Star.
London, England, 1824-06-07 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JUNE L.

Henry Caws and Mary his wife, were convicted of
cruelly assaulting three children of the latter, by a for-
mer husband.--The repeated acts of cruelty excited the
attention of the neighbours, and the parish officers of,
Mary-la-bonne, where the parties resided, took the chil-
dren from their unfeeling parents, and instituted the pre-
sent prosecution. The man was sentenced to six, and
the woman to twelve months imprisonment in the House
of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour.

The demand of' money for admission to the Old Bai-
ley has long been a matter of general complaint. We perceive,
however, that the evil has been superseded by one still greater.
The whole of the gallery is now to be appropriated to tke Common
Councilmen and their friends! Each of these Civic Legislators is
to have the power of giving two tickets of admission, besides which
places are to be reserved for their own sweet personb. Now we
should like to know why the Public are thus to be excluded from
the most important Criminal Court in the Kingdom / Who beyond
Temple.bar, and, icdeed, what person of any consequence in the
City, know these Common Councilmen, or care one farthing about
them ? If they, unfortunately have the right, it is only to be re.
gretted that power is placed in such bands ; if they have not, for the
sake of the Public, let the power be taken from them.

It may not be uninteresting at the present moment,
when public attention is fixed upon ITURSIDR, to recal
the brief character given of him by BOLIVAR. in his
letter to RivA AGUERo, the Peruvian chief: " BONA.-
PARTS in Europe," says the Colombian Liberator, " and
ITURBIDE in America, are the most extraordinary men,
each in his sphere, that modern history presents to the
world ; the final benefactors of their country, and of its
national independence, they have yet been unable to
escape ruin, solely on account of their political sacrilege
in profaning the temple of the laws, and the sanctuary
of all social ri3hts."

On the night of the 10th of April, at a fea, minutes
before ten o'clock, one of the severest shocks of an earth-
quake experienced for many years, was felt at Kingston,
Jamaica, aild in different parts of the Island. The
iiiock was preceded by a rushing wind, and lasted thirty
seconds, during which it was accompanied by a sub-
terranean rumbling noise. Three or four houses on the
❑oath side of the Island were destroyed, but fortunately
no lives were lost. The Jamaica Courant mentions, on
the contrary, the singular recovery of a man who had
heoli long bed-ridden from rheumatism. In the alarm
occasioned by the shock, he sprang from his bed, and
twin that moment was able to resume the duties of his
vccouation as a brass-founder. Several Smaller shocks
weze felt between the 10th and 15th of April, when
they ceased.

The following exquisite specimen of orthography has
been transmitted by a Correspondent to the Cheltenham
Chronicle, and published in that Paper :
01/0110E c--a. Wensd a, Mae. 1824.

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.e 0„ 6„ 0 a pair of trousers fur £1„ 6 0 i also svls. Utak stoks, bore
baps. maiiins, and al sorts of shays. i hays alwas the last men to
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Sunday, the 22d nit. a child of the Rev. 345. Fowle,
residing near Wareham, left its nurse and strayed out
of the house, when a dog, belonging to a gamekeeper,
sprang at the child, and before.any assistance could be
rendered, tore it in sashoeking. a manner as to occasion
its death.