Star.
London, England, 1828-11-13 00:00:00

• WITH • Jowls.

Our reaJers will recollect that this sea -an saki*
brought by a linendraper in St. Mattives•lent, opting
.the Marshal or the King's Bench "Prison, for an escipe.l
'A judgment was obtained by the plaintiff ag iinst a
person named Abraham Simmonds for 2,00. and the
,charge was, that Simmonds bid spent an .evening out
of the Rules, at the house of a person named Hatt, at
Mount row,Lambeth. Several witnesses swore that they li

!saw Abraham Simmonds at his house, and a number of
iss finesses proved that he had not been at Hart's house,
but had spent the night at the house of Mr. Lewis, one
of his bail, within the Rules. After considering the
contradictory testimony adduced, the Jury returned a
verchet (or the defendant.

Mr. Baousuwar now moved for a rule to show cause
why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial
granted, on the ground that new evidence had since
been discovered, which was quite decisive as to Sim-
monds's identity. Affidavits were put in to support the
motion, stating that Lewis, one of the bail, and who
was also a witness on the trial, stated, that Simmonds
was out of the Rules on the evening in question, although
he swore the contrary at the trial. A servlint of Sim-
monds was also ready to depose, that he heard his
master and mistress talk neat day of being at Hates
house the evening before; and to these affidavits were
added that of four of the Jurors, stating that they agr_•ed
to a verdict for the defendant from exhaustion of body,
having been locked up for SI hoots.
The Court was of opinion, that as the case had gone
before a Jury twice already, they would not be justified
in granting a new trial.
The Court rose at two o'slock, and the Judges re-
tired to the Exchequer Court, where they met his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, and the ceremony of pricking frr
Sheriffs took place.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL. .

Mr. Dennis Lines and Mrs. Anne Wane*, natives of" the Gem,"
and recently imported therefrom in a Limerick b4ther boat, were
brought before Sir pates truism, with their noses well patched
with adhesive plaster, and charged with battle: broken the King's
peace by mutually assaulting each other. " Last night, please your
Worship," said the accusing constable, s there was a great cry of
murder among the Irish, in King's Mead-court, Fieet•market, and
in the house where the cry was I found this little man ( Mr. Dennis
Lines) and this big woman (Mrs. Anne Watson) hard at it, sereech.l
ing and pelting away at each other, and both of them covered withl
'blood. I never saw two people in snch a bloody condition ; and as
I could not prevail upon them to be quiet, I took them to the
Conipter ; where, after they had been washed, and had their noses
patched,.as you see, they were locked up apart from each uthercto
be dealt with as your Worship may think proper."
" Sir," said Mr. Dennis Lines, as soon as Ole constable bad said
his say—" Sir, it's meself shall just be Miser telling ye the rights of
it, if yell bear to me kindly ; sad not r word of a lie shall I bring
to the fore Ibis day, plase Goo."
" Then you are not so particular about telling the truth esisr,y
day 1" asked the Alderniau.
" indeed, but the truth's the truth any day," replied Mr.
Dennis Lines, rather equivocally, and then he proceeded with his
narration—" Last night as ever was—blessed be the Loan fur
that same—plase your.Hiiour,after I coned borne from my work,
I was sitting by the firt wid my sown wife, thinking about the
supper we'd be afther getting to us—and little enough it 'it'd be
no doubt—two penn'orth of trotters, may be, and a hoc p'taty or
two; but divel a bit of supper I st that night at all; for, just
as we was thinking of it, this lady, Mistbresti %Vatson here;
comes into me pine, and takes up the candle, anil look% into me
face wid it, and says, ' If I married a man wid such ugly eyes as
your's, I'd take him down stairs, and shove him into the
—says she to me.—" Very well," said I, " you might de that,"
said l—mighty quiet it was I said it; by which means she took the
candle into her hand and split my nose into two pieces wid the
candlestick !—lndeed she did;—and hero's my nose to the fore to
testify the troth of it to your Honour." Ai.d so saying, he sud-
denly plucked off the plaster, and submitted his clovrn snout to the'
inspection of the Court; adding, as he fumblingly replaced the
plaster, " I know no moon in life she had to use me so disrespect-,
fully, for I'd no call to hie at all ;—only onst, afore I was married,
I happened upon a little bit of misfortune by thesis/es. of her."
" What do you mean by a Nee bit gfu mitfurinne l" demanded
the Alderman.

" A small child, your Honour," replied Mr. Dennis Lints, and
in a very small voice—thereby showing that he had the grace to be
a little bit ashamed of himself.
Mrs. Watson, in reply, denied that abe "went into his place with
any ill-blood to him in regard of the small child at all ;" but only to
ask " would she get lave to put her basket in it till morning?" and
that he took that opportunity to call her a W. though he well knew
she was "as lawful a married woman as ever walked upon two
legs." Of coarse I made at him for a pelt wid the candlestick," she
added," but he got it from me, and kill and mated me all over en-
tirely witi it, as your Honour may plainly perique."
And thereupon she began stripping the plasters off her no and
forehead, in order that his Honour might judge who bad gut the
worst of it. But his Honour refused to inspect the premises, and
dismissed them both, with a promise that if they were brooght
before him again he would send them to work together in Bridewell.

BOW—ST R EET.
Yesterday a young Irish Gentleman, who stated that he held
a commission in the Fast India Company's Eurvice, was brought
before Sir Melia's) Rime, charged by a watchman of St. Paul's
Covent-garden, with creating a di'turbance in &Ids's-street, at
half-past three in the morning, and assaulting him in the executinh
of his duty; but the facts were nut substantiated, and he was set
at liberty on paying the discharge fee of Is.
The wife of a tradesman in the Haymarket was charged with
'cruelty to Mary Anne Morgan, her husband's apprentice.
It appeared that the complainant was the daughter of a respect-
able Clergyman deceased ; her mother re-married a Mr. Duncan,
who, un her death, married again. They became so much reduced
in circumstances that Mr. Duncan was necessitated to send his
little daughter•in-law to St. Gites's workhouse. From thence she
was afprenticed to the dere:Wane. husband, with a fee, by the
Ovetseets. The complainant is a fine girl, about thirteen years of
age, and since her apprenticeship (not many month.) she has been
treated in the moat bat barous manner by the defendant. On Friday
Week last she flung her down en the floor, jemped on her, and
beat her must savagely. Numbers of bruises still remained tin the
girl's body; she was allowed.no bed, and her only covering was a
wretched rug.
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Sir It. Bsame eipreesed his horroe at such cruelty, ordered the
indentures of the girl to be cancelled, part of the fee to be repaid,
and that the defendant should, be bound over to answer the charge
at the &alkalis.

M A E LIIOROUG H-STREET.
Yesterday althelrdi raltuls wet charged with being staked in
t►e coal teller of Lord Durham's house with a felonious intent.
tie was discovered by his Lordship's coachman as he was putting
the horses in the stable on Tuesday evening, when suspicious were
excited by finding a hat and a pair of shoes on the premises ; and
the doors being all locked, he was convinced the prisoner had got
entrance through a window eleven feet from the ground, and there-
fore he must have bad accomplices.—The prisoner was committed
to the House of Correction fur three months.

HATTON-G A RDEN.

Thomas Croaky was yesterday placed at the bar, cbarged with
robbing Jane Cult, an interesting young woman, of a purse con
taming 41 as..

It appeared that the young woman bad known the prisoner a
fortnight only, and they were going to be married last Tuesday
week, when, as she was paying for something, In snatched the
purse out of her band and walked away witb it ; she at first thought
it was a joke, but on leer asking him on the following' ay for It, he
pretended lie sled not know what had become of it; the accord.
ingly sent for Terry an active constable, and bad him takes into
custody.
In bit defence the prisoner said that he meant to marry her ; and,
in fact, he Mid no (objection to is Wen after whafbad happened.
Mr. liooest, 'saki that he was a very impudent fellow and that
he thought the young woman's affecnons were very ill bestowed.
He was fully committvil fur trial.
WORM-HP-STREET.

itertlay 2'nuon anti burton:el;arg;(lwitit being concerned ftt
violcuit atodufriffron the Sbaretlircb evatchbren early •en Sunday
wortitng,lt the Imperial Company's Gas Wales, it the Hackney.
road, were re.etatnined.

l‘lr. Charts Phinsps waded for the defendants, and crow
crowned the witnesses, to show that stains of the watchmen weir
intoifterted,vind provolied the *tact fry their own violent conduct;
in this however be failed. 1

Tiittun was held to bail, filmset, in 601. and two sureties SW.
each. The other nut biing identified as actively engaged, wu dis-
chogedun his own recognizance.

lees. Song. Jaw Zee was finally exaMined on $ charge elitism;
having niarriedielth IN. Lee, a foresee busbalklbefog sail living.
The primmer "awned thse she had been repass' fiat her In.
besirsed, msd knew nothing of bits fee twelve years.
It was saidon the curisrarythaesffe had berm in the receipt of 10s.
a weak from him.—The prisoner was committed for trial.
Adria anvil,. remanded several Simeon suspicion of strafing a
'204 note, the property of Mi. Woodford, of the Puhcb Bowl,
,Queen's-square, bloorfieldit, seas re-eravnlned; but the evidence
nut being sufiltient to sustain the charge, he was discharged.
LA I'M E lI—ST U SECT.
John Wirier, the Commander of a merchantman. was
• brought rip to show cause, if in his power, why it was that he did
'nor contribute to the summit of his wife 'Elizabeth.
Mr. 1 latiowseir (to detendint)—Why do you not support your,
!wife ? Defendant had not the smallest objection tit do so, but her
'conduct had been so infamous • die weaitscartigibly lewd, and an
habitual drunkard. Ift allowed her offs. a week, but netwitlb
'standing this she ran him in debt.
. Coombs, the effieerilhe is a bad one, your Worship ; I have
often seen her with young men, and her unfortunate buband has
now actions against him for some of her debts.
Seven shillings a week was Axed ow, and an order for that sum
made upon. Mr. Walker, with an intimation to Mrs. W. that if she
I Incurred any more debts, its payment should be stopped and appro-
priated to their liquidation. Mrs. Walker left the Justice-room in
a great passion, and when she had got Coombs outside the door
;1)01kt/ores! him and her husband in the hest style of * virago.
; 'Dirtied to her being again brought before the bench, stuithe assault
being proved, she was ordered to find bail, and glee 24 lames
notice of its solvency.
- Long, who described himself ae steward on board an
Rast Iti.iiantan, was brought before the Magistrate for final eli-
minations, charged with stealing a piece! containing silk shawls,
pelisses. ke. of tie value of 41K.
A lad, in the service of Mr. Tumbrel!, bot-presser, of Bunhill.
row, was sent by his master to take the parcel of goods home ; on
his way be stet the prisoner, who offered kiss sixpence to procure
him a coacb,,and he promised to bold the parcel until the boy re.
turned. The boy accordingly left the parcel with the prisoner.and
went for the coach, hot when he returned the prisoner bad gone of
with the parcel.—The prisoner was commkted for trial.
TIIAMESAIOI.ICI?..
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Commas Rossear.—Jolts Pyas,James Walker, sad Jabs Garrott,'
*ere charged, according to the terms of the watch-house book,
with stealing divers Iliglslaadmen two Bladtamoors, four dead
rabbitsptwo tubs, and other articles, the property of somebody un-
known. The prisoners occupy a room in a house in Juniper row,
Shadwell. A report having been raised that a Highlander had been
murdered and his body cuccealed in the prisoner's apartment, au
officer proceeded thither, and under their bed found the Highlanders
and the illackamoors—figures which had been stolen from the shop.
door of some tobacconists. Air. Lock, of Ratcliffe, claimed the
large 4 of the Highlanders; and two of smaller dimension were
claimed by Mr. Fletcher and Mr. George Hawse, of Shadwell.
A German tohaccopist ci.,imel a figure of a Black Boy, which had
lost an arm. The whole of the figures, It was stated, were stolen
utt Tufmlay evening. Garratt, it appeared, was not concerned in
stealing the images; he eras therefore discharged, and the other
prisoners were reminded.
UNION. ALL.
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Yesterday John F•alter:Wl;iesicesiniibite Horse yard, Kent.
street, was charged on sespiclon with having murdered a man
named John Sanson. It appeared that the prisoner and the de-
ceased resided in the same house; and the former, from what
cause it does not appear, fancied that the deceased was upon too
intimate terms *oh his wife. On Monday night, the prisoner and
his wife having quarrelled, he turned her out into the street ar a
late bout, in almost a rate of nudity. At the same time Fisher
was heard abusing &mon, and frequently exclaiming, " You old
rascal." Sh irrly afterwards Sansun was found lying ht the pas-
sage in a dying rate, and he expired before he could give any ac-
count of whit had taken plate. He was dressed only in his shirt,
and which was :.•rn, as if he had struggled with another person.
A must imp•>rtant evidence against the prisoner was Malley, the
constable, who s.,id that whilst he was sitting in the watclt•hotise,
and when the prisoner supposed every one bad left the room, the
prisoner called to his wife, who was in another cell, and directed
her to be careful what she said about the matter. lie then de-
sired her to state, that Sanson was drunk; and that she and Sanson
having had a quarrel, she ran out of the room, and that when she
returned, she found Simon lying dead.
'The prisoner declared, in his defence, that he was perfectly
innocent of the murder.—Otber witnesses not being in attendance,
the inquiry was postponed. . •

During the summer and autumn no less than 24
coaches leave Brighton daily for London, and as many
down; of thee sixteen tun the whole year each way.
To pay any thing like their expenses up and down, each
of them mu.t efin 101. i day, which gives an amount
of 100,0001. per annum spent in stage-coach travelling
on that one road.

An Ingurst was held at the Waterinen's Arms, Stand-
gate-street, Lambeth, last night, on the body of Helen
Meredith, aged 17, who tell from the second floor win-
dow of the house of MIS. Jameson, in the same street,
while cleaning the panes of glass, and was so dreadfully
injured, that she died in 20 minutes.—Verdict Acci-
dental Death.

Monday night the home of Mr. Beatty, Gower-street,
Bedford-square, was broken open, and robbed of a
quantity of plate.—Tuesday morning, on removing the
shutters at the shop of Mr. Richard Knight, haber•
dasher, in Skinner-street, S imers'-town, it was discovered
to have been burglariously entered during the night,
and robbed of proem ty to a large amount, consisting
of Irish linen, satin, coloured ribbons, and sewing silk.
Monday afternoon, duri• g the Lord Mayor's Proces-
sion, a Gentleman named Yttillips was hustled by snme
thieves in Cheapside, and robl.ed of a valuable gold
watch and chain, together with a purse,containing some
money, and a diamond ring. The same afternoon another
Gentleman etas hustled on Ludgate hill, and robbed of
a gold watch, chain, and two gold seals, and a purse
containing 20 sovereigns.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the George. in Sr.
Mary Axe, on the body of Jemias4 Lacy. On the
morning of Monday lest the deceased set out from her
home to see tiie Lord Mayor's Show. She appointed
to meet her daughter in Aldgate Church-yard, but it
appears that the poor woman, in endeavouring to reach
that spot, was- knocked down by the crowd and tram-
pled on; some of the blood vessels of the brain were in
consevence ruptured. and she received other injuiies,
which caused her death. A verdict to that ant was
recorded.

EDINSWIGH CASTLE.--A singular nasty mark having
been for a • lung time observed on the face of the rock
under that part of the Castle which is called ge Queen
Mary's apartments," a person belonging to the garrison
'had the courage, about a year ago, to descend by means
of ; rope attached to his middle, in order to expl4re
the Calif! ~f the apparent phenomenon. To his surprise
he found that the mark had been occasioned by the
half of a large cannon ball, which was lodged in the
cleft of the rock, and from which the rain, of course,
had washed off the rust. It is conjectured that'
this singular relic of former times had been shot!
against the Castle from the battery at Heriot's Hos-
pital, either at the time the Castle was besieged by
the Covenanters in 1640, or when it wit besieged by
the Scoitish Estates, in 1689, for the interests of King
William. The adventurous discoverer chipped it out
of its place, with some difficulty, by means of a ham-
mer, sad it is now in the possession of a collector of
such curietitiers in Edinbergh.—Edinburgh Even. Post.
SiturJay Mr. Owen left his residence at Lanark, to
proceed en a Inurney to Mexico. He is to nil from
Falmouth on the '2lst by the packet fbr Vera Crux,
from which he will go direitly to the capital. From
Mexico, after coming to an understanding with the Go.
vernment, it is -supposed he wal proceed to- New Or-
leans, thence ascend the Mississippi, and after visiting
New Harmony,ottend the celebrated meeting appointed
'to be held somewhere in Ohio in April next, to discuss
the qtrestion on which be sent forth a challenge last
ipring, namely, the truth eiffalseheod of the Christian
religion. If he conies to terms with the Mexican Go-
vernment, it is understood that he will return to Lanark
in June next, to make arrangements for his final depot.
Rue to America.—.Scolarnin.

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-*SPORTING INTEL,
FLOitiniCE AUTUMN 11gETING, OCi, ti.
FIRST DAY.

LICENCE.

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The Chianti Stakes of 10 Louis d'or each. for all hones; doted.
ord., Oensi st 1b; four, 9g Oth ; 9st 101 b ; ail, and aged, ''
Obc'e nd—tbeut a 'utile. 00.
Mr. Thellusson's br e Sharpshooter, by Paulowita, 4 yrs
Lord Norsisanby's b h Comte d'Artnis, by Bourbon, aged
The follovrinralseersetrah but Were not placi.d:
Baron Lnwenberg's hr h Tickletoby. late Torn Paine, aged
'slf H. b [fiber. by Baby, 6 yrs •
Lord Nssensauby's b k Forfeit, by, Wolf* 5 yrs *" 6
Mr. Perry's ch f Starch, by W0fu1,.4 yrs I
Mr. Perry'' gyre-

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Setting—G to Snn Sharrlsseter ;4to I apt Comte Wincho
5 lel apt any other. A very severe race i won only by i head. 1
Mr. Perry's eh b Roy Roy, 9st 91b. beat Lid A. Coops/Io
lb ns Matilda, wbo bolted. T.Y.C.25 Louis d'or.
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