Star.
London, England, 1828-09-23 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO BORN TUE WEIGH BOOM

This morning James Callaghan was arraigned on an
indictment for a misdemeanour, which charged him
with conspiracy to set fire to the public crane in the
city, containing 10,000 butter firkins, on Thursday
mooning, the 19th of August. There were three counts
in the indictment; the one for conspiring to set fire to
the crane ; the second, for having conspired with David
Murray and others ; and the third, for having conspired
with persons unknown.
Mr. O'Cortuatt stated the case—After ilwelling
on its importance, and alluding to the several fires
which had lately taken place in this City, arising
no doubt out of the system of combination that
prevailed to such an extent in Cork ; he adverted
to the dreadful consequences and ruin to several indus-
trious families, that would have followed, if the diabo-
lical designs of the prisoner had been put into effect,
which no doubt would have been done, had he not been
discovered. The object was to burn the casks 6r firkins
that were in the crane, and thereby to occasion an in-
creased demand, though the journeymen carpenters bad
been already paid for making them. He concluded by
saying that thedisgraceful combination of the coopers had
been the means of nearlydestroying the trade of the cityof
Cork. He then called the fallowing witnesses:—E. Ring,
Eugene Sullivan, William Cashin, Richard Sneehan,
Patrick Murphy, Cornelius Sullieari, P. Mathias, and
M. Sullivan ; but as the leading evidence of one is
nearly fisat of the entire, we shall give it all in a sum-
mary. It appeared that several master coopers, who
had firkins in the crane, where they remained to be in-
spected, weighed, and branded, bad got private infor-
mation that there was a design to destroy this
property—accordingly they agreed to meet in a
public house opposite the crane to watch, and they
procured an additional man to remain up with Sul-
livan, the watchman. On Sunday night, the two
watchmen went into the crane, and locked the door,
and having concealed themselves, about half past
12 o'clock they heard a noise among the firkins,sand on
looking towards the place where the noise was made,
they saw two men coming over the wall, on which one
of them slipped out and gave the alarm to the master
coopers, who instantly rushed into the yard, and then
they observed David Murray throw himself over the
wall into the lane; they then began searching, and
soon found the prisoner hid in a corner, and near him
they found a fire box, with phosphorous matches, two
bladders of turpentine, a quantity of tow, &c. On being
asked what brought him there, he said be came to look
for a game cost that had been stole. from him by one
of the firkin carriers. He denied all knowledge of the
materials found near him. These were nearly the facts
of the case.

There were no witnesses called in his fevour; and hie
Woman? having minutely recapitulated the evidence,
left the case to the Jury, who shortly brought in a ver-
dict of (Jodi/.
The RECOADUR then addressed the prisoner, and said
be had been tried, and, atter the clearest evidence, cen.;
victed. It was a case in which no one could have the
least doubt as to his intention; it was, therefore, the
duty of the Court to sentence hum. In doing so, it had
no expectation of bringing him back to a sense of his
evil ways, but as an example to other mistaken men,
the Court had thought proper to sentence him to two

years' imprisonateoi.

There are not less than twenty-eight newspaper
printed in the German language in the United States
of America.
The Comet may now be seen without the aid of a
telescope. it is on the meridian a tittle after one A. M.
It may be discovered between the hours of eight and
eleven in the evening, in the east, at an elevation of 30
degrees at eight, and 60 degrees at eleven o'clock. The
eye will be directed to it by tracing a line upwards, from
the bright star in the head of Aries to that in the girdle
of Andromeda, and thence through the two smaller
stars of the girdle, near the higher of which the Comet
is situated.

TSZIIIINDOHA GALS AT STA. WITH LOSS or
Friday, the coast along the counties of Elgin and Banff
was visited with a tremendous gale from the north east
direction, which has been productive of considerable
damage to property, together with loss of life. A boat,
belonging to Rottenslough, came ashore between Spry.
mouth and Portgordon; the had fiundered at sea, and
the whole of the crew, consisting of sin men, had been
unfortunately drowned. Another boat was also upset
about half a mile off Portgordon, and two of the crew,
consisting of four individuals, unhappily met with a
watery grave. The others clung to the buoys and nets
which were in the boat. One of the two who escaped
with their lives was a little boy ; and it is worthy of
being recorded, as an instance of his wonderful presence
of mind in such a perilous situation, that perceiving the
buoys. in consequence of the nets, were making no pro-
gress towards the shore. he deliberately took out a per
he had in his pocket, and cut the nets from the
buoys, by which mean, he was drifted ashore, after
being tossed about for two hours. Bath were quite
Irzhausted, and one insensible, when they reached the
shore, but they have since recovered. Upwards of a
dozen boats, lying in their moorings at the port cf
Buckie. were on the same day dashed to pieces.—Elgin
Carrier.