Star.
London, England, 1824-04-17 00:00:00

BOW.STREET.

Mrs. H. a very smartly dressed woman, was brought before the
Magistrate on a peace warrant, charged with threatening to inflict
bodily injury upon Miss Eliza H. K. her reputed daughter-in-law.
It was stated by Miss K. who appeared to be a highlytaccom-
?fished young Lady, that she had resided with Mr. H. from her
infancy, and until lately she always supposed him to he her.father;
but circumstances had occurred whiCh induced her now to doubt
upon the subject. She was educated in France, and until she came
to reside in this country she knew but very little of the En fish lan-
guage ; but the knowledge which she had since acquired'had led to
a discovery to which the present complaint was to be attributed.
Mr. 11. some time ago married the defendant, and from that time
her (Miss K.'s) hone was no longer supportable. They were quar-
t-tiling incessantly, and at length Mr. 11. placed her inltidgings at
the house of a Mr. tither' a German tailor, undertaking to pay for
her board and lodging. A fkw days ago, Mr. Hitter presented a
bill to Mr. 11. for certain extras that she had been furnished with,
and very shortly after Mrs. H. went to her lodgings, and conducted
herself with great violence, threatening to " tear her liver out,"
.and making use of other declarations of such a nature as to excite
serious apprehensions in coniftainant's mind. The discovery to
which she had alluded was this : she once saw a document which
she understood enyugh of to know that it was a will of her late
mother, who died when complainant was very young, in which
property was bequeathed to her, and Mr. 11. was nominated tits.
tee. She, of course, made no secret of this, and she attributed the
muduct of Mrs. H. to this circumstance. Mr. H. had repeatedly',
urged lu:r ro retire to a convent in France, but she refused. MIS,.
K. was entering further into this part of the subject, but she was
stopped by the 'Magistrate, with informed her that he had nothing
to do with private Matters of that kind—he could only take cog-
-1 nizance of the threats whine she alleged Mrs. H. had made use of.
On the part of the clekencLant, it was declared that Miss K. was
totally mistaken as to the will of which she had spoken. She was
actually the daughter of Mr. H. by a former marriage, and there
ivas not the least-fouttlation fOr the supposition which, somehow
or other, had entered the mind of the complainant with respect to
the supposed will.
The Magistrate repenter!, Oa* he had nothing to do with that
part of the case, and, after sOfne conversation, Mrs. 11. was'helci to
bail to keep the peace.
rn AN ES POLICE.

Riduird Iliklitek, of Wapping,*victualler, appeared at this -office,
before T. 'Rum t., 1.1;q. the presiding Nlagistrate, to an informa-
tion filed against him, In 'March last, .charging him with engaging
mad employing a number of ccwkneters' joen, contrary to the sta-
tute, the defendant not h.-ing a"hcetised coal-undertaker.
After hearing evidence to.jirsive the ehatge, the Magistrate ad-
judged the defendant to pay.g line of IQI. which, in 'eines -Inge the
present, the informer is ettetttett•to..
Asitwasunt, fhetlaifetisbuit's 'solicXbr, thrn Tiler inxine..4l
peal, and put in bail accordingly...

Tuesday evening lait, ,as.Nref4,,bcAthent .Ajdrislge,-of
Ann-street, near the East India Dock gates, was coming
to tows it a quarter pairelglit eleioek,ittear-the•corner of
Canton-,place,'Cominercial-rcrad,:a ruNan can* up and
struck himhetween the eyes, and knaaked him • down
immediately; another -instantly struck him •on the ear
and face, and held hii; ftiot .uponhis sneck : they then
took from his liersonupwards•tif seventeen sovereigns
and other money, and a rent-1104 ludliCh book was
found by a •latlitLa pond, near the .East•lnd ia Dec kgates,
tietikup in.a bunditerchidf, the next morning). He now
lies in a dreadful-nate.

Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, in turn Mil-
l, street, Cle:kenwellitreen, an ;elderly woman, named
Elizabeth Holthurst, -nbncit filly-five-years of age, .was
sitting by the fire side reading, when becoming drowsy,
and overcome by the liquor She had taken, she fell upon
the fire, her stomach resting upon the top bar; in which
state4le' Was found-by an acquaintance completely dead,
and iheypper *part of her frame in a state teo horrible
to describe. `l'he unfortunate creature bore the cha-
racter of a harmless_ inoffensive woman.
" A CORPORATION."—Mr. HOLWEL WALSH, in a
Corporation case tried at the Tralee Assizes, observed,
that a " Corporation cannot blush. It was a body it
was true—had (said he) certainly a head—a new one
every year—an annual acquisition of intelligence in
every new Lord Mayor. Arms, he supposed, .it had, and
long ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of ,
course, when it made such long strides. A throat to
swallow the rights of the community—and a stomach
to digest them ! But who ever yet discovered, in the
anatomy of any Corporation, either bowels or a heart !"
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In 1513 a steam-boat was fitted out at Naples : the
machinery was made in England, and put together by
two English engineers ; but the boat was built at 'Na-
ples, and had her back sadly strained in launching.—
She went thence to Leghorn, and excited a deal of alarm
on her voyage ; people from the Roman coast several
times put out to her, thinking she was•a vessel on fire,
and when they ascertained the fact, they stole away, as
if from a process of witchcraft or enchantment.
The celebrated Piofessor of Mathematics at Cam-
bridge, NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON, though quite blind,
was so fascinated with the chace, that he continued to
hunt until a very advanced period of his life. His horse
was accustomed to follow that of his servant ; the de-
light of SAUNDERSON was extreme when he heard the
cry of the hounds and the huntsmen, and he used to ex-
press his raptures with- all the eagerness of those who
possessed their sight.
CANDI'D ORATORS.--4t is usual for some Congres-
sional Orators to clear their voices with candy, and one Member
is said to have lately risen with a stick of that article in each hand ;
en which occurrence the Roanoke &Vinci has the following lines :
With razor keen
As err- wat seen
A Barbour surnamed Phil,
In Congreu rose,
And by the nose
Took Mr. Hemphin
In sore affright,
At such a sight,
I saw a Jetesey Dandy
Attempt to stay
The razor's sway
WO sticks of Sugar Candy.

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