Star.
London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

KING'S THEATRE.

Mad. PASTA'S last appearance but one this searin
attracted, on Saturday, a crowded audience, including
most of the fashionables remaining in town. The (),,era
was Medea, in which she displayed her admiraSle
powers of voice and action with the finest effect. The
splendid Shower of fire which marks her exit in the last
scene, was followed by shatters of a different element
which awaited the audience on their return home, and
fell incessantly, without compassion for satin shoes and
feathers.—ln the brilliant circle we noticed
The Duchess of Kent, and Princess Feodore; Prince and Princess
Esterhazy ; Marquises of Winchester, Worcester, Aylesbury, awl
Paimella ; Marcbionesies of Worcester and Salisbury; Earls of
Chesterfield and Morley; Countesses of Guildford, Antrim, St:
Antonio, Wemys, and Westmeath; Lords Sussex, Lembo:, Bruce,
Gwydyr, William Harvey, Lake, Mahon, Fitzroy, flervey, anti
Lowther; Ladies Lambert, North, Anne Becket, Ratify Kanner.,
Elizabeth Drummond, Gwydyr, Mary Shepherd, Bruce, Palteney,
Granville Somerset, Duff Gordon, Fitzroy-, Cooper, and Eleanor
Lowther; Counts Morel and Ludolff; General Sir Warren Peacock.

The copious showers of rain which fell on Saturday
night and the greater part of yesterday will be very beneficial to the
country, and contribute also to the health of the metropolis, by
cleansing the sewers.
Saturday morning, the Lsrds of the Privy Council
assembled at the Council Office, Whitehall. The Lords present
were the Lord President of the Council, the Master of the Roils,
and Mr. Ettiov. The first business which occupied the attention
of their Lordships was the pronouncing of judgment in an appeal in
a cause of French appeals, in which Mr. Bunn was considerably
interested, which was given in their Lordships name by the Master
of the Rolls, who gave judgment IN favour of Mr. Duro, who was
present to bear the decision. Their Lordships then preceecied to
hear the further appeal of " Law and Chevalier," a French appeal.
to a very considerable amount on bills of exchange, due from the
French Revolutionary Government, contracted in the lile of
France. 'The Master of the Rolls delivered judgment, declaring
their Lordships' opinion to be to reverse the award of the Contains -
sionera. The Court then broke up, and it was understood that
this was the last appeal their Lordships would bear thji 11:115411.
Thismornißg, between three and four, the Warehouse
of Mr. flainsworth, wholesale woollen draper, 44,
Basinghall-street, was broken open, and property. to t::e
amount of 4001. carried away.
Horse stealing is committing to *greu excent.in the
county of Essex. Two men, one niottlited on a bil.‘‘r)
horse, the other on a black mare, were taken irto.
i.ody at Barking,on suspicion of hay ing.stOlcn diem, last
Thursday ; and on, Saturday morning t no. Sue cart
orses, the property of Mr. Lee, of List Ham, were,
found much disfigissedr.by hating had their manes
aisJ
tails cut off by some evil disputed person.,
This morning. a fellow was well whipped in f,.!
-ran market, pursuant to.his sentence at tie last S:,sinas,
.or stealing a: side of veal in' the said mar krt.
, w„
Fever is rtjnily spreang in the I.,!ve: ties of 1.):11)!1.,.

.M.kNUFACTURING DisnucTs.

MANCHESTER, Jac? st:

The state of the town and the immediate neighbcoir-
hood is not such as to excite present alarm. The vigilance
of the police, the humane attentions of those who ad.
minister the parochial funds, and the general good sense
f the labouring people, have baffled the agitators.—
One meeting was held at Stockport last week, where
the notorious Dr. Healey talked extravagantly, but the
effort was abortive. The delegates or disturbers have
accordingly moved farther off; and at Blackburn it is
said that meetings are held almost every evening. I
intend going there to morrow. Meantime a sentiment
if portentous gloom certainly does pervade the minds of
the more sensible men in Manchester: they anticipate
dirt ing the fall of the year and the approach of winter, the
utmost pressure of distress. I yesterday saw a group of
healthy but ragged children, who had gathered about a
blind ballad singer. There was scarcely a pair of shoes
among twenty of them. "No matter for that," said an
observer to me, " at this warm seasos of the year, they
nearly live upon the fine weather ; but as the winter
told sets in upon their nakedness and hunger, they
will perish by thousands." He added that an experi-
ment had been made by some of the masters upon the
misery of their labourers, which proved to what wretch.
ednecs they may fall even from their present wasted
condition. They have actually consented to work for
a third of their previous wages; and there is a class of
Persons among their employers whose infamous thirst
of gain will allow them to derive a transient and pre.
carious trade by forcing a market for goods on the
reduced price which they are thus enabled to effect. I
learn from respeCtaide authority that some of the
work now yields the women and children one penny
per diem. An Irishwisman with whom 1 spoke on
the subject, said that her only prayer was that the
family might always he sure of getting one penny a
day. I had the good fortune to converse also with
a Ali. 13 r, a person of much urbanity and ex•
celleroly good sense. He spoke of their affairs de.
spondingly. One of the company remarked that the
sale of twist is greater than in the corresponding six
months of last year. Ile admitted, though a dealer,
and of course interested in any reduction of the charges,
that'wages had sunk ruinously low,- without any increase
of the demand or consumption. The sale of twist, he
said, only showed a diminution in the sale of manufac-
tured articles. I asked him if they felt any inconve-
nience from the weight of the duty on prints. He said,
that was not possible, the price of fabrics was so low
that the duty could not be telt, He showed us a piece
of blue cotton sprigged with white, which would sell
ret lil at 6d. per yard. A piece of it would cost now
Ss. 9J. for the weaving of which 35.6 d. must have been
paid a few years ago. They have no hope, he added,
but from a repeal of the Corn Laws, and not much then.

LEEDS, 'tux 22.

S tturday a deputation of six operative manufacture's
waited upon the Earl of Harewood, Lord Lieutenant of
this Riding, to present the Memorial passed at the Al-
mondbury Meeting of the unemployed and distressed
inhabitants of that district. held on the Monday pre-
ceding. The reception given by his Lordship to the
Deputation was extremely kind and e-ndeseensling.
Aftei listening to their accounts of ti._ distress of the
bp.] y they were appointed to represent, he entered at la ge
into his views of the cause of the present distressed and un-
hiippy situation of the manufacturing part of the country.
That cause he apprehended to be °ye' trading, arising out
via speculative spit it, as well in manufacturers as others.
As to the remedy, he saw no other than time and pa-
tience. Above all things he recommended subordination,
and said that any attempt to destroy property, and
particularly machinery, would not only fail to alleviate
the distress, but would end in the ruin of those whom
such acts were meant'to serve.
The harvest has already commenced in this neighbourhood, and
several fields of oats ere now in the bands of the reapers. At
lilland, Batley, and in many other parts of the county, the
harvest has also commenced.

Owing to the great increase of the Methoiists in this town and
neighliourhood, it is, we understand, proposed, at the approaching
Conference, which commences next Wednesday, in Liverpool, to
divide the Leeds Circuit into two, under distinct superintendence.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
GUILDFORD, JULY 2!.
THE KING V. JOHN JACOBS.

This defendant had been convictedat the last Assizes,
for this county before Mr. Baron Graham, of feloniously
interm-eirying with Catherine Fitzgerald, his first. wife,
Dorothy Thompson, being then alive. Upon the
a question arose as to the validity of the first marriage
(whic'i took place in Ireland), ou the ground that the'
defendant was tinder age at the time he contracted that
marriage, and that it was solemnized without the assent
of his father. The question arose on the construction
of the bib!' Mattiige Act, 9 George H. chap 11, which
requires the assent of patents to the marriage of au
'infant; but by that Act, a marriage so contracted
wi.ilOUt consent of p•ttents, must be avoided within a
twelvemonth aim, waids, otherwise it is good. Here the
defendant had acknowledged his first wife long since
this mat riage was solemnized, and had lived with her
after the expiration of twelve months. The case was
reserved for the opinion of the twelve Judges. The
defendant was now put to the bar, when
Mr. Justice HoinoYn delivered the opinion of the
twelve Judges to be, that the first marriage was good,
not hav ng been avoided within twelve months after
solemnization. The Irish Marriage Act had been often
recognized in this country, and the Judges felt them-
selves bound to take cognizance of it; and therefore,
attending to its provisions with reference to the facts
proved in the case, Oey were of ogiaion that the de-
pendant's conviction was right.
The defendant was then asked what he had to say why he should
not receive judgment of death. He said nothing, but on his knees
prayed the benefit of the statute making the offence tlergyable.
Mr. Justice HoLnovn then told the prisoner, that'
consideting all the particular circumstances of his case)
sebt..h was, as he understood, attended with great ag-
nravation, his Learned Brother, G vat AM, thought the
proper sentence to be pronounced was, that for his
offence the prisoner should be transported beyond seas
f. r the term of seven years, and his Lot dship acc.,rd•
ingiy ass arded and adjudged that sentence'.
The prisoner. who was a young man of gentlemanly appearance,
hwecu to the Court, and was taken from the bar. He had beta
krho•.eu by tLe name of Captain Hamilton, and was supposed to
hare been successful in his matrimonial speculations, having mar-
ricil more than two wives. •

&marl Perry WAS indicted for assaulting Eli-
z ihedi :I!.n Tuley, a child of ten 'cars 01J, at Lam-
-1),11), on the 21st June. The pr secutor was the
daughter Pt parents in humble life, and the prieonei
w shoeniaktr by trade, living in the neighbourhou
t GieAt Oakley-street. On the 21st June, the chile-
v a: sen: by h,r mother to the priionet's h..use, f.r

'pair of boots which had been left with him to mend.
The prisoner lived .alone in a small house, containing
only two roams. As soon as.the child was.
,let in, the
prisoner took her up stairs, and committed the aleged
assault, tinder circumstances of considerable violence.
He detained the child fOr half an hour, and then al-
lowed her to go home. Next day she complained to
her mother of indisposition, gild then the extent of the
prisoner's guilt was discovered. On the 27th June the
child was examined, when it was acertainei that she
was the victim of a barbarous delusion, but too preva-
lent amongst the lower classes. The prisoner himself
was found to be affected by indisposition of long stan&
ing. The child gave her evidence in an artless and
unaffected manner, and received confirmation from her
mother and the surgeon.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found the pri-
soner Guilty. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and
ha rd labour in the House of Correction.
EXETER, JULY 21.

Edward Thykr, a private soldier in the 62d Regt. was
charged with stealing a silver watch and appendages,
and also a pocket ca>e, with its contents, the property of
Henry Reid, a Captain in the 32J Regiment. It ap-
peared that the prisoner had entered Captain Reid's
quarters through the window, during his absence, and
taken the watch and pocket case out of his sleeping
room. Captain Reid's servant, who slept in the same
house, was awakened by bearing a person walking in
the room over head, and, upon getting up, discovered
the prisoner, who said he wanted to see his master.—
The servant, suspecting the prisoner's motive, had him
Appteheaded, and acquainted his master with the cir-
cumstances. The prisoner in his defence made a very
long but improbable statement, to the effect that he had
received the watch and pocket book from a lady, who
desired him to deliver it to Captain Reid, and that he
bad gone to the Captain's quarters for that purpose.
Captain Reid swore positively that he had never given the arti-
cles in question to any Lady:
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years
transportation.
James Edward Arbor, was tried for breaking open
the shop of John W. Tucker, at Tiverton, on the night
of the 4:h of June last, and stealing therefrom ten sil-
ver watches, above the value of 301.

He was found Guilty, and sentence of death was recorded
against him.
LEICESTER, Jvtar tl.
William Moore, Isaac Cooper, Henry Crofts, John
Richardson, Thomas Lichfield, W. Stunt, Charles Wit-
liamson, Rivers Morris, and Michael Smythe, were se-
verally indicted, and the indictment stated that they
had riotously assembled on the 14th June last, at the
parish of St. Martin, in Leicester, and unlawfully and
riotously disturbed the peace of our Lord the King, and
that for the space of two how: they had continued thus
unlawfully to conduct themselves.

The priso- tiers pleaded" not guilty." The prosecution,
which has arisen out of the proceedings at the late elec-
t:on, was at the instance of the Mayor and Corporation
of Leicester. The facts of the cue are too recent to
require repetition.
Mr. Sergeant VAIICIMAX addressed the Jury : after which the Ant
witness was called and sworn, when

The Loan Csszr Armes said—lt appears that the object the
corporation has in view, is not punishment, but example. Whether
the facts charged will be proved or not, it is impossible for me to
tell. What I should propose now is, that the prisoners should
severally be found guilty of offence, and enter into their own
recognizancea in 1001. each. to come up and receive the sentence of
the Court when called upon, and to keep the peace for three years.
If they conduct themselves properly, they will never be called upon
to receive sentence.

blr. Sergeant VAtrottalt—Your Lordship has nut stated that the
object of the corporation is to prevent a recurrence of similar evils,
and we yield at once to your Lordship's suggestion.
111 r. Desstan—l purposely abstain from,saying one word as to
the charges preferred against the prisoners. Ido think, however,
that they ire infinitely indebted to your Lordship for the sugges-
tion. They fully understand it, and prisoners, if you are advised
by me, and especially you, Richards, whose feelings on this point
fully know, you will earnestly accept the offer now made to you by
that great and good Magistrate, the Lord Chief Justice of England.
The prisoners severally thanked his Lordship, and entered into
the proposed recognizances.
The Loan Ceier JusTicc.-.-Attend to me, young men. Depart
this Court In peace, and let me impresspn you that you owe much
to the lenity of the Corporation. Let the& be no triumphing on
either side, but go to your homes and behave well and like good
citizens.—The prisoners retired.
In the course of the evening, Mr. Denman was drawn out of the
town in his own carriage, by a lane portion of the people. •