Star.
London, England, 1826-12-23 00:00:00

Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign
Mice to Lord Osamu.; our Ambassador at Paris. _

A Sastroomen Kitran.—Monday evening, an affray
took place at Cromer, Norfolk, between one of his Ma-
' jesty's Lieutenants of the Preventive Service and a gang
of smugglers. Just as the Lieutenant was retiring to
bed, information was given him that many carts were
below the cliff, to the northward of the town, with an
expectation of taking a cargo of smuggled goods ; and
that if he went to a certain spot, it would not be long
before they passed. He instantly hastened to the place
alone, and there watched the arrival of the expected
prize; he did not remain long before one of the carts
made its appearance. He directly pushed for the head
of the horse, and desired the party to stop, being seven
or eight in number, telling them who he was. One of
them made use of same coarse language, and threatened
to murder him on the spot; he instantly drew his pistols
and shot the man ; the smugglers picked him up directly,
put him into the can which was empty, and drove off
instantly.—Norwich Mercury, Dec. 22.
THE AIIIWORDBURY Munnut.—Wednesday :event
of the Magistrates of this County met specially, for the
purpose of entering into the final examination of Wit.
Liam Broom, charged with the above atrocious murder.
The prisoner was apprehended en the 6th of November,
and since that period the Magistrates have been unre-
mitting in their endeavours to bring every sha.
dow of evidence before them, which might tend to
confirm the suspicions of guilt against the prisoner. This
has caused the delay of his commitment (finally) for the
heavy charge preferred against him. A number of
witnesses were examined, all tending to criminate him
in various ways; and after a most minute investigation
of the affair, he was fully committed to take his trial at
the ensuing Assizes for the offence.—Leicester Jourierli.

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• COURT OF OF KING'S BENCH, Dam a.
atrial V. Pll5.
This was an action for the sum of 4691. being the
amount of a bill of exchange drawn by a person named
Waterhouse, accepted by the defendant, and endorsed
by the drawer to the plaintiff. The hand-writing of the
drawer and acceptor having been proved,
'Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the defend-
ant. His client, he observed, having lately lilt the
University of Cambridge, and being in want of money,
was induced by an advertisement to apply to Water-
house and Green, as money lenders, to discount his bills.
After some pecuniary transacting's, the defendant got
into difficulties, on account of sense warrants of attor-
ney, which he had given as securities for money,.
having been overdue. For one- of these he had been
arrested, and he gave the bill in question to Water-
house, for the purpose of taking up another ; but instead
of doing so, Waterhouse converted it to his own use,
and knowing that he could not recover the amount
binuelf from the defendant (having given no considera-
tion), he endorsed it to the plaintiff, who, having become
a bankrupt, was now a pauper, and consequently could
net have given value for it. He (Mr. B.) admitted,
that if the plaintiff had received this bill from Water-
house, -for a bona Ade consideration, before it became
due,•he would be entitled- to recover- from the accep-
trim notwithstanding that Waterhouse himself gave no
consideration for it ; but if he could satisfy the Jury that
the plaintiff did not receive this bill until after it became
due, and that even then he did not give any considera-
tion for it, his client was, in law, as well as in justice,
entitled to a verdict.

Several witnesses were called, who deposed that they
saw the bill in question in the possession of Waterhouse
after it became due, and the plaintiff, since his bank-
ruptcy in 1822, has been in extreme poverty. On behalf
of the plaintiff, again, other witnesses swore that the
plaintiff had the bill in his possession before it became
due ; that he gave full consideration for it ; and that,.so
far from being in poverty, he had an annuity of 1001.
left him by his brother, who died a few years ago.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, in charging the Jury, said, that
if they were of opinion that the plaintiff had not received
the bill until it became due, the defendant was entitled
to their vet diet ; if they were of a contrary opinion, the
plaintiff was entitleJ to a verdict, even though Water-
honse had given no consideration for the bill.
Verdict for the defendant.
11011TUILY v. /OM M.P.AND OTHIRS.

• This was an action by the plaintiff, a barge master,
to recover from the defendants, the Directors of the
Steam Navigation Company, the value of a barge, which
had been run down in the river Thames by one of the
defendants steam boats. •
h appeared from the evidence, that on the 17th of
June last, the plaintiff's barge, called the.Geqrge, was
proceeding with the tide from Limehouse to Shadwell-
dock to receive a freight, when the defendants' steam-
vessel called the City of London, was seen approaching
with great rapidity in a contrary direction. The man in
the b rp,,e bailed the steam-boar, but the persons on board
pith! no attention to him until they were within a. barge
length of him, when the man on the paddle box called
out to him to stop the barge. The bargeman replied
he could not, and an order was then given to stop the
steam-vessel, but before it could be carried into effect{
the *guard of the paddle struck the head of the harge,
and knocked it up.. The barge was at the time closest°
Charrington'scoal•wharf, and could not get further oaj
of the way. She was instantly hauled on shore to.pre.
vent her sinking. Tlie,stearn vessel continued her
course, and •h •rely after ran against another barge, the
man on the paddle box calling out to the men
in cha►ge of the second barge to bet out of the
way, as they had j.ist sunk one barge, and he
had no right to be there. Th: plaintiff's. barge was
proved to Lave been worth fiont 401. to 501. before
the accident occurred, and it would cost from 301. to
401. to repair it. It was subsequently sold by the
plaintiff for 15/. Mr. Joni& had offered to Ray, 51. for
the damage that had beer. &me, but the plaintiff refused
to accept it. He offered to take the barge, and do the best
he could with it, if the defendants would give him 2.11.
Mr. F. POLLOCK shortly addressed the J•iry for the
defendants, who, he stated, were not disposed to throw
any difficulties in the plaintiff's way to, prevent his re•
ceiving a fair remuneration for the injury he might have
sustained; but the Jury, he trusted, would only con
elder the plaintiff entitled to the amount which he had
peered to accept as a compensation for his demand.

The LOAD CMS? Juntas was about to address the Jury, when
the Foreman intimated that they would not trouble his Lordship,
and returned a verdict for the plalutiff—Damages 284

DEC. 21.--muntoi P. sumps.
This action was brought against the defendant, a
wine-merchant in Tower-street, to recover wages.
The plaintiff was em; toyed by the def•ndant as a
msnaging clerk, at a salary, of lool.‘ a year. He re-
mained in the detendant's service from May to January,
aild quitted.
Mr. SCA RLITT, for the defendant, objected to the
way in which the plaintiff had left the defendant. He
lad left without due notice. It was.a yearly hiring,
and Mr. Sclott.rry contended, that if the servant dad
not give a regular notice of his intention to quit, he
could not support an action for wages. •
The Learned Judge was of the same opinion, and the plaintiff
was nonsuited.

HALL:DAT f. IWatOAD.
This was as action to recover 150 i. the value of fifty
sacks of flour, which the plaintiff had become the pur-
chaser of, under the following circumstances :—A per.
son of the name of Kant, the proprietor of a little baker's
.chop in Barbican, had in the course of business been
introduced to the defendant, a miller, residing near
Lynn. A correspondence was subsequently entered into
between them respecting the purchase of a quantity of
flour, and Kant agreed to take fifty sacks of the defend-
ant, amounting to 1481. The understanding under,
which this bargain was made, was contained in a written
promise from Kant, that be would pay the amount in
hank post bills. Mr. Brandford, on, receiving Kant's
letter containing this promise, immediately sent off the
flour to London; the day after, however, he received
another letter from Kant, expressing his (K.'s) regret
that be was not able to send the Bank post-bills as pro-
sakes!, having had to pay a heavy shipment a, few days
previously, but offering a bill upon himself payable
three weeks after date. This arrangement was not at
all agreeable to Brandford, and he immediately sent off
a person to London to intercept the delivery of the
fler. It 'appears that Halliday bad become the pur-
e taser of the flour of Kant, at an advanced price, a day
or two before the arrival of Mr. Bzandford's messenger.
Halliday laid claim to the goods, which were refused
..by Braudford, and the present actioe.was brought to
decide the difference between them. It was maintained

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the eniant'sCotinseliMrAluitieyithit the whole
flair was a dm, pf fraud teir the'liett 12f the plaintiff
and Neat. • •
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Exchange. andersnde:f.
MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED NIESIONA.
Mr. Pktiwes stated, that he was instructed to inthibit-,
articles of the peace against a person nimed-Michael
Rough, on the part of two individuals,. one of whom,'
however, was prevented from attending to d!y laj in-
disposition, which confined him to his room. The othes:l
individual,. who was a Lady, was present, and wished to
have the .datenclaat bound over to preserve the peace
towards her, at all events: There was one fact, hostiver,
sworn to 'by the Lady, against whom the defendant's
threats appeared to be more particularly directed: He
was an Irish schoolmaster, who having taken mine
notion into his head that Lady Mangan.. and her son,
the Earl, owed him a sum of money;-followed them over
here from Ireland, and evinced such .a* disposition to.
wards them as excited serious apprehensions for thefts.
personal safety,' although they
.swore most positively
that they did not owe the man one farthing..
The articles were then handed up to Lady Glengall,
who was sitting• on'a remote' .part. of the Magistrates'
bench, for the purpose of enabling her, by -a inperusal
of them, to say what part of them she could ,Ondertake
to swear to singly. Her Ladyship, after hating - read
and considered the contents, instrueted the Learned
Counsel to inform the Court that she would -wait -until
the Bth January, the first day of the nest Sehitins; Then.
she hoped that Lord Glengall would. be sufficiEntly re-
covered to attend.—The. case atm:, over accordingly.
J. Hart and A. Wolfe were indicted for assaulting a
youth about 15 years of age, whom, according w his
evidence, they drew into their old clothes shop, io
Holywell-streer, Strand, and there forced a jacket on
his body, for wh ch they demanded, first 22.. then 16..
then 12s. then Bs. and filially 4s. which latter sum' they
snatched from the lad's hand, and per isted in with.
holding from him, although he refused in the most'
decided manner to take the jacket.
Mr. PHILLIPS; for the defendants, suited, that the
prosecutor had regularly purchased the j icket, after
having voluntarily tried it on; and called witnesses in
support of that statement.
The Jury found the defendants Galley) and the CHAIRMAN sen-
tenced Hart to.pay a fine or 101. and Wolfe a fine of Si. with
liberty to speak to the prosecutor.
George Luria, ti;e pugilist, brother to the Man called
" the Pet of the Fancy,' was Convicted of assaulting
two of the Bow-street patrol, with intent to rescue a
prisoner charged with picking poCkets, from their cus-
tody. ,The transaction occurred :at the Rising Sun
pnblic.house, in St. Martin's-street, into wlich the pa-
trol had taken their prisoner to search him, on the day
rn which a benefit had taken pi ice. at 'the. Five.' Court
for the wido.v of the la e George, Kent, " the limy his-
torian." A via crowd was collected in the neigh-
bourhood, amongst whom four persons were particu-
larly conspicuous In endeavouring to rescue the prisoner,-
and of these four, the defendant Curtis was storms to be
the mot active. Several persons, however, gave him
good general character.
The Omuta!' sentenced hint to be imprisoned for four months
in the House of Correction, end there kept to bard labour..
Michael Murphy, are Irish coal whipper,was indicted
for assaulting Mtcbael M srmigan, of the same county
and profedlion,.• who swore That the defendant had, late
on a Saturday night, attacked him with a knife in
one hand and a candle in theother, without provocation.
The defendant de.lied hiving asdsilted Manningan
with the knife. His wife, he said, had asked him to go
to Mirk,' to purchase a bit of meat for dinner next day,
Sunday, hut he declined going then, observing that
they might boy it on their way home from prayers in
the mot ning. His wife, however, went to market with
the prosecutor and his wife, and he (defendant) went to
bed. " Beetune wan an two o'clock, your Wordship,
(continued Murphy) that man, Michael Mannigan,
comes to my dooer,an givesthree raps frith his knuckles
this ways (knocking the bar). Otrld Man, says he, are
you awake—ould man, says he. I turned my back to
the dooer, and took no manner of notice of him at that
hour of the night. Well, my little girl wanted a bit of
br ad 'for her supper; and there was a quart lost on the
table, so 1 got up and took a. knife to cut a piece of the
bread ; but when I wint to the top,of the stairs, what •
did I see but Michael Mannigan doing what he wanted
to do to my •wife on the first step at the bottom of the
stairs. So as I catched them in the act, I got a p oil of
water and threw it upon them both; add there I left
them together, an.] wint into my bed -again ; and that's
all that 1 know of the business. 1 neverlifted the knife
to him, only I had it in my: hand to cut the loaf."
The Jury acquitted the defendant.
WINTER HOAIR CIRCUIT, Xiserrox Dec: 25.

Johfl Gleesley, a labourer, aged 40, was indicted for feloniously
assaulting, on the Aing's highway, Alexander 'Arnhem and steal-
ing from his person six our pound nater, and half a sovereign.
1.114 Guilty.
John ring, a black, aged 21, was indicted for burglariously
breaking into the house of William Carter, 'a costernionger, in
Ktnt-street, on the 21st of November, and stealing therefrom
several articles of wearing apparel--Culfty. Sentence, eighteen
months hard labour at Brixton.

•
OBENIA, Nov. 28.—Several vessels have arrived from
Constantinople, after a short passage; but nothing
recent had occurred in the above capital. The Sultan
continues his organization.
. BUCHAREST. Nov. 28.—«'e ate every moment ex
pecting the first Secretary of ltibeaupierre, on ha way
to.Constatitinople. The Ambassador will pas, here on
the 18th pf December.
STATE or TRADE.—We are happy to state that con-
siderable business was done on Tuesday in our calico
market, and an advance of price obtained in almostevery
instance. There appears now to be it well-established
conviction in the minds of our mercantile men, that bu-
siness will progressively improve, and that we shall
have an earlier spring here than usual.—Man. Herald.
. Our linen mallet appears this day crowded, and
seems to be in active operation.—Tralee Herald.
We are happy in being enabled to contradict the ac-
count received through the Paris Paws, of an English
merchant being barbArr.usly maltreated by the rebels,
on their entrance into Braganza. The individual al.
laded to, with his wile and family, were received into
the citadel without sustaining any injury, and his pro.
petty, which was plundei ed or destt oycd, a as trifling.
Thursday morning, some iw walked into the Ma•
gistrates's parlour, while the public business was going
forward in the Justice Room, Guildhall, and took pos-
session of a new great coat belonging to Mr. Payne,
one of the Clerks, with which he escaped unnoticed
through the Office, although crowded with constables.
The Greek Committee at Geneva, as has been reported
to the Committee at Brussels, have it in contemplation
to organize a body of Snits carabineeri for service in
the Mores.