Star.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 28.

Mary Wright was indicted for assaulting Cadwallader
Jones, who stated, that having gone to the defendant's
house, to demand payment of a debt, she insulted him,
and threw a &ate of giblet-pie over him.—The Jury
found her Guilty.
radunllader Jones was then arraigne•l upon a cross
indictment, for assaulting Mary Wright. She swore,
that upon the above occasion Mr. J,lnes asked her tol
allow him to take certain liberties with her, and upon
her refusal to permit him to do so, he threw her down'
upon the hearth rug, and endeavoured to effect his
purpose by force. She succeeded, however, in getting
away from him, and resented the outrage by flinging
the giblets at him. She also stated that she called out,
and made a noise, in trying to get away from him ; but
to o women uholoiged in the house, and saw the ter-
mination of the affair, swore that they heard no such
mitt as that described by the prosecutriz, which they
Must have done had it occurred.
The Jury, after some hesitation, acquitted the defendant.
The Court sentenced Mary Wright to pay a finesof 13s. 4d.

George Beauchamp, a peasant, dreised in a smock
frock, and about 33 or 34 years of age, was indicted for
assaulting Mary Ann Powell, a child only nine years of
lige, with intent to commit a capital offence. The child
had been playing with other children in the fields, when
the prison-a- came up to them, and having succeeded in
separating her from her companions, perpetrated the
outr ige uron her with which he now stood charged.—
The child did not immediately disclose what had cc-
rutted to her friends ; but her aunt, soon afterwards
observing symptom; of illness, called in a medical
CientlemAn, who immediately ascertained that violence
had been offered to her person, and after some hesitation
she inrormed him that the defendant was the author of
it. liar health having been injured, the medical Gen.
tleman examined the defendants person, and found that
his health was affected in the same manner.
The Jut:), unhesitatingly returned a verdict of Guile*
The CHAIRMAN, after observing upon the heinousness
of the defendant's conduct, which, he said, he could only
attribute to an absurd but mischievous error that pre-
vails amongst ignorant persons, sentenced him to be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years.
We. Crowther was indicted for having in his posses-
sion, and offering in payment, a 51. note of the firm
of Tailor and L'oyd, Birm:ngham, knowing the same
to be stolen.

Mr. ALLEY stated the case to the Jury, and called
witnesses, from whose testimony it appeared, that the
note in question was one of a large parcel, transmitted
from INlessrs. Hammersley's bank some time ago, and
stolcn from the coach. The prisoner offraed the
note in payment to a Jew salesman, in Rosemary-lone,,
who presented it to the Bank, where it was recognized
as one of the stolen parcel. He told two different storie)
to the Jew and his son as to the manner in which he
bad come into possession of-it, which inductd them to
take him before the Lord Mayor, where he attempted
to account for his having it, in a still more suspicious
manner. He stated that he had sold a writing desk to
a strange man in Holborn, and that be was a ca►penter
living at Chelsea ; that he had sold all his-things, and
wai Winning to the country.
Mr. RUM( addressed the Court on bchalf of the defendant, and
took a kcal objection to the indictment, which, however, was
overruled.—The Jury having found the defendant Guilty,
The Comm sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and hard
labour.

tul TIDES.—At the spring tides in the approaching
winter, the moon will be alternately near its least and
its greatest distance from the earth, which may be
known from the semi-d ameters being then about the
1;, teak st and least alternately. On this account the spring
tides will be alternately higher and lower than usuar.
At Brest the difference is about two feet and a half.

- -
By the Cork Market account, the price of Dead Pigs
is 2.5 i. 9J. for one hundred and twelve pounds weight.
This is only two pence three farthings per pound—a
very different price to the London butcher's charge, of
ten pence a pound.
The following new mode of begging has been lately
adopted by a negro at Lyme: Marsa, Ido not beg-
-1 must not beg ; please to lend me a halfpenny ; when
I come come again I will pay you, good Sir, if I ean."
Withered, King of Kent, used the sign of the cross
for his mark to his grants, he being unable to write his
name.