Star.
London, England, 1826-07-29 00:00:00

MEETING OF WEAVERS.

• Thursday evening, a meeting of journeymen silk*
ireauers took place in the ground of the Three Colts
public-house, Grove-street, Bethnal-green. At meetings
bviously held, a 4, Gene al Protection Society''had
een established, for the purpose of af.rding mutual
support in resisting the ,ttempts of such of the masters
at were paying less than the book prices for their work.
At the last meeting, 3,000 persons had enrolled them-
selves as members, to pay Is. eAch entrance, and a
oiling contribution weekly, as a fund to support those
vsbo,usight be thrown oat of work for refusing to accept
• n ?Edited rate of wages. It was proposed, that previously
:rblatidg any more decisive step, deputations of the jour-
,,neynien of each of the manufacturing houses should wait
:upon their employers, to ascertain their sentiments, and,
it possible, obtain their acquiescence in the measures of
the men. The Meeting of Thursday was convened for
e Putpose of receiving the reports of the deputation
on the answers of their employers, and was one of the
most onmerous that has been witnessed in this neigh
bnurhood. Tire gre ,test anxiety seemed to pervade the
whole assembly, but the proceedings thcoughoot were
conducted with pirfrcr Grder and decorum. Mr. Isaac
Duce in the Chair. Mr. Thompson, one of the GAM-
'Ware ;then read the reports of the elisions deputations.
110,a;flivererotgbe undermentioned house, were to the
itsg elect;
ie We are dnerndoed not to reduce our prices, and if 0;44.,
He masters will agree to it, we will pay you the ftdl price.and should
-Pie lorry to do k." Messrs. Ceekin and Sounders. Ricbardson and
Makehorn, 131,11ancis.' Giles, Smart, of Union-greet , Jennings and
• Sat, W. Smart, Son and Nephew, Parsons. Green, lied, Brunakia.
elsiring, Whiten(' Wil•ma. of Steward-street ; Remington and
Mills, Cole, Davis and Washington, Stephen Wilson and Solliaasa,
Rombehl, ad Wilson. Cook, Murrell, and Jones, Jennings, of
Spital.equare • Buttress, Arriving. Biggs, Heylin, and Bishop,
Homo Alecomnbury ; Alms and Atkins, Maddick, Rirgg.
MiemAt Duke street ; Robert Graham ; Edmonds, Comber, Tie.
hard, Elks and Stevens Jourdan, Adams and Bell. Jacques,
, Bridges and Campbell, Gliseen, Harrier. &Sand Brookes. Diaon
and Rent. The soarers of she following were not considered
formable, viz. Matsu. Tarrant, Venni. Ames sad Atkinson,
Wadden. And the following were decidedly spread to any ad-
enine, via. Messrs. Rosman and Hill, Witu -Redick* Dela.
mem. Carter & Yavasseur, Basest, Wilwis, Went, & lebbisea.
After several hours passed in the discussion, it was
resolved. 6r4, that in the opinion of the wants. there

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is, under the present circorn- stan:es, a necessity for
lase log of the masters to meet a deputation of the
joerseymen, to decide the question of a return to a
• standard price. Second, that an Advertisement to that
feet, naming the time and place for such meeting,
should, be inserted in the Morning Papers. Eleven
persons were then appointed to draw up the advertise-
ment, and to meet the manufacturers. Thanks having
been voted to Mr. M.Nats, for the use of his premises,
and to the Chairman, the meeting was dissolved.
The first Joint Stock Banking Company, formed
trader the Act of list Session for altering the Charter of
the Bank of England, will, it appears, be in Lancaster,
where a public meeting was held on the 14th instant,
the Mayor in the chair, and resolutions passed, and steps
taken pursuant to that object.
The Cheltenham Turf Club have come to a resolu-
tion that in future the Races at that town shall take place
ens clear week after Ascot.
At the Surrey Sessions, yesterday, Charles Moore was
convicted of a brutal awash on Mrs. Martin, by striking
her several times on the breast, though in a state of preg-
sneer, and sentenced to pay a fine ol 101.—Mr.Ellisten
Traversed till the neat Sessions.
Wedaesday, Mr. Green ascended in his balloon horn
the Bowling-green of the Turf Tavern, Derby. When
at an attitude of 800 feet, Mr. Green released a para-
chute containing a cat, which reached the earth in safety,
as did the aeronaut near Barrow H4ll, the seat of Sir
J. hn Beaumont, who treated him with great kindness.
Whilst in the air, Mr. Green witnessed a beautiful
phenomenon, which was a complete representation of
the balloon, with its appendages, refer ted on the upper
surface of the clouds, encircled by an iris of from 80 to
100 feet in diameter.
HATICARIZT THZATIII.—A new and laughable Farce
was last night produced, under the title of ihirteem to
the Dozen. The story is told in a very few words:
Knippets Cksper (LisroN) a tailor, doing a pretty con-
siderable bit of business, receives an unexpected order
to complete twelve suits of cloaths; and, according to
ancient custom, contrives to pilfer a bit from one and a
bit hom another, until he has enough to make a suit
for himself. The cloaths had been ordered for Gentle-
men, who were hired for no less a purpose than the,
murder of a Count, which is, however, happily prevented
,through the unsuspected instrumentality of Clipper,
The thirteenth suit of cloaths brings poor Clipper into
many laughable scrapes, and affords LISTON capital op.
portuaities of displaying his drolleries. He was. of
course, the life and soul of the piece. It was gives 1111114
for repitition amidst the loudest plaudits.

4111.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
wARRICX, Anar
Simnel Snit* Was indicted four Abe' wilful murder of
Mary Aaa•Eand.% on the 24th of May last.
John Notch WAS called, but his testimony was in no
dther respect important than as establishing a fact
which was tot denied by the prisoneee counsel, that be
had purchased, on the 24th of May last, an ounce of
arsenic at Nuneaton.

Bliss Canvas gave testlassey to the same elect,
John Hale was the neat witness produced, and he
stated that be was a Tabourer, and occasionally worked,
for Miss Overton. Upon those occasions he was aCCOPI
towed to sleep with the prisoner. On the night of tie
ISkth May last, prisoner called him up, and said he bad
bought an ounce of arsenic, and that he had given one
fourth of it to the deceased. He was some time afterl
called up by an alarm that the deceased was very ill;,
witness said to the prisoner, " Though she sick now,
she may, perhaps, get better from it." Witness being
desired by Miss Ovet ton to go for the doctor, did go,
and he afterwards told the prisoner that Mary was
dead ; be then wanted to go for Mary's brother to
Atherstone ; prisoner pulled some arsenic out of his
pocket, and threw it away ; about three months before,
prisoner told witness that Mary was ill; that she wis
not regular, and asked him if he knew what was good
for her ? itness said, "No ; you had better ask a doc-
tor, or an old woman." Prisoner said a doctor would be
too expensive; and witness then replied, "I heard the
boatmen say that Owen's daughter had taken a quarter
of an ounce of arsenic, when everything else failed, and
that that cured her." Witness asked if Mary was not'
with child, and prisoner replied th.tt she thought su—
that she said she was.

Cross-examined—lt was three or four =oaths before Mary died
that t►e primmer told se she was with child.
Daniel Halewood, the shepherd of Miss Overton,
remembered the night of Mary Rand ill's death; saw.
the prisoner and Mary Randall that night at the end of
the brewhoese, a little after ten o'clock ; they were then
in conversation; he was not near enough to hear what
passed ; on the same night I saw them in the kitchen,
leaning each of them on the table, and the prisoner said,
" I'm sick ; what's a thing good for it." Mary Randall
said, some warm water ; Smith then said, " I shall have
a little," and he took.a mug from the shelf ; he put some,
warm water into the mug and left the kitchen with is.
She followed him; I went out to fasten the shutteis.,
and I met Smith coming in ; I saw Mary Randall'
washing something from the vessel; the nest thing I
heard Mary say was, "Good night, Sam ; great luck to,
you ;" I was awakened by Smith about twelve o'clock,'
who said Mary was dying; I said •' What can be the
matter?" Thomas Amos came again and said, " Zsm,
they say Mary's dead;' he said, Is I'll get up, for her
mother will never be able to bear it," and he did get ',pi
and went down.

Sian was dead.

He weaned mach agitated wh_a tie bend that

Afellow servant of the deceased proved, that after going tap
stairs, she was wised with violent yanking, and said she should
die.—sise mess dia.
_ _

Miss Chettoa, a very osascalhae-looktog erase, corroborated
this tostisseoy.
The mother of the deceased was called in about an
hour before her child died, and found her in extreme
agony.. The deceased IR feat Tensed to ISM tan after-
' wards said, uSA m gave it to me." '
The surgeon who opened the deemed said, *whiffles& was
canoed by an corm; II:
la reply tea vestige ma 4be Caere, be 'observad, that three
grates of arasak ware toddle away life.
The,Canuse banes told the Jury, that this case pre-
sented itself in-three distinct shapes for their coadderz.l
tion. If chef were satisfied that this poison was given with
A view to deprive the deceased of her life, they would ,
find the prisper galley. U satisfied that the object was
not the deprteati,in of life, but to protons abortion, that
offence was equally murder in crmuemplation of law,
and if they believed such to here been the intention ofl
the prisoner, they would sty tat be was guilty. lo the
third place, if in their opinion they conceived that
the object of the prisoner was merely to produce that
regularity which was so requisite in the constitution of
females, then, Lowever ignorant or culpably negligent
the prisoner might hive been, they would say that upon
this indictment he was not guilty, and he (the Learned
Judge) should not quarrel wiJs that verdict. Now, on
the first point to which he had called their attention, it
did not appear to him that there was any evidence
tending to thew that the prisoner contemplated the
death of Mary Anne Randall. It was otherwise on
the second head, and to that part of the evidence he,
should beg leave to call their attention. His Lordship
then recapitulated these parts cf the evidence, as well as,
those other portions of it :hewing that he made no con-
cealment of what had occurred, and left the whole case,
to the Jury, who, in the course of a quarter of an hour
returned the folios:ins verdict:—" We find the prisoner
Guilty of administering poison with intent to produce
abortion."

The Cam lame said, he could not receive a verdict is that
special form. They would have the goodmies to say guilty or
wet pilty.
Arens.--We are manhatiosly of aphasia that the prisoner
is Gail*
The Cam Boson tiles passed apse the primer the awful sea-
ms* of the law, ordering him tee mention ea Satunkay next, sod
that his body should be given to the mamas foe dissectiou.
The prisoner, who received an excellent character for
humanity from a most respectable witness, conducted
himself in a most suitable manner. Never was guilt,
such as that imputed to the unhappy man, less legible in
countenance. He shed a few tears during the period
while the &meows was passing, bat his firmness and
respectful enndur.t never forsook him.
Joseph Elurea, Edward Taylor. and Atioard firm,
were capitally indicted for a bseglary in the dwelling
house of Thomas Irons, at Alcester, on the night of the
14th July last, add stealing therefrom several silver'
watches, gold pins, rings, seals, and other articles of,
jewellery, with a quantity of old silver coin.
Elwell pleaded guilty, and the two other prisoners pleaded not
giiighomaa lions deposed—.l am a watchmaker, living
at Alcester. On the night of the 4.b of July my
windows and doors were fastened. About half-past one
o'clock I heard a noise in the shop, like the !nuking
open a door; I awakened my brother, and we both
went down stairs, and saw two men in the *hop, one
with a dark 'anthem, and the other taking gold seals
out of the show-glass. I. rAn into the shop, when
the man who bad the dark lanthorn rushed by and
dropped the lauthorn. A shot was fired at me; I
received no injury from ir, and locked the door upon
Taylor, who fired the pistol. Elwell dropped his hat,
and Taylor hit me a blow on the tipple. A scuffle
ensued, and Elwell's coat was tall. After this I found
some gold seas pattly in and pattly out of the shop,
two hats, an iron bar, and a dark lanchoro. I immedi.
ately searched, and missed eighteen watches, and dif-
relent other articles of jewellery. Since then I have

• iscovered some of the Prolz,,,hich I bait spoken.
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bed, he musk slab* from die laelwesmor et me le me
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The Coast BAROS then proceeded" ttepais sentence of
Death upon the prisbisen. The load htnentatiois of the
unfortunate men prevented his Lordship from proceeding
for several minutes.. The wife of the. prisoner Hynes, a
respectably attired young woman, conjured his Lordship
to spare her husband's life. She repeatedly exclaimed
that the chain was his own property. Elwell asserted
'that no pistol was gred,-" Oh, good Lord," he exclaimed
Lin the most intense agbny, " spare my life, guilty I
am, but ant of firing." As soon as silence was restored,
the Chief Baron thus addressed them :—' Prisoners,
you have, one of you, pleaded guilty, and the Jury have
pronounced, that in their opinion, you, Taylor, and you.
Haynes, are guilty of the serious offence imputed to
you by the indictment; in the justice of that opinion I
fully concur. The circumstances attending your case
make it incumbent open me to visit your offence with
the severest sentence of the law. I owe it to society,
to the country, and to the protection of the peaceful and
the industrious, who Erma be allowed to pass their
nights in rest, however painful to my own feel ,gst
to make in this case such a salutary example as may
prevent the recurrence of such an atrocious burglary."'
His Lospesis then pronounced sentence of death iu Liar usual
terms.

The pristesers clang to the front of the dock, and remained there
for some time after their sentence.had been pronounced, itittratligr,
of his Lordship to spare their lives. Dwell was with much diffi-
culty removed from the dock, to which he chant with the moot re-
solute tenacity. He exclaimed. " There was no firing, my Lord.
Oh, have mescy upon me."