Star. — 1822-08-24 (London, England)

QUERK-SQUA RE.—John Matthews was charged with assaulting Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Story. Mr. Robinson stated, that, as he was passing the foot of Vauxhall Bridge, he saw the defendant heating his wife in a brutal manner, and, on his interfering in behalf of the female, he knocked him down, and his head coming in contact.witb the stones, rendered him insensible for a considerable time, when the defendant kicked him violently.— Mrs. Story stated, that on her interference he served her in like manner, by which she received an injury which delicacy forbad her to describe, but from which she was likely to suffer during her life. Ile was held to bail, with permission to settle with the parties.  esion-Hatt..—A brutal fellow, named Ames Tinting, a gloom in the service of T. Richardson, Esq. who resides in the Kentroad, was, before M. Swatter, n. charged with having maliciously stabbed a very valuable horse' the property of his master. The greatest indignation was excited by the examination. Mr. Richardson stated, that about six o'clock on Thursday evening, as he was sitting in his parlour, he hoard a very unusual noise proceeding from the stable. He immediately ran into the yard, and upon looking through the stable window, saw the prisoner, with a large stable fork in his hand, making a furious attack upon one of the horses. The poor animal plunged very much,and groaned, bat the prisoner continued the attack, And inflicted a desperate wound in the jaw of the horse, the. prongs of the fork having entered about two inches. The witness emoted the stable, and reprobated the cruelty of the fellow, but wag himself soon given to understand that as little ceremony would be shewn to himself as had been shewn to the poor horse. " R.—n you, you old villain," said the prisoner, " I'll serve you as I have served your horse, and I'll set your house on fire too." The witness added, that of late the prisoner was in the habit of drinking very much, and that the abominable habit had wrought the greatest change in the unfortunate man. The horse was rendered useless in consequence of the wound.—The Magistrate strongly reprobated the inhumanity of the prisoner, and sentenced him to pay a tine of .C.l, to be Imprisoned two months in the Hotta of Correction, and to hod securities to keep the peace. Thomas Hemmings, who keeps a chandler's shop in Kingstreet, Southwark, pleaded " Not Guilty" to an inform-tion filed against him for selling bread deficient In weight. Au informer, named Brown, stated that he went to defendant's shop and purchased two quartern and four half-quartern loaves. He desired that the bread should, be weighed in the shop, and observed a deficiency in the loaves, amounting altogether to twenty ounces..  Hammond, the officer, confirmed the witness's evidence.. The defendant said in his defence, that he had bought the bread from a baker in the Borough-road, bt whom he had been supplied for some time, and that he always supposed the bread to be the proper weight. • The Magistrate fined the chandler ss. per ounce for the deficiency; and observed to him, that the least the baker could do would be to pay him half the fine. klanuionounn-sTaeze.—The valet is cliambre to the Spanish Ambassador was charged with driving a chaise over a poor man in the Fulham Road. The charge, however, was dismissed, on the defendant giving the poor nun £2.  Lamsma-eraszv.—T. Breafen, a tide-waiter, residing in Meeting-holm-lane, St—Georges in the East, was charged with attempting to hang, his. son, about eleven years old. Jeffery., the ollicer, stated, that be was sent for to the house of the, prisoner, in consequence of cries of murder being heard from it, when he found the child on a high temporary platform in an upper room, quite naked, with one end of • rope round his neck, and the other fastened to a hook in the ceiling. lie immediately released him, and with assistance brought him and his father to the Office.— ;'ln defence the fellow said, his sou had long been in the habit of robbing him, and deserting till he had spent the money. The Magistrate observed, that if the buy had done wrong the law .was open to him; the father, therefore, had no right to pro,eed , to ma hem Next of extranitiefi• and coaustitted hint, with ozden 0 give 14