Star.
London, England, 1826-08-19 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

Thur.day, Mr. Thomas Hunt, the son of the candidate at the late
election for the county of Somerset, was brought up to this office,
in the custody of Bond, one of the constables of Christchurch,
Blackfriats, charged with having committed a violent assault upon
the person of ?.Jr. Venning, the landlord of the Bull in the Pound
public-house, Broadwall, in the parish of Christchurch.
The constable produced a medical certificate, describing that Mr.
Yenning was so. seriously injured, in consequence of a wound that
he had received on the bask part of the head, that he could not,
without danger, be removed from his house.

Mr. Swaney was about to postpone the heating of the charge
until Mr. yenning should be enabled to attend, when a person named
Jacobs stepped forward, and stated that be could describe the whole "
particulars of the charge against Mr. Hunt, as hr had been also as-
saulted by that Gentle nian. Jacobs then proceeded to state, that on
Wednesday evening he was taking a pint of porter in the tap-room
of the Bull in the Pound public-house, when his attention was ar-
rested by hearing a clamour in the parlour. Soon afterwards Mr.
Thomas llunt rushed into the tap, apparently rath"r intoxicated,
exclaiming aloud, " Who, in this room, dare drink the health of Sir
Thomas Lethbridge, the obnoxious member for Somerset ?" He
(Jacobs) willing to have a little tun, stood up, with a glass of gin and
water in his hand, and said, " I dare drink Sir Thomas Lethbridgr's
health;" and then putting the glass to his lips, was about to drink
the toast in a bumper, when Mr. Hunt rushed towards him, upset
the gin and water, and gave him a sharp blow on the forehead.—
The landlord and other persons hearing the row came into the tap-
room, when the former, hi his attempts to rescue him (Jacobs) from
the clutches of Mr. Hunt, who is a powerful and athletic young
man, received a blow that laid him prostrate on the floor, and cut
1 hint severely.
Mr. Hunt, in his defence, declared that he had been irritated, par-
ticularly by Jacobs, who was exceedingly impudent to him on the
night in question; that in his attempt to punish him for his inso-
lence, the landlord, with several others, pinioned him, and pro-
ceeded to ilt•treat him, when, in his anxiety to break loose from them
all, he gave Mr. Yenning a shove, and the back part of his bead
hitting against the table he was cut. Ile added, that he was assaulted
in the first instance by Jacobs.
Mr. Hunt, senior, here informed the Magistrate, that he had
called on Mr. Yenning that morning, who was certainly a good
deal hurt in consequence of the fall he received, but he assured him
(Mr. Hunt) that he had no intention whatever of proceeding against
kis son for the assault.
The Magistrate observed, that he should postpone the further
hearing of the charge for a few days, in order to give Mr. Yenning
lan opportunity of attending ; and, in the mean time, he should take
the defendant's word to appear when he was wanted.—The parties
then left the office.

MARRIED.

The 17th instant, at Worthing, Lieut.-General Sir Richard
Church, K.G.C. Neapolitan Order of St. George, and K.C. of the
Hanoverian Order of the Guelph, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter
of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. of Cinnamon, in the county of Derby.

DIED.

The 15th instant, at Cheltenham, Captain C. IL Gibb, of the
25d Madras Light inftntry.
The 24th ult. at Clonervy, county of Cavan, after a liogerintill-
ness, Ijeut.-Colonel Francis Brooke, C.B. late of the 4th (or the
King's Own) Regiment.
Wednesday, at his residence, Newton-Bushel, almost suddenly,
aged 82 years, John Green, M.D.
At Ipswich, Suffolk, aged 78, John Viel, Esq. late Collector of
the Excise in that town. and firmerly and for upwards of sixteen
years Collector of the Plymouth Collection.

ikIICSVGATE AND I.IIII3IsNIIALL MARKETS, Atrousrle.
Reef.. 3.4 0.1 to 43 Od I Veal
Mutton ........3s Odto 46 OJ Pork 3s 4d to Ss 4d