Star.
London, England, 1818-08-28 00:00:00

POLICE.

rictom HALL.—Yesterday a charge was brought
against a set of persons called Afar rate-bone and
Cleaver-men," by Mr. Dunning, a baker, residing at
Brixton, Surrey.—Mr. Dunning said he was married
on Monday last, and a short time after he was iu
bed his felicity was disturbed by a number of men
coming before his house making the most horrid
noise with marrow-bones and cleavers. He calledao
them to desist, and go about their business, when
Ithey answered, they would not depart until he had
given them a sum of money, he threw them 3s. and
they went away. On Tuesday night his slumbers
were broke by the same fellows, who again deman-
ded money ; he begged them to go away, and told
them that he should not give them any more. They
made the most horrid noise by yelling and shouting,,,
and before they departed they threw several stones
of considerable size through his chamber window,
one of which passed close to the head of his wife, as
she lay in bed.—The Magistrates issued warrants to
apprehend the parties.
STAoa
COACIIES.-••••MAY V. was an
information under the Stage Coach Act, for carrying
a greater number of passengers on the outside thaa
is allowed by law. The case was adjourtied from
the 20th inst. and judgment deferred in order to al-
low the defendant an opportunity of proving that he
had been convicted for the same offence at another
place (Portsmouth). The defendant made the same
statement as upon the former hearing, that a prior
conviction had taken place, but failed to produce any
record of such decision. The Magistrate said, that
no sufficient evidence was produced to support the
defence set up, and convicted the defendant in the
penalty of £lO. and 40s. costs.
The Magistrate, after delivering judgment in the
above case, again referred to the. Act for the regula-
tion of stage coaches, and delivered an opinion re-
specting offences under that Net, highly important
to the proprietors and drivers of these vehicles. The
information, he said, upon which he had just deci-
ded, set forth that the offence complained of took
place in the county of Surrey, on the 7th inst. and
in the defence it was stated, that for the same offence
an information was laid at Portsmouth, which stated
that the violation of the Act of Parliament took place
on the Bth, in the County, of Plants. He was de-
cidedly of opinion, that the law would not consider
it as the same offence, but that a fresh offence was
incurred in every different county, and that a fine
might be inflicted in every fresh jurisdiction through
which the coach travelled, and continued to carry
more than the 'legal number of passengers ; and it
was therefore possible that a driver of a stage coach
might by the illegality of his conduct incur a penalty
of ruinous magnitude on the same day, when he
might be satisfied in his own mind that his breach of
the law could not extend beyond the punishment of
inflicting a penalty of £lO for each passenger beyond
the proper number, even should he persist in the of-
fence throughout the journey. Several proprietors
of stage coaches Mere present, and appeared to feel
much astonishment at the above opinion.
lIATTON.GARDert.--Yesterday, Mr. Jonathan
Goodall, one of the Proprietors and driver of the
Watford stage-coach, appeared to a summons, on an
information laid against him by one of the passengers
in the coach, charging him with having, oft the Bth
instant, carried fourteen outside passengers. A Gen-
tleman from the Stamp Office produced a copy of
the defendant's license, to shew that he was part
owner, and that his coach was not licensed to carry
more than twelve outside passengers. The Magi-
strates convicted the defendant in the full penalty of
£2O for each of the two passengers so-over-carried,
being in all £40.--There was a second information
against the same defendant, charging him with Wan-
tonly and furiously driving 'his horses along the
Edgeware Road, on the day mentioned in the first
information, at the rate of fourteen miles an hoii.
his coach being at the time heavily laden, whereby
he endangered the lives of his Majesty's subjects.—
The case being proved, the Magistrates, being deter-
mined, if possible, to put an end to this dangeroUs
practice, convicted the defendant in the further sum
of ten pounds.
GUTLDITALL. Thomas Light was charged on sus-
picion of having robbed the house of Mrs. Smedley,
in St. Paul's Church-yard. on Sunday last, while the
family were at Church. The prisoner had been seen
lurking near the door of the house, and being a well-
known character, was apprehended by an Officer,
who described him to the Magistrate as a rentrrec-
tion-man ! otherwise a robber of graves. The pri-
soner said, he was a dealer in human teeth, and that
he supplied the chief dentists in England and France.
The Magistrate expressed some surprise at this ac-
knowledgment ; but as there was no evidence to
prove that the prisoner was concerned in the robbery
of Mrs. Smedley's house, he was discharged.

A most horrible crime was committed at Toulouse,
on the 14th inst. by a young female, who assassina-
ted her own brother. Madame Mazas had become
guarantee for her brother for the sum of 1300 franca
Before the note was due, her husband went to Mois-
sac to receive the amount, according to his engage-
ment ; but his brother-in-law gave him a very eva-
sive and unsatisfactory answer, saying he would see
him at Toulouse. Mazas, on his return, informed
his wife of the manner in which he had been re-
ceived, and the latter, indignant at such conduct,
only thought of being revenged. On the arrival of
her brother, she purchased a large knife • she then
went to him, and after loading -him with the most
violent reproaches, plunged the knife into his heart.
The unfortunate victim tell at her feet, and instantly
expired. The "assassin left the house without any
emotion, and went to her own residence to change
her dress. She was immediately taken into custody,,
and on being interrogated by the Judge d'lnstruc-
tion, she calmly replied, that if sbe had shed the blood
of her brother, she had strong.motives for so doing,
and that the want of sincerity on the part of the vic-
tim bad infuriated her mind, and led her to the corn-
-mission of the deed.

An inquest was yesterday held at the London Hos-
pital, on the body.of T. Winter, whom we stated some
time ago to have met with
.a dreadful accident, by fall-
ing into a boiling vat of blue vitriolic solution ; and
lingered in great agony at the above Hospital till Le
died. Verdict—Accidental Death.