Star.
London, England, 1824-06-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Orders hive teen recently issued from the Recruiting Depart-
ment, in Westminster, to the different recruiting parties through-
out Great Britain and Ireland, to discontinue the further enlist-
ment of men for the new levies, these Coips having completed
their respective establishments.
The recruits belonging, to the new Regiments, which are at pre-
sent in Ireland, are ordered to embark forthwith at Cork and Dub-
lie, for England, for the purpose of joining their respective Corps.
The new Regiments, it is understood, will proceed, in the Spring
of the ensuing year, to foreign stations.
A detachment of recruits marched this day from Westminster,
to Winchester, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight.
The 2d (or Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot is ordered to ens-
' bark for England, on board the transports that conveyed the 54th
(or Cumberland) Regiment of Infantry, front Portsmouth to Dub-
lin. The second division embarked on Tuesday.
It has been rumoured that Lord COMMER3tEIIt is to proceed to.
India as Commander of the Forces in that country ; and that Sir
TimmAs Hrst.or is to succeed to the command in Ireland.
The 2d division of the ilst (Highland Light Infantry) Regiment
has embarked on hoard the Cato and Prince of Orrnge transports,
and sailed from Cork for Canada.

NATAL I.'l I.I.,LItiE.N'CR.
Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Pernambuco,
dated 9th April :—" The Oporto Packet arrived from London oi,
the 7th inst. The munitions of war will be taken from the vessel,
and then allowed to enter the port. The togniac Packer, from
Liverpool, was warned off yesterday, and proceeded from Bahia.
The Commodore of the Brazilian vessels of war has sent notice to
the British Commodore and Consul, stating this port is under strict
blockade. The notice was dated on the 7th, and delivered on
the sth inst."
Arrived off Holyhead, the Albion, Swaissoa, from Bengal ; Bee,
M' Bums, from Pernambuco; John Ileyes, —, from 13ar badoes ;
and Majestic, Pace, from Charleston.
The Hsnaen ha: been ordered to be fitted as a yacht, for the
purpose of conveying Ambassadors. Captain 11. I. I.i.KKE is ap•
pointed to coninmod her. Mr. 34iNN SHEA, to he Purser. She wa.
commissioned at Portsmouth on Thursday.
The JUPITER, Captain DUNN, went nut of Portsmouth harbour on
Tuesday. Rear-Admiral Lax*: is expected to hoist his flag on
board her in the course of a few clays.
The Sraiiieowiia.w, lc, Captain the Honourable R. S. Demos, is
refitting with all dispatch for the South American station. She is
expected to sail from Portsmouth in the cruise of the ensuing week.
The CaLiaory has returned to Spithead, from a cruise.
The CHAMPION and ORESTES will be immediately commissioned
at Portsmouth; and the PYLADES at Woolwich. Captain FEAD,
Lieutenant E. 11. PACE, and Mr. Timm Purser, are appointed to
the CHAMPION. Captain Lerciirtri.o, Lieutenant J. B.WiterzLocar,
and Mr. T. Num.; Purser, to the ORESTES.
FALMOUTH, JUNE s.—Variable light winds.—Off the port, the
Riling Grove, FALCONER, in forty-one days from Demerara; Zealous,
Run, in one hundred and fifteen days from Payta. Arrived the
Duke of York packet, from the Brazils—sailed from Pernambuco
the 9th April ; Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon—sailed
the ltd May ; Dove packet, from Jamaica—sailed the 90th April ;
and Success, Boas'. from London. Sailed the Union, 13aostaasnaw,
for London.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind N.E.—Off the Isle of Wight, the
Iris, HOWL AND, in thirty-two days from New York, for London.
Ships at SpitheadJUPlTEß, BLossoss, and CALLIOPE. In Har-
boUt7-• VICTORY, ALSION, WELLESLEY, BULWARC, ROYAL Groace,
SESIA3PANG, NIEMEN, MEDINA, CERENE, HERALD, QUAIL, VIPER,
LINNET, and SconeioN.
DEAL, Just 4.—Fresh breezes.—Arrived and remain, the Mar-
shal Wellnigton, CLARK, from Jamaica; Prince Leopold, JAMES,
from Campeachy ; and Essex, ASTON from Bourdeaux : also, and
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sailed for the River, the Charles, MlLzia, from Tobago. Passed
through from the River, the Dublin packet, STRANGE, for Valpa-
raiso; Maria, BIDRINS, for Newfoundland; Sceptre, ()an, for New
Brunswick; Zephyr, PADDEN, for Valencia; and Janet, WlLsox,
for St. Vincent's.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the New York, MAXM'ELL, from
New York; and Charlotte, Gaoor, from Dantzic. Off the port,
the Duke of Lancaster, --- ~ from Bengal.
QuEsac, Arum 19. The Lake ice made its appearance on
Thursday last. It has all passed, and the river is now perfectly
clear. The large timber ship building at the island of Orleans
caught fire, and nearly 40 feet of her length consumed.

OLD BAILEY-THIS DAY.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.

William IV hallcy was put to the bar on an indictment charging
him with unlawfully secreting a letter containing a -P.5 note, which
had come into his possession by virtue of his employment at the
General Post-office, and with putting the said note to his own use,
against the statute in that case made and provided.
Mr. Charles Cassini, Secretary to the Governor of the Military
College, Sandhurst, proved sending a letter containing the note in
question, on the Bth of March, directed to Mr. Cox. It was num-
bered 15,774. The Governor at the time was in Scotland.
Roger Morrison stated, that he was employed in a military ca-
pacity at the College. He proved putting the letter in the bag,
and giving it to Richard Hammond.
Richard Hammond proved taking the bag to Bagshot.
William Smithers, of the Post-office, then proved unlocking the
bag, and sending the letters to the Post-office in London.
Mr. William Wood, Inspector of the London letter-carriers,
proved that the prisoner was on duty on the 2d of April.
J. Poppin proved taking the bag in on the 2d of April.
J. Cox proved that he had never received the letter or the note.
Charles Furen, proprietor of the Cambridge Coffee-house, proved
changing the note for the prisoner, and marking on it the word
" Postman." This took place on the 3d April.
Mary Foren proved the same fact.
The prisoner merely said he was innocent. Ile called five per-
sons to speak to his character, all of whom gave him a good one.
Mr. Baron HULLOCK summed up the evidence to the Jury, who
consulted for a few minutes, and then found the prisoner Guilty—
Death.
Yesterday Anne Simpson stood indicted for feloniously stabbing
William Simpson, her husband, with intent to kill him. There were
two other counts in the indictment, charging the prisoner with the
intent to disable and do her husband sonic bodily harm. The hus-
band did not appear.
Elizabeth Crawley, deposed—She lives at No. 2, Burton-lane;
she knows the prisoner and her husband ; remembers being in com-
pany with them, at the White Hart, Shadwell, on the intli of May,
about nine o'clock in the evening. There was another man with
them, who is at sea at present. They were drinking grog together;
they were very comfortable ; there was no other woman with them.
'The husband and wife appeared to be in good humour. The prisoner
asked him to go home ; they got up and went out ; but the prisoner's
husband again returned to the room, and had more grog. A young
woman, of the name of Warren, an acquaintance of Simpson, and
to whom he had given a bond before he went to sea, came into the
room, and sat down at the table opposite Simpson, and began to
speak to him. He told her to go away, and he went into another box.
Warren continued to come backwards and forwards into the room
while they were there. Shortly after, as witness was entering the
room, she saw the prisoner strike her husband on the shoulder, but
saw nothing in her hand; she heard so words between them. She
afterwards perceived she had struck him with a penknife, and had
left it sticking in the wound. lie cried out—" You have stabbed
me !" and she then fell into a fainting fit, saying—" Oh, Gon! I
have done it !" He caught her in his arms as she was falling. After
this they went into another box, and they then seemed to be recon-
ciled to each other. It appeared a new knife, as well as she could
judge. Very little blood came from the wound. Witness went to
Simpson's on the Tuesday following ; the prisoner was dressing the
wound and applying leeches to it; the prisoner cried, and the hus-
band forgave his wife, and did not seem to care much about it.
William Campman, is a cutler, the prisoner came to purchase a
penknife at his shop, about the end of April. She had one in the
morning and another in the evening. She came again about a week
after, and bought another.
Richard Pullen is a surgeon. He examined the shoulder of
Simpson, and found it punctured by a blow or a thrust. lie did not
at the first moment ascertain the length and breadth of the wound,
on account of its swelling. He went to Simpson's hous.• a few eve-
nings after, and the wound was more swollen ; he had occasion to
probe it, and found that it was about an inch and a half in depth.
The wound was in the fleshy part, between the spine and the sca-
pula ; he considered it, in his opinion, a dangerous wound. It took
a fortnight to heal. Simpson is at sea, and thinks no more about it.
Here Baron HULLOCK addressed the Jury. He said that it was
his duty to tell them, that the facts of this case did not warrant the
charges laid in the indictment. The wife expressed her sorrow
and deep affliction at what she had done, and the husband skewed
by his conduct that the injury he sustained was very slight, fur he
forgave her and went to sea. Under these circumstances, he thought
that the prisoner was entitled to their verdict of acquittal.—The
Jury found the prisoner Kut Guilty.
The prisoner seemed much affected at her situation, and cried lu-
cesuntly during the trial.

SPORTING LVTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM RACES—FaiDAT, JUNE 4.

The Downs were yesterday graced by a company not so nume-
rous, but quite as respectable as on the preceding day. The ab'
sence of the Bouracuis, in fact, seemed to afford considerable con-
solation to the das:ters lions the fashionable regions, who now trot-
ted backwards and forwatds, and occasionally promenaded on the
Course with all the delightful mat chulance of a lounger in Hyde
Park on a week dsy. There was no restraint—there were no ap-
prehensions of being shocked by the vulgar stare of a 'shopkeeper,
or of having an eye knocked out by the well picked bone of a
, knuckle of ham. All was select, genteel, and agreeable—and al-
-1 though a few parnals were cracked, a few wheels grazed, and not
a few nerves shocked, still these misfortunes were incurred among
toactrepauttolsks, and were therefore regarded as the mere ordinary
consequences of that state of society which is so delightful to the
:admirers of a midnight rout. In the early part of the day the bill
behind the winning stand, and which commands so admirable a
view of the Course, was not less crowded or less brilliant in its
dispisy than on Thursday. The equipages were equally splendid,
and the general coup &c ell was rendered still more imposing by the
favourable state of the weather. It was a perfect Italian sky, and
although the sun shone throughout the day with more than a genial
warmth—its heat was tempered by a gentle and continuous breeze,
alike grateful to the company and the cattle by which they were
drawn. After the first race for the Oaks the gay multitude moved
down from their elevated situation to the side of the Race Course,
where they continued in active motion till the sports were ended,
which was net till half-past six o'clock in the evening. Among the
throng we noticed his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the
Marquis of Hertford, the Duke of Newcastle and horny, Earl
Geosvenor, Earl of Derby, Lord Cardigan, Lord Harlscrough,
Lord Deerhursr, Lord Verulam, Lord Wilton, Lord Walscourt,
the lion. L. Stanhope, Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Jersey, Lord
George Cavendish, Major Ormsby Gore, Captain Jones, &C.
There were three or four of the old Four-in-hand Club present,
who reminded us, by the compact neatness of their" turns out,"
and the pleasing dexterity of their whips, of the " gone by" days of
Salt Hifi. The principal attraction of the day was the Race for the
Oaks Stakes, 50 guineas each, 3 years old fillies; the last mile
and a half.—The weights and regulations for this race are suth-
eieutly known ; and in point of betting, the speculations are hardly
les; iinnwrons than on the Derby ur St. Leger. There were 41
subscribers, but of these thirteen horses only ran, including—

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Mr. Turner names f. Cobweb.
D. of Grafton's f. Rebecca.
Id. G. A. Cavendish :6 b. f. by Orville.
Mr. Turner names Ms. Goddard's f. Pedigree.
Mr. Walker names Mr. Forth's b. f. Miss Jigg.
14 Derby's hi. f. Lady Eleanor.
Duke of Grafton's f. Tiara.
Id Verulam's f. by Comui.
Mr. Rogers names Mr. Prendergast's, by Soothsayer.
Mr. Walker names Mr. Peel's gr. f. Palle de Joie.
Lord George Cavendish's I'rincipessa.
Cobweb, which has been the favourite for some time back, kept
her station, and such at length was the confidence manifested in
her superior speed, that she was backed at six in four ago the field
—odds of a fearful nature when the number of competitors was
considered. She is the property of Lord Jersey, although named
by Mr. Turner, and in her appearance and frame, is calculated to
confirm the confidence with which she was regarded. The next
favourite was Rebecca, but the odds against her were 4to 1. Mr.
Peel entertained great hopes of his filly File de Joie, and took the
odds against her with freedom. The result of the race justified
his expectations.
There was a good deal of delay in starting, in consequence of
Rebecca having broken one of her plates (shoes) at the moment the
first start was made. Doubts were entertained as to whether the
race should be postponed till a new plate was obtained, but in con-
sequence of the Stewards not being on the spot, as the safest way,
the start was postponed till the loss was repaired. It was half-past
three before the race was run, and the contest was spirited. Cob-
web, however, vindicated her pretensions, and won cleverly by a
full length. She teas close run in by FlUe de Joie. Two only
were placed.
Cobweb - I
Fille de Joie - 2
Rebecca was the third. The winner was rode by Robinson.
Lard Jersey seemed highly delighted with his success.
The next race was for the Woodcot Stakes of 10 sovereigns each,
with 10 sovereigns added from the Race Fund, for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. The last half-mile.
Mr. Pettit's gr. f. Bravura, 3 yrs old, 6st. 21b. - - 1
Mr. Page's ch. h. Mortimer, aged, Bst. 61b. - 2
The held was the favourite, and the race was uncommonly will
run.—Two only were placed.
The last race was for a Plate of 501. for '5-yr-olds, 6st. 71b. four,
Bst. 21b. five, Bst. 91b. six and aged, est. The winner to be sold
for 200 sovereigns. Two mile heats. This race was protracted to
three heats, and afforded a good deal of sport.
Mr. Rush's b. c. by Phantom, 3 yrs old - - 3 1 1
Mr. Nlesser's b. m. Norna, 6 yrs old - - 1 3 it
Major Ormsby Gore's b. h. Cupp - 2 2 3
The colt won with ease, and was the favourite at the last start.
Thus ended the sports fur this year, and though not so good as
on former occasions, they proved snore attractive.
There was a third-rate fight knocked up in the evening for the
amusement of the Ralf, but it was not patronised by any persons of
respectability,
During the beats several pickpockets were caught nibbling at the
pockets of the visitors, and immediately underwent summary pu-
nishment. One of them who was thus detected was compelled to
run the mile and a half course, or, as it may he termed, to run the
gauntlet, every injured or uninjured person who chose It giving hint
a passing blow while running the heat. It was observed a better
start never was made, for he stretched out into a full gallop, and
never varied his pace till he arrived at the termination post, when
he was suffered to depart. It was supposed he had received some
injury during the time of running, as he walked away in a limping
state with his near-tide foot.
THE GREAT Ficsim—There was a great deal of betting oa this
' affair—three to one on Spring, who was again on the Course the
' whole of the day.