Star.
London, England, 1826-01-09 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

Matilda Marra, as old fortune-teller, and Bar.ih. Buchanan, a
coniiklential housekeeper to Mews. Wilshire and Co. warehouse..
nieu, in Cheapside, were charged with having plundered tie pre-,
miss. of the latter t an enoresesis extent.

The property had been missed from time to time, and Harrison.
the Marshalinen, was set to watch the shopmen and portersi but
to little purpose, until Morris, the receiver, let out too muck of the
truth as to what was passing, to her landlady, who gave the club to
Messrs. Wiltshire, and caused Buchanan, who had over once
bees suspected, to be taken into custody.
None of the stolen property has yet been traced, and the pri.
sobers, who both strenuously deny the charges, were remanded for
several days.
HATTON-GARDBN.
A Sauna Yoagsmarosais.—A phenomenon, which would for-,
nisb matter of curio.ity to Messrs. Gall and Spurzheini, and other
enthusiastic phrenologists, namely, " a simple" lorkshirenun,pre-
tented itself at this office in the term of a stout athletic Yorkshire
fanner. whose appearace altogether gave a happy indication that
the agricultural interest was sot on the decline. On entering the
dice, he presented himself to Lloyd, the officer in wa* ' g. but
spoke to him with such an extreme purity of dialect, that he was
scarcely intelligible. Lloyd (though not versed in the classics) had
an instinctive partiality for the Dark dialect, and therefore begged
the farmer to make his story Agit It was then understood that
about s week ago the farmer had taken a place bone (gibes:sacks.
from York to London, for the purpose of transacting coloaiLrcutt
business in Batithlkld. Previously to the coach *tailing, he re-
tired to a public-house adjoining the coach office, for the purpose
'of preparing himself for the road, and with that intent he or-
dered a pint of ale and a pipe of tobacco. He was scarcely
comfortable, when the guard came and roared out that the
• was starting. In his telt he dropped his pipe, left
all behind him, and made for the coach ; they had scarcely
travelled two miles, when au easterly wind kindly reminded
him that he had left behind him his travelling coat. Ha
begged the coachman to stop for a few minutes while he tau
back for it; but this he moat uncivilly refused. He then asked the
guard, " if there was a leather trunk safer (alluding to his awn}
to which t►e guard replied in the afannative. With this consolation
be weathered matters out until t►e coach arrived iu London. Oa
stopping at Fleet market, he set him down. No farmer's " leather
trunk" could be found, though there were numerous others. This
was the more lamentable as all his money was safely deposited in
this trunk, like the Irishman's travelling pistols; so there he was
at Fleet-market, without a shilling to go to market with. Whets
he called the guard and coachman to account, they both laughed at
him, called him a damned fool," and drove WE
Lloyd asked the farmer if he suspected that his trunk was lost
on the road?

The farmer replied, that he lad se doubt it was left behind at
the pubic home, with his cad, ale, and pipe of tobacco; he only
wanted to punish the guard and coachman for calling him " a
damned fool."

On being informed that this could not be done, he walked of,
sensibly affected by this stigma on ins county.
DIARLBOROIJGILSTREET.

Saturday, a young man of respectable appearance, named fres.
Penn, in the employment of Messrs. Swann and Wier, haber.
dashers, &c. is Piccadilly and the Regent's Quadrant, who hie
been in custody since Tuesday last, upon a charge of defrauding his
employers of various sums of money to a considerable amount.was
brought before Mr. Dais, the presiding Magistrate, for final exa-
mination, and fully committed.
Ames Led, a spruce looking barber, was charged with defraud.
ing kW employer, Mrs. Hopkins, of several sums of money.
Mrs. Hopkins, who keeps a ►air-vatting establishment in the
neighbourhood of Piccadilly, stated, that the prisoner had been four
years in ber employ, and has been in the habit of going out to dress
Ladies and Gentlemen's hair ,and ought always oa his return, at
the end of the duty, to account with her for the receipts from the
custbasers. On the 34 of December the prisoner was sent to dress
Lord hlaryborough's hair, for which be received 3s. ed. he also was
sent to Kensington-gore to dress five young Ladies of the name of
Smith, and part of ibis money be also kept back.
The valet of Lord Maryborough stated, that he paid the prisoner
3s. 54. on account of Mrs. Hopkins, for dressing his Lordship's,
hair on the day in question.
Mies Sarah Smith stated, that the prisoner cut ber own and tour
of her sisters hair on the day named, and site herself paid ►int
Is. 64. for cutting herself, but w►at her sisters paid she could not
swear ; she supposed, however, they paid him the same each.
The prisoser was committed for trial.

A Montes Heamme!—The famous Clara Wendel,
the leader of a band of robbers, which has ramifica-
tions throughout all the East and South of Switzerland,
is a remarkable phenomenon in her way. She is only
twenty years of age, is endowed With rare intellectual
faculties and great personal beauty, and has been the
author of 20 murders, 14 conflagrations,lsBB robberies.
The Protestant Religion is making great progress in
Italy. Churches are now erected in It. Leghorn,
Venice, Bergamo, and miter parts.
At a house in York, lately, the curtains of a bed were
set on fire, in consequence of a servant turning it down
by candle-light. At another house, a bed was set on
fire from two servants working in bed by candle-light,
and falling asleep.
A man of the name of Thomas Truelove, who re-
sided in Young-street. Little Sheffield, has fallen a
victim to intemperance during the present holidays, by
drinking a bottle of rum out of bravado, for the trifling
wager of ss.