Star.
London, England, 1829-01-29 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday John Langford was re-exauseneet bete: e Wm. Berens,
Esq. on a charge of rape.
Jane Shaw, an interesting young woman. deposed, the prisoner
has kept my company about three weeks, and had promised me
marriage; on Tuesday night, the 2uth instant, I went to his house
by his own ugliest, fur the purpose of arranging the marriage ; I
bad been in the room a short rime when be lucked the dour, and
threw me en the bed ; be kept me in his bed-room all night ; 1 re-
sisted and called murder, but no person cam to my assistance.
Mr. James Brown stated, I was at the prisoner's house on the
night of the 20th instant, where I saw the witness Shaw sitting on
the primer's knee, and kissing him; I told her the consequences
if she stopped with him ; she did not try to get away, hut appeared
very friendly with bins ; about twelve o'clock the same night. the
prisoner's brother was knocking at the door for about en hour, and
no person cane, or made the (east noise. If she had celled out, I
must have beard bee.
Shaw-0, you ham you are not telling at troth. to say I did
net try to get away.
Mr. Brown—You knew I told you how he would serve you,
and you would stop with him.
Shaw—Did you not call the prisoner a villain far sot pasting up
the banns and marrying me?—(laughter).
Brown—l
Shaw—Yes, and you kissed me yourself.
Mr. Brown—l know I did, and wanted you then to leave the
house.
Sitaw—l tiled to get away from the villain, and be would not
let me. Though sharp. I was not sharp enough for him.
The prisoner was here removed a short distance from the wk.
ogees or his face would have been pretty well scratched.
Pettesser—D— it all, why don't you sit down and rest yourself /
Shaw—Oh you wretch, you villain—(boidiag her list of him).
Primaer—Now then it is my tom—she got late my bed, and I
did not push her opt again.
Mr. Hearse:—Mr. Brown's statement alters this ease materially.
The prisoner le a very base man, and I believe bad enough to se.
duce any girl; but under all the circumstanses of the ease, it is not
even an assault. The prisoner must therefore be discharged.
THAMES POLICE.
Ain Lewis, a sailor, was brought up by Moody. charged with
steeling some clothes from a sailor named Hutby. It appeared
that liseby lately returned home from a voyages and meeting the
primer, who was an old companion% in a mate of extreme demi-
, union, supplied him with clothes and money. and supported bins
while his own resources lasted. When the money was exhausted,
they were compelled to take an asylum In the Refuge for the
timeless Bailors, in Globe-wrest; and the prisoner, doting his
companion's dunce collected together all his clothes, whilb he
sold to ll• Jew ilc:entaty lass, and spent the money he obtained
In gin. Mt. liat.l.Aseaus desired the Jew to give up the clothes
to their proper owner, and committed the prisouez.to the Hoes*
eI Cortectiou for two menthe.

SPOTS OiI.TUE SUN.

An ingenious individnal in Providence has very ge.
.cently succeeded, by means of a -seven- feet telescope.
constructed by himself, cm a new prit.ciple, in bringing,
Abe-entire image of 'he snninto a dr kissed roam up 4:
develkote aeveet,stesheisiae 'of -eight tee: in di .metet.-He
writes us'shat histrkosisternent wet Feat when he pee,
xeived'that everyispet now yipon'the face of the inn_
sane in :lumber, wasdistinatly man:l:iced to the wee:.
and was so plain that he co Id .see eve, y movement of
them in their varicusitid suddeo th ,nges. H. vbyt be
could.plainly disc.tver that --V.ose sps t$ were immense 1
bodies of smoke, apparently -issuing f con volcaneels
and urtbey seem oce.ttionally forced uowarJ from the
weer., now f -mitt dense clouds. i•nd now disp-rsine, 1
considers those phenoniena accounting for tie tepid •
chmagestof those si as. The escape of such a vast
quantity of -gas- 'from the 'interior of the body of the •
sun-would, be observes, as it suit (lands that luminary,
ptoducediat bs lie t and .dazzling appearance wb
thiatmo•phete of the sun. ibis the( ry may n- t ao.
cord with the °Onions • f whets who made t.hge.,ation.
03 the subject; but the wtitee, at any rate,en-ertains the I
stroneeit-belief of its truth. With 'the same iostrottnek,
which is bot ju-t tinibed, he has alsrs ex 'mined the
moon, avd sates his convictkin that that body is covered
w perpe:u .1 sn .w and ice, the date spots discover.
able on its surface being loosen seas, and the Igltter
spaces land coveted with snow. These ci•colar Owe,
which have a risi g .cone its the Gentle. he thinks ate
extinguished voltam e, as no clouds are pet ceptible
o .er the moon's f..ce ; which being coveted wi'h mow
aid ice. accoun,s, as he imagines, fur its: clear -torsos.
phere, or fot the absence of an atnsosphete. This vast
accumulation of ice and snow upon the mo ,11% 'intact '
may be eaplaiaed, the writer cAsjecures, by the nature
of the moon's -revolutions. He oilers to eon-troct in.
moments of the above description, by which t!.e.e Wm.
nomena may be observed, at prices from fifty to tone
hunched dollars; and at the Same rate to furaish soar
micsoscopes, on a new principle, with a m,gnifying
power, at twelve Get chstance, of 5,184.,000--Boaton

OUTRAGES IN ESSEX, CAMBRIDGE, Ste.

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DESTRUCTION OF A THRASHING MACHU:L-40i*
thisltioUs man of the name or Most,. who resided st
Steeple Bunapstead, and lets out the shiog-Machiner, •
drill an.i mole ploughs, and other implements. war en.
&paged in thrashing at a farm in ToppesfielJ, ma Friday,
.the 16th, when a party of lalsonters, in ru abet Olaf
and upw •rels, took away his machine by force, and
conveyed it into* the adj -*sing palish of Stanibouree,
&hem they hioke at to pieces. Several rf the ring.
leaders in this owrage are said to he known, but we
have not heard of their apprehension,
a loilependently of tie paved now established in Sete
ton Mars Les, sonic of the tar meet, for the greater secs-
rily of their property, think it necessary to watch Ebel:
own respective flicks. Whilst Mr. De:am,re was thus
occupied, early es Tuesday mooning last, three men,
with sacks on their b-cks, aeproached the spot wfrere
he stood, and, finding they *roe seen, th:ew down their
Toads, and made off, Forsued by Mr. D. who succeeded
in making one man his prisoner ; he was soon reco4nised
*as an old and long suspected offender, in the person of
Lesion alias Jack -Kirkham. Upon examining the sacks
they were found to contain 69 ducks. all tat a, d ttell
fed. which are now left at the Long Sutton poor house
to he owned. • It is supposed that they have been stolen
at various times from different persons, and then puiup
.to feed in some secret cavern near the dwelling of be
thieves; and that, at the time the offenders were:de•
tatted as above stated, they were taking the ducks to
some person who was waiting with a horse and catkin
she neighboortood to receive them. The ducks weighed
18 stone. Kirkham was on Tuesday safely lodged is
Spelding other two men, who are well Itinsws,
ate still at large, but the constables being en Aerates, y
they will soon be apprehended.—sfamford Mercury.
Thursday sennight eight more sheep were slime.
tered and stolen in Long Sutton Marsh, acd oneloa
Friday night. Two -meetings have. been field witbis
the last week, to consider about establishing a 'nightly
patted, which was ultimately determined upon osati. .
,day night; the principal proprietors agreeing to *Witch
in rotation. On Saturday night the patrol commenrod
*their operatiom, but notwithstanding their vigilantlook
out, the depredators contrived the same night tedial
a sheep from the midst of them.—Cansbridge Paper.
TUC DESDILN PLUNCESERS •
In consequence of rte confessions cf
Rutherford and Dupree, four persons have been apple.
headed, v ie. J ohn Cock, formerly tallow chanelltetallrs,
Traylen (who after he was taken into custody attempted
to destroy himself, but who seems quite receiered);
Samuel Westwood, a carpenter ; William Staines, *be
ssemionally woe ked for Mr. Tray lOC. 'all in rite
pari h of Debden ; and George Grindacie, a tr iv&
hng bork.eller, ho states himself to be in tt e employ
of 111 r. H 1., of Barnwell, in Cambridgeshire. Theis
men were confronted by thstwo b eys, who meet is
the 'r presence a disclosure of villainy, practised by
themselves. aided by Cock, Westwood, Staines, awl
Goodacre, by which Mr. Traylen was robbed of gmeh
and money to a great amcaunt. The pri ones ad ally
wine of the charges, but denied the principal, which
we have not time to enter upon, owing to the late host
at *hick the examination closed, kutheilotd is in the
convict gaol, pursuant to his Sentence at the lett Ses-
sions; Dupree was committed to give eetdence; sal
the four other prisoners to take their trials at the oat
Assizes.—Estes

BIRTHS.
At Wootton Bassett. the. Lady of the Be• T. H. Ripley, 4*
daughter..

M Rothesay, Bete. the Lady at Wm. Mackintosh. Ry 5M
Regiment, of a sue.

At Edinburgh, on the Net inst. the L 1141? of Adam Hay, 14
M.P. of a daughter.
The !2d Inst. at *Ambridge, Lady Hardinge, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
At Howtb, Lebo Phinket, Rol. of Apeunarnock, colotl4
Dublin, to Mite Cuberine Swtotuaaa.

DI ID.
lieutenant Join Stirling, et the East India Comgente and%
while leading an assault against the Garbs* of Dendmisk ht w
Mann eehntry.
The Seth inst. aged 111. 11111sebeth &phla, youngest 6,00 d
Jame* Cogan, 13. g. of Gloueesteuplaee.
At Park. on the I Stit imt. Bliss Haggenten,sliteret Sir Onlik
Hauerstoa. Bart. of Hauerston.
At lirostgluy Ferry. firs.-Callas ine Cook. spooned 31r fatal
Heater. late of the Customs Have, Dundee, aged 77 years.
At Sberbum Hospital, on the Inds last. Mr. Jobs Illiew4lol6
,2d year. Ile was the senior brother. having bees upwards.' 0
years there. He was the oldest freeman in the Basher's Cale!
of the city et Deftest, and was a great great grandfather sew"
montitsprevioue to his death, the fifth generation et the Wit
being living.

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