Star.
London, England, 1829-04-13 00:00:00

MANCHESTER. Aria 10.

The inhabitants of Saddle worth have been throve
into considerable agitation by the following circuma
stances: About twenty-two weeks ago a young man,
living in Saddleworth. was missed, and his relati ns
were quite at a loss to know what had become of him;
but he having been a reprobate and loose character for
some years, they imagined that be had Red the country
with some of bis companions A few days ago, hoe-
evcbr, a prisoner in Wakefield House of Correction, in-
stigated. as he says, by the continual stings and upbraid-
rings of his conscience, made the following disclosuie—
He says the young man had, with him and others, been
concerned in a robbery in the neighbourhood, and that
baying return, from what he had said, to think that he
would divulge and turn King's evidence, they enticed
nun to a shed erected over or near an old coal pit, un-
,ler pretence of arranging and riveting upon another
robbery. When there they took an opportunity of
seizing him and thsowing bins down the pit; but,
before they could accomplish their purpose, the young
man struggled very bard, and is the struggle, got the
head of one of the men under his arm, and stuck to it
so close, that in the fall he took the man's hat along
itb him. The pit has, since this confession, been
searched, and the body and bat found. An inquest was
held over the body on Thursday, but adjourned to a
future time, in order to afford an opportunity of taking
into custody the others implicated in the murde•. But,
of course. a verdict will be returned agreeably to the
Above facts.

Sanrday afternoon. as Glover's Enfield coach wai
proceeding through Shoreditch. with to else nutsidepar
,engers. the linchpin of one of the wheels flew of,sud
the coach was overturned. Several passengers wee
seriously injured ; a Gentleman. named Hill. it is feared,
had his leg broken; another, named Johnson, recei►ed
a severe wound on the temple, and remained senseless
for some time•; he was conveyed home in a coach.

The Georgian, a Savannah paper, of the 12th ult.
in reference to the abduction of Rowland Stephenson,
states, that as soon as the outrage became known, leg.l
measures were taken, and by eleven o'clock of theism'
morning a whale boat, with proper officers, and twelve
armed men, were dispatched in pursuit of the pilot-
boat in which Stephenson had been placed. On the in•
formation of Lloyd, the clerk, who it will be recol-
lected, was left behind at Savannah, three individual;
out of the foot engaged in the abduction bad bees
arrested, and held to heavy bail, to answer the offence
at the Session of the Superior Court, in May nest. The
fourth. it was believed, was on board of the pilot boat.
Lloyd's affidavit. it is said, went to show that tile pet.
sons who arrested Stephenson did not pretend to have
any legal sothority for their proceedings. It appeals
that Stephenson on his areval in the United States,
reported himself in due form to the Secretary of State
at Washington, and took an opinion of Counsel, by
whose advice he has acted. An application bad been
made to Mr. Forsyth, the Governor of Georgia. that
steps might be taken for the return of Stephenson to
the civil authority of that state. It was not known at
Savannah
.tto what part of the Onion be had been con
veycd. .

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