Star.
London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Before Mr. Common Sergeant Duxes and a Middlesex Jury.
Burdett Rogers, a youth aged 16 years, was indicted for stealing,
on the 24th of August last, certain coins of the value of XI lls. the
monies of George Morgan.
The prosecutor is a waiter at Clark's Club-house, St. James's-
street, where the prisoner was also employed in some menial capa-
city. On the day mentioned in the indictment, Morgan missed
the moles above stated from the pocket of a pair of omen which
were banging over a chair in his bed-room, and having some sus-
picions against the prisoner, sent for an officer and gave him into
custody. On the prisoner being searched, the sum of 1L I Is. was
found on his person.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, stated that
his father, who was a dentist and copper, and highly connected,
had for some reasons unknown to him turned him and his mother
out of doors five years since.
Mr. Coxneri-Sasozerrr having summed up the evidence, the
Jury found the prisoner guilty.
Henry Lefton, aged 25 years, was found guilty of stealing a
silver watch, value L 3 and upwards. on the 24th of October, the
property of Henry Sampson Hadwicke.
Wes. Thompson, a private soldier of the 3d Regiment of Foot
Guards, was indicted for stealing, on the 29th of October, a silver
watch and its appendages, value ,C 6, the property of J. Ingram, a
camp bedstead-maker, in Lambeth.
The prosecutor stated, that on the evening in question be was
proceeding along Cockspur-street, half-seas over," when the
prisoner and another private soldier came up to him, and volun-
teered to see him safe home. To this he agreed ; and on their
way the prisoner contrived to steal his watch.
The case being clearly proved by several witnesses, the Jury,
without troubling the Common Sergeant to sum up, found the
prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner received an excellent character for honesty and
general good conduct from his pay-sergeant, Robert Duff.

ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. COMBE AND DELAFIEED'S
DRZWILIr.—On Monday Morning a mos lamentable occurrence
took place at the brewery of klessts. Condit, Delafield, and Co. in
King-street, Long-acre, which it is feared will prove fatal in its
consequences. For the last few days, one of the largest vats on
the premises has been undergoing some internal repairs, and ,
several persons, friends of the workmen employed in the estab-
lishment, have called to descend to the bottom. On
Monday morning, about seven o'clock, Mr. James Dorsett, a res-
pectable butcher in Union-street, Southwark, went to the brewery
fur the purpose above stated, and descepdrd a ladder with the
stew of getting down, when, the moment he reached the top, his
foot dipped, and be fell bet:dforernost to the bottotni a height of
S 3 fret. Many of the men ran to Ida assistance, but great difacolty
arose as to what plan could be adopted to exit icate him; at length
one of the labourers d•scended with a rope round hii ifilddle, and,
having grasped the Unfortunate man in his arms, they were both
hauled up by a windlass ; and Mr. Dorsett; who was quite
ittsetrd-
ble, with the blood gu-hing Irani his satoula, was. Oseed is a coach,
and conveyed to St. Thomas's Dospital,yibire be was put to bed,
and every attention paid to him; but such is the extensive injury
he has sustained internally, that not the dijhtest Wipes kre ate-
tabled of his recovery.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday, an old woman, dressed after a most grotesque fashion,
and wearing a lilac cockade with long streamers upon an old black
bonnet, which surmounted a dirty crimson handkerchief tied in
the manner of a hood over her bead. was brought before Mr.
'Aluisaut.t. by one of the new police constables, charged with having
knocked at the door of a surgeon in Bedford-street. Covent-garden,
and creating a riot.
Mr. Muumut t. asked the old defendant why she wore a cockade ?
Defendant—Why, your Worship, then to tell you the truth, I
wear it for joy that Mr. Roach is out of office
Mr. Minimum.: But why should that be a source of joy to you ?
Defendant : Because, your Worship, we will have no more
washing of hands in rose-water, and gorgeous banqueting., and
Champaign guttlings : (roars of laughter.) Yes, you may laugh.
but I know very well that these t►inggs were going on ; the poor
were neglected. hiusn't ft then be cause of pleasure to all of us,
that Mr. Roach, who was an encourager of these things, should
be out of °Mee? _ _ _

Mr. Missimu.: You need say no more about Mr. Roach, but
go about your business, and offend no more. The defendant made
her acknowledgments, and withdrew.
HATTON GARDEN.
Yesterday, John Mallow, 12 years of age, was charged with having
let off fire-works in White Lion-street, Nicosialle. The boy pro-
fessed great contrition for the offence, and his mother, who is a
poor woman, Wab much distressed, when she entertained that the
penalty is 401. serjeant Suyolg. in commiseration of the woman's
poverty, and the son's contrition, after admonishing the boy ear-
nestly, liberated the prisoner without punishment.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. Vas. ilk.rander Malcolm, a gentleman fashionably attired,
was yesterday brought before the presiding Magistrate, F. A. Rog.
Esq. charged on suspicion of having received some pictures,
knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. John Hunt, a picture-dealer, stated that be had some pic-
tures sent to a coach-office in Basingball-lane, from whence they had
been stolen. The prisoner was one of the parties to whose posses-
sion they bad been traced.
Mr. Hoe inquired if the prisoner wished to say any thing, st the
same time informing him that be was charged with a transportable
offence, and had better not say any thing to criminate himself.
The accused said, he could refute the whole of the prosecutor's
evidence, and could bring a host of respectable witnesses to prove
his innocence. . .

Mr. Roc, with his usual liindueu, advised the prisoner to say
nothing in his defence, but reserve it for Thursday, as be should
remand him until that day.
The gentleman inquired if be would be allowed to put in bail ?
Mr. Roe regretted to inform him, that in the present stage of
the busine4 he could not accept bail.
He was accordingly remanded until Thursday.
MARY-LA-BONNE.

Stephen Donee and Benjoatis Bream. two ill-looking fellows.
were yesterday placed at the bar before E. Gruenrus, Feq. the
Sitting Magistrate, charged with feloniously entering the dwelling.
house of Mr. Harris, the Proprietor of the White Lion, at Pad-
dington. and stealing one sovereign and a half, the property of
Mary Burnes, a servant in that house.
The prisoners were shewn to their room in the house about nine
o'clock on Monday night, and the servant's room on the same floor
was then locked, and also a door at the bottom of the stairs ; and
on going up stairs three quarters of an hour afterwards, it was dis-
covered that the servant's door had been forced and the girl's hos
broken open.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
LAMBETH-STREET.

Thos. Soppy, a well-dressed but ruffianly looking fellow, an old
acquaintance of the police, was brought before the Magistrates.
charged with rioting, assaulting a number of the local constables of
Stepney, and gambling. Bennett, a green-grocer, stated that on
the morning he observed a young man sitting on the Mile-end road-
side, playing the thimble-rig, and the prisoner and a number of his
associates surrounding him ; suspecting from their maturates that
they were all thieves, be called outzo the crowd of persons who had
assembled, to take care of their pockets. Scarcely had he done so,
when the player exclaimed" Muzzle the b—!" and he was in-
stantly attacked by ten or twelve of his companions, who knocked
him down, and would, he had no doubt, have done him some se-
rious injury, were it not that Mr. Draper, and other Gentlemen,
came to his assistance.
Mr. %raiz : Your making the remark was incautious ; it was.
in fact, placing your hand in a hornet's nest. Did you see the pri-
soner take any part in the game? Witness : I did, sir; he
bustled in amongst the crowd, and laid down a half-crown on the
event of the game ; but this was merely a decoy, and something to
induce the strangers to bet.
Mr. Draper corroborated this witness's statement, adding, that
they had secured three or four others of the gang, but that being
overpowered, they were rescued from their custody.
The prisoner offered a lame and incredible defence, and was
committed, under the Vagrant Act, for three months to the
House of Correction.
On being removed to the strong-room, he expressed much
chagrin to Shields the gaoler, at being lumbered (confined) at so
awkward a juncture, and so near the approach of the Lord
Mayor's-Jay, when, as usual, he expected reaping a plentiful hat-
Veit.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday David Hall, charged with embezzling two looms
work of silk, the property of Messrs. Buttress, of Steward•street,
was brought up for final examination, with Mary !fall and WI/lines
Hall, his brother and sister, as particeps eriesinis. The loss of
property was stated to be about thirty pounds, besides three pounds
ten shillings in cash advanced as wages The landlady of the house
in which David and Mary had lodged proved that on the 15th of
August the latter complained to her dist their employers refused to
advance ten shillings more, and she said there would, be no
harm in cutting out the work and retsruing it ; it was accord•
Ingly taken away, and, as the landlady supposed, returned to the
employers, and she afterwards heard David say, as he went up
stairs, " Its all right, Mary, my dear." The prisoner David,
when called on for his defence, said he admitted that he took out
both the leorns work, and that he had disposed of the silk, but be
was in great distress at the time. He had worked seven years for
Mr. Buttress, he said, and never before bad a blemish on his cha-
racter. Mr. Buttress admitted that the prisoner had worked for
them that time, and was a good workman ; and bad therefore ad-
vanced 10e. more to him than they would have done to any other
workman. The Magistrates sent him to Brixton House of Cor-
rection for three months, as be lived in Surrey. lii. wife and
brother were discharged.

At a Vestry Meeting held at Melksham on Saturday,
it was resolved to take 50 acres of land, if they can be procured,
for the purpose of spade husbandry, sod the employment of the
pauper poor, who are now in a state of actual idleness.
A dreadful and melancholy accident occurred at Mr.
Aldridge's Horse Repository, St. Martin's-lane, on Saturday, to
an elderly nian, of the name of Bishop, who had formerly been an
extensive horse-dealer. The unfortunate man was going up the
ride, where the horses are exhibited fur sale, when he received a
tremendous kick from a horse which fractured his thigh. He was
conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where every surgical as,istance
was rendered, but In vain; death put a period to hisaufferings.