Star.
London, England, 1828-05-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOWSE.
Twoinen, named Harris and Smith, were charged yesterday with
having plundered a Weichman, named Lloyd, of two mulch cows.
The prosecutor was standing at the door of his stall, one day, and
one of the prisoners, who is a journeyman butcher, in passing by
saw the cows, and bargained for them for 581. He gave the
Welchman a piece of paper like a banker's cheek, which he said
was as good as gold, and desired the Welchman to take it to a house
near Lombard-street, where he would receive cash for it, and
drove off the two cows. The Welchniati went to the direction near
Lombard.street, where he discovered that the paper was a bill at
two months. TheWelchman, in his distress, applied to Herdsfield,
an officer, who apprehended the prisoners. They were remanded.
0 .ILDHAI.L.
Ms Atkinson, a cloth agent, was committed for stealing sixty-
three yards of kerseymere. from the son of a Trowbridge clothier.
The lad bargained for ready money, but after some hesitation re-
ceived a cheque drawn by the prisoner on Messrs. Glyn and Co.
On inquiry it turned out that he had no assets there, nor was he at
all known.

BOW—STREET.
Yesterday John 'lnnis was re-examined on a charge of stealing
1301. from a letter. Mr. PeACOCK, the solicitor to the Post-office,
attended on behalf of the prosecution; and Mr. W001.1.E11, clerk to
Mr. Ila emelt, for the prisoner.—F. Irons lives with his brother,
who carries on the business of a draper in Oxford-street; remem-
bers taking a 30/. note to change for his brother on the 21st of
March ; did procure change ; there was a person waiting in the
shop for the change; he had been purchasing some dresses; be
wore a cloak; the prisoner was the person; did not see Mr. Hunts
receive the clung?. J. Martin corroborated the statement of Irons
—Mary Hollingsworth lived in the family of the prisoner's father
at Birmingham; remembers the prisoner visiting his father in
March last; the prisoner's father is the chief clerk in the Post-
office there; the prisoner had been a sorter of letters for two years
and a halt in the Birmingham Post-office. The depositions which
had been taken during the former examinations in private were
• read, and all the witnesses bound over to give evidence at the
ensuing Warwick Assizes. The prisoner, who offered no defence,
was then committed.
MA RI.BOROUGH—STREET.
"lobed Finch and George Poe were charged yesterday with steal-
ing a hay gelding, valued at fifty guineas, the propel ty of Nit. Isaac
'l'ortie, of 'Tottenham-court-road. The horse was stolen on the
night of the Mt-Instant, or early on the following morning—
about which time the prisoners la ere seen on the spot from whence
the horse was stolen, one mounted on the animal, and the other in
his company.—The prisoners were committed.
ATTOIsI-.G ARDEN.
Yesterday five APCortys, one Area:e, one Walsh, and one Keefe,
all Irishmen, were charged with several assaults. The prisoners
were drinking in a public house, Back-hill, Clerkenwell, about ten
o'clock on Sunday morning. A drunken Englishman made some
allusion to their country and themselves, when they knocked him
down, as also an individual who cried shame at them for striking
one man. Mrs. Packer, the landlord's sister, was also laid pros-
trate, and her cap torn for interfering, and Tullet, the landlord,was
beaten in a ter:ible manner, in striving to save his sister. The prie
cutters were locked up in default of hail. •
THAMES—POLICE.
Cath•rine Dump's!, was charged with robbing Mahoney, a
sailor, of bis watch and 81. She has been several times committed
to the Tread-mill, and thrice tried at the Old Bailey. On the present
occasion Mahoney was intoxicated in Shadwell, when she dragged
him up a gateway, knocked him down, and robbed him as above.
She was remanded.
WORSHIP—STREET.
B. Jacobs. was charged with embezzling eight ounces of silk, the
property of Messrs. Wilson and Co. his employers. He had con-
trived to-increase the weight of the bobbins returned by wetting
them.. in order to disguise the deficiency.—Sentenced to fourteen
days amusement at the Tread Mill.

• PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT.—The authorities of Min
Shull Vernon, in the parish of Middlewich, have, for the
present year, appointed a female constable, a female
overseer, and a female supervisor.
THE KINGS THISTLE,—When his MAJESTY was in
Edinburgh in 182 g, it will be recollected that on the
day of the procesiion from the Abbey to the Castle, a
thistle of gigantic height was carried before him by the
ancient Saciety of Gardeners. This plant, measuring
upwards of eight feet, was originally brought from the
Castle of Dumbarton, and presented altogether a noble
appearance. Shortly after ti e pageant was over a man
from Dumfermline procured a slip from this the Scottish
emblem, and upon his return home planted it in his
little garden. The following year the plant grew
amazingly, and at the anniversary of the King's visit it
had reached the height andsize of the parent stock, and
attracted the notice and admiration of every beholder.
Seeds and slips were liberally distributed ; so that it not
, only has found its way to Perth, Dundee, and most
towns hi the neighbourhood, but when its history
was known several branches were transmitted to Lon-
don, and universally obtained the name of the King's
'Thistle.
GOLD MINE IN MALACCA.—A gold mine of great
promise has been lately discovered within three days'
journey of Malacca, not far distant from Mount Ophir,
in the territory of the East India Company. There are,
it is said, three hundred persons employed in digging
for the gold, each on his own account. It is stated that
one person could procure a catty and a half of gold in
a year, which sells at the average price of 500 Spanish
dollars per catty. Mount Ophir was formerly cele-
brated for its gold, but its mines were supposed to be
exhausted. A Malay, named Hadjee Amet, who has
been at the mine, states, that he, with six more, collected,
in two months and'a hall, twenty-four bunkals of gold,
procured with little labour, but the whole was taken
from them by the inhabitants of a neighbouring village.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—A farmer, near Straagford,
in the county of Down, in managing a part of the
farm that, according to appearances, had not been
broken up for centuries, a few days since, found a
horse-shoe which, upon examination, was found to be
of .ilver. Its description is nearly as follows:—In
weight sit ounces, being a good deal incrusted; in size'
and formation it almost exactly corresponds with a shoe
of the present day, made for a blood horse. It is con-
siderably thinner on one bide than the other, the same
as many horses are in the habit of wearing them ; and
the holes appear, by having been worn wide, to have
passed over the nails and thereby been dropped. One
of the ancient mounds, so con.mon in that past of Ire-
land, stands near to the spot where this curious piece of
antiquity was found.
NORTH EAST WIND.—The only periodical wind
which we have in this island, is that from the north
east, which prevails generally from about the middle
of April to the 7th or Bth of May, and sometimes
longer it may be thus accounted for. In Sweden and
Norway the face of the country is covered with snow
to the middle of May or longer. This frozen covering,
which has been formed during winter, grows gradually
shallower to the 15th or 16th of May, or until the sun
has acquired 17 or 18 deg. of north declination ; while,
on the other hand, the valleys and mountains of Eng-
land have received an excession of temperature of 24 or
25 deg. On this account, when the temperature of
Sweden and Norway is cooled down by snow of 32 deg.
that of Britain is 24 er 25 deg. higher than that of the
preceding countries; because, while the ground is
covered with snow, the rays of the sun ate incapable of
heating the air above 52 deg. For this reason, the air
of England is 24 or 25 deg. more heated that that of
the before mentioned countries. The air of 'Sweden
and Norway will then, of course, by the laws of cons-
parative -specific gravities, displace that of England ;
and from the relative situation of those countries with
this country, will produce .a north-east wind. This
current is commonly stronger by day than by night,
because the variation of temperature in the air of Great
Britain is at that time the greatest, beiqg frequently
from 50 to 60 deg. about noon, and sinking to 5'2 deg.
in the night.