Star.
London, England, 1826-10-23 00:00:00

KINGSTON, Om 21.

Charles Livermore, a youth of 16, was indicted for
stealing a silk baf,'containing sixpence in copper, from
a little girl named Maria Folkck, at Croydon Fair.
Tie tale the child told was, that the money of which
she had been robbed was given to her by her aunt, and
that on the 4th of the present month, her mother took
her to Croydon Fair to see the mountebanks and shows.
While she was looking about, the prisoner came behind
her, and matched her bag from her hand, but as she
immediately told her mother, she ran after, and had
him stopped and taken to prison, where the bag and
Money was found upon him.—He was found Gurley.

The mother of the lad, a decent hard-wotking woman,
with tears in her eyes, entreated the Court to be mefaful.
to her boys as she really believed he had been drive' to
dishonesty through hunger.
The CHAISMAN inquired bow be bad reeentiy been oboist%
his !Mug ?
The mother answered; that he had been living at a
public-house for two years, but was compelled to leave
his situation from illness, and if she could afford to irAy
the expenses of bringing persons from London, she was
sure that the Court would be satisfied that her son was
a bard working lad. -
The Gummi p.—•Hu be no hair to take ease of Ya 4 ?
The mother said he bad not. Her husband left hit
ten years ago withthree small children to support in the
best way she could. It waso hard teskfor her, but she
had honestly maintained them to the best of her power.
When her boy came dome sick she provided for him as
long as she was able • but at last be left home, about
six weeks since, and being still very weak from his
ill-
ness, be could not get any one to employ him, and she
supposed he did this wrong to keep him from starving.
The Court giving credit to the poor woman's tale,
sentenced the prisoner tobear the mitigated punishment
of three months' imprisonment in Guildford House of
Correction.
" Oh I Gentlemen," said the mother,;" let me ask you
another favour, it is that you will let the boy suffer his
punishment at Brixton instead of Guildford. I have
walked to and from London three dap this week to
speak for the poor fellow, and I find it is more than my
strength will bear ; so that if he is sent to Guildford, so
much further from town, I fear I shall not see him all
the time he is in confinement, as I cannot afford to pay

coach-hire." •
The CHAIRMAN humanely seceded to the request, for which the
poor woman gratefully thanked the Court, and retired.
Alexander Reed (the pugilist, known in the ring by the
name of the " Chelsea snob"), Rickard Stacey, Charles
Berridge, and Ezekiel Spencer, were indicted for as-
saulting illiam Picking, a constable, of Battersea, in'
the execution of his duty, and also with assisting in the
rescue of a prisoner, whom he had taken into custody.
The statement made by Mr. JEMMETT, the Counsel
for the prosecution, was to the following effect:—The
defendant Reed, was a well-known fighting man; the
second defendant was a labouring man ; and the other
two were gardeners. On the 6th of June last, Picking,
a constable, was sent by the parish officers of Battersea,
to prevent a pugilistic contest which was expected to
take place that day in Battersea Marsh. He accord-
ingly went there with some assistants, and on ap-
proaching the spot saw a large concourse of people
assembled, a ring formed. and two men stripped, who
were in the attitude of fighting. The officer broke
through the crowd with the intention of taking the
combatants, but directly he had made himself known
they left the ring and ran off. In breaking through
the people, a man came before Picking, and waived
a Atick over his head as if to strike him, and a bro.
ther officer seeing this, came up and said " We'll take
him into custody. The man finding he was likely to be
overpowered, threw himself down, and fastened round
the legs of the two constables, and at this moment there
was a general buzz among the assembly to rescue him,
which was diine by Picking's being knocked down,
and struck and kicked about till he was senseless. On
recovering he followed the mob which was running to-
wards a lane, and assisted in securing some of the de-
fendints. All the men named in the indictment, it
could be proved, were seen on the ground, and that
Stacey and Spencer were nearest to the officers when the
interruption was made; but it could not be precisely as-
certained that the defendants were the persons who com-
mitted the assault. The Jury, however, would hear the
witnesses and decide the case as they should think proper.
The evidence of Picking.and another officeiwas then
taken. They proved beyond all doubt, that there was
a great tumult in consequence of ;their interference to
prevent the battle, and that they were both cruelly
beaten ; but, they completely failed in implicating any of
the defendants with the disorders of the day, and under
the direction of the Chairman, they were all acquitted.

BRIGHTON, QcT. 22..LBetween eight and nine o'clock
this morning tNs place was visited by one of the most
violent thunder-storms within the recollection of the old-
est inhabitant, followed by a deluge of rain, which con-1
tinned to poor several hours. Towards evening the'
weather cleared up, and the promenades presented their
usual brilliant appearance.
We hear that the late Mr. SPALDING bas left the whole
of his fortune to the Trustees for the Society of Fine Arts, for the
purpose of enabling them to Wird support to decayed and deserving
artists. The amount is said to be adopted at between 140004
and £O,OOOl.
Sir SYDNEY SMITH if now at Dieppe, where he has
been amusing himself by constructing a life-boat, Ida* however,
did not exactly answer the perm
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at Bender
on the Slat of August.
- A Mr. Giblet was last week married to Miss Plover,
of tke Poultry.
An Inquest was on Wednesday held at the George
Inn, Trowbridge, on the body of a child, whose death
was occasioned by drinking boiling water from a tea-
kettle, which was left within its reach.
Sunday forenoon, about half-past ten o'clock, a very
distreting accident, which it is feared will prove fatal to
two ladies, happened about the middle of Holborn,
close to Middle-row. A Gentleman, whose name we
heard was Fennessy, was driving a gig, his wife and
daughter (a young lady of 15) were sitting by his side,
and passing quietly between a country van and a coal-
waggon. the gig was jammed, and the horse, a very
spirited animal, becoming very restive, plunged until
it actually forced itself within the shafts of the two wag-
gons, and the entangled gig was in an instant crushed.
The Ladies were thrown down, and one of them, Mrs.
Fennessy, was dreadfully injured, and, with her daugh-
ter, was removed in a state of insensibility to the shop of
Mr. Mayhew. The elder lady has sustained a fracture
of the left thigh, and a dreadful laceration, extending
from the neck to the throat. Her daughter's right arm
and head ate much cut, and, from the alarm produced
by fright, the consequences are likely to prove serious.
Mr. Fennessy was but slightly bruised.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning between seven
and eight o'clock, as one of the Greenwich pensioners,
of the name of al,Cannon, was on duty at the main
guard at GreenwiCh College, 'he suddenly fell 'down,
and was conveyed in a state of insensibility to the In
firmary, where every means were 'used by the medical
petions in attendance, to testore unimatim, but with• t
effect, as it would appear' that he expired the moment
he feli down. 'The unfortunate man was. in his 65th
year, was remarkably hearty preceding his awful death,
and had only entered 'the College about' six weeks. '
It is singular, that in 'the small village of- Stanton,
near Oundle (which does not contain 300 inhabitants),
there are no less than 63 persons of the name of Bell.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-MUM .

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Saturday, George Jul, a young man of very respectable sp.
purance, was charged with embezzling various sums of money,
received by hirmon account of his employer, Mr. Cook of Cheap.
side.—Remanded.
Foaca• or Commance.—The LORD Mavos received a letter
from a young woman, whose connections are said tobe respectable,
confesilng that she was the person who stole some riboods (tom a
shop in Blshopsgate•street, for which offence another young woman,
who was In the shop at the time, was recently couilnitted to New.
Ire, on circumstantial evidence.
The LORD Mamas directed that inquiry should be made tato the
circumstance.

George Smith and 'Man Helga were committed for picking •
Gentkman's pocket of his handkerchief. •

GUILDHALL.
Saturday, J. Minis: was charged with being, along with air or
seven other vagabonds not yet in costody, found in Butcherball-lane
that morning, and a large mob assembled round them. playing at a
well known cheating game, called thimbles and peas (similar to cups
and balls), and defrauding a number of the unwary passengers, who
were enticed to play with them for their money.
J. Gibbons, a constable, swore that be was sent for, oa Saturday
morning, to disperse a large crowd drawn together by the primmer.
Williams made a ♦ery lame debnce ; he said he was a carpenter,
and out of employment for three months.
The sitting Alderman told him he should provide him with more.
active employment for the ensuing three mouths, akhough not so
profitable as that in which he had been enaged that morning. He
was sent to Bridewell for the period above mentioned, as a rogue

and vagabond.
Six THOMAS Amazes ACT.—Tbe advice of the Qty Solicitor
being desired on Saturday, with respect to an application then made,
the Learned Gentleman to occasion to advert to the case of the
party who applied a few days since, for a warrant under Sir Thos.
Plomees Act, to apprehend an attorney, who bad converted to his
own use a 1301 of Exchange, which had been put into his hands to
be discounted.
' - The City Solicitor said, the worthy Alderman (Sir Prraa
[rums) acted perfectly right upon that occasion, In refusing the
warrant, because the applicant was not prepared with evidence
that would sustain any distinct charge of offence against that Act.

Elisabeth Neak, a middle-aged woman, was charged with steal-
ing a bed, bolster, and pillows.
' It appeared the prisoner has been Using apart from her husband
for the last three years—latterly on an allowance of 10s. a week,
and a few days ago she determined upon exercising the legal right
of married ladies living in her state, to obtain necessaries suitable to
her rank, leaving the payment of them to be enforced from her
husband. In pursuance of this plan she hired a room in aothfair,
on Monday last, and on Tuesday she walked into the shop of Mr.
Timothy, an upholsterer, in Barbican, selected the above-mentioned
articles, value 41. 10s. and directed them to be sent to her lodgings,
intimating she could not herself conclude the purchase, but the
porter who brought the goods should either return with them or
the colt. The articles were carried there, and deposited in her room
up stair!, and she then prevailed on the porter to apply for the
money to bee hasband,a colourman, residing in Maiden-lane, Battle
Bridge; where, however, he soon ascertained the state of things,
that payment would be resisted, and that the prisoner had duped
many tradesmen of their property in the same way. He returned
to aotlifair, but be found Mrs. Neale had disappeared, and that
the bed, At. had been carried to a pawnbroker's soon after he bad
started for Battle-Midge. Mr. Timothy succeeded in causing her
to be apprehended at a public-house in Cow-cross, the same evening,
and she was brought up for final examined= as Saturday, before
Sir Pena Laos's.
She had been remanded, because she had stated that she had been
advised to proceed in the way she had„ by Mr. Selby, a respectable
solicitor, of Clerkenwell- That ' Gent -Iman, however, now at-
tended, Oritdeclared, that he had not seen or heard of her since the
year 1824, when he told bar that, if her husband was a man Worth
3,0001. a-year, as she represented, and be refused her a suitable al-
lowance, she should apply to some proctor in Doctors' Commons,
to sue r alimony.
Mr. Neale, the husband, addressed thg Alderman. He said the
prisoner bad been his wife twenty-eve Iron, but within the last
seven she had spent 4,0001. and reduced him from affluence to com-
petitive poverty, and instead of being worth 5,0001. a year, he was
not worth /1001. nor 1001. He had reduced his allowance to her
from 16$. to 10s. a week, since May, under the sanction of the
Hauser-garden Magistrates, by whom she bad been committed to
rhon oboes twenty times forbad conduct.
The ques whether thin was a case of constructive felony,
bad bow mooted at groat length by Mr. Timothy, and his solicitor,
on the nos loped, and by the pawribroker oaths odier,at a previous
hom she lamer weaseading that Mr. T. bed emu limed dew modes,
in see erg only et ignsamt purser with the pods, and shot be was
bowel by the act of his Sirellie who parted with the poweesien
of the goods; and the farmer Megan, where, as in this home,
a porter bad left goods without Obeilting the money, contrary to
the orders of his master, Podded same trickery had been used to
iodic, the prier to do soy in ttl whisk the Judges had inhered a
a previous latent to steal, and the elision bad hem emitted.
Sir P. Luume said, that in sending far the leak& and Mr.
Neale, he had not hest, perhaps, kopeigiriaii the lime ebb duty;
but if any good bad resiiipul, he *Mid net haverepeteed
He was it opinion a case ler euneulitmest bad but suede- wt,
cause the prisoner had outsold the troth wins she *Weed Ise
goods, and be thorefen sit her to Newgate for trial.