Star.
London, England, 1826-03-08 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday one John Dunn was brought before Mr. CO CANT,
charged with having picked the pocket of a Mr. Pickering. •
John Dunn is, or was before his present misfortune, a modal
appendage, to a travelling exhibition of monstrosities; or, as be.
himself described himself, " a chap what plays the pandean pipe to
the black giant, the seven legg'd rant from All jeers, and other
vunderful vurks of nature." Into this display of vunderful vurks
popp'd Mr. Pickering, as it was exhibiting in a feur.whetled
caravan in Oxford-street, on Monday night ; and he had scarcely
opened his eyes to see what was to be seen, When he "felt his
pocket feel empty by the loss of his handkerchief—a spick-and-span
bright yellow Spital-fields Bandana."—" Hallo !" cried Mr. Picker-
in., " who's got my ankicher f" and, turning himself sharply round •
aba.d, he aaw it in the hand of the pandean piper, Mr. Dunn, who
was forthwith given in charge to a constable.
Mr. Dunn, when asked by the Magistrate what he had to say in
his defence, gave a very melancholy twist to his visage, and de-
clared that he was wrongfully accimed.—" How could I possibly
pick the getleman's pocket," said he, 4' Mbetl I had the double drone
against my belly, a drum-stick in each hand, and the pandean piper.
under my chin?"
Mr. Pickering, in reply, would not presume to point out the.
possibility, he only knew the fact, and as he persisted in-this state'
ment, the poor pa'ndean.piper was packed off to pgion. •
Nicholas Thompson, a tall sturdy subject, M a well-made, but
much torn and very muslily suit of black, and without either sitars
or stockings, was charged with having been " mad irunk" in Pic-
cadilly, on Monday fight. The constable !mend him haranguing a
crowd of coachmen and others on political economy, and illut
stating his arguments by pulling off his shoes and stockings, and
throwing them away."
4(' What are you, Sir?" said the Magistrate—for Mr. Thempecin
really appeared to be a man of Some miss; -land however bial• hie
dress might be, his address was good.
" Why, Sir," replied Mr. Thompson, " I am a ntanufSeturer....
an operative calico-printer from Manchester, In the CeinierVa-.
!otiose of Lancaster, and I am just retuned from an opera;ive.me-
culation in that line, at Douay, in Prance."
" Judgin 4 from your present appearance," said the Magistrate.
" you had better have remained at home ; your speculation seems
to have been a very unfortunate one."
" Indeed it has. rejoined the bare-footed political economist;
" but, however, I arrived in this country a day or two ago, and
yesterday I met with some soldiers, with whom I hadisecome ac-
quainted at when the Army of Occupation was on
.the Continent, at which time I-was a suttler in the army. With
them I drank deeply of raw spirits ; and, as I have bad several se-
vere contusions on my head, drinking always affects me strangely.
My conduct last night, I know, was extremely reprehensible; but I
assure your Worship I am on the stool of repentance this morning."
" And on that same stool you must remain until you pay a fine
of five shWinp for being drunk," said the Magistrate, and there-
upon it appeared that the speculative operative was suffering so
deeply under a" pecuniary crisis" in his pockets, that the payment
of such a fine was quite impracticable, but the Magistrate rtfueed
to reverse his judgment, and consequently the unfortunate raw-
spirit-drink ing speculator was consigned to the custody of the gaoler.
• LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday, John Watley, a muter shoemaker, residing in George-
street, Bethnal Green, was placed at the bar, charged with having
intermarried with a young woman named Elizabeth Ann Rogers,
during the lifetime of his first wife:
The prisoner in his defence said, that previous to his marriage
with the last wife, he felt convinced of the death of his first wife;
and in order su ascertain the legality of his second marriage, he
applied at Worship-stteet Office, where he was informed by Ike
Clerk that not having heard of his first wife for six or seven years,
he might legally marry again.
Mr. Ittanwiel considered the case a fit one to go to a •Jury,
and accordingly committed the prisoner.

The M4gistrates at Queen-Equate Plice Office have
decided that enlistment on a Sunday is illegal, and not
binding on the recruit.
Friday the extraordinary circumstance of moving a
windmill bodily, with the exception of the stones and wings, was
accomplished by transferring one which stood near Watlington, to
that remarkable high spot of ground, Nettlebed. Wick the assist-
ance of a timber cattiest and eighteen horses, they bad conveyed it
to the very bank which surrounds the spot, Windtrilbhill, when
the azletree gave way, anti It actually rolled on the bank, and was,
with little assistance, pulled into the field intended to receive it,
where it is now to be seen Heeding Mercury.
A list has been made out of the number of people
thrown out of employment connected with the Manufactures of
Glasgow, and they amount to 25,000. When it is considered
that a great number of these have families depending upon their
exertions, an idea may be formed of the mass of misery pre-
vailing in that district of the coantry where they have no Loses
Rate to fall back upon. It is net long since the Glasgow Operatives
were combining to raise wages; bat machinery Is a great carer of
combination.