Star.
London, England, 1817-07-16 00:00:00

1 he Prod,ce suk,s were not run for.

PRIMSTIIIANISIII.—.WA I [INC Bat OMAR OS —O',VVAIS
26 nabao anti a quarttr a Ink belore mule o'clort on Monday
nutht-..1,e vonameoeed his ink yesterday 0101111 viral eight. being
prevented trom starting sooner by the unfavourable star of the
weather; at five in the afternoon he had gone 13 nide., makkg
in the ./hole v. 26 front the coMmencement.

NPAlRlNO.—nroggins had a baliftir at the Firm-court, yel-
-1 tads?, sod the company skewed, that, although defeated, he
was not forgotten. Grusin% Carter, and Painter, and nth, r
first-rate rik, are not in London, but there was a good iefiliig•lO
with Oliver. lit Wier, Richmond, Purcell, Lancaster, &c. ticritg•
gins did not exhibit trout lam. nest, nor did Turner, who was
present. Oliver was the gat ot the day, although there wn a
fine exhibition between Rekher and Laments-. Olivi r was fog
pitted against Sprng, a Site athletic young butcher, represented
ar an idt and ‘2ler. lie was, Lowever, sliewo the dill 1.1. Cr be-
I eween tapping and letting, and his promise was much Ir. a 11,1.
Richmond, alter snutig-to, introduced a strapping Yorkshire-
' man, from Pontefract, who would set-to with any one, or light
the hes. man for fifty. He had ali the appearance of an ugly cut".
stonier, but Oliver took a turn with him, and away went the
Yorkshireman s provincial (Calif. Oliver gathered himself up in
' hitting forint and let 1004 r unmercifully a, the countryman's head,
which be quickly exchtquered. Oliver availed himself of the flue
opportunity of skewing how science will bring down weight.—
A novel exhibition took place between Coshead, a reit-breed
iingle-rtick player, and Edney, a west countryman. There was
a fine display of *Acme but the company did not germ to relish
it. Coshead got his head brukr.

The child, which was carried off from its mother
last week, whilst walking on the beach at lierdleigh
Salterion, has•been discovered. It now appears that
one of the persons who hurried it away, h; its Whet,
who has for some time been separated Irom his wile.

The Trench Papers contain a long account of the
trial berore the Court of Assize, of a man of the name
of/kerne, and his wife, charged with the crime of
having farmed a design and An attempt to commit a
robbery in the house of a M. l'ietod, and to murder
his female servant. The Jury found a verdict of
guilty against both. The evidence describes a scheme
et the most deliberate cruelty, and most hardened
atrocity. It was disclosed by means of ore Barbet,
whom the culprits endeavoured to gain over as an ac-
complice. The woman was the ft iencland acquaintance
from infancy of the servant whose assassination was
intended; but when it was mentioned to her that
the robbery might be committed without the perpe-
tration of murder, she replied, in the celebrated revo-
lutionary axiom, G, thot none but the dead are prevented
from telling tales." The great difficulty for the Jury
to determine was, how the guilt of the parties was to
be proved, since chivy had committed no criminal act,
hut had merely disclosed a criminal design, and had
made preparations tor carrying it into execution, which'
es:cution was prevented by the police before any at-
tempt was made; or, according to the words of the
:urnalist, to define what the criminal code means
by the commencement of the execution of a crime,
to lie with precision the liMit at which the inter-
ruption of a criminal attempt should be attributed
' either to the spontaneous wish of
.the individuals
who are accused, or to fortuitous circumstances."—
The two prisoners in this case had mentioned their
criminal purpose .to two men, Bardet and Pievot,
whom they thought they had engaged as their as-
sistants in their plan, and as sharers of the booty,
but who communicated the whole to the Police.
They mentioned the instrument with which thy
intended to murder the servant, and the time.
whet) they were going to commit the crime ; and they
ssere found by the police on their way to the house
which it was their okject to rob at the time, and with
the eustrument. specified. This tact and other cif.
euntstantiat evidence established the guilt Ot the par.
t:ea, wi:o, the: their conviction, confessed.