Star.
London, England, 1826-09-02 00:00:00

' diers on Mr. Abbott, a wholesale wipe merchant in Oiford.strett,
.who is not at all liable to such an intrusion, and although Mr.
Abbot repeatedly informed him that he was acting in error.
Three of the " Buy a Broom" sisterhood were yesterday aga'n
charged with vagrancy, by walking hand in band through the street,
asking for money. Two of them could only be prevailed upon tl
give their Chrhtian names, Hannah and Christiana ; hut the thir
gave as here German" name," Susannah Rivers." They were all
discharged on a promise not to ofrend again.

AI A R Y- LA-BON- Nit
Mr. Cos, charged with attempting to poison his wife and Mzry
Anne Cruker, was again brought up for examination ; when, after
a number a questions nut immediately relative to the case in hand.
Mr. Harmer asked Mrs. C." Do you know a person named Ruther.
ford; did you not tell him, that you was determined to part, and
if your husband did not accede to your terms by Tuesday. you
would swear your life against him?" Mrs. Cox—" I told mr,
I Rutherford that my husband treated me so cruelly, that if he d:1
not consent to leave me, I must swear my life against him."
Mr. Rutherford, who married the sister of the man Mrs. C. s?'d
she was previously married to, and who had been dead a twe:v:.
month, said the property Mrs. C. possessed was left by him. lie 1)21
always been on friendly terms with Mr. and Mrs. Cox; they appeared
to live happily together until lately ; he visited then, on Wednesday
week ; she then complained of Mr. Cox's behaviour, and slid she
no doubt there was something in the house for her destruction. On
Sunday he visited them again at five o'clock ; they owe nut for a
walk, and returned arm.in•arm. Mr. Cox went out again, whit:
she took him into the kitchen, and ,hewed him the oxalic acid. She
returned it again to the cupboard, and said as soon as Nit.. Cox hi!
mixed it she would have it analysed, and swear her life a.?ain••
and hang the villain, for he had treated her very ill, and ,h• h ,t4d
him. When he left she followed him into the garden, and said 4.e
should make a proposition to her husband, and Vise did n 4 t accede
to it by Tuesday. she would swear her life against him, t r tken
Mr. Humphreys (the person before alluded to) would bay_ L.en
dead a twelvemonth, and she should have the legacies to settle. lle
Was astonished when be heard the charge against Mr. Cox, as II,:
did not think he was the man to do so.
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Miss Croker deposed, that on Monday week she hotiglit, at Vr.
Trebbs's, an ounce of bark for Mrs. C—Mr. Harmer asked her
if she bought nothing else at the same time. She replied, " I
bought an ounce of salts for Mr. Cox—l ant sure they were salts,
they were sealed in a paper marked ' Epcom Salts.'"
Mr. Harmer—Did Mr. Cox take them / Mary Ann C. They
were mixed for him, but he did not like their taste, and he threw
them away, excepting a little piece, which hr put in a paper ; I told
him I was sorry he had thrown them away, for I would have go:le
with him to the shop where I bought then'.

141r.Harmer desired Mr. Cox to t.ll his story respecting the salts.
Mr. Cox said,his wife mixed them while he was up stairs ; they
did not taste like salts, they were much darker, and they tasted
acid, so he threw them down the sink, excepting a little setlimon
which he put in a paper; he thea asked his wife for three ha tpence;
and fetched another ounce from a different ch mist. and %hawed
him the sediment; he said it was not salts, but an acid, it he
had swallowed it, would have done him injury. " I have a piece
(said Mr. Cox) now in my waistcoat pocket at home, in paper.'
The Magistrate immediately sent him, accompanied by ifucknell,
the Officer, to Homer-street, and they brought hick the paper a:-
luded to; it contained a very small piece. Air. Squire exantin...d
it, and tasted the paper ; he said decidedly its as not salts, but acid,
and it had the appearance of oxalic acid ; he ziftcrwards tasted the
article itself, and was of the same opinion. Being so small a quan-
tity, Mr. Griffith cautioned him not to taste too freeiy, or he wt,61.1
" swallow the evidence."

James Butters, Assistant to Mr. Webb, remembered )fits
Croker's coming for the bark, but he did not believe site pureb:.sed
any salts; it was impossible there could be a mistake, as the
are kept in a drawer, sealed up in paper marked " Epsom S.:lts,"
and the oxalic acid is kept in a bottle, and when sold, is invrriaL•ly
marked " Oxalic Acid—Poison."

Mr. Harmer alluded to the very extraordinary elucidation pro-
duced by this question to Miss Croker " Did you purchase nothing
but the bark?' and Mr. Gat►rrris told Mr. Cox that, alto- this
most singular and perplexing inquiry, the minds of the Magistrates
were altered. "We de not thiuk there is sufficient rvideuce to
commit you, nor should we feel justified In liberating you; we,
therefore, require you to find bail for your appearance when acces-
sory. In the meantime, Mr. Harmer will make su,:b farther in-
quiry for your benefit as may he needful."

Some time after Louts XIV. t!re cele-
brated Bossurr to the Bishopric of Sleaux, he asked the citizens
how they liked their new Bishop. " Why, your Alasitsvv, we itkP
him pretty well." " Pretty well! why, what fault have you to find
with him?" "To tell your Mascara, the truth, we would hive
preferred having a Bishop who had finished his education ; for
whenever we wait upon him we are told that he is at kis studies "I