Star. — London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

IRA A 741). TRCM Till DUBLIN JOURNAL 07 MONDAY. After an tiqdress Levee at the Castle, Earl TALBOT proceeded to the Pigeon House, attended by an im rtease concourse of the Nobility and Gentry, and at two o'clock his Lordship emhat ked on board the Wi.7;ap4 and Mary yacht, for Holyhead. Wednesday last, a soldier of the 86th Regiment v.is robbed of his musket, on the road from Ballina mult to Clonmel. _ fhc .2.2k1 instant, Colonel CROSIIII, in the county c i Kerry, committed seven men to the jail for admi r:ste: lire unlawful oaths. By examining them sepa rAtely, he oht.tined some account of the nature of the oaths which bind the marauders together. There are two oaths prescribed—the first is merely that of se c:vcy ; and the second is the grand obligation, which ~, m prchends the seizure of arms, money, &c. and c . en includes an obligation to join the French: in a w, , rd, the ignorance of the foolish people is more con spicuous than anything . else, and they seem to be prempted to commit annex by a few designing ruf fians, who wish to live by plunder. A very well written Notice, signed by Marshal Reason, Marshal Fearnought, and General Rock, was posted, prior to service, at Whi t e Church, perempto - rily directing all Landlords and Clergy to reduce their rents and tithes ; and ordering all persons who have taken lands during the last three years to sur render them, and all middle men to give up their ground to their tenants; and that any person paying rnfne than forty shillings per acre for land, should rnzet the same death as the Silicas. A party went tcNthe house of Conntl, a fArmer, at Owning, and placed fire to the thatch, determined to burn it down, unless he gave up his arms, which he did. But the most audacious of these criminal denun ciations is that which follows :—A letter was put into Piltown Post-office, addressed to the Chairman of the Meeting to be held there on the next day, forbid ding all persons whatsoever, at that Meeting, to take the Oath of Allegiance, or to abide the consequences ! but that the Meeting should order and resolve, that rents a:id tithes be forthwith reduced.—Mederaler. KILDARE THEATRICAL& The'erdwd getting into the Adelphi Thetttre last night, to see Tow and Jerry, luso° great, that it ex tended over the pavement into the street. The Piece altogether exhibits a very animated picture of low life; and the respective performers do ample justice to their parts. Mr. fizzvz, a s ./ ert y, an d M r .K azta, as a cockney, at a horse sale, are quite at home. The music is very appropriate and lively. During this week the following Noblemen and families of distinc tion have been amongst the company i n th e b oxes: Priem Reterbazy an d fatullj, the Earl of Morley and family, Count Carantan and family, Lord Cranbourn and family, Lord Seymour and family, Sir C. AsgiU and f am ily, Si r T. Austin and family, the E ar l of Egremont, Co ls oel Thornton and family, the Marquis of Bute and friends, Sir C. Rees and friends, the Hon. Captain Dudley, Mr. Angerstein, the Earl of Gleogall. Lord Yarmouth, Sir James Langbam, Lord Lennox, Colonel Canoe, and Major Aubre7. NEWCASTLE THEATRE.—On Wednesday se'nnight the Newcastle Theatre opened with CHERRY'S Co medy of The Soldier's Daughter. Mr. BUTLER, as Governor Heartall, went through his character in the respectable manner which he exhibits in the gene rality of elderly personages. On the appearance of Mr. Da Cow, as Young Mortal!, a cry of " Hol land, Holland!" from the gallery interrupted the performance. Mr. DE CAMP stepped forward and asked what the part of the audience which had caused the interruption desired ? The cry of " Hol land" being repeated, Mr. Ds CAMP asked if he was to be dictated to in the engagement of performers? and observed that, as the Manager of the Theatre, he Would engage what performers he thought best. At that time theyidisturbance ceased ; but at the close of the Play"lt recommenced. A paper was thrown from the gallery, which Mr. De CAMP was requested to read. He was about to read it, but a Gentleman in the side-boxes advised him not to read it if it was not signed. The document being anony mous, Mr. DE CAMP tore it to pieces, and observed, that Mr. HOLLAND had been endeavouring to raise a cabal in the town, that he was a dissatisfied man, Who had voluntarily left his Company after each of the three seasons he had been at Newcastle, and that he had betrayed a similar discontent in his Company at Sheffield. Mr. Da CAMP here repeated what he had before stated, that he would not be commanded to engage any performer, but that if the people of Newcastle were not satisfied with him, they had only to say so, and he would leave them as he had come to them, " alone, but not dishonoured." This speech was received with considerable applause, and a song from Mr. BERRIMAN, and the Farce which succeeded it, proceeded without further disturbance. Monday morning an armed party attacked a house, r7cupied by a person named Feagan, in the parish of Dnwilings. Barony of Clane. The first intimation of their approach was a shot Bred into his bed-mom. They then demanded his fire-arms, and on his re fasAl, they immediately cried out—ge Let us set fire :n his house." Feagan then delivered them a gun, hut the party, not content, demanded a powder korn, which was given to them. Wednesday night, a party of such deluded per. sons ransacked several houses in search of fire-arms, having commenced their outrages neat Digby-bridge, en the Grand Canal, and thence proceeded in a range through Millicent, until they approached the resi dence of Bryan Molloy, Esq. They took a blun derbuss from one of Mr. Molloy's tenants, and a gun from another. LIMERICK, DEC. 3o.—(PRIVATE LETTER). There has never been such a demand for workmen in the frame-work-knitting branch, as there is at pre sent in Mansfield, since the year 1814. A Gentleman, recently returned from a journey through Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston, reports, that the manufactories there are in full work, and that all bands are employed. Sunday se'nnight, a number of the Quakers in Newcastle, visited the habitations of the poor in Sand gate, and other parts of the town where poverty and distress most prevail, and humanely administered to the wants of the most necessitous, by distributing various sums of money, proportioned to the indigence of the different individuals. " Another dreadful murder has been committed in this county. You may have seen from the Irish pa pers accounts of nightly attacks made upon the house of a Mr. CONDON, of Scart, near Rathkeale, several times in the course of the last six months. He took a man named Gorman for his tenant, in the room of one '.vhom he had ejected. This man became obnoxious n: an intruder. The famed Captain Rock sent him notice to quit, with which he did not comply. A party of ruffians attacked his house last night, de nouncing terrible vengeance. Gorman and his two sons, able-bodied young men, resisted their entrance manfully. Upon this the party attacking commen- 1 ced a fire of slugs through the doors and windows, and one of the young men was shot dead through the breast, and the father badly wounded in the leg and arm. Is it not singular that this happened within a mile of a strong military post, the town of Rathkeale, ' and was not known there until two o'clock the next day? The fact was, that no one of the country, people would dare to announce it. There were six military parties near the place—the nearest half a the farthest little more than a mile. InforMation LAI been given to the Commanding Officer a fort- Light before of the intended attack, and Gorman's house was guarded far several nights. At length the information was disregarded, and the guard with drawn ; and the very first night after, the murder was committed. Some arms have been delivered up, hut, of such a quality,that I verily believe it to be done either for a stratagem or for a joke, by Captain Rock —old guns and pistols without locks, fit only to nuke horse-shoes. 1 need not tell you 4 the boys here (for ..o they call themselves) know the difference in the use of fire-arms." Sir Josh and Lady SHILLLEY have left town fur their seat, Madresfield Park, Sussex. Enmosarous Contatas.—We have great pleasure in noticing the great improvement which has taken place in the condition and morals Of these laborious people, through the liberality and kindness of their employer, Mr. LAING ; the benevolence of that Gen tleman appears to be unbounded. For some time past upwards of one hundred boys and girls, who are en gaged at his works, have been attending an evening school, and thirty younger children the day school, at the sole expense of Mr. LAING, who, in addition to paying the teacher, has furnished them all with Bibles and other books adapted to their respective ages and classes. He has also established and libe rally subscribed to a fund for clothing the children connected with his works, by which the children of both sexes have all been new clothed within these few weeks. These, and many former instances of his be nevolence, have called forth the gratitude of his work people, who have sent him a letter by a Committee of their number. Moen or Mits. BOND.—The following is given as the authentic history of this Lady : Mrs. SARAH BOND was one of four children of BOND, a jewel.l ' ler, residing in an alley leading from Wellclose square to Ratcliffe-highway ; he died about fifty years ago, and left his property between Mrs. SARAH BOND and a sister ; the sister died about twenty years since, and left her property, £6,000, to her surviving sister, SARAH BOND, who bought an annuity of 1:750 per annum. biving in a most parsimonious manner, she contrived to scrape together about £ 13,000 Three' per Cents. £l,OOO Four per Cents. and £l5O per year in the Long Annuities; and this, at her death, was the whole of her immense wealth. One of the many claimants to this property is a Mr. Bouts, a re spectable butcher, in Shoreditch, who has traced out that he is a second cousin to this wealthy spinster, his grandfather being the only brother of the father of Mrs. BOND ; and the only obstacle in his way to ad minister is, that he has not yet been able to find out the Church where Mrs. BOND'S father and mother were married, a most essential thing to prove the le gitimacy of Mrs. SARAH Bora). There are eight caveates thrown in against administering." }leer Panow.—Tuesday, this prison was the scene of the most uproarious mirth and jollity. It being . New Year's Day, early in the morning a number of prisoners were sworn in as !Niters, and furnished with staves and a quantity of writs to which seals were at tached. As the respective visitors entered the prison, they were taken into custody and conveyed to what is called the " Tip." Here a "grave and learned Senior" was seated in a chair elevated above a table, attended by his juniors dressed up in wigs. The usual charge was a .4 plea oftrespass," in having entered without paying the" College dues" for the present year, and of coorse the verdict was always in favour of the plain tiff. The fine imposed was generally 6d. but in the event of a refractory spirit being evinced,a threat was held out that the defendant would be remanded for two yeats. Females were not excluded, and the fears really excited in the minds of some of the persons ar rested for the money, excited the greatest merriment. ,The money collected was of course spent in drinking,. We briefly noticed on Tuesday, the loss of the brig Lllen, of Liverpool, WILLIAM BIRD master, off Dublin, on the 28th ult. It appears that she was driven on shore on the rocks within four or five bun hdred yards of Sandy Coye, near Bullock, the sea running mountains high, and with all the horrors that accompany a dark tempestuous night. Lieute nant HUTCHISON, the Harbour-master of Dunleery, volunteered, with fourteen gallant fishermen and pilots, to embark in the life-boat, its hopes of saving the crew, as the vessel was every moment expected to go in pieces. After the greatest exertion, they suc ceeded in reaching , the wreck, and when under the stern of the vessel in the broken water, the life-boat filled. The crew of the vessel were endeavouring to get into the boat, when an overwhelming sea washed Lieut. HurcnisoN and six men out of the li-boat ; the remaining eight kept their hold, and succeeded hauling tyko of the men again into the boat.— J;eutenant IlurcutsoN, after contending with the waves for some time, was most providentially saved by catching hold of the lifeboat, which was driven ou the rocks; the other four brave fellows, unfortu nately perished: two of them have left wives and young children. Notwithstanding the danger and t atig ue Lieutenant Hu'rcuttioN had undergone, he re mained all night on the rocks, to render, with lights, every assistance to the crew of the vessel, and he for tunately succeeded in rescuing them from the wreck at low water, at four o'clock in the nsorning.—Ano th,..T brig would have been lost in the same place, but for the exertions of Lieutenant HUTCHISON, who, by *hewing lights and firing shots, warned the crew of their danger, and enabled them to get out anchors on time. 'HEwzAilla I . • maimpailtutiteAlioikiis4l4Willimik -1 _` •which was seen by ma n y petioni, triactly coincide , ' The late plea hairdproved peculiarly f a tal td the , witt.the best attested descriptiobs of water-trouts; shipping of Whitehairen. Eight vessels have been for though there shay be lomii .light .variations in totally wrecked; and *hat adds to the melancholy the accounts of those who witnessed it, yet the gene; recital is, that o ut o f t h e crews of six of them; Only ' talky agree in describing_ it Vis ti dark column, ex one individual survives I and the men escaped froth tending to a considerable height, and having a vio:. the other two without even siring any pert of their lent whirling motion. clothes. Eleven wictows and tiventy-six orphans have CUElutnt CASK or Thstazils.--rThe follbwing re:. by these disasters been deprived of support; reark,able scene of di stress was disislayed during the . In conseque nce o f t h e extrao tdi hary quant i tt o f late food iti Chelsea. Two neighbouring families rain which has lately fallen, the seeeral coal-pits in agreed to speed the day together. One consisted of the neighbourhood of Sheffield were inundated on the husband and wife and two children, and the Monday night last 'to a greater extent than any other of husband and wife end five children: The former period, and from which very serious inconve- parents met in one house, and the seven children were ,nience has arisen. left to amuse themselves in the other. While the ' The lands cont i guous to t h e Ri ver Stour, in Kent, two parties were s e vera ll y enjoying themselves, the havft,-for several days past, been inundated to a con- water tote So suddenly and so hi h as to cut o ff in 1 siderable extent, b ut we d o n ot h ear that any serious communication between the two °uses: .The lowa injury or in conven i ence h as b een sustained thereby. parts of both were flooded, and t e old in the one GtoucaarEft, Dec. 31.—Th e Bi rm i ng h am M a i l to an d t h e young i n the other , flew to the . upper this City, on Monday night was placed in a most floors for safety. The good chier was all in thehouse critical situation. Having arrived at Tewkesbury, of the parents, and the young ones soon began to two additional horses were procured, and in order to cry out for foods In this extremity one of the men guard against accident, a post-boy well acquainted found in the house an iron rod, which he spiked to with the road, was selected for their .guidance. On a b'roomstick, and having tied a bag with foOd to reaching Norton Mill, about four miles from hence, the end of it, he contrived to pass it to the window the water in the road was found to be upwards of of the adjoining house, where the little ones were four feet deep, and the current running fearfully anxiously stretching out their little hands to. receive rapid. Harding, the coachman, however, placing con- it. The manna did not fall more gratefully Upon fidence in his pilot, resolved upon proceeding, and the children in the Wilderness. In a little time, hews the passage would, doubtless, havebeen accomplished ever, the water subsided, and the parents were %inked in safety, but, when nearly in the middle of the with their children. stream, the post-boy's horses beginning. to plunge, Thou Tina IN Duatin.—During the entire of Fri and becoming unmanageable, he proceeded to dis- day last, and the night preceding, there was constant mount, in doing which one of his spurs got entangled rain, with a strong gale blowing from the S. E: One in the flap of the saddle, and he was thrown into the o'clock, P. u. was the hour of high water, yet the tide water. Fearful, it is supposed, of being run over, he continued to rise until past two, and reached a height, now quitted his horses, and swimming back to terra perhaps, unprecedented. The qoays at both sides of firma, left his charge at the mercy of the element. the river, as far as Carlisle-bridge, were overflown, The coachman, it may be conceived, was thus placed and, in many places, wholly covered with watere= in a most awkward dilemma, and the passengers and The tide reached nearly to the top of the Quay walls. horses in a truly perilous situation : the water was Several houses were flooded : at the Carlisle Tavern, I nearly up to the backs of the animals, and the posters a fire engine was used to clear out the waters All the became refractory, and separating, one of them fell ships' planks were floated, and cars and carriages tra. into a ditch. At this juncture, the guard and au out- versed the Quays with the ho rs e s k nee deer , side passenger j u mp e d into the water, and extricating the struggling a n i ma l, d etac h e d both from the coach. Thus far all had been well, but other reverses were yet to follow. On proceeding, the leaders made a start at a dead hone, belonging to Gabb's waggon (which had been drowned a short time before), and upon the coachman whipping his wheelers to keep them in the road, the harness suddenly broke, and by the jerk he was precipitated from his box into the water. Some few seconds elapsed before he recovered himself, and his companions became alarmed for his safety. Their fears, however, were dispelled by his summoning them to assist him in repairing the harness, and which they were proceeding to do, when, that the measure of mishap might be lull, a sudden gust of wind extinguished the lamps, and being thus placed in total darkness, they were compelled to desist. It was now impossible that the mail could proceed further during that night; 'the inside passengers, therefore, waded through the water, and got into the Mill House, ohne they were hospitaWy received, and made as comfortable as circumstances would admit. The coachman, guard, and outside passenger re. mained in their wet and exhausted condition until' light dawned—a period of nearly seven hours, when the guard secured his bags, and mounting one of his horses, proceeded with them to their destination.— The coach was not brought to this city till Tuesday evening. In the midst of such a complication of disasters, it gives us great satisfaction to observe, that no serious injury was sustained by the passen gers, coachman, guard, or horses. The mail bags for several subsequent nights were conveyed to and fro by indirect and irregular routes, but as the waters are abated, no farther interruption is likely to ensue. ALRESFORD, DEC. 20.—0 n Thursday last this town and its vicinity experienced a smart storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of hail and rain, and at intervals by gusts of wind ; during which, at half-past two, P.M. a water-spout was seen, a phenomenon of very rare occurrence on land. It was first observed to the S. E. in the direc tion of Old Park, emerging from a heavy cloud, when its appearance resembled a funnel, the large end being next to the cloud, and tapering gradually' as it approached the earth. It moved with consi derable velocity, and was much curved in the direc tion of the wind, which was then S.W. It was not visible for more than two minutes, during which time it was distinct and well defined, being of a darker hue than the cloud to which it was attached ; it seemed to be let down towards the earth, and drawn up again at intervals, until its final disappearance, which was gradual, beginning from the bottom up wards. For the distance of a mile, its route was clearly marked out by the havoc which it occasioned to fences, trees, buildings, &c. and in fact to.whatever impeded its progress, which was, generally speaking, in the di rection of the London road, with occasional deviation to the right and left ; for its course does not appear to have been direct, but serpentine. Nothing seems to have been' able to resist the fury of the whirlwind with which it was attended : an oak tree, of a foot and a halt in diameter, was broken short off, and car ried upwards of forty yards into an adjoining field.— Several strong fences and flights of rails were blown down, and removed to a- distance of many feet en erasse; but its principal fury seems to have been ex pended upon a farm-house and some hovels in the vil lage of Ropley, the first of which was partly unroofed and otherwise injured, the others were beaten into the road, and completely demolished. Besides which, a fine walnut tree was broken in half, and some large elms, standing together in a clump, were torn up by the roots; these, together with the wrecks of the buildings, made so effectual a blockade, that the coach which arrived shortly afterwards at the spot, was compelled to make a considerable circuit through by lanes, before it could regain the road. A singular cir• cumstance attending this phenomenon is, that through out its whole progress, its effects were confined to t very inconsiderable breadth, rarely exceeding twenty yards ; in many places the fences and hedge-rows were as completely cleared away for the above-men. timed space, as if it had been the work of a bill.— Several outhouses were also blown down and crushed by the wind, whilst adjoining sheds, equally or even more slightly put together, remained untouched. This spout, it seems, was unattended with any discharge of water, which some deem esseptial to the haute of a A further reduction takes place this week in the Bank Establishment. A number of the senior clerks, having made up their accounts, will retire upon the superannuated list, with half-pay. The junior clerks . will be continued in full pay at present. CORONER'S Ixiauesx.—An Inquisition was held yesterday before Mr. Htoos, Coroner for Westinin ster, in the Board-room of St. James's Workhouse, on the body of Mr. JOHN R. M‘Gazoo ft , th e ce l e b rate d Scotch Piper. The deceased, on New Year's Night, went to the residence of JOHNWEDDERBURNE, Esq. in the Albany, and gave great delight to the company by his performance. The footman of Mr. %Vedder burne deposed, that after the company broke up, did deceased brought his pipes to the front door to go home, and on putting his hand into his pocket for a pinch of snuff, having asked a person present to take a pinch, he found the box missing ; he laid down his pipes to go back for it, went up stairs and knocked at one of the servant's chamber doors, who told him he would search for the box if he (the deceased) went down stairs. The deceased, instead of going down the stairs by which he ascended, took another direc tion down another flight of stairs. Witness heard a very heavy fall, and immediately afterwards a deep groan : he immediately went to the spot, and found the deceased, who was a very heavy man, had fallen down the stairs, and that his head was dreadfully fraCtured ; he was in a few minutes a lifeless corpse. Verdict—Accidental Death. SODDEN DNAYII.—Mr. flllLLS,OfParliaMent-Street, Westminster, had, on New Year's Day, a large party of his own family and friends to dinner, and spent the day with cheerful hilarity. Yesterday morning, his servant, as customary at breakfast time, taking up the Newspaper,,found his master had suddenly expired. Medical aid was immediately procured, but too late. The Doctors were of opinion, that the cause of his death was an enlargement of the heart. MELANCHOLY Acc Destr.—Tnesday afternoon as Mrs. DUFFER, an elderly Lady, living at Mrs. Moat- RIS . S, Wentworth -street, City-road, was sitting in her room, ber clothes caught fire by accident. The cries of this unfortuntie woman brought her son to her assistance, who with great presence of mind, strippe/ off his coat, and covering his mother with it, extin guished the flames; but the poor Lady was so se.- verely scorched that, after languishing in great misery until yesterday morning, she expired. ROBBERY or THE SKIPTON AND BURNLEY FLAIL POST.—About half-past four o'clock on Saturday morning, the horse-post, which conveys the letters from Burnley to Skipton, was stopped at a place called Snaygill, about three quarters of a mile from Skipton, on the Burniey-road, by two men. One seized the horse's bridle, the other struck the rider some tremendous blows with a bludgeon over the arms, which disabled him from holding the horse, or making any resistance. They also struck him over the head, which stunned and much injured him, but did not succeed in dismounting him. They tore the left side of his coat quite down, and took from his left pocket a parcel, as under, from the Craven Bank, addressed to C. Tattersall and Sons, of Burn ley,",containing £lBO in one guinea notes, and 2'20 one pound ditto, all of the Craven Bank, and about £5 value in bank-stamps, upon Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co. They attempted to seize the mail hairs, and had cut three straps, but did not succeed in at taining them, as the horse, by some means, escaped from them, and, with his rider, returned flick , to the Skipton post-office. The alarm was soon given, and, the same day, a man was taken up on suospicion of being concerned, but none of the property was found upon his person.' Saturday evening, about six o'clock, a Gentleman passing up Holborn, when within a dozen yards of the Bell and Crown Inn,, observed a man running obliquely across the pavement from the road, who, coming in contact, seized his watch appendages,. The Gentleman, encumbered with carrying an um brella. resisted with his left hand, and in the struggle the ring of the watch-chain broke, and the •ia* ran up a passage leading to the Horse and Groom public-house, closely pursued by the Gentleman, until he found himself at the extremity of a dark avenue which he found had a communication with Leather lane, through which the robber escaped. Had this passage been lighted, it is most likely the man would Jaye been taken : the robber was genteelly dtesseds [1 , r