Star.
London, England, 1826-10-12 00:00:00

HATTON-GA UDEN.

Gee. Iltongle'd and Was. Parker wets charged by Blanco Layton,
with robbing liim near Cow-aoss, on Tuesday night, of A silver
watch, a silk handkerchief, and a carpenter's rule.
The complainant was returning home, when he was accoued by
Mansfield, who pretended to know him, and then accompanied him,
till they came to Peter's-lane where he suddenly snatched at the
complainant's handkerchief. Peter's-lane,
the struggle Parker tansy up
and knocked him-down. They ran away, and the complainant pur-
sued, with the cry of " stop thief," ohm two watchmen succeeded
in taking both into custody. On the way to the watch house, the
rule was sten to drop from the person of Parker; the handkerchief
was found on the spot where the struggle had tikes place ; but
when searched, no watch could be found. The prisoners denied the
charge.—Committed.

The landlord of the Crown and Woo!pack, Tottenham court.
road, was fined in the mitigated penalty of 40s. for refu.ing to billet
a recruit of the 35th Regiment of Foot, under the plea of the note
not being signed by the High Constable.

MARY-LA-BONNE.

A case has been pending at this office since the Eth July last. re-
specting a load of bay sold by a mau nagged Samuel Kidney to a
Jr. Jerram, a livery•stable keeper, in Upper Montague-street.
The hay was weighed the same day after delivery, by a Mr. Towers,
an assistant to the clerk of the Haymarket, and thirty-one trusses
were found deficient in legal weight. An information was accord-
ingly Lid against Kidney for selling hay short of weight; and the.
case has undergone several hearings before Mr. RAMUNSON ; but the
decision bas been postponed, from various causes, until this day.
The Act of Parliament states the penalty to be, any sum not ex-
ceeding five shillings, nor less than half-a-crown, for each truss.
The defendant's Solicitor had taken several technical ocjections
to the informations, but they were overruled by the Magistrate;
and Mr. iltwusson fired the penalty at three shillings each truss,
thus making it 41.135.—1 t was understood that the defendant would
appeal against the conviction.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Edward Johnson was charged with stealing a writing
desk from the shop of Mr. Day, A t Charing-cross.—The foreman
saw the,prisoner lurking about, and being told by a girl he'had taken
the desk, he had him taken into custody.
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The Magistrate strongly censured the practice of exposing goods
outside the door, and ordered Mr. Day to attend to-morruw.--
Remanded.

Mrs. Hurd, a chimney-sweep, was charged with ill-treating her
apprentice.—The lad's mother stated, that he had scarcely ever
been washed, had been kept extremely short of provisions that he
slept upon rags in the cellar, and that, in consequence of his ne-
glected state, his head was in a most dreadful condition from ver-
min.—Mrs. H. promised to be more attentive to him in future ;
but the Magistrate discharged the indenture, and restored the boy to
his mother.

WORM! I P-STR It RT.
Yesterday, after two convictions of 51. each had taken place
against coach-owners, for not having their Christian and Surnames
at length on the pannels of the coach-doors, at the suit of the noto-
rious Biers, and his equally-notorious witness, Martin, the former
wished to withdraw his information against a Mr. Green, qs he un-
derstood Mr. G.'s witness could contravert his evidence.

" Oh ! then," said the Magistrate, " you fear your witnesi would
be convicted of perjury."
Biers replied, that if the cue was Withdrawn, that circumstance
could not occur.

The Magistrate observed, however, that Mr. G. was, at any rate,
entitled to his expenses; but, however, as he was not present, the
subject was dropped.
UNION-HALL.

Oa Tuesday afternoon, as this Ake was about to close, a man
named Josses Gray. residing in Little Surrey-street, Blackfriars-
road, was bAsught before the sitting Magistrate, K J.CUANSIII4 Esq.
charged with having committed a desperate amok upon his wife.
From the statement of Major Reynolds, an °Meer in the Army,.
is appeared, that as he was passing through Surrey-street, in a hack-
ney coach, on his way to Walworth, he beard screams of Murder !
proceed from one of the houses. He immediately directed the
coachman to stop, and while in the act of alighting, he observed a
female rush out of one of the houses, wboWperson was covered with
blood, sersuning aloud for help, and followed by a man with a case ,

knife in his band. The female ran into a house next door to the one
she had left, closely pursued by the man. The Major, apprehen-
sive that murder would inevitably be committed, and having no
stick or weapon of any kind, he supplicated some men who were
present to enter the house and secure the fellow, who seemed to be
bent on the destruction of the female; but they betrayed the
most rank cowardice, absolutely refusing to interfere, in the
dread of being attacked themselves. The woman's screams still
continuing, at length two youths. accompanied by the Valor,
rushed into the house, and, on their entrance; the man in a fury
ran at the Major with the knife; the latter, however, being
powerful man, seized the weapon from him, and, uring the
contest, they both fell on she floor. At length, after considerable
resistance on the part of the fellow from whom the knife was
taken, he was secured, and given into the custody of a constable.
During the struggle between the Major and his antagonist, the
unfortunate woman, who turned out to be his wife, lay on the flock
insensible, from the blows she had received. Major Reynolds,
conceiving a man capable of using one of the other sex in so brutal
a Manner, deserving of punishment, insisted upon his being in.
stantly brought to a police-office, sad accordingly the whole of the
parties attended before the Slating Magistrate. On the defendant
being placed at the bar, he cut a most grotesque figure, bring com-
pletely covered from head to foot with Mud, in consequence of his
attempts to escape from the constable on the way to the °eke ;
both of them having had three or four rolls in the kennel. The
above-mentioned circumstances having been stated by Major Rey-
nold's, the defendant's wife, who appeared to be weak from iota of
blood, stated that her husband had latterly been much addicted to
drinking, since his return from the Continent, where he had been
some time residing. Formerly she said he had held a most re-
spectable situation in the Excise, but since his resignation he had
conducted himself with the most perfect indifference towards his
family, often quitting home for some days, leaving them destitute.
—On the occasion in question, he departed from home is tonal,
and on his return the moment he entered he struck her a blow in
the face, and seizing up a knife made two or three lounges at her,
which she avoided, only receiving a slight wound on the arm with
the point- of the weapon. He used dreadful imprecations at the
time, vowing that he would murder her; and she, fearing that he
would put his threats into execution, called aloud for help, when
Major Reynolds appeared, and, she was convinisA, saved her life.
She added that this was not the first occasion on which she bad been
assaulted by the defendant; some time ago he stabbed her in the
hand, in consequence of which she lest the use of three of her fin-
gers, and she was assured he would ultimately be her death.
The defendant evinced no contrition for his conduct, merely say:
ing that the facts.were exaggerated, and that he did not mean to do
his wife any serious injury.

The Magistrate having remarked that the defendant's wife was
much Indebted to Major Reynolds, for his •ery resolute conduct on
the occasion, committed the defendant to gaol for want of bail:

Nothing is talked of in Lorraine at present but a sleep-
ing Beauty, who, it seems, wakes occasionally, and fells
asleep again for several months I
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The Inquest on Mary Ann
Corrall was retotated yesterday, bat nothing transpired
to shew how she came by her death. It was prov d
she bad two Sovereigns when she left her mistress, which
were missing when the body was found. At the recom-
mendation of the Coroner, the Jury returned a verdict
of " Found Drowned:* as leaving the subject open for
further investigation, if necessary.
At a Petty Sessions held on Friday !act at Soittliamp-
ton, before F. L. BECKVORD, Foci. H. Eva*, Esq. and
Captain RAINIER, R.N. three persons were sentenced
to serve five years in the navy, and a fourth fined IOOk
having been bound in a vessel off the Needles, having
contraband spirits on board.
White elephants are rare in nature, and so greatly
valued in India, that a King of Pegu, hearing that *
King of Siam had a pair of these valuable animals, sent
a formal embassy, desiring his Royal brother to sell
him one, and name his own price. The Pegu in Sorel
reign being refused, declared immediate war, to chastise
the insult. Burning with revenge, he invaded Siam,
and after sustaining a loss of 500,000 men, he made
himself master of the elephant, and retrieved his h moor.
PARISIAN SWINDLERS.—Three fellows, named Du-
buisson, Flaguy, and Clement, have, some days since,
been visiting the whole of the shops in the qoarter of
Mlles, offering to exchange gold for silver. The
rouleaus which they offered in exchange were set off
with three or fonr 40 franc pieces at each end ; but the
contents of the centre were copper. A number of mar:
chants have b.en dupes of this swindling trick ; one
person, however, who was sagacious enough to perceive
it, almost as soon as played off, gave the alarm to the
Police, and the three thieves were speedily seized. The
sum of six thousand francs (2501.) was found in their
possession, together with a couple of gold watches, and
a chain of the same metal.—Etoile of Monday.
Who, on seeing the acorn, must not admire and vie*
it as one of the many wonders of this our earth ? The
glossy green of the nut, bursting through the " rough
and sober coloured cup" encircling it, presents one of
the most beautiful objects of its species;. and its produce,
the stately oak, furnishing materials for our pride and
glory," the Wooden Walls of Old England."
Friday evening Mr. Glenn, a respectable grocer at
Knightsbridge, and his servants, smelt a strong effluvia of escaping
gas, about halt an hour after the lamp was lighted. Mr. Glenn
de4rous of ascertaining where the gas escaped, took one of the
counter drawers panty out, and with a lighted paper was gaing to
try the pipes, when the light coming in contact with the escaped
gas, the latter exploded, by which Mr. Glenn was much scorched,
and the large shop window blown out.
The first charter to the city of London is written in
the Saxon tongue, and was granted at the suit of Wil-
liam Bishop. of London, by William the Conqueror;
" whose charters," says Speed, " were of a fore other
tennur, forme, and brevity, than those teadious and per-
' pined conveyances, since in use." It is " confirmed
with green wax, whereas the Saxons before used
only guilt crosser and suchlike makes." The following
is a copy of it :
" William Cyng greit William Biscop and Godfreges Portgerefan
and ealle tha Burchwaren the on binden bean, &c. William
King, greeteth WilUasn Bishop, and Godfrey Puetreve (the Chief
Magistrate was then called Portreve) and all the Burgesses that in
London be. French and English, friendly. And Ido you to wit.
that I will, that you enjoy all the law which you did in the days of
Edward King. And. I will that each child be his father's inhetitor
after his father's days. And I will not suffer that any man yea
any wrong offer. GOD you keep."
The following is a poetical charter, equally concise ;
I William King, the third yere of my raigne,
Give to thee Norman Hunter, to me thou art both lecfe and deere.
The Hop and the Hopton, and all the bounds rap and down,
Under the earth to hell, above the earth to heaven.
From me and mine, to thee and to thine,

As good and as faire, as ever they mine were,
To witnrsse that this is Booth, I bite the white waste with my Nadu,
Before Jugge, Maude, and Margery, and my yongest soon* Harry
For a bo we and a broad arrowe, when I come to hunt upon Yarrow•

DIED.

Sunday se'nnight, at Dumfries Mrs. Agnes Maxwell, relict of
the late Rev. John Itobertson, Mit:Wet of Klrliconnell, aged 70 years.
At Rangoon. on the ild of ACiniags, Lieutenant Wm. liabingtoo,
eldest son of the Rev. C. M. on, Minister of the Episcopal
Church, Dumfries.

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