Star.
London, England, 1824-10-06 00:00:00

FROM THE aneanonNzimencvitt.

It Was noticed in our Paper of halt week, that oh
Friday, the 17th inst. a female infant, supposed to have
' been strangled, was foiled in'the church-lard of Ityme,
Intrinsica,_in this county. tidy on the morning of the.
17th,.. the Coroner commenced his Inquest) and as do
suspicion whatever fell on any individual of that small
pariih, 'conjecture was Much* a loss for the perpetra-
tors of the-supposed crime. Mr. Turner, of Sherborne,
'andthorland of •Yeovil,turgeons, opened the body,
the inspection of Which fully satisfied them that t3te
infant must have been born alive. The lungs appeared
perfectly healthy and boated in water. The neck had
been violently compressed by the strings or a dimity
petticdat, in part of which the body, was wrapped When
found, add was the probable cause of theinfant's death.
On teMbving the*scalp, a large quantity of extrava-
sated blood appeared. In the course of the investiga-
tion, sevetal respectable persons deposed as to the ap-
parent pregnancy of "a young woman, limed Brake,
and of the sudden alteration in her appearance. She.
was residing with her Mother and her step-father, at a
cottage, in Hamlet, in the parish of Yetminster, wherein
a young man of the name of Sansom resided as a
lodger. It wai recollected that this Man paused through
Ryme, not unfrequently, in his way to Load-bridge,
with the waggon of his employer, Mr. Andrews, of
Hamlet, to fetch calm and coals: and that he did pass that
way the night on which the body was supposed to have
been deposited, was proved by a woman, a resident at
Ryme, who hearing a waggon stop at a late hour, near
her house, imagined that some persons were about to
rob her pear-tree, which stands near the road. She •
called her son, and on going into the garden they ascer-
tained that it was Sansom, with his master's waggon;
and overheard a conversation between him and a boy
respecting a box, which he was about to carry with
him. The Coroner issued his warrant, and the mother;
daughter, and Sansom, were' apprehended. The exa-
mination of the young woman's person, by the medical
Gentlemen, added strength to the existing suspicion;
but the deposition sof an intelligent lad, who went with
Sansorn and the-waggon to Load-bridge, Troy/Otte bel
very important, and amounted in substanee tothist.-:
That the waggon, driven by hi m.(Sansom riding •in tit)4
departed. from the :premises of Il<lr.-Andrews,between
ten and eleven :on 'Friday night, that 'it 'passed by;
Kaswell•Farm, through Common-lane (a lane seldomi
passed over by waggons), came to. back of Ityme,vil-; •
lage, and stopped at a stile below•the pound, froml
which a footpath leads to the church-yard, distant,' '
about 150 yards. That liqthe boy) stood at-the near, •
4de of the team; that•Sansom got out of the waggon
on the off side, next the stile, taking 'something with.
him, 'and saying he was,going to tarry a box-to Dew? •
jamin Barret's ;'thrithe was absent' about a qualm of an!
7hout, and then rearmed 'to the waggon, bringing no-
thing
11 back; and they -then pursued their-turn* •
to load-britte. 0 -beiag thews% ilre• box in ,w ids- the
infant had been enclosed, heidentlfiercl it very-satisfacto-, •
,rily ; • it Was, he' said,.a Wl' that lie had seen do the pre-
raises at Hamlet, in which a .pigeon had been 'kept,
though now a little:reduced in-size; as small 'part 'ap-
peared to 'have 'teen *recently 'cot off. The Jury, late
'on Monday night, retorned 'a verdict Wilful
murder against the daughter, her mother, and Sansom,"
who were committed on the Coroner's ss arrant, to Dor-
chester

The Prussian Government, as 'appears by the letters
received yesterday from. Berlin, is about tomake great
reductions in the amount 'of the national .expenditu►e.
The whole of the militia has been disbanded, .and.thili-
tory officers of every class, and in actual service, have
been reduced in .their pay to one-half of its previous
amount. A Similar reduition has taken place in all tint
civil departments Of the. State, including even thiKing's
Ministers. The annual saving which will be ifiecte4
by this •sweeping measure of economy. is estimated tq
amount to 8,000,000 otriz-dollars.
'A very judicious measure has been'adopted in France;
in regard to the •intended new ;coinage. A Prize of
10,000 francs is offered for the best engraving of a
head of his present MAYEfitY; so that the common cir-
culating coin of the ►`ountry will not only render the
countenance of the KING 'familiar to his subjects, but
will also serve as a memorial of the progress of thi
arts in France.

-TUE GREEK NIJECENAS.—John Varvaki, a rich Ipsai
riot, long established in Russia, is regarded by the
Greeks as one of their most liberal friends, not only on
account of the large sums he has given to several-pub-
lic establishments, but also-on account of. the money he
has supplied to contend for their 'independence. He ma;
distinguished during the war between the Rosslans.and
Turks in 1770, and, selling his patrimony at that period,
fitted ont a privateer, and did a great .deal .of mischie
to the Muiselmans. At the peace he retired very poor
to St. • Petersburgh, where he found protectors and
patrons. He was appointed Intendant .6f • Public Jae-
venue az A atracan. In this employment he grew rich
without injuring the country-which bad received-him.
He had hardly heard that the Greeks desired to improve
themselves than he contributed large sums Of money to
establish schools. He improved the harbour of IPsara
at an expense of 300,000 piastres. When .Greece pro-
claimed her independence, he forgot his age and infir-
mities, and 'wreathed' only of the combats in which he
desired to engage. Possessing a revenue Of more than
1,000,000 piastres, he has consecrated it so the liberatioq
of his countrymen. He is on the point of coming amongst
them to end his last days with them.-Setylnean.
A few days ago, a fine boy, aged 14, named. Orr, near
Longford, in Ireland, rrecidtoteliy banged himsilf, as it appeared by
the verdict of a Coroner's' Jury. The boy, with some others, had
been playing and'imitating thelolemn setae of the execution of two
men-they bad lately•witoessed Itt•Longfrord, which caused the me-
lancholy sgsult.—The Burial. Servicewas read over the corpse by
a Protestant Clergyman, is the death was proved to have been
aerlikinal. During the night the corpse of the boy was raised, ht
a party who assembled for the purpose, arid left on the high road,
with a threatening notice sated to the coign " not to bring back
ape corpse to the Chore/L.l%rd." The afinetcd parents temoved
that 'remains to another place, from which it was again disinterred.
Seam have been beard to say, that " they would as soon see a mad
4eilmaried in the place as the body of the suiridat hesetic." 'Others
-aft that " all the corpses in thi Churchyard.turned sw their/mos
- disk Pus% as seen as the poor boy's body wasintaredi"

A vert•intetesting eibibitieti of this species of VIM*.
ment (which in theoldea time was so favourite a sport
in Eogland), took place as Thursday last, to the neigh-
bourhood of Amesbury, and was witnesred by a nume-
rous field of sporting Gentlemen, and others attracted by
cariosioy. The hawks, sis in.number were remarkibly
largt2ottlare young birds; and their owner, Colonel
Thornhill, directed the sport of the day, in the presence
of Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Mills,
and other Gentlemen. The scene of action was an ex-
trace field of turnips, in which it was known there was
plenty of gait*.
Th*Ccdonerefalconer and assistant brought the hawks
to the fitiddrooded, perching upon a frame ; the sports-
men and spectators were ranged outside the • field; a
'ne bird was -then taken from the perch, unhooded, and
'permitted to 'fly. The hiwk immediately towered, and
hovered aver the turnip field with his eye intently bent
-upon the'plants, in search of prey ; he beat over the
*round vith evolutions similar to those of a pointer
upon the ground. After a few minutes had elapsed,
Coloherrhornhill directed some boys to enter the field
-for the purpose of 'disturbing the birds, and a partridge
at length arose, Which was instantaneously seen by the
hawk, though at * great distance. The hawk darting
after it, struck it 40 theearth, but the partridge recover-
ilig,tew, as it were for protection,-amongst the spec-
tators; here it was pursued by the relentless hawk and
'killed. The other hawks were severally let loose, and
all but one of them killed a partridge each. Some'
were killed odt of the sight of the spectators, and it is
'highly worthy of remark, that the hawks had been so
well grained, that they invariably returned to the fal-.
toner at his call, and when out of his sight and hearing,
he attracted them by throwing into the air a lure, some-
ghing-resembling a stuffed partridge.
The above eshi!,ition afforded a most gratifying spe-
cimen of this ancient and very curious sport.
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