Star. — 1825-01-19 (London, England)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 17.  Clarks Lister, a bricklayer's carter, was charged with committing a brutal assault on Mary Sullivan. The prosecute ix, a poor Irish woman, was sitting in Queenstreet, by her stall of apples, &c. on the Bth November, when the defendant drove down the street with his master's cart; the poor woman seeing him approach very near her stalls was apprehensive it Would be overturned, and, holding up her band, she said to the prisoner, " Do, good man, drive more to the other side," when the prisoner raised his whip and struck her across the back, and broke her arm by a blow with the butt-end. The prior woman was confined six weeks with the injury.— The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but judgment was suspended until the adjournment day, to give him an opportunity of settling with the prosecutrix. Several other minor cases were disposed of, and the Sessions ended.  Sheehan, charged with the horrid murder of the Franks, is now in Dublin, and was to undergo an exa• mination by the Law Officers on Friday. The waste lands in Great Britain, by examination in 1794, were found_to be 22,351,000 acres, which, if cultivated and enclosed, reckoning an annual increase of 9s. per acre, the annual rent would amount to 10,057,9501. and on a supposition that the yearly produce would bell. 7s. per acre on three rents, it would be worth 30,173,8501. per annum to the community. Sunday last, a singular anti fatal accident happened at Pendleton. A man named William Lord, a blacksmith, was eating a beef-steak, when a piece stuck in his throat, and he was suffocated in a few minutes, notwithstanding the efforts of the persons about to relieve him. We understand that a Fish Company is forming for the supply of the Metropolis with fish, at a moderate rate. The Company also proposes to build a market, in which prime fish alone is to be sold ; the projector states, that by the aid of this Company the commodity may be supplied at one-third the price now charged for it, and at the same time yield a liberal return for the capital invested. A question of great importance to The inhabitants of Dorchester, was decided in Blandford on Tuesday se'nnight. At a very full attendance of the Magistrates it was resolved, by a majority of 24. to 18, that the General Quarter Sessions for the County shall in future be held at Dorchester. _ .  Monday, the 7th of November, at two o'clock, P.M. the framcStote of Jolla M,G11.1., Esq. on the Twentymile Creek, Upper Canada, was blown up, with six persons in it, vis.••••. Dr. SAMUEL WOODRUFF, Mr. Wmcox, Mr. MALATIIit Mr. M.GILL, his clerk, and a serving woman. The first four were sitting by the fire—a keg containing thirty-five pounds of powder was between Mr. M.Gict. and the chimney, who was picking some lumps out of it, within five feet of the fire. Another keg with forty-seven pounds stood open beside him. Also, other two kegs in a different part of the store, not unheaded. Some of these Gentlemen were amusing themselves, producing explosions, by throwing small lumps of the damaged powder into the fire—this caused a coal ui start into one of the kegs, which immediately blew up. The four sides of the store went different ways—the roof was blown up about eight feet perpendicular, and then fell down, but left room for the unfortunate inmates to crawl out below, very mach hurt. The cle: k was behind the counter, and by a mirack, sustained no serious injury; nor did the servant woman get much hurt—she was in a lobby which communicated with the dwelling-house.—Dr. SAMUEL WOODRUFF is since dead. Iris said, that, had he lived, the 18th inst. being the day of his funeral, was intended for his wedding day. At a late Assizes, during the examination of a maiden Lady upon a trial for burglary, the Learned Counsel, as delicately as the case would admit, put a question, the answer to which, for the modesty of its application,deserves to be recorded. a Now, Madam, (said the Learned Gentleman) I presume you are quite sure, that when you awoke, you saw a man in your_ bed room?" After a short hesitation, the Lady replied, " I saw. the figure of a man l"