Star.
London, England, 1828-05-29 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, Malt 28.

TO•day these Session's commenced before the LORD
MAYOR, Snails:rat, several Aldermen. and the Sheriffs.

Ait74 Lowe was called up for judgment upon an'
indittment, otl which at a former Sessikons shti was
found guilty, for keeping a disorderly house in Bow.
lane, and ordered to be imprisoned ih the House of
Correction for three calendar months, and' there kept
to hard labour.

• trultUtritt's mom.
Mr. table, of the Rose and Clam public-house,
Queenhithe, applied fôr the renewal of his berme,
had been refused on a former occasion. The objection
to the granting of•the license was the embarrassed cir-
cumstances of Mr: Cablenn objection was raised to
the moral character of the applicant. • •
Aldermen WAl•rnarAW and BROWNE were decidedly
Of opinion that:the Court nught to grail t the !keit..
as in their estitnation they had nothing to do with the
pecuniary circumstances of Mr. Cable.
The Radbituan cleAtty thought that the Court ought
to be assured that the party keeping a public•house
was not in that state of poverty' that laid him open to
the temptation of keeping disorderly hours.
Sir C. Husritt thought dip applicant entitled to hive
his license, on giving security that he would keep good
hours, and otherwise conduct himself properly, .notice
of that bail being to be given. This was agreed to,
and the license Mdered.

Llaat...6-Thls day. in the Court of Common Plias*.
an action was brought by the Right Honourable sici4
very Rev. the Lord Archbishop of Tuitu, against die.
Printer and Publisher of the Morning Herald 'newt,
paper, for an*alleged libel. published in,that jour e#
the Bth. of November, 1827, which imputed to iheneblei •
ft Plaintiff corrupt conduct, in offering to one Mr.
IttiGuire,.a Roman Catholic priest. a bonus of WOOL
and 8001. a-year, if he would change his seligion, and,
conform to that of the Protestant. After Counsel had
been heard on both sides, Lord Chief Justice' Barr
summed up to the Jury, 1014 found a verdict for the
PlaintiffD images .501.
Dispatches were received yesterday. at the Colonial
Office, from Lieutenant General Sir G.L. Cots,
at the Maniitius ; from Lieutenant 9eneral Mauna.
at New South Wales ; and from Colonel G. Anima,
at Van 'Dietnen's Land.

Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, the home of
Mr. Brown, of Fore. street, Limehoube, was broken
open by two men, who were seen to enter the house
from the water-side, when, an alarm being given, they
made their escape by the front door into Fore-street,
'eating behind them a brown great coat and a blue bag.
There was caught last week, at Marle6eld, a 'rung
crow entirely elute. The bird was forwarded to
Edinburgh, in expectation of its being thought de-
serving of preservation in the College Museum. Ow
Monday, last another young crow was shot at Mertoun
with three legs. The extra leg is placed between the
two ordinary ones; it is attached to the skin only, and
has no joint above the claws; the claws are 6ve in.
number, of a yellowish white colour, and in form of a,
man's hand. In all other respects it resembles its ft). .
lows.—Kelso Mail.
A melancholy event took place at the village of
Roskeztat, in the parish of Levan, on Friday last. Early
on the morning of that day, a man named Lemon, and
his wife, left their cottage, for the purpose of working
in a field at some distance, leaving two children, a boy
and a girl, in bed. On returning to breakfast, about
eight o clock, the woman was horrorstruck at a
dense body of smoke issuing from. the
.nitese; she
opened.the door, aad rushing to the bed, succeeded in
dragging thechildren from it, bur unfittunafely too
late to save their lives ; both-were suffocated, and every
attempt to restore animation gnu found unavailing,
Exeter Alfred. '
Yesterday esoruing, it worinnu named Dunn, who
was employed at the new buildings erecting on the site
of Caritas( Palace, win knocked dik. by the handle.of
thevriodless, which idipped whilst hell.. asleep Ids
ikall‘tas fractured, unit he was conveyed to iMe hew
pital without hopes of tCCOlrefy.

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