Star.
London, England, 1826-01-13 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BUNNY.

Israstous Sanucriox.—A man, named Stephen Bagg, was
brought to the Office, upon an older of affiliation, at the instance of
the PAruchial Officers of Acton parish.

Mr. Francis, <we of the Churchwardens, informed the Magi..
trate this was a most aggravated case. The defendant was the
bailiff and gardener of a Lady of fortune, and had contrived to
seduce the unfortunate victim who now appeared spina Lim before
she attained her fourteenth year. •

The defendant, upon entering the Office, said he had compro-
mised the affair, having entered into a bond of indemnity with
the parish.
The complainant, a mild looking girl, in answer to the questions
of the Magistrate, said she was fifteen years of age, and had been
delivered of a child two months since, of which the defendant was
the father.

Mr. Raerunsos asked him his age?
Ile replied, thirty-two!
Mr. Gammas—Mere likely fifty, (be appeared of that age);
really it is melancholy to see such a case as this.
Mr. Francis said dist the defendant had locked the girl in an
outhouse, and had there effected his purpose. He believed she was
of weak intellect ; her mother was in the last stage of illness, and,
was not aware of the circumstance.
Mr.G airnln Perhaps, it is as well she should not: this is so in-
famous a case, that I cannot allow the fellow to go away without
his giving good security for fulfilling his indemnity to the parish.
lie was then locked up, but sent for the money, 25/. which is the
sum demanded by the parochial authority. His victim appears in
a very delicate state of health. She had concealed her pregnancy
until within a few days of her accouchement, when it was acci-
dentally discovered by her aunt.
Yesterday, an elegantly dressed young Lady applied to Mr.Gatt-
firm for assistance, under the following circumstances :—She said,
that she bad some short thus since married a young Gentleaaan,and
had lived with him very happily in the neighbourhood of Kilburn.
On Wednesday morning he left home for town, where he had some
business to transact, promising to return to dinner at four o'clock.—
' In the course of the day she had left home to pay a visit or two
in the neighbourhood ; but, on her return, was surprised to
find the doors closed against her; and, upon making an efort to
get into her own apartment, she was informed they were no longer
her's, and ahe most not skew her face there again. She had Iso
ascertained that her drawers had been ransacked, and her dresses
deprived of some valuable lace. She had in vat's asserted her
right to-admission into the house, but was treated with the utmost
contumely, and found at length, by her husband's not returniN,

soot oppeuradits rye .priry, to this tteallsltt, and that 1,4
was the instigathr.
Mr. Geirrern asked whet paid the rent of the apartments ?—Tnt
applicant replied, her husbands aunt had taken them, and paid the
rent, allowing theist to live in the rooms, and her principal right of
excluaion was, that being the rentor, the place was her own, and no
person but those she pleased had any right to live in them.
The Magietrati said it whs a singilar ease, but one entirely with-
out his jurisdiction. The young Lady departed much disappointed
UNION-HALL
A lad oily fourteen years of age, named Themes 31errit *re-
charged with having refused to maintain an illegitimate child. of
which he was stated to be the father. The child having, in du:
form, been sworn by the mother, the defendant wall asked the tea.
son of his refusal to support the child ? when he answered; that he
was not the father of it, and that he had never criminally known
the girl in his life. The defendant's father said, he Was cenvince,l
the girl had perjured herself. She had been in his service, but l:
did not consider CI It his son had behaved in the manner that the
girl had represented. Ile 1,..d a aumerous trendy, rums of
were always present when his SD!) and the girl came, in centred, :40
be felt confident that no opportunity had ever presented itself, h•
which they could have furmed such close intimacy with on
another. Added to all this, however, he was ready to prove, that
waen the Surgeon attended her during her accouchemeur, she ad
mined that his son was not the father of the child, but that a pion,:
man named Joseph, had the most right to that appellation. Tar girt,
when examined, admitted having been acquainted with a young
man, named Joseph, a sawyer by trade ; but, although Joseph had
had interviews with her, for a year and a half, still no oue but
Thomas Merritt was the father of the issue in question.
Mr. M. replied, that she had rent tin-d out during the
while of one night, while she was in his service. this the
girl said, that she had supped at a friend's house where the
sawyer was one of the party, and finding it was too lite
to return home, she slept with her female friends. The
Suwon who attended the girl during her confinement, was
called, and he stated that he was present, and heard the girl admit
to her mother, during the pains of labour, that Joseph the sawyer
was the father of her child. The girl's mother, however, contra.
dieted this assertion. The Magistrate observed, that the girl had,
in all probability, spoken the real .truth at the time she considers d
herself in danger, and that the sawyer, whoever he was, had more
right to the child than the lad upon whom it was now fathered.
The girl, however, persisted in declaring that the defendant was
the person whom she could positively swear to, and added, that not-
withstanding what the young man's father had sail about having
DO opportunitlea, it was all nonsense, for they had pu.nty,,and one
night in particular, when he came home late, instead of proceeding
to his own bed, he came to her's, andi4mained there until day.
brtak.-The Palish Officers stated, that the girl had unifoently
declared to them that Thomas Merritt was the father of her child.
Under these circumstances, as the girl positively swore to the de-
fendant being the father of her child, the Magistrates granted the
order of aSliation, mud decided that he should pay 2s. 6d. per week,
fur the child's maintenance, besides the ex:tenses attending th_
girl's confinement. The defendant anti his father appeared terribly
chagrined at the decision, both vowing that Joseph, the sawyer,
was the person who should have been saddled with the burden.
In the course of yesterday, the driver of a hackney chariot, N.•.
935. attended before Mr. St . to answer the suatatints of a
Gentleman, named Smith, for taking 'more than his fare.
It appeared that on Saturday last, about four o'clock,he engaged
the defendant's coach to convey him to Brixton, and having gone
thither, the man demanded es. lie thereupon remonstrated with
the coachman, who offered to take 6.. 6J. which 11r. Smith paid,
saying, that he certainly would summon the driver for imposition.
On the coachman's being called, he said that he was entitled to
back fare, the distance being above four miles.
Mr. liar naby, second clerk, referred to the hacknercosch fares
boOk, front which it appeared that the distance was not mote thaa
three miles, and that the fare was only es. 641.
The driver was accordingly ordered to repay the Gentleman two
shillings, and also to pay all expenses.
QUEEN-SQUARE
CUTTING AND Matassee.-1 private watchman, of the name of
Manning, was charged with dreadfully wounding one Ruben Bald.
win, on the evening of the !frith of December last.
Daniel Manning was placed at the bar upon a warrant which
had since been obtained by Baldwin's brother-in-law. It appeared
that Baldwin, and Manning and his wife, were in company, on the
night stated, at a public-house. Offence was there taken at the sing-
ing of some song by Manning's wife, when be immediately went
out, for the purpose of fetching a stick to assist his countrymen,
who were !HA, and expected to be overpowered; and Manning
now struck at Baldwin. The latter was cut upon his forehead with
a knotty shillelab, four or fere inches lung, from the very front to
the skull.

Baldwin was taken to St. George's Hospital, where he remains
in great danger.
Manning was committed to Tuthill-fields Prison.
Tuaxias ♦No TURNO4 —John Indians, from Bowyer-lane, in
Camberwell, but who recently has figured as a stealer of turkey,
and a tureen, in the vicinity of lielgrave-place, was finally examined
by the sitting Magistrates at this Office.
The tureen now produced had been traced from Belgrave-place
into t►e Great Ahnonryi but the evidence of Mary Ann Meyers,
who formerly knew the prisoner well, was thought insuMcient to
establish the felonious part of the present charge.
After some consultation between Mr. 'lllaatuoin and Mr. Wane.
the prisoner was dismissed.
TOWN-HALL.
Mr. &J. Manners was summoned by It. Everett, jun. t►e Toll-
taker at the Circus, fur horsewhipping him. It appeared that the
defendant, In consequence of ancient bickering. with the Toll-col-
lectors of the Trost, had met with matters displeasing to him, which
be endeavoured to cut away by the application of a horse-whip, at
the above Gate, on the 3d inst. for which he was convicted in the
mitigated penalty of 10a and costs.

A CoNtustowat. ANFCQDTZ.•-•A--...-•••••!
a Dromara t.tilor, t-o prone to ft equent public-houses,
was abc:ut to disburden his con•cience of some minor
sins by confession to his parish Priest, without hinting
in the slightt st degree At his habit of drunkenness. The
Priest, however, began to lecture him on the tender
point ; Reflect," added he, " that when you eater
one of these wicked houses, your guardian angel stands
outside weeping for the crnies you are perpetrating."—,
Ah, father," replied Arthur, " if he bad a shilling in
his prcket he would be in as well as myself."

BIRTHS.
Dee. 10, at Corfu. Lady Emily Ponsonby, of a snn.
Jan. 9, at Bury Hill, near Dorking, the Lady of Colonel Brom
head, of trki daughters.
Jan. 8, the Lady of Sir Frederick Baker, of a son.