Star.
London, England, 1828-11-01 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONN&

Yesterday James Steam alias Robed blaritey. was finally examined
under a charge of felony. On Friday, the 24th inst. Mary Ann
Bull, wife of a journeyman carponer, saw the prisoner selling *pair
of silver gilt salt spoons, a ►hawl, and some children's clothes of
superior quality, to a Jew in the stieet. On Wednesday last she
saw him again, in the same place, offer to sell two silver table
spoons;ind two dessert ditto, in, she believed, the same Jew- The
prisoner asked 16s. for the lot, and the Jew offered 10s. and for
want of change fora sovereign, they walked towards Tutteohlm.
court-road together, and she followed them. On the road they
met with officers of this establishment, and a crest upon the spoons
having strengthened her suspicion that they were stolen, she desired
the officers to take the prisoners into custody. The spoons belong
to the Hon. Frederick Dudley Ryder, and the prisoner acknow-
ledged that he stole them from the house of the Earl of liarrowby,
in Dro-venor-square, where for many years he has been employed
to clean shoes and knives, ind assist in other kinde of work.—The
prisoner was committed to Newsate for trial.
QUEEN—SQUARE.
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A master painter anti glazier, of Pimlico was charged with haw-
ing a quantity of irk! and Polder in his pOssession, well knowing
the same to he itolen. lie was committed for a month to hard
hour in dr noose of Correction.

Gauss harosirrox.—The Magistrates of this office were yester-
day informed by one of the officers of the Mendicity Society, that
the account given by the gill Aims Ptior of her destitute condition,
was a tissue of falsehools, and the girl was a mod notorious im.
pastor. From the inquiries be had nude, he had discovered that
she never was in the service of a Lady in Marlborough-street.—
Instead of her father having been a wine merchant et Bath, he was
at that tune in St. Martin's workhouse, and had formerly been em-
ployed by the parish as turncock ; the mother was a native of
Wales, and the gni was born in London. Iler mother had once
lived in a respectable family, but was discharged in consequence
of repeated drunken:tel.'s, and was now a common woman on the
town. The tad situ-thin the girl filled was in .the house of 1)r.
Davis, of Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and from that house
she decamped with some plate and wearing apparel—in fact Mr
whole life exhibited a system of the most abandoned profligacy.
THAMES POLICE.

Two watermen, of Gravesend, were charged with stealing from
a West Indiaman a variety of the skins of curious and rare birds.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoners were entrusted with the
hoz, containing the stolen property, belonging to a passenger in the
ship, to take on shore: it was then carefully nailed and corded ;
and w:ien subsequently seen in the prisoners possession, the lid had
been torn off, aid it was emptied of its valuable contents; conse-
quently, the prisoners were taken into custody by Gillman, of this
Glace. They declared they knew nothing of the contents of the
box; and were remanded.

Messrs. BELL are going on successfully in weighing
the effects lost in the Htndostan India man 20 yeas s alto,
off the Iteculvers. *limy have already regovered 3,0u0
dollars, and about 60 tons of copper.—Ken! lietald.
Yesterday evening an inquest was holden at the Lon-
don H ispital, on the body of a hackney coachman,
named Thomas Dean, who died in that Institution on
the preceding day, in consequence of injuries he re-
ceived by a tall. Verdict—Accidental Death.