Star.
London, England, 1824-06-26 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.

ROBBERY or Lotto Itosxswev.—Yesterday, shortly after the sit,
tang Magistrate, Mr. lioseess, bad taken his seat on the bench,
Lady. Rossmore entered the Office, anti was accommodated with a
seat within the bar.'
.7vbse -Weida, loot:Ilan to his Lordship, and Steak Iludialt, an in-
reresting loukiog is:m.lv, but of chaructri, and pica Till, were
then put to the bar for re-examination, on a charge of stealing a
miitiature picture of his Lordship, set in gold, and a valuable and
highly cut-hies chrystal box, set in the same costly metal.
Mr. Italia, of high-street, pawnbroker, stated, that having seen
an adverti,ement in a Morning Newspaper, describing the shove
property, he stopped the female prisoner, Ellen Till, who came to
his shop for the purpose of pawning the chrystal box, and gave bet
into the custody of an officer.
Staples, the officer, gave evidence to his having made inquiries at
the different pawttbrukers respecting the miniature, which he at
last found pledged at Mr. Burchell's, Paddington.sireet.
Mr. But chell stated that he had received the article from Ellen
Till, to whom he lent its. upon it.
From the examination which followed, it appeared that Ellen
Till received the box and miniature from Sarah Hudson, for whom
she washed, and that the footman had admitted Hudson into Lord
nossniote's house in the absence of the family, and passed the night
th..re with her. She asserted that he gave her the miniature and
the box. This the man denied, and so successfully, that the Ma-
gistrate scented inclined to credit his statement; and after admo-
nishine him on the gross folly and impropriety of his conduct, dis-
charged him, and fully committed Sarah Iludson to Newgate for
trial ; on which Lady Rossmore and the other witnesses were
bound to give evidence.
II ATTON-0 DF.N.
WHAT IT IS TO RE A MOTHER OV CHILOREN.-.—Mrt. Margaret
Lore, alines Mrs. Bottomless, (a woman of extraordinary dimen-
sions) was brought up under a warrant, charged with assaulting
a Mrs. Pearce, a neighbour, residing in the same court in Saf-
fron-hill. The nuinber of respectable females from that quarter
who attended on each side, was highly ornamental to the office.
The principal wittle-s in support of the charge, independent of the
weak evidence of a pair of black eyes, was a Mrs. O'Regan, who
addressed the Magistrate in the following strain :—" Phase your
honour, if you'll be phased to listen, I'll give you the ins and outs
of this matter. It all occurred about a dirty bucket of clain water.
When the rumpus commenced, I runs out, and seeing a conquest
of people, I was tould Mrs. Bottomless child threw some water
on Mrs. Pearce. ' Childer will be childer,' said I; and on so
doing, Mrs. Bottomless cried out to Mrs. Pearce,' shew you
what it is to be a mother of childer,' and up with her fist, and
knocked her dowtr."
The Magistrate did not approve of such a test of parentage, and
ordered the defendant to find bail.

DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT VASE.— Friday se'n-
night, as some labourers were digging part of the form.
dation of the projected bridge at the Haw Passage,
they discovered, at a depth of seven feet from the Se-
vern's bed, a large vase of great antiquity, and internally
of very curious workmanship. It is composed of mixed
metals, and at,the mouth is about 12 inches in diameter.
On the inside, at the bottom, is a small circle, in which
is the figure of a man, in an upright sitting posture, who,
with a pen, seems in the, act Of tracing certain devices
and inscriptions;;liich are 41. of'd different mythological
subjects, and wroughst;itc.sovon...distinct compartments.
In ene is recorded. sho:birtisaaf- Maximus ; in another,
the infant Hercnies strangling the serpents in his cradle ;
and in a third, the kiinalereplei slaying a dragon.—
The outside is ciuittAin,..is is. the rim, but there is
not the slightest. .tist,Ortganket 3o.be seen about it. The
inscriptions are in.vevy• perfect preservation. The vase
is now in the possession of the person who keeps the
ferry-house at thl Kew; altd,'ite believe, wall be sent
to the British.Mitseum. .
A few days ago, as some Men were mowing in a
clover-field belonging to Mr.Wm.Kipping, at Golden-
green, Hadlow, they discovered -a partridge sitting
upon sixteen eggs. The bird did not fly away, but suf-
fered herself to be carried some distance to Mr.liipping's
house. She was there. put in a large parrot cage, and
then sat upon the eggs as if she had never been dis-
turbed. She went out to take food and drink, and re-
turned with the greatest regularity to her task of incu-
bation.—Maidstone Gazette. . .