Star.
London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

M A R Y-LA-BON NE.

Yesterday, Andrew Donlan, a master chimney sweeper, appeared
before the Magistrates, charged with having a child under -eight
years of age, named Wiliam John White, in his employ as an ap-
prentice, contrary to the statute. The grandmother of the child
informed the Magistrate that the child's father was dead, that her
daughter (the mother of the child) had married another'man named
Bates, that she now was gone to ladia, and had left the child be-
hind, that she did not believe Donlan had any authority for nit-
raining the child, and she requested the Magistrate to place the child
under her care and ptotection.
Donlan in support of his claim produced an agreement dated Jan.
11, 1826, by which, in consideration of £5 paid by the said Donlan,
the master sweep, to Elizabeth Bates, the child's mother, she bound
her son to the said master for eight years.
Mr. ILavit.ursom read the paper with surprise and indignation,
remarking, that it was one of the most audacious things he bad ever
met with, and that it was nothing in the world but buying and
selling the child for £5.
Mr. Gairrierus hilly coincided in the same opinion, observing,
that it was impossible to put any Other construction upon the trans-.
action ; for the money was given on the wrong side.
Mr. Etawurisou handed the little fellow over to his grandmother
upon her undertaking to produce him at the office once in every
three months, that he might witness his well being, and assured
Donlan that he should proceed against him for the misdemeanour.
Wilbous Craig. the driver of one of. Morris's Paddington stages,
was summoned upon a charge of having, on the 24th of April,
wilfully and maliciously driven against a cart containing two boys,
by which the two wheels of the cart were thrown off, the aile•tree
broken, the cart overturned, and the two boys injured. It appeared
by the evidence, that the circumstance occurred near the top of
Tottenham-court-road ; that the cart was going a font pace towards
Paddington, that a Gentleman's carriage was standing on the right
hand side of the road ; that the cart was at the moment passing the
carriage; that a coal vraggeo, also proceeding towards Paddington,
was on the left band side of the cart ; that the Paddington stage had
been waiting at the end of Tottenham-court-road; that the moment
after the cart bad passed the stage, Craig whipped his horses with
great violence, and drove, although there was not room to pass,
between the coal waggon and the cart, by which means his hind
wheel and his step (which was torn off by the concussion) came in
contact with the cart, and produced the mischief before recited.
Mr. GRIFFITHS said, it was well the boys were not killed. St
committed the coachman, and told the owner of the cart he should
insist oil his prosecuting him, not for his own sake, but for the sake
of the public.
WORSHIP.STREET.

Savage,./. Batikid, and C. Wilson, were re examined, and fully
committed. for burglary in the house of Mr. 13igg, of Annette Ter.
rate, Islington, the particulars of which have been already detailed.

Pwttrttstuern DIVIOLTRI).—WiIIiam Lamborn and Joseph Jeffs,
Ratcliffe-highway, tea dealers. James Leigh and Charles Wynn, Sal-
ford, Lancashire, machine makers. James Davis and David
Corbet, Great Queen.streer, Lincoln's Inn-firlds, surgeons. *Luke
Kidd and Ralph Itandleson, Carlisle. flax d and druggists.
Richard Abbott* and John William Thornton, Oxford-street, wine
merchants. James Brightmore Froggott aoJ William
Doncaster, linen and woollen drapers. Mary Ryley and Dorcas
hlarii Cartlidge, 13urslem, Staffordshire, milliners. Frances Beeby
and Thomas Lieeby, Cockermouth, Cumberland, tanners. John
Bristow and William Bristow, Worcester, curriers. George Weal!, •
sen. and George Weall, jun. Preston, Lancashire, tea dealers. Rd-
ward Lodge and Robert Battersby, Lancaster, cabinet makers.
John Sparrow Sauteed and Jeremiah Charles Lagden, Christ
Church-passage, Blackfriars, furriers. George Wrigley and Thos.
Shaw, Low Side, Lancashire, and Saddleworth, Yorkshire, cotton
spinners. Thomas Baker and Richard Tolley, Kidderminster sad
Bewdley, Worcestershire, bricklayers. Margaret Pope and Ann
Robinson, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, milliners. Benja-
min Hickinbotham and James Dibble, Bow-street, Covent-garden,
butchers. John Westgarth and James Dinsdale, Great Marl-
borough-street, painters. Thomas Trigg and William Martin
Wheeley, Hampden-street, Server's-town, brush makers. James
Greaves and Daniel Greaves, Droitwich, Worcestershire, coal
dealers. James Walker and Thomas Everard, Liverpool, rope-
makers. E. W. blichell, H. N. Ward, and Thomas Mills, Hast-
ings, Hailshant, and Ticchurst, Sussex, bankers.

DIED.
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Monday, at her house, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, the
Dowager Viscountess Sydney, aged 10.
At his house, in Weymouth-street, in the 64th year of his age,
the Hon. Augustus Phipps, Commissioner of Excise.
On the 26th ult. Lord Maurice Drummond. He was the fourth
in descent from James, third Earl of Perth, being great granuson
of John, Earl of blelfort, who was created Duke of Mellon by
King James 11. after his abdication, which title was enjoyed by him
and his descendants, and acknowledged on the Continent.