Star.
London, England, 1816-04-16 00:00:00

laid the information tilt or three days after she hi
made the insurance. She bar hid tea or eleven in-
formations. The last sum she got for giving
dews was A'S ; sometimes she gOt L'4,l and at other
tines AS. She had convicted all mile had informed
against. -Sarah Spearman was then called in, the
sister of the other witness. She• confirmed her sis-
ter's evidence, so far as related to seeing her'sister in
conversation with the defendant at the time and
place described.—Oreher cross examination, she ac-
kaowledged she sometimes went by the name of
Squires, in consequence of having cohabited with an
old Gentleman ot that name ; but she always went
by the name of Spearman in law proceedings.. She
had been convicted by that name, and was impri-
soned in the House ot Correction. She had laid a
great many informations, and had been in the habit
of doing so for the last year and nine months, and
had only failed in one.—Mr. Adolphus hoped the
Magistrate would not convict on the testimony of
such witnesses, and said it was impossible to be pre-
pared to meet a charge• which had been delayed so
long atter the trans Action. The Magistrates, how.
ever, being of opinion that there was nothing to im-
peach the credibility of the witnesses, convicted the
defendant, and were about to sentence him to 14
days imprisonment ; but en Wag informed that the
Act admitted et one month as the shortest period, he
was sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rection for that term.

D. Bryaa and Mary Bryaa were remanded, charged
with utteritry a comae' felt sixpence at a public-house
in Holborn.

A Lieutenant in the Navy charged a fruit-woman
%vith robbing him of his gold epaulette. It appeared,
that in a frolic he bad set 'her paper lanthorn on fire.
with the candle which was burning in it, on Saturday
night, in L.ng-Acre ; that she, unarmed as she was,
commenced a most violent attack on him, and in the
woffle he lost the epaulette from his shoulder; but he
not being able to prove the prisoner took it, she was
dsicliarged.

Harnaab Rtife, a laundry maid, in the service of
Colonel thist.ow, of Old Alresford, Hants, is in cus-
tody, charged on the verdict of a Coroner's Incymt,
with the murder of her infant illegitimate child, by
tit:owing it down a privy.
A gang of desperate thieves has been detected in
Manchester, and committed to Lancaster Castle for
trial. The oldest of This crew is not 25 ; -the others
are none of them more than 20 years old.
John Flower, Alexander Glidden, and George
Hales, journeymen paper-makers, are committed to
Sliepton Bridewell, charged with an assault on the
f Teman of Chedder, Mils, in Somersetshire (in the
absence of his employers), by throwing him into the
vat, &c. These men form A part of the Combination
Club of Associated Journeymen, who turned out
against their employers generally several months
ago, and have been living in a state of idleness ever
since, supported by their associates, to the great in-
jury of the trade and the public, and to the serious
loss of the revenue.

We are happy to learn, that a Bill now pending in
Parliament, by the Royal College of Surgeons, is in•
tended to put an end to that herd of advertising quacks
who imrise on public credulity in the treatment
of a certain class of Jisorders, were delicacy and
honour are so much required. The only 1 nstitution
.ot this kind which has a real claim to public confi-
dence, from the dignified patronage it has received,
and from its extensive bentiit to the Public, since its
commencement, is the Lock and Surgical Dispensary.
The Surgeon to this Establishment, Mr. KIERNAN,
is distinguished no less by his high Profersional talents,
than by his being a Member if the Royal College of
Surgeons, London. He is extensively consulted every
day by both Sexes, at his House, 21, Lower Char-
lotte-street, Bedford-square.
Tile NEW BeILDINOS.—The workmen are conti-
nuing their labours opposite Carlton House. They
have extended their exertions to St. James's market;
on the South-west side all the houses are nearly dis.
mantled, and in two or three days they will be level-
led with their foundations. The market goes nett.
The Gun Tavern, in Jermyn street, is nearly pulled
down for the purpose of breaking a line into Picea.
dilly. Here the progress of improvement will be
extremely rapid ; and, as if by magic, a pile ufJ
building will arise which will astonish the foreign as
well as native artist. A spacious site has been se-
lected to finish the grand outline from Carlton House.
The leading feature is to be a college; the purpose
of which excited considerable curiosity on Saturday
last, when the Surveyors were employed in measur-
ing the ground—it is for the new College of Physi.
cians. This majestic pile will resemble that noble
.erection in Lincoln's Inn-fields, called Surgeons'
Hall. Mr. NASU'S plan for erecting this public edi-
fice in the King's Mews, is abindoned. Certainly it
will prove a great ornament to the perspective view
from the Rittman's Palace.