Star.
London, England, 1825-04-06 00:00:00

MIDDLtS.EX SESSIONS, APRIL 5.

Two of the watch patrol of Hackney parish, named
Green and Lee, were indicted for assaulting and un-
justly imprisoning Thus-low, on the ntght of the
16th of February last. It appeared that as the prose-
cutor, who is the proprietor of an errand-cart, was
walking along the Stoke Newington-road, between
eleven and twelve o'clock at night, with his coat tied
up in a bundle, he was met by the defendants, who
asked him what he had got there? Thurlow replied,
that it was nothing to them, it was his own property.
He then pulled out his card, and offered it to them,
but they insisted upon examining him. He resisted,
when one of them, drawing his cutlass, swore he would
chop his arm «ff. ThurlOw caught hold :•f the cutlass,
and bent it round his arm; upon which they grasped
him by the throat so violently, as to force the blood
from his mouth, and cause him to sink on the ground
in a state of exhaustion. Two othrr men then came
up and interfered, and finally the prosecutor was
dragged to the watch-house, where bail on his behalf
was refused; and although he was spitting blood, he
was taken away from the room where the hre was, and
locked up in the cage all night. During the scuffle, he
frequently called out that he was Thurlow, the carrier.
Several witnesses, all of whom were either patrol or watchmen,
were called by the deftndant•, who contradicted the evidence for
the prosecution, until the twistable of the night was put into the
box, when his testimony completely corroborated the prosecutor's
vise. The witnesses on both sides had been previously ordered
out of Court. _ _ _ _ _

The Jury unhesitatingly found both defendants Guily.—Sen-
tenet deferred.

Authan Ley, a Jew, was indicted for receiving a
quantity of stelen chugs, the property of Mr. Butler,
chemist, of St. Paul's Church yard.
At the last Old Bailey Sessions, a man named Booth,
was tried and convicted of stealing the before-men-
tioned drugs. Booth not being present to give evi-
dence, the offence imputed to Levy amounted only to
a misdemeanour. ohs wife and daughter were,'
however, called ; and from their evidence it appeared
that large quantities of opium, saffron, &c. had been
stolen from the prosecutor's house, and immediately
taken to Levy's house in Petticoat-lane. He gave for
the articles a price much less than their value, and
when some objection was made by Booth, the prisoner
said, it the sum offered was not accepted, he would ac•
quaint Mr. Butler with the robbery. The prisoner was
found Guilty.

Discontent has for some time existed among the quar-
rymen at the Penrhyn Slate Wotks, Carnarvonshire,
who demand increased wages. Last week one hundred
and fifty men s,ruck, and drove away a large number
of others. Mr. Wyatt, the agent, has given notice, that
such as re:urn to wesk at the old wages will be per.
:pitted to do.so, and that any reasonable complaints
shall be redressed.

INCIVEST AT MANCHESTER.—Friday evening, the 25th
ult. a woman at Redbalik administered some oil of vi-
triol to an infant, aged nine weeks, instead of sirup o-
poppies, which caused i s death the next day. It ap-
peared that the father of the infant had used some vi.
tr iol for staining the wood of a bird-cage, and had placei
the phial in a cupboard. On the same Friday afternoon,
the man and his wife working qut, an old woman cleaned
the room and the cupb-ard, and unfo►tunately left both
bottles in the window, and the wife got hold of the vitriol
bottle, instead of the one she had purchased some days
previous, containing the syrup, with9t any label upon
the bottle. Verdict—" Died by tamp' being adminis-
tered to it by mistake, without any intention of harm."
INFAMOUS INIPOSTORE -For some lime past two
wretched vagrants, exhibiting the.appearance of being
badly affected with cancer in the face, have been in the
habit of attending the markets and fairs in this ne:gh-
bourhood. They sometimes, where allowed, begged
through the streets ; but usually took their seats at the
outlets of the towns, and from the sympathy excited
by their aspect, levied large contributions, the face
seemingly eaten off, and covered with a tarred rag.
On Thursday last, Mr. Leonard, the apothecary at-
tending the Hospital of this town, attracted by the
wretched appearance of one ►-f those disgusting objects,
manifested a des.recf seeing her face, intending to give
her some lint and salve to chess it. The woman seemed
.unwilling to shew her face, or allow him to touch it,
which, however, be was induced to do somewhat against
her inclination, when lo! he pulled off a mask from a
Trish young face. It was composed of linen covered
with soft leather, very artfully made, and padded on
each side of the nose to give the face a flat appearance,
and over this was fastrned a dirty rag, as before de-
scribed. Being told that a second person of this de-
scription was stationed at anothir.of the outlets, Mr.
Leonard, accompanied by a constable, repaired to the
spot, and without much ceremony, stripped her of her
visor. These two impostors proved to be young
wo-
men, one of them not more than seventeen years of age,
the other somewhat above twenty.—Erne Pocket.
Wednesday, at the moment when M. OUVRARIN ex-
Contractor-General for the army in Spain, was ceasing
a door to be opened for the embellishment of his apart•
pent at St. Pelagie, he was removed from that prison
to the Conciergerie, accompanied by a strong escort of
gendarmes.—Galignarsis Messenger.
A Gentleman who was on board the Kent when she
took fire, states, that a Sesjeant of colour who was in
'the vessel, abandoned his wife, who was ill below, with
four children, and jumped into the sea to swim to the
Cambria. The poor woman was fouild suffocated at
the bottom of the hatchway, with her four children'
Boating round her, dead. The first thing that his Co-
lonel did, on order being restored, was to strip this man
of the badges of merit he had acquired, and to reduce
him to the ranks.—Chester Chronicle.
Ten men were tried at Naples last month, for a
horrid murder committed in 1821. Two were con-
demned to death, and the others to thirty years' impri-
sonment. One of them confessed that, since the year.
'lBl9, he had committed 17 murders.
" No man," said a wealthy but weak-headed Bar-
rister, should be admitted to the Bar, who has not an
independent landed property." " May I ask, Sir," said
Mr. Curran, " how many acres make a wise-acre r
Some adroit arithmeticians have calculated that, a
a yearly consumption of 40,000 tons, the mine of the
Lehigh Coal Company would last nearly 7,000 years.

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Pala 216ZEOCENCL

GUILDH A LL.
adriratd Herombrie, ao elderly iners,Miso- lad leedlikip been is
the 40001 of Mv. Branca, a 9 Midwelloursakar, is at. Mae**,
coons was with the following fraud :—The
prisoner called at Mr. Moriand's glop, in the Mioories, and pee.
seated a written order, purporting' to bear the signatere of Mr.
Hamm, esuresdog four silk umbeelles to be seat bp the kora.
The order was iesmodiately complied With, sad ebb Prise** re-
ceived the umbrellas, which were varied at The (turd
having been discovered, dlr. Macleod was about taking measures
for the prisoner's appredreoaloni *heti he again presented himself
at the shop, wick an oars for two more umbrellas, aml be was
then arcaraL
A second charge was preferred, by a Mr. Rutter, from *born alte
prisoner had obtained similar goods. to the amount of M. The
prisoner said. be could piper that the orders were not in his hands
writing ; and, having begged to be resounded, to produce evidence,
his request was complied with.

Hotsx-Smulga.—Cliaries Batten was brought up for final e;
andnation, charged with stealing a brown mare, the property of Sin
Hauls; a firmer. of Little Marlow, Bucks. It appeared from AM
evidence,4bat, on the lifth February, NU, the mare was stolen
from the prosecutor's yard. In October following, he saw the male
at Uxbridge 'in the possession:of a Mr. Platt,' lighterman, who bad
purchased it from a Mr. Hopkins, and be bought it of Abe prisoner
The prisoner, its his defeat*, said, the mare was said to him by a
man named Webb, of Battersea, for £5; Webb, at that time, said
he resided at bontliall.—He wss fully committal for trial.

WO RS H I P-STREET.
Mr. Harris, a pawnbroker in the Hackney-road, was fined Slet
besides costs, on eight informations, filed by Johnson and hit
worthies. Five of the inform.ations were for not taking the name
and description of the party pawning ; and three for taking a far-
thing above the legal interest upon redeeming some of the above
pledges. The Magistrate convicted in every CAW.