Star.
London, England, 1826-01-16 00:00:00

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS.

TIM KING V. RIeNIARD SAYERS.
This was an indictment against the defendant for
assaulting James White with a whip, at Ingatestone,
on the 25th of Jure.
Mr..lEssoP stated the We f4.r,the progeention. De-
fendant was a coachman in the employ of Mrs. Nelsou,
of Aldgate, known for her enterprising spirit in the,stage
coach business. She had established a Norwich coach.
which, for the rapidity of its travelling, might with
propriety be called a phenomenon; hut Mrs. Nelson,
either from classical propriety, or pr• bably in allusion
to her oa n st x, was plea,ed to have it called " The
' Phenomena." On the 25:h of June last, the-dsfendant
was driving the coach through Ingateston•, and in
passing the new Colchester coach, owned by Mr.
Palmer, and driven by the prosecutor, Innes White,
gave the latter a tremendous cut with his whip across
the hands whilst holding the reins. Fortunately for the
passengue;s he retained the management of the horses.
No provocation appeared to have been given for the
assault. There had been a little rivalry between the
two coaches, and some jeering on former occa‘ions
between the coachmen. Mr.. Martin, of Colchester,
who was on the box with Wright, described the assault
as wanton, malicious, and wholly unprovoked.
Mr. Kaos, for the defendant, endeavoured to persuade the Jury
that it was a case unworthy of serious notice, and recommended
them to return a verdict of Not Guilty,
The Jury, however, under the Chairman's (Mr. Dismay)) direc-
tions, found the defendant Guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a
tine of 101. and furl sureties for his good behaviour for one year.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Sarah Buchanan, the housekeeper of Messrs. Wiltahire and Co. of
Cheapside.was brought up and filially committed,without any fresh
witnesses being examined.
kIARLBOROUGH•STREET.
Saturday, Mrs. T. a Lady dressed in a very fashionable style,
was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with having at
divers times threatened her husband's life.
Mr. T. who is an eminent goldsmith, requested that the Magis-
trate would cause the Gentlemen belonging to the Press not to men-
tion his name. He then stated that his Lady had of late repeatedly
threatened hie life, swearing that it was her determination to poison
or stab him. " *ell," replied Mrs. T. " you know you richly de.
serve it, for locking the wine cellar up, and keeping me without the
' common necessaries of life.' " Ab," replied Mr. T. in a sorrow-
ful tone, "it was not done too soon ' on which he handed a bill
from a eine • and spirit merchant incurred by the Dame, to whom
in an evil hour he had been wedded, and from which the Magi.-
• trateread the following items: "Jane 0, three quarts of gin; 9, a
quart of do. 10, de. do. 11, do. do. 11, de. of brandy; 13, four
bottles of sherry ; 14, gin ; 13, do. 16, do. 37, sherry; le, gin
19, do. 20,d0.'
" Well, Madam," observed the Magistrate, " you have heard
what Mr. T. has alleged against you, have you prepared yourself
with bail, if not you must be locked up ?" " Bail," replied Mrs. T.
with great sangfroid, " Oh yes, L expect Mr. D. here, and he will
bail me," when turning to her husband, she exclaimed," Go along,
you mean, pitiful fellow, there is no wonder that you are afraid of
having your name in the Papers, when the public will see that you
'tad refused tdallow your wife even the common necessaries of
fe.' "—Pepper Was then ordered to take her oat ; while doing so,
she inquired where she was going? "T 3 be locked up," was the
reply. " Locked up! will you lock a Lady up!" exclaimed Mrs.
T. " for lecturing her husband for keeping her without the
common necessaries of life.' "
LAMBETH-STREET.
A few days since a young femile named Elise Shunter, the
daughter of the proprietor of the City of Norwich pubik-honse,
Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, was brought before the sitting
Magistrates of this office, charged with having feloniously entered
into a negotiation with thieves for the restoration, for a specific
suns of money, of certain property which had been stolen from
Mr. John Kiernan, a travelling dealer in Irish linens.
The particular Act of Parliament, the penalties of which she
came under, and which for some time past bad nearly fallen into
" abeyance" owing to the ingenuity with which these negotiator
(principally Jews) exercise their trade, is thit generally termed
" Jonathan Wild's," and was the precise one under which that no-
torious character was tried, convicted, and executed, and which
Makes the negotiation a capital offence.. On the apmehension of
Shunter, and her bring brought to the office, the Statute containing
a clause empowering the Magistrates to exempt' the negotiators
from its full penal operation, on the production and prosecution of
the real offender% Shunter was allowed the benefits of its immu-
nities on its implied conditions, and remanded for a few days to
enable her to give such information, and make such arrangements,
;s would lead to the apprehension of the persons really implicated.
She strictly complied with the stipulations, and in consequence two
females, named Mary Peachy and Mary Classier. were taken into
custody. by Lee the officer, and on Saturday placed at the bar,
charged with being the parsons who robbed Mr. Kiernan of seven
damask table cloths, and a quantity of black silk.
The prisoners declined saying anything in their defence, and the
patties being bound over to prosecute, they were fully committed
to take their trials at the present Sesiions.
Saturday, Ardor French, linee his wife. and. Catherine Stephens,
were brought up for heal examination at this Office, on a charge
9f having in their poi session a female infant, supposed to
have been stilly!. The Cale has already appeased. The prisoners
were all .discharged, there being no substantive charge against them,
but not, however. before a clue was made out by which, in the
eeeent of the parents being sli.covered, the prisoner, Arthur French
would be made anienahlz to justice, as a Chelsea pensioner.

There is an admirable charity in the City, which fur.
Dishes provisions and fuel to the poor, during this incle-
ment a rather, at half price.
Wednesday, a poor man of the name of George Bot-
ter ill, of Beverley, was found starved to death, near to
Water on the Wolds, to which parish be was going to
obtain r: lief.
A melancholy accident occurred at Isleworth on Tues-
day last. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lanza, about
eighteen years of age, went ill the chariot with his
motl,er and two )(hang Ladies to the canal, in Oster.
ley Park, to skate. He had not been on the ice ten
minu•es befo:e it fatoke, and be fell, in under it, and
perished in the sight of his distracted mother ; his body
SS as no: found till the next day. To add to the mental
eiacerbrtion of the affi!cted parents, they lost about a
year since their I my daughter, about the age of 16.
T:ie wiseacres who prognosti ated, irons the mild-
ness the cornmeycement or the present winter, that
•we should have no har.i fro,t, fur t•ish a fresh proof that
Close who pr.,icss to be weatiretwase ate generally
utlmuis .