Star.
London, England, 1814-09-03 00:00:00

• •

101,10 E;

Tinw-sTNErr. Ye.tertlay annenipa,. a ease, under
the New. Hackney COarh Act was beard before Mr.
N Mr. Po Pieta. birW. p A MIMI% so.d Mr. &Kann-
e r HAbeitAl, Of the, While Horse Cellar, had
simiaioned the diver of the hackney coach, No. 878.
or ,ibesoCg him. Mr. Hatchett stated, that on Wed,
ne• lata, he hired the euacleat Qtenduir.street, snd
vent to Charles. street. Ca% endish-square, for which.
t!,e driver demanded one shilling. Mr. Hatchett
asked him for n ticket, he slid he had none. Mr.
H tchett said he would not pay bim without s
ticket, and gave him -his name and address. The
coachman called him mm heggar,.and said he wanted
to 1411 him of his fare. Mr. Hatchett positively re-
fused to pay him.withratt a ticket. After some further
• abuse the coachman drOve away. The Magistrates
informed Mr. Hatchett, that, by the ad clause of the
drew Act, it is enacted, that no person or persons, who
shall have hired any hackney coach, shall be entitled
to any redress, or to be heard on any-complaint or
inhieniation: which he may exhibit under, or by virtue
of any laws relating to licensed hackney-coaches,
whither- any such complaint or information be for
evictien or misbehaviour, or for any other offence
• whatsoever, unless such person, previous to the hear-
ing thereof, shall produce to the Justice. or Commis-
sioners, before wh m such complaint Or information
shall have keen exhibited, some one or more of the
tickets which he shall have received, or might or.,
might 'to have received, 'by virtue of this Act;
and that as Mr.' Kitchen had no ticket to pro-
' duce, dill driver could net be punished for his misbes
havioni. The Magistrates also gave Mr. Kitchen
to undeistand that lie was perfectly right in refusing
to pay 'the man without a ticket ; and stated, that in
every case where the driver-refuses to give the ticket
Cr tickers recitred. by the-Act, the parties are fully
justified% refining to pay the fare. In eases of re-
fusal: the old law, lest George T. cap. 57, which im-
posts a penalty from 10s. td Awd; still-holds-good. as
the tickets apply only where the coach is hired and
carries the fare, the Act being defective in not im-
posing any penalty upon the coachman for neglecting
to give such ticket.
—Yesterday' Henry. Brooks, the young
mut in custody on a charge of violating the person
of a child, eleven years of age, was brought up, with
three other priscmerse for further examination. It ap-
peared, from the evidence of Pr. Stanton. (Surgeon)
that there was every reason. to believe Brooks could
DOI have hem the person-whel•assaulted the child, and
that, with other circumstances. induced the Magis
tiates .to discharge him. The woman, Mrs. Dillon,
.- alias Dillarksa, who was charged with assisting tit tla
• Commission of the crime, in' e presence of her daugh- 1
ter, proved, by the evidence of a woman, that hey
,held was not in the house' et the time the crime w-:s
stated to have been committed. She also alledge%
''that ske hadieft the house sometime before the eom.
• plainant said she was carried there. The. worthy
Alderman, who has taken all possible pains to inveis
tigaie this strange IT:alsaction, rellAa',ded Mrs. Dillori.
to afford bee an oppatunity of dearly proving an
▪ Otiost.klaur—Muinert AND SUICIDE.---011Thttri-
' day, a man named Joseph Hack, was brought before
' plasm, by May and Goff, on suspicion of havirg
murdered i woman named Jane Ware, on Wednesday
evening, in tee Kent road.
This unfortunate wretch when he was brought up,
" •
relented a most shocking and disgusting ipsctacle,
.baiting,. after the Commission of the horrid crime, at-
. tempted to put a -period to his own eaisteuce, by cut-
~sstg his throat:
eircensstanees miesiding this dre'Ailftil occur-
,,nce; detailed-la *evidence, were as follows :
Mr. Richard Mister, of Bermondsey-street, stated,
shat he was walkiiigiti the Kent•road, on Wednesday
awning, iileatt eight 6'64, when his attention was
attracted by a noise he heard in a field adjoining the
void: he immediately jumped across the ditch IMP
the field; .and, tying near the spot, he discovered
aft
infant covered with blood ; at a little distance froitr-
,4lle, spot, he saw. a man lying on his back on the
ground ; he took up the infant, and ran to the man t
~.on his approach, the man lifted up his head, and the
. witness perceived his throat was cat. At this time
. some other persons came apt *the witness gate the,
child to one of them, and knelt down aid raised up
the head of the wounded nian,'stt 'the same time
at
temn•lng to stop. the wound its his'thioat with his
band ; he succeeded so far, that the' mai; tecovered
to
considerably, and a paper and fiese.tlhejritivett
Vm, he wrote as follow:it—A sir-Tod iety-
; • Lion,—my dear Jane Ware is iniirue Madre -114,i
• a key in my pocket which I 'Vint ere jai-9';
persons had come up by this time,
was procured, into which the'weninded man was put;
and conveyed to Guy's Hospital.
J sink Shergold, the offiter, stated, that Italie*
heard a woman had been murdered in the Kent:roach
he went to the place, and arrived atl the stun Whilst
the last witness was stipperting 'the wounded' man.
who was the prisoner, Joseph Hiek.*Aboilt6o yards
?falai the spot where Hack waslying,theivitamillis;,,
tottered Jane Ware lying quite .ditadt- berabroat was
cut so deeply, that the head was atatili• siviied from
the body. The witness ifterwatdt returned to the.
spot where Hack was, and assisted is conveying him'
to a hackney-coach, and allo accompanied 'him to
the hospital. In his way thither, be wrote with a
asencil on a l iecevf p: per, so I am not SD bad as yon
•
tl.4uk for,—ynu hurt Die,,-Jiate Ware lodges at No.
17, Norfolk-street, union-stivet."
Mr.' John Roberts, one of the dressers of the hospital,
stated, !hat the prisoner was,haought to the hospital
, with a wound in his throat, which the witness Sewed
up in the psnal manner ; and as far'as he could jadge,
'0,,,,e w,. ho danger whatever to be apprehended, as
respected thk. prisonet's life, froin it. This opinion'
ionebot•ited by that of other professional gen-
deem n, that prisoner Was brought before Mr'. BUINIE,
and undtrwant an examination: iroM the Office he
was taken to %orsemonger-Line; but had not been
long there, w he., he suddenly expired.
This uniortunill wretch wig; it appestat, a mar.l
ik
ricci man, and leitet*so
beldad him a wife .amid 'hie in-
fant childicUtteprOvit. for. flu wit a jonmeriaab
carpenter by tradee. and inhibited 'with the tilt-
. ,forttinate woman, who hairs Ohs falleua victipi to his
passions. She had had iwikhY -Frogileitep
,„ipund is his ancOteta possessiem, it a&ars lie was
fond of her to an extreme. and .his cect Van wly
supposed the resttlfolaiitaigittary suilditess.

.• . •

JOANNA sourHcorr.

It is laid, that Mr. R EEC 14 who lately published a
letter, asserting this woman's pregnancy, has visited I
her again, and is confirmed,in his former opinion.—
is added,
that he has prepared some plan for her
neteichenient. to prevent any imposition as to the-birth
.4 the child ; b-s that Jnanita has sot yet assented to
it. Tozer, her Chief Print's declaration, •ifte under-
stand to be, that virfinan had seen or :Minn to Joanna.
since August, lAfilli.The public ciiriosity excited by •
the prophecies of this Impostor, and her High Pries.,
has been such as to redder it neces•ary she should de-
camp from her lodgings at Battle•bridge, to some
more retited situation ; where, in her approaching
confinement, she martajoy that retirement so essential
to the re-establishment of her health, an the comfort
of young Slsilo. Her dwelling bad ciflate'been beset
by prodigious crowds of all ranks, some of whom
went in their carriages. Of these, m ioiy obtained
admission to her supernatural presence, and had the
felicity of witnessing the costly preparations which
were making for her accJitc4ement. .In some cm es,
Barons and Baronets assumed the characters of medi-
cal men, anxious to esrahliih the- truth of Joanna': pro-
phecies;, Is,nt so snmerous did these visitors becbine,
arid, so irreverent did some of 'diem :conduct
selves, that Joaassa. at the solemn hour of midnight,
fled from hei persecutor:
. .

A silly report having Prevailed, that the Hackney-
coach Act; whicli.took, place on the 28th alt. ;would.,
not be enforced, a Genttartan, residing in Lombard-
street, who had been -reflised tickets tWoinstances,
wrote on 'Thursday to the ConitnlsSioners on the sub.
jest, when he'received the following answer The
Act is in force ; and the Public have no risk to itaisiss
fare, unless the coachman give: a ticket."
The sole 'foundation for the story of a murdet at
Bethnal Green, was a drunken fray, in which one
person had his cheek cut.
One of the Irish labourers,- engaged in the late
affray in Oxford-street, on being; brought before a
Magistrate, defended himself by saying, that he had
been just three weeks in England, and that during
all that time he had been its only three 'skis that were
worth speaking of
On Tnesday, the 6th ult. a small party visited the
Bell Rock light-house, at this mouth of the Firth of',
Forth, and were highly grAtified with its novel and,
majestic appearance, and with the singular ineenuityl
an perfect order of the mechanism by which the re.
volution of the lamps, and the striking of the hell, are
produced ; nor were they less pleased on observing
how much the cOmfiirt of the isolated inhabitants had
been consulted, in the neatness and convenience of the.,
different apa!-tments. of this 'sea-gitt prison, in one of ,
which thi warty breakfasted, and experienced much
civility and attention from the watchmen. Two of
them were employed fastening to the rock pieces *if
wood, of di;Terent sorts, in order to ascertain .which
specks would best resist the influence of the sea. In,
the 1 br,,ry the strangers found the appropriate vo-
lume of Robinsontrume ; and in the album, which
is presented to all visitors 'for the insertion of their
names. remarks, &c. they distinguished the following
lines, inscrili.4 by the hand of the popular Author of
the Lady of the Laker
n Peaacia logetrua.
66 Par loth. born of the deep. •
O'et; them wild suelves my watch I keep ;
ruddy gem of changeful light
Bound on the dusky brow of slights
The seaman bids my lustre bail,
And ,torus to strike his timorous sag.
66 WALT'S SC.TT, idly tO, 11314."
• Th*l3lll3lber of visitors, since the erection of the
Fabric, it appeared, was 1378. 4
The arrival, of !rotor to form the Portsmouth Ex.:
pediticn, has given temporary stimulus to the town(
of Soutiiiingtors, since the cessation of. French visits.
Detachments of the 38th, the 45th, and the 93d, hare
occasionally passed ; and Urge triins of baggage-
Carts, loaded with women, have been crowding' in
after them. In this latter eqnipment for the fatigues,
of the tampaign, the carps which have served in thel
Peninsula seemed to have been peculiarly fortimateii
One 'regimenti which brtsught home but SOO men,
said to base attended- by iilQO ladies; of all countries end
complexionsi their original establishment of English
teinfor Ced by.florturOse. Spaniards, gypsies of botti
nations attracted by a life of restlessitest and rapine ioj
like their; own, and the last ;nose heroic and most at,
intuit* gavel. beauties of. S‘O Frenchwoniem—t 1
IA!, Bathers I;ive in.geneml. lOst their Origipal
brightient,w • aid' ire emlniairned into the deepest
tinges of the South. They have the.look of fatikup,J
but appear' lir high and except some passing.
comparisons between thefaciUm of Bring abtoad at
free Abotees, .and the snore incdnieelebt-mede of '
'r poling 'for what they get at horn*, nein perfectly
satisfied with whatever may be their destination.
• 4fitessatte.....Monday week, the annual meeting of
itlw woodmen. of Arden, commented at the Forest
1.1a11,:oll. Meriden Heath, when the gold medal for
Athest target shot, was *on byC. E. Kepis:gum, Esq.
of Amington. Wednesday sennight the silver arrow
was shot for at nine score yards, and won by J. Eardly
Wilmot, Esq., of Berkeswell. Friday following the sil-
ver biigle was shot for, at eleven score and ten yards,
and v/on, by the Earl of Aylesbury, who was also Cap-
tain of NuMbers at the target. The meeting was nu-
merously attended by many of the first families of the
county.
• Ster.Ournt MID ruit•CaT.—The following curious
circumstance may be relied on as a fact, which oc-
curred during the late' fire at Bankside :—ln one of
icehouses that appeared as one sheet of fire, the fire.
losen perceived a cat sitting on some bags which *ere
rip the midst of the flames; 'the cat cried, 66 Mew,
mew l" most bitterly, finding her escape impossible.
One of the firemen who saw and heard her, cried out
to Solomon, a Jew, who assisted them to work it the
engine, d• Solomon, you hear the cat calls out Jew I
'Jew !" Solomon looked up, and perceiving the pe-
rilous situation of the unfortunate cat, who cried out
again, 46 Mew ! mew!" Solomon most emphatically
'died, a' you shall not le disappointed in the Jew, if,
pt the risk of my life, I'ein't save yoik" .Hs threw
It tope, to which there`wii'altriok mottled, 'high.
,16ftunately stuck in the'tiek, loci, iVitkikittek
'he polkd the sack froviiihe Mrdsi 'Or ilie,ll4.*isti tad
tolls° the cat, whose.hair was all singed from the pie.
During an hour oilers'/aids, Ada, he-worked et the
etigint, the cat nevertjtiliteciliinf,"lnit jseltl fist on
bis'sltotilder, or sat' !weighs, on ; and he
afterwards ook ohs 04 home to his own house.

'ilArtiEri.: •

. .
NEWGATE AND 1.1/AIiENIIALL MARKETS.
(By the Cams...)
•
Beef, ter stone 43 01 to 31 0,1 Veal Ss Od to OS rid
Mutton 41 4t) to Sc 4LI Pork • As dto t. 'id
Lamb 3 441 to Gs St

------7.---. -
PRICES OF HAY AND sTitAw YEarI'ERD4.
1 ST. JAMES'S. WIIITSCIIA Pt L.
Hay 31 Sc to 51 0* ad Hay 41 4s to 51 los OS
Straw 21 2* to 21 Gs 61
O Straw 11 6s to 21 4s 2d
, D. Cr 6i Ills to 71 7s Od

PRICE OF HOPS.
NEW 11•1311. ' 111 W FOCKFTS.
Kent 71 Os to SI IS. I Kest -51Osto 71 Os
Susscs 61 ins to 81 Os Sussex - 41 los to 61 10s
F.ssvx 71 Os to 01 Os Nonbun bl 0; to tit Os

RAW HIDES.
Best Heifers and Steen (per Ordinary
stone) -3; nil to 3s 2d, Market Calf
Mid;Wow,. 24 61 tots lid • Esqt. Hone
Lamb Skins Sr 04. to 4; Giq--sheephkins

its od to 211.4 d
11 s. each.
14s to les
:Oki

PRICE OF LEATHZZR.IN LKADENHALL-STREET.
Butts, SO to 361bs 22d 26t1 Calf Skins, 30 to 4011 is 86d 40g
'Ditto. SG to 661bs 26d 283 Ditto 50 to 70Ibs Susi 414
Merchants Backs 21d 224 Ditto 70 to istlbs 354 40d
Dressing Hitles 2013 2.144 1 Small Seals Greenland 863 38(.1.,
Fine Coach Hides 21 td. 231t1 `Large` Large ditro,ter doz. t cos 1110
Crop }Mei for curt 201 214 d I Tanned Horse Hides 25d 264
Ditto 45 to 601hs. Aliti,23id I Goat Skins 11. svs:
PRICE OFTZTAV. .., .
, 'St:fames% I. Town T Market 4s 94 -allow 831 Od
.Clare Market - Os Od Yellow R BCs Od
io*
Whitechspel Market 4s Ild I White ditto IS -s Oa
per Ernie of alb • ..--ea-a. I soap ditto Ula 04
Graves 20s 04—Good Dregs 10. Od.
Price of Candles•per doz. 14s 6d—Moulds, les Otl. . •

, . COAL-MARK/IT, SENT.':. .
Alps at Market . Slaiis sold. Price. '
54 /10Weastle - Ott -45 i. IkIL tti fille:fid
le Sunderland • • 1j . • • - Ws. esi. to 555. fid

COUN CRY MARK 1-I S.
OireltD, Sept. it..J•Ptice•ot a bushel of Wheat l'Os. ids
.114 Q6arterre Loaf, us. Illd.
UimilDog.- Sept, I.—Wheat per lead £l7 Os to £44 104 •
barley; per quarrer SGs to 595. Oats 26s to SS% Beans 47s
to 4.4. • Yeas 52$ to 561. .

• . COUBB114:117 SXCHANGE.
Parisi day's da.22 SO. Lb,. Naples,
Ditto, 2 Us. 23 02 U Lisbo,
Bourdcatii, dos 23 0 Oporto,
Madrid, '4l Effect. Dublin,
Cadiz, 41 Effect. I Cori:, 4
-
essusterdasn, 36 2B 2 U I PAlernio, 110
rlUittostt 'Melt, 35 10 % I.egisorn, 5
trdasn, c. f. 10 32 U ' ''---- R i
. 31 2 2i U
boa, SI S et U
..X.. , Agra on thi Bask of

. . 45

. . 661
. . 67

• 7i

Veuice,n. C. I.lv.Plccole.
invflective per i. ate 22 00
iollasid, S rr rent. -

PR/IVISIONS IN' FRANCE.—A Letter, dated Calais, I
August 29,says Saturday, market day, I bniight
provision for the week, at the following rates : Prime
joints of mutton, veal, and beef, at nine sous a pound,
(equal to four-pence half-penny English;) fowls at
2s. a couple ; ducks nearly at the same rate, And tur-
kies at about 2s. 61. each ; eggs, 26 fur lid.; tint:
ter, at about 10d. per pound (eighteen ounces to die
pound) ; vegetables, such as cfluriflow,:rs, at the rate
of seven for ti.l. ; every oti.er kind of vegetable
equally cheap. Fruits, such as currants, gooseberries,
Sec. at the rate of a penny per pound. Bred, equal
to our quartern loaf, at 6d. Now this is considered
as a very dear part of France, owing, to the great
number of English that are daily arriving."
Mr. Courrs, an Officer, residing in Sulfotk,-street,
Middlesex Hospital, has undertaken to start on Mon.
day from London, and do SOO miles in five days, fur
a wager of 200 guineas. He once matched. himself
to do the 100 miles in 20 hours,.and lost.
A Gentleman has a Gig, which may be seen at
Mr. DARBY'S, in Montague-mews, Montague-square,
that was primed with the ROYAL PATIINT ANTI•AT-
pIITIOR oa the Rgosar's birthday (12th August,
1812), frpm which time to the April following, it
travelled upwards of Two Thousand Miles, and then
remained in the coach-bouse till the 7th of last month,
Since which it bas been to Brighton and back, and in
the course of these two years only one application of
the Composition has been used, and nothing eke, and.
according tp the appearance of the axletrees, it will
yet go a great distance before it is necessary for an).
thing to be applied to them.
Mcwr SINGULAR OLCURRENCIL—A few nights since
the Cheshunt, Hens, waggon, on leaving. London,
bad a number of women and children passengers, and
.after partaking of some refreshment at the Black
Bull, at Kingsland, they proceeded on. Soon after-
"wards the waggoner was alarmed by the shrieks of
ban of his women passengers, aad on enquiring
the cause, she had fallen asleep and lost her infant,
which WAS supposed to have slipped through her arms
and fallen out of the waggon. The driver stopped,
whilst the afflicted mother and two men traced the
road back after the child, and in their way they met
a stage coach and a waggon, but they could get no
tidings of the infant until they found it lying in the
road, about a mile from the waggon, uninjured, ex-
cept having been slightly bruised. The night was
dark, and although neither of the drivers of the coach
or waggon could see the child, the horses evidently
did, and broke away from it.

BIRTHS.
Oa the llith ult. at Wintley,near Coventry, the Lady of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Clark, of the bans Greys, of a daughter.
On the t7th ult.at Edinburgh. Mrs. Majer Rubersun.of a sea.
ths the tlith ulr. at Sleningford, in tho county of York. the
Lady of Colour' Dalbiac, of' the 4th Dragouns, of a daughter.
August O. the Lady of George Gipps, Ea+ M.P. at a son.