Star. — 1828-09-03 (London, England)

ADIAIIRAL. The Meeting was as select as ever, there being seven present, besides the Reporters. Alter keeping them together for one hour and a half beyond the ap. pointed time, Mr. P. LATKO took the Chair; but although there were one Resolution and one previous question moved, be would put neither the one nor the other to the vote. In this dilemma, which threatened to keep the unfortunate seven be :Mu quo all night, some Gentleman hit upou the happy expedient of moving a Vote of Thanks to the Chairman " on the occasion of his having vacated the Chair," which Itesolotion passed new. con. and the Meeting adjourned. Yesterday an Inquest, which was adjourned from Friday se'nnight, was held at the Buffaloes Head, New. road, on the body of an infant which was discovered in the water-closet of a house in Harconrt-stre:t. Paddington. When the child, was found it was in such a state oldecomposition that it was impossible to say whether it was born alive. It appeared from the evidence, that in the early part of last July. a young female, named Ann Prangle, left the service of a Mrs. Railton, of Baker. street. Portman-square, in consequence of being unwell. It was the general impression among the servants, and also of a medical Gentleman who examined her at the time, that she was pregnant. Before leaving Mrs. Railtos's service she went to lodge with a Mis. James, who resides in Harconrt-street. and to whom she con• fessed that she bad been delivered of a child a day or two before, and that it bad been taken away by a I: iend. About three weeks ago she left Mrs. James's, and went to her friends in Basingstoke. This was the substance of the evidence; and the Jury returned a verdict of ,d Wilful Murder" against Ann Prangle—and the Coroner issued his warrant for her apprehension.  Tuesday se'nuight Mr.• Rugg, a Gentleman frog► the West India, in travelling on the top of the coach frees Edinburgh to Dundee, had his pocket picked of twenty twenty-Chilling notes of Mihaly 's Bank. The man who sat next to him on the coach did not cross the water with the other passengers, on pretence that he bad some basis nets to do; but he mentioned that he was to cress in the next boat. It was only after Mr. Rugg arrived in Dundee that he discovered the loss be had sustained. He repelled to the Police Office, and from thence with an officer to the Craig, to await the arrival of his coach companion. The fellow came, and was immediately apprehended and searched, but no notes were foend upon him. In his examination, he denied that be had takes the money. He had a gold watch, with gold chain and seals on him, and has been committed to gaol, until a coarmunicat on made to the' Edinburgh Police Office has been replied to.  Monday morning a private still was discovered in a shed, situate in the rear of a house in an obscure place called Kingsland place, at Dalsm. Its existence had for sortie time been suspected, from the whisky•like smells arising occasionally from a dirty ditch which runs past the place, and on Monday the Excise officers found a still, warm, though not in operation, and about eight quarts of wash. -There was no person in the shed, and the only person resident in the house in front was a woman of middle age, who said she paid ss. a week for her lodging. and had no knowledge or concern with the back premises. Irwas rim* "spected, however, that she was kept there merely as a blind for the illegal proceedings carried on in the rear. The officers. found a man coming out of the cellar. who declared that he had merely called to• see his acquaintance, the female, and, from circumstances. t officers believed his statement, and he was set at lib: tn. A person named Davis, a milkman and greengrocer, was met at some distance from the premises by Robinson, a Shoreditch constable,and a basket he carried contained three gallons of raw spirits in bladders. He said some person had given him Is. 6d. to carry them, and he was subsequently discharged, undertaking to appear whenever required by the Excise.