Star.
London, England, 1825-04-12 00:00:00

APRIL
a all the months that fill the year,
Give April's month to me,
For Earth and Sky are then so filled
- With sweet variety !
The apple blossom's shower of pearl,
* The pear tree's rosier hue;
X* beautiful as woman's blush,
" As evanescent too !
The purple light that like a sigh,
Comes from the violet bed ;
As there the perfumes of the East,
Had all their odour. shed!
The wild briar roses fragrant cup

To bold the Morning'itear ;
The bird's-eye like a sapphire star;
The primrose pale like fear !
The balls that hang ike drifted snow
Upon the Guelder rue ;
The woodbine's fairy trumpet where
The Elf his war-note blows !
On every bough there is a bud, •
In every bud a Rower ;
But scarcely bud or flower will last
Beyond the present hour !
Now comes a shower-cloud o'er the sky,
Then all again sun-shine ;
Then clouds again, but brightened with
The rainbow's coloured line!
Aye, then, this is the month for me!
I could not love a scene,
Where the blue sky was always blue,
The green earth always green!

OLD BAILEY, APRIL 11.

Joseph Moulds (conviced on Saturday with Denman)
was indicted for committing a highway robbery on
Mr. Couzens, the prosecutor on the former indictment.
The case was, however, not gone into, and the prisoner
acquitted of course.
Sentence was then passed upon Moulds and Denman,
in which Mr. Sergeant ARABLE, after touching upon
the enormity of the offence of which they had been
convicted, sentenced both the prisoners to be trans-
ported for their lives.
Edward Crawley, James Gof, and Edward Davis
Dunn, all of them mere striplings, were indicted for a
burglary in the house of Alexander Brice, Esq.
The .prosectror deposed, that he lived in Euston-
square, and on his return home from a visit on the I Ith
of March last, he had retired to bed at between ten
and eleven o'clock. At three o'clock the next morning
he was awoke by his wife, and heard persons in the
house. He immediately gave the alarm, and let in
the watchmen. Upon examining the house, he'disco-
e- ed that the thieves had entered by the scullery win-
Silbws. All the doors were found open, and several
articles were scattered about. The wins and jellies
which had been on the sideboard were removed ; a cake,
sOsich had been given to his children by their grand-
mother, was taken away. There were marks of recent
blood in the passage; and during the search the wit-
ness distinctly heard persons escaping through the
staircase window. Among other stolen articles, some of
which were afterwards found on the top of the house,
vt as a silver cruet-frame and a coat.
Two watchmen proved, that upon the alarm being
givr n, they proceeded to search for the thieves, and found
two of the prisoners (Crawley and Dunn) in a garden
at a small distance from Mr. l3rice's house, with some
of the property (now identified) upon their persons.
Another watchman found the third prisoner (Goff),
whom he described as the Gentleman in the middle,"
lying on his belly in a gutter on the top of a house.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all
the prisoners.
John Williams was indicted for feloniously stealing
wearing-apparel in the dwelling-house of Thomas
Watkins.—The prosecutor proved that he had lost cer-
thin articles of wearing-apparel of the value of 31.
James Brown, Bow street-officer, apprehended the pri-
soner on the night mentioned in the indictment, with a
bundle, which on his being stopped, he threw away and
endeavoured to make his escape.
The prosecutor identified the bundle as his property.
Verdict—Guilty of stealing under the value of 40s.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN told the prisoner he might
expect to be transported.
William Becky was indicted for stealing a five pound
note, the property of Elizabeth Lulier.
The prosecutrix deposed that she went on the 11th
of March last to a public-house, to get change for a Si.
note. The Landlord could not change it, when the pri-
soner, who was present, said he would get it changed
for her in five minutes. She gave him the note, when
he made off with it, and did not return. The note was
never recovered ; the prisoner was apprehended in con-•
sequence of the prosecutrix's information.
The prisoner, in his defence, said the prosecutrix
had given him the' note.—The Jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
J. Lidbetter, convicted last Sessions, and in whose
case the point was reserved for the opinion of the Twelve
Judges—whether the prosecution was or was not legal
—was brought up this morning, when
The RECORDER said, that notwithstanding the crime
was brought home satisfactorily, in the opinion of the
Jury, to the prisoner, yet a point, as above stated, was
reserved. The Judges, the Recorder said, had since,
upon consideration, determined that the prosecution
was a legal one; the sentence of the Court upon the
prisoner therefore was, that he be imprisoned in New-
gate for the space of five months, to commence from
the day of his conviction.
The prisoner was the landlord of the Dolphin public-
house, on Ludgate-hill, and the offence of w hich he was
last Sessions convicted, was that of receiving money
from a person who had been robbed, as an inducement
for the discovery of the property stolen.

Sunday, Probert attended the Chapel in Newgate,
with the other prisoners. He does not appear so san-
guine in his expectation of a remission of the full penalty
of the law being extended to him, and that his sentence
will be transportation for life, as he was shortly after
his conviction.
A public meeting was held at the Town Hall, Liver-
pool, on Friday, the Mayor in the Chair, to petition the
Legislature for a revision of the Corn duties. Resolu-
tions to this effect were moved, and supported by the
whole of the persons who addressed the Meeting, ex-
cept a Mr. LAVONZ, who contended, that if the impor-
tation of coin were allowed, the poor would not be at
all benefited, on the principle that MOM labour and
profit would be deducted from our agrict.ltural poor
than would be gained by the population employed in
manufactures.
_l4r: Limeys added, that be was satis-

fled that when the price of Corn waf high, tbepoor man.
could always get a remunerating price for his labour.
The resolutions for * petition were nevertheless tarried.