Star.
London, England, 1825-01-19 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 17.

Clarks Lister, a bricklayer's carter, was charged with
committing a brutal assault on Mary Sullivan. The
prosecute ix, a poor Irish woman, was sitting in Queen-
street, by her stall of apples, &c. on the Bth November,
when the defendant drove down the street with his mas-
ter's cart; the poor woman seeing him approach very
near her stalls was apprehensive it Would be overturned,
and, holding up her band, she said to the prisoner, " Do,
good man, drive more to the other side," when the pri-
soner raised his whip and struck her across the back,
and broke her arm by a blow with the butt-end. The
prior woman was confined six weeks with the injury.—
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but judgment was
suspended until the adjournment day, to give him an
opportunity of settling with the prosecutrix.
Several other minor cases were disposed of, and the
Sessions ended.

Sheehan, charged with the horrid murder of the
Franks, is now in Dublin, and was to undergo an exa•
mination by the Law Officers on Friday.
The waste lands in Great Britain, by examination in
1794, were found_to be 22,351,000 acres, which, if cul-
tivated and enclosed, reckoning an annual increase of
9s. per acre, the annual rent would amount to
10,057,9501. and on a supposition that the yearly pro-
duce would bell. 7s. per acre on three rents, it would
be worth 30,173,8501. per annum to the community.
Sunday last, a singular anti fatal accident happened
at Pendleton. A man named William Lord, a black-
smith, was eating a beef-steak, when a piece stuck in his
throat, and he was suffocated in a few minutes, notwith-
standing the efforts of the persons about to relieve him.
We understand that a Fish Company is forming for
the supply of the Metropolis with fish, at a moderate
rate. The Company also proposes to build a market,
in which prime fish alone is to be sold ; the projector
states, that by the aid of this Company the commodity
may be supplied at one-third the price now charged
for it, and at the same time yield a liberal return for
the capital invested.
A question of great importance to The inhabitants
of Dorchester, was decided in Blandford on Tuesday
se'nnight. At a very full attendance of the Magistrates
it was resolved, by a majority of 24. to 18, that the
General Quarter Sessions for the County shall in future
be held at Dorchester. _ .

Monday, the 7th of November, at two o'clock, P.M.
the framcStote of Jolla M,G11.1., Esq. on the Twenty-
mile Creek, Upper Canada, was blown up, with six per-
sons in it, vis.••••. Dr. SAMUEL WOODRUFF, Mr. Wmcox,
Mr. MALATIIit Mr. M.GILL, his clerk, and a serving
woman. The first four were sitting by the fire—a keg
containing thirty-five pounds of powder was between
Mr. M.Gict. and the chimney, who was picking some
lumps out of it, within five feet of the fire. Another
keg with forty-seven pounds stood open beside him.
Also, other two kegs in a different part of the store,
not unheaded. Some of these Gentlemen were amusing
themselves, producing explosions, by throwing small
lumps of the damaged powder into the fire—this
caused a coal ui start into one of the kegs, which im-
mediately blew up. The four sides of the store went
different ways—the roof was blown up about eight feet
perpendicular, and then fell down, but left room for
the unfortunate inmates to crawl out below, very mach
hurt. The cle: k was behind the counter, and by a mi-
rack, sustained no serious injury; nor did the servant
woman get much hurt—she was in a lobby which com-
municated with the dwelling-house.—Dr. SAMUEL
WOODRUFF is since dead. Iris said, that, had he lived,
the 18th inst. being the day of his funeral, was intended
for his wedding day.
At a late Assizes, during the examination of a maiden
Lady upon a trial for burglary, the Learned Counsel, as
delicately as the case would admit, put a question, the
answer to which, for the modesty of its application,-
deserves to be recorded. a Now, Madam, (said the
Learned Gentleman) I presume you are quite sure, that
when you awoke, you saw a man in your_ bed room?"
After a short hesitation, the Lady replied, " I saw. the
figure of a man l"

POLICE INTELLPHINCE. '„I
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MANSION-HOUSE.
Two MOD, named Jones and Ferguson, were charged with a bur-
glary in the house of Messrs. L. Gilson and Son, of Water-lane,
Thatiws-street. The watchman, observing a light up stairs, ibout
one o'clock on Saturday morning, called two others, and rang the
bell, when, in an instant, the light was extinguished; in consequence
his suspicions were strengthened, and nut receiving any answer,
they waited at the door, end in about live minutes the prisoners
came out, knocked two of the watchmen down, and ran awal ; they
were pursued and taken, and a great quantity f plate was found on
them. One of them proved to have been eight years in the employ
of the prosecutors as clierk,and had quitted business only a few hours
before.—Both fully committed.

- GUILDHALL

CLAIA or Tnavres Bur TO ac CONSIDIRILD EXTIL/oPZILOCHUit.--
The success of the Upper Liberty of the parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn, in their late cause with the Honourable Society of Lin-
coln's Inn, the result of which was to defeat the claim of the Inn
to be considered extra-parochial, has bad the effect, it seems, to sti-
mulate-the City Liberty of that parish to fresh exenions, to over-
turn the similar claim on the part of the inhabitants of Thavies
Inn, which is locally situated within that Liberty.
• It will be remembered that the question, whether Thavies Inn
was or was not extra-parochial, was tried in the Court of King's
Bench some time ago, and a verdict Was given in favour of the Inn.
Application was also subsequently made to the Court for a new
trial, upon the ground that the parish had subsequently got posses-
sion of certain ancient documents, Ste. which would furnish now
and important evidence. The Court, however,, refused to disturb
the verdict. Thavies Inn, notwithstanding, has been regularly as-
sessed to the poor in every rate that has been made since, and with
a view on the part of the pariah to bring the question again to trial.
Mr. Montriou, an inhabitant of the Inn, had been summoned
before the Magistrate for his poor-rate, and having refused to pay,
attended yesterday by appointment, with Mr. Jopson, the Vestry
Clerk, at this Office, before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman
Amstar, to show cause why a warrant of distress should not be
issued against him. The presence of two Magistrates being neces-
sary, Mr. Alderman WASInMAN, the-Alderman of the Ward, was
also in attendance.

lily. Jopson, in support of hiq application, said it was important
to the parish to establish the fact, that 'navies Inn was bible to
be assessed to the poors' rates, and the new evidence they had pro-
cured would, in his judgment, clearly chew, that the place was
not extra-parochial, and they therefore felt that it was their duty
to bring the question to a trial. He pledged himself that Ibis evi-
dence was not the same as that produced on the former trial, nor
that which was before the Court when a new trial was refused.

-Mr. Montriou said, the new evidence, as it was now termed, was
no more than what had already been before the Court of King's
Bench, and which the Court did not think of sufficient importance
to grant a new trial upon, and if Mr. Jopsoc would produce, as
he had required of him, the affidavit upon which the motion for the
new trial was founded, that would skew that this very evidence
had already been rejected as insufficient by the Court. This was
the fourth time he had attended upon this business, and Mr. Jop-
son's applications bad been refused by each of the Magistrates,
under the advice of the City Solicitor, and though be did not com-
plain of the trouble personally, the inhabitants, ha thought, bad A
right to complain of the expense they were thus repeatedly and un-
necessarily put to.
The farther bearing of the ease was adjourned till Thursday next.
SOW-STREET.

Two, very young boys, of the names of William Williamsand Mau-
,ice Ls:dam, were charged with stealing a piece of bacon from a
shop in Holborn. Read, a patrol, watched them yesterday morn-
lug attempting to rob several shops in Holborn, and stopped them
when they stole the bacon in question. One of the prisoners said,
when he seised them, “ This is no go for you—you should not have
stopped us till we bad got something worth your while."—The
prisoners said nothing; and Mr.ll.tu.s committed them for trial, ob-
serving, that he should not have sent persons so young to the Old
Bailey, for an offence so trilling in itself, but that their language and
conduct 'hewed then to be already hardened in iniquity.