Star.
London, England, 1824-11-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, NOV. 1.

James Browne, a boy about 14 years of age, was
charged with stealing a pocket handkerchief. He was
observed -taking the handkerchief from a Gentleman's
pocket, and being pursued, the handkerchief was found
between his thighs. No owner being discovered for the
handkerchief, and the boy receiving a good character,
the CHAIRMAN told the Jury they bad better acquit the
prisoner.—The Jury accordingly found a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The turnkeys of Clerkenwell prison then stated, that
they had had the lad in their custody before, as " an
idle and disorderly person."
The Jury expressed their regret at having been deluded
into the verdict they bad found, by a false character.
Henry Brand was indicted for assaulting Candido
Rosalim, an Italian vendor of images. It appeared
from the evidence of the prosecutor, and another Ita-
lian boy, delivered through the medium of an inter-
peter, that in consequence of directions front Captain
Wallis, whose servant the defendant was, the prosecutor
took some images to his house, and left them there for
a week, when he was informed that they would not be
kept. Having too many other images in his possession
at that time, he said he would call for them next day ;
he accordingly called on the following morning, and
saw the prisoner, who told him to come in and take
away the images. lie was advancing to do so, when
the prisoner set a dog upon him, which tore his trowsers
and lacerated his flesh. This was in the month of July ;
and the effects of the wound disabled him from attend-
ing to his business for some weeks.
The defendant called as a witness, a tailor named
Edward Hill, who swore that he was taking the de-
fendant's measure on the morning itt question, when he
heard several stones thrown against the door by the
witnesses for the prosecutiin, and observed no dog at
all. When examined by the Court, hcsaid he did not
see the witnesses upon that occasion, but he saw a
quantity of loose gravel about 70 yards distant, from
which, no doubt, they had procured the stones. To a
subsequent question he replied, that the witnesses wore
a different dress that mornin g from what they wore
to-day. The tailor was ordered out of the hoz.
The CHAIRMAN animadverted on the cruel and wan-
ton conduct of the defendant towards a poor foreigner,
and observed that his offence was further aggravated
by the defenCe attempted to be set up.—Guilty.
The Count sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of
251. with liberty to speak to the prosecutor.

THE PANTHEON.

. Mr. CURDY made another application for a license
for the Pantheon to-day ; but it was refused upon the
same ginned as before—namely, that he did not satisfy
the Court that he was in possession of the pre*iises.

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The late Mr. LEvErtrimr,- the architect, who-resided:
in Bedford-square, has left 6,0001. towards the exterr-,
slog and support of the almshouses, and six perpettO
annuities of 251. per annum, to persons who have
rented 401. per antrum in St: Giles's parish, and haft!
since become reduced in circtxtristances. •
A canal is projected to unite the Danube with dui
Elbe, to be dug from Lintz to the river Moldan. • ThiS
would creat• a direct corririitinication from the north of
Europe to Asia, by way of the Mid Sea! An idea if
entertained of applying steam navigation on the Rhine.
A cast iron barge, set in motion by an engine of a hun-
dred horse power, will ascend the river as far as Cologne.
FlRE.—Sunday night, about eleven o'clOch,, the
neighbourhood of North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, was
,alarmed by the cries of " Fire !" proceeding from the
second floor at No. 61, in which a carpenter named
Dennison resided. The family were out. A woman
, residing in the mom over, alarmed by die smell of fire,
roused the neighbourhood., and before any one came to
her assistance, she exerted herself in extinguishing the
fire, emptying all the water she cold procure un the
flames, in which laudable .pursuit she had her face,
hands, and various patts of her body so much burned,
that she was obliged to be carried to the HospitaL
Several of the neighbours exerted themselves to check
.the. progress of the flames till the arrival of the fire-
engines, when the fire was subdued ; but not before
the floor, the joists, and the whole of the furniture
was destroyed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
NA ssioN-iiCuir.

A young man named Ecneyman, ',lobo was charged some .1
ago upon suspicion of having been one nftO gang in thieves oho
stole the parcel containing between 13,00 rd. and 14,000 f. the pr,,
perty of the hlaidstoue Bank, was brought- befdeirthe I:ne is Maros
for final examination. This case forms another instance, in at.ditioe
to those recently presented to the Public, of the uncertainty tit esi,,
dunce as to personal identity.
It will be recollected, that on the first examination, the hook,
keeper of the coach-office swore," to the best of his belief," that the
prisoner was the person who stood at the coach-Mice door at the
time the parcel was stolen; that a second witness, a coach propik.
tor, whose attention was particularly directed at die time to toe
person who was standing at the coach-office door, swore po•itivele
that the prisoner was the very man; and that a third woo,„
chamber-maid of the inn where the staSpected robber slept, anil Was
seen frequently, swore stilt more positively that the prisiiiitT arse
that person, whom she knew, not only by his person, his fea;ute:,
and the colour of his hair, but by his voice and manners.
To corroborate this--apparently powerful evidence, the prison./
was remanded, in order that a yourg woman who came Co town
the side'of the suspected person on the coach, might be brought fir.
ward to give her evidence as to his identity. To put her power
deciding the question to the test, Mr. Brown, the Marshal, c..e„j
the prisoner to be placed in a mom amongst several tither persoo..
She was conducted to the room, and asked whether the man who
rode by her side was present? At the first glance she fixed upon tile
prisoner, and said, " That is the man ;" but upon a more cue
urination of the countenance, she sa:d she was mistaken.
The prisoner's Solicitor declared that he was prepared with com.
plete and irresistible evidence of an alibi.
The prisoner was much affecvd, and said it was a dreadful thine
to be charged so positively with a tremendous robbery, with whica
he had nothing in the world to do. People, he said, should be more
cautious before rhey placed a fellow-creature'slife in jeopardy.
The LOAD Maroit—The witnesses who supposed the prisons-
to be the person, had spoken to the best of their belief, and were
certainly mistaken. The accusation was a misfortune to whim
innocent persons were often liable. His Lordship expressed his re.
gret to the prisoner for the pain and inconvenience to which he
had been subjected, and discharged him.