directed it not to be sold under twenty
guineas. In a few days the defendant paid the Doctor that sum,
after deducting his commission ; but shortly after he (the Doctor„
heard that Captain Hall, of the Regent's Park Riding School, had
given the defendant twenty-five guineas for it, which differelic, the
llwtnr could not obtain. In defence, the accused said he had ac-
tually sold the horse to Mr. Moody, the coachmaster, for twernv
guineas. Mr. Moody said such a bargain had been made, but tuse
money had not been paid, and the horse was afterwards so;:i ac
above. The defendant was held to bail.
M A R LBOROUG H-ST RE ET.

Yesterday Henry Charles Pepperell, one of the patrols of St. Giles's
parish, who has been some days in custody upon a charge of rob-
bery, was brought up for reexamination, and fully committed.
Mary lambs, a young woman of decent appearance, was ch.tigett
with robbing her mistress, Mrs. Miller, the wife of Mr. Mater,
4sbmonger,,in Piccadilly, of several article' of jewellery, of consi-
derable value.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
W ORS H I P-STII.KET.

I.lrteist, a hawker of books, was remanded for offering fur sale,
at the sign of the Baker and. Basket, close to the office, obscene books.
Four fellows, named Iludgmt, tilarks, Lane, and Chortle, were
charged with attempting to break into the Shears public-house, ut
Chequer-alley, Bunhill.row. The servant (an Irish girl) was awoke
by .a pane of glas being broke in her bed-room window, when she
saw a band put through to. open it. She instantly seized a poker,
but was told, if she was quiet, they would not hurt her ; but if
otherwise, they would destroy her. The daughter of Erin was not,
however, intimidated, but gave one of them a blow on the head
with the poker, and alarmed her master, who procured assistance.,
and they were all secured. She, however, could only swear to
Hodgson, and he was committed, with orders to give twenty-foie
hours notice of bail.—The rest were discharged.

TOWN-HALL
A girl, ten years old was purto the bar, when Mrs. Andrewi. of
Green Walk, stated, that the•little Impostor Placed herself, the pte-
cediug night, in front of her iviudow, wringing her heeds in the
greatest apparent agony, stating that she had lost her way, and
never should see her de* mamma again. Mrs. Andrews and
ber inmate, compassinnating her case, took her in, fed her,
and put her to bed. The next morning, after giving her a com Got•
able breakfast, Mrs. Andrews went with her to endeavour to find
her parents; but having reached Billingsgate, the little ingrate oFsti•
'nicely refused to proceed, and Mrs. Andrews at length took her back,
when she found that Miss face had in the interim missed a pair et
stockings and several other trifling articles, which were found upon
.he urchin. Mr. Alderman SMITS lamented that such abandoned
conduct should be found in one so young, and ordered her to be
taken care of till her parents could he found.

Yesterday morning, as an elderly Lady was passing
along the Hampstead-road, she was knocked down by
a carriage; the wheels of which passed over her body.
`Several Gentlemen immediately proceeded to her assist-
ance, and found her in a most dreadful situation, and
in a state of insensibility. She was instantly carried to
a neighbouring surgeons, who rendered her every as-
sistance, but unfortunately the vital spark had fled.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—The 15th ult. a fishing
boat from Walls in Zetland, struck on a sunken rock,
near the island of Papa, and the crew, consisting of five
men, all perished. Some of them seemed to struggle
hard for existence, by getting on the keel of the boat,
liut were dashed off by the fury Of the waves, which pre•
vented every means of access to them. By this truly
melancholy event, five widows and twenty-four children
have been left utterly destitute; none of the children
are above seven years of age.
Tinks.—The exactness of the time, at which they ob-
served the recurrence of the swelling waters to take
place occasioned our Danish ancestors to give that over-
flow the designation of time itself, for tid or tide I% their
language signifies time. So that, even at the present
day, a Dane, on inquiring the hour, exclaims—Was
TID paa dagen ist?—what tiine of the day, or wliat
o'Clock is it? As there are every day two tides, so in
every month, two courses of great tides and small, for
seven days about the change of the moon, are the great
or Spring tides so called from the German springer to
rice • and the next ensuing seven are the small or neap
tides, so called from the Saxon neap, low; which course
of the sea is thus monthly renewed.

MARRIED.
August 17, at Invergordon, the Rev. David Fraser, Minister of
Dores, to Miss Catharine Stormonth, third daughter of the late
Rev. James Stormonth, Minister of Airly.

DIED.

August 20, after a few hours' illness, while at a shooting quartet,
near Blair, in Atholl, with his nephew, the Hon. John Gray,
Lieut.-Colonel Johnston, late of the 4th (or King's Own) Foot•
April 18, at Bombay, G. A. C. Hyde, Esq. of the Bomb:7
Civil Service.
The Ist of February last, in the East Indies, on his way to Cal-
Cutts, in order to return to England for the recovery of his health,
aged 55, Capt. Oakes, 4th Regiment Native Infantry.

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