Star.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

STRALINO A CHILD.--APTECTING CASE.

The affection of Irish nurses for their foster children,
as they are termed, has been long since recorded as
forming a peculiar feature among the other peculiarities
of the natives of this country. The present case is strik-
ingly illustrative of this feeling.
Catherine Hannan was indicted for maliciously steal;
ing a child from Catherine Philips, one of the nurses
employed by the Foundling Hospital. The circumstances
that came out in evidence were as follow. The prisoner
had been engaged by the Governors of the Hospital to
wet nurse the child in question, who was a foundling;
she had had the cate et it for seven years, when it was
taken from her, in July, 1825; and given to another
nurse, Catherine Philips, •of Duncantown ; after
the child had been there a short time, the prisoner
and her husband took a journey of twenty miles
to see it. Some months after this, Philips came to
town with the child, to get the wages which were due
for nursing; the prisoner, who happened to be in town
at the time, met them in Thomas-street, and forcibly
possessing herself of the child, she made off with it, ne
doubt considering it the greatest treasure she could have
acquired. A young man who witnessed.the transaction
knew the prisoner, and the place she was stopping at;
and information being given at the Foundling Hospital,
search was made for the prisoner and chill at a house
in Thomas-street, where the former was then residing.
After carefully examining every part of the house without
discovering either nurse or child, the party were about to
give up the search, when they thought they observed,
through the dormant windows, something moving on the
roof of the house. Search was accordingly made there,
when nurse and child were discovered, the latter with a
twopenny loaf in his little fist. All the a itnesses for the
prpstcution admitted the kindness and affection which
ttakprisoner displayed towards the child.
:The Leagued RICORDInto in charging the Jury, es.
&Alfined the provisions of the act under which the in-
ictissent was framed, and informed them, that should
they convict the prisoner of the offence with which she
was charged, the judgment of the Court would be very
light. It was quite evident, and given in evidence by
the prosecutors themselves, that no malicious motive
could be attributed to the prisoner, .but that she had
acted from the feelings of a kind and affectionate heart.
The Jury, after consulting for some Aim', returned-a verdict of

• The Nobli Lord, who marl led the great Heiress,
realised last year, from the coal mines, sixty-five thousand pounds.
The Roxburgh Castle, Captain DENNY, firth, Qitebee,
has arrived, and landad the Hon. J. Stwra.c., Chief Tustice and
Speaker of the Councils in Upper Canada, and twelve other pas.
sengers. This ship commenced the new trade of importing Teas
(on the Eat India Company's account) direct from China into
Canada, and has brought thence a cargo of timber and potash (on
the owner's account) to England, but to a low bad market. The
tea adventure is considered a good one. The ship sailed the next
day for the River.
A short time ago a swarm of Bees alighted upon the
boom of a pleasure boat, in the Orwell. The owner
,was busily engaged in painting the vessel, and not
liking so many visitors, endeavoured to drive them off
by spraying them with water. This salutation was not
',Wished by the bees, and they soon compelled the
owner to retreat to the cabin ; from whence, coming
soon afterwards, he observed that the swarm had set-
tled upon some sea weed near the channel, and being
at the flow of the tide, the water came upon the luck-
less t smilers, and they were all drowned.
About a fortnight since, John West, a desperate cha-
racter who was convicted last Sessions of an attempt to
break into the house of Mr. Moon, a jeweller in High
Holborn,- and sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment in Giltspur-street Compter, succeeded in making
his escape from thence in the following manner. The
windows of the upper part of the prison were ordered
to be cleaned, and ladders were placed against the wall
for that purpose, and while the attenti,n of the turnkeys
was engaged, he got up the ladder to the top of the
wall, and from thence jumped en the scaffold used in
erecting the new wing of Christ's Hospital, which is at
the back of the prison, and sliding down the poles, got
clear off. ',formation, however, was received on Sa-
turday, stating that he is now in Horsemonger lane
Gaol, for a burglary committed in Surrey atter his
escape from the Compter.
•A paragraph appeared a fortnight ago, stating that a
Scottish Gentleman had undertaken, for a wager of
1,0001. to travel as a wandering minstrel for six months,
during which time he was to accumulate 1001. out of
what the public were pleased to give him for his music,
he paying',•besidrs, all necessary expenses. An indivi-
dual representing himself to be the person therein al-
luded to, made his appearance in Durham, on Wednes-
day, and played several tunes on the Scotch and Irish
pipes, on both of which he displayed considerable skill,'
as he perambulated the different streets of the town.—
He was a man of rather gentlemanly figure and deport-
ment, and was accompanied by a person who acted in
the capacity of a servant, and received the contributions
of such as chose to give their money. The minstrel and
his companion sojourned at a humble lodging-house
(such, his understood, being one of the conditions of the
Wager) during the night, and left the town on the fol-
lowing, morning.
Two steam-boats* were launched at. Amsterdam on
the 3d, and two frigates were to be launched on the. 4th Instant.
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BITTING-ROOM TATTERSALL'S, Auacs, 7.
Notwithstanding the absence of most of the leading sportsmen at
York, where the great August Meeting commences this day, there
was some tolerably heavy badness done on the St. Leger, but with.
out producing any important change from our last quotation.
It is reported that Sir W. Gerard, the owner of Buxton, is dead ;
till the truth be known, it may be prudent not to enter into any
engagements on that horse, as all bets, but those in which he is
classed with other horses, will be off, if the above rumour prove
correct. The events of the present week at York will doubtless make
some alteration in the odds; and as the grand event is not far off,
we would recommend our sporting friends to he on the alert.
to 1 apt Belzoni 12 to 1 agst Pirate
11 to 1 apt Bedlamite I I to 1 agst Crusader
to 1 apt Fanny
12 to 1 agst Fanny winning Stakes newt Thursday, and the St. Leger.

BLANDFORD RACES, Aeons: 3.
The Dorsetshire Gold Cup, value 100 p.
Lord Dishy names Comedian, 4 yrs .
Mr. Forunan's Forester, 4 yrs .
SOL for 3 and 4 yrs olds. Heat- two miles.
Mr. Wyndham names Tougbstiek , . 1 1
Mr. Forman's Whim . • . , . 2 dr
Sweepstakes of 10gs, each. Two miles and.* distance.
Lord Palmerston's Conquest, 4 yrs . I
Mr. Portman's Forester . . 2

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Mr. Farquharson 's Black and all Black 3
The Bryanstone Stakes of 5 so,. each, and 2S added, was won
by Mr. Farquharson 's Maid of AU Work, beating Mr. Portman's
Greyweather and Mr. Glyn's Rally.
LEWES R ACES—(('oaccunan.) .
The Town Plate of 501. the winner to be sold for 2001. &e.
Heats, the New Course.
Lord Rgremont's Brother to Spree, 3 yrs
Mr. Whiteside's Brother to Antonio
Mr. Brown's Maid of Kent

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