Star.
London, England, 1831-04-08 00:00:00

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NEW COURT.

(Before the Hon. C. F.. Law, Common Sergeant)
William Seeley, a private in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards, was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of February, a far tippet,
the property of a lady named Goldsmith.
Mrs. Goldsmith said, on the day named in the indictment, she was
going from her residence in Duke-street, Manchester-square, to Chel-
sea, and when she got to Stanhope-gate, Hyde-park, she met the pri.
loner and another soldier. They immediately, without saying a word,
seised hold of her, and forcibly took the tippet away from lta, and then
went away.
A ggentleman named Penn mid, he saw the whole traneoction, and
immed• tely followed the prisoner, and never lost sight of him until
be was taken Into custody. He appeared tipsy at the time.
The Common Szaanswi summed up, and the jury immediately
found the prisoner guilty.

aliasefore Mr. Sergeant ALBIN.)
Thome Alf GUlHenry Auguste Tournage, was indicted for
bigamy.
'The fact of the first =nine having bean peed, Elisabeth Camp.
bell, the prosecuttix, was called, and pre an account of bee acquain-
tance with the prisoner similar to that which appeared a short time
ago in ow poles repast. She stated, that she first met the prisoner
about eight en*, ago, in a Paddington stager:Jona or armies. He
said, at ass tne, after he called on her mother, that be bad been a ship-
bmier, In getsseship with his brother. At another time he saikbe
was a posteptaho in the navy.
The whine, on cress.exatnimition, said she had not, perhaps, known
the prisoner thee weeks before they were married. After she saw him

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In the omnibus she met him by appointment several does, and
crossed tie Thames with him in a boat; and they also went to the
tlay together. She was a minor by Ave months when he married her.
The witness stated, in answer to further questions. that her mother and
father lived separate; that her father had been in prison, and that after
the marriage the prisoner advanced 201. or 301. to release her math„
from a sing.bouse.
It appearing in the course of the evidence that the ivitasses Christian
name was Elizabeth Sarah,
Mr. Anourmas submitted that the Indictment, which described her
bet as Elizabeth Campbell, could not be sustained, and the Court ma.
earring in the objection, after Mr. C. Parz.z.trs had bees heard In
reply, the prisoner was acquitted.
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POLItE REPORTS.
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OUILDHALL.—The Stewards of the United Loyal Britons' Beside
Society attended to show cause why Edward Lough had been excluded
It.sppeared that the complainant had been excluded under an article,
which provides that an invalid, on laving home, "shall write down par;
ticularly where he is gone, and the way he goes and returns, in order
that the visitor may surely meet him ;a but in default of such accurate
particulars being left be shall fine 6e. and foe the second offence be ex.
eluded." On two occasions the complainant went to the hospital, with.
out leaving the notice in writing, but the wife told the viaitor where he
was gone to. Without noticing that the omission was a dangerous vio-
lation of the rules, the visitors continued to call till the meeting night,
when the complainant was expelled.
31r. Alderman AlisLIT thought the proceeding was a violation of
the policy of the clause, which obviously was, that for such an offence
a member should not be excluded till be bad been warned by a fine of
live shillings.
ins ached. e magistrates recommended that the member should be re.
BOw-STILZET.-- Thomas Jodn Potter, a young man who has lately
been exhibited as "the Cumberland Giant," was charged under the
following circumstances
It appeared from the statement of the complainant, a man named
Tarleton, that he met the prisoner, who stands nearly 7 feet high, some
weeks ago, begging in a public-house, and being struck with his re.
markable height, proposed that be should allow himself to be pub.
lily exhibited, and offered him half the profits of the show. The
' prisoner, having nothing better to do, agreed to these terms, and
the exhibition room having been accordingly provided, a cloak for
the purpose of enveloping his gigantic form was furnished, and a
sign-painter engnged to paint " that wonderful natural curiosity,
the Cumberland Giant; who, although but 16 years of age, bad reached
the astonishing height. of 8 feet 11 inches.' With the aid of an assist.
ant, who stood at the door in the character of Puff, the pence flowed in
rapidly ; when all of a sudden, one tine morning In the last week, the
Cumberland giant gave his keeper the slip, taking with him the cloak,
computed at 9 yards of broad cloth, and the painting of himself, which
occupied at least 16 square feet of canvass. For this alleged felony the
prisoner was given into custody.
The eilsoner bald, that both the painting and the cloak remained in
the hands of the landlord. He (the prisoner) thought it useless to stop
any longer, as he found that the complainant, instead of sharing with
him the profits of the exhibition, pocketed them all himself.
The landlord at whose house the prisoner had been exhibited. came
' forward and acknowledged that the cloak and painting were in his pos-
session, and he meant to hold them for a balance of rent.
Mr. HALLS said he saw no ground for the charge, and accordingly
dismissed it.
Tzarists POLICE-0771CL—Yesterday James Walton, the whole.-
' sale plunderer of licensed victuallers, was again placed at the bar, when
a number of peewee pressed forward to prefer charges against him.
Publicans from every part of the metropolis were examined, and repeated
the thrice-told tale, that they missed money, watches, wearing apparel,
We. but none of the witnesses could swear to the property produced by
the pawnbrokers. Two clear cases were, however, selected out of the
map" produced, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial-
Havrow.Gaanest.--Welluesalay Was. Cols sad Thos. Ireland,
alias (larvae., young men of respectable appearance, were brought
b:fore Mr. llamas and Mr. Sergeant flExiow, charged on nap!.
don of having being concerned in illicit distillation.
Thomas Philip Gamin( r, a Surveyor of Excise, No. 11, Union4treet,
Whitechapel, stated that between nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday night,
as he was passing along Merlin's-place, Spa-gelds, in company with
Gaytor anti several Excise officers, his suspicions were excited upon
seeing two men driving a horse and cart i.t a rapid pace, and he
and Gaytor determined upon following the cart. Almost imme-
diately the cart stopped, and a wan in it run away with the
utmost speed. The other man, who proved to be the pri-
soner Cole, drove the horse and cart into a shed in Rosoman-street.
Witness went tip and seised him, and upon examining the cart found
in it two eighteen-gallou casks of molasses. The prisoner put his hand
into his pocket, begged to be let go, and said he would make it all
right. Witness opened • door in the shed, and finding it led to the
back part of a house, took the prisoner with him into the house No.
12, Merlin's place, and in the passage found the other prisoner in the
custody of Gaytor. Upon examining the premises, be found a copper
still in each of the two cellars. The boiler of the wash edit, which was
In the back, was quite hot, as if it bad recently been at work. Each
still had two copper worms and a worm tub, and were complete in every
particular. He found 100 gallons of low wine in a large cast, 12 pllons
of strong spirits in other vessels, and 300 gals. of molasses in 9 wash vats.
Thomas Ga)ior, an Excise officer, coofirmed the testimony of the
preceding witness, and said that he apprehended the prisoner Ireland
within a few yards of the still-room doors. There were three women and
scrag] children also in the house. He picked up two pewter pots in the
cellar, with the name of Cole stamped upon them.
John Illesiop, an auctioneer and housent, said he let the hones to
the prisoner, Ireland, in December last, and he called himself a dyer, and
said his name was Thomas Harpur. A written agreement was entered
into between them, which was signed by the prisoner Ireland, as
Thomas Harpur. The stills were not in the house when be let it to
the prisoner.
Ireland said nothing in his defence.
Mr. Woofer, who attended upon behalf of the defendants, contended
that there was not sufficient evidence against Cole, who, ignmantof whit
the casks in the cart contained, accepted a ride in it to his home.
The Magistrates convicted the prisoner Ireland, alias Harpur, in the
mitigated penalty of 30L and in default of payment, committed him to
three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction,
and discharged the other prisoner, as he was not found on the premises.
MAaYLEIiowNE.—DEIinCRATZ Asrimer AT SZLr-DiCsTltic-
-11011.—El hut Hicks, a married woman, about 30 years of age, was
charged with attempting to destroy herself the preceding evening.
A respectable-looking woman, who gave her name Mary Daniels,
stated, that on her return from Kentish Town, about seven o'clock on
Tuesday cseniug, when she got as far as the Elephant and Castle, in
the Pancras-road, she saw the prisoner, who appeared fat a state bor.
Bering on insanity, endeavour to throw herself over same palings which
fence s deep marshy ditch by the road side. In this attempt she was
prevented by a young man, who was afterwards stated to be her brother,
and who dragged her into the field, where, after beating her severely,
he left her. The unfortunate creature then used every endeavour to
beat her brains out, seeking every precipitous spot she could, and
throwing herself down bead-foremost, until at length some humane per.
sons sciz.d her, and brought her into the public-house.
Mr. Rawtinsow asked her why she acted in that manner? to which
she replied that she had been parted front her husband for several years,
and supported herself by servitude. She has been for sometime out of
place, and, being obliged to subsist upon her friends, they at length
grew tired of her, and an altercation having taken place, the tiled to de.
stray herself. She added, that her father lived in Wibtead-street, and
that, if she were set at liberty, she would return to him, as she was con.
fidest he 'would receive her.

Mrs. Daniels said that the prisoner expressed her determination to
destroy herself; even after she was in custody.
Mr. Rawmusox asked Mrs. Daniels if she considered the prisoner
to be sober at the time P—Mrs. Daniels said she considered her to be
perfectly sober.
Mr. Rawl.iesox did not think it prudent, after so determined an
attempt at self-destruction, to sufer her, on her own assurance, to go
at large, and accordingly ordered her to be taken to the workhouse of
St. Pancras.

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Beam, Small .

• 364 404
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Suffolk, (White) . 74. 78a, lick . 331 s.
Norfolk & Suf. (Red),66s 726 Oats, Pouktee • 26s 311
Rye . 306 34. Poland . 24s 2111
Barley, 341 38s ..Fine 42. 480 : Feed . . 22s 21.
Peas, White . 40. 42. ' Flour, per sack, . . 60s 656
Boilers . . 45s 4861 Rapeseed . £36 £3B per last
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Irish - - - -- Oats, English . 2,790
Foreign - - - 6,160 Irish . . 1,955
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Irish - - -—• Rogliah Flour (sacks) 2.205

SMITHPIRLD—THIS DAY.
CATTLI AT WA Eat
Beasts; 503—Sheep, 4,5110—P1y, 100—Calve% 70.
Beef ....... 3. 104 to 4s 64 Pork
Mutton .... 4a 6d fos Od Lamb..... es Od 71 Od
Veal.
Hay (per load). £2 10s. to .14 Os. Clover, a 3 15s. to A% 51.
Straw, 41 16s. to 42 Os.

COAL-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY.
Ships arrived during the month
beetWalkend, Newcastle, & Sunderland Coals.. 285 0,1 a 293 Gd
;for sorts
Slaps at Market, 166.
11111-Mergim .

11u. 47K.

Afternoon

.... 1211. 12K.

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