Star. — 1827-05-25 (London, England)

THE APPROACHING EXECUTIONS.  The awful purport of the RECORDER'S Report was communicated to the four unhappy men by the Rev. Ordinary and Mr. WORMIER, the Governor. They received it with much fortitude, but Eagles appeared more- ffected than his wretcheicompanions. The fol. lowing are the crimes for which they were convicted: John Eagles. aged 35, formerly employed in the General Post Office, as letter carrier, was tried and convicted in the February Sessions of secreting a letter entrusted to his cam. directed to A. W. Robaru, Esq. M.P.of the firm of Robarts, Curtis, and Co. George Williams, convicted at the same Sessions, of stealing in the parish of Edmonton, on the 3d of Feb. 33 sheep,. value 501. the property of MP. William Walker, a farmer, at Enfield Washway. The culprit was tried and convicted on a second indictment of stealing a brown gelding, the property of Mr. Rutty, a farmer, at Welwyn, Herts._ _ _  Benjamin Saunders was indicted, with another mac, for assaulting and robbing, on the highway, at Isleworth, William Pike, a. Chelsea pensioner, under circumstances of great atrocity. it appeared, on the trial, that the prosecutor had been drinking at a publichouse, on Sniallbury-green, and left about ten o'clock at night for Hounslow, when some persons called after him, saying, ,4 You are going the wrong road." He then turned into another, and in passing a dead wall be was felled to the ground, by rwo persons, who struck him tremendously over the head with their bludgeons; he recognised his assailants to be the men that had been drinking with him at the tap. The culprit Saunders rifled his pockets, and held his hand over his mouth, and one of them, after taking all he had, said, es come along, he is done; he will never rise again." Saunders was subsequently apprehended, and, on the trial, a wit• ness swore that he had admitted the robbery to him. Joseph Brown was convicted of assaulting and robbing William Cooper in the highway. The prosecutor was proceeding along Holborn, on his way home, when be was accosted by three men, of whom the prisoner was one. He got away from them down Newtonstreet, when the prisoner knocked him down by a violent blow, and robbed him of ss. his spectacles, and hat. The prosecutor called out murder, the patrol came up and took the prisoner with the stolen hat in his hand.  No less than seventeen couple were on Sunday last asked in church at the small town of Horncastk.  During the late snow-storm, an affecting little incident was noticed at Falkirk. A pair of blackb •Js had built their nest in a thick holly bush, and five eggs, "black sawn," soon commanded the ceaselesss foster. ing attention of the female, which, while passing the patient long hours in the task of incubation, was cheered by the plaintive mellow song of the male from a neigh. bowing bough. The eggs were ripened into young birds ere the storm came on, and the genial weather which preceded it promised fair for the b re norblings; but the deep snow that whitened all the fields, and loaded every tree, blasted the hopes of the farmers and the feathered race, and our two blackbirds with their tender charge hid to prove the bitter drift. After stealing the crumbs from Cie g'rns of many a schoolboy, or picking up a scanty morsel upon the highway to keep in the spat k of life in their young, the old ones were, after several Jays, rendered too weak for the unequal task. The male was founJ lsing cold beneath his accustomed bough, and the female so etch= d dead upon the neat, which, however, contained all :he. young ones alive, the parent birds having starved them elves to save their defenceles pt e2en ling Journal.  PpLICE