Star.
London, England, 1828-04-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SI4.SSION4 An 8.

These Sessions commenced this Morning,before Mr.
CorssT and several other Magistrates.
Thomas Davis was put to the bar, on as indictment
charging him with.wilful and corrupt perjury, com-
mitted on the triatof an action, •Dawson v. Vernon, iu
the Com t of Common 'Pleas, my the 19th of February:
Mr; BBODRICK st.itvd the vase for the prosecntiun.
The-plaintiff in tliis aCtinn,. a poor woman, was tut)
over in Theobald's-road, by a bleak belonging to the
defendant; and. sought to reciter conlpristarron for the
injury sh-e. sustained on that occasion. Davis, +who was
a publican- irclslorrh-street, was called en the trial to
prove to whom the break belonged, when he most un
expectedly swore that a drove el oaten .was passing at
:the time-of .the accident, 314:514011er frightened the
. horse and caused the.nrisehiet. . This was the, principal
part on which the perjury wits assigned;
.".
br. Sayer, •and several *other_ wanes*, itl4o were
passing when the poor woman was run over, were now
called, and all swore distinctly that there were no oxen
at all passing when the:accident teok'
place.
Mary Dawson, -the poor woman Who Sustained the'
injury, and who was attending 'bet • fruit stall at if.te
time, deposed to the same effect.
Mr. ADtLPUUI, for the defendant, submitted to the
Court, that these witnesses had' only deposed to what
occurred at the. time of the accident ; but no two of
them, as required by law, bail sworn that no oxen were
passing just hetOre the accident,sand therefore the in-
dictment must fail.
The CHAIRMAN said, he should leave it to the Jury
to determine the precise import of the eittreition "'just
1 before." •
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Jenner a baker, who lived just by, saidlhat he silo
a drove Of oxen below where the accident happened•
immediately at ter wards. •
The C.RAIRMAN then iireiposed,- and addreising tlib:
Jury, said, that it appeared to bin, that the (limbic
which had previously existed :Were .11(;vi i*:;#`great
measure reinoired, and what was a most uttisicall thing
in an indictment for pea jury, 'be had afO fielt to find.
with any. of the witnesses on either side; for the first
set of witnesses could only depose ihwt they did not:
,ee the 'oxen, but they might 'hare passed withnei.
their notice. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty;

A cod-fish was c +tight on the eastern coast, a fete_
days ago. weighing 571bs. the largest, it is thonght, ever men on
die shores of Wand. —CaradeAstrtal. •
The vaunt, n poi.d, at Hailshans„ was a few days
slice tidied. and 2,500 brace of carp and tench captured.
The torlowing extract is from the town records of
Feweralum:—;lsls—Paid, for brede and wine, given to the Queen
of France. 7s. 4.1. 1519—Paid, for spiced brede and wine, to the
Lard Chief Justice, 9d. 1519—Paid, for spiced brede and wine,
to the Lard A rdabishop, ss. 4d. Paid, for spiced brede, wine, Dere,
and ale, to the King and Queen, IL 61. Sid. Paid, for spiced
brede, wine' and capons, to my Lord Cardinal, IBs. 9d. In 1585,
when the Itmperor Charles V. (of Spain) and the King's Highness
Henry VIII. called here on their way. to London, the expense
was 14 31.3 d. and, at the same time, a gallon of wine to the Arch-
biibop. I+t.
Enttraustort, Aram 7.—Friday se'nnight, a fatal ae-
&dent occurred in a quarry near Invergowrie. Alexan.
der Lesslie, labourer, while employed in removing the
surface earth from the quarry with a barrow, missed
his footing and fell ova a precipice upwards of twenty
feet high. He was_taken up in a state of insensibility,
and was so. much bruised that he died in a few hoots.
There is a sportsman •in Paisley who has repeatedly
laid down his double-barrelled gun loaded at his feet,:
thrown two penny pieces over his head, lifted the gun,
turned round, and-struck the penny pieces successively,
right and left, before they leached the ground. The •
same gentleman, fora wager that he would not, with
'A single-barrelled gun, loaded with ball, hit two
orange; out of twenty thrown up one by one, at. the
.divtarree'of wenty yards, actually struck tweet the first
seven dna were thrown up, and thus decided, thebet..
Dbairvaitir.—Friday night some thieves broke 'into
the lieu& -of 'Mr. John Belton, landlord of the East.,
" 'Wren, near the East India Docks, arrdstoleabc;nt,,
in diver and copper. The same night, between seven.]
and eigtft &clack, some villains robbed the house ofl
• • 116.Wital, 'Atte Terrace, floater', of eight silver spoons,
sitter and various other articles, by cutting a I
pane of ghtisnut of the window. The house of Mr.
iota Wider, of. Mitbant-street, was also robbed, in a,
similar tartar, of a clock, some sheets, and some 6hiltr.
Saturday night the house of Mr. J. Griffin, Peckham-
grove, Was broken into. The thieves effected an eutrance
at a* rear of tine premises, through the back kitchen
window, and tatigtertid -she larder of. its contents.—
frdr. Glien hearing the noire. fired with small she; at.
our man, and from the position irk* hich the thief Wadi
there is every reason to believe he received the content,
:of tart grin about the head
.and face. The thieves left
behind them a 'data lantettLinil several implements of
:lonia freaking. , . . .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE:
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OULLDIIALL.
Four journeymen Wires-wore brought -up on a charge of assault.
The night constable stated that the accusation was, that they bad
beaten two men la the street, at three o'clock in the morning ; but
*u.secu'ers were not in attendance now to support it:: Sir Ct./4-
*W Marra learnt from the prisoners the origin of,the affray, vi 4.
'that the men had offended them by calling out " Doughies;.go
borne to bed."
" 1 see no great harm in thit,"•said• Sir Cf AuDirs ; "you make
bread, and bread Is the staff ,of lifevand your busine,ati; a useful
one. Dough-is the hrst.process.in making bread,. and bakieg the
last; and if you were called youghies, after the first process, Edo
not conceive it was a harsher term )Ititti that of Baker, derived.frisin
the last. It was, however, undoubtedly used a. a term of reproach,
and I think you deserved to" be reproathid fur being out of your
beds at that Unseasonable hour. There lies all the mischief. It
appears that you thrashed, the men, and they were satisfied with
the thrashing; for they do not come here to complain .of it, and
therefore you will be discharged."
The prisoners went away, without venturing to arzite wjth his
Worship in ,justification of the sense they had fusion the appeltatitue
" DoOghey.
Mario Torr was charged by her husband, who is a brass founder,
with being excessively drunk, out annoying hint and his etildn.n.—
The prisoner had been separited•lftom hint: for some' years; be
allowed her 7s. a week, whieb had been regularlyi paid ; .but she
Was, when drunk, continually omoying bins, and ,he hoped the
Magistrate would effectually put a stop to iE, for the lives of 'himself
and children were in danger.
The,prisoner, in her defence, said, het holt:and had turned her out
of'doots; and sold the furniture; treat he reerived•ZOl. a:year from
a freehold estate of hit in Warwickshire, and .otber sumo ;, and, that
she ortght to be allowed more than a pattly .7s, ai.week., • .
.• The husband. positively denied aU.this; and the, kinglet was
'illichalgecitiipon promising no to ann.°, het' huitiand, anti ap-
peaittl tety 'hankie! to get off.' 'l./pie being taktri kway, she re.
Ironed Sliglitrate re nialse•hez.husbatul.morelpartialtreher...
-Thisabe, Aidermanosith a langh,,attLtint novelty of the applica-
tion, expressed his inability to do. .
11 A TT(II4.G A *DEN.
A lamplighter was yesterday brought up to this Office, undee a
warrant, by \lre Coulthard, one 'of thi fleet...jests Of 'the perish isf
Sr. Pancras, and charged beforts!ihwaitting Magistrate; Mr, Ser-
geant Salon, with deserting his wife; and refusing to allosrhgr a,
maintenance.
Mr: Coulihard stated, th'at the 'condition of the wife was truly.
wretched, .having been reduced to the very last extremities by
want, and obliged to apply for.mcceur to the-funds of the parish,
while her husband was apparently ,in .cenifortable circumstances,
and a housekeeper.
The coMplaitiant said, that she had been now married for a term
0117 years, aud during the lapse of that tithe had very many chil-
dren, two only of whom were at present living. About three years
att?, by reason of dip:continued ill treatment site received nom the
hands of her husband, she was obliged to go for the recovery of her
health intrithe 'country, where she stayed only thrie weeks, and on
returning home again Mund that :moiler female had taken possession
of her bed. •By this means she was obliged to Snake the present
re•plication to the parish for relief.
During this statement of the wife, the defendant was evidently
labouring under the i'.fluence of the most agonizing feelings, and
when he found himself at liberty to speak, he said that she ought,
'at that moment to be in his place. She withdrew herself:he stated,
into thy country, for the sole object and motive of affording herself
an opportunity to indulge her passion for another individual with
whom she had formed a criminal connexion, and fur whose sake
she deserted him and her children. The consequence of these
evils was, that he had to forbid her altogether his house, and take
in the female of whom she now complained as usurping her bed--
not, indeed, for any such purpose, or to supply the place of his
wife its that teapect, but to attend to the care of his children and
his house.
Mrs. Parsons—But you know yourself,. my dear, you-have a child
by her now, and that she is again in the family w.i' by you. •
. Of this the defendant seemed to take nu observation, but gave it
a-simple negative; and when asked by the Migk(rate what he'wks
Willing to allow his wife for her separate *niallikiihatic'e; replied thkt
he had. neither will nor inclination to allow her 'any Ming..

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Mr. Sergeant Samostthen observed ro him, that he must not
suffer his wife to become chargeable to the parish, while he could
afford her any means of subsistence: otherwise—and.the law gave
but that one Aternstive in case of his refusing to do solle rouu be
committed to the House of Correction. _ .

An order was then made by the Magistrate, that be must allow
her a sum of 4s. weekly fur her support, and to keep her off the
parish funds.

11IARY-LA-BONNE.
Yesterday a midwife was chargtd with having defrauded the
Governors of the Aliddlesex and Queen Charlotte's Lying-in -.Hos-
pitals, was finally examined and :coruntitted for trial.
She was employed by the Governors of these Institutions £0 de-
liver pour pregnant woman at their.dwellings, 4nd was entitled to
receive a fee out of the Hospital funds in each. case;
accused of having received lees, by means of false certificates,•for
alleged dv!iverics, which never took place. •

• Letters from Venice Mate that a vessel from Coifs:,
In three day*, had brought the news of the surrender of
the Cs:tle•of S _

The Corporation of Drogheda assembled on Monday
and arirteit a Congrattilator y Address,tand the Free,som
of theCbrpbtatibrr, in ngold box, to the 'Most Nob!e
the .Marqbit of" A troutstsr, on his appointment to the
Irric&Royrilifol Ireland. IL was then resolved that the
Mayor, Recorder, Sheriffs, &c. be requested to presert
the Address it; such time and in such manner as his
'Excellency edutd .please to zeceive Every-
'l4 Post. -
county of.Monniouth *ctirions cattail airiest
universally prevails, for persons to adorn the'tombs of,
Iheirdeceased 'relatives with festoons of flowers on thei
Sanjay befOle• Easter.' ThiS has an exceedinol7 pie
turesque effect, beshles showing a very commendable!
feeling on the part of the surtivors.
Friday last the chambers of Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN,
in Lamb-buildings, Temple, were entered by means of
false keys, and a number r f parchment deeds, several,
law books, a Sergeant's silk gown, and several. other,
articles stolen. A Lumber of similar robberies here

lately taken place im the Temple. r: • '
' In a St. Petersburgh Journal of the'22d ult. the:defelt
Of general FANSII is announced. The Generarwai,
by birth an Englishman, and hid attained the rank 'ist
Colonel in the British army before ietatering the service.
bf Russia, under the reign of the Ethpress Carneatteiii
in the year 1785. He was promoted .to the rank X&
Lieutenaot General by PAUL, in the year 1800, and'
was appointed the same year G•neral in Chief and Go.
vernor General of Kieff. By the Emperor ALEXANDER
he was Tem ved to the Government of the Crimea, and
obtained from loth Emperors several decorations. In the
year 1812 he served as volunteer under the Duke of
WIRTEIIBURQ at the blockade of Dansic, and at the
termination of the campaign he returned to St. Peters-
burgh, where he was named a Senator, and received
an arende in consideration of his long services. His de-
clining health obliged him to solicit limn the Emperor
ALlzat.trea.the permission of visiting some foreign
watering places, but every attempt of art to
.prolong
life proved vain, and after a painfill and protracted ill-
ness, he expired ai Warsawnn the 22d of February, it
the advanced age of severity•twb, Jeaving behind hill
tive SONS, three of whOin are in the Ruisian, and two in
the I3ritiOr service..—Harriburg4 Reporter, April 4.
Mr. 'BUCHANAN, in his
.Letter on Emigration to
Mr. Wicsiov-Hoivotr, says—" I compute, that since the inde-
pendence of the Uni:ed States of America, Ann- less than one'
Million and a half of persons have emigrated from the United
Kingdom to the North-American Continent :—of which 250,000
have gone from Eugland, 250,000 from Scotland, and one milliop
at least from Ireland;--iiie-sixths being from the province of
Ulster; a circumstance chiefly attributable to. the comparative
degree of comfort the peasants of the North- of Ireland enjoy
over the .other, not so fortunate, portion of . the. ltlngdont.
Since 1815, the year in which emigration began to find its way
inwards our own provinces—the total number of eruigrants
;front the*United Kingdom has been 350,000, of which 300,000
went from Ireland. From the port of Londonderry alone, which
tie the chief outlet from the counties of Tyrone, Fermanagh, :Do.
negal, and Derry, 58,000 went: say 50,000, to the British Colonies,
8,000 to the United States, and seventeeen individuals to the
Cape of Good Hope. Last year the total emigration from the
United Kingdom amounted to 40,000, of which 23,000 went to the
Btitlvii Provinces of North America; :lad out of VW nuaabet,
46,110 arrived at the Port of Quebec."