Star.
London, England, 1817-01-20 00:00:00

SURREY SESSION&

EARLY DEPRAVITY.SHIIIday Alas Phil/tot, a
child of eleven years of age, was indicted for stealing
a loaf ot bread, value fivepence, and a piece of meat,
from she shop of the prosecutor, a baker, residing'at
Lambeth, on Monday last.
The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner came into
his shop under pretence of purchasing some bread,
and whilst he was engaged in serving another custo-
mer, she watched the opportunity to take the loaf and
a piece of meat off the counter and quit the shop.
The CHAIRMAN asked the prosecutor whether he
saw the prisoner take the bread and meat ? He ac-
knowledged he did not ; but he was informed by a
gentleman, who was passing at the time, of what had
occurred ; and also, that the prisoner had just taken
a plum cake from a pastry cook's shop in the neigh-
bourhood. _

The constable proved that he stopped the prisoner,
in the street, in consequence of information given him
by the gentleman in question, and at the time she
had a cake and loaf of bread in her apron.
This was all the evidence produced, which the
Court observed• did riot amount to any proof, and,
therefore, directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner,
which tire), accordingly did.
The girl's mother, a decent looking woman, then
addressed the Court, and stated, that the prisoner was
the eldest of six children, and was so obstinately dis.
honest, that all attempts to reclaim her had been
found ineffectual. She had been only a few days
discharged from confinement when she was appre-
hended "Jr the present charge.
The CHALBNAN observed, the Court could not as-
sist her ;—she must be careful to keep her child at
home. _ _ _ _ _ -

The unhappy mintier said she had in vain endea-
voured to du this ; she had been confined, tied up,'
and even chained, but had always found means to li-
berate herself, and on one occasion she contrived to
escape out of a chamber window ; she had, ti um the
moment she could walk, been a source of unceasing
trouble and grief to her parents.
The CHAIKitAN observed,, the Court would detain
her till the conclusion of the Cessions, and in the mean
time consider what could be done with her.

An orchard, full of young apple trees, has slipped
from a side hill, at Signor, in Sussex. across one
field, over a rivulet, into another icdd, where the
trees are principally standing as erect as if they had
been planted many years ; and here and there. a tree
is left standing upright in the course which the slip
took from the hill. _

A turnip was lately pulled in a field near Rotting.
dean, Sussex, belonging to J. INottam, Esq. which
weighed' '25 pounds, furnishing food sufficient for a
sheep a week or more.
Last week, at Brabourne Lees, a child between
two and tluee years old, the daughter of a shopkeeper
of the name of Burt, during the absence of its pa-
rents, drank a quantity of oil of vitriol out of a bottle
which it took from the shop.window, from whence
some Godfiey's cordial had previously been given to

it, and expired in great agony in about twentyoue
hours afterwards.

Wednesday, a young girl, grand-daughter of Mr.
Redman, of Gravesend, in the absence of its mother,
was burnt to death by its clothes taking fire.—Same'
day, a child about four years old, the son of John
Comes, hostler at the Ship Inn, Ash, lost its lift by
a similar calamity.
The Correctional Tribunal of Paris has con-
demned to three months' imprisonment, to sixteen
francs of fine, and to three years of sot veillance,
under a security of 200 francs, .1: B. Bnt, found
guilty of having on the 29th December last, used
seditious language in a baker's shop.
The Prefect of the Department of Seine, in pur-
suance of orders from the Secretary of Sta,e for
Department of the Interior, has issued an ',Wet icr a
new enumeration of inhabitants of Paris.

The collection of small medals of silver, bronze,
and copper,itOrming the chronological history of at.
Kings ter France, is complated. Toe date of the bit th,
accession, Hod death of thl King whose likeness:and
the most memorable events of whose reign, they re-
present, are engraved on the reverse of each medal:
They are. enclosed in two boles made of box-wood,
upon which is pasted a printed catalogue of the names
of the Kings whose images they bear, and which serves
as a guide in placing these medals in chronological
order when they are pin up ; and necessarily teaches
children, whilst amusing them, the most interesting
epochs of French history. This collection is ctwcr
and bronze, compost(' of 70 medals, costs 53 cranes,
including the boxes, and in silver 283 francs. The
copper medals are varnished like philosophical ma-
chine, to prevent all danger and bed smell.