Star.
London, England, 1824-04-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY--THIS DAY.

Wiqfted Millmore, aged 26, a married wrlrnan, far
advanced in pregnancy, and of very respectable appear-
ance, was put to the bar, charged with stealing a quan-
tity of ribbon, the property of John Wild, of Rath-
bone-place.

Colonel Taylor gave the prisoner a must excellent
character. The prisoner had lived with the gallant
Colonel's family upwards of two years, during which
time she had uninterrupted access to the drawers of his
Lady, and might have robbed them of property to a
very considerable amount.
The COMMON SEILTEANT summed up the eviJence to
the Jury, who instantly acquitted the prisoner.
George Challis, aged 22, was indicted for embezzling
the purchase money of a load of hay, the pier. e,ty of Ins
employer, Mr. Joseph Rickards, farmer, of E,•:ex, from
which place the prisoner had been removed by a writ
of Habeas Corpus. The prisoner, on being taken into
custody, said he had spent the money, w;nch lasted
him nine days.

The facts were fully proved, and the Jury found
him Gui

George relic was indicted for stealing a quantity of
articles, the property of his employers, Messrs. Newton
and Co. in the parish of St. James, Westminster.—The
case was not made out as laid in the indictment, and
under the direction of the COMMON SEUJEANT, the Jury
found him—Not Guilty.
Yesterday, Benjamin Gaskin, aged 40, was indicted
for stealing a quantity of hay, value 3/. the property of
John Nicholl.—Guilty.
John Philpot, aged 37, was indicted for stealing
8001bs. of lead, value sl.—Guilty.
James Whitbers was indicted lor stealing two sacks of
chaff, the property of Mr. Walker, of Enfield. The facts
el this c.te being clearly made out against the pi isonei ,
j the Jury found him Guilty.
Upon the JUDGE asking the prosecutor if he wotiJd
take the prisoner again into his service, he said he did
not know ; but he wished him to have a sharp and short
punishment.—(Much laughter).
Tintaby Donaghue, aged 18, and Alexander Burgess,
stood iudicted for stealing two decanters, value twenty
shillings, the property of John Hari is. Verdict—But-
gess Not Guity, Danaghue Guilty, but recommended to
mercy on account of his former good chat acter.
William Jewel, a tailor, 21• years of age, was indicted
for bigamy. It was proved that the prisoner was
married to Mary Ann Todd, then a servant, in the year
1819, at St. Martin's in the Fields. They lived toge-

ther as man and wife until about 15 months ago, when
they separated. On the '23J of January, 1823, the pri•
sone►• was married at St. James's, Clerenwell, to Mary
Lewis, with whom he lived comfortably, until he was
taken up on the present charge.
The prisoner, in his defence, admitted that he had
married Mary Ann Todd, but said that he had been
most grossly imposed upon, for at the time of the mar-
riage she bad a child living; and in some time after-
wards she left him, carrying off a considerable portion
of his property. He saw no more of her until she came
forward with this charge against him.—Guilty.

We are requested to state, that the a ccount of a duel
in high life, inserted in die STAR of the 2d instant,
from a Morning Paper, is entirely erroneous.
A Petition from the London Missionary Society, rela-
tive to the case of Mr. SMITH, of Demerara, was last
night presented to the House of Commons by Sir JAMES
MACKINTOSH.

The Petitioners proceed on two grounds : they desire,
that as Mr. SMITH died in confinement at Demerara,
without having had means to appeal from the sentence
passed on him by the Court Martial, they may be per-
mitted to vindicate his character, by proof of his entire
moral and legal innocence. The second ground is still
more important. They demand inquiry into the trans-
actions at Demerara, in order to insure protection and
safety to other Christian Missionaries there and elsewhere.
The question thus agitated is not a political one
in any sense of the word ; lot the London Missionary
Society is totally unconnected with any Society for
improving the temporal condition of men in any re-
spect; neither is it a sectarian question; for the mem-
bers of the Society belong partly to the Established
Churches of England and Scotland, and partly to dif-
ferent bodies of Protestant Dissenters. Their sole view
is, in their own words, " to spread the knowledge of
CHRIST among Heathen and other unenlightened na-
tions." The Church Missionary Society and various others
pursue the same pious task, and are animated by one
and the same spirit of charity. We, for our part, hold
the spreading of civilization and religion among our
foreign dependencies to be a duty. What was the original
title under which any of the West Indian or American
Settlements were acquired by Europeans? A pro-
fessed intention, in the words of the Pennsylvania
Charter of 1681, " to reduce the savage natives by
gentle and just manners, to the love of civil society and
the Christian Religion." This, which was the very condi-
tion of our dominion over those territories, has hitherto
been lamentably neglected ; for it is confessed that,
out of a population of between seven and 800,000
slaves in our Colonies, there are not 100,000 who have
any distinct knowledge of the Christian Religion; and
there never has been a sufficient number of the Esta-
blished Clergy to instruct half or a third part of the
slaves. Those pious individuals therefore who labour
to supply so fatal a defect, are entitled to peculiar en-
couragement from Parliament and from the Public ;
and more especially ought they to be protected against
all injustice on the part of the Colonists, to whose neg-
lect of a solemn duty the necessity for the intervention
.of Missionaries is plainly owing.
The length of a motion made last night by Mr. F.
Burroa respecting the West Indies was very unpre-
cedented. The reading of it twice, according to usual
form, occupied one entire quarter of an hour. Mr. I'.,
WILSON pronounced it part of a dangerous system.l
Mr. Hume said it was only lad ing a foundation for dis-
cussion.—When the moLioo is so long, we may antici-
pate a costive debate whenever the subject conies under
discussion.

An additional pleasing appearance is tendered to the
enuntenance by the well-arranged Curl, the braided Plat, and the
Bowing Tresses. In dressing the Bair, nothing prmluces such a
beautiful effect on natural or artificial Ilair, rendering it admirably
soft that it will Le in any direction, producing beautiful curls, which
it preserves in damp atinosphere or violent exercise, at the same
time adding a most incomparable, transcendam, and beautiful lustre,
rendering the head-dress truly enchanting, as Itowiastsu's MACASSAR
OIL, which has by its unexampled excellence in promoting in every
respect the elegance and durability of that grand ornament, gained
the admiration and astonishment of the whole world. As impos-
tors offer for sale a pernicious composition instead of the genuine, it
is necessary to ask for Rowland's, and observe the prices are as. CW.,
7s. 10s. 6d. and 21s. per Bottle, and each Bottle is signed—" A.
Rowland and Son."