Star.
London, England, 1826-01-14 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE.

A Gentleman appeared yesterday in behalf of the Mistress of a
boarding school, to whose charge De Courcey /reigned bad consigned
his daughter. The complaint was, that the mistress could neither
get ber money, nor prevail upon the father of the young Lady to
take her away. The applicant wished to obtain an admission to
see Mr. Ireland, in Coldisath-fields Prison, and was referred to Mr.
RAMLIMON, the Magistrate, for that purpose.

UNION-HALL
Some days ago warrants were obtained by Messrs. Price and Co.
hoplacton, Maidstone-buildings, Southwark, against six indivi-
duals, who were suspected to have purchased hops at different pe-
riods, in the course of the last spring, from a man of the name of
Foy, knowing then' to have been stolen by him from Messrs. Price
and Co. in whose service be was as head warehodseman. Subse-
quently to these alleged sales Foy was indicted, with another indi-
vidual, by the present prosecutors, for theft, and after a long trial
was acquitted.—The warrants above alluded to were placed in the
hands of Hall and Pop a, two °gists of this establishment, to be
executed, and yesterday the parties suspected of the offence were
brought before M. SwAstr, Esq the presiding Magistrate.
Mr. Butler, in the absence of Mr. Harmer, who we are sorry to
say could not appear in consequence of a severe domestic affliction,
attended on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr. Humphreys was en-
gaged for the prisoners.
The o6ce was crowded to excess with hop-factors and witnesses,
and the investigation excited considerable interest.—We under-
stand that several hop-factors in the Borough have suffered consi-
derably from depredations, which hitherto remain In obscurity.
According to the opinion of Mr. SwAixr, the charge made by
Foy against the first party examined, was not made out to call on
him to find bail, and another person, on the charge of Foy, was re-
manded till Tuesday.
The other parties charged with similar offences, entered into
their own recognixances, in £lOO each, and two sureties in £5O
each, to appear at the same time, the hour being too late to go into
their respective cases.

The thermometer at the Royal Exchange yesterday,
at twelve o'clock, stood at 28 degrees.
There was not a single clearance outwards or inwards
at the Custom-house, Sunderland, Monday and Tues-
day last ; an occurrence which has not taken place on
any day, holidays excepted, within the memory of the
oldest member of the establishment. The number of
colliers cleared coastwise at the port of Sunderland, in
the year ending sth of January, 1826, inclusive, was
8,195, being an increase of 268 on the former year. The
receipt duties for the same year amount to the sum of
65,3681. 14s. 7d. being an increase of 33,6931.145. Bd.
on the former year.
Hortaramt Cr FICUMsTANCI.—The Worcester Journal
says,'' A few days ago a man dial at Blockley, in this
county, of small-pox :on the same day the body was
put into a coffin, and placed in the church-yard while
the grave WAS made. Some children who stood near
the coffin, thinking they heard a groan, mentioned the
circumstance to the grave-digger,, who, however, took
no notice of it, and the body was interred. The chil-
dren having talked of whit they heard, attention was
excited, and on the following morning the body was
taken up, when the torn stale of the shroud left no doubt
that the poor wretch had been buried alive!"
The old buildi,:gs that heretofore fronted the King's
Mews, at Charing Cross, as far as thz Gulden Cross,
are now entirely cleared away, and great part of what
was formerly the area of those Mews, together with
the ground on which Pollock's saddler's shop, &c.
stood, is now levelled and thrown open to the public.
The hackney coach stand is removed thither from
Cockspor-street ; the Sub,cripti m, or Club-house, Pall
M.ill East, &c. has now a large opening before it.
The trees, railings, &c. occupying the opening by the'
Westmitbter Sessions House, and on the once celebrated
Sanctuary, have been removed for the purpose of build-
ing Parli.mentary stables and coach houses: but though
the large plot of ground has been inclosed fur some
time by immensely high paling, nothing of the plan of
the con;entpLited woe ks appears. There is a good deal
of digging out of founlatiotts proceeding, and waggon
loads of enormously large blocks of stone are constantly
being coo veyed thither.
The Sump-Arty int receipts was first imposed during
the celebrated Coalition Admin6tratiou; which gave
.oecatiol for the following
,;ea d esprit, at the time ge-
nerally attrihuted to SiIEhISASI:
" I would," say* Fos... a tax &rite,
" That shad uo: fall nn me;'
" Th:•n t..x re,:s.os," Lord North replies,
" Fur t 11.4: , .it veer sect",