Star.
London, England, 1826-05-25 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday, a man named William &masa, was brought to this
office in the custody of Jameson, one of the constables of Kensing-
ton, charged with wantonly and cruelly throwing a quantity of boil-
ing water over a female named Maria Denham.
A young man, named Lewis, said that he was employed as brick.
layer at Kensington ; that he knew the prisoner ; that morning he
was in company with him and others at the" Three Compasses,
Kensington, drinking some beer; he accompanied the prisoner
siaotne; the young woman Denham was io his room, with his
(Bennett's) wife ; the latter was lying fan the bed somewhat intoxi-
cated; the prisoner desired her to get up, which she refused to do,
and tfie prisoner struck her several times; the young woman
interfered to save the wife, when the prisoner knocked her down,
and afterwards upset a saucepan of boiling water over her, which
was boiling on the fire ; the female screamed out, and fell on the
ground with pain; a surgeon was sent for, and she was removed
is St. Georges HospitaL
Mr. Marsuma.,the Magistrate, inquired if the young woman was
capable of Mending herself ?
A labeering man, brother to the sufferer, stated that he had seen
his sister in the hospital ; the surgeon told him that she was in the
most imminent danger.

Mr. MursneLL said be had scarcely ever known of suck barbarity
on tke part of a man ; he should commit the prisoner to prison till
the young woman was out of danger; if she died, of course he
would be tried for murder.
The prisoner was removed from the bar and locked up.
It appeared that the female was pregnant by the prisoner, that
for some slight pretence he cruelly kicked her, in consequence of
which she was prematurely delivered of a dead infant.
The prisoner, who was a ferocious-looking fellow, said that be
had been aggravated to it.
Mr. thissinnts. ordered him to And good bail, and to give 24
boors' notice thereof.
William Edmund Poohen, 1.4. summoned the driver of the
hackney coach No. 643, for au overcharge.
Mr. Peahen deposed, that on his return (mat Covent-garden
Moll" no Friday olsll4, between ten and eleven o'clock, be took
tte above coach at the Pines, and proceeded to his residence, No.
n,YeatCreetent. Portland Place; he then paid es. for the fare,
and also Is. which the coachman demanded as back carriage.
The coachman, in defence of his charge, said York Crescent has
sever hems paved : it is gravel.
Mr. Rawanserm---Macadanaleed, you mean ; in fact, it is a cm-
thisatioa of the same kind of pavement which the road you came
altelether masts et I know there is it doubt on the sub•

'ect, thoosfore Ido not want to «avid y yes In an montLe
'billing, and pay the cote. ,

MARLBURDUOSSTICERT.
A pretty looking young girl, named Apes OMeny, was brought
before Mr.Coaaxv, the Magistrate, charged with a Itiglianty robbery.
The complainant, or rather indeed the person who was robbed,
for complainant he refused to be, was a black man, armed Francis,
a musician in the band of the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guard,.
When this poor fellow learned that the girl was likely to receive
some punishment fee her offence, he positively refused to make any
statement against her, and the Magistrate was compelled to hear
the nature of the ease from a watchman, before he could form any
judgment upon it.
The watchman stated the cue thus:—lie said that on Saturday
night last the black nun was passing through the Regent's Quadrant.
the prisoner suddenly darted at the seals which were suspended
from his watch ribband. and tore them away, and she would also
have bad the watch itself, had it not been that it was twisted in the
fob. Having secured the seals, she ran off, but the man pursued
her, and never lost sight of her until she was stopped by the watah-
nian, who took her to the watchhouse, and searched her, but of
trace could be discovered of the seals. Francis offered s
at the
watchhouse 155. to any person who would discover the seals arch
return them to him, and he then identified the prisoner as the perant
who snatched them. The watchman, en his morn to the spot
where he stopped the ghl, found the seals on the ground.
Mr. CONANT, hearing this statement of an audacious higtswaf
robbery, insisted that Francis should be sworn, which the latter'
protested against in the most supplicating manner, for the pgue
girl's sake, as be called her, and declared that he would rather gist
up and lose thk seals altogether, than the girl shoilld suffer any
punishment on his account.
Mr. CONANT was, however, determined that he should he sworn 4
to which he at length, with the utmost reluctance,' consenteds
and was obliged to admit the truth of the watchman's statement.
The Magistrate, chiefly on account of the poor fellow'. =misty
on the subject, inclined to commit the girl for the larceny; and
when the pour blackman learned that the punishment to the girl
was likely to depend on the value of the seals, he declared that they
were not worth a single farthing.
Mr. Cosaire said, that could not be the case, as he, Francis, him-
self had offered i Ss. reward for their recovery.
Oh, indeed, Sir, said Francis, they are not worth anything,
only offered the reward because sae of them was a keep-sake front
my pour mother, who is dead. He was, however, urged to put
some value on them (they were in fact worth at east thirty shit-
Hugs), he caught a hint front some person that tenpence would save
the girl, and accordingly poor Francis declared that the seas wet*
worth tenpence only, and from that position nothing could move
him. This he thought would get the girl off altogether; ttut when
he was still called upon to identify her, be declared, that although
he had no doubt about her the night before, he had some &putts
now that she was the person who robbed him, because, said he,
people change so in a night, that it is almost impossible to be ear*
fain of them. The prisoner, who stood laughing all the tine at the
fine traits of unaffected humanity displayed by the poor black man,
was committed for larceny; and Francis, with a tear trembling in
his eye, was compelled to sign his deposition, and was only con-
soled by the assurance that the girl would only be slightly punished.