Star.
London, England, 1830-11-01 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

BOW-STILEIT.—ADVERTISING MONEY LENDLIts.--Saturds.
H. Palmer, alias Smirk, was charged with having feloniou►ly obtained
possession of cettain bills of exchange, with intent to •dtfraud Richard
N. Holton, Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 84th Regiment of Foot.—.
Witness described acceptances to have bon obtained front him on terms
which had not been fulfilled, and un one of them he had been arrested.
Mr. HALLS thought the offence did not amount to felony, but directed
summonses to be issued to the other parties to appear.
The prisoner was remanded for a week. Solicitors were present ready
to prefer other charges against him.

LAKOILTII.STILEZT.—John Apple, Esq. residing at White-house,
Hackney. was charged by a policeman of K. divihion with haring
assaulted him.

The policeman stated that the defendant struck and aboard him while
on duty, without the slightest provosation.
Mr. Apple said he merely asked his way to a particular street. when
the compLinant gave him a wrong direction, and being irritated st his
conduct, he certainly did strike him.
The Magistrates fined him Ss. for the assault, which he immediately
paid.
Mattaciaovon-stair? —On Saturday an information. under the
new Beer Act, was laid by a man named Foster, again.t Mrs. Jane
Crick, of 40, High-street, St. Giles's, for not having the Christian and
surname, together with the words "Licertied to sell Beer by Retail,"
outside the house in conspicuous characters, according to the first of
William IV. Mr. Dyer, however, dismissed the information with costs,
as the intermit did not prove whether the !souse was licensed or not,
which was the very substance of the information.

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SCINTILLA.

A MEMORIAL FOR THE TOWN AND COLLEGE OF
GLASGOW.
(From es old M.S. no data, but about 1641.)

Desire 1. That the town may have a new warrant, under the Kitg's
hand, for the election of their 81 Ramon I.—This power ;s
common to all royal burghs, such as their old charters make then:.
2. The Ring, in his late signature, has expressed particulary that :4.
your. 8. Their services deserve it, as well as any burgh in Scotland,
my Lord Marquis (Hamilton) can well instruct. 4. If it shcald to
denied, it would cast that city on the dependence of some noble family
or statesman which might bean occasion, as of old, of great trouble ie
the country side.
Desire 2. That the Ring would be pleased to give assurance to mile,
min out of the Bishopriek a minister in the High Kirk. Reason I.
The Bishops did ever, by themselves or chaplains, take upon them it
supply that place. Their fall ought not to prejudge the church of or,
preacher at least in their room. The town would be overburdered t,
provide that place, being overcharged with the stipends of so mall.
both ministers, readers, hospitals, and such public works as exhaagt
their rents.

Desire & That the fair and famous Eligh Church of Glasgow n. 2;
not be permitted to decay ; it is neither equity nor possibility for ti
town to keep it up. Five or six chalders of beer, if It be presently be.
stowed by the King, will uphold it, but if long delayed, all the B
tick will not repair the ruins of that building, which is Scotland'is on!)hop.
St. Paul's.

Desire 4. It is all the reason in the world that the Bishop's
Hospital should have a part of the Bishoprlck, as if it wtrt
but some few chalices of victual for the present ; the full rent of it, in
my opinion, Is within fifteen pounds sterling.
Desire 3. That whatever his Majesty be pleased to bestow on
preacher, on the fsbrick of the High Church, on the Bishop's Hospital.
it would be put in the signature fur the town, to be defrayed out of the
Bishop's mins, lying within and near the town.

XEMORANDI7* FOR TUB UNITZRSITY.
The King being willing to help all the Universities out of the
Bishoprick, ;your Lordship bath reason to see Glasgow provided with
the first. It was founded by the house of Hamilton : you are one of its
plants. The most of your friends have their breeding there. It is
very poor for the maintenance of a Principal, a Professor of Divinity,
a Professor of Physick, five Regents, fourteen or fifteen Bursars, a Col.
lector, a Steward, a Beddel, a Porter, some Cooks—l think about 28
founded persons. They have not for table and stipend 4001. of rent.
It were a pity but at least 4001. out of the Bishoprick, and 1001. out of
the Subdeanery, might be got for augmentation of stipends already
founded, for the maintenance of three new Professors, one for the con-
troversies of Divinity, one for Mathematics, and one for the Oriental
Tongues; for at least six Bursars of Divinity, for acme yearly rent to
the Bibliotheck ; also, for maintaining and enlarging the fabrick of the
house. Whatever is gotten, GOD, and the King, and your Lordship
shall have the thanks.
BEGGARS IN SCOTLAND IN 1638.
From an Overture to tke Getserat Arnewebiy al Glasgow.
" The evil of beggars is regretted by all, and the remeid oft =ayes:,
but hitherto without all fruit. What pity it is that there should be
of our nation, of our flesh and bones, above 40 or 50,000 sculls daily
vagabonds, neglected both in soul and body, members of no congrega.
tion ; not catechised, not married, not admitted to the holy couununion:
living among us in adultery, incest, drunkenness, open blasphemy, theft,
fightings, baptising, marrying, communicating one another. Shall Goa
be pleased with us, when such abominations are so long suffered ? Th.
truly poor are robbed by entertaining such numbers of their vagabonds.
Remeld.-11 every Presbytery will encourage and urge the gentlemen e
the Shires who sit with than to execute the laws in all provinces
once. if every parish may be moved to keep in their own, their may yet
be hope ; let houses of correction be ordained ; let there be employmert
for the willing in works, and contributions for the weak and sick."
Although this account was written by one of the most intelligent of the
Scottish clergy, it is not to be taken as altogether accurate with respec•
to the number of beggars at that time. Bells which are generally felt ate
commonly exaggerated, and in 1698, Fletcher, another intelligent miter,
makes the beggars and vagabonds in Scotland to amount to the
incredible number of two hundred thousand. He thinks that the number
had been nearly doubled by the famine and distress which had prevailed
in Scotland for some years. Of this famine, so dreadful in Its effects, no
account is to be found In our principal historians, but its ravages have
been described by De Foe in the following words :—" The Scots had
supplied themselves with corn from England for two years before, and,
indeed, that had almost exhausted Scotland of all their ready money
England got two hundred thousand pounds sterling by the Scots for
corn in about 18 months. It is true, that this supply did keep the price
of can in Scotland something moderate, and the Scots made shift to
live. But in the middle of this, we prohibited the exportation of con
in general, and this struck the Scot, into the greatest &Scully ima-
ginable. The poor were perfectly distressed ; and the next year's
crop failing also, a dreadful famine followed, insomuch that the young
men of 20 and 25 years of age would look like old men of 60; and
hunger had so disfigied the people, that the most intimate acquaint-
ance could not know oneanother but by their voices. Multitudes, fa-
mished for want of bread, dropt down dead in the fields and streets.
And if I may take the modestest accounts there, from men of probity
and judgment, above 18,000 people perished in Scotland foe mere want
of bread. The distress may a little be gathered by this, that the next
year after, which was 1688, when the corn began to ripen in the fields,
the poor hungry people, not able to stay till it was ripen'd and gotten
In, would run into the fields and snatch it In the ear, and eat it green,
in such a manner as both spoil'd the corn, and railed the poor people.
throwing them into duxes cord distempers, by which many thousands
dy'd the year after.
" It would be a story too moving to tell you the distress of Scotland..
and what miserable things the people fed on ; bow several pimple wen
found deed in the fields, with weeds, and roots, and grass, and some-
times worse things even, in their hands, and with the vilest of things
even in their mouths."

CORONER'S INQUEST. DISTINSSINIS AECSDENT. Sabin!Sy
afternoon an inquisition was taken in the Board-roan of the City
Bridewell, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, before W. PAirwt, Esq. toughing
the death of a fine youth. named Joseph Harris, aged fourteen, who was
drowned. It appeared in evidence that the deceased and two lads of the
namesof Goodfellow and Young, took it into their heads to have au
aquatic excursion on Monday evening, but being destitute of the means
of gmtifring their wishes by any other method, they proceeded to Clown
Wharf, Eisex.street, Strand, where they found an old wherry belorg-
Mg to a waterman, named Simpson, which they got into and towed
away up the river, without leave of the owner. On arriving in the
centre of the Thames, near Blackfriars- Bridge. they were several tintes
in imminent danger of perishing from their want of skill in managing
the boat, which was so leaky, that in order to keep her afloat they
were compelled to bale the water out with a 'pint pot. They endea.
voured to land at Blackfrian.stairs in doing which they ea:. the boat
between two piles, where she stuck fast. This so exasperatvd the de.
ceased, that he began swearing in a dreadful manner, when. taking ail
oar, he tried to push her off, but in the attempt he lost his balance,
fell into the water, and after struggling a then time, he sunk. His
companions being alarmed, demairtd, leaving him to I.is fate. The
body was not found till Friday morning, when it was diseovertd under
a barge shockingly mutilated. The deceased was the son of a privat:
watchman, to Messrs. Twinings' the eminent tca.dealers.-- Verdict,
Accidentally Groaned."

HIIIIDOMADARY.
Tom Dir, Nov. 1 The Feast of All Saints—a grand day at thr
Catholic planes of worship, in honour of the Saints who have net had
a particular day in the year set apart for them. Jeroboam proclaimed
a feast in honour of the calves erected in Bethel. Holiday at the Bark.
To-proasow.—Feast of All Souls.
TOY ESDAY.—Ps ince** Sophia born, 1777. Noah entered the ark.
ThvasDay.—King William landed, 1888. Holiday at the Bank.
Fatha.Y.—Powder Plot, 1805. ;Holiday at the Bank. A solemn
mass at Aloostelds Catholic Chapel for the repose of the soul* of
those whose remains are buried thew.
SAT U ILDAT.—st. Leonard. He was a Nobleman of the Court of
Clovis 1. whose piety and goodness raised him to the Bishopric of
Uhlman. Ile died about 569. Michaelmas Term begins. Sur. sets
40 minutes after 4. Princess Charlotte died, 1817.

BIRTHS.
The 29th ult. at Homsey, the lady of.l.Campbell, Esq. of a daug'.ter
—The 30th ult. at Brighton, Mn. D. Barba, of a daughter, still•t•ur:
—The 27M ult. the lady of Mr. J. T. Han, of adaughter.

11AltRIED.
Sattirday, at Ewell, 31r. Chadwick. of Southwark, to Ann, -eldest
daughter of Mr. J.Waghorn, of Ewell—Thenth ult. T. Plummer. cf
Curtaimroad, Shorctliti h. to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. J. Fisher. of
Upper Thames.street--The 28th ult. at Clitheroe, the Res. E. H.
Orityr, B.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, eldest soo of E. Orme. EN.
Fusroy.square, to Mary, eldest daughter of J. Garnett, Esq. Hoe Field,
Lancashire—The 26th ult. at Belford Church, Northumberland, W•
L. Thomas, M.D. and M.R.C.S. of Hatfield, Hertfordshire. to Jane
G. only daughter of William Hazard, Esq. of the former place.