Star.
London, England, 1831-06-03 00:00:00

POLICE (REPORTS.

' Bow STREZT.CURICUS APPLICATION.—OiI Wed-
neaday evening Mr. Ril y, a publ;can at Chelsea, applied to
Mr. lUtoshull for his assistance to ob:ain rain"' under the
following circumstances :
' The complainant stat..d that in the year 1827 he wu
travelling in Portegal tor an Rtgl.sh mercantile house,
and was sitting one day in the ,a t.e wine room at Lisbon
with a party of non-Commissioned ()nicer' of the 10th.--
(English) Iles-ars, ah. n, in the course ot conversation, one
of them, withoit the sii4hiest provitea.ion that he knew of, 1
jumped op, and seising him by lit collar, dashed him against
the ground with g.eat violenc;., and then kicked him
in the bode and about the head so as to d..prive him of his I
sense., and srveral of his teeth were des.rojell. Ile was
plied under medic:4 care, but was a cote.iderthte time in
grew danger, and when he recovered, lie :Tidied to the civil,
authm itirs there for redress, but was laughed a., h s purse
not being near long ettou6b to sat nry the tivicity of those
functiottaritts. lie had masa no more of the ; •salltnt until
wiihM the last Jay or two, when Inc ,a r by one of the papers
that he was to come up toouorrow (yesterday) to the fusel.
vent Deldors's Court, for relief in dn. the Act, and he now
applied for a warrant to apariletrut hint for the outeage.
Jlr 11Itirsn rt.'. said ne tred it w.ts impossible for an
English Alagistrat : to interfere it. a,l affatr wt.ich had cc.
coned in Lisbon, howerev gtitrottr.
Mr. Riley said he had been ici'ormed of a case in which
a young man was treed and ex..cn• it at the tad Beiky, for
the murdtr of a yo;titg Lady at Lisbon.
Mr. Miami/Lt. sa.d he remembered the case perfec ly
well, but on :hat occasion the tri..l was by Spteial commis.
sion, and in the present it would be thought hardly worth
white to resort to such a course to bring the wailful to trial,
although perhaps the outrage was 1110 A violent and ut.juss
tillable.

dir. Riley thin withdrew .
(The case rsfe.rnd to was tried at the 9111 11..iby men,
years ago, and it an. :hi% 3-A )dung cluple. (British sub.
jeers) attached to cacti other, but failing to obtain the creep.
vary consent, resolved to &sonsr each o her. and this wits to
be done with pistols. to be fired of course at the same ino7
meat. The young female, In the trepidation ut the n,otr:ent,
it is presumed, did not pull the trigger, or the pistol missed
fire. and the man survived. but she fell dead. He was
brought to this country and tried by Special Commission.
and (we believe) executed. lie was at all events convictiti.)

QUZEN-31:10Allt.—CHARACTIR AND EDUCATION.—
WOlimn Lynch, sera. and Daniel and John, his sons, all
Irish labourers, of Brook-lane•place, Hammersmith, ware
charged with assaulting Michael Donoghue, of the same place.
Michael stated, that WI Sunday afternoon, he was return-
ing home, when he saw the defendant and several other per-
sons murthering a man in the road.
" `That do you mean by murdering a man ?" inquired the
Magistrate.
" Plan your worship," replied Michael, " they had all
just a gottin him down, and were kicking and pitching into
him ; well, and so I thought no myself just stare a bit of
his life; hallo* there,' says I; what's the matter?' says
they ; says don't be atter murthering the poor divil ;'
and then they all pitched into me. and I was murthered
myself, that I never thettiht I should have been able to
spake again ; and poor John Grady got all his teeth knocked
down his trote, and they broke my cart all to paces."
bir. Gastooate inquired where the other n.urdercd man
was whn had lost his teeth.

" Faith, your Worship, he's outside," r•plied Michael ;
" here walk in, John Grady, their Honours wishes to spoke
wid you."
John Grady did as he was bid, and said, " Your Worships,
last Sunday we were a drinking. at a public.house, a pot
of beer or so, when ould Lynch, who thinks himself a greater
scholar than the Priest, or his Holii;ess the Pope of Romc
himself, began to talk about his heddicashun.—' Come,' says
I, • Lynch, lave that off.'—' What for ?' says he. ' Why,'
says I, ' ben's! you know its no go wid me.' Very well,
your Honour knows, this flustrated him a bit. ' Now,'
rays I, •• there shall be no falling out hire shout your bed-
dicashun, for you're little enough of that to fight about."
And so, your Worship, we went outside, and they all fell
upon me and got me down, when one of them just gave me
a kick in the bowels and this cut across my eye, and
knocked out some of my teeth, when, faith, I began to he
roused—and Michael Donoghue will tell you all the rest."
" Look at our charakters, your Worship," exclaimed all
the def, ndants at once—each producing a piece of dirty paper
—" and let John Grady show such a charakter."
" Show such a charakter !" responded John Grady," why
don't I lire by my charakter ?"
" Faith, Muter Grady," replied old Lynch, "if you've
nothing better than your charakter to live upon, you won't
have many percales to fill your stummick."
" And by the powers, Muter Lynch," answered Grady,
" if you have no other manes of sitting your living gut the
heddioeuhun you're always bragging about in compaby, the
devil a parater would you get at all at all."
The magistrates stopped the learned dispute, and a whole
host of witnesses were called in on both sides ; and, Aar a
very lengthy and learned appeal from old Lynch, which
neither the Magistrates or any one else could understand, the
defendants were lined 404. each, with the exception of John,
who wan ordered to pay for the cart, which, it was proved, he
had broken with a pick-axe.

The fortress of Ham, in which the ex-Ministers
of France are confined for life, was the last place
which surrendered to the allies at the close of that
memorable campaign which gare peace to Europe.
Ft RE.—Yesterday forenoon, about ten o'clock,
a fire broke out in the Greyhound Brewery, Bun-
hill-row, Chiswell-street, in the occupation of
Mr. Pullen, which threatened destruction to the
surrounding buildings. By the prompt attendance
of the firemen and having an immediate supply
of water, the flames were subdued, after mate-
rially damaging the premises, as well as the
utensils.

The accounts from Ireland are again so appal-
ling, that there is great reason to fear that crime
will speedily stalk in the rear of famine, seeing, as
Lord Bacon says, " that the worst of all rebellions,
is a rebellion of the belly." In various districts
the wretched peasantry, after living on sea-weed
and boiled bullock's blood, are on the point of pe-
rishing from actual starvation. Charity is taxed
beyond her strength, and weeps when she perceives
that her efforts are so immeasurably disproportioned
to her wishes. Children goad parents to distraction
by asking bread where they have none to give, and
unless Government interfere, we know not what
the consequences will be. It wtiogs the heart to
the core to think that there are hundreds of absen-
tees, who, although they drain Ireland annually of
her treasure, give less in the shape of alms than
the widow's mite, and that a modified system of
poor-laws should still be a desideratum in that ever-
agitated and ill-fated country.
A friend has favoured us with the following ex-
tract of a letter from a correspondent is Sydney,
dated the 17th Dec. last :—I am happy to say that
there is every prospect of an abundant harvest, and
likelihood of the seasons becoming al favorable to
the colonists as they used to be, which is much re-
quired after last year's scarcity. An emigrant
could not arrive at a better period than the present,
as he could do as much now with a capital of 5001.
as could be done seven years ago with 5,0001.—
Stock cf every description is very low : cattle that
were bought a few years ago from 81. to 121. per
bead, may now be got from 16s. to 30s and beef,
which sold when I arrived here at 10d. and Is. per
lb. the Government have contracted for, to supply
their establishments in Sydney during the current
year, at id. per lb."—Dumfries Courier.