Star. — 1830-07-20 (London, England)

HATTON.GAZDEN.—Yesterday, Williams Show was charged with attempting to murder another Irishman, named David Keefe. About two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the prisoner went into the Hand and Crown public-house, Church4treet, St. Giles's, and caUedi for half a pint of gin, without the means of paying for it; the landlord refused to serve him with it, whereupon the prisoner became outrageous, and taking out a knife from his pocket, threatened to murder the landlord, if the gin were not furnished him. The landlord continued resolute, and refused to serve the prisoner, when he opened the knife and swore that he would stick it in the landlord's heart. The complainant interfered to persuade the prisoner to go home, whereupon he ran at the complainant, and stabbed himlin the nose with the knife. The instrument penetrated the bone, and almost severed the nose from the face. The surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital described the wound as dangerous. The prisoner was remanded for a week. Utriow-Hara..—Yesterday, a man named Trigg was charged with committing a violent assault on William Madden, a fellowworkman. The complainant, whose head and face were frightfully swollen, owing to the beating he bad received, stated that on Sunday he spent the afternoon with the defendant and his wife and two other women. In the course of the evening defendant went out, leaving him with " the ladies," which gave him an opportunity of joking with them, and when he shortly afterwards saw the defendant, that person accused him of taking liberties with his wife, and no sooner made the accusation, than be up with his fist and knocked him down. He (the defendant) immediately rose from the ground, and was about to defend himself from the accusation, when be received another thump between the eyes that again upset him, and a third and a fourth time he was served in the same way, and beaten in the violent manner that he now exhibited. The complainant here produced the clothes which he wore an the occasion, (his best;) they were torn, besides being covered with mud, owing to the filthy state of the cad after the heavy fall drain during the day. The defendant said that he did not mean to deny the charge of haying beaten the complainant, and given him the bruises now Visible on his countenance, but that person had withheld the fact which related to the nature of the provocation he gave to deserve thei treatment he had experienced on the occasion, and which he so justly merited. The facts were : he (the defendant) bad occasion to absent himself a short time from the room, leaving his wills and two other married women in company with the complainant, who was invited to take tea with them. He (defendant) however, no sooner turned his back, than their guest immediately closed the door and windows, and commenced taking the most improper fiber. ties with the women, but more especially with his (idamlant's)wife, wheel he grossly Insulted, by taking her round the itdotind kissing 'her, although she expressed her disapprobation of mai oviduct, and endeavoured to extricate herself from his easlisattees This behaviour, from a person who was invited as thrift fiat, ea. did the indignation of those to whom the insult was dined and wins he (defendant) returned home, and was informed old* waratel he which his wife, as well as the other &males, Witt Mated by de complainant, he called that individual out of the room, sad is v► quirrng an explanation, received nothing but insult, and, is the an. asperation of the moment, he certainly gave the °Smile a mod thrashing to make him remember taking liberties with sae Ores who gave him no encouragement. The defendant's wife corroborated her husband's evidence. The Magistrate, after hearing the explanation, discharged the de. fcridana  Tumult-Po tacr.—Jetwes Bryertl and Thomas Little were charged with assaulting Thomas Catlin, a police constable, who had endeavoured to secure them while assisting a loom woman In her attempts to plunder a drunken gentleman in Shadwril. Bryant was fined 61. and Little was sent tor one month to hard labour, as a reputed thief. Towx-nat.L.—John Ryas and M 167 Lloyd were charged with uttering counterfeit coin to James Ramanle, • salesman in the bo. rough market.—They were remanded.