Star. — 1831-05-06 (London, England)

COW. I plaint, and desired Drew,the Inspector, to give up the watch to the per. son from whom he bad eken i!. The Jew left the office app. rently much dissatisfied with the decision. 1 Union-Hai-L.—Yesterday, Charles Ilichardecon, a respectablelooking young man was brought before Mr. Zan ea.:, charged with fraudulently obtaining the sum of 1001. from Mr. Firth, a tradesman, in Lambeth. The complainant stated that, in the month of September last, the prisoner ceded on him, and having produced five bills, draws by himself and accepted, requested that he would discount them, at the same time offering the legal interest. Complainant having bad some transactions of the same nature with the prisoner, in which that person had taken up the bills when they became due, consented to discount the bills in question to the amount of 1001. At the time when they became due they were dishonoured, and, on inquiry, it was ascertained that the acceptors names on the bills were all fictitious, and the prisoner absconded on the discovery, and had not bees heard of until within the last few days. The complainant atkled, that when the prisoner was taken into custody, a piece of paper was found in his possession, on which he had been practising to imitate the handwriting and signature of other persona. The prisoner expressed a desire to be remanded for a week, saying that, at the expiration of that time, he should be enabled to enter upon his defence. He was accordingly remanded. Edward Jones and George Martin, two of the resurrection gentry. were charged with biddies into the churchyard of St. Saviour's parish, and stealing the body ea firmale interred there a few days previously. It appeared that the Omen were discovered by a policeman, who saw them at work in the burial ground through the iron palisades and having obtained further amistanco, the fellows were apprehended in the act of pulling the body by the neck, with a rope round it, out of the grave. In their poesselsoi Wee band the implements need by men tci 5x43 of their pursuits, that with a beg. In mitigation of the punishment they said that did net mem to deny the offence with which e they were charged, that the doctors would be unable to teach their pupils the seisms MOWN, without they were supplied with the " stifruns;" " and within need coca like us," said ass of them, .% what is to be dons ?" The sexton said that several bodies bad been Moistened from the bit.  -~~ nil ground in *moduli, and that the pariah Akan were determined es making examples of some of the effentiers. The Magistrate said be should commit the prisoners for trial, and that the parish officers were bound to prosecute them. THANES Pottcz.—Yesterday, LOMPlia LIMO, slim Sistatons. and Elisabeth his wife, who appeared with her head bandaged, and two dreadful black eyes, were charged with alarming the inhabitants of Albion.street, Commercial-road, by quarrelling and making a great du. turbance in their house. C. W. Wheeler, a police sergeant, beard the cries of murder, the smashing of aockery, and the breaking of furniture, in the house oc. copied by the prisoners, and on going into it, found the whole place ill confusion, the furniture broken, the windows and crockery @mulled, and Lyons and his wife fighting. He had given her two black eyes, and broken her bead. and she in return had actually bitten a piece of flesh out of his right arm, tearing away the coat and shirt. James Morgan, pollee sergeant, said the house kept by the defendants was a notorious brothel, and rows were constantly taking place there. Capt. RICIMILL and Mr. BALLANTINI held the defendants ty bail to keep the peace. ln default, they were locked up. The penny subscription in aid of the General Lying-in. Hospital has met with great success. Mrs. General Orr alone collected 31,000 pence ; and Messrs. R. and T. Gun. ter, upwards of 5,000. Yesterday gave another curious proof of the variableness of our variable climate. At nine o'clock it was a beautiful and warm May morning ; at eleven it wan bitterly cold; and the noon-day sun was accompanied by a bountiful shower of good-sized hail stones. Snow only was wanting to make it dead winter.