Star. — 1818-02-02 (London, England)

BOW-STREET.—Saturday the Messrs. Evans's, father and son, brace-makers, of Newcastle-street, in the Strand, who were lately discharged by order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department,, from their confinement under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, entered the Office, and presenting themselves before Mr. Micas, the Sitting Magistrate, attended by Mr. }lnnate, their Solicitor, and produced copies of commitments to the House of Correction, under which they had been originally committed, dated the 9th of February, 1817, before the Ha;teas Corpus Suspension Act was passed, and in hich the .ITessrs. Evans's were committed into the ustody'of the Go: crnor of the House of Correction, charge upon oath of High Treason, and direc' theGoveraor to keep their bodies in safe cus-. ia r, t'll they were discharged by due course of law., e Messrs. Evans's stated to Mr. HICKS that they' applied to him for the purpose of having a discharge from their original apprehension before the passing of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, or that they aright be brought to trial upon the charge of High Treasons—The Magistrate, in reply, informed them .that one Magistrate could not interfere with another's proceedings and, as their case ha,d never been before bins, he referred them to Sir Nathaniel Conant. This did not entirely satisfy the applicants ; they urged, that as the instrument under which they were originally committed was dated from the Public Office, Bow-street, and they were said to be charged upon oath with High Treason, it was of course recorded in the Office, and also by whom the oath was made, it was therefore competent to any Magistrate to interfere, either to discharge them from that warrant and commitment, or to bring them to trial for High Treason, with which they had been charged, but which they denied. They admitted that were virtually discharged, but they were not legally discharged. The Magistrate declined interfering in any way in their applications, and repeatedly referred them to Sir N. Conaat.  It will be in the recollection of our Rtaders, that on the 62:3d of last November, at an early hoar in the morning, Mrs. NPNANARA was barbarously murdered in her house in Townsend-street, Dublin, and a considerable part of her property taken away by the murderers. From that pet iod until very recently, the perpetrators of this atrocious act eluded the search which was made for them, though it was prosecuted with more than common industry. Justice, however, though sometimes slow in overtaking the criminal, rarely fails in accomplishing its objects ; and we have the gratification to state, that the persons charged with the murder of Mrs. AV/4.04/ou, and of whose guilt there are positive proofs, have been at length arrested, and are now in Newgate, in Dublin. A few days since, Mr. Balls, a farmer at Lessingham, Norfolk, found the harness in his stables scattered on "the ground, the next morning they were thrown into a pit ; and entering the calve's-house, he observed four calves suspended by the neck, and nearly dead. These circumstances induced him and his son to watch during the two following nights.— ' When morning advanced, and the men servants had risen, they retired ; but the foreman, on going into the stable, found a barley stack beginning to take fire from a brand which had been thrust into it. He endeavoured in vain to extinguish it ; and the flames spread on every side, till that, with a wheat and an oat stadk, barns, and stables, and out-hoses, were all destroyed. Nor is this all : on Wednesday night, while the'town of Happisburgh were engaged :a attending an evening lecture, the same villain: set fire to a hay and straw stack) the property of Mr. Pelts, , of that town.