Star.
London, England, 1829-10-08 00:00:00

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The Rev. Win. Henry Hensiow appeared ye,terday morning
before Sir R. Mama and Mr. Hanna, the Sitting Magistrates, to
substantiate a complaint against the driver of a Woolwich stage
for very gross misconduct.
Mr. Henslow stated that his brother and himself having had oc-
casion to go to Woolwich, took two inside places in the defendant's
coach. When they got to the Ship, Charing-cross, however, they
found that the coach was full, and that the defendant would afford
them no redress. ' After great difficulty the book-keeper prevailed
on the defendant to return them the money, but not until he had
abused them in language both foul and blaithemous, and even
carried his violence so far as to thraten to wring the complainant's
nose. It was in vain to attempt to expostulate With the defehdant ;
be tossed his bead about with an air of conseimis dignity, declared
th .t he was 'as math E geutleman- as either the complatuant or his
.htnthsr,•and homily, called oo them for their cards.
Sir ltscmaao-t-Called on yosi for your cards ! is that possible ?
Mr. HetistOw—lt is molt true, Str.
Mr. Hat.i.a.-Durdld the fellow offer you his in return?
Mr Hasler, said he•did not; and continued.-6tle aid his k
thee walked wain the hope uf‘ meeting another eonerryance,; and.
were overtaken on Westminster-bridge by the defendant, who re-
newed his abuse as be passed theth.
Mr. Hanna &sir& the &haft' what he had got to say to $
cbarge so gloss and unprovoked?

The defendant was about to enter into a history of the causes
which led to the great disappointment of the complainant and
his brother—

I don't want to hear anything on that subject.
What was your ream), tell me, for threatening to wring a clergy-
man's now ? _

Defendant—Because after I returned him his money, he called
me a thief, a robber, and a blackguard ; I am neither, and of course
was naturally irritated at such provocation.
Mr.Hacts—This *lust say, that such epithets might have been
spared; but did you use them, Mr. Henslow?
Mr. Henslow admitted that he did.
Defendant —I consider myself a tradesman, and this was very
unfit language to be applied to me.
Sir iticuaao—A tradesman, forsooth! why, you are a driver of
a coach, and not a tradesman.
Defendant—l consider myself as a tradesman.
Mr. Hafts—Consider yourself what you please; you must,
however, be taught to keep a civil tongue in your head, and act
fairly by your passengers. A case has been established against
you, and I convict you in a fine of los. and emu.
The defendant gave notice of appeal.
'Ns Nsw Pocics.—After the night charges had been disposed
of, Mr.Haccs took °tusks° to say that the present method adopted
by the new police, of furnishing the Magistrates with only a list of
the charges, instead of the nature of the offence of which each pri-
soner is accused, was attended with manifest incooveniesee. He
therefore recommended that the substance of each charge should
be taken down, and signed by the complaining party, as well as the
canker of the night.
Mr. Thomas said, that be would mention the subject to the
Commissioners, who, no doubt, would adopt any suggestion likely
to facilitate the public business.
H ATTON- G A RDEN.

Drsezaare Assains.--Yesterday morning, Mary a
powerful woman, was brought before Mr. Rooms, utirdrl4.
lowing circumstances
Henry Bartlett, a watchman of St. Sepulchre's, stated, that at
about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening be was sent for to the
house kept by the prisoner's husband, in Turnmill•street ; when
be got to the door, he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed front
the house ; be immediately went in, and found the prisoner's hus-
band all over blood—it was not possible to distinguish his features.
He stated that Ms wife bad wounded him with a knife, and he
gave her in charge. The prisoner refused to go to the watch.
house, and struck at every one who approached her. He called for
assistance, and it took no less than eight persons to take the psi-
goner to the watch-house, she biting and sulking all the way.
Mr. Rooms (to the watchman)— Where is the husband?
He is not here; a surgeon has examined the husband this
morning, and he has stated the wounds be has received not to
be dangerous, and he declines appearing against his wife. He
has received a severe wound on the cheek, it being completely laid
open.
Mr. Rocans (to the prisoner)—What a wretch you must be.
woman ! Are none of the persons here whom she struck going
to the watch-house ?
The watchman answered they were not ; they did not like to
lose their time.
Mr. Rosaxas—Well, as there is nn one to appear against her, the
woman must be discharged. Discharged accordingly.
MARY-LA-BONNE.

Mary Aries, a woman of most respectable appearance, was yes.
terday placed at the bar for re-examioation, before .1. Ramuasust,
Esq. charged with stealing some trifling articles of wearing apparel,
the property of Elizabeth Swayle, under the following distressing

Circumstances :
The prisoner had been brought to this office on Monday evening
in the custody of one of the newly.appointed constables of police,
charged with stealing two gowns from the prosecutrix, for whom
she was in the habit of washing; but the case then not having been
gone Into as occurring in the evening, the prisoner was ordered to
be remanded ; and between the interval of the first and second ex-
amination, Jones, the husband of the prisoner (to whom she has
only been married three weeks) searched his place voluntarily in
the presence of Mrs. Sersyle, and on turning over her drawers,
showed her several articles, amongst which were two caps belong-
ing to the prosecutrix.
Mr. RAWLINSON inquired if Mrs. Swayk could swear positively
to the articles.
She replied in the affirmative, as she had similar caps at home to
thoselound by the husband of the prisoner.
Mr. RAWLINSON said, that however painful to his feelings,
he was bound to commit the prisoner for trial ; at the same
time, in his opinion the conduct of the husband in furnishing the
prosecutrix with evidence, and that too with apparent readi-
ness, was very far from kind, more especially as they had only been
united so short a space of time.
The unfortunate prisoner immediately sank from the dock Wain-
lent hysterics, in which she continued for nearly an hour, her heart-
rending cries echoing all over the immediate neighbourhood ;
nor was the condition of the proseentris much more enviable, as
upwards of an hour elapsed ere she was sufficiently tranquil to
have her depositions taken, prior to her being bound overto- pro-
secute.

INTERESTING DISCOVERIES.—During the progress
of the excavations which have been rendered necessary to obtain a
substantial foundation for the new wall which, since the closing
of the Old Dock Gut, forms the south-eastern corner of the
Dry Dock, considerable difficulties presented themselves to the
accomplishment of this object, and it was found necessary to
drive piles in this particular part of the work, owing to the
great depth of the submarine strata which was lodged in the
bight of the ancient pool. Its bed has also been traced more
to the eastward, by the workmen in the employ of Messrs.
Jones and Perry, in sinking through the various strata to the solid
rock, for the foundation of the western wing of the 110111 Custom.
house. The silt or deposit of the Old Dock lay 19 feet below the level
of the quay, was about three feet in thickness, and near the bottom
was a vein of fine sea-sand, which doubtless constituted the original
marine bed of the pool. Below this lay a firm blueish marl, of a con-
sistency sufficiently strong to make brick,in which were intermixed
lichen,fibres of plants,and decomposed leaves. Lower dowu,branches
of of different kinds were discovered ; and deeper still, the
spades of theworkmen encountered larger trunks of trees and roots of
considerable magnitude, partly decomposed, but sufficiently defined
to characterize the class to which they belonged. Some specimens
of oak and other forest trees were very readily distinguished; and
it is a fact that the fir appears to have resisted, in some instances,
the operation of decay with mote tenacity than the oak. Ist this
bed of mail, and about 50 feet below • the surface of the quay, a
pair of large stag-horns were discovered, lying nearly a yard asun-
der. Below this clay bed a large quantity ur black peat, in which
nut-shells, fibrous particles of timber, &c. all lay closely 'com-
pacted together ; this was about a foot in thickness, and rested on
the rock, nearly 40 feet below the level of the quay, and 20 fret
below the level of the pool.—Liverpool Courier.
DEATH or Mit. KELSEY.—We mentioned last week
the remarkable case of abstinence of Mr. Reuben Kelsey, of Fair-
field, who is since dead. Exhausted nature could hold out no
longer than the filly-third day of his starvation, and the unfortu-
nate youth expired on the 24th inst. We ar.• told that he omitted
going to the well for water (as fast) on the day preceding his de-
cease, and that his friends induced him to take two table spoonfuls
of wafer gntel at that time, which, as they all aver, and the physi-
cians acquainted with the case believe, is the only article of suste-
nance width he had taken for fifty-two days! His body is repre-
sented to have borne the appearance of a mummy—the flesh being
wasted away—the skin discoloured, and dried to the bones. The
deceased appears to have laboured under the delusion of an extra-
ordinary revelation being committed to him, telling his friends it
was his lot to fast for forty days. At the expiration of that time
it was expected that persuasion might induce him to eat ; but he
persisted in saying he had no divine cmassond to eat, but wonders
would yet be wrought by him, Su. In this way he continued,
till fasting rendered his speech quite inarticulate, and his remain-
ing faculties gradually failed.—Little Falls People's Friend.

BIRTHS.
At Albyn Place, Mrs. Charles Gordon, of a son.
At Sir Robert Blair's, Harley House, Bath, the Lady of Lieut.-
Colonel M. Swinton, of a son.

NI A LIMED.
This morning, at Christ Church, St. Mary-la•bonne, by the Rev.
W. J. Hutching, 111:A. Samuel Harman, Esq. of Euston-place, to
Miss Palmer, of Limon Grove, South.
At Tichborne, the Hon. Henry B. Arundel, to Fiances Ca•
*theline. second daughter of Sir Henry Tichbotne, hart. of Tich-
borne. Hants.

DIED.

At !Stogie, Mrs. Dunbar Brodie, of Lethen and l'urgie.
At Perth, Alexander I•Glashan, Esq. sometime of Calcutta,
aged 77.
At the 'Manse of Salton, the Rev. Andrew Johnston, in the 66th
year of his age, and 38th of his ministry.
Mr. George Fnrre.ter, writer, Edinburgh.
At Edinburgh, George Hall, writer, aged 34.
Is the '69th year of his age, Mr. David Hume, farmer, Castle
Mix, East Lothian.

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