Star.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

ROYAL UNIVERSAL DISPENSARY FOR
CHILDREN.

The eighth Anniversary of this excellent Institution
was celebrated yesterday by a Public Dinner at the City
of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. At six o'clock,
his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK entered the room,
accompanied by
Lord Bolton, Sir C. flower, Bart. Alderman Thompson, M.P.
Alderman Garrett, It. Bernal, Esq. M.P. Alderman Key, C. Barclay,
Esq. the Hon. and Rev. E. J. Tumour, Dr. J. B. Davis, H.
Read, Esq. W. Banbury, Esq. George Durant, Esq. and several
other Gentlemen.

His ROYAL HIGHNESS having taken the Chair, the
company, consisting of nearly 250 persons, sat down to
an excellent dinner. After dinner, Non Nobis was sung
in good style, by Messrs. Taylor and Broadhurst, and
other vocal performers.
The cloth being removed, the usual toasts of " The
King," " The Duke of York," " The Army and iiavy,"
&c. were drank with loud applause. His ROYAL HIGH-
NESS, after a short speech, in which be eulogized the
object of the Institution, and congratulated its friends
on the numerous and respectable assemblage which was
then met in its support, gave " Prosperity to the Royal
Universal Dispensary for Children," which was drank
with loud applause.
Dr. J. B. DAVIS, in returning thanks for the toast,
took a review of the Institution from its commence-
ment. From this we learned that since the establish-
ment of the charity, not fewer than 00,000 children had
bees gratuitously prescribed for, of whom not one in
sixty had (Led. It was also stated, that in the same
time, the deaths of children under ten years of age,
within the bills of mortality,were 5,000 less than in any
preceding seven years. It was added, that from the
establishment of the " Royal Infirmary for Children,"
in the Waterloo-road, which is now in progress, and
the completion of which is only delayed by the want of
sufficient funds), still greater benefits might be expected
to accrue to the children of the poor. In the course of
the evening a liberal subscription was made at the tables
in aid of the funds of the charity. His Row. HIGH-
NESS having quitted the Chair at half-past nine o'clock,
Alderman GARRATT was called thereto, and the friends
of the Charity continued to enjoy the festivities of the
evening to a late hour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE:

BOWS TR EET.

LAw, LOVE, also BILA`NDY.—Mr..DoyIe, a young Solicitor, was
charged with an assault and battery on the person of Miss Wini-
fred Waterhouse. Mr. Doyle is the same Gentleman who was
brought up on a similar charge some six or seven weeks- ago, and
who then got off by very pathetically describing himself to be " a
young man just verging into the affairs of the world."
On the present occasion, it appeared that he accompanied a
young Lady of his acquaintance—one Miss Amelia Hankins, to a
celebrated gin-shop at the corner of New-street, in St. Martin's-
lane, for the purpose of inundating her ivories with cloves and
brandy. Miss Winifred Waterhouse was there also, fortifying her
stomach against the night air with a thimbleful of full-proof white ;
and as Miss Winifred Waterhouse was indebted to Miss Amelia
Hankins in the suns of ten-pence and a fraction, Miss Amelia Han-
kins took that opportunity of asking her for it. Miss Winifred
Waterhouse thought such a demand in such a place immensely un-
;;•-titeel ; high words took place between the Ladies in consequence,.
anil the Lawyer—not having the fear of the law before his eyes,
took upon himself to put an end to the dispute, by attacking Miss
NVinifred Waterhouse a In Spring : whereupon Miss Winifred Wa-
terhouse called in the watchman, and the Lawyer was led away to
the watch-house.

In his deft-nee he began an oration, the peroration whereof ran
thus—" Your Worship, the case is this; and the consequence en-
suing thereupon is as follows: I am a young man, your Worship, who
has a reputation to lose; and I would seriously appeal to you, whe-
ther it is proper that my reputation should be attacked by a female
who has no reputation at all ? Your Worship, I think, will agree
with me in opinion, when you come to hear the whole of the case
as I shall unfold it to—"

" Did you strike this woman?" asked Sir Rictra an, interrupting
him.—The Lawyer would not give a direct answer, but attempted
to go on regularly with his case ; and other witnesses having proved
the assault, he was ordered to find bail ; the Magistrate observing
he might defend his reputation elsewhere, by an action for wart. mug.
LANDLORD v. LODGER.-Mr. Dennis M'Carthy, a sprightly little
unwashed Faneralder, was charged with having threatened the life
of his own lawful wife with " a big knife that he has." The charge
was not made by Mrs. illiCarthy herself, but by Mr. Timothy
Scroggins, their landlord ; and Mr. Dennis M'Carthy repelled it
very indignantly, declaring it was all a bandy trick of Tim Scrag-
gins to get hint out of the place.
The Magistrate asked—" What is Mr. Timothy Scroggins?"
" He's the tailor overhead, yer Honour," replied Mr. Dennis
M'Carthy, " and little's the truth there is in him. Here, Mary,
love, and little Dennis, come forrut!"
Mrs. Mary DlTarthy, and little Dennis, her son, came forward
from among the crowd at the lower end of the office accordingly,
and having done their manners to bis Worship, Mr. Dennis M'Car-
thy proceeded to question bis beloved :—" Mary, love, did I put a
knife to ye at all, last night?"
" No, faith, did'nt ye, Dennis," replied Mrs. M'Carthy.
" Did I put anything else to you?"
" Nothing at all, Dennis—nothing of any consequence !"
" Did I ever bate ye, out of mason?"
" No, indeed, Dennis, did'nt ye--outtly ye was a bit fractious
with me last night. But ye did'nt bate me at all as I remember."
" Very well, then !" said Mr. Dennis hlTarthy, triumphantly—
" yet. Honour sees the rights of it ; and Tim Scroggins is a great
blackguard to be sending me to the could watch-house out of me
ours warns place."
His Worship asked Mrs. M'Carthy whether Dennis was a good
husband in general?

" Indeed and he is, yer Wurtchip," replied Mrs. M'Carthy,
curtsying to the ground—" as nice a husband as any woman could
wish for—barrio the ticker, and it isn't often he gets it."
Upon this shewing, Dennis was discharged ; and Mr. Timothy
Scroggins was told, if he wished to get rid of a troublesome lodger,
he must do it by legal means.
MARY-LA-BONNE

A Mr. M. an engraver, complained of the persecution of his
partner's daughter. Ile stated, that the Lady had taken it into her
head to be violently in love with him, but he, very ungallantly,. re-
jected her addresses, yet still she followed him from place to place,
vowing she would have him in spite of himself. He remonstrated
with her frequently, and at length complained to her parents, who
reprehended her conduct, but without effect. At last love turned
into hatred, and she made two attempts to stab him: he thought it
then high time to apply for Magisterial interposition. The fair
nymph denied the charge, and, in most contemptuous terms, ex-
pressed her regret that her affections should have been thrown
away on such a spiteful ninny; and on promising not again to mo-
lest the ungallant complainant, she was discharged.
TOWN-HALL

Patrick Walsh, a gigantic ruffian, was ordered to find bail for as-
saulting a girl of fifteen. The fellow accosted her while looking
through the balustrades of London-bridge, informing her that a
King's ship was laying further down the river, which might be
seen with advantage from his window. He then induced her to
accompany hlm to his lodgings in Robin Hood-court. Mill-lane,
Tooley-sueet, where he plied her with spirits till she became intoxi-
cated, and then attempted to accomplish his vile purpose, but she
ran into the street, where her screams procared assistance, and he
was,secured after a desperate resistance.

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