Star.
London, England, 1826-04-08 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Emma Ferro, aged 17, was charged with stealing
sundry wearing apparel, value upwards of 51. the pro-
perty of John Laggett, her master, in his dwelling-
house. The prisoner bad lived only fourteen days in
the family, and, without notice, absconded with the
property, and was taken at Greenwich Fair, dressed in
her mistress's clothes.
The Jury returned a verdict of Gaily, but recom-
mended her to mercy. One of the Jury stated, that
the ground of their recommendation was, that she might
have taken the things to go to the fair in, and with an
intent to return them, but might have drank liquor
there, which caused her not to return.
Mr. Serjesit Ilium said, if they bad say doubt of the latent
they should wink her.
The Jury consulted again and returned a verdict of Oat*
Jahe Williams Birasieghan, aged 59, a penes who had formerly
been an Aker in the army, but now reduced to great distress, was
convicted of stealing two pillows aid a sheet, value es. the property
of Ann Janis, widow, from his lodgings, and pawning them on
the 15th of February, in the parish of St. Jobs, the Evangelist,
Westminster.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 7.

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William Mahar., one of the Messengers belonging to
the General Post-office, was indicted for stealing a letter,
and defrauding his Majesty of the postage. The letter
in question passed through the Stamper 's hands on the
Slat of October, and it was the duty of the prisoner to,
take them from one sorter to another. It would seem
that he then kept it in his possession, and called with it
at thebouse of Mrs. Harding, in East-street, Conduict-
street,the person to whom it was directed ; but Mrs. H.
being from Same, he kept it for twb days, and then de-
livered it and received the money. He was found Guilty,
and sentenced to be imprisoned one year.
Three journeymen shipwrights, named liaise, Loveirs,
and Flirstre, appealed to a conviction of W. Ballantinet
Esq. During the repeal 9f :he Combination Laws,l
the journeymen shipwrights formed themselves into a
society, for the purpose of compelling the shipowners
to pay them the rate of wages they chose to demand.—
Messrs. Curling and Young, who employed the ap-
pellants, having refused to accede to their request, they
quitted their employ, and' other men were sent up from
Yarmouth to supply their place. These persons were'
repeatedly pressed to become Members of the Society,
and upon refusing to do soi they were insulted by the
appellants ; and for which they were sentenced to three
months' exercise at the tread-wheel. The appeal was
set up, on the ground of the Society being mu-stated in
the conviction. The objection was allowed, and the
conviction quashed.
Alr.lo6inson,ooe of the proprietors of a Strondwater
Coach, appealed against an order of Mr. Uregorie, of
Queen-square. He had been convicted in a penalty of
1151. for over-loading the coach, to the extent of one
foot eleven inches, upon the evidence of Byers, the
noted informer; but, on the other hand, the porter of
the inn, the coachman and guard, and three highly re•
spectable gentlemen, who were passengers, positively
declared that the luggage was not near the height
named; the conviction was therefore reversed.

Jade ilisephrtyi, e young bookseller, pleaded guilty to an indict-
punt for publishing obsceue and scandalous books.

We have received Nederlandsche Stasis Couranis to
the sth but. They contain the alterations which came into operation
oa the Ist. Inst. in the Tariff of Duties. Some of these are curious
enough. Under the head of " iloaufaituren," they involve a
material advanpe on the dudes an all coarse eateries of woollen and
cotton fabric; the previous daty having been s per cent. ad adarms,
whereas the new duties are settled by weight ; and, consequently, a
pound of coarse goods will pay as muds as a pound of the finest
manufacture. This ii surely a singular system of taxation !
Accounts lions Madrid state, mat a Decree is about
to be issued ordering the Provincial Militia to be put on
war foot rag.
In many of the houses of the upper classes in Paris,
upon sales being given, collections are elide in aid at
the Gieeks4 At one on Sunday the Duke of Davos.
bums is s tid to have given 1,000 francs
In a long account of a negro who died in Pennsylva-
nia, at the age of 116, it is mentioned, that e hen bhe
arrived at 96, her masted kindly tainted bet from bet
usual labour!

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ASSIZE DITELLIGENCE.

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Jssilifootta was occupied,at Clonme 1; on Surday
and is heming.civil bill appeal cases,which
seventy-seven were eotered. A Jury having 'been ins-
panselled to ti y a criminal information from the Court
of King's Bench, Vere Hunt, and 'Clement Saddleir.,
Esqrs. were charged with an assault •on Fitzmaurice
Hunt, Esq. and sending him a challenge to fight a duel.
Both traverser' submitted to a plea of Guilty, and ex-
pressed through Counsel their sincere regret and con-
trition.—Judgment was deferred.
At the Clonmel Assizes, Richard Burke was tried
before the Lord Chief Justice, for the nsarder of George
Groves, on the 12 h of July, at Chighjordan. It ap-
peared, from the evidence of the daughter of the de-
ceased, that a mob of persons had collected in the street
of the above village, on the day named, for the pur-
pose of attacking some other individuals, of an oppo-
site party, and that the prisoner, who belonged to the
former party, with others, pursued the deceased as he
was returning home, and struck him in the head with a
stone, which knocked him down, and caused such a
woundlthat he died in consequence, five days after.
The Jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and the,
prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. 1
At Donegal Assizes, on .Tuesday, Charles
pilot of the brg Waller, was tried for plundering that
vessel after it struck at Arranmore, of whiskey, which it
was laden with from Browne and Co.'s distillery. He
was convicted and sentenced to be hanged at Ar-
ranmore on the gob April. Two of the water-guard,
named O'Hara and Mason, were at theie-Assiz .s or-
dered to transportation for fourteen years, for taking
articles from the brig Ann, which was driven on the
Donegal coast, without any living person on board.
Mehony, otherwise the Serjeant, an old of.
fender, well known in Kerry, was apprehended on
Tuesday night, in the mountains, near Abbeyfeale, by
some of Mr. Yoke's police who were stationed in that
town. Malsony is charged with being a principal in
the murder of three of the Castle Island yeomanry
corps, so long ago as the year 1799, and has ever since
eluded justice by lurking in the mountains, many parts
of which were neatly inaccessible until the new roads
were lately made under the directions of Government.

Accounts were yesterday received at LLOYD'S of the
arrival of one of the ships sent on the pearl fishery : re-
port states that she brings 100,0001. worth of pearls.
BIBLE MEETING —A meeting of the Society for dis-
tributing Bibles took place at the Mansion House yes-
terday, when a most gratifying report was made of the
salutary effects produced by the dissemination of the
Holy Scriptures.
Mas. Stow:was—There is no lover of the Drama
who will not regret to. hear that this incomparable
actress, who so long gratified the public taste, has met
with an accident which, we are sorry to say, may rove
of fatal consequences to her.—She lately bad an unex-
pected fall, which has affected the spine of her back in
such a manner as, at her advanced time of life, must be
contemplated as dangerous in the extreme.
Daooanns.—At an inquest held on the body of an
unfortunate man, who was killed by a machine in Park-
street, Borough, a fact in law was stated by the Coro-
ner which certainly calls for remedy. The Jury were
anxious to impose a deodand on the machine, but were
told they could not, because it was a fixture. A deodand,
everybody knows, is a fine imposed ea the owner of any-
thing, it matters not what, if not a fixture,wbereby death
has been occasioned, provided any real or supposed care-
lessness is imputed to the owner, by the Coroner's Jury.
Now it does not require very much knowledge of me-
chanics to shew, that, in almost every conceivable case,
accidents from rollers may be rendered impossible, and
how absurd is it, when such precautions are not used
(and they never will be used while the law stands as
it is), that the proprietor should not suffer as much as if
the machine bad been a cart or a carriage.
The result of a consultation held by Messrs.. Dupin
and Tardif, in the case of M. 'Marshal D. d'Arzac, de-
tained at the Force, has been published. The prisoner
was arrested by an officer of the Guards of Madame the
Duchess of Berry, on a charge of irreverence—of
having sent, by the hands of an old woman, some verses
offensive to the Princess, into groups formed around her
carriage. It was proposed to set him at liberty on con-
dition of his removing twenty leagues from Pais, which
he has refused. The fact charged is not in the list of legal
offences. He bas been five weeks in prison.
An Inquest was held at the Tierney Arms, Brigh-
ton, on the bodies of John Hopgood, builder, and
William Savery, who were killed by the falling in of
an arch, which they were building under the Free-
masons Hall, at the corner of Upper Rock Gardens, on
the previous afternoon. The deceased and others had
carried an arch of brickwork over a frame in the usual
manner, after which they filled up the outer sides of it
with dirt, which was rammed down, and they began to'
draw the wooden frame from beneath the arch, for
which purpose they got under it, and whilst thus em-
ployed, the whole fell in and buried the deceased, where
it is supposed they were killed instantly. Verdict—
Accidental Death.
The Waterford and English Mail, which left that
city on Thursday evening, has been lost. It appears that.
on that station there is but one guard employed to pio.
tect the mails both to and from Dunmore ; consequently
it must often happen that one of the mails must travel
without protection. Thursday evening, the mail for Lon-
don lelcat the usual hour, in charge of the guard, who
meeting the mail from England, returned with it to the
Post Office, leaving the other to proceed to its destine-
, don ; but on the arrival of the cast in Dunmore, it was
discovered that the mail bags had been lost.
Tuesday, a man proceeding between Kensington
and Knightsbridge with a load of sand, belonging to
Mr. Grundry, the stone-mason; Westminster, was an•
noyed by the driver of an errand cart from Twickenham,
hindering and preventing his going on, by placing his
vehicle before the other, and nearly standing still. At
length Mr. Grundry's man told him he deserved a good
lick of the head. This was enough, the ertaud carter
jumped down, and began to beat the other with his
whip ; and he rising on the shaft of the cart to defend
.himself, their whips became entangled, and a snatch by
the man on the ground pulled him down, and falling
on his head the load of sand passed over his body. He
ejaculated, "On I I ant a dead man," and was soon
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where be lingered a
few hours and expired.. An inquest was taken at Mr.
Franklin's, the Triumphant Chariot, on Wednesday,
and adjourned to Thursday, when the above facts were
developed, and a verdict of Manslaughter yeas recorded
against the driver of the errand cut, and be was ins-
mediately apprehended under the Coronet's warrant,
and sent to
.Newgate for dial.