Star.
London, England, 1818-08-11 00:00:00

STAFFORDSHIRE.

At the Staffordshire Assizes, Samudienkins, aged
11, was tried for feloniously assisting a man to ravish
Eleanor Norton, at Tettenhall, in April list. Accor-
crag to the evidence of Eleanor Norton, she was over-
taken by the prisoner and Joseph Harvey, about l 2
O'clock on a Saturday night, as she was returning
front Wolverhampton. Jenkins, she said, held her
d )wn, while Harvey ravished her. She went to a
Magistrate the following morning, and Jenkins was
taken into custody, but Harvey could not be found.
While the first witness was under examination the
Learned Judge ordered the others to withdraw ; the
consequence WAS a flit contradiction in the evidence
(4. the prosecutrix and her mother-in ,law, and the
immediate acquittal cf the prisoner.

Bow sratrr.—Testerday blr. Bu'.rner, the floor-I
cloth manufacturer in the Strand, preferred a charie
of burglary and theft against Janus Kellner. .sir.
Bulmer, on entering his house on Sunday evening,
about twelve o'clock, discovered symptoms of rch•
Ws- y, and on looking about saw a strange man. Ile
and his son instantly gave an alarm, and the door
being opened, the watch and patrole came in and
found a man in the shop. The person so found was
charged with being a thief, but he insisted that he
had come in with the watch, to assist Mr. Bultner.—;
Eva"' body, however, protested that this account was
false, He gave the same account yesterday be. Ore
Sib- N. CONANT, who admitted him to bail. •
MARIAOROUGH4TRZET.—Ycq erday John Bishop I
was charged with robbing Mrs. E. Rose of her pocket 7
bark, containing £4, Sec. on Saturday evening.—The
prosocurrix, who is a respectable married woman,,
whose husbar.d is in a situation near Welling, she re-
siding temporarily with their friends in Weymouth-
street, was returning thither between nine and ten
o'clock on the evening stated, from Devonshire-mews,
with two bundles in her hands, when the prisoner ac-
costed her, and said it was a piry so light a figure
quid be so much loaded. She made him no an-
swer, bat he continued his importunities, and walked
class by her side. When near her residence, in
Weymouth.street, witness--did not think at safe to
cross the road in his company, and she turned back
to avoid him ; he still followed her, but quitted her
on some one approaching, and she discovered that
she had lost her pocket-book. She called out " stop
aid!" and the prisoner was taken.—ln answer to an
insinuation of the prisoner, that the prosecutris had
tsten his arm, she denied it, but said he had forced
her arm into his. Selon, a constable, produced the
property, and the prisoner was committed for trial. -
Examitsori.--Friday, Thomas Smith was executed
at Cbelmsford, pusuant to his sentence, for having
assaulted and robbed Mr. William Haydon and two I
other geatigrap.auturning from Fairlop
wllo was to have suffered at the same time, received
a reprieve.

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IRELAND.

LIMED ASSIZES.

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Nyanza OF 010101 a AL/ova.
On Thurday the SOth ultimo, at an adjournment
of the Assizes at Lifford, . William Merry and
Da* Ganny, were tried before Mr. Justice MOORE.
and a respectable Jury, for the murder of George
Balfour, at Glena Bridge, near Carn, in the
county of Done 'on the night of the Ist of Oc-
tober, 1817. e Counsel for the Crown stated the
circumstances of the case. The murder of Mr. Norton
Butler, two or three years ago, had led to the crime
whith was the subject of the present prosecution.—
Daniel Maginnis had been charged with the murder
of Mr. Butler ; after evading justice for a long time I,
he was taken prisoner in the summer of 1816, and
was tried and convicted at the Lent Assizes of 1817.
Batfour•was suspected of having given information
which led to the taking of Maginnis, and for this
offence it was determined by the prisoner, and his
associates, that Balfour should be put to death.
It appeared from the evidence of one of the wit.
nesses that a few nights before the murder of Balfour
he was going to a wake when he met with William
M'Sheffry, who told him he was watching Gecrge
Balfour, and induced him to join a party of about
fifty persons. The party were consulting how to get
Balfour out of the wake-house, in order to murder
him, but while they were deliberating Balfour passed
by in company with two other men, and the design
was postponed till another opportunity.

Other witnesses swore, that they had received sum-
monses to attend a meeting on the night 6f the Ist of
October, which they were afraid to refuse, lest their
own lives should be endangered. They joined a
party, consisting of a hundred at least, assembled
near Glenagannon Bridge ; they were under the bank
of the river, some sitting and some lying down. It
was a moon-light night, but not very bright. A
man came over the bridge along the road from Cam
whistlitv;—which the witness understood to be the
signal that Balfour was corning lir a few minutes
atter Balfour came. by himself, in the same direc-
tion. The party drew near to the bridge, and just
as Balfour had passed along it, a man rushed for-
ward and seized him, and dragged him back a few
paces. Balfour raised his hand to his hat, and said,
" Boys dear, what you please?" which were the last
words that lie spoke. The person who had first
seized him, immediately gave him a stab with a
sword, which he drew front a canc., and instantly
the whole party rushed upon him with various v: ea-
puns, every body striking him that could get ax him.
They dragged him off the road into.the hollow, and
when he was dispatched, a rope was put round his
seek, and he was shagged to a flax-hole, at some dis-
tance ; the body was throWn in, and a man jumped
on it to sink it. it was then covered with sods. When
all was over an oath was administered to several of
the party, to keep secret all that had gassed. This
was not taken by all the pariy.

The trial commenced at twelve o'clock and con-
tinued till nine at night, when, after a most impres-
sive charge from the learned and humane Judge, W'.
M'l:hany was sentenced to he hanged on Saturday,
the Ist instant, and his body to be delivered to the
surgeons for dissection. Darby Canny was acquitted.

HEAD POLTCE Orrice, DUBLIN, Are. 7.—A per-
son, formerly in the woollen-drapery business, in
Francis-street, was on Friday taken into custody,
upon the charge of having, in February last, handed
over in payment to Benjamin Rigley, of Manchester,
a forged draft of C. 44. 10s. Bd. purporting to be the
acceptance of Sam. Smith, of Wicklow . The docu-
ment in qeescion had been given, with other securities,
to the amount of £lOOO, in settlement of an account.
The prisoner was taken into custody by Mr. Farrell,
the chief peace officer, and upon being brought before
the Magistrates, Counsellor I'INLAT was, upon two
separate days, heard upon his belAlf. After the most
mature deliberation, the primer was, on Monday
last, committed to Newgate.
Denue.—Tuesday last, between three and four
o'clock, a tuffian, of the name of John Reilly, the
driver of a hay-cart, in the employment of a man'
named Discern, a factor, of Kevin s Port, Dublin,
after having discharged his load of hay in the neigh-
bourhood of Leeson-street, drove his horse and cart
along the flag-way of the South side of Istephen%-
lgreen. in a must violent meaner, and unfortunately
came in contact with five- interesting young Ladies.
who were returning item school; they were all
thrown down—one of them, abeet twelve years of
age, the dau,siecr of Mr. Bergin, a respectable grocer
:n Essex-street, suffered most seriously, the side of
her head and face being dangerously cut and bruised
Surgical assistance was fortunately procured almost
-at the moment, and this young lady was conveyed
home to her disconsolate patents ; two others of the
young ladies were in a slight measure hurt—the re-
attaining two suffered more from the fright than
otherwise. Reilly, the driver, immediately fled, leav-
ing the cart and horse behind; but was ultimately
discovered, concealed- in a quarry, in the Long-lanel
off Camden-street.

CARLOW, AUGUST 6.---Monday night, about nine
o'clock, three men called at the house of Michael
Mulhall, an induitrious coal cartihr, living near Bal.
lyadams Castle, about ten miles from Carlow, in the
Queen's County, affecting to search for a deserter.—
One of them entered the house, and the other two
drove in a man and boy, who were at a lime-kiln
near it ; and closing the door, demanded what mo-
' ney they had. The wife of Mulhall gave ten-pence,
saying it was all that was in the house t not satisfied
with this, they proceeded to search Mulhall's person,
and discovered in the pockets of an inside waistcoat,
a few tenpennies which he had to purchase a load of
culm in the colliery next day. Rather than part
those, Mulh 11l straggled, and was immediately fired,
at by one of the gang. He kept his hold, notwith-
standing a mortal wound, from the shot in his belly,
and, assisted by his wife, the man and boy, endea-
voured to secure hm ; but at last, faint and over-
I powered with repeated blows of the pistol, and a
!large stone fiom the other two, they desisted, and
the villains escaped. Mulhall died immediately after.
In the struggle, one of the robbers bit the wife's fin-
ger almost off. An Inquest was held on the body,
by Mr. KELLY, one of the Coroners of the Queen's
County, and a verdict found of—Wilful Murder
against some parson or persons unknortu •