Star.
London, England, 1822-09-03 00:00:00

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BURNEY SESIIOIO.

Yesterday these adjontsesk Sonia% for the
commenced before J. Himuusost. Esq. (Chairman)
and a full Bench of Magistrates.
The effect of the-" Treading Mill," introduced
the Magistrates into Brixton Hotise of Correction, has
been already manifested in the reduction, of the calen-
dar, which, these Sessions, is extremely light.
Three brothers, of the name of ,Lockwere indicted
for feloniously stealing a copper, the property of Mrs.
Stewart, at her cottage in Dulwich. It appeared
from the evidence that the copper had been missed
from the premises of Mrs. Stewart on the Ist of
August, and was traced to a ditch in the-neighbour-
hood. The constable stationed two men to watch
for the return of the thieves for the copper. One of
the men was stationed at the top of a tree to watch,
and, after dark, the three prisoners were observed
busily at work in getting it out of the ditch, when
they were disturbed by the heavy fall of the' watch-
man from the tree, who came down by. the run, in
consequence of the bough breaking under him.—
They were pursued and taken. The eldest brother,
when taken into custody, said, " I hope you are satis-
fied now ; you have been trying for us a long time,
but you can only give us 84 months, after all,-for it;
and, if ever we come back, we will make the Parish
of Camberwell know it."

The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty; and the
Court said they would disappoint their calculations,
and therefore they sentenced them each to 24 months'
hard labour on the 4, Treading Mill," in the Brixton
House of Correction.

At the late Carlisle Assizes, in a cause "Simons v.
Hodgson," which was an action against a tenant for
a breach of covenant for not per forming the condi-
tions of a farm lease, it coming out in evidence that
the farm was much improved, the Jury, to the sur-
prise of the Court, returned a verdict of 4.05. damages
for the defendant. The Judge and Counsel observed
that they must mean to find a verdict for the plaintiff
by their giving damages. The Foreman of the Jury
replied, no; they thought it was a very severe case
upon the defendant, and therefore they gave their
verdict to him, with 40s. damages. Mr. BaronWoon
informed them that they mitht return a verdict for
the defendant, but not with damages. The Jury then
gave a verdict for the defendant.
Tuesday, a child, about two years old, the son of
a gardener at Hartwell, named Monk, fell into a
pond unperceived, and though taken out by its mother
a few minutes after the accident occurred, yet he died
in consequence in about half an hour.
A shocking spectacle presented itself to the pas-
sengers in Cheapside yesterday. A bricklayer's la-
lbourer, in the act of car; ying a hod of mortar up a
ladder to a house repairing near Bow Church, tell
from the height of the third floor, and was literally
dashed to pieces. He never moved after the fall.
On the 17th ult. a fine boy, the nephew of John
Sadler, brewer, of Thornton-le-Moor, was scalded to
death by falling into the mash-tub, at tke brewery.
James Shepherd, Stephen Shepherd, and James
Pearce, while playing in a garden, lately, near Poole,
where they ate some seed of the Laburnum tree,
were instantly seized with violent pains in the sto-
mach and bowels, as if poison had been given them ;
and had not medical assistance been called in, the
three chilthen could not have lined many hours.
On the evening of the 23d ult. Patrick Maguire, a
lad of-about 16, tied John Young, a bay six years old,
who had accompanied him to a field near Lisburn, to
a cow's tail. At first,,the animal moved slowly for-
ward, but soon becathe terrified, by the unusual
weight appended to her tail, and ran furiously alotig
the ruad, till stopped by the driver of a mail coach.
Maguire, as was proved on the Inquest, called in vain
to some passengers on the highway to stop the cow,
which rushed violently through the turnpike on the
Hillsborough road. Before the arrival of- the mail
coach, the poor child, contused and mangled by per-
cussion on the pavement had expired. His mother
was just returning from Belfast, when she met the
cow dragging the lifeless corpse of her son on the
highway, and was thrown into a state of distraction,
in which she still continues. An Inquest was held on
the body, which found—" That the said John-Young
came by his death in consequence of having been tied
io a cow's tail, the property of John Woods, by Pat.
Maguire, and that the said tying was not through
malice, but youthful inadvertence of said Maguire."
Late on Sunday night, as Mr. Greenscroft was re-
turning home from Croydon, accompanied by a Mr.
George, where they had left a dinner party, they
stopped to refresh the horse at a house at Ken-
nington, and on starting again one of the reins got
loose. The horse finding his head at liberty ran away
at full speed. Mr. George jumped from the chaise
and broke his tight leg just above the ancle. At length
the chaise came in contact with a garden waggon,
and it was over turned with such velocity as to dash
it in pieces. Mr. Greenscroft was picked up in a
senseless state, and conveyed home to his lodgings in
the Borough-road. His head WAS much cut and
bruised, and he remained in the same senseless stupor
yesterday morning.
A valuable riding horse belonging to E. NICHOLAS,
Esq. of Ringmer, was, on Saturday night last, turned
into a close where some sprigs of the yew tree (which
had been clipped off in the course of the day by the
gardener) were thrown with other rubbish. The hone
ate of the yew tree clippings, and afterwards drank
at a pond, which caused the animal's almost imme-
diate death.

Friday morning a large brig was launched from
BRINDLEVS yard at Frindsbury. It is built on a new
construction, flat-bottomed, without a keel. It was
completely rigged, which is altogether unusual be-
fore launching, and went off in good style. amme-
diately on reaching the water, having no ballast, the
brig got " top-heavy," and upset ; the mast, however,
fortunately stuck in the mud, and prevented her
going completely over, but the whole of the crew on
board were immersed in the water. The Medway
watermen, who seemed to pt ognosticate some mishap,
were all on the alert, and by their exertions and fore-
sight every individual was saved. An accident some-
what similar occurred at this yard about sixteen
years ago, at the launch of the Aboukir, which was
capsized from a defect in the slips, and nearly, as the
sailors call it, broken-backed : but being overhauled
and rigged in the Royal Dock-yard at Chatham, be-
came, though always leaky, one of the fastest rust-
rates itl the British Navy.

wherEnper,
The wilennee ImPs coottantly in
the habit of but S* Ad tar *See the lighters
which lay near the Toweresslerf, ad that is,eonsequeuce
such nuisance, Gentlemen wan prevented halt tally. boats elt
the stairs, thir clothes helnialways exposed to injury from the
quantity of .4 blacks" dot Sew about while the combustiblie.
were burning, and the pieces of tar which fell app.'s the seats,
and were large enough to hold any body that came in contact
with them. The defendant had been frequently told that be
was subject to prosecution for such conduct, but be persisted,
and the complainants now brought the ease before the Loan
Maroc, not with the view of punishing him, but of having him
instructed in his duty.
Mr. Smith, the wharlinger, complained, that besides the in-
jury occasioned to the watermen in their business, several other
mischiefs arose from the practice of burning tar-barrels under the
lighters. It was a most intolerable nuisance to those who had
premises in the neighbourhood, and not uofrequently apprehen-
sions were entertained for the safety of goods on those preside%
as well as for the craft on the River, when the wind blew In a
certain direction. He said that it was most anxiously whiled
for, by the Gentlemen in the vicinity of the wharf, that curie
deadve interference should be made.
Mr. Fawcett, a lighterman, said that he had employed the de.
fendant to burn the tar under his lighter • and as it was a com-
mon practice for many years, and no mischief had arisen or was
likely to arise from it, he concluded that there could be no ob-
jection to his deriving some benefit from the use of the tar barrel
in the place alluded to. If, however, it was considered a nuisance,
he would take care that there should be no repetition of the of-
fence, and he regretted that any injury or inconvenience had
arisen. He begged, however, that some place should be named
where lightermen could have the opportunity of doing what was
now objected to.
The Loan Mavoa said the nuisance was a very great one, and
might produce the worst effects. In fact there was no calculating
the mischiefs it might cause in a crowded river. lie therefore
should, if any further cause of complaint were given, give direc-
tions to the City Solicitor to proceed against the person accused
at the Sessions.
Bow-rrearr.—Yesterday, Mrs. Hyde Solari, an elderly Lady,
apparently in a delicate state of health,appeared before the sitting
Magistrate to answer the complaint of John Payne, driver of the
hackney-coach, No. 59, for refusing to pay him 6s. for the fare'
and hire of his coach.
The coachman stated, that Mrs. SolarishirPsi him at six o'clock
in the evening, and discharged him at half-past eight, being two
hours and a half ,time, for which he charged 6s. as the Act of
Parliament authorized him to do, but she refused to pay bins
more than 35.6 d.

Mrs. Solari, in aisswer to the complaint, said abe tsld the coach-
man where she wanted to go to, and he agreed to take her for
half-a-crown; but when she was about to pay him, be demanded
6s. which she refused on the ground of the agreement before
mentioned. He then abused her in the grossest manner, for
which she was anxious to prefer a charge against him.
The Magistrate said, that would be matter for a separate in-
quiry. He was sorry to say he must direct hero pay the 61. as
the coachman had a right to demand his full fate, in spite of any
agreement which he might have entered into. There was a
clause in the Hackney-coach Act, which said that no agreement
between a coachman and his fare was to be considered binding
on either side.

Mrs. Solari paid the six shillings and costs.
The coachman was then plaeed in the situation of the accused
party, and Mrs. Solari and her maid proved, that when she re-
fused to pay him his demand, he followed her up stairs to her
apartments and abused her very grossly. Alarmed at his con-
duct, she held out a handful of silver, and desired him to take
what he pleased, hut he refused to take anything, called her a
d—d old b—b, and swore he would " pull her up before the beak
(Magistrate), and same her out." He then went down stairs
swearing all the way, and said several times, "b—t her, he would
serve her out, like a old as she was !" The other in-
mates of the house were all in a state of alarm at his violence.

The coachman denied all that was alleged against him, and in
a vehement manner declared that the witnesses were perjured.
The Magistrate said, that if anything had been wanting to con-
vince him that the witnesses had spoken the truth, it would be
amply supplied by the behaviour of the defendant himself since
he had been in the Office. He was determined to make an ex-
ample of him.—The defendant was tined"thirty shillings. He said
be was unable to pay it. -
The Magistrate.—Then let him be committed for one month
to hard latour in the House of Correction. Such fellows must
be brought to their senses. Committed accordingly, .unless the
fine should be sooner paid.
Tualizs Ponies.—Davial Wallace, a person in the employment
of Mr. Thomas Marshall, Captain of the Comet, was charged
with committing an extensive robbery on the premises of Mr.
they, Manager of the Leith and Glasgow. Wharf.
Mr. (hey said, he lost a box containing property of consider-
able value, consisting of 'silk shawls, silk handkerchiefs, trim-
ming, foreign feathers, &c. and receiving intelligence a few days
ago that such a box as he had lost was found in the possession
of the prisoner, in a loft in Miller's wharf, he went to the loft
and identihed the property.
Morant, an officer of the Thames Police, stated, that he heard
of the robbery, and found the property lying by the side of the
prisoner, who was asleep un a sail in the loft. The prisoner said
he had entered the loft on purpose to sew his waistcoat. The
lots-door had been broken open : the staple by which the door
was fastened, and a large iron bar, were forced open by the pri-
soner before he entered the loft.

The prisoner, in. his defence, said it was true he entered the
loft to sew his waistcoat, and that he found the box, with the
property in question, lying on the Boor of the loft; and being
tired he fell asleep, and was awoke by Morant, the officer.
Mr. Kennedy, belonging to the ship Comet, said he saw the
property identified by Mr. Ozey, in the prisoner's possession in
Miller', Wharf, between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday
night ; the prisdner said he was going to send the small parcel to
his mother.—The Magistrate said he felt it his duty to send the
case before a Jury, and fully committed the prisoner to New-
gate for trial.
MARLSOUGUGH-STRILIT.—JOhn Cathy was charged with wound-
ing 1). Sullivan, a shoemaker, with a knife, on Sunday. At the
atch.house the prisoner pretended to be dead, and was pro-
nounced to be so by a surgeon; but on its being attempted to
put hiris into a shell, he started up and bolted, but was pursued
and overtaken.—Ordered to find bail.

Woasitir-sraxer.—Five men and sia women, with about 20
children, having been found encamped in a green lane, between
Copenhagen House and Holloway, were brought up. They had
among them two good carts, and two horses; and one of them
had a violin, with which he was charming this little tribe of
wanderers. The women denied that they were gypsies, or that
they ever " told fortunes." The men pleaded hard for the lenity
of the Magistrate : they had each a wife and five or six children,
and worked hardlor their-support as razor-grinders, tinkers, &c.
and that though they had taken up their residence in this lane
for a short-time, they had homes elsewhere.—The Magistrate
said he hardly knew what to do with them, but their Wyss; in
the open air, according to the New Vagrant Act, rendered them
all liable —to punishment.—The men were accordingly committed
for fourteen days to the House of Correction--the women and
children discharged.
TOWNMALL—Sarak .silk, alias " lisock-'esn-desest AZ," was
committed to Brixton for one month, having been found in a
state of beastly drunkenness, and wallowing in the kennel, near
Pearl-row. A Mr. Hand' was charged with obstructing Lee, a
private watchman, while be was conveying the above prisoner
to the Comptes., and was ordered to find bail.

Yesterday morning Elizabeth Jones, who stood
charged with the wind murder of her child, was re-
moved in a hackney-coach from her residence, 6,
Drummond-street, Euston-square, 'in the custody of
John Addley, beadle of the parish of St. Pancras, to
Newgate for trials the coach was followed through
the streets by upwards of a thousand persons : since
her delivery she has been constantly guarded in her
apartment, up to the time of her removal for prison.
John Morrison, the reputed father, who also stood
charged on the Coroner's warrant, with being con-
cerned in the said murder, has been already' con-
emitted for the same.

7,-`,111!cfl

rta trArket
elapsed since a itarOit So ev.
so favourably gathered, has
this country. the fear 1762
ale for fine weather and heavy
_ got in screarly that in many ptacet
they were succeeded by turnips, which *ill Arso be
the case in the present year. in the western, shutberal
eastern, and most of the midland counties, the harvest
has been completed, and a greater produce of wheat
was never known. In the northern counties, and in
Scotland, a considerable quantity'of grain is to cut ; but
should the weather prove favourable for another fort-
night, the greater part will be safely got off the ground:

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Serr.t.
(By the Carcase.)
Beef ....... to 2s sd Veal 24 Od to 3s at:
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Aluttun....e...ls 8d to 2s 6d Port 2s od to Zs
Lamb ga Od to 3s 4d.

PRLCES or HAY AND STRAW YESTERDAY.
IT. JAUILS'II. W II ITECHAVILL.
Hay 31 8s Od to 41 Os Od Hay... 31 es to 41 Os off!
Straw 11 5s 6d to 11 17s 6d Straw 11 to It 164 14
Clover 51 6s Od to 41 4s Od Clover 31 15s to 41 154 od

PRICE 0'
lisw SAGS.

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Kent
Sussex 2l 4s to 4,1 184
Essei
Foreign

PRICE OF LEATHER
Butts, 50 to Ribs each lBd to 21i per lb
Ditto, 56 to G6llis each —d to —4l
Dressing Hides.
Fine Coach Hides ....195 to 204
Crop Hides, 33 to 401bs for cutting.. —l9d to ad
Ditto 45 to tOlbs .........20d to 214
Calf Skins, 30 to 401bs , ettd to 264
Ditto 50 to 701bs 08d to 34d
Ditto 70 to 80Ibs 06d to Rd
Small Seals (Greenland) tild to ad
Large ditto .. ..........16d to 20d
Tanned Horse Hides 15.1 to 174
Spanish Horse Hides 161 to 2011

RAW BIDES.
Best Heifers and Steers (per OrtUnary... 2s ed to '24 sd
stone) .....3s 2cl to 3.; 4d Market talf 10‘ od to N cd
Middlings ...2sin.l tc 3s 0.1 Eng-Horse 01 Od to O: el

HOPS:

liiW TOCCICT%,

Kent
Sussex
Essex
Farnhain

PRICE or TA LIOW,

Town Tallow.
Yellow Russia
White ditto ..... Os Od
Soap ditto _ ... s7s Od
Melting Stuff 293 Od

SOAP, &c. prr 112 M.

Ditto rough
Yellow Soap ........ ....
Mottled ..
Curd
Palm

PRICE OF CANDLES—From Tallow Chandlers' HA.
Candles, per doz. 9s Od—Moulds, lOs 61; 61. per du.:(ra
allowed for ready money.

COA L-Al A RKET,SEPT. Y.

Adair's 37i 6d—Burdon 38s—Ileatoti 7.9 S 3d—HolytTe3
37s 6d—Killingworth 39s 6d to 40s--Wailsend liewicke 42i to
42s sd—Do. Newmareh 411 to 41s sd—Do. Northumb.-dal:4
394 9d—Do. Russell 43s—Wylam 36s 6d—lleadworth
15s—Nesham Main 39s 6d—Wallsend Stewart 445.

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;E.SEMS. POLICE. • r rte' J
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Irk Smits% for the County, Ismails-Horms.--Yestiodess a 11.PusNed 410,004, aireted &sty years have Ali
alusom,, Esq. (Chairman) before the 1621° MAT"' to 1118."11.° ell°4Pialat et tits watat" tramely abundant, add
been experienced in th
rcommittingirlie ply iitatTtheower-irbarfinstauseisistatfiageother
verson4that be vmasinttaireevaikabit4e
triad.
iding him," introduced by sad daageroas auissosa an the anamway. Mr. Basith, the *as equally remarkable
tintise of Correction. has wharinier, also atummi!el t! Confirm tits licousadau crops, whith were got
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