Star.
London, England, 1827-02-15 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, Fan. 14. he was told by some of the prisonsrs that nothing was
aud_the noiselhen ceased, and witness ieturned
Jo4a Carpenter, pastry-cook, of Fleet7street, was ins
dieted by his wife, Ann, for having, on the 24th of hst to his bed.. He saw Mapleston the following mornieg.
His head and hands were very much cut. In conies
December, violently assaulted her.—This case has beet e„uence pf information Mapleston gave him he instituted
often before the public. The happy pair came together hin inquiry into the circumstances. All the defendants
by an advertisement, consequently the match was rather were charged by Maplestna with' being parties to the
made in public than in heaven. But three short weeks, assault, but they each deniedit.
however, elapsed, before their squabbles became as pub- Mr. Asouvres dektined addressing the Crest on behalf of Peter
lie as their courtship, and continued with becoming re- Martin, u there was so evidence against him
gularity up to the above day. • Mr. PSSASWAIIASS addressed the Jary ter Ws
Mrs. Ana Carpenter, therefore, now appeared In tom, sad Mr. lEs"" for William Maraca and
-ane Rao:lotus they summed up the evidesei,
prep persons against her lawful spouse, and deposed ~•„„t,d „irdlet a Gums against "halo, soilippZie.
with true connubial warmth,that on the 24th of Dec. and Smith, and its/pitted the ether defendants. . ' • • -,'
he hattlireatenestat dinner to go to America, as it was The prisoners were then sentenced to be Inaprlestosiois 'Mee
love that would drive him there. Mrs. Carpenter, on le the House of Certection, and there kept tq bard labour.
this occasion, behaved with great Modesty and meek- TILLK TILM)E.
nest. She believed that Mr. Carpenter alluded to
another Lady, who had sense time before favoured him
with a young Carpenter. He then gave her a slap on
the mouth, and continued beating her till seven o'clock
in the evening, by which time she had received a severe.
black eye, had lo,ta tooth, and could eat nothing but
spoon-victuals for three weeks. She had not taken
any thing to comfort herself before dinner, n, r used the
least bad language; might have taken one glass of gin
and a little porter er so, but had not given her husband
any provocation ; he first struck her in•the presence of
the family, which consisted of seven of Mr. C.'s chil.
'dren by a former wife, and one by complainant.
During the whole evidence Mrs. C. evinced the most ens:
lent symptoms of warmth, and interrupted the evidenee
almost every minute, and was not restrained till after a
severe remonstrance from the Court. Oa the other side,
several witnesses proved that Mrs. C. had taken two
glasses of gin, besides porter, before dinner; that she
had gone to bed drunk after dinner; and that beforelbe
marks of violence wee seent.on her face, she bad sake*
a chair and smashed eight penes of glass in the shop
window. The blow itseltwas•htated by the defendant
to have been received by the prosecutriz 'falling*
when drunk; oa the bar of a shutter.
During the trial, a very novel sort of stage effect was
introduced by Mr. C. The child of the loving pair
.was handed over to him, and with the most nurse-liki
assiduity he drew from his pocket a phial of milk, and
almost choked it with the application; attended of
course by the compassion of the wiroie, Cow t.—After a
long trial the defendant was found Gail! y, and sentenced
to two month's impris mment in G 1-street Compeer,
!and to find securities to keep the peace 'towards his
''wife for two years.
RIOT IN WHITECROWSTRLIT PRISON. •
Wm. maths. Wm. Spriggins, Henry Burrell, &mud
Sionnosids, Fisher Alderton, Eduard Hannan, George
Smith, Peter martin, and several other deiendants, who
are confined in the above prison, were indicted for riot-
ously assembling them and assaultini,Wm. Mapleston.
The COMMON &ROSA rat and Mr, BoLLOta conducto'
ed the prosecution. They declined calling any eels,
deuce againtt Samuel Sinsenonch, and he was acquitted,
and admitted as a witness against the others.
The Consort Szansamr addressed the Jury as cone,
siderable length, and stated the facts of the case. it
said the prosecutor (Nlaplestori) was not present,
having been induced to- stay away, He, howeverotionld
prove the case without his testinsony. He then called
the following witnesses—
Valentine Matson stated, that on the 20:11 of NOlrefll..
her last he was confined in Whitecross-street poison for
debt; Mapleston, the prosecutor, and himself, slip: ui
Gibraltar Ward; they sent to bed about ten o'c.ock;
there had been that. night an election of a 1 vietver,,
whose duty it was to clean the wards. Wieess was
awoke that night- by a violent uproar ; he saw several
persons in the room disguised, their faces were blackened
and their heads covered. with rugs ; they uere al rued
with mopsticks and made a noise like the messing of
cats. When witness first awoke, he saw Mapleston
throwing the chamber utensil at the beads of thelarty,
who were then retreating from Ala it ;
the only person he could identify on That isCcasidti.s--
They returned again in larger number; in about a quar-
ter of an hour, and after marching round the:ward they
made a stop at Mapleston's bed. liturell hod Sprigginsi
were the only pers9us he could recognize on that med.,
*ion. They beat Mapleston ssith their sticks and he
resisted. The bed clothes were taken away. Maple-
ston's head was much cut, and blcod'floo ed profusely.
He jumped out of bed and called murder. • He opened
the window and gave an alarm. The parties their re-
tired, taking away Mapleston's clothes. He was very
faint from loss of blood. t:.

Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS for Peter Martha—The M.
is expected from each prhanier towards promoting the comfort of
the prisoners in keeping the Ward clean, and for the use of the.
cooking utensils.
By Mr. Balllf—Mapleston was a County Court prisoner; the
Sheriff's prisoners hive more comforts than the County Court pri-
soners ; the money is put into a box and accounted for weekly by
the steward.
By the Cover—The steward receives the money ; he is elected
by the prisoners of the ward.
By the Prisoner—Burrell did not say the next morning he could
not identify any of the parties. Did net tell Mspieston to go on
with the prosecution, and he would Make 801. or ea by k.
Henry Hodges, another prisoner, said on the night of
the disturbance he went into the Gibraltar Ward. He
saw the piety enter the Gibraltar wird. Mapleston
slept there in the Viird bed from him. They dragged
the clothes from off Maplestoti's
.bed—he jumped, op
and struck one of them. He could not see whether they
struck him first. Therafterwards beat him—none of
them. said anything, they all made a noise, like the
mewing of cats—could not positively swear to the per-
sonzof filly of them, their faces were an disguised. They
returned again and repeated the same line of conduct—
Mapleston knocked one of them down, and seized a
broomstick from another and struck him to the ground
—he appeared to be killed by the violence of the blow
—he saw Mapleston go to the window and cry " Mur-
der." They then struck him on the head with cnopsticks
none of the officers of the prison came to his assistance.
Henry Oertel, another prisoner, mid he saw a party muster is
Wellington Ward, their faces were covered with rugs-.-William
Martin was weer them.

Samuel Sim monds, another prisoner, said he slept
in the Wellington Ward; William Masks and George
Smith also slept these ; at eleven o'clock on the night
in question some persons knocked at the door and s4id
they were going to cat a prisoner. Martin and Smith
then got out of bed. Witness requested them not to
'go, and said the prisoners bad troubles enough without
any person adding to them. Martin and Smith then
joined the party. Witness heard the noise of the catting
in the Gibraltar Ward. The first time they went there
an alarm was given that Mr. Spencer, the keeper of the
pawn, was coming, and the parties retreated. He did
not see the persons who retufned to the ward he slept in.
Cross.asaaiinad by Mr. BAKAL—Lie did mot leave big bed, sad
,roald sot tali what perms west late Gibraltar Ward.
. Mr. Spencer, the Governor of the Prison, said, on
bearing the alarm, he went to ascertain the causr, when

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Corr or ♦ 10111 SIC LIVID ►IO7f II •. INIMISIIOII.

"Board of Trade, Whitehall, Jan. 10.
" Mr. Mushisson presents his compliments to Mr. Alderman
Waitbman, and in reference to the tnentorial of Messrs. Gillman
and Co. transmitted in his note of the 13th ult. has the Otani,* to
acquaint him, that directions have been given to discontinue the
charge for licence duty, to persons solely employed in printing.
painting, staining, or dying silk goods ; but that it is deemed neces-
sary that fbe premises of such printers should be entered, and be
subject to the inspection and survey of the Officers of Boise, to
prevent any fraud arid the Revenue, or upon the manufacturer of
cotton plods, Of of silk goods mixed with cotton."
The Kin,. oillavartia has just issued a Proclama-
tion, by a hich the authorities and police ate charged to
watch that the solemnity of the Sabbath-day should not
be profaned by the exercise of manual lahonr.
The cold in Paris has beep more severe than in Lon.
"don. On die 9th, at seven in the morning, the cher-,
mometer of Chevalier was seven 440 degrees of Roast-
loser below the freezing point. This cold wackeao*
ponied too by a cutting wind.
An extensive forgery was detected yesterday at the
'oreign Stock Market, in a Cheque for 2,2701. with the
signature of a Member of both Markets, who is tunllar:
stood generally to have a pretty large balance at b'
bankers. -The cheque with the forged signature was
sent by a porter from Paul's Coffee-house, and given to.
.a broker named Zwinger, for the purchase of Colombia*
.B.inds; but having some suspicions as to the validity of
the cheque, shewed it to the party whose signature was
attached to it. The forgery was immediately detected,
and no loss, therefore, vas sustained. The pergsns im-
plicated are known, but ate not yet taken.
COYSNT-GARDEN THILATRIL.—the comedy of The
Provoked Hu:4yd was perfoimed at this theatre last
night and MISS JAISSIAN appeared in the character of
Lady malty. Her performance of comedy spew,
decided talent, and is of a kind very likely to improve.
Ifs exce:lence is, that it is very plain, and sensible—.
.vary like nature: its fault, that it is not alway quite
elegant," and that it wants some of that strength which
we have been aecnstomed to find in our leading comedy
ogresses. In the last scenes, where the character us-
tomes an aspect more.of tragedy, and she totalled to
the style of her Juliet, there was a panics; and natural
simplicity align her delivery of the apology at parting,
which produced, as it deserved to produce, a powerful
eggt upon thellouse.
The Proprietor& of Covent garden are alteady occu.
pied in preparing a.tieirr Spectacle for the amusement of thilialiday
folks at Easter. Baworre and Pager. well tried and slimy.
successful raterers. are at work upon it.
Monsial nights while the lomat• s were at rest, the
dwelling-nbuse. bf Mr.' West, Disco& aper and }saber-
dasher, Charlion•street, Sonnets Town, was broken Into
by a 'set of vifaitfi, who hive for a considerable time
pastinfested the 'neighbour hood. and property to a cots.
siderable amount was stolen. The villains also visited
the premises 'of Mr. Harris, wbo resideiat the next door,
and from lirs shed stole two 'herring barge's,' clouting!
to convey Mr. West's property in.. -Mr. West estimates
his loss above three bandied pounds.
Tuesday, James Black, formerly a jeweller in Regent.
street, was brought before the Commissioners of the'
Insolvent Debtors' Court to receive its_ judgment, for,
fraudulently obtaining a quantity of foreign jewellery.'
from a person of the name of Lyons. Mr. Commis-
sioner Law, after adverting to the evidence, sentenced
the petitioner to be imprisoned for Six calendar months
!within the walls. Tire insolvent, not relishing the
imindate which imposed close confinement, had no
&loaner left the Court, than he contrived to give the
Fonducting tipstaff leg bail, and made his escape. The
gnrabalof the King's Bench, in whose custody he wag
'charged with several actions, was forthwith informed
Of she circumstance, and his officers were dispatched in
quest of the fugitive. who, about midnight, was found
in ithe vieinity of the Regent's Pat k,from whence he was
Conducted to Prison.

Ao inclitest was held at the Trumpet,King-street,Hol-
born, on the body of Mr.. Husatter, tallow chandler, of
the above street, who was returning from Bertviondsey,
en Sunday evening, with Mr. Curtis, a market gar-
dener, in a chaise, when passing through Bridge-street,
they drove against a coach on the stand, by which they
were both thrown oqt, and the deceased received a con-
alnico of the brain, of which he died. Verdict—.
Accidental Death."

Friday a respectable young man, whose parents have
resided at Norwood for the last thirty years, came to
town, accompanied'hy 'a neighbour, for the purpose of
selling a horse at Smithfield market, Having succeeded
in their speculation, they repaired to a house in the
neighbourhood, for the purpose of taking refreshment,
and, baying regaled _themselves comfortably, proceeded
homewards. On their arrival in Lordship-lane, near,
Dulwich, the young man felt fatigued, and found him-
self unequal to the task of keeping pace with his com-
panion; the latter, however, in order to excite in him a
disposition to pursue his journey with vigourovent on at a
rapid rate ; unfortunately the energies of the young man
failed him, and he sunk down by the roadside. His com-
panion after having Waited a considerable time, and find-
ing he did not come up. retraced his steps, and, to his
surprise and astonishment, found him a corpse!
In the city of Gien a man was tried for sorcery, in
the sixteenth century, and convicted : he appealed to
the Parliament of Paris, where the accusation was
treated as frivolous, and the poor devil escaped. The
Gien folks, however, tried him again another time, and
burned him, without allowing him to appeal. The
vulgar opinion of sorcery went so far in the sixteenth
century, that a French author, writing upon the subject,
says--1, Many of them have boasted, that it they had
bat a Chief to command them, they were sufficiently
numerous to dethrone all the kings of the earth." In
the duchy of Savoy, there was one city in which eighty
sorcerers were burnt in the course of one year.
LOAD NeltaUßT'S LAST PUN.--When Lord NORSUILY,
in reading the CIAPICIIILesis -recent judgment, in the Watt:m.3v
cause, came to that part of it, in which, referring to the number of
Mr. Witassr.se's paramoss% the CIRAPCICLUM added, " it has been
explained that the number 1,003 was-derived from the play of Dow
Giovamai; but it don not appear where be got the number tweles
dozen." " Why," exclaimed Lead Noaatrar, " what number so
proper for a man of grass habits r

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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GUILDHALL.
The old womb. who was run over by Mr. Goadchnes artiste
being DOW hi danger, Mr. Mclennan LOCA. ordered a elation to
made at the City's expense at the Sessions, rwpitlos the prhoites
recognisance, until next Sessions.

BO W4ITUSET.
Yesterday Hensubi, alias Maass% Maar, mid Lagestk, the we,
sea who itand charged with meaffsg • Ames, the property a f )Jr.
Mem of the Bell Iml/211m1Shilidomil other lamas, the propthi
Merest persons, were birj+tguzbeami fully committed for maL
Charles Amour, alias elm Pistakes, who was geopett,4
a robbing Mr. Trotter, was up epic, but the mideste om
deemed lasulleleut, and he wad set at Omer,

MA R BO ROD 0 H-STS
At the evening sitting yesterday, a youncionale. of prepna,,,,,k,‘
upearance, nested Harrison, melding In hernssurtreseentopp,;
Mr. CONAN? for Ids advice under the following novel crculni
'stances:—About a fortnight age. she was proceeding act 0,1
square, who, she was robbed of bar reticule. eoetannog wow Mott
Art. by two fellow% one of whom snatched it from her Loa,
iwbile the other favoured Ids reeve. A person named Move,'
passing at the dose, sad be otoceeded io apprehending the fellow,
who was accessary to the robbery, and he was brought to tit.
Mice and committed for trial, and Mr. Dowry and the app:icant
were bound over to give evidence at the Old Balls,. A few dart
ape, however, Davey went into the Elates Bench pike, to take
the benefit of the Insolvent Act, comequently be was unable to go•
before the Grand Jury at Clerkenwell, and the applicant now
tended in order to knuw how she was to proceed to save her rt.
cognizances, she having been bound over in the sum of 4110 to
jprowcute.
Mr. CONAWT said, the only wiy Doerr could be brought up, wit
by writ of Habeas Carpus, but that would be an expense of XS to
wine party—the, applicant, NUM indict the prisoner herself to save
her own recognisances; but, in comequence of Mr. Davey being
a material witness, the bill would probably be thrown out if !wily
not appear, sad then he washable to forfeit his rerognizances 'lts
Judges were the only persona who could and o ice the round it
covey by Heim arpes.

Ma. Ragan and Michael and derns. Orendo, weesealtargee 1,
principals in a desperate riot in Tuohy-street, on Tuesday mght.-.
flagon was given in charge to a Patrol, for an wank apes Mr.
Hobert', hadlord of the Bull, Bull-coert, but was quickly reward,
by several of his (vestrymen, who conveyed him to the house of
one M'Carthy, the doors of which they barricadeed, while between
and 400 ottspril collected on the outside, to private the entrusts
of the Oilicer's l who at length, headed by Kinsey, el the Toms
Hail, entered by a Arst.floor window, when the hens were pot
out, and a general fight took place; but at length thaw we, re.
captured, and conveyed to the vratchliouse. In his traasit
Crawley and his wife recited the mob tmattempt a second reuse
Both men were held to ball, and the woman discharged.

Mr. Powell, Inspector of the Mint, attended at the office, and
Pronounced the two sovereigns for which Vans, of Camberwell,
had been bronght up on a former day, to beg:mane.
Two men, named Barron and Miller, were charged with break-
ing into the dwelling-house of. Mr. Smith, in Blackman-sunt,
Southwark, and stealing therefrom cash and cheques to the accent
of two hundred pounds. The robbery was committed hat Sun-
day night, .and the thieves left behind than a rope ladder,. rho..
phorus box, and two small keys. Massey and Wilkinson, can.
tubby, apprehended the prisoner Barrett at a house of fame ;
and en his person they found a cheque for 1251. which the prose.
tutor identified.
The evidence to inculpate the prisoner bliller in this robbery
was singular.— Massey searched bins ce Saturday last, at a public.
house in the Mint, suspecting at that time that he had been coo-
-1 corned in another burglary, ; but nothing was found upon him to
confirm the suspicion. The constable, however, particularly no-
ticed two small keys which Miller had •in • his , sod he
(Massey) deposed that the two keys imago; by Mr. Sank no his
premises (kft by the robbers) were the same be saw in Miller's
possession the day before the raiihaty was eananittett.
Other ponies being implicated in the elaergri. the primness were
remanded.

SAtureay came on the appointment or a Sunday
Evening Lecturer to the Parish Chureb of Mary.la.hoone, vacant
bides resignation of Dt. Beeettat.n. The appoententat ii in rho Veer:.
The lie,. Mt. Sconezt. • . . 56
The Rev. Mr. Btatowooo . . on
Majority in favoer of Mr. Sews& ---50
j Tuesday Mr.' Buncriv.z. resigned Ina‘oßce of Clerk
hi the Commheloners of Land and Manned Taxes fiat the Divi.
don of St. Mary.l4-bonne.
Monday evening, as Mrs. Fraser and her daughter
were passing the top of Fleet Merket, they were sud-
denly accosted by two women, one of whom snatched
the reticule from Mrs. Fraser, contenting her purse with
six sovereigns and some silver; they immediately ran
up Mick Horse-yard, where pursuit-was useless.
So numerous have been the applications for relief in
the parish of Sr. Pancras, Middlesex, arising from the
prevailing distress of the times, and so extremely
crowded is the wo. khouse in consequence, that no less
than 200 steep in one room.
A point of law was laid down in the King's Bench
yesterday, which cannot be too extensively known to
oar commercial readers. The general rule in respect of
bills is, that an onerous bolder—that is, he who has
given real value for them—shall, in all cases, to the
amount of the value given, have recourse on the drawer,
acceptors, and indorsers. The case in which the ex-
ception to this rule was laid, down by the Chief Justice,
4—that wherever a bill shall be received from one who
has, to the knowledge of the receiver, been guilty, on a
former occasion, of paying away bills without the au-
thority of the owner, although the receiver have paid
value for such bill, he shall lose his remedy. This ex-
ception, it will be observed, has respect chiefly to bill
brokers, though it may, occasionally, extend to others.
It would seem to follow, from • the doctrine here laid
down, that be, a fortiori, who receives a bill, knowing
it to be transferred without the consent of the owner,
cannot recover. The Aot, commonly called Sir Thomas
Homer's Act, makes it penal in an agent to transfer
bills er other securities otherwise than as directed by his
employer. The rule of the Lord Chief Justice com-
pletes that Act, by denying relief to him who accepts
of such bills or securities, knowing them tobe so Was-
(erred.

BIRTH.
Saturday. at York-tortace, Revues Part, dm Lady et Patrkt
Grant, Esq. of twigs (Kat).

The Rev. David MhidleuTa, Rector of Cm Raab" Han.
aged 75.

The 4th inst. at Woolwich, at the house of bee soo is law,
Lieut.-Colonel Birch, Mrs. Skyring, widow of the lam Major
George Skyriag, of the Royal Artillery.
The Bth instant, at his house in John.ouiet, aged 49, Michael
Bartlett, Esq. whe for thirty years held the appointment of spothez
cary to the Finsbury Dispensary.
In November be, at Tampico, oat of the States of hfealto,
Commodore Charles Thorley, Smith, of the Mexican Navy, lain
Post Captain in the British Service (commanding' the Hibetine,
Undaunted, dm)

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Lisbon 0 2
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Leeward Islands 0 0
Holland 0 0

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Sweden 1 0
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HIGH- W ATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW.
blaming 40 minutes after 4
Alternate 0 minutes after 5
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'.oticear : Noted end Pahlulled by J. F. Ktumr, at Ito Stat. Orncr,
11i.1, Pickett-am, Ihol,lo-BM.