Star.
London, England, 1826-08-03 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Yesterday. a lbw draperia &spate, named Gorge Neal, was
breegbt before tie *deg , charged with robbing his
antkler. Mr. Ihojamie, io Newington, of property to a
considerable mem& The prfeesse, like most of his brethren of
the trade, was dressed as fashionably and as wells' a man of 1,0001.
is.year could be.

r The complainant stated. that the your., man at the bar had been
in his employment about two months. Soon after hi had entesei
the service, 'articles were mining out of the shop; hat. notwith.
standing every vigilance had been resorted to in order to ascertain
by whom the property was taken, the thief was trot discovered until
within the last few days, when, on taking stock, shore appeased to
be a most alarming deficiency in the various goods that butbrei
previously deposited in the shop. The prisoner was respected as
,the person, particularly as he was frequently observed of late in the
habit of visiting at the house of a noted courtesan in the weigitherm
Mod of West-square. A search-warrant was accordingly applied
for and olined, which, on being 'scented. upwards of 301, worth
of Mr. Benjarnin's goods, consisting of silk shawls, silk handker-
chief's, silk atockilip, and pieces of muslin, were found in the prl-
sater's boa; and on csamining his person, duplicates of property
of the same descriPtion, pledged at different pawnbrokers' shops,
were found lo his pockets: Mr. Benjamin, while detailing the
losses he had sustained by dishonest sbopssen, was so affected as
even to shed tears. By reference to 1101110 of the duplicates in the
prisoner's possession, it appeared tbat be had commenced robbivg
his employer the second day after he hid entered his service.
The presence of some of the pawnbrokers at whose slops pan of
the stolen property had been pledged being tequired, the prisoner,
who declined saying anything in his defence, and stood at the bar
with both hands covering bis face, was remanded.

MARY-LA-BONNE.

A tradesman, in York-greet, Portman-square, wai etdered to
find ball for a criminal intercourse with his wryest girt a child;
under twelve years of age. The prisoner is a snarled man.

LAMBETH-STREET.

A number of watermen were charged with plaeing their boats in
such a manner, at the diferent stairs, as to prevent the free mess
and ingress of the passengers to and from the deferent st. am beats.
This practice has been of long continuance, and she public have ex-
perienced very considerable annoyance therefrom.
Mr. Iluakaaars attended for the defence, and Mr. %maim. a
Barrister, and Mr. Bonita, for the prosecution.
A long discussion cook place, at the termination of which one of
the defendants was fined Ws. and the others were disehetged, with
an assurance that a repetition of ouch conduct would be followed by
the highest penalty the law would admit.

• Honey exposed to frost for tbree weeks or a month,
is some place where neither sun nor snow can resell, became den
and btrd like sugar.
Colchester Fair, on Monday, was very indifferently
supplied, and rather thinly attended. The horse stock consisted of
hacks, aged cart horses, and ponies, with a few can colt's; the latter
met a ready sale, as did cut horses generally. Of the neat stock
the supply was short—of those exhibited but few were sold, the
sellers asking rites which the buyers were not willing to give. A
small lot of three-year old galloways was sold at eight guineas a
heap. Upon the whole hut very Utile baslneu was mutinied.
Tuesday afternoon an inquisition was taken before
J. W. Ulm,. Esq. at the London Host hal, touching
the death of Edward Livey, who was killed in a pugi.
contest with John Lee, na Sunday morning. Tice
deceased, it appears, was 16 years of age, and his an-
tagoni.t only 15. TheJas y, after hearing the evidence,
returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Lee, es
principal, and Matthew Smith, Henry Hurst, alias
Stockweller, Junes Saunders, and Joseph S=well, as
accessories. Toe Coroner's warrant was then issued
against these persons, ssho were already in custody, and
the witnesses were bound over to the Session..

Yesterday morning, at four o'clock, as the Birming•
ham waggon was on its journey to town, passing
through &ling, the axletree broke; the waggon upset
and fell on the guard, and it was full an hour before
they got it up. The guard was literally smashed- to
pieces. the weight that fell on him being upwards of seven
tons. He was a ydung man, about IS years of age.
Tuesday, at Cardross, near Glasgow, Mr. Robert
Mackintyre, miller, lost his life under the mast affecting
circumstances. His wife was standing by him et the
time he was attempting to adjust ork.lay aside a licit
pasting over one of the wheels of the machinery, .when
his arm was caught, and his whole person being drawn
into the vortex of the machinery, he was torn to pieces
in a moment. He has le't a family of five children.
At the Sturminster (Dorset) Petty Sessions, on Mon-
day last, another conviction took place under the new
Act for protecting gat dens Pnd orchards against robbery.
George Ayres, of Shillingst me, charged a r:spectable
looking man of the name of Minchingston, s ith having
stolen from his garden seven cucumbers. The offence
was clearly proved by a person who saw him steal
them. When charged with the fact, be denied it, but
the cucumbers were found upon him. The magistrates
said a discretionary power was vested in them under the
new Act of Parliament, and they fined him Isd. (three
times the value of the cucumbers) and the costs. If
this decision be compared with that which the magis-
trates of the same county came to on Saturday, under
the same Act, when four little boys, of about seven of
eight year!, were committed to gaol, and placed on tl e
tread-mill, for taking apples from the garden of the
Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, it will show plainly enough the
danger of this discretionary species of legislature. The
old thief escapes with impunity, whilst the poor simple
and deluded boys ate probably ruined for life.
Among the silly refinements which were introduced
in the idle and luxurious times of Charles the Second,
was that of a Frenchsartist, who, for the consideration
of forty shillings, initiated his pupils in the mystery
of folding napkins in eighteen differeet form* fur the
dinner table.

A curious event occurred lately on the confines at
Gail!oder', in Dauphiny. The village Doctor returning quietly
on his pad from visiting a patient, was suddenly accosted by a
poor taserable.looking wretch in female attire, who begged charity
of him. He was in the act of taking his sadists from his pocket,
when perceiving the object before him make an extraordinary
movement, as if to take something from her pocket. a suspicion,
which in the sequel appears too well grounded, struck him mat
setting spun to his jade, be sought to evade the object of his ;ems ;
but he had scarcely made ten paces, when he heaM two halls whiz
about his ears fortunately without touching him. Oa arriving at
the be immediately informed the authorities, who set about
lading out the perpetrator, whom they found in a field of rye. is
the act of taking of her rags and making a profitable exchange fee
a handsome silk dress and Leghorn bonnet, which she had couceski
in a basket. She was immediately led to the Maros, sod confirm-
ed With the doctor, when, who should she turn out to be but his
wife ! who, it appears, had set about distributing pills of a different
nature from those of her husband. They had lived separate fw
some time previous. On being-questioned as to the cause of her
proceeding, she stated that it was to bring her husband to reason.—
Avoids Piper.