Star.
London, England, 1829-01-01 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Mr. Mason, of the km of Mason and Co. coal dealers, was
sununoned fur using an illegal bushel measure.
The labouring cual-meter desctibed that the rim of the measure
was broken all round, and it would have been impossible to mea-
sure a full bogie' in suck an article.
The defendant said that the measure had not been used before
for the last two years, and was promiscuously flung into the wag-
gon by one of the porters. The measure in question, the drfen-
dant added, was generally used for the purpose of keeping ochre
In, and that fact could be substantiated, the ochre still adhering to
the sides and bottom of it.

The Coal Meters Solicitor said. that if it was necessary he was
in a situation to prove that cads had been measured by the same
bushel, oo a previous eocaphe the same day.
'ripe Magistrates agreed that the offence was clearly established,
and billeted a penalty of an 4 costs on the dyfendant. The full
penalty is la
kr. AMU Sturdy, a coal-dealer at Stockwell, was charged With
a similar offence; he, however, pleaded guilty, and, at the same
thee, declare 4 :bath was entirely through inadvertence the Measure
was used on this occasion. Since it had become shattered and old
be had converted it int, a machine fur feeding his horses. •
The defendant was hued 31. and costs, and recommended' to
destroy the measure altogether, as it did mot redound to the credit
of any nun ias the trade keepipg such ao article en his premises.
Mr. Aka dims, a coal.dealer, was summoned for using ten short
sacks in the delivery of coals. It appearing, however, that some of
Mr. Jones's servants bed inadvertently used the sacks while Mr.
Jones was absent, the Magistrate directed the defendant to pay a
age et di. to die 44sylutis for Disekellied Priataucce.in Surrey.

The cuckoo was distinctly heard a few days ago near
,Beverley. another consequence of the extreme mildness
of the season. It rarely happens that, its notes are heard
at ellsistraab i— York Herald.

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SPORT'S° ISTBILIi
THE VANCY.

Joe Waits awo Stews liettoc—Ths match Issisetiti those Mb
was nude tau nigbt, at the Castle. Tavern, Haltom for &PO
a-side, to 64ht within a hundred mites of London, on the Liverpool
road, in a four-and rremy foot roped ring. Tile pins 411 light**
to tic decided by toss, at the fast deposit'.
EBINBURGII, Dac. 29.

Wednesday night Mis. (Allies the widow of an vii•
cer of Excise, fell from the window of her house iz
Blackfriar's Wynd, Estinhutsh. a height of four stollen
Ishe was so dreadfully beaked that she stied soon after
being carried to the Royal Infirmary.
HERM •oa —The herrings have •been a good deal
later than u ual of triakng their appearauce in the
Frith of Forth this season, but they have now arriveds
A fisherman who left Newhaven on Wednesday afro%
noon, spread his nets off I.lchkeith, returned cn Than',
day morning with about 660, and th:y we,e ',ought at
V. 6d. a hundred, and reu•iied in the mat kat it 61 a
dozen. About a dozen Newhaven boats returned ea
Friday with carves, varying from 600 tu which
were sold at 3s. 61 a hundred.

CORONER'S INQUES C.

MURDER OF OF MARY MORTLOCK.

Yesterday an bluest was held at the Buffalo's Bead,
Newircad. before T. Srinhisu. E q. Corune, on view
of the body of Ma. y Mortlock, Mho died in consequence
of wounds received horn the conteuts of a Pistol, used
at her on the night of the 17th ult. in Crawford street,
by a young men, named Benjunin Bierup, who Las
already been committed to Nesvgaie. for the attempt to
reander or do some bodily harm, and who, these is
every reason to beheve, laboured under a delusion that
she was a iensale be had been acquainted with two
years prior to the fatal t'ansaction. Tne deceased was
not noeteeii years of age, and had been rece: t:y in the
service of Lady Dudley and %V ird, in Br yanbion-square.
The evidence of W.i.nett, the watchman, *lts saw
the pi-t I fired. and the other wit: este, exattiked at the
Mau-la-bonne Office, was first taken, and was the same
:hat appeared in the its pn-ts, including tt e
mission of Barrup, " that he Was the man who did the
decd, and that he tru•ted ,t was done effectsally."
The c.ep sitian of the decease.% taken befo r Mr.
GaifFITII, the Magistrate, at the Mary-la-bottnt
marl, was then read, which stated that
.1.1,e had not
known the pris• tier urea the previous Thur•day week,
when she met him in Covent U r.;c:ll'..eatie; s' e met
him by appointment the follow ing day, and again on
the night the unfortutut e transaction took place, when
he shank a considerable quantity of ale, and his appear.
ance and behaviour were very wild and disordesly ;
when she was sit .t she had hold of his tight arm, but
she did not set the pistol, to r did she know who filed
t; s'e did not even know the prisoner's name.
This deposition was taken in presence if the prironer,
who was dlea fully affected, and who said, " he feared
lie had comm tied a terrible rniAake."
Goodger, the :u geon who had examined the
deceased when first taken to the Infirmary, said that
lie ascertained that a piece of lead had petforced the
upper lip, which had been the next morning eitracted ;
hut he at the time feared that a dangerous supPuratine,
if not a locked jaw, might follow in the course of the
day. Notwithstanding every attention sets paid her,
fever ensued, which
was
during the night such
an extent, that it was deeeired rideis-loe to have ler:,
deposition taken. Ater this the fever abated, and ap.
penances were much in her favour until the mit:dle of
last week, when infl .mmation and lever ag.io returned,.
and she c-ntinued getting gradoal:y worse, until ale4lll
put a petiod to her sufferings on Sunday list.
The pistol, and p;eces of lead which bad been es.;
iratted from the unfortunate temale's mouth, were helt:
produced before the Jury ; the latter did nut appear to
have been part of a pistol•ball.
Tate evidence being closed, the Coroner addreseil,
the Jury at some length ; alter which they retired to
consider their verdict. In about fosty minutes they
returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against lienjalki
Bats up,"

The extreme and uncommon mildness cf the present
season has prt.duced a novelty, perhaps never before
heal d of—viz. a partridge's nest, ss ith eggs, on Oak.
mas Day ! Thursday, as two young men of EAstbutne
were walking tl.ere, they discort rtd, nigh .to the Mill-
gap, the aforecaid nest, containing two eggs. The*
they took from the rest, and sent one of them to our
Office, and a finer egg we never saw, nor one that ap-
peared more fit for the wok of incubatir.n.—Sussez Adv.
SA wday a child, about four years of tile, and son of
Nlr.Cooper, Providence-tow. Finsbury square, fell from
the parapet wall of the house, which is three stories
high, to the curbstone of the footrpavement. He
taken up by his father in a seemingly life-
less state. and carded to a neighbouring surgeon's.
being ascertained there that format ly no bones we
broken, he was ordered to be placed in a warm bath.
Shortly afterwards animation was retored ; and. strange
to say, the little fellow is now moving about scarcely
the worse for his tremendous fall.
It is vet y much the fashit:n in this country, to talk of
the comparatively mild punishmer
French tribunals. It would seem,
subjoi.ied paragraph, that the Fr
very lenient in their mode of pui
days ago, the Court of Assize' of I
demned a man to be sent to the galli
pillory and branding, for a burez
nothing more than three eggs."—(
ojtpujAiDs.—..Sir HUMPHIMY D.
an animal as the mermaid cann4
Wisdom and order." he says, '
works of G.. 1), and the parts of
adapted to certain ends consistent
nature ; and a human head, hands,
wholly inconsistent with a fish's tail.
adapted for an upright posture, ar
animal with a fish's tail could not
lungs must be on the surfsce sec
the sea is an inconvenient breath's
are instruments of manufacture,
ocean are little fitted for fabricm
our old prints gave to the merm
if created, could not long exist."

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