Star. — 1819-08-11 (London, England)

SLEEP-W ALKING.—A lamentable accident happened a few nights since, at the Cavalry Barracks, Windsor. A young man, a private in the Royal Horse Guards, got out of bed and walked in his sleep, and unfortunately was able to open the window of the room in the Barracks, from which he fell out. The sentinel on duty near the spot gave an alarm, and the poor man was taken up in a most deplorable and distressing state. Surgical assistance was procured with all possible speed. Thursday se'nnight, a cow entered a public-house in Bristol, walked deliberately up two flights of stairs into a room, and rowed without doing or sustaining am y injury.  pouct  Mewstoe-Housa.—A great number arletters have been received by the LORD MAYOR, in consequence, the it is thought, of an erroneous opinion that it was psoothpaity one ee osrtheoflalboOsu.ra. Some of them went so'far as to state, that his Lordship said, he considered that sum sufficient to meet the necessities of a whole family. The comments were such as would naturally arise upon the suppo sition that such an opinion had been actually entertained and promulgated. But the tendency of the Lord Mayors observations were far different. He stated, upon the application of an idle fellow, who refused to work because he could not get the full wages of an excavator, that the distress of the country would not be so prevalent if those who had formerly 16s. or 18s. a week would, instead of throwing themselves upon their parishes, accept of 10s.; and this opinion was founded upon an authority by no means insignificant, which conveyed the assurance that the Army, the Navy, and the Farmers, were totally at a loss where to find men for their purposes. —While the LORD MAYOR was sitting yesterday, be received a few of those complimentary notes, which gave him the pleasing intelligence that he should be disposed of, before his mayoralty died a natural death, in various ways, amongst which were men-. tioned some of those ingenious plans to which barbarians often resort when they get hold of a victim against whom the war cry has been raised.—The LORD MAYOR observed, that he was prepared to meet , with opposition, but he trusted that those who had the opportunity of observing his conduct would do him justice. The duties of his situation were of the most arduous kind. Re should continue to discharge them according to his conscience, and he was sure in the end to receive the approbation of the reflecting part of the community. He felt no pain at the various laughable devices resorted to for the purpose of keeping up the cry to his prejudice; and he in particular adverted to the application of the poor fellow at Guildhall, for whom he felt much compassion, but whom he could not, think of restoring to his former situation, in consequence of his defects, both in understanding and in the motive for the act which caused his dismisal.—Peter Foreman, a respectable old man, was charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £3O, with intent to defraud John Whittaker, Esq. and Thomas Bond.—ltemanded. GetemiAte.—A Husband *early Murdered by his Tliffr.—Yesterday Mrs. Ann Farmer, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, Alderman Raritwete, by Turner, one of the constables of St. Dunsten's pariAr, charged with an assault of the most violent and dreadful nature upon her husband. Mary Anne Curtis, in whose house the defendant aad husband were lodgers, stated, that the poor man is an attorney's clerk, usually employed in the neighbourhood of Chancery lane, bet has lately been confined to his bed by severe illness ; that yesterday the witness went into their room and missed the two pillows from their bed ; she inquired of the husband what had become of them ? and he replied that his wife had pawned: them, contrary to his desire. When the wife returned,' the witness followed her up stairs, to interrogate her about the pillows, and mentioned to her what her husband had said ; upon which the defendant, in a furious rage, caught up a tea-kettle, struck her husband: on the head, and severely wounded him. The witness, I, alarmed at her desperation, ran down stairs, screaming for assistance ; and upon her return with a neighbour she found the defendant had in her absence caught up a pitcher, broke it on her husband's head, and inflicted so severe a wound that his life is declared to be in danger. From the dangerous state in which the man now lies, it was impossible to take his evidence at present.—The prisoner was remanded till the situation of her husband should be correctly ascertained. Bow-