Star.
London, England, 1814-10-29 00:00:00

imputed to him. He is of short stature, dark eyes,l
oeor-hanging brow, and swarthy complexion, rather
sharp featured, with two molts on his right cheek.
Jame Sullivan, William Condi', {Pawn Hannoway,
and James Lear", were indicted for the wilful murder
of Barnard Shields,l watchman, of the parish of St.
[ George's in the East, on the `-'29th of September last.
The evidence to substantiate the charge were chief-
ly Irish watchmen, who gave a most confused account
of the transaction. But the substance of theirevidenee
w.ls, that on the 29th of September a quarrel took
place among the Irish labourers who frequented a
public-house in Kiiig•street, St. George's,• called the
Ship and Blade Bone. Tutwatchmen were called in,
and tiannaway was taken into costody. This produc-
ed an attempt to rescue hint, and a general row en-
sued, in which the • Watchmen weir ill-treated and '1
wounded, and Shields, one of them, was killed nearly
on the spot. The Jury atq.litted I-Linnaway, who it
did not •appeagg- took any p •rt in the attempted
rescue, and thipd- the three others guilty of Man-
slaughter.
John Strung this indicted for the wilful murder of
his wife. This case presented the melancholy specta-
cle of children giving evidence against their parent on
a capital charge. It appeared that the prisoner was
clerk to Mr. Christie, a biscuit-biker, in -Wapping,
and haloes maintained good character. The de-
ceased, howestr, to whom he' had been married. 15
years, and by whom he had hid sit *children, had by
Ito. dissolute habits and propensity to spirituous liquors.
marred all his domestic pease, squandered the pro-
duce of his industry, and finally reduced him alrniapt
to a state of frenzy. The eldest boy, 14 years of digt,'.
gave his evidence in tears, and, it appeared from him,
that on the day in question his mother was in liqttor,
'and refused to give his father as account of her
money. She ran to the window and opened it; the
prisoner ran to pull her back, but she fell backwards
and-tut her head: She 'knocked at the door, and was
agaiwadniitted. when the went to the side-board, and
threw a'tea-pot full ot water over him. He was then
going to strike her, but the boy held him, and he did
not do ir. The slecea,td fell on the sideboard, lad cut
,her eye ; she then rolled on Cle floor and tore her
dress all to pieces. His father tore his hair, and wept,
crying, ,4-oh, my Goo! children what shall Ido
with pon•?..Wiwit a woman is this?" 'She continued tit-
he on the .floor, until she was discovered to be dead,
on *lab the ptiseitier went tdr of Surgeon. The boy
never.savEitis.:ather strike her; or offer her any vio.
lence. Two other boys, his brothers, the one nine,
tild-the other about 41 years of age, both denied that
they had ever seen their father hurt their mother.
Here Mr. Knape,. for the prosecution, abandoned
*rod; .and the Jury acquitted the prisoner.

Theman suspected to be the murderer of Mr. Wm.'
BEL•HAU, cow. keeper, at Maidon, Essex, (rnentiored
isk [l4 Sr.tts of Tharsaky), has been apprehended at
,e 4 Crdwit,-at Mucking, and committed to Chelms-

torthiaolo•
t•Pdvietiati.—A Cormier's Inquest was held on the
19ds:instant, at Chesterton, near Newcastle, on view
of the bodies of Ann Burrows, aged about four yerat,
and George Burrows, two years of age, who had
Beep ()huffed' by their mother, Eliiabeth Burrows,
`on the Friay proceeding. It 'appeared that the
mother, in company with another woman, purchased
a qsa:tity of arsenic at a druggist's iu Newcastle,
uades `pretence ot,destroying vermin, and that she
, tinistered a quantity to the children, in treacle,
with Stich fatal promptness that they were both
dead in 'three hours after the poison had been pur-
dssed t It also appeared that the mother admitted
to A no4,,litsour that• she acfministered the deadly
potiothend seemed on the occasion much distressed,
observing that she was induced so to do by the dread,
of poverty !—The bodies of the children were opened.
by a stiogton' .who took a considerable quantity of
arsenic from their stomachs. The Jury, under the
direction of the Coroner, brought in a verdict of wil.
fel murder, and the unhappy woman has since been
committed to Stafford county gaol. There are, as is
oriel on such occasions, many lep4rts about the pri-
soner, one of which is that she is suspected of having
dstroyed tivo other children some years ago, but of
e grouSti for this rutin:an we know nothing. It is
said also she has been subject to fits of insanity.
Early on Saturday last, as Mrs. Mary Hughes, ofl
Marshfield, was proceeding to market, she was stop-1
ped between the tour and five mile-stone on the Glou-
cester road, by two men, apparently a soldier and a
sailor, who demanded her money: on her refusing
immediately to give it, they ransacked her pockets,
and took from her £8 ; after which the villains strip-
ped the poor woman naked, and threw her into a
ditch by the road side: she was discovered about an
flour afterwards, by a poor man driving a cart, who
humanely clodsed her with his frock and coat, and
conveyed her home.
' A fire broke out on the 15th inst. in.the village of
Demuin, near Montdidier, in the Department of the
Somme, by which 140 henses were consumed in the
space off sr hours, and upwards of 600 persons left
without A borne.
A melancholy event has thrown a great number cf
familles'of Genoa and Chiavara into the greatest dis-
tress. A felucca, which sailed from that port on the,
evening of Tuesday, Oct. 11, was lost the same night,
and all on board, being 41 persons, sailors and passen-
gers, perished.
A melancholy accident happened at a house near
Paddiham, a few evenings since. Abraham Dug-
dake, a carrier from Blackburn and Collie, arose
while asleep. from his bed in a garret, went down
stairs to the second storey, traversed the lobby, entered
a room, opened the window, and threw himself into
the street, by which his skull was so dreadfully frac-
tured, that after lingering for some tittle, he expired.
The late Mr. AsTLRY, sen. was, in ea; ly I re, a pri:
vate in the Dragoons, and was distinguished for gal-
lantry and knowl Age of his profession. Soon after a
Mr. Price came forward with the novel entertainment
Of Horsemanship, which he exhibited at Islington,
and from which he was able to retire with a mode.'
rate terame. Mr. Aimee attracted,public notice by
*the same entertainments, which, he per-firmed in St.
George's-fields. By talents, enterprise, and prudence,
he gradually acquired considerable property, elected
several Theatres in thin country, Ireland, and France,
as well as many houses in Lambeth ; and a few years
ago resigned all his public concerns to Isis son—to
whom, and to his family, he has no doubt left a valu-
, ablo inheritance.