Star.
London, England, 1826-09-04 00:00:00

• SURREY SESSIONS:

Thomas Taylor was indicted for assaulting an infant
under twelve ye irs-of age, under the following siesta.
tar circumstances: •-•
Mr. JaMUETT stated the case. The simple
.facts 91
the case were these —The defendant thought proper to
be monstrously annoyed at the young girl for playfully
passing her time in or neat his quiet or important-do.
micile. She so passed by, emoting herself with the
children of her neighbours, and being of a pleasant and
humourous disposition, she WAS technically termed
" the Queen of her Young Coterie." In their rambles
they might have exercised their lungs rather imMoile-
rately, but beyond this no mischief could be laid to
their charge. The defendant, however, thought they
raised their voices rather too high, and once or twice
cautioned them against the to coMmissbn of an of-
fence so highly degrading to his sensitive ear. The
young people, however, did not discontinue their juve-
nile recreations, and the defendant determined to make
them ; he coolly and deliberately pinioned the child,
undressed her, and five or sift times ducked her in the
Canal ; and then left her, *et and unprotected as she
was, to put on her cldthevas she could !

Several witnesses were called to prove the statement
of the Learned Counsel, amongst whom was the mother
of the poor infant who, with great simplicity, de-
tailed to the Court the state of agitation and alarm she
was thrown into by this circumstance. One neighbour
ran to her, and told her her daughter was drowned ;
another said she had been thrown into the Canal, and
was nearly drowned ;.. a third said she had been Con-
veyed to a neighbouring house, in a state of insensibi-
lity. She declared that it was not her wish to injure the
defendant, and she only hoped that his punishment
might be the same, mental anxiety, and a correspond-
ing feeling of the maternat solicitude which she had
undergone; and if he underwent that punishment he
would not be inclined to repeat the inhumanity with
which he was now charged. •
The Cuataxas however, was not induced to suffer him to
escape so easily, and therefore sentenced him to one month's hit-
prloonment and bard labour in the County Gaol.

Mr. ORLANDO, one of the late Greek Deputies, has
iett ibis country.
ENGLISH OPERA Hovsx.—The new Farce of Before
breakfast was performed, for the second time at this
Theatre, on Saturday night, and was received through.
out by a fashionable audience with unmingled applause.
The excellent acting of all the performers in this Farce,
particularly of Mr. MATHRwS, is enough to secure it a
successful run. His personification of a Scotch servant
was, in itself, a masterpiece of acting—the pronunciation
of the Northern dialect was given to the very life.—
Lying Made Easy, was followed by the Musical Farce
of the Boarding House,. *hen Mr. Minims, as Peter
Fidget, had again an opportunity of exerting his won.
derful powers. His Songs of the Calais Packet, and the
Nightingak MI6, were giien in his best style, and sent
the crowded company home in the best humour._

&Prom Ptnact.—:-In reference to an article in our
last, relative to the sloop Archduke having been myste-
riously carried out of Dundee harbour, we are now in-
formed that the vessel in question has been brought in-
to Dunbar, after having been on the rocks in that guar-.
ter, and•abandoned by a sailor, the only one on beard.
An official list of deaths has been published at Got-
tingen, from which it appeared that between the 20th of
July and the 17th of August, MS persons had perished.
'As the annual rate of mortality is about Si in a fort-
night, SO6 individuals may be considered as having fal-
len victims to the late fever.

The Directors of the Bank of Scotland have an-
nounced their intention of reducing the rate of interest
to three per cent. from the Ist of October, unless on
money lying for six months or longer. They do not
mention whether they are to reduce the rate of discount.
Some 101. and 11. Bank of England notes (signed
" J. Hogben,") have been passed within these few days
in Worcester ; they were so well executed as to deceive
the most practised eye. The public should be very care-
ful of whom they receive Bank notes. Attempts have
also been recently made to pass notes of Country Banks
which have long since stopped.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Wednesday, information was
given before CHARLES COSTERTON, Esq. Mayor, and a
warrant obtained to search the house of Wm. Ebden, a
Sheriff's officer, and who is also a poulterer, residing in
the Excise Office-row, in this town, for the purpose of
finding game supposed to have been poached. Our
active Mayor's officer, Coble, upon executing the war-
rant, discovered no less than 28 brats of partridges, a
hare, and five gate nTts, for which he (Ebden) was con-
victed under the Game Acts, and fined in the full pe-
nalty of 51. for each head of game, making 2831. Ebden
having gained intelligence of the preiceedings against
him upon a constable's approach, jumped out of the
window, and has for the present escaped.
FIRE IN SPITALPHILDS.—.About one o'clock on Sa-
turday morning a fire broke out in the premises in
Booth-street, Spitalfields, occupied by Mr. Milner, the
packer and presser in the Old 'Change. Mrs Milner
occupied the premises in Booth-street in the business of
calico-glazing and hot-pressing, and the fire was first
discovered issuing from the top of the warehouse used
as a drying room, containing a large quantity of va-
luable property, which is now completely destroyed,
and the premises considerably damaged. Nothing but
the speedy arrival of engines, and the great exertionsof
the firemen, could have preserved any part of the build-
ings from total destruction. Mr. Milner has a steam
engine on the premises, for the purpose of carrying on
his business, and it is supposed that the Sue from die
engine house, which immediately joins the drying room,
ignited the lathe. The property was insured.
A man, who passed by the name of Strange, with
about 50 aliases, died on Tuesday, at the Eight Bells,
in King-street, C-anterbury, arising from fright. The
man, it would appear, the day before, in colsequence of
the heat of the seather,ventured to bathe at Deal,whither
he had been upon business. In a few minutes after he
was immersed in the briny element, he found himself
beyond his depth, and it was with difficulty he was
saved. The fright arising from this circumstance was
teo much for his nerves, and atter making the best way
to his lodgings, he died. Strange had never been 'mown
to wcrk, or to possess any'" visible means" of obtain-
ing a livelihood. After his death, however, some of
the neighbours, hearing something fall into a copper in
an out-house, had the curiosity to inspect it, when lo!
'the I. visible means" of the defunct and family came to
light in the shape of a parcel, containing half crowns
and shillings, to the amount of 221.105. in an unfinished
state, which write taken possession ot.
Sixty lie healthy boys, who were about to be sent
into the Royal Navy by the Marine Society, were march-
ed round the Exchange OR Saturday,. and cheered the
.Merchants.

RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ORDER OF
MALTA.

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A German ppper contains the folbwing speculation
respecting 'the' resurreci itin of the oraer of St. John of
Jerusalem. It seems to be taken for granted that Gen-
tlemen with long pedigrees cannot fight against the
Infidel, without getting possession, like Sancho Panza,
of an island, and burrowing in a convent :

FROM THE FRONTIERS OF ITALY, Aua.l7.
However strange it may seem that Lira .C.ohiane
should, take such a lively interest in the estahli,lmserit of
the order of St. John of Jerusalem, as Fienchionrnals
affirm that he dries, the report appears not to be confined
to the salons of Pails, but to gain credit in Italy itself.
According to a private letter from a great city in that
country, the Admiral and the principal perscns inter-
ested in the re-establishment of.the order as.'illivereign
Power, 1120 not only made same arrangements, but even
positive agreements in the mode of proceeding in case the
plait should succeed. It is affirmed that it has been
determined, that in future, the possession of the Roman
Catholic religion shall not be an indisperlsahle condi-
tion of admission into the order ; that two new divisions
or maiims (lOngues) shall be introduced, one for' knights
of the Greek religion, the other for those of the Protes-
tant religion. Only the Grand Master must necessarily
be a Roman Catholic, because it would otherwise be
impossible to maintain the connexion with the P.ipal
See, which it is intended to do. With respect to the
other Military and Civil Officers, Knights of any of the
Christian confessions shall be admissible to them, ant
Lord Cochratit himself shall be Commander-in-Chief
of the Military and Naval Force which the Order 'can
collect under its banners. We must wait for time to
tell ns what truth there be in these statements : mean-
time, it may be worth while to observe, that a similar
plan was in agitation at the time of the insurrection of
Prince Alexander Ipsilanti in Moldavia and Wallachia,
Only that according to the reports then in circulation,
those two principalities (and not the Island of Rhodes)
were proposed as the seat of the Order.
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PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY ON PAROCHIAL
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

ABERDOUR.
1. The salary in this parish, so early as 1700, was 100 merits
Scots, half money, half meal; the money paid by the traitors, and
the meal by tenants, in small quantities, in proportion to their farms,
and collected by the schoohnaster himself. The school fees must
kale been small, but not ascertained.
2. From 1780 to 1803, when the last Act passed, the salary was
the same as before, and paid in the same manner; the branches taught
were Latin, English, arithmetic, practical mathematics, navigation,
bookkeeping, &c. &e. By that period sehoolmasitvrs were gene-
rally men of finished education. The school fees Is. per quarter
for English; is. 6d. arithmetic; and us. 6d. for Latin.
3. Salary from 1803 to 1824, 300 merks, boils meal for the
garden, convened at 13e. 10d. per boll; no house required, the
irchoolanaster having a house before near the school. Fees per quar-
ter, for English 3s, kir arithmetic 45.. for Latin Ss. and so in pro-
portion, fixed by this-Minister and Heritors.
6. Only one schoolmaster established upon the legal provision,
and the school fees will not exceed 101. per annum • many of the
people being poor, and unable to pay fees; and their children are
'sot debarred from school, but are taught gratis.
4. The school fees since 1803, as then flied by the Heaitors, are,
fee Latin Ss. per quarter; for arithmetic 4s. and for English 3s. per
quarter.
7. The average number of scholars ate from us to 30 through the
year. In winter pretty full, in summer not so full.
S. The present schoolmaster having gone through a regular cosine
of academical learning, is capable to teach all branches that may be
required—vie. languages, particularly mathematics, arithmetic,
writing, English, &c.
10. The distance at which children go to school henry various,
being from one-fourth of a mile to two miles distant.

IL There are six or seven farms, at four or live miles distance,
containing about one hundred inhabitants, but ate within a smile oc
two of other schools, where the children do go.
14, The population of this parish is 1,500 ; and in a village aboist
half a mile distant are 200 inhabitants. •There is also a Fish town,
containing about 100 inhabitants in the parish.

An article from Moscow of the 7th August, gives
some farther particulars of the arrival of their Larders'.
'l4lasarrixs at that capital, and of the fetes by which it
was celebrated. It is evident, from the nature of this
information, that the reported illness of the new
&amass had no foundation, at least at the date of these
letters. As she was a Princess of Wirtemberg before she
came to the Russian tenwrythe-inhabitants of the Ger.
mao colony of Marienthal, who are all natives of Wir-
temberg, came. in their national costume to present to
her fruits, milk, butter, cheese, &c. and were received
in the most gracious manner.
Thursday evening, the brother of Sir ROBERT Wit.
sos, and his friend, prepared their fowling.pieces form
shooting excursion on the estates of Sir Rosser WIL-
SON, at Retching; and, on the following morning, by
some fatal mishap, one of the guns went off, the whole
charge of which entered the breast of the former Gen.
tleman, who fell and instantly ezpiied.
Monday the power-loom weavers in the manufactory
of Messrs. Stirling and Becton, of Manchester, turned
out. The power-loom weavers belonging to another
concern in Manchester have also turned out.
Saturday se'nnight, as a barber in• the Kirkgate, Leith,
was shaving one of his customers, and eating an apple
at the time, by some means it stuck in his throat and
choaked himz he died almost instantly.