Star.
London, England, 1821-11-06 00:00:00

Ming hiva with his fist in a enestunnterciful manner.
Cplainant's wife interfered, and implored the de-
fendant to desist, and not murder her husband. He
then left the complainant and seized the wife, and
beat her also. His conduct was so outrageous that he
broke three chairs, and upset a table on which were
upwards of 10s. worth of glasses, which were all
broken to pieces. The only cause he (the complainant)
could assign for the outrage was, that he had refused
to work for the defendant any more. The wife of the
complainant corroborated her husband's testimony.—
The defendant denied the charge in toto, and accused
the complainant of obtaining 14s. under false pre-
tences. He certainly went to the complainant's lodg-
ings and demanded the 14s. again, but never laid his
hands either upon him or his wife.—The Magistrate
told him the complaint was proved to his satisfaction,'
and therefore he must find bail to answer the corn-
plaint at the Sessions.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTIIWA BK.—Yesterday, William'
Payne was brought up in irons, whose atrocious con-1
duct towards his wife was detailed in our Paper of
Friday last, from the Borough Compter, and finally
examined before Alderman J. J. SmITII. Mrs. Payne
was brought up from the Hospital in a very weak
state, and her face and head still exhibited evidentl
marks of the prisoner's atrocious attack upon her.
Her situation was such, that the Magistrate ordered
her to be accommodated with a seat. Her evidence
corroborated all the former statements, and several
other witnesses having been heard, the prisoner was
committed for the assault,and ordered to give twenty-
four hours notice of bail. The Aldermanrecom-
mended his wife to the care of the parish office: s, and
paid her coach hire home.
UNION-LlALL.—Yesterday, Bridget Sheehan, a wo-
man about 34 or 35 years of age, made application
at this Office, for relief for herself and her starving
child, but was soon found to be an object, not of com-
passion, but deserving the greatest punishment. The
woman, upon appearing before the Magistrate, stated,
that her inhuman husband had deserted her and her
child, and that they were without the means of sup-
porting existence a moment longer. Hall, the officer,
stated, that on passing along High-street, in the Bo-
rough, on Friday night, he heard Bridget Sheehan
loudly deploring her miserable situation. She was
sitting on the steps of a ball door, had a child covered
up in her arms, and was declaring to the passengers
Ithat she and her infant were starving. The witness
had no knowledge whatever of the woman, but he
gave her the price of a bed and some victuals, and
desired her to apply next day at Union-Hall, where
everything would be done forher by the Magistrates.
She received the money and advice most thankfully.
and was punctual in her attendance at the Office. The
woman was not long in describing her unfortunate
situation, when her infant was recognized by some
persons in the Office as a child that had been starved
for the purpose of obtaining good living for its parents.
It was recollected, that some time ago, a man, who
stated himself to be the father of this child, brought
it in his arms to the Office in the same wretched con-
dition in which it now appeared to be, and told the
Magistrates, with tears in his eyes, that the unnatural
mother had deserted the babe, having even refused to
give it sustenance from the breast. What made the
case worse was, according to this man's statement,
that the woman bad gone off with another man,
leaving him in despair and wholly unable to give'
bread to the helpless infant. This story, upon the
part of the man, obtained credit with the Magistrates.
who relieved him several times. The woman, who
did not look as if she either felt or dreaded poverty,
vowed that she had never treated the infant ill, and
that the whole account given by her husband was a
fabrication made for the purpose of exciting pity and
enabling him to obtain the means of drinking. The
Magistrates, having taken the whole circumstances
of the case into consideration, sent the child out of
the reach of its unfeeling parent, and placed it under
the protection of a nurse, and ordered that the woman
should be confined three months in the House of
Correction, and be kept to hard labour.

Thursday evening, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. F.
JAMESON was proceeding through Vauzball-fields, to
his residence, in Charles-street, Kennington, he was
attacked by three ruffians, who knocked him down,
butt and kicked him in a dreadful manner, and rob-
bed him of his watch and appendages, and a pocket-
book, containing a note and four sovereigns.—
The villains deliberately searched all Mr. JAMESON'S
pockets, and carried off every article they contained,
Friday night the neighbourhood of Spitalfields
was thrown into the greatest confusion. A formi-
dable gang of ruffians gave notice to the stations of
the different fire-engines, that an alarming fire had
broken out at a varnish manufactory in Fashion-
street. The engines were got ready, and on their
arrival they discovered it to be a false alarm. The
street was completely blocked up by spectators,
amongst whom were upwards of forty notorious
thieves, who had invented the tale for the purpose of
depredation and plunder. The villains commenced
a determined attack on the assembled mob, pelting
them with brickbats, stones, and other missiles, many
of whom were knocked down, and received several
cuts and severe contusions. Information was given at
the Police-office in Worship-street of the affair, and a
large body of officers repaired to the scene of action,
but before they could arrive the ruffians got scent,
and most of them sheered off. The officers succeeded
in apprehending two of the ringleaders, each of whom
had a brickbat in his hand, ready to cast it amongst
the mob. They yesterday underwent a final exami-
nation before the Magistrates, and were recognized
to be the renowned Bill Bingley, of pickpocket noto-
tie'', and George Real, a noted eracktman. They
were both committed under the Police Act for three
months each to the House of Correction.

Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, as a
young man, named John Carvill, was driving his fa-
ther's hackney-coach along Barnard-street, Russell-
square, by some accident he was thrown from the
box, the wheels passed over his body, and he was
killed on the spot.
Sunday se'nnight, between two and three o'clock
in the morning, a tire took place in the warehouse of
Mr. JOHN ATKINSON, tallow-chandler, of Rosemary-
lane, Carlisle. It burnt with excessive fury; but in
about three hours it was suppressed, after having en-
tirely destroyed the warehouse, aad wasted a consi-
derable quantity of tallow.