Star.
London, England, 1830-09-30 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

GUILDRALL.--John Connor, a stout young fellow, who said he
was an apprentice to a machine-maker, was brought before Mr. Alder.
man Ansley yesterday, charged with breaking and entering the pre.
olives of Mr. Marriott, a coach-painter, in Goldsmith.street, Gough.
'quart.
The complainant stated that about eight o'clock on Tuesday even-
ing, he heard a noise in his bed-room on the first floor, and perceiving
at the same time a strong smell of fire, he became alarmed, and rushed
up stairs. He went without a light, and had to pass through a sitting.
room to get to the bed-room. He found the doors of both unlocked,
and on entering the bedroom, he kicked against something, and then
stepped on the body of a man. lie immediately caught hold of the
collar of his coat, and stamped with his feet to alarm the persons be-
neath, and upon a Mr. Evans coming to his assistance, he found it was
the prisoner whom he had secured. The prisoner made no resistance,
and said he wanted a lodging, and he asked what they meant to do with
him ? Witness observed a silver watch had been taken from the head
of the bed, and was lying on the counterpane, and in the sitting-room a
quantity of linen had been taken out of a drawer in the closet, and
placed upon the table. He found also some burnt paper lying on the
table, and in the drawer.
The officer produced two skeleton keys adapted for small locks, two
more for room-door locks, and a latch-key, which he had found on the
prisoner, and in the rooms.
The risoner said he was so intoxicated that he did not know why or
how he got into the premises.
He was committed for trial.

Bow-sTazET.--Yesterday morning &leant M'Sweeney brought
three little girls, the eldest of whom could not have been more than
eight years of age, before Mr. HILLS, stating that he had found them
wandering about the streets in the rain, about one o'clock that morning.
They stated that they all belonged to one family, and that they were
waking for their sister, whom they expected to return to take them home
every instant. After the lapse of an hour, the sister not having made
her appearance, he took the children to the station, where they one and
all refused to give the address of their patents. Their conduct was the
most artful that could be imagined, and the evasions to which they re-
sorted were truly astonishing.
Mr. HALLS observed, that he had no doubt whatever that they had
come from the purlieus of St. Gibes.
Ford, the gaoler, then recognised one of them as • little mendicant,
who, to excite charity, held a paper containing an appeal to the humane
and benevolent, before her face • and the other two as children who,
under pretence of selling matches, also carried ok,the trade of jute-
nik beggars.
Mr. HALLe---.No doubt they would know their way home, if let into
the streets?

Ford—No doubt they would, your worship.
Mr. Hau.s ordered them to be set at liberty, and they accordingly
scampered off about their business, seemingly much delighted.
Harrox.filmintx.—Riehard Dwatfor4 butcher, was brought up
on a warrant charged with assaulting Philip Arnold.
Arnold, in answer to the usual questions, stated the defendant had
assaulted him by striking him on the side of the bead with his fist, but
added be did not wish to press the charge.
The latter sentence escaped the ear of the magistrate, who was pro.
seeding to treat the charge in the usual manner, when Umbria the of.
ficer directed the attention of Mr. Rogers, to the desire expressed by
the prosecutor.
The magistrate questioned Limbrick and Hall, the officers, to whom
the warrant had been entrusted, and they both stated they had been told
by the parties that the affair was made up. They had gone several times
to bring down the defendant, but could never get him, and it was not
till they had threatened to take both prosecutor and defendant before
the magistrates that they got the parries to appear, and they then said a
compromise had taken place.
Mr. Lame (to the defendant).—What money has passed between
you and the defendant ?
Defendant—Ten shillings.
Mr. LAIN (to complainant,)—Produce the ten shillings, sir, you
have received.

Arnold.—l cannot, Sir, I have it not about me.
Mr. LAING.—We are not going to allow our warrants to be treated
in this manner.

Mr. Roos can go into the case. (To defendant) What
have you to say to It?
Defendant stated, that the dispute had arisen out of Arnold's owing
him a small debt, and which he had often called on him for payment.
Arnold frequently at these times had spoken to him in an unbecoming
manner, which was the case at the time that the assault took place ; and
in the irritation of the moment he had raised his hand and struck the
complainant a blow.
Mr. Lamo.—And how, under these circumstances, did you come to
pay him ten shillings?
Defendant.—Because I had never been before a Magistrate in my
life, and I preferred getting rid of the matter by paying him 10s. The
money was paid by • friend of mine to him.
Mr. Latwo.--Then you shall pay other twenty shillings to the
Ring; and you will know in future to take better care when money is
required from you in like manner
Defendant was astonished at the turn which the case had taken, but 1
he paid the fine and was discharged.
Mr. LAING turned to the complainant, and told him that he had
better mind what he was about ; and if he (Arnold) attempted such a
pa:ceding again, he might, perhaps, find that the consequences would
be more serious than he imagined.
TAIIING AN OATN.—A constable about to give evidence in a charge,
hastily took the Testament from the hand of the °Seer in sueadance,
and before three words of the oath were articulated the constable Mood

the book, and began to give his evidence. Mr. Ftagers, who observed
the neglect, reproved him very sharply, telling him that he ought to
pay the greatest attention to the obligation, and to consider that the
taking of an oath was a very solemn act. The Magistrate regretted that
too little attention was paid to the observance of decency and delibera-
tion in swearing frequently in Courts. The constable apologized he
his mistake, and then wok the oath in a proper manner, before be gave
his evidence.

ISMILDOIIOI7OII.STRIZT.--RiLTRAOIDTIMIT CAM 0? SHOPLIFT.
INO.—On Tuesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, during
the sitting of Mr. Roe, the Magistrate at this office, a lady of very
fashionable appearance, and very elegantly dressed, was brought before
him, from the police station of this division, in custody of Clements
and Bates, two police inspectors, on the fallowing singular charge of
shoplifthq; s
Mr. Ward, a linendraper and haberdasher in Piccadilly, stated that
about fire o'clock on that afternoon, the prisoner came alone Into his
shop, and asked to look at some goods. The articles she required
were accordingly shown to her, and while she was looking them over
on the counter, while the persons serving in the shop were engaged
with other customers, as, from the respectability of her appearance,
not the slightest suspicion was entertained of her dishonesty. It
happened, however, AM a few minutes before the prisoner entered
the shop, another lady, who resides at Pimlico, purchased several yards
of lace, but had not as yet departed, nor taken the lace, which was folded
up for her, from the counter where it :had been placed, near the spot
where the prisoner stood examining the goods. The lady being about
to quit the shop, she asked for the roll of lace, but it was no where to
be found, and the prisoner was questioned if she had seen it, but she
declared she. had not. As, however, no one else had been near that
spot, suspicion was reluctantly cast upon her, and she was requested to
search her dress, where, possibly, the lace might have become entangled;
but she appeared highly indignant. At length the assurance of her
having taken the lace became so strong in the minds of Mr. and Mrs.
Ward, that the prisoner was requested to walk up stairs into a private
room, which she did without the least hesitation, and was there searched
by Mra.Ward, who found the roll of lace concealed in her bosom.

A police constable was then called in, and the prisoner was given
into custody, and he took her to the podia atadon.
Mrs. Ward, who was also in attendance, confirmed her husband's
evidence.

Clements and Bates, the police Inspectors, stated, that shortly after
the prisoner was brought into the 'police station they observed that she
Deemed ray uneasy in her person, and frequently shuffled a good deal
about her dress, which induced them to think that probably she might
have some other concealed property about her, and they determined to
have her strictly searched before bringing her in the presence of the
Magistrate. They accordingly put her Into a private room with a fe-
male, who is employed for the purpose, to morels her thoroughly, when
it was found that she had on an enormous pair of pockets, one of which
contained no less a sum of money than 6101. in Bank of kngland notes,
and in the other a parcel of India Bonds to the value of between
7,0001. and 8,0001. the whole of which property the Inspectors produced
to the Magistrate.
In answer to questions put to her, the prisoner declined to give her
name, or any further account of herself than that she was a lady of rank
and fortune, and that she at present resided near Hackney. The charge
against ber she declared was utterly unfounded, as she was a person
totally incapable of such an 'offence as that alleged against her, and de.
pied that she ever had the lice in her possession at all, or that it was
found there. The India bonds and money found on her were her own
property. She came to London once every year to receive her dividends.
The Magistrate said that the charge was of so distinct and clear a
nature it was impossible he could do otherwise than have it fully inves-
tigated, and he should remand her for a future examination. The Ma-
gistrate then'gave direction to have certain inquiries made by the officers,
and ordered the prisoner to be brought up again on Friday—but Mr.
Ward said it would be impossible for him to attend on that day, as he
was going out of town some distance yesterday on important business,
and should not be returned on Friday.
Mr. Ron then altered the day for the prisoner's re-eaamination, and
ordered her to be brought up on Tuesday next.
The Magistrate directed the police inspectors to take charge of all the
property found on the prisoner until the next examination.
Woosnte-sratEr.—Yesterday Mr. John Talbott, the proprietor
of the Three Jolly Butchers, Boot-street, Shoreditch, was summoned
by Brooks, the ipformer, for suffering gaming with cards in his house.
Purtoo, the informer's witness, swore that on the 25th inst. between
eight and nine o'clock, he went into the defendant's tap-room, and saw
a number of journeymen bakers playing at cards.

The defendant said that the parties who were playing brought the
cards with them into his house, and the moment he found it out be
took them away.
A respectable witness stated, that he saw the defendant take the cards
away from the T= who were playing, he told them be would not
suffer It in his

Mr. BenstaxT.--The case is dismissed.
Untow-Har.x.—Yesterday, five young men, named Alm Mills,
it fUiasa Gorisy, Patrick Riley, James Kiev, and Thews Bromley,
were brought before Mr. CHANDZIM, charged with performing a play
in an unlicensed place. The defendants on being placed at the bar ex-
cited much amusement, each being dressed in the costume of the As-
racier be played on the preceding night. A variety of theatrical dresses,
with helmets, swords, daggers, Rt. were produced, all of
which bad fallen into the hands of the officers who intetrupted the
performance.
An Inspector of the Rotherhithe division stated that complaints had
been made by the parish authorities of a nuisance in the neighbourhood
of Millpond-bridge. At the above place an outhouse or barn was con-
verted into a sort of playhouse, where numbers of both sexes congre-
gated together to witness a theatrical exhibition, and each person was
threepence oa entrance. Occasionally much clamour arose
chargedeti the building, such as horning, the reports of guns and pis-
tols, ac. which was a description of nuisance the neighbours were
most anxious to have abated, and with this view he (the In-
spector), accompanied by several policemen, proceeded to a di.
lapidated building in Gillian's-lane, on the preceding nigh; and
secured the five defendants, who were all on a kind of stage. The de.
fendants were all engaged in combat with long swords, but the instant
the police entered, they dropped their arms, and the unfortunate ama-
teurs were all maned in the " green.room," where it appeared they had
laid in a good stock of porter and " backy," to regale themselves with
after the performance. An attempt was made to "douse the glhns,"
but the attempt failed. Two of the defendants were dressed in armour
of so ponderous a weight, that it was found necessary to convey them in
a wheelbarrow to the station.house. The inspector added, that he had
ascertained the building in which the performance was going forward
had been hired at a weekly sum by Mills, the defendant, who was ma-
nager of the company.
Mr. Cnainzas asked Mills what trade or occupation he followed
for a livelihood; be replied that he was a glue-maker, but that having
been solicited by a few of his theatrical friends to start a thing of the
kind; and being partial to theatricals himself, he had adopted their ad.
vice, and rented a concern at four shillings a week, to have their per-
formances in.

Mr. Cmanszaa.—What was the play last night ?
Mills—The play was " Blue Beard, ' which was to have been fol.
lowed by " the Devil to Pay," had not the police disturbed us.
Mr. Cantatas—What character did you take In " Blue Beard ?"
Mills.—Why, to tell your Worship the truth, I went our of my ge.
peril line last night, and played one of the legs of the elephant in the
piece.—(Laughter.)
Upon which Mills said, that they were obliged to make shift some.
times; but, added he, your Worship, I can play Richard, Othello. and
all Mr. Kean's principal characters ; and 1 can assure your Worship
that it would astonish you to hear the applause I meet with.

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Mr. CHAMBERS said that he had no desire to bear it ; proof had
been given that he was the chief person concerned in the business, and
he must, therefore, find bail.

Bromley, the person who played the fiddle, the only instrument in
the orchestra, was also held to bail

The Magistrate remarked, that the Manager and the Fiddler were
the only persons out of the lot he should punish, as they were the chief
actors in it.
The poor fiddler begged hard to get off, and declared that if he got
out of this scrape he should never draw to elbow as long as he lived in
any but a licensed house.
Evidence, however, was given that he was an old hand at scraping on
the violin at most oethese amateur theatrical exhibitions, and he was,
therefore, committed with Milla the manager.
The remainder of the defendants were discharged.
Twawcs ortrcx.—Yesterday Charles Simesesse, alias Fisher, and
Thotssas Keith, two coatermongers, of Bethnal-green, were charged
with soliciting and inciting Robert Butcher, foreman to Mr. Ashley
Barrett, a miller, in Nanow.street, Limehouse, to plunder his employer
of corn and pollard.
They were committed for trial.

A frightful accident happened on Tuesday morning to the
Rev. Dr. Parsons, who, between the hours of eleven aid twelve, was
crossing between the coaches, on the stand in the Haymarket, when a
miechlevous hone, in a cab, bit a piece out of the Rev. gentleman's
cheek. He was conveyed to a house in the ntighbourhood, white me.
dical assistance was procured, and the wound was sewn up. He is doing
very well.

SHOCKING EFFECTS OF PASSlON.—Tuesday morning,
two tanning men, in the employment of Mr. Pass, of Pltsmoor, near
this place, quarrelled about which of them should de some puck:she
part of the work in the yard, when one of them took up his soythe•asd
cut the other in the hand and across the thigh, is such a shocking atm.
nor. as to require the gash should be sewed up by the surgeon, (Mr.
Stanifortb) who was called in. His beads were also severely eat in at•
tempting to save himself. Mr. Pass secured the fellow who initiated the
wound, sad it is to be hoped be will most with the punishment due tor
his imposts misdeeds. We have sines bawd that the wounded mates
life is considered to be in great danger.—.t 4/441

SCINTILLA.

TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE POPULAR SO7i6h
OF THE REVOLUTION.

Tint TUREE nays.
Twice were they from our country chased,
And twice by foreign Lords replaced ;
But they who twice our France disgraced,
Shall never more our annals stain.
Our hour is come—our rights—our laws—
Our country, and our country's cause ;
And France, proud France, indignant throws
The despots never to rise again.
We had our days—our glorious days !
Bark ! Freedom calls, and France obeys.
Young, old, rich, poor—they rush—they raise
The Iris standard on the plain ;
A million voices hail it flying—
A million tongues of joy are crying_
A million smile on thouOts of dying
For that bright flag which beams again.
Curse oa the frenzied hand which held
The torch of terror—France rebeli'd ;
Tho' traitors to her fame she quell'd,
And wash'd away the tyrant stain.
Tyrants, begone!!—ye sought—ye found,
The scorn which whelms your names around.
Bone for France is freedom's geound,
Which despots never shall again.

J. B.

A coot. PINCH.—A glass snuff-box has been recently in-
vented in Holland. It keeps the snuff exceedingly fresh by means al
double bottom, which is flied with ice and salt.
A YANIEB BOLL. —The New York American paper re-
cords the death of Mr. Oliver, a medical student, who was drowned at
Trenton Falls, while 'hewing them to several touts female friends.—
The party consisted of his sister, his wade, and two cousins.
SAVOURY MONKS.—" It is a strange thing," said M.
de Hamra, "that the Friars of the Minimes eat nothing but fish, and
yet they always smell of shoulder of mutton."
A MAN ADVISED TO BE ALWAYS FIGHTING.—A
Omani, who had gone to a ball, :danced so indifferently that all the
company laughed at his performance. Observing the merriment he
had caused, he turned round to a person near him, and said haughtily,
that though he might dance indifferently, he could fight well. ""Then,
Sir," replied the other, 1,1 would advise you always to fight, and never
to dance."

TRADE or RELIGION.—A few days since (says an Ame-
rican paper) a traveller called at one of the hotels in the village, and
having introduced some conversation with one of our citizens, who is
occasionally a little waggish, asked how many religious societies
there were in the village ? On being answered that there were three,
he enquired which was the most nourishing ? The wag replied that
he did not know, but he believed the methodists were doing a very
fair stroke of business.

OMN IYE ROUS LAW.—The American papers announce a
forthcoming work, entitled, " Omniferous Law exemplified :—How to
curse and swear, lie, chest, and kill, according to law r by Mr. Lorenz..
Dow, who publishes it by subscription.
ÜBLIMITY.—A certain paper with which we exchange
winds up the melancholy account of a dreadful accident in the following
eloquent style :—" But in the midst of life we are in death." On,
moment she was riding along, in the full possession of all the/.
blessings, and in the next, her horse sprung, she fell, and lut
trembling spirit stood In the presence of its Maker."—estskili
Recorder.

THE PRICE or PREDECENCY.—By the standing orders
of the House of Commons, the Sergeant at Arms of the " Honourable
House" is entitled to 51. for taking "a Knight" into custody, while,
for discharging the same duty to "a gentleman," he can:only demand
31.16 a. ed ; but the knight and the gentleman equally pay 11. for every
day they continue under his care.
LANCASHIRE WIZARDS.—This county has wizards as
well as witches. In a town there, one day last week, as two sawyers
were cutting an oak tree, they found an obstruction which spoiled two
saws. On examining the cause, they found a stone in the middle of
the trunk of the tree, firmly embedded, which weighed nearly thirteen
pounds. Those who have examined the tree and the stone say that the
latter originally could have been but a diminitive pebble, and had grown
proportionably with the tree itself.
FIVE AND Tuars-rzwcs.---:Parker and I once sat nest
each other at table, and, in the midst acne of his best stories, a gentle.
man whispered his friend, "George is a devilish clever fellow, isn't
he ?"-.-,4 Yes."—" Pity he should ever want money. I lent him fire.
sati.these-pence yesterday." "So did I," replied the other.—" You ?"
—" Yes I" They mentioned it to a third ; he had been* donor to the
same amount t—a fourth-.a fifth—a sixth ; they all acknowledged
leading him a " five-and-three-pence." The smothered laughter which
had circulated the table now exploded in a simultaneous shout; and
Parker was by no means disconcerted, foe he whispered in my ear, the
minute after, ' How do you think I mean to pay 'em all ?"—" I can't
say."—" Present them with a box-ticket apiece at my benefit !"
Bernard's Retrospection. of the Stage.
A TOUCH OF THE SUBLIME.-118 Newry Telegraph,
in describing a dinner given to Colonel Forde, the unsuccessful candi.
date at the late election for the county of Down, speaks in the following
inspired terms of the wines given to the company on that occasion :
" The wines, too, were of the most approved description ; they con.
sisted of the dark, but generous, port and claret (sanctified by a vigour-
ous old age), the glittering sherry, and the delicious champagne, which
foamed in the wine cup with a beauty bright as the rainbow coruscations
of wit, end pleasing to the taste as the honeyed liquid which moistens
the vermillion life of beauty."
Mr. Cummings, the favourite of York Theatre, was re-
markable for a voice of extraordinary strength. The power he pos-
sessed seduced him into a habit of ranting, which the public b,irg
pleased with, confirmed him in. Thus, when John Kemble stains"
York, be was told by the gallery he " cud na shoot out laik Cootnens:'
The death of this gentleman was another of those singular coinci.
denoted which John Palmer's is a well-known instance. lie was play.
ing Dumont, in Jane Shore, at a town in the York circuit, and in t`..
last scene with his wife, when be had repeated the words—
Be witness for me ye celestial haw,
Such mercy and such pettish as my soul
Accords to thee, and begs of Heaven to show thee,
Nay such befal me at my latest hour !
he tottered an instant, sunk down, and expired ! s The audience, mis-
taking this for an intended " point," awarded him in the u=.4l
way ; but, alas ! he was for ever insensible to their notice ! real aced
mimic life were essentially mingled into a departed shadow, and the
actor was now upon a level with the monarchs and heroes it had ban
his highest ambition to imitate.—Bernard's Retrospections of the
Stage.
ENGLAND, WITH ALL THY FAULTS, I LOVE TliFi!--
The soi disant patriots, who take such pains to exalt the nubility 01
every other country over the industrious classes of their own comm..-
laity, would do well totaling the swarms of Englishmen, late rcsalenu
in foreign lands, who are reteusrenritz,; like wasps, to suck niece honey
from the hives they have deserted. These voluntary exiles—not the
men of science or of industry, who travel to improve their country.
but the spleen-banished thousands who have fled in disgust of every
thing at home, return ; and the faggots spit at them from their lure.
abandoned hearths. In the moment of alarm they fly to shelter, and
in the nest they try to pull that shelter about their ears. The craven.
who shrunk pale and in terror from the first sound of conflict, returns
to brag of his share of the victory ; and his deluded countrymen encou-
rage his lying vanity,, ill, warmed with the recital of his hnsginca
deeds, he plots fresh scenes of mischief in the land that would have pro-
tected her unworthy weed, when its own insignificance uprooted it and
cast it out. Let Englishmen beware of the enthusiasm of the moment,
and Ist such things and their own place amongst us. We speak with
I more warmth than usual, because we have just been annoyed by one of
these " pardonnes nods." One word more. Foreigner who have
sought a home in England which their respective countries denied them
are bound in decency to respect the institutions under which theY
breathe with freedom and in safety. We know our own defects, and
Englishmen proceed constitutionally and gradually to repair the glorious
fabrics which "dry antiquity" may have dilapidated. Enlarged "04°s
and a better sense of our necessities point out abundant faults in the old
mansion. The Constitution, like Windsor Castle, may be improved by
wisdom ; while Pimlico palace, of intelleetual architectureorould 60°1
a monument of folly, and a satire on improvement.

BIRTHS.
The 28th instant, at Brighton, the Harsh/ins de la Vakste. of
daughter—The Seth inst. at Woodford, the lady of T. H. Spark`
Re+ of a The 27th inst. at Ration Hall, Rutland, the
of S. Raton. . of a daughter.

MARRIED.
The Uth lost. at &. Luke's. Chelsea. Lieut. G. Butler, R.N. gib
son of the late Sir R. Butler, Bart. tt. P. for the county of Carlow, to
Emily, eldest daughter of J. Bayford, Esq.

DIED.

Tholliglis inst. at Sosibamptoo, Mary Katharine. Lady Marlow
The Mot August, at Carthagena de Colombia, J. Fowler, Rog. of the
bons. of Maffenden, Fowler, and Co.—The gist inst. A. litedel, Esti•
Ws Balt year of Oa age—Tb Midi last. at Mosehdte, in ber sgd
year, Mary, relict of J. /bans Sot formerly of Gegen, and late of
Lamb's Condult.strcet. •

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