Star.
London, England, 1826-04-05 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-SMERT.

One Barak Dawson was brought before the Magistrate yesterday;
charged with having stolen a silver spoon from Inc father. Ther.:
was nothing very surprising in that, perhaps, " 0 times go ;" but
there WAS some little interest in this case, nevertheless, for the
father is in his ninetieth year, and his daughter, Sarah, has ev.:r.
threescore summers come and go, and still remains a !piaster; at,'
moreover the spoon she stole was the only one her father ever pas•
timed, and it had been the pride of his little cupboard for n;,•::
tnan forty years. She had offered the spoon in pledge to 0:1•.• 1,
Tines, a pawnbroker, and Mr. Tim suspected she hail nin.c4;..: •
honestly by it—for Sarah is bet an uncleanly splutter, anti, at t.f‘
time of her offering it, she seas not remarkably Sobei.. op
Tints took upon himself to titivitirin her about it, and she prevati.
sited overnitich--somerintei eating it was her own, and then again
saying she bad been tent tel pawn it ; and this prevarication can.
firming 'Air. Tints's suspicions, he gave her into the i1a.3,11 of a con-
stable, who led her away to the watch-!souse, and there h. r courage
for,csok her, and she confessed that she had Saiulisn it fromt her
father's cupboard.
The old man, bending beneath the weight of years, appeared
before the Magistrate as the prosecutor of his ancient daughter.—
," She has been my housekeeper these thirty years," said he, " and
she is a good wench enough, so long as she confines herself to one
glass of gin at a time, but when she takes hoe she is wry incarnate."
Another old man, a friend of theirs, corroborated- this; and
went into a long comment upon poor Sarah's habits, by which it
appeared that; like Tarn o'Shanter—
" Wl' tipenny she fear'd no evil,
" Wi suquebagla she'd face the tl.---l!"
And n.oreover, he affirmed, that shy had not been " right sober"
for the last fifteen days.
Sarah, sexagenarian Sarah, had nothing at all to say in her de-
fence; for her dry lodging in the watch-house had reduced her
spirits sadly.
" Well, said Mr. Conaarr, the sitting Magistrate, " and do you
mean to prosecute your daughter for taking away your spoon?"
The old man hesitated—his daughter looked imploringly in his
face—his ancient friend interceded in her behalf—and eventealle
she was forgiven, upon her promising that, is future, she would
never take more than one glass of gin at a time.

LAMB]

Yesterday, one of the Israelitish tribe, named Wolf Cohen, was
brought up in custody of our of the 33ow•street patrol, charged bra
simple.looking countryman with having swindled him out of £3
16s. The circumstances were these:

The complainant, John Crow, was passit g along Sr. Nlary-axe,
admiring, " as if," to use his own expression, " nothing was the
matter," the different beautiful things in that honest par of the
town, when his attention was attracted by two persons, one of whom
was the prisoner, making a bargain for a watch. They disagreed
about the price; and in consequence separated. On doing so, the
confederate said that the prisoner Cohen should not have it even at
:no. On this the prisoner came up to his Essex friend, and re-
quested hint to purchase it for him, saying, that he would give bins
some shillirip for his trouble, at the same time describing it as a bar.
gain, and that it went on jewels. The fiat was caught, and entered
into a negotiation, which he shortly closed by giving .0 165. but,
when he hoped to realise the benefit of his bargain, the prisoner had
absconded, and was nowhere to be found.
The prisoner, in defence, pleaded that the transaction had taken
place in the City, and was in consequence transmitted thither for
further tit .n►ination.