Star.
London, England, 1831-08-10 00:00:00

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POLICE REPORTS.

Go u.DuALL.—Charles Daley, the young sailor, whit ws,
charged a few days since with uttering a forged clulue
Messrs. Price, Kaye, and Co. purporting to be drawn b.
Edward Jones, of Whitefriars tl'harf, was brought tp for
re.examlnadon yesterday.
Sharp, the constable, said, he had learnt thut the pro9ettt.
tor went out of town on Saturday, for Ramsgate, and he had
not yet returned, nor did he, indeed, expect that he intends '
to appear against the prisoner.
Mr. Alderman C. Simla discharged the prisoner, n•
minding him of the jeopardy be had been placed in, at
earnestly recommending him to be cautious as to his futt.r.
conduct.

BOW•STREET.—A gentleman named Douglas Lovedop
was, in the course of yesterday, brought before Sir Richard
Birnie, upon a warrant, which was committed to the hard
of Ledbitter for execution, charged him with having star .‘
threatening letter to Sir E. B. Sugden. M.P.
The warrant (issued upon the usual information) was, it
was understood, obtained at the instance of the Lord High
Chancellor. The defendant was held to bail by the Chid
Magistrate on Monday evening; but being then unprorided
with bail, he was detained In custody until yesterday morn.
ing, when he was again brought forward. Being still situ.
out sureties, the Magistrate dispatched a messenger to Mr.
Csrpue, Mr. G. Robins, Sir John Doyle, and other gentle-
men of the defendant's acquaintance, none of whom, except
Sir J. Doyle, came forward. That gallant officer, however,
excused himself from becoming one of the bail, on the
ground that he was not a housekeeper.
The defendant, at a late hour in the day, expressed his
readiness to abide the order of the Magistrate, and rtnrain in
custody to take his trial.
The committal having been made out. the defendatt ses
about to be removed in a coach, when a friend of his pro.
vaned on him to make a further effort to obtain bail. Ile
was not balled however when the Office closed.
John Rutherford, recently employed at the Gioucet,r
Coffeehouse, Piccadilly, as a porter, was remanded, charged
with having stolen a parcel, containing 10. Ns. which had
been booked at the office for Bath.

HATTON GARDEN. •Yestetcay, Benjamin Barr. s
carter and gilder, was examined on suspicion of having
caused the death of his wife, Hannah Barr. It seems dia.
the prisoner was jealous of his wife's acquaintance with on:
Patrick Carroll, and frequent altercations took place b -
tween them. The body waits a coroner's inquest. Th:
prisoner was, of course, remanded.
LANOETIVATAZET.—Yesterday, a middle aged femal.:.
the wife of a gentleman holding a situation in his Majesty's
Customs, was charged with assaulting ha husband, an.:
threatening to take his life.
The husband stated that such unfortunately was his wife's
passion for gin, that she would even dispose of the shoes or
her feet to procure it. She was in the habit of strippin,
his house of various articles of property, and making away
with them, to supply herself with her favourite liquor.
The magistrates ordered her to find bail for her good be.
baviour towards her husband for the next three months,
and in default committed be. to prison.
THAMES POLlClL—Yesterday Williams John ring.
maser of the ship Scotia, from St. Petersburgh, was charged
with cruelty towards Johanna Somnar, a foreign sailor boy.
The lad said that on the previous evening he took the tea.
kettle full of boiling water below, when his Captain old it
was not hot enough, dew into a violent par-ion, and seeing
a point, beat him over the head and face, and all parts of hi-
body. Messrs. BALLANTISE and BEODERIP tailenCt•J
him to pay a fine of 61. and directed that the lad should be
given up to the Swedish ConsuL
thrum HALL.—Jeerer Shrivel!, a brok.r and appwaber,
was brought before Mr. Mon LIT, charged with committing
an aggravated assault on Ann Wilkins, a delicate your g
female.

The Magistrate said that this was not the first time
defendant was brought forward on similar charges. Tne duty
he (the defendant) had to perform generally must be painful
to the feelings of a man paaessed of any, namely, that of
distralning on the gocds of indigent persons, and even takrog
the beds from under them. The duty, however, instead of
being executed with any degree of feeling by the defendant
toward, the unfortunate, was, on the contrary, enforced
with rigour and inhumanity. The MagistrAte thertiot
taking all the circumstances of the case into consideratier.,
fined the defendant 31. for committing the ussault,
10s. costs.

ACCIDENT AT THE ARCHWAY TOLL-HATE.—
A Coroner's inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon, at
the Archway Tavern, Highgate, before J. Stirling Esq—
and a respectable Jury, on view of the bodies of tlr. John
Goodenough, aged 75, and Dir. John Goodenough, aged 2S.
father and son, who came by their deaths from an accident
which took place on Sunday afterimoit last, at the Tumpikt.
gate, near the above tavern. Thomas Colson. Archway-
road, Upper Holloway, toll-farmer, deposed, that on Sur
day afternoon last, about five o'clock, he observed a fun:.
wheeled chaise approaching full gallop from the archway,
coming towards London, in it being two ladies' two gentl.-
men, and two children. About two hundred yards fir.
the toll-gate the old gentleman jumped out. Upon coming
in contact with the toll-house, by the concussion, 51r. Doha
Goodenough, jun. who drove, was precipitated from h.*
seat, his head being dashed against the angle of the wail*
and one lady and child were Sung out by the shock. It ap-
peared that in coming down the hill the horse took fright.
conjectured from the splinter-bar coming against his ler,
when, in the act of kicking, one of his legs was caught to
the splinter bar, and he proceeded the remainder of the dis-
tance on three. He was stopped while endeavouring to go
through the wicket-gate. One carriage gate was closed.

BIRTHS.
Tits Bth inst. in Upper Broolt-street, Lady Catherine
Boileau, of a son.—ln Wilton.ereseent, on the Bth inst.
Lads Francis Higginson, of a daughter. —.The Bth hat. it
Spitaltields, the Lady of Mr. Joseph Hodson, surgeon, el?.
son, still-born.

MARRIED.
On the 9th inst. at West Ham, Colonel James F. L4aher•
of the Bombay Army, to Emily, daughterof the lat! Wu'
Stanley, Esq. of Maryland Point.

DIED.
The 9th inst. in Divonahire.street, in the Mk yea °I
ha IV, babel* relict of Frederick Richard Cow, Fog
and third daugliter of John Illagrove, Rag. of the bland of
Jamaica—Yesterday, at Chelsea, Mary, the inburi child of
the Rev. Beery Bleat.
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