Star.
London, England, 1831-05-26 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Gutuntai.L.—F. Scijeant was yesterday charged with attempting
to tut his throat with a razor, at his lodgings.
His brother stated the can : tier instrament was wrested frmn his
hands at the critical moment. His mind had been much disturbed
tbrough his wife leaving him, as he supposed, to live with another
man ; and on Sunday morning hut he came home intoxicated, for the
purpose of fetching his child, with the intention of drowning I', with
himself, in the Thames. He was believed to be serious at the time,
and vas diverted from his object with great difficuLy. He was ad-
dicted to drinking.
The wifc declared that hi. suspicions were unfounded. He had so
ill used her that she was obliged to go to service.
The Alderman directed that lie should be brought up again in a
few days.
George Littlewood, a farrier, was charged with attempting to drown
himself in the Thames, at the north side of Blackfriars-bridge, about
ten o'clock on Tuesday uight.
Wolf, the officer, said the poor man was nearly gone, when two
persons drew him out of tha water. He had been wau,hing his oppor-
tunity some hours, and bad been twice interrupted. appeared to
be lest, for want of a little parish relief.
The prisoner, who seemed in good health, and In the prime of life,
said he belonged to Mitcham, aril had lived there 20 years, but when
he applied for relief last week, the avenuer told, him he should have
nothing, and that he might go and thieve.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND thought the latter part of his story in.
inedible; but, after giving him a suitable lecture, he ordered some
decent clothing to be given, and directed the coostable to take him
down to Mitcham' with a letter to the Magistrate of the district.
A great number of the inhabitants of St. Duman, Fleet-street, et-
, tended on summons for neglecting to pay the Church rate.
With one exception, the parties plaided their poverty.
The case above excepted was that of Mr. Gowan, of Fleet-street, who
read an energetic description of the audacity with which the prostitutes
behaved in the streets In die daytime, and of the alarms they create at
'all hours of the night, pointing out particularly some houses of moor.
inodation which are carried on without the least interference on the part
of the parochial authorities. Mr. Gower concluded by declarinom
as the father of a large family, and as a Christian, he felt it his fluty to
suffer his goods to be sold for the rate rather than pay a sixpence, so
long as the above evils condone to exist without interruption.
It was in vain that the Magistrates urged that this was not a valid
objection against the rate, and that they must sign the warrant of dis.
tress. Be was perfectly inexorable.
Bow4TßlZT.—Yesterday, deformation was received al this Office
that a farmer, named Naha Carwardine, was murdered near Here.
ford, and that a female named Sarah Coley, was suspected of having
been privy to or concerned in the murder.
It appeared from the information that the deceased was, on the night
of the 24th of March, robbed of a 51. note of the Kingston and Radnor.
shirt Bank, in a house of ill-fame in Quakers'-lane, in the city of Here-
ford. From that period down to the 12th of April, the unfortunate man
was missing, bat oo the last-mentioned day, his body was found in the
River Wye, and, from the marks of violence which it bore, the medical
gentlemen who examined it were satisfied that he must have been mar-
dered. Since then evidence, throwing a light upon the transaction, has
been obtained, and the female, Sarah Coley, who has absconded, now
stands charged npoo oath, not only with the robbery, but with having
participated also In the murder.
LANIZTH-STREEL—Yesterday, 11-ifliasa Green was charged with
the following most unmanly and unprovoked assault.
Mrs. Burginan, the landlady of the Brown Bear public.house, in
Lower East Smithfield, deposed, that on the preceding evening, the
prisoner and two other persons came into her house, and asked for a
saucepan to boil some eggs. This they were accommodated with, and
as the eggs were nearly boiled, the prisoner Dime to the bar, and asked
her for a spoon and some salt. The fanner she said she bad not in the
bar, but the latter she was handing him, when he appeared to get into
a great rage, and without the slightest provocation on her part he
dashed an egg which he had in his hand in her eye, struck her a vio.
lent blow on the side of the face, which knocked ono of her car-rings
out and endeavoured to force Hs way into the bar. His object, she
had no doubt, was that of committing a robbery, as his two companions
contrived at the time to keep her husband in conversation in a distant
part of the taproom, and his (the primmer's) aim, as he made a rush to-
wards it. was to get hold of a pint put which was full of silver, and
which could be seen from the outside of the bar. _

A pot-boy in the service of the last witness confirmed her statement,
and said, that he himself bad been struck repeatedly by the prisoner,
while he was attempting to keep him out of the bar.
The Magistrates, after commenting on the brutal conduct of the
prisoner, convicted him in the penalty of bl. or, in default of payment,
two mouths at the tread-mill.

Five athletic German sugar-bakers were charged with nearly killing
an Irishman, by first knocking him down, and then jumping on his body.
The Magistrates ordered them to find bail, to answer the charge at
the sessions, in default of which they were locked up.
Thames Fames —Yesterday Captain W. J. Read, master of the
Eclipse, Gravesend steam packet, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, with
the mate, engineer, and crew of the vessel, to answer a charge of having
run down a boat containing a waterman named Jeremiah Dunleary, and
thereby caused his death, on the night of the 14th inst. J. (Angell,
a Reiterate.). said he was coming up the river in a barge at ten minutes
past 12 on the night named, and saw the deceased in his boat rowing
towards Cuckold's Point. The Eclipse was coining up very rapidly,
but on perceiving the boat they slaced their speed, and called out
Keep astern 1 bat the deceased went a-head in the direction of the
steamer, which then bore to the southward, but the 'merman
still went in the earns direction, apparently from some mis-
conception, and the Eclipse's stern struck thew herry, which immedi-
ately sunk. The steam vessel was instantly stopped and a boat was
lowered. but neither the body nor boat could be fotLid. After being
detained more than ten minutes, the steam vessel went on her course.

CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAV.
Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, 12 10s. to £2 tSs. 1.7901"
ditto, Al 10s. to £3 ISs. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gro
Hay, .64 Ss. to £4 10s. Clover Hay, £3 16s. to £5 Ss. Oat `Straw'
£1 12.. to 41 141. Wheat Straw, £1 161. to CS Os. per L'ad•

Uzsainon—Wheat, per load (40 bush.) 414 Os to 1.20 10s: Bd.
ley, per qr, Sits to 42s ; Oats, 29e to 344 ; Beane, 42. to 475; Pies.
to --s.
HsstEL Hsetesezen—Wheat, per load ((five bushels), 42 to Os:
Beans, Ns to 29e; Peas, 26. to U. Barley, per qr. 383 to ebt :
Oats, 314 to Od.
Bostroan--Wbeat, per qr. 62s to 765; Barley, Us to 478; 009,
264 to 34s ; Beans, 36s to 48s ; Peas, Us to 42s ; Rye, —1

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