Star. — London, England, 1821-08-31 00:00:00

7 / to 1 agst Statesman 7 to 1 agst Arington 34 to 1 apt Ssndbeck FRATERNITY OF CIIAPMEN. STIRLING, AUGUST 23.—Yesterday the ancient fraternity of Mermen assembled in the King's Park, ta s celebrate their an nual games. Ths day being particularly fine, these favourite sports colieeted a great number of well dressed spectators. In the days of yore, when the industrious cinipman had increased his stock of worldly goods beyond what he could transport on his own back, lie transferred it to the back of that horse which best suited his views and. his means, without making height and beauty an essential ingredient in his composition. Of course, those who came forward to contend for the prize of the ring, placed themselves on steeds different in size, colour, and shspe. Tads descendants of the present day have not entirely laid aside a custom so laudable, and tending so much to heighten the amusement—they are degenerating, however, for several of the horses were stick, that the charnel) of other years would be by ao !GNU]; solicitous to trust either their persons or property to sairmes so handsome and spirited. To those wins never have witnessed this sport, the following short account may not be uninteresting. Two posts are placed in the ground, about twelve feet distant front each other—a Kara is made to rest en these—from this is suspended the riot, %shish is about ten feet from the ground. The compcti- Urs, e.n horseback, having arranged themselves, advance at full st,etel, std, in passing under the ring, cedcavour to pas, a sharp pointed lasce t'.-st:Lh it, and carry it off. This, however, is 3:0 eaty task. ltos ring is but little larger than a lady's ring. It is usual to ride for one hour, unless some brother shall have borne away the eon five times within a shorter period, when he who has i.urne it away must frequendy is declared the suc cessful competitor. Yesterday the address exhibited was con siderable, as in tits short space of forty minutes the ring was tarried away two and twenty times. Thirty-six brothers en tered the lists, soil the result was as follows : bdr. John 6:1,.............5 Mr. Henry flay„ 1 ('...:orge Nit G0v5an—......3 Jaen. Bow 1 Robert sewers llal/Ile Paterson s John Paterson. 2 klr. John Callendar John Cullen James Johnstone 1 Win. 31' i :nosh 1 Jame5...........1 . - The pric rinc, %%Welt is of gAd, was but year won by Ur. 'Young, writer, mod was by him resigned to the Lord Principal, who delivered it to the successful candidate, Mr. Gibson, amidst ' the shout; ard cheers of hi. Woollier ehaptnen and the spectators. After the prize of the ring was decided, the following horse races comm. nceil : Mr. Nei son bay mare, rode by Mr. Stewart, woo the first tare. T..vo_hests. Three horses started. Mr. Cibsou's brown mare, rode by Mr. Stewar, won the second r.t:e. Two heats. Three horses started. Mr. Young's :Iv_ mitt horse won a smart race once round the Course, beating, 3:r. Robert Sawers's blown horse. Between the hors? races some good foot races were run, and afforded consider al& ansusel tent. The principal toot race was won with ease hi John 1.-es, a private in the 41st Regiment. The spats continued until t ti.f veil of even was drawn over the fraternity, when they adjourned to brother Gibsou's house, where they partook of an excellent supper. No accidect of any kind occurred in the Park, during the vs rious sports of the day, except to an unfortunate brother, who, while shewill off, at full speed, his horse made a sudden leap, when, to the evident amazement of the rider, he found he had alighted on a stone wall, which, equestrian-like, be gracefully bestrode, to the high delight of the spectators, but without the smallest injury to himself. QUOITS. Saturday, the annual game between the Glasgow and Poll - saws Quoit-players took place at Port F4linton. There were two racks, the game 90. The Glasgow players di:played an evident superiority, having won 94 shots, four more than the game, before their opponents had M.. The game was thus gained by the Glasgow folks by the great majority of 42 shuti. SONG. Tone—" The Bootie Rows." The boatie's rowing owr the deep, And hast'ning to the shore : 0 guard it frae ilk rocky steep, Or ocean's angry roar. The boatie rows, the boatie rows, The boatie rows ashore ; Lightsome be the sailor's heart, When a' his toils are o'er ! The ship lies in the Roads o: Leith, Rich laden frae the sea ; gut Willie, coming in the boat, Is mair than gowd to me. The boatie rows, &c. When winds blew, and the tempest roar% sleety blasts and rain, I thought upon my Willie's ship, Far drifting owr the main. But the boatie rows, &c. And now the winds and waves combine To gar the tempest roar ; Their storms nae mair will mak me wac, Since be is safe on shore ! The bootie rows, &c. Dunfermline. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING RI DONCAITZa 3 to I apt Guitavan S to 1 2 gst Jack Spigot 131, AUGUST 30. ST. LEGES. 114 to 1 art Fortuna 16 to 1 agst Antcsidora 100 to 4 agst Lunatic, or any other. JUVENILE rimrs-rtuANism. Thursdayse`nnight, a youth,nrmell Rushmore, undertook for a trifling sum to run sixteen miks in two hours, on the Unicorn n aw ficggreen, at Ayisham. lie performed the task with ease. BOXING. The battle between Dick Actors, the fighting craftsman, and .lief E.erte, the brick-maker, took place on Wedneaday, for e 0 gnineas, on the Watford road; although the rain fell in torrents, the road to the field was thronged with drenched amateurs of all sorts. Acton is a promising pupil of Hales, and the brick-maker, who had . fieered all before him, was upon such gani terms with bimself, that on the eveui::g before fighting he sent a polite mes sage to his antagonist to get an undertaker to measure him, and 11:31/P the tmx ready. F.eles and Paddington Jones seconded Ac ton; and Tons Oliver and Scroggins seconded Evans, who was backed at 5 and 6to 4. It was a good fight of three quarters of au hour: from the rain and dirt, it was hard to tell them apart. Morro I. Evans, who was rather the heaviest, rushed upon Ills adversary impetuously, and ran him down. 2 . mere was some good, steady, and equal fighting. Several blows were exchanged us a rally : both went down. Evans had a slight advantage, and blacked his adversary's eye, but be received a heavy return upon the jaw, and made aeme (;:intahn faces. Acton was thrown in a elose.—Eeen 011 Evans. 4. Evans received a doubler-up in the mark ;he broke ground ,s recover himself, but his adversary, awake to his distress, went rap to his heed pity, and floored him by a muzzier. 6 and 7. There was but little fighting front former exertion, • strength gave Event something best. E. A good and equal-fighting round. Acton was thrown. b. Decidedly in favour of Evans, who met his adversary rush ine in by a flush hit upon the nose, which dropped hint cleanly. It was all in favour r ' Acton after this, as Evans had all the fieht taken out of !rim, and only stood up to become receiver vir rut. its the :sth round Acton was 2 , ;ping, and Scroggins cried out to hi: nun. " Gd in." The watchword from &des was, "Be rectij," and so he was—Evans w a s met by a flush hit on the front of the head, which spoiled him, and Acton won the battle its four rounds aftawards. EedNomv.—A Gentleman, who had remarked how magnificently a friend of his lived upon a small in come, observed, that with such slender means to make such a figure, was much to his credit. " Not only to Lis,' replied another, 44 but to the credit of all his tr4deatueu:" • MAIISTONsHotiSE.—DisTunsANCE IN THE NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—The Beadle of the new Roman Catholic Chapel, in Moorfields, was summoned be fore the LORD MAYOR, Oil the complaint of Mr. Brom ley, a respectable citizen, on a charge of having com mitted an assault upon him during the performance of the Service.—Mr. Bromley stated, that on the af ternoon of Sunday last he went with a child to see the new Roman Catholic Chapel, and that on enter ing the door, he was beset by persons with plates, who demanded a contribution in a manner that was net customary in such places on such occasions, and he refused to give anything, particularly as he did not mean to stay, but merely went to see the interior of the building. On his entering the body of the Chapel, a person came up to him, and demanded threepence for his admission there, and intimated, on the demand not being complied with, that the com plainant had the alternative of going out if he did not choose to pay. The complainant answered, as it was a place of public worship, that no one had any right to make such demands; he therefore refused either to pay or retire until it suited him. The dispute caused a crowd of the congregation to gather round them, when the complainant's child expressed that it should be suffocated by the heat, and the comflainant unwittingly elevated it in his arms. This circum stance appeared to rouse all About him to a most se rious ferment. They were mostly of the lower class of Irish, and spoke sharply in their own language at the complainant. The organ was stopped, and all was at a stand. Whilst the complainant was thus surrounded, the defendant came up to him, and pre senting his mace of office, first desired him to pay the money asked by the seat-keeper, or to go out ; and on the complainant's refusing to do either, the Beadle seized him by the collar, shook him, and dragged him forcibly out of the Chapel, with a degree of out rageous violence and savageness of manner, such as the complainant said lie had never witnessed, even in cases of desperate resistance. Four other Gentle men who were present, and interfered in behalf of the complainant, were likewise ejected in the same unceremonious manner. For this assault the com plainant claimed the interference of his Lordship, not as a private but as a public matter, and to shew the parties that they were not justified either in exacting money for admission, or in forcibly expelling any one who conducted himself peaceably in a place of public worship, which the complainant declared be bad done : those who knew him would declare he was in capable of acting otherwise. The Beadle admitted that he had turned the com plainant out, but it was as much to preserve the peace as anything else. The fact was, that the founders of the Chapel had an outstanding debt which they wished to pay off; and for that purpose they were under the necessity of raising some money at the doors. The complainant had certainly been told, that unless he would pay the customary fee he could not be allowed to remain there, and on his refusal he had been put out, with no more force than was actually necessary. He contended that he was perfectly jus. tifiable in acting as he had done, particularly as it was to preserve the peace of the Chapel, which bad been broken by the conduct of the complainant. Several of the assistants and of the congregation came forwar d in support of the conduct of the Beadle. The LORD MAYOR was decidedly of opinion, that no one had a right to coact money in a place of public worship, and considered the conduct of the Beadle on this occas' highly reprehensible. The way to preserve the peace was not to turn out persons who did not choose to submit to exactions, in the unne cessary violent manner in which it had been sworn the Beadle had turned out Mr. Bromley ; but as the latter had brought the matter forward on public grounds, and not for the personal assault, he would probably forego a prosecution if the satisfaction of an apology was offered. Mr. Bromley said, he was perfectly ready to ac cept a written apology properly worded. The Beadle positively refused to make any apology. The LORD MAYOR then ordered him to find bail to answer for the assault, and the Beadle having no bail present, was given into custody. GUILDIIALI..—•RECEIVEUS OP STOLEN GOODS.— Yesterday, Robert Ray was brought up before Mr. Alderman C. SMITH, and underwent a second exa mination. The prisoner had been remanded in con sequence of the scruples of the worthy Alderman to commit him upon the evidence of two boys, without some confirmatory testimony, and a more positive identification of the property stolen than the mere dirty spot where Mr. Miller's mark was supposed to be obliterated. Mr. Miller was then examined, and on producing the half manufactured shoes found in the prisoners lodgings, the materials of which the elder Butler had sworn he sold to him, pointed out a mark on the lining. which he had discovered by ripping the shoe, and by which he was enabled to swear positively to them as his property. Sarah Summerfield, a servant girl residing at N 0.7, Addle hill, for whom the prisoner had made the ether pair of shoes produced, deposed to that fact, Mr. Miller also swearing that the materials were his property. The prisoner had procured the assistance of an At torney, who under all the circumstances, cautioned him to say nothing, and consented to his being held to bail for the misdemeanour. Recognizances were entered into for the appearance of tire two lads, Joseph and John Butler, to give evidence at the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City of London, where, agreeably to the directions of the Statute, the prisoner must be tried, and not at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer. The prisoner was committed for want of sureties. Bow-sTnEET.---Late on Wednesday evening, a young titan of gen'lemanly appearance, and five young and interesting females, dressed in the most fashionable style, were brought to the Office, and' underwent an examination before WILLIAM BECKETT, Esq. the presiding Magistrate, on the following most profound and solemn charge, which was made by the Constable into whose custody they had been con fided, and who seemed overwhelmed by its import-, ante, namely, that " of tittering and publishing, as true, to the check-taker of the llaymarket Theatre, certain false, forged, and counterfeited orders (not for the payment of money, but) for the admission of six persons into the boxes of the Theatre" This de finition of the charge had considerable effect upon the risible muscles of the persons present in the Court, and eveu the fair culprits, sorry of whom, Mr. Terry being in attendance, his depositions were taken, and the prisoner Roach was committed for re-examination. The parties then left the Office with very different feelings to those with which they entered it on the preceding evening. lIATTOS-GMtoim.—J. Darnley, a law-writer, was charged by Ann Bull, a laundress, residing in Bishop's court, Chancery-lane, with unlawfully pawning a fea ther bed, bolster, two blankets, and a sheet, from out of his reaiy-furnished lodging, and was convicted in the penalty of 20s. exclusive of the E.'? 2s. 6d. for which they were pawned; which not being able to pay, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Elizabeth Par& was committed, charged with pawning a quantity of child-bed-linen, the property of a Society in &. Andrew's, Holborn, which were lent to a poor woman, during her lying-in, and whom she had engaged to nurse. The Magistrate reprobated the conduct of the Pawnbroker in taking in the ar ticles, which were conspicuously marked ; and ex pressed a hope that the Society will prosecute him. MA RI. /10ROUGII•STRCET.-- William and Mary Ma son Tomlinson were brought before G. FAR RANT, Esq. charged by the parish officers of St. James's with leaving two children exposed in the street, and deserting them, on the 20th of June, 18'20. Mr. Rice, Solicitor and Vestry-clerk, accompanied the parish officers; and it appeared from their statement that, on the day named, two infant children of the defendants, William and Francis, were left by the unfeeling mother, and another woman, suspended from the knocker of the door of Mr. Knight, of Great Marlborough-street, in a basket. The parish took charge of them, and placed them out at nurse at Wimbledon, and until within a few days their parents were not known ; but the natural and endearing ties of parents to their offspring was not quite extinct in the mother, whose frequent visits to herchildren as their aunt, excited suspicion, and on inquiry being set on foot, she was found out to be the mother. The children were passed to Lambeth parish, where they belong, and the defence of the parents was poverty. They were remanded to St. James's workhouse until the woman who was with the mother of the children can be brought forward. nosey, who stood charged with defrauding maltster at Earningham, in Kent, of a quantity of Malt, pretending that he was an agent to Messrs. Satchel' and Co. brewers, was committed to give 24 hours notice of bail. The house of CUARLES MORTON, Esq. of the Kent road, was broken into on Tuesday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, by means of picklock keys, and robbed of forty sovereigns, two silver watches, and fifteen pieces of plate, with which the thieves got clear off. About four o'clock on Wednesday morning the house of the lion. Mr. M'DoNALD, in Connaught place, was attacked by two fellows, who had bored a hole in the shutters sufficient to admit a hand to un loose the fastenings, which alarmed the butler. One of the thieves instantly fled ; and the butler, with a pistol in his hand, ordered the other not to stir, or he would shoot him. The robber drew a pistol from his pocket and shot at the butler, the balls from which made two perforations in his shirt. He then dis charged his pistol at the thief, but without effect, and, the fellow escaped. The cotton manufacturers of Carlisle have ad vanced the wages of their weavers Gd. per cut on most descriptions of work. The spirited Corporation of Liverpool have ex pended, within the last two years, upwards of El 50,000 in the purchase and taking down of old and useless buildings, for the improvement cf the town. The workmen employed in repairing and beautify- I ing Trinity Church, Hull, discovered behind a part lof the south wall, on Tuesday se'nnight, a beautiful I Gothic arch, at the bottom of which lay an admirable sculptured female figure, particularly the drapery, but no inscription has yet been found. A handsome ; Gothic window has also been discovered neat the east I door, which had been plastered up. • —All these donations, though merely mentioned in 2 letter written two years ago, the legal heirs of Mr. NPLErsit have in the most disinterested mariner paid, without even the deduction of the legacy duty. Last week, as two of the studerns of the FAA In dia College, near llertford, were bathing the river Lea, one of them, Mr. JAMES GRANT ; :30St amiable and promising yiung man, wanderc,! of his depth and sunk. His companion, who 11.1.1 left the water, plunged in again to his relicf, but in vain. Assistance was procured, courageous and persevering efforts were made, and the body was at length fl,an,!; but, as it had lain four hours in the water, the exer tions of the medical men who had been called to the spot were unavailing to restore animation. The new harbour at Peterhead, in Scotland, is now drawing to a dose; the harbour consists of about 32 acres, protected by a spacious pier, about 300 feet from the land, with a returning head of 100 feet.— From the base of the pier the new wharf wall will extend nearly 1003 feet, and at a right angle with it an extensive dry dock for repairing ships, cut out of the solid'rock. The new road cut under the windcliff, from Tin torn Abbey to St. Aryans, a di , tance of three miles, is now completed, and affords an additional pleasure to the numerous aquatic parties who pass down the Wye from Ross. The Sunderland Association for the destruction of beasts and birds of prey, and the consequent protec tion of sheep, lambs, domestic animals, game, Etc. have paid, since May, 1819, to March last, for the destruction of 112 full grown eagles, 18 young eagles, 211 foxes, 317 wild cats, martins, and pole catl, 516 ravens, 281 hawks, 1483 carrion crows and magpies, and 570 rooks and jackdaws. An instance of the predilection of rats for strong ale occurred to an innkeeper of this place. He had, about six weeks ago, placed on the floor of an old malt kiln a 30 pint cask of ale, to bring it to a fit state for bottling. To his astonishment, on going to the cask a few days since, he found it nearly empty, and was at no loss to discover the depredators, for the cork was nibbled away to a small shell, which only remained in the cask. The innkeeper, on going into an adjoining granary, had frequently seen the rats in merry groups, frisk►ng and gambol ling about, but never dreamt that they had made themselves groggy with his nappy ale. They had the sagacity to make a small hole at first, and to en large it as required, for it did not appear as if any of the ale had dropped on the floor. —Stirling Journal. POLle& akhongh greatlf alarmed and suffused in tears, could not refrain from paying a similar tribute to its ap parent ridiculousness. On their being placed at tire Bar, their gay dresses formed a striking contrast to the persons who generally occupy that unenviable situation, and the worthy Magistrate expressed that he felt the greatest regret at the necessity which obliged him to place them there. The Check-taker was then called, and he stated, that in consequence of several forged orders having been passed to him, he was desired by the Managers of the Theatre to minutely examine all that were ten dered to him in future ; and that about half-past seven o'clock on that evening, the six persons now un der this charge presented to him orders, purporting to be signed by Mr. Terry, one of the performers. Mr. BecKarr said he must call upon the parties to explain how they came in possession of the tickets, which was immediately undertaken by one of the ladies, who was at least six feet high, and who seemed to possess courage above the rest in proportion to her size: she stated, that she was desirous of treating her friends, and hearing that a man of the name of Solomon, residing in Russell-court, Drury-lane, sold orders very cheap, she had applied to him, and he had let her have the orders in question for eighteen pence a-piece. Mr. IILcKETT then remarked, that as Mr. Terry was not present to prove that the signa tures were forged, he did not feel justified in de taining them in custody, but would take their words to appear at the Office at twelve o'clock the next day (yesterday), and in the meantime he would direct the man Solomon to be apprehended. The caption of Solomon being effected, and all the parties being present, the case accordingly came on yesterday belOre RICHARD Br lINIE, Esq. and on the circumstances being recapitulated to him, he pro-, ceeded to interrogate Solomon concerning the orders, and he readily. undertook to produce the person who had employed him to sell them. Two of the patrol were sent with him, and in about half an hour they returned with a man in their custody, who gave his name as Roach, and who boldly accused Mr. Solo mon of sharing the profits with him. 'fire order, which were all for the boxes, were sold at one shil- ling and sixpence each, and Mr. Roach declared that Mr. Solomon pocketed sixpence upon each order; but Mr. Solomon stoutly denied any such participa tion, and affected to be very indignant at having been drawn into such an affair. INQUESTS. A Coroner's Inquest was held, last heck, at Stourton, on the llody of C. Hillier, a boy about fiv e years of age. It appeared that the deceased L a rd thrown a stone at another hid, who cautioned h:gn not to throw again, as he would punish him for so doing; but the little fellow threw another, and in running away, through fear of the other Loy, he struck his head against the corner of a wall, and wa s thrown backwards. Ile o..as conveyed home, ark i a surgeon sent for, who found that the pressure on the brain was so great that there was no hope of hi, covery, and he died shortly after. The Jury returned a verdict—Died accidentally, by running and st ai r ., his head against a wall. Tuesday evening, an Inquest was held at St. Thoi. mass Hospital, on the body of W. Claridge. The Independent Talivrnacle, in the Greenwich-road; having been plundered several times within a few months, two spring guns were set in a piece of waste ground behind the Chapel, through which it ap peared access was generally gained to the premises. The deceased, whose business it was to c:large and. adjust - the guns, was so doing, accompanied by the pow-opener, on the eveninq of Thursday se'nnight; after the Congregation had left the Chapel; when, just as he had charged one of the guns, and was about laying it down, it by some means went off, and so dreadfully injured him that he was taken to the Hospital, where he died on Sunday. Verdict—Ac cidental Death.—The Coroner and Jury, in very strong terms, censured the conduct of persons ,erring spring-guns--observing, that, by so doing, they acted contrary to all law. Wednesday, an Inquest was held at the Robin Hood, High linlborn, on the br?dy of G. Campbell, a boy, who, whilst !lolling so:Le lead which his father, a plumber, was ripping from the to of a I:eus; pulled it with both his hands, when it sudlenly sepa rated, and caused him to fall against the paiapet, which give way, when he fell the depth of three stories, and was killed. ‘'ettlict—:Accidental Death. WILLIANI M'lmsit, Esq. manufacturer, in Glas gow, who was lost in the Earl Moira packet, neat Li verpool, has left the following sums to the Charitable Institutions of 61a , gow : £4OO To the Royal Infirmary. 200 To the Lunatic :I,yltitit. 100 To the NlagdaletiWm. 100 To the Deaf and Dumb lustitution. Also, 100 To the Parish Poor of Port Glasgow. 100 To the Female Benevolent Society there. - - BIRTIL At.Vianstead, Essex, on&lVth inst. the wife of John Cot ton, Esq. of the I Company's Civil Service at Madras, vias safely delivered of a daughter. MARRIED. August ?A, Mr. H. 1.. Robins, of Covent-garden, to Miss Ilowes, of South Landustb. At Mary•la-Bonne Church, George Pennell, Esq. to Sopbia, second (laughter of Major-General Campbell. Tuesday, at Mary-la-Bonne New Church, Captain Magenii, to Miss Ann Maria Shepherd,of Wimpole-street, eldest daughtts of the late William Shepherd, Esq. DIED. Friday, the 17th instant, at l'ortsea, George, the infant son of Mr. Myers, of that town. Friday, John Cotes, Esq. one of the Knights of the Shire fof Salop, at his seat of Woodcot. Monday, at Kentish Town, Mr. John Partob, many years Ve>• try CIL, k, &c. of the Parishes of St. Giles In the Fields, and *. George, Bloomsbury. Monday, at Islington, Mrs. Enzaheth Tonne, relict of the late Captain John Toone, of the same place, aged 72.. MAILS unr: Dublin 0 .2 W.uerford 0 3 GuernAry and Jorsey 1 0 Holland 1 0 handers 0 0 Malta 1 Cf ANK.DUL Lisbon 0 0 France 0 0 illun!turgb 0 9 Gnuenburgh 0 0 Leeward la Inds 0 0 Brazils 0 0 II 1G I-I.IV A TElt at LONDON t'lt TO-11Old ROW. Mr ming - f'S Nino:es after 4 Afternoon . 4 4 LUND'iN ; Priwri s mut t:y r:: and Lot' wid Shr sad aqua Got 111 Di A FOI Of Tab! the cony NV )+. of t anti Of Lion Offi row !mu Ho In Na Lib liar k c ato the and the his anc 8 P as do an