Star. — 1808-10-04 (London, England)

CONSTANT READER.  CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.  AYR, SEPTEMEER 26.  The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here on Saturday the 24th instant, by the Right Honourable Lord MEADOWBANK, and proceeded to the trial of William Burnside and Thomas Taggart, shoemakers in Kilmarnock, accused of going into the house of a woman who kept a huckster shop in that town, and murdering her servant maid by means of strangulation, and thereafter robbing the house of a sum of money and various articles. After a trial, from ten o'clock in the morning, till seven o'clock in the evening, the Jury returned a verdict, all in one voice, finding the libel not proved; in consequence whereof, the prisoners were assoilzied rimpticiter, and dismissed from the bar, after receiving a suitable exhortation from the Judge respecting their future conduct in life. The Court met at ten o'clock this morning, and proceeded to the trial of Hugh Anderson, prisoner in the Tolbooth of Ayr, accused of entering a church in the town of Maybole, and stealing therefrom a number of tools belonging to carpenters working in said church. The prisoner confessed his guilt, the libel was restricted to an arbitrary punishment, and the Jury having found him guilty accordingly, he received sentence of transportation for the term of seven years. Mary Johnstone, also a prisoner in the Tolbooth of Ayr, accused of theft, was, in consequence of her own petition, and the consent of the Advocate Depute, banished from Scotland for life. Motet M'Kean, labourer in Maybole, Mary M'Kean, his wife, prisoner in the Tolbooth of Ayr, and Rosins Dorien, otherwise Dorman, also prisoner in said Tolbooth, were also accused of theft, and receipt of theft. Moses M'Kean, the principal offender, failed to Appear, and sentence of outlawry was pronounced against him. The diet was deserted pro loco et tempore,, so far as respected Rosina Dorien, otherwise Dornan, and in consequence of a petition from Mary M'Kean, and the consent of the Advocate Depute, she was banished from Scotland for life.  John APlVilliam, smith in ChaHoch, in the county of Wigtown, had been indicted for murder or culpa• ble homicide, but the diet was deserted pro loco d tempore. He was committed to prison upon a new warrant, but afterwards liberated on finding bail. And the Court having heard counsel in two appeals, the busi*ess was concluded at this place.  The French funds have fallen to 80 francs, 55 cen. times.  At Uxbridge Fair, on Friday, a Gentleman engaged two young women, sisters, as servants. On referring for character, &c. he discovered them to be his nieces, to whom he was unknown, he having for many years been in India. He carried them home to a condition more happy than they had anticipated. A t Barnham Mills, near Chichester, on Friday se'nnight, a young man of the name of Pkdger, having got too near the wheel, the cogs caught hold of his clothes, and, shocking to relate, he was dragged into the works, and instantly killed.  In consequence of directions having been given to some of the Police Constables at St. Andrew's watchhouse, Dublin, not to suffer Divine Service to be interruptred by horsemen and carriages passing that way during the time of service, one of these Constables placed there on Sunday se'nnight, in order to do his duty, gave a horse upon which a servant was riding through St. Andrew's-street, a violent blow upon the head, and on being asked what he did that for ? answered, " he was placed there to keep the peace," upon which the rider in order to do hi, duty, rode his horse against the Peace ()Per, knocked him down, and rode off.-Next day, Alderman Hoz:a and Counsellor GVINNPSS, on hearing the complaint of the servant above-mentioned, immediately received examinations against the watchman, and sent him to Newgate to abide his trial. Friday night a man and woman who were asleep in a barge laden with bones, off Pickle Herring Stairs, between two vessels, were miraculously saved from 1 being drowned, in consequence of the mate of one of the ships dreaming that the barge was sinking with the people on board. He awoke at the instant, jumped upon deck, found the barge actually sinking head foremost, and was just in time to save the man and woman.