Star.
London, England, 1825-07-27 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A young couple, known by the name of Debottche residing in
Vincent-street, Bethnal-green, both of whom appeared to be under
20 years of age, were brought up, to answer a charge of ill-treating
' their infant child, four months old. Their conduct had frequently
excited the notice and interference of the neighbours, and had pro.
duced a former complaint at this odic& Upon the ptesent occasion
the child, upon being stripped at the *dice, appeared covered with
bruises, and instances of shocking mismanagement and maltreat-
, meat were adduced by witnesses.
The prisoners gave a simple denial to the charges. In Wash
of bail, they were both committed, and the child was ordered to
be delivered by the mother to the beadle of the parish (who was
present) foe preservation. The parish will prosecute.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Dariti litlywhite. the driver of the cart, No. 109,236, belonging to
T. Petit, a Wandsworth carrier, appeared yesterday at this Office,
before Mr. Drift, the Magistrate, on a summons, to answer the
complaint of Lord Charles Spencer Churchill', under Mr. Martin's
Act, for wanton cruelty to a horse, which he was driving in the said
I cart. The charge was clearly proved, and he was fitted Ws.
The defendant declared he could not pay the finc ; his wages
was only 101. a week; but it was peremptorily cutJrctd.

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daughter of his master, a child under ten years of age: The 'pristine%
was further charged with having attempted to commit a similar 0:-
fence upon a younger sister, so infant uoder.four years old.
The former child, upon bring questioned by the Magistrate is to
her knowledge of an oath, appeared to have a perfect understanding
of the nature of so solemn an affirmation. From tier 'statement; it
appeared that the prisoner, who worked in her father's house, took
advantage of his absence and that of her mother, about a fortnight
ago. Here she distinctly described the nature of the violence com;-
mitted on ker person by the prisoner, who, she said, had repeated
it subsequently on three different occasions, but aided, that she did
net acquaint her parents of the treatment she had experienced;
fearing that she should be punished *by them. She had Made it
known to some of her playmates, who afterwards informed het
mother of the circumstances.
A surgeon, who examined the complainant, staqi, that be w 34
satisfied the violation of the c►ild had been effect The Magi;-
trace, however, upon closely interrogating her, ascertained that thi
capital charge could not be brought home against the prisoner, the,
child having negatived the question as to that fact. The father of
.the children expressed a desire that the prisoner should be conunitn.4
for the capital offence, as the surgeon's evidence, he preswhed, wae
sufficient to prove the perpetration of the crime, his child herself'
being of too tender an age to speak to facts of that description.
The Magistrate explained to the poor man the law in such case.,
and observed, that he should hold the prisoner to hail in four sure-
ties of £4O each, to answer the charge of committing an assault,
with intent to commit a rape, upon the eldest child, at the nest
Sessions. The surgeon then described the nature of the injures
' committed upon the person of the younger child by the prisons ;
when the Magistrate directed that the whole of the circumstance.
attending that case should be also stated on the trial, and to pre-
vent the possibility of a compromice in the inte.iim, the (*.the' of
the children and the surgeon, were lomat' over to proiecJte at
the Sessions.

On the 7th of June, the anniversary of the great
earthquake which destroyed Port 114:4 Jamaica, ill 1692, Divine
Service was perfornwd according to cu4t.m.
I I consequence of the slit); tness of water, the Can:-
bridge steam-boat is laid by for the present.
The stables belonging to the NIA Coach Estahli,h-
ments in Limerick, were tound on file at four else(
last Sunday se'nnight, and w. re entirely coils:Hued 11.:.
fore the progress of the flames could be arre,ted.
supposed that the fi e was not accidental.
At the Wexford Assizes, on Wednesday last, an
action of some importance was tried, in which Joust
Noun/ NUNN, Esq. was plaintiff, and FRANCIS 1V YSC,
Esq. defendan.. It was an action brought by the
plaintiff against the defendant for writing and publish-
ing a false and malicious libel, reflecting on the plain-
tiff's character as a Magistrate of the county of Wex-
ford ; which libel was contained in two letters, one (a
private one) written to JOHN BRIC, Esq. Barrister-at-
Law, the other enclosed therein to N. P. OGoessasr,
Esq. being to the Catholics of Ireland, and both di.
reco.cl to the care of Counsellor O'CONNELL, Met rion-
square, Dublin. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
500/. and costs.
Sunday evening (17th inst.), an extremely bold at-
tempt was made to steal a valuable horse from Mr.
Job Lously, West 11 %bourn Farm, near Reading.—
About ten o'clock, just as his cat tens were getting into
bed, their candle not being put out, they fortunately
heard the footsteps of a 'loose stumbling against the
groundsil of the stable-door; and on linking out of
the chamber-window, they observed a fellow gently
leading a horse across the. dung, in order that his
footsteps might not be heard. They i.urnediately
called to him to inquire where he was going with the
lior-e? he made no answer, but set off at a trot up the
orchard. The servant immediately gave the alarm,
and a seedy pursuit commenced. The fellow ap-
peared to have mended to have jumped the ditch with
the house out of the orchard into the field, and thus to
have evaded the turnpike-gate, as. well as the obser-
vation of the people of the street, many of wham were
actually passing and repassing at the time, arid within
sight of the stable-door. As it was rather dark, the
horse would not jump the ditch, although, by the
footsteps, he was twice or thrice led there for that
purpose ; and so daring and deter mined was the fellow
to have the horse, that he did not relinquish his hold
until his pursuers were within twenty yards of him,
when he ran away with great rapidity, and jumping
across a ditch, through a brake of bushes, finally
effected his escape. He afterwards tried to steal an-
other horse from Mr. Allen's, at the same place, but
was there also disappointed. He was a short man,
and had on a white smock-frock, but it was too
dark to discern his features ; from his actions, it is
conjectured he was no stranger to the premises.
Yesterday evening, an Inquest was held at the Turf
Tap, before Mr. HIGGS, Coroner, on Thomas Guy, the
young man who died, as was believed, from the kick
given him by a brick-maker, named William Tutlaw,
alias Tatlaws. Mary Rankin, of the Royal Hospital-row,
Chelsea, called, deposed that she knew- Tutlaw by
sight. On Sunday she saw him a short distance from
her house, and on the pavement a young wouia.--, who
was called " Scotchey," was lying drunk. Tutlaw's
wife had been fighting her, and was seconded by him..
The deceased came up, and advised the woman to go
sway. Tutlaw pushed his wife on one side, and then
knocked the deceased down, and, as he was getting up,
knocked him down again. The deceased gave a groan,
and tolled over. Tutlaw kicked him a third time in
the side. The deceased, on being raised, put his hands
to the lower part of his body, and seemed to be bent
double; the blood streamed from his face and mouth.
The witness's husband asked him if he was much hurt?
but he made no answer. The witness called out that
the deceased was mach hurt, but no person• would take
up the quarrel; they were all afraid of Tutlaw, who is
a desperate fighting character. Two witnesses were
examined, one of them a woman of the town, who de-
posed that the deceased struck Tutlaw before he was
knocked down by him, and that Tutlaw did not kick
the deceased. Both the Coroner and Jury expressed
their conviction that this evidence was not deserving
the least regard. The Jury, with the perfect concur-
rence of the Coroner, returned a verdict of 4. Wilful
Murder" against William Tutlaw.
Mann Ineuziosscs.—Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Truro
on the Slit inatant,2o39 tons.--Average produce,7l.—Quantity of
fine COppee, 156 tons newt—Amount of Sale, £16,390. las.—
Average Standard, £l4O. 4s. There are 3048 tons of Copper Ores
for sale neat week at Truro; 22§ tons of Tin Ores were sold at St
Austell and Truro, in the quarter ending Midsummer, 1885.