Star.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

LAM BETH-STREET.

Saturday this office, and the street in front, were crowded to an
unusual excess, in consequence of a woman, named Sarah Lefroy,
having been brought front St. Alban's, where she was apprehended
on Friday night, on the charge of stealing a fine little boy, about two
years old, front its parents, Joseph and Mary. King, residing in Swan-
court, Whit cc hapel-road.
The prisoner being brought into the presence of the Magistrates,
M. 11'v arr, Esq. and the Rev. Mr. Marin/is, seemed to treat the
matter with a deal of levity, and her person was muth'disfigured in
consequence of the dirt and litter which bad been thrown at her by
the mob, who absolutely would have deprived her of existence if it
bad not been for the police.
The Magistrate asked Mrs. King if the chili had been deprived
of any of its clothes?
Mrs. King said it had not to her knowledge.
Mr. 'Viva= asked the mother if she could form any idea of the
prisoner's object in stealing the child ?
Mrs. King said she had no doubt but it was to excite charity, as
she was seen by a person singing ballads, with the infant in her arms,
on the road.
This being the whole of the evidence against her, she was asked
by the Magistrate what she had to say in her defence ?
The prisoner said that she had been permitted to take the child by
its mother.
Mrs. King again positively denied ever giving her such permis-
sion, hut, on the contrary, refused her repeatedly. .
The prisoner was then fully committed to take her trial, and the
parties bound over to prosecute.

The appointment of an Agent to act for the Catholics
of Ireland in London is not without precedent. An Irish Catholic
Gentleman of the name of O'Rettay acted in that capacity here in
the reign of GEORGE 11.
Such are the hazards to which the labourers in our
great manufactories are now exposed, from the mul-
tiplied and complex machinery, that the number of
patients, hurt or wounded by accidents, which were re-
ceived into Manchester Infirmary last year, was no less
than 2750, of which nearly 300 were fractures. It is
(calculated that this list of accidental hurts in a single
;own, exceeds that for four of our largest counties,
viz. Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire.
Saturday morning se'nnight,the body of a young man
learned Thomas Doyle, about 17 years of age, was found
Ilying on the Dublin road, about a mile and a half from
Newry. An adjourned Inquest was held on Sunday,
before S. Reid, Esq. Coroner ; when the body was ex-
amined by surgeon Brown, and three slugs were ex-
tracted from the head of the deceased. Several witnesses
were examined, but nothing was elicited from them cal-
culated to lead to the discovery of the perpetrators of
this foul deed. It simply appeared in evidence, that the
deceased had been sent by his employers, Messrs. An-
derson and_ Greers, with two led horses, to assist the
mail-coach over the hills between that town and Dun-
dalk. The substance of the verdict was, that the de-
ceased was killed by some person or persons unknown.
A TyPa.—An ingenious author, whose constitution
had suffered much from the use of medicines, wtote a
treatise, condemning the use of drugs and purgatives,
in which he contends, that the woes consequent on the
pouring out of the vials in the Revelation, are typical
.of the ills which arise (tom taking physic.