Star.
London, England, 1825-06-27 00:00:00

WESTAIiNSTEU LOUR[ OF REQUEbTS.

MURPHY V. FM
The plaintiff, in this suit, claimed IL 10s. 2d. which
Foy, as is almost invariably the case, denied that he
owed ; the plaintiff was therefore ordered to make out
her claim in the best way she could ; and the principal
object in reporting this case, is to shew the strange
modes resorted to by the pourer classes in this metro-
polis, to rase money.
Mrs. Murphy stated, that Mr. Foy, her countrym in,
they were native. of the Emerald Lie, being rante
short of the needful, came to her to borrow a sove-
reign ; " and where would I have one," said she ; but
Foy was pressing, and the tender-hearted Mrs. Mur•
phy 'dented so far as to lend hem--what think ye?
not a sovere gn, but more than a sovereign's-worth r f
her best Sand iy, chapel-going garments : to wit, a
cloak, a shawl, and a pair of boots, all better than
new, that he might pawn the s•me forces much as he
could, and redeem them for her again, when lie wait,
ab:e, or rather willing. Nis, the day of utility, or
willingness, had never at r ived ; Mr. Foy, :he 'ingrate-
rful, not ca:ing for Mrs. Murphy being star ved lot the
want cf her cloak and shawl, and weL-foot.Nl for the
want of the ne boots ; and though he was termate „Hy
pressed to redeem them, suffered the ye it aad a day,
the• pawnbroker's period r f grace, to elapse, and the
whole cleg*iit trio of garments were sold, as u•ual, to
the b..st bidd r, by au:tion. Thus situated, . Mrs.
Mterphy, finding that sit:. could neither get mon y,
shawl,- cloak, n bouts; and that moreover it xas
bootless to complain, or a.k Ft), any wore about
them, had made up her wind to take the law of him.
and here he was, looking like a pitiful fell*, x, to an-
swer ir. In tact, he could not answer it ; but he ad-
:r i tad that he had borrowed the articles as st •ted ;
had pawned them, and spent the money ; and that,
c nintrytnan of her's as he was, he would not pay it
at all, at all, if he could help it.
T-re C.,1; tT, however, decieel otherwise:. arid 'or-'
dered that the whole amount should' bef :paid— in • a
month, as a le,son tourer A werthless

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Sr. JAMES'S, Junelyal 'Mews, the
Duke of Cast:sumac bas appointed "Lieutenint-General jriarrn:
Fut.i.xa to be one of his Royal Equerries. ' •
• According to the last iettcrs front Paris, the rumour
of an inteinion. to renew the Celsouship,ofe the Pres.{ is
become general. The Constitutionnel, it seems, has
been generally proh•bited in the Pap al domin ons, oil
account of its alvoz cf of Protestant peiucip lest
. The diamond bia,:elet, which was lost at.theßall of
the Duke of NORTH LaiitSPILAND, at Paris, has been restored by a gen-
darme of th, etc y of Paris, who had it in his care, to the Spanish
Embassy, in confining y with the advertisement in the Etuile.
CoNDENtsim ;.-,Ellllo24.—Yeterday, Gof an,t Dunn
ate 'den Service in Or! hapel of NewgAtt,
here Ate' 0 kiinai y preached. The linblie were ex-
chided. the Gaol Committee having iesoiv.rd to put the
interdict in force upon every occasion. • L'roudey, who
%.:as c nvicteJ a!ong with Goff and Donn of the bur-
.glary in Burton crescent,recei Ire- a rest,ite on Saturday
°aching. Mr. Baker accompanied Goff and Dunn into
the ch.pel, and sat between them in the co,idemned
pew. Crawley, who was at aboot five o'cloCk on Sa-
turday evening duo n actually into an ecstacy of joy
tsy the intelligence that hii life was spared, sat in the
'gallery among the other respited prisoners. He was
intent upon tlee service, and kept his eyes fixed upon his
two more unf .rtunae and less culpable companions,—
The two Sheriffs, and Mr. Mattyln, the Under-Sheriff;
werepresent dating the service. The Ordinary took his
text from Ecclesiastes, ch. xi. v. 9, " Rejoice, 0 youmg
man, in the days of thy youth, end let thy hear,t cheer
thee in the days of thy youth, and in the sight
of thine eyes, but know thou that for all those things
(ion will.bring thee unto judgment." The condemned
ate very you 'g, Goff not being 21 years of age,
and Dunn being no more than 17. At the conclu-
sion of the service, the Sher .M ordered that Crawley-
should attend them in a private room, when he stated
the circumstances of the crime for which his compa••
nions were about to be executed. He declared that he
had planned the robbery, and induced the others to join
him. He solemnly protested that he was by far the
most criminal, both as to the particular offence with
which the three were charged, aad with respect to the
transactions of their past life. Mr. Sheriff BROWN
determined, after thelnquiry, to go to the Secretary of
State, far the purpose of communicating the result of
this investigation.—'Limes.
A SNIVOGLEIt SHor —Tuesday night, as a party of
six smugglers were Focceding 'along the coast, near
Middle:ill-1, about two miles front Bognor, they were
stopped h 1 Lieutenant Newuham and his petty, belong-
in, to tl'e Preventive Guard, when a serious conflict
ensued. A most rowetful fellow, named Charles Horn,
attacked th,.; Lieutenant, whom he knocked down. Trie
latter, however, recovering himself, seized his 'an-
tapnist, and, drawing a pistol from his pocket,
threatened to fire it if he mede any more resistance.
The smuggler instantly snatched a second pistol froth'
the Lieutenant's pocket, but before he had time to
cock it, the Lieutenant fired at the smuggler, who fell
dead at his feet. The other five tvere taken; but one
of them is covered wth wounds, and net expected to
survive:. Horn, who was shot, has left a wife and five
chihirer, and, we understand, was only discharged
from prison about nine dais ago, 'where he' had been
confined for a smuggling tran,action. Lieut. Newn-
ham is seriously injured, and lies in a dangerous state.
The whole of the men taken have large families,—one
of them eight children.
The Committee of the Journeymen's Society' hive
published a statement of facts refuting the account'
which appeared in some of the Papers of the conduct
of the journeymen carpenters towards the workmen at
Buckingham House, on Monday, the 13th inst. The
Committee examined several witnesses, principally the
persons concerned in the alleged disturbance, who posc-
tively assert that they did not threaten, or attempt to
intimidate, any .workmar,• but merely went to ask
if .they would strike ?. The Committee, after depre-
cating all" violent and unlawful modes of accomplish.
ing their wishes," *express their thorough conviction,
that 46. the -*statement in question • was made up of feVi'
nteagre• facts, which really did' occur, woven. into .a
.tissue of highly-Coloured falsehood, and groin end wih
tail lisrePresentatitn:"•• • •.I.;ts.

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