Star.
London, England, 1814-10-07 00:00:00

OCTOBER 6.

A prisoner named Hamblin, was opposed by Mr.
ALLEY, on the ground that he, as a servant, had re-
ceived and embezzled the property of his master. It
appeared that Hamblin undertook to sell hay and
straw on commission for Mr. Battfield, the detaining
creditor. In the course of his dealings he gave credit,
and having lost, according to his own statement, large
sums, he .was unable to account to Mr. Battfield for
all the money that should have been in his hands.—
Mr. Battfield, instead of prosecuting fur a breach of
trust, consented to employ the prisoner at a weekly sa-
lary, and to stop a portion of his earnings every week,
in discharge of the sum minus in his accounts. The
prisoner went on some time working and paying off
the debt, and being at last arrested could pay no
more. He was opposed under the 34th section of the
Act, which enacts, that any person who shall em-
bezzle or secrete any sums of money received for his
employer, shall have no discharge. Mr. Alley con-
tended, that the prisoner was a person within the ex-
ception, having been guilty of a gross fraud ; it would
be contrary to the spirit of,the Act if he was dis-
charged.
Mr. Pou.ocic defended the prisoner, and submitted
that no case had been made out to detain him.

Mr. Serjeant PALMER was of opinion, that Mr.
Bonfield 'iving consented to take the prisoner into
his service after a breach of trust, could not come to
this Court to prove a fraud against him. There was
no evidence offered on which he could deny the priso-
ner the Act.

The objection being overruled, Mr. ALLEY was
instructed to prove that the prisoner had been out of
prison without authority, but, failing to make out that
charge, the prisoner was released.

SUDDEN DEATH.—A Coroner's Inquest was held
on the body of Catherine Weale, on Tuesday night, at
the Northumberland Alps, Well's-street, Oxford-
street, she having died in. remarkably sadden man-
ner on the preceding Sunday afternoon. Richard
Neale, the husband, stateckto the Jury, that he resid-
ed in Adam-and-Eve-court, Oxford-street, asill.that
he was Guard to the Brighton Mail Coach. , After
dinner, on the Sunday in question, his. wife went to
her bed-room to lay down ; he went into the next
room to a friend, who called on him, and a minute
afterwards the maid servant came to him, and said
that his wife was dead. He followed the servant to
' the bed-room, and found her completely lifeless. Mr.
Brown, surgeon, Oxford-street, who was instantly
called in, stated, that he bled, but in vain ; that therJ
were no suspicious or violent marks about her, and
that she must have died a natural, although a very
sudden death, about an hour before he saw her. Ver-,
diit—Died by the Visitation of Gon.
A mason, of the name of Smith, last week, fell over
the draw-bridge at Fort George, in a state of intoxi.
cation, and was taken up dead.
On the 22d ult. as a large drove of bullocks, the
property of Messrs. Smith, cattle-dealers in Galloway,
were proceeding towards Carlisle, near Eden bridge,
part of the drove having got into Rickergaro, and
taking fright, rushed, in spite of the exertions of the
drivers, upon those that had net crossed over, when
the whole became so Closely wedged together, that
the battlement of the bridge gave way in three seve-
ral places, and in an instant a very great number of
the cattle were precipitated below with a horrible
crash. There being no water in the channel, three of
the poor animals were killed on the spit, four were so
dreadfully injured that it became necessary to slaugh-
ter them, three afterwards dropped down dead in the
vicinity of Carlisle, while proceeding southward, and
it is to be feared that many more were lost. The
hullatks were worth shout AZ) each.