Star.
London, England, 1825-05-05 00:00:00

THE ZINO V. JOHN MAY.

'this defendant appeared on the floor to receive judgment for a
most violent and unprovoked assault upon some Officers belonging
to the Preventive Service, while walking quietly along the street, in
the County of Kent.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY sentenced him to twelve months imprison-
ment in Maidstone House of Correction, and to give sureties fur his
good behaviour fur five years

It is expected that the Fensitaima,B4 guns, will be
launched on the 19th instant.
A new wing is in contemplation to be added to
Buckingham House, and the whole building, which is not only
spacious, but superb in its interior structure, will be fitted up for
the residence of his AlAassre, while in town.
HAYMARKET—The new Mit Comedy of %Won't:•
tion, was repeated last night, with, it possible, in-
: creased success. It is indeed a most pleasant produc-
tions,244 promises to be of immanent a:traction.
A .sple.ndid private Theatre was opened at Lisbon
'On the 14th ult. It is lighted,with gas, being the firs
iipetiment in that way yet made in Portugal.
AMERICAN NAVY.—The United States will shortly
have in commission, ox ready for service, seven line of
battle ships, ten frigates, two corvettes, fifteen sloops
of .war (including the ten additional ones, authorised
at the last Session of Congress), with a corresponding
proportion of light vessels.
PROBERT'S HORSE.—There is no truth in the state-
anent which was copied into the London Papers from
the Hereford Journal, averring that the horse stolen
by Probert, was detained for its keep, and that Mr.
Meredith, its owner, was likely to lose die animal alto-
gether, from inability to pay the demand of the stable-
keeper. The fact is, that when the final examination
of Probert took place at Bow-street, Mr. MINSIIULL,
'supposing, very reasonably, that as the parties were
related, there might be some attempt at compromise,
resolved to have the horse detained, in order to ensure
the forthcoming of Meredith upon the trial. When
that had taken place, Mr. MINEHULL desired Ellis,
the Officer, who apprehended Probert, to tell Mr.
Eames, of the Angel Inn, itho it will be recollected
purchased the horse at Dixon's, and at whose stables it
_remained, to give it up to Meredith, and be (Mr. MlN-
smuu.) would see that the price of the keep was paid.
The horse was delivered to Meredith, and a bill for the
keep sent to Mr. Mitcsnor.r..
A Gentleman now on the Continent writes, that the
whole country in the neighbourhood of Lausanne, is
undergoing a singular process, called Paragreling.
The Paragreles consist of poles about 40 feet high,
placed 500 feet from each other, to which conductors
are attached. Great ravages are frequently occasioned
to the vineyards by hail storms; and it is asserted
that these conductors, by deprivng the hail clouds of
their superabundant electricity, will cause their con-
tents to descend either in snow or rain.
Moaday, the Directors of the General Steam -Navi-
gation Company, went on board the Lord Melville
steam Packet, and proceeded in her, accompanied by
one of the Crnomissioners, and several Officers of the
Navy, to witness the trial of a new propelling power
as a substitute for the paddle-wheels now in use. • The
machinery, as a model, was of about two-horse power,
fitted to a small boat, and appeared to act freely.
The letters of Saturday last, received from Amster-
%lam and Rotterdam by the Steam Packet, are of the
tame tenour as the accounts from Hamburgh and (Eisen
parts of the north of Europe with respect to the
foreign exchanges. The orders for remitting gold from
this country are withdrawn, almost without exception.
At Queen-square Office yesterday, Jos. .Vocieli, an
Italian boy, an itinerant figure-vender, was charged
with stabbing a person, at present unknown. Macheli
and his partner were sitting near the King's Road,
Chelsea, when a number of young sweeps, in all the
jollification of their Saturnalia, commenced a series
of by breaki the images, &c. He im-