Star.
London, England, 1815-10-21 00:00:00

JUVENII.E OFFENDERS.

James Harper and Goerrefies Moran were indicted
for privAtely stealing from the person of Mathew
Griffiths, on the 29th of September last, a pocket-
handkerchief, value 10d.
It appeared that on the day specified in the indict.
ment, the prosecutor was standing at the window of
Mr. Ackermann's shop, in the Strand, when the two
prisoners, together with three others, none of them
ab..ve twelve years of age, insieuated themselves
among the crowd, and gontrived to take his handker-
chief trom his pocket. Vauizhatt and WAinwriet,l
two police efficeis, having wittnessed the transaction,
took both prisoners into custody, and conveyed them
before a Magistrate, by whom they were committed.
The prisoners had nothing to urge in their defence.
The one said he had neither friends nor relations;
and the other, that he had a mother, who was not
present.
Mr. BIRNIE, the Magistrate, who was on the Bench,
said, the prisoners belonged to a gang of boys of their
ossn age, who slept under the sheds in C went-gar-
den, and s. ere engaged the whole day in the commis-
sion cif de pi, datums.
• One of die Magistrates suggested the propriety of
go-..r w thos.k.s, p
Mr. lila are declared that he had made frequent ap-
plications there, and that there was neither room nor
:unds tor farther additions to that Society.

After some consideration, Mr. Wanot4, the Chair-
man, addressed :he young culprits, and after corn-
menting on the nature of their offence, observed that
the Court, viewing :weir unprotected situation, and
the l:.►bits ev:ich they had acquired, considered they
me performing au act of clinity towards them, and
an act of jit_tice to the public, in sending them out
of the country--a proceeding which would, in all
pronability, prevent them from coming to an un-
timely end hereAfier. 1-Ie then declared the sentence
of the Cr.urt to be, that they should be transported
for seven years.

PADDINGTON TOLLS.—TiIe Magistrates of Marlbo-
rough-street yesterday gave tlicir judgment in a case,
which has been some time. before them, to the.etlect,
that Paddington Tolls are legally demanded upon
manure conveyed from one parish into another. We
to.derstand, however, that the subject it likely to be
bri uglit before the Quarter Sessions, and from thence
probably into the King's Bench.
Mdttisiots-Housx.--Yesterday Mary Mile: was
charged with robberies of a rn )st extensive nature, in
families where she had been in service.—She was re-
manded. J. !Valli: was also charged with an exten-
sive robbery in the Inane of Messrs. Pope and Dick.
lain, in Cheapsichi.—Remanded.

U 3 ion HALL..—Yesterday, a respectable tradesman, residing
at lietniondsty,appbed to Mr. Set jeant Seaaoss for advice, under
the following circumsrancea :—He hat been married fur some
years, and had several children, one of them at present an infant
—hie wile and be had lived happily together till lately, when she
had entirely forgotten the vow M obedience she made at the
altar, and had openly rebelled against him. This had destroyed
his happiness, and brought anarchy and coats...ion into his iamily.
On Thursday evening they went to bed together, and
he was soon adetp,hut awaking shortly after he missed hi. helps
mate; he called for her, but called in vain, and soon discovered
she was In in the house. It suddenly occurred to him that she
was gone to a neighbour's, two doors distant, who that evening
saw her friendo, and gave a dance; he immedikbely gut up and
went to the house in question, when he found his suspicions.
were correct. He discovered his wife, full dressed, and prang
down the dance in excellent spirits, with a young man entirety
a stranger to him. He went up to h-r, and in the Pest-natured
tone imaginable said, "My dear, it you please, I will he your
partner in the next dance.' 'lli:honour, however, she i idtively
refused him—be then olperved, that as he was not thought
worthy, he would select her a younger partner, and immediately
went home and returned with the inlant,saying, as he put it into
her aims, he considered that as the fittest partner she could have
in the dance. Irritated at this Insult, she inszartly quitted the
assembly, and went home. He followed her, and patiently sub-
mitted to a severe curtain lecture. Next morning he got up and
went to a neigNOtitiring public house to take his morning draught
and drown reflection; he alas scare ly sea.ed when his wile
made her appearance, and with a large stick deliberately broke
several large pains of glass in the publican's bar, and theta re-
tired, telling the complainant coolly, that he might if lie pleased
pay for them. She bad repeatedly •erved hum thus, and he now
wished to know of the Magistrate if she was not liable to punish-
ment tor such outrageous conduct ? —The Magistrate advised
bins to refuse payment for the windows, and then if the publican
applied for it, be would have a warrant against her, and she
would be imprisoned as a disorderly parson, or till the windows
were paid for. This course of proceeding did nut, however, ap-
pear entirely to inert the wishes of the complainant ; lie requested
the Magistrate would send for his wife, and admonish her as to
her future conduct. This the worthy IViagistrase declined doing,
Assaying. it her husband could_nec cor.troul her either in Led or
oritgied, at was not likely any edsnonition or rensonstrAnce ut
his would have diem