Star.
London, England, 1828-02-25 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Saturdag a young man, nineteen years of age, who said he was
.the son of a wealthy wine-merchant, and had himself, till lately,
been a member of the Stock Etchasige, was brought up sit a war-
rant, charged with having obtained various articles of dress from a
fashionable tailor, by saying he was recommended by a customer
of great respectability. The clothes supplied to the prisoner in a
short time amounted to 701. One article was a blue cloak, lined
throughout with Genoa velvet, charged fourteen guineas.
Sir RICKARD Biome censured the complainant for having supplied
such articles to so young a man without inquiry, and allowtd the
prisoner and the tailor to go with the officer to various places—
pawnbrokers and friends—where the young man said most of the
articles could be found, that they 'pivot be returned to the tailor,
who ►eemed to think that recovering the articles would be making
the best of a bad speculation.
HATTON- GA it DEN. _ _

BrUget Rork, the female who was charged with the murder of
her own child in Gray's-inn-lane, on the 14th inst. was dually ex-
amined at this office un Saturday, and fully committed. A great
deal of evidence was gone into, but no proof of her delivery could
be elicited. She, however, voluntarily made herself the following
confession to the Magistrate, Mr. Sergeant Simon—that she was
pregnant, but apprehensive of the consequences of its being maths
known among her acquaintances, she at all times denied the fact
and that haying had occasion to attend to the calls of nature, she
was suddonly delivered.
MARY-LA-BONNE.

A surgeon, who, possessed the appearance of a Gentleman, was
charged with obtaining erase of surgical instruments, value 61. the
property of %Ir. Shearman, of Dorset-street, Gloucester-place, by
fraudulent means. It appeared Mr. S. was called out by a fictitious
note, and soon after the prisoner, by another fictitious note, obtained
the articles in 'rimiest. He endeavoured to establish an alai, but
failed, and was ordered to find bail.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

A confidential servant to Mr. Groves, preptietor of the kad•mills
in Millbank-street, was fully committed, charged with en:beagle-
ment. It appeared he bad been sent ter an ironmonger's for
some nails, when he altered the bill of parcels by adding thereto 2s.
UNION—HALL.
Saturday two men, named Pope and Mend, were charged under
the Excise Laws with being engaged in working an illicit still, at
Clapham—Two Excise Officers, front :Information, proceeded on
Saturday morning to a house situated in rather a sequestered spot,
at Clapham, and discovered both the defendants there. One of
them was up stairs in bed, and the other was at work in an apart-
ment on the ground floor, in which there was a still, containing up-
wards of 200 gallons of low wines, and a quantity more in a state
of fermentatien, in the cane place.
The defendants said they were but the occupiers of the house
where the still was found, all of which, they added, belonged to a
man who resided in Ersex-street, Whitechapel.
The defendants were fined penalties of NI. each ; and In default
of payment of which, they were sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.

Mr. SALT, the English Consul General in Egypt,
who diet on the 4th of November, is said to have left
a fortune of 200,000 TAlaris. His funeral was one of
the-most splendid that has been secs in Alexandria for
many years.